Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge records II, 1830-1843.

Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

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Eliot, Samuel Atkins, 1798-1862

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Samuel Atkins Eliot was born in Boston, Mass., March 5, 1798; attended the Boston Latin School; was graduated from Harvard University in 1817 and from the divinity school in 1820; member of the State house of representatives 1834-1837; mayor of Boston 1837-1839; served in the State senate in 1843-1844; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert C. Winthrop and served from August 22, 1850, to March 3, 1851; declined to be a candidate for...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Sparks, Jared (1)

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Francis, Convers, 1795-1863

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American theologian and educator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1854 Aug. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270138877 Francis and Parker were both ministers. From the description of Letters : to Theodore Parker, 1836-1839. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612802278 ...

Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875

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Clergyman, politician, author. From the description of Papers: of Charles Wentworth Upsham, 1835-1873 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810940 ...

Gould, Benjamin A. (Benjamin Apthorp), 1787-1859

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American educator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Professor John Griscom, 1825 Jan. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269564860 Epithet: junior, American astronomer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000766.0x0003e3 ...

Dewey, Orville, 1794-1882

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Orville Dewey (1794-1882) was born and died in Sheffield, Mass. He graduated from Williams College in 1814, and Andover Seminary in 1819. Shortly after, he became an Unitarian, and served as minister at the following churches: Federal Street Church (Boston, Mass.), 1821-1823; First Church (New Bedford, Mass.), 1822-1833; Second Congregational Church (New York, N.Y.), 1835-1848; New South Church (Boston, Mass.), 1857-1861. Dewey received an honorary D.D. from Harvard in 1839. He was president of ...

Baker, Henry Felt 1797-1857

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Curtis, Charles Pelham, 1792-1864

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Dixwell, E. S., 1807-1899.

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Channing, Edward Tyrrel, 1790-1856

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Channing (Harvard, A.M., 1819) taught rhetoric and oratory at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Edward Tyrel Channing, 1816? (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972770 ...

Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879

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Physician and botanist of Boston, Mass. From the description of Jacob Bigelow letter, 1822-1833, [Boston]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34847536 Jacob Bigelow (Harvard University, A.B. 1806 and University of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1810) taught at Harvard Medical School from 1815-1855. With Dr. Francis Boott he began work on a flora of New England but this project was given up. From 1817-1820 he published American medical botany for which he drew many of the plates and ...

Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

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Horace Mann was an educator and a statesman who greatly advanced the cause of universal, free, non-sectarian public schools. Mann also advocated temperance, abolition, hospitals for the mentally ill, and women's rights. From the description of Horace Mann Letter, 1858. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 213372958 Horace Mann, "Father of our Public Schools," was born in Franklin, Massachusetts on May 4, 1796. His family was poor and his father di...

Lawrence, Abbott, 1792-1855

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Biographical note: Boston merchant; Abbott Lawrence was in partnership with his brother Amos, founded and developed the textile-manufacturing city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, represented his district in Congress (1834-1836, 1838-1840), and was U.S. minister to Great Britain (1849-1852). Richard Henry Wilde (1878-1847) was an American lawyer, scholar and poet. He was Attorney General of Georgia (1811) and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1815-1817, 1825, 1827-1835). From...