The Irving Literary Society was a literary society at Cornell University active from 1868 to 1887. The U.S. Bureau of Education described it as a "purely literary society" following the "traditions of
Cascadilla Place, where the Irving Literary Society was founded
Andrew Dickson White Hall which housed Society Hall, the main meeting room for Cornell's 19th century literary societies, including the Irving
Washington Irving
Harry Falkenau who played a Chopin Nocturne at the Irving's May Day celebrations in 1884
Joseph B. Foraker
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Joseph Benson Foraker was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the 37th governor of Ohio from 1886 to 1890 and as a United States senator from Ohio from 1897 until 1909.
Irving Literary Society (Cornell University)
…founded on October 20, 1868, shortly after Cornell opened. Past members who went on to prominent careers included judge Morris Lyon Buchwalter, senator Joseph Benson Foraker, and the journalists John Andrew Rea and Francis Whiting Halsey. The Irving's last public meeting was held on May 23, 1887. After that, it ceased to…
Foraker c. 1903
An 1885 political cartoon accuses U.S. senator John Sherman (right) and Foraker of "waving the bloody shirt" of the Civil War for political gain
Foraker's card in the Duke Tobacco Company's 1888 "Presidential Possibilities" series
Foraker married Julia Ann Paine Bundy in 1870