Thaddeus Hyatt
Thaddeus Hyatt (July 21, 1816 – July 25, 1901) was an American
Abolitionist
In Kansas
Born in
Hyatt led the settlement of
The National Kansas Committee came well short of its own expectations. Originally, the Committee intended for similar organizations to be set up at the state, county, and town level in each and every locality in the Union to direct efforts to fill Kansas with anti-slavery voters. The National Committee failed to unify even the patchwork of local Kansas Committees that were already operating, in part because of a lack of communication between the different groups and people. For example, Thaddeus Hyatt and William Barnes both embarked on simultaneous, but separate efforts to organize counties in New York State.[7]
Helping John Brown
Hyatt came under suspicion after John Brown's unsuccessful
Even after the violence in Kansas died down, Hyatt continued to be a major figure supporting the state. 1860 marked the culmination of a devastating drought in Kansas, and Hyatt traveled to Kansas to view the damage and direct his newly formed Kansas Relief Committee's aid to starving settlers. Hyatt was outraged by the inattention of both national newspapers and the federal government; in response, he petitioned outgoing President James Buchanan in a seventy-page pamphlet to provide more federal aid and halt foreclosures, as many Kansan farmers had been impoverished by the drought and could not meet the payments needed to keep their land.[6][17] Buchanan did little to help the state aside from a monetary donation—the President vetoed the Homestead Act of 1860, which would have delayed the foreclosures.[18]
Thaddeus Hyatt was at Rose Hill, Falmouth, England when his wife gave birth to a son on 28 August 1869.[19] He moved to London and rented a warehouse at 9 Farringdon Road next door to that of Christopher Dresser at number 7.[4] His pavement lights can be seen in both US and UK cities.[4]
Hyatt died in 1901 at the age of 85 in his summer residence, at Sandown, on the Isle of Wight.[2][6]
Thaddeus Hyatt Collection
The Thaddeus Hyatt Collection is a collection of accounts and correspondence given by Hyatt to the Kansas State Historical Society. The majority of the material concerns activity between 1854 and 1861, particularly during Bleeding Kansas. Notable accounts of Bleeding Kansas in the collection include those of S. P. Hand, Alexander McArthur, James Hall, Jerome Hazen, John Ritchie, J. A. Harvey, and N. W. Spicer.[20][21]
References
- ^ a b c "Senate Prisoner Goes Free". Senate Stories. Senate Historical Office. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
- ^ a b c Snell, Joseph W. (ed.). "Thaddeus Hyatt Papers 1843–1898". Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
- ^ a b c Langsdorf, Edgar (August 1940). "Thaddeus Hyatt in Washington Jail". Kansas Historical Quarterly. 9 (3): 225–239.
- ^ a b c Kay, Thornton (December 7, 2014), "Pavement lights, basement lighting, and illuminating vault covers", SalvoNEWS, retrieved January 11, 2021
- ^ Wermiel, Sara E. (2009). California Concrete, 1876–1906: Jackson, Percy, and the Beginnings of Reinforced Concrete Construction in the United States (PDF). Third International Congress on Construction History. Cottbus, Germany. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 25, 2014. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- ^ a b c d "Thaddeus Hyatt Dead; End Came to the New Jersey Inventor and Friend of John Brown on the Isle of Wight" (PDF). The New York Times. July 27, 1901. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
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- ^ ISBN 9781458501066.
- ^ Hutchinson, William (1902). "Sketches of Kansas Pioneer Experience". Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society. 7: 406–407. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
- ^ "Thaddeus Hyatt 1817? – 1901". Mathew Brady's National Portrait Gallery: A Virtual Tour. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
- ^ Hyatt, Thaddeus (January 4, 1857). "Thaddeus Hyatt to Cleaveland". Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- ^ Kob, Karl Friedrich (2005). "Wegweiser für Ansiedler im Territorium Kansas" (PDF). Yearbook of German-American Studies. 40: 72–81. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 25, 2014. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
- ^ a b United States Congress (1860). Senate Journal. 36th Congress, 1st Session. pp. 178–242.
- ^ Sewall, Samuel E.; Andrew, John A. "Argument on behalf of Thaddeus Hyatt : brought before the Senate of the United States on a charge of contempt for refusing to appear as a witness before the Harper's Ferry Committee". Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection. Cornell University Library. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
- ^ Times, Special Dispatch to the New-York (March 9, 1860), "From Washington.; Thaddeus Hyatt Tenders a Patent Light to the Senate", The New York Times, retrieved March 28, 2014
- ^ "Thaddeus Hyatt Appeals to President Buchanan to Address the Kansas Territory's Drought". History Engine. The University of Richmond. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
- ISBN 9780826266668.
- ^ Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser - Saturday 4th September 1869
- ^ De la Cova, Antonio Rafael. Colonel Henry Theodore Titus: Antebellum Soldier of Fortune and Florida Pioneer. Univ of South Carolina Press, 2016. p249-252
- ^ Thaddeus Hyatt Papers 1843-1898, Kansas Historical Society