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29-466: Thomas Cornell may refer to: Thomas Cornell (settler) (1595–?), English settler in Boston, Massachusetts Thomas Cornell (politician) (1814–1890), American politician and businessman Thomas Cornell (publisher) (fl. 1780–1792), British publisher and printseller Thomas Cornell (artist) (1937–2012), American artist [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

58-471: A Revolutionary War general who represented Rhode Island in the Second Continental Congress from 1780 to 1782, and was a distant relative of William Cornell, who was an early settler from Rhode Island. Cornell's earliest American patrilineal ancestor, Thomas Cornell (1595–1655), was a Puritan and a follower of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson before finally embracing Quakerism ,

87-452: A dollar per acre, Cornell netted an average of over $ 5 per acre in 1905. Because of these timber holdings, the town of Cornell, Wisconsin , is named for Cornell. Cornell entered the railroad business, but fared poorly due to the Panic of 1873 . He began construction of a palatial Ithaca mansion, Llenroc , whose name was Cornell spelled in reverse, to replace his farmhouse, but died before it

116-537: A new type of plow and began decades of traveling away from Ithaca. His territories for sales of the plow included the states of Maine and Georgia . He sold in Maine in the summer and the milder Georgia in the winter. In 1842, Cornell happened into the offices of the Maine Farmer , where he saw an acquaintance, F.O.J. Smith, bent over some plans for a "scraper" as Smith called it. For services rendered, Smith had been granted

145-411: A one-quarter share of the telegraph patent held by Samuel Morse , and was attempting to devise a way of burying the telegraph lines in the ground in lead pipe. Cornell devised a special kind of plow that would dig a 2 feet 6 inches (76 cm) ditch, lay the pipe and telegraph wire in the ditch, and cover it back up. It was later learned that condensation in the pipes and poor insulation of

174-448: A tunnel for a new mill race on Fall Creek, a stone dam on Fall Creek (which formed Beebe Lake), and a new flour mill. By 1832, Cornell was placed in charge of all Beebe's concerns at Fall Creek. In 1831, Cornell married Mary Ann Wood in Dryden, New York . The young and growing family needed more income than he could earn as manager of Beebe's mills, so Cornell purchased rights in a patent for

203-475: A university that would teach practical subjects on an equal basis with the classics favored by more traditional institutions. Andrew Dickson White helped secure the new institution's status as New York's land-grant university , and Cornell University was founded and granted a charter through their efforts in 1865. Cornell University derived far greater revenues than earlier land grant colleges, largely from real estate transactions directed by Ezra Cornell. Under

232-414: Is also linked to Sir Robert Laird Borden , Prime Minister of Canada via Richard Borden's marriage to Innocent Cornell. Ezra Cornell Ezra Cornell ( / k ɔːr ˈ n ɛ l / ; January 11, 1807 – December 9, 1874) was an American businessman, politician, academic, and philanthropist. He was the founder of Western Union and a co-founder of Cornell University . He also served as president of

261-610: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Thomas Cornell (settler) Cornell was born and christened 24 March 1591–92 in Saffron Walden , Essex , England, and died in Portsmouth, Rhode Island , on 8 February 1654–55. He married Rebecca Briggs, born in 1600, on 9 June 1620 at St Mary The Virgin, Saffron Walden . First two sons were Richard Cornell (1624–1694) and William Cornell (1627–1673). Their son named Thomas Cornell (Jr.)

290-501: The 87th , 88th , 89th , and 90th New York State Legislatures . Cornell retired from Western Union and turned his attention to philanthropy. He endowed the Cornell Free Library, the first public library for the citizens of Ithaca . The library was incorporated on April 5, 1864, and was formally presented to the town on December 20, 1866. The original library building stood at the corner of Tioga and Seneca street until it

319-645: The New York Agriculture Society and as a New York State Senator. Cornell was born in Westchester Landing at what is now 1515 Williamsbridge Road in The Bronx in New York City to Elijah Cornell and Eunice (Barnard), a potter . He was raised near DeRuyter, New York . He was a cousin of Paul Cornell , the founder of Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. He was also related to Ezekiel Cornell ,

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348-524: The New York and Erie line , which competed with and paralleled the New York, Albany and Buffalo line in which Morse had a major share. The line was completed in 1849 and Cornell was made president of the company. In 1848, Cornell's sister, Phoebe, married Martin B. Wood and moved to Albion, Michigan . Cornell gave Wood a job constructing new lines and made Phoebe his telegraph operator, the first woman operator in

377-662: The Antinomian Controversy had settled in 1638 after being ordered to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Cornell became friends with Roger Williams and co-founded the village of Westchester north of New Amsterdam (later New York City) in 1643. He returned to Rhode Island in 1644 and obtained a land grant for 100 acres in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, on Aquidneck Island which became the Cornell homestead. His neighbor

406-738: The U.S. Cornell earned a substantial fortune when the Erie and Michigan line was consolidated with Hiram Sibley and his New York and Mississippi Company formed the Western Union company. Cornell received $ 2 million in Western Union stock. Cornell was a Republican member of the New York State Assembly representing Tompkins County in 1862 and 1863 and a member of the New York State Senate from 1864 to 1867, where he served in

435-986: The book Killed Strangely: The Death of Rebecca Cornell (2002) by Elaine Forman Crane. Thomas Cornell is an ancestor to a number of prominent and notorious Americans: Ezra Cornell , founder of Cornell University ; William Ellery , signer of the Declaration of Independence ; Ezekiel Cornell , a Revolutionary War general who represented Rhode Island in the U.S. Continental Congress from 1780 to 1782; Bill Gates ; Presidents Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon ; First Ladies Elizabeth Monroe and Frances Folsom Cleveland ; Senator Bob Graham ; Secretary of State John Kerry ; Amelia Earhart ; Stockton Rush ; Josh Rosen , NFL player; neuroscientist and self-described psychopath James H. Fallon ; and accused axe murderer Lizzie Borden , by way of Thomas Cornell (Jr.)'s daughter, Innocent, born to his second wife, Sarah Earle Cornell, after his execution. Thomas Cornell (Jr.) fourth-great-grandson of

464-563: The faith to a "world's woman", Mary Ann Wood, a Methodist , on March 19, 1831. On February 24, 1832, Cornell wrote the following response to his expulsion from The Society of Friends due to his marriage: "I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happiness or misery in this life depended on the choice." He died in 1874. Cornell is interred in Sage Chapel on Cornell's campus along with Daniel Willard Fiske and Jennie McGraw . Cornell

493-493: The land-grant program, the federal government issued the colleges scrip, documents granting the right to select a parcel of land. These colleges generally promptly sold their scrip. Ezra Cornell, however, held most of the scrip, anticipating it would increase in price. He also redeemed some scrip for promising land or for rights in timber, including pine forest in Wisconsin . While the first land-grant colleges received around half

522-612: The original Thomas, donated the original endowment for Cornell University, which is named after another descendant of Thomas. That man was Ezra Cornell (1807-1874), son of Elijah, born 1771, son of Elijah, born 1730, son of Stephen, who married Ruth Pierce, son of Stephen, born 1656, son of Thomas-the-executed and his first wife, Elizabeth Fiscock. Cornell is also connected to distant Canadian lines, who settled north into Upper Canada , notably in Scarborough, Ontario and Markham, Ontario via William Cornell (1766-1860) from Rhode Island . He

551-474: The point where telegraph lines are connected to supporting poles. After joining with Morse, Cornell supervised the development of many telegraph lines, including a portion of the New York, Albany & Buffalo line in 1846 and the Erie and Michigan Telegraph Company , which connected Buffalo to Milwaukee along with his partners John James Speed and Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith . Cornell, Speed, and Smith also built

580-601: The religion of Thomas Cornell's descendants. Cornell initially pursued a career in carpentry and traveled extensively throughout New York State in the profession. Upon first setting eyes on Cayuga Lake and Ithaca, New York in the spring of 1828, he decided that Ithaca would be his future home. Cornell was hired as a mechanic by Otis Eddy to work at his cotton mill on Cascadilla Creek . On Eddy's recommendation, Jeremiah S. Beebe then hired Cornell to repair and overhaul his plaster and flour mills on Fall Creek . During Cornell's long association with Beebe, he designed and built

609-408: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Cornell&oldid=1138119919 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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638-508: The wires impeded the electric current on the wires, so hanging the wire from telegraph poles became the accepted method. Cornell made his fortune in the telegraph business as an associate of Samuel Morse. Cornell constructed and strung the poles for the Baltimore–Washington telegraph line , the first telegraph line of substance in the U.S. To address the problem of telegraph lines shorting out, Cornell invented using glass insulators at

667-516: Was Edward Hutchison , a son of Anne Hutchinson from the Antinomian Controversy. In 1646, Cornell was granted a patent on an area of about four square miles that later became part of The Bronx . It was bounded by Westchester Creek , the Bronx River , village of Westchester and the East River and was called Cornell's Neck. The area is now known as Clason Point . Thomas' son Thomas Cornell (Jr.)

696-441: Was accused, tried, convicted and hanged for the alleged murder of his mother, Rebecca Cornell, in Portsmouth in 1673. He was convicted using circumstantial evidence as well as spectral evidence , where witnesses recounted dreams involving ghosts pointing to his alleged guilt. American jurisprudence was later modernized to exclude the use of apparitions and dreams as evidence in trials. This case and its history has been chronicled in

725-630: Was born October 1627 in Saffron Walden. Thomas Cornell and his family immigrated from England to Boston in 1638, when their son Thomas Cornell (Jr.) would have been age 11. Thomas Cornell was an innkeeper in Boston who was part of the Peripheral Group in the Antinomian Controversy , a religious and political conflict in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. Cornell sold his inn in 1643 and left for Rhode Island, where others from

754-496: Was completed. Llenroc was maintained by Cornell's heirs for several decades until being sold to Cornell University 's chapter of the Delta Phi fraternity , which occupies it to this day; Forest Park, Cornell's farmhouse, was sold to Cornell University's Delta Tau Delta fraternity chapter but was later demolished. A prolific letter writer, Cornell corresponded with a great many people and would write dozens of letters each week. This

783-527: Was demolished in 1960. The library evolved over time to serve the county as the Tompkins County Public Library . To honor the 150th anniversary of his gift, a mural of Ezra Cornell was hung on the exterior wall of the current Tompkins County Public Library in October, 2016. A lifelong enthusiast of science and agriculture, he saw great opportunity in the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Acts to found

812-516: Was due partly to his wide traveling and also to the many business associates he maintained during his years as an entrepreneur and later as a politician and university founder. Cornell University has made the approximately 30,000 letters in the Cornell Correspondence available online. Ezra Cornell was a birthright Quaker , but was later disowned by the Society of Friends for marrying outside

841-509: Was originally laid to rest in Ithaca City Cemetery in Ithaca and later then moved to Sage Chapel. His eldest son, Alonzo B. Cornell , was later governor of New York. Since its founding, the university's charter specified that the eldest lineal descendant of Cornell is granted a life seat on Cornell University's board of trustees, currently Charles Ezra Cornell. (Charles Ezra Cornell took

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