Daggett, Hooker and Gillette family papers, 1803-1903.

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Daggett, Hooker and Gillette family papers, 1803-1903.

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This collection contains material from several generations. Included are a parody of "The Sermon on the Mount" by William Gillette, a statement he wrote introducing Frederick Douglass when Douglass spoke in Hartford in 1864, and letters written to William Gillette. Gillette's father, Francis Gillette's, letter book is also included, as is a collection of letters written to Eliza Daggett Hooker. Hooker's daughter, Elisabeth Daggett Hooker Gillette, was Francis' mother and William's grandmother. The letters written before Hooker's marriage were mostly from female friends. After her marriage they are mostly from her husband, Edward Hooker.

0.25 linear foot (1/2 box).

Connecticut Historical Society

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Hooker, Eliza Daggett, 1786-1869.

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Gillette, Francis, 1807-1879

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Graduate of Yale, representative to the Connecticut General Assembly and United States Senator. From the description of Francis Gillette papers, ca. 1825-1902. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 63675013 ...

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...

Hooker, Edward, 1785-1846.

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Graduate and faculty member of Yale College; tutor at South Carolina College, Columbia, S.C.; faculty member at Cambridge College near Ninety Six, S.C. (now located in area known as Greenwood County, S.C.); son, of Col. Noadiah Hooker and Rebecca Hooker; brother of prominent Columbia lawyer John Hooker (1775-1813). From the description of Edward Hooker papers, 1805-1947. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 42402499 Edward Hooker graduated from Yale College in...

Gillette, William, 1853-1937

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American actor and author. From the description of Autograph letters and cards signed (7) and typewritten letters signed (8) : Hadlyme, Conn., etc., to William H. Briggs and others at Harper & Brothers, 1927 Jan. 2-1928 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269589041 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to the Editor of the Hartford Courant, 1889 Feb. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269575084 American actor and playwright. Fro...