Hartwell Family Association Annual Reunions

(1884-1890s)

Past Hartwell Reunions: Newsletter and Photograph Archive

Photograph of the 1884 Reunion, held at the Cattle Show Grounds in Concord, Massachusetts

In 1882 Mr. Lyman W. Densmore called together the Hartwells of the Boston area, with other branches from Virginia and Indiana, to form the Hartwell Family Association. Meetings were held, usually in Concord, for around twenty years, and were well attended. The support of this organization enabled Mr. Densmore to publish his two books, The Handbook of Hartwell Genealogy in 1887, and The Hartwell Family in 1895. It is unclear why the organization was discontinued. Mr. Densmore was the moving spirit and it is possible his health was beginning to fail. He died in 1898.

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1884

September 17, 1884
Concord, Massachusetts

1885

September 17, 1885
Concord, Massachusetts

1886

September 2, 1886
Concord, Massachusetts