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Books in the Connecticut Aisle
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Premium List and Program of the Stafford Fair Thirty-Ninth Annual Fair and Exhibition at Stafford Springs, Conn....
 [141346] (CONNECTICUT - AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES) [Stafford Springs Agricultural Society].
Stafford Springs, Connecticut: Lewis McLaughlin, Printer, 1908.. Octavo, [50] pages. Pale yellow illus. wraps. Binding with mild soil and creases, short closed tear to upper cover. A good copy. Illstrated with numerous halftones from photographs of the Stafford Springs Fair Grounds, horses and trotting races, Stafford Springs Agricultural Society, Main Street in Stafford Springs, etc. There are also numerous local advertisements, some illustrated with line drawings. $45
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 Phil Koempel's Diary 1861-1865.
[141104] (CONNECTICUT - AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - ANDERSONVILLE PRISON) W.K. [Walter Koempel] .
{N.p.]: [Privately Printed], [n.d., ca. 1920’s?]. Octavo, 53 pages. First Edition. Stiff printed card covers; string-tied with horse-hair [?]. Frontispiece portrait, title page and several pages thereafter with varying degrees of foxing; lower cover with chipped corner. A very good copy, overall. Philip Koempel was a German immigrant who came to New Haven, Connecticut to become a wood carver. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted with the First Connecticut Volunteers and was at the first Battle of Bull Run. He served under General Fremont in the Shenandoah campaign. Under General Pope he served at Cedar Mountain, Waterloo Bridge and the second Battle of Bull Run. While he was with the cavalry of the army of the Potomac under General Sheridan in May 1864, Koempel was captured during a fight at Ream's Station, Virginia. Sent to Andersonville prison, Koempel, like many other Union men, endured unending hardships. He was paroled in 1865. This diary records his experiences. Pages 51-53 reproduced three letters from General Custer lauding the bravery of the Connecticut Third Cavalry Division and the First Connecticut Cavalry. Dornbusch CT 16. Not in Nevins. OCLC, [5]. $450
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 1879 [to] 1929 Fiftieth Anniversary 1st Regt. C.N.G. [Connecticut National Guard] February 9, 1929. [Cover title]
[141358] (CONNECTICUT - NATIONAL GUARD) [Captain Henry H. Saunders, et. al.].
[N.p.]: [s.n.], 1929. Octavo, 8 pages. Near fine condition. Not on OCLC. Souvenir program and menu with a lengthy five page poem by Captain Henry H. Saunders retelling the history of the 1st Regiment of the Connecticut National Guard. Stiff card covers, hand-sewn binding, tissue guard overlays to both upper and lower covers. Upper cover with color halftone illus. depicting men in uniform. The dinner was held at the Hotel Garde in Hartford. The 1879 company roster is listed as well as the evening's program. $75
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 Genealogy of Pliny Hayes and Lucretia Jewett... [Caption title]
[141202] (CONNECTICUT - PLINEY HAYES & DESCENDANTS) [Anon.] .
: , . [N.p., n.d., ca. 1855?] Nine leaves of stationary paper, irregular, approx. 8" x 6½" and letterpress printed, recto side only. Printed with a modest variety of type faces. Contemporary, hand-sewing along top. Some old glue residue to margins, small chips or small edge tears, overall very good. A curious production that appears to be the work of an amateur printer documenting, quite extensively, and consecutively dated, the family genealogy of the Hayes family of Connecticut. The genealogy begins with the family progenitor, Pliny Hayes (1766-1831) and his wife, Lucretia Jewett (1767-1843). Following descendants are listed and information concerning place and date of birth, marriages, place of marriage and, sometimes, occupation, are also cited. Some of the last dates recorded are for marriages in 1854, or a child born in 1855, dates consistent with the item's appearance. Among the more prominent descendants are a Pliny H. Hayes identified as a hydropathic physician; a Mumford Hayes, carriage maker of East Bloomfield, New York; a Pliny Hayes Jr. (1788-1831), a physician and surgeon, etc. $100
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Jonathan Edwards, grandson of famed theologian and philosopher, eloquently appeals to a close bachelor friend: “The Great Wedding Day of Nature is fast approaching...”
[141628] (CONNECTICUT) Jonathan Walter Edwards .
: , . ALS. 2 p. (175 words) 7 x 6½ inches. March 22, 1796. Hartford, Connecticut. In very good condition. Full transcription included. An autograph letter signed from Jonathan Walter Edwards (1772-1831), the grandson of the celebrated Jonathan Edwards, President of Princeton College to a recipient identified only as “brother Nathan.” Nathan was presumably a fellow member of the Connecticut bar. This is clearly a good-natured and personable letter to a very close friend. Edwards offers a slight trifle of legal advice and chides his friend for being so “...watchful of the girls as you are...” Edwards then offers a very amusingly written effort to get his friend to settle down: “I cannot refrain expressing my own feelings so much as to omit mentioning that the Great Wedding Day of Nature is fast approaching; when you will see all Men, or rather all Animals and all vegetables, nay every creature bending at the alter of Hymen, and dedicating themselves to the service of that Deity, in obedience to the First and Great Command Increase and Multiply. I hope that amidst the devotions of the whole creation, you will not be an haughty undevout Pharisee.” The letter is signed twice, on one side as Jon. Walter Edwards and the other as J.W. Edwards. In 1794, Edwards removed to Hartford and took up the legal profession. He later represented Hartford in the Connecticut General Assembly. $150
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