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Willis Seaver Adams (1844-1921)
#L02.038
Willis Seaver Adams is known mainly for his landscapes of the Connecticut River Valley.
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Frances and Mary Allen
#M.17
In 1901, Frances and Mary Allen were acknowledged as among "the foremost women photographers in America."
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William Apes (1798-1839)
#L00.005
William Apes, a Pequot, was a Methodist preacher, writer and orator.
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Reverend Jonathan Ashley (1712-1780)
#1996.14.1382.01-.07
The Reverend Jonathan Ashley, who came to Deerfield in 1732, was the town's second minister.
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Thomas Williams Ashley (1894-1918)
#1958.15.01
Tom Ashley of Deerfield, Massachusetts, was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marines in World War I.
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Dr. Elihu Ashley (1750-1817)
#1886.20
Elihu Ashley was a medical doctor in the early years of the American Republic.
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C. Alice Baker (1833-1909)
#1996.12.0064
C. Alice Baker, educator and historian, is the author of True Stories of New England Captives (1897).
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Joseph Barnard (1717-1785)
#L99.172
Ensign Joseph Barnard was a Deerfield merchant at the time of the American Revolution.
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Salah Barnard (1725-1795)
#L99.178
Salah Barnard was a soldier, trader, and farmer in eighteenth-century Deerfield.
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Ruth Henshaw Bascom (1772-1848)
#1959.09.03
Ruth Bascom traveled through New England creating profile portraits with scissors, pastels, and watercolors in the early 19th century.
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Hannah Beaman
#L00.016
Hannah Westcarr Beaman was the first known school-dame of Deerfield, Massachusetts.
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Asher Benjamin (1773-1845)
#1999.03.0003
Asher Benjamin was the first American-born and American-trained architect.
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John Burgoyne (1722-1792)
#1880.027.01
John Burgoyne was the English officer who surrendered at Saratoga, New York, in October 1777.
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James Wells Champney (1843-1903)
#1996.12.0223
By the time of his death, James Wells Champney was regarded as one of the world's best pastel artists.
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Deerfield Basket Makers (1899-1916)
#1996.14.1029.01-.02
Baskets of palm leaf and reed were fashioned by the group called the Deerfield Basket Makers between c.1899 and 1916.
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Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework (1896-1926)
#1996.14.1095
Beginning in 1896, the Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework (DSBWN) reproduced patterns of original 18th century embroideries and designed original patterns, both of which were executed, exhibited, and sold throughout the country.
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Esther Harding Dickinson (1790-1875)
#1958.08.a-.b
Esther Harding Dickinson provided for a school and a library for Deerfield in her will.
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Consider Dickinson (1761-1854)
#1875.19.04.01
Consider Dickinson was a Revolutionary War soldier and a trader.
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William Dorrell (1752-1846)
#MH.0309
William Dorrell (1752-1846) led a cult of vegetarian free-thinkers in western Massachusetts in the 19th century.
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Timothy Dwight
#L98.040
Timothy Dwight was an educator and author who served as President of Yale College for twenty-two years from 1795-1817.
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Samuel Field (1743-1800)
#L99.101
Samuel Field was a delegate to the convention to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
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Henry Needham Flynt (1893-1970)
#1958.14a
Henry Needham and Helen Geier Flynt founded the Heritage Foundation in 1952. It was renamed Historic Deerfield in 1971. He was president of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association from 1949 until his death in 1970.
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Lucia Fairchild Fuller (1870-1924)
#1995.10.10.192
Lucia (Fairchild) Fuller was one of four artists invited to paint a mural for the Woman's Building Hall of Honor at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
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George Fuller (1822-1884)
#1996.12.0815
George Fuller of Deerfield, Massachusetts achieved a national reputation as a painter.
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Elizabeth Brooks Fuller (1896-1979)
#1995.11.758
Granddaughter of Deerfield, Massachusetts, painter George Fuller, Elizabeth Brooks Fuller was an artist and active Deerfield community member.
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Horatio Gates (1727-1806)
#1880.027.01
Major-General Horatio Gates was an officer in the British Army during the French and Indian Wars, 1757-1763, and served in the Continental Army in the American Revolution.
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Dr. Joseph Goodhue (1762-1849)
#N.204
Dr. Goodhue, a physician from Portsmouth, New Hampshire was the father-in-law of Dr. Stephen West Williams.
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Sylvester Graham (1794-1851)
#L01.002
Sylvester Graham is best known for the cracker that bears his name.
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Grand Army of the Republic
#L02.026
The Grand Army of the Republic was founded to provide a fraternal organization for Union war veterans after the Civil War, and played a significant role in promoting Memorial Day and Flag Day.
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Ulysseus S. Grant (1822-1885)
#L02.024
Ulysses S. Grant was a leading Union general in the Civil War (1861-1865) and the 18th U.S. President (1869-1877).
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Greenfield Gazette and Courier (1841-1932)
#L02.138
The "Gazette & Courier"was a principal newspaper for Greenfield and Franklin County from 1841 to 1932.
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Zur Hawks (1760-1844)
#L99.157
Zur Hawks was a tanner and a shoemaker in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
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Justin Hitchcock (1752-1822)
#1900.06.40
Justin Hitchcock was a fifer and soldier in the militia during the American Revolution and later made a living as a hatter in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
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Orra White Hitchcock (1796-1863)
#1996.12.2670.83
Orra White Hitchcock was an artist who illustrated many 19th century scientific publications including those of her husband, Edward.
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Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864)
#1996.12.1151
Dr. Edward Hitchcock was a scientist and educator at Deerfield Academy and later at Amherst College.
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William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
#L99.040
The prolific writing career of William Dean Howells resulted in 36 novels, 12 travel books, and numerous poems and essays.
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Howes Brothers Photographers (1890-1910)
#1996.12.3325
The Howes Brothers Alvah, Walter, and George, of Ashfield, Massachusetts, specialized in selling affordable, easily produced photographs, and thus created a record of the lives of ordinary people.
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Elihu Hoyt (1771-1833)
#1905.10.01
Elihu Hoyt served as a colonel in the militia and was elected to the Massachusetts legislature every year but three from 1803 until he died in 1833.
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Arthur Wellesley Hoyt (1811-1899)
#L98.006
Arhur Wellesley Hoyt was a civil engineer in 19th century Deerfield, Massachusetts.
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Epaphras Hoyt (1765-1850)
#1983.504b
Epaphras Hoyt was a surveyor, postmaster, justice of the peace, register of deeds, High Sheriff, and member of the 1820 constitutional convention from Deerfield, Massachusetts.
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Cornelius Kelley (1874-1954)
#1996.12.2041.01-.03
Cornelius Kelley was born in Ireland in 1873, but by 1904 he had purchased land in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and built a blacksmith shop.
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Florence Kelley (1859-1932)
Florence Kelley was a reformer and advocate for the rights of children who symbolized the increasing power of women in the late 19th century.
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Martin Kellogg (JR) (1686-1753)
#L00.052
Martin, born October 26, 1686, was one of two children born to Martin Kellogg and his first wife, Anna Hinsdale.
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Mashalisk the old woman, Mother of Wuttawwalun (1591-1676)
#L98.014
Mashalisk was a Pocumtuck woman who lived on the east side of Pemawatchuwatunck (the Pocumtuck Range), near the Connecticut River in present-day Deerfield, Massachusetts.
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Reverend Cotton Mather (1662-1727)
#L00.086.059ex
Cotton Mather was one of Puritan New England's leading thinkers and ministers.
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William Holmes McGuffey (1800-1873)
#L01.124
William Holmes McGuffey is best known as the author of "The McGuffey Readers."
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Ellen Miller (1854-1929)
#1996.14.2224
Ellen Miller was a partner with Margaret Whiting (1860-1946) in the formation of the Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework in 1896.
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Daniel Morgan (1736-1802)
#1875.19.07.01
Daniel Morgan commanded an elite group of riflemen during the American Revolution and played a key role in several American victories, most notably at Saratoga, New York and Cowpens, South Carolina.
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Lucinda Nims (1784-1857)
#L99.155
Lucinda Nims inherited her father's house and property "so long as she shall remain unmarried."
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Francis Parkman (1823-1893)
#L01.117
Francis Parkman was an historian and a prolific 19th century writer of works about America and Americans.
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Pocumtuck Basketmakers (1899-1935)
#1996.14.1710
The Deerfield, Massachusetts, women who made up the Pocumtuck Basket Makers (c.1899-1935), worked primarly in raffia to create useful baskets.
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Pocumtuck Nation
#L98.012
The Pocumtucks were the Native American nation that inhabited the Connecticut River Valley before European settlement.
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Lucy Terry Prince (1725-1821)
#L00.070
Lucy (Terry) Prince was an African slave and story teller who wrote a poem about an 18th century Indian attack on Deerfield, Massachusetts in an area known as "The Bars."
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John Putnam (1818-1895)
#1996.29
John Putnam was a well-known musician in the Greenfield, MA, area in the mid- to late 1800s.
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John Pynchon (1626-1703)
#L01.052
John Pynchon inherited his father's lucrative business and political positions making him the wealthiest and most powerful man in western Massachusetts in the 17th century.
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William Pynchon (1590-1662)
#L98.017
William Pynchon was the founder of Springfield (now in Massachusetts) and became a rich man from the fur trading network he created..
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
#L00.087
Theodore Roosevelt, entered politics soon after he graduated from Harvard College; by 1901 he was the 26th President of the United States.
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George Sheldon (1818-1916)
#1977.14
George Sheldon, farmer and historian, was the primary founder of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association in 1870.
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Caroline Stebbins Sheldon (1789-1865)
#1918.15.01
Caroline Stebbins was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, attended Deerfield Academy, and married a local farmer.
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Persis Hoyt Sheldon (Mrs. John Sheldon) (1747-1830)
#1892.18.04
Persis (Hoyt) Sheldon, with her nine brothers and sisters, grew up in the 1699 Old Indian House where her father, David Hoyt, kept tavern.
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John Smith (1823-1900)
#L02.172
The Hermit of Erving, Massachusetts, was a man who gave his name as John Smith.
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Eliza Allen Starr (1824-1901)
#2002.21.06
Eliza Allen Starr was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, in 1824. She was the first woman to receive the Laetare Medal, the most prestigious honor given to American Catholics.
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Dennis Stebbins (1778-1842)
#L99.152
Dennis Stebbins followed the model set by his father, Joseph, and served the town of Deerfield, Massachusetts as selectman and a member of the militia.
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Joseph Stebbins, Jr. (1749-1816)
#1927.28
Joseph Stebbins was a Deerfield farmer who fought in the Revolution as a captain of militia.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
#L05.080
Harriet Beecher Stowe is best known for her novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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Augustus Vincent Tack (1870-1949)
#1957.11.01
Augustus Vincent Tack was a nationally acclaimed portrait and mural painter at the turn of the 20th century.
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Reverend Edward Taylor (1642-1729)
#NR.06
Edward Taylor was a Puritan minister whose church was in Westfield, Massachusetts.
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The Society of Deerfield Industries (1901-1926)
#L99.134
The Society of Deerfield Industries made handcrafts at a time when people worried that colonial skills and crafts were being lost.
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Chauncey Thomas (1877-1950)
#1996.14.0322.01
Chauncey Thomas worked as a potter in a shop from 1908 to 1911 behind the Dennis Stebbins house at the north end of Deerfield's main street.
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Orlando Ware (1779-1860)
#F.04
Orlando Ware (1779-1860) owned a general store in Deerfield, Massachusetts, in the early 19th century.
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Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
#L99.163
Daniel Webster was a lawyer and politician known for his stirring oratory and bold attempts at compromise.
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Samuel Wells (1772-1816)
#L01.026
Samuel Wells lived on his father's homestead near the center of the town of Deerfield, Massachusetts.
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Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
#L98.054
Phillis Wheatley was the first African American published poet.
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Margaret C. Whiting (1860-1946)
#1996.14.1628.01-.02
Margaret Whiting was a co-founder along with Ellen Miller (1854-1929) of the Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework in 1896.
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Esther Williams (1726-1800)
#L99.066
Esther (Williams) Williams of Weston, Massachusetts, came to Deerfield in 1748 as the second wife of Dr. Thomas Williams.
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Eunice Williams (1696-1786)
#1998.02.500.02
Eunice (Kanenstenhawi) Williams was the fifth daughter of the Reverand and Mrs. John Williams, but was adopted into a Kanien'kehaka (Mohawk) family after her capture in 1704.
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Reverend John Williams (1664-1729)
#L00.068
Rev. Williams was captured along with other members of his family in the Deerfield raid of 1704; he wrote a captivity narrative "The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion" upon his return to New England.
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Stephen Williams (1693-1782)
#1889.04
Stephen Williams was taken captive in the Deerfield raid of 1704, was redeemed, and as an adult became the minister at Longmeadow, Massachusetts, serving 66 years.
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John Williams, Esq. (1751-1816)
#L99.149
John Williams, Esq., graduated from Harvard College, pracaticed law, and ran a general store in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
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William Stoddard Williams, M.D. (1762-1829)
#L00.008
William Stoddard Williams was the son, the father, and the grandfather of Deerfield physicians.
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Stephen West Williams, M.D. (1790-1855)
#L00.031
Stephen West Williams of Deerfield, Massachusetts, was a medical school graduate (King's College, now Columbia University) and author of numerous medical texts.
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Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918)
#1996.14.1234
Madeline Yale Wynne was a central figure in Deerfield's Arts and Crafts movement, which began in the 1890s.
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