Papers, 1802-1963 (inclusive), 1833-1908 (bulk).

Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880

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Lydia Maria Child was born Lydia Maria Francis in Medford, Massachusetts on February 11, 1802. She was born into an abolitionist family and was greatly influenced by her brother, Convers, who would later become a Unitarian Clergyman. After the death of her mother in 1814, Child moved to Maine to live with her sister and began teaching in Gardiner in 1819. While living in Maine, Child became increasingly interested in Native Americans and visited many nearby settlements. Child began actively writ...

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...

Utah Expedition (1857-1858)

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United States. Department of the Treasury

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The Department of the Treasury was created by an act of Congress (1 Stat. 65), approved September 2, 1789. The orginal act established the Department to superintend the manage the National finances. This act charged the Secretary of the Treasury with the preparation of plans for the improvement and management of the revenue and the support of public credit. It further provided that the Secretary should prescribe the forms for keeping and rendering all manner of public accounts and for the ma...

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...

Browne, Alice, 1843-1912.

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Browne, Sarah Smith Cox, 1810-1885.

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Browne, Edward Cox, 1853-1911.

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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...

Brown family

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Dr. Gilbert Brown (1883-1960) was a pioneer of modern anaesthesia in Australia and was the first president of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists. He was made a CBE in 1953. Dr. Marie Brown, nZ̐̌ee Simpson, (1883-1949) had a strong emphasis on public health and maternal and infant health in her medical career. She was associated with the Mothers and Babies' Health Association for many years. Their son, Ian Brown (1917-1987), had a 36 year career with the CSIRO (previously CSIR), beginning in...

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 ...

Weld family.

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Birney, William, 1819-1907

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William Birney was born May 28, 1819 on his father's plantation near Huntsville, Alabama. He grew up there and in Danville, Kentucky. Birney was educated at Centre College and Yale University and he practiced law in Cincinnati, Ohio. He then lived for five years in Europe, primarily on the Continent and in England. For two years, he was a professor of English literature at the college in Bourges. He took an active part in the revolutionary movement in France in 1848. He later wrote numerous arti...

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author. From the description of Nathaniel Hawthorne manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1853-1857 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 301761440 American author, writer of romances, stories, and juvenile works. Born July 4, 1804, in Salem, Mass.; died May, 1864, in Plymouth, N.H. Sometime resident of Concord, Mass. Graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825. Hawthorne's association with the Boston publishing firm of Ticknor and Fields began ...

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887

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Dix was a humanitarian crusader for the mentally ill. She investigated the conditions of the hospitalized insane in many U.S. states and some European countries, and petitioned state and national legislatures for reforms. She was also superintendent of army nurses during the Civil War. Eliot was a Unitarian minister, an educator, and assisted in the founding of Reed College in Oregon. From the description of Letters to Thomas Lamb Eliot, 1869-1885. (Harvard University). WorldCat reco...

Browne, Albert G. (Albert Gallatin), 1805-1885

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Weld, Lewis Ledyard, 1834-1865.

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Cox family.

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Loring, George B. (George Bailey), 1817-1891

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Lamar, Gazway Bugg, 1798-1874.

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Hall, James T.

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Beecher, James Chaplin, 1828-1886

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Clergyman, abolitionist, brother of Catherine and Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet (Beecher) Stowe; resident of Elmira (Chemung County), N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1865-1866. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19211025 Beecher, James Chaplin, 1828-1886, clergyman, abolitionist, son of Lyman Beecher, 1775-1863, brother of Catharine and Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe; resident of Elmira, N.Y. From the guide to the James Chaplin Be...

Browne, Sarah Ellen, 1841-1864.

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Sarah Ellen (Nellie) Browne was the daughter of Sarah Smith Cox Browne and Albert Gallatin Browne, Sr. She attended a school for girls conducted by Elizabeth and Louis Agassiz in Cambridge, Mass., 1856-1859. From the description of Papers, 1856-1859 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122421302 ...

Story, E. A.

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Dahlgreen, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870.

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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. ...