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1840-1853

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Nine letters written to Joseph Story and Simon Greenleaf about donating busts to Harvard Law School library, and one letter from Baron Cranworth, Lord Chancellor of England, thanking Greenleaf for a book which had been sent to him. The men whose busts had been solicited were judges. The letter writers were J. or I. Mason (probably Jeremiah Mason), William Prescott, Lemuel Shaw, Joseph Hopkinson, Charles Jackson, John Bannister Gibson, Marcus Morton, John Amory Lowell (writing on behalf of his father John Lowell), and James C. Danne (writing on behalf of his father-in-law Judge Paine, probably Elijah Paine). Several of the letters mention the artist of the bust in question: Shobal Vail Clevenger (mentioned in two letters), Henry Dexter (also mentioned in two letters), John Frazee, and E. Luigi Persico.

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Perisco, E. Luigi, 1791-1860.

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Harvard Law School

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Law clubs were established to provide students an opportunity to practice preparing and arguing law cases as realistically as possible. Law clubs began to be founded at Harvard in the 19th century; one of the earliest was the Marshall Club, founded in 1825. In 1910, the Board of Student Advisers was formed, and the more formal Ames Competition in Appellate Brief Writing and Advocacy was established. From the description of General information by and about Harvard Law School clubs, 18...

Greenleaf, Simon, 1783-1853

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Simon Greenleaf was born on December 5, 1783 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he attended the Latin School from 1790-1799. In 1801, he entered apprenticeship in Ezekiel Whitman's Gloucester, Maine law office. In June 1806, Cumberland County, Maine admitted Greenleaf to the Bar. On September 18, 1806, Greenleaf married Hannah Kingman, daughter to Capt. Ezra Kingman of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. From 1807-1817, Greenleaf practiced law in Gray, Maine before moving his law practi...

Story, Joseph, 1779-1845

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Jurist, politician, and professor of law Joseph Story (1779-1845) was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts on September 18, 1779. He received an AB from Harvard in 1798, an AM in 1801, and an LLD in 1821; he also received law degrees from Brown University and Dartmouth College. In 1802, Story married Mary Lynde Oliver. After Mary's death in 1805, Story married Sarah Waldo Wetmore in 1808. Story practiced law in Salem, Mass. and served as a representative in the state legislature before b...

Frazee, John, 1790-1852

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American sculptor. From the description of Letters received, 1834-1838. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14549526 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. Born in Rahway, N.J., Frazee worked in New York City and died in Crompton Mills, R.I. From the description of John Frazee papers, 1810-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122355103 Sculptor. Frazee carved busts of early American statesmen and supervised constru...

Dexter, Henry, 1806-1876

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Portrait sculptor Henry Dexter began his artistic career as a painter, studying with Francis Alexander of Boston, MA. Though completely self-taught as a sculptor, his first commissioned work, a bust of Rev. Dr. Anderson, began four decades of marble and plaster portraits that produced over 200 sculptures. Some of the most noted figures who sat for him were Charles Dickens (1841) and President James Buchanan (ca. 1859). In 1859-1860, Dexter attempted to sculpt portraits of all United...

Clevenger, Shobal Vail (American sculptor, 1812-1843)

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