Hatheway family papers, 1788-[ca. 1900]
Collection Number: 2281
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Hatheway family papers, 1788-[ca. 1900]
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2281
Abstract:
Papers relating to the family, personal affairs, and political career of Samuel Gilbert
Hatheway (1780-1867).
Creator:
Hatheway family.
Quanitities:
4.6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Samuel Gilbert Hatheway (or Hathaway, 1780-1867), a native of Bristol County, Massachusetts,
moved to New York State in 1803. He was a justice of the peace from 1810-1858; served
as a member of the State Assembly in 1814 and 1818 (from Cortland County; served in
the State Senate in 1822; was a major general in the New York Militia, 1823-1858;
was elected to Congress as a Democrat in 1833; was a presidential elector on the Democratic
ticket of Pierce and Ring, 1852; and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention
in 1860. His son, Samuel Gilbert Hatheway, Jr. (1810-1864) was a lawyer, state legislator,
and Union Army officer of Elmira, New York.
Correspondence relating to family matters, presidential elections (1832-52), New York
politics, and chartering of banks; commissions, certificates, petitions, orders, and
other records of the New York State Militia, 19th Division; and bills and receipts
of Samuel Gilbert Hatheway; personal and professional correspondence, speeches, and
military records of Samuel Gilbert Hatheway Jr., including letters (1858-59) from
Francis A. Roe describing political unrest in Italy; correspondence, military papers,
and memorabilia of Major John Shadrach Hatheway, 1st Artillery Regiment, relating
chiefly to his Mexican War service and his command of Columbia Barracks, Fort Vancouver,
Oregon Territory; student letters, essays and other papers of George Rodney Hatheway;
papers of Calvin Luther Hatheway of Solon, New York, relating to his business interests,
militia service, state and local politics, and Democratic Party strife (1860); correspondence
of Sarah Hatheway Whitney and her husband Dr. Benajah T. Whitney, including letters
from Clarksville, Tennessee, concerning social life and slavery, and from California
(1850-51); correspondence and scrapbooks of Elizabeth Dorothea Hatheway relating to
her studies, her teaching activities in the antebellum South, her travels in Europe,
and current affairs; and miscellaneous letters and papers of Hiram Hooker Bickford,
Caroline Boyd, Lavinia Mathilda Hatheway, Shadrach Hatheway (fl. 1788), and Welthea
Hannah (Hatheway) Boyd.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Hatheway family papers, #2281. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Bickford, H. H. (Hiram H.)
Boyd, Caroline, 1848-1882.
Boyd, Welthea Hannah Hatheway, 1817-1855.
Hatheway, Calvin Luther, 1821-1885.
Hatheway, Elizabeth Dorothea, 1823-1908.
Hatheway, George Rodney, 1815-1839.
Hatheway, John Shadrach, 1813-1853.
Hatheway, Lavinia Mathilda, 1819-1885.
Hatheway, S. G. (Samuel Gilbert), 1780-1867.
Hatheway, Samuel Gilbert, Jr.
Hatheway, Shadrach.
Roe, Francis Asbury, 1823-1901.
Whitney, Benajah T.
Whitney, Sarah Hatheway, 1811-1872.
Democratic Party (U.S.)
New York (State). Legislature
New York (State). Militia
United States. Army
United States. Congress. House
Places:
Mexican War, 1846-1848.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States -- Politics and government.
Oregon Territory.
New York (State) -- Politics and government.
Italy -- Politics and government.
Europe -- Description and travel.
Clarkville (Tenn.) -- Social life and customs.
Subjects:
Hathaway family.
Hathaway, Samuel Gilbert, -- 1780-1867.
Women teachers.
Voyages and travel.
Slavery.
Education.
Commerce.
Banks and banking.
Form and Genre Terms:
Speeches.
Scrapbooks.
Essays.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Family Genealogy
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Letterbook Indexes
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Box 1 | Folder 3 | 1788 | |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
1799 -
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1799, 1819 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
1820-
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1820, 1822 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 | 1823 | |
Box 1 | Folder 7 | 1824, 1825 | |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
1826-
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1826, 1828 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 | 1829 | |
Box 1 | Folder 10 | 1830 | |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Addresses ca.
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1831 |
Box 1 | Folder 12 | 1831, 1832 | |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Jan.-Aug.,
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1833 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Sept.-Dec.,
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1833 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Jan.,
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1834 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Feb.-Mar.,
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1834 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Apr., May,
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1834 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
June-Oct.,
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1834 |
Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Dec.,
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1834 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 | 1835 | |
Box 2 | Folder 2 | 1836 | |
Box 2 | Folder 3 | 1837 | |
Box 2 | Folder 4 | 1838, 1839 | |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
1840-
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1840, 1842 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 | 1843, 1844 | |
Box 2 | Folder 7 | 1845 | |
Box 2 | Folder 8 | 1846 | |
Box 2 | Folder 9 | 1847 | |
Box 2 | Folder 10 | 1848 | |
Box 2 | Folder 11 | 1849 | |
Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Jan.-May,
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1850 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
June-Dec.,
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1850 |
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Jan.-May,
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1851 |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
June-Dec.,
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1851 |
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Jan.-July,
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1852 |
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Aug.-Dec.,
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1852 |
Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Jan.-Mar.,
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1853 |
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Apr.-June,
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1853 |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
July-Dec.,
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1853 |
Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Jan.-May,
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1854 |
Box 3 | Folder 9 |
June-Dec.,
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1854 |
Box 3 | Folder 10 | 1855 | |
Box 3 | Folder 11 | 1856 | |
Box 3 | Folder 12 | 1857 | |
Box 3 | Folder 13 | 1858, 1859 | |
Box 3 | Folder 14 |
I860,
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1861 |
Box 3 | Folder 15 | 1862 | |
Box 3 | Folder 16 | 1863 | |
Box 3 | Folder 17 | 1864 | |
Box 3 | Folder 18 |
1865-
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1865, 1867 |
Box 4 | Folder 1 |
1868-
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1868, 1870 |
Box 4 | Folder 2 | 1870, 1871 | |
Box 4 | Folder 3 | 1872, 1873 | |
Box 4 | Folder 4 | 1874, 1875 | |
Box 4 | Folder 5 | 1876, 1877 | |
Box 4 | Folder 6 | 1878, 1879 | |
Box 4 | Folder 7 | 1880, 1881 | |
Box 4 | Folder 8 | 1882 | |
Box 4 | Folder 9 |
1883-
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1883, 1887 |
Box 4 | Folder 10 |
1892, 1894-1896, 1908
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1892, 1894, 1896 |
Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Undated
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Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Misc. undated
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Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Family newsclippings
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Box 4 | Folder 14 |
News clippings
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Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Pamphlets: Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy, 1833; Blackstone Monument, 1855; Border
Ruffian Code in Kansas, 1856; James Buchanan, His Doctrines and Policy, 1856; Hypocrisy
of Black Republicans,
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1833, 1855, 1856, 1856, 1856 |
Box 5 |
Ms. vol. small brown book of newspaper clippings re. the establishment of a government
for the territory of Kansas, ca.
|
1850 | |
Box 5 |
Hard bound pamphlet "Proceedings of the College of Presidential Electors of the State
of New York, 1876. Calvin L. Hatheway".
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1876 | |
Box 5 |
Ms. vol. "In Memorium" Hatheway Family Album.
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Box 5 |
Ms. vol. Large red-leather bound "Scrap Album" - Colonial history memorabilia; clippings
of western scenery, n.d.
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Box 5 |
Ms. vol. Green bound "Scrap book" of Elizabeth Hatheway of Solon, New York (I) Portraits
of literary figures, musicians, English members of Parliament, and English royalty.
n.d.
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Box 5 |
Ms. vol. Dark greenish-grey "Scrap Book" of Elizabeth Hatheway of Solon, New York.
misc. views of English landscape, literary figures, Spain, France, the East, Dickens
illustrations. n.d.
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Box 6 |
Hand-written copy textbook produced by some duplicating process. Textbook of John
S. Hatheway, West Point, June 1, 1836 - "Outlines of the course of Civil Engineering".
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1836 | |
Box 6 |
Ms. vol. Grey-covered binders of sermons copied by Elizabeth Hatheway; approximately
1000 sheets, n.d.
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Box 6 |
Ms. vol. Green leather-bound scrapbook of Elizabeth Hatheway of Solon, New York (II)
clippings, masterpieces, views of Egypt, colored plates of birds and fish, n.d.
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Box 6 |
Ms. vol. Green leather-bound scrapbook of Elizabeth Hatheway of Solon, New York (IV)
photos of Italian masterpieces of sculpture and painting.
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Box 6 |
Ms. vol. Black-bound scrapbook of Elizabeth Hatheway (VI) "A thing of shreds and patches".
Includes Confederate bond, bills, timetables, original watercolors.
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Box 6 |
Ms. vol. Black-bound with red cover scrapbook - catalog illustrations and prints of
flowers, n.d.
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Box 6 |
Ms. vol. Black and gray bound notebook of poems, some newsclippings. Elizabeth Hatheway,
Solon, July 20,
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1850 | |
Box 7 |
Scrapbook from H.H. Bickford's private library.
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Box 7 |
Brown leather bound photograph album with gold fastenings
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Box 7 |
Light brown leather bound photograph album with gold fastenings
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Box 7 |
Black leather bound photograph album - European scenes and native costumes
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Box 7 |
Black leather bound photograph album of paintings, sculpture , and European scenes
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Box 7 |
Red bound album with brass clasps. Photos of famous literary, scientific and historical
figures.
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