Charles Franklin Dunbar autograph collection, 1757-1865.

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...

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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

Sigourney, Lydia Howard, 1791-1865

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (born September 1, 1791, Norwich, Connecticut–died June 10, 1865, Hartford, Connecticut), poet, also known as the “Sweet Singer of Hartford", was the only daughter of a gardener. She attended private school with the assistance of her father’s employer, and founded a Hartford school for girls in 1814. At this school, without any specialized training, Sigourney taught a deaf student, Alice Cogswell, to read and write in English. Cogswell would later be the first student enr...

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...

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...

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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

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...

Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826

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Tyler was a playwright and jurist whose career included terms on the Supreme Court of Vermont (1801-1813). From the description of Deed to Joseph Woodward, 29 November 1786. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235157483 American novelist, dramatist and jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Windsor [Vermont], to Samuel Williams in Rutland, 1799 Feb. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573729 American jurist, novelist, a...

Ford, Jacob, 1711-1794

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George Chesley Peavy

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Pierpont, John, 1785-1866,

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Unitarian clergyman, poet, and reformer. From the description of Papers of John Pierpont [manuscript], 1825-1885. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647953935 American poet. From the description of Passing away -- a dream : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed, [1837 or later]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 560671584 John Pierpont was born in Connecticut in 1785; he graduated from Yale in 1804 and tried several professions before beco...

Washington, George, 1732-1799

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George Washington (b. Feb. 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Va.-d. Dec. 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, VA) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Washington came from a family of farmers and landowners. He had little education but showed an aptitude for mathematics. He used this talent to become a surveyor. At 15, Washington took a job as assistant surveyor on a team sent to map the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia. In his early 20s, Washington joined the Virgin...

Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910

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History professor and journalist. From the description of Wellington [manuscript], post 1871. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647922784 Goldwin Smith was a British-Canadian educator, historian and journalist. From the description of Goldwin Smith Papers [manuscript]. 1875-1887. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 225564891 British-Canadian historian and journalist. From the description of Berlin and Afghanistan : autograph manuscript...

Ruggles, Nathaniel, 1761-1819

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Shaw, Joshua

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David French.

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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...

Ford, Noah.

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John Cotton

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Ford, Andrew

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Theodore Parker

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Solomon Shaw.

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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 ...

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 ...

Strong, Caleb, 1745-1819

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Strong was a native of Northampton, Mass. He served as governor of Massachusetts (1800-1807 and 1812-1816). Strong assisted in writing the Constitution of Massachusetts and was a member of the U. S. Constitutional Convention, 1787. From the description of [Letters, 1787-1812] / Caleb Strong. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 437427465 Justice of the peace, state legislator, delegate to Continental Congress, U.S. senator from Massachusetts (1789-1796), and governor of Mass...

Tyler, John, 1790-1862

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John Tyler (b. March 29, 1790, Charles City County, Virginia–d. January 18, 1862, Richmond, Virginia), was the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845) and the first to succeed to the office following the death of President William Henry Harrison....

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867

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American journalist and poet. From the description of Letter : to "My dear fellow," [18--] July 12. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28900949 Willis was a journalist and writer of plays, poems and short stories. From the description of Letter, to Maunsell B. (Maunsell Bradhurst) Field, 1854 March 31. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122493287 Nathaniel Parker Willis was one of the highest paid periodical writers of his day, a poet, ...

Tennessee. State Library

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Samuel Norton

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Hale, John P. (John Parker), 1806-1873

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American statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to A. Middleton, 1856 Apr. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270505990 From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Senate Chamber," to Captain Palmer, 1861 Jan. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270503647 U.S. district attorney, U.S. representative and senator from New Hampshire, and U.S. minister to Spain; resident of Dover, N.H. From the description of John P. Ha...

Dyar, Benjamin

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John Fairfield.

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Samuel Hutchins

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Joshua Howe

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Cotton, John, 1712-1789

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John Cotton (1712-1789) was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts on April 5, 1712 to Judge Josiah and Hannah (Sturtevant) Cotton. He was their oldest son. Cotton attended Harvard College, receiving an A.B. in 1730 and an A.M. in 1733. He was a succesful student and served as schoolmaster at several schools, including Billingsgate, Rochester, and Middleborough, following completion of his undergraduate work. He first preached in 1732, and after preaching in numerous locations he became minister at Hal...

Hughes, John

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Epithet: Poet; of Add MS 33940 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001031.0x00000a John Hughes of Gaerwen, Anglesey was a Methodist. No further biographical information was available at time of compilation of description. From the guide to the John Hughes, Gaerwen Diaries, 1849-1868, (Bangor University) Epithet: head gardener at Blenheim Palace British Library Archives and Manuscrip...

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...

Jeremiah H

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Cecil Stewart

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Andrew Jackson Crawford.

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Richard Cobden.

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Alden Bradford

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Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

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Timothy Pickering (b. July 17, 1745, Salem, MA–d. January 29, 1829, Salem, MA) was a politician from Massachusetts who served as the third United States Secretary of State under Presidents George Washington and John Adams. He also represented Massachusetts in both houses of Congress as a member of the Federalist Party. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Pickering began a legal career after graduating from Harvard University. He won election to the Massachusetts General Court and served as a cou...

Andrew, J.

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Josiah White.

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