Hoadley fund autograph collection, 1788-1929.

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Hoadley fund autograph collection, 1788-1929.

Collection of autographs primarily from Connecticut congressmen and senators, mostly in the form of letters. Correspondents include: Noyes Barber, William H. Barnum, Nathan Belcher, Walter Booth, Herbert W. Bowen, Henry Channing, Daniel Crocker, Sidney Dean, James Dixon, William W. Eaton, William W. Ellsworth, Samuel Fessenden, Calvin Goddard, Chauncey Goodrich, Edwin W. Higgins, Charles T. Hillyer, R. R. Hinman, Orrin Holt, Julius Hotchkiss, C. M. Ingersoll, Ralph I. Ingersoll, Samuel Inham, Ebenezer Jackson, Jr., Samuel W. Johnson, Andrew T. Judson, Everett J. Lake, Jonathan Law, Lyman Law, John Lawrence, P.D. Oakey, Thomas B. Osborne, James Phelps, Lancelot Phelps, S. Dryden Phelps, O. H. Platt, John Russ, Charles A. Russell, Origen S. Seymour, William E. Simonds, Nathaniel Smith, Truman Smith, Isaac Spencer, N. D. Sperry, H. H. Starkweather, Griffin Stedman, William L. Storrs, Julius L. Strong, Lewis B. Sturges, Frederic C. Walcott, and John Woodruff. Also includes a letter from Harriet Hawley, wife of Senator Joseph R. Hawley, written to Rev. Jacob Eaton during the Civil War. Contains a document relating to the Connecticut Delaware First Company. Collection has been arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

1 envelope.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7482105

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Hawley, Harriet Ward Foote, 1831-1886

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Lawrence, John, 1719-1802

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Barnum, William Henry, 1818-1889

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United States Senator and congressman from Connecticut. From the description of Autograph, 187-?. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367391599 American politician. Postcard to Worthington Ford. From the guide to the William Henry Barnum letters, 1866, 1870, 1871, 1877, 1884, 1885, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Holt, Orrin, 1792-1855

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Jackson, Ebenezer, 1796-1874

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Secretary of the Tennessee Land Company; from Savannah, Ga. From the description of Letter books, 1801-1820. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270715 From the description of Letter books, 1801-1820. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19851518 ...

Ingham, Samuel, 1793-1881

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Lawyer, state legislator, and U.S. congressman from Connecticut. From the description of Samuel Ingham letters, 1828 and 1831. (New London County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 79838016 Congressman from Connecticut, 1837-1839. From the description of Letter : Saybrook, Conn., to Gen. Seth Cushman, Guildhall, Vt., 1839 Nov. 23. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28838326 Congressman from Connecticut. From the description of Let...

Phelps, S. Dryden (Sylvanus Dryden), 1816-1895

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Ingersoll, C. M. (Colin Macrae), 1819-1904

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Dean, Sidney, 1818-1901

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Judson, Andrew T. (Andrew Thompson), 1784-1853

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Andrew T. Judson (1784-1853) lived in Canterbury, Connecticut, and served the state of Connecticut as a public official holding the offices of States Attorney for Windham County, Representative to the Connecticut House and U.S. District Court judge. From 1839 to 1840 Judson presided over the case of the schooner AMISTAD, out of Havana, Cuba, which sailed from Africa carrying slaves, who several days out of port, rose and murdered the captain and crew, hoping to use the vessel to return to Africa...

Smith, Nathaniel, 1762-1822.

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Eaton, William W. (William Wallace), 1816-1898

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Smith, Truman, 1791-1884

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Whig representative from Connecticut. From the description of Letter, 1849. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145409160 A lawyer, U. S. Representative (1839-1843, 1845-1849), and Senator (1849-1854) from Connecticut, and later judge of the court of arbitration (1862-1870), who was one of the earliest Whig supporters of Zachary Taylor and managed his campaign for president. From the description of Newspaper prospectus, July 7, 1849. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Libr...

Hillyer, Charles T. (Charles Tudor), 1800-1891.

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Sperry, N.D. (Nehemiah Day), 1827-1911.

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Barber, Noyes, 1781-1844

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Merchant, militia officer, state legislator, and U.S. congressman from Conn.; of Groton, Conn. From the description of Noyes Barber letters received, 1835 and 1838. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 166427910 ...

Phelps, Lancelot, 1784-1866.

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Woodruff, John, 1826-1868

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Phelps, James, 1822-1900

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Strong, Julius L. (Julius Levi), 1828-1872

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Channing, Henry, 1760?-1840

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Hinman, R. R. (Royal Ralph), 1785-1868

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Booth, Walter, 1791-1870.

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Walcott, Frederic Collin, 1869-1949

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Frederic C. Walcott: investment banker and manufacturer, 1907-1915; officer and director of various corporations until 1922; engaged in Polish and Belgian relief work, 1915-1917; U.S. Food Administration worker, 1917-1919; member of Connecticut State Senate, 1925, 1927; active on state commissions, 1923-1928; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1929-1935; welfare commissioner of Connecticut, 1935-1939; trustee of numerous colleges and institutions. From the description of Frederic Collin ...

Simonds, William Edgar, 1841-1903

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Hotchkiss, Julius, 1810-1878

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Dixon, James, 1814-1873

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Stedman, Griffin Alexander, 1838-1864.

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Higgins, Edwin Werter, 1874-1954.

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Goddard, Calvin, 1768-1842

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Russ, John, 1767-1833.

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Fessenden, Samuel, 1847-1908

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Seymour, Origen Storrs, 1804-1881

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Belcher, Nathan, 1813-1891.

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Connecticut Delaware First Company.

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Bowen, Herbert Wolcott, 1856-1927

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Born in East Aurora, New York on January 20, 1847, Herbert Bowen began the study of law with Benjamin F. Graves in Battle Creek at the age of sixteen. He settled in Detroit and practiced law with Judge Samuel T. Douglass. Bowen was a member of the Detroit Library Commission from 1885-1897 and 1905-1910. The Bowen Branch Library is named for him in honor of the large contributions he made to the Library. He married Lydien Graves in 1876 and they had five children. Herbert Bowen died in Detroit on...

Goodrich, Chauncey, 1759-1815

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Platt, Orville Hitchcock, 1827-1905

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Republican lawyer who served as secretary of state of Connecticut, 1857-58, as member of Connecticut state senate and house of representatives, and U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1879-1905. Died in office 1905. From the description of Letter, June 28, 1882. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53882387 U.S. senator, public official, and lawyer of Connecticut. From the description of Signature of Orville Hitchcock Platt, 1865. (Unknown). Wor...

Ingersoll, Ralph Isaacs, 1789-1872

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Russell, Charles Addison, 1852-1902

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Storrs, William L. (William Lucius), 1795-1861

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U.S. representative from Connecticut, Connecticut state legislator and supreme court judge, and educator. From the description of William L. Storrs correspondence, 1831 December 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980540 ...

Sturges, Lewis Burr, 1763-1844

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Lake, Everett J. (Everett John), 1871-1948

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Ellsworth, William Wolcott, 1791-1868

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Osborne, Thomas Burr, 1798-1869

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U.S. representative and state legislator from Connecticut, jurist, and educator. From the description of Autograph album, 1840-1841. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455806 ...

Starkweather, H. H. (Henry Howard), 1826-1876

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Law, Lyman, 1770-1842

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Eaton, Jacob, d. 1865.

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Oakey, P.D. (Peter Davis), 1861-1920.

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Spencer, Isaac, 1787-1850.

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