Henry Barnard Papers 1765-1935 (Bulk: 1830-1899)

University of Wisconsin

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The University of Wisconsin-Extension promotes continuing education and lifelong learning by providing statewide access to university resources and research to the people of Wisconsin. Its four divisions are continuing education; cooperative extension; entrepreneurship and economic development; and broadcast and media innovations. From the guide to the University of Wisconsin Extension Program Reports, 1960-1969, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Lewis, Diocletian, 1823-1886

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Diocletian Lewis (March 3, 1823 – May 21, 1886), commonly known as Dr. Dio Lewis, was a prominent temperance leader and physical culture advocate who practiced homeopathy and was the inventor of the beanbag. He was born on a farm near Auburn, New York. He left school at 12 to work in a cotton factory. He later worked at a hoe, axe and scythe factory and went back to attending school. He started teaching school at 15. At 18, he organized a school in Lower Sandusky, Ohio (now Fremont). He ex...

Alcott, William A. (William Andrus), 1798-1859

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William Andrus Alcott (August 6, 1798 – March 29, 1859), also known as William Alexander Alcott, was an American educator, educational reformer, physician, vegetarian and author of 108 books. His works, which include a wide range of topics including educational reform, physical education, school house design, family life, and diet, are still widely cited today. William Alcott was born in Wolcott, Connecticut. His father was a farmer, Obedience Alcott (1776–1847); in the 1820s, like many membe...

Harris, William Torrey, 1835-1909

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Philosopher and educator. Born Sept. 10, 1835, near North Killingly, Conn.; died Nov. 5, 1909, in Providence, R.I. Resident of Concord, Mass., 1880-1889. Began teaching in St. Louis public schools in 1857. Became Assistant Superintendent of Schools in St. Louis in 1866, Superintendent in 1868. Student and scholar of German philosophy, particularly of Hegel. Founded Journal of Speculative Philosophy in 1867. In 1880, resigned position in St. Louis to assist Bronson Alcott and F. B. ...

Willard, Emma, 1787-1870

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American educator; founder of the Emman Willard School for girls. From the description of Letters of Emma Willard [manuscript], 1818-1861. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647996500 Note: The following chronology was prepared by Lucy Townsend and Barbara Wiley for The Papers of Emma Hart Willard, 1787-1870. Guide to the Microfilm Edition . It is based on Emma Willard's memoir addressed to Professor Coggswell (1842), as well as her corr...

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 ...

Gammell, William, 1812-1889

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Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891

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Lyman Copeland Draper (1815-1891), American historian known for his studies of the history of trans-Allegheny West. From 1854 to 1886, he served as director of The State Historical Society of Wisconsin from 1854 to 1886. From the description of Letters from Lyman C. Draper to Benson J. Lossing, 1855-1864. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 302021153 Lyman Copeland Draper was born in Lockport, New York on September 4, 1...

Lord, Asa D., 1816-1875

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Educator and editor, of Ohio. He served as principal of the Western Reserve Teachers' Seminary (1839-1847), Superintendant of Public Schools in Columbus, Ohio (1848-1856), and director of the Institution for the Blind in Columbus (1856-1858). From the description of Papers, ca. 1840-1860. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17938515 ...

Lindsley, Nathaniel Lawrence, 1816-1868

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White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918

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The second International Peace Conference was held at the Hague in 1907. From the description of Hague Peace Conference documents, 1907. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64052217 Ambassador to Russia; first president of Cornell University. From the description of Andrew Dickson White papers, 1901-1902. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155410378 Andrew Dickson White was born at Homer, New York, November 7, 1832. ...

Gregory, John Milton, 1822-1898

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Regent of Illinois Industrial University. From the description of Scrapbooks, 1849-1898. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28410383 ...

Bacon, Leonard, 1802-1881

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American Congregational clergyman, father of Leonard Woolsey Bacon, 1830-1907 From the guide to the Leonard Bacon letters and carte-de-visite, 1842, 1845, 1861, 1881, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin), 1846-1935

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Sprague, Homer B. (Homer Baxter), 1829-1918

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Northend, Charles, 1814-1895

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Abbott, Gorham D., 1807-1874

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Philbrick, John D. (John Dudley), 1818-1886

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Butler, James Davie, 1815-1905

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Ogden, John, 1824-1910

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Beecher, Thomas Kinnicut, 1824-1900

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Orcutt, Hiram, 1815-1899

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Holbrook, Josiah, 1788-1854

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Potter, Elisha R. (Elisha Reynolds), 1811-1882

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Potter (AB, Harvard College, 1830) was admitted to the bar in 1832, and held various positions in Rhode Island government, including associate justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island (1868-1882). From the description of Notebook, ca. 1830. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 236226384 Elisha Reynolds Potter was born on June 20, 1811 in the home of his parents, Elisha Reynolds Potter, Sr. (1764-1835) and Mary (Mawney) Potter in Lit...

Barnard, Henry, 1811-1900

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American educator. From the description of Papers, 1832-1900. (Trinity College Library). WorldCat record id: 50031643 American educator; first US Commissioner of Education 1867-1870. Includes material from Gordon Ford. From the guide to the Henry Barnard letters, 1853, 1856, 1881, 1884, 1888, 1889, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) American educationalist; born Hartford, Conn., January 24, 1811; died Hartford, Con...

Botta, Vincenzo

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Hubbard, S. D. (Samuel Dickinson), 1799-1855

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Samuel Hubbard was the Honorary Curator of Archaeology of the Oakland Museum in the 1920s. He was also the leader of the Doheny Scientific Expedition to Havasu Canyon in 1924. From the description of Their fighting ancestors, 1927. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122446516 ...

Weston, Edward P. (Edward Payson), 1819-1879

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Mason, Lowell, 1792-1872

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American composer and music educator. From the description of The Lowell Mason papers, 1813-1980 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702190298 From the description of The Lowell Mason papers, 1813-1980 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 122354720 Lowell Mason (1792-1872), musical educator and hymn writer, was born in Medfield, Massachusetts. In 1812 he came to Savannah as a bank clerk. In Savannah, he taught singing, and was the orga...

Burrowes, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1805-1871

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Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1835 until 1839; fourth president of Pennsylvania State University from 1868 until 1871. From the description of Thomas H. Burrowes papers, 1836-1839, 1877. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 429768803 ...

Bishop, Nathan, 1808-1880

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Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925

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Thomas Williams Bicknell (1834-1925) was a figure long influential in New England educational circles. After being educated at Thetford Academy, Amherst College, and Brown University (M.A., 1860), Bicknell became a principal in Bristol, R.I. (1860-1864; 1867-1869), also serving in Providence (1864-1867). In 1869, he was named State Commissioner of Public Schools, which post he held until 1874. He became active in the American Institute of Instruction and was named editor of the _New...

Baldwin, Theron, 1801-1870

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Baldwin, a graduate of Yale Theological Seminary, was Secretary for the Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West and founder of Illinois College and first president of Monticello Female Seminary. From the description of Pleas for western colleges and theological seminaries : manuscript, 1845-1863. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612828733 ...

Tappan, Henry Philip, 1805-1881

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First president of the University of Michigan. From the description of Henry P. Tappan letters, 1870-1881. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63534515 First president of University of Michigan. Clergyman. From the description of Letter, 1860, November 18, Ann Arbor, to the Librarian of Brown University. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122593979 First president of University of Michigan. From the description of Henry Philip Tappa...

May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871

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Samuel May was a Unitarian clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to anti-Slavery, temperance, and suffrage, among others. From the description of Samuel J. May diary, 1867. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64691611 Samuel May was a Unitarian Clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to Freedman's Relief, Temperance, and Suffrage, among others. From the descripti...

Stockwell, Thomas B. (Thomas Blanchard), 1839-1906

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Randall, S. S. (Samuel Sidwell), 1809-1881

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Baker, William Spohn, 1824-1897

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Phelps, William F. (William Franklin), 1822-1907

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Kraus-Boelté, Maria, 1836-1918

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Kraus-Boelte was an apostle and practitioner of Friedrich Froebel's methods for kindergarten schools. From the description of Papers, 1896-1977, 1896-1916 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155537661 Educator. From the description of Papers of Maria Kraus-Boelté, 1904-1913. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84557605 ...

Hawkins, Dexter A. (Dexter Arnoll), 1825-1886

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Bassett, Ebenezer Don Carlos, 1833-1908

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Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett (born October 16, 1833, Derby, Connecticut – died November 13, 1908, Brooklyn, New York), United States Ambassador to Haiti from 1869 to 1877. He was the first African American diplomat and the fourth U.S. ambassador to Haiti since the two countries established relations in 1862. His mother was Pequot. From 1857 to 1869 he was the principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia. Ebenezer Bassett was appointed as new leaders emerged among free African A...

Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

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Horace Mann was an educator and a statesman who greatly advanced the cause of universal, free, non-sectarian public schools. Mann also advocated temperance, abolition, hospitals for the mentally ill, and women's rights. From the description of Horace Mann Letter, 1858. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 213372958 Horace Mann, "Father of our Public Schools," was born in Franklin, Massachusetts on May 4, 1796. His family was poor and his father di...

Brooks, Charles, 1795-1872

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Brooks was a Unitarian clergyman born in Medford, Massachusetts. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1816; A.M. 1819. He was the pastor of the 3rd Congregational Church in Hingham (1821-1838) and later professor of Natural History at the University of the City of New York. He was central to the work of establishing normal schools in the United States and is credited with having introduced the term "normal schools" to America. Brooks married Cecilia Williams (d.1837) in 1827, then Charlot...

Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887

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Educator. From the description of Papers of Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, 1863-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451614 Mary Tyler Peabody Mann was an active social reformer, educator, and author. Along with her sisters, Elizabeth Peabody and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, she created and maintained vital connections within the Transcendentalist movement. Mary and her husband, educator Horace Mann, were active abolitionists. The sisters's practical application of optimism and hum...

Russell, Francis Thayer, 1828-1910

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Sartain, John, 1808-1897

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Engraver, portrait and miniature painter John Sartain was born in London in 1808 and moved to the United States in 1830 after a seven year apprenticeship to London engraver John Swaine. Besides his banknote and portrait engraving, Sartain was noted for his magazine engravings. In 1849 he began his own magazine, entitled Sartain's Union Magazine of Letters and Art, but ceased its publication three years later due to financial troubles. Sartain was also the director of the Pennsylvania Academy of ...

Oliver, Henry K. (Henry Kemble), 1800-1885

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Siljeström, P. A. (Per Adam), 1815-1892

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Allen, Jerome, 1830-1894

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White, Emerson E. (Emerson Elbridge), 1829-1902

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Hough, Franklin Benjamin, 1822-1885

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Franklin B. Hough was born in Martinsburg, NY in 1822. He studied medicine and practiced in Somerville, NY from 1848 to 1852. He is described as a "pioneer historian of counties in New York State" and an advocate of forest conservation. In 1855 and 1865, he was Superintendent of the State Census for New York and was also involved in the 1875 census. He was one of seven Commissioners of Parks in New York in 1872 and in 1876 he became a Forestry Agent in the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. He published...

Bernard family

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Lawrence, Edward A. (Edward Alexander), 1808-1883

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Bates, Samuel P. (Samuel Penniman), 1827-1902

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Penna. educator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Harrisburg, PA, to President Grant, 1869 Mar. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270622350 Educator and historical writer, of Pennsylvania. From the description of Family papers, 1850-1934. (Allegheny College). WorldCat record id: 44935227 ...

Barnard, F. A. P. (Frederick Augustus Porter), 1809-1889

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President of Columbia College, New York City. From the description of F.A.P. Barnard correspondence, 1865 Oct. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 761962841 American mathematician who served as president of the University of Mississippi from 1856 to 1858 and as president of Columbia University from 1864 to 1889. From the description of Letter, 1871. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367389595 President of the University of Mississippi, 1856-1858; Chancellor of t...

Durfee, Calvin, 1797-1879

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Calvin Durfee was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on October 6, 1797, the son of John Durfee and Mary Peck. He had one sister, Mary Ann (b. 1810), who married Samuel Lashier of Union, New York. Durfee graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1825, and was ordained in Hunter, New York, on April 21, 1828; he then became the minister of a local church. From 1836-1851, Durfee lived in South Dedham, Massachusetts, and from 1851-1855 he lived in Brooklyn, Ohio. After retur...

Dwight, Francis, 1808-1845

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Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878

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Educator Catharine Esther Beecher, a daughter of Lyman Beecher, was an advocate of education for women and of women teachers. In 1823 she founded the Hartford Female Seminary to educate young women. In 1846, she began a project to send female teachers from the Eastern states to western states and territories, and established training schools for women teachers in several western cities. From the description of Letter, 1847. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 548941345 ...

Kingsley, William Lathrop, 1824-1896

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Smith, Ashbel, 1805-1886

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Confederate officer; physician; promoted to colonel and named commander of the 2nd Texas Infantry Regiment. From the description of Civil War letter of Ashbel Smith, 1862 Nov. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154690530 Texas diplomat, lawyer, physician, soldier, educator, author, and Surgeon-General of the Republic of Texas. From the description of Correspondence, 1843-1851. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122608759 A native of Hartford, Connecticut, As...

United States. Bureau of Education

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Bateman, Newton, 1822-1897

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Newton Bateman (1822-1897), was a prominent educator in Illinois who helped found St. Charles College in Missouri and the University of Illinois at Champaign, and also served as State Superintendent of Schools in Illinois from 1859-1875 and as president of Knox College from 1875-1893. His brother E.B. Bateman served as a surgeon in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War. Following the war he traveled via the Rio Grande to California as a gold prospector. From the description of Letters...

Olmsted, Denison, 1791-1859

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Physician and professor of Connecticut. From the description of Letter, 1838, Sept. 22 : New Haven, Connecticut, to Thomas Cushing. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35201351 Denison Olmsted taught mathematics, natural philosophy, and astronomy at Yale College from 1825-1859. From the description of Notes taken from Profr. Olmsted's lectures on natural philosophy, 1827-1829. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122689401 Fro...

Wells, William Harvey, 1812-1885

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Mansfield, Edward Deering, 1801-1880

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Greene, Samuel Stillman, 1810-1883

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Hart, John S. (John Seely), 1810-1877

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American educator and editor, co-editor of Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art from 1849-1851; founder and first editor of the Sunday School Times (1859-1871), and an influential writer in the Sunday-school movement; principal of several schools; and professor of rhetoric and English literature at the College of New Jersey (which later became Princeton University) from 1872-1874. From the description of John S. Hart letters, 1834-1877. (Cornell University Library). WorldCa...

Colburn, Dana P. (Dana Pond), 1823-1859

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Foster, Vere, 1819-1900

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Perry, Amos, 1812-1899

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A.S. Barnes & Co.

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Correspondence to Theodore Dreiser from Henry B. and Courtland D. Barnes, Directors, and Ripley Hitchcock and A. R. Cross, editors, A. S. Barnes & Co. From the description of Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1905-1911. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155890696 ...

Quick, Robert Hebert, 1831-1891

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Epithet: Reverend British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000566.0x0001bf English educationist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to William Cowper-Temple, 1878 Apr. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 770396938 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to William Cowper-Temple, 1878 Apr. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 770394406 ...

Howe, S. G. (Samuel Gridley), 1801-1876

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Physician, reformer, and husband of Julia Ward Howe. From the description of Papers, 1868. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 46344998 Humanitarian crusader for many causes including Greek freedom, education for the disabled, prison reform, abolition, and black suffrage, Howe founded the Perkins School for the Blind and was the chairman of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities. When just out of the Harvard Medical School, he went to Greece as an army surgeon...

Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893

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Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was at the center of the Transcendentalist movement in New England. Although she wrote and published many works, she is best remembered for her support and friendship of Emerson, Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller and many others. She published the journal Dial, founded the famous West Street Book Shop and Publishing House, and introduced kindergarten to America. From the description of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letters, 1846-1854. (Pennsylvania State University Libra...

Rickoff, Andrew J. (Andrew Jackson), 1824-1899

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Swan, William D. (William Draper), 1809-1864

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