Sources

The information on this site was gathered from many sources around campus and beyond. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those folks who worked so hard to collect information about the memorials; without their efforts this project would not have been possible.

 

Cornell University Sources 

Cornell Library 

[3] Cornell Alumni News Vol. 32, No. 13 (December 19, 1929)
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/26945 

[6] Baldwin Memorial Stairway
https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/baldwin  

[8] World War II Memorial, Anabel Taylor Hall
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:53438 

[20] Cornell Register, 1909-1910
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/22324 

[21] Matt Urban (Matty Urbanowitz) – Cornell Alumni News Vol. 42, No. 05 (October 26, 1939)
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/27287  

[27] Captain Wilhelmus Mynderse Rice – Cornell Alumni News Vol. 21, No. 22 (February 27, 1919)
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/26514 

[28] Whitney Straight – Cornell Alumni News Vol. 43, No. 35 (August, 1941)
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/27352 

[29] Captain E. I. Tinkham ’17 – Cornell Alumni News Vol. 19, No. 34 (May 31, 1917) (photos)
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/26448 

[25] Frank Barton – Frank Arthur Barton Papers,1887-1922
https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMA00448.html 

[31] Laurie Fitzgibbon ’51 – Cornell Alumni News, Dec. 15 1952
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/27605  

[32] Laurie Fitzgibbon – Campus Address, 1949-1950
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/35674 

[37] Military Tactics – 150 Ways to Say Cornell
https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/cornell150/exhibition/military/index.html 

[40] Biography of Major Seaman – Cornell Alumni News Jan. 30 1919
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/26510  

[44] Montgomery and Rice – Cornell Alumni News April 1, 1956
http://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/27664  

[45] Chandler Montgomery – Cornell Alumni News Vol. 22, No. 04 (October 16, 1919)
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/26536 

[63] Official publications of Cornell University V.04 1913/14
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/23476  

[64] Cornell Alumni News Vol. 58, No. 13 (April 1, 1956)
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/27664 

[65] Cornell Alumni News Vol. 29, No. 17 (January 27, 1927)
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/26829 

[66] Cornell Alumni News Vol. 43, No. 21 (March 13, 1941)
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/27338 

[69] WWI Memorial Chapel Mural
https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/alisonmasonkingsbury/exhibition/wwi/index.html

[70] Historical Register of the Delta Chi Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon at Cornell University, Second Edition
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/22227

[71] Military Records of Cornell University In the World War. Ithaca, N.Y.: The University, 1930.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008227060

[72] Arrival of the Tank America to campus
https://media.library.cornell.edu/media/Arrival+of+the+Tank+America+to+campus%2C+ROTC%2C+and+demolition+of+a+chimney/1_4hnfzsre/5877621

Cornell Chronicle 

[60] University’s founder describes the Union retreat at Bull Run – Cornell Chronicle
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1998/03/ezra-cornells-great-granddaughter-donates-his-dramatic-1861-letter 

[38] Wortham Museum Chronicles Cornell’s Military History – Cornell Chronicle
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2006/02/wortham-museum-chronicles-cornells-military-history 

[41] A Great School Faces the Great War – Cornell Chronicle, January 22, 2015
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/01/cornell-rewind-great-school-faces-great-war 

The Cornell Daily Sun 

[1] Clifton Beckwith Brown – The Cornell Daily Sun 21 October 1898
https://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=d&d=CDS18981021.2.3 

[56] The Cornell Daily Sun, 5 January 1942
https://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/?a=d&d=CDS19420105.2.1&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN——-  

[57] ROTC Courses Open to Women – The Cornell Daily Sun, 8 September 1972
https://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/?a=d&d=CDS19720908&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN——-  

[58] Trustees’ Vote Ends ROTC Requirement – The Cornell Daily Sun, 1 August 1960
https://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/?a=d&d=CDS19600801.2.42&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN——- 

Cornell ROTC 

[10] History of ROTC at Cornell – AIR FORCE ROTC DET 520
https://www.afrotc.cornell.edu/detachment-520-history/ 

[11] The Legacy – AROTC
http://armyrotc.cornell.edu/the-legacy/ 

[55] Mission & History NROTC
https://navy.cornell.edu/about/ 

Veterans Colleague Network Group 

[15] Cornell University Veterans Memorials | Cornell honors our Veterans
https://veteransmemorials.cornell.edu/ 

[16] Cornell Veterans Memorials Map
http://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=e6cb9cfbda7546dcbecfab05842e9ccc 

Cornell Botanic Gardens 

[49] Floriculture Department War Memorial Trail – Botanic Gardens
https://cornellbotanicgardens.org/location/floriculture-war-memorial/  

[50] Sackett Bridge and Floriculture Department War Memorial Trail – Botanic Gardens
https://cornellbotanicgardens.org/cornells-veterans-honored-at-cornell-botanic-gardens-and-across-campus/ 

Other Cornell Sources 

[14] Cornell Charter
https://trustees.cornell.edu/Shared%20Documents/cornell_charter.pdf 

[36] Butler Memorial Trophy – Cornell Heavyweight Rowing Team Awards
https://cornellbigred.com/documents/2013/6/26/Team%20Awards.pdf 

[51] “Cornell University’s War Memorial”, Woodford Patterson, Secretary of the University 1917-1940, published 1930
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015031929261&view=1up&seq=19 

[73] History of the Class of 1872, Cornell University
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4525474

Other Public resources 

[2] Colonel Sackett – Scarsdale Inquirer 13 December 1929
https://news.hrvh.org/veridian/?a=d&d=scarsdaleinquire19291213.2.146 

[4] Capt Wilhelmus Mynderse Rice (1887-1918) – Find A Grave Memorial
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55996242/wilhelmus-mynderse-rice 

[5] Karl Perry – Vietnam Veterans Memorial
https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/40306/KARL-F-PERRY/ 

[7] Morgan Smiley Baldwin – The Columbia University War Memorial
https://www.warmemorial.columbia.edu/morgan-smiley-baldwin 

[9] Guide to the campus – Sage Chapel
https://archive.org/details/cu31924055960987/page/n71 

[12] Schoellkopf Field – New York Times, Aug 23, 1914 
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/08/23/104636008.html?pageNumber=70   

[13] Matt Urban – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Urban#cite_ref-21 

[17] LtJG Robert Irving Ashman, Jr (Unknown-1943) – Find A Grave Memorial
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56245386/robert-irving-ashman 

[18] Willard Dickerman Straight – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Dickerman_Straight 

[19] Henry Schoellkopf – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Schoellkopf 

[22] Matt Louis Urban – opening ceremony, Remembrance Garden, Nov 12 2016
https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.cornell.edu/dist/4/3769/files/2018/11/Lt-Col-Matt-Urban-1ad1lgn.pdf 

[23] Matt Urban – Find a Grave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3031 

[24] Biography of Matt Urban – Arlington National Cemetery 
https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Notable-Graves/Medal-of-Honor-Recipients/World-War-II-MoH-recipients/Matt-Urban 

[26] Frank Barton – Find a Grave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142245351/frank-arthur-barton 

[30] Seaman, Louis Livingston – Appleton’s Cyclopædia of American Biography, Volume 10
https://books.google.com/books?id=GccCikRrcQQC&pg=PA18-IA71#v=onepage&q&f=false 

[33] Laurie Fitzgibbon – Korean War Project
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/9356/korean-war-project-new-york-55808-2lt-laurie-fitzgibbon-jr  

[34] Oscar Seltzer – American Battle Monuments Commission
https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/seltzer=oscar  

[35] James P. Weir – Korean War Project
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/31897/korean-war-project-wisconsin-ra32134731-pvt-james-patrick-weir  

[39] Seaman, Louis Livingston. Collection, 1869-1932
https://www.library.illinois.edu/ihx/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=263  

[42] Major Richard J. Gannon II, USMC, Award – Department of the Navy
https://www.usna.edu/Commandant/Directives/Instructions/1000-1999/COMDTMIDNINST-1650.13A-MAJOR-RICHARD-J-GANNON-USMC-AWARD.pdf  

[43] Major Richard J. Gannon II Silver Medal Citation – Hall of Valor Project
https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/3704  

[46] Geoffery Emmons Green – Find a Grave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68960409/geoffrey-emmons-green  

[47] Michael McPherson Deuel – Arlington National Cemetery
https://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/mmdeuel.htm 

[48] Michael McPherson Deuel – CIA
https://www.cia.gov/legacy/honoring-heroes/heroes/michael-mcpherson-deuel/  

[52] WWI War Memorial – New York Times, May 24, 1931
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/05/24/107116302.html?pageNumber=1  

[53] Tribute Paid to Tinkham – New York Times, May 24, 1931
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/05/24/107116324.html?pageNumber=2  

[54] German Name Barred on Cornell Memorial – New York Times, May 8, 1931
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/05/08/92146524.html?pageNumber=12  

[59] The Seaman family in America as descended from Captain John Seaman of Hempstead, Long Island
https://archive.org/details/seamanfamilyinam00seam/page/182/mode/1up  

[61] En Repos After Verdun – Edward Tinkham, July 3, 1916
https://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/memoir/afshist/AFS1i.htm  

[62] Remembering a Veteran: Edward I. Tinkham – AFS Volunteer, Camion Driver, Naval Aviator
https://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2015/01/remembering-veteran-edward-i-tinkham.html  

[67] Memories of Arrow Air Flight 1285 crash victims live on
https://fortcampbell-courier.com/news/article_2eecc15e-3b24-11eb-b96c-378c070f1194.html

[68] Arrow Air Flight 1285R
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Air_Flight_1285R