Blake family papers 1773-1921

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Blake family papers, 1773-1921

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Blake family papers 1773-1921

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http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0085

Abstract

The papers consist of correspondence, financial papers, printed material, photographs, and miscellanea of the Blake family of New Haven, Connecticut. Several generations of family members are represented in the papers, including Eli Whitney, Eli Whitney Blake (1795-1886), Eli Whitney Blake (1836-1895), Henry Taylor Blake (1828-1922), and William Phipps Blake (1826-). Additional family members represented in the papers include: Charles Thompson Blake, Edward Foster Blake, James Pierrepont Blake, Dotha Bushnell, George Bushnell, George Ensign Bushnell, Mary Elizabeth Bushnell, and members of the Hazard, MacWhorter, Osborne, and Rice families.

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10 linear feet (23 boxes)

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eng,

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6350278

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Bushnell, Adra V. Holmes, d. 1896.

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Bushnell, George, 1818-1898

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Barstow, Josiah Whitney, 1826-

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Blake, Eli W. (Eli Whitney), 1795-1886

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Smith, Emma J. Dickinson.

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McWhorter Henrietta Whitney Blake, 1825-1901.

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Bushnell, Frances Louisa

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Rice, John

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Blake, Elizabeth E. Vernon.

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Bushnell, George E. (George Ensign), 1853-1924

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Blake, Henry T. (Henry Taylor), 1828-1922

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Lawyer and parks official, of Bridgeport and New Haven, Conn. From the description of Henry T. Blake papers, 1852-1934. (New Haven Colony Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 457065430 Henry Taylor Blake was born in New Haven, Connecticut on April 27, 1828. He graduated from Yale in 1848 (A.B.) and studied at the Yale Law School. He practiced law in Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1850-1885. He returned to New Haven in 1885 and served on many municipal organizations...

Stevens, Eugene Rolaz, 1837-1905.

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Blake, Maria Louisa.

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Champlin, Carrie B.

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Fisher, Margaret Hazard, -1940

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Blake, James Pierrepont, 1839-1865.

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Simpson, Helen (Translator)

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Hazard, Caroline, b. 1856

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Blake, George A., d. 1882.

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Blake, Eli Whitney, 1867-1902.

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Eli Whitney Blake was born in New Haven, Connecticut on February 13, 1867. He was the son of Eli Whitney Blake, Jr. (1836-1895) and Helen Mary Rood Blake (1832-1869). He had one sister, Alida Blake Hazard (Mrs. Barclay Hazard) (1861-1938). Blake's father was the Hazard Professor of Physics at Brown University from 1870 until shortly before his death in 1895. Blake studied zoology and English at Brown University. He was interested in the theater, as evident i...

Blake, Harriet M. Rood, d. 1869.

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Gilman, Daniel Coit, 1831-1908

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American educator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to W. Reid, 1871 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269584399 Biographical Note: Daniel Coit Gilman was an educator and first president of The Johns Hopkins University. From the description of Daniel Coit Gilman papers, 1773-1925. (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 48134620 Daniel Coit Gilman: president of the University of California, 1872-1875; president of Johns Hop...

Blake, Eli Whitney, 1836-1895.

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Osborn, Fannie Louisa Blake, 1835-1893.

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O'Brien, Henry Edward, 1797-1822.

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Bushnell, Mary Apthorp.

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Hazard, Rowland, 1829-1898.

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Rowland Hazard, the son of Rowland Gibson Hazard and Caroline Newbold, was born August 16, 1829. He attended Brown University and remained active in University activities after graduation. Later he formed a group called the "Club" consisting of several other intellectuals who wrote papers on topics of interest. These papers, dating from 1868 to 1883, are found in Series VIII, in two volumes, at the end of the collection. Rowland Hazard was an influential man...

Barstow, Z. S. (Zedekiah Smith), 1790-1873

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Trumbull, David, 1819-1889

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Orcutt, Fannie Louisa Blake.

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Blake, Edward Foster, 1837-1862.

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Leavitt, Mary H., b. 1798.

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Blake, Eliza Maria O'Brien, 1799-1876.

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Eaton, Daniel Cady, 1834-1895

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Whitney, Henrietta Frances Edwards.

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Preston, H. W. (Harriet Waters), 1836-1911

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American author and translator. From the description of Papers of Harriet Waters Preston, 1872-1904. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136611 ...

Blake, Philos, b. 1791.

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Bliss, Isaac Groot, 1822-1889.

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Atkinson, G. H. (George Henry), 1819-1889

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George H. Atkinson, a Congregational minister in the Pacific Northwest, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1843 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1846. Unable to accept an appointment to a mission in Africa because he had not yet been ordained, he sailed to Oregon by way of Hawaii with his wife, arriving in 1848. Atkinson originally settled in Oregon City. He prepared the first public school law in Oregon and helped plan for the forming of Pacific University. In 1963, he became pastor of...

Tomlinson, Charles, 1837-1921.

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Blake, Isabel.

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Rice, Eliza Maria O'Brien, b. 1876.

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Baldwin, Simeon E. (Simeon Eben), 1840-1927

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Janvier, Margaret Thompson, 1845-1913.

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Merrill, Robert T.

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Bushnell, Horace, 1802-1876

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Horace Bushnell was born in Bantam, Connecticut on April 14, 1802. He was educated at Yale (B.A., 1827; M.A., 1830; B.D., 1833), and received degrees from Wesleyan University (D.D., 1842), Harvard (S.T.D., 1852) and Yale (LL.D., 1871). He served as pastor of North Church, Hartford, CT from 1833-1859. He was the author of "God in Christ" (1849) and "Christ in Theology" (1851), as well as other works uncongenial to the orthodox theology of his times. From the description of Horace Bush...

Cheney, Mary Bushnell, 1840-1917

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Blake, George Washington.

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Hazard, Rowland Gibson, 1855-1918.

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Wannamaker, Olin.

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Hillhouse High School (New Haven, Conn.)

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Hazard, Mary Pierrepont Bushnell, 1859-1936.

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Dickinson, L. S.

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Hazard, Ada Blake

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Ellsworth, Catharine C. Smith.

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Langdon, Abigail Pierrepont, b. 1797.

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Whitney, Eli, 1820-1895

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Blake family.

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William Phipps Blake was born in New York City on June 1, 1826. He received the degree of Ph.B. from Yale in 1852. He served as geologist and mineralogist for a U.S. Pacific railroad expedition and became a professor of mineralogy and geology. ELI WHITNEY BLAKE, 1795-1886 Eli Whitney Blake was born in Westboro, Massachusetts on January 27, 1795. He graduated from Yale in 1816 and assisted his uncle, Eli Whitney, in the operation of a gun factory in New Haven,...

Bushnell, Ethel Maitland Barnard.

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Rice, Eliza Blake Seely, b. 1841.

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Blake, Charles Thompson, 1826-1897

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Blake was a Yale graduate from New Haven who travelled to Calif. to mine for gold with friend, Roger Baldwin, joining their companions Edwin Tyler and Charles T.H. Palmer. They established mining claims near Georgetown and Michigan City. Beginning in 1853, Blake was an agent for Wells Fargo Express Co. From the description of Charles Thompson Blake letters and miscellany, 1849-1865. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122583421 B...

Foster, Harriet Smith, 1815-1893.

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Orcutt, John, 1807-1879

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Alden, John A.

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Blake, John Adams.

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Wannamaker, Katharine Hume.

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Bushnell, Dotha, 1861-1921.

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Yale College (1887- ). Class of 1949

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Brace, Henry Martyn, 1828-1901.

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Trumbull, Jane Wales Fitch.

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Foote, Amelia Stiles Leavitt Jenkins, 1799-1867.

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Whitney, Eli, 1740-1807.

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Merrill, Eliza Skinner Bushnell, 1857-1919.

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Seely, Edward Blake, b. 1863.

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Gould, William Tracy, 1799-1882

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Blake, Edward Spencer, 1811-1881

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Taylor, Henry Wyllys, 1796-1888.

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Rice, John Pierrepont, 1879-1941.

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Trow, George William, 1837-1872.

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Henshaw, Sarah Edwards Tyler, 1822-1894.

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Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825

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American inventor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New Haven, Ct., to J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War., 1824 May 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872501 Eli Whitney (1765-1825), American inventor and gun manufacturer, received his patent for the first cotton gin in 1794. From the description of Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10580711 Whitney, American inventor, especially known for ...

Woodward, Jane F.

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Blake, Josiah Whitney.

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Smith, Mary Elizabeth Bushnell Brookes, b. 1882.

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Blake, William P. (William Phipps), 1826-1910

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Geologist, mining engineer and educator; he worked on numerous railroad and mining surveys throughout Europe and the western United States. In 1895, he became professor of geology and mining at the University of Arizona. From 1853 to 1856, he accompanied the Pacific Railroad Expedition. From the description of Blake papers, 1847-1910. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 37905971 ...

Blake family papers 1773-1921

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