TY  - GEN
TI  - Horsford-Tryon families papers,
KW  - Byam, Maria Horsford,
KW  - Clay, Henry,
KW  - Cox, James Richards
KW  - Decatur, Stephen,
KW  - Gillette, William,
KW  - Haskell, Harriet Hinsdale
KW  - Horsford, Eben Norton,
KW  - Horsford, Jerediah,
KW  - Horsford, Laura,
KW  - Horsford, Maria Charity Norton,
KW  - Lind, Jenny,
KW  - Miner, Myrtilla,
KW  - Norton, Julia Horsford,
KW  - Tryon, Eliza Horsford,
KW  - Tryon, James,
KW  - Willard, Emma,
KW  - Hosford family.
KW  - Tryon family.
KW  - Horsford family.
KW  - Free Soil Party (U.S.)
KW  - Harvard College (1780- )
KW  - Le Roy Female Seminary
KW  - Miss Bennet's School (Auburn, N.Y.)
KW  - Normal School for Colored Girls (Washington, D.C.)
KW  - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
KW  - Troy Female Seminary
KW  - Whig Party (U.S.)
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Education
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - Banks and banking
KW  - Connecticut
KW  - Hartford
KW  - Boardinghouses
KW  - Childbirth
KW  - Courtship
KW  - Daguerreotype
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Slavery
KW  - United States
KW  - Women
KW  - Cambridge (Mass.)
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Erie Canal (N.Y.)
KW  - Hartford (Conn.)
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Rochester (N.Y.)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1845-1861
N1  - Open to research; Typewritten transcripts, in part; [S.l.]
N2  - 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
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