Margaret Janvier Hort papers

Collection

Identifier: Col-0033

Dates

Creation: 1701-1981

Creator

Hort, Margaret Janvier, 1899-ca.1980. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.

Biographical / Historical

The Janvier family genealogist of the 1960s and 1970s, Margaret Janvier Hort was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She received a BS in Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1921, a BS at Syracuse University's School of Library Science in 1934, and an MS from Columbia University in 1948. She was medical librarian at Trudeau Sanatorium (1934-1937); assistant librarian and acting librarian, Russell Sage College, Troy, NY (1934-1949); librarian, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA (1949-1959), and The Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, PA (1959-1967). In her retirement, she lived in Bryn Mawr, and then Newtown Square, PA.

Full Extent

3.2 cubic ft. (11 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Metadata Rights Declarations

License: This record is made available under an Universal 1.0 Public Domain Dedication Creative Commons license.

Additional Description

Arrangement

When received, the collection was in a variety of envelopes. These envelopes were discarded when the collection was processed in 1990. The folder titles listed below are, for the most part, taken from those envelopes. Since there was no apparent order to the folders, the materials were roughly arranged as follows: the more modern materials, notes and correspondence first, followed by copies and secondary material, followed by the original documents. Oversized materials and artifacts are in Box 9.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Francis Hort Sharp.

Related Materials

Janvier family papers, Col. 155, includes family histories for the Janvier, Marley, and McWilliams families.

The January family papers, Col. 570, includes genealogical materials about the Janvier and January families of Delaware and Kentucky. (Some Janvier descendants anglicized their surname to January.)

Additional Janvier family materials are found in Col. 869 at this repository; this collection also includes materials on the Danforth and Bush families. Most of this material relates to a branch of the family which included Thomas Janvier (1773-1852).

Members of the Janvier family are mentioned in Fol. 229, the Wilmington Fire Insurance Co. log.

The Winterthur Museum collection includes furniture made by John Janvier, Sr.

The New Castle Historical Society in New Castle, Delaware, also holds Janvier family materials and artifacts, including clothing.

Summary

Consists of the genealogical files assembled by Hort during her research into the history of the Janvier family, descended from Thomas Janvier (1664-ca. 1729) an early French immigrant, to what is now Odessa, Delaware. Includes her own correspondence and notes as well as the same from earlier family historians, particularly Marie Lyle (ca. 1940s). A great number of original manuscript documents are included, especially letters to or from Marie Fries Janvier (1818-1911); her brother Levi (1816-1864), a Presbyterian missionary in India; their father George Washington Janvier (1784-1865); and other near relatives. Some information about families related to the Janviers is also found.