David French Boyd papers, 1833-1934 (bulk 1860-1899).

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David French Boyd papers, 1833-1934 (bulk 1860-1899).

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Papers are comprised of correspondence, including letters to William T. Sherman; academic papers reflecting his life as an educator; photographs; financial papers; and printed items. Manuscript volumes consist of school notebooks; memoranda; diaries; morning reports from Kentucky Military Institute and Locust Dale Academy; a minute book of the Demostherman Society (1857); and field notes (1852-1856).

9 linear ft.47 v.11 microfilm reels.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

Demostherman Society.

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Boyd, David French, 1834-1899

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David French Boyd (1834-1899) was an officer in the Confederate Army who for a time was a prisoner of war on a Union boat moored in Alexandria, La. After the war, Boyd was instrumental in the founding of Lousiana State University. From the guide to the David French Boyd Letter, ., 1864, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Boyd graduated from the University of Virginia in 1856, and later served in the Confederate Army. From ...

Kentucky Military Academy.

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Locust Dale Academy.

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Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

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Arthur Taylor Prescott (1863-1942) graduated from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., in 1884. He became commandant of the student cadet organization at the University of Virginia in 1887, the first president of the Louisiana Industrial Institute at Ruston in 1894, and professor of government at Louisiana State University in 1899. From the description of Arthur T. Prescott receipts, 1880-1885. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 308362360 ...