Papers. 1812-1839.

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Papers. 1812-1839.

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Personal correspondence; business papers; commencement dialogue of Nathaniel Wells and Luther Jewett, delivered at Dartmouth, 1795; letters of Moses H. Wells describing student life at Dartmouth College; copybook of Elizabeth Jane Wells Humphrey; references to religious life in Wells, Me., and at Dartmouth College; references to Lyman Beecher and J.G. Birney speaking at Dartmouth, the latter giving an anti-slavery address.

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Wells, Abigail.

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Bell, Samuel, 1770-1850

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Bell was a member of Dartmouth College, Class of 1793. From the description of Papers, 1802-1832. (New Hampshire Newsp Project). WorldCat record id: 122477220 Lawyer, governor, and U.S. senator from New Hampshire. From the description of Papers of Samuel Bell and Samuel Dana Bell, 1722-1888. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70961426 ...

Beecher, Lyman, 1775-1863!

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American preacher and revivalist; also famous as reformer, educator, and central figure in theological controversies; b. in New Haven, Conn.; in 1799 ordained as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in East Hampton, N.Y.; in 1810 accepted the pulpit of the First Congregational Church of Litchfield, Conn., where he attracted large crowds. In 1826 became pastor of the Hanover Street Church in Boston where his reputation for defending orthodoxy against Unitarianism became widespread. During his years ...

Wells, Nathaniel, 1805-1878.

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Dartmouth College

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The celebration of the 150th anniversary of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dartmouth College Case was held on April 9, 1969, in the Court of Claims, Washington, D.C.; the celebration also commemorated the career of Daniel Webster, the advocate who defended the case before the Supreme Court. During the ceremony Justice Earl Warren, Senator Thomas J. MacIntyre, and Dartmouth College President John Sloan Dickey spoke before an audience of legislators, jurists, historians, and alumni....

Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857

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Biographical Note: James G. Birney was an attorney, an abolitionist writer and publisher. He was born in Kentucky in 1784 to a wealthy, slaveholding family, but he abandoned a successful law practice to become an agent for abolitionism. Birney hoped to accomplish the abolition of slavery through political means and through the publication of books, pamphlets, and newspapers. He was the Liberty Party's unanimous presidential nominee in 1840 and 1844. James G. Birney died in 1853. From...

Wells, Nathaniel, 1774-1858

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Clark, Theodore H.K.

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Wells, Moses H. (Moses Hemenway), 1814-1893

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Superintendent of Berwick Academy; resident of South Berwick, Me. From the description of Moses H. Wells autograph letter signed, 1855 Feb. 20. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 84664787 ...

Jewett, Luther, 1772-1860

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U.S. representative of Vermont and clergyman. From the description of Letters of Luther Jewett, 1850-1856. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79423679 ...

Wells family, Wells, Me.

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