1930 Hayward-Wires and Allied Families Genealogical Biographical

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Very Scarce

A vanishingly scarce privately printed work, with no records of copies held institutionally on Jisc or WorldCat.

Bound by the Atelier Bindery, New York. 

Enveloped tipped-in to the recto of the front free endpaper, containing a sealed envelope with the note 'Ancestor's Portrait in Dining Room', the sealed envelope with the typed address 'Mrs. Harry T. Hayward, Open Door, 59 Denny Road, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts'.

Illustrated with one colour plate, and five monochrome plates. 

A genealogical study on the Hayward family and their surrounding allied families, the Burbecks, Wires, and MacClintocks.

The work is dedicated to Harry Taft Hayward, 1868-1930, this work published in the year of his death, compiled by his wife, Edith Cassandra Wires Hayward.

Harry Hayward was a well known woolen manufacturer based in Massachusetts, taking over the family business from his father, enlarging the size of the mill by three times.

An interesting study on affluent American families at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.