This Week on the Scholar

From author's to politicians, the subjects of this week's new biographies are four incredible men from the history of the United States!

The Genius and Character of Emerson was the first book published by the Concord School of Philosophy recording a collection of nearly all the lectures in their complete form from one of their semester long courses.  The course, like the book, was titled "The Genius and Character of Emerson", and focuses on precisely that.  Lecture topics range from Emerson's relation to various places and people to how different cultures view his work.  A fascinating read for anyone interested in learning more about the great author.  The collection was edited by F. B. Sanborn.

Speaking of F.B. Sanborn, we finally fixed the errors from the original scanning of the first volume of his autobiography and added it to to Scholar!  Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was an author and a member of the Transcendentalist movement.  His two volume autobiography gives insight not only into his history, but also the changing path of his life's philosophy and opinions.

Everyone knows Theodore Roosevelt the rough rider 26th president of the United States.  But did you know, before he was president he owned a successful cattle ranch? Roosevelt in the Bad Lands chronicles the years of Roosevelt's life he spent in the Bad Lands, first as a four eyed tenderfoot who was the butt of everyone's jokes then later as a respected ranch owner who worked just as hard as any cowboy in his employ.

Finally we have the biography of William Pinkney.  Pinkney, born in Maryland in 1764, had a long and illustrious career.  He held many positions of importance in his life, including Mayor of Annapolis, Attorney General of Maryland, a Major in the War of 1812, Congressman, Senator, and. U.S. Minister to Russia.  The book was written by his nephew, the Rev. William Pinkney, D.D.

Biographies
The Genius and Character of Emerson*
The Life of William Pinkney*
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands*
Recollections of Seventy Years: F.B. Sanborn, Vol. 1*

Church Records 
Middletown Second Congregational Church: Historical Outline

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This Week on the Scholar

Thank you everyone for bearing with us while routine server maintenance delayed our regular uploads.  This week marks the last batch of books uploaded from our backlog!  In this final large batch of new books there is a nice variety of biographies, genealogies, church records, funeral records, and even a few military books.  Indexes for two new cemeteries and one volume of funeral home records were also added. 

We will continue to add new content to the Scholar, though not at quite the same volume as before.  Our goal is to focus on adding unique content from our collection that cannot be found anywhere else, such as the variety of handwritten records and portions of Fremont Rider's original collection.  If you know of something at the Godfrey you would like to see on the Scholar please let us know!

Biography
Mary Austen's Scrapbook*
Sketch of the Life and Work of Charles Barnard*
Memories of a Rear Admiral: S.R. Franklin*
Random Memories: Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow*

Cemeteries
Old Harwinton Cemetery, Harwinton, CT*
Indian River Cemetery, Clinton, CT*

Church Records from the Cromwell First Congregational Church, CT
Records of the Second Ecclesiastical Society 1821-1902
First Congregational Church Inc. Meetings 1929-1947
Accounts
Miscellaneous History from the State Library
Mr. Redfield's Letter
North Society of Middletown Ledger
North Society of Middletown Records
Pastoral Relations from 1830
Sermon of Rev. Huntington
Sabath School Records 1829-54
Subscription Lists
Sunday School Records 1905-10
Untitled Record Book

Funeral Records
Index to the Coughlin-Lastrina Funeral Home Records December 1914 to October 1918*
Roberts Funeral Home Burial Records from 1956 to 1959

Genealogies
Genealogy of Benjamin Cleveland*
The Johnson Family Genealogy*
Genealogy of the Libby Family in America*

Revolutionary War
Collections of the CT Historical Society Vol. 12: Lists and Returns of CT Men in the Revolution*


Civil War 
Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan, Vol. 2*
Sketches of the War, Vol. 3*

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Another Major Milestone Reached!

We did it!  We now have 1000 digitized books on Godfrey Scholar⁺!

Over the last year we've added:

• 293 Biographies

• 132 volumes of original Funeral Home Records from 1882 to 1980 including records from the Hallahan Funeral Home featured in the movie A Haunting in Connecticut

• 234 Genealogies

• 146 volumes pertaining to the Revolutionary, Civil and Spanish American Wars including regimental histories and biographies of officers and soldiers 

• 86 State and Local Histories for 11 states and New England

• 68 volumes of original Church Records in 9 different Connecticut towns, Indiana, NY and Italy from 1668 to 1908

• 20 published volumes of Vital Records for Connecticut and Massachusetts and 42 volumes of original records including a record book kept by a midwife from Melilli Italy of babies born in Middletown, an account book of deaths in Wallingford from 1827 to 1900, Wolcott CT vital records (1783-1849) found among land records and not included in Barbour's, and multiple volumes of transcriptions from church and vital records by Lillian Kruger Brooks of Haddam Neck and surrounding towns for her own research

• 13 volumes of New Jersey Archives Newspaper Extracts, 1704-1782

• 11 volumes of original Cemetery Records (sexton returns, gravestone inscriptions and burial returns) from 7 different Connecticut towns

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This Week on the Scholar

We have quite the eclectic mix of additions to the Scholar this week!  Of particular note are records from the now closed Roberts Funeral Home in Middletown, Connecticut.  The current owners of the records, the Doolittle Funeral Home, gave the Godfrey exclusive permission to host the records on the Scholar, so you will not find them anywhere else. 



Biographies
Mrs. Leicester's School
Prison Life and Reflections: Alanson Work, James Burr, and George Thompson
Samuel Sewell: The World he Lived In
Frederick Seward: Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman
William Henry Seward: American Statesman
Work of William Seward Vol. 1
William Sharp: Memoir Vol. 1
William Sharp: Memoir Vol. 2
Memorial Addresses of James Schoolcraft Sherman
Memoir of H.B. Soule
Memorials of Joseph Sumner

Church Records
Portland, CT, Evangelical Lutheran Zion Church Record Book 1872-1888
Portland, CT, Evangelical Lutheran Zion Church Record Book 1888-1903

Foreign
A Significant Emigration Introduction
A Significant Emigration Vol. 12



Funeral Home
Robert Funeral Home Record Cards 1941-42
Robert Funeral Home Record Cards 1943
Robert Funeral Home Record Cards 1944
Robert Funeral Home Record Cards 1945
Robert Funeral Home Record Cards 1946
Robert Funeral Home Record Cards 1947
Robert Funeral Home Record Cards 1948
Robert Funeral Home Record Cards 1949
Robert Funeral Home Record Cards 1950

Genealogies
Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families
Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck
Sprague Family Memorial
Stiles Family in America
Symmes Memorial

Military: Civil War
Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Emma Edmonds

State and Local Histories
Early History of New England

Iowa

Iowa Historical Record: July, 1890 Iowa Historical Record: January, 1891 Iowa Historical Record: October, 1891 Iowa Historical Record: April, 1892 Iowa Historical Record: July, 1892 Iowa Historical Record: January, 1893 Iowa Historical Record: April, 1893 Iowa Historical Record: July, 1893 Iowa Historical Record: October, 1893 Massachusetts Indian Names and Places in Worcester County Worcester County MA Warnings 1737-1788 Pennsylvania Reminiscences of the Early History of Scranton Vital Records: Massachusetts Abstracts of Early Woburn Deeds 1649-1700 Woburn Records 1640-1873: Part 2 Deaths Woburn Records 1640-1873: Part 3 Marriages

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This Week on the Scholar

It has been another great week for adding content to the Scholar!  This will most likely be the last large installment of new genealogies and biographies added to the Scholar from our current backlog.  There will certainly still be more, but they will be interspersed with a little more variety as well.  Next week you can look forward to a set of history books from Iowa as well as much more!

We are also very pleased to announce that the Midwife Records of Sebastiana Misenti from Middletown and Ansonia Connecticut have been completely indexed!  These indexes are available on the Scholar and the records are now completely searchable searchable!  Sebastiana was the go to midwife for Italian immigrants from Mellili Italy who lived in Middletown and Ansonia Connecticut.  If you have Italian ancestors from the area they are well worth a look! 

Biographies
A Memorial of William Rice*
Sketch of the Life and Public Services of William Richardson*
Pen-Portraits: A Collection of Personal and Political Reminiscences by William S Robinson*
An Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt*
Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography*
Theodore Roosevelt and His Time Vol. 1*
The Man As I Knew Him: Theodore Roosevelt*
Memorial of Horace William Rose*
Papers of Thomas Ruffin Vol. 1-4*
William Goodwin Russell*
Memorials of John Towill Rutt*
Memorial of Stephen Salisbury*
Recollections of Seventy Years by F.B. Sanborn*
Memoirs of the Life of Nathaniel Stacy*
III Score and X or Selections, Collections, Recollections of  Seventy Busy Years by Silas Comfort Swallow*

Genealogies
Perkins Arms in England*
Reynolds Family Association: 12th Annual Reunion*
Reynold Family Association 15th Annual Reunion*
Roberts Family of Simsbury CT*
Robinson Family Genealogical and Historical Association*
Genealogical Memoir of Nathaniel Rogers*
Ropers of Sterling and Rutland*
Ryerson Genealogy*
Genealogical Record of the Descendants of David Sage*
Sampson Family in America: Genealogical Memoirs*
Stanleys of Knowsley*
Yeager, Buffington, Creighton, Jacobs, Lemon, Hoffman, and Woodside Families: A Brief History*

Vital Records
 Index for the Midwife Records of Sebastiana Misenti from Middletown and Ansonia Connecticut*

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This Week on the Scholar

We hope everyone had a happy and safe Halloween this year!  Over the holiday weekend we added more biographies and a few more genealogies to the Scholar.  If you've been following our blog you also know we've finally indexed the church records in our collection from Congregational churches in Groton, Voluntown, Sterling, and Waterford.  We are working on indexing more funeral records from the Doolittle funeral home and also on scanning records from the Roberts Funeral Home from the 1940s!  Look for these new records in the upcoming weeks!

Biographies
Diary of Ebenezer Parkman*
Journey to Arant by Friedrich Parrot*
Life and Character of Cornelius R. Parsons*
Memorial Addresses of Sereno Elisha Payne*
Tina and her Husband Salvatore Pennuto*
Memorial Addresses on James Breck Perkins*
Memorial of John D Philbrick*
Andrew Wheeler Phillips*
Life of Timothy Pickering Vol. 1*
Life Romance of an Algebraist: George Winslow Pierce*
Memorial Addresses on Austin Pike*
Sketch of the Life of Samuels F. Pratt*
Life of William Hickling Prscott*
My Day, Reminsicences of a Long Life by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor*
Israel Putnam*
Life of William Quarter*
Life and Correspondence of John A. Quitman Vol. 1*
Life and Correspondence of John A. Quitman Vol.  2*
American Statesmen John Randolph*
Memoirs of Robert Rantoul Jr.*
Memorial of Alexander Hamilton Rice*
Memorial Addresses on John B. Rice*
Life Work of Cora L.V. Richmond*
Memoirs of Major General Riedesel Vol. 1*
Memoirs of Major General Riedesel Vol. 2*
American Men of Letters: George Ripley*
John Codman Ropes*
Memorial of Horace William Rose*

Genealogies
Paine Ancestry*
Penn Family of Virginia*
Pepys Family Genealogy*
Ancestry of John Pratt*
Prentice of Prentiss Family History and Genealogy*
Genealogical Memoir of the Prescott Families in America*
Preston Family of Willington, CT*
Quinby Family Genealogical History*
Robert Randall and his Descendants*
Robinsons, Saffords, Harwoods, and Clarks Genealogical History*
Genealogical Memoir of Nathaniel Rogers*
Runnels and Reynolds Families Genealogy*
Rutherford and Darwin Genealogy*

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Last Week on the Scholar

Last week was another busy one on the Godfrey Scholar!  We're well on our way to getting through our backlog of scanned books, with over 800 already on the Scholar and just about 300 left to go.  This time we're happy to bring you a selection of genealogies and biographies regarding people and families whose last names start with M, N, O, and P.  Be sure to check them out when you have a chance!

Biographies
Memorial Addresses on Edmond H. Madison*
Papers of John Madison Vol. 2*
Memorial Addresses on George R. Malby*
Memorial Addresses on Stephen Russell Mallory*
Memorial of General J.F.K. Mansfield*
Charles W. March: Reminiscences of Congress*
Life and Labors of E.M. Marvin*
In Memory of John Joseph May*
Reminiscences of Justin McCarthy Vol. 1*
Reminiscences of Justin McCarthy Vol. 2*
Life, Campaigns, and Public Services of George McClellan*
Sunday School Man of the South: John McCulllagh*
Authentic Life of William McKinley*
Autobiography of Dwight L. Moody*
Life Story of J. Pierpont Morgan*
Life and Work of William Augustus Muhlenberg*
Memoir of Asahel Nettleton*
Life of Ethelbert Nevin*
Marshall Newell: A Memorial for his Classmates and Friends*
Autobiography of Chas Nichols*
Life, Character, and Public Services of Samuel Frederick Nixon*
Memoir of Abner Kingman Nott*
Sketches of the War by Charles C. Nott*
Memorial Addresses on Newton W. Nutting*
Memorial Addresses on Michael P. O'Connor*
Memoir of James Oglethorpe*
Life, Character, and Public Services of James Oliver*
A Memorial of Charlotte Amelia and Carrol Hanford Olmstead*
Memorial of Hugh Henry Osgood*
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli*
Memories of the Professional and Social Life of John E. Owens*
Catharine J. Packer*
Memorial of Albert Gallatin Palmer*
American Men of Letters: Francis Parkman*
Memorial Addresses on Sereno Elisha Payne*
Memorial Addresses on James Breck Perkins*
Memorial of John D Philbrick*
Andrew Wheeler Phillips*
Arthur T. Pierson*
Orville H. Platt: An Old Fashioned Senator*
Life of William Hickling Prescott*
Israel Putnam*

Genealogies
Miller Family Magazine Vol. 1*
Mitchells from Kittery*
Moore-Jenkins Family Tree*
Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Account of the Mudge Family*
Descendants of William Noyes*
Nye Family Genealogy*
Richard Otis: Genealogical Memoir of the Family*
Genealogy of Arthur Parke*
Genealogical Record of Samuel Pond*
Thomas Pope Genealogy*

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Last Week on the Scholar

We apologize for being late on this week's Scholar update.  With the annual appeal in full swing and the increase in patrons visiting the library we've been utterly swamped!  Last we we uploaded a huge amount of biographies and genealogies to the Scholar, for the most part drawing from the store of scanned K, L, and M books in storage.  We are also thrilled to report that the collection of meeting records from the Mason's Hiram Lodge in New Haven Connecticut is also available for viewing on the Scholar!  The records are not indexed yet, but they are certainly a priority.

Biography
D.L Moody and His Work*
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story*
Memorial Addresses of Justin S. Morril*
Memorial Addresses on Oliver P. Morton*
Memorial Addresses on William Mutchler*

Genealogies
American Ancestry Volumes 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 11*
Descendants of Ambrose Kasson*
Descendants of Benjamin Keith*
Kelloggs in the Old World and the New*
Kelloggs in the Old World and the New: Index*
Kollock Family Genealogy*
Lawrence Family Genealogy*
Genealogical Notes on Jacob Leisler*
The Linzee Family of Great Britain and the United States of America Vol. 2*
Livermore Family of America*
A Brief Genealogy of the Loughry Family*
Marsh Family Genealogy*
Lineage of Richard Mather*
Mauran Family Memorials*
A Genealogical Memorial of the Connecticut McLean Family*
James McNaughton*
A Genealogical and Historical Sketch of John Meader*
History Genealogcal and Biographical of the Molyneux Family*
Moore-Jenkins Family Tree*
Ancestry and Descendants of Gershom Morehouse*
Family History of Richard Mowry*
Mudge Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Account*
Mumford Memoirs*

State and Local Histories
Connecticut
New Haven Master Lodge: Hiram 1762-1805

Massachusetts
Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County MA*

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This Week on the Scholar

It's been a great week for adding new content to the Scholar!  We're back to genealogies and biographies, working through the Is and Ls, as well as adding some new handwritten family charts and trees.  Next week you can look forward to a new batch of genealogies as we continue to work through our backlog of scanned books. 

Biographies
Ingraham Estates*
Life, Art, and Letters of George Innes*
Lines in Memoriam for Sarah Gibs Wheaton King*
Memorial Addresses Delivered to the House of Representatives by George Washington Kipp*
Harold Britton Klingerman*
A Memorial of Arthur Mason Knapp 1838-1898*
Memorial Addresses of James Laird*
In Memory of Edwin Channing Larned*
Life of Sylvester Larned*
Discourse Commemorative of William A Larned*
Memorial Addresses of James Polk Latta*
Life and Times of Jesse Lee
Memorial Proceedings of the Senate Upon the Death of John A. Lemon*
Memorial Addresses of William Lilly*
Memorial Addresses of Marcus Clariborne Lisle*
Mrs. Edward Livingston*
Early Memories by Henry Cabot Lodge*
Final Memorails of Henry Longfellow*
Life of James Milnor*

Genealogies
Ancestors and Descendants of Henry Gregory*
The Journal of American Ancestry Vol. 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11*
Whitakr Austin Family Chart
Barball Family Chart
Bowman S. Beeman Family Tree
Bennett Family Chart
Brewster, Beers, Smith, Edwards, and Wetmore Family Tree
Sylvester Butler Family Tree
John Drake Family Tree
 
State and Local Histories
Genealogical History of Connecticut Vol. 2, 3, and 4*

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Last Week on the Scholar

Last week we added all sorts of incredible works to the Scholar.  Among the searchable books added are state and local histories, genealogies, biographies, and vital records from several Connecticut town.  We also added two record books from the Cromwell First Congregational Church and two sets of funeral home records, the first from New Britain's B.C. Porter Furniture Dealer and Undertake and the second from Middletown's Coughlin-Lastrina Funeral Home.  The two funeral home records are high priority on our list of records to index, so these records will hopefully be searchable very soon!

Biographies
The Life of Frank Buckland*
The Life and Public Service of Grover Cleveland*
The Life of Willbur Fisk*

Church Records
Cromwell First Congregational Church, American Register 1827-1938
Cromwell First Congregational Church, Pilgrim Register 1925-1962

Funeral Home Records
Middletown CT's Coughlin-Lastrina Funeral Home Burial Records: 1890-1916
Middletown CT's Doolittle Funeral Home Burial Returns: Volume 68: May 1976 to April 1978
New Britain CT's B.C. Porter Furniture Dealer and Undertaker's Record Books: 1871-1919

Genealogies
Johann Mullich and the Millick Family of Philadelphia*
The Sautter Family and its Close Association with other German Confectioners*

State and Local Histories
The True Story of the Galveston Flood as Told by Survivors*

Vital Records
Vital Records of Bolton to 1854 and Vernon to 1852*
Vital Records of Coventry: 1711 to 1844*
Vital Records of New Haven 1649 to 1850: Part 1*
Vital Records of New Haven 1649 to 1850: Part 2*
Vital Records of Norwich 1659 to 1848: Part 1*
Vital Records of Norwich 1659 to 1848: Part 2*
Vital Records of Woodstock 1686 to 1854*

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This Week on the Scholar

We've added quite a variety of new works to the Scholar this week.  Genealogies, Biographies, State and Local Histories, Vital Records, Funeral and Cemetery Records, and even a new Directory: just about a little bit of everything!  Of particular note is a volume of internment records from Middletown Connecticut's Indian Hill Cemetery and 6 Volumes of the New Hampshire Genealogical Register.  Make sure to take a look when you get the chance!

Biographies
Memoir of Joseph Buckminster*
Memoir of William Burke*
James Fenimore Cooper: American Men of Letters*
John Fiske*
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin*
Memorial Addresses of William Pierce Frye*
Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of R.C. Graffenreid*

Cemetery Records
Middletown, CT: Indian Hill Register of Internments

Church Records
Portland, CT: Minnesskrift utgifurn af Su. Luth. Zionsforsamlingen
 
Directories 
The Boston Directory: The City Record*

Funeral Home Records
Doolittle Funeral Home Burial Returns: Volume 66: July 1972 to June 1974

Genealogies
The Fields of Sowerby*
Genealogy and Descendants of Luke Fish*
Follet-Dewey, Fassett-Safford, Hopkins-Robinson-Fay Genealogy and History*
The New Hampshire Genealogical Record Volumes 1-6*
Chester Smith and Family*

State and Local Histories
Annals of Kansas*
Kansas City 1888-89*
Kansas the Interior and Exterior Life*
Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the Union*
The Massachusetts Magazine Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10*

Vital Records
A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths 1630-1699*
A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Births 1700-1800*
A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Direct Tax of 1798*
Registry Department of the City of Boston Records Relating to Births, Marriages, and Deaths of Dorchester 1826-49*


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Last Week on the Scholar

Last week was yet another hectic week at the Godfrey!  With getting ready for tomorrow's Irish Genealogy Luncheon, preparing for the annual appeal, and fixing computer problems there was never a slow moment.  This new batch of genealogies and biographies finishes up the D and E sections and gets a good way into the Fs.  Next week look forward to a bit more varied selection of new books, including cemetery records, burial returns, state and local histories, and more biographies and genealogies!

Biographies
Memorial Addresses on William E. Dodge*
Daniel Drew*
American Religious Leaders: Jonathan Edwards*
Emerson at Home and Abroad*
English Men of Letters: Ralph Waldo Emerson*
Memorial of John Endecott*
Tribute to the Memory of Edward Everett*
Memorial of John Farmer*
Great Commanders: Admiral Farragut*
In Memoriam of Reuben E. Fenton*
Life and Public Services of William Fessenden*
Memories of a Hostess: Taken from the diary of James T. Fields*
Memoirs of Charles G. Finney*
Life and Thoughts of John Foster*
Persifor Frazer*
Fredmont and '49*
Guild 1957 Diary

Funeral Home Records
Doolittle Funeral Home Burial Records: Volume 65: Aug. 1970 to June 1972

Genealogies
Eaton Family: History, Genealogical and Biographical*
English Emersons*
Estes Genealogy*
Descendants of John Fillow*

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This Week in the Scholar

Forgive the late posting, but it's been a busy weekend!  With more books being added to the Scholar all the time as well as preparing for the first of what we hope will be a series of luncheon presentations, and getting ready for the annual appeal, it's been a hectic time at the Godfrey!  This week we have added another selection of biographies and genealogies, as well as another book of burial returns from the Doolittle Funeral Home.  Next week look forward to more genealogies and biographies of people with last names starting with D and E, as well as even more burial returns!

Biographies
Life and Public Services of James Buchanan*
The Knightly Soldier: Henry Ward Camp*
Life of Martin Cheney*
Curiosities of A Scotts Carda Chest*
Life of Rufus Choate*
Memorial Addresses of Frank G. Clarke*
Life of Schuyler Colfax*
Reminiscences of  Journalist by Charles T. Congdon*
Life of Alfred Cookman*
Autobiography of T. Jefferson Coolidge*
Memorial Addresses of Samuel Sullivan Cox*
In Memoriam of John Crowell*
American Men of Letters: George William Curtis*
American Actor Series: Charlotte Cushman*
Life of James DeKoven*
Admiral George Dewey: A Sketch of the Man*
Memorial of David L. Dodge
Memorial Addresses on Abraham Dowdney*
Life and Life-Work of Charles Benjamin Dudley*
In Memoriam of James Duncan*
Memorial of Edward Everett*

Funeral Records
Doolittle Funeral Home Burial Returns Volume 64: November 1968 to August 1970

Genealogies 
Caverno Family*
Chatfield Family*
Chipman Lineage*
Clarke Genealogy*
Philadelphia Branch of the Clarkson Family*
Conklings in America*
Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse Jr.*
Descendants of William Cornwall*
Genealogical and Biographical History of Griffin and Alice Craft*
Life and Ancestry of Francis Douglas*
Descendants of Thomas and Agnes (Dryburgh) Duncan*

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This Week in the Scholar

It's been a busy week at the library!  We're doing out best to keep adding as many new books to the Scholar as possible while updating our existing content to meet our ever increasing quality standards.  You may have noticed a few church records no longer have their indexes available, but don't worry!  We're making a few updates so the index formatting is uniform for each record and to make searching easier and more accurate.  We hope that everything will be up to standards in a few weeks!

Check out the new selection of genealogies and biographies we've added this week!  Perhaps there is something here you've been looking for.

Biographies
American Crisis Biographies: John C. Calhoun*
George and Cornelius Calvert*
In Memorium of Ellen R. Camp*
American Statesman Lewis Cass*
John S. Chamber*
An Outline Sketch of the Life and Public Services of Zachariah Chandler*
Edwin H. Chapin*
Life and Character of Jonas Chickering*
Life of Henry Clay Vol. 1*
Life of Henry Clay Vol. 2*
Memorial of Mary Clemmer*
Autobiography of Buffalo Bill Cody*
Memorial Addresses on the death of Jacob Collamer*
In Memoriam of George Colt and Caldwell Hart Colt*
Hernando Cortes: Conqueror of Mexico*
Life of Samuel Sullivan Cox*

Genealogies
The Caldwell Records*
A Historic Strain of Blood in America: Frances Latham Clarke, "Mother of Governors"*
Descendants of Mordecai Cooke*

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Last Week on the Scholar

We apologize for the delay in posting this previous week: computer issues caused an unfortunate, but thankfully temporary, roadblock.  So, last week we added a selection of exciting new genealogies and biographies to the Scholar+ Digital Library, including the autobiography of businessman and entertainer extraordinaire P.T. Barnum!  We've gotten through the backlogged Bs and are now well into the Cs!

Keep watching the blog for more updates and be sure to check out the Scholar's ever growing collection.

Biographies
Spencer Fullerton Baird: A Biography*
Struggles and Triumphs: Autobiography of P.T. Barnum*
The Life of John Brainerd*
Prof. Henry Bronson, M.D.*
Samuel Gilman Brown*
Life and Letters of Charles Bulfinch: Architect*
American Men of Letters: William Cullen Bryant*
A Brief Account of the Life of John Casse*

Genealogies
The Baldwin Genealogy*
The Ballous in America*
The Banks Family*
The Barker Genealogy*
Bartholomew Family Records*
The Beckwiths*
The Beville Family of VA, GA, and FL*
The Bingham Genealogy*
Binney Family Genealogy*
Genealogy of Thomas Bird*
The Boone Family*
Descendants of Charles Bowler*
The Brigham Family History*
Genealogy of the Buford Family in America*
The Bull Family*
The Burke and Alvord Memorial: A Genealogical Account of the Descendants of Richard Burke of Sudbury, MA*
Burley or Burleigh Family*

Military- Civil War
The Cannoneer: Recollection of Service in the Army of the Potomac*

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This Week in the Scholar

We're working our way through the Bs with this week's batch of genealogies and biographies uploaded to the Scholar!  It's also a great week for Middletown researches!  Two more volumes of the Doolittle Funeral Home Records are now available on the Scholar as well as a portion of the midwife record of Sebastiana Grimaldi Misenti, who acted as the midwife to the large population of Italian immigrants who lived in Middletown.

Biographies
Reminiscences of Sylvester Barbour*
Memoirs of Fanny Abiah Barton*
Memoirs of Gregory T. Bedell*
Life and Work of Henry Ward Beecher*
Memoirs of Rev. Edward Bickrstech*
Forging His Chains: Autobiography of George Bidwell*
Memoirs of Egbert Byron Bingham*
Letters, Journals and memories of E. Huntington Blatchford*
Memoirs of Mary Anna Boardman*
Life and Art of Edwin Booth*
Travel Letters of Phillip Brooks*
Biography of James Buchanan the 15th President of the United States*
Memoirs of George Burgess*
Memoirs of James N. Burnes*

Funeral Home Records
Doolittle Burial Returns: Volume 62: Jan. 1965 to Dec. 1966
Doolittle Burial Returns: Volume 63: Dec. 1966 to Nov. 1968

Genealogies
Genealogy of the Balch Family in America*
The Barker Pedigree*
History of the Society of Descendants of Robert Bartlet*
Batchelder-Bacheller Genealogy*
History and Genealogy of the Bicknell Family*
Memorial Genealogy of Joshau Bicknell*
The Binney Family Genealogy*
Early Marriages of the Black Family*
Ancestry and Genealogy of Nathan Blake and Susan Torrey Blake*
The Genealogy of Peter Blinn*
Bradley of Essex County*
The Brainerd Family Genealogy*
The Brown Genealogy*
The Butler's Book*

Vital Records
Midwife Log of Sebastiana Grimaldi Misenti

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This Week in the Scholar

This week we've added more biographies and genealogies from our library of scanned books.  About half the books added this week have to do with families or people with last names starting with A or B.  Another volume of the Doolittle Funeral Home Burial Records is also on the Scholar and the indexing for the Dunn Funeral Records is well on its way, with volumes 1-5 already completed and the rest in progress!

Biographies
The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich*
The Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling*
Recollections of Henry Watkins Allen*
The Memorial of Joseph and Lucy Clark Allen*
Memorial Addresses of William Boyd Allison*
Life and Letters of Washington Allston*
Memorial Addresses of Carl Carey Anderson*
Life and Career of John Andre*
Sketch of the Official Life of John A. Andrew*
Life of John A. Andrews Vol. 1*
Life of John A. Andrews Vol. 2*
A Religious Biography of William Watson Andrews*
Biographical Study of Samuel Chapman Armstrong*
Autobiography of Wilmer Atkinson*
 Record of the Statue Dedication of Major General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks*
A Sunny Life: Biography of Samuel June Barrows*
Autobiography of Joseph Bates*
Autobiography of Lyman Beecher*
A Girl's Life from 80 Years Ago: Sellections of Letters by Eliza Southgate Bowne*
Memorial Addresses of Abraham L. Brick*
Solomon Stevens Burleson: Officer of the Line*
American Men of Letters: William Cullen Bryant*

Genealogies
Descendants of James and William Adams*
Descendants of Polly and Ebenezer Alden*
Descendants of Hugh Amory*
Balch Genealogica*
Monograph of the Family Beebe*
Descendants of Edward Chapman of Ipswich MA*

Funeral Home Records
Doolittle Burial Returns: Volume 61: May 1963 to Feb. 1965

State and Local Histories
Reasons Why Rhode Island Declared her Independence of Great Britain*

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This Week in the Scholar

This week we really dug into our backlog of scanned books to bring a huge number of biographies as well as some genealogies to the Scholar!  You'll notice that most of the books we've added focus on people whose last names start with an A: this is because we've started from the beginning of our stored books and will be continuing down the list in roughly alphabetical order.  Expect to see more like these in the weeks to come!

Biographies
Charles Francis Adams, An Autobiography*
American Statesmen: John Adams*
American Statesmen: John Quincey Adams*
American Statesmen: Samuel Adams*
Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz*
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz: A Biography*
Life and Correspondence of Louis Agassiz Vol. 1*
Life and Correspondence of Louis Agassiz Vol. 2*
Louisa May Alcott Her Life, Letters, and Journals*
Crowding Memories by Thomas Bailey Aldrich*
The Life of Archibald Alexander, D.D.*
Forty Years Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander Vol. 1*
Forty Years Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander Vol. 2*
Memoir of Colonel John Allan*
Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Heroes*
Biography of Deacon James Allen*
Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Thomas Allen*
Memoirs of Governor Andrew*
One Girls Influence: A Memorial of Louise Stockton Andrews*
Israel Angell Colonel of the 2nd RI Regiment*
Memoirs of Francis Atwater*
Presidents and Pies: Life in Washington 1897-1919*

Cemeteries
The Carper-Miller Cemetery Inscriptions Collection: Glastonbury, CT*

Funeral Records
Doolittle Funeral Home Burial Returns: Volume 61: May 1963 to Feb. 1965

Genealogies
History of the Thomas Adams and Thomas Hastings Families*
Phineas Allens Descendants*
A Supplement to the Allen Family*
Centennial Celebration of the Annin Family at the Old Stone House*
Genealogy of some Descendants of John Coollidge*
American Ancestry, Volume 3: Embracing Lineages from the Whole of the United States 1888*
American Ancestry, Volume 12: Embracing Lineages from the Whole of the United States 1899*

State and Local Histories
University of Michigan General Catalog of Officers and Students*

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This Week in the Scholar

In 1924 two brothers from Middletown, CT opened the Dunn Funeral Home at 530 Main Street.  The Godfry Library is lucky enough to have exclusive access to the records of the Dunn Funeral Home records from 1910 to 1966, from before the official location was even opened!  Before the official funeral home opened caskets were built in the local furniture store and viewings were held in the families' homes.  And now all eleven volumes of these records are available on the Godfrey Scholar!  In a few weeks we'll have them indexed and searchable as well.

We've also added more genealogies, biographies, and a few more records from the Doolittle Funeral Home.

Funeral Home
Doolittle Burial Returns: Volume 59: Oct. 1959 to Sep. 1961*
Doolittle Burial Returns: Volume 60: Sep. 1961 to May 1963*
Dunn Burial Returns Volume 1: September 1910 to November 1913*
Dunn Burial Returns Volume 2: November 1913 to July 1916*
Dunn Burial Returns Volume 3: July 1916 to October 1918*
Dunn Burial Returns Volume 4: October 1918 to March 1921*
Dunn Burial Returns Volume 5: March 1921 to August 1923* 
Dunn Burial Returns Volume 6: August 1923 to February 1926*
Dunn Burial Returns Volume 7: February 1923 to April 1927*
Dunn Burial Returns Volume 8: July 1936 to July 1942*
Dunn Burial Returns Volume 9: July 1942 to September 1947*
Dunn Burial Returns Volume 10: September 1947 to January 1953*
Dunn Burial Returns Volume 11: January 1953 to May 1966*



Genealogies
History of the Adams and Evart Families*
The Story of the Arndts*
General History of the Burr Family in America*
Genealogy of the Descendants of Anthony Collamer*
The Courtright (Kourtright) Family*
A Record of the Descendants of Robert Dawson of East Haven CT*
Genealogy of the Feltus Family*
Genealogical Advertiser Vol. 1*
Genealogical Advertiser Vol. 2*
Genealogical Advertiser Vol. 3*
Genealogical Advertiser Vol. 4*
Families of Ancient New Haven Volume 1*
Families of Ancient New Haven Volume 2*

Biographies
Confessions of Boyhood: James Albee*
Alexander Viets Griswold Allen*
Autobiographical Sketches and Personal Reflections by Geo. T. Angell* 

State and Local Histories
Refugee Loyalists of Connecticut*      

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