The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (156 page)

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Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Accessory Transit Company
, January 12, 1854, file PL 1854-V9, Supreme Court Pleadings
David S. Manners and Lydia Roberts, Administrators of Samuel Roberts, Deceased, v. George
Law and Arnold Mason
, March 18, 1854, file 1854-#2117, Superior Court
George J. Lathrop v. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Daniel Drew
, May 4, 1854, file LJ-1854-V-131, Supreme Court Law Judgments
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. William C Moon
, June 7, 1854, file L J-1854-M-398, Supreme Court Judgments
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Reuben C. Stone
, September 12, 1854, file L J-1854-S-19, Supreme Court Judgments
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. John C Thompson and Minthorne Tompkins
, September 26, 1854, file J L-1854-T-172, Supreme Court Judgments
James H Quimby v. Cornelius Vanderbilt
, November 13, 1854, file 1854-#1242, Court of Common Pleas
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Spring Valley Shot & Lead Manufacturing Company
, April 21, 1855, file L J-1855-S-206, Supreme Court Judgments
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Spring Valley Shot & Lead Manufacturing Company
, July 26, 1855, file L J-1855-S-208
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Spring Valley Shot & Lead Manufacturing Company
, May 2, 1855, file L J-1855-S-212, Supreme Court Judgments
New York Life Insurance & Trust Co. v. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Freeman Campbell and Mary
Ann, His Wife, Rutherford Moody and Eunice P., His Wife, Jacob J. Van Pelt and Sarah
,
His Wife, and Jay Jarvis, President of the Citizen's Bank
, September 25, 1855, file PL 1855-N14, Supreme Court Pleadings
James H Quimby v. Cornelius Vanderbilt
, November 21, 1855, file 1855-#1313, Court of Common Pleas
Charles H. Wright v. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr
., January 21, 1856, file LJ-1856-V-100, Supreme Court Judgments
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Jesse P. Wilson
, March 19, 1856, file 1856-#2735, Superior Court
George S. Salls v. Cornelius Vanderbilt
, November 17, 1856, file 1855-#1226, Court of Common Pleas
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Mark Wadleigh and Calvin E. Knox
, June 24, 1857, file LJ-1857-W- 173, Supreme Court Judgments
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. New York and Harlem Railroad Company
, July 16, 1858, file LJ- 1858-N-41, Supreme Court Judgments
Accessory Transit Company v. Cornelius K. Garrison
, September 13, 1858, file 1858-#53, Superior Court
David Colden Murray, Receiver of the Accessory Transit Company, v. Cornelius Vanderbilt
, November 3, 1859, file PL 1859-M V74, Supreme Court Pleadings
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Joseph L. White
, November 7, 1860, file 1860-#985, Superior Court
Theodosius F. Secor and Charles Morgan v. George Law
, May 22, 1861, file 1861-#832, Superior Court
Certificate of Incorporation, November 27, 1863, Atlantic Mail Steamship Company
Certificate of Increase of the Capital Stock, October 5, 1866, Atlantic Mail Steamship Company
Henry S. Thatcher and George Buckland v. Cornelius J. Vanderbilt
, April 2, 1867, file LJ- 1867-V-192, Supreme Court Law Judgments
George R. Pecker v. Cornelius J. Vanderbilt
, April 2, 1867, file LJ-1867-V-100, Supreme Court Law Judgments
Frank Work v. Daniel Drew, John E. Eldridge, Alexander Drew, Homer Ramsdell, J. C Bancroft Davis, Henry Thompson, Dudley Gregory, Frederick A. Lane, George Gravel, James Fisk Jr., Jay Gould, and William Skidmore
, July 24, 1868, file PL-1868-W-25, Supreme Court Pleadings
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Jeremiah Simonson
, August 13, 1868, file LJ-1858-S-574, Supreme Court Law Judgments
New Jersey Historical Society, Jersey City, New Jersey Stevens Family Papers
New-York Historical Society, New York, New York
Thomas Gibbons Papers
Samuel S. Griscom. “Journal of a Tour thro N. Jersey, Penn and N. York with occasional remarks on the people, Literary characters Ladies Institutions &c. &c. &c.,” 1824
Philip Hone Diary
Livingston Family Papers
Misc. Manuscripts
John M. Clayton
Charles O. Handy
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Misc. Microfilms
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Diary, 1876–1878, reel 72
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Diary 2, 1876–1878, reel 72
G P. Morosini, “Jay Gould and the Erie Railway”
William D. Murphy Account Books
Hiram Peck Diary
Staten Island Papers
David Mitchell Turnure Journal
Vanderbilt Family Papers
Thurlow Weed Papers
Isaac Woodruff Papers
New York Municipal Archives, New York, New York
John T. Hoffman Correspondence, Mayors' Papers
New York City Census, 1816 Staten Island Court Papers
Hugh McLaughlin v. Cornelius Vanderbilt
, December 12, 1843, Supreme Court, Richmond County, box SI-66
Charles S. De Forest v. Tunis Egbert, Francis Perkins, Preston Sheldon, Helmus M. Wells
, March 5, 1852, Supreme Court, Richmond County, box SI-68
People of the State of New York v. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Anthony Bird, Stephen Williams, Elias Butler, Jacob Van Cleef and Jacob Arnold
, November 22, 1851, Supreme Court, Richmond County, box SI-68
Manuscript Division, New York Public Library, New York, New York
Horace Greeley Papers
William D. Lewis Papers
Misc. Files
Horace F. Clark
Thomas Gibbons
Aaron Ogden
Augustus Schell
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. [Cornelius J. Vanderbilt]
PennCentral Collection
Annual Reports, Directors' and Executive Committee Minutes, Ledgers, and Letter-books, Canada Southern, Dunkirk, Warren & Pittsburgh, Hudson River, Lake Shore, Lake Shore & Southern Indiana, Long Island, Michigan Central, Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana, New York & Harlem, New York Central, New York Central & Hudson River, and Spuyten Duyvil Railroads
Samuel J. Tilden Papers
Correspondence of Cornelius and William H. Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt Will Trial Case Clippings
Isaiah Thornton Williams Papers
New York State Library
Edwin D. Morgan Papers
John V. L. Pruyn Papers
Cornelius Vanderbilt to Pliny Miles, June 8, 1859
New York Stock Exchange Archives, New York, New York
Minutes of the New York Stock and Exchange Board
New York Yacht Club Library and Archives, New York, New York
Book of Minutes No. 1
Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Collection
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
George Peabody Papers
Rockefeller Archives Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York
John D. Rockefeller I Correspondence, Record Group 1.2
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Gibbons Papers
Nielson Papers
Aaron Ogden Papers
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, Staten Island, New York
Ferry and Railroad Collection
Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Western Union Telegraph Company Collection
Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbon-dale, Ill.
Victoria Woodhull-Martin Papers
Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
Williams Family Papers
Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode
Island
Colt Family Papers
Special Collections, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
John James Tigert
IV
Papers
                             GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Currency
. Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1876.
Bureau of Navigation.
Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States, 1807 to 1856
. Washington, D.C: United States Department of Commerce, 1931.
Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York, 1784–1831
. Vol. 9. New York: City of
New York, 1917. New York State Assembly Document 75. 84th sess., 1861.
New York State Assembly Document 100. 85th sess., 1862.
New York State Assembly Document 175. 86th sess., 1863.
New York State Assembly Document 125. 87th sess., 1864.
New York State Assembly Document 19. 90th sess., 1867.
New York State Assembly Document 114. 90th sess., 1867.
New York State Assembly Document 210. 90th sess., 1867.
New York State Assembly Document 142. 92nd sess., 1869.
New York State Assembly Document 38. 103rd sess., 1880.
New York State Senate Document 52:
Report of the Select Committee of the Senate, Appointed
April 10, 1868, in Relation to Passage of Certain Railroad Bills
. Albany: Argus Company, 1869.
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion
. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1894–1922. 30 vols.
United States House of Representatives Executive Document 75. 31st Cong., 1st sess., vol. 10.
United States House of Representatives Executive Document 103. 34th Cong., 1st sess., vol. 11.
United States House of Representatives Executive Document 24. 35th Cong., 1st sess., vol. 7.
United States House of Representatives Executive Document 47. 35th Cong., 1st sess., vol. 9.
United States House of Representatives Executive Document 1. Part 2, 38th Cong., 2
nd
sess., vol. 2.
United States House of Representatives Executive Document 78. 38th Cong., 2nd sess., vol. 13.

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