Papers, 1775-1945.

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Papers, 1775-1945.

Physician and historian, of Boston, Mass. Correspondence, diary (1824-28), medical account books (1826-28), commonplace books (2 v.), 7 volumes of letterbooks (1813-24) including years Snow spent as a teacher at Brown University, material relating to Snow's research on the history of Boston, and other personal papers; together with letters of his son, Samuel Snow, from Panama and San Francisco, Calif., describing his travels and life in California during the gold rush, and journal of the trip to California kept by Daniel W. Nason, who traveled with him. (Con't) Snow's correspondents include his wife, Sarah Drew Snow, his parents, Prince Snow and Elizabeth Skillin Snow, his stepmother, Lucy (Hartt) Snow, sisters Mary Hopkins Snow and Eliza Paine Snow, brothers William Snow and Benjamin Franklin Snow, and U.S. Representative John Bailey, of Massachusetts, William Bentley Fowle, and fellow members of the Brown University Class of 1813.

7 boxes.

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Snow, Prince, 1770-1838.

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Snow, Eliza Paine, 1803-1826.

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Snow, Lucy Hartt, 1780-1864.

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Snow, Sarah Drew.

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Snow, Caleb H. (Caleb Hopkins), 1796-1835

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Snow, Mary Hopkins, 1799-1825.

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Fowle, William Bentley, 1795-1865

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Brown University.

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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...

Snow, William, 1805-1823.

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Snow, Elizabeth Skillin, 1772-1809.

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Nason, Daniel

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Snow, Benjamin Franklin, 1806-1865.

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Bailey, John, 1786-1835

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John Bailey (1786-1835) was a United States Congressman. He graduated from Brown University Rhode Island, in 1807 and was tutor and librarian, (1807-14). He was a member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, (1814-17) and clerk in the Department of State in Washington, D.C., (1817-23). In 1824, he was elected as an Adams-Clay Republican to fill the vacancy thus caused in this Congress, reelected as an Adams to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses and as an Anti-Jacksonian to th...

Snow, Samuel, 1832-1900.

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