Jared Sparks letterbooks 1789-1866

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

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Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1706] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first United States postmaster general. As a scientist, he was a major figure in ...

Abbot, G. J.

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Minister and diplomat; graduate of Harvard College, 1835; private secretary to Daniel Webster, 1850-1852; professor at the Theological School at Meadville, Pa. ca. 1870; officer in the State Department, posted to England 1864-1870, and Canada 1877-1879. George Jacob Abbot, son of the Rev. Jacob Abbot, a Unitarian minister, was born in Windham, N.H. He graduated from Harvard College in 1835, after which he opened a boys' school in Washington, D.C. After a clerkship in t...

Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

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Hoadly, Charles J. (Charles Jeremy), 1828-1900

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Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864

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Franklin Bache was a Philadelphia physician, professor of chemistry, and author. From the description of Papers, 1818-1861 (inclusive), 1833-1861 (bulk). (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122624908 ...

Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867

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Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an important scientific reformer during the early nineteenth century. From his position as superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and through leadership roles in the scientific institutions of the time, Bache helped bring American science into alignment with the professional nature of its European counterpart. In addition, Bache fostered the reform of public education in America. On July 19, 1806 Alexander Dalla...

Potter, Alonzo, 1800-1865

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Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Pennyslvania. From the description of Alonzo Potter papers, 1840-1869. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 663477638 ...

Childs, George W. (George William), 1829-1894

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George W. Childs (1829-1894) was the founder and editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and a noted philanthropist. Born in Baltimore, he moved to Philadelphia to work for a bookseller at age fourteen and soon went into business for himself at the age of eighteen. In 1849, he became a partner in the publishing firm of R. E. Petersen & Company, and in 1860 he formed a partnership with the influential publisher J. P. Lippincott. In 1864, he purchased the Philadelphia Public Ledger, in which Anth...

Régnier, chef du Dépôt des archives

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Ministre des Affaires étrangères

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Ministre de la marine

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Bonaparte, Jérôme Napoléon, 1830-1893

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Officer in the U.S. and French armies; grand-nephew of Napoleon I (Bonaparte); b. at Baltimore, Md.; d. at Pride's Crossing, Mass. From the description of Account book, 1845-1850. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70971864 ...

Ministre de la guerre.

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Emperor and Empress of the French.

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King, Charles, 1789-1867

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Charles King was educated in England. After working in a mercantile house and having an unsuccessful tenure as the editor of the New York American, he was elected president of Columbia College in 1849 and served for 15 years with notable changes for the college under his leadership. From the description of Letter, 1852 Jan. 13, New York City [to] Peter Force. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 19771774 ...

La Salle, René Robert, sieur de, 1643-1687

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Lee, Charles Carter, 1798-1871

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Charles Carter Lee (1798-1871) was a Virginia lawyer and poet. From the description of Collection, 1768-1931 (bulk 1813-1870) [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122555916 ...

Whipple, William J. (William Jennison), 1787-1850

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Lewis, Morgan, 1754-1844

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Lewis served in the American army during the Revolutionary War. He was a member of the New York Supreme Court from 1790-1804, and governor of New York from 1804-1807. Later, her served in the New York Senate and was a general in the War of 1812. From the description of Letter, 20 November 1832. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234341743 ...

Lewis, Thomas J.

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Lewis, W. L., printer

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Lewis, Addison M. (Addison Murdock), 1789-1857

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Lewis, Robert, 1769-1829

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Nephew and private secretary of George Washington. From the description of Journals : of Robert Lewis, 1789. (Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union). WorldCat record id: 30358808 ...

Campbell, S. Y.

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Lewis, F., active 1816

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Storrow, Samuel Appleton, 1787-1837

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Judge advocate, U. S. Army. Born 1787. From the description of Samuel Appleton Storrow correspondence, 1821 September 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980541 ...

Storrow, Susan, 1807-1843

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Storrow, Ann G. (Ann Gillam), 1784-1862

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Fox, Charles, 1794-1864

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Morris, Anne Cary, 1774-1837

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Wife of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816, statesman and diplomat). From the description of Papers, 1818-1828. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155488435 ...

Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess, 1780-1863

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British politician and Irish peer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to an unidentified recipient, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 593760516 ...

Allen, Ira H. (Ira Hayden), 1790-1866

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Mill owner. From the description of ALS, 1835 August 27, Irasburgh, [Vermont], to Benjamin Hinman. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935469 ...

Willard, Joseph, 1798-1865

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Erskine, Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron, 1750-1823

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Thomas Erskine, first Baron Erskine, British lord chancellor. From the guide to the Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine manuscript material : 2 items, ca. 1820's-1823, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Erskine won fame for his defence work in many of the show trials of the 1790's and was considered England's greatest practicing advocate in libel and adultery litigation. From the description of Correspondence...

Le Ray de Chaumont, James, 1760-1841

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Entrepreneur. From the description of James Le Ray de Chaumont papers, 1781-1835. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63934311 ...

Gray, Frederick T. (Frederick Turell), 1804-1855

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Meredith, William, 1772-1844

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Castillo y Ayensa, José del, 1795-1861

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Calderón de la Barca, Ángel, 1790-1861

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Sullivan, Jeremiah, 1794-1870

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Farnham, John H. (John Hay), 1791-1833

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John Hay Farnham was born in Massachusetts but moved first to Kentucky and then to Indiana where he became involved in politics. From the description of Farnham, John Hay, 1791-1833 1814-1819 Letters. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49236125 ...

Lafayette, Georges Washington Louis Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1779-1849

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Son of the American Revolutionary hero, the marquis de Lafayette. From the description of Letter of Georges Washington Louis Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 1844. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014865 ...

Everett, Alexander Hill, 1790-1847

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Alexander Hill Everett was a distinguished early American diplomat, writer, and man of letters. He entered Harvard at the age of twelve, and apprenticed at the law office of John Quincy Adams. He served in a variety of notable diplomatic posts, and contributed to the evolution of American culture and literary tradition. His emphasis was to encourage writers to look beyond the Anglo-Saxon tradition for their themes and inspiration. From the description of Alexander Hill Ev...

Everett, Lucretia Orne Peabody, 1786-1862

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Everett, John, 1801-1826

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Everett, Thomas H. (Thomas Huse), 1799-1839

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Everett, Stevens, 1797-1833

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Everett, Oliver, publisher

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Everett, Charlotte Gray, 1800-1859

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Wife of Edward Everett British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001188.0x0000ed ...

Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909

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Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was an American author and Unitarian minister. Hale was involved in many social reform movements, including abolition and popular education. He is best known for his 1863 short story, "The Man Without a Country," which promoted patriotic support of the Union. From the guide to the Edward Everett Hale Letters, 1884-1897, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

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Edward Everett was an American statesman, clergyman, and orator, as well as professor of Greek at Harvard University and president of Harvard University, 1846-1849. Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard with highest honors in 1811, completing an M.A. in Divinity in 1814. After a brief stint as a minister, Harvard offered him the newly created position of Professor of Greek; brilliant but untrained, Everett went to Göttingen to prepare for...

Akerman, John Yonge, 1806-1873

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1836-1860 Secretary of the Numismatic Society of London; 1848-1853 Joint Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries; 1853-1860 Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries. Epithet: numismatist and antiquary British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x000060 ...

Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871

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Lawyer, politician, antiquary, diplomat employed as secretary by the United States Legation to Mexico, and author and editor of works on the history of Florida and the Spanish colonies of North America; resident of Florida. From the description of Buckingham Smith papers, 1613-1941. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 475929980 ...

Alfred Lapworth & Co.

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Carpet manufacturers, located in Salisbury, where Lapworth purchased the Wilton Royal Carpet Factory in 1860. The Axminster carpet factory being no longer in operation, Lapworth & Co. became the chief suppliers of the top-of-the-market carpets known as "Axminster."...

D. & C. MacIver

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Liverpool-based steamship company, owned by David and Charles MacIver....

Sparks, Florence, 1845-1915

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Allemye, Mlle.

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Burton, Alexander, 1780-

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Coffin, Alexander, 1740-1839

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Smith, Caleb B. (Caleb Blood), 1808-1864

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Caleb Blood Smith, lawyer, congressman, and Secretary of the Interior. Smith was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives, and was reelected in 1834, 1835, and 1836. He represented Indiana in the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congress serving on the Committee of Foreign Affairs, and chairing the Committee on Territories. Known for his staunch opposition to the Mexican War, he refused another nomination and left Congress in 1849. He practiced law in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was p...

Smith, J. Cutts (John Cutts)

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John Cutts Smith (later John Smith Cutts) was a Boston minister and abolitionist; he was one of the founders of the New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1832....

Smith, William, 1769-1847

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William Smith (1769-1847), of New York and Quebec, was the son of American Loyalist William Smith Jr. (1728-1793) and Janet Livingston Smith (1730-1819). He was a Canadian provincial government official, historian and militia officer. From the description of William Smith letters to Henry Brevoort Jr, 1812, 1815. (New York Public Library). ...

Smith, Thomas P.

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Smith, S. G.

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Smith, William, 1756-1835

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William Smith, M. P. (1756-1835), was an important figure in English politics for about 50 years. He was interested in many reform measures. From the guide to the William Smith Papers, 1785-1860, (Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) ...

Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell, 1803-1848

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afterwards Slidell Mackenzie; Lieutenant; US Navy; author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001130.0x00031f ...

McCaine, Alexander, -1856

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Alexander, Walter S. (Walter Scott), 1835-1900

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Alden, Joseph, 1807-1885

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Alden, J. W. (Joseph Warren), 1808-

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Albro, John A. (John Adams), 1799-1866

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Aiken, Lucy, 1781-1864

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Affleck, Mary Clarke Vassall, Lady, 1748-1835

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Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

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John Quincy Adams (b. July 11, 1767, Braintree, Massachusetts-d. February 23, 1848, Washington, D.C.) was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, United States Senator, member of the House of Representatives, and the sixth President of the United States. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later the Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. He was the son of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. As a diplomat, Adams played an important role in neg...

Adair, B. F., of Maysville, Ky.

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Adam, William, 1796-1881

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Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886

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American diplomat, lawyer, and biographer; son of John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts 1859-61, U.S. Minister to England, 1861-68; U.S. Arbitrator at the Geneva Tribunal ("Alabama" claims), 1871-72. From the guide to the Charles Francis Adams letters, 1844-1878, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Adams, Josiah, 1781-1854

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Josiah Adams was a publisher and bookseller in Brick Church Chapel, New York. From the description of The new world : a game of American history : from discovery to James K. Polk / Josiah Adams, 1845. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 84665880 ...

Adams, J. (Jasper), 1793-1841

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Rev. Dr. Jasper Adams served as president of the College of Charleston, S.C., president of Hobart College, and Chaplain, 1838-1840, at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point, N.Y.); ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1820; Adams was married, first, to Mercy Wheeler, and second, to Placidia Mayrant, with whom he was father of Francis Mayrant Adams (1821-1884). From the description of J. Adams papers, 1828-1834. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 698775933 ...

Adams, John Calvin, 1810-1885

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Adams, C., Jr.

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J. S. & C. Adams

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Merriman, T. Adams (Trueman Adams), 1839-1892

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Johnston family

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Goddard [family]

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Cabots [family]

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Williams family

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Adams, W. H., active 1850-1852

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Adams, Samuel, of Boston, active 1820

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Adams, Phebe

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Adams, J. A., active 1838

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Baker, James T. (James Thomas), 1820-

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Pickering, Lizzie Sparks, 1849-1906

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Faulkner, Alonzo D., active 1858

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Walcott, Martha P. (Martha Pickman), 1802-1885

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Gammell, William, 1812-1889

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Bartlett, Richard, 1794-1837

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Sabine, Lorenzo, 1803-1877

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Author, historian, businessman, and U.S. representative; b. in Lisbon, N.H.; spent 20 years in Eastport, Me., and lived in Framingham and Roxbury, Mass.; served in Maine State Legislature and served as Whig representative from Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress from 1852-1853; in 1857 became secretary to Boston Board of Trade, a position he held for 10 years. From the description of Papers, 1821-1870. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70960744 ...

Peck, John Mason, 1789-1858

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Born in Connecticut, came west as an itinerant evangelist and strong abolitionist, settled in St. Clair County, Illinois. In 1827 he opened his Rock Spring Theological Seminary and High School which moved to Alton, Illinois in 1832 and was renamed Shurtleff College. From the description of Papers, 1819-1856. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53458400 ...

Mackie, John Milton, 1813-1894

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Copway, George, 1818-1869

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George Copway (1818 – June 27, 1869) was a Mississaugas Ojibwa writer, ethnographer, Methodist missionary, lecturer, and advocate of indigenous peoples. His Ojibwa name was Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh (Gaagigegaabaw in the Fiero orthography), meaning "He Who Stands Forever." In 1847 he published a memoir about his life and time as a missionary. This work made him Canada's first literary celebrity in the United States. In 1851 he published The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of The Ojibway...

Whiting, Henry, 1788-1851

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Henry Whiting was born in Lancaster, Mass. in 1788. Whiting entered the U.S. Army in 1808, becoming a Second Lieutenant a year later, and a First Lieutenant in 1811. He worked as an aide to General J.P. Boyd and General Alexander Macomb, and in 1817 was promoted to Captain. Whiting was made brigadier-general of the U.S. Army on Feb. 23, 1847. He was a regent of the University of Michigan, and Secretary of the Michigan Historical Society, 1828-1833, and wrote on scientific and other subjects. Hen...

Bradford, Gamaliel, 1795-1839

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Gamaliel Bradford, Massachusetts physician, was born in Boston on 17 Nov. 1795. He married Sophia Blake Rice and had at least one child, banker Gamaliel Bradford (1831-1911). Bradford attended Harvard University and received an A.B. in 1814 and an A.M. and M.D. in 1819. From 1833 to 1839, he was the superintendent of Massachusetts General Hospital. Gamaliel Bradford died of an epileptic seizure in Boston on 22 Oct. 1839. From the description of Daybook, no. I, 1819-1826. (College of...

Appleton, J., active 1860

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Silsbee, Nathaniel D. (Nathaniel Devereux), 1830-1912

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Silsbee, Nathaniel, 1804-1881

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Saltonstall, Georgiana C. (Georgiana Crowninshield), 1824-1901

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Silsbee, M. C. D. (Marianne Cabot Devereux), 1812-1889

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Harris, Thaddeus William, 1795-1856

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Harris (Harvard, A.B. 1815; M.D. 1820) served as Librarian of Harvard, 1831-1856 and also lectured on natural history at Harvard, 1837-1842. He published about 100 articles on insects and insect-related diseases, compiled indexes to major works on entomology, and also wrote on squashes and pumpkins for the New England farmer. From the description of Papes of Thaddeus William Harris, 1818?-1852 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 40961354 ...

Bond, William Cranch, 1789-1859

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Ticknor, George, 1791-1871

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George Ticknor (1791-1871), educator and author, served as the first Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard from 1817 to 1835. After his arrival at Harvard, Ticknor became disenchanted with the school curriculum, characterizing the College as a well-disciplined high school, and began an effort to reorganize the College around four main goals: the division of students in courses according to academic proficiency and merit; the division of the ...

Ticknor, Anna, 1800-1885

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Mrs. Anna Eliot Ticknor was the wife of George Ticknor (1791-1871) educator and author; the daughter of Samuel Eliot, a Boston merchant. From the description of Papers, 1823-1885. (Boston Public Library). WorldCat record id: 37601590 ...

Ticknor, Susan, of Newburyport, Mass.

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Ticknor, William D. (William Davis), 1810-1864

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American publisher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Mr. Clark, 1859 Sept. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572593 ...

Kingsley, James L. (James Luce), 1778-1852

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Renwick, James, 1790-1863

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New York engineer and professor. From the description of Letter, 1830, Dec. 3 : New York City. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35284145 ...

Chase, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1829-1913

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Chase, Thomas, 1827-1892

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Thomas Chase was the son of Anthony and Lydia (Earle) Chase of Worcestor, Ma. He began teaching philosophy, classical and English literature at Haverford College in 1855 and was named president in 1875. In 1885 he resigned due to failing health. He served on the American Committee for the revision of the Bible from 1881-1894. From the description of Papers, 1843-1947 (bulk 1843-1892). (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 26445069 ...

Saltonstall, Henry, 1828-1894

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Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...

Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907

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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, educator and college president, was born in Boston, December 5, 1822 and married the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz in 1850. She was an educational reformer, member of the Woman's Education Association, but never an advocate of women's suffrage or of co-education. ECA administered the Agassiz School for Girls from 1855 to 1863. She was one of the managers of the program for the Private Collegiate Instruction for Women (also known as the Harvard Annex); was p...

Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1794-1867

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Loring was a prominent Boston lawyer and a Massachusetts State Senator in 1862. He married Anna Pierce Brace (d.1836) in 1818 and was a Harvard College fellow from 1838-1857. From the guide to the Papers, 1768-1866., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Eliot, Samuel Atkins, 1798-1862

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Samuel Atkins Eliot was born in Boston, Mass., March 5, 1798; attended the Boston Latin School; was graduated from Harvard University in 1817 and from the divinity school in 1820; member of the State house of representatives 1834-1837; mayor of Boston 1837-1839; served in the State senate in 1843-1844; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert C. Winthrop and served from August 22, 1850, to March 3, 1851; declined to be a candidate for...

Palfrey, John Gorham, 1796-1881

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John Gorham Palfrey was a Unitarian minister, professor at Harvard Divinity School, editor of the North American Review, congressman from Massachusetts (1847-1849), postmaster of Boston (1861-1867), and historian, best known for his multi-volume History of New England. From the description of Letters to William Taylor Palfrey, 1818-1866. (Harvard University, Wadsworth House). WorldCat record id: 77703801 ...

Lord, Nathan, 1793-1870

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Nathan Lord was the sixth president of Dartmouth College; he was in office from 1828 to 1863. He was born in Berwick, Maine in 1792, and was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1809. In 1815 he was graduated from Andover Theological Seminary. He received his DD from Bowdoin in 1828 and his LL. D. from Bowdoin in 1864. He was a trustee of Dartmouth College from 1821 to 1863. He died in Hanover, N.H. in 1870. From the description of Papers, 1830-1965. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldC...

Channing, Miss, daughter of Walter Channing

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Channing, Mrs. F.

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Parsons, Theophilus, 1797-1882

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Parsons, a lawyer, was a professor at the Harvard Law School (1848-1869) and the author of numerous legal texts and religious essays. From the description of Papers, ca. 1848-1913 (inclusive), 1870-1881 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122590226 ...

Folsom, Charles, 1794-1872

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Charles Folsom (Harvard, A.B., 1813) taught Italian and served as librarian at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Charles Folsom, 1829. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972777 ...

Folsom, Susanna Sarah McKean, 1805-1887

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Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859

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William Hickling Prescott, born in Salem, Massachusetts to a prominent family, wrote romantic and highly-regarded works of Spanish and Latin American history. From the guide to the Letters to Richard Bentley, 1837-1858., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Ticknor and Fields

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Ticknor and Fields of Boston, Massachusetts was the premier "literary" publishing house in the United States during the middle years of the nineteenth century. Ticknor and Fields originated in the firm of Allen and Ticknor established in 1832. The partners in Ticknor and Fields were William D. Ticknor (one of the partners in Allen and Ticknor) and James T. Fields, who entered the firm as a junior partner in 1843. Fields edited the Atlantic monthly from 1861-1870. Fields was also a wri...

Abbey, W. M., of Philadelphia, active 1857

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Abbot, Abiel, 1770-1828

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Minister of Congregational churches in Haverhill (1795-1803) and Beverly (1803-1828) Massachusetts, born in Andover (Mass.). A graduate of Harvard, Abiel Abbot married Eunice Wales of Dorchester (Mass.) in 1795. In the fall of 1818 Abbot, who suffered from a lung disorder, set out for South Carolina to improve his health. After spending eight weeks in Charleston, Abbot spent two months as a guest of James Legare at his St. John's, Colleton Parish, South Carolina estate. In March Abbot went to Sa...

Abbot, Benjamin, 1762-1849

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Headmaster of Phillips Exeter Academy (Exeter, N.H.). From the description of Letter : Exeter, N.H. to Abiel Abbot, Petterborough, N.H., 1844 Nov. 8. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103867 ...

Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879

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Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) was an American writer of juvenile literature, series and individual books for boys and girls, throughout the 19th century. Congressional clergyman, educator. ...

Abbott, L. C.

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Abbott, William, active 1828

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