Ezra Cornell, and his friend
Andrew Dickson White, founded
Cornell University near
Ithaca in
1865, primarily to advance
agricultural learning. (Hey, what else matters?) The Cornell library division of rare and manuscripts collections has a digital collection of materials pertaining to Ezra Cornell, such as his correspondence and diaries, and even the Cornell family
geneology.
There is a statue of Ezra Cornell at the Western edge of the Cornell University Arts
Quad.
Nowaday's Ezra's named is envoked constantly at Cornell: