Papers, 1806-1897.

Dall, Caroline Healey, 1822-1912

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Caroline Wells Healey Dall (June 22, 1822 – December 17, 1912) was an American feminist writer, transcendentalist, and reformer. She was affiliated with the National Women's Rights Convention, the New England Women's Club, and the American Social Science Association. Her associates included Elizabeth Peabody and Margaret Fuller, as well as members of the Transcendentalist movement in Boston. Caroline Healey was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of Mark Healey, a merchant and ...

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...

Gallaudet, T. H. (Thomas Hopkins), 1787-1851

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Educators. From the description of T.H. Gallaudet and Edward Miner Gallaudet papers, 1806-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80754719 Philadelphia-born educator; pioneer in teaching of the deaf. From the description of ALS : Hartford, to James McFarlane Mathews, 1832 July 5. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122316930 Biographical Note T. H. Gallaudet ...

Downing, Charles.

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Gray, John P. (John Purdue), 1825-1886

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Parker, Willard, 1800-1884

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Brooklyn doctor. From the description of Papers, 1829-1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155453028 New York surgeon; lecturer at Columbia University and New York Hospital. From the description of Lectures on surgery, 1847-1848 / by Willard Parker ... (University of Minnesota). WorldCat record id: 62552886 U.S. surgeon and professor of surgery. From the description of Letter, 1866, Aug. 10 : New York City. (Duke University). WorldCat record ...

Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869

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Robert "King" Carter (1663-1732) was a colonial official and great landholder (300,000 acres). His sons were Robert Carter (1704-1731) and Landon Carter (1710-1778) of "Sabine Hall." Grandsons of Robert Carter included Robert "Councillor" Carter (1728-1804) of "Nomini" and Robert Wormeley Carter (1734-1797). From the guide to the Carter Family Papers, 1667-1862., (Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary) Professor and dean of the Jefferson M...

Pattison, Granville Sharp, 1791-1851

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Scottish physician and professor of surgery, practiced and taught in Philadelphia and Baltimore. From the description of Letter, 1835, Apr. 21 : Philadelphia, to Robert Gilmor, Baltimore. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35231342 ...

Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894

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French physiologist, neurologist and endocrinologist. From the description of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard papers, 1871-1889, and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31383182 Brown-Sequard was elected to the Academie des Sciences in 1886. From the description of Letter : [Paris], 1886 Jun 18. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 703640281 From the description of Letter : [Paris], 1886 Jun 18. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 7021624...

Edmonds, John W. (John Worth), 1799-1874

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Bedford, Gunning S., 1806-1870

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Hays, I. Minis (Isaac Minis), 1847-1925

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Isaac Minis Hays was a Philadelphia physician and author and editor of books on medicine and Benjamin Franklin. He was Librarian of American Philosophical Society, 1897-1922. From the description of Correspondence, ca. 1880s-1925. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122616180 I. Minis Hays was a Philadelphia physician and author and editor of books on medicine and Benjamin Franklin. He was Librarian of the American Philosophical Society from 1897 to...

Stevens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hodgdon), 1789-1869

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New York surgeon. From the description of Papers, 1839 and undated, [New York City]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35359698 ...

Shearman, Abraham, 1777-1847

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Quaker; publisher, printer, and bookseller, of New Bedford, Mass. From the description of Abraham Shearman, Jr., letter, 1843. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 159937843 From the description of Abraham Shearman, Jr., letters, 1823-1826. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 77110792 ...

Beck, Theodric Romeyn, 1791-1855

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Theodric Romeyn Beck (1791-1855) was a physician in New York. From the description of Theodric Romeyn Beck letters, 1825-1855. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122532130 From the guide to the Theodric Romeyn Beck letters, 1825-1855, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) American physician. From the description of Letter to an unknown recipient [manuscript], 1833 August 18. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823342 ...

Talcott, Selden Haines, 1842-1902.

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Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901

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U.S. Army officer during the Civil War and public official, New York and New Jersey. From the description of Letters, 1894-1895. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70975832 American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Morristown, to an unidentified Senator, [1876?] Feb. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270618668 From the description of Autograph telegram signed : [n.p.], to General Morell, Miner...

Gilman, Arthur, 1837-1909

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Arthur Gilman was an author, editor, and founder of Radcliffe College. For biographical information, see Who Was Who in America. From the description of Scrapbook, 1876-1914 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009465 Arthur Gilman, banker, educator, and historian, was instrumental in founding Radcliffe College; he served as Secretary (1879-1894) and Regent (1894-1896). He was also founder (1886) of the Gilman School for Girls (later names: the Cambridge...

Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917

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Author and journalist. From the description of F.B. Sanborn correspondence and essays, 1852-1879. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84163242 Massachusetts journalist. From the description of Song / words by Mr. F.B. Sanborn, music a part of Brignal Banks. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 62350218 American journalist and reformer. From the description of Letter, 1889 March 21, Concord, Mass., to E.D. Walker, New York. (Boston Athenaeum). W...

Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, 1815-1875

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Andrew Jackson Hamilton (1815-1875), governor of Texas, was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on January 28, 1815. He moved to Texas in 1846 and practiced law in La Grange before moving to and settling in Austin. He married Mary Bowen, also of Alabama. Governor Peter H. Bell of Texas appointed Hamilton acting attorney general in 1849. From 1851 to 1853, Hamilton represented Travis County in the state House of Representatives. In 1859, Hamilton was voted into the United States House of Re...

Thurnam, John, 1810-1873

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Warner, Oliver

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Public official of Massachusetts. From the description of Oliver Warner commission, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982808 ...

Earle, Pliny, 1809-1892

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Quaker physician and alienist of Northhampton, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1806-1897. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 154271532 From the description of Papers, 1806-1897. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35149599 Pliny Earle (1809-1892) was born in Leicester, Mass., the son of Patience Buffum Earle and Pliny Earle (1762-1832), who invented and patented a machine for making wool and cotton cards. The younger Pliny attended Leicester Academy, th...

Winslow, Forbes, 1810-1874

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Clark, William Smith, 1826-1886

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Botanist, chemist, mineralogist, President of Massachusetts (1867-1879) and Sapporo (1876-1877) Agricultural Colleges. From the description of President William Smith Clark papers, 1814-1997 (bulk 1844-1884). (University of Massachusetts Amherst). WorldCat record id: 51686524 ...

Phipson, Emma

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Davis, J. C. Bancroft, 1822-1907

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Jurist, diplomat, journalist, and court reporter. From the description of J.C. Bancroft Davis papers, 1849-1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982285 Biographical Note 1822, Dec. 29 Born, Worcester, Mass. 1844 Admitted to Massachusetts bar 1847 ...

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...

Peirce, Henry Bailey.

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Mott, Valentine, 1785-1865

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Valentine Mott was an American surgeon and medical professor in New York City. He graduated from Columbia College, where he later became a professor of surgery; he also had a very successful private practice. He spent 1834-1841 in Europe. Upon returning to New York he joined the faculty of the new medical department of the University of the City of New York, now the New York University School of Medicine. From the description of Valentine Mott collection, 1819-1860. (New-York Histori...

Howe, S. G. (Samuel Gridley), 1801-1876

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Physician, reformer, and husband of Julia Ward Howe. From the description of Papers, 1868. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 46344998 Humanitarian crusader for many causes including Greek freedom, education for the disabled, prison reform, abolition, and black suffrage, Howe founded the Perkins School for the Blind and was the chairman of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities. When just out of the Harvard Medical School, he went to Greece as an army surgeon...

Séguin, Edward, 1812-1880

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Farnham, Eliza Woodson Burhans, 1815-1864

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Hastings, Seth, 1762-1831

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