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    Ezra Cornell (/kɔːrˈnɛl/; January 11, 1807 – December 9, 1874) was an American businessman, politician, academic, and philanthropist. He was the founder...
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    Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. The university was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell...
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  • Rebecca Cornell (2002) by Elaine Forman Crane. Thomas Cornell is an ancestor to a number of prominent and notorious Americans: Ezra Cornell, founder...
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    Ezra Cornell is a monumental statue on the Arts Quad on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The monument honors Ezra Cornell, the university's...
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  • Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC) is an annual weekend-long educational conference put on by the students of the Cornell School of Hotel Administration for leaders...
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    The history of Cornell University begins when its two founders, Andrew Dickson White of Syracuse and Ezra Cornell of Ithaca, met in the New York State...
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  • American bluegrass bassist Ezra Danolds Cole (1902–1992), American philatelist Ezra Convis (died 1838), American politician Ezra Cornell (1807–1874), American...
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    are interred in Cornell's Sage Chapel, a list which includes founders Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, as well as "third founder" Henry W. Sage. Rothe...
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    to 1882. Cornell was born in Ithaca, New York, on January 22, 1832. He was the eldest son of Ezra Cornell (1807–1874), the founder of Cornell University...
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  • the Continental Congress Ezra Cornell (1807–1874), American businessman and co-founder of Cornell University George Cornell (c. 1928 – 1966), English...
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    remains a matter of contention among historians, one theory suggests that Ezra Cornell brought the term into the popular lexicon through his frequent social...
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    Ithaca, New York. Ithaca's first public library was founded by Ezra Cornell as the Cornell Free Library and chartered by the New York State Legislature...
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    Sage Chapel (category Cornell University buildings)
    contributors to Cornell's history, including the founders of the university: Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White as well as their wives. The building was gifted...
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    Llenroc (category Cornell University buildings)
    built for Ezra Cornell, the founder of Cornell University. It is located at 100 Cornell Avenue in Ithaca, New York, just below the Cornell University...
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    transitions. New York's only land-grant university, Cornell University was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White. Its main campus is in...
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  • Ithaca were each founded in the late 19th century. In 1865, Ezra Cornell founded Cornell University, which overlooks the town from East Hill. It was opened...
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    1819." Dear Uncle Ezra, Cornell University. "Dear Uncle Ezra – Questions for Thursday, 15 May 2003 – Cornell University". Ezra.cornell.edu. Archived from...
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    the county. An early settler was Elijah Cornell, father of Ezra Cornell, founder of Western Union and Cornell University. DeRuyter was one of five towns...
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  • Cornell was a distant cousin of Ezra Cornell, who later founded Cornell University in New York and William Cornell, settler of Scarborough, Ontario whom...
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    native Cayuga bluestone to reflect Ezra Cornell's utilitarianism and are known as Stone Row. The statue of Ezra Cornell, dating back to 1919, stands between...
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    Sage Hall (category Cornell University dormitories)
    educating young women as thoroughly as young men," Sage told his friend Ezra Cornell in 1868, "I will provide the endowment to enable you to do so." Sage...
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    controlled by John James Speed, Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith and Ezra Cornell and, at Cornell's insistence, changed its name to Western Union Telegraph Company...
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    Andrew Dickson White (category Cornell University Department of History faculty)
    Union Party ticket. In the Senate, White met the fellow upstate Senator Ezra Cornell, a self-taught Quaker farmer from Ithaca who had made a modest fortune...
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    Retrieved 16 August 2016. ""I would Found An Institution": The Ezra Cornell Bicentennial". Cornell University Library. 2007. Retrieved 16 August 2016. Sisler...
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    (inn) for loggers and traders heading upriver. The city was named for Ezra Cornell, one of the founders of Western Union, who owned a very large amount...
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    lay his wire underground, and asked Ezra Cornell to lay the line using a special cable-laying plow that Cornell had developed. Wire began to be laid...
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    its north, and Cascadilla Creek to its south. Ezra Cornell donated his farm for the site of the Cornell University as a part of the package to bring New...
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    beginnings to the university's founding in 1865. University co-founder Ezra Cornell proposed a Department of Trade and Commerce for the new university, which...
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    original (PDF) on June 26, 2006. Retrieved December 27, 2009. "Uncle Ezra". Cornell University. Archived from the original on January 2, 2007. Retrieved...
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    maint: unfit URL (link) "Uncle Ezra". "Dear Uncle Ezra: Questions for Thursday, April 7, 2011". Dear Uncle Ezra. Cornell University. Archived from the...
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