Research Catalog

Title

Butler-Huntington-Smith family papers, 1734-1991 (bulk 1810-1940).

Supplementary Content

Collection guide

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.

Description

32.1 linear feet (77 boxes, 1 oversized folder)

Summary

The Butler, Huntington, Smith, Cooke, and Clinch families were united through intermarriage and included prominent lawyers, architects, doctors, judges, politicians, scientists, and land owners hailing from New York City, Long Island, Boston, Cambridge, Lowell, Marblehead, Stockbridge and Worcester, Massachusetts. This collection spans multiple generations and consists of mostly 19th and 20th century family correspondence, financial and legal documents, diaries, writings, scrapbooks, personal miscellany, photographs and genealogical research. The papers reflect the personal, social, economic, and professional histories of these related families.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.

Subjects

• New York (State) > Social life and customs > 20th century
• Europe > Description and travel
• McKim, Charles Follen, 1847-1909
• Stewart, Alexander Turney, 1803-1876
• New York (State) > Social life and customs > 19th century
• Ledgers
• Account books
• Commonplace books
• Butler, Charles Edwards, 1818-1897
• Haight, Sarah Rogers
• Massachusetts > Social conditions > 19th century
• Lowell (Mass.)
• White, Stanford, 1853-1906
• New York (State) > Genealogy
• McKim, Mead & White
• Architectural drawings
• Doctors
• Architects
• Butler, Charles
• Deeds
• Lawyers
• Real property > New York (State) > New York
• Butler, Lawrence, 1908-1988
• Massachusetts > Genealogy
• Real property > Massachusetts
• Real property > New York (State) > Long Island
• Diaries

Genre/Form

• Account books.
• Architectural drawings.
• Commonplace books.
• Deeds.
• Diaries.
• Ledgers.

Access (note)

• Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref

Source (note)

• Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

Location of Other Archival Materials (note)

• The New York Historical Society.
• The Archives of the Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas.

Provenance (note)

• The letters and documents in this collection were acquired by Madge Huntington Cooper from her father William Reed Huntington II's possessions in 1987. She donated them to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society in 1989. A few additional items were donated by the family after the initial acquisition.

Call Number

MssCol NYGB 18243

OCLC

671420675

Title

Butler-Huntington-Smith family papers, 1734-1991 (bulk 1810-1940).

Restricted Access

Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref

Location of Other Archival Materials

Stanford White Papers; The New York Historical Society.

William Reed Huntington papers; The Archives of the Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas.

Finding Aids

Collection guide available online and in repository.

Provenance

The letters and documents in this collection were acquired by Madge Huntington Cooper from her father William Reed Huntington II's possessions in 1987. She donated them to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society in 1989. A few additional items were donated by the family after the initial acquisition.

Source

Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2008.

Connect to:

Collection guide

Occupation

Architects.

Doctors.

Lawyers

Added Author

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.

Research Call Number

MssCol NYGB 18243