Mayor, Harriet H. (Harriet Hyatt), 1868-1960
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Harriet R. Hyatt Mayor was born in Salem, Mass. in 1868, the daughter of Audella Beebe Hyatt and Alpheus Hyatt II, the noted paleontologist. After traveling abroad with her family at an early age she began to show artistic tendencies. She studied art and sculpture in Boston and began a promising career. She encouraged her sister Anna to join her in sculpting. Harriet was married in 1900 to Alfred Goldsborough Mayor and soon began to raise a family. Alfred G. Mayor, son of Alfred M. Mayor, the noted physicist, was an outstanding natural scientist in his own right. He and his wife spent 22 happy years together and had four children, A. Hyatt, Katharine, Brantz, and Barbara.
Mrs. Mayor suffered a slight attack of tuberculosis in 1912 and went abroad with her children. She barely escaped Germany before World War I began. After Dr. Mayor's death in 1922, Mrs. Mayor busied herself with other activities: she traveled in Europe, she also became active in the Daughters of the American Revolution and long served as regent of the Princeton, New Jersey chapter. This association contributed to her interest in genealogy (as well as her mother's similar interest) and she made studies of the Hyatt and Mayor family trees. She lived most of her later years in Princeton, only leaving to live with her sister Anna (Mrs. Archer M. Huntington) during her last year. She died at the Huntington estate in Bethel, Conn., in 1960 at the age of 92.
From the guide to the Harriet Randolph Hyatt Mayor Papers, 1881-1962, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)
Role | Title | Holding Repository | |
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referencedIn | A. Hyatt Mayor Papers, 1904-1946 | Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center | |
referencedIn | Alfred Goldsborough Mayor Papers, 1878-1926 | Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center | |
referencedIn | Alpheus Hyatt II Papers, 1854-1958 | Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center | |
referencedIn | Audella Beebe Hyatt Papers, 1858-1957 | Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center | |
referencedIn | Brookgreen Garden photographs. | College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library | |
referencedIn | Collins, Varnum Lansing, 1870-1936. Correspondence, 1928-1929. | Historical Society of Princeton | |
creatorOf | Harriet Randolph Hyatt Mayor Papers, 1881-1962 | Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center | |
referencedIn | Hyatt-Mayor Genealogical Collection, Undated | Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center | |
referencedIn | Maria Snowden Mayor Papers, 1814-1934 | Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center |
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associatedWith | Chase, Adelaide Cole. |
associatedWith | Coad, Clara Carter Hyatt. |
correspondedWith | Collins, Varnum Lansing, 1870-1936. |
associatedWith | Huntington, Anna Hyatt, 1876-1973 |
associatedWith | Huntington, Archer M. (Archer Milton), 1870-1955 |
associatedWith | Hyatt family. |
associatedWith | Hyatt family. |
associatedWith | Hyatt, Alpheus, 1838-1902 |
associatedWith | Hyatt, Audella Beebe, 1840-1932 |
associatedWith | Mayor family. |
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Birth 1868
Death 1960
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