Louis Agassiz letters, 1854-1858.

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...

Jenks, J. W. P. (John Whipple Potter), 1819-1894

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Hough, Franklin Benjamin, 1822-1885

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Franklin B. Hough was born in Martinsburg, NY in 1822. He studied medicine and practiced in Somerville, NY from 1848 to 1852. He is described as a "pioneer historian of counties in New York State" and an advocate of forest conservation. In 1855 and 1865, he was Superintendent of the State Census for New York and was also involved in the 1875 census. He was one of seven Commissioners of Parks in New York in 1872 and in 1876 he became a Forestry Agent in the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. He published...