Papers. Letters. 1824-1879.

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Papers. Letters. 1824-1879.

Photocopies of selected correspondence from the Bacon papers, Yale University Library. Correspondence between Bacon family members is included. Major correspondents also include members of the American Missionary Association.

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Hampton University (Va.)

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Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virgina, also know as the Normal School, chartered in 1870. From the description of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute ephemera, 1882-1903 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 639344721 The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was chartered in 1870 in Hampton, Virginia. From the guide to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute ephemera, 1882-1903 and undated, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book ...

Gallaudet, T. H. (Thomas Hopkins), 1787-1851

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Educators. From the description of T.H. Gallaudet and Edward Miner Gallaudet papers, 1806-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80754719 Philadelphia-born educator; pioneer in teaching of the deaf. From the description of ALS : Hartford, to James McFarlane Mathews, 1832 July 5. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122316930 Biographical Note T. H. Gallaudet ...

Whipple, George, 1805-1876

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Bourne, Theodore

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Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874

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Congressman, philanthropist, reformer. From the description of Letter, 1840 May 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122379141 Gerrit Smith resided in Peterboro (N.H.?) at the time of these writings and was a strong supporter of emancipation and African American rights. Upon his death the African American citizens of Buffalo paid him a formal tribute. From the description of Letters and broadsides, 1868-1871. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 34178334 ...

Finley, Robert, 1772-1817

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Finley, Robert; (1772-1817); Presbyterian clergyman, educator, organizer of the American Colonization Society, 1816; pastorate at Basking Ridge, N.J. for 22 years; briefly president of Franklin College (now University of Georgia.). From the description of Papers, 1793-1817. (Presbyterian Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 48404042 ...

Goodyear, C. P., 1800-1860.

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Bacon, Leonard, 1802-1881

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American Congregational clergyman, father of Leonard Woolsey Bacon, 1830-1907 From the guide to the Leonard Bacon letters and carte-de-visite, 1842, 1845, 1861, 1881, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Bacon, Leonard Woolsey, 1830-1907

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American author and historian. From the description of Letter and an envelope, 1901. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367573526 American Congregational clergyman. From the guide to the Leonard Woolsey Bacon letters and autograph, 1848, 1867, 1868, 1870, 1876, 1881, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Clergyman and physician. From the description of Leonard Woolsey Bacon correspondence, 1862. (Unknown). WorldCat rec...

United Church of Christ

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Cresson, Elliot, 1796-1854.

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Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847

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Lowrie, Walter, 1784-1868

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State legislator and U.S. senator, of Pennsylvania; secretary of the Senate; and corresponding secretary of Board of Foreign Missions, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. From the description of Papers, 1839-1871. (Presbyterian Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122516035 U.S. senator of Pennsylvania and businessman. From the description of Papers of Walter Lowrie, 1827-1839. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015087 ...

Terry, Seth Sprague, 1862-1932

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Terry, Catherine, 1827-1848.

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Bacon, Frank (Francis), 1853-1912.

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Bacon, Rebecca T., 1826-1878.

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Van Renssellaer, Cortland, 1808-1860.

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Strieby, Michael E. (Michael Epaphras), 1815-1899

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American colonization society

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The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817 in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of transporting freeborn and emancipated American blacks to Africa and helping them start a new life there. From the description of List of emigrants for Liberia, 1867 Nov. 17. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144821 The American Colonization Society was an organization dedicated to transporting freeborn blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa, to what is n...

Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873

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Merchant and antislavery leader. From the description of The papers of Lewis Tappan [microform], 1809-1903. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852969 Abolitionist from New York State; assisted the Amistad slaves; among the founders of the American Missionary Association in 1846, which began more than 100 anti-slavery Congregational churches throughout the Midwest, and after the American Civil War, founded numerous schools and colleges to aid in the educatio...

Bacon, Lucy Johnson.

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Bacon, Benjamin Wisner, 1860-1932

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Fee, John G., 1796-1854.

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Bacon, Delia Salter, 1811-1859

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Delia Salter Bacon (b. February 2, 1811, Tallmadge, Ohio-d. September 2, 1859, Hartford, Connecticut), American author and lecturer. She advanced the theory that Shakespeare's plays were the work of Francis Bacon in her book The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded (1857)....

Baldwin, W.

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Latrobe, John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891

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John H. B. Latrobe was an author, lawyer, artist and inventor. He was born in Philadelphia on May 4, 1803, and was educated in Washington and Baltimore. He attended West Point, moved to New Jersey and was involved with the expansion of the railroads, specifically the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He became a central figure in the movement to colonize Liberia with freed slaves from the United States. He became a well-known writer and cultural figure, and founder of the Maryland Historical Societ...

Jocelyn, Simeon Smith, 1799-1879

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Bacon Family., 1824-1879.

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The Bacons were a Congregational family from New Haven, Conn. Members represented in the correspondence of this collection include the father Leonard, his first wife, Lucy Johnson, and their four children, Rebecca, Benjamin, Leonard W., and Francis (Frank). The father was especially active in the American Colonization Society, and much correspondence pertains to his related activities. Rebecca worked as a missionary teacher for the American Missionary Association among the freedmen ...

American Missionary Association

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Known chiefly for its educational work among African Americans, the American Missionary Association also worked with other ethnic groups. From the description of American Missionary Association records, 1820's-1870's (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 668992371 ...

Armstrong, S. C. (Samuel Chapman), 1839-1893

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