William Warland Clapp correspondence, 1790-1891 (inclusive), 1840-1891 (bulk)
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Barton, Clara, 1821-1912
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Civil War nurse, suffragist, and founder of the American Red Cross Clarissa Harlow Barton was born in North Oxford, MA, on December 25, 1821, the fifth and last child of Stephen and Sarah (Stone) Barton. She was a shy and lonely child, and for two years at the age of eleven she devoted her time to nursing her brother David during a protracted illness, an experience which later affected her life's work. At eighteen she began to teach in neighboring schools. In 1850 she spent a year at the Libe...
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Curtis, George William, 1824-1892
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Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897
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Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888
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Parsons, Thomas William, 1819-1892
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Thomas William Parsons (August 18, 1819, Boston – September 3, 1892, Scituate, Massachusetts) was an American dentist and poet. Parsons was educated at the Boston Latin School, and visited Italy to study Italian literature in 1836-7. His translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, which eventually comprised all the Inferno, two-thirds of the Purgatorio and fragments of the Paradiso, began to appear in 1843. After practicing dentistry in Boston, he lived for several years in England before returning...
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906
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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...
Childs, George W. (George William), 1829-1894
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Meredith, William M. (William Morris), 1799-1873
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William Morris Meredith (1799-1873) was an American lawyer in Philadelphia, Pa. and politician, serving as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Pres. Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850, and Pa. state attorney general, 1861-1867. From the description of Indenture between William Meredith and Joseph Adams for a town lot in Millheim, Haines Township, Centre County, Pa., 1836. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 441419436 ...
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
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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...
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Adams, John Quincy, 1833-1894
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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.) ...
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 Atkins, 1798-1862
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Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1794-1867
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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 ...
Belknap, A. E. (Andrew Eliot), 1779-1858
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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...
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...
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John Boyle O'Reilly was born in County Meath, Ireland, and apprenticed with a newspaper at the age of eleven. He joined the English army to persuade Irish soldiers to join the Fenian movement, and was so successful he was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted, and he was exiled to Australia, but escaped to America and after numerous adventures settled in Boston. He lectured, wrote poetry, and joined the Boston Pilot, which he later co-owned, turning it into Am...
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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...
Greenwood, Grace, 1823-1904
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Sara Jane Lippincott (September 23, 1823 – April 20, 1904) was an American author, poet, correspondent, lecturer, and newspaper founder. Lippincott's accomplishments include many firsts. She was the founder of the first children's magazine in the United States, the first woman writer and reporter on the payroll of the New York Times, and one of the first women to gain access and prominence in journalism, publishing, literature and politics. As one of the first women to gain access into the Congr...
Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866
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Jared Sparks (1789-1866) was the President of Harvard University from February 1, 1849 to February 10, 1853. He was also a Unitarian minister, editor, and historian. Jared Sparks was born to Joseph Sparks and Elinor (Orcut) Sparks on May 10, 1789 in Willington, Connecticut. Sparks was one of nine children and came from a family of modest means. When he turned six years old, Sparks went to live with an aunt and uncle in Camden, New York, to help relieve the family of a mout...
Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866
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Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United States Senate and served in the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He was also the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee and a leading spokesman for the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people in each territory should decide whether to permit slavery. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he attended Philli...
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...
Hamlin, Hannibal, 1809-1891
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Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1809-1894
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Robert Charles Winthrop (May 12, 1809 – November 16, 1894) was an American lawyer and philanthropist and one time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a descendant of John Winthrop. Robert Charles Winthrop was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Thomas Lindall Winthrop (1760–1841), the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, and Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple (1769–1825), who were married on July 25, 1786. He was the youngest of 13 children born to his parents. Winthrop attende...
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 ...
Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885
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Schuyler Colfax Jr. (March 23, 1823 – January 13, 1885) was an American journalist, businessman, and politician who served as the 17th Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873, and prior to that as the 25th Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1863 to 1869. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Indiana's 9th congressional district as a member of the anti-slavery Indiana People's Party in 1854, Colfax joined the Republican Party during his first term. He served as ...
Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893
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James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830 – January 27, 1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881. Blaine twice served as Secretary of State (1881, 1889–1892), one of only two persons to hold the position under three separate presidents (the other being Daniel Webster), and...
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...
Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881
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Burnside was born in Liberty, Indiana and was the fourth of nine children of Edghill and Pamela (or Pamilia) Brown Burnside, a family of Scottish origin. His great-great-grandfather Robert Burnside (1725–1775) was born in Scotland and settled in the Province of South Carolina. His father was a native of South Carolina; he was a slave owner who freed his slaves when he relocated to Indiana. Ambrose attended Liberty Seminary as a young boy, but his education was interrupted when his mother died in...
Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett), 1839-1902
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Thomas Brackett Reed (October 18, 1839 – December 7, 1902), was an American politician from the state of Maine, and was a member of the Republican Party. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives 12 times, first in 1876, and served as Speaker of the House, from 1889–1891 and again from 1895–1899. Occasionally ridiculed as "Czar Reed", he had great influence over the agenda and operations of the House, more so than any previous speaker. He increased the Speaker's power by in...
Massachusetts Historical Society
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Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889
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Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (b. December 21, 1829, Hanover, New Hampshire-d. May 24, 1889, Boston, Massachusetts), known as the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, fifty years before the more famous Helen Keller. Bridgman was left deaf-blind at the age of two after contracting scarlet fever. She was educated at the Perkins Institution for the Blind where, under the direction of Samuel Gridley Howe, she learned to read and communicate using Brail...
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925
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Miles was born in Westminster, Massachusetts, on his family's farm. He worked in Boston, read military history, and mastered military principles and techniques, including battle drills. Miles was working as a crockery store clerk in Boston when the American Civil War began. He entered the Union Army as a volunteer on September 9, 1861, and fought in many crucial battles. He became a lieutenant in the 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel of t...
Livermore, Mary A. (Mary Ashton), 1820-1905
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Mary Livermore, born Mary Ashton Rice, (December 19, 1820 – May 23, 1905) was an American journalist, abolitionist, and advocate of women's rights. When the American Civil War broke out, she became connected with the United States Sanitary Commission, headquarters at Chicago, performing a vast amount of labor of all kinds—organizing auxiliary societies, visiting hospitals and military posts, contributing to the press, answering correspondence, and other things incident to the work done by tha...
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...
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...
Green, Samuel Swett, 1837-1918
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Shepard, Charles B.
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Greenough, Richard S. (Richard Saltonstall), 1819-1904
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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...
Justin Winsor
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Helen Maria Clapp
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Campbell, G. H.
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Charles, Frank Tryon.
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Carne, C. G.
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Starr, Mary Ann
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Walcott, Charles H. (Charles Hosmer), 1848-1901
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Lawyer of Concord, Mass. From the description of Title examinations for properties in Middlesex, Norfolk, and Suffolk Counties, Mass. : manuscript volumes, [ca. 1880]-1901. (Concord Public Library). WorldCat record id: 36729294 From the description of Notes on properties and roads in Concord, Mass. : manuscript volume and loose sheets, [ca. 1875]-1897. (Concord Public Library). WorldCat record id: 36729310 Lawyer of Concord, Mass. Son of Joel Walcott. B...
Brewster, Benjamin Harris, 1816-1888
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U.S. attorney general. From the description of Benjamin Harris Brewster correspondence, 1850-1886. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451368 U.S. attorney general from 1881-1885. From the description of Benjamin Harris Brewster letters, 1882-1886. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936782 ...
WHITNEY, H.
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Waterston, R. C. (Robert Cassie), 1812-1893
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Chamberlain, Mellen, 1821-1900
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Jurist-librarian; Chief Justice, municipal court; Librarian-in-chief, Boston Public Library, 1878-90. From the description of ALS : [Boston] to B.H. Beedham, Esq., 1880 April 30. (Boston Public Library). WorldCat record id: 39730253 From the description of Letters and notes, 1848-1892. (Boston Public Library). WorldCat record id: 37939127 Jurist-librarian; Chief Justice municipal court; Librarian-in-chief, Boston Public Library, 1878-90. From the descrip...
Eaton, William O, d. 1880
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Lander, Louisa
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Woodman, Horatio
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Ames, William H.
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Chandler, Parker Cleaveland, 1848-1908,
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Jerdan, William, 1782-1869
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Epithet: journalist, of the 'Literary Gazette' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000297 Journalist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : various places, to Mrs. Darby, 1853 Jan. 12, 1858 Dec. 5, and [no year] Aug. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871150 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to R. Ackermann, "Monday" [no year]. (...
Franklin Typographical Society.
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Waters, George F.
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Employed by Laura Keene at her theatre in New York City. From the description of Account book, 1857-1858. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58670933 ...
Kimball, Benjamin
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Stanwood, Francis M. (Francis Manning), 1848-
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Taylor, Charles Henry, 1846-1921
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Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823-1886
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Epithet: author and art critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000053 Painter, etcher, author, art and music critic, of Boston, Mass. Perkins graduated from Harvard in 1843; studied art in Rome and Paris; promoted art education for the masses; organized the Boston Art Club and served as president, 1869-1879; was a founder and honorary director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...
Dorchester, Daniel, 1827-1907
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Chadbourne, Paul A. (Paul Ansel), 1823-1883
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Paul Ansel Chadbourne was born Oct. 21, 1823 in North Berwick, Me. After graduating from Williams College in 1848, he served for several years as principal of the high school and academy at Great Falls, N.H. From 1853 to 1867, he taught botany, chemistry and natural history at Williams, and guest-lectured at other institutions. Beginning in 1867, Chadbourne held a series of posts as college president: President of the New Agricultural College at Amherst, Mass., 1867-1869, President of the Univer...
Dale, William Johnson, 1815-1903
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O'Reilly, Mary (Murphy)
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Lombard, James L.
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Field, Kate, 1838-1896
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Kate Field was an American journalist and lecturer, also dramatist, novelist, and actress. She was well-known in Europe, and was popular in English literary circles. Lively, eccentric, and highly intelligent, she edited Kate Field's Washington during the last five years of her life. From the description of Kate Field letters and photos, 1876-1890. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50163397 Actress, author, journalist, and lecturer. Fr...
Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind
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The New England Asylum for the Blind was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1829; it opened in Boston in 1832 as the New England Institution for the Blind. It was sucessively renamed the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind in 1839, the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind in 1877, and the Perkins School for the Blind in 1955. The institution relocated in Watertown in 1912. From the description of Annual reports, 1851-1924. (Unknown). WorldCa...
Wilson, William R.
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Houghton, Henry Oscar, 1823-1895
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Houghton was an American printer and publisher, proprietor of the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Mass. and partner, successively, in the publishing firms of Hurd and Houghton; Houghton, Osgood ? and Houghton, Mifflin & Company. From the description of Papers, 1773-1932 (inclusive) 1833-1895 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505871 Houghton was an American printer and publisher, proprietor of the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Mass., and partner, successi...
Lane, J F Williams
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Washburn, William B. (William Barrett), 1820-1887
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Governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, 1874 Mar. 3. (State Library of Massachusetts). WorldCat record id: 70967763 ...
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...
Burleigh, Edwin C. (Edwin Chick), 1843-1916
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Governor (1889-1892), U.S. Representative, and Senator from Maine; resident of Augusta, Me. From the description of Edwin C. Burleigh autograph letter signed, 1892. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70979715 ...
C W Ernst
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Mosby, Virginia Stuart
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Crocker, Uriel, 1796-1887
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Bird, A Sigourney
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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...
Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet, 1810-1874
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Shepard, Harvey Newton, 1850-
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Peabody, Francis H.
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Crocker, George G. (George Glover), 1843-1913
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Anderson, Robert, 1805-1871
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Anderson was born at "Soldier's Retreat," the Anderson family estate near Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Richard Clough Anderson Sr. (1750–1826), served in the Continental Army as an aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Lafayette during the American Revolutionary War, and was a charter member of the Society of the Cincinnati; his mother, Sarah Marshall (1779–1854), was a cousin of John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States. He graduated from the United States Military Academy (Wes...
Field, Walbridge Abner, 1833-1899
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Endicott, Charles, 1822-1899
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Lincoln, Frederic Walker, 1817-1898
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Wilder, David, 1949-....
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Pierce, Henry Lillie, 1825-1896
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Munday, Eugene H.
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A L McCleery
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Talbot, Thomas
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Epithet: Receiver General of the county of York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001084.0x0002d8 Epithet: of Add MS 46960 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001084.0x0002d6 Epithet: Colonel; of Add MS 15858 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description ...
Albert J. Wight
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Marston, George
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Esty, C. C.
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Bugbee, James McKellar
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Patterson, Robert W, 1850-1910
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Peck, Thomas Bellows, 1842-1915
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Amory, William, 1804-1888.
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Lincoln, Hernan, d. 1887
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Van Wert, Henry
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Hallowell, Richard P. (Richard Price), 1835-1904
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Baxter, Jedediah H, d. 1890
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Messrs. F. Cattenstte & Co.
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Whitin, Charles E.
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Lander, J. M. (Jean Margaret), 1829-1903
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Jean Margaret Davenport Lander was a well-known 19th century actress. Born in England, she made her home in Washington, D.C., following her marriage to Fredrick W. Lander in 1860. She performed in plays in both the United States and Europe. From the description of Jean W. Lander collection, 1880s-1890s. (George Mason University). WorldCat record id: 748832330 ...
Goddard, Delano A. (Delano Alexander), 1831-1882
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Quincy, Josiah, 1802-1882
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Mayor of Boston and older son of Josiah Quincy, president of Harvard. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Andrew Preston Peabody, 1865 Mar. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 709622062 Mayor of Boston. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1848 Sept. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616007 ...
Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, 1764-1854
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Edmands, George Franklin, 1828-1919
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Asa Perkins Potter
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Bowles, Samuel, 1851-1915,
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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...
Frances Chisholm)
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King, Thomas Starr, 1824-1864
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King was a popular Unitarian minister, of Boston, Mass. In 1860, he took over the parish in San Francisco, Calif. From the description of Thomas Starr King sermon notebook : ms, [18??]. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 145416609 American writer and clergyman. From the description of Letter, 1863 Apr. 29, [San Francisco, to Mr. Swain?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86130298 King was a popular Unitarian minister from Boston, Mass., wh...
Frank Foxcroft
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Clapp & Shillaber
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Studley, William Sprague, 1823-1893
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Methodist Episcopal minister who ministered in Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan and Evanston, Illinois. From the guide to the William Sprague Studley papers, 1846-1910, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan) Methodist Episcopal minister in Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Evanston, Illinois. From the description of William Sprague Studley papers, 1846-1910. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80831740 From the description of Wi...
Clapp, William Warland, 1783-1866
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Waldron, Adelaide (Cilley) 1843-1909
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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...
Schouler, William, 1814-1872
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Adjutant General of Massachusetts during the Civil War. Also served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature. From the description of Letter, July 10, 1862. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 54682238 Journalist, historian, and public official of Massachusetts. From the description of William Schouler correspondence, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 746490036 ...
Whitney, J. N.
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Kelley, William D. (William Darrah), 1814-1890
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An organizer of the Republican Party in Pa. and delegate to the 1860 National Convention. Kelley served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, 1861-1890. From the description of Letter, 1863 November, 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122433968 Representative from Pennsylvania. From the description of Document signed : Washington, 1888 Apr. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270494602 William Darrah Kelley was an influential...
Lyman, George Williams, 1786-1880.
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Saltonstall, Leverett, 1825-1895
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Thomas B. Potter
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Heywood, John H. (John Healy), 1818-1902
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Chamberlin
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Moore, John Collingham, 1829-1880
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Hoar, Sherman, 1845-1901
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Larcom, Lucy, 1824-1893
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Lucy Larcom wrote poetry about women's factory life in Lowell, Mass. She was a friend and collaborator of John Greenleaf Whittier. From the description of Lucy Larcom letter, poem, and photograph, 1871-1893. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 38235776 Poet and writer, from Lowell, Mass. who attended Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Ill. from 1849-1852, and was friends with Henry Spaulding who worked at the Surveyor General's Office in St. Louis. ...
Charles, M A, Mrs.
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Wm. F. Murray
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Magnitzky, Gustave
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Amory, William, d. 1907
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Gill, Thomas, 1804-1871
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Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869
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Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) was the 14th President of the United States (1853-1857). Prior to his presidency he served in both the House of Representatives (1833-1837) and the Senate (1837-1842) as a legislator from New Hampshire. Although a Northerner, he sympathized with the Southern cause during the American Civil War and was good friends with Jefferson Davis....
Schermerhorn, Martin K. (Martin Kellogg), 1841-
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Parker, Henry G., 1836-1892
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Cotting, Charles E.
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Meredith, William T.
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Lincoln, George E, d. 1881
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Greenhalge, Frederic T. (Frederic Thomas), 1842-1896
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Sprague, Charles J. (Charles James), 1823-1903
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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...
C. E. L. Wingate
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Rhoades, Charlotte E.
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Dyer, S. N.
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Jordan, Eben D.
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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...
Boston Evening Journal
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Boston, City Council.
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Devens, Richard M.
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Appleton, E. D.
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Dalhousie, John William Ramsay, Earl of, 1847-1887
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Fowle, George
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Boston fire department
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Beebe, Charles Edward, 1955-
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Andrew, John F. (John Forrester), 1850-1895
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Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898
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Justin Smith Morrill (1810-1898), merchant, U.S. Representative and Senator from Vermont, authored the Morrill Tariff Act (1861) and the Land Grant College Act (1862). He chaired the Senate Finance Committee for many years (1877-79, 1881-93, 1895-98). From the description of Justin Smith Morrill Papers, 1825-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122387635 Justin S. Morrill was a congressman and financier. From the guide to the Justin S. Morrill papers, 1814-1937, ...
Stearns, Richard H.
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invitation
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Morse, Elijah Adams, 1841-1898
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Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1834-1905
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Foxcroft, Frank, 1850-1921
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Editor and Department editor, "The Youth's Companion." Editor, "War Verse," 1918. From the description of Poem stanza copied by Frank Foxcroft [manuscript], 1879? (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 274228680 ...
Crocker, Uriel H. (Uriel Haskell), 1832-1902
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Partition, Mary
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Lewis, Winslow, 1799-1875
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Blaine, Walker, -1890
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Learned, J. E.
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Albro
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Dennie, George
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Biliotti, Angiolo
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The Bostonian society.
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Sailly, Jules
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Garfield
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Bigelow, A O, d. 1887
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Hill, C. H. (Clement Hugh), 1836-1898
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French, Jonas H. (Jonas Hanod)
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Cushing, Sidney
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Badeau, Adam, 1831-1895
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Badeau was a Union army general, an aide to General William T. Sherman, and a historian. From the description of Badeau, Adam, narrative. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 23360819 American author and historian. From the description of Letter, 1892. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367573079 General, United States Army; biographer of Ulysses S. Grant. From the description of Correspondence, 1885, 1889. (Abraham Lincoln Presid...
Francis Bacon
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Pierce, Edward Lillie, 1829-1897
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Supporters of President Grant removed Sumner as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate in 1871. Edward L. Pierce defended the reputation of Sumner after this episode became a matter of fresh historical controversy in 1877. Others involved in the controversy were Lothrop Motley, John Jay, and Hamilton Fish. From the description of Clippings concerning Charles Sumner and President U.S. Grant : album, 1877-1878. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612815430 ...
House, Edward Howard, 1836-1901
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American journalist. From the description of Letter [manuscript] : Delmonico's, New York City, to James Ripley Osgood, 1869 December 22. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823346 Journalist, author, musician, Japan's first official foreign publicist. From the description of Papers of Edward Howard House [manuscript], 1873-1901. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806258 ...
Lippard, George, 1822-1854
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George Lippard founded the Brotherhood of the Union in 1844. From the description of Notebook. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122609680 George Lippard (1822-1854), novelist, essayist, lecturer, and founder of the Union of the Brotherhood, was born in West Nantmeal, Pa., and raised in Philadelphia, Pa. Lippard attended Classical Academy in Rhinebeck, N.Y., until he chose to give up his studies for a career as a writer on the staff of a Philadelphia ...
Lunt, George, 1803-1885
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Marden, Geo. A. (George Augustus), 1839-1906
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Evening gazette
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Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889
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Le Vert, Madame
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Hepworth, George H. (George Hughes), 1833-1902
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Prince, Frederick O. (Frederick Octavius), 1818-1899
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Epithet: of Chancery Lane, London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000706.0x000087 ...
Palmer, Julius A. (Julius Auboineau), 1840-1899
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Chickering, Charles F., 1827-1891
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Foster, Lafayette S. (Lafayette Sabine), 1806-1880
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U.S. Senator from Connecticut; from Norwich (New London Co.), Conn. From the description of Correspondence, 1860-1869. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19647127 American jurist and legislator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to William Pitt Fessenden, 1859 Jan. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270470114 U.S. senator from Connecticut, mayor of Norwich, Conn., editor, and jurist. From the description of...
Wright, Carroll Davidson, 1840-1909
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Carroll D. Wright was chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, 1873-1888; President of the National Convention of Chiefs and Commissioners of Bureaus of Statistics of Labor, 1883-1903; and the first U.S. Commissioner of Labor, 1885-1905. For additional information see: "Wright, Carroll Davidson." Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 20, p. 544. From the description of Carroll D. Wright, selected writings, 1878-1901. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id:...
Dow, Neal, 1804-1897
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Dow was born in Portland, Maine on March 20, 1804, the son of Josiah Dow and his wife, Dorcas Allen Dow. Josiah Dow was a member of the Society of Friends (commonly known as Quakers) and a farmer originally from New Hampshire. Dorcas Allen was also a Quaker, and a member of a prosperous Maine family headed by her prominent grandfather, Hate-Evil Hall. They had three children, of whom Neal was the middle child and only son. After his marriage, Dow's father opened a tannery in Portland, which soon...
Jno. K. Hall
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Haskin, Edward H.
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Beacon Society, Boston.
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Bigelow, Albert, 1906-
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Author, artist. From the description of Reminiscences of Albert Smith Bigelow :koral history, 1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309728461 ...
Eldridge, James T.
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Bigelow, George Tyler, 1810-1878
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Ellis, F. M.
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Priest, Benjamin F.
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Ladd, Herbert W.
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Gaston, William, 1820-1894
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Gaston earned his Harvard AB in 1919. From the description of Competitive theme : [submitted for English 12], January 4, 1919. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075352 ...
Jordan, Eben Dyer, 1857-1916.
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American merchant and patron of music. From the description of Typewritten letter signed : Boston, to Mrs. Lyde, 1888 Mar. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270497190 ...
Henry, A.
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Clapp, Jane T (Eaton) 1821-1843
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Boyd, John
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Epithet: of Add MS 29142 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000473.0x0000f5 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) ...
A H Rice
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Oliver, Henry K. (Henry Kemble), 1800-1885
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Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869
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Republican legislator from Maine who became a U.S. Representative, Senator, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Secretary of the Treasury. He was a strong opponent of slavery. From the description of Papers, 1837-1869. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17462689 William Pitt Fesssenden was a U.S. senator from Maine (1854-1864, 1865-1869) and Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War (1864-1865). His sons, General Francis and Brigadier General ...
Mason, J. M. (James Murray), 1798-1871
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United States senator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to C. Neale, Esq., 1849 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607846 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Selma, to Joseph C. Cabell, Esq., 1846 Nov. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607032 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Messrs. Gales & Seaton, 1839 Feb. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607773 U.S. Congressman, and Confede...
Thompson, Newell Aldrich, 1808-1874
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Lawrence, Timothy Bigelow, -1869
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M. Brimmer
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Dalzell, James McCormick, 1838-1924
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Private in the 116 Ohio Volunteer Infantry throughout Civil War; practicing lawyer for over 30 years at Caldwell; served several terms in Ohio General Assembly; author of many newspaper articles. From the description of Papers of James McCormick Dalzell [manuscript], 1867-1916. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647875351 James M. Dalzell was a soldier in the 116th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. He practiced law in Ohio and served several terms in the O...
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. ...
Eaton, Dorman B. (Dorman Bridgman), 1823-1899
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Mead, Anna M.
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F W Lincoln
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Sampson, Edwin Holbrook, 1831-1903
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Z. A. Smith
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John Morland
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Mannyng, Robert, active 1288-1338
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Epithet: poet and historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001128.0x000194 ...
Moore, John Weeks, 1807-1889
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Savage, Minot J. (Minot Judson), 1841-1918
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Minot Judson Savage was an American Unitarian clergyman and writer. He led congregations throughout the United States, including California, Chicago, Boston, and New York, openly supporting Darwin's evolutionary theories and social reform. Some of his most popular books discussed his views on life after death. From the description of Minot J. Savage letter to Mrs. King, 1904. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51590010 Church of the Unity minister...
Robeson, George M. (George Maxwell), 1829-1897
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George Maxwell Robeson, lawyer, attorney-general of New Jersey, Congressman from New Jersey, and secretary of the navy was born in Warren County, NJ. He graduated with high honors from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1847. Robeson studied law, and was appointed by Governor Newell as prosecutor of Camden County. In 1867 he was appointed attorney-general of New Jersey by Governor Marcus Ward; and in 1869 Robeson was appointed secretary of the navy by President Ulysses Grant...
Tobey, Edward S. (Edward Silas), 1813-1891
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Bowman, J.
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Benjamin, Park, 1809-1864
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American journalist and poet; father of Park Benjamin, 1849-1922. From the guide to the Park Benjamin letters and miscellany, 1841, 1847, 1848, 1877, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Editor and poet. From the description of Park Benjamin poem, 1850. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450619 American editor and poet. From the description of To an old friend : autograph poem signed : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknow...
Tucker, E. A.
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Jacob Bigelow
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Chase, George Bigelow, 1835-1902
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Robert Grant
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Hale, Eugene, 1836-1918
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Lawyer and U.S. representative and senator from Maine; of Ellsworth, Me.; lived in Washington, D.C., during much of his political career and after retirement. From the description of Eugene Hale autograph letter signed to Hayne Davis, 1907 Feb. 12 and undated. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 182580057 ...
Howard, J, jr.
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Lawrence, Abbott, 1792-1855
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Biographical note: Boston merchant; Abbott Lawrence was in partnership with his brother Amos, founded and developed the textile-manufacturing city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, represented his district in Congress (1834-1836, 1838-1840), and was U.S. minister to Great Britain (1849-1852). Richard Henry Wilde (1878-1847) was an American lawyer, scholar and poet. He was Attorney General of Georgia (1811) and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1815-1817, 1825, 1827-1835). From...
Hart, William T., 1929-
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Farnsworth, Ezra
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Wallace, John William, 1815-1884
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Lawyer, author, and librarian. From the description of John William Wallace correspondence, 1863 June 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981298 John William Wallace is best remembered as the final reporter of United States Supreme Court reports to privately publish the Court's decisions (1863-1875). He was born in Philadelphia, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1833, was admitted to the bar in 1836, but chose a career as law librarian over one of practicing ...
William Cogswell
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Appleton, Nathan, 1779-1861
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Appleton, a manufacturer, banker, and Massachusetts congressman, was a founder of the city of Lowell, Mass., and helped build up Lawrence, Mass. and Manchester, N.H. He wrote a memoir of Abbott Lawrence, fellow textile manufacturer, founder of Lawrence, Mass., Massachusetts congressman, and diplomat. From the description of Letters by and about Abbott Lawrence, 1831-1856. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122412065 From the guide to the Letters by and about Abbott La...
Poland, Luke P. (Luke Potter), 1815-1887
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United States senator from Vermont, 1865-1867; United States representative, 1867-1875. From the description of Letter : to the president of the United States, 1867. (Idaho State Historical Society Library & Archives). WorldCat record id: 42064527 ...
Lee, Henry, 1787-1837
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Epithet: Master of the Armoury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000219.0x0002fc Washington. D.C. resident. From the description of Letters, 1769-1825. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36212266 Epithet: of Keystone British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000219.0x00026e Henry Lee was born 29 January 17...
Smith, Z. A.
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Carpenter, H. Barrett (Henry Barrett), 1861-1930
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Ames, D.
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W. W. Greenough
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Washburn, Emory, 1800-1877
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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 ...
Cunningham, R.
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Delille, H. A.
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Freemasons. Boston, Knights Templars. Boston commandery.
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Conwell'
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Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
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Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist and playwright. From the description of Victor Hugo collection, 1816-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702159680 From the description of Victor Hugo collection, 1816-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84010646 French writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to M. Cassin, 1831 Dec. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 759121359 French poet, novelist, dramatist. ...
Ramsey, Ambrose Arnold, 1821-1899
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Clarke, Albert, 1840-1911
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Gray, John
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Shoemaker in Cape Cod, Province of Massachusetts Bay. From the guide to the John and Robert quit claim deed, 1726, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Epithet: Town Clerk of Edinburgh British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000982.0x000047 Epithet: of Add MS 40631 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000982.0x00003c Joh...
E F Beard
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Clarke, Mary Cowden, 1809-1898
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Mary Cowden Clarke was a British author and actress and one of the first significant female Shakespearean editors. Her family were intimates of Keats, Dickens, Fielding, and the Lambs. Working with her husband, Charles Cowden Clarke, and on her own, she compiled an impressive body of work including the major Shakespearean concordance of her day. From the description of Mary Cowden Clarke letters and poem, 1872-1882. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49848...
Chickering & Sons
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American firm of piano makers. From the description of Partially printed document signed Chickering & Sons, dated : New York, 30 September 1875, 1875 Sept. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873924 ...
Bates, John Lewis, 1859-
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Harvard University.
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Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
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American novelist and historian. From the description of "Abraham Lincoln's Early Years" : one page only of the fifth part, signed [n.p.] : autograph manuscript, [ca. 1892]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899933 American author and lecturer. From the description of Papers of Charles Carleton Coffin [manuscript], 1881-1893. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814490 Charles Carleton Coffin, 1823-1896, was born in Boscawen, NH. He became a ...
Green, Samuel A. (Samuel Abbott), 1830-1918
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U.S. physician and historian. From the description of Letter, 1868, Feb. 18 : Boston, to Henry B. Dawson. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35089797 ...
Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917
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Author and journalist. From the description of F.B. Sanborn correspondence and essays, 1852-1879. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84163242 Massachusetts journalist. From the description of Song / words by Mr. F.B. Sanborn, music a part of Brignal Banks. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 62350218 American journalist and reformer. From the description of Letter, 1889 March 21, Concord, Mass., to E.D. Walker, New York. (Boston Athenaeum). W...
Stockwell, Stephen N, 1823-1881
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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...
Boutelle, Charles A. (Charles Addison), 1839-1901
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American naval officer; U. S. Rep. from Maine and Journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Mobile, to William Pitt Fessenden, 1858 Feb. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270525077 American Naval Officer; U.S. Rep. from Maine and Journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "U.S. Gunboat Paul Jones, Port Royal, S.C.", to William Pitt Fessenden, [18]63 Jan. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270530566 ...
Bullock, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1816-1882
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Governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Letters of Alexander H. Bullock, 1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452224 Massachusetts governor. From the description of Letter to Mr. [George William?] Curtis, 1867 September 7. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 52883830 Alexander Hamilton Bullock (1816-1882) graduated from Amherst College in 1836 and remained loyal to the College, serving on the Board of Trustees for many years. He st...
Guiteau, Charles J. (Charles Julius), 1841-1882
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Born in Freeport, Illinois, Charles J. Guiteau was connected with the Oneida Community but later sued them. He was admitted to the Bar of Illinois but mostly worked as a bill collector. He was interested in law, theology and politics. He assassinated President James Garfield for which crime he was hanged in 1882. From the description of Papers, 1877-1881. (College of William & Mary). WorldCat record id: 22761008 Guiteau, a lawyer and supporter of the "Stalwart" faction o...
Cunard, Sir Edward, 2nd bart. 1816-1869
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Abbot, George W.
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Allobart, F.
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Hayes, Elihu B.
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Clapp, Charles W.
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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...
F W Webber
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Poore, Virginia
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Machaoto, L. J.
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Clark, John M. P. (John Mounsten Pemberton)
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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. ...
Palfrey, Francis Winthrop, 1831-1889
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An officer in the Federal Army during the Civil War, and from 1872, a register of Bankruptcy in Boston. Author of "Antietam and Fredericksburg" and "Memoirs of William Francis Bartlett." From the description of F. W. Palfrey letter to unidentified recipients [manuscript], May 15. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 228070066 American historian. ...
Gordon, George Angier, 1853-1929
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George Angier Gordon (born January 2, 1853, Aberdeenshire, Scotland–died October 25, 1929, Brookline, Massachusetts), Protestant clergyman and author. An estate overseer's son, he worked several manual trades before emigrating to America in 1871. He graduated from Bangor Theological Seminary, then from Harvard (1881). From 1884 until his death he was pastor of Old South Church, Boston. His The Christ of Today (1895) expressed a liberal theological doctrine, and he became an important champion of...
Clarke, James W.
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David Winslow
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Willis, Hamilton
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Crapo, William Wallace, 1830-1926
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Lawyer and legislator, of New Bedford, Mass.; U.S. representative from Massachusetts (1875-1883) From the description of William Wallace Crapo correspondence, 1881 and 1918. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 76784463 ...
Simmons, William A., 1954-
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Garier, Victor
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Paine, Robert Treat, 1835-1910
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Forbes, James Murray.
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Stockwell, Martha E.
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FitzGerald, John Edward, 1968-
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Poore, Benjamin Perley, 1820-1887
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Journalist and author. From the description of Ben Perley Poore commonplace book, 1837-1940. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70949739 Author and editor. From the description of Letters of Benjamin Perley Poore, 1852-1853. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449406 Benjamin Perley Poore (1820-1887) was a newspaper correspondent, editor, and author who lived and worked mainly in Washington, D.C. He was born and raised on "Indian Hi...
Bowker, Albert
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Kent, William H.
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Wight, Eugene Barton
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Owen, Robert Dale, 1801-1877
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Politician, reformer, and author Robert Dale Owen was born in Scotland; influenced by his father, he developed a strong interest in social reform. He moved to New Harmony, Indiana, where he joined the socialist community his father founded there, and he was active as an educator, editor, and author, including the first birth control pamphlet published in America. He next became active in politics, serving in the Indiana House of Representatives and later in the United States House, wh...
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 ...
Gray, John Chipman, 1793-1881
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Tyler, Moses Coit, 1835-1900
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Professor of English Literature at University of Michigan. Editor of The Christian Union. From the description of Postcard, 1899, December 10, to "Dear Sir". (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122384204 Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. From the description of Moses Coit Tyler papers, 1864-1897 and 1920-1921. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419205 American author. From the description of A...
Cleveland, Charles, 1772-1872
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Wharton, William Fisher, 1847-1919
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Henry Parkman
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Rice, William W. (William Whitney), 1826-1896
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William Whitney Rice (1826-1896), son of Rev. Benjamin Rice (1784-1847) and Lucy (Whitney) Rice (1799-1893), was born at Deerfield, Mass., on 7 March 1826. He attended Gorham Academy, graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., in 1846, and received from them the degree of LL.D. in 1886. He was a teacher at Leicester Academy, Mass., from 1847 to 1851. He studied law with the Hon. Emory Washburn (1800-1877), was admitted to the bar in 1854, and commenced practice in Worcester, Mass. He was ap...
Gray, Horace, 1828-1902
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American jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Charles P. Lyman, 1891 Oct. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 753969918 Gray graduated from Harvard College (1845) and Harvard Law School (1849), and served as reporter of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (1854-1861) and was appointed as a justice in 1864. In 1881 he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. From the description of Letters, 1858-1897. (Harvard Law School Libr...
Albert A. Burleigh
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Jackson, James, 1777-1867
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U.S. surgeon, physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. From the description of Notes from lectures delivered by James Jackson, MD, professor of theory and practice of physic, and John C. Warren, MD, professor of anatomy and surgery, at Harvard University, 1827-28 / taken by Stephen Bates. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31931557 Jackson (Harvard, M.D. 1809) was Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic at Harvard Medical School from 1812 to 1836 ...
Andrews, Caleb.
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Boston Newspaper Editors and Proprietors.
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Greene, Nathaniel G, d. 1889
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Crawford, Theron Clark
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Gardner, Francis, 1812-1876
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Francis Gardner: Headmaster of Boston Latin School; William A. Wheeler: Lexicographer, bibliographer. Assistant Supervisor Boston Public Library, editorial staff Merriam Co., supervised quarto edition of Webster's Dictionary, as well as smaller dictionaries. From the description of Francis Gardner letter to William A. Wheeler [manuscript], 1865 December 21. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 316338564 ...
Ware, Darwin E., 1831-1897
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Murdoch, James Edward, 1811-1893
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American actor in light comedy, Murdoch was also a lecturer on behalf of the Civil War wounded. From the description of James Edward Murdoch papers, 1822-1913 (inclusive), 1856-1889 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612378245 James Edward Murdoch, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was an actor, lecturer, and teacher of elocution. He was married to Eliza Middlecott and the two had a daughter, Fannie. From the description of James E. Murdoch papers, 1837-190...
Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874
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Millard Fillmore was born in Cayuga County, N.Y. and later became a resident of East Aurora and Buffalo. He was a lawyer, local office holder, State Assemblyman, U.S. Congressman, N.Y. State Comptroller, Vice-President under Zachary Taylor and 13th U.S. President, 1850-1853. He was also involved in establishing numerous Buffalo institutions. He was a founder and first Chancellor of the University of Buffalo, Commander of the Union Continentals (Home Guard) during Civil War, and first president o...
Martin, A. P.
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Bronson, William White
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Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916
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Hallett, Henry L.
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Spencer, C.
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Homes, Francis.
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Frye, Richard N. (Richard Nelson), 1920-2014
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Richard Frye, WWU faculty member, 1975-1982; WWU Testing Center staff, 1996-; BS U.S. Naval Academy, PhD (Marine Resources Economics) University of Rhode Island. From the description of Richard Frye collection, 1980-1983. (Western Washington University). WorldCat record id: 55944986 Frye received Ph.D. from Harvard in 1946 and taught Middle Eastern Studies and Iranian at Harvard. He is Aga Khan Professor of Iranian, Emeritus, at Harvard University. From the descr...
Stoddard, Elijah B.
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Greene, Charles G. (Charles Gordon), 1804-1886
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Ames, Frederick L. (Frederick Lothrop), 1835-1893
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Griffin, Solomon Bulkley, 1852-1925.
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Newspaper editor; managing editor of the "Springfield Repulican," 1878-1919. From the description of Solomon Bulkley Griffin letter to Will Owen Jones, 1919 June 17. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136471 ...
Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867
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Lawyer, founder of Free Soil Party in Massachusetts, governor of Massachusetts, 1861-1866. From the description of ALS, 1861 Oct. 19, New York, N.Y., to an unknown correspondent. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122524861 Prominent anti-slavery lawyer and Civil War governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Papers, 1772-1895, [microform]. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 25618330 Andrew was Governor of Massachusetts ...
Howe, Elmer P. (Elmer Parker), 1851-1918
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Olin, William M., 1845-1911
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Cushing, James B.
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Blake, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1840-1907
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Blake was an American author. From the description of Letter, 1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83258150 ...
Lee, Joseph, 1862-1937.
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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...
Bishop, Robert Roberts, 1834-1909
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Stephen N Stockwell
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Hills, Henry, -1689?
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Epithet: senior, Printer to Cromwell British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000626.0x0001a9 Epithet: of Isleham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000626.0x0001a8 ...
Hills, A G, d. 1879
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Alice S. Holbrook
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Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925
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George Washington Cable, an American author and critic, was born in New Orleans and fought for the South in the Civil War. His first collection of tales of life in the south was Old creole days (1879). In 1884 he went on a reading tour with Mark Twain. He moved to Northampton, Mass., in 1885. He is chiefly known for his early works describing picturesque Louisiana Creole life and courageous essays on civil rights. From the description of George Washington Cable papers, 1865-1918. (Pe...
Atkins, Ebenezer.
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Reed, John H. (John Hathaway), 1921-2012
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Governor of Maine. From the description of Oral history interview, 1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70957465 Governor of Maine and U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. From the description of Christmas cards, 1962-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70926051 ...
Bennett, James Gordon, 1841-1918
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James Gordon Bennett Jr., (born May 10, 1841, New York City – died May 14, 1918, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France), publisher of the New York Herald, founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett Sr. (1795–1872), who emigrated from Scotland. He was generally known as Gordon Bennett to distinguish him from his father. Among his many sports-related accomplishments he organized both the first polo match and the first tennis match in the United States, and he personally won the first trans-oc...
Oliver, S. C.
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Walker, J. H. (Joseph Henry), 1829-1907
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Williams, Fred H. (Fred Homer), 1857-
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Clapp, William Warland, 1783-1866
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Coolidge, T. Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson), 1863-1912
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Dexter, Henry, 1806-1876
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Portrait sculptor Henry Dexter began his artistic career as a painter, studying with Francis Alexander of Boston, MA. Though completely self-taught as a sculptor, his first commissioned work, a bust of Rev. Dr. Anderson, began four decades of marble and plaster portraits that produced over 200 sculptures. Some of the most noted figures who sat for him were Charles Dickens (1841) and President James Buchanan (ca. 1859). In 1859-1860, Dexter attempted to sculpt portraits of all United...
Haile, William Henry, 1833-1901
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Eddy, William
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Lovell, Arthur T.
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Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893
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Frederick W. Lincoln, jr.
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Warren, William Fairfield, 1833-1929
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Stephen O'Meara
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O'Meara, Stephen, 1854-
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Goodsell, P. B.
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Goddard, Delano A. (Delano Alexander), 1831-1882
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Young, John Russell, 1840-1899
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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000574.0x000334 Irish American journalist, author, diplomat and Librarian of Congress. From the description of John Russell Young letters [manuscript], 1867-1891. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 174958754 Journalist, editor, diplomat, and Librarian of Congress. From the description of John Russell Young paper...
Moors, John B.
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Boston. Committee of one hundred.
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A. A. Burleigh
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Lawrence, Robert M.
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Ames, Oakes, 1804-1873
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Oakes Ames was an American manufacturer, capitalist, and member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts who was asked by President Abraham Lincoln to build the Union Pacific portion of the transcontinental railroad. From the description of Oakes Ames letter to E. D. Braford, 1868 January 14. (University of California, Santa Barbara). WorldCat record id: 773429638 ...
Lincoln, Arthur, 1842-1902
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Lawrence, Abbott, 1828-1893
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Mackenzie, R. Shelton (Robert Shelton), 1809-1880
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Irish author, editor of the Liverpool journal. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Liverpool, to William D. Gallagher, editor of the Western Literary Journal, Cincinnati, 1836 Oct. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606344 American author. From the description of Papers of R. Shelton MacKenzie [manuscript], 1863 January 15 & n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814342 ...
Shipley, Joseph L.
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Blake, Henry William, 1865-
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Grozier, Edwin Atkins, 1859-1924
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Logan, Olive, 1839-1909
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Mrs. Sikes served as Daly's agent in France and England for many years. From the description of Autograph letters signed and initialled from Olive (Logan) Sikes to various people [manuscript], 1867-1899. (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 281839270 American actress, playwright, newspaper correspondent, and lecturer; daughter of newspaperman, actor, and playwright Cornelius Logan. From the description of Correspondence, 1868-1901. (Harry Ransom Huma...
McPherson, Edward, 1830-1895
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Editor, statistician, and U.S. representative from Pennsylvania. From the description of Papers of Edward McPherson, 1738-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451776 Biographical Note 1830,July 31 Born, Gettysburg, Pa. 1848 Graduated from Pennsylvania (now Gettysburg) College, Gettysburg, Pa. ...
Cabot, Samuel, 1850-1906
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Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897
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Historian, cartographer, and librarian of the Boston Public Library. From the description of Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to Henry Harrisse, Paris, France, 1891 Oct. 10. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 40998446 Winsor graduated from Harvard in 1853 and was a librarian at Harvard and at the Boston Public Library. From the description of Papers of Justin Winsor, 1847-1897 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972933 Winsor was libr...
Boston. West Church.
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Sperry, Watson R.
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Webster, William E.
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Armstrong, Samuel Turrell, 1784-1850.
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Davis, Robert Thompson, 1823-1906
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Gaffield, Thomas
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Thomas Gaffield was a partner in a profitable window glass retailing firm, Tuttle, Gaffield and Company, in Boston, MA. Gaffield collected engravings and had a keen interest in art history. He was a founding member of the Boston Art Club, organized in 1862. From the description of Catalogue of engravings, 1863. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122601721 Thomas Gaffield, 1825-1900, was a glass manufacturer. He was a partner in the firm of Tuttle, Gaffield and Company...
Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902
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American author and historian. From the description of Letter and an envelope, 1901. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367396091 John Henry Barrows was born in Medina, Michigan in 1847. He studied at Olivet College, Yale Divinity School, Union Theological Seminary, and Andover Theological Seminary before being ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1875. In 1881, he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago. In 1893, he organized the World's Parliament of Re...
Draper, William Franklin, 1842-1910
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Draper was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on April 9, 1842, and was a descendant of early Massachusetts settler James Draper. Draper attended public, private, and high schools, he studied mechanical engineering and cotton manufacturing. During the American Civil War Draper enlisted as a private in the Twenty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, on September 9, 1861. He was soon elected Second Lieutenant of his company and was promoted rapidly to lieutenant colonel. After his disch...
Cobb, Samuel C. (Samuel Crocker), 1826-1891
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Commission merchant, commercial agent, banker, and mayor, of Boston and Roxbury, Mass. From the description of Diaries, 1858-1874. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70950277 ...
Metropolitan Club (Washington, D.C.)
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Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917
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Sanborn was a teacher, author, and lecturer whose works retained much of the casual, anecdotal manner of conversation. She was the daughter of a Dartmouth College professor and raised in an atmosphere of lively intellectual discussion. From the description of Papers: 1883-1901. (Waverly Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122529763 Katherine Abbott Sanborn was born in 1839 in Hanover, New Hampshire where her father, Edwin David Sanborn, was professor of classics at Dartmout...
Pollock, Henderson W.
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Gerry, S. L. (Samuel Lancaster), 1813-1891
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Durant, William, 1847-1914
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Brewer, Gardner, d. 1874
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Jewell, Harvey, 1820-1881
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Davies, Thomas F. (Thomas Frederick), 1831-1905
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Little, John Mason
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Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893
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Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and Charlotte Ellison Butler. His father served under General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and later became a privateer, dying of yellow fever in the West Indies not long after Benjamin was born. He was named after Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. His elder brother, Andrew Jackson Butler (1815–1864), would serve as a colonel in the Union Army during t...
Gresham, Walter Quintin, 1832-1895
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U.S. secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, postmaster general, jurist, statesman, and soldier. From the description of Walter Quintin Gresham papers, 1857-1932 (bulk 1883-1895). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84052759 Walter Quintin Gresham was a lawyer, soldier, judge, and politician. A native of Harrison County, Ind., Gresham practiced law in Corydon, served a term in the state legislature, served with the 38th and 53rd Indiana Regiments during the Civil War, ran ...
Hill, Hamilton Andrews, 1827-1895
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Gill, William Fearing, 1844-1917
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Gould, Thomas Ridgeway, 1818-1881
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Haskell, George L.
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Lowe, David W., 1951-
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Train, George Francis, 1829-1904
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American entrepreneurial businessman, independent presidential candidate, and noted eccentric. From the description of George Francis Train letter to C.L. Greave[?] [manuscript], 1901[?] October 23. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 781412191 Born in Boston was a merchant, promoter, author, and eccentric. Ran for president in 1869, traveled around the world in eighty days in 1870 and was jailed on obscenity while defending Victoria Woodhull. From the ...
Boutwell, George S. (George Sewall), 1818-1905
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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...
Bell, Charles Henry, 1823-1893
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Frost, Rufus Smith, 1826-1894
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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...
Bates, F Gilman
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I. Fox Turner
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Halford, E. W.
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Boston Journal Mutual Aid Society.
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Brewer, T. M. (Thomas Mayo), 1814-1880
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Haweis, H.R. (Hugh Reginald), 1839-1901
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Hugh Reginald Haweis (1839-1901), British clergyman, author, musician, and popular lecturer. From the description of Letter by Hugh Reginald Haweis to "My Dear Sir", ca. 1870. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122560052 ...
Partridge, William
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Derby, E. H. (Elias Hasket), 1803-1880
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Bigelow, Erastus B. (Erastus Brigham), 1814-1879
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Begelow was an American author and inventor. From the description of Letter, 1858. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 80679885 ...
Willam Gray
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Blitz, Antonio, 1810-1877
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H. W. Smith
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Babbitt, George Franklin, 1848-
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White, George R. (George Randall)
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Knowles, Isaiah, d. 1884
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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...
Caine
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Geo. Gilman
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Meredith, Irving.
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Tyler, John S., -1876
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Alger, William Rounseville, 1822-1905
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Unitarian minister and poet. From the description of Letters and poem, 1863 Aug. 24-1872 Aug. 4. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166329703 Massachusetts clergyman and author. From the description of Note, 1847. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31187642 American author. From the description of ALS, [1874 August], North Hampton, N. H., to Mr. Morrell. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935455 Will...
Rhoades, Charles W. C.
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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 ...
F W Wilber
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Magee, A. S.
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Waite, Henry Randall, 1845-1909
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Ernst, C. W. (Carl Wilhelm), 1845-1919
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Austin, Edward
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Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson, 1831-1920
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Swift, John Franklin, 1829-1891
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Brooks, H. G.
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Perkins, William, 1827-1893
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Dana, Richard Henry, 1851-1931
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Clapp, Henry Austin, 1841-1904
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Fosdick, David, 1813-1892
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Whitmore, William Henry, 1836-1900
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Whitmore was an American writer and editor. Praed was an English poet and politician. From the description of William Henry Whitmore scrapbook on Winthrop Mackworth Praed, 1835-1864. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612761521 From the guide to the William Henry Whitmore scrapbook on Winthrop Mackworth Praed, 1835-1864., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Genealogist, editor, and public official of Boston, Mass. From ...
Shaw, Oliver
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Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison), 1840-1904
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Clergyman, author. From the description of Papers of W.H.H. Murray, 1887-1889. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51846011 W.H.H. Murray was born in Connecticut and educated at Yale. He was a pastor, lecturer, businessman, and author. From the description of W.H.H. Murray letter to Barnes, 1873. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 52075136 Dealer in fresh meats in Libby, Mont. From the description of Lett...
Finn, Orlando
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Codman, Charles R. (Charles Russell), 1829-1918
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The privileged son of an immensely wealthy mercantile family from Boston, Charles Russell Codman was born in Paris on October 28th, 1829. From an early education with private tutors through his attendance at Harvard law school, from which he graduated in 1852, Codman traveled in elite social and economic circles. Like many of the sons of the upper crust, it was de rigeur that he take a grand tour of Europe following graduation. From October, 1852, through September, 1853, he spent n...
Amory, Martha Babcock, 1812-1880
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Daughter of Gardiner Greene; married Charles Amory, 1832; Four children. From the description of Letter, 1869 Nov. : Brookline, to Mr. Amory. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 21006933 ...
Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882
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Lawyer and author. From the description of Richard Henry Dana correspondence, 1843-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449368 Author and lawyer Richard Henry Dana was the privileged son of an aristocratic Massachusetts family. Taking time from Harvard because of medical problems, he went to sea, where his experiences as a sailor inspired him to write Two Years Before the Mast. A sea story that was part memoir and part social commentary, the novel proved to be popular with...
Howe, Frank E, d. 1883-
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Bynner, Edwin Lassetter, 1842-1893
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Bynner was an American author. From the description of Letter, 1890. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81768129 ...
Penny, William, 1809-1892
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William Penny was born on 12 July 1809 at Peterhead, Scotland. He made his first whaling voyage at the age of twelve, sailing to the Greenland Sea in Alert under the command of his father, by 1829 had risen to the rank of mate. In 1832, while fishing with little success off Pond Inlet in Traveller, Penny persuaded his captain, George Simpson, to explore Lancaster Sound where they killed a large number of whales. Returning with Simpson to northern Baffin Bay the following year on the...
Hazewell, Charles Creighton, d. 1883
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S N Stockwell
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Richardson, Rosa B.
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Bennett, Edmund H. (Edmund Hatch), 1824-1898
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Greenough, William W. (William Whitwell), -1899
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Merchant, politician. Trustee of the Boston Public Library, 1856-1899. From the description of Letters received, 1850-1892. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14707184 Written while Greenough (A. B. 1837) was a student at Harvard. From the description of Rudiments of a grammar of the Anglo-Saxon tongue ; A Moeso-Gothic grammar : manuscript, 1834. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612827421 Merchant and public official of Boston, Mass.; born ...
Sohier, S. P.
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O'Brien, Hugh
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Edmund Kirke
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Henry, Lee
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Eaton, Dorman B. (Dorman Bridgman), 1823-1899
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Parton, James, 1822-1891
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English-American writer. From the description of Papers of James Parton [manuscript] 1860-1893. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647934391 Author. From the description of Letter of James Parton, 1875. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454871 Parton was an American biographer. His The life of Horace Greeley : editor of "The New-York tribune", from his birth to the present time was published in 1872 and his Life of Voltaire was published in 188...
Angie E. (Powell) Rice.
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Guild, Curtis, 1827-1911
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Talbot, Emory H.
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Thursday Club
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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. ...
C. B. Haskell
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Lydia Y. Hayes
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Wm. M. Robinson
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Williamson, Erastus E.
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Danielson, George Whitman, 1829-1884
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Dean, John Ward, 1815-1902
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Author, librarian, and editor. From the description of John Ward Dean correspondence, 1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79424039 ...
Sargent, J Turner W.
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Beal, Martin, d. 1883
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B. F. Guild
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Rice, Alexander Hamilton, 1818-1895
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Barnard Capen
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Tompkins, Orlando
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Gallagher, Charles Theodore, 1851-1919
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Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916
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John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916) of Powhatan County, Va., was a lawyer and Confederate officer. Mosby was educated at the University of Virginia and worked as a lawyer in Washington County, Va., prior to the Civil War. In 1861, Mosby enlisted in the 1st Virginia Cavalry. He was eventually promoted to colonel and led the 43rd Battalion, 1st Virginia Cavalry. After the war Mosby returned to practicing law in Warrenton, Va., and San Francisco, Calif. He also served at the United States Consul in Ho...
Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897
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Historian, cartographer, and librarian of the Boston Public Library. From the description of Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to Henry Harrisse, Paris, France, 1891 Oct. 10. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 40998446 Winsor graduated from Harvard in 1853 and was a librarian at Harvard and at the Boston Public Library. From the description of Papers of Justin Winsor, 1847-1897 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972933 Winsor was libr...
E King
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Gilbert, John, 1810-1889
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John Gibbs Gilbert (February 27, 1810 – June 17, 1889) was an American stage actor whose real name was Gibbs. Born in Boston, he made his first appearance there at the Tremont Theatre, in 1828, as Jaffier in Otway's Venice Preserved. His original aim was to be a tragedian, but while on a tour through the South and West, the success of his Sir Anthony Absolute, Master Walter, etc., convinced him that his true bent was for "old men" parts, and he soon became the leading American actor in that l...
F. W. Poor
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James, Lawrence
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Heard, John T, d. 1880
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Hale, Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody), 1820-1900
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Hale was an American author of childrens' books. From the description of Lucretia P. Hale letters to Miss Lowell, 1866. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 38508992 ...
Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929
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Author, critic, and member of the Columbia English Department Faculty from 1891-1924. Matthews was an influential figure in the literary and dramatic worlds of New York and London from the 1880s throughtout his life. He was a member of numerous social and literary organizations, serving as president of the Dunlap Society, the Modern Language Association, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, among others. From the description of Papers, 1877-1962. (Columbia University In th...
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...
Ball, George H.
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Smith, Charles Emory, 1842-1908
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Journalist, diplomat, and U.S. postmaster general, of Albany, N.Y., and Philadelphia, Pa.; originally of Mansfield, Conn. From the description of Charles Emory Smith collection, 1895-1903. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28420527 ...
Draper, Lorenzo
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Fletcher, Charles R.
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Mitchell, Lincoln
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John Branch
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Bright, John, 1811-1889
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British statesman, from Rochdale, Lancashire, England. From the description of Papers, 1840-1888. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19276561 John Bright (1811-1889), British reformer, Liberal statesman, free-trade advocate, and one of the most eloquent public speakers of his time, was born near Rochdale, England. A Quaker textile manufacturer, Bright was elected to Parliament in 1843 and formed the Anti-Corn Law League with Richard Cobden to repeal the Corn Laws...
H C Porter
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Harrington, L.
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Potter, Asa Perkins, 1838-
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Baldwin, William Henry, 1826-
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Jeremiah Getchell
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Thorndike, George E.
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Brackett, J. Q. A.
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Otis, James F.
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Pulsifer, Royal M, 1843-1888
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Hutton, Laurence, 1843-1904
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American essayist and critic. From the description of A little lord, a little king : Onteora, to Elsie Leslie : autograph poem, 1896 July 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269553663 American essayist and critic; literary editor, Harper's Magazine. From the description of Shakspere's Comedies by E.A. Abbey : autograph manuscript unsigned of the first page of the review : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269555409 From the description of Autogr...
Clark, Edward Perkins 1847-1903
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Wright, Carroll Davidson, 1840-1909
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Carroll D. Wright was chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, 1873-1888; President of the National Convention of Chiefs and Commissioners of Bureaus of Statistics of Labor, 1883-1903; and the first U.S. Commissioner of Labor, 1885-1905. For additional information see: "Wright, Carroll Davidson." Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 20, p. 544. From the description of Carroll D. Wright, selected writings, 1878-1901. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id:...
Delano, William W.
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United States. Senate
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Dennie, John
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Spofford, Richard Smith, -1888
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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896
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Barnard Gratz (1738-1801) and his brother Michael (1740-1811) immigrated to Philadelphia in the 1750s. They were merchants active during the Revolutionary period, and who formed partnerships with the merchants David Franks (1720-1794) of New York and Philadelphia, and Joseph Simon (ca. 1712-1804) of Lancaster, PA. Michael Gratz's two sons, Simon (1773-1839) and Hyman (1776-1857), inherited their father's business. From the description of Gratz-Franks-Simon Papers, 1752-1831 (inclusiv...
Sargent, Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius), 1786-1867
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ht2vj1 (person)
American author and antiquary. From the description of Letters of Lucius M. Sargent [manuscript], 1834-1851. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647813327 ...
Clement, E. H. (Edward Henry), 1843-1920
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Hall, Henry.
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Epithet: organist and composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x00002c Epithet: of Highmeadow, county Gloucestershire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x0001f1 Epithet: magistrate at Leeds British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description ...
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 ...
Russell, Thomas, 1825-1887
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Angier, Annie Lanman.
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Mayer, Marcus R.
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Martin Brimmer
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Blair, Henry W. (Henry William), 1834-1920
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U.S. senator and representative from New Hampshire, and lawyer, of Plymouth, N.H., and Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers, 1873-1908. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70961428 ...
Ward, Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson), 1861-1932
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American author. From the description of Letters to S.S. McClure 1890-1891. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56526673 ...
Smyth, Newman, 1843-1925
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Served in Union Army during the Civil War; ordained as a minister in 1863, he served in three churches: First Congregational Church of Bangor, Maine (1870-1875), First Presbyterian Church of Quincy, Ill. (1875-1882), First Church of Christ of New Haven, Ct. (1882-1908); after 1908 devoted himself to protestant unity and theology. From the description of Newman Smyth papers, 1874-1924 (inclusive), 1908-1924 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702166732 From the description...
Boston Post.
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Mellen Chamberlain
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Woodbury, Charles Levi, 1820-1898
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Lawyer, jurist, and author, of Portsmouth, N.H., and Boston, Mass. From the description of Charles and Levi Woodbury papers, 1833-1894. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70940287 ...
Hutchins, W. F.
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Devens, Richard Miller
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Aspinwall, Thomas, 1786-1876
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Army officer. From the description of Thomas Aspinwall papers, 1847-1853. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455771 A Thomas Aspinwall, 1786-1876, was an American consul. Hugh Legare ́ was Secretary of State for a short time before his death in 1843. From the description of Letter : London, England to Hugh S. Legare ́, 1843 July 3. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 708359991 Thomas Aspinwall was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, May 23, 1786...
Homans, Eliza (Lothrop) d. 1914
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Greene, Nathaniel, 1797-1877
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Russell, William A. (William Augustus), 1831-1899
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hq6487 (person)
Russell was a captain in the Union army commanding a Company B. From the description of Letters, 1855-1863. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122552950 ...
Wells, David Ames, 1828-1898
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Economist, author, and public official. From the description of Papers of David Ames Wells, 1795-1898 (bulk 1860-1886) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067851 American economist. From the description of Papers of David Ames Wells [manuscript], 1851-1887. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812256 Biographical Note 1828, June 17 Born, Sp...
Hill, Frederick Stanhope, 1829-
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W L Hiddon
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Jewell, Marshall, 1825-1883
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E.A. Tucker was associate editor of the Evening post in Hartford, Conn. From the description of Letter, 1874 September 4, Washington, D.C., to E.A. Tucker, Hartford, Conn. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 35294209 ...
Ordway, N. G.
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Thayer, Charles L.
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W. K. Richardson
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Grant family.
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Boston Press Club.
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Frederick W Lincoln
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Clifford, John H.
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Curtis, Benjamin Robbins, 1855-1891
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Curtis was a fine arts photographer; Boston, Mass. with the firm of Curtis & Cameron, Inc. From the description of Benjamin F. Curtis papers, 1910-1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80691361 ...
Add D. Welch
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Matsell, George W. (George Washington), 1811-1877
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Kidder, Henry P. (Henry Purkitt), 1823-1886
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v9990t (person)
G W Childie
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Felton, Cornelius Conway, 1807-1863
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Fiske, Helen Maria (Clapp) 1823-
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Williams, George Frederick, 1852-
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Hoar, Rockwood, 1855-1906.
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Robinson, William M.
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Browne, Albert G. (Albert Gallatin), 1835-1891
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Browne was a 1854 graduate of Harvard Law School, a member of the Massachusetts bar and a reporter of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. From the description of Letter to Mason W. Tappan, 1859. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234338944 ...
Ernst, George A. O. (George Alexander Otis), 1850-1912
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Dickinson, A.
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Browne, A. G.
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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...
Choate, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1828-1911
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Choate was born in Salem, Mass. and graduated from Harvard College (1849) and Harvard Law School (1854). He devoted much of his practice to railroad law acting as counsel for the Boston and Maine Railroad. In 1865, he became counsel for the Old Colony Railroad, becoming its director (1872), and later its president (1877). In 1877, he was chosen president of the Old Colony Steamboat Company. From the description of Lawyer's letterpress book, 1874-1881. (Harvard Law School Library). Wo...
Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892
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James R. Osgood was a native of Maine who went to work for the publishing house of Ticknor and Fields. He eventually founded the subsidiary group James R. Osgood & Co. which was associated with many fine writers. The firm struggled financially, and when Osgood stepped down, was dissolved into Houghton, Mifflin. From the description of James R. Osgood letter to George L. Craik, 1879 June 2. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54667691 Publisher....
Castellani, A. (Alessandro)
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Merrill, George S.
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Somerby, Gustavus A. (Gustavus Adolphus), 1821-1879
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Henry L Pierce
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Dean, John Ward, 1815-1902
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Author, librarian, and editor. From the description of John Ward Dean correspondence, 1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79424039 ...
Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881
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James Thomas Fields, American publisher and author, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1817. At the age of 17, he went to Boston to clerk in a booksellers shop. While clerking, he often wrote for newspapers and in 1839 he became junior partner in the publishing and bookselling firm known after 1846 as Ticknor and Fields, and after 1868 as Fields, Osgood & Company. He was the publisher of several prominent contemporary American and British writers. Besides just publishing the authors, h...
Lodge, Henry Cabot
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Epithet: senator British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x000023 ...
Wood, John E.
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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...
Vose, Roger
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Carrigan, E C, d. 1888
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Bartol, C. A. (Cyrus Augustus), 1813-1900
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Cyrus August Bartol, 1813-1900, Unitarian minister, graduated from Harvard Divinity School 1835, received D.D. from Harvard College in 1859. Ordained in 1837, pastor at the West Church in Boston from 1837-1889. From the description of C.A. Bartol. Sermons, 1859-1888 (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 423214618 The Rev. Cyrus Augustus Bartol, DD, was born in Freeport, Maine, April 30, 1813. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1832 and from Har...
Harper, Joseph Wesley, 1801-1870
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Smith, William Henry, 1833-1896
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Journalist, Republican politician, and historian, of Ohio. From the description of William Henry Smith collection of Rutherford B. Hayes papers [microform], 1868-1871. (Ohio Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 42885795 William Henry Smith (1833-1896) began his journalism career as a reporter and editor in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was general manager of the Associated Press from 1883-1892. That year he and Charles Fairbanks acquired the Indianapolis News. Smith was active in...
Clapp, Mary A. (Foster)
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C. L. McCleery
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Fiske, Frank C.
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Shattuck, George Otis, 1829-1897.
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W. W. Allen
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Greenleaf, C. H.
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Sturgis, William, 1782-1863
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William F. Sturgis, born in Barnstable (Mass.), 1782, married Elizabeth M. Davis in 1810. He was involved in the fur trade of the Pacific Northwest and China, and served in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts House and Senate. He donated the house and books that established Sturgis Library. He died in 1863. From the description of William Sturgis family papers. 1799-1863. (Clams, Inc). WorldCat record id: 63301946 ...
Niven, Robert
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Jenks, Henry F. (Henry Fitch), 1842-1920
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Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912
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U.S. politician, historian and newspaper editor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cedarville, to Schuyler Colfax, 1863 Sept. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 649441349 American newspaperman, editor, diplomat, and historian. From the description of Papers of Whitelaw Reid [manuscript], 1878-1893. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647879858 From the description of Papers of Whitelaw Reid, 1878-1893. (University of Virginia). ...
Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937
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Boston lecturer and writer on social and historical topics; Editor of the New England Magazine (1889-1901). From the description of Edwin Doak Mead letter to Mrs. Leland and Christmas card [manuscript], 1911 Dec 19 and n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 299067309 Epithet: of Boston, Mass., USA; founder of the World Peace Federation British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000220.0x0002fa ...
Fitch, R. G.
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Hoxie, Vinnie (Ream), 1847-1914
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Howe, S. G. (Samuel Gridley), 1801-1876
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Physician, reformer, and husband of Julia Ward Howe. From the description of Papers, 1868. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 46344998 Humanitarian crusader for many causes including Greek freedom, education for the disabled, prison reform, abolition, and black suffrage, Howe founded the Perkins School for the Blind and was the chairman of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities. When just out of the Harvard Medical School, he went to Greece as an army surgeon...
Long, John Davis, 1838-1915
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U.S. secretary of the navy and U.S. representative and governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Letters and signature of John Davis Long, 1885-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014961 ...
Hallowell, Norwood P., 1839-1914
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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 ...
Thomas Ball
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Nathaniel Currier
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Duryea, Joseph T. (Joseph Tuthill), 1832-1898
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Smith, J.B.
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Edmands, Thomas F, d. 1906
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Hovey, William Alfred (1841-1906).
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Foster, John G. (John Gray), 1823-1874
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Morris was Captain, later Colonel, in 7th New York Heavy Artillery. He was killed at Cold Harbor, 4 June 1864. From the description of Letter, 1862 July 17, New Bern, N.C., to Lewis O. Morris, New Bern, N.C. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 6002406 American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to an unidentified general, 1872 Aug. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270473897 Army officer. ...
Olney, Richard, 1835-1917
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U.S. attorney general, U.S. secretary of state, and lawyer. From the description of Richard Olney papers, 1830-1928 (bulk 1893-1917). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131217 Counsel for Boston & Maine Railroad; Secretary of State under Grover Cleveland (1893-1897). From the description of Richard E. Olney collection, 1895-1974. (Falmouth Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 70969627 Biographical Note ...
Stone, Eben F. (Eben Francis), 1822-1895
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Republican Congressman from Massachusetts. From the description of Eben F. Stone letter to Richard Briggs [manuscript], 1887 February 21. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 425909531 ...
Lawrence, Amos, 1786-1852
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Allen, Charles, 1827-1913
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Hunt, Charles, fl. 1845
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Rand, Avery L.
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Winter, William, 1836-1917
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American drama critic. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Tompkinsville (Staten Island, N.Y.), 17 April 1886, to Mrs. Tracy, 1886 Apr. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270679284 Massachusetts native William Winter graduated from Harvard law school, but began his career as a journalist. He wrote for numerous journals before securing a position as drama critic at the New York Tribune. In addition to being one of the most influential critics of his day, ...
Francis, Charles
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Morton, Ellis W. (Ellis Wesley), -1874
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James W. Paige
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Edward P. Brown
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Fields, Annie, 1834-1915
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Annie Adams Fields was an author and charity worker, the wife of the Boston publisher James T. Fields. From the description of Papers pertaining to the estate of Annie Adams Fields, 1846-1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 86143813 From the guide to the Papers pertaining to the estate of Annie Adams Fields, 1846-1935., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Eighteen letters written by Annie Adams Fields between the years 1882 and...
Tourgée, Albion W. 1838-1905
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American politician and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to an unidentified recipient, 1882 Jun. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572884 Author, civil rights leader, and jurist Albion W. Tourgée was born May 2, 1838 in Williamsfield in the Western Reserve of Ohio, then a center of abolitionist activity. He attended the University of Rochester in New York, but left to enlist in the Union army during the Civil War. Wounded in battle...
Cosgrove, M. R.
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Seelye, Julius H. (Julius Hawley), 1824-1895
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1849 graduate of Amherst College. Clergyman, educator, author and politician. Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, Amherst College, 1858-1877; President, 1877-1890. Member, U.S. House of Representatives, 44th Congress, 1875-1877. Trustee, Mount Holyoke College, 1872-1895. Member, Board of Visitors, Andover Theological Seminary, 1874-1892. Married Elizabeth Tillman James in 1854 and had four children: Anna, Mabel, Elizabeth and William. From the description of Seelye papers, 1824...
Bradlee, Nathaniel Jeremiah, 1829-1888
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Morse, W. H.
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Citizens Committee
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Whipple, Edwin Percy, 1819-1886
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American essayist and critic. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Boston, to Harper and Brothers, 1858 Mar. 5 and 18-1878 Apr. 1 and 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588778 Edwin Percy Whipple was an influential 19th century American literary critic and lecturer. A prolific reader, he worked at several disparate jobs while publishing critical essays in diverse periodicals. He gained the reputation as one of the most important young critics of his gener...
Sibley, John Langdon, 1804-1885
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John Langdon Sibley (1804-1885) served as Harvard's Assistant Librarian from 1825 to 1826 and 1841 to 1856, Librarian from 1856 to 1877, and Librarian, Emeritus from 1877 to 1885. He was the editor of the Harvard Triennial Catalogue from 1839 to 1875 and of the Harvard Quinquennial Catalogue from 1875-1885. A noted biographer, Sibley is best known for his "Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University", an extensive collection of biographical material on Harvard graduates. Sibley was ...
Whitman, William F.
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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...
Robinson, George D. (George Dexter), 1834-1896
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Wells, Frank
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Little, Alden & Co.
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Goodwin, Ichabod, 1794-1882
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Butler, H Vincent
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Dodge, Mary Abigail, 1833-1896
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Mary Abigail Dodge wrote under the name Gail Hamilton. From the description of Mary Abigail Dodge letter to [James] Redpath : Hamilton, Mass., 1886 May 4. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122291010 Author. Wrote under name: Gail Hamilton. From the description of Mary Abigail Dodge papers, 1856-1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456046 American writer. From the description of Mary Abigail Dodge letter, 1886 Nov. 24...
Boynton, Henry Van Ness, 1835-1905.
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American army officer, commander of an Ohio regiment in the Civil War; became a journalist in Washington in 1865. Chairman of Chickamauga and Chattanooga national military park. From the description of Henry Van Ness Boynton items, [ca. 1890-1905]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936748 ...
Soper, Grace W.
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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-...
Fitzhugh, J. H.
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Savage, Edward, 1761-1817
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King, George A. (George Anderson), 1855-1938
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Tucker, William Warren
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St. Botolph Club, Boston.
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Choate, Rufus, 1799-1859
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Choate practiced law Essex County, Mass. (1822-1834) and Boston (1834-1850) and served in the United States Senate (1841-1845). From the description of Papers, 1829-1869. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234337959 Choate was an American lawyer and politician, U.S. senator from Massachusetts from 1841-1845. From the description of Rufus Choate letter : to Joseph B. Boyer, [18--]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937076 ...
Brinley, Charles H.
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Moses Merrill
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Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877
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John Stevens Cabot Abbott was born on September 18, 1805, in Brunswick, Maine. After attending Bowdoin College, Abbott studied at Andover Theological Seminary; following his graduation, he led several congregations in Massachusetts. Abbott wrote several books on history and on Christianity during his lifetime, and died in 1877. From the guide to the John Stevens Cabot Abbott autograph book, Abbott, John Stevens Cabot autograph book, 1851-1860, 1851-1853, (William L. Clements Library,...
Thayer, Adin
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Boston Latin School Association
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Chandler, William E. (William Eaton), 1835-1917
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U.S. secretary of the navy, senator from New Hampshire, and lawyer. From the description of William E. Chandler papers, 1863-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982265 U.S. Secretary of the Navy, senator from New Hampshire, and lawyer. From the description of Papers [microform], 1876-1882. (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 62739785 William E. Chandler, a Republican, was U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, 1889-1901, Assistant ...
Shepard, Hannah W (Clapp) 1820-1872
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Boston Journal. Composing Department.
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Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918
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Charles Henry Hart was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1847, to Julia Leavey and Samuel Hart. He practiced law for a time, but then decided to devote himself to his interest in American art. He became a noted authority on portraiture, especially the works of Gilbert Stuart. Hart delighted in being able to expose fraudulent attributions. Hart was a noted author, penning a number of books and articles about art. He served as a director for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1882...
Drew, John H., 1834-1890
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Ship captain and later correspondent of the Boston Journal; b. in Chelsea, Me.; d. in Farmingdale, Me.; lived in Hallowell and Gardiner and commanded many of the ships sailing from Boston, including the Fearless, Sea Witch, and Franklin. One of the series he wrote for the Boston Journal was "The Cruise of the Sea Witch." From the description of Letters of the Kennebecker from the Boston Journal, 1889, 1889-1924. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 462117570 ...
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...
Schouler, James, 1839-1920
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Ambrose Arnold Ranney
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White, Z. L
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Kimball, Moses, 1809-
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Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1834-1905
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Norcross, Grenville Howland, 1854-1937
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Grenville Howland Norcross (1854-1937), one of eight children of Otis Norcross (1811-1882) and Lucy Ann (Lane) Norcross (1816-1916), was born on 2 February 1854 in Boston, Mass. After graduating from Harvard University in 1875, Grenville acquired his Harvard law degree in 1879 and practiced law in Boston for many years. He was active in numerous historical and literary organizations, including the New England Historic and Genealogical Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American A...
Boston Journal
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Van Vert Son, Inc.
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A. L. Lumbert
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Clapp, Otis
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Bates, I. D.
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Allison, William B. (William Boyd), 1829-1908
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Iowa legislator; United States House of Representatives, 1863-1871; United States Senate, 1873-1908. From the description of Letter : Dubuque, Iowa, to W[illiam] W[orth] Belknap, Washington, D.C., 1873 Oct. 22. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496685 U.S. Senator and Representative from Iowa. From the description of Papers of William B. Allison, 1862-1916. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 148787411 William ...
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. ...
Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1881-1966
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Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890
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Dionysius Lardner Boucicault was born in Dublin on 26th December 1820. His Irish mother Anna, nee Darley, was married to Samuel Boursiquot, but it is likely that Dion was the son of Dr. Dionysius Lardner, who was closer in age to Anna than her husband. In 1828, Anna and her children followed Lardner to London when he became Professor of Philosophy and Astronomy at the new University College. Dion attended several schools in London, but it was a production of Pizarro in 183...
Sleeper, John Sherburne, 1794-1878
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John Sherburne Sleeper (1794-1878) was a journalist, author, sailor, shipmaster in the merchant service from Boston, and mayor of Roxbury, Mass. He wrote sea stories under the pseudonym "Hawser Martingale." From the description of Literary manuscripts. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 207170499 ...
Fetridge, W. Pembroke (William Pembroke)
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Doe, Charles H.
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Putnam, Alfred Porter, 1827-1906.
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Maguire, Thomas, 1831-1889
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Tillinghast, Caleb Benjamin, 1803-1909
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Noyes, Edward P.
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Morse, Robert McNeil, 1837-1920
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Simpson, John K.
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Bates, Theodore C.
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Jones, George, 1811-1891
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American newspaper publisher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "The Times Office", New York, to Thomas C. Acton, 1880 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270489851 George Jones was the first publisher of the New York Times. He founded the New-York Daily Times in 1851 with Henry J. Raymond and Edward B. Wesley. After Raymond's death in 1869, Jones took over the editorship of the paper. Under his leadership, the Times was responsib...
Smith, William L.
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Brewer, William A.
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Foote, Henry Wilder, 1838-1889
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Collins, Patrick A. (Patrick Andrew), 1844-1905
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Patrick A. Collins was born on March 12, 1844, in Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland. After the death of his father he and his family immigrated to the United States in 1848 and settled in Chelsea, Massachusetts. With limited formal education, he worked his way up in the upholstery trade, became involved in union activities and began to study the law. He graduated from Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1871. In 1873, he married Mary E. Carey, and they had three children, Paul, Marie, a...
Landon, Melville D. (Melville De Lancey), 1839-1910
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American humorist, journalist, and lecturer. From the description of Correspondence, 1903-1908. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122601923 Humorist who used the pseudonym Eli Perkins. From the description of Melville D. Landon papers, 1889. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983948 ...
Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928
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William Elliot Griffis was an American orientalist, congregational minister, lecturer, and prolific author. From the description of William Elliot Griffis collection, [1873]-1903. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 298180709 Pastor of the First Congregational Church (Ithaca, N.Y.). From the description of William Elliot Griffis papers, 1897-1908. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63938002 Clergyman, author, educator and l...
Everett, Edward Brooks, 1830-1861
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Laporte, Le Comte de
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White, James Terry, 1845-1920
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Otis Norcross
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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...
Lowell, John Amory, 1798-1881
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Perry, Nora, 1821-1896
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A G Parker
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Sowdon, Arthur John Clark
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Grant, Robert, 1852-1940
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Robert Grant (1852-1940) was a Boston novelist, whose books were primarily social satire. In addition he was for many years judge of the Probate Court and Court of Insolvency in Boston, and an overseer of Harvard. In 1927 he acted as one of three members of the Sacco-Vanzetti Commission. From the guide to the Robert Grant papers, 1809-1940., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) American author and judge. From the description of Papers o...
Lincoln, Frederic Walker, 1817-1898
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Haskell, E B, 1837-
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Capen, Nahum, 1804-1886
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Capen, born in Canton, Mass., began to study medicine at age 18; however, ill health prevented completion of his apprenticeship and in 1825 he entered into partnership in the publishing firm of Marsh, Capen, and Lyon. He wrote papers, articles, and books on history and politics, and was an advocate of free trade, federal copyright laws, popular education, and various social welfare reforms. He was postmaster of Boston from 1857 to 1861, and is credited with working out the free delivery system. ...
Haveur, André
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Morse E. W.
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Sargent, Horace Binney, 1821-1908
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Civil War cavalry officer, served with the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry; commanded the Grand Army of the Department of Massachusetts. From the description of Poem, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55531548 ...
Cobb, Samuel C. (Samuel Crocker), 1826-1891
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Commission merchant, commercial agent, banker, and mayor, of Boston and Roxbury, Mass. From the description of Diaries, 1858-1874. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70950277 ...
Ordway, Nehemiah G. (Nehemiah George), 1828-1907
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Parkhurst, Charles, 1845-1921
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Llewellyn Powers
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E. R. Robinson
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Hyde, Henry D.
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Danforth, James H.
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Underwood, Francis Henry, 1825-1894
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Francis Underwood was U.S. consul at Glasgow between 1886 and 1888. From the description of Letter, 1889 June 19, Glasgow, Scotland to Martha Howe. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 19416441 Author and editor. From the description of Papers of Francis Henry Underwood [manuscript], 1859?-1874? (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647813203 ...
Webb, Edwin B. (Edwin Bonaparte), 1820-1901
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Gilmore, James R. (James Roberts), 1822-1903
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Author. From the description of Letter of James R. Gilmore, 1889. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450479 James Roberts Gilmore was a businessman, novelist, and historical writer. He was born in Boston in 1822. He often used the pseudonym "Edmund Kirke". Gilmore edited "Continental Monthly" from 1862-65. In 1890, Gilmore lectured at the Peabody Institute, Baltimore MD. Gilmore was the author of "The Life of James A. Garfield" (1880) and "Personal Rec...
Williams, Alexander, active 1642
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Dana, James, 1811-1890
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Cushing, Marshall, 1860-
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Towne, E. C. (Edward Cornelius), 1834-1911
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Gray, William, 1810-1892
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Lincoln, Daniel Waldo, 1813-1880
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Wight, Delano, 1882-
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Chickering, George H.
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Kilmer, R. J.
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Thayer, William M., 1820-1898
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Peck, Thomas Bellows, 1842-1915
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Richardson, Albert D. (Albert Deane), 1833-1869
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Journalist. From the description of Letter of Albert D. Richardson, 1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449523 ...
Sarage, Minot Judson, 1841-1918
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Potter, Joseph S.
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M. Wight
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B. F. Watson
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Loring, George B. (George Bailey), 1817-1891
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Cogswell, William, 1838-1895
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American soldier and politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson, 1870 Apr. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899954 U.S. representative, Union army officer, and lawyer from Massachusetts. From the description of William Cogswell papers, 1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984123 William Cogswell was a Brigadier General in the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 2nd Regiment, during the Civ...
Hill, F. J.
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Pillsbury, Albert E. (Albert Enoch), 1849-1930
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Council of the City of Boston
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World Peace congress of women.
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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...
Dana, C. F.
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Nute, Alonzo, 1826-1892
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Brewer, Daniel Chauncey
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Robinson, William S. (William Stevens), 1818-1876
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Member of the New York Stock Exchange and a partner in Marvin & Robinson: Dealers in Railroad Stocks, Bonds and Gold. From the description of Letter, 1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122462112 William Robinson was an abolitionist, agrarian, and journalist. From the description of ALS, 1868 October 22, Hartford, Conn. to Sanborn / W.S. Robinson. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 37228347 ...
M. A. DeWolfe Howe
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Norcross, Otis, 1811-1882
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Clapp, Hannah W (Lane)
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Townsend, George Alfred, 1841-1914
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Townsend was a famous Civil War correspondent who wrote under the pen name "Gath," and who later constructed an elaboraate country estate at Gathland or Gapland at Crampton's Gap in South Mountain northwest of Washington. This was the site of a battle that marked the beginning of the Antietam campaign. In 1896, Townsend built the Army Correspondents' Memorial arch on his property to commemorate the service of Civil War correspondents. The site is now a park. From the description of A...
Fitz, Eustace Carey.
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McClure, Samuel Sidney, 1857-
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Robinson, Richard W. (Richard Warren), 1930-
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Chickering, Thomas E., 1824-1871
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Nichols, C A & Co.
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Aldrich, Nelson W. (Nelson Wilmarth), 1841-1915
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Architect; d. 1986. From the description of Nelson W. Aldrich interview, 1985 Apr. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185109 Father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; financier and philanthropist who served as U.S. representative (1879-1881) and senator (1881-1911) from Rhode Island and chairman of the U.S. National Monetary Commission (1908-1912). From the description of Nelson Aldrich microfilm collection, 1777-1930 (bulk 1879-1915) [microform]. (Providence ...
Sears, David, 1787-1871
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John A. Andrew
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Montandon, S. E.
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Bacon, Edwin M. (Edwin Munroe), 1844-1916
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American journalist and author. From the guide to the Edwin M. Bacon correspondence, 1872-1914, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...
Savage, Jefferson
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Shillaber, Carrie
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Connelly, Celia (Logan) 1837-1904
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Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879
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Physician and botanist of Boston, Mass. From the description of Jacob Bigelow letter, 1822-1833, [Boston]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34847536 Jacob Bigelow (Harvard University, A.B. 1806 and University of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1810) taught at Harvard Medical School from 1815-1855. With Dr. Francis Boott he began work on a flora of New England but this project was given up. From 1817-1820 he published American medical botany for which he drew many of the plates and ...
Wilkins, Edward G P, d. 1861
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Allen, Stephen M. (Stephen Merrill), 1819-1894
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Clapp, Henry Austin, 1841-1904
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Acklay, Cornelia
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Brooks, Phillips, bp., 1835-1893.
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Burt, William L.
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Pierce, Edward Lillie
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Hale, George S. (George Silsbee), 1825-1897
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American lawyer. From the description of George S. Hale letters to Miss Adams [manuscript], 1896, 1897. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 711689233 ...
Rotch, Abbott Lawrence, 1861-1912
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Rotch, a meteorologist, founded and was director of Blue Hill Observatory, near Boston, Mass. He took the earliest American measurements of cloud height and velocities. In 1906, Rotch became the first professor of meteorology at Harvard. In cooperation with Teisserenc de Bort, he sent an expedition to explore the atmosphere above the tropical ocean, 1905-1906; ascended Mont Blanc six times, reaching the summit thrice; and ballooned above Paris in 1889. From the description of Papers,...
George Dennie
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Atkinson, Edward, 1827-1905
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Economist. From the description of Papers of Edward Atkinson, 1882-1887. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449908 Edward Atkinson was an American economist and underwriter. From the description of Edward Atkinson letters, 1868-1898. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122575952 From the guide to the Edward Atkinson letters, 1868-1898, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) American author, industrialist, and economist. ...
New England Associated Press.
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Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts), 1834-1906
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Illinois stenographer for Lincoln-Douglas debates, diplomat, assistant secretary of state (1881-1882), and U. S. Congressman (1882-1906). From the description of Letter, ca. 1881-1882. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 748839838 U.S. representative from Illinois. From the description of Papers of Robert R. Hitt, 1830-1905. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81736307 Biographical Note ...
Cook, Joseph, 1838-1901
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Joseph Cook was an author and minister. He travelled extensively throughout the world, to study and to lecture. His Boston Monday Lectures, delivered on a variety of topics, were wildly popular, and were later issued in print. His most consistently popular theme was the relationship between science and religion, wherein he attempted to find harmony between modern science and Biblical teaching. From the description of Joseph Cook letter to Mr. Garrison, 1880 Jan. 22. (Pennsylvania Sta...
B. E. Bates
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Chickering, Horatio
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Blaine, James G., Mrs., 1828-1903
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Biographical Note 1830, Jan. 31 Born, West Brownsville, Pa. 1847 Graduated from Washington College, Washington, Pa. 1850 Married Harriet Stanwood 1852 1854 ...
Dickinson, Sidney
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McCleery, C. L.
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Wyman, O. C.
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Perine, Charles E.
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Stanwood, Edward, 1841-1923
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Boston Printers Union.
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Herford, Brooke, 1830-1903
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Carter, Henry
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Epithet: Reverend CBE, General Sec the Social Welfare Dept of the Methodist Church British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x00015e ...
White, E. D.
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Parker, Francis E d. 1886-
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Lee, Henry, 1817-1898
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Harvard overseer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Boston], to "my dear Doctor," [18--?] Mar. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 743860470 Lee graduated from Harvard in 1836 and served as Overseer of Harvard. From the description of Papers of Henry Lee, 1868-1894 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972818 ...
Oakes, James, d. 1878
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King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Sherman, Edgar Jay, 1834-1914
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Edmands, R. F.
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Hinkley, John N.
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Greenough, C. S.
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Joseph Dennie
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Thomas, Reuen, 1840-1907
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Judge Russell
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Brimmer, Martin, 1829-1896
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Brimmer was a collector and first president of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Sarah Wyman Whitman was a Boston painter and patron of the arts, born in Baltimore in 1842. She died in Boston in 1904. From the description of Martin Brimmer letters, 1880-1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779476819 From the description of Martin Brimmer letters, 1880-1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557019 ...
Greenough, William W. (William Whitwell), -1899
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Merchant, politician. Trustee of the Boston Public Library, 1856-1899. From the description of Letters received, 1850-1892. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14707184 Written while Greenough (A. B. 1837) was a student at Harvard. From the description of Rudiments of a grammar of the Anglo-Saxon tongue ; A Moeso-Gothic grammar : manuscript, 1834. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612827421 Merchant and public official of Boston, Mass.; born ...
Poore, Ellen J.
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Rogers, Charles O., 1818-1869
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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...
Horton, Edward Augustus, 1843-1931
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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...
Watin
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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...
Fenno, D Grafton
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Franklin, Jane Griffin, Lady, 1792-1875
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Ticknor, Benjamin Holt, 1842-1914
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Editor and publisher. From the description of Papers of Benjamin Holt Ticknor, 1595-1935 (bulk 1850-1920). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71066489 American publisher. From the description of Letter : Benjamin H. Ticknor to "Fairchild," 1888 November 16 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647824664 ...
Caroline Dennie Clapp)
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Whitney, Henry Melville, 1839-1923
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McNabb, Flora
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Browne, Charles Farrar 1834-1867
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Ames, Oliver, 1831-1895
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Oliver Ames, 1831- 1895, Governor of Massachusetts in 1887-1890. He was son of Oakes Ames, (1804-1873) and nephew of Oliver Ames (1807-1877), the President of Union Pacific Railroad Co. In 1873 he was named as one of the executors of his father' estate. He was on the Board of the Union Pacific in 1874-1877, and served as a board member and director of several industrial companies, banks, and railroads, including the New Orleans, Mobile, & Texas, and Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railro...
Peirce, Henry B.
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Henry B. Peirce lived in Abington, Plymouth County, Mass. From the description of Henry B. Peirce and his son Eugene E. Peirce (who will be 12 in August) make a trip across the sea, 1880 June 19-August 1. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 39562135 Resident of New Bedford, Mass. From the description of Henry Peirce school notebook, 1874. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 166428957 ...
Alanson W Beard
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Copeland
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Pierce, Charles E.
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Charles Dickens.
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Runnion, James B.
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Shillaber, B. P. (Benjamin Penhallow), 1814-1890
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Author, of Portsmouth, N.H.; also wrote under names Mrs. Partington and Ruth Partington. From the description of Letter, 1853 Nov. 22. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70961170 American humorist. From the description of Papers of B. P. Shillaber [manuscript], 1856-1890. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647846046 From the description of To J.T. Fields : autograph poem signed and accompanying autograph letter si...
Bird, Mary R. S. (Mary Rebecca Stewart), 1859-1914
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Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895
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William Wetmore Story was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1840, left the United States in 1847 and spent the rest of his life in Rome. There he began his career as a sculptor, working mostly in marble. From the description of Letters sent, 1860, 1875. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77798425 American expatriate William Wetmore Story had talent and success in diverse pursuits. After graduating from Harvard, he practised law in Bo...
T. Ball
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Parker, Julia M.
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Crowninshield, Benjamin W. (Benjamin William), 1837-1892
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Major with the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry, brevet colonel with U.S. volunteers. From the description of Benjamin William Crowninshield letters [manuscript], 1891, no date. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 176633578 ...
Mayo, A. D. (Amory Dwight), 1823-1907
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Horton, N. A.
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Williams, John Joseph
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Porter, Edward G. (Edward Griffin), 1837-1900
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Minister, of Lexington, Mass. From the description of Papers, ca. 1880 : relating to the Percy family. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 15043072 ...
Wilder, Marshall P. (Marshall Pinckney), 1798-1886
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Comedian, vaudeville star, author. From the description of Letters and a quotation of Marshall Pinckney Wilder, 1891-1898, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 68940856 ...
Allen, Walter, 1840-1907
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Walter Allen, born in Birmingham in 1911, was the fourth son of Charles Allen and his wife, Annie. He was educated at King Edward's Grammar School, Aston and then at Birmingham University. After graduation he became a freelance writer and during the course of his career was a prolific contributor to all kinds of publications. Allen was one of a small group of novelists, which included John Hampson, Henry Green and Leslie Halward, working in Birmingham in the later 1930s. His first n...
McCleary, Samuel Foster, 1822-1901
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File, Charles E.
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G. Pattison & Co.
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Corse, M. v M.
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Redpath, James, 1833-1891
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Journalist, educator, and abolitionist. From the description of Papers of James Redpath, 1861 [microform] (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 173183825 From the description of Papers of James Redpath, 1861. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455130 American journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Henry C. Bowen, 1871 Oct. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616506 James Redpath was a journalist and acti...
Wells, Samuel, 1801-1868
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Epithet: bank manager; of Sheffield British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x0001de ...
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919
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Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904
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U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. From the description of George Frisbie Hoar letter to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1894 January 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 694733616 George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) was a Republican Senator from Massachusetts (1877-1904). From the description of Autograph collection, 1598-1945. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122405022 From the guide to the George Frisbie Hoar autograph collection, 1598-194...
Saml. Eliot
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Conant, S S.
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Rhoades, Asa H, d. 1885
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McKee, J. R.
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Mucklow
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Baker, Ezra H.
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Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895
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William Wetmore Story was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1840, left the United States in 1847 and spent the rest of his life in Rome. There he began his career as a sculptor, working mostly in marble. From the description of Letters sent, 1860, 1875. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77798425 American expatriate William Wetmore Story had talent and success in diverse pursuits. After graduating from Harvard, he practised law in Bo...
Chilton, R. S.
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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 ...
William Gray
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Cumming, William
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Hill, W. W.
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Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900
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Charles Dudley Warner was an American editor, essayist, and novelist. Born in Plainfield, Mass., Warner spent most of his childhood years in Charlemont, Mass. Following graduation from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., and legal training at the University of Pennsylvania, Warner practiced law in Chicago, returning to the East Coast to assume editorial positions at The Hartford press (later Hartford courant) and Harper's magazine. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and ...
Monroe, George H.
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F. B. Whitney
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Bailey, J. F.
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Dennie, Joseph, 1768-1812
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An American essayist and editor, Joseph Dennie graduated from Harvard College in 1790 and was admitted to the bar in 1794. When his law practice failed to flourish, he turned to writing. Dennie wrote for weekly papers in Walpole, New Hampshire, Boston, Massachusetts, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia. He was closely associated with the Farmer's Weekly Museum of Walpole, for which he wrote " Lay Preacher " and which under his editorship ( 1796-1798 ) became a strong Federalist organ read throughout...
W. E. Barrett
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Westcott, Thompson
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Selden, H. L.
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Gray, William, 1837-1886
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Howe, W Storer.
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Sohier, William Davies
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Coolidge, Horace Hopkins, 1832-1912
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Russell, Thomas, d. 1887
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McKee, Mary (Harrison)
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Bigelow, John Prescott, 1723-1865
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Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892
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Cyrus West Field (1819-1892) was a merchant and capitalist who promoted the laying of the first Atlantic cable linking the U.S. with Europe. He formed a company to build cable communications between Newfoundland and Ireland, helped establish elevated trains in New York City, and participated in the development of the Wabash Railroad. Other business ventures included ownership of a New York newspaper, the Mail and Express. From the description of Cyrus W. Field papers, 1831-1905, bulk...
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 ...
Walker, Clement A.
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Platt, Orville Hitchcock, 1827-1905
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Republican lawyer who served as secretary of state of Connecticut, 1857-58, as member of Connecticut state senate and house of representatives, and U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1879-1905. Died in office 1905. From the description of Letter, June 28, 1882. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53882387 U.S. senator, public official, and lawyer of Connecticut. From the description of Signature of Orville Hitchcock Platt, 1865. (Unknown). Wor...
McKim, William Walker.
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Emery, E. W.
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Hawes, Charles
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E. T. Wilson
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R. M. Pulsifer
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Locke, David Ross, 1833-1888
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Petrolueum V. Nasby was the pseudonym of David Locke. From the description of Letter, ca. 1869, Boston, Mass., to Joseph Hawley. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 23247749 American political satirist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Whitelaw Reed, 1874 Feb. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591029 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Mr. Reid, 1874 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat recor...
Hallett, Benjamin Franklin, 1797-1862
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Benjamin Franklin Hallett (December 2, 1797 – September 30, 1862) was a Massachusetts lawyer and Democratic Party activist, most notable as the first chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Benjamin Franklin Hallett was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts. After graduating from Brown University in 1816, he studied law and began a journalistic career in Providence, Rhode Island. He soon moved to Boston, where he began with the Boston Advocate, shifting to the Boston Daily Advertiser in 18...
Gardner, John Lowell, 1837-1898.
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Griffin, S. B.
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Winchester, William P.
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Russell, Henry Sturgis, 1838-1905.
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Sedley, Henry, 1835-
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Boston Light Infantry.
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Nelson, Thomas Leverett
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Walpole, Mass. - Public library.
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Proctor, Bufield
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L. L. Morgan
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Ball, Thomas, 1819-1911
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American sculptor. From the description of Sheet music, ca. 1900. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 76881995 From the description of Price list of statuary, ca. 1890. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 76881920 American sculptor From the guide to the Thomas Ball letters and miscellany, 1890-1892, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Sculptor, miniature and portrait painter, musician; Boston, Mass., Florenc...
Rice, Alexander Hamilton, 1818-1895
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Florence, William Jermyn, 1831-1891
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American actor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : New York, 1870-1883, and one letter 1871 Oct. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270533360 American songwriter, playwright, and one of the most popular actors of his day. Born William Jermyn Conlin, he adopted the name Florence because of his love of Florence, Italy, where he kept an apartment. From the description of William Jermyn Florence typed questionnaire to S. S. McClure [manuscript], n...
Fuller, Robert O.
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Forbes, John Murray, 1813-1898
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Philanthropist, abolitionist. Contributed to the building of the railroad system in the United States. From the description of John Murray Forbes letter to George William Curtis, [manuscript], 1891 January 24. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 263078000 Forbes was a Boston businessman who was engaged in the China trade early in his life and later involved in railroad development in the American West. From the description of Letters from various corres...
Baldwin, William Henry, 1826-1909.
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William Henry Baldwin (October 20, 1826-June 8, 1909) was born in Brighton, Massachusetts . In 1850 he established Baldwin, Baxter and Company, an import business of woolen goods. During the Civil War he was an active member of the Ward 11 Boston Soldiers' Relief Commission which was dedicated to providing relief to the families and soldiers of the Army of the Potomac . He retired from business in 1868 and became the President of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union, a position he held until 1...
Hall, Florence Howe, 1845-1922
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Francis Boyd
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McCall, Samuel W. (Samuel Walker), 1851-1923
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Cheney, C. G.
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Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916
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Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911
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American author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston Highlands, to Mr. Ward, 1872 Nov. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270659301 American author, Mary Grey Phelps, used her mother's name for her pseudonym. After her marriage in 1888 to Herbert Dickinson Ward, she occasionally used his surname in her publications. Charles Addison Richardson was the managing editor of the Congregationalist for 40 years. From the description of [Letter] 1869 ...
Woolson, Abba Goold, 1838-1921
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Abba Goold Woolson was a Maine author, poet, and teacher. She was the daughter of William Goold and sister of Nathan Goold. She married fellow educator Professor Moses Woolson, of Concord, N.H. In 1886 she published "George Eliot and her heroines" From the description of Abba Goold Woolson card addressed to Miss Hacker, 1882 March 16. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 743233825 ...
Andrews, Sidney, 1835-1880
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Clifford, John H. (John Herbert), 1848-
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Bryant, W. E.
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La Baronne de Montmorency
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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 ...
Chandler, Peleg W. (Peleg Whitman), 1816-1889
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Boston lawyer and politican. From the description of Letters received, 1866-1874. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 39273758 Lawyer, Journalist, and legislator, of Massachusetts; Boston city solicitor (1846-1853); served in Massachusetts House of Representatives (1844-1846, 1862-1863); and on Governor's Council (1850); b. in New Gloucester, Me. From the description of Correspondence, 1845-1880. (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 5...
Cogswell, J. B. D. (John Bear Doane), 1829-1889
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John Bear Doane Cogswell (1829-1889), the son of Rev. Nathaniel and Susan Doane Cogswell, was born on 6 June 1829 in Yarmouth, Mass. He married, on 19 August 1858, Mary Abbot Trumbull (1837-1864). They had one daughter: Mary Louisa Trumbull Cogswell (1861-1957), who married Edwin Melville Roberts (1880- ). John B. D. Cogswell died on 11 June 1889 at Haverhill, Mass. John B. D. Cogswell prepared for college at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., graduated from Dartmouth i...
Sterns, P.
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Saml. F. McCleary)
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Wood, Henry, 1834-1909
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Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899
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Ingersoll: unmarried lawyer in Peoria, Ill. From the description of Letter : Peoria, Ill., to Miss Han Selby, Smithland, Ky., 1859 Sept. 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 41986349 Ingersoll: lawyer, author, lecturer, well-known proponent of agnosticism. Hackley (1837-1905): businessman & philanthropist from Muskegon, Mich. From the description of Letter : New York, [N.Y.], to Mr. [Charles Henry?] Hackley, 1897 July 21. (Abraham L...
Beard, Alanson W.
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Boston. Public Latin School.
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