Here is the uniform button that is listed as SU68 in Albert's button book. It is for the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Cornell University was founded on April 27, 1865, by Ezra Cornell, an entrepreneur and New York State Senator, and Andrew Dickson White, an educator and also a New York State Senator, after the New York State legislature authorized the university as the state's land grant institution. Ezra Cornell offered his farm in Ithaca, New York as a preliminary site for the university, and granted $500,000 of his personal fortune as an initial endowment (equivalent to $12,373,000 in 2023) to the university. White agreed to be Cornell University's first president. These buttons were made by the Scovill firm in Waterbury, Connecticut and is so marked on the reverse. It is in beautiful non-excavated condition.
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