Hornblower family. Papers, 1760-1900.
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Papers, 1760-1900.
Correspondence, legal papers, court records, sermons, and genealogical material. Persons represented include Josiah Hornblower (1729-1809), British engineer who constructed the first steam engine in America at John Schuyler's copper mine in Belleville, N.J., and served as a member of the New Jersey Legislature (1779-1780) and New Jersey Council (1781-1784); Joseph C. Hornblower (1777-1864), Newark lawyer, who served as chief justice of New Jersey Supreme Court (1832-1846), was active in home and foreign missionary societies, and was the first president of New Jersey Historical Society; and his son, William H. Hornblower (1820-1883), pastor, First Presbyterian Church of Paterson (1844-1871), and professor of sacred rhetoric, pastoral theology, and church government at Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, Allegheny, Pa. (1871-1883). Includes letters of D.S. Baldwin, John Beatty, John L. Blake, Joseph P. Bradley, Abraham Brittin, Peter Carter, Salmon P. Chase, Samuel H. Cox, William L. Dayton, Benjamin Drew, Richard Stockton Field, Charles Hodge, William Holmes, C.W. Hornblower, Jonathan Hornblower, William Churchill Houston, Thomas D. Hoxsey, John Kinney, Jr., Charles Kip, Nicholas Longworth, Joseph Mico, James S. Nevius, William C. Noyes, David Bayard Ogden, William Pennington, Henry W. Pickering, Caleb S. Riggs, Sylvester D. Russell, Gerrit Smith, Henry Van Dyke, Jr., L.A. Ward, Ira C. Whitehead, William A. Whitehead, and Philip Williams.
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