Walter Nickerson Hill Papers Hill (Walter Nickerson) Papers (bulk 1870-1884) 1860-1905

Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791

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Francis Hopkinson (October 2, 1737 [O.S. September 21, 1737] – May 9, 1791) was an American Founding Father, judge, author and composer. He designed Continental paper money and two early versions of flags, one for the United States and one for the United States Navy. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776 as a delegate from New Jersey. Born in Philadelphia, Province of Pennsylvania, British America, Hopkinson received an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1757 from the Col...

Abbot, Henry Larcom, 1831-1927

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Henry Larcom Abbot (born August 13, 1831, Beverly, Massachusetts - died October 1, 1927, Cambridge, Massachusetts), army officer and engineer, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. He was the older brother of Francis Ellingwood Abbot, an influential religious radical. Upon his graduation from West Point in 1854, Abbot was commissioned in the engineers and assigned to duty with the Pacific Coast Railway. For several years from 1857, he was associated with Captain Andrew A. Humphreys in a study of f...

Hare, Robert, 1781-1858

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Philadelphia chemist and educator. From the description of ALS : Boston, to Thomas P. Jones, 1843 July 12. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86138969 From the description of ALS and enclosure : Boston, to Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, 1843 Aug. 28. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122633648 From the description of ALS : Boston, to Thomas P. Jones, 1843 Aug. 29. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86156167 ...

Gibbs, Wolcott, 1822-1908

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Gibbs received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1888. He served as Dean of Lawrence Scientific School and Dean of School of Mining and Practical Engineering, and taught chemistry and physics. From the description of Papers of Wolcott Gibbs, 1885-1944 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069357 Chemist (Ammonia-cobalt compounds; metals of platinum group; new methods of analysis; complex inorganic acids). A.M. Columbia College, 1841; M.D. Columbia College...

Trowbridge, John, 1843-1923

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company-–History

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Wilder, John Thomas, 1830-1917

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Union Army officer; businessman in Chattanooga after the Civil War and Mayor of the city (1871-1872). From the description of John T. Wilder papers, 1862-1899. (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga). WorldCat record id: 60378950 ...

Hill, Walter Nickerson, 1846-1884.

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Walter Nickerson Hill was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1846. He held the position of chemist at the U.S. Torpedo Station, in Newport, R.I. from 1869-1881. From the description of Lecture, [n.d.] (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 17939610 Chemist; experimented with explosives. From the description of Papers, 1860-1905. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122318579 Walter Nickerson Hill was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Alber...

Nobel, Alfred Bernhard, 1833-1896

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Swedish chemist; founder of the Nobel prizes. From the description of Autograph letter signed : San Remo, to Oscar Ljungström in Stockholm, 1896 Mar. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610818 Swedish manufacturer & inventor; founded Nobel prizes. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Wirth & Co. in Frankfurt a. M., 1885 Jun. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610661 ...

Hill, Katharine Louisa Smith, 1847-1935.

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Katharine Louisa (Smith) Hill was the daughter of Catharine Rachel (Childs) Smith and Augustus William Smith (1802-1866), the professor of mathematics of the founding faculty of Wesleyan University and the fifth president of Wesleyan. She married Walter Nickerson Hill, a civilian research chemist for the U.S. Navy, in 1877; he was killed in an explosion in New Jersey in 1884. As a widow with three small children, Hill settled in Newport, R.I., where she had relatives, taught private school, and ...

Whitcher, W. F

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Du Pont, Lammot, 1831-1884

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Lammot du Pont was born at Nemours, Delaware, on April 13, 1831. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in engineering, he began work for E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. By 1859 he was supervising construction of blasting powder mills at Wapwallopen Mills, Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania, the first Du Pont mills outside the state of Delaware. By 1865 he was in charge of all du Pont Company manufacturing units outside the state of Delaware. Lammot ...