Cantwell, John Simon. Papers, 1804-1907.

Charles Sumner

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Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the for her novel Little Women (1868) and the sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Born in Germantown (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abby May. Like her famous literary counterpart, Jo March, she was the second of four daughters. The eldest, Anna Bronson (Al...

Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906

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Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activ...

Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888

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James Freeman Clarke (April 4, 1810 – June 8, 1888) was an American theologian and author. Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on April 4, 1810, James Freeman Clarke was the son of Samuel Clarke and Rebecca Parker Hull, though he was raised by his grandfather James Freeman, minister at King's Chapel in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the Boston Latin School, and later graduated from Harvard College in 1829, and Harvard Divinity School in 1833. Ordained into the Unitarian church he first became...

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

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Anti-slavery advocate. From the description of Circular and letter, 1848 Jan. 21, Boston, to Rev. Mr. Russell, South Hingham. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 231311718 Abolitionist and reformer William Lloyd Garrison was founder of the Boston abolitionist paper, The Liberator, and the New England Anti-Slavery Society. From the description of Papers, 1835-1873 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007257 Abolitionist and lectur...

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...

Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909

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Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was an American author and Unitarian minister. Hale was involved in many social reform movements, including abolition and popular education. He is best known for his 1863 short story, "The Man Without a Country," which promoted patriotic support of the Union. From the guide to the Edward Everett Hale Letters, 1884-1897, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

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Edward Everett was an American statesman, clergyman, and orator, as well as professor of Greek at Harvard University and president of Harvard University, 1846-1849. Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard with highest honors in 1811, completing an M.A. in Divinity in 1814. After a brief stint as a minister, Harvard offered him the newly created position of Professor of Greek; brilliant but untrained, Everett went to Göttingen to prepare for...

Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893

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Lucy Stone (b. Aug. 13, 1818, West Brookfield, MA–d. Oct. 18, 1893, Boston, MA) was born to parents Hannah Matthews and Francis Stone. At age 16, Stone began teaching in district schools always earning far less money than men. In 1847, she became the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree from Oberlin College. After college, Stone began her career with the Garrisonian Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and began giving public speeches on women's rights. In the fall of 1847, with...

Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 1822-1907

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Isabella Beecher Hooker, née Isabella Beecher, (born Feb. 22, 1822, Litchfield, Conn., U.S.—died Jan. 25, 1907, Hartford, Conn.), American suffragist prominent in the fight for women’s rights in the mid- to late 19th century. Isabella Beecher was a daughter of the Reverend Lyman Beecher and a half sister of Henry Ward Beecher, Catharine Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. She was educated mainly in schools founded by Catharine. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a law student and descendant of Tho...

Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910

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Julia Ward Howe, née Julia Ward, (born May 27, 1819, New York, New York, U.S.—died October 17, 1910, Newport, Rhode Island), American author and lecturer best known for her “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Julia Ward came of a well-to-do family and was educated privately. In 1843 she married educator Samuel Gridley Howe and took up residence in Boston. Always of a literary bent, she published her first volume of poetry, Passion Flowers, in 1854; this and subsequent works—including a poetry collec...

Greenwood, Grace, 1823-1904

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Sara Jane Lippincott (September 23, 1823 – April 20, 1904) was an American author, poet, correspondent, lecturer, and newspaper founder. Lippincott's accomplishments include many firsts. She was the founder of the first children's magazine in the United States, the first woman writer and reporter on the payroll of the New York Times, and one of the first women to gain access and prominence in journalism, publishing, literature and politics. As one of the first women to gain access into the Congr...

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. As one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, he argued over 200 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1814 and his death in 1852. During his life, he was a member of the Federalist Party, the Nati...

Keifer, J. Warren (Joseph Warren), 1836-1932

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Joseph Warren Keifer was a prominent nineteenth century Ohio political and military leader, the first Ohioan to serve as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Born in Clark County, Ohio, Keifer attended local schools and Antioch College then returned to his family's farm, devoting his spare time to studying law. He began his law practice in Springfield, Ohio on January 12, 1858. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, Keifer left his practice and enlisted in the Union Army. He enli...

Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889

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Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (b. December 21, 1829, Hanover, New Hampshire-d. May 24, 1889, Boston, Massachusetts), known as the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, fifty years before the more famous Helen Keller. Bridgman was left deaf-blind at the age of two after contracting scarlet fever. She was educated at the Perkins Institution for the Blind where, under the direction of Samuel Gridley Howe, she learned to read and communicate using Brail...

Livermore, Mary A. (Mary Ashton), 1820-1905

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Mary Livermore, born Mary Ashton Rice, (December 19, 1820 – May 23, 1905) was an American journalist, abolitionist, and advocate of women's rights. When the American Civil War broke out, she became connected with the United States Sanitary Commission, headquarters at Chicago, performing a vast amount of labor of all kinds—organizing auxiliary societies, visiting hospitals and military posts, contributing to the press, answering correspondence, and other things incident to the work done by tha...

C. M. Kirkland

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Judith Murray

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Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922

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Author, diplomat. From the description of Papers of Thomas Nelson Page [manuscript], 1878-1923. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823870 From the description of Papers of Thomas Nelson Page [manuscript] 1891. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647949629 Virginia author; U.S. ambassador to Italy. From the description of Papers of Thomas Nelson Page [manuscript], 1889-1899. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647813209 ...

T. W. Higginson

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Eldridge Brooks

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G. S. Hillard

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Otis Skinner

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R. Chambers

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F. W. Seward

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H. W. Bellows

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Olney Arnold

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N. P. Banks

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Richard Yates

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Stevens, John L. (John Leavitt), 1820-1895

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Journalist and diplomat; editor in chief of Kennebec Journal; state legislator; U.S. minister to Paraguay and Uruguay (1870-1874), to Sweden and Norway (1877-1883), and to Hawaii (1889-1893); author of Picturesque Hawaii; resident of Augusta, Me. From the description of John L. Stevens correspondence, 1888-1894. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 192095724 ...

H. H. Sargent

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M. S. Terry

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Collyer

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Bayard Taylor

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Sawyer, Thomas J. (Thomas Jason), 1923-

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J. G. Percival

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Lyman Bucher

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S. M. Cullom

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H. Wilson

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W. Carleton

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W. H. Alger

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E. H. Chapin

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Almon Gunnison

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J. H. Moser

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Leigh Hunt

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Bryant, William Cullen, 1908-1999

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Cantwell, John Simon.

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John Simon Cantwell ( 1837-1907 ) was born in Dublin, Ireland . He was ordained as a Universalist minister at Malone, New York, in 1858 . He served pastorates in Malone, New York ; South Boston and North Attleboro, Massachusetts ; Columbus, Ohio ; and Chicago, Illinois . He received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Lombard College in 1876 . Cantwell was appointed editor of The New Covenant in 1883, and then Western editor of The Universalist Leader upon their merger in 189...

B. H. Briston

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Thomas B. Thayer

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M. Halstead

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Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887

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Abolitionist; orator; pastor of Plymouth Church, 1847-1887. From the description of Papers, [ca.1847]-1937, 1847-1887 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155459715 American Congregational clergyman, lecturer, reformer, and author. From the guide to the Henry Ward Beecher papers, 1851-1896, n.d, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Congregationalist minister. From the description of Sermon notes, [n.d.], 1893, 18...

Higinbotham, Harlow N.

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Gregory, Thomas B. (Thomas Barger), 1860-1951

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Alden, Isabella Macdonald, 1841-1930

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American author. From the description of Postcard, 1894?. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367561444 ...

Livermore, D. P. (Daniel Parker), 1818-1899

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Oliver Johnson

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St. John, John Pierce, 1833-1916

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Governor of Kansas; prohibition candidate for governor in 1884. From the description of Letter to A. Willington, 1890 December 19. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53372034 Kansas governor, Prohibition Party presidential candidate, Prohibition lecturer; of Olathe, Kan. From the description of John Pierce St. John papers, 1859-1917. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 228416486 ...

O. W. Holmes

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Julia Schayer

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Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904

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U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. From the description of George Frisbie Hoar letter to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1894 January 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 694733616 George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) was a Republican Senator from Massachusetts (1877-1904). From the description of Autograph collection, 1598-1945. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122405022 From the guide to the George Frisbie Hoar autograph collection, 1598-194...

Thompson, John R., 1901-

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Irving Bachellor

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Robert Winthrop

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Eugene Field

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Eliot, Charles W.

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P. T. Barnum

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Clara Barton

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Kate Field

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President and Mrs. Cleveland

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Dana, Charles A.

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R. H. Dana; Jr.

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M. J. Savage

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J. W. Harrison

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J. G. Holland

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Brown, David Paul

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J. A. Garfield

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J. R. Lowell

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Mrs. McKee

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Walter Besant

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W. B. Sprague

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Brewer, David J. (David Josiah), 1837-1910

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U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1889-1910. From the description of David J. Brewer letters, 1890-1903. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936781 Jurist. From the description of David J. Brewer papers, 1865-1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456403 Brewer served on the Kansas Supreme Court (1870-1884), the United States Circuit Court of Appeal, 8th Circuit, (1884-1889) and as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1890-1910), an...

Sherwood, Emily Lee

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Emily D. Sherwood's family owned a farm in Quincy, Illinois. From the description of Emily D. Sherwood and family correspondence, 1853-1865 (bulk 1862-1865). (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 122555999 ...

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

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Anna Cora Ritchie

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Mason, William E.

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Edward Miall

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James Wilson

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C. H. Dall

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Park, Benjamin

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Helena McCarthy

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W. A. Wheeler

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B. Nagarkar

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C. A. Baitch

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Albert Gallatin

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Josiah Quincy

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Mary Temple Bayard

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Richard, Eddy

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E. L. Godkin

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Benjamin Harrison

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George Curtis

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N. M. Hutchison

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David Swing

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Peirce, Henry B.

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Henry B. Peirce lived in Abington, Plymouth County, Mass. From the description of Henry B. Peirce and his son Eugene E. Peirce (who will be 12 in August) make a trip across the sea, 1880 June 19-August 1. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 39562135 Resident of New Bedford, Mass. From the description of Henry Peirce school notebook, 1874. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 166428957 ...

A. E. Bayly

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W. Benjamin Arnett

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S. G. Goodrich

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Logan, John A., Mrs., 1838-1923

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Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan, wife of U.S. Congressman and Union General John A. Logan, and well known author. From the description of Mrs. John A. Logan correspondence with S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1887, 1898. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 763312775 Wife of Civil War General Logan from Jackson County, Illinois who also served in the U.S. Senate. From the description of Letters, 1884, 1890, 1894. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). Worl...

W. H. Mershon

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S. M. B. Piatt

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E. P. Whipple

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Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888

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Astronomer, author and lecturer; best known for having drawn one of the earliest maps of Mars. Father of astronomer and lecturer Mary Proctor. From the description of Letter of Richard A. Proctor to to S.S. McClure, 1880 July 26. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 73692546 Epithet: astronomer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000706.0x00018c ...

A. R. Spofford

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Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902

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Attorney. From the description of Letters, 1858-1881. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 13549063 Soldier who served in Co. G 144th O.V.I. during the Civil War. From the description of Letter 1864 August 5. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 47003250 American author and lawyer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Yonkers, to John Foord of Harper and Brothers, 1890 Dec. 28. (Unknown). WorldC...

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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Booker T. Washington was an African American educator and public figure. Born a slave on a small farm in Hale's Ford, Virginia, he worked his way through the Hampton Institute and became an instructor there. He was the first principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and under his management it became a successful center for practical education. A forceful and charismatic personality, he became a national figure through his books and lectures. Although his conservative views concerned many critics, he...

Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1795-1858

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American lawyer and politician; Attorney General. From the description of Letter signed : New York, to A.J. Bleecker, 1840 July 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132632 American lawyer and politician; Atty. General. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to C.H. Waddell, 1840 July 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131665 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to William L. Marcy, Secretary of War, 1845 Ma...

John P. Altgeld

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Clay, Thomas H.

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Goldwin Smith

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H. C. Lodge

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T. S. King

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F. Willson

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Charles Anderson

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J. Jefferson

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Prentice, George D. (George Denison), 1802-1870

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Journalist. From the description of Letters of George D. Prentice, 1831-1850. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449431 In 1830 Prentice founded the Louisville Journal which he edited until 1868. From the description of Prentice, George D. (George Denison), 1802-1870. Letter. 11 February 1855. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 56781394 From the description of Prentice, George D. (George Denison), 1802-1870 Poem. September 1848. (Filson ...

Elder, William Henry, 1819-1904

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Archbishop William H. Elder was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 22, 1819 and received his seminary training at Mt. St. Mary in Emmitsburg. He was ordained in Rome in 1846. After 11 years as a professor of dogmatic theology at Mount St. Mary, he was named bishop of Natchez (Mississippi) in 1857. Although appointed coadjutor archbishop of San Francisco in 1878, he never fulfilled the assignment, believing himself more critically needed in Natchez. In 1880 he was appointed coadjutor to the ar...

W. H. Venable

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