Putnam-Jackson-Lowell family papers, 1769-1922.

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Putnam-Jackson-Lowell family papers, 1769-1922.

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Papers of the interrelated Putnam, Jackson, and Lowell families, including letters to Judge Samuel Putnam and letters between him and his son Samuel R. Putnam while the latter was working as a merchant in India and Europe. A large portion of the collection is devoted to the family of Dr. James Jackson, including materials related to his medical profession, in particular his work with cholera; correspondence with his son James Jr. while the latter was studying medicine in Europe, with his daughter Elizabeth C. Jackson (later Putnam), and among other Jackson siblings. (Cont'd) Papers of Elizabeth C. Putnam (b.1836) contain a lengthy correspondence with her mother, Elizabeth C.J. Putnam, and with Anna Cabot Lowell (1808-94), who also corresponded with Putnam's mother and grandfather. Putnam's papers also contain letters, speeches, and notes of cases pertaining to her work with various Mass. state primary and reform schools and other state charity boards. Her social welfare work specifically concerned the placement and visiting of indigent children as wards of the State. (Cont'd) One box of Putnam family genealogical materials is also included. Among the correspondents are Walter E. Fernald, Charles C. Emerson, Dr. James Jackson Putnam, Francis Boott, and Roger Wolcott.

6 boxes and 1 oversize box.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Jackson, J. B. S. (John Barnard Swett), 1806-1879

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Jackson (Harvard, M.D. 1829) was professor of pathological anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1854, Shattuck Professor of Morbid Anatomy from 1854 to 1879, served as dean from 1853 to 1855, and was also curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum. He studied gross pathological anatomy of diseased organs. From the description of Papers of John Barnard Swett Jackson, 1823-1879 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122506378 J.B.S. Jackson was the first...

Lowell, Anna Cabot, 1808-1894.

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Wolcott, Roger, 1847-1900

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Putnam, Elizabeth Cabot, 1836-

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Lowell family.

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Putnam, James Jackson, 1846-1918

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Neurologist Putnam (A.B., 1866, and M.D., 1870, Harvard) lived and practiced in Boston, Mass. From the description of Letter, 1907. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007497 Putnam (Harvard, M.D. 1870) studied in Europe under Rokitansky and Meynert and became friends with Huylings Jackson. Returning to Boston, he was the first lecturer on nervous diseases ever appointed at the Harvard Medical School; the Department of Neurology was begun with his classes in 1872. T...

Putnam, Elizabeth Cabot Jackson, 1808-1875.

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Putnam, Samuel, 1768-1853

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Putnam, a lawyer, was later a Massachusetts state senator (1808-1814) and a judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1814-1842). Tyng was appointed reporter for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1805. From the description of Letter to Dudley Atkins Tyng, 20 February 1807. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235132996 ...

Jackson, James, 1777-1867

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U.S. surgeon, physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. From the description of Notes from lectures delivered by James Jackson, MD, professor of theory and practice of physic, and John C. Warren, MD, professor of anatomy and surgery, at Harvard University, 1827-28 / taken by Stephen Bates. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31931557 Jackson (Harvard, M.D. 1809) was Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic at Harvard Medical School from 1812 to 1836 ...

Boott, Francis, 1792-1863

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Francis Boott received a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1810. After a three-year stay in England (1811-1814), Boott returned to Boston and became interested in collecting New England plants. He was part of a group that made botanical explorations of New England mountains in 1816. Boott left again for England in 1820 and took up the study of medicine, first in London and then in Edinburgh, where he received an M.D. in 1824. He practiced medicine in London for a number of years and also lecture...

Putnam, Samuel Raymond, 1797-1861.

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Emerson, Charles Chauncy, b. 1836.

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Jackson, James, 1810-1834

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Fernald, Walter E., 1859-1924

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Jackson family.

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