Scrapbooks, 1784-1894.

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Scrapbooks, 1784-1894.

Items about Hartford, Conn. history, including a poem by Lydia Sigourney entitled "Connecticut River and Colonel Colt's Embankment," and an account of a riot in Hartford in 1834 in which several homes of African Americans were torn down.

4 v. ; 23 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7113604

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Sigourney, Lydia Howard, 1791-1865

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (born September 1, 1791, Norwich, Connecticut–died June 10, 1865, Hartford, Connecticut), poet, also known as the “Sweet Singer of Hartford", was the only daughter of a gardener. She attended private school with the assistance of her father’s employer, and founded a Hartford school for girls in 1814. At this school, without any specialized training, Sigourney taught a deaf student, Alice Cogswell, to read and write in English. Cogswell would later be the first student enr...

Stedman, John W. (John Woodhull), 1820-1896

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Merchant. From the description of John Stedman accounts, 1833-1835. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935132 ...