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Mode of Cultivating Trees and Plants, December 2, 1851
Allen-Johnson Family Papers, 1759-1992
Joseph Allen (1790-1873), the son of Phineas and Ruth Smith Allen, of Medfield, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard in 1811. He then studied for the ministry and in l8l6 was called by the town of Northborough to be its third minister. It was a post he held for forty years, until he voluntarily relinquished hi...
Joseph Allen (1790-1873), the son of Phineas and Ruth Smith Allen, of Medfield, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard in 1811. He then studied for the ministry and in l8l6 was called by the town of Northborough to be its third minister. It was a post he held for forty years, until he voluntarily relinquished his pulpit duties and his salary. He remained, however, engaged in church affairs as senior pastor.
Until the disestablishment of...
Joseph Allen (1790-1873), the son of Phineas and Ruth Smith Allen, of Medfield, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard in 1811. He then studied for the ministry and in l8l6 was called by the town of Northborough to be its third minister. It was a post he held for forty years, until he voluntarily relinquished his pulpit duties and his salary. He remained, however, engaged in church affairs as senior pastor.
Until the disestablishment of the church in Massachusetts in 1833 Allen, as the Congregationalist minister, was minister of the entire town of Northborough and chairman of the district school committee. It was a role he relished: the school children were invited to play in his extensive gardens; he arranged for young women to earn, through their handiwork, money to purchase books for a library; and he instituted a series of public lyceums.
Soon after arriving in Northborough, Joseph and his wife opened a school to earn extra income and eventually to be able to educate their own family of seven children at home. The Allen School was a Northborough institution for decades.
Joseph Allen was a beloved figure in his community. He was more widely honored by being chosen as a delegate to the Paris Peace Convention in l849 and as a representative to the Massachusetts General Court, for a four-month term in 1864. His influence in Unitarian circles was far-reaching. Within a month of his death, memorial services to him were preached from pulpits in Quincy, Illinois, and San Francisco, California.
Lucy Clark Ware Allen (1791-1866) was the daughter of Henry and Mary Clark Ware. She was their eldest surviving child and the eldest of his nineteen children. Her childhood was spent in Hingham, Massachusetts, but in l805 the family moved to Cambridge on the occasion of Henry Ware, a Unitarian luminary, being named Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard.
Proximity must have played a role in Lucy and Joseph's romance as Joseph studied with Henry Ware. In February of 1818 the couple was married and the young minister brought his bride to Northborough to a newly built house across the common from the church. They arrived from Cambridge, after dark, in a rainstorm. In later years Lucy remembered "…how pretty the village looked, when arriving at the top of the hill by Capt. Hunt's. Mr. Allen said, 'There is Northborough!' and peeping out from behind my umbrella I saw the lights in the village a short distance below and beyond."
Lucy was well qualified by temperament and experience to preside over a large family-her own plus the student boarders. Her intelligence, patience and humor enabled her to survive the occasional "…talking and racketting and thumping…" of the boys as well as the muck "…tracked through the house by our 20 pairs of feet." In addition to her regular duties, she acted as the manager and taskmaster necessary to the production of two early student newspapers-"The Meteor" and "The Nosegay", printed in 1835-1836.
During the last eight years of her life Lucy was an invalid. The effects of a stroke kept her confined to the parsonage where she was lovingly cared for by her family. Her death was lamented but also welcomed as a release from her long suffering.
Joseph and Lucy married on 3 February 1818. They had seven children: Mary Ware; Joseph Henry (1820-1898), who married Anna Minot Weld (1820-1907); Thomas Prentiss (1822-1868), who married Sarah Alexander Lord (1825-1904); Elizabeth Waterhouse (1824-1893); Lucy Clark; Edward Augustus Holyoke; and William Francis (1830-1889), who married [1] Mary Tileston Lambert (1842-1865) and [2] Margaret Loring Andrews (1839- ).
Mary Ware Allen Johnson (1819-1897), the eldest child of Joseph and Lucy Clark Ware Allen, was born in Northborough. She was educated at home and i
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Note on the Letters of Theodosia Burr Alston by Rebecca W. Hawes, May 1, 1919
Chase Family Papers
Anthony Chase (1791-1879), son of Israel Chase (1760-1797) and Matilda Butterworth Chase (1765-1843), was a man of varied interests—a Worcester merchant, part-owner of the Massachusetts Spy, official in a Worcester insurance company and in various banks, and an active member of the Quaker church. He marrie...
Anthony Chase (1791-1879), son of Israel Chase (1760-1797) and Matilda Butterworth Chase (1765-1843), was a man of varied interests—a Worcester merchant, part-owner of the Massachusetts Spy, official in a Worcester insurance company and in various banks, and an active member of the Quaker church. He married, on 2 June 1819, Lydia Earle (1798-1852), the daughter of Pliny Earle (1762-1832), who developed the manufacture of machine-card cl...
Anthony Chase (1791-1879), son of Israel Chase (1760-1797) and Matilda Butterworth Chase (1765-1843), was a man of varied interests—a Worcester merchant, part-owner of the Massachusetts Spy, official in a Worcester insurance company and in various banks, and an active member of the Quaker church. He married, on 2 June 1819, Lydia Earle (1798-1852), the daughter of Pliny Earle (1762-1832), who developed the manufacture of machine-card cloth in the United States, and of Patience Buffum Earle (1770-1849), sister of Arnold Buffum (1782-1859), the anti-slavery lecturer. Anthony and Lydia had six children: Pliny Earle Chase (1820-1886), scientist and professor at Haverford College; Lucy Chase (1822-1909); Thomas Chase (1827-1892); Eliza Earle Chase (1829-1896); Charles Augustus Chase (1833-1911); and Sarah Earle Chase (1836-1915), teacher with her sister Lucy. All three sons graduated from Harvard College.
Anthony married second, on 19 April 1854, Hannah Greene (1824-1918), daughter of Daniel Greene ( - ) and Phebe Greene ( - ), of East Greenwich, Rhode Island. They had two children: Emily Greene Chase (1855-1930), who married Joseph Russel Marble (1852-1920); and Frederick Anthony Chase (1858-1862).
Lucy Chase, second child and oldest daughter of Anthony and Lydia, was an intelligent and well-educated woman, as well as an accomplished artist and sculptor. She attended the Friends' Boarding School in Providence, Rhode Island, from 1837 to 1841. For the period from 1863 to 1869, Lucy taught in contraband camps and freedmen schools in the South. She and her sister, Sarah, traveled in Europe during the years 1870 to 1875. They returned to Worcester and Lucy remained there until her death in 1909.
Thomas Chase, third child and second son of Anthony and Lydia, was a classical scholar and college president. After graduating Harvard with high honors in 1848, Thomas became master of the Cambridge High School. He held the position until 1850 when he returned to Harvard, as interim professor of Latin for one year. He remained at Harvard, until 1853, as an instructor in history and chemistry, then as a tutor in Latin. During the years 1853 to 1855, he traveled and studied throughout Europe. Upon his return to the United States he accepted the chair of philology and classic literature at Haverford College. He was elected president of the College in 1875, resigning in 1886. Thomas eventually settled in Providence, Rhode Island, where he died of Bright's disease in 1892.
Thomas married, on 8 February 1860, Alice Underhill Cromwell (1836-1882), of New York. They had five children: Caroline Chase (1861- ), William Cromwell Chase (1862- ), Thomas Herbert Chase (1864- ), Alfred Chase (1868- ) and Ralph Stanley Chase (1879- ).
Charles Augustus Chase, fifth child and youngest son of Anthony and Lydia, was a banker, scholar, historian, antiquarian, and office holder. After graduating Harvard in 1855, Charles was a reporter, then office editor, for the Boston Daily Advertiser until 1862. Charles returned to Worcester where he was elected treasurer of Worcester County, serving from 1864 to 1875. He served as Register of Deeds for the year 1876, and served as secretary of the Worcester Board of Trade. In 1879, he was elected treasurer of the Worcester County Institution for Savings, serving in that position until 1904, when he was elected its president. He resigned that office in 1908, due to bad health, and died in Worcester in 1911.
Charles married, on 29 April 1863, Mary Teresa Clark ( -1884), of Boston, Massachusetts. They had two children: Mary Alice Chase (1865-1940), who married Thomas Hovey Gage (1865-1938); and Maud Eliza Chase (1867-1950
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Dorothy Sturgis Harding Papers, 1908-1976
Dorothy Sturgis Harding (1891-1978), bookplate designer, was the daughter of Richard Clipston Sturgis (1860-1951), noted Boston architect and designer of many New England buildings, including the American Antiquarian Society. Mrs. Harding studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1910. She resided with her h...
Dorothy Sturgis Harding (1891-1978), bookplate designer, was the daughter of Richard Clipston Sturgis (1860-1951), noted Boston architect and designer of many New England buildings, including the American Antiquarian Society. Mrs. Harding studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1910. She resided with her husband, Lester William Harding, in Winchester, New Hampshire, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she worked as a draftsman at the Por...
Dorothy Sturgis Harding (1891-1978), bookplate designer, was the daughter of Richard Clipston Sturgis (1860-1951), noted Boston architect and designer of many New England buildings, including the American Antiquarian Society. Mrs. Harding studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1910. She resided with her husband, Lester William Harding, in Winchester, New Hampshire, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she worked as a draftsman at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard from 1942 to 1957. She was a member of various art and bookplate societies.
The collection contains primarily the business correspondence of Dorothy Sturgis Harding for the period 1921 to 1976. Many letters include rough notes or copies of Mrs. Harding’s responses. The letters written by clients concern the ordering, cost, and details of the design of bookplates; those written by colleagues and collectors refer to exhibits of Mrs. Harding’s bookplate prints and other subjects of mutual interest. Those correspondents included Rockwell Kent, 1940-1960; Dan Burne Jones, 1938-1976; Oliver Clement Sheean, 1940-1947; and Elisha Brown Bird, 1832-1940. The latter occasionally commented on the political and economic policies of the Roosevelt administrations.
There are also letters from institutions, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts in New York, whose directors employed Mrs. Harding to illustrate bulletins and design bookplates. Several correspondents, such as Carlyle Solomon Baer and Audrey Spencer Arellanes, represented bookplate societies. Baer’s extensive correspondence, 1932-1969, concerns primarily the publication of the Yearbook of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers, as well as his commentaries on contemporary designers and engravers. Audrey Spencer Arellanes assumed the work upon Baer’s death in 1969. There are also many letters from printing and publishing companies, e.g., John Peterson and Son of Boston, Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company of Boston, and the Bond Wheelwright Company of Freeport, Me., with whom Mrs. Harding contracted to print her bookplate designs. Mrs. Harding illustrated several books for the latter company from 1959-1961. Also represented throughout the correspondence are details of the frequent exhibitions of her prints by the Junior League of America and the Print Club of Philadelphia.
Among the more than one hundred people for whom she designed bookplates and Christmas cards, and, in several cases, with whom she established a friendly correspondence, were Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell and his wife Lady Ann Elizabeth Caldwell Grenfell, 1927-1937; Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1959; and William Norton Bullard and his wife Mary Reynolds Bullard, 1927-1945. Mrs. Harding also corresponded with Norman Rockwell, 1960-1971.
The collections also contains photocopies of letters, 1908-1909, written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens to Mrs. Harding when she was a young girl and one of the author’s “angel-fish” (i.e., group of children with whom he established a warm friendship). Mrs. Harding had attempted to have the letter published by the Atlantic Monthly, accompanied by a memoir of her friendship with Clemens. This material and correspondence with the Atlantic Monthly are included in the collection. In addition, there is correspondence, 1973, with Frederick Anderson, editor of the Mark Twain Papers at the University of California at Berkeley, and Abigail White Howells, concerning Mrs. Hardings’ memoirs of Clemens.
Among the miscellaneous papers is correspondence with Arthur Graham Carey, editor of the Catholic Art Quarterly, concerning Mrs. Harding’s assistance with publications; newsclippings, poetry, and a checklist of her bookplates.
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Oxford by Susan Bard Johnson
The Johnson family’s roots stem back to the early settlement of New York. Early residents include Lancaster Symes ( -1729), Samuel Bard (1742-1821), and Peter Roosevelt (1763-1833), nephew of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s great-great grandfather, Isaac.
Lancaster Symes ( -1729) came to New York in 1690 as a B...
The Johnson family’s roots stem back to the early settlement of New York. Early residents include Lancaster Symes ( -1729), Samuel Bard (1742-1821), and Peter Roosevelt (1763-1833), nephew of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s great-great grandfather, Isaac.
Lancaster Symes ( -1729) came to New York in 1690 as a British officer and later became a businessman. He received a land grant for parts of Staten Island from Queen Anne. Symes married, in...
The Johnson family’s roots stem back to the early settlement of New York. Early residents include Lancaster Symes ( -1729), Samuel Bard (1742-1821), and Peter Roosevelt (1763-1833), nephew of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s great-great grandfather, Isaac.
Lancaster Symes ( -1729) came to New York in 1690 as a British officer and later became a businessman. He received a land grant for parts of Staten Island from Queen Anne. Symes married, in 1694, widow Catherine de Hart Larkin ( -1750); they had four children, one being Lancaster Symes ( -1756) who married, in 1729, Maria Lydius. They had three children: Lancaster (1729- ); Sussanna Catherine; and Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Symes (1736-1801), daughter of Lancaster and Maria Lydius Symes, married three times: first to Rev. Dominie Frelinghouse (1723-1758?); second, in 1762, to Peter Roosevelt (1732?-1762), by whom she had one son, Peter Roosevelt (1763-1833); and third, in 1770, to William Lupton (1728-1796), by who she had three children, William (1771- ), Lancaster (1775?-1803), and Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Lupton (1777-1803), daughter of William and Elizabeth Symes Lupton, married, in 1797, John Barent Johnson (1769-1803), a minister in the Dutch Reform Church who served as pastor in Albany and Brooklyn, New York. They both died of tuberculosis in 1803, she three months after the birth of her last child and he six months after that. The Johnsons had three children: Maria Laidie (1798- ); William Lupton (1800-1870); and Samuel Roosevelt.
Samuel Roosevelt Johnson (1802-1873), along with his siblings, was raised by his half-uncle, Peter Roosevelt (1763-1833) in New York. Johnson became an Episcopal minister in 1823 and served in Hyde Park, New York; Lafayette, Indiana; Brooklyn, New York, at the General Theological Seminary; and, until his death, Amenia, New York. He married, in 1826, Elizabeth Johnston (1809-1879), the daughter of John Johnston (1762-1850) and Susan Bard Johnston (1772-1845). Samuel Roosevelt and Elizabeth Johnston Johnson had four children: Peter Roosevelt; Susan Bard; William Allen; and George Barent.
Peter Roosevelt Johnson (1827-1905), the oldest child of Samuel and Elizabeth Johnston Johnson, was a physician from 1851 to 1866, after which he stopped practicing medicine to study literature and oriental religions. He married, in 1865, Mary Chamberlain Hunt (1839-1916), who was one of ten children of Henry Wentworth Hunt and Frances Elizabeth Howard Hunt (1794-1871).
Peter Roosevelt and Mary Chamberlain Hunt Johnson had nine children, including: Mary Roosevelt (1866-1954?); Frances Hunt (1870-1925), who married in 1922 William Lincoln Palmer (1868-1943); Susan Bard (1868-1957?); Roosevelt Johnson (1873-1931), who moved to California, married Teresa Abeel ( -1923); Elizabeth Howard (1867-1931); Margaret (“Madge”) Howell (1879-1940); and William Colet.
Henry Wentworth Hunt (1774-1857), the father of Mary Chamberlain Hunt Johnson, trained in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the book binding and printing business from 1790 to 1794. After the death of his first wife, he was a soldier in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from 1804 to 1809; he eventually joined the Mexican forces. From 1817 to 1819, he was commissioned to oversee the building of fortifications in Florida, and in 1822 founded the newspaper The Corrector, which he managed for the remainder of his life.
Susan Bard Johnson (1829-1860), the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Johnston Johnson, married James S. Purdy. They had two children: Elizabeth (1856?-1946), who became an Episcopal nun and was renamed Elisa Monica; and Lawson.
William Allen Johnson (1833-1909), the second son of Samuel and Elizabeth Johnston Johnson, became an Episcopal minister and served in churches in Bainbridge, New York; Burlington, New Jersey; and Salisbury, Con
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Waldo Family Papers, 1788-1830
Lucy Cargill Waldo (1762-1830) was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, to Captain Benjamin Cargill, a prominent mill owner, and his wife Mary Cargill. On 16 July 1787, she married Albigence Waldo (1750-1794), a physician from Pomfret, Connecticut, who had served during the American Revolutionary War as a surgeon f...
Lucy Cargill Waldo (1762-1830) was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, to Captain Benjamin Cargill, a prominent mill owner, and his wife Mary Cargill. On 16 July 1787, she married Albigence Waldo (1750-1794), a physician from Pomfret, Connecticut, who had served during the American Revolutionary War as a surgeon for the American army. By his first wife, Lydia Hurlbut (1751-1785), whom he had married on 19 November 1772, Dr. Waldo already had s...
Lucy Cargill Waldo (1762-1830) was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, to Captain Benjamin Cargill, a prominent mill owner, and his wife Mary Cargill. On 16 July 1787, she married Albigence Waldo (1750-1794), a physician from Pomfret, Connecticut, who had served during the American Revolutionary War as a surgeon for the American army. By his first wife, Lydia Hurlbut (1751-1785), whom he had married on 19 November 1772, Dr. Waldo already had six children, including Elisha Hurlbut Waldo (1773-1801), who was later apprenticed to Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831) in Worcester, Massachusetts. Lucy and Albigence Waldo had two daughters of their own, Lucy Waldo (1788-1809) and Laura Waldo (1789-1795).
Lucy's father's home and mill complex at Quinebaug, Conneticut, was a local hub of both technical and cultural activity: besides expanding to provide the surrounding community with malting, dying, grist-milling, smithing, sawing and distilling services, it provided a venue for Lucy's interest in literary society and Albigence's role in founding a county and state medical society. Lucy developed a local reputation as a writer of poetry and prose, and her papers include her own poetry and essays in addition to correspondence and extracts copied from published materials.
Following her husband's death at the age of 44 and her father's sale of his mill complex, Lucy moved to Palmer, Massachusetts, and subsequently to Northampton, Massachusetts, where she died in 1830. During this time, she maintained copies of letters she wrote in an effort to find a publisher for her husband's papers covering his war experiences and medical pursuits.
Throughout her life, in addition to her own correspondence and creative works, Lucy documented her interests and perspectives by copying out passages from the newspapers, religious periodicals, poetry, and prescriptive literature of her day.
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Washburn Family Papers, 1811-1869
Ichabod Washburn (1798-1868) of Worcester, Massachusetts, was born on 11 August 1798, the son of Ichabod and Sylvia (Bradford) Washburn. A leading manufacturer of wire in the U.S., he diversified his interests into many businesses related to the wire industry. His firm, known as Washburn and Moen after 1850, re...
Ichabod Washburn (1798-1868) of Worcester, Massachusetts, was born on 11 August 1798, the son of Ichabod and Sylvia (Bradford) Washburn. A leading manufacturer of wire in the U.S., he diversified his interests into many businesses related to the wire industry. His firm, known as Washburn and Moen after 1850, remained in the control of the Washburn family after his death on 30 December 1868. He was devoutly religious and donated much money to...
Ichabod Washburn (1798-1868) of Worcester, Massachusetts, was born on 11 August 1798, the son of Ichabod and Sylvia (Bradford) Washburn. A leading manufacturer of wire in the U.S., he diversified his interests into many businesses related to the wire industry. His firm, known as Washburn and Moen after 1850, remained in the control of the Washburn family after his death on 30 December 1868. He was devoutly religious and donated much money to various religious, educational, and charitable organizations.
Washburn married first, on 6 October 1823, Ann G. Brown (c. 1804-c. 1855). They had three children: a son born on 1 December 1824, who died in infancy; Eliza Ann (1826-1853), who married Philip Louis Moen (1824-1891), future partner of Washburn; and Lucy Pamelia (1832-1855). He married second, in 1859, Elizabeth Bancroft Cheever (1812-1893), of Hallowell, Me.
The collection includes family correspondence and personal papers. The family correspondence for the years 1811 to 1869 includes letters from his daughters Eliza and Lucy, as well as occasional letters of Washburn and his first wife, Ann, to their daughters. Eliza's letters to her parents illuminate boarding school life in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and Hanover, New Hampshire. She described her studies, daily social activities (with a few comments about the boldness of Dartmouth students), and included several recipes for her mother. After her marriage in 1846, Eliza spoke of daily activities in Brooklyn, New York; and later, difficulties in maintaining reliable servants in Worcester in 1847. In 1853, her sister Lucy wrote an account of Eliza's illness and death, and wrote of her own stay at a health spa in 1854. There is also a small collection of poems and school compositions written by Eliza.
The family correspondence also includes letters written between Washburn and his twin brother Charles (1798-1875), who eventually joined in his manufacturing interests. The letters began when the two were young boys and Washburn left the family home in Kingston, Massachusetts, to be apprenticed as a harness maker in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and then as a blacksmith in the Worcester area. Later, Charles wrote of his activities at Brown University and family and business matters. He also referred in detail to religious revivalism in Harrison, Maine, where he lived for a time.
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Way-Champlain Family Papers
Mary Way (1769-1833) and her sister Elizabeth Way (1771-1825) were born in New Haven, Connecticut, the daughters of Ebenezer Way (1728-1813) and Mary Taber Way (1737-1771). The sisters were both painters of small watercolors.
Mary Way moved to New York City about 1811 and advertised herself as a portrait and...
Mary Way (1769-1833) and her sister Elizabeth Way (1771-1825) were born in New Haven, Connecticut, the daughters of Ebenezer Way (1728-1813) and Mary Taber Way (1737-1771). The sisters were both painters of small watercolors.
Mary Way moved to New York City about 1811 and advertised herself as a portrait and miniature painter, as well as a teacher of drawing. She had a studio in New York until 1820, when she went blind and returned to New L...
Mary Way (1769-1833) and her sister Elizabeth Way (1771-1825) were born in New Haven, Connecticut, the daughters of Ebenezer Way (1728-1813) and Mary Taber Way (1737-1771). The sisters were both painters of small watercolors.
Mary Way moved to New York City about 1811 and advertised herself as a portrait and miniature painter, as well as a teacher of drawing. She had a studio in New York until 1820, when she went blind and returned to New London. Today she is recognized primarily as a producer of miniatures including “dressed miniatures.”
Elizabeth Way painted in New London throughout her adult life. In 1794, she married George Whitefield Champlain (1771-1820) of New London, Connecticut, a shipping merchant. They had four children: George Oliver (1796-1835); Eliza Way (1797-1886), who was also an artist; Samuel (1800-1844); and William (1802-1832).
Eliza Way Champlain also pursued a career in painting in New York City until her marriage in 1826 to Edward Cort Riley (1799-1871?), son of Edward Riley (1769-1829), a New York musical instrument manufacturer and music publisher. Edward Cort Riley was himself a music teacher, publisher, and conductor.
The bulk of this collection spans the years from 1817 to 1831. The correspondence contains much material on family matters, as well as local affairs in New London. In addition to correspondence of the three women, there are letters from George Oliver Champlain, who beginning in about 1817 worked in Natchez, Mississippi, and New Orleans, Louisiana, as a book binder. By 1827, George was in New York City, and a few years later was clerk and manager of a theatrical company touring in New England. The letters of Mary Way and Elizabeth Way Champlain Riley from New York City describe the New York art world, including sales and exhibitions, and discuss painting theory and techniques. A number of letters deal with the loss of Mary’s eyesight. The women were interested in literature as well as are, and numerous letters contain poetry.
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