Henry Lee Higginson papers relating to the gift of Soldiers Field, Harvard University

James, William, 1842-1910

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William James (born January 11, 1842, New York City – died August 26, 1910, Tamworth, New Hampshire) was the preeminent American philosopher of his day. His reinterpretations of psychology and pragmatism were among his major contributions to world thought, and his work continues to reward study and inspire analysis. ...

Mitchell, Silas Weir, 1829-1914

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Silas Weir Mitchell was a Philadelphia physician and author. After graduating from medical school, he studied in Europe, joined his father's practice, and ran Turner's Lane Hospital in Philadelphia during the Civil War, becoming the preeminent American neurologist of his generation. In addition to numerous medical papers and texts, he published popular novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. Born on 15 Feb. 1829, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a son of physician John Kear...

Harvard University. Corporation.

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Harvard College's primary governing board, the Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College (known as the Harvard Corporation), was established by the Massachusetts General Court in 1650. The charter conferred on the Corporation the duties of managing the College, including appointing and removing administrators, faculty, and staff, creating orders and by-laws for the College, and managing finances, properties, and donations. The first recorded meeting of the Corporation was held on December 10, 16...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Adams, John Quincy, 1833-1894

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

Shaw, Robert Gould, 1837-1863

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Shaw was born in Boston to abolitionists Francis George and Sarah Blake (Sturgis) Shaw, who were well-known Unitarian philanthropists and intellectuals of Scottish descent. The Shaws had the benefit of a large inheritance left by Shaw's merchant grandfather and namesake Robert Gould Shaw (1775–1853). Shaw had four sisters—Anna, Josephine (Effie), Susanna, and Ellen (Nellie). When Shaw was five years old, the family moved to a large estate in West Roxbury, adjacent to Brook Farm. During his te...

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893

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Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822 and earned degrees from Kenyon College and Harvard Law School before starting a career as a lawyer in Cincinnati. Hayes served as a major general in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1864. Hayes then was elected Governor of Ohio and later served one term as President of the United States (1877-1881) before retiring to his home in Fremont, Ohio, where he died in 1893.President of the Uni...

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...

Edwards, Thomas F.

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Ida (Agassiz) Higginson

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Laurence, William.

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Warner, Joseph B. (Joseph Bangs), 1848-1923

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Fairchild, Charles S. (Charles Stebbins), 1842-1924

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U.S. secretary of the treasury. From the description of Charles S. Fairchild papers, 1887. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452649 ...

Stone, Lincoln Ripley.

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Head, F. S.

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Putnam, Mary Lowell, 1810-1898

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Rackemann, Charles S. (Charles Sedgwick), 1857-1933

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Lawrence, Abbott, 1828-1893

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Ward, Samuel

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

Primmer, J. W.

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Storey, Moorfield, 1845-1929

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Author, civil rights leader, and lawyer. From the description of Papers of Moorfield Storey, 1876-1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79899439 American lawyer, author, publicist. From the description of Letter to H.O. Houghton & Company, 1882 July 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53807486 Moorfield Storey received his A.B. from Harvard in 1866. From the description of Composition : [for English?] , c. 1865. (Harvard Unive...

Vaughan, W. W.

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Curtis, Greely S.

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Penson, Charles L.

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Brooks, Phillips, bp., 1835-1893.

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Ropes, E. E.

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Cabot, Mary Louisa Higginson, 1832-1903.

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Rogers, J. C.

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Washburn, John D. (John Davis), 1833-1903

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John Davis Washburn (1833-1903) was the son of John Marshall Washburn of Boston and Lancaster, Mass. The younger Washburn graduated from Harvard College in 1853 and Harvard Law School in 1856. He practiced law in Worcester, was active in the insurance business, served in the Massachusetts state legislature, and was appointed consul general to Switzerland in 1889. In 1860 he married Mary Flagg Putnam ( - ). From the description of Correspondence, 1878-1886. (Unknown). WorldCat record ...

Bartow, Ellen Shaw.

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Rogers, Emma (Savage)

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Humphreys, Charles Alfred, 1838-

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Higginson, Henry Lee, 1834-1919

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Higginson was a Boston banker and philantropist; he donated Soldiers Field and Harvard Union to Harvard University. From the description of Papers relating to the gift of Soldiers Field, Harvard University, 1890. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82295797 Higginson was a Boston banker and philanthropist. Higginson attended Harvard (1851-1852), but left because of poor eyesight. In 1856 he went to Vienna intending to make music his life work, but he returned to Boston...

Bowditch, Vincent Yardley, 1852-1929

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Cabot, Arthur Tracy, 1852-1912.

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Howe, Alice (Greenwood) 1835-1924

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Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 1843-1905

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Josephine Shaw Lowell, civic volunteer, born in West Roxbury, Mass., in 1843, brother of Robert Gould Shaw and widow of Colonel Charles Robert Lowell, was active as a social reformer in New York City. She was the first woman appointed to the New York State Board of Charities and founder of the New York Charity Organization Society and the Woman's Municipal League of New York City. From the description of Papers, 1906-1909 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 2320073...

Lowell, James Jackson, 1837-1862

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Cabot, Elizabeth Rogers Mason, 1834-1920

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Elizabeth Rogers Mason, born in Boston, Massachusetts, married Walter Channing Cabot in 1860. She was a member of the Woman's Education Association, founded in 1872 to improve educational opportunities for women. From the description of Diary excerpts, 1878-1902 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009688 Born into a prominent Boston family, Cabot married Walter Channing Cabot (1829-1904) in 1860; they had five children and traveled extensively. ...

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 ...

Holmes, John, 1812-1899

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Cary, Alice Forbes.

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Tamworth Iron Works

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Higginson, Waldo, 1814-1894

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Higginson graduated from Harvard College in 1833. He was an engineer and became the second superintendent of the Lowell Railroad. From the description of Papers, 1834-1858. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612787600 ...

Edward Barry Dalton

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Whitman, Sarah (Wyman) d. 1904

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Ingalls, Herbert.

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Hooper, Edward William, 1839-1901

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Hooper was treasurer of Harvard College (1876-1898). During the Civil War, he served as additional aide-de-camp on the staff of General Rufus Saxton, Department of the South, and on the staff of General John Adams Dix, Department of the East. From the description of Letters, 1862-1892 (inclusive), 1862-1865 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367510 From the guide to the Edward William Hooper letters, 1862-1892 (inclusive), 1862-1865 (bulk)., (Houghton Libra...

Storrow, James Jackson, 1864-1926

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Norton, Lily.

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Higginson, George, 1833-1901

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Curtis, Herbert Pelham

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Ropes, John Codman, 1836-1899

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John Codman Ropes (1836-1899), co-founded eminent Boston law firm, Ropes & Gray, in 1865, with John Chipman Gray. Co-author (with John Chipman Gray) of War Letters 1862-1865. Samuel Sidney McClure (1857-1949) editor, published McClure's Magazine in 1903, launched muckraking era. From the description of Letters to S.S. McClure, 1892 September 29, 1894 November 17, 1895 January 23, February 25. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 58750001 ...

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

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Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) was born into a prominent Boston family in 1850. Through his mother’s family, the Cabots, Lodge traced his lineage back to the 17th century, with one great-grandfather a leading Federalist during the Revolutionary period. Growing up in both an intellectual and privileged household, "Cabot" took naturally to academic subjects, particularly history and literature. Beyond his early devotion to scholarly pursuits, Lodge also enjoyed numerous sports and the great outdoor...

Watson, Francis Sedgwick, 1853-1942

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Surgeon and Harvard Medical School instructor. From the description of Correspondence, 1879-1881. (New England Historic Genealogical Society). WorldCat record id: 47635214 ...

Thorndike, Charles.

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Blagden, George.

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Homerus, John.

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Morse, Charles F. (Charles Fessenden), 1839-1926

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Morse was a leader in business and social circles in Kansas City, Missouri. He participated in the early days of the stockyards, packing houses, and railroads. He was born and raised in the Boston area and attended Harvard University, graduating with a S.B. in 1858. He served as a Captain in the 2nd Massachusetts infantry for the Union forces during the Civil War. In 1879 Morse went to Kansas City as general manager of the Kansas City Stockyards Company. Together with Charles Francis Adams, a Bo...

Oliver, George S., 1922-

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Cabot, Henry Bromfield, 1861-

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Dabney, Roxana

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Abbot, Edwin Hale, 1834-1927

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Edwin Hale Abbot was born in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1834. He received the A.B. (1855), the A.M. (1858) and the LL.B. (1862) from Harvard. In 1859 Abbot married Mary Carter, who died the following year. His marriage to Martha T. Steele in 1866 produced two sons, Philip Stanley and Edwin Hale, Jr., and an adopted daughter, Constance. Abbot practiced law in Boston from 1862-1876. After 1876 railroad and corporate litigation and affairs in the midwestern United States dominated his legal practice...

Sullivan, Richard

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Rand, Arnold A. (Arnold Augustus), 1837-1917

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Nathaniel P. Banks was a congressman, governor of Massachusetts, and general in the Federal Army during the Civil War. Banks commanded the Department of the Gulf and participated in battles including Front Royal, Winchester, Cedar Mountain, Port Hudson, and Baton Rouge. He married Mary Theodosia Palmer, a former factory employee, on April 11, 1847, at Providence, R.I., after a lengthy courtship. From the description of Arnold A. Rand letter, 1894. (Louisiana State University). WorldC...

Lee, Joseph, 1862-1937.

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Clarke, Thomas William, 1834-1895

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White, John Williams, 1849-1917

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John Williams White (1849-1917) earned his Ph.D. in Philology at Harvard in 1877. He served Harvard as a tutor, 1874-1877, Assistant Professor of Greek, 1877-1884, and Professor of Greek, 1884-1909. From the description of Academic costume and honors, ca. 1900-1914. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77065188 ...

Minturn, S. S.

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Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941

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Louis Brandeis (b. November 13, 1856, Louisville, Kentucky – d. October 5, 1941, Washington D.C.) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1916 until 1939. Brandeis was the Court’s 67th justice and its first Jewish-American justice. He was the son of immigrants from Bohemia, who came to Kentucky from Prague, then part of the Austrian Empire. He received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1877, and before becoming a judge, served as a lawyer at Warren & B...

Crafts, J. M.

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Cabot, Thomas Handasyd, 1864-

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Rogers, Henry Munroe, 1839-1937

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Henry Munroe Rogers and Clara Kathleen Rogers amassed a substantial collection of theatrical and military memorabilia over the course of their long lives, mostly as part of their personal papers. In 1930, they donated these papers to Harvard College Library. The Rogers Memorial Room on the top floor of Widener Library was set aside to house the collection, and opened in 1935. The Rogers Memorial Room was relocated to the Harvard Theatre Collection's space in Lamont Library in 1949. Building reno...

Sanger, George C.

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Humphreys, E. R. (Edward Rupert), 1820-1893

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Mills, Arthur

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Curtis, Hall.

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Lowell, Lucy B.

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Stephen George Perkins

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Lowell, Charles Russell, 1835-1864

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Devens, Charles, 1820-1891

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Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Devens graduated from Boston Latin School and eventually Harvard College in 1838, and from the Harvard Law School in 1840. He was admitted to the bar in Franklin County, Massachusetts, where he practiced law from 1841 to 1849. In 1848, he was a Whig member of the Massachusetts Senate. From 1849 to 1853, Devens was United States Marshal for Massachusetts, in which capacity he was called upon in 1851 to remand the fugitive slave, Thomas Sims, to slavery. This...

Shaw, Sarah Blake Sturgis, 1815-1902.

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Sarah Shaw was the wife of Francis George Shaw, a prominent philanthropist and reformer of Boston and West Roxbury, Mass., and Staten Island, N.Y. The Shaws were the parents of Robert Gould Shaw, Civil War soldier and colonel of the first black regiment to serve with the Union Army. From the description of Letters to Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw from various correspondents, 1838-1880. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612365572 From the guide to the Letters to Sarah Blak...

President and Fellows of Harvard College

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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 ...

Higginson, Henry Lee, 1834-1919

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Higginson was a Boston banker and philantropist; he donated Soldiers Field and Harvard Union to Harvard University. From the description of Papers relating to the gift of Soldiers Field, Harvard University, 1890. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82295797 Higginson was a Boston banker and philanthropist. Higginson attended Harvard (1851-1852), but left because of poor eyesight. In 1856 he went to Vienna intending to make music his life work, but he returned to Boston...

Hodges, Richard M. (Richard Manning), 1827-1896

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Agassiz, George R. (George Russell), 1862-1951

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Malcolm, W.

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Gardner, F. L.

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to Ida (Agassiz) Higginson

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Richards, William Rogers, 1853-1910

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Thayer, Joseph Henry, 1828-1901

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Professor of New Testament criticism and interpretation at Harvard Divinity School, 1884-1901. From the description of Letter, 1892 September 19. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 54859893 Thayer (Harvard, A.B., 1850) taught New Testament criticism and interpretation at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Joseph Henry Thayer, 1883-1901 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972898 Joseph Henry Thayer (182...

C, G. C.

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Rand, Arnold A. (Arnold Augustus), 1837-1917

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Nathaniel P. Banks was a congressman, governor of Massachusetts, and general in the Federal Army during the Civil War. Banks commanded the Department of the Gulf and participated in battles including Front Royal, Winchester, Cedar Mountain, Port Hudson, and Baton Rouge. He married Mary Theodosia Palmer, a former factory employee, on April 11, 1847, at Providence, R.I., after a lengthy courtship. From the description of Arnold A. Rand letter, 1894. (Louisiana State University). WorldC...