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Creator
Brewer, Joseph Hillyer, 1898-1991
Call number
MssCol NYGB 18101
Physical description
1.8 linear feet (4 boxes)
Preferred Citation

Joseph H. Brewer genealogical research papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Access to materials
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Joseph Hillyer Brewer was a publisher, librarian and president of Olivet College. Approximately fifty percent of the collection consists of genealogical notes, charts, correspondence, and clippings resulting from his research and that of other family members into the histories of the allied Ackerman, Bogardus, Bradley, Burr, Chardarayne, Creighton, Giles, Cropsey, Havens, Keeler, Montfort, Pryer, Roorbach, Stayner, Schuyler, Van Vechten, Ward, and Whiting families. The remainder of the collection is comprised of miscellaneous original material, ca. 1797-1927, relating to the above families, including military documents, correspondence, invitations, notices, tickets, calling cards, legal documents, and other family ephemera. Also included are portrait photographs and a few miniature paintings, mid- to late-19th century, of the Roorbach and allied Fuller, Hillyer, Van Vechten, and other families. Photographs are mostly in the form of cartes de visite, daguerreotypes, and ambrotypes.

Scope and arrangement

Arrangement

The Joseph H. Brewer genealogical research papers are organized in the following series:

  • Ackerman, John, ca. 1919
  • Board family research notes, 1827-1851
  • Bradley family research notes, undated
  • Brewer, Joseph H., 1886-1966
  • Brewer, Ollie Esther
  • Burr family research notes, 1958, undated
  • Cartes-de-visite
  • Chardarayne family research notes, undated
  • Creighton, James, 1871
  • Cropsey bible records, undated
  • Cropsey family photographs, 1858-1890
  • Cropsey family research notes, 1844-1920
  • Escott, John Henry
  • Fuller, Arthuretta Sophia Roorbach Van Vechten
  • Fuller, Elizabeth
  • Fuller, Samuel
  • Fuller, Sophie
  • Giles family research notes, 1926
  • Hillyer bible records, undated
  • Hillyer, Frances S. Van Vechten, undated
  • Hillyer family photographs, undated
  • Hillyer family research notes, 1943-1979
  • Hillyer family research notes, 1891-1965
  • Keeler family photographs, 1891-1960
  • Keeler family research notes, 1904-1923
  • Keeler family research notes, 1861-1966
  • Montfort research notes, undated
  • Pryer family research notes, 1874-1963
  • Roorbach, Mrs. Maria (Cropsey) and granddaughters, Cornelia E. and Frances S. Van Vechten
  • Roorbach family photographs, 1839-1902
  • Roorbach family research notes, 1839-1961
  • Roorbach family research notes, 1841-1967
  • Roorbach, O.A., publisher of Maple Leaves, 1871
  • The American Ancestry of Isabelle Seton Roorbach, undated
  • Stayner family photographs, undated
  • Stayner family research notes, 1850-1905
  • Stevens, Breeze
  • Torrey family photograph, undated
  • Unidentified portrait
  • Van Vechten research notes, 1861-1926
  • Ward, [Andrew], research notes, undated
  • Whiting family research notes, undated
  • Whiting, Eriphyle Louise Robinson, 1921-

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2008

Processing information

Processed by Leslie Reyman.

Using the collection

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328