Laura Gordon papers, [ca. 1852-1882]

Allen, Ira, 1751-1814

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Ira Allen was born in Cornwall, Connecticut on April 21, 1751, the sixth and youngest son of Joseph and Mary (Baker) Allen. Moving to Vermont around 1770, Allen entered into various land speculations and became a member of the Onion River Land Company with his brothers Heman, Zimri, and Ethan and his cousin Remember Baker. During the Revolution he was a member of the Green Mountain Boys and he played important roles in the Canadian Campaign of 1775-1776 and in the recapturing of Fort ...

Wallis, Sarah (Mrs. Joseph S. Wallis)

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Walcott, Josephine

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Samuel J. Alden

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Spencer, Sara Andrews

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Ginn, John I., 1837-

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John Ginn, printer of Acworth, Georgia, left Independence, Missouri in 1857 with Magraw's Pacific Wagon Road Expedition. At Fort Laramie, he worked for the Commissary Department of the 10th United States Infantry, resigned, and moved on to Fort Bridger where the Mormon militia was in command. From the description of Mormon and Indian wars [microform] : The Mountain Meadows Massacre, and other tragedies and transactions incident to the Mormon rebellion of 1857 / /by John I. Ginn. (Unk...

Goodrich, Sara Knox

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Broughton, W. W.

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Bancroft (A. L.) and Company, San Francisco

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Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 1826-1898

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Matilda Joslyn Gage (b. Mar. 24, 1826, Cicero, NY–d. Mar. 18, 1898, Chicago, IL) was a prominent suffragist. Her father, Hezekiah Joslyn, was an abolitionist and his home was a station of the Underground Railroad. In 1845 she married Henry H. Gage, and had five children; her son-in-law was writer L. Frank Baum. Gage became involved in the women's rights movement in 1852 when she decided to speak at the National Women's Rights Convention in Syracuse, NY. She served as president of the National ...

Palmer, Cynthia M

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Murphy, R. W.

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Griffith, John L., 1931-

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Freeman, A. C. (Abraham Clark), 1843-1911

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Laura J. Watkins.

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Griffing, Emma, 1841-

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Link, H.

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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....

Clara Foltz

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Clapp, H. K.

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Hutchinson, Abigail Jemima, 1829-1892

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Schenck, Elizabeth T.

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Stevens, Emily Pitts

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Terry, David Smith, 1823-1889

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David Smith Terry was a lawyer, politician, and California Supreme Court justice. Born in Kentucky, he lived in Texas during the Revolution and joined the Texas Rangers during the Mexican War. After settling in California, he was elected a judge of the Supreme Court in 1855. Political rivalry with David C. Broderick, culminated in the famous Terry-Broderick duel in 1859, in which Broderick was killed. Terry joined the Confederate army during the Civil War and returned to California afterwards to...

Doten, Lizzie, 1829-

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Watkins, Laura J.

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Sargent, Ellen Clark (Mrs. Aaron Augustus Sargent)

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Hinton, Richard J. (Richard Josiah), 1830-1901

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Richard J. Hinton was born on November 26, 1830, in London, England. Hinton crossed the Atlantic in 1851 and took up residence in New York City. While there he learned the printer's trade and soon became a newspaper reporter for several different newspapers in that city, as well as in Boston. As a reporter he opposed the Fugitive Slave Law, became an anti-slavery advocate, and assisted in the organization of the Republican Party. In June 1856 Hinton set out with other free-state emigrants, reach...

Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?

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Ambrose Bierce was born in Horse Cave Creek, Ohio, on June 24, 1842. After military service in the Civil War, he settled in San Francisco, where he met Mark Twain and became a columnist and writer. Bierce became known for his sharp, sarcastic wit while writing for the "Argonaut," the "Wasp," and the "San Francisco Examiner." A member of the Bohemian Club, he became acquainted with many of the prominent San Francisco authors. After his retirement Bierce traveled into Texas and toward Mexico, at a...

Fox, Dorus M. (Dorus Morton), 1817-1901

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Avery, Alida C

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Josephine Sophia White Griffing

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Chandler, Lucinda B.

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Pratt, Richard H., 1934-

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Richard Houghton Pratt, Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, is a well known contributor and leader in the field of high energy atomic physics, as well as being an active environmentalist and experienced world traveler. He is also known for his assistance in the defection of many physicists from communist eastern bloc countries including Romania in the 1970s. Pratt was also involved in bringing Semester at Sea, a teaching voyage that circumnavigates the globe during a semester, to...

Foltz, Clara Shortridge, 1849-1934

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Curtis, Celia

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Safford, A. P. K., 1828-

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Ringgold, Charles S

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Johnson, J.A.

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Bacon, George Andrew, 1847-1930

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George Andrew Bacon was born in Webster, Massachusetts on January 17, 1847. He attended Nichols Academy in Dudley, Massachusetts and entered Brown University in 1864. Following his graduation in 1867, he was the principal of Derby Academy in Vermont, then Gardner High School in Massachusetts. Bacon went on to study Greek and Hebrew at Newton Theological Seminary and the University of Göttingen in Germany. In 1870, he accepted a position as a teacher of Mathematics and History in the Brooklyn Pol...

Carr, Jeanne C. Smith

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Jeanne Caroline Smith Carr was born in Vermont and married Ezra Slocum Carr, a physician and professor, who taught at the University of Wisconsin before they moved to California in 1869. Ezra became a professor at the University of California, and in 1875 when he was elected state superintendent of public instruction, his wife was made assistant superintendent. The Carrs settled in Pasadena in 1880, where Jeanne's long interest in botany inspired the development of their home, "Carmelita," a gar...

Gordon, Charles H, 1833-

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Van Valkenburgh, Ellen R.

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Savage, Myron H.

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Safford, Jenny L. T.

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Ames, Fanny (Baker), 1840-1930

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Griffing, Josephine W. (Josephine White), 1814-1872

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American social reformer. From the description of Josephine W. Griffing letters, 1862-1872. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 465279024 ...

Denio, Angie S.

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Stow, Mrs.

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Maguire, James G. (James George), 1853-1920

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Steele, Rowena G

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Blake, Lillie Devereux, 1833-1913

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Lillie Devereux Blake (pen name, Tiger Lily; August 12, 1833 – December 30, 1913) was an American woman suffragist, reformer, and writer, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and educated in New Haven, Connecticut. In her early years, Blake wrote several novels and for the press. In 1869, she became actively interested in the woman suffrage movement and devoted herself to pushing the reform, arranging conventions, getting up public meetings, writing articles and occasionally making lecture tours....

Waterhouse, L. G.

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Patton, Abby Hutchinson, 1829-1892

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Kirby, Georgiana Bruce, 1818-1887

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Originally from Bristol, England, Kirby re-located in Santa Cruz to join Eliza Farnham, with whom she worked as an assistant warden at Sing Sing Women's Prison. Her book, Years of experience (1886), describes her life before Santa Cruz. From the description of Georgiana Kirby diary : typed transcript, [undated]. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122558991 ...

Sprague, Mrs. C. H.

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Leavitt, Mrs. C. C.

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David Terry

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Tallmadge, Frank W.

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Patton, Ludlow

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Mulford, Prentice, 1834-1891

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Journalist. From the description of Letter of Prentice Mulford, no year Dec. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454665 ...

Eddy, Almira H.

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