Hooker collection, 1788-1890 (inclusive).

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Hooker collection, 1788-1890 (inclusive).

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Correspondence by housewives and women schoolteachers on such subjects as education, politics, marriage, local and family news, and social life and customs. Included are letters between Lucy Gray and her husband, a Cape Cod sea captain; letters, many of which deal with religious subjects, from friends and relatives to Weltha Brown, a Hartford, CT, schoolteacher; letters in which Hannah Buchanan of Maryland describes to her absent husband the problems of running a plantation; letters by authors Sarah Edgarton and Luella J.B. Case; and a letter by Dolley Madison.

1 linear ft.

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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SNAC Resource ID: 7094950

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849

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Dolley Madison, the fourth First Lady of the United States, is widely remembered as the most lively of the early First Ladies. As a prominent entertainer and hostess, she helped shape the role of First Lady and served as the model for every future First Lady to come. Dolley Payne was born on May 20, 1768, in Guilford County, North Carolina. She was the fourth of eight children born to John and Mary Payne. The family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1783. In 1790, Dolley Payne married la...

Mayo, Sarah C. Edgarton (Sarah Carter Edgarton), 1819-1848

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Hooker, Richard James, 1913-....

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Richard James Hooker (born 1912) of Chicago, Ill., was a professor and collector of historical documents. From the guide to the Richard James Hooker Papers, ., 1803-1868, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Finney, Charles G., 1792-1875

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Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875), revivalist, educator, and second President of Oberlin College (1851-65), abandoned the practice of law after a dramatic religious conversion and, following ordination in the Presbyterian Church, launched a decade of extraordinarily successful revivals in New York state (1824-33). He left the Presbyterian Church in 1836 and identified himself as a Congregationalist from then on. Finney's brand of theological perfectionism helped to make Oberlin College famous...

Gray, Lucy, 1949-

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Lucy Gray was born in Ireland as Lucy Waters. She married Charles Gray in May 1868 in Brighton, England. Shortly after their marriage they sailed from Liverpool to Melbourne on the "Great Britain" in company with Charles's brother Mowbray Gray. Another of Charles's brothers, Robert Gray owned Hughenden Station, and Lucy and Charles travelled to Queensland to join Robert and his wife Charlotte. Charles set up Glendower Station near to Hughenden Station. From the description of OM75-12...

Gray, Joshua, 1772-1826

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Farmer and merchant mariner, of Wells, Me.; name found as Joshua Gray, Jr. From the description of Logbook and vital records, 1793-1826. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978842 From the description of Papers, 1823-1849. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978838 Farmer and merchant mariner, of Wells, Me. From the description of Copy of diary, 1797-1798, [n.d.]. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat re...

Case, Luella J. B. (Luella Julietta Bartlett), 1807-1857

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