Dorr Family Papers, 1781-1943
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Dorr Family
Title: Papers, 1781-1943 (bulk 1835-1895)
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, see the Curator of Special Collections.
Size of Collection: 1.5 cubic feet
Location Number: Mss./A/D716
Scope and Content Note
Personal correspondence and other papers of the Dorr and related families. Consists primarily of the papers of Elizabeth Chipman Hazen Dorr and her son Samuel Dorr but also represents their parents, siblings, and descendents. Many letters detail life in Massachusetts and New York in the early- to mid-nineteenth century. Others describe living abroad in England and France. Includes some legal papers and scrapbooks regarding the Louisville Chapter of the American Institute of Banking. Also contains some genealogical materials.
Historical Note
The Dorr family lived in Massachusetts and New York in the antebellum era. They were mostly merchants. Samuel Fox Dorr and Elizabeth Chipman Hazen married in 1835 and soon had two children, Samuel and Hazen. Samuel F. Dorr died in 1844, and Elizabeth Dorr moved to France shortly thereafter. Hazen Dorr died in the 1850s while a student at Harvard. Samuel Dorr, the son of Samuel F. and Elizabeth Dorr, moved to Louisville after the Civil War. In Kentucky, he married into the Meriwether family and practiced law. William Meriwether Dorr, the son of Samuel and Hannah Travilla Meriwether Dorr, was a banker and seems to have been a prominent member of the Louisville Chapter of the American Institute of Banking.
See enclosed genealogical material for Dorr and Hazen family trees.
Folder List
Folder 1: Charles & Elizabeth Hazen – Correspondence
Folder 2: Charles Hazen – Legal Papers
Folder 3: Charles Hazen – Miscellaneous
Folder 4: Samuel V. Dorr – Correspondence
Folder 5: Samuel Fox Dorr – Correspondence
Folder 6: Elizabeth Chipman Hazen Dorr – Correspondence, 1835-1841
Folder 7: Elizabeth Chipman Hazen Dorr – Correspondence, 1843-1846
Folder 8: Elizabeth Chipman Hazen Dorr – Correspondence, 1847-1849, 1863
Folder 9: Elizabeth Chipman Hazen Dorr – Correspondence with Charles Hazen
Folder 10: Elizabeth Chipman Hazen Dorr – Correspondence with Charles Drury Hazen
Folder 11: Elizabeth Chipman Hazen Dorr – Correspondence with James A. Dorr
Folder 12: Elizabeth Chipman Hazen Dorr – Correspondence, undated
Folder 13: Elizabeth Chipman Hazen Dorr – Correspondence fragments
Folder 14: Elizabeth Chipman Hazen Dorr – Estate papers
Folder 15: Samuel Dorr – Correspondence, 1841-1849
Folder 16: Samuel Dorr – Correspondence, 1850-1866
Folder 17: Samuel Dorr – Correspondence, 1883-1913
Folder 18: Samuel Dorr – Legal and Financial Papers, 1855-1907
Folder 19: Samuel Dorr – Essays, ca. 1857
Folder 20: Dorr family – Stock Certificates, 1852-1892
Folder 21: Hannah Travilla Meriwether Dorr – Correspondence, 1871-1943
Folder 22: William Meriwether Dorr – Correspondence, 1916-1937
Folder 23: Ward Chipman – Correspondence, 1783-1823
Folder 24: George B. Dorr/J. H. Dorr/Susan E. Dorr – Correspondence, 1836-1864
Folder 25: James A. Dorr – Correspondence, 1839-1869
Folder 26: Alonzo Douglas – Correspondence, 1849-1883
Folder 27: Charles D. Hazen – Correspondence, 1836-1860
Folder 28: William A. Meriwether – Correspondence, 1887-1896
Folder 29: Hannah Travilla Morsell – Correspondence, 1877-1895
Folder 30: Julia D. Morsell – Correspondence, 1849-1850
Folder 31: Lillie Morsell – Correspondence, 1852-1854
Folder 32: E. H. Slafter/James Slafter/Mary Slafter – Correspondence, 1863-1872
Folder 33: Emily Tryon – Correspondence, 1871-1876
Folder 34: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1817-1888
Folder 35: Genealogy
Folder 36: Recipes
Folder 37: Envelopes
Folder 38: Miscellaneous
Folder 39: American Institute of Banking Scrapbook
Folder 40: American Institute of Banking Scrapbook
Folder 41: William M. Dorr – “History of the Louisville Chapter of the American Institute of Banking, 1898-1934”
Folder 42: Hannah Travilla Meriwether Dorr Scrapbook, 1879
Folder 43: Miscellaneous Scrapbook
Subject Headings
Dorr Family
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
Douglass, Alonzo, 1815-1886
Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850
Villa, Pancho, 1878-1923
Hazen family
American Institute of Banking. Louisville Chapter
Mann Act, 1910
Christmas – Mississippi
Depressions – 1836-1837
Dueling – New Brunswick
Great Fire, Boston, Mass., 1872
Potatoes – New Brunswick
Slavery – United States
Temperance
Europe – Description and travel – 19th century
New Orleans (La.) – Description and travel – 19th century
New York (State) – Social life and customs – 19th century
Texas – Description and travel – 19th century
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Public opinion
United States – Politics and government – 1845-1861
