Beecher-Stowe family papers, 1798-1956

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (b. June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut – d. July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut) was an American abolitionist and author. She is the daughter of Rev. Lyman Beecher who preached against slavery. She is best known for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin. It became an instant and controversial best-seller, both in the United States and abroad. The novel had a major impact on Northerners' attitudes toward slavery and by the beginning of the Civil War had sold more than a million copi...

Burton, Mary Beecher Hooker.

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Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910

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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), nursing pioneer and reformer, is regarded as the founder of modern nursing. Born in Florence, Italy, she dedicated her life to the care of the sick and war wounded. In 1844, she began to visit hospitals; in 1850, she spent some time with the nursing Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul in Alexandria and a year later studied at the institute for Protestant deaconesses in Kaiserswerth, Germany. In 1854, she organized a unit of 38 nurses for service in the Crimean War. I...

Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876

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Charlotte Saunders Cushman (July 23, 1816 – February 18, 1876) was an American stage actress. Her voice was noted for its full contralto register, and she was able to play both male and female parts. She lived intermittently in Rome, in an expatriate colony of prominent artists and sculptors, some of whom became part of her tempestuous private life. Cushman made her initial professional appearance at age eighteen on April 8, 1835 at Boston's Tremont Theatre. She then went to New Orleans where sh...

Phillipps, Adelaide, 1833-1882

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Adelaide Phillipps (26 October 1833 – 3 October 1882) was an Anglo-American opera singer and actress who became one of America’s most admired contraltos of the Victorian era. She was born as Adelaide Maria Marianne Phillipps in St Paul's in Bristol in England, the second of six children and the only daughter of Alfred Phillipps (c1806–1867), a chemist and druggist, and Mary née Rees (c1811–1854), who with her sister was a dancing and calisthenics teacher in Bristol. Adelaide Phillipps was bap...

Beecher family (Lyman Beecher)

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Prominent New England family noted for its contributions in the fields of education, religion, humanitarianism, and literature. From the description of Beecher-Stowe family Additional papers, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 539585136 African American residents of Hamilton, Ind. From the description of Papers, 1832-1883. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70938688 William Henry Beecher (1802-1889), theolog...

Beecher, Eunice White Bullard, 1813-1897

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Eunice White Bullard born in West Sutton, Massachusetts, 26 August 1812. She was the daughter of Dr. Artemas Bullard, and was educated in Hadley, Massachusetts. When Henry Ward Beecher, a clergyman, settled in his pastorate in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, in 1837, he returned east to marry Eunice, having been engaged to her for over seven years. Beecher was a contributor, chiefly on domestic subjects, to various periodicals, and some of her articles were published in book form. During a long and te...

Lord, Nathan, 1793-1870

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Nathan Lord was the sixth president of Dartmouth College; he was in office from 1828 to 1863. He was born in Berwick, Maine in 1792, and was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1809. In 1815 he was graduated from Andover Theological Seminary. He received his DD from Bowdoin in 1828 and his LL. D. from Bowdoin in 1864. He was a trustee of Dartmouth College from 1821 to 1863. He died in Hanover, N.H. in 1870. From the description of Papers, 1830-1965. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldC...

Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 1822-1907

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Isabella Beecher Hooker, née Isabella Beecher, (born Feb. 22, 1822, Litchfield, Conn., U.S.—died Jan. 25, 1907, Hartford, Conn.), American suffragist prominent in the fight for women’s rights in the mid- to late 19th century. Isabella Beecher was a daughter of the Reverend Lyman Beecher and a half sister of Henry Ward Beecher, Catharine Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. She was educated mainly in schools founded by Catharine. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a law student and descendant of Tho...

Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879

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Sarah Josepha Hale, née Sarah Josepha Buell, (born Oct. 24, 1788, Newport, N.H., U.S.—died April 30, 1879, Philadelphia, Pa.), American writer who, as the first female editor of a magazine, shaped many of the attitudes and thoughts of women of her period. Sarah Josepha Buell married David Hale in 1813, and with him she had five children. Left in financial straits by her husband’s death in 1822, she embarked on a literary career. Her poems were printed over the signature Cornelia in local journal...

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935

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Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935) was the leading public intellectual of the women’s movement in the early 20th century. Born into the prestigious Beecher family, she struggled through a lonely childhood and disastrous marriage, which caused a nervous breakdown. Her mental health returned once she separated from her husband; she later gave him custody of their young daughter, and he had a happy second marriage to one of her close friends. She moved to California, and threw herself int...

Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885

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Emily Mervine Drury

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Drury, Emily

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Charles Kingsley

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British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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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 ...

Roxana Foote

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Henry Ellis Stowe.

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Lee, Robert E. (Robert Earl), 1906-1997

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Hilda Stowe.

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Harriet Ward (Foote) Hawley

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Stowe, Frederic William, 1840-

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James Parton.

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Beecher, Thomas Kinnicut, 1824-1900

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Roxana (Ward) Foote

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Beecher, Prue

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Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909

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Eliza Tyler Stowe

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Fannie Kingsley.

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Perkins, Mary Beecher, 1805-1900

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Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887

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Dodge, Mary Abigail

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Tappan, Lewis

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Clara Kellogg

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Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885

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Maria Weston Chapman was a New England anti-slavery activist, writer, and editor. From the description of Maria Weston Chapman letters, 1839 and 1884. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49016462 Abolitionist Maria Weston Chapman was born in Weymouth, Mass., to Warren and Anne (Bates) Weston. In 1830 she married Henry Grafton Chapman, who encouraged her interest in abolition. She helped organize the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and was active...

Susan Munroe Stowe.

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Mary B. Coffin

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Kate Amberley

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Stowe, Charles Edward

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Hartford Female Seminary

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Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878

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Charles Beecher.

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Stowe, Lyman Beecher, 1880-1963

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Lyman Stowe.

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Beecher, Roxana Foote, 1775-1816

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Harriet Martineau

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Allen, Georgiana May (Stowe), 1843-1886

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Beecher, Lydia B. Jackson

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Orestes Brownson

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Anna Smith.

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Mary Cogswell

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Perkins, Frederic Beecher, 1828-1899

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Whittelsey, Samuel

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Stowe, Charles Edward, 1850-

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Byron, Anne Isabelle (Milbank) Byron, baroness, 1782-1860

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Stowe, Susan (Munroe)

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Henry Freeman Allen

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Pond, James B. (James Burton), 1889-1961

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Drury, Emily (Merwine)

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American Woman's Educational Association

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Litchfield Female Academy

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Henry Stowe

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John Beecher.

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Stowe, Lyman Beecher, 1880-

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Mary Weld

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher II, 1836-

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Edwin Laurence Godkin

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Eliot, George (pseud.), 1819-1880

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Beecher, Lyman, 1775-1863

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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...

Jenny Lind.

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Lane Seminary.

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Beecher, Edward, 1803-1895

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Whately, Richard

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Epithet: Archbishop of Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x00002a ...

Stowe, Henry Ellis, 1838-1857

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Beecher, William Henry, 1802-1889

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Catharine A. Foote

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Fred Stowe.

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Calvin Ellis Stowe.

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Ogden, Amelia

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Beecher, James, 1828-1886

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Beecher, Charles, 1815-1900

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Gail Hamilton

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Stowe, Eliza Tyler, 1836-

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Allen, D. H.

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Mary E. Wilkins

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York in 1815. She organized the first Women's Rights Convention at Senecca Falls, New York, in 1848 and for more than fifty years thereafter was a crusader for women's rights, especially women's suffrage. She died in New York City in 1902....

Daniel Moyes

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Cobbe, Frances Power, 1822-1904

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English journalist and reformer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to W.A. Knight, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899208 Frances Power Cobbe, English philanthropist, social worker, and religious author, advocate of women's rights, education for poor and neglected children, and anti-vivisectionist. From the description of Correspondence to France Power Cobbe, 1855-1904. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens...

Isabella P. Beecher

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Pierce, Sarah, 1767-1852

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Stowe, Calvin Ellis, 1802-1886

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Julia Griffiths.

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Catherine D. Sweetser

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Merwine, William

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Beecher, Harriet Porter, -1835

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Bishop F. D. Huntington

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Maria Monk.

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Beecher, Esther

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Wait, Louisa

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Milwaukee Woman's College

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