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Ezra Cornell

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.

Ezra Cornell

Henry W. Sage

Lyman Truman

Orlow W. Chapman

Jeremiah W. Dwight

Henry B. Lord

(1807-01-11)January 11, 1807
Westchester Landing, The Bronx, New York, U.S.

December 9, 1874(1874-12-09) (aged 67)
Ithaca, New York, U.S.

Republican

Early life[edit]

Cornell was born in Westchester Landing at what is now 1515 Williamsbridge Road[2] in The Bronx in New York City to Elijah Cornell and Eunice (Barnard), a potter. He was raised near DeRuyter, New York.[3] He was a cousin of Paul Cornell, the founder of Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. He was also related to Ezekiel Cornell, a Revolutionary War general who represented Rhode Island in the Second Continental Congress from 1780 to 1782,[4] 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, the religion of Thomas Cornell's descendants.[5][6]

Henry Wells

Ezra's 4th great-grandmother and Benjamin Franklin's grandmother

Mary Morrill Foulger

Ezra's 4th great-grandfather and Benjamin Franklin's grandfather

Peter Foulger

a planned community named after Cornell's distant relative William Cornell

Cornell, Ontario

William Wesley Cornell

December 27, 2007

The New York Times op-ed "A Colony With a Conscience"

Dorf, Philip (1952). The Builder, A Biography of Ezra Cornell. New York: The Macmillan Co.

Ezra Cornell, Andrew Dickson White and the Establishment of Cornell University

"I Would Found an Institution": The Ezra Cornell Bicentennial

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

The Ezra Cornell Papers

Alonzo Barton Cornell. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1884

“True and Firm”: Biography of Ezra Cornell, Founder of the Cornell University.

John Cornell. New York: Press of T. A. Wright, 1902

Genealogy of the Cornell Family. Being an Account of the Descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth, R. I.

Cornell University Chronicle Online

The Ezra Files – story archive.

George P. Oslin, 1992; ch. 5

The Story of Telecommunications