Haggott, Dr. John P.

            Agent, American Tract Society.

            Manuscript journal, 1846, of his visit to Pensacola to sell religious publications with descriptions of Pensacola, Milton, Bagdad, Ferry Pass, and Mobile, Alabama.  Subjects include the Simpson Family, the Presbyterian and Catholic churches of Pensacola, the Navy Yard and ships stationed there, and the mills at Bagdad and Milton.  With accounts of books sold, sermons given, and names of churches.

            3 items. (.18 c.f.).   Purchase.

            Accession M1993-33.

 

 

Haldimand, Frederick, Sir (1718-1791)

            Commander, Posts of Three Rivers, Pensacola, and St. Augustine, 1758-1777; Acting Commander in Chief in North America, 1773-1774; Governor of Quebec, 1778-1784.

            Personal papers, 1758-1784, including correspondence, reports, letter-

books, accounts, and other materials.  Of key importance are those materials pertaining to British control of the Floridas, 1763-1784; these include letter-books and correspondence pertaining to Pensacola under the command of William Taylor, Indian affairs in the Floridas and the southeast United States.  A contents list and index to microfilm reels is available.

            See also the calendar of the Haldimand papers covering 1765-1773 made by Robert R. Rea (West Florida Collection No. 256).

            Microfilm, 115 reels.   Originals held by the British Museum.

            Special Collections Microfilm No. 1070.

 

 

Hanshaw, Celia

            Teacher, Santa Rosa County.

            Personal papers, 1900-1954, including letters of John Diamond, County Superintendent of Education; correspondence during Miss Hanshaw's years at Florida State College for Women (now Florida State University); school certificates, programs and invitations, 1908‑1931, with related papers.

            27 items.   Gift of Mrs. A. B. Chavers.

            Accession M1973-09.

 

 

Hargis, Modeste (1875‑1948)

            Historical notes on Pensacola and Escambia County, prepared for the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1937, with materials on the origin of the city name, geography, Escambia communities, agriculture, education, naval stores, religion, and similar topics.  With typewritten draft report to the Federal Writers Project, 1936, on Pensacola during the Spanish American War, compiled by Miss Hargis and Isabel R. Grant.

            2 items (199 leaves).   Gift of the Pensacola Public Library.

            Accession M1968-11/17; M1968-11/19.

 

 

Harris, Naomi

            Personal papers, consisting of manuscript letters of the Clifford family in Pensacola (1846-1863), photographs, and photocopies of genealogical research (1946-1978) on the Clifford and Fell families of Pensacola as well as related area families and the Cliffords of Edgecomb, Maine.  Includes research on the Pensacola Light House (1824-1978) and lighthouse keeper George T. Clifford.

            77 Items (.18 c.f.).   Gift of Mrs. Naomi Harris.

            Accession M1981-27.

 

 

Harrison, Benjamin

            D.S., land grant to Missouri Leonard for 159 acres of land in Florida, November 25, 1899.

            1 item.   Gift of Mrs. Paul Gray.

            Accession M1968-11/48.

 

 

Hartley Sports Car Club, Pensacola, FL

            Records, 1964-1965, including programs, schedules of events and other publications of the local chapter of the Sports Car Club of America, Gulf Region.

            35 items (.34 c.f.).   Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hartley.

            Accession M1975-03.

 

 

Hawkins, Benjamin (1754‑1818)

            Will and testament, January 9, 1812, and letter to Capt. Smith, Fort Hawkins, September 23, 1809.

            4 items (photocopies).  Originals in State Historical Society of Missouri.

            Accession M1968-11/49; M1968-11/55.

 

 

Hawkins, John T.

            Memorandum book, 1861‑1863, pages 224-250; testimony before a Congressional committee investigating the construction of the U.S.S. Pensacola.

            1 microfilm reel.   Original owned by the New York Public Library.

            Accession M1968-11/51.

 

 

Heinberg, Charles Jerome, M.D.

            Physician; Gulf Breeze Mayor

            Correspondence, newspaper clippings, programs, and other materials concerning his activities as mayor of Gulf Breeze (1961-1971), and professional activities in medical associations, medical research, and membership in the Triological Society.  Includes a preliminary water study for Gulf Breeze (1961), Heinberg's history of Pensacola Hospital (Sacred Heart Hospital), and publications, reprints of published articles and typescripts of medical research papers written by Dr. Heinberg.  See also a second collection containing historical notes on Gulf Breeze; scrapbook, 1961‑1971 relating to Dr. Heinberg's service as the first mayor of the community; general papers relating to the Live Oak Reservation lands.

            42 items (.68 c.f.).  Gift of Dr. C. J. Heinberg.

            Accession M1981-06 and Accession M1973-03.

 

 

Hentz, Caroline Lee (Whiting) (1800‑1856)

            Diary kept at Florence, Ala., Feb‑Aug, 1836.  Includes notes by her daughter, Caroline Lee Branch, 1860, and other notes, 1892, by an unidentified member of the family.

            1 microfilm reel.  From Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

            Accession M1968-11/108.

 

 

Hicks, Carney

            Personal papers concerning the Molino Telephone Company, 1924, 1926.

            7 items.  Gift of Arnie Rosenbleeth.

            Accession M1981-29 SC.

 

 

Hilton-Green, Henry (1893‑1975)

            Family papers, photographs and miscellaneous printed materials, 1854‑1970, relating to Mr. Hilton Green, a Princeton alumnus and steamship agent in Pensacola.  Includes correspondence relating to Gen. Samuel G. French, CSA, and family, 1854-1907.  With Mr. Hilton Green's diary kept during his service with the U.S. Navy during World War I; papers reflecting the social and civic interests of the Hilton Green family; and letters of Richard M. Nixon, Herbert Hoover, and Edgar N. Eisenhower.

            890 items (1.02 c.f.).  Gift of Mrs. Henry Hilton‑Green.

            Accession M1976-13.

 

 

Hollowell, Maude Haynes (1936-1982)

            Personal papers comprising of scrapbooks and records of organizations in which she was a member or officer.  Scrapbooks cover the U.S. Space program, the election and assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the end of the vietnam war and return of the Prisoners of War, Pensacola Catholics, and Pensacola business.  Organization records include Altrusa of Pensacola, the League of Women voters, the Northwest Florida Crippled Children's Association, the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, the Warrington American Legion Auxiliary, and the Warrington Business and Professional Women's Club.

            Other materials cover the Pensacola Hemerocallis Society, Sacred Heart Church, Catholic High School, University Hospital Auxiliary, the Pensacola Art Center, and a variety of civic and women's organizations in Bellview and Pensacola, Florida.

            3,595 items (4.20 c.f.).  Gift of Dorothy Fillio and Norman Simons.

            Accession M1982-01.

 

 

Holly Garden Club, Pensacola, Florida

            Scrapbooks of the Holly Garden Club, 1953-1956 including photographs, newspaper and magazine clippings, club activities, gardening notes, and related material about the Holly Garden Club and the Pensacola Federation of Garden Clubs.

            3 scrapbooks (.34 c.f.).   Gift of Mrs. Byron Roberts.

            Accession M1982-09.

 

 

Holmes, Jack D. L.

            Spanish Borderlands Historian; University Professor; Author.

            Microfilm of documents collected from Spanish Archives by Sir Jack D. L. Holmes, covering the period 1719-1813, mostly consisting of materials from legajos in the Papeles de Cuba, Archivos General de Indies in Seville, Spain.  The Papeles de Cuba selections are in sections two and three of the film.

Also known as the Holmes Collection.

            Section one of the microfilm contains a description of Spanish Louisiana by the Baron de Pontalba from the Archives Nationales of Paris, documents concerning the capture of Mobile and Pensacola in 1780-1781 by Galvez taken from the Seccion de Guerra, Archivo General de Simancas, and an account of the 1719 capture of Pensacola by French forces from Mobile copied from the Archivo del Ministerio de Asunot Exteriores in Madrid.

            Geographic emphasis is on Pascagoula, Biloxi, Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Dauphin Island, Mobile, Tensaw, Fort San Esteban de Tombeche and Fort Confederation posts and documents relating to the Natchez district and other Gulf coast and West Florida areas.  The court-martial of Captain Cayetano Perez for his role in surrendering the fort at Mobile to the American forces led by General James Wilkinson in 1813 is covered with hundreds of documents numbering over 3,000 pages.   Other documents include letterbooks and dispatches between the various commandants of the Mobile District and their superiors in New Orleans and Pensacola.  The wide range of subject materials include Indian affairs, religious reports, laws and regulations, contracts, criminal and civil suits.  Negro slavery and runaways, fortifications and other buildings, petitions, census reports, militia lists, quartermaster reports, inventories of official documents of the various posts, and a variety of minor matters.

            Microfilm, 29 reels (positive microfilm).

            Special Collections, Microfilm No. 222.

 

 

Holmes, Sir Jack D. L.

            Photocopy of his unpublished "Pensacola Settlers, 1781-1821" which is a compilation of names and biographies of inhabitants, military officers, and other Pensacola settlers during the Second Spanish Period.

            1 item (104 p.).

            West Florida Collection No. 224.

 

 

Holmes, Thomas G.

            "Notes taken from the lips of Dr. Thomas G. Holmes in relation to various expeditions made by Captain Blue, Colonel Benton and others in 1814."   On the history of Fort Mims and the War of 1812 in the Pensacola region.  Photocopy of typescript original in the Pickett Papers, Alabama Department of Archives and History.

            16 leaves. 

            Accession M1968-11/33.

 

 

Holmes County, Florida Papers

            A collection of single items pertaining to Holmes County, Florida such as imprints, publications, correspondence, and other papers.  Subjects include Bonifay, Florida; George W. Bonner; the Philomathean Literary Society; W. D. Williams and the Williams Family; the Tri-County Airport, the First Bank of Holmes County, and the Community Recreation Center.  See collection inventory for details.

            20 items (.34 c.f.).   Gift of various donors.

            Accession M1973-12.

 

 

Holsberry, J. Edwin (b. 1905)

            Member, Florida State Legislature.

            Scrapbook, miscellaneous imprints and papers relating to his service in the Florida Legislature, 1939.

            222 items (.34 c.f.).   Gift of Mr. Holsberry.

            Accession M1978-13.

 

 

Home Demonstration Club, Ferry Pass, Florida

            Scrapbooks containing correspondence, programs and printed materials, 1920‑1977, relating to the activities of one of the earliest women's clubs in the Pensacola area.

            2 items (photocopies).  Originals in possession of the Club.

            Accession M1973-08.

 

 

Hookham, Eleanor King (1909-    )

            Artist; Painter.

            Personal papers, 1925-1929, consisting of photographs and scrapbook of life in Pensacola, during the high school years; with more recent biographical sketches, correspondence, exhibit booklets of her career as an international painter under her known name, Eleanor King.   A painting by her of Frederick Axelson is in the Axelson Collection.

            .35 c.f.   Gift of Billie Snider and Eleanor King Hookham.

            Accession M1991-02.

 

 

Hoskins, Frank William (1886-1947)

            Historian, teacher, Postmaster, and Justice of the Peace, Pensacola and Panama City, Florida.

            Personal papers, 1880-1940, including correspondence and memorabilia and Justice of the Peace appointment certificates signed by Florida Governors and the Postmaster General.  With scrapbook relating to the founding of the Pensacola Historical Society; and typescript of Hoskins' The Story of the St. Joseph Convention, 1838.

            65 items (.34 c.f.).  Gift of Mrs. Ellen Parker Crea.

            Accession M1972-07.

 

 

Howard, James William (1839-1930)

            Typescript transcript diary, 1861-1913, detailing his life as a member of the 9th Arkansas Volunteers, Confederate States of America and life after the war in the South and his religious life as a Baptist minister for churches in Arkansas and Georgia.  The diary details much of the discipline and punishment in the army camps, and from 1865 to 1913, his courtship and marriage, life in Georgia and Arkansas after the Civil War, and his later years as a businessman, minister, and citizen in Columbus, Georgia.  A section on "religious life" describes his church activities in Arkansas; Auburn, Alabama; Brownsville, Georgia; and as a traveling minister.

            With additional notes and genealogy by Ethel Knight Baker, (1863)

and photocopies of photographs.

            1 item.   Original owned by Elizabeth Baggett.

            Accession M1982-10 SC.

 

 

Howe, Fred Osmond (b. 1860)

            Letterbooks, business records, correspondence and other papers relating to Fred 0. Howe Company, the Pensacola ship brokers and commission agents and its predecessors, Ross, Kean & Co., and Ross, Howe & Merrow, 1890-1906.  With papers relating to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co. Pensacola division, 1929‑1948.

            Papers include statistics on shipping and port activities in Pensacola, 1890‑1900, 1925-1940; correspondence relating to the Merchants & Stevedores Association, 1933‑1937, and the Pensacola chapter of the Propeller Club of America, 1952‑1963.

            With general papers, diaries and manuscript poems of Col. Louis H. Sellars (1832-1904), 1893‑1904; autograph album of Sallie E. (Hood) Jones, of Mobile, Ala., 1859; and printed ephemera of Bryan's Pharmacy, Pensacola, 1920.

            11,534 items (4.0).   Gift of the Pensacola Historical Society.

            Accession M1970-05.

 

 

Howell, Benjamin Betterton

            Correspondence, accounts, maps, receipts, and legal papers, 1819-1835 relating to land acquisition in Pensacola by Col. Arthur P. Hayne, in turn sold to B. B. Howell.  Includes correspondence relating to land speculation by Col. William King (letter of June 17, 1819); including plat of outskirts of Pensacola, "copied at Havanna, 29 Dec. 1818" showing the "Old fort of St. Bernard," Fort St. Michael, the "Great Royal Road" and other features; manuscript map "Florida Occidental Partido de Panzacola" Ano de 1818... Escopia, Havanna 29 Dec. 1818 by Vicente Pintado; plat of lands adjoining Perdido Bay (ca. 1830), and other maps of property purchased by B. B. Howell.

            1 Microfilm reel.  Purchase, part of the Howell-Babcock Papers in the

New York Historical Society.

            Accession M1968-11/23.

 

 

Hulse, Isaac (1797-1856)

            Last will and testament, probated Pensacola, Sep 17, 1857; six letters of Dr. Hulse to William E. Woodruff, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, 1849‑1856.

            7 items (photocopies).   Originals at State Library of Arkansas.

            Accession M1968-11/104.

 

 

Hutchins, Thomas (1730-1789)

            "An Estimate of the Expence ... to finish the Works at Pensacola," with map giving the location of buildings and Gen. Bouquet's monument at the British Fort in Pensacola.  London, 1777.

            3 items (photocopies).  Originals owned by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

            Accession M1968-11/102.

 

 

Hutchison, Ira Augustus (1879-1965)

            Letters addressed to Judge Hutchison, Circuit Court, Panama City, 1927‑1935, from John W. Martin, Doyle Carlton, David Sholtz, and others.  Also correspondence, 1935‑1948, with E. C. Boswell, D. Fred McMullen, Elwyn Thomas, and Dan McCarty on political campaigns, U. S. Good Roads Association, and judicial matters.

            26 items.  Gift of the Hutchison Family.

            Accession M1973-14/01.

Hutto, Earl

            Representative, United States Congress, 1979-1994; Member, Florida

State Legislature, 1972-1978.

            Papers, 1972-1978, primarily correspondence from constituents while a member of the Florida legislature and during his first year as Congressman.

            3.0 c.f.    Gift of Congressman Earl Hutto.

            Accession M1979-08.