Guide to the Hoyt Family Papers,
1828-1956

Collection Number: 1812

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Compiled by:
M.W. Warren
Date completed:
November 1997
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, March 2003

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Hoyt family papers, 1828-1956.
Collection Number:
1812
Creator:
Quantity:
2.1 cubic ft.; volumes; map case items.
Forms of Material:
Papers of the Hoyt family, including Civil War documentation and Jean Broughton Hoyt Smith's papers relating to her training as a nurse and her career as an interior decorator.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Scrapbooks, diaries, account books, address books, and other notebooks (40 volumes); correspondence, typescripts, notes, photographs and albums, diplomas and commissions, bills and receipts, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of Charles S. Hoyt of Potter, his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Burroughs Smith of New York City, Clinton, and Utica, New York, and letters and scrapbooks of his other children, Charles S. Hoyt, Jr. and Agnes Barnum Hoyt; the correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and other papers of Charles S. Hoyt, Sr., relate to his activities as surgeon with the 126th and 39th Regiments, New York Volunteers, with whom he served in Maryland and Virginia during the Civil War; as New York State Assemblyman from Yates County (1853, 1867); and as secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities (1869+).
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Scrapbooks, diaries, account books, address books, and other notebooks (40 volumes); correspondence, typescripts, notes, photographs and albums, diplomas and commissions, bills and receipts, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of Charles S. Hoyt of Potter, his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Burroughs Smith of New York City, Clinton, and Utica, New York, and letters and scrapbooks of his other children, Charles S. Hoyt, Jr. and Agnes Barnum Hoyt; the correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and other papers of Charles S. Hoyt, Sr., relate to his activities as surgeon with the 126th and 39th Regiments, New York Volunteers, with whom he served in Maryland and Virginia during the Civil War; as New York State Assemblyman from Yates County (1853, 1867); and as secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities (1869+).
Mrs. Jean Broughton Hoyt Smith's correspondence, manuscripts, scrapbooks, and other papers pertain to her training as a nurse at Bellevue Hospital (1902), her profession as an interior decorator, and other matters. Also, originals or copies of several letters to various members of the Hoyt family from or about Franklin Benjamin Sanborn and Charles James Folger, and a number of letters to Confederate soldiers from relatives and friends in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida describing conditions in the South as it was beset by Union forces.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Hoyt family.
Folger, Charles James, 1818-1884.
Hoyt, Agnes Barnum.
Hoyt, Charles S., Jr.
Hoyt, Charles S., 1822-1898.
Sanborn, F. B.(Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917.
Smith, Frederick Burroughs.
Smith, Jean Broughton Hoyt.
Bellevue Hospital.
Board of Commissioners of Public Charities.
United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 39th (1861-1865)
United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 126th (1862-1865)

Subjects:
Interior decoration.
Nursing.
Public welfare.

Places:
New York (State)--Politics and government.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care.

Form and Genre Terms:
Accounts.
Diaries.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Hoyt family papers, #1812. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
1839-1186
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 1
1889-1908
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 2
1911-1920
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 3
1918
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 4-5
n.d.
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 6
Hoyt Family Research
Box 1 Folder 7
Genealogy: Bouton-Boughton 1350-1860
Box 1 Folder 8
1860's
Newsclippings primarily by/about Charles R. Hoyt
Box 1 Folder 9-10
1828-1865
Jean Hoyt Smith Papers
Box 2 Folder 1-2
Transcript: Charles S. Hoyt Diary
Box 2 Folder 3-7
"A surgeon's Diary 1861-1865" by Hean Hoyt Smith
Box 2 Folder 8
Jean Hoyt Smith Manuscripts
Box 2 Folder 9-13
Journal: Jean Hoyt Smith [?]- Historical Notes
Box 2 Folder 14
1890-1951
Frank B. Sanborn: Correspondence by and about Sanborn
Box 3 Folder 1
1946
Drix Duryea, Inc.
Box 3 Folder 2
1947
Drix Duryea, Inc.
Box 3 Folder 3
1945
Louisa King
Box 3 Folder 4
Jean Hoyt Smith Manuscripts
Box 3 Folder 5-11
1946-1950
Newsclippings
Box 3 Folder 12
Notebook: "Nova Scotia" [C. S. Hoyt?]
Box 3 Folder 13
Journals, Scrapbooks
Box 4
Diaries, Address Books
Box 5
Photographs, Photograph Albums
Box 6
1864
Military Commission - New York State Volunteers
 Mapcase
1865
Military Commission - New York State Volunteers
 Mapcase
1889
"Companion of the first Class ..." signed by Rutherford B. Hayes
 Mapcase
1890
Diploma: Canandaigua Academy
 Mapcase
1895
Certificate of appointment - State board of Charities
 Mapcase
10 Scrapbooks: Interior Decorating-related pictures, articles
 Volume
1 Scrapbook: Magazine: newsclippings re: recipes, cooking, etc.
 Volume