The Genealogy (1880s-1978) series consists of fourteen folders arranged by the family to which they refer. These materials have been collected by at least three persons, William J. Hussey, Lenora Hussey Griffin, and Grace Griffin Hubbell, so there is some overlap in the notes on and description of the various families. The documentation of the Hussey and Hubbell families is especially detailed for the mid-nineteenth century; this is largely a by-product of the amount of primary source materials kept by the families.
Hubbell family 1970-1980s
Box 1
"The Hubbell family in America"
Box 1
Forebears/other families
Box 1
Family tree
Box 1
Correspondence 1971-1978
Box 1
Notes
(2 folders)
Hussey family 1880s-1964
Box 1
"A branch of the Hussey family in America," 1964
Box 1
Hannah Ann Hussey biography 1905-1906
Box 1
Notes (by William J. Hussey) 1910-1925
Box 1
Notes/Correspondence 1880s-1950s
(3 folders)
Severn family 1960s-1970s
Box 1
Notes (by Lenora H. Griffin) 1960s
Box 1
Notes (by Grace G. Hubbell) 1970s
Hussey Family 1833-1965 (bulk 1852-1930) [series]
The Hussey Family (1833-1965) series, which runs eighteen linear inches, is arranged according to the familial generation of creation for the materials and mainly consists of correspondence and financial materials. The John Milton and Mary C. Hussey subseries is arranged alphabetically according to type of material. This subseries is the result of substantial rearrangement of the materials. The letters between John Milton and Mary C. Hussey reveal much about his confidence in her ability to manage the farm while he was in the service during the Civil War. The originals of John's correspondence are held by the Clements Library. Their correspondence with their children illuminates a typical late nineteenth-century occupational mobility pattern as the children leave the landed gentry for professional positions.
The family life and customs of this particular family are further revealed in the Children of John M. and Mary C. Hubbell subseries. This subseries has also been altered in the course of processing and is now arranged alphabetically by name of child. The bulk of materials in this subseries was created by Lenora Hussey Griffin; that more of her papers remain extant is likely due to her remarkable longevity and to the fact that her daughter, Grace Griffin Hubbell, carefully saved them. There are also William J. Hussey materials in this subseries; these should be viewed as complementary to the Hussey Family collection housed at the Bentley Library.
William Hussey [subseries]
Box 1
Student notebooks 1819
John Milton and Mary C. Hussey 1833-1947 [subseries]
Arthur W. (and Lillian) Hussey 1875-1914
(3 folders)
Box 1
Edgar P. (and Flora) Hussey 1875-1893
(2 folders)
Box 1
Lenora Hussey (Griffin) 1889-1917
(2 folders)
(includes Stanford letters)
Box 1
William J. (and Ethel F. and Mary R.) Hussey 1880-1918
(2 folders)
Financial/Legal 1833-1947
Account books 1853-1913
Box 1
Farm accounts 1853-1876
Box 1
Threshing (and miscellaneous) 1857-1858
Box 1
Household 1903-1913
(includes genealogy)
Box 1
Correspondence and advertising 1855-1893
Hussey farm 1833-1947
Box 2
Architect's plan circa 1860
Box 2
Deeds 1833-1936
(2 folders)
Box 2
Estate (J.M. Hussey) appraisal 1914-1915
Box 2
Estate auction circa 1947
Grange materials 1861-1880s
Box 2
Mercer Co. (OH) 1861-1880s
(includes The Scythe, 1877)
Box 2
Account books (Mercer Co.) 1872-1876
Box 2
Constitutions (Hocking and Hancock, OH) 1870s
Box 2
Articles of Incorporation (St. Mary's, OH) 1875
Justice of the Peace (J.M. Hussey) 1865-1872
Box 2
Articles of Agreement 1865-1872
Estate Executor 1865-1870
Box 2
John Parrot 1865
Box 2
William Hussey 1865
(2 folders)
Box 2
David Holmes 1868-1869
Box 2
Miscellaneous 1865-1870
Box 2
Marriage Licenses 1868-1869
Box 2
Receipts 1845-1880
Box 2
Tax receipts 1851-1908
(2 folders)
Mary C. Hussey
Box 2
Widow's pension 1914
Box 2
Will 1918
Personal 1847-1890s
Box 2
Civil War materials (regimental listing, itinerary, memos, discharge) 1864
Box 2
Diaries 1847-1863
(5 folders)
(originals with partial typescript)
Box 2
Franklin Literary and Theological Society (Mendon, OH) minutes 1867-1868
Box 2
New Light Christian Church 1866
Box 2
Poetry/Reflections (some typescripts) 1853-1870
Box 2
Recipes circa 1860s
Box 2
Teaching notes 1851-1862
Temperance 1859-1869
Box 2
Broad Oak Resolution 1859
Box 2
Union Township (Mercer Co.) Pledge 1869
Box 2
Miscellaneous 1853-1890s
John Milton and Mary C. Hussey's Children 1875-1965 [subseries]
Alice Hussey (Rose) 1878-1906
Box 2
Correspondence 1878-1906
(includes description of her fatal illness, 1906)
Box 2
Correspondence to Lenora Hussey (Griffin) 1884-1903
Arthur W. (and Lillian) Hussey 1877-1947
Box 2
Correspondence to Edgar P. Hussey 1877-1888
Box 2
Correspondence to Lenora Hussey (Griffin) 1906-1947
Box 2
Correspondence to William J. Hussey 1906, 1918
Edgar P. (and Flora) Hussey 1875-1940
Box 2
Correspondence 1875-1886
Box 2
Correspondence to Lenora Hussey (Griffin) 1926-1940
Lenora Hussey (Griffin) 1879-1965
Box 2
Correspondence 1912-1965
(2 folders)
Box 2
Correspondence from George Griffin 1909-1918
Box 2
Correspondence with Jane Griffin 1917-1947
Box 2
Correspondence with Mary Griffin (Newton) 1916-1928
Box 2
Correspondence to Arthur W. Hussey 1879
Box 2
Correspondence to William J. Hussey 1895-1896
(includes Stanford letters)
Box 2
Diary 1938-1961
(includes Grace Griffin Hubbell diary, 1956-1961)
Financial 1892-1946
Box 2
Deeds to West St. property 1892-1897
Box 2
Ledger of receipts 1935-1946
Box 2
Lesson books undated, circa 1895
Box 2
Miscellaneous writings 1890s
William J. Hussey 1883-1931
Box 2
Correspondence to Alice Hussey (Rose) 1883-1889
Box 2
Correspondence to Arthur W. Hussey 1893, 1914
Box 2
Correspondence to Edgar P. Hussey 1912-1913
Box 2
Correspondence to Ethel Fountain Hussey 1912
Box 2
Correspondence to Lenora Hussey (Griffin) 1895-1928
Financial 1919-1931
Box 2
Estate of William J. Hussey 1919-1931
Box 2
Personal (including biography, photograph and UM Oracle, 1893) 1893-1926
Box 2
Teaching 1884-1885
Hubbell Family 1860s-1964 [series]
Theodore Hubbell likewise took pains to preserve the materials in the Hubbell Family (1860s-1964) series. This series runs eight linear inches and consists primarily of the papers of Clarence W. and Winifred Waters Hubbell and family photographs. These materials should also be used in conjunction with another Bentley Library collection, the Hubbell Family papers, with which there is considerable overlap. The strengths of this series reside in its documentation of Winifred Hubbell's writings and the photographs. The albums of family photographs will be of special interest to genealogists and researchers doing family history. During processing some photographs were removed from their physical proximity with this series and placed in the Personal series as it appeared that Theodore Hubbell created or collected those images.
Martha A.H. Bliss
Box 3
Notebook (transcriptions) undated
Clarence W. Hubbell 1900-1955
Box 3
Correspondence (and death certificate, 1955) 1911-1914
Box 3
Correspondence with Winifred W. Hubbell 1912-1914
(2 folders)
Financial (with Winifred W. Hubbell)
Box 3
Account book 1900-1906
Box 3
Writings circa 1932-1934
Winifred W. Hubbell circa 1910s-1950
Box 3
Poetry/prose 1910s-1940s
(2 folders)
Box 3
Reminiscence ("Our Adventure in the Philippines") circa 1950
Box 3
Miscellaneous poetry (Mildred Hubbell and F.B. Waters) undated
Photographs 1860s-1964
Box 3
Album (Waters, Bliss, Hubbell) 1860s-1870s
Box 3
Album (Hubbell?) circa 1920s
Box 3
Hubbell family (Clarence, John S., and Roger) 1893-1910s
Box 3
Theodore H. Hubbell 1898-1920s
(includes photograph of UM Les Voyageurs, 1917)
Box 3
Grace Griffin Hubbell
Box 3
Griffin-Hussey families
Box 3
Winifred W. Hubbell circa 1950
Box 3
Waters family circa 1890s
Box 3
Willard O. Waters 1880s-1955
Box 3
Various families (Case, Huntington, Newcomb) circa 1890-1964
Box 3
Benzonia (MI) farm views 1880s-1942
Box 3
Philippine Islands (C.W. Hubbell) 1909-1911
Personal 1907-1988 [series]
The Personal (1907-1988) series comprises sixteen linear inches of materials and is closely linked to the first three series; it is arranged alphabetically by type of material and consists of correspondence, Grace Griffin Hubbell materials, photographs, and other visual materials. As with the previous series, these materials have been moved in the course of processing, so researchers should avail themselves of cross-references in the folder listing. Grace Griffin Hubbell's correspondence with her mother, Lenora Hussey Griffin, is quite frank and reveals two fine intellects. Grace's reminiscences and notes on her chemotherapy after her cancer diagnosis are compelling.
Box 3
Correspondence (general) 1967-1988
(6 folders)
Correspondence (topical) 1907-1983
Box 3
Clements Library (re Hussey books) 1971
Box 3
Griffin family (excluding Lenora Hussey Griffin) 1907-1973
Box 3
Hussey family 1927-1983
Box 3
Re Military Service 1942
Box 3
Trip around the world 1968-1969
Box 3
Trip to Burma and China 1980
Grace Griffin Hubbell 1916-1982
Box 4
Correspondence with Lenora Hussey Griffin 1916-1970
(8 folders)
Box 4
Diary (fragment) 1925-1926
Box 4
Publications 1966-1967
Box 4
Record of Chemotherapy 1981-1982
Box 4
Thoughts and mementos 1981
Visual Materials [series]
The Visual Materials series includes family photographs of the Hubbell and related families, the Hubbell farm and residences in Ann Arbor, a glass lantern slide of University Hall and turn of the century postcards of the University of Michigan, Beulah and Benzonia, Michigan, and World War I images of Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
940 Rock Creek Drive (Ann Arbor, MI) undated, 1971
Trips 1919-1960
Box 4
Field Work (TN and FL) 1919-1927
Box 4
Philippine Islands 1945, 1960
Box 4
University of Michigan Museums Building construction 1963
Box 4
Lantern Slide of University Hall (UM) 1880s
Box 4
Negatives of Hubbell family 1930s-1970
Post Cards circa 1890s-1940s [subseries]
Box 4
Ann Arbor, MI (UM) 1890s-1940s
Box 4
Benzonia, MI 1890s-1920
Box 4
Beulah, MI 1890s-1920
Box 4
Frankfort, MI 1890s-1939
Box 4
Michigan (general) 1900-1915
Box 4
Fort Sill, OK (WW I training) 1918
Professional (primarily 1930s-1960s) 1890-1988 [series]
The Professional series (1890-1988, primarily 1930s-1960s) makes up the last half of the collection and runs four and one-third linear feet. The bulk of this series consists of correspondence which runs to more than three linear feet and is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Also included in the series are Hubbell's vitae and letters of appointment and Hubbell's efforts to establish the field of biological systematics and other professional writing.
Vitae and letters of appointment [subseries]
Box 4
1916-1960s
Correspondence 1890-1988 [subseries]
The Correspondence subseries includes materials of Hubbell, J. Speed Rogers, and Alexander G. Ruthven as they managed the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. It naturally includes letters from prominent University of Michigan zoologists, Cantrall, Dice, Gaige, Hussey, and Van Tyne, but it also contains correspondence with amateur entomologists who collected for the museum. Further correspondence of this type evidently has been retained by the Museum of Zoology to facilitate control over their collections. Among the materials in this subseries, the following are of special note: the letters with Roland F. Hussey which are both professional and intimately personal in nature; the J. Speed Rogers materials which detail the concurrent development of his and Hubbell's careers; and the correspondence regarding the Joseph B. Steere expeditions reflects Hubbell's profound interest in nailing down the details of Steere's itinerary.
Box 4
A 1955-1988
Box 4
Allee, W.C. 1950-1953
Box 4
Association for Tropical Biology 1964-1966
Box 4
B 1919-1981
Box 4
Bates, Marston 1940-1974
Box 4
Bellamy, Ralph 1938-1958
Box 4
Berner, Lewis 1941-1961
Box 4
Brodknob, Pierce 1947-1978
Box 4
Brown, Patricia (re Helen Gaige) 1986
Box 4
Burt, William H. 1946-1983
Box 4
Byers, George W. 1948-1967
Box 4
C 1922-1976
Box 4
Cabriles, J. Maldonado 1938-1954
Box 4
Cantrall, Irving 1939-1969
Box 4
Carr, Archie and Marjorie 1939-1983
Box 4
Case, Ermine Cowles 1934-1963
Box 4
D 1946-1983
Box 4
Dice, Lee R. 1946-1948
Box 4
Dickinson, J.C. 1947-1959
Box 4
Dillon, Lawrence 1947-1951
Box 5
Dowling, Herndon 1947-1951
Box 5
Drake, Carl J. 1934-1953
Box 5
Dreisbock, R.R. 1941-1963
Box 5
E 1939-1957
Box 5
Ellis, Robert J. 1951-1956
Box 5
Entomological Society of America 1955-1971
Box 5
F 1940-1985
Box 5
Fargo, William G. 1941-1957
Box 5
Fender, K.M. 1948-1953
Box 5
Foote, Ben 1949-1955
Box 5
Friauf, James J. 1938-1955
Box 5
Fulton, B.B. 1947-1957
Box 5
G 1943-1957
Box 5
Gaige, Frederick and Helen 1915-1969
Box 5
Gloyd, Howard K. 1936-1965
Box 5
Goin, Coleman and Olive 1947-1962
Box 5
Grahmam, Samuel A. 1951-1955
Box 5
Green, J.W. 1948-1951
Box 5
Guppy, Richard 1949-1955
Box 5
Gurney, Ashley B. 1935-1955
Box 5
H 1941-1957
Box 5
Hamilton, Rodgers B. 1948-1950
Box 5
Hebard, Morgan 1934-1941
Box 5
Hobbs, Horton H. 1946-1962
Box 5
Howden, Henry F. 1952-1962
Box 5
Hubbs, Carl L. 1934-1957
Box 5
Hungerford, H.B. 1939-1956
Box 5
Hussey, Roland F. 1919-1964
(3 folders)
Box 5
Hynes, Dennis 1953-1959
Box 5
I 1947-1956
Box 5
J 1939-1956
Box 5
James, Maurice T. 1934-1956
Box 6
K 1946-1956
Box 6
Kannowski, Paul B. 1953-1960
Box 6
Kimball, Charles B. 1957-1959
Box 6
Klots, Alexander B. 1956-1960
Box 6
Knull, James N. 1943-1951
Box 6
L 1940-1964
Box 6
Laessle, Albert 1947-1964
Box 6
M-Mc (Mac) 1947-1957
Box 6
Me-Mz 1934-1957
Box 6
Man and the Biological World 1949
Box 6
Mayr, Ernst 1946-1956
Box 6
McMath, Robert 1949-1950
Box 6
Michener, Charles D. 1949-1956
Box 6
Montgomery, B. Elwood 1936-1962
Box 6
Moore, Sherman 1947-1957
Box 6
Muesebeck, C.F.W. 1936-1950
Box 6
N 1938-1956
Box 6
O 1947-1965
Box 6
Olson, Ada 1946-1980
Box 6
P 1940-1964
Box 6
Peters, James A. 1953-1957
Box 6
Philip, Cornelius B. 1939-1955
Box 6
Princis, K. 1938-1946
Box 6
Q 1956
Box 6
R 1942-1961
Box 6
Ramstadt, Henry (with Alexander G. Ruthven) 1905-1907
Box 6
Rawson, George W. 1948-1951
Box 6
Ray, Eugene 1945-1957
Box 6
Rehn, James A.G. (with Alexander G. Ruthven) 1907-1954
Box 6
Rogers, J. Speed 1922-1955
(3 folders)
Box 6
Ross, Herbert H. 1939-1957
Box 6
Ruthven,Alexander G. 1947-1959
Box 6
S-Sl 1890-1966
Box 6
Sm-Sz 1936-1983
Box 6
Sabrosky, Curtis W. 1938-1969
Box 6
Sanderson, Milton W. 1944-1961
Box 6
Schmidt, Erich 1947-1952
Box 6
Sherman, Harley B. 1934-1976
Box 6
Slifer, Eleanor H. 1938-1958
Box 6
Re Steere, Joseph B. 1890-1964
Box 6
Stehr, William C. 1936-1957
Box 6
Steyskal, George 1940-1962
Box 6
Stuart, Lawrence C. 1947-1983
Box 7
T 1947-1964
Box 7
Townes, Henry K. 1955-1964
(2 folders)
Box 7
U 1923-1957
Box 7
University of Michigan 1919-1959
Box 7
V 1943-1968
Box 7
Van Tyne, Josselyn 1936-1957
Box 7
W 1942-1980
Box 7
Wagner, Helmuth O. 1947-1985
Box 7
Walker, E.M. 1936-1957
Box 7
Wallace, H.K. 1945-1965
Box 7
Wallace, Herbert S. 1941-1956
Box 7
Watson, J.R. 1923-1932
Box 7
Weems, Howard V. 1949-1962
Box 7
Young, Frank N. 1941-1958
Box 7
Z 1943-1959
Projects 1946-1972 [subseries]
The Projects subseries consists of materials related to Hubbell's efforts to establish the field of biological systematics. These materials are arranged chronologically by project and are strongest in documenting his career during the 1960s when systematics became the buzz-word in zoology.
Box 7
Historical Biogeography 1946-1948
Box 7
Huron Mountain (MI) 1956-1961
International Biological Program 1966-1972
Box 7
Correspondence 1966-1972
Box 7
Hawaii Territorial Biology 1967-1968
Box 7
Systematic Biology 1964-1969
(3 folders)
Box 7
Michigan Committee on Tropical Studies 1957-1962
(2 folders)
Box 7
Museum Survey Committee (Systematic Collections) 1966-1968
(3 folders)
Box 8
North Carolina Highlands 1965
Organization for Tropical Studies 1966-1968
Box 8
Correspondence 1966-1968
Box 8
Newsletters 1967-1969
Box 8
Reports 1966-1968
Box 8
Pacific Science Congress 1965-1966
Writings 1911-1984 [subseries]
The last subseries is a thin sampling of Hubbell's writings arranged chronologically. These range from highly specialized pieces on Florida fauna in the 1930s to a highly speculative piece on the "Unfinished Business and Beckoning Problems" in insect behavioral ecology penned in 1984. Of special interest is "An Introspective View of Taxonomy" in which Hubbell assesses his place in the field of entomology
Box 8
Notebooks (Philippines, Washington, and Ann Arbor) 1911-1916
Box 8
Geology of Florida circa 1927
Box 8
"A new Shrub-Inhabiting Species of Schisto-cerca from Central Florida," 1928
Box 8
"Devil's Millhopper" circa 1928
Box 8
"Utopias," March 1935
Box 8
"Myxobacteria" circa 1935
Box 8
Miscellaneous notes 1930s-1960
Box 8
UM Museum of Zoology Annual Reports 1946-1956
Box 8
"An Introspective view of Taxonomy or What Have I Been Doing all these Years?," 1965
Box 8
"Unfinished Business and Beckoning Problems (in Insect Behavioral Ecology)," 1984
