Place of Origin

United States ➔ Connecticut ➔ New Haven

Date of Composition

1843-1874

Description

The library's Kingsley memorial collection includes an unspecified number of family recipe books kept by H. [Hannah] Louise Upham Kingsley (1824-1884), which the library has dated between 1843 and 1874. The books are organized in Series III of the collection. H. Louise Upham, known as "Lou," married William Lathrop Kingsley (1824-1896) in the late 1850s. The couple lived in New Haven, Connecticut, and had two children born in the early 1860s and possibly a third child as well. William Kingsley was an 1843 graduate of Yale and subsequently studied at the Yale Law and Divinity schools. He became the editor of The New Englander, a quarterly general-interest periodical founded in 1843, in 1857, and he remained its editor until 1892, when the periodical ceased publication. He published short books about the history of New Haven and the history of Yale in the 1890s.