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1830-1945
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Title: Hazelton Family Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1830-1945
Collection number: Mss32
Creator:
Mrs. John Sticht
Extent: 0.5 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Hazelton Family Papers, Mss32, Holt-Atherton
Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Various members of the Hazelton family of Chester, New Hampshire are
represented in this collection of nineteenth century letters and documents.
Samuel Hazelton (1786-1869), farmer, and his wife, Abigail Tabor (1794-1879)
had ten children. Of these, John Adams Hazelton (1820-1912), farmer, and Sarah
Jane Hazelton Stage (1828-1887) penned letters in this collection. Their
correspondence, together with that of their children, forms the bulk of the
Hazelton Family Papers.
In 1849, John A. Hazelton journeyed to California, where he spent two
years. During that time he sent the six descriptive letters in this collection
to his father and sisters in New Hampshire. Following his return to New
Hampshire, John Hazelton married (1854) Louisa Jane Chase (1828-1882), who is
represented here by some girlhood correspondence dating from the 1840s, as well
as by letters written to her eldest daughter during the 1870s. John Adams
Hazelton and Louisa Chase Hazelton had six daughters and one son.
The eldest, Jennie Porter (1855-1951), taught school in New Hampshire
and Massachusetts until her mother's death. She then returned to Chester and
cared for her father until his death. Frances Rebecca, generally known as
"Frankie" or "Frank" (1857-1881) died of tuberculosis. Little is known of Anna
Louise (1860-1911). Josephine (b. 1862) died in infancy. Abigail Parkhurst
(1864-1945) taught school in Massachusetts and in Colorado. She became
principal of Durell School in Sommerville, Massachusetts. Alice Byrne
(1868-1933) taught school in Brookline, Massachusetts. Frederick Stanton
Hazelton (1870-1895) died in Colorado of tuberculosis.
The Hazelton girls are represented here by school essays and by a
considerable body of correspondence with friends, relatives and one another.
Most of this material dates from between 1870 and 1900 and deals with family
matters. Some of the correspondence originates from Colorado, where various
family members spent time seeking to regain their health.
John A. Hazelton's sister, Sarah Jane Hazelton Stage (1828-1887), also
became tubercular. She, together with her several daughters, lived in Colorado
for many years. One daughter, Marion Oaks Stage Sticht, attended Vassar College
during the 1880s and became a teacher. Mrs. Stage and her daughter
corres-ponded regularly with their Hazelton relatives and with one another.
Their letters offer a glimpse of Colorado sanatorium life in the late
nineteenth century.