James Whitcomb Riley collection of papers 1878-[1964 1878-1915

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...

Habberton, John, 1842-1921

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Served in the Civil War, with New York's 1st Regiment Mounted Rifles, Co. K and M and the 13th Regiment Cavalry. From the description of The John Habberton papers, 1861-1921, bulk 1861-1865. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 21139482 Author. From the description of Letter of John Habberton, 1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453664 ...

Young, Owen D., 1874-1962

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Owen D. Young was born on October 27, 1874 in VanHornesville, New York, educated at St. Lawrence University and Boston University. His travels took him all over the United States and Eruope. He died July 11, 1962 in St. Augustine and is buried in VanHornesville, New York. From the description of Owen D. Young Collection, 1874-1962. (St. Lawrence University). WorldCat record id: 39776049 Lawyer. Young (1874-1962) graduated from St. Lawrence University...

Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916

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American Poet. From the description of Little Orphant Annie. Last stanza : AMsS, [s.d.]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122540708 James Whitcomb Riley was an American poet, journalist, and lecturer. From the description of James Whitcomb Riley collection of papers, 1878-[1964] bulk (1878-1915). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122363959 From the guide to the James Whitcomb Riley collection of papers, 1878-[1964, 1878-...

Johnson, Robert Vincent

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Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones), 1844-1914

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American humorist and clergyman. From the description of Letters, 1877-1914. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122561397 American humorist and lecturer. From the description of ALS, [ca. 1885] Mar. 8, San Francisco, to Thomas G. Gentry. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122540649 Robert Jones Burdette was an American humorist and lecturer. Born in Pennsylvania and raised in Illinois, he served with distinction in the...

Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914

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American poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Louisville, to Miss Greene, 1914 Nov. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129671 From the description of The Vikings : autograph poem signed, 1886 Aug. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270135829 Poet and author of Louisville, Kentucky. From the description of Madison Julius Cawein : miscellaneous papers, 1889-1916. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 46764382 ...

Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958

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Poet. From the description of Papers of Alfred Noyes, 1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454022 Author Alfred Noyes was born in England and attended Oxford, although he left without earning a degree. He published his first book of poems at the age of twenty-one, and within ten years had become the most commercially successful poet of his day. Popular and prolific, Noyes wrote disarming, skillful verse in traditional metre, and actively opposed the Modernist movement. He ...

Clawson, John L. (John Lewis), 1865-1933

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Businessman and bibliophile. Born in Campbell, Steuben County, N.Y., 17 Mar. 1865; moved to Buffalo in 1891. He was a member of Bean, LaDue & Clawson, manufacturers of men's clothing until 1897, when he formed a partnership with James P. Wilson. Clawson & Wilsonsoon became the largest wholesale drygoods business in New York State. Mayor James N. Adam appointed Clawson chairman of a committee to organize Buffalo's Old Home Week celebration in 1907. From the description of Old ...

Witt-Diamant, Ruth

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Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup),

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Appleton, Harriet R. F

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Friberger, Edward

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Young, Marguerite, 1908-1995

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