United States American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission records, 1862-1864.

United States. Army. Department of Virgnia

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United States. Army. Office of the Paymaster General (1816-1912)

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An act of May 8, 1792 (1 Stat. 279), provided for a "paymaster to reside near the head-quarters of the troops of the United States"; and an act of April 14, 1816 (3 Stat. 297), established a Pay Department headed by a Paymaster General. During the Civil War the Paymaster general, under the direction of the Secretary of War, was responsible for the administration of the Pay Department in all its details. The subordinate paymasters, whose exclusive duty was the disbursement of public money, were s...

United States. Department of State

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The Department of Foreign Affairs was established by an act of July 27, 1789 (1 Stat. 28) and redesignated the Department of State by an act of September 15, 1789 (1 Stat. 68). It was the agency of the United States created by law to assist the President in the formulation and execution of the Nation's foreign policy, and in the conduct of foreign affairs and of certain domestic affairs. The Department made plans for peace and security among all nations, participated in the United Nations and o...

McFarland, J. W.

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Wolker, C. N.

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Spooner, J. W.

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United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)

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Joseph A. Cody of Kansas served as a private in the Frontier Guard and as U.S. Indian agent at the Upper Platte Agency in Nebraska Territory, May 14, 1861 - Apr. 14, 1862. As a member of the Frontier Guard, a volunteer company commanded by Gen. James H. Lane and composed of men from Kansas and Illinois, Cody, in the spring of 1861, protected Lincoln at the White House in the absence of regular troops. It is likely that Cody obtained his Indian agent appointment as a resu...

Anthony, D. R. (Daniel Read), 1824-1904

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N. S. Perkins

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State of Rhode Island. Secretary's Office.

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New York City Lunatic Asylum.

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Stevens, H. F.

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Palmer, George E.

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George E. Palmer was a professor of law at the University of Michigan from 1946 to 1978, when he was named professor emeritus. He was born on February 3, 1908 in Washington, Indiana, and married Ruth Hamersly on July 7, 1935. A 1932 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he also spent some time studying law at Columbia University around 1940. He served as attorney and associate general council for the United States Office of Price Administration from 1942 to 1945, where ...

New York State Lunatic Asylum.

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Harlow, H. M.

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Owen, Robert Dale, 1801-1877

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Politician, reformer, and author Robert Dale Owen was born in Scotland; influenced by his father, he developed a strong interest in social reform. He moved to New Harmony, Indiana, where he joined the socialist community his father founded there, and he was active as an educator, editor, and author, including the first birth control pamphlet published in America. He next became active in politics, serving in the Indiana House of Representatives and later in the United States House, wh...

Stetson, Edward Gray

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Reed, J. A.

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United States. Dept. of the interior. Census Office.

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Hammond, John Q.

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Day, Christopher Paul

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Butler Hospital for the Insane.

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Friends' Asylum for the Insane

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Lucy Chase

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Central Lunatic Asylum.

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Shaw, F. G.

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Butler, John S.

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O. Brown

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Cogswell, M. F.

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Stearns, Geo. L. (George Luther), 1809-1867

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American abolitionist. From the description of Letter : Boston, 1864 Nov. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 640145429 ...

Clark, Henry B. (Henry Balsley), 1930-

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Epithet: of Spinkhill in the parish of Eckington, co. Derby, yeoman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000615.0x0000ef ...

Van Deusen, E. H.

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Anti-slavery Office.

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Warner, A. S.

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Patton, William W. (William Weston), 1821-1889

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Rev. William Weston Patton was born in New York on October 19, 1821. He was a graduate of the University of the City of New York and Union Theological Seminary. After being ordained, Patton served as pastor of the Phillips Congregational Church in Boston (1843-1846), the Fourth Congregational Church in Hartford (1846-1857), and a church in Chicago. He was a member of many organizations, including the American Missionary association and the Society of the Cincinatti. Patton was the author of seve...

Hubbard, S. G.

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Bowditch, Henry J.

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Maryland Hospital for the Insane, at Baltimore.

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Western Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane.

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Enos, DeWitt C., Dr.

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Snow, Edwin M. (Edwin Miller), 1820-1888

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Henning, John C.

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Hubbard, D. H.

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Brown, O.

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Stevens, Edward B.

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Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital

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Palmer, Joseph.

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Epithet: Dean of Cashel British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001092.0x000338 Epithet: bookseller, of Tunbridge Wells and Brighton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001092.0x000337 Epithet: of Add MS 36060 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001092.0x000339 ...

Ohio Reform School

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Allen, Nathan, 1813-1889

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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...

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...

Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum

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Phillips, William A. (William Addison), 1824-1893

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William Addison Phillips was born in Scotland on January 14, 1824. He was well educated before the age of 15. He came to a farm in Randolph County, Illinois with his parents. At the age of majority he became associated with B.J.F. Hannah, editor of the Chester Herald. From 1852 to 1855 William was a newspaperman who also studied law and was admitted to the bar. He came to Kansas in 1855. He was appointed by Horace Greeley to be a member of the editorial staff of the New York Tribune. As such, he...

Frank E. Howe

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Hawley, Roswell, Dr.

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C. B. Wilder

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Dearing, J. H., Dr.

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New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum at Trenton

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Anti-Slavery Society of Canada

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Alexander, J. M.

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Harris, Jules E., 1934-....

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Epithet: rifleman, 91st Regt.; author of 'Recollections of Rifleman Harris' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x0003bd Epithet: of Harpole, county Northamptonshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x0003ba Epithet: Dr British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalog...

Michigan Asylum for the Insane

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Western Theological Seminary of the Reformed Presbyterian Church (Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Pa.)

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Russell, Le Baron, d. 1889.

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Freedman was the term given to slaves who became free though the Confiscation Act of 1862 and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Freed slaves became refugees and government camps were set up to minister to them. From the description of Report : to Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War : manuscript, 1862 Dec. 26. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612788205 ...

Howe, George E.

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Wilson, Hiram, 1803-1864

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Hiram Wilson, reformer and missionary to black fugitives in Canada, was born in 1803 in Ackworth, New Hampshire. He attended the Oneida Institute in New York state and in 1833 went to the newly-founded Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati. He accompanied the the band of student abolitionists known as the "Lane Rebels" to Oberlin, Ohio and graduated with the first class of the Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1836. He departed for Canada in the fall of 1836 with $25 given to him by evangelist C...

Pratt, Carrie H.

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Fonerden, John.

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Société Cosmopolite pour la Fusion des Races Humaines.

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Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903

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Landscape architect. From the description of Frederick Law Olmsted papers, 1777-1952 (bulk 1838-1903). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979908 American landscape designer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Charles A. Dana, 1876 July 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872066 Landscape architect. Related material in Biography and Genealogy Files under 'F.L. Olmsted.' From the description ...

Buttolph, Horace A., b. 1815

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Butler, Isaac Ray.

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Rev. W. J. Kermott

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Bartlett, John R.

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Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869

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American jurist and politician. From the description of Letter signed : "War Department," to William Pitt Fessenden, 1862 May 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580939 U.S. secretary of war 1862-1868. From the description of Telegram (draft) : ms. : Washington, D.C., to Ulysses S. Grant, Appomattox C.H., Va., 1865 Apr. 9. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122380613 Secretary of War; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. ...

Vincent, G. C.

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Schneck, W. S.

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Richardson, I. L.

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Retreat for the Insane at Hartford

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Chamberlain, C. T.

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Carney, Thomas, 1824-1888

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Governor of Kansas. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to the Attorney-General [E.R. Hoar], 1869 Mar. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270134338 Kansas governor, 1862-1864. From the description of Letters, 1863. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28106826 Thomas A. Carney was born in Kenton, Ohio, 20 August, 1824, to James and Sarah Carney. Occupations included Ohio farmer, Ohio Merchant [...

Morton, James St. C. (James St. Clair), 1829-1864

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Ranney, Moses H.

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Pomeroy, James M. (James Morgarum), 1836-1887

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J. G. Kennedy.

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Charles B. Wilder

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Hunt, E. K.

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Western Freedmen's Aid Commission

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Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen

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Burge, John Henry Hobart, 1823-

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Bradley, Henry

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Brown, D. T.

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National Freedman's Relief Association

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Andersonville Prison, represented in the collection through its hospital records and registers, was located in southwest Georgia and operated for 15 months between 1864 and 1865. The site was used by the Confederate Army as a prisoner-of-war camp for captured Union soldiers. At the time of its closure, almost 13,000 Union soldiers had died at Andersonville. The records were collected by E. P. Hopkins, a captured soldier from Ohio who worked as a steward in the prison hospital. ...

Read, Philander?

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R. D. (Reuben Delevan) Mussey

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Chapman, George T.L.

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Hinton, Richard J. (Richard Josiah), 1830-1901

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Richard J. Hinton was born on November 26, 1830, in London, England. Hinton crossed the Atlantic in 1851 and took up residence in New York City. While there he learned the printer's trade and soon became a newspaper reporter for several different newspapers in that city, as well as in Boston. As a reporter he opposed the Fugitive Slave Law, became an anti-slavery advocate, and assisted in the organization of the Republican Party. In June 1856 Hinton set out with other free-state emigrants, reach...

Eaton, John, 1829-1906

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A New Hampshire native, Colonel Eaton was the General Superintendent of Freedmen for Mississippi, Arkansas, West Tennessee and Northern Louisiana from 1862 - 1865. Eaton served with the 9th Regiment Louisiana Infantry (African Descent) and recruited men for the 7th Regiment Louisiana Infantry (African Descent). From the description of John Eaton letter, 1864 Jan. 30. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 265753858 Union Army chaplain; Tennessee Superintendent of ...

E. W. Denny

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Olds, A. D.

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Redpath, James, 1833-1891

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Journalist, educator, and abolitionist. From the description of Papers of James Redpath, 1861 [microform] (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 173183825 From the description of Papers of James Redpath, 1861. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455130 American journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Henry C. Bowen, 1871 Oct. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616506 James Redpath was a journalist and acti...

James McKaye

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Willard, S. D.

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Camp Buford

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Leigh, Charles C.

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Pollack, R. H.

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Hays, Isaac, 1796-1879

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Isaac Hays was an ophthamologist and medical publications editor. He was a surgeon at Will's Ophthalmic Hospital in Philadelphia (1834-1854) and was one of the first to study colorblindness and astigmatism. From the description of Papers, ca. 1820s-1879. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523611 Isaac Hays (1796-1879, APS 1863) was an ophthamologist and medical publications editor. He was a surgeon at Will's Ophthalmic Hospital in P...

Bogert, S. V. K.

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Wool, John Ellis, 1784-1869

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Wool, a New York native, was a career U. S. army officer who began his service during the War of 1812, led victorious troops at the Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican War, and commanded several departments in the eastern United States until he retired on August 1, 1863. From the description of Orders No. 302, May 28, 1847. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 301369825 John Ellis Wool (1784-1869) was an American military officer who fought in the...

Hills, R.

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Tyler, John E.

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James S. Mackie

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Tucker, John, 1719-1792

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Epithet: Perpetual Curate of Lannarth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x0003d1 Epithet: of Add MS 32731 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x0003c5 Epithet: of Salisbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x0003c8 Epithet: MP ...

E. Mouttet.

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Brown, Isaac G.

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State Asylum for Insane Criminals (Auburn, N.Y.)

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The State Asylum for Insane Criminals was the first institution in America for the the criminally insane, established in 1859 as the New York Asylum for Insane Convicts on the grounds of Auburn State Prison in Auburn, N.Y. In Apr. 1892, the institution relocated from Auburn to Matteawan (Fishkill). The following year it was renamed Matteawan State Hospital. From the description of New York State Asylum for Insane Criminals collection, 1878-1892. (New-York Historical Society Library)....

New England Loyal Publication Society

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The New England Loyal Publication Society was based in Boston, Mass. From the description of Broadside, 1864 October 31. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49306709 ...

Brice, William H.

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Sidell, N? W.

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Mansfield, J. B.

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Palmer Litts

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Brigham Hall (Canandaigua, N.Y.)

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Watson, Peter H.

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Josephs, A. F.

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Scofield, H., Colonel.

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Fleming, Andrew

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Cotes, L. B.

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Binis?, William.

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American Freedmen's Friend Society.

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Cougdon?, James B.

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Barnes, J. S.

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Chiply, W. S.

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Woodbury, W.H.

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United States. American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission

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The American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission was established during the Civil War, after the enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation, to determine the condition of free slaves. The men appointed as Commissioners were: Samuel Gridley Howe, James McKaye (1805-1888), and Robert Dale Owen (1801-1877). Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876) was a doctor, educatior and activist. Along with his wife, Julia Ward Howe, he was a strong and vocal opponnent of slavery. From th...

Buchanan, J.W.

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Iowa Hospital for the Insane at Independence

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Bancroft, J. P.

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Comegys, C. G. (Cornelius George), 1816-1898

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McGann, J. B.

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Hilton, George L.

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Asylum for the Insane (Brattleboro, Vt.).

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Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane

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Searle, George W.

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Maine Insane Hospital

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S. S. Jocelyn

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Merion, N.

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Aspinwall, J. W., Dr.

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Patterson, R. I.

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Barlow, Francis C., 1834-1896

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Barlow was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a Unitarian minister, but was raised in his mother's home town of Brookline, Massachusetts. He studied law at Harvard University, graduated first in his class, and was practicing law on the staff of the New York Tribune newspaper when the Civil War broke out in 1861. In April 1861, Barlow enlisted as a private in the 12th Regiment, New York State Militia, leaving behind his new bride, Arabella Wharton Griffith Barlow, ten years his senior, aft...

Fiske, Asa Severance, 1833-1925

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McKeene, Silas.

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Spickler, D. H., Dr.

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Porter, Isaac G. (Isaac Gleason), 1806-1892

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Northampton Lunatic Hospital.

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Cowgill, Thomas.

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Butler, S. W.

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J.B. Lippincott & Co.

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Boynton, Charles Brandon, 1806-1883

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Atkinson, Edward

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Epithet: Reverend Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001083.0x000061 ...

S. G. (Samuel Gridley) Howe

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Curwen, John, 1821-1901

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Epithet: of Add MS 36045 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000987.0x00004b John Curwen (1816-1880) was an English congregational minister who made an impact on music education through his Tonic Sol-fa pedagogical method. Curwen learned to read music by using a book authored by Sarah Glover that presented her Norwich Sol-fa method for reading notated music. Curwen adapted Glover's method to create his...

Jarvis, George O. (George Ogelvie), 1795-1875

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Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane

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Ballinger, R. H.

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Tolles, C. W.

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A. D. Adamidy.

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New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane

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Established by a private committee in 1839; incorporated by the state of New Hampshire and opened in 1842; became New Hampshire State Hospital in 1902 and later called New Hampshire Hospital. From the description of Records, 1839-1871. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963830 ...

Illinois State Hospital for the Insane.

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The Illinois State Hospital for the Insane was established (1847) and its first patient admitted at Jacksonville on November 3, 1851. As additional hospitals were established, the state was divided into districts with the Jacksonville facility, renamed the Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane assuming responsibility for central Illinois patients. When administrative control of all state charitable institutions transferred to the Board of Administration (1909), the hospital name changed to Ja...

Hoyt, George H. (George Henry), 1837-1877

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Knight, H. M

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Clark, John B.

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Yerrington, Jarnes M.W., d. 1893

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Peabody, Daniel.

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Jarvis, Edward, Dr.

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Pennsylvania. Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810-1874

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McCrea, Walter.

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McClure, Samuel T.

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Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio)

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McFarland, A.

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Chapman, George T.L.

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Williams, J. M.

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United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen.

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At the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865, the General Assembly (PCUSA--Old School) appointed a Committee for Education of Freedmen, to establish churches and schools. At the 1870 reunion, this committee merged with the Freedmen's Department of the New School Committee of Home Missions; the new committee was named Committee of Missions for Freedmen. In 1883, the Freedmen's Committee was formally incorporated as the Board of Missions for Freedmen. The new board, like its predecessors, helped to ...

McDiarmid, George W.

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Nichols, D. B.

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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 ...

Johnston, Charles E.

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Wilder, Charles B.

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Slifer, Eli.

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Wheeler, O. G.

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Rockwell, W. H.

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Griscom, John H. (John Hoskins), 1809-1874

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John Hoskins Griscom received his M.D. Degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1832. Following graduation he was appointed Assistant Physician of the New York Dispensary, becoming physician in 1834. From 1836 to 1840 he held the position of Professor of Chemistry at the New York College of Pharmacy. In 1842 he became City Inspector holding that position until becoming the Visiting Physician of New York Hospital the following year. He also served as the General Agent of t...

Rockwood Lunatic Asylum.

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McLean Asylum for the Insane

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Jewell, Wilson, 1800-1867

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Kirkbride, Thomas Story, 1809-1883

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Mount Hope Institution (Baltimore, Md.)

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Wheeler, William Gordon, 1910-....

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Anderson, William

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Epithet: Lieutenant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001029.0x000001 Epithet: of Berwick-upon-Tweed British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001029.0x000008 Epithet: Town Councillor of Montrose British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001029.0x00000a Epithet: o...

Camp Springdale

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Johnston, J.B.

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Litchfield, John Palmer.

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Worthington, J. H.

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Draper, Alonzo Granville, 1835-1865

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Born in Brattleboro, Vermont, Draper eventually moved to Lynn, Massachusetts. He was known as an eloquent speaker and became a local leader of several social causes including temperance and labor rights. In 1859, Draper was elected the first chairman of the Lynn Mechanics Association. In connection with this position, he also became editor of the New England Mechanic, a publication dealing with the rights of industrial laborers. Draper was one of the key leaders of the New England Shoemakers Str...

Van Auden, Charles E.

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Eastern Lunatic Asylum (Va.)

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Wright, Sela G., 1816-1906

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Blatchford, Thomas W. (Thomas Windeatt), 1794-1866

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James, Horace, 1818-1875

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Horace James (1818-1875) was born in Medford, Mass. He graduated from Yale in 1840, and was installed as pastor of the Old South Church in Worcester, Mass., in 1853. From 1861 to 1864, he was chaplain of the 25th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. In 1864, he was appointed a superintendent of freedmen in North Carolina. James returned to Massachusetts as pastor of a church in Lowell and as an associate editor of the _Congregationalist_. From the description of Correspondence, 1852...

Whitman, E. B. (Edmund Burke), 1812-1883

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Edmund Burke Whitman was born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, on October 18, 1812, the son of farmer Alfred Whitman, and his wife, Betsey Robbins. He left home at 15 and worked in an apothecary shop in Vermont; after taking several other short-term jobs in teaching and sales, he enrolled as a charity student at Phillips Exeter Academy and subsequently Harvard College. He received his A.B. degree from the latter in 1838, followed by his A.M. in 1841, and thereafter became headmas...

Booth, L. F.

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Balch, F. V. (Francis Vergnies), 1839-1898

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Gloucester, James N.

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Thomas Hill

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1st Alabama Infantry Colored Troops.

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Boston Lunatic Hospital

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Chapter 131 of the Acts of 1839 established the Boston Lunatic Hospital in the City of Boston. The hospital was built on First St. in South Boston in 1839, and placed under the supervision of the Board of Visitors of the Boston Lunatic Hospital. The Board of Visitors remained in control until 1857 when the Department of Public Institutions was established and control for all public institutions passed to the Board of Directors of Public Institutions. In 1892, the City purchased Pierce Farm on Wa...

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...

Eliot, Thomas D. (Thomas Dawes), 1808-1870

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Chapin, J. B.

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Parker, B. F.

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Gray, John P. (John Purdue), 1825-1886

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Hurst, B. H.

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Pile, John A.

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A. C. Hamlin

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Gundry, Richard

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Stokes, William H.

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