Papers, 1855-1934 (inclusive).

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Comstock, Ada Louise, 1876-1973

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Ada Louise Comstock (December 11, 1876 – December 12, 1973) was an American women's education pioneer. She served as the first dean of women at the University of Minnesota and later as the first full-time president of Radcliffe College. Ada Louise Comstock was born on December 11, 1876, in Moorhead, Minnesota, to Solomon Gilman Comstock, an attorney, and Sarah Ball Comstock. Her father recognized her capabilities and potential and set about to cultivate them by encouraging an early and sound ...

Hodder, Jessie Donaldson, 1867-1931

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Jessie Donaldson Hodder (March 30, 1867 – November 19, 1931) was a women's prison reformer. Jessie Donaldson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her mother died when she was a toddler and her father, upon remarrying, gave her to his Scottish-born mother to raise along with four other sons still at home. Her grandmother taught Jessie to be a housekeeper and seamstress; while the grandmother did not encourage her to go to school, she did allow her to have piano lessons. In 1885, Jessie moved with her...

Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907

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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, educator and college president, was born in Boston, December 5, 1822 and married the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz in 1850. She was an educational reformer, member of the Woman's Education Association, but never an advocate of women's suffrage or of co-education. ECA administered the Agassiz School for Girls from 1855 to 1863. She was one of the managers of the program for the Private Collegiate Instruction for Women (also known as the Harvard Annex); was p...

Winsor, Mary Pickard, 1860-1950.

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Follett, Mary Parker, 1868-1933

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Follett was a writer and lecturer in political science, group psychology, and industrial management. From the description of Essays, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007292 ...

Green family.

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Hazard, Caroline, 1856-1945

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President emeritus of Wellesley College. From the description of Correspondence, March, 1943. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34369957 Caroline Hazard, educator and author, was born in Peace Dale, Rhode Island, to Rowland and Margaret (Rood) Hazard on June 10, 1856. She was educated by private tutors at Mary A. Shaw's School in Providence and through private study in Europe. She subsequently assisted her father in his various business ...

Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Cabot, Hugh, 1872-1945

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Cavell, Edith, 1865-1915

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English nurse executed by Germans. From the description of Document signed : Brussels, 1912 Oct. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270134676 British nurse. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Prison de St. Gilles, Brussels, to Miss Butcher, 1915 Oct. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133635 ...

Kimball family.

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Sedgwick, Ellery, 1872-1960

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Ellery Sedgwick was editor of The Atlantic Monthly. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1920. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884345 ...

Nichols, Marian Clarke, 1873-1953.

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Hocking family.

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Shaw, Pauline A. (Pauline Agassiz), 1841-1917

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Pauline Agassiz Shaw was an educational philanthropist in Boston. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letter, 1893. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007451 ...

Perkins family.

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Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893

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Noted American historian from Massachusetts who traveled the Oregon Trail and published extensively on early America. From the description of Letter, November 27, 1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 233593490 Francis Parkman, historian, was born in Boston and educated at Harvard, his father's alma mater. Samuel Parkman was a Unitarian pastor who founded The Parkman Professorship of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral Care in The Cambridge Theological ...

Higginson, Ida Agassiz.

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Ida Agassiz Higginson (b. 1837) was the daughter of naturalist and Harvard professor Louis Agassiz. She married Henry Lee Higginson, a banker and founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in December 1863. From the description of Card, 1913. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008907 ...

Lowell family.

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Sears, Mary Pratt, 1864-1928.

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Cabot family.

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Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947

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Whitehead received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1926 and taught philosophy at Harvard. Guy Emerson was a banker. From the guide to the Alfred North Whitehead letters to Guy Emerson, 1944-1947., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Whitehead received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1926 and taught philosophy at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Alfred North Whitehead, 1924-1945 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCa...

McCormick, Ada Peirce.

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Biographical note: Ada Peirce was born in Maine in 1888. She married Fred McCormick in 1915 and they moved to Tucson in 1931. She founded the Little Chapel of All Nations in 1937, and was a crusader for human rights and social justice issues. She died in Tucson in 1974. From the description of Ada McCormick papers, ca. 1915-1968 (bulk 1940-1959 ). (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 463626855 Ada Stetson Peirce McCormick was born in ...

Lyman, Ella (Ella Bancroft Lowell), 1837-1894

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King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.)

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Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961

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Pacifist and worker for social reform, Balch was involved in many humanitarian and civic organizations, including the Boston Women's Trade Union League and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. From the description of Papers, 1915-1947 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007140 Peace leader. President of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section (1928-1933). Received Nobel Peace Prize (1946). ...

Sedgwick, Anne Douglas, 1873-1935

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American author. From the description of Letters to Henry Chester Tracy [manuscript], 1922-1929. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814406 ...

Morse, Frances Rollins, 1850-1928

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A social work volunteer, Morse helped establish Associated Charities of Boston and was associated with the School of Social Work at Simmons College. From the description of Papers, 1831-1929 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006748 Frances Rollins Morse (1850-1928) was the daughter of Samuel Tapley and Harriet Jackson (Lee) Morse. She was very active in the field of social work. She helped establish Associated Charities of Boston and was associated wi...

Brooks, John Graham, 1846-1938

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Unitarian minister, writer on social and economic topics, and founder of the National Consumers' League, Brooks attended Oberlin College and received a degree in divinity from Harvard in 1875. He lectured for the League for Political Education, investigated strikes for the U.S. Dept. of Labor, and studied in Germany. From the description of Papers, 1845-1938 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006931 Unitarian minister, writer on social and economic top...

Coes, Mary, 1861-1913.

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College administrator. Educated at Radcliffe, A.B. 1887; A.M. 1897. She was appointed Assistant Secretary at Radcliffe in 1890, Secretary 1894, Acting Dean 1909, and Dean 1910-1913. She was Secretary to the Council 1903, permanent associate 1904, and member of Council, 1906. Served as President of the Alumnae Association from 1905 to 1906. From the description of Papers of Mary Coes, 1880-1958 (inclusive), 1880-1913 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006472 ...

Dewing, Frances Rousmaniere.

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Educator Frances Hall Rousmaniere Dewing was born in 1877 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. She received an A.B. (1900) and a Master's degree in philosophy (1904) from Wellesley College. In 1906 she earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Radcliffe College. Prior to her marriage to Arthur Stone Dewing in 1910, she taught philosophy and psychology at Mount Holyoke College (1906-08) and Smith College (1908-10). Dewing's activities focused on her family until 1943-45, when she taught experimental mathematics at...

Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916

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Josiah Royce was born in Grass Valley, California, on November 20, 1855. He received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1885 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in 1878. Royce taught English and philosophy at both Berkeley and Harvard, and was also active in the study of the American West. He spent a significant amount of time from 1883 to 1891 writing both histories and novels relating to California history. Royce Hall at UCLA and the Grass Valley Library...

Sears, Annie Lyman

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Sears family.

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Lyman family.

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Lyman, Arthur T. (Arthur Theodore), 1832-1915

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Cabot, Elizabeth Dwight, 1830-1901.

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Born in Boston, Mass, Cabot married James Elliott Cabot, they had seven sons. In 1888, she met Ellen Chase, a social worker from England, and sharing an interest in social welfare, they maintained a correspondence for the rest of Cabot's life. From the description of Papers, 1851-1901 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008125 ...

Stockton, Lucy Witham, 1888-

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Cabot, Ella Lyman

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Author and educator, Ella Lyman Cabot was born into one prominent Boston family and married into another; her husband was Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot (1868-1939). She taught ethics and applied psychology at Boston private schools and directed the Sunday school at Unitarian King's Chapel. Cabot published seven books on ethics and childhood education and had privately printed a 3 volume biography of her parents. From the description of Papers, 1855-1934 (inclusive). (Harvard University). ...

Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936

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American journalist. From the description of Letter, 1931 July 5, Carmel, Calif., to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184904650 American journalist & editor. From the description of Papers of Lincoln Steffens [manuscript], ca. 1910. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647817346 Discussion of the corruption in the city at the turn of the twentieth century. From the description of Pittsburgh: a city as...

Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939

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Richard Clarke Cabot, 1868-1939, AB, 1889, Harvard College; MD, 1892, Harvard Medical School, was Professor of Clinical Medicine and Social Ethics at Harvard. Cabot led the teaching of Social Ethics at Harvard from 1920 to 1934. Cabot also served as one of two chiefs of staff at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1912 until his retirement in 1921. Cabot established medical social work at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1905, and also introduced autopsy teaching at the institution; Cabot's cli...

O'Gorman, Alice, 1891?-1965.

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