Charles J. Hoadley and George E. Hoadley autograph collection, 1648-1925.

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Charles J. Hoadley and George E. Hoadley autograph collection, 1648-1925.

1648-1925

https://chs.waldo.kohalibrary.com/app/work/28877

Autographs and autograph letters collected by Charles J. Hoadley and his brother, George E. Hoadley. Collection was categorized by the following subjects: Attorneys-General of the United States; Chief Justices of the United States; Civil War; English Poets & Authors; Female English Poets & Authors; Female Writers; Governors of Connecticut; Judges; Lieutenant Governors of Connecticut; Mayors of Hartford; Men of Note; Naval Officers; New Haven Items; Painters; Poets & Authors; Postmasters General; Presidents; Presidents of Colleges; Revolutionary War; Roman Catholic Bishops, Archbishops, & Cardinals; Secretaries of Connecticut; Secretaries of the Navy; Secretaries of State; Secretaries of the Treasury; Secretaries of War; Signers of the Constitution; Signers of the Declaration of Independence; U.S. Senators from Connecticut; and Vice Presidents. The collection also includes historical materials divided into the following categories: Bills & Receipts; Confederate papers; General Hancock (ship) diary; Granby papers; Hartford papers including records of Christ Church, Ancient Burying Ground and South Burying Ground Cemetery inscriptions, and a county court minute book, 1684-1687; Miss Majolica's School; New Hampshire documents; Poetry; Regulations of the Bar; Simsbury papers; Trinity College; Wethersfield papers; Wethersfield deeds; and Eliza Wharton/Elizabeth Whitman items. Also contains letters and other papers from the following individuals: Simeon Baldwin; Ebenezer Barnard, Jr.; Thomas Brownell; William A. Buckingham; Gershom Bulkeley; Morgan G. Bulkeley; Henry Champion; Prudence Crandall; Henry Dutton; Lafayette S. Foster; Curtiss C. Gardiner; Chauncey Goodrich; Daniel Goodwin; Nathaniel Goodwin; Benjamin A. Gould; Ulysses S. Grant; Joseph R. Hawley; Jeremy Hoadley; Alexander H. Holley; Charles R. Ingersoll; Abraham Jarvis; Thomas Middleton; Nathaniel Minor; Michael Olcott; John G. Palfrey; Nathan Payson; Oliver H. Perry; Orville H. Platt; Agnes Pritchard; Griffin Stedman; Joshua Stow; Benjamin Trumbull; James Hammond Trumbull; Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.; Jonathan Trumbull, Sr.; Elihu Tudor; Tudor family; Alexandre Vattemare; Roger Viets; Noah Webster; Nathan Whiting; Solomon Willes; William Williams; Oliver Wolcott, Jr.; and Oliver Wolcott, Sr. Includes a folder with single autograph letters and a folder of autographs. Also contains papers and notes of George E. Hoadley, William H. Hoadley, and Charles J. Hoadley. George E. Hoadley was a noted Hartford historian and his brother, Charles Hoadley, was a librarian at Trinity College and Connecticut State Librarian for many years.

7 linear feet (14 boxes).

Connecticut Historical Society

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Willes, Solomon.

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Trinity college Hartford, Conn.

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General Hancock (Ship).

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Foster, Lafayette S. (Lafayette Sabine), 1806-1880

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