Papers, 1822-1956 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1822-1956 (inclusive).

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, account books and legal documents reveal a family's daily existence and discuss social activities, school, trips to Europe, births, illnesses, and deaths, religion, and the weather. Family wills, property transactions, and some legal correspondence for cases in which Richard Henry Dana Jr. or his son Richard Henry Dana III were the lawyers are also included, as are correspondence with friends, organizational papers of Elizabeth Ellery Dana, and some papers of other Dana women.

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Channing (Family : Channing, William Ellery, 1727-1820)

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The Channings were a prominent Massachusetts family with strong ties to the Unitarian church and the anti-slavery movement. From the guide to the Correspondence and other papers, 1825-1936., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

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...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Wild, Mary Rosamond Dana, 1848-1937.

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Porter, Sarah, 1813-1900.

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Dana, Ruth Charlotte, 1814-1901

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Swayne, Sarah Watson Dana, 1842-1902.

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Watson family.

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Doggett family.

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Dana, Richard Henry, 1851-1931

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Ireland, Catharine Innes, 1838-1925.

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Carrington family.

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Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882

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Lawyer and author. From the description of Richard Henry Dana correspondence, 1843-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449368 Author and lawyer Richard Henry Dana was the privileged son of an aristocratic Massachusetts family. Taking time from Harvard because of medical problems, he went to sea, where his experiences as a sailor inspired him to write Two Years Before the Mast. A sea story that was part memoir and part social commentary, the novel proved to be popular with...

Skinner, Angela Henrietta Channing Dana, 1857-1928

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Dana, Sarah Watson, 1814-1907

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Carter, Susan Nichols.

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Dana, Elizabeth Ellery, 1846-1939

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Genealogist of the Dana family; of Cambridge, Mass.; d. 1939. From the description of Personal papers of Elizabeth Ellery Dana, 1829-1940 (bulk 1860-1939). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70976326 From the description of Dana collected correspondence, 1808-1938 (bulk 1857-1934). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70976324 Elizabeth Ellery Dana (1846-1939) was the daughter of Sarah Watson Dana (1814-1907) and Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815-1882), maritime lawyer and author...

Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878

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Educator Catharine Esther Beecher, a daughter of Lyman Beecher, was an advocate of education for women and of women teachers. In 1823 she founded the Hartford Female Seminary to educate young women. In 1846, she began a project to send female teachers from the Eastern states to western states and territories, and established training schools for women teachers in several western cities. From the description of Letter, 1847. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 548941345 ...

Lyman, Ruth Charlotte Dana, 1844-1903

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Wild, Rosamond Dana, 1879-1959

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Dana family.

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Members of the Dana family represented here are primarily four women related to Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815-1882), maritime lawyer and author of Two Years Before the Mast: Sarah Watson Dana (1814-1907), his wife; Ruth Charlotte Dana (1814-1901), his sister; Elizabeth Ellery Dana (1846-1939), one of his daughters; and Rosamond Dana Wild (1879-1959), his granddaughter. The family was prominent in Cambridge, MA. From the description of Papers, 1822-1956 (inclusive). (Harvard University...

Fields, Annie, 1834-1915

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Annie Adams Fields was an author and charity worker, the wife of the Boston publisher James T. Fields. From the description of Papers pertaining to the estate of Annie Adams Fields, 1846-1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 86143813 From the guide to the Papers pertaining to the estate of Annie Adams Fields, 1846-1935., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Eighteen letters written by Annie Adams Fields between the years 1882 and...