Gillett Family Papers 1848-c. 1920

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Gillett Family Papers 1848-c. 1920

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Scrapbook, journal, herbarium, photographs and college notebooks of various members of the Gillett family, many members of which attended Amherst College: Edward Bates Gillett (AC 1839), Frederick Huntington Gillett (AC 1874), Arthur Lincoln Gillett (AC 1880), and Robert Swift Gillett (AC 1916). The herbarium is believed to have been kept by Lucy Douglass Fowler Gillett.

2 archives boxes; 2 flat boxes; (1.5 linear ft.)

Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

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Gillett, Frederick Huntington, 1851-1935

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Frederick Huntington Gillett (October 16, 1851 – July 31, 1935) was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts state government and both houses of the U.S. Congress between 1879 and 1931, including six years as Speaker of the House. Frederick H. Gillett was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, to Edward Bates Gillett (1817–1899) and Lucy Fowler Gillett (1830–1916). He graduated from Amherst College, where he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, in 1874 and Harvard Law Scho...

Gillett, Robert Swift

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Gillett, Edward Bates

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Gillett, Arthur L.

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Gillett, Lucy Douglass Fowler

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Gillett family.

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Edward Bates Gillett (1817-1890) graduated from Amherst in 1839 and from Harvard Law School in 1841. He was the District Attorney for Hamden and Berkshire Counties from 1856 to 1871, during which time his eloquence in the courtroom became the stuff of legend. Two famous cases he tried, the Starkweather libel suit and the prosecution of "the Northampton Bank Robbers," got state- and even nation-wide attention and he was pressed to run for governor of Massachusetts but declined. He wa...