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• See
  • Walter Grutchfield and Wikipedia for history
  • Illuminated cover at boston bric-a-brac
• Thaddeus Hyatt Improved Illuminating Tile Company (see Patent No. 365,306).
• Farringdon Rd., Near Charterhouse St., London, E.C. (1878)

  Thaddeus Passport Application

• Image 1 of Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: Thaddeus Hyatt to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, May 19, 1860 (Hyatt's imprisonment)
• The prayer of Thaddeus Hyatt to James Buchanan, president of the United States, in behalf of Kansas, asking for a postponement of all the land sales in that territory, and for other relief
• From Probate documents:
  • Elizabeth A. L. Hyatt (widow), 34 Woburn Place, London, England
  • Bessie Lake Moore née Hyatt (daughter), Ulmenstrasse (1), Frankfort-on-Main, Germany
  • Clotilde Sumner Hyatt (daughter), 34 Woburn Place, London, England
  • James H. L. Hyatt (son), 70 Mortimer Street, London, England
  • Beatrice Marguerite (Daisy) Hyatt (daughter), 34 Woburn Place, London, England [she was age 19 in 1901]
• "Thaddeus Hyatt, the American pavement-light manufacturer and pioneer of reinforced-concrete fireproof construction, was responsible for developing a row of warehouses at Nos 9-13 in the 1870s. All three may originally have comprised the 'Lens Light Works' in Farringdon Road,' 'an experimental building for the display of his inventions', which was said to incorporate his fireproof system. The pavement-light business of Thaddeus Hyatt & Co. continued at No. 9 until the Second World War or shortly before." —Survey of London, Volume 46. 2008, via British History Online
• "3650. And Thaddeus Hyatt, Manufacturer of Patent Lights, and Thaddeus Pomeroy Hyatt, Minor, of 66, Gloucester Gardens, Hyde Park, London, in the county of Middlesex, have given the like notice in respect of the invention of ''Improvement in nails, screws, tacks, brads, spikes, and hooks.'' As set forth in their petition, recorded in the said office on the 21st day of October, 1875." —The Commissioners of Patents' Journal
• Beatrice Marguerite Hyatt
  • "Beatrice Marguerite 'Daisy' Hyatt was nursing wounded New Zealand soldiers at Malta in 1915 as a volunteer nurse aid. The war had provided the 30-something Daisy the chance to escape 'the life of a dutiful daughter caring for aging parents in England.' She must have been impressed with the New Zealanders as 'she set her hat' at the best-looking man in her ward, 'checked he was alright, wooed and married him.' Daisy Fabling, as she later became, spent the rest of her life in New Zealand." —JOHNNY ENZED: The New Zealand Soldier in the First World War 1914-1918
• Winans
  • Emaline Winans was a sister of Theodore Hyatt's wife Mary. Their parents were Isaac Ross Winans (b.1763) & Jane Elizabeth (Eliza) Kipp (1777-1857). They married 27-Feb-1796 in Manhattan, New York.
  • Isaac Ross Winans b.1763 d.1827-1831, NY. Married 27-Feb-1796, NY. Jane Elizabeth "Eliza" Kipp daughter of Henry Kipp. Isaac, a sailmaker, made the original sails for the USS Constitution. —Winans Family Genealogy
• Thaddeus Pomeroy Hyatt
  • "Some years before the turn of the century the late Dr. Thaddeus Pomeroy Hyatt, then an eager young dentist and later a man of considerable distinction, was strolling in lower Manhattan when he noticed two older men walking slowly and engaged in serious conversation. He recognized one of the men as a fellow member of the Theosophical Society. The other was a stranger. It developed that the stranger, a Mr. Everett, had financial problems with people in Buenos Aires, and had need of knowing what they were doing, unknown to them. The Society member (whose name is not given,) it appears was quite a hypnotist. He proposed to hypnotize Hyatt and send him astrally to Buenos Aires to look into the matter. ..." —Astral Journeys
  • "On the 7th day of March, 1918, the said Newberry and Williams together with the respondent, Thaddeus P. Hyatt, formed a business corporation to be known as the Williams Aircraft Corporation, pursuant to the Laws of the State of New York, with authorized capital of $100,000, with a damaging board of three directors composed of Milton S. Williams, Newton H. Williams and Thaddeus P. Hyatt." Annual Report of the Attorney General of the State of New York, 1920
  • "In addition, the NPM Library contains material from several important private libraries acquired entirely or in part over the past century, including: ... Dr. Thaddeus P. Hyatt - a leading student and collector of worldwide material concerning the movement of mail. ... The major archival collections include: An outstanding collection of articles, pamphlets and letters documenting the operation of mail services in the United States and elsewhere, originally collected by Dr. Thaddeus P. Hyatt and supplemented with material from other sources ... Pamphlets, letters, stamps and related materials from the National One Cent Letter Postage Association (ex. Dr. Thaddeus P. Hyatt)" —National Postal Museum Library Collections
  • "Dr. Thaddeus P. Hyatt of Stamford, an old student of The Secret Doctrine, recently compiled a bibliography of that work in which he revealed that Madame Blavatsky referred to or quoted from more than 700 authors on over 90 subjects. This included many branches of science, many philosophers, and all the great religions known to the world today." —Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Awaken
• James H. L. Hyatt was a photographic engraver
• Thaddeus Hyatt Papers 1843-1898 at the Kansas Historical Society
• "patent vaults and patent lights, sky lights, floor lights, shop lights, &c., 4th story"
• Hexagonal plate: T. HYATT'S PATENT LEAD BAND / [patent] MAR. 27, 1855 / LOUISVILLE, KY / SNEAD & CO
• "¹In 1845 Thaddeus Hyatt patented a unique lighting system that neatly complemented Bogardus's creation. Thick glass discs set within iron grilles were placed in the sidewalk in front of a warehouse letting natural light into the basement and avoiding the need for gas lighting and its attendant fumes." —Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
• See covers in Manhattan gallery
• Early plates manufactured mostly by Brown Brothers (Chicago), but also by Snead & Co of Louisville, KY.
• "50 Morton Street is a 4,000-square-foot West Village townhouse containing six apartments... Built in 1854 for Thaddeus Hyatt, a patent vault manufacturer and developer, Mr. Hyatt built the 4 five story houses on this row." —Curbed NY
• "Along with our neighbors we will be restoring up to 3 of 4 buildings originally built by Thaddeus Hyatt who patented the cast iron sidewalk grates with glass lens to allow natural light into sidewalk vaults in 1845. The four buildings are attached in a row on Morton Street and incorporate great details on the building façades as well as cast iron newel posts, railings and Juliette Balconies. Much of that detail has been removed or modified over the years and our current renovation will begin to restore those details." —James Giorgio Sr., property manager, NYC
• "Nos 9-13 (demolished). c. 1874-6, warehouses. Peter Dollar, architect, for Thaddeus Hyatt, pavement-light manufacturer" —Farringdon Road · British History Online
• "CHAPTER VI. BUILDINGS. Sect. 8. Any person receiving a license or permit to install Hyatt lights or other gratings in the sidewalk in any public way shall be required before acting under the same, to give a bond to the city with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the city solicitor, forever to indemnify and hold the city harmless on account of any claims or damages arising through the installation and maintenance of the said Hyatt lights or gratings. Any owner or lessee of premises upon which Hyatt lights or gratings have heretofore been installed and are now maintained, who receives written notice from the claim agent of the city of Lynn, of any defect in such Hyatt lights or gratings, shall remedy the same to the satifaction of said claim agent and within the time specified in said notice. Sect. 9. Any person offending against the provisions of section 8 shall be subject to a penalty of twenty dollars ($20.00) per day for each day such offense continues." —Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Lynn, 1907