06458cpcaa2201069 4500 mm 81075864 DLC 20260227111710.0 cr ||||||||||| 820107|||||||||||| eng mm 81075864 DLC dacs DLC DLC C lcmd Horsford-Tryon families papers, 1800-2000 (bulk 1835-1887). 3,300 items. 10 container. 3.8 linear feet. Open to research. Chiefly correspondence of Horsford and Tryon family members primarily in central New York. Correspondence of Jerediah Horsford and his wife, Maria Charity Norton Horsford, relating to his service as U.S. representative from New York, the Whig party, Free Soil Party, the death of Henry Clay, antislavery politics, and social and political life in Washington, D.C. Subjects also include boardinghouse life, slavery in Washington, D.C., and Myrtilla Miner and her school, the Normal School for Colored Girls in Washington, D.C. Correspondence of Eben Horsford pertains to his years as a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; his appointment to the faculty of Harvard College in 1847 and life in Cambridge, Mass.; his commitment to women's education; Emma Willard, and her school, the Troy Female Seminary; and daguerreotypes. Correspondence of Eliza Horsford Tyron concerns her student years at Miss Bennet's School in Auburn, N.Y., and the Le Roy Female Seminary, Le Roy, N.Y.; domestic life, courtship, marriage, and childbirth; life in Rochester, N.Y.; political events of the Whig Party; and a visit by Jenny Lind to Rochester in 1850. Correspondence of Eliza's husband and banker, James Tryon pertains chiefly to banking and commerce in New York, Hartford, Conn., and along the Erie Canal. Includes correspondence with Eliza's cousin, Harriet Hinsdale Haskell, and James's friend, James Richards Cox. Subjects also include farming in upstate New York, medical matters, and travel plans and descriptions of trips in New York, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., and Cambridge, Mass. Correspondents include Henry Clay, Stephen Decatur, and William Gillette. Typewritten transcripts, in part. [S.l.]. Members of the Horsford (Hosford) and Tryon families. Family members represented include Jerediah Horsford, U.S. representative from New York (1851-1853), missionary to the Seneca Indians in Moscow, N.Y., and farmer; his wife, Maria Charity Norton Horsford; and their children: Eben Norton Horsford, chemist and advocate for women's education; Julia Horsford Norton; Laura Horsford; Maria Horsford Byam; and Eliza Horsford Tryon and her husband, James Tryon, banker. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012192 Originally cataloged as the Charry Maria Norton Horsford papers, 1851-1853. Correct name is Maria Charity Norton Horsford. Byam, Maria Horsford, 1826- Correspondence. Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 Correspondence. Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 Death and burial. Cox, James Richards Correspondence. Decatur, Stephen, 1779-1820 Correspondence. Gillette, William, 1853-1937 Correspondence. Haskell, Harriet Hinsdale Correspondence. Horsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1893 Correspondence. Horsford, Jerediah, 1791-1875 Correspondence. Horsford, Laura, 1828- Correspondence. Horsford, Maria Charity Norton, 1790-1859 Correspondence. Lind, Jenny, 1820-1887. Miner, Myrtilla, 1815-1864. Norton, Julia Horsford, 1822- Correspondence. Tryon, Eliza Horsford, 1820-1883 Correspondence. Tryon, James, 1820-1895 Correspondence. Willard, Emma, 1787-1870. Hosford family. Tryon family. Free Soil Party (U.S.) Harvard College (1780- ) Le Roy Female Seminary. Miss Bennet's School (Auburn, N.Y.) Normal School for Colored Girls (Washington, D.C.) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Troy Female Seminary. Whig Party (U.S.) African Americans Education Washington (D.C.) African Americans Washington (D.C.) Agriculture New York (State) Banks and banking Connecticut Hartford. Banks and banking New York (State) Boardinghouses Washington (D.C.) Childbirth New York (State) Courtship New York (State) Daguerreotype. Education Washington (D.C.) Medicine New York (State) Slavery United States. Slavery Washington (D.C.) Women Education. Women Education New York (State) Women Education United States. Cambridge (Mass.) Description and travel. Cambridge (Mass.) Social life and customs. Connecticut Commerce. Connecticut Description and travel. Erie Canal (N.Y.) Commerce. Hartford (Conn.) Commerce. Massachusetts Social life and customs. New York (State) Commerce. New York (State) Description and travel. New York (State) Social life and customs. Rochester (N.Y.) Social life and customs. United States Politics and government 1845-1861. Washington (D.C.) Description and travel. Washington (D.C.) Social life and customs. Horsford family. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012192 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012192.3 43272 43272