Papers, 1830-1882.

Monticello Female Seminary

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Bateman, Newton, 1822-1897

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Newton Bateman (1822-1897), was a prominent educator in Illinois who helped found St. Charles College in Missouri and the University of Illinois at Champaign, and also served as State Superintendent of Schools in Illinois from 1859-1875 and as president of Knox College from 1875-1893. His brother E.B. Bateman served as a surgeon in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War. Following the war he traveled via the Rio Grande to California as a gold prospector. From the description of Letters...

Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

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Horace Mann was an educator and a statesman who greatly advanced the cause of universal, free, non-sectarian public schools. Mann also advocated temperance, abolition, hospitals for the mentally ill, and women's rights. From the description of Horace Mann Letter, 1858. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 213372958 Horace Mann, "Father of our Public Schools," was born in Franklin, Massachusetts on May 4, 1796. His family was poor and his father di...

Brooks, John Flavel, 1801-1887,

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Presbyterian minister; pioneer teacher in Illinois; member of the "Yale Band" which founded Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois, and Monticello Female Seminary, Godfrey, Illinois; director, Springfield Academy, 1840; co-founder, Illinois Teachers Association; superintendent of public instruction, 1863-1865. From the description of Papers, 1830-1882. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27657875 From the description of Papers, 1832-1838. (Abraham L...

Cullom, Shelby M. (Shelby Moore), 1829-1914

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Springfield (Sangamon Co.), Ill. republican politician. From the description of Papers, 1910. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38386302 U.S. senator and representative from and governor of Illinois. From the description of Shelby M. Cullom correspondence, 1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984527 Governor of Illinois, 1877-1883, and U.S. Senator, 1883-1913. From the description of Autograph. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Lib...

Edwards, Ninian Wirt

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Springfield, Illinois lawyer, attorney general, state legislator, superintendent of public instruction, appointed Captain, Commissary of Subsistence during Civil War, land speculator, and biographer of his father Ninian Edwards, the third governor of Illinois. Married to Elizabeth P. Todd, sister of Mary Todd Lincoln. From the description of Papers, 1791-1908. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53167532 ...