Doc 382 Lyndon State College Collection: Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers (1832-1962) Scope and Content The Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney collection consists of miscellaneous papers of several generations of three families related by marriage who were associated with Hyde Park, Rutland, and Bethel, Vermont. Men in this extraordinary family were often long-lived, well educated, and trained in the professions of law and medicine; they achieved positions of leadership in local and state government as well as in their respective professions, and in the 20th century travelled abroad with their families. Several women were recognized for their literary and artistic achievements. Although the papers span a long time period, most of the collection relates to members of the Stickney family of Bethel during the late 19th and early 20th century. Apart from the unique collection of Civil War letters Samuel E. Pingree and Stephen M. Pingree wrote to their cousin Augustus P. Hunton, there are few other letters in the collection. We learn about family members through their legal papers, the numerous clippings and post-cards which fill their scrapbooks, and the organizations to which they devoted their energy. The collection, a gift of the Lyndon State College Library in 1994, was discovered in the library by Kelly A. Nolin in preparation for a move. It was originally organized by Nolin, whose intensive work with the S.E. and S.M. Pingree Civil War letters is documented in Doc 382, Folder 0. Nolin s calendar and transcripts of the letters as well as biographical information for S.E. and S.M. Pingree are filed with the letters (MSA 135, Folder 0). The collection occupies five linear feet of shelf space (acc. no. 94.3). It is housed in four document storage boxes, Doc 382-385, and one archival box, MSA 135, and includes five oversized volumes, XMSC 45:1-5. Relationship of the Pingree (Pingry), Hunton, and Stickney Families The Pingree-Hunton family link is Polly Pingree (Sept. 6, 1791-April 29, 1874) who married Ariel Hunton (1789-1857). Polly s brother, Stephen Pingree (April 7, 1795- Feb. 6, 1870), was the father of Samuel E. Pingree and Stephen M. Pingree, the authors of the Civil War letters. Polly and Ariel Hunton s daughter Mary A. (1832-?) married Sylvester Ames Parker (June 10, 1834-January 5, 1901); their (Polly and Ariel s) son, Augustus Pingry Hunton (1816-1911), married Caroline Paige (February 14, 1817-May 8, 1884).
Doc 382 Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers 2 The Hunton-Stickney family link is Mary Hunton (April 25, 1851-March 6, 1942), daughter of Augustus P. and Caroline Hunton, who married William Brunswick Curry Stickney (1845-1930), son of Moses Parsons Stickney (1807-1888?). W.B.C. and Mary Stickney had two children, William (1878-1924) and Mary (1882-1970); the latter married first Robert Ashton Lawrence (1878-1912), and second, Jules Branliere (dates?). Biographical Sketches Ariel Hunton (1789-1857) Ariel Hunton was born in Unity, New Hampshire. He married Polly Pingry (Sept. 6, 1791- April 29, 1874) on March 18, 1809. He was a practicing physician for fortythree years and resided in Hyde Park, Vermont, for most of that time. A copy of an article written by him, Treatment of Gonorrhoea, in Nelson s American Laucet, 1854, v. 8, no. 6, p. 237-8, is in the VHS library (610.5 N333a). Samuel Everett Pingree (1832-1922) Born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, August 2, 1832, the son of Stephen and Judith (True), Samuel Everett Pingree graduated from Dartmouth College in 1857. He studied law with his cousin, Augustus P. Hunton, and opened a law office in Hartford, Vermont, in 1860. During the Civil War, Pingree served as an officer in Company F of the Third Regiment of the Vermont Volunteer Infantry. He was promoted from First Lieutenant, to Captain and to Major; at the time he was mustered out (July 27, 1864) he held the rank of Lt. Colonel. He was wounded at the battle of Lee s Mills (Virginia), April 16, 1862, and subsequently received the Medal of Honor. After the war, Pingree had a distinguished career in law and public service serving as Hartford s Town Clerk from 1860-1922, State s Attorney for Windsor County (1868), delegate at large to the Republican National Convention (1868), Lieutenant Governor of Vermont (1882-1884) and Governor (1884-1886). He married Lydia Steele (Nov. 3, 1839-Feb. 24, 1935) on September 15, 1869. They had one son, William Steele, born in 1879. Samuel Pingree died June 1, 1922, in Hartford, Vermont. Stephen Morse Pingree (1835-1892) Stephen M. Pingree, the younger brother of Samuel, was also born in Salisbury, New Hampshire (March 21, 1835). He may have attended Dartmouth s Chandler Scientific Department, although his name does not appear in Dartmouth College and Associated Schools, General Catalogue, 1769-1940 (VHS 378.742 DG 1940). After studying law with his cousin, Augustus P. Hunton, in Bethel, Vermont, Pingree was
Doc 382 Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers 3 admitted to the Windsor County Bar in 1860 and practiced law in Gaysville or Hartford with his brother Samuel. Pingree joined the Fourth Regiment of the Vermont Volunteer Infantry September 6, 1861, as a First Lieutenant. He was promoted successively to Captain, and Major, and was mustered out as Lieutenant Colonel on September 30, 1864. Pingree married Mary Foster (?-1890) of Bethel, Vermont, on Nov. 9, 1865. In addition to his law practice Pingree represented the town of Hartford in Vermont s General Assembly during the years 1872-73. He died April 19, 1892. Augustus Pingry Hunton (1816-1911) Augustus P. Hunton was born in Groton, New Hampshire, February 23, 1816, the son of Ariel and Polly (Pingry) Hunton. After studying law he was admitted to the Vermont Bar in 1837 and began to practice at Stockbridge Common. In 1838 he moved to Bethel where he continued to practice law with several different partners successively including William B.C. Stickney. He married Caroline Paige (1817-1884), of Bethel, on April 29, 1849, and they had two children, Mary (1851-1942), who married William B.C. Stickney, and Albert (1853-1864). Hunton enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the law and public service where he served in the Vermont Legislature in both the Senate and the House. He presided over the latter during a special session in 1861 and thus became eligible for membership in the Union Society of the Civil War. During the Civil War Hunton was Superintendent of Recruiting Service for Windsor County and was a delegate to the 1864 Republican National Convention. He received honorary degrees from Dartmouth College (1859) and the University of Vermont (1847). Mary A. Hunton Parker (1832-?) Mary A. Hunton, a sister of Augustus Pingree Hunton was born November 24, 1832, in Hyde Park, Vermont, the daughter of Dr. Ariel and Polly (Pingry) Hunton. She married the Reverend Sylvester Ames Parker (June 10, 1834 - Jan. 5, 1901) on July 8, 1860. Parker was ordained (1859) in the Universalist Church in Stowe where the Parkers lived until he was called in 1862 to the pastorate of the Universalist Church in Bethel where they continued to make their home.
Doc 382 Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers 4 Moses Parsons Stickney (1807-1888?) Moses P. Stickney was born July 12, 1807, in Rowley, Massachusetts; he married Jane Frances Curry (March 11, 1818-?) October 24, 1842 in Boston. Their son William Brunswick Curry Stickney married Mary Hunton, daughter of Augustus P. and Mary Hunton. A graduate of Amherst College (class of 1830), Stickney studied theology and was for a short time Congregational pastor in Eastport, Maine. "Subsequent to a change of conviction," he was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church and served as rector in several churches in Massachusetts and New Jersey before serving the Bethel and Royalton parishes. He resided in Royalton until his death. William Brunswick Curry Stickney (1845-1930) William B.C. Stickney was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Jan. 16, 1845, the son of Moses Parsons Stickney and Jane Frances Curry. After graduating from Harvard (class of 1865), Brun as he was known to his intimates, studied law and moved to Bethel, Vermont, in 1874. In 1875 Stickney went into the law partnership of Augustus P. Hunton, whose daughter Mary (1851-1942) he married in 1877. They had two children, William (1878-1924) and Mary Stickney Lawrence Branliere (1882-1970). For most of his adult life, Stickney lived and practiced law in Bethel except for an interval from 1912-24 when he and his family lived in Rutland. Stickney was not only a successful and highly respected State s Attorney for Windsor County but he was also President of Vermont Bar Association. Mary Hunton Stickney (1851-1942) Mary Hunton Stickney was born in Bethel, Vermont, on April 25, 1851, the daughter of Augustus P. and Caroline P. Hunton. She attended Tilton Academy in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, and assisted her father in his law office until her marriage to William B.C. Stickney on Febuary 1, 1877. Her son William, born in 1878, predeceased her in 1924, and she died March 6, 1942; her daughter Mary, born in 1882, died in 1970. Mary Stickney Lawrence Branliere (1882-1970) Mary Branliere was born Nov. 24, 1882, the daughter of Mary Hunton and William B.C. Stickney. She studied at Wheaton Seminary (later Wheaton College) in Norton, Massachusetts, and after receiving a diploma from the Boston Museum she studied art in Paris for a year. Several letters she wrote to her grandfather, Augustus P. Hunton, during this period, 1903-1908, are included with his papers (Doc 382, Folder 2).
Doc 382 Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers 5 She married Robert Ashton Lawrence, a Rutland attorney on April 25, 1911, and was widowed March 12, 1912. During World War I she served in France in a Red Cross canteen. On Sept. 8, 1919 she married Jules Branliere in New York City. Mary Branliere died in 1970. William Stickney (1878-1924) Born March 6, 1878, the son of Mary Hunton and William B.C. Stickney, in Bethel, Vermont, William Stickney was educated at St. Johnsbury Academy and graduated from Dartmouth College (class of 1900) and from the Dartmouth Medical School in 1903. In 1897, Stickney was a member of Lt. Robert E. Peary s arctic expedition. Prior to his service in the Medical Corps during World War I, 1917-1919, Stickney studied orthopedic surgery and maintained a practice in Rutland, to which he returned after the war. He married Jean Noble Aiken (?) of Newcastle, New Brunswick, on August 2, 1919. He died in Rutland a comparatively young man on December 2, 1924. General biographical notes The scrapbooks in the collection are a gold mine for family history (Doc 385, Folder 4); they include obituaries and other newspaper clippings about family members. Pingree-Hunton genealogical information ( Doc 382, Folder 0.1) includes photocopies from a family Bible, photocopies of William M. Pingry s A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Moses Pengry (VHS 929.2 P654mp), several biographies of Samuel E. Pingree, photocopies from Daniel T.V. Huntoon s Philip Hunton and his Descendants (VHS 929.2 H9262), and Sylvester Ames Parker s obituary which appeared in the Inter- State Journal, v.2, no.3, Jan. 1901. Stickney family material (Doc 382, Folder 0.2) includes photocopies from M.A. Stickney s The Stickney Family (VHS 929.2 St 5s), a biography of W.B.C. Stickney from Dodge s Encyclopedia of Vermont Biography (VHS XR 920.0734 D664), and miscellaneous shorter biographical notes about William Stickney. Related Collections There are numerous references to members of the family in several of the VHS library collections. Printed Materials Publications by family members include speeches by Samuel E. Pingree and William B.C. Stickney. The card catalog s subject "Vermont-Biography" reveals references to: Augustus P. Hunton, Lydia (Steele) Pingry (Mrs. Samuel E.), Samuel E.
Doc 382 Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers 6 Pingry, William Stickney (1878-24), and Robert Ashton Lawrence (1878-1912). (Doc 302, Folder 0.1 and 0.2) Manuscripts Photocopies of the references to family members in the Brigham Manuscript Index (Doc 382, Folder 0.3) include: numerous references to Samuel E. Pingree after he became governor; law office accounts and ledgers of Augustus P. Hunton and W.B.C. Stickney (XMSC-27); and numerous references in the Kent Letters (Doc 2) to Mary Stickney (1906 ff) prior to her marriage in 1911. The Branliere-Stickney-Hunton papers (MSC 44) include correspondence, speeches, meteorological records as well as legal documents, will and inventory of Ariel Hunton; letters from Maj. William Stickney in France to his parents in Rutland, July 17, 1918, to April 28, 1919; letters from Mary Stickney and Robert Lawrence while on their wedding trip to Europe in 1911; an account of Mary Stickney Lawrence of her experiences in France in 1917-18; and miscellaneous letters to Mrs. Mary Stickney and Mrs. Mary Lawrence Branliere in the 1930 s and 40 s. In the papers of General William Farrar Smith (MS 114), Samuel E. Pingree writes his recollection of the battle of Antietam (Sept. 17, 1862). Photographs The VHS photograph collection (F-PO) includes the following: Augustus P. Hunton (bas relief?) undated William B.C. Stickney ca. 1900 Mary Stickney Lawrence (Branliere) ca. 1918 Several biographical references in the VHS library include photographs of family members. Photocopies of these photographs (Doc 382, Folder 0.1) include: Lydia Steele Pingree (Mrs. S.E.) ca. 1898 Samuel E. Pingree date? Sylvester Ames Parker ca. 1900 Photographs of Samuel E. Pingree and Stephen M. Pingree (ca. 1862) are reproduced in Vermont History, Civil War Letters of S.E. and S.M. Pingree, 1862-1864, p. 82-83, Spring 1995, v. 3, no. 2 (location of originals?); a photocopy of this article is located in Doc 382, Folder 0. A portrait of Gov. Samuel E. Pingree hangs in the Vermont State House (photocopy in Doc 382, Folder 0). Organization The collection is arranged in two series with sub-series for each generation. I. Hunton-Pingree (Pingry) families A. First Generation Ariel Hunton (1789-1857), 1846-1854
Doc 382 Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers 7 B. Second Generation Samuel Everett Pingree (1832-1922), 1862-1874 Stephen Morse Pingree (1835-1892), 1862-1864 Augustus Pingry Hunton (1816-1911), 1832-1910 Mary A. Hunton Parker (1832-?), 1860-1890 II. Stickney Family A. First Generation Moses Parsons Stickney (1807-1888?), 1849-1883 B. Second Generation William Brunswick Curry Stickney (1845-1930), 1865-1930 C. Third Generation William Stickney (1878-1924), 1883-1917 Mary Stickney Lawrence Branliere (1882-1970), 1911-1962 D. Scrapbooks, ca. 1860-1958 E. Miscellaneous Series Descriptions I. Hunton-Pingree (Pingry) families A. First Generation Ariel Hunton (1789-1857) Only two documents are extant and both relate to Ariel Hunton s medical practice; one is written to him in 1854, and one is signed by him, 1846 (Doc 382, Folder 1). B. Second Generation Samuel E. and Stephen M. Pingree, Civil War letters 1862-64 Almost all the Civil War letters in the collection were written by Samuel E. Pingree and his brother Stephen M. Pingree to their cousin, Augustus Pingry Hunton in Bethel, Vermont. The exceptions are: a letter by Lewis D. Harlow, May 15, 1862, to Hunton in which he describes Samuel E. Pingree s illness with typhoid fever, and two letters, April 9 and April 23, 1863, which Stephen E. Pingree wrote to Hunton s two young children, Albert and Mary. Samuel E. Pingree s Third Regiment was involved in a series of engagements in Virginia from 1861-1865. We learn of Pingree s illness due to typhoid fever (April 23, 1863) and a further bout with "remittent fever" (Dec. 9, 1863) when he writes to Hunton while on leave in New Hampshire. In an uncharacteristically lengthy letter (June 10, 1864) Pingree describes the battles of the Wilderness (May 5-10, 1864), Spottsylvania (May 10-18, 1864) and Cold Harbor (June 1-12, 1864). In his letters, most of which he wrote to his cousin Augustus P. Hunton, Stephen M. Pingree describes the engagements in which the Fourth Regiment
Doc 382 Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers 8 was involved. He writes of the Battle of Rappahanock Station (November 11, 1863) and describes it as "among the most brilliant of the war;" he includes a "rude diagram of the situation" with his letter. He is sometimes critical of the leadership and articulate in expressing his beliefs about slavery and the draft. He often writes of the ignoble aspects of the conflict and the state of his health. Two later letters, August 1866 and May 1874, which he wrote to Augustus P. Hunton are located in Doc 382, Folder 2. Kelly A. Nolin s list of letters, descriptive calendar, and transcripts of the letters are located in MSA 135, Folder 0.1 and 0.2. It should be noted that Nolin had access to a number of additional letters still in possession of the family which she included in the calendar and which she transcribed. The letters which are not in the VHS collections have an alphabetical designation in the calendar and the transcriptions, while the VHS letters are numbered. Ms. Nolin s article The Civil War Letters of S.E. Pingree 1862-1864, Vermont History, v.63, no.2, Spring 1995 (VHS 974.30 V591p), is an excellent description of the collection. MSA 135, Folder 0 includes: a list of letters by date and origin as well as brief biographical information for Samuel E. Pingree and Augustus Pingry Hunton (Kelly Nolin, author) photocopy of a letter from Samuel E. Pingree to his father and stepmother, Stephen and Lucy (May 1863?) from the Inter-State Journal and Advertiser, April 1900, (p.?). (VHSX R974.3 In 8). (In this letter which is included in the calendar, the author describes the battle of Chancellorsville.) photocopies of the Third and Fourth Regiment histories from the Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers, 1861-1866 (VHS RX 973.744 Vvp). Augustus Pingry Hunton (1816-1911) Most of the papers in the series relate to Augustus P. Hunton s Bethel law practice and many of these concern fiscal matters. The contents of his leather pouch (or portable office file), most of which are receipts, have been removed from the pouch and rearranged chronologically (Doc 382, Folders 6-17). Papers concerning his client Harvey Herrick have been kept together as originally filed (Doc 382, Folder 7). Letters from the pouch (Doc 382, Folder 7) concern money matters for the most part. A photograph of the leather pouch prior to removing the papers is in Doc 382, Folder 0; the pouch is in the Vermont Historical Society museum collection.
Doc 382 Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers 9 Hunton s personal documents such as articles of agreement with his law partners and affadavits relating to his legal education are located in Doc 382, Folders 5 and 4, respectively. The miscellaneous letters (Doc 382, Folder 2) span a long period of time (1835-1910). Several from family members include his uncle (?), William P. Pingry (1835), and his grand-daughter Mary Stickney (1903-1908). Letters from men in public life include: John Wheeler, President of the University of Vermont, and Nathan Lord, president of Dartmouth College, informing Hunton of honorary degrees conferred in 1847 and in 1859 respectively; and Justin Morrill, then a U.S. Senator from Vermont (1892). The only letters written by Hunton are to his son Albert in Bethel when Hunton was in Montpelier (1862) and Washington (1864). In 1877 Hunton s Bethel law office suffered a fire; letters concerning the fire and inventory of his law library are in Doc 382, Folder 3. Documents relating to his tenure as Superintendent of Recruiting Service for Windsor County include his 1864 commission (Doc 382, Folder 19), and miscellaneous printed directives from the Vermont Adjutant and Inspector General s Office (Folder 20). Other papers include: miscellaneous petitions (Doc 382, Folder 23); correspondence relating to his membership in the Union Society of the Civil War (Doc 382, Folder 22); and a copy of the Proceedings of the National Union Convention, held in Baltimore, Maryland, June 7-8 1864, to which Hunton was one of the Vermont delegates. A family-related item in the miscellaneous folder (Doc 382, Folder 24) is a printed funeral oration delivered by the Rev. Sylvester Ames Parker (Hunton s brother-in-law) for Mary Foster Pingree, wife of Stephen M. Pingree (Hunton s cousin) on October 3, 1890, in Bethel. Mary A. Hunton Parker (1832-?) Mary A. Hunton Parker s interest in contemporary poetry and prose is reflected in her scrapbooks (Doc 382, Folders 26 and 27) which she started prior to and continued following her marriage in 1860. Examples of her own poetry, hymns, and essays as well as her husband s sermons may be found in Doc 385, Folder 4. II. Stickney Family A. First Generation Moses Stickney (1807-1888?)
Doc 382 Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers 10 According to the only extant volume of Moses Stickney s diary, (Doc 382, Folder 30) 1871 was an eventful year. He "sojourned" with his daughter, Anna and son-in-law in Oakland, California, during the first months of the year, returned to Boston on the train in the spring, and by October was rector of the Bethel and Royalton, Vermont, parishes. The few letters and miscellaneous materials (Folders 31 and 32 respectively) include a letter Stickney drafted in March 1883 to the warden and vestry at St. Paul s Church (Royalton) in regard to his salary; his copy of Harvey Boardman s A Complete and Accurate Guide to and around the White Mountains, Boston, 1859, in which he has written a three week itinerary by rail between Boston, Niagara Falls, Montreal, and Portland; and his unidentified, undated newspaper obituary. A carte de visite photograph (Doc 382, Folder 33) of Moses Stickney is undated but may have been taken prior to his move to Vermont in 1871. B. Second Generation William Brunswick Curry Stickney (1845-1930) William B.C. Stickney s legal materials include a collection of briefs (Doc 383, Folders 17 to 28) as well as a number of other items relating to railroads during the period he was retained by railroad corporations as a lobbyist in Montpelier (Doc 383, Folders 29 and 30). Additional railroad related material includes his speeches (Doc 383, Folder 2) and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings (Doc 384, Folder 1). His correspondence consists of miscellaneous letters from family, friends and business associates. Family letters include a letter from his sister Cornelia (?), June 9, 1900, and from his daughter, Mary, and son-in-law, Robert A. Lawrence, October 9, 1911. George H. Whitcomb, Judge of the Third Judical District, Topeka, Kansas, an 1885 graduate of Dartmouth, and a Stockbridge, Vermont, native, is a frequent correspondent. Henry Steele Wardner, a Windsor native and Harvard alumnus (class of 1888) met Stickney in 1905. In his Remarks on the life of W.B.C. Stickney, delivered at the Harvard Club of Vermont in 1931 (Vermont Historical Society Pam. collection), Wardner writes of their friendship. The Whitcomb and Wardner letters are in Folders 34 and 35. Stickney s diverse interests are reflected in number of organizations to which he belonged and often served as an officer or board member. Correspondence, publications, receipts, membership lists and memorabilia are filed under the name of the organization. (Doc 382, Folders 37 to 46 and Doc 383, Folders 1-11).
Doc 382 Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers 11 Many of Stickney s speeches are undated and it is frequently unclear for whom he wrote them (Doc 383, Folders 12-16). In 1926, he wrote a sketch of life of James Manning Tyler (1835-1926), a native of Wilmington and a Vermont Supreme Court Justice, which he delivered at a meeting of the Vermont Bar Association in 1927(?) (Doc 383, Folder 13). Photographs in the collection include a carte de visite of William B.C. Stickney as a Harvard senior (1865) and an undated, unidentified photograph of Stickney at a Harvard function (ca. 1910?) (Doc 384, Folder 2). Mary Hunton Stickney (1851-1942) Many of the scrapbooks in the collection are the work of Mary Hunton Stickney. (Doc 385, Folders 4, 5, and 7, and Doc 384, Folders 4-12). Members of her family traveled widely judging from the post-cards from their trips to Europe and Canada over a period of years (Doc 384, Folders 4-12). C. Third Generation Mary Stickney Lawrence Branliere (1882-1970) The first of four diaries in the series (Doc 384, Folder 13) was begun by her mother and continued by Mary Branliere on their 1911 trip to Europe. Although there are few entries, she writes lengthy descriptions of their itinerary. Her entries in later diaries, 1937-1941, when she lived in Bethel (?) are very brief (Doc 384, Folders 13 and 14). William Stickney (1878-1924) William Stickney s continuing interest in exploration and the arctic is reflected in his membership in both the Explorers Club and Arctic Club of America; publications of both societies include membership rosters (1898-1917) as well as miscellaneous numbers of the Arctic Club of America Bulletin, between 1908-1911 (Doc 384, Folders 21 and 22). The majority of the letters (Doc 384, Folder 20) in this series were written to William Stickney by family members during the summer of 1896 while he was on a European holiday. Later letters include a letter from his mother (July 20, 1897) when he was on board The Hope with the Peary expedition, and a letter from the Charles E. Putney (1840-1920), Feb. 11, 1897, an 1870 Dartmouth graduate and former principal of St. Johnsbury Academy who had recently resigned from the latter due to ill health. Miscellaneous items include a St. Johnsbury Academy 1896 reunion program and dance cards from the same (Doc 384, Folder 23). D. Scrapbooks
Doc 382 Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers 12 For the most part the compilers of the scrapbooks are unidentified. A note, however, on the last page of the scrapbook in Doc 385, Folder 3, in which Mary Stickney writes she finished the work begun by Mary Hunton Stickney provides a clue that the scrapbooks may be the handiwork of several generations of Hunton and Stickney women. Newspaper clippings, both local and national, form a large part of the contents; they are often undated and the source unidentified. The contents of the scrapbooks may not be chronological and several have unnumbered pages. The scrapbooks are rich in family history; particularly notable are Doc 385, Folders 4, 5, and 7. The scrapbook in Folder 4 (begun by Mary Hunton Parker and worked on successively by Mary Hunton Stickney and Mary Stickney Lawrence Branliere?), contains many sermons by Sylvester Ames Parker, and poetry, hymns, and essays by Mary Hunton Parker. Obituaries may be found for the following: Sylvester Ames Parker (p. 31-33), Augustus P. Hunton (p. 35-39), W.B.C. Stickney (p. 82-83), Mary Hunton Stickney (p. 93), and Lydia Steele Pingree (p. 96-97). Accounts of other family milestones and achievements include: Augustus P. Hunton s ninetieth birthday (p. 47-48), the W.B.C. Stickneys fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1927 (p. 62); William Stickney s 1897 arctic expedition (p. 35); Mary Stickney Lawrence Branliere s design for a memorial tablet at Tufts University s Goddard Chapel (p.61); and the latter s speech in favor of anti-suffragists (p.61). The scrapbook in Folder 5 (complied by Mary Hunton Stickney?), contains in addition to miscellaneous pictures and newspaper clippings, school work of Mary Stickney Lawrence Branliere and William Stickney; several letters to William Stickney as a boy from his father (1884); and photographs and an article about W.B.C. Stickney s 60th Harvard class reunion. A photocopy of the original letter to W.B.C. Stickney from Calvin Coolidge (Nov. 11 1924) regarding his election to the Presidency is in Doc 382, Folder 0. Mary Stickney Lawrence Branliere s scrapbook in Folder 7, contains, in addition to miscellaneous clippings about World War I, accounts of William Stickney s order into World War I army service (date?) (p.1), and Mary Stickney Lawrence Branliere s service in France in a Red Cross field canteen (date?) during the same period, (p.9). The post-cards (Doc 384, Folders 4 to 12), originally in an album, are a record of various European trips, the earliest (?) of which Mary H. Stickney and her daughter took in 1911 and which the latter describes in her diary (Doc 384, Folder 12). The photographs in Doc 385, Folder 6, were probably collected by family members on their journeys, most of which were to Europe but several to the western United States as well.
Doc 382 Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers 13 Inventory A strict chronological arrangement of the war scrapbooks (XMSC Folders 1-5) has been disregarded in order to retain the compiler s original numbering of the first three scrapbooks. I. Hunton Pingree (Pingry) Families A. First Generation Ariel Hunton Doc 382:1 Letters, 1846-1854 B. Second Generation Samuel Everett Pingree and Stephen Morse Pingree, Civil War letters, 1862-1864 MSA 135:1 Jan. 28, 1862, Stephen Morse Pingree May 15, 1862, Lewis D. Harlow (about Samuel E. Pingree) 28, 1862, S.M.P. June 21, 1862, S.M.P. 27, 1862, S.M.P Sept 29, 1862, S.M.P Oct. 10, 1862, Samuel E. Pingree 11, 1862, S.M.P 12, 1862, S.M.P Nov. 21, 1862, S.M.P. 25, 1862, S.M.P. Dec. 10, 1862, S.M.P. 2 Jan. 2, 1863, S.M.P 6, 1863, S.M.P 15, 1863, S.M.P 17, 1863, S.M.P 29, 1863, S.M.P 30, 1863, S.M.P Feb. 13, 1863, S.M.P 3 April 8, 1863, S.E.P. 9, 1863, S.E.P 23, 1863, S.M.P May 10, 1863, S.M.P 30, 1863, S.M.P June 20, 1863, S.E.P. July 18, 1863, S.M.P. 22, 1863, S.M.P 4 Aug. 2, 1863, S.M.P 10, 1863, S.M.P Sept. 7, 1863, S.M.P 10, 1863, S.M.P 5 Oct. 2, 1863, S.M.P.
Doc 382 Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers 14 8, 1863, S.M.P 30, 1863, S.M.P Nov. 11, 1863, S.M.P 19, 1863, S.E.P Dec. 8, 1863, S.M.P 9, 1863, S.E.P. 6 Jan. 14, 1864, S.E.P. 21, 1864, S.M.P. Feb. 2, 1864, S.M.P Mar. 2, 1864, S.E.P. April 1, 1864, S.M.P. May 24, 1864, S.M.P June 10, 1864, S.E.P. 25, 1864, S.M.P. Augustus Pingree Hunton (1816-1911), Doc 382:2 Letters, 1835-1910 3, office fire, 1877 4 Affidavits, 1832-1837 5 Legal papers, 1838-1874 6, Harvey Herrick, 1836-1862 7, letters, 1837-1869 8, receipts, 1820 s 9,, 1830-1836 10,, 1837-1839 11,, 1840-1844 12,, 1845-1849 13,, 1850-1859 14,, 1860-1869 15,, 1870-1874 16, miscellaneous, 1837-1849 17,, undated 18 Recruiting, correspondence, 1863-1865 19, miscellaneous, 1863-1865 20, printed matter, 1862-1864 21 National Union Convention, 1864 22 Union Society of the Civil War, 1909-1910 23 Miscellaneous petitions etc., 1852-1873 24 Miscellaneous, 1840-1910 Mary A. Hunton Parker (1832-?), 25 Scrapbooks, ca. 1860 26, ca. 1862 27, 1861-1865 28 Miscellaneous, 1890
Doc 382 Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers 15 29 Miscellaneous, newspaper clippings, Civil War II. Stickney Family A. First Generation Moses P. Stickney (1807-1888) 30 Diary, 1871 31 Letters, 1849-1883 32 Miscellaneous, 1853 and undated 33 Photograph, undated William Brunswick Curry Stickney (1845-1930) 34 Correspondence, 1900-1925 35, 1926-1930 36, undated 37 American Bar Association, 1912-1918 38 Arctic Club of America, 1899-1915 39 Conference of Railroad Counsel, 1910 40 Ethan Allen Club, 1910-1911 41 Explorer s Club, 1909-1920 42 Harvard memorabilia, 1865-1922 43 Harvard class of 1865, correspondence, 1904-1928 44 Honorary degree Univ. of Vermont, 1924 45 Lakota Club (South Barnard Vermont), 1895-1931 46 Massachusetts Peace Society, 1912 Doc 383:1 National Geographic Society, 1909-1916 2 New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903-1914 3 Navy League of the U.S., 1910-1918 4 Old Constitution House Assoc. (Windsor Vermont), 1912-1916 5 Society for the Preservation of N.E. Antiquities, 1910-1921 6 Union Society of the Civil War, 1913-1917 7 Univ. Club of Washington, 1915 8 Vermont Bar Association, 1910-1928 9 Vermont Historical Society, 1894-1919 10 Vermont Society, 1929 11 Woodstock Improvement Society, 1912-1918 12 Speech, railroads, 1916 13, Judge James M. Tyler, 1926 14, White River Bank, undated 15, undated 16,, 17 Legal Briefs, 1878-1884 18, 1885-1888 19, 1889-1892 20, 1898-1899 21, 1900-1902
Doc 382 Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers 16 22, 1903-1905 23, 1906 24, 1907 25, 1908-1909 26, 1912 27, 1913 28, 1913-1916 29 Vermont railroad law, 1886-1912 30, 1907 ff 31 Legal misc., 1876-1910 32, undated 33 Scrapbook, Pres. Campaign (U.S.), 1896 Doc 384:1, railroads, 1910-1911 2 Photographs, 1865-ca. 1910 3 Miscellaneous, 1911-1927 Mary Hunton Stickney (1851-1942) 4 Postcard album, ca. 1905-1958 p. 1-25 5, p. 26-50 6, p. 51-75 7, p. 76-100 8, p. 101-125 9, p.126-150 10, p. 152-175 11, p. 176-200 12, p. 201-226 C. Third Generation Mary Stickney Lawrence Branliere (1882-1970) 13 Diaries, 1911 and 1937 14, 1940 and 1941 15 Miscellaneous from diaries, 1937-1941 16 Exercise book, undated 17 Tableau manuscript, ca. 1928 18 National Society of Colonial Dames, 1960-1967 19 Miscellaneous, undated William Stickney (1878-1924) 20 Letters, 1883-1897 21 Arctic Club, 1898-1911 22 Explorers Club, 1914-1917 23 Miscellaneous, 1895-1896 D. Scrapbooks Doc 385:1 Mary Hunton Parker, compiler?, newspaper pictures, ca. 1850
Doc 382 Pingree (Pingry) / Hunton / Stickney Family Papers 17 2, newspaper poetry, ca. 1870 s 3 Mary Hunton Parker and Mary Hunton Stickney, compilers, miscellaneous newspaper articles, ca. 1880-1938 4 Mary Hunton Parker and others?, compilers, local newspaper clippings, obituaries, and essays, and sermons written by family members, 1867-1953 5 Mary Hunton Stickney, compiler?, miscellaneous clippings, and several family letters, 1880-1938 6, post-cards and photographs, Europe etc., ca. 1900 7 Mary Stickney Lawrence Branilere, compiler, miscellaneous clippings, 1917-1936 XMSC 45:1 Complier unknown, newspaper clippings, World War I and aftermath, 1914-1938 2,, political articles, League of Nations etc., 1916-1939 3,, miscellaneous articles, editorials, poetry, 1889-1940 4, Spanish American War, political cartoons, 1898-1899 5,, World War II, England during the war, 1940 E. Miscellaneous Doc 384:25 Miscellaneous, undated Priscilla Page Kelly Nolin Spring 1995