mixed material monographic eng 3,300 10 3.8 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. Open to research. 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 mm 81075864 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012192 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012192.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012192 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012192.3 Open to research. DLC 820107 20260227111710.0 mm 81075864