Hall Park McCullough's Extra-Illustrated History of Vermont
Scope and Content
"The History of Vermont, from Its Discovery to Its Admission Into the Union in 1791" was published by Hiland Hall in 1868 with 511 pages. In the late 1890s, Hall's great-grandson Hall Park McCullough began his extra-illustrated version of Hall's work. McCullough set about to collect relevant primary sources for each of the original 511 pages, acquiring 455 items he found suitable.
"The History of Vermont" contains documents, letters, maps, portraits, and prints. It also contains pen-and-ink sketches and pictures by McCullough. Special focus is paid to the Allen brothers, Jacob Bayley, Stephen Row Bradley, Thomas Chittenden, the Robinson family, and Isaac Tichenor.
Other topics include Lake Champlain, the Champlain Valley, the Hudson River Valley, colonists and Indigenous relations, the French and Indian War, Anglo-American relations, the Haldimand Negotiations, northern campaigns of the American Revolution (includes the invasion of Canada in 1775, Burgoyne's invasion of 1777, and manuscripts of Benedict Arnold, John Stark, Horatio Gates, Philip Schuyler, the Marquis de Lafayette), and the 1790-1791 land grant dispute between Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York.
A longer analysis about this extra-illustrated edition written by J. Robert Maguire and J. Kevin Graffagnino can be found in Hall Park McCullough: Americana Collector, 1872-1966.
Dates
- 1872-1966
Language of Materials
English.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Manuscripts.
Biographical / Historical
Hiland Hall was born on July 20, 1795 in Bennington, Vermont. On October 17, 1818 he married Dolly Tuttle Davis and the two had eight children. Hall was heavily involved in both local and state politics as clerk of Bennington County Court, state's attorney for Bennington County, state legislation representative, bank commissioner in Vermont, justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, state governor (1858-1859), a Vermont Representative in Congress (1833-1843), and Second Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury (1850). Following his retirement in 1861, Hall turned his focus to studying the history of Vermont, a study he contributed publications to as early as 1841. He served as the president of the Vermont Historical Society from 1859 to 1865. Hall died in December 1885, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Hall Park McCullough was born in 1872 in San Francisco, California to John C. McCullough and Eliza Hall Park, the great-grandson of Hiland Hall. He attended and graduated from Yale University in 1894 and later graduated from New York Law School in 1896. That same year, he married Edith Arthur (Artie) van Benthuysen (1881-1967) and the two had five children. McCullough worked as a corporate lawyer in New York City while developing his vast collection of historical documents and artifacts, including Vermont and the United States. McCullough died in August 1966 in North Bennington, Vermont. Following his death, the family house in North Bennington was registered with the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as the Park-McCullough Historic Governor's Mansion.
Extent
2.58 Linear Feet
Abstract
"The History of Vermont, from Its Discovery to Its Admission Into the Union in 1791" was published by retired justice, governor and congressman Hiland Hall in 1868. In the late 1890s, Hall's great-grandson Hall Park McCullough, attorny and collector, began his extra-illustrated version of Hall's work, acquiring documents, letters, maps, portraits, and prints he found suitable.
Physical Location
Silver Special Collections, Billings Library
Processing Information
Finding aid written by Sarah Wilds
- Title
- Guide to Hall Park McCullough's Extra-Illustrated History of Vermont
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is written in: English, Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Vermont Libraries, Special Collections Repository
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