Miscellaneous correspondence collection, 1765-1935.

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Miscellaneous correspondence collection, 1765-1935.

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Letters to Zephaniah Platt concerning land purchases and politics from Peter Yates, Melancthon Smith, George Clinton, James Kent, and William Bailey, 1784-1801; Levi Platt to John G. Freligh concerning a religious disagreement, no date; and Platt family letters concerning land, money, visits, and family history, 1785, 1896-1935. John W. Mooers to his father Benjamin concerning his religious conversion, 1825; and a letter to William B. Mooers concerning the removal of Commodore Thomas Macdonough's body from Connecticut to New York, 1909. Benjamin Moore to Amasa C. Moore about a sea voyage, 1831. Two letters of Commodore Thomas Macdonough to Melancthon Smith concerning naval movements and supplies, 1814; family letters of Margaret F.L. Wolfe to her cousin Sue, 1890-1894; letters by Louis Agassiz, 1858, and Horace Greeley, 1864, concerning publishing; and other local letters, 1765-1864.

.2 cubic ft.

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Platt, Zephaniah, 1735-1807

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Zephaniah Platt (May 27, 1735 – September 12, 1807) was an American politician and lawyer, and founder of the U.S. town of Plattsburgh, New York. Born in Huntington in the Province of New York, Platt received an English education. After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he practiced law in Poughkeepsie, New York. He became involved in politics, serving as a a member of the New York Provincial Congress from 1775 to 1777, on the Committee of Safety in 1777, in the New York State Senat...

Plattsburgh Public Library.

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Collecting area: History of Plattsburgh, Clinton, Franklin, and Essex Counties, and the Adirondacks. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155466534 ...

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...

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Freligh, John G.

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Moore, Amasa Corbin, 1801-1865.

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Moore was a real estate broker, attorney, owner of grist and lumber mills and an iron forge, and colonel of militia regiment. From the description of Papers, 1858-1965. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 176053951 ...

Mooers, Benjamin, 1758-1838

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Major-General in New York State Militia, serving in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812; early landowner in northern Clinton County; served as sheriff, county treasurer, state legislator, and president of Bank of Plattsburgh. From the description of Papers, 1785-1872, 1785-1836 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155465972 Continental Army officer. From the description of Papers of Benjamin Mooers, 1780. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71061909 ...

Platt family.

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Macdonough, Thomas.

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Kent, James A.

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Bailey, William, 1763-1840.

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Woolfe, Margaret F. L.

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Clinton, George, 1771-1809

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Mooers, John W.

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Mooers, William

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Platt, Levi.

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Yates, Peter, 1929-2011

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Smith, Melancthon, 1829-1881

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