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Fred D Van Order (Meany & Van Order), home 214 S Corn St Meany & Van Order (Patrick L Meany and Fred D Van Order), liquor dealers and bottlers, 514 and 516 W State St

Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 10, 2025 20:13

Norton & Hanford’s Ithaca City Directory for 1899 Ithaca, NY

Fred D Van Order Sr

Name of Individual: Bradford Bailor Compass System Address: 2NE Caroline C 16G Current Address: Level Green Rd Post Office/Rural Delivery Route: Brooktondale Farm Type/Residence: General Farm Owned or Rented: Rented

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 28, 2024 01:07

Tompkins County, N.Y. Rural Index & "Compass System" Map, Ithaca, N.Y.: Rural Directories, Inc., 1937; HistoryForge transcription Digitized version...

Bradford D Bailor

“The eastern expansion of Miss Belle Cowdry’s residence is rapidly assuming form and comeliness under the skillful supervision of F. P. Randolph.” 

Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 01, 2026 17:56

Ithaca Daily News, August 14, 1895, 3.

408 E State St Ithaca (as of 1899) 130 E State St Ithaca

Name of Individual or Firm: Augustus Middaugh Spouse/Family Relation: Viola # of Children Under 21: 4 Business or Occupation: Farmer Chief Crop or Specialty:   Property: Owned 69 acres Rural Delivery Route/Post Office: Brookton RD 24  1914 AA Road...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 13, 2024 01:19

American Agriculturist Farm Directory of Yates, Schuyler, Tompkins and Seneca Counties New York, New York: Orange Judd Company, 1914 HistoryForge t...

Agustus Middaugh

Clark G Selover, Cigars and Tobacco Docity Paquette, Shoemaker

Submitted by Genevieve Barbee on March 13, 2025 19:51

Norton & Hanford’s Ithaca City Directory for 1899 Ithaca, NY

203 E State St Ithaca (as of 1899) 63 E State St Ithaca

Name of Individual: Leslie Crispell Specialty: General Farming Clock System House Number: 2-1-Z Community: Brookton Current Street Address: 159 Central Chapel? Post Office/Rural Delivery Route: Brookton RD Telephone: Caroline

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 16, 2024 01:46

“Clock System” Rural Index Caroline Township, 1920, Ithaca, N.Y.: American Rural Index Corporation Eastern Division, 1920. HistoryForge transcripti...

Leslie I Crispell

Note with photo of Crispell Home in 1907 identifies the photo as "Crispell Home ca. 1907, 134 Harford Rd. Slaterville Springs, NY 14881, Benson and Eliza Norris lived here from 1864 until their death. Peter and Sarah Crispell lived here from 1890-...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 19, 2024 01:02

Crispell Family Papers at the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University, courtesy of the Caroline History Association on Fa...

134 Harford Rd Caroline

John S. Crozier, grocer and provisions, Cayuga, near Owego [State].

Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 28, 2024 13:02

Boyd's Directory of Binghamton, Elmira, Ithaca and Owego, 1864 Andrew Boyd, Binghamton, NY

101 W State St Ithaca (as of 1899) 1 W State St Ithaca

Sigma Phi House

Submitted by Eve Snyder on May 01, 2025 20:57

Manning’s Ithaca Directory, January 1951 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

1 Forest Park Ln Ithaca

This house was originally built after 1812 by Henry Ackley and located at the NW corner of Seneca and Cayuga Streets. In 1874, after the death of Henry's wife, Lydia, their son-in-law, Samuel H. Winton, built a new house for his family on that sit...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on November 17, 2025 14:33

Mary Tomlan, "Fashionable house became home for women's federation," Ithaca Journal, March 31, 2012, 9A.

615 W Seneca St Ithaca (as of 1899) 147 W Seneca St Ithaca

The Ithacan, Lewis A. Clapp Proprietor Lewis A Clapp, Printer, book and job-117-119 S Tioga St

Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 19, 2024 20:29

Norton & Hanford’s Ithaca City Directory for 1899 Ithaca, NY

119 S Tioga St Ithaca (as of 1899) 11 S Tioga St Ithaca

Clarence F Wyckoff (C William Wurster & Co, newspaper advertising agents ) (E G & C F Wyckoff Co-Remington typewriters), vice-pres The R. T. Booth Co.

Submitted by Eve Snyder on June 22, 2025 22:33

Norton & Hanford’s Ithaca City Directory for 1899 Ithaca, NY

Clarence F Wyckoff

"Frank R. Benton, 62, for many years preparatory in the Department of Anatomy in the Cornell University Medical College, a graduate of Cornell University Law School and widely known, died suddenly in his home, 313 Willow Avenue.... Mr. Benton was ...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 05, 2024 00:21

“’Beau’ Benton Dies Suddenly At His Home,” Ithaca Journal, March 8, 1929, 5.

Frank R Benton

Name of Individual: WA Arsenault Compass System Address: 7SE Ithaca 15X Current Address: Middaugh Rd Post Office/Rural Delivery Route: Brooktondale Farm Type/Residence: General and Dairy Farm Owned or Rented: Rented

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 26, 2024 23:12

Tompkins County, N.Y. Rural Index & "Compass System" Map, Ithaca, N.Y.: Rural Directories, Inc., 1937; HistoryForge transcription Digitized version...

Walter A Arsenault

Year built 1860

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 02, 2025 14:17

Tompkins County Department of Assessment

108 Farm St Ithaca (as of 1899) 8 Farm St Ithaca

Howell H. Girard, Blacksmith Girard Hall

Submitted by Genevieve Barbee on March 11, 2025 19:31

Ithaca Directory and Tompkins County Business Directory, 1872 Ithaca Democrat Steam Print, Ithaca, NY

120-122 S Aurora St Ithaca (as of 1899) 16 S Aurora St Ithaca (as of 1878) 15 S Aurora St Ithaca

S. S. Kresge Co., Benjamin A. Livingston Manager, 5cent-25cent Store-123-125-127 E State St

Submitted by Genevieve Barbee on March 05, 2025 15:27

Manning’s Ithaca Directory, January 1930 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY

123-131 E State St Ithaca

“With last-minute alterations in progress final plans were being made today for the opening of Ithaca’s new Montgomery Ward store Thursday in the former Treman King building at the corner of State and Cayuga Sts. The building has been entirely rem...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on March 28, 2025 19:16

“Montgomery Ward Store Opening Set,” Ithaca Journal, November 6, 1940, 18.

107-109 S Cayuga St Ithaca (as of 1940)

Miss Cornelia Ackley, News Room and Stationery Hare & Stoddard (W. W. Hare & G. M. Stoddard), Attorneys T. J. McElheny, Life Insurance, over 10 N Tioga

Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 06, 2024 16:29

Ithaca General and Business Directory, 1880 Norton & Conklin Publishers, Ithaca, NY

10 N Tioga St Ithaca

Residents of Penn Yan, NY • Robert Walker age 28, male, Black, day laborer, born in Virginia, cannot read, cannot write, male over 21  years of age • Lillian Walker age 19, female, Black, keeping house, born in Virginia • Oda Walker age 2, female,...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on June 10, 2025 13:39

1870 US Census, Penn Yan, Yates County, NY, household of Robert Walker, lines 21-24, sheet 52.

Robert Walker
Lillian Edwina Walker
Robert Frederick Walker
Oda Walker