Collection, 1795-1957 (inclusive).

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Collection, 1795-1957 (inclusive).

Collection consists mainly of correspondence among family members and includes courtship correspondence of J. Doddridge to Julia, 1868-1875, and of Elsa and her future husband, Courtenay Hemenway, 1908-1912. Also included are photographs, genealogical material, a diary, commonplace and wedding books.

2 linear ft.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Hemenway, Courtenay.

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Brannan family.

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Hemenway, Elizabeth Brannan, 1882-1970.

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Gorham, Elizabeth Hammond, 1822-1910.

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Brannan, Frank Doddridge, 1876-1955.

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Doddridge family.

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Ames, James Barr, 1846-1910

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Law professor. Harvard Law School: Assistant professor, 1873-1877; Professor, 1877-1910; Bussey Prof. of Law, 1879-1903; Dean of the Faculty of Law, 1895-1910; Dane Prof. of Law, 1903-1910. From the description of Correspondence, 1872-1910. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 236047262 James Barr Ames was Dean of the Harvard Law School (1895-1910); Albert Francis Judd was Chief Justice of the Hawaii (Republic) Supreme Court (1881-1900). From the des...

Hammond family.

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Gorham family.

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Marshall, Mary Gardner.

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Mary (Gardner) Marshall graduated from Radcliffe College (A.B. 1925, A.M. 1926). During her college years she worked for J. Doddridge Brannan, Bussey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She later became a close personal friend of the family and inherited Rockledge, the family summer home in Biddeford Pool, Me., where the papers were found. Family members represented in the collection include Elizabeth (Hammond) Gorham; her daughter and son-in-law, Julia Gardiner (Gorham) Brannan and J. Doddr...

Brannan, Joseph Doddridge, 1848-1930

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Brannan, Julia Gorham, 1848-1925.

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