Papers, 1776-1879.

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Papers, 1776-1879.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191259621

The collection contains a wide variety of items ranging from family correspondence to official documents. Also included are promissory notes and receipts (mainly of Thomas Plummer), copies of deeds, wills, lecture notes, and childhood school papers. There are a number of letters from Alexander Hamilton Rice (1818-1895), Alexander Hamilton Bullock (1816-1882), Peleg Whitman Chandler (1816-1889), Robert Charles Winthrop (1809-1894), Edward Everett (1794-1865), George Lunt (1803-1885), Dioclesian Lewis (1823-1886), and Rufus Choate (1799-1865), concerning the Whig Party, Boston Public Library, and Plummer's duties as Alderman. Also included is a folio volume containing newsclippings on a wide variety of subjects such as reports on the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston, satiric poetry and essays, obituaries, and news stories on events concerning Boston. Also included are printed programs and invitations and some handwritten poetry. An early letter of brother-in-law Henry Sawyer ( - ) contains a graphic description of the Battle of Plattsburgh, 1814.

1 folder (150 items).1 v. (200 p.) ; folio.

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Lewis, Diocletian, 1823-1886

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Diocletian Lewis (March 3, 1823 – May 21, 1886), commonly known as Dr. Dio Lewis, was a prominent temperance leader and physical culture advocate who practiced homeopathy and was the inventor of the beanbag. He was born on a farm near Auburn, New York. He left school at 12 to work in a cotton factory. He later worked at a hoe, axe and scythe factory and went back to attending school. He started teaching school at 15. At 18, he organized a school in Lower Sandusky, Ohio (now Fremont). He ex...

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

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Edward Everett was an American statesman, clergyman, and orator, as well as professor of Greek at Harvard University and president of Harvard University, 1846-1849. Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard with highest honors in 1811, completing an M.A. in Divinity in 1814. After a brief stint as a minister, Harvard offered him the newly created position of Professor of Greek; brilliant but untrained, Everett went to Göttingen to prepare for...

Boston Public Library

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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...

Plummer, Farnham, 1809-1877.

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Farnham Plummer (1809-1877), merchant, insurance executive for John Hancock Life Insurance Company, Alderman of Boston, member of the Boston School Committee, was born in Beverly, Mass. His father, Farnham Plummer (1780-1857), was a mechanic and bridge-builder around Beverly. His grandfather, Thomas Plummer (1756-1836), owned large amounts of land in the Haverhill, Mass., area. From the description of Papers, 1776-1879. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191259621 ...

Rice, Alexander Hamilton, 1818-1895

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Whig Party (Mass.)

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John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company

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Lunt, George, 1803-1885

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Bullock, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1816-1882

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Governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Letters of Alexander H. Bullock, 1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452224 Massachusetts governor. From the description of Letter to Mr. [George William?] Curtis, 1867 September 7. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 52883830 Alexander Hamilton Bullock (1816-1882) graduated from Amherst College in 1836 and remained loyal to the College, serving on the Board of Trustees for many years. He st...

Plummer, Thomas, 1756-1857.

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Sawyer, Henry S.

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Captain; resident of Scarborough, Me. From the description of Papers, 1804-1862 (bulk 1830-1862). (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978552 ...

Chandler, Peleg W. (Peleg Whitman), 1816-1889

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Boston lawyer and politican. From the description of Letters received, 1866-1874. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 39273758 Lawyer, Journalist, and legislator, of Massachusetts; Boston city solicitor (1846-1853); served in Massachusetts House of Representatives (1844-1846, 1862-1863); and on Governor's Council (1850); b. in New Gloucester, Me. From the description of Correspondence, 1845-1880. (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 5...

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 ...