Biographies/Yager collection, 1825-1892.

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Biographies/Yager collection, 1825-1892.

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Biography by a scholar of the early woman astronomer, Maria Mitchell, relating to her brother, educator William Foster Mitchell (1825-1892), chiefly documenting his educational and charitable work with the poor and blacks in Philadelphia, Pa., Alabama, Tennessee, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Washington, D.C.; together with biographies of wives of Nantucket ship captains, taken from journals kept on board ship while accompanying their husbands on whaling voyages. Persons represented include Eliza (Spencer) Brock (1810-1899), wife of Capt. Peter C. Brock, on the 1853-1856 voyage of the Lexington; Elizabeth (Morse) Morey (1810-1893, Mrs. Israel Morey) on voyages on the Phoenix, 1853-1856; and Catawba, 1857-1859; and Harriet (Myrick) Swain (1815-1857), married to Obed Swain, describing the whaling voyage of the ship Catawba, 1852-1855.

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Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889

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Maria Mitchell, astronomer, was born on the island of Nantucket in 1818. Through her father, William Mitchell, she became interested in astronomy and assisted him in his observatory. In the late 1830s she was appointed librarian at the Nantucket Athenaeum, using its collection to educate herself while she worked with her father in the evenings. In 1847 she discovered a new comet, named for her, and was subsequently awarded a gold medal by the King of Denmark. A year later she became the first wo...

Brock, Eliza Spencer, 1810-1899

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Lexington (Ship : 1853-1856)

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Whaling vessel, out of Nantucket, Mass., mastered by Peter C. Brock; owner-agent: Perry & McCleave. From the description of Log/journal, 1855 Mar. 21-1856 June 25. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 71013350 From the description of Log/journal, 1853 May 21-1856 June 25. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 71012801 Whaling vessel, out of Nantucket, Mass., mastered by Peter C. Brock. From the description of Accounts, 1853-1...

Brock, Peter C., 1805-1878

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Mitchell, William Forster, 1825-1892

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Catawba (Ship)

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Trading vessel, out of Nantucket, Mass., mastered by Benjamin Riddell. From the description of Log/journal, 1859 July-1860 Apr. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 71013778 Whaling vessel, out of Nantucket, Mass., mastered by Obed Swain II; owner-agent: Charles G. & Henry Coffin. From the description of Log/journal, 1848 Apr. 24-1852 Dec. 27. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 70925593 Whaling vessel, out of Nantucket, Ma...

Swain, Harriet Myrick, 1815-1857

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Wife of Obed Swain II, ship captain, of Nantucket, Mass.; travelled with her husband on a whaling voyage to the South Pacific from 1852-1854, leaving ship in 1855 in Peru due to illness. From the description of Journals, 1855. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 71013139 ...

Morey, Israel

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Swain, Obed, 1814-1901

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Phoenix (Ship : 1821-1860)

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Whaling vessel, out of Nantucket, Mass., mastered by Israel Morey; owner-agent: Gardner & McCleave; built 1821; last voyage, 1860. From the description of Log/journal, 1853 July 20-1855 Aug. 13. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 71012920 Whaling vessel, out of Nantucket, Mass., mastered by Isaac B. Hussey; owner-agent: Thomas & Philip Macy; built 1821; last voyage, 1860. From the description of Log/journal, 1834 July 6-1837 Feb. 4. (Nantuc...

Morey, Elizabeth Morse, 1810-1893

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