The Sports Information Office is responsible for the gathering and dissemination of all UNH sports information through-out the nation. Boxing at UNH lasted from 1923-1935. This series contains the records of the University of New Hampshire Boxing Team compiled by the Sports Information Office.
Joseph Bradley (1762-c1840) was born in Plaistow, New Hampshire, the son of William and Sarah Smith Bradlery. He became a merchant, money lender, and inn keeper in Hawke (New Danville), Rockingham County, New Hampshire. Three volumes of account books for the family, including purchases, barters, and local birth/deaths. The books are dated 1802-1836.
Bridgewater is a New Hampshire town in Grafton County. The population in 1810 was 1,104 but had dropped to 727 by 1820. By 1840 it had gradually grown to 747. Bridgewater, N.H. selectmen’s records showing records of school business, taxes, etc. for the years 1812-1844.
Ralph Dorn Hetzel was president of the University of New Hampshire when the Board of Trustees called for new appropriations from the State Legislature. This series contains the statement prepared by the President's Office concerning the space problems at the University of New Hampshire. The University was in need of more housing and classroom space to accommodate the growing student population.
Brooks K. Webber was born in Webster (Boscawen), New Hampshire in 1837. He was educated at Colby Academy in New London and went on to study law in Newport and Woodstock, Vermont. Webber was admitted to the Bar in 1859. He was a veteran of the Civil War, where here served as first Lieutenant for Company 1, 16th Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers. Upon returning from the war, Webber settled in Hillsborough and…
Moses Brown was born in 1742 and was a prominent merchant and citizen of Newburyport, MA. He first worked as a chaise maker in 1766. After 25 years, he purchased a wharf and invested his money in Newburyport’s lucrative shipping industry. Brown imported molasses and distilled rum and later bought warehouses where he “stored cargoes arriving at the dull season of the year when they could not be disposed of at a…
In 1990, Roger S. Brown, Associate Professor of German, filed a civil rights lawsuit against the state university system complaining that his constitutional right of free speech and due process were violated when Nancy Lukens, the department chairman, factored into her evaluation and salary recommendations student allegations that he made racial and sexist slurs, was unfair in testing and grading and showed a…
Warren Brown (1836-1919) of Hampton Falls, NH married Sarah Gertrude Norris (1841-1917) in 1867. Their children were Norris Brown (1868-1869), Harry Benson Brown (1870-1903), Arthur Warren Brown (1873-1960), Gertrude Norris Brown (1878-1896), and Mildred Leavitt Brown (1880-1965). This collection consists mainly of diaries kept by Warren and Sarah. Several volumes are also from their sons Arthur Warren Brown and…
The Browne Center is an experiential education campus operated by the University of New Hampshire, which offers team-centered programming to assist organizations and individuals in their quest for excellence. These files cover the establishment of the Browne Center and some of its programs and operations.
The Browne family collection includes the following people: George Browne (1840-1912), Belmore Browne (1881-1954), Agnes Evelyn Sibley Browne (1882-1976), Evelyn Browne (1915-1994), George Browne (1918-1958), Isabel “Busy” Browne Driscoll (1951- 2017), Belmore Browne (1953-2021) and Barbara King Newman (1919-1970). Evelyn Browne was a professor at the University of New Hampshire. The bulk of this collection is…
John Bucknam (of Medford, Massachusetts) and Susan Ann Warren (of Concord, New Hampshire) married in the spring of 1830 in Massachusetts. They had 3 sons, of whom 2 survived. In the fall of 1838, Susan and sons Warren and George moved – without John – from Brighton to Concord, New Hampshire, where they lived as boarders in the home of John Brown. In the fall of 1860, Warren married Susan Emma Parkhurst of Chelmsford…
Tom Burke, a freelance writer, has been a sports writer for over 40 years, covering mostly college hockey. This collection is made up of three series: game summaries; reporter notebooks, miscellaneous published articles.
Sally Brown (1794-3 July 1840 Epsom) married farmer Alphonzo J. Burham (1800-1881) at the Epsom Congregational Church on April 24 1828. The names of their parents are unknown. In late November or early October 1839 she appears to have had a stroke or other medical event which caused her to collapse and appear intoxicated while at church. When she died ten months later she was buried in the Short Falls Cemetery. Alphonzo remarried in 1841 to Martha Perkins (1805-1885). It does not appear any…
Violet “Bunny” Buskey (1912-2007) and Elliott Buskey (1912-1988) started their dance careers in Fitchberg, MA in the 1940’s. They moved to the Chicago area in 1951 where they taught contra dancing. This collection contains programs from dance gatherings in the Chicago area from 1952 to 1959. Also included in the collection are handwritten dance instructions from notebooks and index cards.
Franklin Buss (1792-1812) was the son of Samuel and Lydia Buss (nee Lincoln) of Jaffrey, NH. He was the youngest of eight children. Buss began an apprenticeship in the J. Parker and Co. Keene, NH store in June of 1809 at the age of seventeen. The apprenticeship was to continue until he was twenty-one, but was cut short due to his death just before his twentieth birthday. Lydia Buss (1787-1836) was Franklin Buss's…
Writer Harold Witter Bynner (1881-1968) was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1898 he began his studies at Harvard University where he served on the editorial board of the Harvard Advocate (1900-1902). After graduating in 1902, Bynner worked for four years as associate editor of McClure’s Magazine before retreating from the pressures of the New York literary world and devoting himself to writing. He was…
Camp Phillips was a large, Edwardian-style fishing clubhouse at Hancock Point in Hancock County, Maine, near Mt. Desert. This collection contains a series of original black and white photographs taken circa 1902-1903. They are well-composed and focused photographs that capture the clubhouse's exterior and interior, various boats, dories, and dingies on and around the lake, and students engaged in various …
This series is composed of one box of folders containing notes on the Browne Center, the Rec Center, the New England Center, and the MUB. Included are also 7 high -8 video tapes of these buildings. These tapes were used in developing a video presentation.
The Campus Planning Office is responsible for the allocation of and planning for the University's physical plant. This series contains the records from the office of Campus Planning and Real Property Management at the University of New Hampshire.
The Campus Planning Office is responsible for the allocation of and planning for the University's landed holdings. This series contains the records from the office of Campus Planning and Real Property Management at the University of New Hampshire.
Carlton and Margaret (1928-2011) Bradford owned and operated the Kearsarge Bookshelf and Bradford Hallmark in New London, NH for 27 years. They began corresponding with Donald Hall when hosting a poetry reading for him in their store. Margaret died in June of 2011 aged 82. The collection consists primarily of written correspondence between Carlton and Margaret Bradford and Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon…
William M. Carr & Company was founded in Bradford, New Hampshire in 1824 by William A. and Daniel Carr, purveyors of general merchandise. The company supplied all manner of goods to south central New Hampshire for over one hundred years. The Carr, Carr, Belknap and Pollard collection is an archive of invoices and receipts directed to William M. Carr & Co. during 45 years that the company served the surrounding areas…
The Cooperative Extension of the University of New Hampshire has an office in each county in New Hampshire. The Carroll County Forestry Division kept records about the Forestry Cooperators in that county. This series contains the records of the Carroll County Forestry department. They include the correspondence with inactive cooperators and records of woodland lots in Carroll County.
Celia Thaxter, 1835-1894, one of the most popular American poets of the late nineteeth century, lived on Appledore Island among the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire. Eleven holograph letters from Thaxter, 2 photographs of Celia, and poems "Wilheling", "Love Shall Save Us All", "Renunciation", and "Medrake and Osprey" in manuscript hand.
The University of New Hampshire was founded in 1866 by the state legislature as the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. First situated in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College, the NHCAMA was removed to its Durham campus in 1893 after Benjamin Thompson, a prosperous farmer, bequeathed land and money to the state for educational use. In 1923, the state legislature granted it a new…
The Center for the Humanities was established at the University of New Hampshire in 1985. The newsletter of the Center is produced once every semester. This series contains the newsletters of the Center for the Humanities starting in the Fall of 1990. The newsletter is published twice during the fiscal year; fall and spring.
The Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) was a college athletic conference that participated in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference. This collection of random CCHA prospectus and guide books as been aquired through various donations to the Holt Hockey Archives.
The Chancellor's Office is the executive arm of the Board of Trustees and is organized to assist the Board in meeting its obligations to prudently govern the operations of a well-coordinated system of public higher education. The "Chancellor's Newsletter" was first published in the Fall of 1990 to report on the activities in all the branches of the University System of New Hampshire. It is produced by the Chancellor…
Born 1835 in Milford, NH. He accepted a position in the Treasury Department in 1865 and in July 1874 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, being the first man to rise to the position after serving only a clerkship. From 1877 to 1880 he served as the department's funding agent, working 3 years in London overseeing the sale of US Bonds in the European finiancial market. In 1881 he retired to Cambridge MA and died there in 1886. He is buried in Milford, NH. There are 9 letters:…
Charles Cummuings was a doctor who practiced in Fitzwilliam, N.H. He was born 23 Sep 1777, son of Joseph Cummings and Anna Gove, and married Polly Hemenway in 1798. He died 27 Dec. 1849 in Roxbury, N.H. This little book contains a collection of formulas from “distinguished Practitioners” for various linaments, bitters, Anti Red Rover or bed bug destroyer, inks, tinctures, pain killers, tooth wash, and tooth powder.
Charles E. Hewitt was an alumni of the University of New Hampshire, a professor of electrical engineering at the University starting in 1893, and later, Dean of Engineering during the World War I period. This folder contains correspondence between Charles E. Hewitt, Dean of Engineering, and the Metcalf and Eddy Consulting Engineers firm concerning the sewerage system they designed for UNH for the period of January 1914 - September 1916. The system developed a problem with accumulating sludge…
Charles E. Jewett, a 23 year-old resident of Gilford, N.H., joined the 2nd N.H. Regiment on April 20, 1861. He re-enlisted for three years on May 22, 1861. Jewett, a private, was killed at the 2nd Battle of Manassas on August 29, 1862. Primarily contains Jewett’s war-time (23) letters to his brother and sister-in-law. Also included: notice from Sergeant Hugh R. Richardson of Jewett’s death; a letter from Charles…
The Johnson family of Newport NH consisted of three generations who conversed extensively by letter during World War II. The family correspondence consists of two boxes of letters between Charles and Ruth, one box of letters from other members of the family to them, a box of material from friends and the US Army, and several stories and a novel written by Charles. Lastly one box of photographs documents Charles and…
Charles James was born in Earl's Barton, Northhamptonshire, England in 1880. He was educated at University College in London from 1899-1904. He came to the United States in 1906 and was asked to join the faculty at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts as Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the same year. He went on to become head of the Chemistry Department in 1912 and remained in that…
Charles F. Orvis (1856-1915) founded The Orvis Company in 1856 in his hometown of Manchester, Vermont. The company produced fishing rods, reels, and associated items of tackle. The company is now called Orvis and is known for its sporting equipment, clothing, and items for dogs. A small book containing 36 hand drawn fishing flies. Some are fully colored and named while others are still in pencil sketch stage. Included …
Charles H. Pettee served the University of New Hampshire in various ways for 62 years. He was instrumental in the move of NHC from Hanover to Durham from 1890-1893. He was also acting president three times: 1891-93, 1912, and 1917. He continued to teach at the University of New Hampshire until 1928. This series contains the correspondence of Charles H. Pettee. Pettee oversaw the move of NHC from Hanover to Durham and most of the letters deal with the details required for that move. There are…
Charles Theodore Russell (1881-1961) was the son of Joseph Ballister Russell, a merchant of Boston. He lived in Falmouth and Boston, Massachusetts. In 1906 he married Louise Rust and they had four children, Charles T. (b. 1907), Henry D. (b. 1910), Joseph (b. 1912), and Louise (b. 1914). The collection contains 34 volumes spanning the years 1926-1961 that record the various sporting activities Russell engaged in,…
Charles Simic was born on May 9, 1938, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, moving to the United States in 1953. His first full-length collection of poems, What the Grass Says, was published in 1962. Since then he has published more than sixty books in the U.S. and abroad. In 2007 Simic was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States. He died in 2023. The collection, which is restricted, consists of correspondence, notebooks,…
Charles Sumner Murkland was the first to be elected President of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts following the college's move to Durham from Hanover, NH. After a few years serving as pastor in Chicopee, MA and Manchester, NH, he was elected president of UNH. During his presidency, he received a Doctor of Divinity from Middlebury in 1900, and a Ph.D. from Dartmouth in 1903. Murkland argued for a broad interpretation of the Morrill Act, thereby requiring that the…
