AUGUSTINE B. HAWLEY AND FAMILY PAPERS:
An Inventory of Their Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
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OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Hawley, Augustine Boyer, 1833-1878, creator. | |
| Title: | Augustine B. Hawley and family papers. | |
| Dates: | 1767-1956. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Papers of the family of Augustine B. Hawley, pioneer physician of Red Wing (Minn.). They consist of family correspondence and genealogical data; deeds, wills, receipts, legal documents, letters from a few prominent persons, and other family memorabilia; and typed copies of Augustine's journals while a student at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) Medical School (1855-1856). | |
| Quantity: | 1.0 cubic feet (2 boxes, 6 oversize items, and 4 Reserve items). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Augustine Boyer Hawley was born November 6, 1833 in Caroline, Tompkins County, New York to Isaac Augustus (1797-1867) and Ann Eliza Boyer Hawley (1812-1902). He was educated in early youth by his father, once a teacher of the classics at the University of Virginia. He was later sent to nearby Ithaca for further schooling and entered Hobart College at the age of fourteen, graduating in 1852. He attended Geneva Medical College until 1854 and instructed classes in anatomy for a year. He studied surgery abroad at Edinburgh University, Dublin, London and Paris. In 1857 he went to Minnesota and practiced medicine in Red Wing for the rest of his life.
He married Harriet Bowman Blackstock in 1865 and had nine children: John, Edward, Mary, George, Elizabeth, William, Augustine Jr., Anna (Anne MacDonald), and Henry. He died September 20, 1878 in Red Wing.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Augustine B. Hawley and family papers. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Access Restrictions:
Access to and use of reserve materials requires the curator's permission.
Location of Originals:
The typed copies were made from originals loaned by Anne Hawley, Minneapolis, Minn.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 6117; 6670; 7787; 7815; 7840
Processing Information:
Catalog ID number: 001732425
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
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| P3077 | 1 | Correspondence, undated, 1799-1956. 4 folders. | |||||||||
| Includes letters written by members of the Hawley and related families. Much of the correspondence gives genealogical data on the many branches of the family. Letters of particular interest include: | |||||||||||
| September 1812-June 1815: Includes a number of letters pertaining to the War of 1812. Most of them were written between Henry and William Grindage. Henry Grindage was a major in the 15th regiment. Information is given on the recruitment of soldiers, descriptions of naval battles on the Great Lakes, and the encampment of the 15th regiment on Lake Champlain, New York. Also included is correspondence from Lieutenant Colonel Josiah Snelling, approving Henry Grindage's request for retirement from the army (June 28, 1815). | |||||||||||
| April 12, 1841: Includes correspondence from William H. Seward acknowledging his membership in the National History Society of Geneva College (Hobart College) Geneva, New York. | |||||||||||
| February 6, 1855: R. M. Harrison, Geneva, New York, to Augustine Hawley. A description of teaching activities at Geneva College. | |||||||||||
| February 27, 1855; May 16, 1856; and November 16, 1857: Letters written by Augustine B. Hawley from Edinburgh, Scotland, to his parents, Isaac A. Hawley, Geneva, New York. Hawley was attending the University of Edinburgh Medical School at this time. The letters give descriptions of Edinburgh, Scotland, school life and social life. The letter dated May 16, 1856, contains an interesting letterhead of Edinburgh. | |||||||||||
| January 26, 1856: E. R. Welles, Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Augustine B. Hawley, Edinburgh. A long letter describing Welles' trip from New York to Chicago, then from Chicago to St. Louis and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Descriptions are given of the cities of St. Louis and Vicksburg, of Mississippi River travel and of the steamer Crystal Palace, on which Welles made the voyage. | |||||||||||
| June 9, 1857: Richard M. Boyer, Georgetown, D. C., to Ann Eliza Hawley. A letter describing the rush of applicants for government positions, particularly in the diplomatic corps. Mention is also made of an attack on Washington by groups of persons from Baltimore. Boyer speaks of the possibility of dispatching troops to Utah to enforce government policies on the Mormon colony. | |||||||||||
| June 7, 1863: Mrs. Augustine B. Hawley, Red Wing to her Aunt "Ellie". Detailed descriptions of the interior of the Hawley home in Red Wing, Minnesota. | |||||||||||
| December 18, 1897: Correspondence from Cyrus Northrop, President of the University of Minnesota (1884-1911). A recommendation for Anne M. Hawley. | |||||||||||
| August 24, 1903: Correspondence from Maria Sanford, University of Minnesota, to Anne M. Hawley. | |||||||||||
| December 10, 1903-November 24, 1904: A number of letters concerning a law suit over oil lands owned in Texas by the Hawley Family. The land was under the control of the Hawley Land, Oil, and Development Company. | |||||||||||
| November 30, 1909; August 2 and September 2, 1911; and February 14, 1913: Correspondence from Hamilton W. Mabie, American author, to Leulah Judson, who married Edwin Hawley of Minneapolis. The letter of February 14, 1913, gives a description of Mabie's trip to Japan and his reception by the Japanese people and officials. | |||||||||||
| July 20, 1922 and April 2, 1923: Correspondence from Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the Nation to Mrs. Edward Hawley, Dobbs Ferry, New York. | |||||||||||
| February 21, 1949: Correspondence from Margaret Hay, Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Elizabeth of England, to Anne M. Rawley. Thanking Miss Hawley for the gift sent to Elizabeth's son, Prince Charles. | |||||||||||
| May 13, 1949: Correspondence from C. A. Edwards, secretary to Winston Churchill, to Anne Hawley. Thanking her for the genealogical data on the relationship between the Churchill and Hawley families. | |||||||||||
| May 24, 1949: Anne Hawley to Bishop Stephen K. Keeler of Minnesota. Information on Augustine B. Hawley's arrival in Red Wing in 1857 and his work in building Christ Church (Episcopal) in Red Wing. | |||||||||||
| December 2, 1952: Correspondence from Mabeth Hurd Paige to Anne Hawley. On the death of her brother Edward Hawley. | |||||||||||
| June 1954: Correspondence from H. Struve Hensel, assistant Secretary of the Navy (1945-1946), various posts in the Defense Department (1953-1955). Letters giving brief mention of his family and his governmental activities. Hensel was a student of Anne Hawley, when she taught in Englewood, New Jersey. | |||||||||||
| Circa 1955: John Richardson, Castle Ashby, England. There is no first page of the letter to indicate its receiver. The letter gives a full description of life in London, remarking on business, politics, the theater, musical shows, symphonies, folk music, the ballet, motion pictures, and television. | |||||||||||
| December 14, 1955: Correspondence from Mary Jane McCaffree, secretary to Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, to Anne Hawley. Thanking Miss Hawley for the pictures she sent to Mrs. Eisenhower. | |||||||||||
| Legal and financial papers, 1767-1924. | |||||||||||
| The legal and financial papers consist of a number of deeds, wills (1767-1872), and receipts (1807-1924), of the Hawley and related families. The earliest deed, dated April 3, 1767, is between John Judson and his son, John Judson, Jr., both of New Stratford, Connecticut. By this document, Judson deeded six acres of his land in New Stratford to his son. Other early deeds are: David Hawley to John Judson (1801), William J. Pattilo to Jacob Yaple (1824); and Joseph Speed to Isaac Hawley (1836). These deeds are to land in Huntington, Connecticut and Tompkins County, New York. | |||||||||||
| Other legal papers include: various powers of attorney, articles of agreement between Phineas Rennet and Edwin Hawley concerning a steam engine invented by Rennet (1836), survey notes of land in Caroline, Tompkins County, New York (1847) and the will of William Blackstock, Allegheny, Pennsylvania (1872). The receipts (1807-1924) concern the Isaac Hawley family. Most of them are for money paid for music lessons for the Hawley children. | |||||||||||
| News clippings and miscellaneous papers, 1849-1944. | |||||||||||
| There are 14 pages of news clippings (1905-1944) concerning various members of the Hawley family. Miscellaneous papers include: a salutatorian address (1852) delivered by Augustine B. Hawley at Hobart College, Geneva, New York that is handwritten in Latin; "Teaching Can Be Fun," by Anne MacDonald Hawley which includes reminiscences (1898-1932) of her teaching experiences in Minnesota, New Jersey, and Tennessee; diary (August 9-September 2, 1888) of a trip to Niagara Falls, New York and a Great Lakes trip to Duluth, Minnesota; baptismal records of various members of the A. B. Hawley family; school report cards of the Hawley children; and Augustine B. Hawley's report cards (1849, 1851) from Geneva College. | |||||||||||
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| P3077 | 2 | Genealogical data: | |||||||||
| Bowman family. | |||||||||||
| Includes family member Thomas Bowman with genealogical data from 1600-1951. | |||||||||||
| Boyer-Comegys families. | |||||||||||
| Includes William Boyer-Maria Comegys with genealogical data from 1658-1929. | |||||||||||
| Comegys-Everett families. | |||||||||||
| Includes Cornelius Comegys-Mary Everett with genealogical data from 1638-1875. | |||||||||||
| Hawley family. | |||||||||||
| Includes Joseph Hawley with genealogical data from 1690-1940. Also includes biographical sketches of Augustine B. Hawley, Edwin Welles Hawley, George Maxwell Blackstock Hawley, and John Blackstock Hawley. | |||||||||||
| Hotchkiss family. | |||||||||||
| Includes Samuel Hotchkiss with genealogical data from 1630-1793. | |||||||||||
| McKennan-Morgan families. | |||||||||||
| Includes William McKennan-Henry Hays Morgan with genealogical data from 1758-1956. | |||||||||||
| Miscellaneous. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Includes information on the families of William Burritt (1651-1861), John Duncan (undated), Benjamin Everett-Arthur John Wallis (1798-1931), William Judson (1619-1782), Thomas McKean (1734-1817), Pierre Mabie (1572-1845), and John MacDonald (1790-1869). Also includes a paper entitled "Direct Family Lines," compiled by Anne M. Hawley in 1934. She traces the family lines of Blackstock, Bowman, Boyer, Comegys, DeForest, Everett, Hawley, Hotchkiss, MacDonald, McKennan, and Terrell through 1930. | |||||||||||
| Journal: Augustine B. Hawley, August 18, 1855-October 17, 1856. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Typed copies of Hawley's journals while a medical student in Europe. Includes information on Hawley's arrival in Scotland to attend medical school, descriptions of Edinburgh and other Scottish cities, detailed summaries of information learned in his medical classes, descriptions of church services, and reactions to the news of the Crimean War. | |||||||||||
| Also includes descriptions of Hawley's departure from Edinburgh, following the completion of his course of study in medical school; his visits to Glasgow, Dublin, London, and Paris; data on historic sites visited, hospital facilities, and general impressions of the countries visited; and the ocean voyage to America and arrival in Geneva, New York. | |||||||||||
| Biographical sketch of Augustine B. Hawley by Anne M. Hawley, 1944-1945. | |||||||||||
| Includes early genealogical background on the Hawley and Boyer families, information on A. B. Hawley's arrival in Red Wing, Minnesota in 1857; Hawley's efforts in the construction of Christ Church, the first Episcopal church in Red Wing; and reminiscences of early pioneers in Red Wing. Also includes typed copies of correspondence between A. B. Hawley and his parents while he was in Edinburgh. | |||||||||||
| Reserve 162 | Reserve materials: | ||||||||||
| Correspondence: Susan Decatur to Richard Montgomery Boyer, March 1832, 1919. 3 items. | |||||||||||
| Susan Decatur was the widow of Stephen Decatur. The correspondence concerns the progress of the Congressional bill to compensate members of the crew of the Intrepid and their families for their actions in the recapture of the Philadelphia. The bill failed to pass. Also included is a letter from the Library of Congress (1919) to Edward Hawley, authenticating the signature of Susan Decatur. | |||||||||||
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| George Corbin Washington to Richard Montgomery Boyer, undated. | |||||||||||
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| +348 | Oversize material: | ||||||||||
| All deeds are for land in Caroline Township, Tompkins County, New York. | |||||||||||
| Deed: William J. and Martha Pattilo to John F. Patillo, November 21, 1826. | |||||||||||
| Deed: Jacob Yaple to George Earsley, May 30, 1830. | |||||||||||
| Deed: Joseph and Mary Speed to Isaac Collins, April 15, 1833. | |||||||||||
| Deed: Joseph and Mary Speed to Isaac A. Hawley, September 13, 1836. | |||||||||||
| Diploma: Minneapolis High School, June 13, 1893. | |||||||||||
| Issued to Anna M. Hawley. | |||||||||||
| Diploma: University of Minnesota, June 3, 1897. | |||||||||||
| Issued to Anna M. Hawley. | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Crimean War, 1853-1856.
- Education -- United States.
- House furnishings -- Minnesota -- Red Wing.
- Inventions.
- Medicine -- Study and teaching.
- Mormons.
- Ocean travel.
- Pioneers -- Minnesota -- Red Wing.
- Real property -- New York (State).
- Real property -- Texas.
- Theater -- England -- London.
- Persons:
- Blackstock family.
- Bowman family.
- Boyer family.
- Burritt family.
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.
- Comegys family.
- De Forest family.
- Decatur, Susan Wheeler.
- Duncan family.
- Eisenhower, Mamie Doud, 1896-1979.
- Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-
- Everett family.
- Grindage, Henry.
- Hawley family.
- Hawley, Anne MacDonald, 1876-1965.
- Hensel, H. Struve, (Herman Struve), 1901-1991.
- Hotchkiss family.
- Judson family.
- Mabe family.
- Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916.
- McCain family.
- McDonald family.
- McKennan family.
- Northrop, Cyrus, 1834-1922.
- Sanford, Maria Louise, 1836-1920.
- Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872.
- Snelling, Josiah, 1782-1828.
- Terrell family.
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949.
- Wallace family.
- Washington, George Corbin, 1789-1854.
- Organizations:
- Christ Church (Red Wing, Minn.)
- Crystal Palace (Steamer)
- Episcopal Church -- Minnesota -- Red Wing.
- Family School for Boys (New Hartford, N.Y.)
- Hawley Land, Oil and Development Company.
- Hobart College.
- United States. Army.
- University of Edinburgh.
- University of Minnesota.
- Places:
- Champlain, Lake -- Description and travel.
- Dublin (Ireland) -- Description and travel.
- Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Description and travel.
- Great Britain -- Politics and government.
- Japan -- Description and travel.
- London (England) -- Description and travel.
- Minnesota -- Religion.
- Mississippi River -- Description and travel.
- Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
- Paris (France) -- Description and travel.
- Red Wing (Minn.)
- Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Description and travel.
- Scotland -- Description and travel.
- Scotland -- Religion.
- Tompkins County (N.Y.)
- United States -- History -- War of 1812.
- United States -- Politics and government.
- Vicksburg (Miss.) -- Description and travel.
- Document Types:
- Deeds.
- Genealogies.
- Letterheads.
- Report cards.
- Wills.
- Occupations:
- Physicians -- Minnesota -- Red Wing.
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