Abstract Hiram Percy Maxim (1869-1936) was an inventor, engineer, designer, and writer. He was association with the Maxim silencer, Selden auto, American Radio Play League, Amateur Cinema League, etc. Correspondence, photographs, drawings, sketches, workbooks, and scrapbooks pertaining to Maxim, his work, and that of his father, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim. ...

Abstract An artificial record group that contains materials on the Battle of Bennington Sesquicentennial, Connecticut Commission on the Chicago International Exposition of 1933, Connecticut State Commission on the New Sweden Tercentenary, United States Constitution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut, and the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Celebration. The records include newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, scrapbooks, and subject files. ...

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Two volumes of minutes and correspondence in chronological order, 1984-2003.

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Descendant lists of 32 separate Palmer immigrants in America. Contains wills, census records, cemetery records, proofs of descent, and correspondence. Also contans a typed manuscript that has been published as Palmer Families in America, Vols. I & III.

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Genealogical notes on the Raymond Family in England.

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Genealogical material on the Atwood family and collateral lines.

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The Hubbard Family Association held its first meeting in 1856. As of 2007, the Association was still meeting. The 2007 meeting was held in West Haven, Connecticut which was the Association's 150^th reunion.

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Correspondence between Hugh Montgomery and Anna Roberts during their courtship from March to October 1865.

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The Commission was responsible for the development, adoption, and implementation of the Human Services Plan for Connecticut.

Abstract The Office of the Attorney General, Special Litigation Department represents the interests of people of Connecticut in matters related to federal tribal recognition and in litigation involving land claims brought by groups claiming Indian ancestry. Indian Litigation files include: Attorney General; Bureau of Indian Affairs; Eastern Pequot; Golden Hill Paugussetts; Mashantucket Pequot; Mohegan; Nipmuc; Schaghticoke; Webster/Dudley Band of Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck Indians; National Archives...

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Prominent United States, Connecticut and Hartford people, state officials and governors. circa 1,000 photographs, prints, negatives, family albums. Click here to see the scanned paper finding aid and container list (pdf).

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Insurance and Real Estate Committee public hearing transcripts and testimony.

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The International Order of the King's Daughters and Sons was an “international, interdenominational, inter-racial [sic] organization for development of spiritual life and stimulation of Christian activities,” the Connecticut Branch is composed of a number of local “circles” which met periodically.

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Record books, 1862-1967; Probate files, 1903-1975.

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Irene Mix Root (1887-1949) was the genealogist for the Colonial Dames Society. These papers contain her genealogy notes and register files.

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Papers and documents from the private and public life of Connecticut Representative and Speaker of the House Irving J. Stolberg.

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Correspondence, legislative data, financial records, legal case files, and appointment books kept by a Connecticut businessman, investor, lawyer and political boss of the Republican Party in Connecticut in the early 20th century.

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James Bradford Olcott (1830-1910) was a horticulturist and writer from Manchester, Conn. Correspondence, diaries, photographs, plat books of the Manchester Turf Garden, file of agricultural articles from the Hartford Courant by Olcott, letters from a trip around Cape Horn and life in Sacramento, California.

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Gov. James L. McConaughy and Gov. James C. Shannon's correspondence, subject files, and board and commission files.

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James L. McConaughy was President of Wesleyan University, 1925-1943, and Governor of the State of Connectuct, 1947 until his death on March 7, 1948. Included in his papers are correspondence, speeches, photographs, and the scrapbook he kept while attending Yale from 1905-1909.

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Included are genealogical notes, forms, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook of genealogical notes on the Blin family.

Abstract Family members include James Jarvis of Boston and New York and Benjamin Jarvis of St. Eustatia, West Indies, among others. Accounts, correspondence and letter books pertaining to trade and shipping between Boston and New York and the West Indies and Europe. Click here to see the scanned paper finding aid and container list...

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Contains notes, correspondence, photocopies of genealogical works, and miscellaneous genealogical research on various families. There are also a variety of genealogical newsletters concentrating on different families.

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Gov. Lodge's correspondence, subject files, and state agency files.

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Gov. Dempsey's correspondence, reading files, subject files, agency files, National Governors' Conference files, New England Governors' Conference files, speeches, official statements, articles, and press releases.

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John Gray & Co. appears to have operated a general store and cotton factory in Lisbon, Connecticut. The records consist of account books, a cashbook, daybooks, ledgers, letter books, check stubs, and time books.

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Gov. John H. Trumbull's subject files.

Abstract John J. McMahon was born in Hartford on April 22, 1875. He served as a volunteer in the First Regiment Infantry Connecticut National Guard, the Spanish-American War, and retired as a Colonel from the Connecticut National Guard on November 23, 1931. He was an officer and member in the First Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Veteran Association, Spanish-American War - 1898 and the Department of Connecticut United Spanish War Veterans. McMahon was elected to the Hartford Board of Education from...

Abstract Rev. John Moses Morris (1837-1889) was a minister, chaplain, editor, legislative clerk in Connecticut, Washington, D.C., and Charleston, S.C. Diaries, notes, correspondence, clippings, on church history and religious subjects, the Civil War and the Connecticut General Assembly. Click here to see the scanned paper finding aid and...

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Includes photocopy of a letter from C.B. Skinner, Berlin, Wisconsin, to Lester C. Skinner, Cleveland, Ohio, January 2, 1900; memo dated April 21, 1986 containing genealogical chart showing genealogical connections of persons mentioned in the letter; and a letter from Robert S. Scharpff, Honolulu, Hawaii to the Connecticut State Library, April 21, 1986 describing the volume's provenance and other useful genealogical information.