Papers, 1805-1848. [microform].

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Papers, 1805-1848. [microform].

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The papers of Heman Allen consist of business and personal correspondence, notes, and receipts for the years 1805-1848. Amongst the correspondence is an interesting number of political letters from various members of Vermont's congressional delegation which reveal the political flavor of the times. Correspondents of note include Horace Everett, Samuel Prentiss, Benjamin Swift, Daniel Chipman, Hiland Hall, Augustus Young, Phineas White, and Isaac Tichenor. A number of national figures are represented as well including Secretary of War Joel Roberts Poinsett, New Jersey Governor Mahlon Dickerson, and 1st Assistant Postmaster General Selah Reeve Hobbie.

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Isaac Tichenor was born on February 8, 1754 in Newark, New Jersey. A 1775 graduate of Princeton College, Tichenor studied law in Schenectady, New York before his appointment as assistant to Jacob Cuyler, Deputy Commissary General of purchases for the Northern Department, in 1777. His job as purchasing agent took him throughout New England, and he settled in Bennington and opened a law practice at the close of the Revolutionary War. Tichenor's political career began in 17...

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Everett, Horace, 1779-1851

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Swift, Benjamin, 1781-1847

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Dickerson, Mahlon, 1770-1853

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Mahlon Dickerson (April 17, 1770 - October 5, 1853) was an American judge and politician. He was elected Governor of New Jersey as well as United States Senator from that state. He was twice appointed Secretary of the Navy - under Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin van Buren. From the description of Document, May 26, 1837. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 18168849 Richard Dale was a naval officer. From the guide to the Richard Dale papers, 1780-1845, 17...

Hall, Hiland, 1795-1885

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U.S. Representative from Vermont (1833-1843), lawyer in Bennington, Vt., member of state legislature, state's attorney, state bank commissioner, Superior Court judge, U.S. Land Commissioner for California, governor of Vermont (1858-1860), and historian; Whig; died in Springfield, Mass. From the description of Hiland Hall papers, 1786-1885 (bulk 1832-1881). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 671251777 ...

White, Phineas, 1770-1847.

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Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851

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Charleston and Georgetown, S.C. attorney, plantation owner, and politician. Poinsett served as the U.S. Secretary of War under President Martin Van Buren from 1837 to 1841. From the description of Letters, 1837-1839. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 37522812 U.S. diplomat and secretary of war. An amateur of natural history, he imported and cultivated the Mexican flower named in his honor, and was one of the founders in 1840 of the National Institu...

Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886

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Henry Stevens was born on August, 24, 1819, in Barnet, Vermont. He attended Middlebury College for a year, but graduated from Yale College in 1843 with the degree of B.A. Upon graduating, he attended Harvard Law School for a year. In 1840, he worked as a clerk in Washington, D.C. for the the treasury department of the United States Senate. He also worked for the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress and was an early advocate for the use of photography as a means of supplementing bi...

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Chipman, Daniel, 1765-1850

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Hobbie, Selah Reeve, 1797-1854

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U.S. representative from and public official of New York and army officer. From the description of Letter of Selah Reeve Hobbie, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450928 Lawyer, Delhi, New York; U.S. representative from New York, 1827- 1829; assistant U.S. postmaster general, 1829-1851. From the description of Letter : [Washington, D.C.], to Stephen S. Phelps, Yellow Banks, Ill., 1836 Aug. 5. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 338...

Allen, H. (Heman), 1777-1844

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Heman Allen was born June 14, 1777, in Ashfield (now Deerfield), MA, the third of eight children of Enoch and Mercy (Belding) Allen. After receiving a classical course of study Allen read law with Elnathan Keyes of Burlington and Hon. Judge Parker of St. Albans before he took up his own practice in Milton in 1803. In December of 1804 Allen married Sarah, daughter of Dr. John Prentiss of St. Albans, who bore him eight children. A highly respected lawyer, Allen was elected...