John Jeffries papers, 1768-1819.

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...

Willard, Joseph, 1738-1804

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

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) ...

Appleton, Nathanael

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Aberdeen. University.

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Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809

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Eliot, Andrew, 1718-1778

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Andrew Eliot was born in Boston on December 21, 1718. He received from Harvard an AB in 1737 and an AM in 1740. He was ordained the pastor of the New North Church of Boston on April 14, 1742, and began a lifelong career as a respected and well-known minister. In 1758 he was appointed the clerk of Harvard’s Board of Overseers, and was elected to the Corporation in 1765. Eliot weathered the Revolutionary War in Boston, and at the request of General Washington made the official thanksgiving sermon ...

John Jeffries, M. D.

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Jeffries, B. Joy (Benjamin Joy), 1833-1915

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Benjamin Joy Jeffries, 1833-1915, MD, 1857, Harvard Medical School, was an ophthalmic surgeon at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Carney Hospital, and the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston, Mass. during the mid to late 19th century. Jeffries' research and practice focused on diseases of the eye and skin and color blindness. From the description of Papers, 1860s-1890s. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79715244 ...

Means, James Howard, 1885-1967

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Means (Harvard, M.D. 1911) was Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard from 1932 to 1951, acting dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1946, and chief of medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1924 to 1951. He established the first thyroid clinic in Boston in 1920 and introduced the use of radioactive iodine as a valuable diagnostic aid in the treatment of thyroid disorders in 1941. Means resigned from the American Medical Association in 1951 because he felt its attitude ...

Cooper, Samuel

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Epithet: of Add MS 32963 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000445.0x000277 Epithet: DD 1777 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000445.0x000274 Epithet: miniature painter British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000386.0x000297 Epithet: of Add MS 29171 ...

John Jeffries, M. A.

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Dudley, Paul, 1675-1751

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Paul Dudley was appointed attorney general of Massachusetts (1702); associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court (1718) and chief justice of the court (1745). Addington Davenport was clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county and register of deeds; in 1715 he became a judge of the Superior Court of Judicature. From the description of Writ of attachment of the goods of John Bull of Boston, innkeeper, June 1704. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 23435...

Jeffries, B. Joy (Benjamin Joy), 1833-1915

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Benjamin Joy Jeffries, 1833-1915, MD, 1857, Harvard Medical School, was an ophthalmic surgeon at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Carney Hospital, and the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston, Mass. during the mid to late 19th century. Jeffries' research and practice focused on diseases of the eye and skin and color blindness. From the description of Papers, 1860s-1890s. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79715244 ...

Holyoke, Edward, -1660

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Institute of Aeronautical Science

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Smithsonian Institution

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The Smithsonian Institution was established on August 10, 1846, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. Originally organized as the United States National Museum.James Smithson (1765-1829), a British scientist, left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusio...

Winthrop, John

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Epithet: son of Adam Winthrop, and (1630) Governor of Massachusetts British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000354.0x0001fe Epithet: Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000354.0x0001fd ...

John Jeffries

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John Jeffries's

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Gt. Brit. Sovereigns, etc., 1760-1820

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Thomas Hubbard.

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Jeffries, John, 1745-1819

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Jeffries was a Boston physician, surgeon, scientist, and the first man (with Jean-Pierre Blanchard) to fly a balloon across the English Channel between England and France. From the description of John Jeffries papers, 1768-1819. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612364982 From the guide to the John Jeffries papers, 1768-1819., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Physician and meteorologist of Boston. From the descripti...

Hitchcock, Edward, 1828-1911

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Physician and faculty member, Amherst College. From the description of Papers, 1852-1855, Amherst, Mass. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35091769 Edward "Doc" Hitchcock, eldest son of geologist and Amherst College President Edward Hitchcock and artist Orra White Hitchcock, graduated from Amherst in the Class of 1849 and received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Hitchcock was Professor of Hygiene and Physical Education at Amherst College, 1861-1911, college physici...