Hatheway family papers

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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.

Dates

1788-[ca. 1900]

Creator

Hatheway family. (Family)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

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.

Extent

4.6 cubic feet. (4.6 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Papers relating to the family, personal affairs, and political career of Samuel Gilbert Hatheway (1780-1867).

Physical Description

Correspondence, militia records, financial records, speeches, essays, and scrapbooks.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: M. Morrison
Date completed:: June 1975
EAD encoding:: Martin Heggestad, February 2002