Papers, 1832-1860.

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Papers, 1832-1860.

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Massachusetts legislator and manufacturer of cordage, of New Bedford, Mass. Family correspondence and business papers. Includes letters (1838-42) from W.C. Whitridge describing life and business at New Orleans. Other correspondents include Sydney Howard Gay, Abbott Lawrence, Daniel Ricketson, John Fothergill Ware, and Robert C. Winthrop.

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Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1809-1894

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Robert Charles Winthrop (May 12, 1809 – November 16, 1894) was an American lawyer and philanthropist and one time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a descendant of John Winthrop. Robert Charles Winthrop was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Thomas Lindall Winthrop (1760–1841), the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, and Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple (1769–1825), who were married on July 25, 1786. He was the youngest of 13 children born to his parents. Winthrop attende...

Whitridge, W. C.

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Rotch family.

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Ware, John Fothergill, 1818-1881.

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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...

Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888

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Sydney Howard Gay (1814-1888) was an American journalist, author and abolitionist. He was an editor at the Anti-Slavery Standard, the New York Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Evening Post. His other activities included lecturing for the American Anti-Slavery Society and writing biographies and the multi-volume History of the United States (with William Cullen Bryant). From the guide to the Sydney Howard Gay papers, ca. 1837-1886, (The New York Public Library. Manuscrip...

Ricketson, Daniel, 1813-1898

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Ricketson was a friend to Emerson, Thoreau and other Concord Transcendentalists. From the description of Correspondence to Miss Kenyon, 1879. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 183653388 ...

Rotch, Benjamin Smith, 1817-1882.

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