Smith family papers, 1774-1907

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Title

Smith family papers, 1774-1907

Date

1774-1907

Resource Link

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00041/catalog

Abstract

Contains legal papers of Manasseh Smith, Sr., Joseph Emerson Smith, Samuel Emerson Smith and other members of the Smith family who practiced law in midcoast Maine, Boston and Chicago from the late 18th century to the early late 19th century. Also contains papers relating to the real estate and paper mill business of Dudley W. Moor and Edward W. Heath.

Extent

11 boxes (4.5 linear ft.)

Holding Repository

Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6385703

Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Maine. Sagadahoc Registry of Deeds.

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Clark, John

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Mary Smith

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Birch Point Lumber Mill.

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Shepherd, John H.

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Smith, Manasseh H.

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Walter, Lynde.

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Otis, William

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Sevey, William

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Smith, Frances Olivia

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Sheldon, Bartlett

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Smith, Benjamin F.

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Blaney, Andrew

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Hayden, E. D.

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Philbrook and Peters

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Hovey, Edwin Sevey

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Hall, A. W.

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Ames, Benjamin, 1778-1835

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Smith, Silas.

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Smith, Manasseh

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Dunham, John M.

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Smith, Elijah

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Libbey, A.

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Binney, Amos, 1802-1878

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Holbrook, Samuel

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Smith family

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Manasseh Smith (1748-1823) was a 1775 graduate of Harvard College, a chaplain during the Revolution as well as a lawyer in Wiscasset, Maine. And, importantly, he was also the "progenitor of a race of lawyers": his four sons all practiced law in midcoast Maine and elsewhere, as did many of his grandsons. His son Joseph Emerson Smith (1782-1837; Harvard 1804) was perhaps the most well-known and primarily handled mercantile cases in Boston, spending a great deal of time...

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Moor, Dudley Watson.

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Smith, Benjamin F.

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Nathaniel Holbrook

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Smith, Samuel Emerson, 1788-1860

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Smith, Samuel Emerson, 1788-1860

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Harvard Law School

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Law clubs were established to provide students an opportunity to practice preparing and arguing law cases as realistically as possible. Law clubs began to be founded at Harvard in the 19th century; one of the earliest was the Marshall Club, founded in 1825. In 1910, the Board of Student Advisers was formed, and the more formal Ames Competition in Appellate Brief Writing and Advocacy was established. From the description of General information by and about Harvard Law School clubs, 18...

Smith, Edwin

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Edwin Smith operated a stored in the 1880s and 1890s at Federal Point, Florida, near Jacksonville and St. Augustine. Smith was involved in the orange trade and had dealings with several produce sellers including Bernard Abel and Co. and John A. Lyon, both of New York, and T. Nooney and Sons in Jacksonville, Florida. He also purchased fertilizer and other supplies for local grove owners from suppliers such as Wilkinson and Co. He also helped found the local Episcopal Church, although no reference...

Fowler, Bradford

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Morton, Oren F., 1857-1926

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Historian, of Winchester, Va. From the description of Papers of Oren Frederic Morton [manuscript] 1814, 1900-25. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647941955 ...

Hovey, Mary Smith

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Charles D. Brown & Company

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Barker, Samuel P.

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Warren, Henry, 1794-1879

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Smith, Joseph E., shipmaster

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Smith, Lucy, 1783-1842

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Wood, Edward H., 1949-

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Rice, Warren.

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Jackson, Frank H. (Frank Harry), 1924-

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Goff, Charles and Deborah

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Spaulding, Joseph Whitman

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Captain in the 19th Maine Infantry Regiment; lawyer, of Richmond, Me., Fort Payne, Ala., and Boston, Mass.; name also appears as J.W. Spaulding. From the description of Joseph Whitman Spaulding military reports, 1865. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 191684321 ...