Hobart Amory Hare Baker (January 15, 1892-December 21, 1918), known as Hobey Baker, was a noted athlete and fighter pilot of the early 20th century born in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. He attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, graduating in 1909. In 1910 he enrolled in Princeton University and during his time there he was elected to the Ivy Club, while also playing baseball,…
Hockey East is a collegiate hockey league that was founded in 1983 by five institutions: Boston College, Boston University, the University of Maine, the University of New Hampshire and Providence College. Since then the league has expanded to include nine teams and is considered among the finest collegiate hockey conferences in the United States. In the first ten years of the conference’s existence, Hockey East…
This collection was assembled by University of New Hampshire sports faculty. This collection consists of videotapes of Hockey East games, including some tournament play, as well as Hobey Baker Award show tapes. Please be advised that in a number of cases only partial games are available.
Dr. Stephen Hardy played as a defenseman for the Bowdoin College hockey team in ECAC Division II in the late 1960s. He and his twin brother Erland were co-captains in the 1969-1970 season and were the only twins playing collegiate hockey in the country. They helped Bowdoin’s 1968-1969 squad win the Division II title. Kristin Markowich was a UNH undergraduate in the Kinesiology Department. The oral history collection contains interviews mostly conducted by Dr. Stephen Hardy of the Department of…
Eric (Rickey) Holt (1944-2017) was a contra dancer and caller, as well as a lover of music. He first learned about contra dance while living in Burlington, and went on to become a well known local caller in the Seacoast NH area. He was especially involved in the Deerfield and Newfields dances. This collection consists of 20 small notebooks of dances which Rickey called, wrote, and danced to the calling of others. Ca. 45 audio recordings in cassette and minidisc form contain recordings of…
The first honorary degree was awarded in 1881 by the Trustees to Jeremiah W. Sanborn of Gilmanton, NH for his years of service as the manager of the College farm. The practice of awarding honorary degrees has been suspended twice, once during the latter part of President Gibb’s administration, when the alumni passed a resolution disapproving the granting of the Master of Science as an honorary degree, and again by…
The Honors Convocation is held each year to recognize students who have received academic honors as well as those who have won various kinds scholarships, prizes and awards. This series contains Honors Convocation programs from the University of New Hampshire.
This seems to be the only written record for this particular Horance Wilson. Three page letter (ca. 1845-1849) begun aboard the ship "Areatus" and completed after the writer’s arrival in San Francisco. Wilson writes to James C. Steel, Andover, Mass of his experiences on the voyage around South America and his plans to prospect for gold in California.
The Whittemore School of Business and Economics of the University of New Hampshire operated two hotels in the White Mountains region in order to give young people job training and skills in the hotel-motel industry. This series contains the program's papers.
Howard M. Hanson (1835-1909) was born in Lebanon, Maine. A resident of Somersworth, New Hampshire, Hanson joined the Ninth New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment on June 28, 1862. Hanson was mustered in as a commissary sergeant on August 6, 1862. Following the war, Hanson returned to Somersworth where he operated a grocery store until his death. 180 page pocket diary of Howard M. Hanson, commissary sergeant, the Ninth…
Papers of the Howell, Beatty, and Grier families are included. The Howell family consisted of Presbyterian missionary to Brazil John Beatty Howell (1847-1924), wife and author Elizabeth Hibler Day (b. 1850), doctor/author Archibald Alexander Howell II (d. 1918), WWI veteran Lawrence Day Howell (?-?), and poet Isabell Howell Thatcher (?-?). The Beatty family included missionary Charles Clinton Beatty (1715-1772),…
HUMANALO, the Science Fiction Society of New Hampshire, was organized in July 1979 at the home of Steve Goldstein, its first president. The society took its name from the first two letters of each of the towns in which charter members resided, Hudson, Manchester, Nashua, and Londonderry. The Society’s sought to promote interest in Science fiction through discussions and other events. HUMANALO disbanded in February…
Governor Huntley N. Spaulding of New Hampshire presented a gift to UNH in 1934 of $15,000. The money was set up as a revolving loan to be given to needy students for anything from tuition to books or living expenses. The president of the University was in charge of the fund. This series contains the records of the students who received money from the Huntley N. Spaulding Fund from 1933-1937. The records include the amount and the conditions of the loan.
The Hutchins Family Correspondence consists of letters between Joseph Herbert Hutchins (1852-1908) and his wife Mary Bell (Cate) Hutchins (1863-?), the daughter of Nathaniel Cate and Olive Adelaide Tuttle of Northwood Ridge, NH. “Herbert” and Mary were married at Northwood 29th Aug. 1883. There are also letters from their son Roger D. Hutchins of Northwood (1897-?) who married Ruby E. (__?) Hutchins at Northwood in…
Ida C. Humphrey was born in Dec. 1854. She did not marry or have children. Four page letter written by Ida C. Humphrey from Camp Diamond, Diamond Ponds, Stewartstown, NH to Addie W. Paul of Newfield, N.H. The letter describes Humphrey’s stay at Camp Diamond, including her accommodations and activities, which included a great deal of fly fishing.
Evelyn Erika Handler became the first female president of the University of New Hampshire in 1980. She served until 1983. This series contains a transcript of the response given by Evelyn Handler to the keynote address at her inauguration ceremony.
Fred Engelhardt was chosen as the ninth president of the University of New Hampshire on December 1, 1936. He took office the following April and was inaugurated on October 9, 1937. He served until his death on February 3, 1944. This series contains the official record of the inauguration ceremony of Fred Engelhardt.
In 1861, the United States federal government approved the Morrill Act which set aside land in each state for the founding of public higher education. In 1862, the New Hampshire state legislature accepted the grant of 80,000 acres of public lands on which to set up a university. It wasn't until 1866, however, that the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was incorporated by the state…
The Sports Information Office is responsible for the gathering and dissemination of all UNH sports information through-out the nation. This series contains the records of the University of New Hampshire Indoor Track Team between 1924-1992.
C.F. Allen was a former president of the Maine State College. On April 29, 1879 he presented an address to the graduating class of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. This college later became the University of New Hampshire located in Durham, NH. This series contains the text of the address delivered by C.F. Allen to the 1879 graduating class of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.
Margery Sullivan Chapter No. 278 Daughters of the American Revolution Pages 59-83 of Inscriptions from some Homestead Cemeteries and other Burial places in Strafford County in and around Dover, N.H. and a few from the adjoining County of York, ME. compiled and typed by Emma Neal Steuerwald from collections made by members.
Instructor's Reports were written and filed for first (spring) and second (fall) semester, and summer session courses at the University of New Hampshire. These reports were required of every person holding a University appointment who conducted classes or who was engaged in research, experiment station or extension work (excluding county workers) or who assisted in any such work. The bulk of the reports are for the…
This series contains the Constitution, Bylaws, minutes, and joint minutes of the Inter-Fraternity Council and the Panhellenic Council. It also includes goals, member lists, leadership retreat papers, and award certificates of both the councils. A handbook for InterFraternity Council Officers is included as well as a few InterFraternity Booklets on the Fraternities at the University of New Hampshire.
Following the resignation of President Harold W. Stoke in August of 1947, the Board of Trustees spent the fall semester choosing a successor. During this period the President of the Board of Trustees, Frank W. Randall, served as Interim Executive Officer. However, because Randall was active in business, Dean Lauren E. Seeley of the College of Technology actually handled most of the business of the Office of the President. This series contains the files of the President's Office from 1947-1948,…
The International Studies Council was a committee of professors from the University of New Hampshire. The primary founders were David Larson and John Holden, both professors of political science at UNH, who were later joined by Donald Vincent, the university librarian. This committee came together to investigate the possibility of not only furthering the study of political science but garnering support for it…
The Interscholastic Prize Speaking Contest was organized each year by the Alumni Association for high school students in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts beginning in 1912. The prize money was provided by the class of 1911. This series contains programs for the prize speaking contest. Some of the programs have notes indicating the recipients of prizes and or the topics chosen by particular students.
Farmer in Langdon, N.H. aged 92 when he died. He married Fidelia Valena Holmes in September 1888. Their only child, Carl Ward Russell, died in infancy at age 2 months in 1896. The 394 manuscript ledger provides a detailed accounting of expenses and income for the years 1896-1925. The ledger begins with a balance of $12.27 in April 1896. The entries in the ledger show a variety of expenses: 25 cents for "alcahall" in…
Ira Joslin Prouty (1857-1932) was the son of a doctor from Ogdensberg, NY. He began medical practice in 1882 in Keene, NH, where he lived and worked until his death. A single notebook listing the recipes for 100-120 remedies to common (and some not so common) complaints of the day. The notebook dates from his first year practicing medicine professionally.
Irene M. Hall, from Rochester, NH, graduated from UNH with the class of 1922. This collection contains the diary of Irene M. Hall for the dates of January 1, 1917 through December 31, 1917. It covers the second semester of her sophomore year and the fall semester of her junior year. She talks about the activities in her dorm, her classes, the dances she attended, the food they ate and other daily activities of her life.
Irving E. White (1894-1966) of Canaan, New Hampshire, entered boot camp at Camp Upton, New York in September of 1918 and was transferred to France in December of that same year, where he remained until June of 1919. The Irving E. White Collection contains 38 letters, written from Irving White to his sister Elsie "and all the others" (his parents, his sister Myrtie and brother Earl). The letters from Camp Upton…
Printer and politician of Concord, N.H., who lived from 1789 to 1851. Letter (1838) in which Hill lists the names of several blind students resident in Concord. In this Apr. 7, 1838 letter Hill discusses the expenses of several individual pupils and lists the appropriations given to each one.
Isadore Zack (11 October 1912-January 8, 2011) was born in Quincy, MA. He served in the U.S. Army from 1941-1945 and was assigned as Special Agent in Charge of the Counter Intelligence Group/Subversive Squad, First Service Command, Boston, CIC from May 1942 until he left the service. The collection contains a variety of materials relating to domestic intelligence gathering in the early 1940s. Handouts and notes from Mr. …
Jack (Jean-Louis Lebris de) Kerouac (1922-1969), American novelist and memoirist, was born and grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was a leading writer of the Beat Generation, and his second novel "On the Road" (1957) was the defacto manifesto of the movement. The collection consists mainly of pamphlets and broadsides, 1959-1986, which supplement the Library's special collection of Kerouac books.
Jackson Estuarine Laboratory, the University of New Hampshire's marine research and education laboratory, was dedicated on May 30, 1970. The laboratory is named in honor of Professor Emeritus C. Floyd Jackson, who established a summer program for marine biology and zoology students on the Isles of Shoals. Jackson Estuarine Laboratory's purpose is to perform research leading to a better understanding of estuarine and marine processes through the faculty and students of the lab. Originally, the…
Jacob H. Gallinger (1837-1918) was a physician, United States Senator, member of the N.H. Legislature, N.H. Surgeon General, and heavily involved in the Republican Party at the state and national level. This photo album depicts the Gallinger family's travels to various United States cities on the East Coast, as well as closer to home scenes from Concord, Hopkinton, and Salisbury, N.H. There are just over 300 photos,…
James Alba Bostwick was born on January 4, either 1846 or 1848 (sources disagree on the year) in Livonia, New York and married Harriet L. Kirk (most sources date it circa 1863). They had three children together. He later married Cora Julia Trimmer in 1887 and they produced two children, one of whom, Irene, donated the collection. The Bostwick & Bancker (Jacques W. Bancker) photographic studio did business at 98…
James Hooker Baker (1837-1923), was born in Brookfield NH, son of Benjamin Baker and Lydia Wedgewood. He served in the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment, Companies C and F. Following the war, Baker moved to Iowa, where he maintained a farm. He was an early member of the Reorganized Church of the Latter Day Saints, later being ordained as a priest and elder. This collection consists primarily of the records and official…
James Burns Wallace (1813-1853) was born in Salem, N.H. He eventually settled in Canaan, N.H., where he worked as a printer, merchant, teacher, and soldier. He described himself as a “reformist, an abolitionist, a pure Radical.” George Kimball (1787-1858) was an attorney, a postmaster, and an antislavery advocate from Canaan, N.H. With others, he founded a school for higher learning in the town - Noyes Academy - in…
James Duane Squires (1904-1981) was born and educated in North Dakota. In 1933, he received a Ph.D. in European History from Harvard University and he subsequently taught at Colby-Sawyer College, where he later chaired the Department of Social Studies for many years. His published works include books on British propaganda and New Hampshire history, notably the four-volume The Granite State: A History of New …
James Farrington (1791-1859) was born in Conway, New Hampshire. He attended Fryeburg Academy (Maine) prior to studying medicine with Dr. Moses Chandler of Fryeburg, Maine. In 1818, Farrington opened a medical practice in Rochester, New Hampshire, where he resided until his death in 1859. He was a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society and served as a New Hampshire state representative, New Hampshire state…
James Franklin Fitts, son of Moses Hall Fitts and Rachel Harrison Fitts, was born in Lockport, New York on September 11, 1839. He saw action in the Civil War, rising to the post of Battalion Adjutant in the 10th Cavalry prior to his joining the 114th New York Volunteers in a similar capacity. Fitts was promoted to the rank of Captain on March 27, 1863. In March 1865, he was appointed Brevet Major U.S. Volunteers …
