Special Collections
- Special CollectionsWilliam L. Hill was born on October 17, 1855 in Auburn, Iowa. He served in the United States Navy from 1873 until his death. The papers contain an unusual record of turn-of-the-century American Naval history, including first-hand reports of “The…
- Special CollectionsWilliam Helmuth Heyen was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1940 and was educated at SUNY Brockport and Ohio University. He taught American literature and creative writing at SUNY Brockport for over thirty years before his retirement in 2000. Ewert…
- Special CollectionsLawrence Wallace Henderson (1921-2003) was born in Yankton, South Dakota and grew up in Tacoma, Washington. He graduated from the College of Puget Sound with a major in History and received a graduate degree in Theology from Yale Divinity School as…
- Special CollectionsGeorge Wallis Haven (1808-1895) was a banker and scholar who resided in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Haven served as a director of the Rockingham Bank for forty years, during which time he frequently lectured in Portsmouth. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a…
- Special CollectionsLeander Harris (1833-1912) was born in Fairlee township, Vermont. He married Emily S. Hunt and they had two daughters: Annie M. in June 1857, and Clara Josephine in September 1858. At the beginning of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in Company…
- Special CollectionsDaniel Ford was born in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1931 and moved to New Hampshire in 1946, where he graduated from Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro and, in 1954, from the University of New Hampshire. After a year in England as a Fulbright scholar, he…
- Special CollectionsJames 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…
- Special CollectionsEdward Fifield was born January 22, 1748 in Kingston NH and died at age 83 on August 19, 1831 in Plainfield NH. He married Dorothy Sleeper circa 1768. He lived in Salisbury NH and then at Meriden. Edward operated a tavern in Plainfield, which son…
- Special CollectionsJohn M. Duncan was born in Gardner, Massachusetts in 1902, and died in 1976. He was a Staff Sergeant in World War II and following his discharge he married a librarian, Lillian Perkins (“Perks”), who worked at the University of New Hampshire, and they…
- Special CollectionsAlbert Demeritt (Durham NH, 1851-1913) was the youngest son of Hon. Stephen Demeritt and Nancy Perkins Chesley. Elizabeth Thompson (1864-1932) was the youngest child of Deacon John E. Thompson and Mary J. Pickering. Elizabeth and Albert had three…
- Special CollectionsMartin Delbrouck was born in Belgium in 1909 and resided in Durham, New Hampshire, where he operated a print shop in the 1930′s and served as the University’s publisher. He was publisher of The Durham News, the town’s first newspaper, from 1932-1933.…
- Special CollectionsNamed after Molly Woodburn Reid, the wife of General George Reid (commander of the First New Hampshire Regiment), the chapter was the second of its kind founded in the state of New Hampshire, and was organized on October 27, 1894. The Molly Reid DAR…
- Special CollectionsDaniel C. Currier (1841-1905) was born in Springfield, NH, later moving to Grantham, NH where his father Hiram and Daniel were sawyers. On August 8, 1862, at the age of 21, Currier enlisted and became a Corporal in I Company of the 14th Regiment of…
- Special CollectionsEdward Cross was born on April 22, 1832 in Lancaster, Coos County, New Hampshire. After working for many years in the west as a journalist and editor, he returned to New Hampshire at the outbreak of the Civil War and accepted a commission as colonel…
- Special CollectionsLeon A. Colby (1870-1945) was born on December 18, 1870 in Whitefield, New Hampshire, the son of Charles and Hattie Colby. He worked as a farm hand on his parents’ farm and later inherited the farm when they died. For some time, he worked in the wood…
- Special CollectionsRobert P. Tristram Coffin (1892-1955) grew up in Brunswick, Maine on a “saltwater farm.” He attended Bowdoin, Princeton, and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar before, as well as after, serving two years in World War I. He taught at…
- Special CollectionsHarriet Sophia Coe (1840-1916) was born in Lubec, Maine, married Joseph William Coe on December 2, 1861 and resided in Durham, New Hampshire. The collection consists of 17 diaries written between 1897 and 1916 by Harriet Sophia (Churchill) Coe. These…
- Special CollectionsWilliam 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…
- Special CollectionsWriter 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…
- Special CollectionsMoses 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…
- Special CollectionsAlice Brown (1857-1948) was born in Hampton Falls, N.H., the daughter of Levi and Elizabeth (Lucas) Brown. She graduated from the Robinson Seminary in Exeter, N.H. in 1876. She worked on the staffs of The Christian Register and Youth’s Companion and…
- Special CollectionsWilliam Bronk (1918-1999) was born in Fort Edward, New York. He entered Dartmouth College in 1934, where he studied under the critic and poet Sidney Cox and met Robert Frost. After graduation he studied at Harvard briefly and then left to write a…
- Special CollectionsMajor Paul L. Briand, Jr. was a World War II veteran, a 1948 graduate of the University of New Hampshire, and a commissioned officer in the US Air Force. In 1967, the State University of New York, Oswego appointed Briand as a full professor and he…
- Special CollectionsGladys Ames Brannigan (1882-1944) was born in Hingham, MA. She attended Georgetown University, earning her B.A. in 1903 and M.A. in 1904, and later studied at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. In 1910 she exhibited at the WCC, and in 1911 with…
- Special CollectionsThe Bickford family lived in Laconia, New Hampshire. Karl H. and Helen (Denny) Bickford had four children: Arlene P. (born 1922), Karl H., Jr. (b. Nov. 23, 1923 in Sandwich, NH), Thelma, and Betty (birthdates unknown). Arlene married Sgt. Richard K.…
- Special CollectionsAmy Marcy Cheney (1867-1944) was born in Henniker, New Hampshire. In 1883, at age sixteen, she made her professional debut as a pianist and later a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After her marriage in 1885, to Henry Harris Aubrey Beach,…
- Special CollectionsWilliam J. Barrus (b.1835), Ira Marshall Barrus (1837-1868), and John W. Barrus (b.1840), all of Richmond, NH, served in Massachusetts regiments during the Civil War. Their companies were: Company D, 36th Massachusetts Infantry; Company I, 2nd…
- Special CollectionsShirley Frances Barker, author, editor, and librarian was born in Farmington, N.H. in 1911. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire and later received masters degrees in both English and Library Science. She wrote essays, poems, short stories, and novels and was a staff member of the…
- Special CollectionsHenry Ives Baldwin (1896-1922) was born in Saranac Lake, New York. After graduating from Yale University in 1919, he acquired his Master’s degree from the Yale Forestry School in 1922, studied at the Swedish Forestry School from 1923-1924, and…
- Special CollectionsThe Balch family first came to the United States in 1623 and resided in northern Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The best known member of the family was the author Elizabeth Arabella Balch (1851-1934), daughter of Wesley P. (1794-1856) and Elizabeth…
- Special CollectionsJames 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…
- Special CollectionsDonald Babcock was a philosophy professor at the University of New Hampshire. He joined the history department of New Hampshire College (as it was then known) in 1918 and in 1944 created the UNH Philosophy Department, for which he served as chairman…
- Special CollectionsThe Association of Former Intelligence Officers New England Chapter, the David Atlee Phillips Chapter, was formed in 1984. The Association of Former Intelligence Officers New England Chapter Intelligence Studies Collection consists of videotape…
- Special CollectionsThe Amherst Steam Mill Company was incorporated in July, 1846. A sawmill began operating in February, 1847, a grist mill on May 1, and a clapboard and a shingle mill shortly thereafter. A fifty horse-power steam engine powered the mills. Notices…
- Special CollectionsThe Adams family resided at Adams Point in Durham, New Hampshire from 1835 until 1960. The principal figures of the family are: “Reformation” John Adams (1791-1851), Methodist minister and founder of the Adams Point branch of the family, his son Enoch…
- Special CollectionsEleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872-1958) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studied at Radcliffe, worked as a secretary and teacher at Lowell State Normal School, and wrote poems and short stories. The Eleanor Hallowell Abbott collection primarily…
