Family papers and correspondence to and from the William Perkins Cross family members and friends, chiefly personal in nature. Included is some information about the Daniel E. Cross Company Boot & Shoe Patterns, Rochester, N.Y. Also in the collection are family and business financial papers, bills, statements, wills, diaries, account books, notebooks.
This collection consists of additions to the William Henry Seward papers after the main collection was microfilmed in 1981.
The collection includes the Corporation Counsel papers, business and personal correspondence, and family papers of Colonel William Hubbell Emerson of Rochester, retired Corporation Counsel for the city.
The collection includes the correspondence and other papers of William Channing Gannett (1840-1923), who was a Unitarian minister in St. Paul, Minnesota (1877-1883) and Rochester, N.Y. (1889-1908). The correspondence to and from Mr. Gannett includes letters from Jane Addams, Abigail May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Samuel Longfellow, Elihu Root, Alphonso and William Howard Taft, Booker T. Washington, Frank Lloyd Wright and many Unitarian leaders of the late 1800s and early 1900s. There are also letters relating to the Western Unitarian Controversy, the education of the freedmen at Port Royal, the temperance crusade, Unity magazine, Unitarian church organization and membership, and to the editing of Unity Hymns and Chorals by Mr. Gannett and Frederick L. Hosmer. About 400 letters, dated 1875-1912, were added to the collection by Charles H. Lyttle and relate to the Western Unitarian Controversy.
The William Carey Morey Papers include the diary that Professor Morey kept while a member of the Union Army during the Civil War, as well as copies of papers and addresses written by Professor Morey.
This collection, the Ward-Macomber Family Papers, 1829-1974, contains material relating to Levi Alfred Ward's son Levi Frederick Ward (1842-1907) and his family. On October 13, 1864 Levi Frederick Ward married Alice Smith (1844-1913). They had three children. Levi Smith Ward (1864-1926) married Florence Yates (1871-1931) in 1895. They had one son, Levi Yates Ward (b. 1904), who later changed his name to Andrew Lee Yates Ward. Laura Page Ward (1867-1959) married Francis Selden Macomber (1867-1956), a Rochester lawyer, also in 1895. Frederic Kemp Ward (1876-1910) married Hortense Thomas (1878-1909), the daughter of the architect John R. Thomas (1848-1901). Frederic Kemp and Hortense Ward had two children, Frederic Kemp Ward, Jr. (b. 1904) and Caroline Allen Ward (b. 1905). After their parents died, the children lived with their aunt and uncle, Laura Page and Francis Selden Macomber.
There are 15 boxes in the Virginia Moscrip Papers: 2 boxes of correspondence dating from 1818 through 1962, 3 boxes of Charles H. Moscrip ephemera reflecting his theological and theatrical interests as well as his time spent at the University of Rochester; 2 boxes of Virginia Moscrip ephemera from childhood through her years as a student and educator; 2 boxes of miscellaneous family ephemera; and 4 boxes of photo albums. Much of the family ephemera and correspondence are associated with Minerva (Lamareau) DeLany (1837-1919) and her husband, Amos N. DeLany (1832-1895), Virginia Moscrip's maternal grandparents, who had lived in Clyde, New York, since 1852. The DeLany's are buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York, along with their grandchildren, Lydia Bell Moscrip, Minerva L. Moscrip, and Charles B. Moscrip and his wife, Elsie (1890-1912). The personal papers of Virginia Moscrip's mother, Lydia Bell DeLany Moscrip, are held at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Also included are Liberty Loan flyers and advertisements, membership cards and a service flag, food rationting campaign items and recipes, knitting patterns, two undated clippings, including an editorial by Anna Howard Shaw; and a commemorative booklet celebrating Susan B. Anthony's eightieth birthday.
Consists of correspondence, writings, diaries and account books of Roswell Howell Ward. Papers pertain primarily to his 1948 biography Henry A. Ward, Museum Builder to America.
Material relating to the Worden and Chesebro families of Canandaigua, New York. Consists of family genealogical records compiled by Mrs. Robert H. Chesebro, 1963, or copied by her from the originals; and Xerox copies of four scrapbooks kept by Frances (Worden) Chesebro (1826-1909), the niece of Mrs. William H. Seward, which contain letters from family and friends, newspaper clippings of deaths of family and friends, and invitations. Also a diary (1854 or 5 - 1931) kept by Margaret McJannet, nursemaid for Frank Chesebro, on a trip to Nassau, Bahamas in 1859-60.
Finks' papers collected in Rare Books/Special Collections begin with writings by David Finks and then move to documentation of Finks' life and work, including material and some correspondence relating to Catholic Council of Urban Ministries, Campaign for Human Development, and the Downtown (Rochester) Community Forum. Next are Finks' personal records which are combined elements of both a journal and a scrapbook. Contained in binders, they are a combination of journal entries, articles, letters, cards, flyers, programs, and anything else that was meaningful to him. There are a few gaps, but the journals cover from 1985-2007. Finally, the last few boxes are articles and letters regarding people and issues, largely religious, of interest to Finks as well as personal correspondence and photographs.
