Blake family papers, 1773-1921 (inclusive).

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Blake family papers, 1773-1921 (inclusive).

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. Topics discussed in these papers include a wide variety of personal and family-related concerns, the estates of several family members, including Eli Whitney, and the professional careers of many of the above-named individuals. The scientific and inventing pursuits of Eli Whitney Blake (1795-1896), the academic career of physicist Eli Whitney Blake (1826-1895), the geological and mineralogical interests of William Phipps Blake are documented, as are the legal and political activities of Henry Taylor Blake, the hand craft industry operated by Dortha Bushnell, and the Civil War duties of Edward Foster Blake.

10 linear ft. (23 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8019933

Yale University Library

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Bushnell, Dotha, 1861-1921.

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Foote, Amelia Stiles Leavitt Jenkins, 1799-1867.

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Hazard, Rowland Gibson, 1855-1918.

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Electric Purifier Company.

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Blake, Harriet M. Rood, d. 1869.

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Gould, William Tracy, 1799-1882

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Whitney, Eli, 1740-1807.

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Hillhouse High School (New Haven, Conn.)

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Rice, Eliza Maria O'Brien.

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

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Simeon Eben Baldwin (1840-1927) graduated from Yale University in 1861, became a member of the bar in 1863, and was founder of the American Bar Association in 1878 and its president in 1890. He served as the Association's Director of the Bureau of Comparative Law (1907-1919), as an Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, as the state's governor (1910-1914), and produced numerous articles and books. From the description of Diaries, 1851-1924 [microform...

Blake, George A., d. 1882.

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Woodward, Jane

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Blake, Elihu, b. 1793.

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Blake, Eli Whitney, 1836-1895.

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Henshaw, Sarah Edwards Tyler, 1822-1894.

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Janvier, Margaret Thompson, 1845-1913.

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Blake, Elizabeth Coit Kingsley.

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Barstow, Elizabeth Fay Blake, 1792-1869.

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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 ...

Bushnell, George, 1818-1898

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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...

Whitney, Eli, 1820-1895

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Blake, Maria Georgianna.

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Brace, Henry Martyn, 1828-1901.

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Hazard, Rowland, 1829-1898.

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

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Champlin, Carrie B.

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Orcutt, Fannie Louisa Blake.

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Fisher, Margaret Hazard, -1940

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Blake, Isabel.

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Osborn, Fannie Louisa Blake, 1835-1893.

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Blake, Maria Louisa.

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

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Ellsworth, Catharine C. Smith.

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Trumbull, Jane Wales Fitch.

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Bushnell, Mary Elizabeth Blake, 1823-1916.

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Smith, Mary Elizabeth Bushnell Brookes, b. 1882.

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Rice, John F.

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Bushnell, Adra V. Holmes, d. 1896.

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Bacon, Helen Hazard, 1862-1925.

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Alden, John A.

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No information is available on Alden or Myres. From the description of Papers, 1857,1887. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 44138206 ...

Yale University.

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

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Barbour, Caroline P.

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Bushnell, Ethel Maitland Barnard.

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Hazard, Caroline, 1856-1945

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President emeritus of Wellesley College. From the description of Correspondence, March, 1943. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34369957 Caroline Hazard, educator and author, was born in Peace Dale, Rhode Island, to Rowland and Margaret (Rood) Hazard on June 10, 1856. She was educated by private tutors at Mary A. Shaw's School in Providence and through private study in Europe. She subsequently assisted her father in his various business ...

Hazard, Ada Blake,

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Langdon, Abigail Pierrepont, b. 1797.

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

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Stevens, Eugene Rolaz, 1837-1905.

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Cheney, Mary Bushnell, 1840-1917

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Simpson, Helen M., -1960

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Blake family.

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Eli Whitney Blake was born in New Haven, Connecticut on April 20, 1836. He graduated from Yale College in 1857. He served as professor of chemistry at the University of Vermont (1867), professor of physics at Cornell University (1868-1870), acting professor of physics at Columbia (1868-1869), and professor of physics at Brown University (1870-1886). Eli Whitney Blake was born in Westboro, Massachusetts on January 27, 1795. He graduated from Yale in 1816 and assisted his ...

Foster, Harriet Smith, 1815-1893.

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Stevenson, Hannah E.

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O'Brien, Henry Edward, 1797-1822.

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Rice, Eliza Blake Seely, b. 1841.

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Blake, James Pierrepont, 1839-1865.

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Bliss, Isaac Groot, 1822-1889.

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Taylor, Henry Wyllys, 1796-1888.

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Hopkins Grammar School

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Blake, John Adams.

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Dickinson, L. S.

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Barstow, Josiah Whitney, b. 1826.

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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 ...

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

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Bushnell, Mary Apthorp.

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McWhorter Henrietta Whitney Blake, 1825-1901.

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Wannamaker, Katharine Hume.

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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...

Tyler, Edwin, 1827-1868.

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Blake, Edward Spencer, 1811-1881

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Trow, George William, 1837-1872.

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Blake, Elihu, 1764-1849.

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Blake, Elizabeth E. Vernon.

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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, Josiah Whitney.

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Blake, Harriet Waters Stiles.

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Blake, Edward Foster, 1837-1862.

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Leavitt, Mary H., b. 1798.

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Merrill, Robert T.

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Hazard, Margaret Anna Rood, 1834-1895.

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Merrill, Eliza Skinner Bushnell, 1857-1919.

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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...

Whitney, Henrietta Frances Edwards.

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Bushnell, Frances Louisa

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Rice, John Pierrepont, 1879-1941.

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Orcutt, John, 1807-1879

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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...

Trumbull, David, 1819-1889

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Yale University. Class of 1884

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Blake, Philos, b. 1791.

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Smith, Emma J. Dickinson.

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Seely, Edward Blake, b. 1863.

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Blake, George Washington.

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Tomlinson, Charles, 1837-1921.

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Wannamaker, Olin D.

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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...