American businessman, founder of Western Union and Cornell University
Ezra Cornell
1st Chairman of Cornell Board of Trustees
In office 1866–1874
Succeeded by
Henry W. Sage
Member of the New York Senate from the 24th district
In office January 1, 1864 – December 31, 1867
Preceded by
Lyman Truman
Succeeded by
Orlow W. Chapman
Member of the New York State Assembly from the Tompkins County district
In office January 1, 1862 – December 31, 1863
Preceded by
Jeremiah W. Dwight
Succeeded by
Henry B. Lord
Personal details
Born
(1807-01-11)January 11, 1807 Westchester Landing, The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Died
December 9, 1874(1874-12-09) (aged 67) Ithaca, New York, U.S.
Political party
Republican
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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 of Western Union and a co-founder of Cornell University. He also served as President of the New York Agriculture Society[1] and as a New York State Senator.
^New York State Agricultural Society (March 1, 1862). "Mr. Cornell's Remarks on Taking the Chair as the Newly Elected President". Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society. XXII - 1862. Albany, New York: 36–37. I am very unexpectedly called upon to thank you for this expression of your confidence in electing me as the President of your Society for the ensuing year. Your partiality reposes a trust in me of which I have a grateful appreciation, though its just and proper fulfillment carries with it the most weighty responsibility.
EzraCornell (/kɔːrˈnɛl/; January 11, 1807 – December 9, 1874) was an American businessman, politician, academic, and philanthropist. He was the founder...
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...
EzraCornell is a monumental statue in Ithaca, New York, United States. Located on the Arts Quad of the Cornell Central Campus, the monument honors Ezra...
The history of Cornell University begins when its two founders, Andrew Dickson White of Syracuse and EzraCornell of Ithaca, met in the New York State...
Hotel EzraCornell (HEC) is an annual weekend-long educational conference put on by the students of the Cornell School of Hotel Administration for leaders...
transitions. New York's only land-grant university, Cornell University was founded in 1865 by EzraCornell and Andrew Dickson White and has its main campus...
Ithaca, New York. Ithaca's first public library was founded by EzraCornell as the Cornell Free Library and chartered by the New York State Legislature...
built for EzraCornell, the founder of Cornell University. It is located at 100 Cornell Avenue in Ithaca, New York, just below the Cornell University...
contributors to Cornell's history, including the founders of the university: EzraCornell and Andrew Dickson White as well as their wives. The building was gifted...
remains a matter of contention among historians, one theory suggests that EzraCornell brought the term into the popular lexicon through his frequent social...
are interred in Cornell's Sage Chapel, a list which includes founders EzraCornell and Andrew Dickson White, as well as "third founder" Henry W. Sage. Rothe...
the north, and Cascadilla Creek on the South. EzraCornell donated his farm for the site of the Cornell University as a part of the package to bring New...
educating young women as thoroughly as young men," Sage told his friend EzraCornell in 1868, "I will provide the endowment to enable you to do so." Sage...
Washington. Cornell's distant cousin, EzraCornell, later founded Cornell University in New York and William Cornell, settler of Scarborough, Ontario whom...
native Cayuga bluestone, reflect EzraCornell's utilitarianism and are known as Stone Row. The statue of EzraCornell, dating back to 1919, stands between...
Union Party ticket. In the Senate, White met the fellow upstate Senator EzraCornell, a self-taught Quaker farmer from Ithaca who had made a modest fortune...
controlled by John James Speed, Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith and EzraCornell and, at Cornell's insistence, changed its name to Western Union Telegraph Company...
August 1, 2022. Retrieved August 1, 2022. "Question 1". Dear Uncle Ezra... Cornell University. 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2012. Wallace, William N. (1990-06-12)...
was the work of Western Union, which Hiram Sibley, Jeptha Wade, and EzraCornell had established in 1856 by merging companies operating east of the Mississippi...
Retrieved 16 August 2016. ""I would Found An Institution": The EzraCornell Bicentennial". Cornell University Library. 2007. Retrieved 16 August 2016. Sisler...
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