Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Robinson, Therese, 1797-1870

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Therese Albertine Luise von Jakob Robinson was an author, linguist and translator. She published under the pseudonym Talvj, an acronym derived from the initials of her birth name. She was born 1797 in Halle and accompanied her father's appointment to the University of Charkow, Russia, where she studied Slavic languages. In 1816, the family moved back to Halle. She translated Walter Scott's Old Mortality and The Black Dwarf, which she published under the pseudonym Ernst Berthold. Talvj was the pe...

Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875

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Sir Charles Lyell, first baronet, (1797-1875, APS, 1842) was a geologist and lawyer, whose Principles of Geology explained “former changes of the earth’s surface” by means of “modern causes.” Critical of the “catastrophist” views of many contemporary geologists, Lyell considered the earth “a system of balanced antagonistic processes,” a theory later described as uniformitarian. Although he rejected Jean Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of species mutability early in his career, later he favorabl...

Gray, Asa, 1810-1888

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Often called the “Father of American Botany,” Asa Gray was instrumental in establishing systematic botany as a field of study at Harvard University and, to some extent, in the United States. His relationships with European and North American botanists and collectors enabled him to serve as a central clearing house for the identification of plants from newly explored areas of North America. He also served as a link between American and European botanical sciences. Gray regularly reviewed new Euro...

Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904

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Isabella Lucy Bird was born on 15 October 1831 in Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, England. The Bird family had established the silk trade at Coventry in the late 1600s, and were themselves silk masters. Isabella's first publication at the age of 16 was a pamphlet addressing free trade versus protectionism, after which she continued writing articles for various periodicals. In 1854, Bird's life of travelling began, She traveled to the United States, Australia, and Hawaii. In 1873 she covered over...

Stillman, William James, 1828-1901

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William James Stillman (born June 1, 1828, Schenectady, New York – died July 6, 1901, Frimely Green, Surrey, England) was an American journalist, diplomat, author, historian, and photographer. Educated as an artist, Stillman subsequently converted to the profession of journalism, working primarily as a war correspondent in Crete and the Balkans, where he served as his own photographer. For a time, he also served as United States consul in Rome, and afterward in Crete during the Cretan insurrecti...

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw Settlement in South Carolina; though just a boy, participated in the battle of Hanging Rock during the Revolution, captured by the British and imprisoned. He worked for a time in a saddler's shop and afterward taught school before studying law in Salisbury, N.C. In 1788 he was appointed solicitor of the western district of North Carolina, comprising what is now the State of Tennessee. Upon the admission of T...

Stanley, Henry Morton, 1841-1904

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Henry Morton Stanley, in full Sir Henry Morton Stanley, also known as John Rowlands, also known by his Congolese byname Bula Matari, or Breaker of Rocks. Stanley was born on January 28, 1841, Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales. He died on May 10, 1904, London, England. He was a British American explorer of central Africa, who became famous for his rescue of the Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone and for his discoveries in and development of the Congo region. He was knighted in 1899....

Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909

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Oliver Howard was born in Leeds, Maine, the son of Rowland Bailey Howard and Eliza Otis Howard. Rowland, a farmer, died when Oliver was 9 years old. Oliver attended Monmouth Academy in Monmouth, North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Kents Hill School in Readfield, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1850 at the age of 19. He then attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1854, fourth in his class of 46 cadets, as a brevet second lieutenant of ordnance. He served at the Watervlie...

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Tappan, Caroline Sturgis, 1819-1888

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Caroline Sturgis Tappan was a Transcendentalist poet and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller. Together with her sister Ellen Sturgis Hooper, she contributed verse to the Transcendentalist literary magazine, The Dial. ...

Hamilton, Alexander, 1786-1875

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Alexander Hamilton Jr. (May 16, 1786 – August 2, 1875) was the third child of Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. An attorney, President James Monroe appointed Hamilton as a United States Attorney for East Florida....

Hamilton, James A. (James Alexander), 1788-1878

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James Alexander Hamilton (1788-1878), the son of Alexander Hamilton, was an American lawyer and politician. He served as United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York....

Gilmore, P. S. (Patrick Sarsfield), 1829-1892

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Patrick Sarsfield (P.S.) Gilmore was born in County Galway, Ireland, on December 25, 1829, and later became known as the "Father of the American Concert Band." Gilmore organized and staged two music festivals in Boston, Massachusetts: the National Peace Jubilee (1869) and the World's Peace Jubilee (1872). He conducted bands and integrated woodwinds into what had traditionally been brass bands. He led the New York Twenty-seventh Regiment Band for almost 20 years. Gilmore also a...

Ropes, Hannah Anderson, 1809-1863

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Ropes was born Hannah Anderson Chandler on June 13, 1809 in New Gloucester, Maine. She was the seventh of ten children of Peleg Chandler, a Maine lawyer, and Esther Parsons Chandler. Her brothers Theophilus and Peleg became lawyers and politicians in Boston. Nothing is known of her schooling, but given her family's income and social position it is likely she was well educated. In February 1834, she married William Henry Ropes, an educator who was forced to supplement his income through farmin...

Harvard university library

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The University Library consists of all the collections of books in the possession of the University. It originated in 1638 with books left to the college by John Harvard. The library system currently consists of over 100 separate facilities, ranging from very small specialized collections to Widener Library, with its 5 million volumes. Each of the faculties within the University maintains one or more libraries serving its special constituency. The largest unit is the Harvard College Library (inc...

Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879

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Dix was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire on July 24 1798, the son of Timothy Dix and Abigail Wilkins, and brother of composer Marion Dix Sullivan. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and joined the US Army as an ensign in May 1813, serving under his father until the latter's death a few months later. He attained the rank of captain in August 1825 and resigned from the Army in December 1828. In 1826, Dix married Catherine Morgan, the adopted daughter of Congressman John J. Morgan, who g...

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Cutts, James Madison, 1837-1903

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Cutts was born in Washington D.C. on October 20, 1837, the son of James Madison Cutts, an official of the U.S. Treasury Department, and Ellen Elisabeth O'Neal, the sister of Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Cutts' sister Adele was the second wife of US Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Cutts was the grandson of congressman Richard Cutts, whose wife Anna was the sister of First Lady Dolley Madison. He attended Georgetown Preparatory School, graduated from Brown University in 1856, and received his LL.B. from Harv...

Davis, Edmund Jackson, 1827-1883

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Davis was born in St. Augustine, Florida, a son of William Godwin Davis and the former Mary Ann Channer. His father was a lawyer and land developer in St. Augustine, the oldest permanent settlement in the United States. In 1848, after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Davis moved with his parents to Galveston, Texas. The next year, Davis moved to Corpus Christi, where he was admitted to the bar. He was an inspector and deputy collector of customs from 1849 to 1853, when he was a...

Barton, Clara, 1821-1912

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Civil War nurse, suffragist, and founder of the American Red Cross Clarissa Harlow Barton was born in North Oxford, MA, on December 25, 1821, the fifth and last child of Stephen and Sarah (Stone) Barton. She was a shy and lonely child, and for two years at the age of eleven she devoted her time to nursing her brother David during a protracted illness, an experience which later affected her life's work. At eighteen she began to teach in neighboring schools. In 1850 she spent a year at the Libe...

Higginson, Stephen, 1743-1828

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Stephen Higginson (November 28, 1743—November 28, 1828) was an American merchant and shipmaster from Boston, Massachusetts. Born in Salem in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Higginson attended the common schools before engaging in mercantile pursuits; from 1765 to 1775, he was an active and successful shipmaster. Higginson served in the Massachusetts legislature in 1782 and was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress in 1783. He took an active part in suppressing Shays' Reb...

Old Colony Historical Society

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Founded 1853. From the description of Manuscripts collection, ca. 1600-[ongoing]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70938178 The Quarterly meeting of the Old Colony Historical Society of Taunton, Mass., was held July 20, 1899. From the description of Commemorative of Philip King, 1645-1710, 1899. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 642829954 ...

Vermont Historical Society

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Maryland historical society

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Chicago Historical Society

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Carmichael, William, c. 1739-1795

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William Carmichael (c. 1739–1795) was an American statesman and diplomat from Maryland during and after the Revolutionary War. He participated in Benjamin Franklin's mission to Paris from 1776 to 1778, represented Maryland in the Continental Congress in 1778 and 1779 and was the principal diplomat for the United States to Spain from 1782 to 1794. Carmichael was born sometime around 1739 at the family home, Round Top, in Queen Anne's County, Maryland. Attending the University of Edinburgh in S...

Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876

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Charlotte Saunders Cushman (July 23, 1816 – February 18, 1876) was an American stage actress. Her voice was noted for its full contralto register, and she was able to play both male and female parts. She lived intermittently in Rome, in an expatriate colony of prominent artists and sculptors, some of whom became part of her tempestuous private life. Cushman made her initial professional appearance at age eighteen on April 8, 1835 at Boston's Tremont Theatre. She then went to New Orleans where sh...

Middleton, Arthur, 1742-1787

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Arthur Middleton (June 26, 1742 – January 1, 1787) was a planter and politician from South Carolina. A Founding Father of the United States, he signed the United States Declaration of Independence. Born at Middleton Place, his family's plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, Middleton was educated in Britain, at Harrow School, Westminster School, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He studied law at the Middle Temple and traveled extensively in Europe where his taste in literature, music, and ar...

Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803

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Samuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams. Adams was b...

Hahn, Michael, 1830-1886

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Georg Michael Decker Hahn (November 24, 1830 – March 15, 1886), was an attorney, politician, publisher and planter in New Orleans, Louisiana. He served twice in Congress during two widely separated periods, elected first as a Unionist Democratic Congressman in 1862, as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 1865, and later as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1884. He was elected as the 19th Governor of Louisiana, serving from 1864 to 1865 during the American Civil War, when the s...

Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908

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Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (October 9, 1830 – February 21, 1908) was a neoclassical sculptor, considered the most distinguished female sculptor in America during the 19th century. She is known as the first female professional sculptor. Among other technical innovations, she pioneered a process for turning limestone into marble. Hosmer once lived in an expatriate colony in Rome, befriending many prominent writers and artists. Harriet Hosmer was born on October 9, 1830 at Watertown, Massachusetts, ...

Myers, Leonard, 1827-1905

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Leonard Myers (November 13, 1827 – February 11, 1905) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district during the Civil War and throughout much of Reconstruction. Born in Attleboro (now Langhorne), Pennsylvania, he attended private academic schools and the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia before studying law. Admitted to the bar in 1848, Myers practiced in Philadelphia and held various local offices. He...

Abbot, G. J.

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Minister and diplomat; graduate of Harvard College, 1835; private secretary to Daniel Webster, 1850-1852; professor at the Theological School at Meadville, Pa. ca. 1870; officer in the State Department, posted to England 1864-1870, and Canada 1877-1879. George Jacob Abbot, son of the Rev. Jacob Abbot, a Unitarian minister, was born in Windham, N.H. He graduated from Harvard College in 1835, after which he opened a boys' school in Washington, D.C. After a clerkship in t...

Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893

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Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre. In 1834, Kemble married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Mease Butler, grandson of U.S. Senator Pierce Butler, whom she had met on an American acting tour with her father in 1832....

Griswold, Rufus Willmot, 1815-1857

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Rufus Wilmot Griswold (February 13, 1815 – August 27, 1857) was an American anthologist, editor, poet, and critic. Born in Vermont, Griswold left home when he was 15 years old. He worked as a journalist, editor, and critic in Philadelphia, New York City, and elsewhere. He built a strong literary reputation, in part due to his 1842 collection The Poets and Poetry of America. This anthology, the most comprehensive of its time, included what he deemed the best examples of American poetry. He produc...

Parsons, Anna Q.T. (Quincy Thaxter) -1906

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Anna was the daughter of Anna Quincy Thaxter (1791-1879) and Nehemiah Parsons (1773-1848), a former mariner and merchant on Boston's Long Wharf. Anna was a clairvoyant, whose specialty was reading a person's character, often just from a letter. She was also a women's rights activist who regularly visited Brook Farm, the utopian commune in Roxbury, where some artists and many of Boston's intellectuals lived in the 1840s. Anna and her mother and several sisters were early hikers in the White Mount...

Curtis, George William, 1824-1892

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George William Curtis (February 24, 1824 – August 31, 1892) was an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of New Englander ancestry. A Republican, he spoke in favor of African-American equality and civil rights. Curtis, the son of George and Mary Elizabeth (Burrill) Curtis, was born in Providence on February 24, 1824. His mother died when he was two. At six he was sent with his elder brother to school in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, where he remained for fi...

Niles, Thomas, Jr., 1825-1894

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Roberts Brothers (1857–1898) were bookbinders and publishers in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1857 by Austin J. Roberts, John F. Roberts, and Lewis A. Roberts, the firm began publishing around the early 1860s. The Roberts Brothers were "bookbinders" from 1857 until 1862 (offices successively at: 120 Washington St.; Temple Place; 149 Washington St.) Beginning in 1862 they were also makers of "photograph albums." In 1863 Thomas Niles, Jr. began working at the firm. He beca...

Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, 1825-1908

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Ainsworth Rand Spofford (September 12, 1825 – August 11, 1908) was an American journalist and the sixth Librarian of Congress. Spofford was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Ill health prevented him from attending Amherst College. He instead, at age 19, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he became a bookseller, publisher, and newspaper man. In 1849 Spofford founded the Literary Club of Cincinnati with John Celivergos Zachos, Stanley Matthews (judge) and 9 others founded. One year later Ruthe...

Gayarré, Charles, 1805-1895

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Charles-Étienne Arthur Gayarré (January 9, 1805 – February 11, 1895) was an American historian, attorney, slaveowner and politician born to a Spanish and French Creole planter family in New Orleans, Louisiana. A Confederate sympathizer and a writer of plays, essays, and novels, Gayarré is chiefly remembered for his histories of Louisiana and his exposé of US Army general James Wilkinson as a Spanish spy. Born on his grandfather's plantation just outside the city limits of New Orleans (now Aud...

Corcoran, William Wilson, 1798-1888

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Washington, D.C. banker and philanthropist. From the description of Note : to "Dear Madam", [18]81 Jan. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22205349 From the description of Letter : Washington City, to Dr. James Laurie, Washington City, 1843 Jan. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22205336 Banker and philanthropist, of Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers, 1838-1887. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19405728 American banke...

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...

Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897

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Charles Anderson Dana (August 8, 1819 – October 17, 1897) was an American journalist, author, and senior government official. He was a top aide to Horace Greeley as the managing editor of the powerful Republican newspaper New-York Tribune until 1862. During the American Civil War, he served as Assistant Secretary of War, playing especially the role of the liaison between the War Department and General Ulysses S. Grant. In 1868 he became the editor and part-owner of the New York Sun. He at first ...

Lewis, Diocletian, 1823-1886

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Diocletian Lewis (March 3, 1823 – May 21, 1886), commonly known as Dr. Dio Lewis, was a prominent temperance leader and physical culture advocate who practiced homeopathy and was the inventor of the beanbag. He was born on a farm near Auburn, New York. He left school at 12 to work in a cotton factory. He later worked at a hoe, axe and scythe factory and went back to attending school. He started teaching school at 15. At 18, he organized a school in Lower Sandusky, Ohio (now Fremont). He ex...

New-York Historical Society

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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...

Healy, James Augustine, Bishop, 1830-1900

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James Augustine Healy (April 6, 1830 – August 5, 1900) was an American Roman Catholic priest and the second bishop of Portland, Maine. He was the first Black Catholic priest and bishop in the United States (though he identified as and passed for White). Born in Georgia to a mixed-race slave mother and Irish immigrant father, he was ordained in 1854 and consecrated in 1875; knowledge of his African ancestry was largely restricted to his mentors in the Church. (Augustus Tolton, a former slave w...

Baring Brothers & Co. (London, England)

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Barings Bank was founded in 1762 as the John and Francis Baring Company by Francis Baring, with his older brother John Baring as a mostly silent partner. They were sons of John (né Johann) Baring, wool trader of Exeter, born in Bremen, Germany. The company began in offices off Cheapside in London, and within a few years moved to larger quarters in Mincing Lane. Barings gradually diversified from wool into many other commodities, providing financial services for the rapid growth of international ...

Ward, Anna Hazard Barker, 1813-1900

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The courtship of Anna Barker and Samuel Ward has been immortalized by the author Eleanor M Tilton in her article titled "The True Romance of Anna Hazard Barker and Samuel Grey Ward", published in the journal Studies in the American Renaissance in 1987. Anna and Samuel had at least 4 children: Anna Barker Ward who married Joseph Thoron, Lydia Gray Ward who married Richard Von Hoffman, Thomas Wren Ward who married Sophia Read Howard, and Elizabeth Barker Ward who married Ernst Augustus Shoenber...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts– April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts), American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.Epithet: American essayist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x000365 ...

Parsons, Thomas William, 1819-1892

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Thomas William Parsons (August 18, 1819, Boston – September 3, 1892, Scituate, Massachusetts) was an American dentist and poet. Parsons was educated at the Boston Latin School, and visited Italy to study Italian literature in 1836-7. His translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, which eventually comprised all the Inferno, two-thirds of the Purgatorio and fragments of the Paradiso, began to appear in 1843. After practicing dentistry in Boston, he lived for several years in England before returning...

Ward, Samuel Gray, 1817-1907

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Samuel Gray Ward (October 3, 1817 – November 17, 1907) was an American poet, author, and minor member of the Transcendentalism movement. He was also a banker and a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among his circle of contemporaries were poets and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller who were deeply disappointed when Ward gave up a career in writing for business just before he married. Ward was born on October 3, 1817 in Portland, Maine. He was the son of Lydia ...

Dall, Caroline Healey, 1822-1912

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Caroline Wells Healey Dall (June 22, 1822 – December 17, 1912) was an American feminist writer, transcendentalist, and reformer. She was affiliated with the National Women's Rights Convention, the New England Women's Club, and the American Social Science Association. Her associates included Elizabeth Peabody and Margaret Fuller, as well as members of the Transcendentalist movement in Boston. Caroline Healey was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of Mark Healey, a merchant and ...

Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906

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Army officer, statesman, journalist, legislator, and U.S. Secy. of the Interior, of Missouri. From the description of Papers, 1870-1901 (bulk 1870-1890). (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 70953302 German-American army officer, author and politician. From the description of Papers of Carl Schurz, 1862-1893. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136358 U.S. cabinet officer, diplomat, and senator from Missouri, Union Ar...

Greener, Richard Theodore, 1844-1922

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Richard Theodore Greener (January 30, 1844 – May 2, 1922) was the first African American graduate of Harvard College and went on to become the dean of the Howard University School of Law. Richard Greener was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1844 and moved with his mother to Boston when he was approximately nine years old. He quit school in his mid-teens to earn money for his family, but one of his employers, Franklin B. Sanborn, helped him to enroll in preparatory school (Oberlin Academ...

Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878

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William Cullen Bryant (b. November 3, 1794, Cummington, Massachusetts-d. June 12, 1878, New York, New York), American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post....

Bigelow, John, 1817-1911

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John Bigelow was born in Malden-on-Hudson, New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1838. From 1849 to 1861, he was one of the editors and co-owners of the New York Evening Post. He was active in the Republican Party and in 1860, President Abraham Lincoln appointed him American Consul in Paris in 1861 and later served as American ambassador to France. After the Civil War's conclusion, he returned to New York, where he assisted Samuel J. Tilden in opposing the corruption that flourished in New ...

Rainey, Joseph Hayne, 1832-1887

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Joseph Hayne Rainey (June 21, 1832 – August 1, 1887) was an American politician. He was the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives and the second black person (after Hiram Revels) to serve in the United States Congress. His service included time as presiding officer of the House of Representatives. Born into slavery in South Carolina, he and his family were freed in the 1840s when his father purchased their freedom. Revels and Rainey were both members of the Re...

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...

Bancroft, George, 1800-1891

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George Bancroft was an American historian and statesman, and an active promoter of secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. As U. S. Secretary of the Navy under James K. Polk, Bancroft established the Naval Academy at Annapolis and later served as U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1846-1849), Prussia (1867-1871), and the German Empire (1871-1874). He is best remembered however for his 10-volume History of the United States, a work which fellow historian Leop...

Ruschenberger, W.S.W. (William Samuel Waithman), 1807-1895

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William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger (1807-1895) was a physician in the U.S. Medical Corps from 1826 through the middle of the nineteenth century. He was born in Cumberland, NJ; educated in Philadelphia, PA, and New York, NY; and was appointed surgeon's mate in the U.S. Navy in 1826. His first cruise was aboard the U.S. frigate BRANDYWINE (1826-1829) which made port in several cities in South America including Callao, Peru; Valparaiso, Chile; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received the degree o...

Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887

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At only 27, the ornithologist Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887) was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, a precocious appointment that suited a precocious scientist. Born into a well to do family in Reading, Pa., and raised in Carlisle, Baird acquired an interest in natural history even prior to enrolling at Dickinson College at age 13. Although he was not an outstanding student, he was unusually committed to his course in life, keeping meticulous notes of ...

Torrey, H. W. (Henry Warren), 1814-1893

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Henry Warren Torrey graduated from Harvard in 1833, taught history, law and elocution and served as Overseer at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Henry Warren Torrey, ca. 1844. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972903 ...

Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892

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Montgomery C. Meigs was an army officer and engineer. He was born in Augusta, Ga. on May 3, 1816. Meigs graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1836, where he studied civil and military engineering. Meigs was engaged in several federal engineering and surveying projects from 1836 to 1851. Between 1852 and 1860, he was supervising engineer for the Washington Aqueduct and for the U.S. Capitol dome and wings. Meigs served as a brigadier general during the Civil War and parti...

Childs, George W. (George William), 1829-1894

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George W. Childs (1829-1894) was the founder and editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and a noted philanthropist. Born in Baltimore, he moved to Philadelphia to work for a bookseller at age fourteen and soon went into business for himself at the age of eighteen. In 1849, he became a partner in the publishing firm of R. E. Petersen & Company, and in 1860 he formed a partnership with the influential publisher J. P. Lippincott. In 1864, he purchased the Philadelphia Public Ledger, in which Anth...

Carpenter, Matthew H. (Matthew Hale), 1824-1881

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Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898

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William Ewart Gladstone, prime minister and author, was born in Liverpool, on Dec. 29, 1809; the fifth child and youngest son of Sir John Gladstone and Anne Mackenzie Gladstone. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, in preparation for a future in the British political world. He married Catherine Glynne, whom he met in Rome, in 1839, and together they had eight children. Gladstone was first elected to Parliament in January 1833, and over the next sixty years was involved i...

Lesley, J. Peter, 1819-1903

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When J. Peter Lesley (1819-1903) graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1838, he intended for the Presbyterian ministry, but when ill health intervened, he was set off on a path that would make him one of the most influential geologists in 19th century Pennsylvania. In order to help rebuild his strength and restore his health, Lesley accepted an appointment with the first Pennsylvania Geological Survey under the direction of Henry Darwin Rogers and engaged in structural a...

Corson, Hiram, 1828-1911

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Hiram Corson, originally a Philadelphian, served for a time as librarian at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and also as a teacher and writer about literature and spiritualism. From 1870 to 1903 he taught at Cornell University. He was the author of "An Introduction to the Study of Shakespeare" (1889). From the description of Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1872-1909. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155879238 ...

Marsh, George P. (George Perkins), 1801-1882

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George Perkins Marsh was born in Woodstock, Vermont, educated at Dartmouth, and taught Greek and Latin in a local academy, then studied and practiced law. He was elected to the Vermont legislature, then to Congress in 1843, where he actively supported the Library of Congress and the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution. He was appointed Minister to Italy, 1861-1862. He was an active lecturer, and his book Man and Nature (1864) earns him credit today as the first environmentalist...

Atlantic Monthly

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Carey & Hart

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Ministre des Affaires étrangères

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Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850

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Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1830-1848. From the description of [Invitation] 1840 oct. 8 [to] comte Abrial / Louis Philippe. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 259486814 Louis-Philippe est le fils aîné de Louis Philippe Joseph, duc de Bourgogne (dit Philippe Egalité) et d’Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre, elle-même descendante du comte de Toulouse (fils légitimé de Louis XIV et de la marquise de Montespan). Ainsi, il est également le cousin des rois Lo...

Storrow, Charles S. (Charles Storer), 1809-1904

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Engineer and official of the Essex Company and 1st mayor of Lawrence, Mass.; later moved to Boston. From the description of Charles S. Storrow correspondence and Lawrence, Mass., city reports, 1849-1853. (Lawrence Public Library). WorldCat record id: 71254689 ...

Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess, 1780-1863

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British politician and Irish peer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to an unidentified recipient, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 593760516 ...

Willard, Joseph, 1738-1804

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University president, clergyman, and educator. From the description of Circular signed by Joseph Willard, Harvard University president, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067536 Joseph Willard was born on 29 Dec. 1738, the youngest son of the Rev. Samuel and Abigail Willard of Biddeford, Me. Upon the death of his father, his mother remarried, and he grew up in the household of the Rev. Richard Elvins of Scarborough, Me. Intent upon a medical career, and encouraged b...

McLane, Allan, 1823-

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Calderón de la Barca, Ángel, 1790-1861

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Biddle, Thomas, 1790-1831

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Everett, Alexander Hill, 1790-1847

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Alexander Hill Everett was a distinguished early American diplomat, writer, and man of letters. He entered Harvard at the age of twelve, and apprenticed at the law office of John Quincy Adams. He served in a variety of notable diplomatic posts, and contributed to the evolution of American culture and literary tradition. His emphasis was to encourage writers to look beyond the Anglo-Saxon tradition for their themes and inspiration. From the description of Alexander Hill Ev...

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...

Young, Alexander, 1800-1854

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Alexander Young (1800-1854) was an Unitarian minister and an antiquarian. He graduated from Harvard in 1820. After graduating from the Harvard Divinity School in 1824, he became the pastor of the New South Church in Boston, Mass. (ordained on 9 January 1825), and remained in that position until his death. He married Caroline James on 1 November 1826; they had twelve children. From the description of A Course of reading recommended by Professor Everett, 1824. (American ...

Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871

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Lawyer, politician, antiquary, diplomat employed as secretary by the United States Legation to Mexico, and author and editor of works on the history of Florida and the Spanish colonies of North America; resident of Florida. From the description of Buckingham Smith papers, 1613-1941. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 475929980 ...

D. & C. MacIver

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Liverpool-based steamship company, owned by David and Charles MacIver....

Smith, Caleb B. (Caleb Blood), 1808-1864

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Caleb Blood Smith, lawyer, congressman, and Secretary of the Interior. Smith was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives, and was reelected in 1834, 1835, and 1836. He represented Indiana in the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congress serving on the Committee of Foreign Affairs, and chairing the Committee on Territories. Known for his staunch opposition to the Mexican War, he refused another nomination and left Congress in 1849. He practiced law in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was p...

Smith, Thomas P.

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Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell, 1803-1848

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afterwards Slidell Mackenzie; Lieutenant; US Navy; author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001130.0x00031f ...

Alden, J. W. (Joseph Warren), 1808-

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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...

Adams, Abigail Brooks, 1808-1889

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Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

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John Quincy Adams (b. July 11, 1767, Braintree, Massachusetts-d. February 23, 1848, Washington, D.C.) was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, United States Senator, member of the House of Representatives, and the sixth President of the United States. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later the Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. He was the son of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. As a diplomat, Adams played an important role in neg...

Adams, Louisa Catherine, 1775-1852

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Louisa Catherine Adams, the first of America’s First Ladies to be born outside of the United States, did not come to this country until four years after she had married John Quincy Adams. Political enemies sometimes called her English. She was born in London to an English mother, Catherine Nuth Johnson, but her father was American–Joshua Johnson, of Maryland–and he served as United States consul after 1790. A career diplomat at 27, accredited to the Netherlands, John Quincy developed his inte...

Adams, John Quincy, 1833-1894

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American politician. Grandson of the 6th President John Quincy Adams. Unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1867 and 1871. From the guide to the John Quincy Adams letters, 1876-1877, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Adams, Marian Hooper, 1843-1885

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Adams, Henry, 1838-1918

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Henry Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, was educated at Harvard and served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, when he was Minister to England. He rejected a political career to teach history at Harvard and edit The North American review, 1870-1877, then returned to Washington. He wrote prolifically on many subjects and is best known for his Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1904) and The education of Henry Adams (1907). From the description of Henry Adam...

Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915

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Soldier, businessman, civic leader and historian. Descendant of two presidents and the son of a noted diplomat, Adams served with distinction as a Union officer during the Civil War. After the war, he became a nationally recognized authority on the railroad industry, chairing the Massachusetts Railroad Commission from 1869 to 1879, and ultimately taking on the presidency of the Union Pacifc Railroad for six stormy years, 1884-1890. From 1890 to 1915, Adams was content to be a man of a...

Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886

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American diplomat, lawyer, and biographer; son of John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts 1859-61, U.S. Minister to England, 1861-68; U.S. Arbitrator at the Geneva Tribunal ("Alabama" claims), 1871-72. From the guide to the Charles Francis Adams letters, 1844-1878, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Abbott, L. C.

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Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879

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Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) was an American writer of juvenile literature, series and individual books for boys and girls, throughout the 19th century. Congressional clergyman, educator. ...

Ticknor and Fields

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Ticknor and Fields of Boston, Massachusetts was the premier "literary" publishing house in the United States during the middle years of the nineteenth century. Ticknor and Fields originated in the firm of Allen and Ticknor established in 1832. The partners in Ticknor and Fields were William D. Ticknor (one of the partners in Allen and Ticknor) and James T. Fields, who entered the firm as a junior partner in 1843. Fields edited the Atlantic monthly from 1861-1870. Fields was also a wri...

Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859

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William Hickling Prescott, born in Salem, Massachusetts to a prominent family, wrote romantic and highly-regarded works of Spanish and Latin American history. From the guide to the Letters to Richard Bentley, 1837-1858., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Folsom, Charles, 1794-1872

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Charles Folsom (Harvard, A.B., 1813) taught Italian and served as librarian at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Charles Folsom, 1829. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972777 ...

Parsons, Theophilus, 1797-1882

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Parsons, a lawyer, was a professor at the Harvard Law School (1848-1869) and the author of numerous legal texts and religious essays. From the description of Papers, ca. 1848-1913 (inclusive), 1870-1881 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122590226 ...

Palfrey, John Gorham, 1796-1881

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John Gorham Palfrey was a Unitarian minister, professor at Harvard Divinity School, editor of the North American Review, congressman from Massachusetts (1847-1849), postmaster of Boston (1861-1867), and historian, best known for his multi-volume History of New England. From the description of Letters to William Taylor Palfrey, 1818-1866. (Harvard University, Wadsworth House). WorldCat record id: 77703801 ...

Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1794-1867

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Loring was a prominent Boston lawyer and a Massachusetts State Senator in 1862. He married Anna Pierce Brace (d.1836) in 1818 and was a Harvard College fellow from 1838-1857. From the guide to the Papers, 1768-1866., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

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...

Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907

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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, educator and college president, was born in Boston, December 5, 1822 and married the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz in 1850. She was an educational reformer, member of the Woman's Education Association, but never an advocate of women's suffrage or of co-education. ECA administered the Agassiz School for Girls from 1855 to 1863. She was one of the managers of the program for the Private Collegiate Instruction for Women (also known as the Harvard Annex); was p...

Chase, Thomas, 1827-1892

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Thomas Chase was the son of Anthony and Lydia (Earle) Chase of Worcestor, Ma. He began teaching philosophy, classical and English literature at Haverford College in 1855 and was named president in 1875. In 1885 he resigned due to failing health. He served on the American Committee for the revision of the Bible from 1881-1894. From the description of Papers, 1843-1947 (bulk 1843-1892). (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 26445069 ...

Ticknor, William D. (William Davis), 1810-1864

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American publisher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Mr. Clark, 1859 Sept. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572593 ...

Ticknor, Anna, 1800-1885

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Mrs. Anna Eliot Ticknor was the wife of George Ticknor (1791-1871) educator and author; the daughter of Samuel Eliot, a Boston merchant. From the description of Papers, 1823-1885. (Boston Public Library). WorldCat record id: 37601590 ...

Ticknor, George, 1791-1871

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George Ticknor (1791-1871), educator and author, served as the first Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard from 1817 to 1835. After his arrival at Harvard, Ticknor became disenchanted with the school curriculum, characterizing the College as a well-disciplined high school, and began an effort to reorganize the College around four main goals: the division of students in courses according to academic proficiency and merit; the division of the ...

Harris, Thaddeus William, 1795-1856

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Harris (Harvard, A.B. 1815; M.D. 1820) served as Librarian of Harvard, 1831-1856 and also lectured on natural history at Harvard, 1837-1842. He published about 100 articles on insects and insect-related diseases, compiled indexes to major works on entomology, and also wrote on squashes and pumpkins for the New England farmer. From the description of Papes of Thaddeus William Harris, 1818?-1852 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 40961354 ...

Bradford, Gamaliel, 1831-1911

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Sabine, Lorenzo, 1803-1877

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Author, historian, businessman, and U.S. representative; b. in Lisbon, N.H.; spent 20 years in Eastport, Me., and lived in Framingham and Roxbury, Mass.; served in Maine State Legislature and served as Whig representative from Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress from 1852-1853; in 1857 became secretary to Boston Board of Trade, a position he held for 10 years. From the description of Papers, 1821-1870. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70960744 ...

Boston Athenaeum

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The Boston Athenaeum was founded in 1807. Its present building on Beacon Hill, erected from 1847 to 1849, houses a library and an art collection. From the description of Boston Athenaeum records, 1854-1855. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557016 ...

Elwyn, Alfred L. (Alfred Langdon), 1804-1884

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Physician and father-in-law of S. Weir Mitchell. From the description of Letter, 1859, May 18 : Philadelphia. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35060218 ...

Tudor, Euphemia F. (Euphemia Fenno), 1814-1884

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Sparks, Mary C. (Mary Crowninshield), 1809-1887

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Silsbee, E. A. (Edward Augustus), 1826-1900

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State Normal School at Lexington (Mass.)

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Wheaton, Henry, 1785-1848

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Henry Wheaton's career included terms as a reporter for the U.S. Supreme Court (1816-1827) and U.S. chargé d'affaires to Denmark (1827-1834). He was a noted historian of international law. From the description of Letter to Mr. Plumer, ca. 1820. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235181043 ...

Marshall, John, 1755-1835

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John Marshall (1755-1835) was born near Germantown, Prince William (currently Fauquier) County, Virginia on 24 September 1755 to parents Thomas Marshall and Mary Randolph Keith. From 1775-1781, Marshall served in the Continental Army and fought in the Revolutionary War. During the spring and summer of 1780, Marshall attended classes at the College of William and Mary and received his license to practice law. After the war, he moved to Richmond, Virginia and began his practice. Marshall married M...

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was chartered by the legislature of Massachusetts in 1780 and is the second oldest learned society in the U.S. Among its incorporators were James Bowdoin, John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock. From the description of Records of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1775-1800 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122413111 ...

Vaughan, Petty, 1788-1854

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Petty Vaughan was a merchant and lieutenant in the Maine Militia. He went to London as a teenager to work with his uncle, William Vaughan, and returned later to spend most of his commercial career there. From the guide to the Vaughan family papers, 1768-1950 (Massachusetts Historical Society ...

James Munroe and Company

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James Munroe and Company, publishers and booksellers, were located at 134 Washington Street in Boston and also in Cambridge, Mass., during the middle part of the nineteenth century. The head of the company was James Munroe (1808-1861), who was born in Lexington, Mass., the son of James Munroe (1775-1848) and Margaret Watson Munroe ( - ). In 1834 he married Sarah Russell Mason Fiske (1808- ). They had two daughters. From the description of Correspondence, 1833-1866. (Unknown). WorldCa...

Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880

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Lydia Maria Child was born Lydia Maria Francis in Medford, Massachusetts on February 11, 1802. She was born into an abolitionist family and was greatly influenced by her brother, Convers, who would later become a Unitarian Clergyman. After the death of her mother in 1814, Child moved to Maine to live with her sister and began teaching in Gardiner in 1819. While living in Maine, Child became increasingly interested in Native Americans and visited many nearby settlements. Child began actively writ...

Gilpin, Henry D. (Henry Dilworth), 1801-1860

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Henry Dilworth Gilpin was born and raised in England, emigrated to the United States to attend the University of Pennsylvania, and proceeded to practice law, author numerous publications, and serve as editor for the Atlantic Souvenir. He went on to become director of the Bank of the United States, and ultimately Attorney General under President Martin van Buren. A patron of the arts, Gilpin later served as president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, as well as similar posts. ...

Hale, Charles, 1831-1882

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Charles Hale (1831-1882) was a Boston journalist and politician who graduated from Harvard in 1850. He was junior editor of his father's newspaper, the Boston Daily Advertiser, and in 1852 he founded the Boston literary journal, Today. From 1864 to 1870, Hale was U.S. Consul-General to Egypt, and was active in the development of Egypt's Assembly system. After 1870, he held various Massachusetts political offices. His publications include: All Men Are Born Equal ... (Boston, 1856); Our Houses Are...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Andrews, Christopher Columbus, 1829-1922

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Andrews was born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, the son of a rural farmer. He attended school during the winter months until 1843 when he travelled to Boston. He attended the Francestown Academy, completed his education, and studied law in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1848. He passed his bar examination two years later and established a law practice in Newton, Massachusetts, where he served as a member of the city school board in 1851–1852. He briefly relocated to Boston in 1853, but left th...

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...

Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882

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Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. She served as First Lady from 1861 until his assassination in 1865 at Ford’s Theatre. Daughter of Eliza Parker and Robert Smith Todd, pioneer settlers of Kentucky, Mary lost her mother before the age of seven. Her father remarried; and Mary remembered her childhood as “desolate” although she belonged to the aristocracy of Lexington, with high-spirited social life and a sound private education. Just...

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...

Grimké, Charlotte Forten, 1837-1914

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Charlotte Forten Grimké, née Charlotte Louise Bridges Forten, (born August 17, 1837, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 23, 1914, Washington, D.C.), American abolitionist and educator best known for the five volumes of diaries she wrote in 1854–64 and 1885–92. They were published posthumously. Forten was born into a prominent free black family in Philadelphia. Her father ran a successful sail-making business. Many members of her family were active in the abolitionist movement. Early in l...

Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth), 1842-1932

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Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (October 28, 1842 – October 22, 1932) was an American orator and lecturer. An advocate for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights, Dickinson was the first woman to give a political address before the United States Congress. A gifted speaker at a very young age, she aided the Republican Party in the hard-fought 1863 elections and significantly influenced the distribution of political power in the Union just prior to the Civil War. Dickinson was the first white wo...

Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886

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Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886) was the 25th Governor of New York and the Democratic candidate for president in the disputed election of 1876. Tilden is the only individual to win an outright majority of the popular vote in a United States presidential election but lose the election. Tilden was born into a wealthy family in New Lebanon, New York. Attracted to politics at a young age, he became a protégé of Martin Van Buren, the eighth President of the United States. Af...

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 ...

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866

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Jared Sparks (1789-1866) was the President of Harvard University from February 1, 1849 to February 10, 1853. He was also a Unitarian minister, editor, and historian. Jared Sparks was born to Joseph Sparks and Elinor (Orcut) Sparks on May 10, 1789 in Willington, Connecticut. Sparks was one of nine children and came from a family of modest means. When he turned six years old, Sparks went to live with an aunt and uncle in Camden, New York, to help relieve the family of a mout...

Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890

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John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, military officer, and politician. He was a US Senator from California, and in 1856 was the first Republican nominee for President of the United States. A native of Georgia, Frémont acquired male protectors after his father's death, and became proficient in mathematics, science, and surveying. During the 1840s, he led five expeditions into the Western United States and became known as "The Pathfinder". During the...

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...

Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866

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Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United States Senate and served in the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He was also the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee and a leading spokesman for the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people in each territory should decide whether to permit slavery. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he attended Philli...

King, Rufus, 1755-1827

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Rufus King (March 24, 1755 – April 29, 1827) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress and the Philadelphia Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution in 1787. After formation of the new Congress he represented New York in the United States Senate. He emerged as a leading member of the Federalist Party, serving as the party's last presidential nominee in the 1816 presidential election. The son...

Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875

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Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was the 18th vice president of the United States (1873–75) and a senator from Massachusetts (1855–73). Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading Republican, and a strong opponent of slavery. Wilson devoted his energies to the destruction of the "Slave Power" – the faction of slave owners and their political allies which anti-slavery Americans saw as dominating the country. Originally a Whig, Wil...

Hamlin, Hannibal, 1809-1891

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Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809 – July 4, 1891) was an American attorney and politician from the state of Maine. In a public service career that spanned over 50 years, he served as the 15th vice president of the United States. The first Republican to hold the office, Hamlin served from 1861 to 1865. He is considered among the most influential politicians to have come from Maine. A native of Paris, Maine (part of Massachusetts until 1820), Hamlin managed his father's farm before becoming a ne...

Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792-1864

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George Mifflin Dallas (July 10, 1792 – December 31, 1864) was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of Philadelphia from 1828 to 1829 and as the 11th vice president of the United States from 1845 to 1849. The son of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander J. Dallas, George Dallas attended elite preparatory schools before embarking on a legal career. He served as the private secretary to Albert Gallatin and worked for the Treasury Department and the Second Bank of the United Stat...

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

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Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and House. He was the seventh House speaker and the ninth secretary of state. He received electoral votes for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 presidential elections. He also helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. For his role in defusing sectional crises, he earned the appellation of the "Great Compromiser" and was part of the "Grea...

Stevenson, Andrew, 1784-1857

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Andrew Stevenson (January 21, 1784 – January 25, 1857) was a Democratic politician in the United States. He served in the United States House of Representatives representing Virginia, as Speaker of the House, and as Minister to the United Kingdom. Born in Culpeper County, Virginia on January 21, 1784, he was educated at the College of William and Mary, studied law, and attained admission to the bar in 1809. Stevenson practiced in Richmond. Stevenson was a member of the Virginia House of De...

Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885

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Schuyler Colfax Jr. (March 23, 1823 – January 13, 1885) was an American journalist, businessman, and politician who served as the 17th Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873, and prior to that as the 25th Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1863 to 1869. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Indiana's 9th congressional district as a member of the anti-slavery Indiana People's Party in 1854, Colfax joined the Republican Party during his first term. He served as ...

Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893

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James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830 – January 27, 1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881. Blaine twice served as Secretary of State (1881, 1889–1892), one of only two persons to hold the position under three separate presidents (the other being Daniel Webster), and...

Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889

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Simon Cameron was born in Maytown, Pennsylvania in 1799, to Charles Cameron (d. January 16, 1814) and his wife Martha McLaughlin (d. abt. November 10, 1830). Cameron was the third of five sons; and had three younger sisters. One story claimed that Cameron was orphaned at nine, and later apprenticed to a printer, Andrew Kennedy, editor of the Northumberland Gazette before entering the field of journalism. If Cameron were apprenticed to Kennedy at age nine (~1808) for a then-standard period of ...

Evarts, William Maxwell, 1818-1901

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William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818 – February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York. He was renowned for his skills as a litigator and was involved in three of the most important causes of American political jurisprudence in his day: the impeachment of a president, the Geneva arbitration and the contests before the electoral commission to settle the presidential election of 18...

Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905

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Lewis "Lew" Wallace was born on April 10, 1827, in Brookville, Indiana. He was the second of four sons born to Esther French Wallace (née Test) and David Wallace. Lew's father, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, left the military in 1822 and moved to Brookville, where he established a law practice and entered Indiana politics. David served in the Indiana General Assembly and later as the state's lieutenant governor, and governor, and as a member of Congress. Lew Wal...

Sherman, John, 1823-1900

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Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio to Charles Robert Sherman and his wife, Mary Hoyt Sherman, the eighth of their 11 children. John Sherman's grandfather, Taylor Sherman, a Connecticut lawyer and judge, first visited Ohio in the early nineteenth century, gaining title to several parcels of land before returning to Connecticut. After Taylor's death in 1815, his son Charles, newly married to Mary Hoyt, moved the family west to Ohio. Several other Sherman relatives soon followed, and Charles becam...

Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 1819-1914

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In 1819, Sickles was born in New York City to Susan Marsh Sickles and George Garrett Sickles, a patent lawyer and politician. (His year of birth is sometimes given as 1825, and Sickles was known to have claimed as such. Historians speculate that Sickles chose to appear younger when he married a woman half his age.) He learned the printer's trade and studied at the University of the City of New York (now New York University). He studied law in the office of Benjamin Butler, was admitted to the ba...

Sinclair, John (correspondent of Charles Sumner), active 1838

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Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911

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Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1823. He was a descendant of Francis Higginson, a Puritan minister and immigrant to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. His father, Stephen Higginson (born in Salem, Massachusetts, November 20, 1770; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 20, 1834), was a merchant and philanthropist in Boston and steward of Harvard University from 1818 until 1834. His grandfather, also named Stephen Higginson, was a member of the Continental Congre...

Saxton, Rufus, 1824-1908

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Saxton was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts. His father, Jonathan Ashley Saxton, was a Unitarian and a Transcendentalist whose feminist and abolitionist writings were heard on the lyceum circuit. He descended from a family of Unitarian ministers (Ashley, Williams, Edwards). His father attempted to secure a place for Rufus Saxton at Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, a transcendentalist community started by George Ripley and attended by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Rufus Saxton's brother Samuel ...

Sigel, Franz, 1824-1902

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Sigel was born in Sinsheim, Baden (Germany), and attended the gymnasium in Bruchsal. He graduated from Karlsruhe Military Academy in 1843, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Baden Army. He met the revolutionaries Friedrich Hecker and Gustav von Struve and became associated with the revolutionary movement. He was wounded in a duel in 1847. The same year, he retired from the army to begin law school studies in Heidelberg. After organizing a revolutionary free corps in Mannheim and later i...

Randall, Samuel J. (Samuel Jackson), 1828-1890

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Samuel Jackson Randall (October 10, 1828 – April 13, 1890) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1863 to 1875 and from Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1875 to 1890. He served as the 29th Speaker of the House from 1876 to 1881 and was twice a contender for his party's nomination for President of the United States. Born in Philadelphia to a f...

Hamilton, Schuyler, 1822-1903

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Hamilton was born on July 22, 1822 in New York City. He was the fifth of 14 children born to John Church Hamilton (1792–1882) and Maria Eliza van den Heuvel. His paternal grandparents were Alexander Hamilton (1755/7–1804), a Founding Father of the United States, and Elizabeth Schuyler (1757–1854). His maternal grandfather was Baron John Cornelius van den Heuvel, the one-time governor of Dutch Guiana. Through his sister, Elizabeth Hamilton (1831–1884), he was the brother-in-law of Gen. Henry Hall...

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925

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Miles was born in Westminster, Massachusetts, on his family's farm. He worked in Boston, read military history, and mastered military principles and techniques, including battle drills. Miles was working as a crockery store clerk in Boston when the American Civil War began. He entered the Union Army as a volunteer on September 9, 1861, and fought in many crucial battles. He became a lieutenant in the 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel of t...

Von Humboldt, Alexander, 1769-1859

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Born in Berlin, Germany, and educated at the universities of Frankfurt and Göttingen, Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most prominent European figures of his age. His fame largely derived from his scientific expedition in Latin America between 1799 and 1804, which resulted in numerous discoveries, particularly related to physical geography and meteorology. Notably, he spent 1803 in New Spain (present day Mexico) conducting a census of the territory. Source: Alexander von ...

Amherst College

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Founded in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary school Amherst Academy. The college was originally suggested as an alternative to Williams College, which was struggling to stay open. Although Williams survived, Amherst was formed and diverged into its own institution....

American Philosophical Society

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...

Pinchback, Pinckney Benton Stewart, 1837-1921

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Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (born Pinckney Benton Stewart, May 10, 1837 – December 21, 1921) was an American publisher and politician, a Union Army officer, and the first African American to become governor of a U.S. state. A Republican, Pinchback served as the 24th Governor of Louisiana from December 9, 1872, to January 13, 1873. He was one of the most prominent African-American officeholders during the Reconstruction Era. Pinchback was born free in Macon, Georgia to Eliza Stewart, a f...

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

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John Greenleaf Whittier was a wildly popular New England poet. A deeply committed and active abolitionist, he wrote many of his poems with a political agenda, although distinguished by an open-minded tolerance so often lacking in his fellow abolitionists. Although his works are somewhat marred by overtly political and overly sentimental works, the core of his output stands as fine, lyrical American verse. From the description of John Greenleaf Whittier letters, 1858 and 1876. (Pennsy...

Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873

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Even though Sarah Moore Grimké was shy, she often spoke in front of large crowds with her sister Angelina. The two sisters became the first women to speak in front of a state legislature as representatives of the American Anti-Slavery Society. They also became active writers and speakers for women’s rights. Their ideas were so different from most of the ideas in the community that people burned their writings and angry mobs protested their speeches. However, Grimké and her sister would not let t...

Lippincott, William P., 1794-1825

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Resident of Salem County, N.J. From the description of Vendue and inventory book, 1825. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70946321 ...

John Penington & Son.

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Osgood, Samuel, 1812-1880

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Sam Osgood, a Unitarian minister, editor, author; born in Massachusetts; pastor of the Church of the Messiah in New York from 1849-1869. In 1870 he entered the Episcopal Ministry but assumed no parochial duties. Author of more than 7 books, as well as several orations on notable men. From the description of Sam Osgood letters [manuscript], 1851, 1852, 1898. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648010837 ...

Alanson Hawley

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Emery, Moses

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Resident of Saco, Me. From the description of Military pension cases, 1881. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 82099180 ...

Woodman, J. C.

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Paine, Halbert E.

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Born in Chardon, Oh., in 1826, Halbert E. Paine graduated from Western Reserve College and practiced law in Cleveland, Oh., and Milwaukee, Wis. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Paine entered the Union army as the colonel of the Fourth Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment. He was promoted to brigadier general in March 1863 and led the Third Division of the Army of the Gulf in an assault on Priest Gap during the Battle of Port Hudson, where he suffered a wound that necessitated the amputation of his leg....

Campbell, John L.

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Epithet: of the Isle of Canna British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000210.0x000262 ...

Williamson, E. E.

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Perkins, J. C. (Jonathan Cogswell), 1803-1877

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Wilde, Mrs.

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Hooper, Samuel, 1808-1875

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Epithet: American economist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000789.0x0000ba Massachusetts merchant and legislator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to William Pitt Fessenden, 1864 Nov. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269523248 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to William Pitt Fessenden, [18]64 Aug. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 2695232...

Bore, H. L.

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Williams, John J

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Greenough, Francis Boott, 1837-1904

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Young Men's Association (Mt. Pleasant, Iowa).

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Cook, W. E.

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Smith, Barbara, 1922-

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Background The collection was donated by Barbara Smith, a local activist in the women's movement in the 1970s. She was very active in the L.A. Women's Liberation Center (also known as the Los Angeles Women's Center) where she played a key role in organizing the Liberation School. Later she was active in the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and with Federally Employed Women (FEW). The Los Angeles Wom...

Rodman, William M. (William Mitchell), 1814-1868

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Edge, Frederick Milnes

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Wheaton, Robert, 1826-1851

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Piggott, Nathaniel D.

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Tubbs, Samuel W.

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Roberts, O. A.

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Plaich, George P.

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Willis, S. C., Jr.

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Inglis, Linda.

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Tyler, William

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Epithet: RA; sculptor and architect British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000438.0x000393 Epithet: of Stowe Ch 271 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000438.0x000392 ...

Hall Williams, John Eryl, 1921-

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Smart, E. K. (Ephraim Knight), 1813-1872

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Craig, D. W.

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Shailer, J. S.

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Irving Association (Concord, N. H.).

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Appleton, Thomas Gold, 1812-1884

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American poet, essayist and artist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : Boston, to Madame [Blaze] de Bury, 1854 Jan. 14, 1854 Nov. 24 and [no year] Dec. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875321 ...

Dillingham, J. R.

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Hanscom, W. L.

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Baltimore Citizens.

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Hayes, A. A.

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Payne, C. H.

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Trevelyan, H. M.

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Baker, George E.

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Webb, Francis R.

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Putnam, Mary Lowell, 1810-1898

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Gray, Francis Calley, 1790-1856

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Connected to the U.S. legation to St. Petersburg. Resident of Boston, Mass. From the description of Diary, 1811-1815. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270616 From the description of Diary, 1811-1815. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19657416 Harvard benefactor. From the description of Letters, ca. 1809-ca. 1829. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14967883 ...

Weibner, Eugene.

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Richter, M. A.

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Wade, Rufus R.

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Hoffman, John T. (John Thompson), 1828-1888

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John Thompson Hoffman (1828-1888), lawyer and politician, was mayor of New York City from 1866 to 1868, and governor of New York State from 1869 to 1872. From the description of John T. Hoffman correspondence, 1868-1883. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122532271 From the guide to the John T. Hoffman correspondence, 1868-1883, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Tammany politician, mayor of New York City, 1866-1868, and governor of New Yo...

Towne, John C.

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Goodwin, Frank

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Mudge, G. W.

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Mareil, H. de.

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Bigelow, Alpheus.

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Cliosophic Society (Lexington, Ky.).

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Bentley, A. V.

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Friends of Free Soil in Brooklyn.

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Lamb, Francis

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Poole, Henry W. (Henry Ward), 1825-1890

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Henry Ward Poole (1825-1890) was an American engineer, professor and collector of Mexicana. He worked as an engineer for the Mexican Pacific Coal and Iron Mining and Land Company in 1856-1857 and then returned to Mexico to teach at the College of Mines in Mexico City and amass his collection of Mexican documents. From the guide to the Henry Ward Poole collection of Mexican documents, 1610-1857, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Henry Ward Pool...

Jackson, A.

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Harman, John A.

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Chase, D. H.

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Stebbins, Solomon Bliss.

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the Louiseville Library Association.

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Genverneus, Marian.

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Worthington, R.

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Whyte, William Pinkney, 1824-1908

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American lawyer; Senator from Maryland. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Baltimore and Washington, to W.M. Evarts, 1880 Nov. 30-[no year] Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588718 ...

Gates, George L.

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Spencer, John Charles Spencer, Earl, 1782-1845

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English statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Althorp, to Mrs. Calcott, 1832 Oct. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270860369 ...

Holmes, Amelia J.

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Baugh, Leonidas.

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Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803-1858

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A Boston lawyer and abolitionist who used his legal training to aid runaway slaves, Loring was an organizer of the New England Anti-Slavery Society. He married Louisa Gilman (1797-1868) in 1827. Their daughter, Anna Loring Dresel (1830-1896), was vice president of the Boston Sanitary Commission during the Civil War and president of Vincent Hospital. She married Otto Dresel (1826-1890), a German pianist and composer in 1863; they had two children: Louisa Loring Dresel (1864-195?) and Ellis Loring...

Penington, Edward Jr.

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Bliss, Moses B.

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Dover Custom House.

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Davis, Timothy, 1821-1888

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U.S. representative from Massachusetts. From the description of Papers of Timothy Davis, 1856-1885 (bulk 1856-1859). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81681463 ...

Achman, George.

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Burbank, A. C.

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Ullman, Louis S.

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Coffey, Titian S.

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Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870

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Reformer; member New England Anti-Slavery Society; author. From the description of 3 ALsS : 1843 March 8, 1843 April 20, n.d. (Boston Public Library). WorldCat record id: 37601617 Wright was an American reformer, anti-slavery activist, and advocate of peace, socialism, and spiritualism. From the description of Papers, 1821-1849. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612372917 ...

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. ...

Curtis, Cornelius.

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Haywood, Edward

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Chapman, C. W.

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Macy, Alfred.

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Edgar, George

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Passy, Frederic, 1822-1912

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B. May 20, 1822 in Paris; graduated from Université de Paris in 1846; political economist, public servant, essayist, lecturer; 1901 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (with Henry Dunant); founded the Ligue internationale et permanente de la paix in 1868 (president, ca. 1900); member of Parliament of France from 1881-1889; advocate of international arbitration; d. June 12, 1912. From the description of Collection, 1863-1912. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 45...

Chanal.

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Shepard, Isaac F. (Isaac Fitzgerald), 1816-1889

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American soldier and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : H.Q., U. S. Colored Troops, Str. Bullitt, Milliken's Bend, to Brig. Gen. Dennis, 1865 July 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662622 Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard (1816-1889). From the description of Papers. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191276220 Biography Born July 7, 1816. Harvard University graduate, cl...

Nash, Nathaniel C.

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Coffman, Isaac F.

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Bowne, W. A.

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Forbes, Robert Benet.

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Laurence, Jonathan

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Hill, C. H. (Clement Hugh), 1836-1898

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Wright, F. J.

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Packard, Fred A.

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Stephenson, John G.

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Murray, Robert

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Epithet: Receiver-General of Customs British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x0002ea Epithet: Captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x0002e5 Epithet: Lord Provost of Edinburgh British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x000341 Epithet: ...

Hale, Nathan, 1784-1863

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Grote, Harriet, 1792-1878

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English biographer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : East Burnham, Berkshire, and [n.p.], to Madame [Blaze] de Bury, 1855 Sept. 14 and, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270879255 ...

Smith, Henry Boynton, 1815-1877

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Jones, P. K.

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Rand, Asa, 1783-1871

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Clergyman in Gorham and Westbrook, Me. From the description of Marriage and death records, 1809-1822. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70976905 ...

Taylor, William Nelson.

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Hallowell, E. N.

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Stannard, E. O.

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Hawkins, Albert.

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Republican Party (N.Y.)

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The Republican Party in New York predates the national party, which was not officially formed until 1854. From the guide to the Republican Party Broadside, 1837, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Sedgwick, C. B. (Charles Baldwin), 1815-1883

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American lawyer and Congressman. From the description of Autograph letter signed, incomplete at the beginning : [n.p.], to an unidentified official, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662699 American lawyer; Congressman from New York. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Ashfield, Massachusetts and Syracuse, to [John W.] Field, 1872 Aug. 28-1872 23 Oct. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664207 Charles Baldwin Sedgwic...

M. E. Shepard

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Forbes, John Murray, 1813-1898

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Philanthropist, abolitionist. Contributed to the building of the railroad system in the United States. From the description of John Murray Forbes letter to George William Curtis, [manuscript], 1891 January 24. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 263078000 Forbes was a Boston businessman who was engaged in the China trade early in his life and later involved in railroad development in the American West. From the description of Letters from various corres...

Sumner, Horace

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Minthorne Tompkins

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Eliot, Mary I.

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Dorsheimer, William, 1832-1888.

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Born in Lyons, Wayne County, 5 Feb. 1832. Studied law in the office of Solomon G. Haven; admitted to the bar in 1854. Dorsheimer was instrumental in establishing the Buffalo park system. From the description of Sketch of the life of Thomas S. Welch, 1865. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 184739306 ...

O'Neal, John W.

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Florence, Thomas B. (Thomas Birch), 1812-1875

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U.S. representative of Pennsylvania and editor. From the description of Thomas Birch Florence letter, 1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452315 ...

Church, A. M. E.

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Harvey, Alexander W.

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Perkins, Frederic B. (Frederic Beecher), 1828-1899

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American author, historian. From the description of Letter to John Adams Dix [manuscript], 1856 March 27. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814563 ...

Boyd, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 29142 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000473.0x0000f5 The Wyoming Controversy was a conflict between the governments of Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Britain, the Continental Congress, and the Indians over land in the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. From the guide to the Documents relating to the Wyoming Controversy, 1751-1814, 1823, 1751-1823, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Partridge, Lewis S.

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Techener, Léon, 1832-1888

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Beman, Amos Gerry, 1812-1874

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Williams, John S.

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Bruce, James E. (Philosopher)

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Bigelow, Tyler

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Leavitt, John M.

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Bowditch, W. E.

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Dunham, Thomas P.

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Huntington, Elisha, 1796-1865

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Buffum, Frances A.

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Hatherton, Edward John Walhouse Littleton, Baron, 1791-1863

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Title: Baron Littleton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000443.0x0002bf Epithet: of Longford, county Shropshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000443.0x0002bd British politician. From the description of Letter, 1827. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36212255 ...

MacArthur, C. L.

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Bigelow, George Tyler, 1810-1878

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Urbino, Samson R.

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Caen, E.

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Cook, Nelson

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Blair, Thomas S.

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George Frisbee Hoar.

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Wentworth, Benjamin W.

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Convers, Charles Cleveland, 1810-1860

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Convers attended Harvard Law School (1831), became an Ohio state senator (1849) and later judge of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas (1854) and the Ohio Supreme Court (1855). From the description of Letter to John W. Andrews, 22 October 1847. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234337952 ...

Chamberlin, E. C.

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Round, George C.

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Farnsworth, Ezra.

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Hedge, Frederic Henry, 1805-1890

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Frederic Henry Hedge was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1805, the son of Levi Hedge, a professor of logic at Harvard, and Mary Kneeland Hedge, the granddaughter of Edward Holyoke, president of Harvard (1737-1769). After spending 4 years studying in Germany he attemded Harvard University starting in 1822 and graduated in 1825. He studied theology in the Divinity School in Cambridge and was ordained in 1829. He served as pastor in West Cambridge, Massachusetts; Bangor, Maine; Providence, Rhod...

Anketill, John.

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Huntington, W. H.

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Wood, S., Mrs.

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Nelson Sizer

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Séguin, Edward, 1812-1880

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Vesey, William H.

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Dunlary, H.

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Stevens, Henry.

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Jared Sparks was a clergyman, editor, historian, and president of Harvard College; he became an American Philosophical Society member in 1837. From the guide to the Jared Sparks selected papers, 1819-1863 Franklin Bache S. D. Bradford William Duane Peter S. Du Ponceau J. Francis Fisher George Gibbs Henry D. Gilpin Edward D. Ingraham James Mease William B. Reed Henry Stevens, Sr. Henry Stevens, Jr. Benjamin Vaughan Petty Vaughan William Vaughan There are also extracts from Sparks's jo...

Leakin, George A.

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Rolfe, John H.

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Harriss, Cornelius.

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Hale, James H.

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Osborn, Robert Chesley, 1904-1994

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Illustrator and satiric artist; Salisbury, Conn. Died 1994. From the description of Robert C. Osborn photographs, 1928-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502619 Robert Osborn (1904-1994) was an illustrator and painter of Salisbury, Conn. From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Chesley Osborn, 1974 Oct. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477514 Illustrator, painter; Salisbury, Conn. Died 1994. From the description of...

Friend, A.

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Gray, Robert A.

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Winters, W. Hoffman.

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Montagu, Basil, 1770-1851

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O'Dell, S. F.

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Howe, Alfred.

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Philo & Union Literary Society. Washington & Jefferson College.

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Gove, John

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Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino, 1811-1888

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Chetlain, Augustus Louis, 1824-1914

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Chetlain was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His parents were Swiss, and they came to the United States by the way of Canada. As an infant, he was taken to Galena, Illinois. He studied at local schools in Galena and later became a clerk. In 1852, he started a career in business, and by 1859, he had become wealthy. He sold his business in the U.S. and traveled in Europe. Upon returning, Chetlain participated in the 1860 presidential campaign. When the American Civil War began in 1861, Chetlain ch...

Marshall, Ida S.

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Clarke, Harold K.

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Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877

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British author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Catherine Dickens, [between 1842 and 1846]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610489 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Catherine Dickens, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610487 English author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Mrs. Fonblanque, Thursday [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610490 From ...

Lee, John G.

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Wright, S. M.

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Legoupy, Adolphe.

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Johnson, L.

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Colden, F.

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Conrad, Robert Taylor, 1810-1858

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Journalist, jurist, and dramatist. From the description of ALS : Philadelphia, to Rufus W. Griswold, [no year] Feb. 5. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122525201 Epithet: writer; afterwards Mayor of Philadelphia British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000367.0x000339 Judge and mayor of Philadelphia, Conrad was also a journalist and playwright. From the description o...

Belcher, Edwin.

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Ford, John S.

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Smith, Eliza W.

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Eddy, E. F.

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Clark, Peter, Ph. D.

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Thomas, Moses G. (Moses George), 1805-1880

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Barstow, A. C. (Amos Chafee), 1813-1894

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Cespedes, Ramon.

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Bliss, L. W.

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Chaffee, N. L.

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Wattles, G. A.

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Holcombe, Mr. & Mrs. J. M.

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Hopkins, William Bonner, 1823-1890

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Bartlett, J. P.

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M. W. Galt & Bro.

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Brown, John Peter.

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Fincke, Gustav

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Holmes, J. A. Archibald.

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Parsons, William Henry, 1826-1907

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Caubert, A.

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Alexez, M.

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Ames, Azel

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Golden Branch Society of Phillips Exeter Academy.

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Aurelle de Paladines, général d', 1804-1877

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Dunn, R. McK.

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Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849

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Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington, Irish-born British writer. Best remembered for her Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron, she was active in British literary circles of the first half of the 19th century. From the guide to the Lady Blessington manuscript material : 92 items, 1820-1849, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Irish writer and wife of the Earl of Blessington. From the description of L...

Marcey, Randolph Barnes, 1812-1887

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Trask, George, 1798-1875

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American clergyman and reformer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Fitchburg, to the Reverend John Pierpont, 1851 Jul. 1 and Aug. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573051 ...

Sumner Lodge.

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Gordon, H.L.

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Helps, Arthur, sir, 1813-1875

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English historian. From the description of Letter signed : Vernon Hill, Bishop's Waltham, to an unidentified correspondent, 1855 Sept. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270482766 English essayist and antiquary. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chester Sq., to W. Pickering, 1845 Jun. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270472342 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Bishop's Waltham, 1847 Aug. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id...

G. W. Messinger

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Autal d', M.

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Serment, M.

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Goodman, A. T.

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Brimmer, Marianne.

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Clark, Charles C.

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Dornbusch, George.

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Hunt, Joseph

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Epithet: of Clement's Inn British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001031.0x000255 ...

Bornstein, Henry.

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Woods, L. I.

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Morton, Joseph F., 1881-1948

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Joseph F. Morton practiced law in Spokane, WA from 1913 to 1948. He had extensive investments in mining stocks in WA, ID, and MT, and served as an officer in several mining companies. From the guide to the Joseph F. Morton Papers, 1913-1948, (Eastern Washington State Historical Society/Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture Joel E. Ferris Research Library and Archives) ...

High School of Providence, Rhode Island.

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Sears, Mr.

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Maddox, J. T.

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Stringer, Thomas W.

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Duffield, George, 1818-1888

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Bowman, George R.

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Hinkley, S. H.

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Forster, W. E. (William Edward), 1818-1886

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English statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to S. Berget?, 1867 Aug. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270469099 Epithet: politician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x000398 ...

Frease, Celia P. R.

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Cobleigh, N. E.

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Fenton, Reuben E. (Reuben Eaton), 1819-1885

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Born in the Town of Carroll, Chautauqua County, New York on 4 July 1819, and was educated in a rural school. At the age of twenty he moved to Jamestown, where he entered the lumber business and soon became a prosperous merchant. He also studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1841. Elected to Congress as a Democrat in 1852, he vigorously opposed the extention of Slavery, and soon afterward joined the Republican Party and was elected to Congress of that party, representing the Chautauqua Distr...

Barron, John S.

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Fuller, H. J.

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Stone, William

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Epithet: late of the Commissariat British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000444.0x0002a5 Epithet: of Add MS 32703 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000444.0x0002a9 Epithet: of the privateer sloop 'Castor.' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:...

Auwert, H.

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Jellison, Z.

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Gardiner, R. H.

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Jay, William, 1789-1858

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Jurist and reformer. From the description of Letters of William Jay, 1854-1855. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79423668 Wililam Jay was an American jurist and philanthropist. From the description of ALS, 1829 Apr. 21, Bedford [N.Y.] to Theodore Sedgwick. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 184904505 William Jay, son of John Jay, was a lawyer well known for his abolitionist views. Willard was a member of the Massachus...

Morgan, A. S.

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Sedgwick, Charles, 1791-1856

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Guild, Reuben Aldridge, 1822-1899

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Snow, Josiah.

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Feblus, William.

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Amherst College. Delta Kappa Sigma Society.

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Newhall, Samuel M.

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Hall, Benjamin Homer, 1830-1893

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Attorney. From the description of Papers, 1795-1884. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122601368 ...

Goncet, M. Jean.

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Lee, John Rafter

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Smith, William

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Antioch College

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Bartle, P. F.

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Morgan, Edwin D. (Edwin Denison), 1811-1883

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New York governor, 1859-1863. From the description of Letter : Albany, [N.Y.], to Abraham Lincoln, Washington, D.C., 1862 Jan. 10. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30798399 Governor of New York, U.S. Senator, major general, merchant. From the description of Letter, 1867 November 71. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122458844 U.S. senator from New York, U.S. army officer, governor of New York, and businessman. From the...

Lampley, D. L.

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Steward, Ira, 1831-1883

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Tyler, John S., -1876

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Stewart, W. A. (William A.)

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Lapham, Louis.

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Beecher, Charles, 1815-1900

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Edward Beecher was born on August 27, 1803 at East Hampton, Long Island, New York, the second son of Lyman Beecher. Charles, his brother and writer of his biography, was born in 1815. The brothers and their nine other siblings were brought up in a religious household. Edward thoroughly believed in the pre-existence of the soul, which was viewed as heresy by some. Charles also believed in this doctrine and, therefore, felt that he was the only one of the siblings who could do justice to his broth...

Elsley, Charles Heneage, 1792-1865

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Downer, Samuel.

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Hastings & Co.

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Penington, John, 1797-1867

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Abbott, A. R.

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Seward, Frances Adeline, 1844-1866

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Payne, Abraham, 1818-1886

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Boyce, Emily

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Hendricks, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrews), 1819-1885

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Thomas Andrews Hendricks (September 7, 1819 – November 25, 1885) was an American politician and lawyer from Indiana who served as the 16th governor of Indiana from 1873 to 1877 and the 21st vice president of the United States from March to November 1885. Hendricks represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives (1851–55) and the U.S. Senate (1863–69). He also represented Shelby County, Indiana, in the Indiana General Assembly (1848–50) and as a delegate to the 1851 Indiana constitutiona...

Wardwell, Burnham.

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Peithessophian Society (Rutgers University)

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Verneuil, Edward de.

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Atkinson, John, 1953-

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Butler, Annie R. R.

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United States Internal Revenue, Collector's Office, 10th District, Massachusetts.

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Kennaday, John R.

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Parker, William F.

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Spaulding, M. C.

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Griswold, W.

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White, Z. L

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Allegheny Literary Society.

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Palmer, G. W

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Miller, Charles R.

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Hemans, Mr.

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Hobson, N.

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New London Literary and Scientific Institution.

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Chubbuck, Thomas.

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Bunting, J.

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Loughrey, John.

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Longfellow, A. W. (Alexander Wadsworth), 1854-1934

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Architect, of Portland, Me.; b. Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr.; son of A.W. Longfellow (1814-1901) and nephew of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. From the description of A.W. Longfellow scrapbook, ca. 1890-1915. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 226720896 Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr., was the son of Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Sr., a U.S. Coast Survey topographer, and nephew of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Anne Longfellow Pierce. After...

Pierce, N. P.

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Bigelow, George Newton.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935

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Holmes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the prominent writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and abolitionist Amelia Lee Jackson. Dr. Holmes was a leading figure in Boston intellectual and literary circles. Mrs. Holmes was connected to the leading families; Henry James Sr., Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalists were family friends. Known as "Wendell" in his youth, Holmes, Henry James Jr. and William James became lifelong friends. Holmes accordingly grew up in an atmospher...

Clark, Henry G. (Henry Grafton), 1804?-1892

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Fortescue, Hugh Fortescue, Earl, 1818-1905

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Smith, Robert D., 1937-

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Davenport, E. (Eugene), 1856-1941

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Sargent, Chester.

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Liberal Democratic Committee.

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Fanny, Aunt, 1822-1894

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Frances Elizabeth Barrow wrote fiction and stories for children under the name "Aunt Fanny." She lived in New York City and was part of the New York literary community of her day. From the description of Frances Barrow letters, 1864-1876. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49767459 ...

Howard, Amos.

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Ferguson, Robert

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Matthews, William Dominick, 1829-1906

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Matthews was born October 25, 1829, on the eastern shore of Maryland. William Dominick Matthews was born free to mixed-race parents. His father, Joseph, was a man of African descent who hailed from Delaware. His mother, the half-white slave daughter of a Frenchman, had gained her release from bondage upon her father’s death. Matthews moved to Baltimore in the late 1840s and worked as a sailor until 1854, when he purchased his own vessel and worked the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River. But discri...

Hare, M. H.

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Littlefield, J. H.

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Valentin, Ad.

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Bernard, O. G.

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Watson, George W.

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Ursinus College. Zwinglian Literary Society.

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Schellentrager, E. A.

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Tate, Alexander.

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Dickson, William M. (William Martin), 1827-1889

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William Martin Dickson's life and career echo the familiar American theme of the self-made man. He was born at Lexington, Ind., in 1827 and lost his father, a farmer, at the age of 8. Despite financial hardship, Dickson managed to graduate from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio -- by sweeping out classrooms to pay tuition, according to family history. He then studied law while supporting himself as a schoolteacher and was admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1848. Over the next two years ...

Rockwell, Alfred P...

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Dietrich, John

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Reed, W. B

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Holmes, Edward J.

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Mansfield, Nathan B.

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Ingham, Robert

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Dega, G. H.

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Griffin, C. Kean.

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Davy, Lady.

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Duyekinck, Evart.

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McLellan, Jacob

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Hodges, Leonard B. (Leonard Bacon), 1823-1883

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Wilde, W. S.

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Greenlee, Thomas.

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Jones, T.

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Warren, Henry W. (Henry Waterman), 1838-

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Smith, Isaac T.

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Journal des debats.

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Fifteenth Amendment Celebration.

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Gray, John A. C.

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Emery, Samuel Hopkins, 1815-1901

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Clergyman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Quincy, Illinois, to Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1863 Oct. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270614371 ...

Fraser, Philip.

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Speed, James, 1812-1877

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Mansur, J. W.

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Henley, Thomas P.

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Dawes, Henry L. (Henry Laurens), 1816-1903

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U.S. representative and senator from Massachusetts. From the description of Henry L. Dawes papers, 1833-1933 (bulk 1833-1903). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980064 U.S. Senator (1875-93), b. Cummington, Mass. He was U.S. district attorney for West Massachusetts (1853-57) and a Republican member of the House of Representatives (1857-75). He was chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and gave his name to the Dawes Act and the Dawes Commission. From t...

Burke, John, 1915-1975

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Epithet: genealogist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001030.0x0000b4 Epithet: 4th son of Ulick, 3rd Earl of Clanricarde Title: Viscount Burke British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001030.0x0000ba Biographical/Historical Note Lieutenant commander, United S...

Amory, Martha Babcock, 1812-1880

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Daughter of Gardiner Greene; married Charles Amory, 1832; Four children. From the description of Letter, 1869 Nov. : Brookline, to Mr. Amory. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 21006933 ...

Duncan, Rebecca L.

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Williston Seminary (Easthampton, Mass.). Phi Kappa Sigma.

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Robinson, William S. (William Stevens), 1818-1876

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Member of the New York Stock Exchange and a partner in Marvin & Robinson: Dealers in Railroad Stocks, Bonds and Gold. From the description of Letter, 1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122462112 William Robinson was an abolitionist, agrarian, and journalist. From the description of ALS, 1868 October 22, Hartford, Conn. to Sanborn / W.S. Robinson. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 37228347 ...

Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912

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U.S. politician, historian and newspaper editor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cedarville, to Schuyler Colfax, 1863 Sept. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 649441349 American newspaperman, editor, diplomat, and historian. From the description of Papers of Whitelaw Reid [manuscript], 1878-1893. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647879858 From the description of Papers of Whitelaw Reid, 1878-1893. (University of Virginia). ...

White, Richard W

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Hosack, Alexander, b. 1737.

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Rich, Julia

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Schroeder, T.

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Massachusetts Liberal Republican Convention.

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Pratt, H. D. J.

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Morton, J. Sterling (Julius Sterling), 1832-1902

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Governor of Nebraska. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, D.C., to Worthington C. Ford, 1895 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270613068 U.S. secretary of agriculture, Nebraska secretary of state and agriculturalist. From the description of Papers of J. Sterling Morton, 1844-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068087 United States Secretary of Agriculture under President Cleveland and originator of Arbor Day. ...

Grunage, Harrison.

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American News Company

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Sincere Admirer, A.

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Smith, J.

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Lewis, Grace A.

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Wadsworth, Andrew.

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Murphy, Lewis S.

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Skinner, John W.

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Thackston, Thomas C.

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Stone, William W.

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Jones, P.A.

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Cowdin, Elliot C. (Elliot Christopher), 1819-1880

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Born in Jamaica Vermont. Entered business in Boston during the 1840's, where he mastered the intricacies of silk trade. In the 1850's, he established his own firm in New York York City with a branch in Paris, and lived alternately in one place or the other. He married Sarah Kate Waldron, circa 1853. Cowdin served in the New York Stat Assembly in 1877. From the description of Papers, 1835-1883. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 51299834 Elliot Christopher Cowdin (...

Roscoe, C. W.

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Burton, John W. (John Wear), 1915-2010

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Secretary of the Department of External Affairs, 1947-50; Reader in International Relations, University College, London, 1963-78 and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Conflict, University of Kent at Canterbury, 1978-82. In 1982 Burton was given an international Studies Association Fellowship at South Carolina. After completion of this fellowship in 1985, he joined the George Mason University, Fairfax, USA. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1956-1998 (bulk 1980-199...

Billings, Liberty.

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Gardiner, O. C. (Oliver Cromwell)

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Putnam, J. P.

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Carey, Henry Charles, 1793-1879

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Henry Carey, American economist, was born in Philadelphia and initially devoted himself to the publishing business, which he inherited from his father. He was also interested in economics and in 1836 he published an article entitled, Essay on the rate of wages - subsequently expanded into a 3 vol. work: The principles of political economy, 1837-1840. Carey published numerous other books and essays and his writings were read worldwide, especially in Europe. Other works include, The slave trade......

Hull, Joseph D.

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Armstrong, Josiah.

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Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

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James Garfield, twentieth President of the United States, was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831. After embarking on an academic career, he joined the Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, and in 1863 was appointed Major General in the same regiment. He served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1880, when he was elected President. His inauguration took place on March 4, 1881, but his term of office was unfortunately brought to an abrupt end with his assassination by C...

Howell, George, 1833-1810

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Burt, E.

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Hunn, E.

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United States Internal Revenue, Assistant Assessor's Office, 7th District, Va.

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Rankabes, Alexandros Rizos, 1810-1892

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Hayden, S. D.

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Armenio, Roberto.

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Smith, George W.

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Bellamy, Thomas, fl. 1850

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Darrah, Robert K.

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Smith, Joshua B.

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Bingham, Peregrine, 1788-1864

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Consentaneus.

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Phillips, Willard, 1784-1873

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Phillips graduated from Harvard in 1810, was assistant editor of the North American Review, a member of the Massachusetts Legislature (1825-1827), a probate judge for Suffolk County (1839-1847), president of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company (1843-1873). From the description of Letter to Charles Sumner, 16 May 1839. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339781 Willard Phillips received his A.B. from Harvard in 1810. From the description...

Ropes, W. & Co.

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Adam, G. Gordon.

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Grisham, George Edgar.

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Conkle, William H.

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Watrous, George H.

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Stratheden, Lady.

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Pledge, W. Anderson.

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Oliver, Henry K. (Henry Kemble), 1800-1885

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The Association of Franklin Medal Scholars.

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Fay, Franklin Brigham, 1821-1904

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A Cuban

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Simington, J.

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Vaux, Richard, 1816-1895

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Chapin, Henry

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Marshall, John B.

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Chapman, George T.L.

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Ames, George

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Bing, Julius

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author. From the description of Nathaniel Hawthorne manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1853-1857 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 301761440 American author, writer of romances, stories, and juvenile works. Born July 4, 1804, in Salem, Mass.; died May, 1864, in Plymouth, N.H. Sometime resident of Concord, Mass. Graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825. Hawthorne's association with the Boston publishing firm of Ticknor and Fields began ...

Holcombe, William Frederic, 1827-1904.

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William Frederic Holcombe (1827-1904) practiced medicine in New York, specializing in eye and ear diseases. He was one of the nine founders of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society in 1869. Holcombe published a number of genealogies. From the description of Index to "Sketches and recollections of Lynchburg," 1890-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122498004 William Frederick Holcombe (1827-1904) practiced medicine in New York, specializing in eye and ear disea...

Chase, Irah, 1793-1864

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Hart, Burden.

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Miller, J. Warren.

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Krause, William E. F.

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Wilde, William Cummings.

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Gallagher, John M.

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Jewett, Jacob B.

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Berthemy, J.

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Speer, William S.

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Barrington, William H.

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Robert Ferguson.

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Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900

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Collis P. Huntington was President of the Southern Pacific Railroad at the time this letter was written (1892). He tells his Fresno District Superintendent, James L. Frazier, that he is glad the latter's family is comfortably situated in the Pollaskey house, Fresno. From the description of Huntington correspondence, 1892. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 36847465 Financier and railroad executive. From the description of Papers of Collis Potter Hun...

Deane, John C.

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Vesus, J. E.

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Stetson, Thomas M.

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Chassaignac, Eugene

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Eugène Chassaignac, a native of Nantes, France, came to New Orleans, La., during the 1850s. He was a music educator and became a well-known composer. His works included popular Confederate songs; this collection includes later compositions. He became a naturalized American citizen, and died in New Orleans in 1878. He was the father of Dr. Charles Chaissaignac. From the description of Eugène Chassaignac music scores, 1867-1873. (Tulane University). WorldCat record id: 642713260 ...

Badger, George Edmund, 1795-1866

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George E. Badger, superior court judge, secretary of the Navy, and U.S. senator, 1844-1855, of Raleigh, N.C. From the description of George Edmund Badger papers, 1827-1864. WorldCat record id: 22979255 From the guide to the George Edmund Badger Papers, 1827-1864, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) American jurist; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1841; U.S. Senator from North Carolina 1846-1855. From the gu...

Carpenter, Wesley M. (Wesley Manning), 1839-1888

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Plumb, Albert H. (Albert Hale), 1829-1907

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Beecher, J. A.

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Parker, J. M. F

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King, Augusta.

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Johnston, Alex

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Corwine, A. B.

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Estcourt, J. H.

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Young Men's Republican Union, New York City.

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Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872

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Painter, inventor; New York, N.Y. and London, England. From the description of Samuel Finley Breese Morse letter, 1845 Sept. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122599940 From the description of Samuel Finley Breese Morse letter, 1845 Sept. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007074 Author of account concerning deportation of 1100 workers and I.W.W. sympathizers from Bisbee to Columbus, N.M., July 12, 1917. From the description of The truth about Bisbee...

James, Henry, 1811-1882

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Henry James Sr. and his wife Mary Walsh James (1810-1882) were the parents of the novelist Henry James Jr., the philosopher William James, the diarist Alice James, Robertson James, and Garth Wilkinson James. From the guide to the Letters from Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James to various correspondents, 1827-1878., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Henry James Sr. was an American philosophical theologian. He and his wife Mary Robertson Walsh J...

Vidie L. Taft.

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Bowditch, H. P. (Henry Pickering), 1840-1911

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Bowditch (Harvard, A.B. 1861; M.D. 1868) studied physiology in Leipzig with Carl Ludwig, whose laboratory was the center for physiological study. He returned to Boston in 1871 and taught physiology at the Harvard Medical School; was appointed as first George Higginson Professor of Physiology; and with the establishment of the first physiological laboratory, brought German technological methods to the U.S. He helped in planning the Harvard Medical School and was active in public affairs, includin...

Johnson, N. A.

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Presbury, Benjamin F.

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Lyvden, Robert Vernon Vernon, 1st Baron, 1800-1873

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Larned, Edwin C. (Edwin Channing), 1820-1884

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Snell, George

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George Snell (b. 1909) was born on 4 April 1909, to George Dixon and Ivy Belle Price Dixon. Snell was raised mainly in Utah, and for a time in St. Anthony, Idaho. Snell's interest in radio began early in the 1920s when he first constructed an oatmeal box crystal set and when he later became well acquainted with Stan Stoule, a West High classmate and licensed ham. With Stoule's basement radio station and license, Snell became proficient in Morse code and was quickly bitten by the rad...

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

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Martin Van Buren (b. Kinderhook, New York, December 5, 1782-d. July 24, 1862, Kinderhook, New York), studied law, was admitted to bar, New York, 1803; moved to Huson surrogate of Columbia Co.; member of State Senate, 1813-1820; attorney general of New York, 1815-1819; delegate to state constitutional convention, 1821; U.S. Senate Democrat, March 4, 1821-1828; Governor of New York, 1828-1829; U.s. Secretary of State, March 12, 1829 - August 1, 1831; Vice President, 1832; President, 1836-1840....

Herries, William

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Title: 10th Baron Herries British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000350.0x000055 ...

Hulbert, La Fayette.

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Horr, George W.

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Lobo, Moses F.

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Hill, John R., PhD

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John R. Hill (d.1878) was a successful Texas planter, known for encouraging Polish immigration to Texas, mainly to alleviate the labor problems he faced during the mid 19th century. Hill and eleven others organized the Waverley Emigration Society, to bring Polish farmworkers to East Texas. He persuaded five families to move from overseas to his plantation with the promise of work and compensation. Hill served as a trustee of the Marion Male and Female Academy and as president of the Waverly Inst...

Worthington, H. G.

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Patterson, John

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Atkinson, J. T.

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Webster, J. C.

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Saxe, John Godfrey, 1816-1887

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American poet. From the description of Letter [manuscript], 1871, Albany, New York, to [James Ripley] Osgood. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823406 John Godfrey Saxe (June 2, 1816 - 1887) was an American poet perhaps best known for his parable, "The Blindmen and the Elephant."He was mentioned several times in "The Penultimate Peril.", along with his most famous poem. He was described as an American humorist poet of the nineteenth cenury.Biographical Source:...

Stone, Chas. P. (Charles Pomeroy), 1824-1887

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American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Grance Ecore, La., to D. D. Porter, 1864 Apr. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574772 Born in Greenfield, Mass., Charles Pomeroy Stone graduated from the U.S. Military Academy and served in the Mexican-American War under General Winfield Scott. During the U.S. Civil War he commanded a brigade in General Robert Patterson's Army of the Shenandoah in the First Bull Run campaign. After a portion of his...

Gibson Brothers (Musical group)

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Tomlinson, R.

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Lewin, Gregory A. (Gregory Allnutt), -1845

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Colver, Nathaniel, 1794-1870

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Moore, William, 1928-

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and A. R. Levine.

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McAfee, J. B.

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New York Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa.

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Loucks, Abram

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Bassett, Isaac.

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Cardhill, D. F.

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Fitch, John, 1956-

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Epithet: attorney British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001161.0x0001e2 ...

Earnest Will-Wisher, An.

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Abraham, Thomas S.

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Miller, William, 1755-1846

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Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x000136 Epithet: Captain; Deputy Inspector-General of Constabulary, Ireland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x000130 Epithet: merchant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x000134 ...

Storrs, Richards S. (Richard Salter)1787-1873.

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Brooks, W. H.

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Oliver, William Francis

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Cameron, Noah.

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Sproull, John J.

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Weinberg, Charles

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Whiton, James Morris, 1833-1920

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de Forest, Edward.

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Cooley, Timothy Mather, 1772-1859

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Reverend Timothy Mather Cooley was born in Granville, Massachusetts, in 1772, and was educated privately between the ages of 12 and 15. He began coursework at Yale College in 1788, and graduated in 1792; following his graduation, he spent another year studying religion, and then preached in Salisbury, Connecticut, and Granville, Massachusetts. He was ordained as a Congregational minister in 1796, and led the Granville congregation for most of the rest of his life. He spent several months of the ...

Shaw, A. T.

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Kelly, Edmund

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Epithet: of Egerton Ch 7461 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000509.0x0002d5 ...

Furness, Dawes E.

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Stevenson, Andrew, Mrs.

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Clifford, William Henry, 1839-1885

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Cary, Isaac.

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Eaton, Joshua, 1714-1772

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Sheridan, R. B.

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Irons, John

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D., J.

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Sexton, Marshall.

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Cook, John F.

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Friends of Free Soil in Connecticut.

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Mack, J. W.

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Webster Institute (Cambridge, Mass.).

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Crawford, I. R.

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Price, Benjamin S.

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McKenzie, Edward.

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Bradlaugh, Charles, 1833-1891

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Charles Bradlaugh was an active and controversial worker for social reform in England. Largely self-educated, he questioned theological, political, and social issues in countless pamphlets and speeches throughout England and the United States. Publicity and scandal followed him, perhaps most notably in the 1877 trial of Bradlaugh and Annie Besant for publishing Charles Knowlton's Fruits of Philosophy. He was elected to Parliament, but was disallowed from sitting in the house because of his stanc...

Miller, Thomas

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Epithet: Solicitor to the Excise in Scotland; afterwards Solicitor-General and Lord Advocate British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x000127 Epithet: brickmaker, of Fulham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x000123 Epithet: of the I of Wight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Descrip...

Verdi, Tullio Suzzara, 1829-1902

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Day, Edwin

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Stone, Edwin M.

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Abert, Charles

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Roebuck, H.

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Macgowan, D. J.

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Lohr, John R.

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Dickey, R. B.

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Souther, Samuel.

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Gulliver, John Putnam, 1819-1894

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Congregational clergyman and educator. From the description of John P. Gulliver letter, 1858 Dec. 24. (New London County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 71129601 John Gulliver, located in Boston, was a dealer in floor coverings including Wilton, Brussels, Turkey, Kidderminster, Venetian, straw and painted carpeting. From the description of [Invoice]. 1843. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 50774706 Congregational min...

Fitzpatrick, John B., collector

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Shreck, N. C. W.

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Bishop, Joel Prentiss, 1814-1901

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Bishop was an American legal writer. From the description of Joel Prentiss Bishop letter : to Messrs. H.O. Houghton & Co., 1852 Aug. 12. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936626 ...

Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1799-1888

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Wesson, Silas.

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Stuart, C. (Charles), active 1777-1791

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Evard, M.

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Rinks, Joseph.

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Pringle, Benjamin, 1807-1887

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Grimes, Elizabeth S.

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Pierce, Edward Lillie, 1829-1897

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Supporters of President Grant removed Sumner as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate in 1871. Edward L. Pierce defended the reputation of Sumner after this episode became a matter of fresh historical controversy in 1877. Others involved in the controversy were Lothrop Motley, John Jay, and Hamilton Fish. From the description of Clippings concerning Charles Sumner and President U.S. Grant : album, 1877-1878. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612815430 ...

Putnam, S. R.

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Oscanyan, C.

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Ryerson, Martin.

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Greene, R. G.

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Bates, General.

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Grosvenor, William M. (William Mason), 1835-1900

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Economist, journalist. Grosvenor was economic editor of the New York Tribune, 1875-1900. He wrote extensively on various aspects of the American economy. From the guide to the William Mason Grosvenor Papers, 1828-1916., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Economist, journalist. Grosvenor was economic editor of the New York Tribune, 1875-1900. He wrote extensively on various aspects of the American economy. ...

Plumer, William

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Epithet: MP, of Blakesware British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000408.0x00020e Epithet: MP for Hereford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000408.0x00020d ...

Morton, Oliver P. (Oliver Perry), 1823-1877

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Indiana lawyer, judge, and Republican politician. Morton served as the state's lieutenant governor in 1861, and as governor from 1861 to 1867. In 1867 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, and served there until his death. From the description of Oliver P. Morton papers, 1861-1876. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 27970020 14th Governor of Indiana, 1861-1867; United States Senator from Indiana, 1867-1877. From the description of Autographs o...

Mussey, R. Delavan.

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Wales, Samuel H.

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Kent, Edward, 1802-1877

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Kent began practicing law in Bangor, Maine in 1825 after graduating from Harvard. He held a number of political positions in the state including representative in the state legislature; mayor of Bangor; and governor (1838-1839 and 1841-1842). In 1842 he returned to law practice and became a justice on the Maine Supreme Court From the description of Edward Kent papers, 1840-1905. (State Historical Society of Iowa, Library). WorldCat record id: 459796485 Epithet: of Boughton, ...

Chouvin, Eugene.

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Wallroth, Fred.

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Harlow, Thomas.

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Turner, T. G.

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Hall, S. E.

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Fabens, J. W.

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Harvey, Francis, 1830-1899

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Gordon, George

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Title: 5th Earl of Aboyne; 9th Marquess of Huntly 1836 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000766.0x000128 Title: 6th Earl of Huntly British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0002ba Title: 5th Duke of Gordon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000766.0x000127 ...

Angell, Joseph K. (Joseph Kinnicut), 1794-1857

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Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896

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Doty, James Duane, 1799-1865

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James Duane Doty (1799-1865) was a lawyer, judge, and government official. He represented Wisconsin in Congress between 1838 and 1841, and again between 1849 and 1853. He was governor of Wisconsin Territory between 1841 and 1844, and served as the governor of Utah Territory between 1863 and 1865. From the description of James Duane Doty letter, 1861 November 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367719059 From the guide to the James Duane Doty letter, 1861 November 22, (L. Tom ...

Franklin and Washington Literary Society.

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Alison, A.

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Marshall, De Forest.

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Vincent, Hebron.

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Dehon, W.

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Dorsheimer, P.

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Citizens of Philadelphia.

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Falconer, W.

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Anthony, Edmund.

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Maxwel, Alex.

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Howard, Nathaniel

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Epithet: Churchwarden of Ashton-under-Lyne British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000866.0x000139 ...

Stilwell, Thomas A.

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Strand, Sidney.

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White, James W.

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Granger, Louis E.

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Ward, Samuel

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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x00032e Epithet: American patron of the arts British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001185.0x000329 Epithet: of Newport, Rhode Island British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x000330 ...

Gasparin, Agénor, comte de, 1810-1871

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Agénor de Gasparin was a French statesman, philanthropist, and writer on religion and abolition. From the description of Agénor de Gasparin letters, 1862-1871. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 244485457 ...

Holland, Milton M.

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Fox, Edgar B.

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Richards, A. C.

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Gregory, Edward Sanford, 1843-1884

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Former newspaper man of Bedford, Lynchburg, Petersburg and later an Episcopal minister at the Church of the Epiphany, in Lynchburg, and a man of letters. From the description of Material regarding the career of Edward S. Gregory [manuscript] 1859-1884. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647970634 ...

Green, James S. (James Stephen), 1817-1870

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James Stephen Green was a Representative from Missouri in U.S. Congress 1847-1851. From the guide to the Letter to J. Y. Mason, Secretary of Navy., June 12, 1848, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection) Representative and Senator from Missouri. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Canton, Missouri, to J.S. Black, 1858 July 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270498917 ...

Chambrun, Corcelle de.

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Church, J. P.

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Frémont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902

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She was born near Lexington, Virginia, the second child of Thomas Hart Benton (1782–1858) and Elizabeth McDowell (1794–1854). She was born in the home of her mother's father, James McDowell. Her father, Senator Benton, had been wanting a son, but went ahead and named her in honor of his father, Jesse Benton. Jessie was raised in Washington, D.C., more in the manner of a 19th century son than daughter, with her father, who was renowned as the "Great Expansionist," seeing to her early education...

Lowry, Grosvenor P.

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Fostic, Alexander.

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Knowlton, H.M.

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Livermore, Abiel Abbot, 1811-1892

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Abiel Abbot Livermore (1811-1892) graduated from Harvard College in 1833 and the Cambridge Divinity School in 1836. Ordained in 1836 to the Congregational Church of Keene, New Hampshire, Rev. Livermore also served parishes in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Yonkers, New York. He was the president of Meadville Theological School ( Pennsylvania) from 1863 to 1890, and also served as the publisher of the Christian Inquirer from 1856 to 1863. He published a multivolume commentary on the New Testament between ...

Hay, Henry P.

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Phelps, William Walter, 1839-1894

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William Walter Phelps, lawyer, businessman, Republican politician and diplomat. An active Republican politician and a good friend of James G. Blaine, he represented New Jersey in the Forty-third (1873-1875), Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses (1883-1889). In 1881-1882, he served as United States minister to Austria. In 1888 President Harrison appointed him as one of the commissioners to represent the United States at the Joint Conference on the Samoan Question, which met in Berli...

Christy, William, 1791-1865

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Fish, William, 1775-1866

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Williams, M.

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Epithet: sister-in-law of Sir Thos. Stepney, 4th Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x0003bf ...

Washington Corporation.

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Jackson, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1805-1880

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Physician, chemist, and geologist. From the description of Papers of Charles T. Jackson, 1829-1915. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71066585 Physician and chemist. From the description of Papers, 1871, July 21-Aug. 9, Boston. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35149330 ...

Evening Post.

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Dickinson, Edward

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Said, Nicholas, 1836-1882

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Newfoundland, Aubrey.

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Lott, Joseph B.

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Smalley, George W. (George Washburn), 1833-1916

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Civil War correspondent; foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune. From the description of Papers of George Washburn Smalley, 1870-1897. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 49241413 American journalist. From the description of Autograph letters (2) : London, to Mr. Reid, 1877 Feb. 3-1877 Apr. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664132 From the description of The House of Lords : [n.p.] : autograph manuscript signed of the first page of ...

Perinchief, O.

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Adshead, Joseph, 1800-1861

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Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895

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American author and journalist. From the description of Letter, an envelope, and a list, 1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367575009 American Journalist and Author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Ben. Perley Poore, 1852 Oct. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270622058 American journalist, traveler, author From the guide to the Maturin Murray Ballou papers, 1857, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscri...

Darlington, William M. (William McCullough), 1815-1889

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William M. Darlington (1815-1889), a Pittsburgh lawyer and avid collector of western Pennsylvanian history, took special interest in the Ohio Company. The Ohio Company was responsible for the exploration and settlement of the Ohio Territory, as well as parts of West Virginia and Pennsylvania. He collected copies of the journals created by Christopher Gist, the surveyor hired by the Ohio Company to explore the Ohio Territory and negotiate treaties with the Indians in the early 1750s. Gist recorde...

American Geographical Society of New York City.

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Paschale, A. S.

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Tennant, Charles, 1796-1873

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Barbour, Lucian, 1811-1880

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Lawyer and U.S. representative from Indiana. From the description of Lucian Barbour papers, 1838-1977 (bulk 1840-1898). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80602342 Biographical Note 1811, Mar. 4 Born, Canton, Hartford Co., Conn. 1837 Graduated, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. ...

Gillette, Francis, 1807-1879

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Graduate of Yale, representative to the Connecticut General Assembly and United States Senator. From the description of Francis Gillette papers, ca. 1825-1902. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 63675013 ...

Martin, William Melville, 1876-

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De Saussure, L. M.

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Allen, James Madison.

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Porter, Charles H. (Charles Howell), 1833-1897

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Clarke, Isaac Edwards, 1830-1907

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Author and federal employee; originally of Northampton, Mass. From the description of Letter to Miss Mary Proctor from Isaac Edwards Clark, 1854 June 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154690813 ...

Riley, W. E.

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Italian National Committee.

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Randall, Samuel H. (Samuel Haskell), 1836-

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Morton, Ichabad.

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Foote, Dyar.

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Hertwig, John George

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Johnston, John, 1852-1927

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Bartle, George

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Mitchell, Seward.

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Ellis, Marc H.

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Baillie, Mrs. I.

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Fay, William C.

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Hoxsey, Thomas D.

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Harris, John (John Howard)

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Child, Henry T.

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Greene, George Washington, 1811-1883

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Educator and historian. From the description of Letter of George Washington Greene, 1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452579 ...

Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877

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Wilkes was a career U.S. naval officer who, as captain of the San Jacinto, provoked the Trent Affair in 1861. From the description of Letter, November 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 61770003 Charles Wilkes, American naval officer and explorer, was born on April 3, 1798 in New York, NY. He surveyed Narragansett Bay in 1832-1833, which led to his appointment to a depot of charts and instruments, which later became the Naval Observatory. In 18...

Pyle, James

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Phinney, Henry Frederick, 1816-1875

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Henry Frederick Phinney was a son-in-law of James Fenimore Cooper, and was part of Ivison, Phinney & Co., publishers. From the description of H.F. Phinney papers, 1872-1875. (New York State Historical Association). WorldCat record id: 519623540 ...

Lewis, G. F.

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Coolidge, Ellen Wayles Randolph, 1796-1876

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Granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. From the description of Correspondence of Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 1810-1861. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51207509 ...

Stilwell, Silas M. (Silas Moore), 1800-1881

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Lyman, Samuel F.

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Worthington, Elizabeth.

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Putnam, Alfred Porter, 1827-1906.

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Law Department at the University of Albany.

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Bagshawe, Henry R.

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Mumford, T. J.

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Blair, Samuel S. (Samuel Steel), 1821-1890

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Wing, E. Rumsey.

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Piemont, R.

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Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902

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A native of Vevay, Ind., Eggleston was a Methodist preacher (1857-1866), a journalist, and beginning in 1871, a novelist. In the 1880s and 1890s he turned to history as a writing topic, and served as president of the American Historical Association. From the description of Papers, 1884-1912. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 27970058 American author and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Lake George, to the editor...

Burdick, Henry.

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Abbott, Joseph C.

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Camus, Eugene.

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Ward, Russell.

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Parkhurst, Henry M. (Henry Martyn), 1825-1908

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Ames, John G. (John Griffith), 1834-1910

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Webb, Frank I.

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Worcester Freedom Club

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Parsons, J. C.

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Palmer, T. H.

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Ord, Edward O. C.

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Clarke, J.

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Epithet: Director of the Equitable Assurance Company British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x000174 Epithet: of Padworth, county Berkshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x000176 Epithet: Mayor of Coventry British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : ...

Labitte, A.

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Mitchell, Walter B.

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Thompson, E. Rumford.

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Conant, Marshall.

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Teamoh, George, 1818-1883?

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Perry, Raymond Henry Jones, 1836-1902

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Raymond Henry Jones Perry was born on October 2, 1836, son of James DeWolf Perry and Julia Sophia Jones. Up until 1861 he spent many years farming the family property in Bristol, Rhode Island. He led a very active life in the military, serving from 1858 to 1870 in various capacities under various men. In 1858 he was an officer at sea, making several voyages to China and California. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the army and in 1865 became an officer in...

Gordon, Thomas, 1922-

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James S. Browne.

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Endicott, William Jr.

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Pettis, Solomon Newton, 1827-1900

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Solomon Newton Pettis was a U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania from December 7, 1868, to March 3, 1869, and Minister to Bolivia from September 4, 1878, to November 1, 1879. Michael Hahn was a U.S. Representative for Louisiana (1862-1863, 1885-1886) and Governor of Louisiana (1864-1865). From the description of S. Newton Pettis letter, 1886. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 273879855 ...

Congdon, Charles T. (Charles Taber), 1821-1891

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Journalist. From the description of Letter, 1869 May 15, to Justus Starr Redfield [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823095 ...

Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 2006

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The early 19th century was a time of student unrest at Harvard. Perhaps in reaction to the disturbances and protest of previous classes, Faculty Records vol. IX tell that President Kirkland announced early on in the Class of 1822's college years that no students were to have any meeting for the purpose of eating or drinking in college. Although the Class of 1822 is a serene one as compared with its generation, many of the students of the Class of 1822 received public admonishments as a result of...

Johnson, J. D.

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Coltman, Thomas, Sir, 1781-1849.

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Bingham, John Armor, 1815-1900

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Born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, where his carpenter and bricklayer father, Hugh, had moved after service in the War of 1812, Bingham attended local public schools. After his mother's death in 1827, his father remarried. John moved west to Ohio to live with his merchant uncle, Thomas, after clashing with his new stepmother. The teenager apprenticed as a printer for two years, helping to publish the Luminary, an anti-Masonic newspaper. He then returned to Pennsylvania to study at Mercer Colle...

Lanphere, Webster Burton.

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Otis, Harrison Gray, 1765-1848

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American statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Joseph Gales, Esq., 1830 Sept. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609817 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, 1797 May 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610680 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, possibly to Judge John Lowell, 1791 Mar. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609819 Otis's career included terms as a judge of ...

Alger, William Rounseville, 1822-1905

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Unitarian minister and poet. From the description of Letters and poem, 1863 Aug. 24-1872 Aug. 4. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166329703 Massachusetts clergyman and author. From the description of Note, 1847. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31187642 American author. From the description of ALS, [1874 August], North Hampton, N. H., to Mr. Morrell. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935455 Will...

Massachusetts Democratic Convention

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Taillandier, St. Réné, 1817-1879

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Harding, W. H.

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Moore, S.

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Smith, C. B. M.

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P. Moody.

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Davis, Thomas A.

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Duqanne, A. J. H.

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Hamilton, John Church, 1792-1882

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John Church Hamilton (1792-1882), son of the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Alexander Hamilton, was a lawyer who devoted much of his life to writing a multi-volume biography of his father. ...

Wood, S. N

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Gorham, George C. (George Congdon), 1832-1909

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George C. Gorham was born in Greenport, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., July 5, 1832. He sailed from New London, CT, to California in the summer of 1849. After a voyage around Cape Horn he arrived in San Francisco on December 19th, 1849. In February 1850, Mr. Gorham left San Francisco for Yuba City and Marysville, where he settled and mined. He was appointed clerk to the Alcalde of Marysville in March of 1850. Mr. Gorham was a Republican, a Newspaper editor, a candidate for Governor of Califo...

Collier, D.C.

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Hall, John, 1806-1894

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Dunlap, S.F. (Samuel Fales), 1825-1905

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Wilder, D., Jr.

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Preston, E. F.

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Hackett, W. H. Y.

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Friends of Equal School Rights.

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Denny, W. H. P.

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Heineken, Sam.

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Danolds, D. H.

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Pickering, Basil Montagu, 1836-1878

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Epithet: bookseller British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000342.0x0000b7 Basil Montagu Pickering and his father William Pickering were English publishers. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1866-1875. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 190886756 ...

Kirkpatrick, J. W.

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Bartlett, W. F.

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Greenleaf, Simon

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Dunham, Charles E.

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Bell, J. L. (John Lane)

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Epithet: Lieutenant-General; Lieutenant -Governor of Guernsey British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001164.0x000344 Epithet: Provost of Glasgow British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001164.0x000372 Epithet: of Add MS 23804 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001164.0...

Dayton, Isaac

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Pierce, George W.

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Biography Sources: Gregory, Tom. History of Yolo County California with Biogrpahical Sketches (Los Angeles, CA: Historic Record Co., 1913). Larkey, Joann L. Davisville '68 (Davis, CA: Davis Historical and Landmarks Commission, 1969). Biographical Narrative Members of the Pierce Family were promine...

Manley, John R.

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Boston (Mass.). City Council

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Hance, Joseph S.

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Coldwell, John

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Jervis, Alfred.

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Usher, T.

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Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868

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Lawyer from Pennsylvania who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1859 and served as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. After the war, he led the Radical Republicans, opposing both Lincoln and then Andrew Johnson, endorsing military occupation of the South. When Johnson opposed ratification of the 14th Amendment, Stevens led the call for his impeachment. From the description of Letter, Dec. 7, 1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record i...

Tudor, Frederic, 1783-1864

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Hughes, H. H.

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Stryker, Thomas L.

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Moffatt, George

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Mason, Robert M.

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Laizer, J. C.

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Radclyffe, Herbert.

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Adams, Isaac, 1802-1883

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Inventor. From the description of Isaac Adams papers, 1830-1856. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449932 Inventor of the power printing press and member of the Massachusetts Senate. From the description of Letter to B.R. Curtis, 1859 April 16. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50442624 ...

Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883

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Merchant, horticulturalist, author. From the description of Charles Wyllys Elliott letter to John Alden of Duxbury [manuscript], 1877 Jan 20. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 182579814 ...

Bolles, Katherine D.

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Hall, E. B.

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Hughes, James

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Epithet: carpenter, RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000866.0x0003d6 Epithet: RC priest of Claremorris British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000866.0x0003d8 ...

Pratt, Benjamin F.

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Abauzet, Th.

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Havener, J. S.

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Blezer, J. C. de

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Foster, Frederick

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Plummer, Robert

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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...

Colored People of King George County, VA.

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State Central Committee of the Union Republican Party.

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Nichols, Caleb.

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Dougherty, Daniel, 1826-1892

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Daniel Dougherty was a lawyer in Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Daniel Dougherty letter to Charles S. Ogden, 1866 November 16. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49885063 ...

Chase, Henry

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Hamilton, William, 1777-1859

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Epithet: of Add MS 19347 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001299.0x0001d7 Epithet: of Add MS 37315 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001299.0x0001d8 William John Hamilton (1805-1867), English geologist and eldest son of William Richard Hamilton (1777-1859), was born in London on July 5, 1805. Educated at the Charterh...

Hay, John, 1838-1905

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Brown class of 1858. Secretary to Abraham Lincoln; Ambassador to Court of St. James; Secretary of State; author. From the description of Papers, 1829-1916. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122598680 American diplomat and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cleveland, to the editors of The Critic [Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder], 1884 Aug. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 644640373 Statesman, poet, Secretary of State. ...

Hardy, Alpheus.

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Kellogg, E. H. (Ensign Hosmer), 1812-1882

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Gordon, Richard

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Stuart, H. S.

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Wilder, Orville N.

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Harrington, G. D.

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Connelly, James H.

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Potts, B. F.

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Harney, G. Julian (George Julian), 1817-1897

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Viger, William.

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Azarian, J. L.

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Smith, David M.

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Wellington, W. P.

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Draper, S.

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Caen, Thomas.

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Lee, W. L.

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Peace of Nations Society.

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Allen, N. S.

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Phillips, James P.

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Harmon, Phinehas.

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Jenkins, Howard Malcolm, 1842-1902

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Howard Malcolm Jenkins (1842-1902), a birthright Quaker, was a scholar of Pennsylvania history and genealogy, and published many books and articles based on his research. He was also an active member of the Society of Friends, editor of Friends Intelligencer (a Quaker periodical), and served on the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. From the description of Papers, 1724-1904. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 47123148 ...

Simpkinson, John Nassau, 1817-1894

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Epithet: Rector of North Creake British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001034.0x00039f ...

Hubbell, Horace.

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Sampley, D. J.

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Beraz, D. H.

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Leitch, John M.

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Ward, George W.

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Sampson, Guy C.

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Topp, Robertson.

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Storer, R.

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Lippitt, G. W.

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Northern Girl.

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MacDonald, John Sandfield.

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Hall, F. E.

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Codding, Ichabod.

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Democratic National Committee.

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Murdock, Samuel.

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Tremain, Grenville.

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Means, James, 1853-1920

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Shoe manufacturer and aviation pioneer. Born in Dorchester, Mass. Entered into shoe manufacturing in Brockton, Mass. in 1878. Formed partnership with his younger brother Charles in 1883 as James Means and Company, Boston. Popularizer of the $3 shoe. Retired from manufacturing in 1893 but retained ownership of James Means trademark. Formed the James Means Company (Kittery, Me.) to sell trademarks, 1900-1904. Wrote on problems of man flying. Edited Aeronautical Annual. From the descrip...

Winslow, Benjamin F.

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Tallidge, William R.

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Morse, Robert McNeil, 1837-1920

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Pangborn, Z. K.

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Stearns, Isaac

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According to "History of the Town of Dunbarton," Dr. Isaac Stearns was from Lovewell, Maine and settled in Dunbarton in 1819. He married Eunice P. Marshall and after her death, a Mrs. Lund. Stearns died on August 31, 1850 at the age of 57. "He was an amiable person, much respected, and was post-master at the time of his death." (Source: History of the Town of Dunbarton, Merrimack County, New-Hampshire" by Caleb Stark. Concord : G. Parker Lyon, 1860. p. 150) From the description of Bi...

Paine, Byron, 1827-1871

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Taft, Horace W.

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Russell, Samuel H.

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Eldridge, Edward H. (Edward Henry), 1870-1941

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Corson, Samuel M., 1983-

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Brown, Jason B.

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Emmons, William, 1792-

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Wilson, B. R

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Snow, Theodore W.

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Dalman, Hippolyte.

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Johnson, M. C.

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Parsons, Lyman

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Dow, Neal, 1804-1897

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Dow was born in Portland, Maine on March 20, 1804, the son of Josiah Dow and his wife, Dorcas Allen Dow. Josiah Dow was a member of the Society of Friends (commonly known as Quakers) and a farmer originally from New Hampshire. Dorcas Allen was also a Quaker, and a member of a prosperous Maine family headed by her prominent grandfather, Hate-Evil Hall. They had three children, of whom Neal was the middle child and only son. After his marriage, Dow's father opened a tannery in Portland, which soon...

Stevenson, J. Thomas (Joshua Thomas), -1876

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Clarke, Jacob B.

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Hardy, M. P.

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Ogden, Edward H.

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Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922

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American clergyman, author, and editor who worked with Henry Ward Beecher as co-editor of the "Christian Union." From the description of Autograph, 1897. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367554802 American author. From the description of Letter : Cornwall on Hudson, [N.Y.] to Mr. Bok, 1908 Oct. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 33376379 Lyman Abbott was an influential American pastor and author. Born in Massachusetts and educated i...

Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

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Charles Eliot Norton was an American author, editor, and teacher. He was a professor of the history of fine arts at Harvard. Eliot Norton was his son. From the guide to the Charles Eliot Norton letters to Eliot Norton, 1867-1908., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) American author, editor, and educator. From the description of Letter to Edwin D. Mead [manuscript], 1881 May 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814472 ...

Walsh, Robert M.

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Smith, Samuel C.

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Lathrop, S. M. D.

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Waters, Deborah, 1953-

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Robinson, Edward, 1794-1863

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Edward Robinson was born in Southington, Connecticut, and raised on a farm. He attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York and graduated in 1816. Robinson went to Europe to study ancient languages, largely in Halle and Berlin (1826–30). While in Halle, in 1828 he married the German writer Therese Albertine Luise. After the couple returned to the United States, Robinson was appointed professor extraordinary of sacred literature at Andover Theological Seminary (1830–1833). Robinson founded the ...

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885

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Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist and playwright. From the description of Victor Hugo collection, 1816-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702159680 From the description of Victor Hugo collection, 1816-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84010646 French writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to M. Cassin, 1831 Dec. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 759121359 French poet, novelist, dramatist. ...

Stebbins, Rufus P. (Rufus Phineas), 1810-1885

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Emerson, Charles N. (Charles Noble), 1821-1869

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Campe, E. L. H.

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Rice, William T.

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Whitney, William D.

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Curtiss, Allen H.

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Fortescue, T. Knox (Thomas Knox)

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Ryce, L. M.

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Sumner, Henry

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Seigneur, George.

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Randall, Alexander Williams, 1819-1872

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Alexander Williams Randall (1819-1872) was educated as a lawyer. He served as Republican governor of Wisconsin, 1857-1861, and was U.S. Postmaster-general, 1866-1869. He appears to have been executor of the will of Elizabeth Gamble Wirt, wife of William Wirt (1772-1834). Elizabeth Gamble Wirt, daughter of William and Elizabeth Wirt, married Admiral Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough who was a prominent figure in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War. From the description of Letters, 1842-18...

Stokes, Fred J.

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Simpson, George B.

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Wheeler, William A. (William Adolphus), 1833-1874

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Philologist and librarian. From the description of Letters to William A. Wheeler, 1861-1871. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 63167590 ...

Entler, George R...

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Bennett, Wm. Winslow.

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Hermann, Th.

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Dufferin, Lady.

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Ives, Lily.

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Fairbanks, Charles B.

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Sullivan, Peter J.

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Chaplin, H. W.

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Rice, B. F.

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Willmore, Graham

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Weaver, Charles H.

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Tourgée, Albion W. 1838-1905

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American politician and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to an unidentified recipient, 1882 Jun. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572884 Author, civil rights leader, and jurist Albion W. Tourgée was born May 2, 1838 in Williamsfield in the Western Reserve of Ohio, then a center of abolitionist activity. He attended the University of Rochester in New York, but left to enlist in the Union army during the Civil War. Wounded in battle...

Van Rensselaer, Mary R.

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Huntington, Asahel, 1789-1870

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Stearns, D. H.

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Wilson, J.B.

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Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864

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Benjamin Silliman was a chemist and naturalist, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1805. From the description of Correspondence, 1808-1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466220 Physician and chemist of New Haven, Connecticut. From the description of Note, 1853, Sept. 28 : New Haven, Connecticut, to Isaac Waldron. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35359361 Educator and scientist. From the description of Papers of...

Colman, Henry, 1785-1849

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Born, Boston, MA, 1785; Dartmouth Class of 1805; minister and agriculturist; honorary member of Royal Agriculture Society of Great Britain; died, Islington, England, 1849. From the description of Letters, 1848 March 24 and undated, to Elliot C. Cowdin. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 242489673 American Unitarian minister and agricultural writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hingham, Massachusetts, to John Pierpont, 1818 Dec. ...

Bland, E.

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Linton, M. L.

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Demorest, William Jennings, 1822-1895

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Amos A. Daniels.

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Isaacs, Meyer S.

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Pixley, Frank M.

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Reform Club.

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Blake, George W.

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Jones, J. R.

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Ayers, Sam D.

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Tallant, J. F.

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Torbert, G. L.

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Union Literary Association of Easton, Pennsylvania.

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Baldwin, R. S.

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Whitezal Council (Millington, Md.).

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Emmons, H. H. (Harry H.)

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Doud, George William.

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Morton, Marcus, 1819-1891

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Still, William, 1821-1902

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Abolitionist, writer, and businessman William Still was born near Medford, in Burlington County, N.J. in 1821. He moved to Philadelphia in 1841 and married Letitia George, who became the mother of his four children. In 1847 William Still became a clerk in the office of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery. Between 1851 and 1861 he was chairman and corresponding secretary of the Philadelphia branch of the Underground railroad. His accounts of its activities, The Underground railr...

Dietrich, G.

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Hodgson, Joseph, 1788-1869

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Robinson, S. N.

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Spaulding, E. G. (Elbridge Gerry), 1809-1897

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American banker; "Father of the greenbacks." From the description of Autograph letter signed : Buffalo, to William Pitt Fessenden, 1869 July 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662379 Born in Cayuga County, N.Y. in 1809; established law practice in Buffalo in the 1830s. Became involved in the development of Buffalo Harbor, the enlaragement of the Erie Canal and the municipal gas company. Instrumental in moving the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank to Buffalo and, as its preside...

McCaleb, E. Howard, 1897-1978

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E. Howard McCaleb Jr. graduated from Washington and Lee Law School in 1919 and was admitted to the bar in 1920. He practiced in his father's law firm (1920-1924), was assistant United States attorney for the eastern district for seven months in 1925, and served as judge of the Court of Appeals for Orleans Parish (1936-1941). McCaleb served on the Louisiana Supreme Court as a temporary member (1941-1943), associate justice (1947-1970), and chief justice (1971-1972). From the descripti...

League of Universal Brotherhood

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Lord, O. P.

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Garrigues, William A.

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Stopford-Sackville, Caroline Harriet Germain, d. 1908

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Warner, Oliver

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Public official of Massachusetts. From the description of Oliver Warner commission, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982808 ...

State historical society of Wisconsin

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The State Historical Society was founded in 1846, chartered in 1853, and became a trustee of the state in 1855. Chapter 75, Laws of 1967, continued the Society as an independent agency. The Society is charged by statute with the collection, preservation, and dissemination of historical and cultural resources relating to Wisconsin, the Midwest, and the nation. From the description of Agency history record. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145776528 ...

McClure, J. M.

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Marston, Ward

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Callaway, James.

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Rutherford, R. C.

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Taylor, John F., 1944-

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Lieber, Francis, 1800-1872

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Political scientist and author; born in Berlin, settled in U.S. 1827. From the description of ALsS : to George Mifflin Dallas, 1846. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122365122 Political scientist and educator. From the description of Letter, 1865 July 28, New York, to Dr. C[harles?] D[aniel?] Drake, St. Louis, Missouri [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806353 Francis Lieber: German American political phil...

Farrow, Henry P. (Henry Pattillo), 1834-1907

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Henry Pattillo Farrow (1834-1907), lawyer, Georgia Attorney-General (1862-1872), U.S. District Attorney (1872-1880), collector of the Port of Brunswick (1882-1885), postmaster of Gainesville (1897-1904), active member of Georgia's Republican Party, and owner of the Porter Springs resort Queen of the Mountains near Dahlonega, Georgia. From the description of Henry Pattillo Farrow family papers, 1855-1937 (bulk 1870-1899). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476474 ...

R., A. W.

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Bassett, Albert.

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Haven, G.

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Eldridge, John W.

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Woods, Leonard, 1774-1854

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Leonard Woods (1774-1854) was a Congregational clergyman. From 1808 to 1846, he was professor of theology at the Andover Theological Seminary. From the description of Letter, 1836 February 10, Andover, Mass., to Lyman Matthews, Braintree, Mass. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 251870593 Leonard Woods (1774-1854) was an American Congregationalist clergyman and author. A graduate of Harvard University, he taught at Andover Theological Seminary and helped est...

Gould, J. B.

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Reavis, L. U., 1831-1889

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American journalist and lecturer. From the guide to the Logan Uriah Reavis lectures, 1881-1889, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Born in Illinois, but moved to St. Louis in 1866. He held strong spiritual beliefs and although he believed the Bible to have done more to "promote the higher life guidance of mankind than any other book" and that Jesus had a "transcendent spiritual character" he was against organized religion and doubted the divini...

Fisher, O. B.

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Sprague, Charles, 1791-1875

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American banker and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Boston], to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1828 Jan. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129691 From the description of Letter, 1855 June 20, Boston, to "My dear Bingham" [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647824681 The "banker poet" of Boston. From the description of The winged worshippers : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed, [1841 or later]. (Unk...

Verress, John P.

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Van Alen, James H.

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Clemens, Jeremiah, 1814-1865

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Clemens was born on 1814 Dec. 28, in Huntsville, Madison Co., Ala. He attended LaGrange College and graduated from the University of Ala. in 1833. He studied law at Transylvania University, was admitted to the bar in 1834, married Mary Read and opened a law office in Huntsville. He fought the Cherokee Indians that same year as a private in the U.S. Army. In 1838 he was appointed U.S. district attorney for the northern district of Ala. He fought in the 1842 Texas revolution as a lieutenant colone...

Wanger, Irving Price, 1852-1940

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Weston, J.

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Pearsall, W. D.

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Marsh, Jeannie S.

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Bliss, D. W.

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Phillips, W. Andrew (William Andrew), 1944-

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Sanborn, Noah.

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Bentley, Norman S.

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Poussin, Guillaume-Tell, 1794-1876

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French diplomat. From the description of Papers of Guillaume Tell Poussin, circa 1831-1868. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449844 ...

Richardson, S. A., Mrs.

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C. F. Hovey Company

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Macaulay, James, 1817-1902

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Chandler, T. P. (Theophilus Parsons), 1807-1886

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Lawyer. Born New Gloucester, Me. Practiced law in Bangor and Gardiner, Me. (1829-1836). Practiced law in Boston after 1836. President, Northern Railroad of New York (1849-1853). United States assistant treasurer for Boston (1863-1868). Instrumental in establishing the Brookline (Mass.) Public Library in 1857. From the description of Business and legal papers, 1830-1886 (inclusive). (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 269595446 ...

Farnsworth, J. F.

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Willson, Hugh Bowlby, 1813-1880

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Fox, Edward, 1814-1881.

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Fox graduated from Harvard College (1834) and Harvard Law School (1837). He practiced law in Portland (1837-1863) and was appointed associate justice of the Maine Supreme Court (1862-1863). President Johnson appointed Fox to the U.S. District Court judgeship in 1866. From the description of Notes of federal cases in Maine, 1866-1879. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235929321 ...

Rivers, George, active 1639

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Erickson, Lizzie.

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Coffin, Joshua, 1792-1864

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Alonzo Lewis, Joshua Coffin, and William Lloyd Garrison were all involved in the New-England Anti-Slavery Society in various capacities. Coffin and Garrison were two of its founders. In addition to his abolitionist activities, Lewis was an historian, poet, and newspaper editor. From the description of Letters to Alonzo Lewis, 1830-1832. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 554919287 Epithet: sea-captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Pe...

Burleigh, Walter A. (Walter Atwood), 1820-1896

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Story, Mara.

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Owen, A. J.

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Grover, A. J.

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Neill, William C. (William Cooper), 1816-1874

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Parkes, Joseph, 1796-1865

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Epithet: of Add MS 38985 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001193.0x0002a2 Epithet: radical politician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001193.0x0002a6 Joseph Parkes, British politician and solicitor. Parkes played a critical role in the political reform movements and electoral changes of the mid-ninethee...

Jackson, Fanny A.

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Paine, Charles

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Biography Charles and Barbara Paine were collectors and patrons of Kenneth Patchen's work. From the guide to the Charles and Barbara Paine collection, 1957-1983, (University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library. Special Collections and Archives) ...

Parvillez.

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Young Men's Association (Buffalo, NY.).

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Hannlion, C. A.

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Rutgers Female College.

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Mignet, M. (Francois-Auguste-Marie-Alexis), 1796-1884

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Fell, Jesse W., 1808-1887

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Editor, educator, and lawyer. From the description of Papers of Jesse W. Fell, 1806-1957 (bulk 1830-1887). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71061562 Bloomington, Illinois, lawyer and newspaper publisher; helped organize Central Illinois Female College, 1853, and Normal University, 1858; paymaster, U.S. Army, during Civil War. From the description of Letter: Normal, [Ill.], to J[esse] C. Green, West Chester, Pa., [18]86 July 31. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library...

Thayer, William Sidney.

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Van Rensselaer, Mrs.

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Cover, J. C.

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Mawson, Edward S.

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Fitch, Thomas, 1838-1923

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Epithet: Colonel; MP for county Inverness-shire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001161.0x0001e8 Journalist, editor, and politician in both California and Nevada. Elected to 41st Congress from Nevada. From the description of ALS, 1870 February 21 : Washington, D.C., to an unknown correspondent. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 17153698 ...

Lowry, Josephine.

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Cooper, A.R.

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Colored People of Knox County, Illinois.

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Bennett, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1833-1902

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Radcliffe, George K.

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Williams, B. F.

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Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington.

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Farrar, J.

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Wolowski, L. (Louis), 1810-1876