The University of Rochester interview with Edwin Jaeckle was held on May 31 and June 1, 1979. It was conducted by William E. Diez, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, as part of an ongoing Oral History Project.
Legal papers, correspondence and other papers of Elijah Miller (1772-1851). Auburn lawyer and judge and father-in-law of William Henry Seward.
Included in the Papers are approximately 150 letters. Most of them were written by members of the family and thus are of a personal or business nature. Some letters, after 1834, deal with life, investments, and land promotion in Michigan. All the correspondence has been indexed in the main manuscript index.
The Erasmus Darwin Smith Papers includes family correspondence, poems and school essays, certificates and other documents, clippings, and drafts of speeches.
Folsom's long, detailed letters discuss current events (both local and national), his career, social life, and friends.
Legislative reference and correspondence files, general correspondence files, speeches, reports, press releases, photographs, films, and memorabilia. Please note: This collection is currently unprocessed.
The Jacob Maus Schermerhorn family papers (1831-1908) consist of correspondence of Schermerhorn and his family, for a total of 1393 letters, which have been mounted in eight folio volumes and eight small, soft leather and paperbound notebooks detailing individual and household expenses from 1831-1840, filling 360 pages.
The collection includes personal diaries containing detailed daily accounts; miscellaneous notebooks and pads containing lecture notes, "out of pocket expenses," miscellaneous material; and a number of printed books primarily on the Impeachment of H.L. Ritter, a district judge of the United States for the southern district of Florida.
Papers of John Hall Deane, University of Rochester, Class of 1866, lawyer and University of Rochester trustee. Includes correspondence (1864-1874), checks and receipts (1867-1875), law certificates and memorabilia. Some of the correspondence includes references to his experiences as a soldier in the Civil War.
This collection is comprised of seven archival boxes depicting the legal career of John M. Steele, Esquire, former Rochester Commissioner of Jurors and 12th Ward Alderman. The documents and business papers span the years 1836-1918. They include wills, deeds, mortgages, business correspondence, daily ledger and a book.
