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1882 antique DEED waushara FOX WISCONSIN IMPROVEMENT Erastus CORNING to MERRIMAN
Noted in victorian pen on top of the deed is Lewis Pierce Land". This listing is for the part-printed indenture for the sale of land from>Fox< and=""> Improvement Company, Erastus Corning [heirs] to Horace Merriman.
Signed by heirs of Erastus Corning (1794-1872) prominent American businessman and politician:
Approximate size: 3pgs, legal
The paper is darkened and beige'ish. The photographs in the listing from my camera for some reason does not show this color.
Backgrounds:
Lorenzo dow - May 1, 1882, he purchased 40 acres of land from Harriett W. Corning, the widow of Erastus Corning whose first wife, Mary Parker Corning, was also deceased. The property was described as the NE quarter (SE 1/4, NE 1/4 of Section 36. Twp. #25, N Range 1 and sold for $280. December 1, 1856, Erastus Corning, the president of the Fox and Wisconsin Improvement Company, had first purchased a large amount of Clark County, Wisconsin property and then later conveyed an unsold portion of it to Alexander Mitchell, Charles Butler and Alexander Spaulding who apparently defaulted on the payment for it. Both Erastus and his first wife had died by that time. Consequently, it was actually Erastus' second wife, Harriett W. Corning, who sold the land to the L. D. Worden at a judicial sale held in Appleton, Wisconsin.
-------------------------------------- Erastus Corning I (December 14, 1794 – April 9, 1872), American businessman and politician, was born in Norwich, Connecticut. Corning moved to Troy, New York at the age of 13 to clerk in the hardware store of an uncle; six years later he moved to Albany, New York, where he joined the mercantile business under James Spencer. After some time at Spencer's firm, Corning became a partner, and eventually the senior partner upon Spencer's death in 1824. Corning combined the Spencer firm with holdings he inherited from his uncle to form Erastus Corning & Co. Erastus Corning's most lasting contribution to history may have been his dealings with railroads. As an iron dealer, he very quickly saw the potential that railroads had as an economic engine as both a consumer and distributor of his products, and took an interest from the very start. When the Utica and Schenectady Railroad was chartered in 1833, Corning got himself a seat on the board and became a major investor, and was soon president of the road. Corning ran the Utica & Schenectady for twenty years. The railroad eventually boasted 78 miles (126 km) of track, from Schenectady in the east (where the road interchanged with the smaller Mohawk & Hudson Railroad of which Corning was also a shareholder) to Utica in the west. In 1851, the road's name was changed to the Mohawk Valley Railroad. As president of the Utica & Schenectady, Corning organized in 1851 a convention of the owners and presidents of the other eight operating railroads, which combined roughly connected the cities of Albany and Buffalo, New York. The convention agreed on a framework for consolidation of the eight roads (as well as two paper roads, which had not yet been built but were planned), and Corning took the convention's application to the state Legislature. Corning became the main lobbyist for the proposal in the legislature, and despite being a Democrat made a personal appeal to Thurlow Weed, leader of the Whigs, who controlled state government at the time.In 1861, before taking office in Congress, he was a delegate to the Peace Congress in Washington, D.C., but once the Civil War began he took his seat in Congress and, at least initially, supported the Lincoln Administration. He resigned his seat in October 1863 because of failing health and disagreements with the Lincoln Administration over prosecution of the Civil War. In February 1863, he was the Democratic caucus nominee for U.S. Senator from New York, but was defeated by Republican Edwin D. Morgan.
