Papers, 1830-1910.

Charles Sumner

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Gilman, Caroline Howard, 1794-1888

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Caroline Howard Gilman (pen name, Mrs. Clarissa Packard; 1794–1888) was an American author. Her writing career spanned 70 years and include poems, novels, and essays. She was born Caroline Howard in Boston, Massachusetts in 1794, the daughter of Samuel Howard. She was young when her parents died and grew up with an older sister and brothers. She passed her school days at Concord, Cambridge and other towns in her native State of Massachusetts. Despite a poor formal education, she was motiva...

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...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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

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...

Sherman, J. S. (James Schoolcraft), 1855-1912

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James Schoolcraft Sherman (October 24, 1855 – October 30, 1912) was an American politician who was a United States representative from New York from 1887 to 1891 and 1893 to 1909, and the 27th vice president of the United States from 1909 until his death. He was a member of the interrelated Baldwin, Hoar, and Sherman families, prominent lawyers and politicians of New England and New York. Although not a high-powered administrator, he made a natural congressional committee chairman, and his ge...

Fernald, O. M.

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Irving, Pierre P.

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Aldis, Mary

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Ken

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E. Ritchie Don

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Thomas, Reuen

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Dillaway, Charles H.

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Gilder, Jeannette L. (Jeannette Leonard), 1849-1916

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Journalist, editor, and literary critic for various publications. From the description of Papers of Jeannette L. Gilder [manuscript], 1879-1909. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810869 Jeannette L. Gilder was an editor, journalist, and critic, best remembered as editor of The Critic, which she co-founded with her brother, Joseph. The Critic was small but respected, and published and encouraged some of the most recognizable names of the day. She continued to c...

Cushing, Marshall, 1860-1915

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W. T. R. Marvin

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Marvin family.

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Theophilus Rogers Marvin (1796-1882) was a publisher and printer of Boston, Mass. He was on the committee to establish a public library in Boston. William Theophilus Rogers Marvin (1832-1913) was secretary of the Boston Numismatic Society and author of Medals of the Masonic Fraternity. From the guide to the Papers, 1830-1910., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Sever, George F.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

Alexander, James W. (James Waddel), 1804-1859

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James W. Alexander, Princeton Class of 1820. From the description of Notes on books read : manuscript, 1829. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 81064862 From the description of Notes on books read, 1829. (Peking University Library). WorldCat record id: 49365240 ...

Neal, John, active 1720-1740

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G. Francis Thayer

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Rev. Stuarts

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Ritchie, E. S.

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Hopkins, Mark, 1802-1887

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Robt. C. Winthrop

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Ferguson, W. J

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D. W.

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Reuben I. Todd

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Mr. Banks

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Mr. Smith

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Jenks, William, 1778-1866

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William Jenks was born in Newton, Massachusetts on November 25, 1778. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1797, an A.M. in 1800 and an S.T.D. in 1842. He also received two degrees from Bowdoin College: an S.T.D. in 1825 and an L.L.D. in 1862. Jenks served as pastor of churches in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Bath, Maine before joining the faculty of Bowdoin College as professor of Oriental and English literature. He later returned to Boston, where he founded a mission for seamen and took...

Mr. Sylvester

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Wolcott, Roger, 1679-1767

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The Wyoming Controversy was a conflict between the governments of Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Britain, the Continental Congress, and the Indians over land in the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. From the guide to the Documents relating to the Wyoming Controversy, 1751-1814, 1823, 1751-1823, (American Philosophical Society) Governor of Connecticut, businessman, army officer, jurist, and author. From the description of Papers of Roger Wolcott, 1749-1754. (Unknown...

Mansfield, Richard, 1723-1820

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Carter, Franklin

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Beecher, Lyman, 1775-1863!

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American preacher and revivalist; also famous as reformer, educator, and central figure in theological controversies; b. in New Haven, Conn.; in 1799 ordained as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in East Hampton, N.Y.; in 1810 accepted the pulpit of the First Congregational Church of Litchfield, Conn., where he attracted large crowds. In 1826 became pastor of the Hanover Street Church in Boston where his reputation for defending orthodoxy against Unitarianism became widespread. During his years ...

Lawrence, Amos, 1786-1852

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Hubbard, R

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Andrews, R.

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Kennard, M. P.

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Dexter, Franklin B.

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Ezra Stiles (1727-1795) was an American educator, Congregationalist minister, author, theologian, and president of Yale College from 1778-1795. From the guide to the Ezra Stiles diary extracts on the Battle of Long Island, 1776, (Brooklyn Historical Society) ...

Snyder, W. P.

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Harper's weekly founded in New York City in 1850 as Harper's Magazine. From the description of A collegiate game of base-ball / color lithograph, 1889, August 31. (National Baseball Hall of Fame). WorldCat record id: 53875694 ...

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...

John Marvin

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Prince, Oliver Hillhouse, 1782-1837

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Oliver Hillhouse Prince (1782-1837), lawyer and politician, born in Connecticut, moved to Wilkes County, Georgia in 1796. From the description of Oliver Hillhouse Prince papers, 1785-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476195 Oliver Hillhouse Prince (1782-1837), lawyer, politician, and editor of the Milledgeville (Ga.) newspaper GEORGIA JOURNAL, born in Connecticut, moved to Wilkes County, Georgia in 1796. From the description of Oliver Hillhouse Prince papers...

Haskell, A. C.

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Bullard, Artemas, 1802-1855

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

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Sandham, Henry, 1842-1910

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Henry Sandham was a painter who worked in Canada until 1880; moved to England; and later established a studio in Boston. He signed works Hy Sandham. From the description of Fragments of sculpture brought from ruins of Copan, undated. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64038324 ...

John R. Marvin

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T. R. Marvin

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H. H. Sylvester

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Mr. Upham

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Meahan, A. J.

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