T. O. Selfridge Papers 1852-1926 (bulk 1858-1880)

Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884

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Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America and the first to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced his faith. Benjamin was born to Sephardic Jewish parents from Londo...

Fox, Gustavus Vasa, 1821-1883

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Gustavus Vasa Fox served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War. From the description of G. V. Fox letter to H. R. Anthony, 1865 November 10. (University of California, Santa Barbara). WorldCat record id: 746765569 Assistant secretary, U.S. Navy, 1861-1866. From the description of Letter : Ports[mout]h, N.H., [18]65 Aug. 10. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30798411 Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ...

Peirce, Benjamin, 1809-1880

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Peirce (Harvard, A.B., 1829) taught astronomy and mathematics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Benjamin Peirce, 1846-1851 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972841 Peirce (A.B. 1829), mathematician and astronomer, was a tutor (1831-1833) and professor (1833-1880) at Harvard University, where he established the Harvard Observatory. From the description of Correspondence, ca. 1835-1880. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79...

Jervis, John B. (John Bloomfield), 1795-1885

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Engineer. From the description of Papers of John B. Jervis, 1827-1878. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067890 Civil Engineer. John Bloomfield Jervis was born in Huntington, New York, on December 14, 1795. He began his career in his father's lumber business at Rome, New York, and in 1817 he became an axeman on the local survey for the Erie Canal. Jervis became one of the most gifted engineers produced by the so-called "Erie Canal School." By 1823, he...

Merrimack (Frigate)

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Porter, John L. (John Luke), 1813-1893

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Francis, James B. (James Bicheno), 1815-1892

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Engineer. From the description of James B. Francis correspondence, 1851-1852. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450330 ...

United States Darien Exploring Expedition (1870)

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Steele, J. Dutton (John Dutton), 1810-1886

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Confederate States of America. Navy

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Built in Philadelphia as the Habana, the CSS Sumter was originally used as a blockade runner in New Orleans. In 1861, she was purchased for use by the Confederate Government. Under the command of Raphael Semmes, she captured a number of Union flag merchant ships off the coasts of Cuba and South America, as well as other locations in the western hemisphere. When her boilers became unfit for use and repairs and supplies could not be obtained, she was sold at public auction at Gibraltar on December...

Selfridge, T. O. (Thomas Oliver), 1836-1924

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American naval officer. From the description of Autograph dispatch signed : U. S. S. Conestoga off Morganza, to Admiral Porter, 1864 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662025 Naval officer and explorer. From the description of T.O. Selfridge papers, 1852-1926 (bulk 1858-1880). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80938763 Biographical Note 1804, Apr. 24 ...

United States Darien Exploring Expedition (1871 and 1873)

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Ammen, Daniel, 1820-1898

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United States naval officer and author. From the description of Letters to S.S. McClure, 1891-1892. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53478237 Ammen was born on May 16, 1819; was boyhood friend of Ulysses S. Grant; became a midshipman in 1836; undertook long voyages to China and Japan (1845-47), went on expedition up the Paraguay River (1853-54), sailed on Pacific cruise (1857-60); in Civil War, took part in the attack upon Port Royal in the gunboat Seneca and pa...

Davidson, George, 1825-1911

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Biography George Davidson - geodesist, astronomer, geographer and engineer - was born in Nottingham, England, on May 9, 1825. In 1832 he came to the United States with his parents, who settled in Pennsylvania. Upon graduation from Central High School, Philadelphia, he was appointed magnetic observer at Girard College Observatory. In 1845 he began his career with the United States Coast Survey as clerk to Superintendent Alexander D...

Collins, Edward Knight, 1802-1878

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Confederate States of America. Confederate States of America records.

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Pickett, John T. (John Thomas), 1822-1884

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Confederate agent in Mexico. From the description of Papers of John T. Pickett, 1849-1884. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78892874 ...

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1806-1878

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Evans, W. W. (Walton White), 1817-1886

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Cumberland (Frigate)

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