Papers, 1739-1937.

Eliot (Family : Boston, Mass.)

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The Eliot family is the American branch of one of several British families to hold this surname. This branch is based in Boston but originated in East Coker, Yeovil, Somerset. It is one of the Boston Brahmins, a bourgeois family whose ancestors had become wealthy and held sway over the American education system. All are the descendants of two men named Andrew Eliot, father and son, who emigrated from East Coker to Beverly, Massachusetts between 1668 and 1670. The elder Andrew (1627-March 1, 1703...

Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909

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Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was an American author and Unitarian minister. Hale was involved in many social reform movements, including abolition and popular education. He is best known for his 1863 short story, "The Man Without a Country," which promoted patriotic support of the Union. From the guide to the Edward Everett Hale Letters, 1884-1897, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

New North Church (Boston, Mass.)

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Organized in 1714 as the Fifth Church, the original meeting house on Hanover Street; mother church was the Old North Church (also known as Christ Church); society organized in 1803; listed as Unitarian from 1845-1851; New North Church joined Bullfinch Street Church ca. 1867; became extinct between 1884-1886. From the description of Records, 1722 Aug.-Nov. (American Congregational Association). WorldCat record id: 70951013 Org. 1714 as the Fifth Church, the original meeting h...

Eliot, John, 1754-1813

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Channing, William F. (William Francis), 1820-1901

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Goddard family.

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Eliot, Christopher Rhodes, 1856-1945

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Unitarian minister. A.B. Washington University, St. Louis, 1876; S.T.B. Harvard Divinity School, 1881. Minister at First Parish Church, Dorchester, Mass. (1882-1893); Bulfinch Place Church, Boston (1894-1927); minister at large for the Benevolent Fraternity of Unitarian Churches, Boston (1927-1932). From the description of Papers, 1872-1943 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 269367967 Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1856-1945) graduated...

May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871

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Samuel May was a Unitarian clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to anti-Slavery, temperance, and suffrage, among others. From the description of Samuel J. May diary, 1867. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64691611 Samuel May was a Unitarian Clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to Freedman's Relief, Temperance, and Suffrage, among others. From the descripti...

Eliot, Ephraim, 1761-1827.

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Harvard graduate, class of 1780. Studied medicine and became an apothecary. Treasurer of New North Church. In Boston city government as overseer of the poor and alderman. From the description of Commonplace books, ca. 1783-ca. 1825. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 71201685 ...

Eliot, Andrew, 1718-1778

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Andrew Eliot was born in Boston on December 21, 1718. He received from Harvard an AB in 1737 and an AM in 1740. He was ordained the pastor of the New North Church of Boston on April 14, 1742, and began a lifelong career as a respected and well-known minister. In 1758 he was appointed the clerk of Harvard’s Board of Overseers, and was elected to the Corporation in 1765. Eliot weathered the Revolutionary War in Boston, and at the request of General Washington made the official thanksgiving sermon ...

Goddard, Mehetable May Dawes, 1796-1882.

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Dawes, William, 1745-1799

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First Congregational Church (Fairfield, Conn.)

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Belknap, Jeremy, 1744-1798

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Jeremy Belknap was born in Boston on June 4, 1744. He received an AB from Harvard in 1762 and an AM in 1765. He became the minister of the First Congregational Church of Dover, New Hampshire in 1767, and later served as the minister of the Church in Long Lane, Boston. As a historian, Belknap published the History of New Hampshire and American Biography. His work on American Biography encouraged an interest in Harvard's history, and he explained in a letter two months before his de...

Dexter, Samuel, 1726-1810

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Dawes, Lucretia, 1788-1855.

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May family.

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Eliot, Andrew, 1744-1805

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Dawes family.

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Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864

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Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts; United States and Massaschusetts legislator; and, President of Harvard University. From the description of Josiah Quincy letter, portrait and autograph, 1839-1889. (Boston College). WorldCat record id: 63118297 President of Harvard. From the description of Autograph note signed : [Cambridge, Mass.], addressed to the Rev. John Pierpont, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616000 From the description of Autograph note ...

May, Joseph, 1836-1918

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