Found 5 collections related to Connecticut -- Social life and customs

Among the notable members of the Dwight family of Connecticut were: Timothy Dwight (1752-1817), a Congregational minister and president of Yale College; Theodore Dwight (1764-1846), a lawyer, editor and author; Theodore Dwight, Jr. (1796-1866), author and educator; and Sereno Edwards Dwight (1786-1850), educator and Congregational minister. Collection consists of letters, 1795-1815, and notebook of Timothy Dwight; letters, 1789-1843, poems, and miscellaneous documents of Theodore Dwight; correspondence, 1815-1866, diary (published in 1824 under the title "A Journal of a Tour in Italy, In the Year 1821") of a tour through Italy and Europe, poems, and notes of Theodore Dwight, Jr.; letters, 1821-1828, of Sereno Edwards Dwight; letters, 1836-1853, to various members of the Dwight family; and letters, 1828-1852, poems, and other papers of the Alsop family. less

Ford family members in this collection are all related to Gordon Lester Ford (1823-1891), businessman, lawyer and collector of Americana. They include his father, Lester Ford (1798-1888) of Lebanon, Conn.; his mother, Eliza Burnham Ford (d. 1834); his stepmother, Lucy Burnham Ford (cousin of Eliza); and Eliza's brother Gordon Burnham (1803-1885); Gordon Ford's siblings, Marcia, Eliza (d. ca. 1886), William, and Henry B. Ford; and four of his children, Kathleen Ford Turle (b. 1856), Rosalie Ford Barr (b. 1859), Mabel Ford Mayo-Smith (b. 1863), and Malcolm Webster Ford (1862-1902), an amateur athlete in the 1880s. Members of the Fowler family of New England and the Chauncey family of Connecticut were related to the Fords. Collection consists of the papers of various members of Gordon Ford's family. Ford correspondence, 1833-1910, contains family letters and some letters of a general nature. Burnham correspondence, 1834-1864, includes letters of Gordon Burnham and Annie McClane Farrer, who was a Burnham relative. Fowler family correspondence, 1818-1870, consists chiefly of letters to and from William Chauncey Fowler and his wife Harriet W. Fowler. Chauncey papers, 1744-1857, include correspondence, deeds, legal records, and other materials. General and unidentified correspondence, 1833-1906, contains letters whose sender or receiver cannot be determined, and letters of individuals who are apparently unrelated to the Ford family. Personal and family papers include juvenalia, school records and memoranda of activities of Malcolm Ford and his sisters. Notes and memoranda consist of ephemera, either not of a personal nature or only indirectly concerned with the Fords. Unidentified papers are short writings and documents; printed matter includes clippings and other materials. Prints consist of items, such as pictures of notable Americans, views and buildings. Other materials include maps, photographs, diaries, ledgers, letterbooks, and related items. less

The Beach family included Joseph Wickliff Beach (1822-1891), his wife Mary A. Walkley Beach (1824-1897), and their children David Nelson Beach, Lucy W. Beach, Harlan Page Beach, and Anna S. Beach. Collection consists of correspondence and other papers of Joseph Wickliff Beach, his wife, their children, and other members of the Beach and Walkley families. Correspondence deals mainly with family and personal affairs, and reflects everyday life in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, and Colorado. Also, letters concerning life of soldiers in the U.S. Civil War, and poetry written and collected by Mary Beach. less

Asa Fitch (1809-1879) of Salem, New York was an entomologist and genealogist. He was the grandson of Jabez Fitch (1737-1812) of Norwich, Connecticut and Hyde Park, Vermont, a soldier in the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. The collection consists of Asa Fitch's transcripts of Jabez Fitch's narrative account of his treatment as an American prisoner of war after the Battle of Long Island, 1776-1777, his brief digest of diaries for the years 1749-1756, and his diaries continuing from late 1756-1772 May, 1774 Jan.-Oct., and 1777 Dec.-1793 Jan.; as well as Asa Fitch's transcripts of some miscellaneous items relating to the Fitch family; and his index with notes of family members and events mentioned in the Jabez Fitch diaries. Miscellaneous items include transcripts of Capt. Samuel P. Fitch's Voyage to the Pacific, from a New London, Connecticut newspaper, 21 Dec. 1808; the pension warrant of Joanna Walker, widow of Cordilla Fitch; and genealogical notes on the Fitch family from the volume known as the Brewster Book. less