Records, 1637-1931.

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Records, 1637-1931.

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Correspondence, writs, warrants, reports, contracts, deeds, petitions, maps, military rolls, financial records, and other papers, relating to Hingham, Mass., chiefly 1860-90; together with correspondence, diaries, legal papers, genealogies, commonplace books, account ledgers, and other papers of Hingham families, especially the Lincoln family, including George Lincoln and Solomon Lincoln, who collected historical data on Hingham. Includes material on Capt. Lyman B. Whiton's command of the 3rd Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Heavy Artillery at Ft. Berry and Ft. Richardson, Va., and the U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864-66). Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Caleb Cushing, Rufus Choate, Sydney Howard Gay, John Davis Long, Frederick Law Olmsted, the Rev. Joseph Richardson, minister of the First Parish, Hingham, Adj. Gen. William Schouler, and John Langdon Sibley.

19 boxes, 23 v., and 1 oversize container.

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United States Sanitary Commission

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The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) was a private relief agency created by federal legislation on June 18, 1861, to support sick and wounded soldiers of the United States Army (Federal / Northern / Union Army) during the American Civil War. It operated across the North, raised an estimated $25 million in Civil War era revenue (assuming 1865 dollars, $422.66 million in 2021) and in-kind contributions to support the cause, and enlisted thousands of volunteers. The president was Henry Whit...

Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915

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Soldier, businessman, civic leader and historian. Descendant of two presidents and the son of a noted diplomat, Adams served with distinction as a Union officer during the Civil War. After the war, he became a nationally recognized authority on the railroad industry, chairing the Massachusetts Railroad Commission from 1869 to 1879, and ultimately taking on the presidency of the Union Pacifc Railroad for six stormy years, 1884-1890. From 1890 to 1915, Adams was content to be a man of a...

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...

Sibley, John Langdon, 1804-1885

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John Langdon Sibley (1804-1885) served as Harvard's Assistant Librarian from 1825 to 1826 and 1841 to 1856, Librarian from 1856 to 1877, and Librarian, Emeritus from 1877 to 1885. He was the editor of the Harvard Triennial Catalogue from 1839 to 1875 and of the Harvard Quinquennial Catalogue from 1875-1885. A noted biographer, Sibley is best known for his "Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University", an extensive collection of biographical material on Harvard graduates. Sibley was ...

Richardson, Joseph, 1778-1871

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American Unitarian clergyman and U.S. representative. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1828 Jan. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270617469 ...

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903

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Landscape architect. From the description of Frederick Law Olmsted papers, 1777-1952 (bulk 1838-1903). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979908 American landscape designer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Charles A. Dana, 1876 July 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872066 Landscape architect. Related material in Biography and Genealogy Files under 'F.L. Olmsted.' From the description ...

Choate, Rufus, 1799-1859

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Choate practiced law Essex County, Mass. (1822-1834) and Boston (1834-1850) and served in the United States Senate (1841-1845). From the description of Papers, 1829-1869. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234337959 Choate was an American lawyer and politician, U.S. senator from Massachusetts from 1841-1845. From the description of Rufus Choate letter : to Joseph B. Boyer, [18--]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937076 ...

Long, John Davis, 1838-1915

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U.S. secretary of the navy and U.S. representative and governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Letters and signature of John Davis Long, 1885-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014961 ...

Lincoln, George, 1822-1909

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George Lincoln collected and recorded genealogical information on the Lincoln family. Samuel Lincoln left Hingham, England in 1637 when he was 18 years old and settled in Salem, Mass. for a time before he moved to Hingham, Mass. and bought land. He and his wife, Martha, had eleven children, one of whom was Mordecai, born in 1657 and the great-great-great grandfather of Abraham Lincoln. From the description of Lincoln family genealogy, 1693-1896. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library)...

Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879

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Cushing served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1835- 1843, and as special U.S. Envoy to China from 1843-1845. His career also included a term as U.S. Attorney General from 1852-1857. From the description of Letters to Thomas Mayo Brewer and Henry Vose, 1843, 1858. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234342903 U.S cabinet official and representative from Massachusetts, army officer, diplomat, and lawyer. From the description of Caleb Cushin...

Whiton, Lyman B., 1834-

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Lincoln, Solomon, 1804-1881

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Solomon Lincoln (1804-1881) was a lawyer, representative to the Massachusetts General Court in 1829 and 1841, state senator in 1830-1831, and president of the Webster Bank in Boston, 1869-1876. From the description of Hingham (Mass.) Records1637-1931; bulk: 1860-1890 (Massachusetts Historical Society) ...

Schouler, William, 1814-1872

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Adjutant General of Massachusetts during the Civil War. Also served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature. From the description of Letter, July 10, 1862. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 54682238 Journalist, historian, and public official of Massachusetts. From the description of William Schouler correspondence, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 746490036 ...

Hingham (Mass.)

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