William Barton Rogers papers

Richards, Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta), 1842-1911

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Ellen Swallow was born 3 December 1842 in Dunstable, Massachusetts. She received a B.S. from Vassar College in 1870. She earned another B.S. from M.I.T. in 1873 and, in the same year, an M.A. from Vassar. She studied for a doctorate at M.I.T., but never received it, reportedly because "the heads of the department did not wish a woman to receive the first D.S. in chemistry." In 1875 she married M.I.T. chemistry professor, Robert H. Richards, and devoted the next ten years to advocating for scien...

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...

Hitchcock, Edward, 1828-1911

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Physician and faculty member, Amherst College. From the description of Papers, 1852-1855, Amherst, Mass. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35091769 Edward "Doc" Hitchcock, eldest son of geologist and Amherst College President Edward Hitchcock and artist Orra White Hitchcock, graduated from Amherst in the Class of 1849 and received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Hitchcock was Professor of Hygiene and Physical Education at Amherst College, 1861-1911, college physici...

Webb, Thomas H. (Thomas Hopkins), 1801-1866

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Epithet: writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000623.0x000037 ...

Rogers, William Barton, 1804-1882

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Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Virginia from 1835-1853. In the years following his departure, he founded and was president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Boston. From the description of Papers of William Barton Rogers [manuscript], 1843 December 19. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647837261 Shields was a student from Cumberland County, Va.; afterwards a captain and surgeon, C.S.A., then physician and farmer in Union Count...

Crosby, William O. (William Otis), 1850-1925

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William Otis Crosby, 1850-1925, SB 1876, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, served as instructor in the Department of Geology, 1878-1883; assistant professor, 1883-1902; associate professor, 1902-1906; and professor, 1906-1907. He consulted on subways and tunnels for the Boston Transit Commission; advised on the Boston dry dock; acted as advisor to the Charles River Dam Commission for the development of the Charles River Basin Project; and conducted an investigation of the foundation conditi...

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

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The National Academy of Sciences, founded in Washington, D. C., in 1863, grew out of a desire for a body of scientists to give advice on scientific matters to the federal government. Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian, was a force behind its creation. From the description of National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1887 Records. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78403445 ...

Holman, Silas W. (Silas Whitcomb), 1856-1900

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Silas Whitcomb Holman (1856-1900) was an 1876 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), earning the degree of SB in physics. Upon his graduation he was appointed an assistant in the Department of Physics. He stayed at MIT throughout his life, moving up the ranks to instructor (1880), assistant professor (1882), associate professor (1885), professor (1893), and professor emeritus(1897). Holman attended Cambridge public schools and, after three years of ...

Kneeland, Samuel, 1821-1888

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Physician and naturalist of Boston. From the description of Letter, 1887, Mar. 9 : Boston, to Prof. Le Metayer de Guichainville, New York. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35130210 Samuel Kneeland was a physician and zoologist. From the description of Correspondence, 1883-1888. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122616041 From the guide to the Samuel Kneeland correspondence, 1883-1888, 1883-1888, (American Philosophical S...

Rogers, James B., 1803-1852

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Association of American geologists and naturalists

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Dalton, Charles Henry, 1826-1908.

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Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873

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Merchant and antislavery leader. From the description of The papers of Lewis Tappan [microform], 1809-1903. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852969 Abolitionist from New York State; assisted the Amistad slaves; among the founders of the American Missionary Association in 1846, which began more than 100 anti-slavery Congregational churches throughout the Midwest, and after the American Civil War, founded numerous schools and colleges to aid in the educatio...

Cross, Charles R. (Charles Robert), 1848-1921

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Ross, M. D.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Edmund W. Sinnott was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the time of this correspondence. Walter G. Berl was an editor for the Association. From the description of Letters, 1948-1971, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155878457 ...

Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867

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Lawyer, founder of Free Soil Party in Massachusetts, governor of Massachusetts, 1861-1866. From the description of ALS, 1861 Oct. 19, New York, N.Y., to an unknown correspondent. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122524861 Prominent anti-slavery lawyer and Civil War governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Papers, 1772-1895, [microform]. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 25618330 Andrew was Governor of Massachusetts ...

Hilgard, J. E. (Julius Erasmus), 1825-1891

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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 Dallas Bache wa...

Rogers, Henry D. (Henry Darwin), 1808-1866

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Epithet: LLD, Professor at Glasgow University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001391.0x0000a0 State geologist for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. From the description of Catalogue of the specimens composing the first state geological cabinet deposited in Harrisburg. [archival material]. 1837-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122581671 Epithet: geologist British Library Arch...

Nichols, Wm. Ripley (William Ripley), 1847-1886

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Atkinson, Edward, 1827-1905

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Economist. From the description of Papers of Edward Atkinson, 1882-1887. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449908 Edward Atkinson was an American economist and underwriter. From the description of Edward Atkinson letters, 1868-1898. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122575952 From the guide to the Edward Atkinson letters, 1868-1898, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) American author, industrialist, and economist. ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alumni Association

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Newcomb, Simon, 1847-1886

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Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

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Eliot served as president of Harvard University (1869-1909). From the description of Correspondence of Charles W. Eliot, 1870-1920. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339031 Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was President of Harvard University from March 12, 1869 to May 19, 1909. He also taught mathematics and chemistry at Harvard University (1858-1863) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1865-1869). Eliot was one of the most influential educa...

Runkle, John Daniel, 1822-1902

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John Daniel Runkle, 1822-1902, SB, MA, 1851, Harvard College, was the second president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1870 to 1878, having served as acting president from 1868 to 1870. He was professor of mathematics from 1865 to 1902. Earlier in 1860 he was a member of the committee that prepared the " Objects and Plan of an Institute of Technology," which led to the establishment of MIT in 1861, and he worked closely with the founder and first president of...

Storer, Frank H. (Frank Humphreys), 1832-1914

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Storer (Harvard, S.B., 1855) taught agricultural chemistry and served as Dean of Bussey Institution at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Francis Humphreys Storer, 1874-1907 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972891 ...

Rogers, R. E. (Robert Empie), 1813-1884

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U.S. chemist; professor of chemistry at the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania. From the description of Notes on Roger's [sic] lectures of chemistry, 1868-1869 : [University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,] / taken by George Douglas Meriwether. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31932522 ...

Ordway, John M. (John Morse), 1823-1909

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Richards, Robert H. (Robert Hallowell), 1844-1945

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Robert H. Richards was the son of Henry and Laura E. Richards, of Gardiner, Me. He was an American mining engineer, metallurgist, and educator, born at Gardiner, Me. In 1868 with the first class to leave the institution, he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and there he taught for 46 years, becoming professor of mineralogy and assaying in 1871, head of the department of mining engineering in 1873, and in 1884 also professor of Metallurgy. Rosalind Richards, author and lit...

Crafts, James Mason, 1839-1917

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Lanza, Gaetano, 1848-1928

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Rogers, Emma (Emma Savage)

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Society of Arts

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1862-1865 In 1862, William Barton Rogers issued a notice for the first meeting of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Seventeen persons responded to the notice and the meeting was convened on April 8 at the rooms of the Boston Board of Trade. The Act of Incorporation of M.I.T. was read and the first By-Laws of the Institute were enacted. The group thus convened referred to themselves as a Society of Arts. William Barton Rogers envisioned that the Society would be ...

Committee of Associated Institutions of Science and Arts (Boston, Mass.)

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