Papers, 1813-1976, 1837-1885 (bulk).

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Papers, 1813-1976, 1837-1885 (bulk).

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Bulk of collection is diaries and notebooks kept by Hough including undated notes on materia medica and statistical methods; a catalog of minerals, 1837-1841; a speech on rural cemeteries, 1861; and diaries, 1843-1885, concerning his Civil War experiences, trial of John Brown, Battle of Bull Run, his intellectual interests, local politics, writing and publishing concerns, his census work, legislative bills, travels, and the building of his home in Lowville, 1862; final volume also includes an account of his last illness and death by one of his children. Other items include his treatise on the HISTORY OF DURYEE'S BRIGADE DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN VIRGINIA ... IN THE SUMMER AND AUTUMN OF 1862, 1864; a pamphlet by his father, Dr. Horatio Gates Hough, on supplying underwater divers with air, 1813; pamphlets and articles about Franklin B. Hough, 1886-1976; typescript biography on Hough and his role in American forestry, 1935; and photographs of Hough and his son Romeyn B. Hough.

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Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924

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Romeyn Beck Hough (1857-1924) son of Franklin Benjamin Hough, was a naturalist, author and businessman in the state of New York. In 1888 he published the first volume of a series of 12 books titled American Woods, which contained the native and naturalized species of woods in the United States and Canada. These volumes were unique in that they included samples of wood as illustrations. Hough also devised a machine for cutting wood sections with thichnesses of 1/10 to 1/1,200 of an inch. In the s...

Brown, John, 1800-1859

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John Brown (May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut – December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia) was born in Connecticut in 1800 before migrating with his family at an early age to the Connecticut Western Reserve. He failed at several business ventures and land speculations before devoting his life to the abolition of slavery. Brown was executed in 1859 following his failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Edwin Coppoc, a native of Salem, Ohio, joined Brown in his rai...

United States. Army. Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 97th.

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Hough, Horatio G. (Horatio Gates), 1778-1830

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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...