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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...

Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

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William Henry Seward was born in Florida, Orange County, New York, on May 16, 1801. He was the son of Samuel S. Seward and Mary (Jennings) Seward. He graduated from Union College in 1820, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1822. In 1823, he moved to Auburn, New York, where he entered Judge Elijah Miller's law office. He married Frances Adeline Miller, Judge Miller's daughter, in 1824. Seward was interested in politics early in his career and became actively involved in the Anti-Masonic m...

Tallmadge, Benjamin, 1754-1835

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Benjamin Tallmadge (1754-1835) acted as principal director of George Washington's secret service from 1778-1783, after the death of Nathan Hale. He won distinction as a field officer, notably at the capture of Fort St. George, Long Island, in 1780. With his leadership, Washington was able to create a strong and successful chain of spies throughout the New York area, beginning the secret service in America. These agents, primarily the Culper Spy Ring, gathered information for Washington, which gr...

Catlin, George, 1796-1872

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George Catlin, artist and author, was known especially for his paintings of Indians. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, he practiced law until his talent for painting led him to join a group of artists in Philadelphia in 1823. Catlin concentrated on portrait painting in Washington, D.C., until 1829, when he saw a delegation of visiting American Indians in Philadelphia. He then resolved to devote his life to preserving the appearance and character of the vanishing Indians and for forty-two yea...

Coppée, Henry, 1821-1895

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Henry Coppée was born in Savannah, Georgia, to a family of French extraction that had formerly settled in Haiti. He studied at Yale University for two years, worked as a civil engineer, and finally graduated from West Point in 1845. He served in the Mexican–American War as a lieutenant and was brevetted captain for gallantry at the battles of Contreras and Churubusco.[1] During the American Civil War, he edited the United States Service Magazine. Coppée was assistant professor of French at We...

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Lopez, Aaron, 1731-1782

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Colonial merchant and shipper, Aaron Lopez was born in Portugal in 1831. He immigrated to Newport,Rhode Island in 1752 where he was engaged primarily in the whale oil and candle business, although healso dealt in livestock, groceries, rum, ships, clothing, and slaves. During the 1760s and 1770s, he builtan extensive transatlantic mercantile empire and on the eve of the American Revolution, Lopez wasNewport's leading merchant and taxpayer. During the Revolution, he supported the colonials and wit...

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (b. June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut – d. July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut) was an American abolitionist and author. She is the daughter of Rev. Lyman Beecher who preached against slavery. She is best known for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin. It became an instant and controversial best-seller, both in the United States and abroad. The novel had a major impact on Northerners' attitudes toward slavery and by the beginning of the Civil War had sold more than a million copi...

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

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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Delafield, Richard, 1798-1873

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Richard Delafield was born in New York City on September 1, 1798. He was one of the 14 children of John and Anne (née Hallett) Delafield. His father had emigrated to New York from England in 1788 and made a fortune as a merchant. Edward Delafield, a prominent American physician, Joseph Delafield, a lawyer and diplomant, and Rufus King Delafield, a banker and manufacturer, were among his brothers. He was the first graduate of the United States Military Academy to receive a merit class standing...

Peters, Richard, 1744-1828

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Richard Peters (June 22, 1744 – August 22, 1828) was a Pennsylvania lawyer, Continental Army soldier, Federalist politician, author and United States District Judge. Before his federal judicial service in the United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania, Peters served as secretary of the Continental Board of War, delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and as member and speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and later the Pennsylvania State Senate. Born at...

McDougall, Alexander, 1732-1786

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Alexander McDougall (1732 – 9 June 1786) was a Scottish-born American seaman, merchant, a Sons of Liberty leader from New York City before and during the American Revolution, and a military leader during the Revolutionary War. He served as a major general in the Continental Army, and as a delegate to the Continental Congress. After the war, he was the president of the first bank in the state of New York and served a term in the New York State Senate. Born on the Isle of Islay, in the Inner He...

Lowell, John, 1743-1802

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John Lowell (June 17, 1743 – May 6, 1802) was a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation, a Judge of the Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture under the Articles of Confederation, a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the First Circuit. Born on June 17, 1743, in Newburyport, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Lowell graduated from Harvard University before re...

New Jersey Historical Society

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Bayard, John Bubenheim, 1738-1807

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John Bubenheim Bayard (11 August 1738 – 7 January 1807) was a merchant, soldier, and statesman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He achieved the rank of colonel while serving with the Continental Army, and was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Congress of the Confederation in 1785 and 1786. Later he was elected as mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Born at Bohemia Manor in Cecil County in the Province of Maryland, Bayard moved to Philadelphia in 1755 and became a merchant. He began making hi...

Motte, Isaac, 1738-1795

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Isaac Motte (December 8, 1738 – May 8, 1795) was an American soldier and statesman from South Carolina. Born in Charleston in the Province of South Carolina, he was appointed ensign in His Majesty’s Sixtieth Royal American Regiment shortly after his 18th birthday, serving in Canada during the French and Indian War, and was subsequently promoted to lieutenant. In 1766, Motte resigned and returned to Charleston. A member of the South Carolina House of Commons in 1772, he went on to serve as a d...

Lovell, James, 1737-1814

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James Lovell (October 31, 1737 – July 14, 1814) was a Founding Father of the United States and an educator and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1782. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation. Lovell was born in Boston and had his preparatory education at the Boston Latin School. Lovell then attended Harvard and graduated in 1756. He then joined his father and taught at the Latin School, while continui...

Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821

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Elias Boudinot (May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and served as President of Congress from 1782 to 1783. He was elected as a U.S. Congressman for New Jersey following the American Revolutionary War. He was appointed by President George Washington as Director of the United States Mint, serving from 1795 until 1805. Born in Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania, Boudinot received a classica...

Sullivan, John, 1740-1795

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John Sullivan (February 17, 1740 – January 23, 1795) was a Founding Father of the United States and an American General in the Revolutionary War winning several key battles most notably the Delaware crossing. He was a delegate in the Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association, the third governor of New Hampshire, and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. Born in Somersworth in the Province of New Hampshire,...

Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800

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Thomas Mifflin (January 10, 1744 – January 20, 1800) was an American merchant, soldier, and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served in a variety of roles during and after the American Revolution, several of which qualify him to be counted among the Founding Fathers. He was the first governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1790 to 1799; he was also the last president of Pennsylvania, succeeding Benjamin Franklin and serving from 1788 until 1790. Born in Philadelphia, Mifflin becam...

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...

Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792

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Henry Laurens (March 6, 1724 [O.S. February 24, 1723] – December 8, 1792) was an American Founding Father, merchant, slave trader, and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War. A delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Laurens succeeded John Hancock as president of the Continental Congress. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he recieved his early education there before being sent to L...

Langworthy, Edward, 1738-1802

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Edward Langworthy (1738 – November 2, 1802) was an American Founding Father and teacher who was a delegate to the Continental Congress from Georgia. He signed the Articles of Confederation. Born in Savannah, Georgia, he was raised in the Bethesda Orphan House at Savannah and was educated in the school there. He later taught in that same school. Langworthy began working with Georgia's Committee of Safety and was their secretary when they became a revolutionary Council of Safety on December 11,...

Duane, James, 1733-1797

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James Duane (February 6, 1733 – February 1, 1797) was an American Founding Father, attorney, jurist, and American Revolutionary leader from New York. He served as a delegate to the First Continental Congress, Second Continental Congress and the Congress of the Confederation, a New York state senator, the 44th Mayor of New York City, the 1st post-colonial Mayor of New York City and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New York. Duane was a signato...

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806

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Robert Morris, Jr. (January 20, 1734 – May 8, 1806) was an English-born merchant and a Founding Father of the United States. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, the Second Continental Congress, and the United States Senate, and he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. From 1781 to 1784, he served as the Superintendent of Finance of the United States, becoming known as the "Financier of the Revolution...

Lewis, Francis, 1713-1802

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Francis Lewis (March 21, 1713 – December 31, 1802) was an American merchant and a Founding Father of the United States. He was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation as a representative of New York to the Continental Congress. Born in Llandaff, Wales, he was educated at Westminster School in London before entering a mercantile house in London. Working there until he turned 21 and inherited some properties left by his father, Lewis sold the p...

Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796

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Samuel Huntington (July 16, 1731 [O.S. July 5, 1731] – January 5, 1796) was a Founding Father of the United States and a jurist, statesman, and Patriot in the American Revolution from Connecticut. As a delegate to the Continental Congress, he signed the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. He also served as President of the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1781, President of the United States in Congress Assembled in 1781, chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court...

Harrison, Benjamin, 1726-1791

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Benjamin Harrison V (April 5, 1726 – April 24, 1791) was an American planter, merchant and politician who served as a legislator in colonial Virginia, following a precedent of public service established by his namesakes. He signed both the Continental Association and the United States Declaration of Independence and is known as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as Virginia's governor from 1781 to 1784. Harrison worked an aggregate of three decades in the Virginia Hou...

Braxton, Carter, 1736-1797

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Carter Braxton (September 10, 1736 – October 10, 1797) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, a merchant, planter, a Founding Father of the United States and a Virginia politician. A grandson of Robert "King" Carter, one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners and slaveholders in the Old Dominion, Braxton was active in Virginia's legislature for more than 25 years, generally allied with Landon Carter, Benjamin Harrison V, Edmund Pendleton and other conservative pla...

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...

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

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John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that the term John Hancock or Hancock has become a nickname in the United S...

Charles Sumner

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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....

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...

Dall, C. H. A. (Charles Henry Appleton), 1816-1886

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Charles Henry Appleton Dall (1816-1886) graduated from Harvard College in 1837 and Harvard Divinity School in 1840 and was then ordained to the Unitarian ministry. He was sent to St. Louis where he organized the first free school for the poor located west of the Mississippi River. Rev. Dall served Unitarian parishes in Maryland, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Ontario, Canada, until 1855 when he became the first foreign missionary of the Unitarian Church in America. Rev. Dall's missionary work...

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 ...

Hoar, Samuel, 1778-1856

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Samuel Hoar (May 18, 1778 – November 2, 1856) was a United States lawyer and politician. A member of a prominent political family in Massachusetts, he was a leading 19th century lawyer of that state. He was associated with the Federalist Party until its decline after the War of 1812. Over his career, a prominent Massachusetts anti-slavery politician and spokesperson. He became a leading member of the Massachusetts Whig Party, a leading and founding member of the Massachusetts Free Soil Party, an...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

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English antiquary and collector. He began collecting while at Rugby School and Oxford. On inheriting his father's estate at Middle Hill in Worcestershire, Phillipps embarked on a career of collecting manuscripts and books. His collection of manuscripts eventually numbered over 60,000 items. During Continental trips in the 1820s Phillipps bought heavily, and back in England he continued to do so, often buying up entire estate libraries at auction. He collected Eastern, Greek and Lat...

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...

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 ...

Hoadly, Charles J. (Charles Jeremy), 1828-1900

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Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867

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Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an important scientific reformer during the early nineteenth century. From his position as superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and through leadership roles in the scientific institutions of the time, Bache helped bring American science into alignment with the professional nature of its European counterpart. In addition, Bache fostered the reform of public education in America. On July 19, 1806 Alexander Dalla...

United States. Congress. House

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U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house of Congress. From the guide to the Subscription lists, 1870, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) The first session of the Congress of the United States, under a resolution passed by the Congress of the Confederation, on September 13, 1788, was called to meet in New York City on March 4, 1789. On the appointed day only 13 Members of the House were present and, as this number did not constitute a quorum, the sessions...

Storrow, James Jackson, 1837-1897

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Lawyer, from Boston, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1865-1879. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20400371 From the description of Papers, 1791-1900. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 41546371 ...

Storrow, Ann G. (Ann Gillam), 1784-1862

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Moylan, Stephen, 1737-1811

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Stephen Moylan (1737-1811) was a prominent Irish American patriot leader during the American Revolutionary War. He had several positions in the Continental Army including Muster-Master General, Secretary and Aide to General George Washington, Quartermaster General, Commander of The Fourth Continental Light Dragoons and Commander of the Cavalry of the Continental Army. He was born in Cork, Ireland, and settled in what would be Philadelphia to start a shipping business. He joined the Continental A...

Willard, Joseph, 1798-1865

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Gray, Frederick T. (Frederick Turell), 1804-1855

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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...

Everett, Lucretia Orne Peabody, 1786-1862

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Everett, Charlotte Gray, 1800-1859

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Wife of Edward Everett British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001188.0x0000ed ...

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 ...

Sparks, Florence, 1845-1915

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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 ...

Adams, Abigail Brooks, 1808-1889

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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, 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, John Quincy, 1825-1881

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Rev. John Q. Adams, born in Philadelphia, was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1849. Over the next three decades he had charge of congregations in Blooomfield and Keyport, New Jersey, and of the North, Antioch, and Cannon Street Baptist churches in New York City. He was the author of several books, including Baptists, the Only Thorough Religious Reformers (1876)....

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...

Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900

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Sir Henry Wentworth Acland (1815-1900) was a physician. In 1834 Acland matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, he graduated B.A. in 1840, M.A. in 1842, M.B. in 1846, and M.D. in 1848. In 1840 he was elected fellow of All Souls' College and, in the same year, commenced the study of medicine, entering himself at St. George's Hospital, London. It was for his services to medicine and medical education that Acland was accorded his Baronetcy in 1890. See the Dictionary of National Biogra...

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.) ...

Abbot, Benjamin, 1762-1849

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Headmaster of Phillips Exeter Academy (Exeter, N.H.). From the description of Letter : Exeter, N.H. to Abiel Abbot, Petterborough, N.H., 1844 Nov. 8. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103867 ...

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 ...

Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1862-1950

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Samuel Atkins Eliot earned his Harvard AB 1884. He served as secretary to the President of Harvard from 1884-1885 and as Preacher to the University 1906-1909. He was the son of Harvard President Charles W. Eliot. From the description of Harvard memorabilia of Samuel Atkins Eliot, Class of 1884, 1876-1909 (inclusive), 1876-1885 (bulk) (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77063916 American Unitarian clergyman and historian. From the description of Samuel A. El...

Ticknor, Anna Eliot, 1823-1896

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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 ...

Ticknor and Co.

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Bond, William Cranch, 1789-1859

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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 ...

Saltonstall, Leverett, 1783-1845

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Lawyer; speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; president of the Massachusetts Senate; first mayor of Salem, Mass., 1836-8; member of the U.S. Congress, 1838-43. From the description of Letter : Salem, to Sir, 1832, Mar. 30. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 57352026 ...

Silsbee, Nathaniel, 1804-1881

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Saltonstall, Mary Elizabeth Sanders, 1788-1858

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Mary Elizabeth (Sanders) Saltonstall was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Elkins Sanders of Salem, Mass., and the wife of Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845). From the description of Recipe book, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008446 ...

Bradford, Gamaliel, 1763-1824

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Whiting, Henry, 1788-1851

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Henry Whiting was born in Lancaster, Mass. in 1788. Whiting entered the U.S. Army in 1808, becoming a Second Lieutenant a year later, and a First Lieutenant in 1811. He worked as an aide to General J.P. Boyd and General Alexander Macomb, and in 1817 was promoted to Captain. Whiting was made brigadier-general of the U.S. Army on Feb. 23, 1847. He was a regent of the University of Michigan, and Secretary of the Michigan Historical Society, 1828-1833, and wrote on scientific and other subjects. Hen...

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 ...

Tudor, William, 1750-1819

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William Tudor (1750-1819) was a lawyer in Boston. He also served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and in the State Senate, and was secretary of state for the Commonwealth. He acted as attorney for many Tory sympathizers during the Revolutionary War. From the description of Guarantee of financial support for student James Savage, signed by William Tudor and John Cooper, July 25, 1799. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 589272698 ...

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

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Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835

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Benjamin Vaughan lived through all the vicissitudes of an enlightened life during the age of revolution. Born in Jamaica to Samuel Vaughan, a merchant and planter, and Sarah Hallowell, a native Bostonian, Vaughan was raised in London and educated at Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn. At university, he fell in with the coterie of Joseph Priestley, Benjamin Franklin, Jeremy Bentham, and William Petty, the Earl of Shelburne, and imbibed many of their unorthodox, perhaps radical political, s...

Belknap, A. E. (Andrew Eliot), 1779-1858

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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...

Sparks, Jared (1)

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Boston Public Library

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Library of Congress

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The Library of Congress was established by an act of Congress in 1800 when President John Adams signed a bill providing for the transfer of the seat of government from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington. The legislation described a reference library for Congress only, containing "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress - and for putting up a suitable apartment for containing them therein…" The original library was housed in the Washington, DC until August 1814, ...

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...

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...

Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879

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Sarah Josepha Hale, née Sarah Josepha Buell, (born Oct. 24, 1788, Newport, N.H., U.S.—died April 30, 1879, Philadelphia, Pa.), American writer who, as the first female editor of a magazine, shaped many of the attitudes and thoughts of women of her period. Sarah Josepha Buell married David Hale in 1813, and with him she had five children. Left in financial straits by her husband’s death in 1822, she embarked on a literary career. Her poems were printed over the signature Cornelia in local journal...

McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885

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George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was an American soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician who served as the 24th Governor of New Jersey. A graduate of West Point, McClellan served with distinction during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), and later left the Army to work on railroads until the outbreak of the American Civil War (1861–1865). Early in the conflict, McClellan was appointed to the rank of major general and played an important role i...

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...

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

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Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was an American military commander and political candidate. He served as a general in the United States Army from 1814 to 1861, taking part in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the early stages of the American Civil War, and various conflicts with Native Americans. Scott was the Whig Party's presidential nominee in the 1852 presidential election, but was defeated by Democrat Franklin Pierce. He was known as Old Fuss and Feathers for his insi...

Wirt, William, 1772-1834

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William Wirt (November 8, 1772 – February 18, 1834) was an American author and statesman who is credited with turning the position of United States Attorney General into one of influence. He was the longest serving Attorney General in U.S. history. He was also the Anti-Masonic nominee for president in the 1832 election. Wirt grew up in Maryland but pursued a legal career in Virginia, passing the Virginia bar in 1792. After holding various positions, he served as the prosecutor in Aaron Burr's...

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...

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...

Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814

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Elbridge Thomas Gerry (July 17, 1744 (OS July 6, 1744) – November 23, 1814) was an American politician and diplomat. As a Democratic-Republican he served as the fifth vice president of the United States under President James Madison from March 1813 until his death in November 1814. The political practice of gerrymandering is named after Gerry. Born into a wealthy merchant family, Gerry vocally opposed British colonial policy in the 1760s and was active in the early stages of organizing the re...

Clinton, George, 1739-1812

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George Clinton (July 26, 1739 – April 20, 1812) was an American soldier and statesman, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A prominent Democratic-Republican, Clinton served as the fourth vice president of the United States from 1805 until his death in 1812. He also served as governor of New York from 1777 to 1795 and from 1801 to 1804. Along with John C. Calhoun, he is one of two vice presidents to hold office under two presidents. Clinton served in the French and Ind...

Trumbull, Jonathan, 1740-1809

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Jonathan Trumbull Jr. (March 26, 1740 – August 7, 1809) was an American politician who served as the 20th governor of Connecticut and the second Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Trumbull was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, the second son of Jonathan Trumbull Sr. (the eventual Governor of Connecticut) and his wife Faith Robinson, daughter of Rev. John Robinson. Trumbull graduated from Harvard College in 1759, and gave the valedictory address when he received his master's de...

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...

Banks, Nathaniel Prentice, 1816-1894

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Nathaniel Prentice (or Prentiss) Banks (January 30, 1816 – September 1, 1894) was an American politician from Massachusetts and a Union general during the Civil War. A millworker by background, Banks was prominent in local debating societies, and his oratorical skills were noted by the Democratic Party. However, his abolitionist views fitted him better for the nascent Republican Party, through which he became Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and Governor of Massachusetts ...

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...

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...

Townsend, E. D. (Edward Davis), 1817-1893

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Edward Davis Townsend (August 22, 1817 – May 10, 1893) was Adjutant General of the United States Army from 1869 to 1880. The son of David S. & Eliza (Gerry) Townsend and grandson of Vice President Elbridge Gerry, Townsend was educated at Boston's Latin School before graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1837. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Second U. S. Artillery and served as that regiment's adjutant and participating in the Second Seminole War and the relocati...

Massachusetts Historical Society

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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...

Simsen, J.

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Templeton and Stewart, recipient.

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Poyen, Charles

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Greenleaf, James, 1765-1843

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James Greenleaf (1765-1843) was born in Boston, Mass., and died in Washington, D.C. In 1793, he was appointed Consul for the U.S. at Amsterdam, where he amassed a large fortune. In 1795, he embarked in land speculation with Robert Morris (1734-1806) and John Nicholson ( -1800), and became one of the founders of the North American Land Company, which resulted in the ruin of its founders. From the description of Papers, 1794-1801. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191...

Farrar, John, Mrs., 1791-1870

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Bourne , recipient.

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Mrs David L. Child

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Russell, Nathaniel P.

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Schenk

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Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

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Professor of Greek. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to John Nichol, 1884 Nov. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864416 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to John Nichol, 1878 Oct. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864411 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Mar. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864440 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], t...

Clough, Arthur Hugh, 1819-1861

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Arthur Hugh Clough, English Victorian poet. From the description of Arthur Hugh Clough manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1851-1856 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122379976 From the guide to the Arthur Hugh Clough manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1851-1856, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Downing Street [London], to A...

Edward Robinson

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Clarendon, George William Frederick Villiers, Earl of, 1800-1870

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English politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Cyrus W. Field, 1864 Apr. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 537532472 1820-1823 attache to the British embassy, Saint Petersburg; 1824-1833 commissioner of customs; 1833-1839 minister plenipotentiary to Spain; 1840-1841 lord privy seal; 1840-1841 and 1864-1865 chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; 1846-1847 president of the Board of Trade; 1847-1852 viceroy of Ireland; 1853-1858, 1...

Samuel Williams.

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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...

Shaw, John Henry

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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...

Miles, Henry A. (Henry Adolphus), 1809-1895

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Keyes, Edward L. (Edward Loughborough), 1873-1949

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Greene, Charles H. ?

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Lyman, Theodore, 1833-1897

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Lyman (1833-1897) earned his Harvard AB 1855. His positions at Harvard included: Treasurer of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) (1865-1872; 1874-1876), Overseer (1868-1880; 1881-1888), Assistant at the MCZ (1863-1877), member of the faculty at the MCZ (1874-1887). From the description of Papers of Theodore Lyman, 1897-ca. 1909. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972826 ...

Stone, Edwin Martin, 1805-1883

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Mullett, Thomas.

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Howe, George, 1802-1883

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Presbyterian clergyman, educator, and author of South Carolina. From the description of George Howe Papers, 1835-1879. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 84542609 ...

Labarthe, Joseph.

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Hickling, Thomas.

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William Finnie

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Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

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Poet and author, Cornell University non-resident professor. From the description of James Russell Lowell letter and portrait, 1871 July 12. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 123412650 Lowell was an author, poet, editor, teacher, and diplomat. He edited The Atlantic Monthly, and with Charles Eliot Norton, The North American Review ; was professor of French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard; and U.S. minister to Spain and to England. Aldrich was ...

OliverWolcott.

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S. E. W

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Rome, George

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Stewart, Charles S.

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Lodge, Giles

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Richardson, William A. (William Adams), 1821-1896

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U.S. secretary of the treasury, educator, jurist, and author. From the description of Letter of William A. Richardson, 1884. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449526 ...

Snelling, N. G.

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John Evelyn Denison

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Ex-Andersonville, pseud.

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Paine, William Cushing.

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Tagart, Edward, 1804-1858

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Francesca

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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...

Edward Wigglesworth

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Greene, Gardiner, -ca. 1832, recipient.

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Hallowell, Anna Davis, 1838-

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Aaron Buck

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Payson, Adelaide E.

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Hoar, E. R. (Ebenezer Rockwood), 1816-1895

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Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, a 1839 graduate of Harvard Law School, was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas (1849-1855), associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1859-1869), served as U.S. Attorney General (1869-1870) and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1873-1875). From the description of Letters to Joseph Willard and Henry Vose, 1840-1858. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339043 American jurist. From the de...

Van der Poel, H. G.

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Savage, James, 1784-1873

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James Savage received his A.B. from Harvard in 1803. From the description of [Student theme] , March 14, [1803]. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072623 ...

Rantoul, Robert, 1805-1852

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Eliot, William Havard, 1796-1831

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Cuenot, John.

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Crowninshield, F. B.

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Lott, Abram, recipient.

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Parry, Edward, 1830-1890

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Brooks, Ellen

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Harrison, Benjamin, jr.

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Hinds, Asher C. (Asher Crosby), 1863-1919

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Winsor, Rufus H.

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Campbell, Lord Walter.

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Irwin, Richard Bache.

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Arthur T. Whiting

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Bond Mrs , recipient.

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Warren, C.H.

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Sewall, Charles C.

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Miller, James

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Epithet: Muggletonian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x000377 Epithet: of the I of Man British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x0000dd Epithet: Reverend; dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x0000de Epithet: of the Ordnan...

Dimick, Justin.

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Davis, Charles G.

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Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885

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English naturalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : University of London, to Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1872 Apr. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270134314 ...

Sarah Springer

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Vinton, Samuel Finley, 1792-1862

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U.S. representative from Ohio. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gallipolis, Ohio, to Mordecai Bartley, 1845 Nov. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270585660 ...

Fiske, Willard, 1831-1904

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The coins were purchased by Willard Fiske from H. H. I. Lynge of Copenhagen in 1899. From the description of Runic coins, circa 1047-1076. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 489960820 Linguist, bibliophile, chess expert. First university librarian at Cornell University. Assembled impressive collections of Dante, Petrarch, Icelandia, etc. From the description of Willard Fiske letters [manuscript], 1875 and 1879. (University of Virginia). WorldCat re...

Samuel Dexter

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James Monroe

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Kenrick, John, 1788-1877

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Guernsey, Sary Ellen.

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Phillips, Stephen C. (Stephen Clarendon), 1801-1857

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U.S. representative from Massachusetts, public official of Massachusetts, mayor of Salem, Mass., and businessman. From the description of Letter of Stephen C. Phillips, 1831. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450059 ...

McWillie, Jane S.

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Lowell, Anna C. (Anna Cabot), 1811-1874

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Tuck, Amos, 1810-1879

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Haly, A. P.

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Dimick, Justin, recipient.

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Gorham, John, 1783-1829

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John Gorham (1783-1829), a chemist and physician from Boston, Massachusetts, served as Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica from 1809 to 1816 and Erving Professor of Chemistry from 1816 to 1827 at Harvard University. Gorham helped establish the chemistry department at the Harvard Medical School. His treatise on chemistry, The Elements of Chemical Science (1819-1820), was one of the first systematic text books on chemistry adapted to the needs of college students in Amer...

Anthony, Henry B. (Henry Bowen), 1815-1884

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American journalist and politician. He was governor of Rhode Island, 1849-50, and U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1858-1884. From the guide to the Henry B. Anthony letters, 1850-1878, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1859-1884. Anthony was Governor of R.I. from 1849-1850 and editor of the Providence Journal newspaper from 1838-1858. He graduated from Brown University in 1833. ...

Cole, Hannah (Palfrey) 1751-

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Rev. Dr. Frothingham

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Gibson, John Gardiner.

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Elder

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Macy, George Nelson

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George N. Macy left his home in Nantucket, Massachusetts, to serve as an officer in the Union Army of the Potomac's Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Co. I. He survived the war, despite being wounded several times, even losing his left hand in the Battle of Gettysburg, and he eventually attained the rank of Brevet Major General. Known as the "Harvard Regiment" due to the large number of Harvard graduates among its officers, the 20th Massachusetts played a major role in many...

Sedgwick, John, 1813-1864

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Union Army general in the U.S. Civil War, killed at Spotsylvania. From the description of Letter, 186[4] January 14, (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145407072 American army officer. From the description of Telegram, not autograph : 6th A. C., to Lt. Col. J. G. Taylor, 1863 Jan. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665049 From the description of Telegraph, not autograph : Head-Quarters, Army of the Potomac, to Major L. Hunt, 1863 June 3. (Unknown). WorldCa...

Harvard College, Treasurer of, recipient.

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Andrews, William J.

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Dale, William F.

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Cobb, Samuel, 1675-1713

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Sargent, John T. (John Turner), 1808-1877

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Prichard, Samuel.

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Hayley, George, recipient.

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Cushing, Mary

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Eaton Mrs C. G., recipient.

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Patterson, James W. (James Willis), 1823-1893

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Dunbar, Archibald

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Epithet: of Northfield Title: 5th Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000684.0x0002d5 Epithet: of Sloane MS 4066 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000684.0x0002b5 ...

Harrison, Robert Hanson, 1745-1790

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

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Historian, abolitionist, and postal clerk of Boston. From the description of William C. Nell correspondence, 1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983937 ...

McLoughlin, John, 1784-1857

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Elwood Evans (1828-1898), born in Philadelphia, went to Oregon Territory in 1851 as deputy collector of customs at Nisqually. From 1859 to 1861, he served as mayor of the newly incorporated town of Olympia, Washington. In addition to his historical work, A History of the Pacific Northwest, he contributed many historical articles to local papers. From the guide to the Elwood Evans notebook, 1859-1882, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries) ...

Grote, Mrs N.

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Cary, Thomas G. (Thomas Greaves), 1791-1859

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The San Francisco vigilance committees were local militia movements formed to fight the crime and government corruption brought on by the California gold rush. From the description of Reminiscences of San Francisco and California : manuscript, [18--] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612869671 From the description of The vigilance committee of San Francisco, 1851 ; The Chinese in California ; Clipper-ships and the China trade. manuscript, [18--] (Harvard University)....

Haskell, Daniel N. (Daniel Noyes), 1818-1874

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Hodges, Richard Manning, 1794-1878

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Richard Manning Hodges (1794-1878) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard College in 1815. He also graduated from Harvard Divinity School in the distinguished class of 1818, which included such individuals as Convers Francis, George Ingersoll, John Palfrey, John Pierpont, and Jared Sparks. He was ordained to the Unitarian ministry at South Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1821. He helped to organize the church in Somerville, Massachusetts, prior to his retirement to Cambridge...

Elwyn, John L.

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Sheafe, Henry.

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Robert Southey

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Welles, and Chinn.

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Emmons, William, 1792-

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Russell, Mary, 1950-

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Hare, Esther.

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Bell, Samuel D. (Samuel Dana), 1798-1868

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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

Phillips, Edward, 1979-

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Epithet: Lieutenant; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000243.0x000268 Epithet: of Add MS 38728 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000243.0x0002a6 Epithet: Sec to C Abbot Speaker of House of Commons British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:...

Newell, William, 1804-1881

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Lewis, Philip (Philip E. T.)

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Harris, Benjamin, 1781-1858

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Child, Isaac, 1734-1769

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Isaac Child and his brother Joshua were merchants active in Boston, Mass., during the early 19th century. They dealt in dry goods, groceries, and farm and household implements. From the guide to the Isaac and Joshua Child papers, 1816-1834, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Bird, F. W. (Francis William), 1809-1894

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Republican politician and anti-slavery advocate, also known as the "Sage of Walpole." From the description of Letters, 1848-1868 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 16067551 From the description of Letters, 1848-1868 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270246 Bird was an antislavery leader, state legislator, and paper manufacturer of East Walpole, Mass. From the description of Francis William Bird papers...

Audebert, Moses.

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Nixon, James

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Duncan, Robert A.

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Epithet: film maker British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x000248 ...

Homans, Felicia.

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Dillon, J. H.

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Wyeth, Nathaniel J. (Nathaniel Jarvis), 1802-1856

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Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth (1802-1856) was a Boston, Mass. merchant who sought to establish a fur trading and fishing enterprise in the Northwest. From the guide to the Nathaniel J. Wyeth collection, 1832-1901, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth (1802-1856) was a Boston, Mass. merchant who sought to establish a fur trading and fishing enterprise in the Northwest. In 1831, Wyeth made plans to establish an agricultural and ...

Amory, A. M.

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Bowles, Samuel, 1826-1878

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Bowles was an American journalist and publisher. From the description of Letter, a portrait, and newspaper clippings, 1872-ca. 1878. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80880580 Samuel Bowles was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on February 9, 1826. He was the editor of the daily edition of the Springfield Republican from 1844 to 1878. Noted for his willingness to comment on matters of political corruption, he was the subject of a libel suit. Bowles was involved with the Liber...

Palfrey, Mary Gorham

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Hunter, William, recipient.

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Lothrop, Samuel Kirkland, 1804-1886

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American clergyman; noted for funeral sermon of Gray Otis. From the description of Samuel K. Lothrop letter [manuscript], 1851 December 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 780088380 American pastor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 12 Chestnut Street [Boston], to Rev. Dr. A[ndrew] P[reston] Peabody, 1865 Jan. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 751991761 Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (1892-1965) devoted his career to th...

Houghton, John

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Epithet: witness of Wolley Ch iv.44 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000700.0x00013a Epithet: writer on agriculture British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000866.0x00000c Epithet: Apothecary British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100...

Jeffries, John, 1796-1876

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Putnam, Sarah (Gool) 1772-1862

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Sparks, Florence A.

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Lowell, Charles, 1782-1861

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Charles Lowell (1782-1861) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard College in 1800. After studying law for a year he decided to pursue a career in ministry, and he traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland, where he studied for the ministry until 1805. He then returned to the United States, and in 1806 was ordained as minister and pastor at the West Church in Boston . He married Harriet Spence in 1806, and the couple had six children, two of whom - Robert Trail Spence and James Russe...

Perkins, Thomas H.

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Boynton, G. W., recipient.

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Wheaton Miss J. B.

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Quint, Alonzo H. (Alonzo Hall), 1828-1896

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Sumner, George, 1817-1863

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Gardiner, Robert Hallowell, 1782-1864

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Agriculturalist, public benefactor, landowner, trustee of Bowdoin College, and president of Maine Historical Society; resident of Gardiner, Me. From the description of Robert Hallowell Gardiner papers, 1770-1907. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 82154320 ...

Poole, Fitch, 1803-1873

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Philip Freeman, jr.

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Robertson, Isaac W.

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Gannett, Ezra, recipient.

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Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886

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Amos Adams Lawrence was a Boston merchant, textile manufacturer, and philanthropist. From the description of Amos Adams Lawrence Papers, 1857-1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122387678 Businessman and philanthropist. From the description of Letter of Amos Adams Lawrence, 1858. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014885 ...

Palfrey, William, 1741-1780

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Montgomery, W. W. (Waldo W.)

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Mrs Eliot.

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Paige, Lucius R. (Lucius Robinson), 1802-1896

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Sturch Miss M. M.

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Bigelow, J.

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Palfrey family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q67mn1 (family)

The central figure in this collection, John Gorham Palfrey (1796-1881), was a Unitarian minister, professor, 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. His grandfather William Palfrey (1741-1780) was a business partner of John Hancock and Pay Master General of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. His father John Palfrey (1768-18...

Charlton, John Usher.

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Otis, Broaders and Co., recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p11fws (corporateBody)

Robert Jenkins.

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Chapman, D.R. (Dennis Raymond), 1926-

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Alexandro.

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Felton, C. C. (Cornelius Conway), 1807-1862

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Cornelius Conway Felton (Harvard AB 1827) was a tutor from 1829 to 1832, University Professor of Greek from 1832 to 1834, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature from 1834 to 1860, Regent from 1849 to 1857, and President of Harvard University from 1860 to 1862. From the description of Lectures on Greek history and literature, 1855-1861. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072875 In 1857, Felton expelled Keene from the Harvard Divinity School for practicing as a medium. ...

Wheelwright, John, 1594-1679

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Simon, Edward

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Blanc, Jules A.

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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...

Johnson, E., recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6527p2w (person)

Blane, Mary Gorham (Palfrey).

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r35gxg (person)

Kendall, James, 1769-1859

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Green, Walter C. (Walter Cooper), 1799-1875

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Parker Mrs L. D.

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Amory, Thomas C. (Thomas Coffin), 1812-1889

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Thomas Coffin Amory, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Coffin) Amory, was born in Boston in 1767. He married Hannah Rowe Linzee in 1785. Following the family tradition, he became a merchant in Boston. In the course of his business, he bought and sold all types of products and acted as an exporter, wholesaler, importer and retailer, depending on what his associates wished of him. Amory frequently sold his own products as well as on consignment for standard commercial rates. In addition to the above ac...

British and Foreign Unitarian Association, recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kx8mv3 (corporateBody)

Winthrop Mr and Mrs

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Gould, Benjamin A. (Benjamin Apthorp), 1787-1859

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62c07bm (person)

American educator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Professor John Griscom, 1825 Jan. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269564860 Epithet: junior, American astronomer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000766.0x0003e3 ...

Hale, Nathan, 1784-1863

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Palfrey, George, recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69x4w23 (person)

Eastin, Ransom.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60d8754 (person)

Palfrey, Hannah G.

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Bartlett, Louisa C.

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Thomas Law

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Ravesirs, Virginia ?

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Cleveland, Henry R. (Henry Russell), 1808-1843

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6352rxf (person)

Curry, James

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w47xrz (person)

Epithet: Physician to Guy's Hospital British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000844.0x0003c1 James Curry was a book agent for Joseph Funk and Sons, in Nickell's Mill, Monroe County, Va. (now W.Va.) From the guide to the James Curry Papers, 1856-1858, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) ...

Davis Miss , recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w687644f (person)

James Maury

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Drew, T., recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d92w8r (person)

Hale, Committee for the Hale Dinner, recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q3765r (corporateBody)

Forbes, J.M.

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Henry, Davis

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Clergyman, college president. Davis was president of Middlebury and Hamilton Colleges. From the description of Henry Davis, 1771-1852 correspondence, 1817-1833. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155533363 ...

Bouman, Charles.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mj1nnp (person)

Cavendish, Lord Edward.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zj0r04 (person)

Wheaton, Robert, -1851.

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Argyll, Elizabeth, Duchess of, recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t00gwq (person)

Nichols, Thomas G.

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Bowles, L. C.

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Loring, Edward

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Mary Parker

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tr9vjs (person)

Boston, Citizens of.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wj60wb (corporateBody)

Dwight, M. N.

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Palfrey, Sarah Hammond, 1823-1914

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Poet and novelist; daughter of noted Unitarian minister of Boston and Cambridge, John Gorham Palfrey. She shared her father's liberal theology and was prominent in the social and philanthropic movements of the day. Much of her work was written under the name of "E. Foxton." Her writings include (verse) Premices, Sir Pavon and St. Pavon, King Arthur in Avalon and other poems, among others and (novels) Agnes Wentworth, Katherine Morne, Herman, Or Young Knighthood. From the description ...

John Gray

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Military historical society of Massachusetts

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Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796-1867

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American scholar. From the description of Letter to Andrew Preston Peabody, 1862 December 24. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 52611803 ...

Thompson, A.

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Norton, Sarah

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Free, Soil Party of Waltham, recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mt6z4b (corporateBody)

Committee of Merchants of Philadelphia

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Ingersoll, John

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Free Soil Party Convention, committee.

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Payson, Eloise, recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c39b35 (person)

Osborne, Samuel

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Ledyard, Lambertus Wolters

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n88hms (person)

Emerson, George B. (George Barrell), 1797-1881

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gx4jq1 (person)

American educator. From the description of Letter, 1839 June 20, Boston, to N.I. Bowditch, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166330238 Educator and pioneer of women's education. Cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. From the description of George Barrell Emerson letters [manuscript], 1851-1866. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 191118233 ...

Althorp, John Poyntz, viscount.

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Edmund Quincy.

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Morse, Isaac Edward, 1809-1866

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Adams, George, 1807-

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Appleton, John James.

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Bunker Hill Monument, society for.

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Modgen, John.

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Judkins, Eliza M.

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Silliman, Benjamin D. (Benjamin Douglas), 1805-1901

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Benjamin Douglas Silliman (1805-1901) was a prominent Brooklyn lawyer and politician. He represented Kings County in the New York State Assembly in 1838, was U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 1865 to 1866, was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1872, and was a Republican candidate for New York State Attorney General in 1873, among other accomplishments. From the guide to the Benjamin D. Silliman property dispute report, 1846, (Brooklyn...

Pope, Thomas B.

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Loring, Caleb William, 1819-1897

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Pierce, John, 1745?-1808.

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Pierce, a surveyor, native of Worcester, Mass., was a corporal in Timothy Bigelow's company of Minute Men at the outbreak of the Revolution. On the Arnold expedition he served as engineer and surveyor. From the description of Diary, 1775 Sept. 8 - 1776 Jan. 16. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 9873271 ...

Vosburgh, Harmen.

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Shattuck, Lemuel, 1793-1859

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Statistician; genealogist; public servant in Concord and Boston, Mass.; bookseller/publisher; historian of Concord. From the description of Draft portions of and notes compiled in preparing Lemuel Shattuck's 1835 printed A History of the Town of Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, [ca. 1830-1835]. (Concord Public Library). WorldCat record id: 34379162 Lemuel Shattuck (1793-1859), American author, statistician and public health reformer. Shattuck settled in Concord, Mas...

Massachusetts House of Representatives

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Thelma Barkin (née Mann) was born in the United States, and her father, Hyman Mann, served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1933 to 1934. Barkin still lives in Masssachusetts. From the description of Resolution of the Massachusetts House of Representatives concerning Nazi antisemeitism, 1933 resolution. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). WorldCat record id: 122515893 ...

Treasury Office.

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Catherine (Eliot) Norton

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Lewis, Jonathan Clarke.

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W. E.

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Wentworth, John, 1737-1820

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Governor of the New Hampshire Colony and loyalist. From the description of Marriage license of John Wentworth, 1774 June 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981478 ...

May, Joseph, 1760-1841

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Joseph May was the father of the abolitionist Samuel J. May. His son lived and preached in Syracuse, New York later in life. From the description of Joseph May account book, 1797-1802. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155419212 Merchant. From the description of Letter, 1839 June 10, Boston, to Samuel J. May, North Scituate. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 170925536 ...

Quincy, John W., recipient.

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Hammond, John Lucas, 1795-1846

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Gibson, John, recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hg2fnz (person)

Dawes Judge

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Percival, John, 1779-1862

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John Percival, Captain, USN, known as "Mad Jack," was a naval war hero in the American Revolution. From the description of Letter, June 7, 1829. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 742020802 ...

Burt, William Lathrop, 1828-1882

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Army officer and postmaster of Boston, Mass. From the description of William Lathrop Burt papers, 1872-1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455719 ...

Smith, Samuel, and Sons, recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zx5rj0 (person)

Salamons, David.

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Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824

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Secretary of the Continental Congress, biblical translator, and merchant. From the description of Papers of Charles Thomson, 1765-1888 (bulk 1765-1818). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71060797 Charles Thomson was the secretary of the Continental Congress. From the description of Journal (notebook), 1782. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122441800 Mr. Thomson was Secretary of the Continental Congress 1774-1789. From th...

White, Daniel Appleton, 1776-1861

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Daniel Appleton White was born to John and Elizabeth (Haynes) White in what is now Lawrence, Massachusetts on June 7, 1776. He grew up on the family's farm, leaving in June 1792 to study under Silas Dinsmoor at Atkinson Academy in New Hampshire. White was a diligent student and gained admission to Harvard College in July 1793. He received an A.B. with highest honors from Harvard in 1797, taught at the Medford (Massachusetts) grammar school from 1797 to 1799, and was Latin tutor at Harvard from 1...

Taylor, John

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Epithet: of Liverpool; of Add MS 42582 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x0002ad Epithet: Merchant of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x00027d Epithet: of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x0002af Epithet: of ...

Hall, Charles Cuthbert, 1852-1908

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k20hzj (person)

Liberty Party of Charlestown and Somerville, committee.

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May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871

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Samuel May was a Unitarian clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to anti-Slavery, temperance, and suffrage, among others. From the description of Samuel J. May diary, 1867. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64691611 Samuel May was a Unitarian Clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to Freedman's Relief, Temperance, and Suffrage, among others. From the descripti...

Cushing, Levi, recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68f450c (person)

Thacher, William S.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kr1qq5 (person)

Gardiner, William Howard, 1797-1882

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William Howard Gardiner received his A.B. from Harvard in 1816 and studied at Harvard Law School. From the description of Themes and other college manuscripts, ca. 1808-1816. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 236231569 Gardiner was born in Boston and graduated Harvard College in 1816 and studied at Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk County bar on 11 October 1819 and practiced law in Boston. He married a daughter of Col. Thomas Handasyd Perkins of Bost...

Amory, N.

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Palfrey, John, 1768-1843.

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John Palfrey was born in Boston where he operated various businesses and had a family. He moved to New Orleans in 1803 and worked as a ship chandler. Later, he managed his brother-in-law's plantation near New Orleans. In 1809, he assumed control of it and sold it in 1810. Palfrey then moved to Bayou l'Albaye near St. Martinville where he operated Forlorn Hope Plantation. His eldest son, John Gorham Palfrey (1796-1881), a Harvard graduate in theology, remained in Boston. ...

Boston Association of Unitarian Churches

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Conrad, A. T.

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Emery, Frederick A.

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Peabody, Andrew P. (Andrew Preston), 1811-1893

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American author, clergyman and editor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) : Portsmouth, N.H., to Madame [Blaze] de Bury, 1856 Oct. 1-1860 Jan. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270851342 Peabody graduated from Harvard in 1826, taught Christian morals and served as preacher and Overseer at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Andrew Preston Peabody, 1839-1890 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972834 Clergyman...

Molesworth, Mrs C.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rd14q7 (person)

Henshaw, Samuel, recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ts0jg3 (person)

Watson, Josiah.

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Burrall, Jonathan, recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jv337x (person)

Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887

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

Brenton, Samuel, recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63g92wg (person)

North American Review, stockholders of.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ch2zkc (corporateBody)

Hopkins, Esek, 1718-1802

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Privateer during the French and Indian War, first commander-in-chief of the U.S. Continental Navy, and deputy to the Rhode Island General Assembly. From the description of Correspondence of Esek Hopkins, 1776 May 7-1777 Oct. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83534493 ...

Palfrey, Edward, 1799-1817

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David Wilmot.

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Ogden, Abram.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j52k43 (person)

Dallam, Richard.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ch48m9 (person)

Reform Club of London.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c95kc6 (corporateBody)

Hazard, Benjamin

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60m63t9 (person)

Cox, William Hayward.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66j8vn3 (person)

Athanaeum Club of London.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vg03n5 (corporateBody)

Trundy and Stevens.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hg1zbr (person)

Grant, Moses, 1785-1861

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qc01h8 (person)

Ridley, Edward, Sir, 1843-1928

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x2058j (person)

Moody, Samuel.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6488fqn (person)

Emily Parker

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Ward, Thomas W. (Thomas Wren), 1786-1858

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65h7p48 (person)

Businessman. From the description of Thomas W. Ward correspondence, 1841 February 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981311 ...

Washburn, Emory, 1800-1877

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bz6s0c (person)

Governor of Massachusetts, writer and law teacher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Worcester, Mass., to Junius S. Morgan, 1841 Nov. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270659722 Washburn was a judge on the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas (1844-1847), Governor of Massachusetts (1854-1855), and professor at Harvard Law School (1856-1876). From the description of Letters, 1850, 1866. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234779790 ...

Boutwell, George S. (George Sewall), 1818-1905

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zc89kp (person)

George Sewall Boutwell (1818-1905) was an active political figure and lawyer all his life. Initially a Democrate, his antislavery leanings made him a prominent Free Soiler who was elected Governor and susequently reelected by the dominant Massachusetts Free Soil coalition in 1851-1852. He became a lawyer and founder of the Massachusetts Republican Party, later being a Radical Republican in Congress and among the most forecful opponents of President Andrew Johnson. Boutwell served as Secretary of...

Burroughs, John H.

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Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

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

Phillips, Willard

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Harding, H. R.

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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...

Potts, Joseph

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Phippen, George Dean, 1815-

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Phippen was curator of botany, Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. From the description of Scrapbook of a Texas excursion, 1877-1879. (University of Texas at Arlington). WorldCat record id: 30042762 ...

Phelps, J. W. (John Wolcott), 1813-1885

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Phelps was an officer in the US military. His career began as a cadet at West Point in the 1830s. He retired as a brigadier general in 1862. From the description of Papers, 1833-1884. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79136348 From the description of Diary, [19--?]. (Peking University Library). WorldCat record id: 60355023 John Wolcott Phelps (1813-1885), Brigadier General in the U.S. Army was a native of Vermont. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Poi...

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 ...

Hoosac Tunnel, Committee for, recipient.

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Williams, Samuel

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Epithet: Reverend; of Add MS 35645 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x00002c ...

Polly Gorham.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69t5pdf (person)

Parker, Isaac, 1768-1830

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U.S. representative from Massachusetts, jurist, and educator. From the description of Letter and notes of Isaac Parker, 1790. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454848 U.S. Representative from Maine. From the description of Isaac Parker autograph letter signed, 1798. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70979471 Isaac Parker was Harvard's first Royall Professor of Law (1815-1827). From the description of Draft letter to the p...

Brastow, George O., 1811-1878

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Bailey, Warren Bernard, 1959-

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Palfrey, Hersey G.

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Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813

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First chancellor of New York State; agriculturalist and ambassador to France. From the description of Robert R. Livingston papers, 1707-1862. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58779437 Continental Congressman, diplomat, member of the New York Provincial Covention, the Continental Congress and served as U.S. Minister to France. From the description of Letter, 1802. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145407295 Robert R. Livingston ser...

Jones, E. F.

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Chapman, John G. (John Grant), 1798-1856

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Lawyer and U.S. Representative from Md. From the description of Papers, 1799-1900. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 43738534 ...

Harper's School library committee

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Hutchinson, Shrimpton.

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Boyd, George, recipient.

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Elizabeth Torrey.

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Weld, Charles Richard, 1813-1869

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Epithet: FRS British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x000134 ...

McCall, J.

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Sumner, Edwin Vose, 1835-1912

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Unitarian Festival Committee, recipient.

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Peirson, Charles Lawrence, 1834-

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R. M. Hodges

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Vottemore, Alexander.

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Holland, J.G. (Josiah Gilbert), 1819-1881

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Josiah Gilbert Holland was a doctor, an educator, and a popular author, but is best remembered as the first editor of Scribner's. After brief careers in medicine and education, he became editor of the Springfield Republican in his native Massachusetts. In 1870, he became the founding editor and co-owner of Scribner's. His many published works include poetry, regional short stories, history, and popular philosophical essays. He sometimes used the pseudonym "Timothy Titcomb." From the ...

Barbour, John N.

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Boston, Massachusetts, businessman. From the description of John N. Barbour correspondence, 1845-1846. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421090 ...

Barrett, Samuel, 1795-1866

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English, George Bethune, 1787-1828

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Foster, William, recipient.

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Free Soil Party, committee for the 4th Congressional District, recipient.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786

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Revolutionary War officer. From the description of Papers, 1778-1786. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19593641 Army officer. From the description of Nathanael Greene papers, 1775-1785. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979865 Nathanael Greene was a major general in the Continental Army. He was promoted to Quartermaster General in 1778. From the description of Papers, 1778-1780. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat ...

Peirson, Abigail L.

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Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902

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Scudder was an editor with Houghton, Mifflin and Company and editor of the Atlantic Monthly (1890-1898). From the description of Papers, 1879-1901. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612370549 From the description of Additional papers, 1859-1903. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82251260 From the guide to the Additional papers, 1859-1903., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Scudder was an editor with Houghton, Mi...

Davies, C. S.

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Duker, P. G.

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Mr Lincoln

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Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864

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Epithet: Vice-president of the American Ethnological Society British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x0000a9 Author, Indian agent and ethnologist. From the description of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft papers, 1826-1841. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418398 Henry Schoolcraft was an ethnologist, geologist, Indian agent, and glass manufacturer. From th...

Hannah Russell

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Phinney, Sylvanus Bourne, 1808-1899

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Opelousas, Louisiana State Bank at, recipient.

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Cambridge Humane Society

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Ripley, George, 1802-1880

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American editor and critic. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Thomas Carlyle, 1835 June 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270655148 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : "Office of the N.Y. Tribune," to the Reverend Dr. [William Buell] Sprague, 1858 Dec. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872170 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to the Rev. H.D. Mayo, 1862 Sept. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

Waterston, R. C. (Robert Cassie), 1812-1893

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Montgomery, James E.

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Russell, William S. (William Shaw), 1792-1863

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Greenough, Samuel.

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Briggs, Charles

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Treasury, Office of the Auditor.

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Cooley, D. N.

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Cruger, Henry, jr.

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Hammond, William Dawes, 1806-1835

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Nathan Hale

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Faulkner

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Penny, Timothy, petitioner.

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Sullivan, George, 1771-1838

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George Sullivan (1771-1838), a lawyer in Exeter, New Hampshire, was a member of the New Hampshire legislature and U.S. Congress, and served as New Hampshire attorney-general. From the description of George Sullivan letters, 1823-1824. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455768 ...

Ecles, Henry Herbert, 1849-

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Brimmer, Martin, 1793-1847

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Sarah Hamond Palfrey

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Farley, Charles A. (Charles Andrews), m. 1887

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American Unitarian clergyman. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Melrose, [Mass.] and Savannah [Ga.], to the Reverend john Pierpont, 1848 Nov. 14 - 1854 Jul. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270532907 ...

Heath, William, 1737-1814

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American Major-General. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Ebenezer Hancock, 1777 Apr. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864067 Army officer. From the description of Papers of William Heath, 1776-1782. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71061920 Army officer in the Revolution, Massachusetts state senator, and jurist. From the description of Papers of William Heath, 1774-1777. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83784932 ...

Tilghman, Tench, 1744-1786

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Continental Army officer; aide-de-campe to George Washington; resident of Talbot County, Md. From the description of Papers, 1781-1815. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20400229 Merchant, aide-de-camp to George Washington from August 1776 to the end of the Revolution. From the description of ALS : Headquarters, to Deputy Commissary, Rye, N.Y., 1776 Oct. 6. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122466219 Aide de Camp to Gener...

Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney), 1814-1882

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Unitarian minister; President, United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. From the description of Henry W. Bellows letters, 1861-1863. (Columbia University in the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 62754818 New York City resident and Unitarian clergyman. From the description of Letter, 1844. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31526778 Henry Whitney Bellows (1814-1882) was born in Boston and received a B.A. from Harvard Colleg...

Bethune, George

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Pratt, Mary M.

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Rennells, John L.

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Elliott, George H.

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Wyman, Jeffries, 1814-1874

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Wyman (Harvard, M.D. 1837) was Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1874 and taught anatomy and physiology in the medical school of Hampden-Sydney College, Richmond, Va., from 1843 to 1847. In 1866 he became curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard and went on expeditions to Florida, Labrador, South America, and other places to collect material for the museum. He wrote extensively and lectured on comparative anatomy and paleontology. ...

Keefe, Duke.

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E. Worthen James

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Cabot, Francis, recipient.

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Sparks, William Eliot

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Mason, William Powell, 1791-1867

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Kimball, Edmund, jr.

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Frothingham, Richard, 1812-1880

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American historian. From the description of Papers of Richard Frothingham, 1876-1877. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 34566923 ...

Sargent, John T. (John Turner), 1808-1877

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John Pownall

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Frost, George W.

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George W. Frost spent the final months of the American Civil War as Acting Master of the U.S.S. Fort Donelson. He was assigned to this position by Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles after some three years of various short-term assignments throughout the Navy. On several occasions Frost ran awry of naval regulations, most notably in January and February 1863 when he was arrested for `disobedience' and in March 1865 when an order - which was revoked in the same month - was issued fo...

Nicola, Lewis, 1717-1807

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Editor, army officer, and businessman. From the description of Papers of Lewis Nicola, 1777-1783. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452337 ...

Winslow, John, 1825-1898

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John Winslow (1825-1898) of Brooklyn, N.Y., was the son of Eleazer Robbins Winslow (1786-1863) of Newton Upper Falls, Mass., and the grandson of Dr. Shadrach Winslow (1750-1817) of Foxboro, Mass. John graduated from Harvard Law School in 1852 and settled in Brooklyn as an attorney with his brother, David Corbett Winslow (1819-1879). John served as district attorney for Brooklyn, 1859-1862, and 1874-1875. He was also actively interested in literary and scholarly pursuits and helped found the New ...

Nourse, Joseph, 1754-1841

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Epithet: Captain; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000269.0x0001ed ...

Rice, Louisa.

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Lawrence, N.

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Hughes, Christopher, 1786-1849

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Diplomat. From the description of Letters of Christopher Hughes, 1816-1843. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451071 ...

Metropolitan Railroad, the President, recipient.

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F. C. Gray

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Tayler, John James, 1797-1869

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Pratt Miss , recipient.

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Otis, Mary, 1961-

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Bennoch, Francis, 1812-1890

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British poet and businessman. From the description of Correspondence, 1838-1886. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233127263 English businessman. From the description of Papers, 1839-1890. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 28409538 Francis Bennoch (1818-1890) was a London buisnessman and silk merchant. He was also a patron of the arts and literature. From the description of Letters, 1837-1886. (Huntington L...

Henry Ware jr.

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Vose, Isaac D.

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Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864

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Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts; United States and Massaschusetts legislator; and, President of Harvard University. From the description of Josiah Quincy letter, portrait and autograph, 1839-1889. (Boston College). WorldCat record id: 63118297 President of Harvard. From the description of Autograph note signed : [Cambridge, Mass.], addressed to the Rev. John Pierpont, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616000 From the description of Autograph note ...

Hale, Sarah Preston (Everett), recipient.

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King, David, 1806-1883

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Mechanics' Apprentices' Library Association

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Hassett, Simon, recipient.

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Downer, Silas, 1729-1785

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John Fleeming

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Cazneau, Andrew, 1733-1790?

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Codman, Charles R.

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Tirel

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Smalley, Henry A.

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Hammond Mrs Mary C.

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Murray, Sir John Archibald, lord, 1779-1859

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Pollard, Jonathan Jay, 1954-

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Cooper Mr , recipient.

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Julia Lovett

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Cooke, Josiah P., Jr. (Josiah Parsons), 1827-1894

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Cooke (Harvard, A.B., 1848) taught chemistry and mineralogy at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Josiah Parsons Cooke, 1859-1893 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069349 ...

Yeaton, Hopby.

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Reid Mrs E. J.

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Palfrey, Rosamonde.

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General Grant

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Austin, James T.

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Boyd, George

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Epithet: General British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000473.0x0000e0 ...

Charles Bowen

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Vaughan, John Champion.

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Deane, Charles

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Mercer, Charles Fenton, 1778-1858

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U.S. representative from Virginia; president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. From the description of Papers of Charles Fenton Mercer [manuscript], 1810-1856. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647891379 State legislator and U.S. representative from Virginia. From the description of Papers, 1816-1854. (New Jersey Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70954784 Charles Fenton Mercer (1778-1858), was the son of James Mercer, j...

Palfrey, Louisa.

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Warner, , recipient.

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White, William Orne, 1821-1911

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William Orne White received his A.B. from Harvard in 1840. From the description of Student essays, 1839. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072770 ...

Brattle Street Society

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Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1898

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President of Trinity College, philanthropist, author. From the description of Samuel Eliot letter to Count Adam de Gurowski [manuscript], [18__] Dec 26. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 182579807 American historian and educationist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to J. Pierpont Morgan, 1895 Jan. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270743938 Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Cata...

Gibbs, William, 1785-

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Salisbury, D. W., recipient.

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Eaton, H. W., recipient.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6721n1c (person)

Farrar, John, 1779-1853

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John Farrar was born in Lincoln, Massachusetts on July 1, 1779. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1803 and an A.M. in 1806. He was a tutor in Greek language at Harvard from 1805 to 1807, when he was named Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. He was Hollis professor until 1836, and among his accomplishments was the publication of a textbook on the elements of algebra. He also received an L.L.D. from Brown University in 1833. John Farrar died in Boston on May 8, 1853. ...

Brooks, Charles, 1795-1872

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Brooks was a Unitarian clergyman born in Medford, Massachusetts. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1816; A.M. 1819. He was the pastor of the 3rd Congregational Church in Hingham (1821-1838) and later professor of Natural History at the University of the City of New York. He was central to the work of establishing normal schools in the United States and is credited with having introduced the term "normal schools" to America. Brooks married Cecilia Williams (d.1837) in 1827, then Charlot...

Clarke, Jonathan

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Ritchie, Harrison.

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Mary Sturgis (Gorham) Palfrey.

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Everett, Charles, 1785-1851

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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 ...

Farrar, Adam Storey, 1826-1905

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Epithet: Reverend British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000818.0x0002be ...

Hannah Palfrey.

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Preston, H. N.

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Sturgis, Josiah.

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Harmon, Thomas L. of Louisiana recipient.

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Sumner, Eliza.

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Lee, Thomas J., -1879

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Davis, Frederic H.

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Abbot, Ezra, 1819-1884

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Ezra Abbot (1819-1884) is considered to be one of the most preeminent scholars of New Testament textual criticism in the nineteenth century. He was the Bussey Professorship of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Harvard Divinity School from 1872 to 1884. From the description of Ezra Abbot. Papers, 1870-1882. (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 421962685 Ezra Abbot (1819-1884) is considered one of the most preeminent scholars of New Te...

Pickering, L. L.

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Thayer, Sylvanus, 1785-1872

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Sylvanus Thayer was a United States (U.S.) Army officer who was appointed the superintendent of U.S. Military Academy from July 27,1817-July 1, 1833. After that he was assigned engineer duties in Boston, Massachusetts. From the description of The Sylvanus Thayer papers, 1808-1862. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 47646716 Sylvanus Thayer was commissioned 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1808, served as superintendent of the U.S. Militar...

Kirkland, John Thornton, 1770-1840

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John Thornton Kirkland (1770-1840) was President of Harvard University from 1810-1828. From the description of My dear sir, permit me to introduce to you the bearer, Mr. McEwen of Philadelphia, a gentleman & a scholar, yours truly, J. T. Kirkland, 6 October [ca. 1800-1840]. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77067915 John T. Kirkland (1770-1840) was the fifteenth President of Harvard University from November 14, 1810 to April 2, 1828. He led Harvard University thr...

Charles H. Renton

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Benjamin Helle.

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Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873

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

Robbins, Chandler, 1810-1882

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American Unitarian clergyman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Mr. Crosby, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270655314 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1845 May 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270655306 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Boston], to the Rev. John Pierpont, [1834 Jan. 4]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270655309 ...

Doo, Charles.

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Hopkins, recipient.

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Waugh, Lucie A.

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Whipper, W. J.

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Dewey, Orville, 1794-1882

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Orville Dewey (1794-1882) was born and died in Sheffield, Mass. He graduated from Williams College in 1814, and Andover Seminary in 1819. Shortly after, he became an Unitarian, and served as minister at the following churches: Federal Street Church (Boston, Mass.), 1821-1823; First Church (New Bedford, Mass.), 1822-1833; Second Congregational Church (New York, N.Y.), 1835-1848; New South Church (Boston, Mass.), 1857-1861. Dewey received an honorary D.D. from Harvard in 1839. He was president of ...

Pike, Benjamin

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Guild, Charles Eliot, 1827-1905.

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Watson, S.

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Bigelow, Daniel R.

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Daniel Richardson Bigelow was born March 21, 1824 in Belleville, New York. He joined a wagon-train and headed west on the Oregon Trail to Portland, then sailed up the coast in the schooner Exact to Puget Sound in Nov. 1851. He established a law practice in Smithfield (now Olympia, WA). On June 18, 1854, he married Ann Elizabeth White, the first school teacher in the area. Ann was born Nov. 3, 1836 in Illinois and arrived in Olympia with her family in late 1851. Daniel was Treasurer of Thurston C...

Fay, Artemis.

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Draper, James S.

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Julia Palfrey

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Lee, Eliza Buckminster, 1794-1864

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Eliza Buckminster Lee was born in New Hampshire and gained a classical education and appreciation for literature from her father, Rev. Joseph Buckminster. She lived most of her life in the Boston area, achieving success as both a writer and translator. From the description of Eliza Buckminster Lee letter to James Munroe & Co., 1846 Jan. 14. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51262672 American author. From the description of Letter ...

Jennison, Timothy Lindall, 1761-1845

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Physician of Cambridge, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1803-1832, Cambridge, Mass. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35093256 ...

Unitarian church

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Continental Congress.

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William Foster

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Philadelphia Liberty Party.

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Palfrey, George

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Fayerweather, Samuel.

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Campbell, Donald

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Epithet: President of the Lochgoilhead Highland Mountain Club British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000843.0x00005a Epithet: Captain; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000843.0x000053 Epithet: Reverend Dr British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : a...

Beck, Charles, 1798-1866

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Beck received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1865 and taught Latin at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Charles Beck, 1820?-1830 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069227 ...

Wilson, John, and Son.

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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...

Whig party of Massachusetts

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Follen, Charles, 1796-1840

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Charles Follen was a German-born educator, preacher, athlete, and reformer. His radical approach to reform in Germany made him unwelcome, and he fled to France, then Sweden, and finally America. During a checkered career at Harvard, he fomented a spirit of rebellion among students, taught wildly popular courses on German language and literature (the first such courses at Harvard), and incidentally introduced gymnastics to the school. After leaving Harvard, he was ordained as a Unitarian minister...

Thomas Barclay.

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Garnwell, W.

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Palfrey, Julia F.

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Palfrey, Robert B.

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Brewer, Thomas, recipient.

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Capt Church.

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Summerhayes Sergeant

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Gilman, Samuel, 1791-1858

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Unitarian minister in Charleston, S. C., and author of "Fair Harvard"; husband of noted author Caroline Howard Gilman. From the description of Samuel Gilman letters [manuscript], 1826-1843. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648019813 Gilman graduated from Harvard in 1811. He was a tutor at Harvard and was author of Fair Harvard. From the description of Papers of Samuel Gilman, 1811-1952 (inclusive), 1811-1858 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat rec...

Capt John Hawkins.

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Palfrey, Sarah Hammond, 1823-1914

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Poet and novelist; daughter of noted Unitarian minister of Boston and Cambridge, John Gorham Palfrey. She shared her father's liberal theology and was prominent in the social and philanthropic movements of the day. Much of her work was written under the name of "E. Foxton." Her writings include (verse) Premices, Sir Pavon and St. Pavon, King Arthur in Avalon and other poems, among others and (novels) Agnes Wentworth, Katherine Morne, Herman, Or Young Knighthood. From the description ...

Prowell, Joseph.

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Kohl, J. G. (Johann Georg), 1808-1878

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Johann Georg Kohl (1808-1878) was born and died in Bremen, Germany. He was a well-known cartographer who came to the United States in 1854, at the request of the U.S. government, to write a geographical history of the continent. Kohl returned to Germany in 1857. In 1863, he was appointed city librarian of Bremen. From the description of Papers, 1854?-1857? (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191259480 Johann Georg Kohl was a German traveler in America. ...

Parker, Henry T.

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Seldon, Joseph, recipient.

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Fitch, Jeremiah, recipient.

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Hughes, Thomas

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Epithet: DD, Vicar of Uffington, county Berkshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001031.0x00003c Epithet: Lieutenant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001031.0x00003d Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F234 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x0002ce ...

Lee, William, 1772-1840

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U. S. consul in France. From the description of Letter to Jerome Bonaparte [manuscript], 1822 Feb. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647917497 William Lee was secretary of the United States legation in Paris under Joel Barlow and was Consul General at Bordeaux. He was interested in a scheme to bring Napoleon to the United States. His son was William Barlow Lee (1805-1895). From the description of William Lee letters, 1810-1861. (Columbia University In...

M. Blanc - Librarian

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Lyman, Joseph, 1812-1871.

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King, Daniel P. (Daniel Putnam), 1801-1850

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U.S. representative of Massachusetts and farmer. From the description of Letter of Daniel P. King, 1841. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009943 ...

Simmons, George F. (George Frederick), 1814-1855

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Clergyman in Waltham, Mass., Springfield, Mass., and Albany, N.Y. Born 1814 at Boston to William and Lucia Hammett Simmons; died Concord, Mass., 1855. Married Mary Emerson Ripley, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley. George and Mary Simmons had four children, one of them Edward, the artist. Rev. Samuel Ripley--son of Ezra Ripley, half-brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson's father William, and father-in-law of George Simmons--was Simmons' predecessor at the Independent Congr...

Edwards, J. L.

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Blakely, Josiah

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Palfrey, Lydia.

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Newell Mr recipient.

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Freeman, Constant, recipient.

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Harmon, Thomas L.

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Rutledge, George, and Co.

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Green, Samuel A...

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Mrs Pickering

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George Peacock.

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William Palfrey.

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Kent, William, 1802-1861

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Kent was the son of James Kent, the Chancellor of New York and legal commentator. Following his graduation from Union College, he practiced law in New York City. He was appointed a judge of the Circuit Court of New York and taught in the short-lived law school of the University of the City of New York. He also taught law at Harvard Law School (1846-1847). From the description of Letter to J. Hoyt, 4 October 1839. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234341732 Un...

S., A. G.

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Committee for the Free Soil Party

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Putnam, Israel, 1718-1790

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Army officer. From the description of Letters of Israel Putnam, 1774-1783. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449456 From the description of Papers of Israel Putnam, 1762-1773. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84298278 Putnam is best known as a Revolutionary War general, instrumental to the success of the Battle of Bunker Hill. He was a resident of Pomfret, Connecticut. From the description of Israel Putnam letters, 1778-1782. (Hartford Public Library). Worl...

Dearborn Mrs S. Bowdoin.

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Bond, George William.

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Chapman, Mrs A. M.

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Palfrey, Anna Russell, 1825-1905

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Fennessee, Richard.

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Liberty Bell.

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Burrall, Jonathan.

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Clarke, Waters.

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Harvard Divinity School.

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The Harvard Divinity School was started in 1811 when a program of graduate studies was organized for candidates for the ministry. In 1819 it became a separate administrative unit in Harvard University. From the description of General information by and about the Harvard Divinity School, 1811- (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228511094 Theology has been taught at Harvard since its opening in 1638. The Harvard Divinity School was started in 1811 when a program of grad...

Thomas L. Harmon.

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Paulding, William I. (William Irving), 1825-1890

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Shepherd, R. D., recipient.

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Adeline Matilda Barnard

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Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868

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Henry Brougham was born and raised in Edinburgh, attended Edinburgh University, practiced law in the city, and co-founded the influential Edinburgh Review. In 1803 he moved to London, becoming associated with the radical left wing of the Whig Party. He also practiced law in London, and was appointed to the House of Commons in 1810, establishing himself as one of the leading radicals in Parliament and holding several important positions. He supported education reform and the abolition of slavery,...

Davidson

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Deane, Charles, 1813-1889

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Charles Deane was a merchant with the firm of Waterston, Pray & Company. He retired from the firm in 1864 and devoted himself to researching early American history. From the description of Letter, 1879 Oct[obe]r 17, Cambridge, Mass., to Samuel Eliot [Boston, Mass.]. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 15143373 American historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, Messrs. Bartlett & Welford, booksellers in New Yo...

Forry, Samuel

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Green, Walter

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William Dennison

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Huntington, Ebenezer, 1754-1834

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The Huntingtons, a prominent Connecticut family, played a important role in the state and national affairs at the time of the Revolutionary War. Besides Samuel Huntington (1731-1796), the signer of the Declaration of Independence, President of the Continental Congress, and Governor of Connecticut, and Benjamin Huntington (1736-1800), state delegate to the Continental Congress, among the most distinguished members of the extended family were Jabez Huntington (1719-1786), Major-General of the stat...

Osgood, Robert N.

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Ellsworth, Emry.

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Eaton Mrs C. G.

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Brigham, Albert S.

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John Lucas Hammond

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Lorne, marquess of, recipient.

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Peirce, Emily Osgood.

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Potts, Joseph, recipient.

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Bond, George William, recipient.

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Harmon, Charlotte (Gorham) 1786-1821?

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Free Soil Party Convention of Suffolk County, recipient.

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Warren, James, 1726-1808

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Marble worker, of New Haven, Conn. From the description of Papers, 1850-1867. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20273590 Massachusetts legislator. In 1775 he was appointed paymaster general of the Continental Army, but resigned when the Army moved away from Boston. From the description of Letter (Copy) : Watertown, Mass., to John Hancock, 1776 Mar. 30. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122442778 Warren was president of th...

Bradshaw, Thomas, fl. 1788

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Apthorp, Mr

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Jackson, James, 1757-1806

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James Jackson (1757-1806), U.S. Senator and Georgia Governor (1798-1801) born in Moreton, England. From the description of Letters to Anthony Wayne, 1782. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38478045 U.S. senator from Georgia, 1793-1795, 1801-1806, and governor of Georgia, 1798-1801. From the description of Papers, 1775-1843. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19851544 James Jackson (1757-1806) was born in Devonshire, England. In 1772, he arrived ...

Posey, Lloyd.

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American Antiquarian Society

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The American Antiquarian Society was founded in Worcester, Mass., in 1812, largely through the efforts of Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831). The Society's original stated purpose was to "encourage the collection and preservation of the Antiquities of our country, and of curious and valuable productions in Art and Nature [that] have a tendency to enlarge the sphere of human knowledge." AAS from its inception attempted to be national in its collecting and its membership, which is by election....

Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927

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Sargent graduated from Harvard in 1862, taught horticulture at Harvard and was director of the Arnold Arboretum. From the description of Papers of Charles Sprague Sargent, 1862-1879 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972874 Dendrologist, first director of Arnold Arboretum, and professor of agriculture, 1879-1927. From the description of [Horticultural list and autograph], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55531532 S...

Plumb, C. M. and Co.

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Boyle, Isaac, -1850

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Frontbeck, John.

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Davis, Samuel, 1765-1829

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Pickens, Samuel

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Unknown From the guide to the Bank of the State of Alabama cashier's checks MSS. 0106., 1826, (W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama) ...

Hillhouse, James Abraham, 1789-1841

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James Abraham Hillhouse (September 26, 1789 - January 4, 1841) was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the eldest child of James and Rebecca (Woolsey) Hillhouse. Hillhouse entered Yale at the age of 13, withdrew before the end of his freshman year, but eventually received an A.B. degree with the class of 1808. When his business plans were interrupted by the War of 1812, he relocated to New Haven from Boston, where he had resided for three years after his graduation. In 1819 he visited E...

Williams, George F., 1817-1882

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Walker, James, 1794-1874

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James Walker (1794-1874) was President of Harvard University from February 10, 1853 to January 26, 1860. Walker was also a Unitarian minister and religious philosopher. James Walker was born to John Walker and Lucy (Johnson) Walker on August 16, 1794 in what was then Woburn, Massachusetts (later to become a part of Burlington ). Walker attended the Lawrence Academy in Groton, Massachusetts (1807-1810) and graduated from Harvard University in 1814. After graduation, Wal...

Bullard, Henry Adams, 1788-1851

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Putnam, Samuel, 1768-1853

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Putnam, a lawyer, was later a Massachusetts state senator (1808-1814) and a judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1814-1842). Tyng was appointed reporter for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1805. From the description of Letter to Dudley Atkins Tyng, 20 February 1807. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235132996 ...

Sayward, Jonathan, recipient.

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Fitzgerald, Desmond, 1846-1926

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Desmond Fitzgerald was Deputy Secretary of State for Rhode Island (1863-1867); engineer, Indianapolis and Vincennes Rail Road (1867-1869); engineer, Boston and Albany Railroad (1871-1873); and superintendent, Western Division, Boston Water Works (1873-1903). From the description of Desmond Fitzgerald letter, 1877 Apr. 24. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 156976691 Art patron, art collector, and engineer; Brookline, Mass. Served on th...

Hedge, Frederick Henry, 1805-1890.

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Palfrey, Mary Gorham

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Newton, Suzan C.

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Otis, Horatio Nelson.

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Oswald, Eleazer, 1755-1795

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Soldier in the Continental Army 1775-1783 and publisher of newspapers in Philadelphia and New York City from 1783-1792. In 1792, he went to France, where he became a soldier in the Republican Army. From the description of Letter, 1790. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122583087 ...

Doane, Isaiah.

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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 ...

Palmer, Joseph, 1796-1871

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Brown, James, 1766-1835

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James Brown was U.S. District Attorney in Kentucky, 1791; Secretary of State of Kentucky, 1792-1796; Secretary of Orleans Territory, 1804; U.S. District Attorney in Orleans Territory, 1805-1808; U.S. Senator from Louisiana, 1813-1817, 1819-1823; and U.S. Minister to France, 1823-1829. From the description of James Brown letter, 1829 Mar. 31. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 76285477 From the description of James Brown letter, 1824 Dec. 25. (Louisiana State U...

Miss Hedge

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John Gardiner Gibson

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Kuhn, Louisa C.

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Shannon, Richard Cutts, 1839-

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Palfrey, Henry William, 1798-1866

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Thacher, Samuel Cooper, 1785-1818

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Edward Palfrey

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Otis, Broaders and Co.

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Stearns, W. G.

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Hunter, Joseph, 1783-1861

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English antiquary and editor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to an unidentified recipient, 1847 Feb. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269528608 English antiquary. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Mrs. [Daniel] Gaskell of Lupset Hall, Wakefield, 1836 Aug. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269528592 Joseph Hunter, antiquary and Presbyterian minister, was born in Sheffield England and trained for...

Briggs, George Nixon, 1796-1861

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William Petty, 1st marquis of Lansdowne

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Loring, Henry.

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Everett, William, 1839-1910

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Classicist William Everett was born in Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard and Cambridge; he took one degree in law, and also studied for the ministry. He held positions as an educator at Harvard, Adams Academy, and other institutions, and served in Congress as a Democrat, completing the term of the resigned Henry Cabot Lodge. He also ran an unsucessful campaign for Governor of Massachusetts. He was a prominent speaker and published numerous lectures and orations. From the descrip...

Williams, Moses, recipient.

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Ruggles, George D. (George David), -1904

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Rogers, William Sanford, 1786-1872

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Palfrey, Mary Sturgis (Gorham) 1772-1803

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Nunan, P. J.

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Freeman, James, 1759-1835

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Senior, Nassau William, 1790-1864

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English economist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (6) : various places, to Madame Blaze de Bury, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270853641 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to M. Leganz. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270663817 From the description of Autograph letter : to John Horsley Palmer, Esq. [Gov. of Bank of England]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664118 Epithet: of Add MS 28512 British Library...

Pope, Thomas B., recipient.

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Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871

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Richard Bentley was a London publisher, first with Colburn and Bentley, later with Bentley and Sons. Bentley published many of England's most popular writers, including Dickens, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Marie Corelli, and Mrs. Henry Wood. He also published important English editions of American authors such as Poe and Cooper. From the description of Richard Bentley letter to J. LeSouëf, 1833 Nov. 18. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 58802263 ...

Green, Almira (Hammond) 1809-1847

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Harvard College, Corporation of, recipient.

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Kingsley, Rose.

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Faucon, Edward H.

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P. Stephens

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Frank Parker

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Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

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Horace Mann was an educator and a statesman who greatly advanced the cause of universal, free, non-sectarian public schools. Mann also advocated temperance, abolition, hospitals for the mentally ill, and women's rights. From the description of Horace Mann Letter, 1858. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 213372958 Horace Mann, "Father of our Public Schools," was born in Franklin, Massachusetts on May 4, 1796. His family was poor and his father di...

Brooks, Edward

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Mr Hillard

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Fitzgerald, J. R.

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Howe, Estes.

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Smith, recipient.

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Penny, Timothy

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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...

Jacob Mohler

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Palfrey, John, 1748-

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Appleton, Thomas

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Crofts, George.

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DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904

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Benjamin Franklin DeCosta was born 10 July 1831 Charlestown, MA. He graduated from the Biblical Institute, Concord, NH in 1856 and entered the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was rector at North Adams (1857-1858), and Newton Lower Falls (1858-1860). During the Civil War, he was chaplain of the 5th and 18th Mass. Infantry. He was editor of the Christian Times, Episcopalian, the Magazine of American History, one of the founders of the Huguenot Society of America, one of the organizers of the Churc...

Audebert, Philip.

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Homans, John

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Bullard, Louisa M.

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Wetherell, J. G.

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Russell, Samuel Hammond.

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Schleiden, R. (Rudolf), 1815-1895

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Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886

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Amos Adams Lawrence was a Boston merchant, textile manufacturer, and philanthropist. From the description of Amos Adams Lawrence Papers, 1857-1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122387678 Businessman and philanthropist. From the description of Letter of Amos Adams Lawrence, 1858. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014885 ...

Marlborough Committee, recipient.

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Higginson, Wendell, recipient.

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Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869

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

Ulrich Moller

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Thayer, William N.

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Worcester, Noah, 1758-1837

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Congregational clergyman with Unitarian views; editor of Christian disciple; of New Hampshire and Massachusetts; used Elias Monitor, Philo Pacificus, and other pseudonymns. From the description of Papers of Noah and Thomas Worcester, 1790-1835. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963941 Farmer, school teacher, minister known as "Father of the American Peace Movement." Founded the Massachusetts Peace Society and estallished the journal "The frien...

Springfield, Republican.

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Dennison, William, 1815-1882

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Lawyer, Ohio state senator, Ohio governor (1860-1862), and U.S. Postmaster General. From the description of Correspondence, 1861. (Ohio Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 40600940 Ohio governor, U.S. postmaster general, and commissioner of the District of Columbia. From the description of Letter, 1878 March 1. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70941725 U.S. postmaster general and governor of Ohio. From the desc...

Morse, Charles H.

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Emerson, Moses.

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Sheffield, Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th baron, 1839-

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Foster, William (William Ellis)

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Epithet: Surveyor of Excise at Cork British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001345.0x00022e Epithet: of Emmanuel Coll. Cambr British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001345.0x00022d Epithet: DD, Fellow of Eton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001345.0x00022a ...

Burlingame, Anson, 1820-1870

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Attorney, Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts state senator, 1852; congressman, 1855-1860; U.S. minister to Peking, China, 1860-1867. From the description of Letter : Washington, [D.C], to W[illia]m L. Lincoln, 1860 June 10. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27988840 Anson Burlingame was American envoy to China. The city of Burlingame, Calif., was named in his honor by William C. Ralston. From the description of Anson Burlingame papers,...

Giddings, Joshua R. (Joshua Reed), 1795-1864

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Giddings was an abolitionist congressman from the Western Reserve of Ohio. He studied law in the office of Elisha Whittlesey at Canfield, Ohio, in 1821 was admitted to the bar. It is claimed that Giddings later had significant influence on Lincoln's thinking toward the abolition of slavery. From the description of Account book of his law practice in the Court of Common Pleas, Ashtabula County, Ohio, 1827-1835. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 77657856 Ohio s...

Lovell, Mansfield, 1822-1884

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Confederate general. From the description of Telegram, 1862 Apr. 22, New Orleans, La., to G.T. Beauregard, Corinth, Miss. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122626029 Born 1822 in Washington, D.C.; with U.S. Army during the Mexican War; resigned the Army and worked in civilian positions in Trenton, N.J. and New York City; joined the Confederate States Army as Major General; given command of forces defending New Orleans; held no later command but served thr...

Thorndike, I., Jr.

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Mayo, Simion.

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John Speed.

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Mann Mrs , recipient.

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Shepard, Henry C., recipient.

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Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke), 1819-1898

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General during the Civil War; congressman from California (1881-1885); U.S. Register of the Treasury (1885-1893). From the description of Papers, 1864-1895. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 24039377 William Starke Rosecrans was an inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and United States Army officer during the Civil War. He was the victor at prominent Western Theater battles such as Second Corinth, Stones River, and the Tullahoma Campaign,...

Buckingham, Joseph T. (Joseph Tinker), 1779-1861

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Editor, publisher and critic. From the description of Letter to John Rowe Parker, 1821. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63615074 Joseph Tinker Buckingham was an eminent New England journalist and editor, remembered for his bold style and several innovative publications. Born in Windham, Connecticut, to impoverished shoemaker Nehemiah Tinker, he was baptized Joseph Buckingham at the request of a relative. Buckingham apprenticed with a printer in his ...

Cape Cod Association.

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Swan, James, 1961-

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Pickard, Mark, recipient.

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Hancock, Ebenezer, recipient.

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Phillips, Thomas W.

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Powell, Leven, recipient.

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Greenleaf, Simon

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Hammond, Charles, 1796-1864

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Ware, William, 1797-1852

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William Ware (1797-1852), writer, editor and Unitarian minister, was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, the son of Mary Clark and Henry Ware, Sr. He graduated from Harvard in 1816, and then studied theology for three years with his father, who had been appointed Hollis Professor of Divinity in 1805. William Ware was ordained in 1821, and married Mary Waterhouse in 1823, and they had seven children. He was a minister in the First Unitarian Society in New York from 1821 until 1836, when he resigned d...

Paymaster General U.S. Army, Department of the Gulf recipient.

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Lowther, Isabella L. H.

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Palfrey, William, recipient.

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Williams, Samuel, recipient.

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Blowers, Samson Salter, 1742-1842

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Gorham, Sturgis, 1742-1795

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Deane, Richardson.

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Parrott, J. A.

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Reed, Isaac, 1742-1807

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Epithet: of Add MS 36059 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001033.0x00006b English Shakespearean editor. From the description of Autograph letter signed (retained copy?) : Staple Inn, to [Mr. Sherlock], [1779] July 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616522 Epithet: editor of Shakespeare British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_10...

Wainright, H. C. and Co.

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Comstock, Cyrus Ballou, 1831-1910.

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American Army Officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Col. J.C. Duane, 1864 Jan. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270525348 ...

Hall, John, of Richmond

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Epithet: of Liverpool British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x00022a Epithet: schoolmaster, of Cambuslang British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x000233 Epithet: of Egerton Ch 6171 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x000225 The John Ha...

Susannah Cazneau

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Otis, William F. (William Foster), 1801-1858

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Ingram, Robert H.

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Ingraham, Frederick W.

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Treasury Department of the U.S.A., Office of the Auditor.

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Simons, M. Laird (Michael Laird), 1843-1880

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Shimmin, Mary H.

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Walker, Mary

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Ware, William R. (William Robert), 1832-1915

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Architect. Ware was the founder of the School of Architecture at Columbia University, which began as the Department of Architecture in the School of Mines at Columbia College, New York, N.Y. From the description of William Robert Ware papers and photographs, circa 1834-1920. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505720026 ...

Noyes, George R. (George Rapall), 1798-1868

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Noyes graduated from Harvard in 1818 and taught Hebrew and Biblical literature at Harvard. From the description of Papers of George Rapall Noyes, ca. 1850-ca. 1868. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972816 ...

Norton, Grace, 1834-1926

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Grace Norton (1834-1926) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Andrew Norton and Catherine Eliot Norton, and the sister of American author and Harvard professor, Charles Eliot Norton. She was privately educated in Cambridge, and developed a great love for the literature of France, especially that of the French essayist, Montaigne. Norton became a Montaigne expert, translating, writing, and lecturing on his works, as well as those of other French authors. Many of her articles appe...

Folsom, George, 1802-1869

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New York State Senator, diplomat, lawyer, librarian. From the description of Papers, 1819-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122458724 ...

Pickman, B. T.

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Cocke, John, recipient.

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British and Foreign Unitarian Association

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Matlitz, baroness, recipient.

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Green, Walter C. (Walter Cooper), 1799-1875

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Troup, Robert, 1757-1832

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Soldier, jurist, and land agent. From the description of Robert Troup letter, 1822 Sept. 28. (New London County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 71130654 From the description of Robert Troup correspondence, 1780-1820. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981043 Epithet: Sergeant; 78th Regt British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x000393 Revolutionary officer, lawyer in Albany a...

Harrison, Barnard

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Ware, Henry, 1764-1845

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Ware (Harvard, A.B., 1785) taught theology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Henry Ware, Sr., 1793-1842 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972914 Henry Ware, Sr., a Unitarian minister and theologian, was the fourth Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University from 1805 until 1837. Ware was instrumental in the creation of the Harvard Divinity School and the development of Unitarianism in New England. Henry Ware ...

Gay, Ebenezer, 1766-1845

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Dr. Emmett

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Joseph Parkes

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Dale, William C.

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Baxter, Thomas

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Epithet: of Copgrove British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001091.0x000035 Epithet: of Add MS 38012 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001091.0x000034 ...

Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887

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

Byrd, Otway.

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Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

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Lawyer. From the description of Letter, 1845 March 4, Cincinnati, [Ohio], to Robert F. Paine, Columbus, O[hio]. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 13541605 Salmon P. Chase served as the Secretary of the Treasury from 1861 to 1864. He oversaw the creation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (1862) and implemented the introduction of the income tax and the national currency. From the description of Letter press book of the Secretary of the Treasury. 1863, Ju...

Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856

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John Collins Warren, surgeon and naturalist, was born in Boston in 1778, the son of Harvard physician John Warren and Abigail (Collins) Warren. He graduated from Harvard College in 1797 and began the study of medicine with his father. From 1799 to 1802 he studied medicine in Paris and London. When he returned, he went into practice with his father. In 1809, Warren became adjunct professor in anatomy and surgery at Harvard Medical School and in 1815 succeeded his father as professor, a position h...

Rice, Henry, recipient.

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William Dawes

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Cowley, Charles, 1832-1908

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Charles Cowley (1832-1908) was an American naval officer and attorney from Massachusetts. During the American Civil War he was on Admiral John A. Dahlgren's staff and served as Judge Advocate, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron; in 1879 he published a personal history of that group's achievements and experiences during the war, entitled Leaves from a Lawyer's Life Afloat and Ashore. In the introduction, he writes, "Without concealing my predilection for the Cause of the Union, I have sought to t...

Unitarian Convention Committee.

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

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Story, Joseph, 1779-1845

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Jurist, politician, and professor of law Joseph Story (1779-1845) was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts on September 18, 1779. He received an AB from Harvard in 1798, an AM in 1801, and an LLD in 1821; he also received law degrees from Brown University and Dartmouth College. In 1802, Story married Mary Lynde Oliver. After Mary's death in 1805, Story married Sarah Waldo Wetmore in 1808. Story practiced law in Salem, Mass. and served as a representative in the state legislature before b...

Chase, Philander, 1775-1852

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Philander Chase, Episcopal Bishop, first Bishop of Ohio, later Bishop of Illinois, and founder of Kenyon College in Ohio and Jubilee College in Illinois. From the description of Plea for Western Colleges and Theological Seminaries : New York : holograph, 1845 Nov. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702138736 First Episcopal Bishop of Ohio (1819-1831) and later Bishop of Illinois (1835-1852) and Presiding Bishop (1843-1852). From the description of Philander Chase pap...

Amory, Charles.

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Tuckerman, Joseph, 1778-1840

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Clergyman. From the description of Joseph Tuckerman correspondence, 1836-1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983139 Unitarian minister and social reformer. A.B., Harvard, 1798. Minister, North Chelsea (now Revere), Mass. (1801-1826). Minister-at-large, Boston (1826-1836). Tuckerman was one of the first to call the church's attention to the growing problem of urban poverty. From the description of Papers, 1803-1840 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity Sch...

Revere, John, 1787-1847

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Hudson, Jonathan, recipient.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920

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Carolyn Wells published under the pseudonym Rowland Wright. From the description of Autograph postcard signed from W.D. Howells to Carolyn Wells, Rahway [manuscript], 19th or 20th century. (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 694525270 Author, editor, critic. From the description of Letters chiefly to Alexander? Black [manuscript] 1888-1919. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647943111 William Dean Howells was an American novelist...

Wadsworth, Alexander, 1806-1898

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Thompson, Benjamin, 1798-1852

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Homer, Mr

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McLellan, George William, 1804 or 1805-1877

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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 ...

Richard Peters.

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Hoppin, H. P.

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Warren, Henry, 1794-1879

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Epithet: Lieutenant; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x00025e ...

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

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Wendell Phillips (born November 29, 1811, Boston, Massachusetts – died February 2, 1884, Boston, Massachusetts), orator and reformer, was one of the leaders of the abolitionist movement in Boston, Massachusetts, wrote frequently for William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator, and eventually became president of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He contributed much to the cause through inflammatory speeches favoring the division of the Union and opposing the acquisition of Texas and the war with Mexico. ...

McLean Mrs

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Burchell, Eleazer.

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Watts, Thomas, 1811-1869

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Loring, Edward, recipient.

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Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876

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Harriet Martineau, English novelist, economist, and social reformer. From the guide to the Harriet Martineau manuscript material : 11 items, ca. 1834-1861, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) English author and traveler. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to Judge Joseph Story, [1836] May 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871427 Harriet Martineau, journalis...

Lee, Suzannah (Palfrey) 1767-

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Hopkins, Erastus, recipient.

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Stevenson, William

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Epithet: planter, of Tortuga British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000362.0x00029a Epithet: of Alfreton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001084.0x0000f3 Epithet: Dr British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000362.0x000297 Epithet: witness of Wolley Ch iii.80...

Browning Mrs

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Dawes, Helen

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Shattuck, George C. (George Cheyne), 1813-1893

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Shattuck (Harvard, M.D. 1835) was professor of clinical medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1855 until 1874, served as dean of the Medical School, and succeeded Oliver Wendell Holmes as visiting physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1849. After graduation from medical school, he went to Paris with his friends H. I. Bowditch, A. Stillé, and Metcalfe to study with Louis. In 1838 he and Stillé read papers which differentiated typhus from typhoid fever before the Paris Society for...

Ashworth, Henry, 1794-1880

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Silsbee, William.

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Alexandre Vattemare

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Shepherd, Henry

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Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910

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Alexander Agassiz(1835-1910), marine biologist, oceanographer, and industrial entrepreneur, was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, the son of Louis Agassiz. In 1860 Agassiz began a lifetime occupation of administering the business affairs of the Harvard museum, a task made difficult by his father's penchant for excessive collecting and expenditures. After Louis's death in 1873, Agassiz succeeded to the directorship of the Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and completed the physical...

Wayland, Francis, 1796-1865

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Clergyman and educator. From the description of Letter of Francis Wayland, 1835 December 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015490 Fourth president of Brown University (1827-1855), educator, Baptist clergyman. Wayland was a tutor at Union college from 1817 to 1821. He was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston, Mass., from 1821 to 1826. As president of Brown University, he made broad changes in the curriculm and introduced the analytic method...

Shepard, Henry C.

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Sutherland, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower, Duchess of, 1806-1868

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Perkins, Mrs B. C.

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Child, Francis James, 1825-1896

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The materials in this bound volume were generated due to a manuscript called the "Harris manuscript." The Harris manuscript was written down by the sisters Amelia Harris (1815-1891) and Jane Harris (1823-1897). They compiled a family repertoire of Scottish ballads, mainly passed on orally to the sisters by their mother, Grace Dow Harris (Mrs. David Harris) (b.1782). This manuscript and some correspondence was purchased in 1873 by Professor Francis James Child of Harvard University who was a scho...

Phillips, Stephen C. (Stephen Clarendon), 1801-1857

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U.S. representative from Massachusetts, public official of Massachusetts, mayor of Salem, Mass., and businessman. From the description of Letter of Stephen C. Phillips, 1831. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450059 ...

Meyander ?

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Tyng, Edward, 1683-1755

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Marshall, Amos.

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Dunbar, Charles Franklin, 1830-1900

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Dunbar (Harvard, A.B., 1851) taught political economy at Harvard University and served as Dean of the Harvard College Faculty and of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. From the description of Charles Franklin Dunbar autograph collection, 1757-1865. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 80616136 From the guide to the Charles Franklin Dunbar autograph collection, 1757-1865., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Dunbar (Harvard, A.B., 1851...

Bates, Andrew Tucker, 1839-1895

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Smart, Thomas.

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Hobhouse, Edmund, 1817-1904

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Post Master General, recipient.

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Clapp, William Warland, 1826-1891

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Clapp was a journalist and author. He was editor of the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette (1847-1865) and editor of the Boston Journal (1865-1891). From the description of Letters from various correspondents, 1819-1889. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122297595 From the description of Wiliam Warland Clapp diaries and correspondence, 1822-1891. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612366405 From the guide to the Letters from various correspondents, 1819-...

Mr Hale

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Howard, A. G.

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Haupers, Messrs. ?, recipient.

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Loring, Henry, recipient.

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John Wilkes

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John Leache

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Lowell, Sarah C.

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Wren, Woodson

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Bigelow, John P. (John Prescott), 1797-1872

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Bigelow was secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and then mayor of Boston. From the description of John Prescott Bigelow papers, 1805-1896 (inclusive) 1814-1863 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612373200 From the guide to the John P. (John Prescott) Bigelow papers, 1805-1896 (inclusive) 1814-1863 (bulk)., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Bradford, Alden, 1765-1843

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Lowell, John Amory, 1798-1881

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Henry Gardner.

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Bakewell, Benjamin.

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McGrew, J. M., recipient.

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Norton, Andrews, 1786-1853

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Andrews Norton received his A.B. from Harvard in 1804. Norton became a tutor in 1811, was Librarian of the Harvard College Library 1813-1821, Dexter Lecturer on Biblical Literature 1813-1819, and Dexter Professor of Sacred Literature, 1819-1830. From the description of [Student themes] , ca. 1803. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072624 Author, Biblical scholar, and educator Andrews Norton was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1804. Aft...

Bernard, Sir Francis, 1712? -1779

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Eldredge, Elnathan.

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Holland, H. T., recipient.

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Suzannah (Cazneau) Palfrey

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Denham, Edward.

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Cochin, Augustin, 1823-1872

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Andrews, Samuel O.

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Huntington, F. D. (Frederic Dan), 1819-1904

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Huntington graduated from Harvard in 1842, taught Christian morals and served as Preacher at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Frederic Dan Huntington, 1869. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972795 Frederick Dan Huntington (1819-1904) graduated from Amherst College in 1839. In 1842, he graduated from Harvard Divinity School and was ordained to the South Congregational Church (Unitarian) in Boston. In 1855, he became a preacher at Harvard College and joine...

Winsor, Ann Bent, recipient.

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Parker, Henry T.

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Wright, Mrs C.

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Ogden, Samuel, 1746-1810

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Williams, Seth, 1822-1866

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Union general. From the description of Autograph telegram signed : Washington, to J.A. Dahlgren, 1861 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270589045 ...

Hill, John, 1711-1746

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Epithet: Ironmonger, of Worcester British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000568.0x000325 Epithet: of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000568.0x00033a Epithet: MD; of Add MS 32852 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000568.0x0003d3 Epithet: of Add ...

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

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Poet, from Cambridge (Middlesex Co.), Mass. From the description of Papers, 1859-1874. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903002 American author and poet. From the description of A psalm of life, fourth verse, 1850. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 274069802 American teacher, translator, and poet. From the description of Letter, Nahant, Mass., to Mrs. T.B. Lawrence, Newport, 1872 July 20. (Boston Athenaeum...

Macarty, William.

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Cole, Jonathan, 1970-

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Lutterloh, H. E.

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Gracie, George, recipient.

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McLean, John, 1785-1861

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U.S. Supreme Court justice. From the description of Signature, [not after 1861 April 4]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22601579 McLean practiced law in Lebanon, Ohio (from 1807), and served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1813-1816), U.S. Postmaster General (1823-1829), and an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1829-1861). From the description of Letters, 1826, 1828. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339336 ...

Davis, John, 1761-1847

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American jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Benjamin Bourne, 1798 May 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270515963 John Davis (1761-1847), a United States Court judge for the district of Massachusetts, was born on January 25, 1761 in Plymouth, Mass. He received an AB from Harvard in 1781 and an AM in 1784. Davis practiced law and served in state government before being appointed comptroller of the United States Treasury in 1796. In 1801, he ...

Grinnell, Joseph

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Felton, S. M. (Samuel Morse), 1809-1889

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Civil engineer of Boston, Mass., and railroad executive. Graduated from Harvard (1834). Engineer for Loammi Baldwin, Jr. and took over his business after Baldwin's death in 1838. Superintendent of construction, Fitchburg Railroad (1843). Later served as president of Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (1851-1864). From the description of Business records, 1828-1851 (inclusive). (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 269599364 President of the Philadelphia...

Allibone, S. Austin (Samuel Austin), 1816-1889

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American author and biographer of important literary figures. From the description of Letter, 1858. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367564811 Samuel Austin Allibone, American lexicographer and librarian, author of A Critical Dictionary of English Literature. From the guide to the S. Austin Allibone manuscript material : 1 item, 1879, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Literary lexicographer, biographer...

Higginson, Francis John, 1806-1872

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Salisbury, Stephen, 1798-1884

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Yates, James, 1789-1871

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Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887

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Dix was a humanitarian crusader for the mentally ill. She investigated the conditions of the hospitalized insane in many U.S. states and some European countries, and petitioned state and national legislatures for reforms. She was also superintendent of army nurses during the Civil War. Eliot was a Unitarian minister, an educator, and assisted in the founding of Reed College in Oregon. From the description of Letters to Thomas Lamb Eliot, 1869-1885. (Harvard University). WorldCat reco...

Pilsey, G. H. ?

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Walter Green.

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Southey, Robert, 1774-1843

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English poet, literary scholar, historian and biographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Keswick, to an unidentified man, 1836 Jan. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 603582965 English poet and man of letters. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Keswick, to Moxon, 1837 July 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662734 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Keswick, to an unidentified correspondent, 1837 Mar. 2....

Sargent, John T. (John Turner), 1808-1877

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Foster, Dwight, 1828-1884

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Webber, Samuel, 1797-1880

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Heard Mr & Mrs

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Parker, Emily

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Quincy, Josiah, 1744-1775

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Elliott, B.

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Gray, John C., 1778?-1825

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George Nichols.

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Treasury, Board of, recipient.

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Snow, Charles Henry Boylston, 1822-1875

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Bartlett, Sidney, 1799-1899

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Bainbridge, William, 1774-1833

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Commodore of the U.S. Navy; of Princeton, N.J. From the description of Pay order, 1829 Sept. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70965932 From the description of Receipt, 1829 Apr. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70965933 U.S. Navy officer. From the description of Papers of William Bainbridge, 1804-1828. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130858 American naval officer From the guide to the William Bainbridge letters and documents, 1807-18...

British Museum.

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Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts. The British Library, established in 1973, is now responsible for manuscript collections previously held by the library of the British Museum. From the guide to the Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts, 20th century, (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library) ...

Harris, Samuel L.

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Resident of Portland, Me.; student at Portland Latin School. From the description of Samuel L. Harris writings, 1829-1832. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 243699330 ...

Chapman, Frances R. W.

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Root, David, 1791-1873

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Brooks, Sidney, 1813-1887

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Allen, George, 1792-1883

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Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827

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Helen Maria Williams was an English and French writer. From the description of Helen Maria Williams preface to a translation of Mr. Humboldt's Personal narrative etc., ca. 1814. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49014664 Epithet: authoress British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x000332 ...

Smith, Elder, and Co.

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The publishing firm of Smith, Elder, and Co. was founded in 1816 by George Smith (1789-1846) in partnership with Alexander Elder. In 1843, Smith's son, George Smith (1824-1901), took over much of the firm's operations, and, upon the death of his father in 1846, became sole head of the company. Smith lived in London with his mother, Elizabeth Murray Smith (1797-1878), until 1854, when he married Elizabeth Blakeway. They had two sons and three daughters. Smith, Elder, and ...

Lunt, George, 1803-1885

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Underwood, J. H.

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Babbidge, Charles.

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Adams, Brooks, 1848-1927

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American historian. From the description of Letter, 1912 Oct. 9, Quincy, to the editor of the American Biographical Cyclopedia. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166327901 Adams was an American historian. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1899-1907. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122581267 From the guide to the Miscellaneous papers, 1899-1907., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Brooks Ad...

Quincy, John W.

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Degen, C. F.

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Pulaskey, Francis ?

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Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896

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Horatio Hale served as philologist of the Wilkes Exploring Expedition. From the description of Horatio Hale notebooks : on the languages of the California and Oregon Indians : ms, [1841]. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122368994 Lawyer and enthnologist. Full name: Horatio Emmons Hale. From the description of Poetic dialect of the English language : a grammar and lexicon of words and forms of speech peculiar to English poetry : holograph manu...

Synge, W. W. Follett (William Webb Follett), 1826-1891

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Bowditch, N. I. (Nathaniel Ingersoll), 1805-1861

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Trustee, historian and conveyancer. From the description of Papers, ca. 1853. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 15173837 Historian of the Massachusetts General Hospital. From the description of Letters received, 1848-1861. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14756033 ...

Caldwell, Mary

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Draper, S., jr., recipient.

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Mrs Story

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Derbess, Baptiste.

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Mrs Nathan Hale

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Cullum, George Washington, 1809-1892

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Cullum was born in New York City on 25 February 1809, to Arthur and Harriet Sturges Cullum. He was raised in Meadville, Pennsylvania. His father worked as a lawyer and an agent of a land company. Cullum attended the United States Military Academy, from 1 July 1829 to 1 July 1833, when he graduated third in the Class of 1833. He designed the Independent Congregational Church at Meadville and it was built in 1835–1836. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Cullum ...

Gray, John Chipman, 1793-1881

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Guild, Eliza L.

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Hammond, Suzan Clarke (Greene), recipient.

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Remsen, Henry.

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Blair, Montgomery, 1813-1883

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St. Louis, Missouri, lawyer; U.S district attorney, Missouri, 1839-1841; mayor, St. Louis, 1842-1843; judge, Court of Common Pleas, 1843-1849; first solicitor, U.S. Court of Claims, 1855; counsel for Dred Scott, 1856; postmaster general, 1860-1864; Maryland congressman, 1878. From the description of Letter: Wash[ington, D.C.] to Rev[erend] W[illiam] B[uell] Sprague, Albany, N.Y., 1865 Nov. 20. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27327626 Montgomery Bl...

Brewster, David, 1781-1868

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Natural philosopher and Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Autograph letters, 1819-1867 and n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78354815 Scottish physicist. From the description of David Brewster papers, 1836-1857, [Edinburgh]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34847956 Educated for the Church of Scotland at Edinburgh University, but due to a form of nervousness gave up a clerical life and in 1802 became editor of the 'Edinburgh Ma...

Wisconsin State Historical Society

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Hunter, W.

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Ashmun, George, 1804-1870

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Phillips, Emily, recipient.

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Hinckley, William.

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Shattuck, Frederick B.

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Mrs J. G. Palfrey

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York

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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...

Wheelwright, Nat.

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Moses Hazen

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Long, Alanson.

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Greenwood, Augustus.

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The Norfolk County American.

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Higginson, Louisa.

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Merivale, Herman, 1806-1874

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Robinson, Henry Crabb, 1775-1867

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Henry Crabb Robinson was an English barrister and foreign correspondent, reporting from the continent during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1811 he began keeping a diary, in which he recorded thoughts and observation on friends and acquaintances, including most of the major literary figures in England and continental Europe. His diary remains an invaluable resource for Anglophiles and students of European Romanticism. From the description of Henry Crabb Robinson letter to Tom Taylor, 1863 M...

Fisk, A. and S., and Co.

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Blanc, Maria (Palfrey)

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Payne, Thatcher T.

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Davis, Elizabeth

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Mormon Relief Society leader. From the guide to the Elizabeth Davis letter, 1877, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 1810-1903

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Cassius Marcellus Clay was born to Sally Lewis and Green Clay, one of the wealthiest planters and slaveholders in Kentucky, who became a prominent politician. He was one of six children who survived to adulthood, of seven born. Clay was a member of a large and influential political family. His older brother Brutus J. Clay became a politician at the state and federal levels. They were cousins of both Kentucky politician Henry Clay and Alabama governor Clement Comer Clay. Cassius' sister Elizab...

Gorham, Stephen

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Lawrence, Amos, 1786-1852

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Peirson, Samuel.

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McElroy, Robert

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Francis, George C.

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Sparks, Lizzie W.

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William Holt.

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Bowes, William.

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Longman, Thomas, 1730-1797

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Grinnell, Joseph, 1788-1885

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Tayloe, Benjamin Ogle, 1796-1868

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Benjamin Ogle Tayloe was the son of John Tayloe, builder of the Octagon House in Washington, D.C. From the description of Bill of sale : document signed : Washington, D.C., 1832, Nov. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 37550006 ...

James, W. Gordon, recipient.

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Hancock, Charles Lowell, -1890.

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Russell, Hannah Dawes (Hammond) 1797-1885

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Lowe, Charles, 1828-1874

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Palfrey, Daniel

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Ammen.

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Allen, Waters.

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Nickerson, Sereno Dwight, 1823-1909

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Bond, George, 1788-1842

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Sewall, Samuel, 1785-1868

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Mahan, D. H. (Dennis Hart), 1802-1871

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Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878

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Joseph Henry (1797-1878, APS 1835), a physicist, was the first secretary and director of the Smithsonian Institution, a post he retained for over three decades. Henry was a leading experimental scientist whose contributions include several discoveries in the field of electromagnetics. He has been credited with the invention of the electromagnet and the telegraph, among other things. Henry was born in 1797 in Albany, New York, the son of William Henry, a teamster, and his wife An...

Woods, John E. (John Edwin)

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Translator. From the description of Papers, 1977-2002. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 70285478 John Edwin Woods (1942- ) has won numerous awards for his translations, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize (1996), the ALTA Translation of the Year Award (1994), the Society of Authors Schlegel–Tick Prize (1991), the PEN Translation Prize (1987 and 1981), and the American Book Award for Translation (1981). Woods has translated all of the major novels o...

Mr Abbot

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Moody, Joshua

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Lloyd, J.

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Epithet: of Add MS 33977 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000443.0x0003e6 Epithet: of Add MS 38976 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000443.0x0003e8 ...

Nightingale, W. E.

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Lovett, Charles M.

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Cotter, D. P.

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Payne MrsA. E.

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Simmons, William B.

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Epithet: of Reading British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001034.0x00032f ...

Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917

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Lawyer, author, and diplomat. From the description of Joseph Hodges Choate papers, 1745-1929 (bulk 1852-1917). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79700965 Prominent New York lawyer, diplomat, and leader in humanitarian and cultural affairs. From the description of Letter : New York, N.Y., to John H. Stephens, Chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., 1916 Apr. 3. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 34241616 Choate...

Endicott, William Putnam, 1803-1888

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Liberty Party, recipient.

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Greene, George

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Finnie, William, recipient.

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Winsor, Ann Bent.

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Morse, Crosby Hunnewell.

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Arnold, Isaac Newton, 1815-1884

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American lawyer and politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chicago, to the President, 1882 Nov. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131510 From the description of The history of Abraham Lincoln, and the overthrow of slavery : autograph manuscript unsigned of portions of pages 419-420 of his book, 1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132584 Cook County lawyer; Illinois House of Representatives, 1842-1846, 1857-1858; U.S. House of Represent...

Endicott, William Putnam, 1803-1888

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Buckminster, J. S. (Joseph Stevens), 1784-1812

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Unitarian clergyman, author, and an Athenaeum founder. From the description of Papers, 1797-1812. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14968096 Joseph Stevens Buckminster received his A.B. from Harvard in 1800. From the description of [Student themes] , 1798-1799. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072616 Unitarian minister and Athenaeum founder. From the description of Papers, 1806 April 24-1807 Aug. 7. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldC...

Hillegas, Michael, 1729-1804

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Michael Hillegas (1729-1804) was a merchant, sugar refiner, and iron magnate who used his wealth to assist the American revolutionary cause. He was involved in the young government's affairs as a member of the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania, treasurer of the Philadelphia Committee of Safety, and the first treasurer of the new United States of America. He married Henriette Boude (1731-1792) and with her had ten children. From the description of Michael Hillegas papers, 1757-1782,...

Thompson, Charles, 1891-1964

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Epithet: Surge on General of Ireland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x000090 ...

Shimmin, Charles Franklin.

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Ceras, Hilary.

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Hallowell, Morris Longstreth, 1809-1880

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Payson, H. G.

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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...

Lee, William

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Epithet: of the Adelphi Theatre British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000219.0x0002ec Epithet: of Lothbury London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x0002de Epithet: RC Bishop of Clifton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000386.0x0001e6 Epithet:...

Grosvenor, Sarah E.

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Howe, Margaret

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Felt, Joseph B. (Joseph Barlow), 1789-1869

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Manning, Robert, 1784-1842

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Hillard, George Stillman, 1808-1879

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George Stillman Hillard was a Boston lawyer, politician, and author. As a lawyer he practiced practiced in partnership with Charles Sumner, and served both in the Massachusetts legislature as well as U.S. district attorney for Massachusetts. He also wrote extensively and edited a number of periodicals. From the description of George Stillman Hillard letters, 1840-1866. (New-York Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 711612596 American lawyer and biographer. ...

Payson, Eloïse.

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Bruce, John, 1802-1869

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John Bruce (1802-1869) was a scholarly editor and antiquarian who was one of the founding members of the Camden Society, an officer of the Society of Antiquaries, and a trustee of the Sir John Soane's Museum. From the description of John Bruce collection, 1835-1845. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 60366692 From the description of John Bruce collection, 1835-1845. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702165487 John Bruce was born in London and educated ...

Mr Colter

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Hayden, 1971-

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Caldwell, Mary, recipient.

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McKenzie, Alexander, 1830-1914

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Sears, Edmund H. (Edmund Hamilton), 1810-1876

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American clergyman, author, and hymn writer. From the description of Christmas song : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634916 Unitarian minister. A.B. Union College, 1834. Graduated from Harvard Divinity School, 1837. Minister in Wayland, Mass. (1839-1840, 1848-1863);Lancaster, Mass. (1840-1847); Weston, Mass. (1865-1876). Co-editor with Rufus Ellis of the Monthly Religious Magazine (1859-1871). From the des...

Bliss, Daniel, 1740-1806

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Jellinck, Edward L.

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Shimmin Mrs

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Parkes Mrs E. R., recipient.

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M., Helen.

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Jesse Hite

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Blake, Kitty.

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Hough, Franklin Benjamin, 1822-1885

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Franklin B. Hough was born in Martinsburg, NY in 1822. He studied medicine and practiced in Somerville, NY from 1848 to 1852. He is described as a "pioneer historian of counties in New York State" and an advocate of forest conservation. In 1855 and 1865, he was Superintendent of the State Census for New York and was also involved in the 1875 census. He was one of seven Commissioners of Parks in New York in 1872 and in 1876 he became a Forestry Agent in the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. He published...

McIntosh, Lachlan, 1725-1806

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Army officer and delegate to U.S. Continental Congress form Georgia. From the description of Letters of Lachlan McIntosh, 1777-1778. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454519 Lachlan McIntosh (1725-1806), Army General, married Sarah Threadcraft McIntosh. From the description of Lachlan McIntosh family papers, 1755-1829. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477289 Lachlan McIntosh (1725-1806), Revolutionary War brigadier general and delegate from Georgia to the...

Davis, Solomon

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Milman, Henry Hart, 1791-1868

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Epithet: Reverend; Professor of Poetry, Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x0001fd Henry Hart Milman, historian and dean of St. Paul's Cathedral. From the guide to the Henry Hart Milman manuscript material : 3 items, ca. 1828-1839, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur E301 British Library...

Fales, Mary Ann.

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Parker, Henry T.

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Lawrence, Abbott, 1828-1893

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Blanchard, Joshua P. (Joshua Pollard), 1782-1868

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McElroy, John, recipient.

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Richardson, James, 1948-

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Epithet: merchant, of Glasgow British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001129.0x0002da Epithet: of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001129.0x0002db James Richardson had been an Egyptologist. He died in 1877. Egyptology is the study of pharaonic Egypt, spanning the per...

Duncan, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 33977 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000684.0x0002f7 Epithet: Vicar of Calne British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000207.0x000133 Epithet: of Marischal College, Aberdeen British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000684.0x0002f9 During th...

Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, duke of, 1823-1900

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George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll in the peerage of Scotland, and 1st Duke of Argyll in the peerage of the United Kingdom, politician and scientist. From the description of George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll manuscript material : 1 item, 1891 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 80786960 From the guide to the George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll manuscript material : 1 item, 1891, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collectio...

Paul Revere.

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Soule, Gideon Lane, 1796-1879

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Thacher, Peter Oxenbridge, 1776-1843

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Porcellian Club of Harvard.

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Bouchette, R. S. M. (Robert Shore Milnes), 1805-1879

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Sir Francis Bernard.

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Welles and Co.

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Carpenter, Russell Lant, 1816-1892

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Epithet: Unitarian Minister, Bridport British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000986.0x0001ed ...

Palfrey, Robert J.

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Dana, Richard Henry, 1787-1879

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American essayist and poet. From the description of The buccaneer : autograph manuscript copy of a fragment of the poem signed : Boston, 1865 Feb. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 557604082 From the description of Sonnet: to a garden-flower sent to me by a lady and Song: I saw her once : autograph manuscript copies of two poems signed, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270539184 From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Mr. & ...

Kurtz, John D., 1822-1877

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Smith, Samuel, 1836-1906

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Epithet: junior, MP for Ilchester British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x00019a Epithet: of Aldermanbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x0001a1 Epithet: Bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x00...

Parkes, Mrs E. R.

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Arnold, James, 1781-1868

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Kelso, R. M.

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P. O. Thacher

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Green, Mr

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Willing and Taylor, recipient.

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Mann, Horace, Sir, 1701-1786

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Sir Horatio Mann, first baronet (bap. 1706, d. 1786), diplomatist, British representative in Florence. From the description of Letter : Florence, to Lord Mountsuart, 1782 June 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702203215 Epithet: barrister British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001128.0x0000d8 ...

Green, Walter C. (Walter Cooper), 1799-1875

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Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896

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American astronomer. Graduated Harvard, 1844; University of Göttingen (Germany), 1848. He returned to the United States with the hope of establishing an era for astronomy. In 1849 he founded and became the first editor of the "Astronomical Journal." In 1855, he became director of the Dudley Observatory. A public controversy arose when he disagreed with the Scientific Council and Trustees of the Observatory as to management of the facility. He was terminated as director in 1859. From ...

Cocke, John

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Gorham, Charlotte

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Dearborn Mrs S. Bowdoin, recipient.

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Butler, R.

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Jones, Anna P.

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Ware, Henry, 1764-1846

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Walker, Amasa, 1799-1875

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Economist and U.S. Representative; also Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth (1851-1853). From the description of Amasa Walker document signed, 1851-1852. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 232608557 ...

Channing, William Franzis, 1820-1884

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Winthrop Mrs , recipient.

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Torrey, Elizabeth.

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Coffin, George W.

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Dwight, Elizabeth Amelia, 1809-1883

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Bowditch, Henry I. (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892

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Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, the son of Nathaniel Bowditch and Mary Ingersoll Bowditch, was a physician, author and abolitionist from Salem, Massachusetts. From the description of Life in the woods for a fortnight : or a trip to Katahdin & Moosehead Lake in the summer of 1856. 1856. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 704274320 U.S. specialist in diseases of the chest. From the description of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch letter, 1882, Apr. 7, Boston, to Dr. S. McMurtry. ...

Commercial Review of the South & West, the editor.

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