Papers of Daniel Appleton White, 1793-1803, 1837

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Papers of Daniel Appleton White, 1793-1803, 1837

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Daniel Appleton White (1776-1861) was a Massachusetts lawyer, legislator, and judge. These papers document his activities as a student and his early career as a teacher in Massachusetts from 1793 to 1803. They include materials from his time as a student at Atkinson Academy in New Hampshire in 1793 and as an undergraduate at Harvard College from 1793 to 1797, as well as documents created while teaching at the grammar school in Medford, Massachusetts from 1797 to 1799 and as a tutor at Harvard College from 1799 to 1803. In addition, the collection contains White's memoir of his undergraduate years at Harvard, written in 1837 when he was sixty-one years old, and eulogies he wrote in 1800 following the deaths of Samuel Shapleigh and George Washington.

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White, Daniel Appleton, 1776-1861

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Daniel Appleton White was born to John and Elizabeth (Haynes) White in what is now Lawrence, Massachusetts on June 7, 1776. He grew up on the family's farm, leaving in June 1792 to study under Silas Dinsmoor at Atkinson Academy in New Hampshire. White was a diligent student and gained admission to Harvard College in July 1793. He received an A.B. with highest honors from Harvard in 1797, taught at the Medford (Massachusetts) grammar school from 1797 to 1799, and was Latin tutor at Harvard from 1...