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Collection

Inshaw/Hyde/Kirkham Family Collection

Object ID

IHK

Title

Inshaw/Hyde/Kirkham Family Collection

Object Name

Archival materials

Scope & Content

This collection contains material related to the Inshaw, Hyde & Kirkham families.

Biographical information on subjects:
Richard Bates Inshaw, Sr. (1805-1865) - born in England, married Mary Poole (1805-1886) of Wolverhampton or Birmingham. Came to America in 1829 or 1830–had to leave his wife and son John (1825-1851) behind because Mary was pregnant and couldn't make the trip. Their daughter Ann was born while Richard and Mary were separated. The family must have been reunited soon after Ann's birth, since the Inshaws' second son, Richard, Jr. (1831-1918) was born in 1831. They appear to have lived in New York for a few years before moving to Chicopee (then the Cabotville section of Springfield). Richard Sr. was an engraver and gunsmith. By 1836, he was working for Ames Manufacturing. Later, he worked on a contractual basis for Smith & Wesson (starting in 1858). (The Inshaws probably moved to Chicopee in 1836. Their daughter Emma was born that year, and census records list her birthplace as New York.) In Springfield directories, he is listed as an engraver from 1847 to 1855/6. From 1855/6 to 1858/9, he is listed as a gunsmith, then again as an engraver. He seems to have maintained a shop on the corner of Main and Bridge Streets in Springfield, although he lived in Chicopee until his death of a "liver complaint" in 1865. Richard Jr. must have moved away from Massachusetts before his father's death; he doesn't show up on Massachusetts census records for the 1860s and 1870s.

Louis Cutler Hyde (1919-1990) - (one bio. says he was born in Springfield, another says Saginaw, Michigan) attended Classical High School (grad. 1929), School of Fine and Applied Art in New York, spent 1931 studying in Paris, worked briefly as interior designer in New York, then moved back to Springfield. Designed mural for vestibule of Springfield Natural History Museum. 1955 became planning director for Steigers, managed display department. 1973, member of Spfld Arts Commission–was also trustee of Spfld Library & Museums Association. Married to Marguerite Kirkham (d. 1969).

Marguerite Kirkham was born in New Haven, Conn., daughter of William Kirkham and [first name?] Barri Kirkham. She attended MacDuffie School and Central High School. Served as a docent at Spfld Natural History Museum and volunteer at Wesson Maternity Hospital and Spfld Hospital Medical Center, was trustee of Spfld Library & Museums Association.

Collection includes:
* daguerreotype of young woman by Cooley – uncertain if this item is connected with the Hyde/Kirkham/Inshaw materials;
* Hyde/Kirkham/Inshaw family materials – 2 miniature portraits of unidentified young men, circa 1800-1840, artists unknown (more information may be available if portraits are removed from present frames);
* tiny portrait of a young woman sewn onto silk backing, signed "R. B. Inshaw 1835"
* genealogical notes and family trees of Inshaw/Kirkham/Hyde families;
* vellum-bound notebook kept by Richard B. Inshaw, Sr. containing Inshaw's dye recipes, with genealogical notes at rear;
* baptismal certificates for Emma Pool Inshaw and Richard Bates Inshaw Jr., from Grace Church, Cabotville, 1846;
* obituary and funeral service card for Charles Cutler Inshaw;
* Dec. 1941 correspondence regarding interments in Cutler family burial plot, Green-Wood Cemtery, Brooklyn NY;
* 1975 Clipping re: Ames Sword Co.;
* fancy mid-19th century envelope (card missing) addressed to Miss Emma Inshaw, Chicopee, Mass.;
* fancy mid-19th century greeting card in envelope addressed to Miss Ann Inshaw, NY;
* 16 Apr 1830 Letter to Mr. Ric'd. Inshaw to be Left at Mr. Groves, N4 Gold Street, New York Amarica [sic] from J. Inshaw (Richard's brother) with postscript by M. Pool (probably Inshaw's sister-in-law) Ludlow [England, not Mass.] –discusses Richard's recent journey to America from England, depression and hard times in England vs. prosperity in America (better to be a laborer in America than an artist in England, etc...), brotherly advice, care of Inshaw's wife and children who were left behind–postscript tells Richard of the birth of his daughter, mentions Richard's father's disapproval of his journey to America;
* 28 May 1833 letter from Mary & Thomas Pool to Richard Inshaw N. 10 Stanton Street, New York, Amaraca [sic]–very fragile–torn and mended–tells of death of somebody's father (Mary Pool's?);
* 4 Oct 1836 Letter to R. B. Inshaw, Engraver c/o N. P. Ames Sword Cutler, Cabotville, Springfield, Mass. From: Jos [??] N. Inshaw, Jersey City, NJ–includes family news, discussion of work for Ames, reference to an acquaintance being commissioned to fight the Seminoles in Florida;
* 25 Feb 1875 letter from James Toner [Poner??] on board the U.S.S. Lakawanna [sp??] at Yokohama, Japan to Mr. Henshaw [no envelope–don't know where he lived] informing Henshaw of the death of an unnamed person of smallpox;
* 6 May 1917 letter in pencil from Aunt Emma to Emma–mostly family news;
* Louis Cutler Hyde sketches & notes: 2 volumes–one of loose sketches showing architectural details, one with cover page "Interior Architecture and Design" appears to be manuscript for a book (apparently never published?–not in Library of Congress catalog), complete with colored illustrations;
* illustration of Edgbaston Old Church, Birmingham, England, by Vintreville Co., published by James Grange, 40 Islington (London?)–on reverse: "Church Grandma Inshaw was married in–Mary Poole to Richard Bates Inshaw" [Sr.];
* 16 Oct 1862 carte de visite of Richard Bates Inshaw, Jr. (age 31);
* carte de visite of Emma Poole Inshaw Warren (Richard Jr.'s sister) taken by Moore Brothers of Springfield;
* 6 Mar 1878 carte de visite of Richard Bates Inshaw III;
* carte de visite of John Wing (married Ann Poole Inshaw, Richard Jr.'s sister);
* cabinet card of "Gt. Aunt Margaret–Mama's aunt"–possibly Margaret Houseman, aunt of Hannah Campbell Cutler Inshaw
1893 portrait of Ruth Smith and Emma Inshaw (age 19 years)
1896 photo of Walther T. Bryant and Charles C. Inshaw in Inshaw yard at Chicopee;
* undated photo of Chicopee River dam;
* 1911 photo of Richard Bates Inshaw, Jr. Hannah Campbell Cutler Inshaw, and Arline Lewis Inshaw [?? Spelling hard to read], Clove St., Rochester, NY;
* 31 Jul 1912 photo of Richard Bates Inshaw, Jr, Hannah Campell Cutler Inshaw (his wife) and Louis Cutler Hyde (their grandson);
* 18 Dec 1912 photo of Hannah Campbell Cutler Inshaw and Louis C. Hyde;
* 1912 photo of Ricard Bates Inshaw, Jr. and Hannah Campbell Cutler Inshaw at Clover St., Rochester, NY;
* photo of Richard Bates Inshaw, Jr., age 81;
* Feb 1918 photo of Richard Bates Inshaw, Jr. and Louis C. Hyde
* photo of Richard Bates Inshaw, Jr., Hannah Campbell Cutler Inshaw and C. C. Inshaw;
* Aug 1936 snapshot of Emma Inshaw Hyde and Richard Inshaw Hyde at the Willows, Union Spring, NY.

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Hyde, Lois Cutler
Inshaw, Charles Cutler
Inshaw, Emma Pool
Inshaw, III, Richard Bates
Inshaw, Jr., Richard Bates
Inshaw, Richard Bates
Wing, Ann Pool (Inshaw)
Wing, John

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