Reminiscences of Frederick Hill Meserve : oral history, 1953.

Link, Wendell H.

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Meserve, Frederick Hill, 1865-1962

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Meserve was a New York textile executive and has been called America's first great photograph collector. From the description of Historical portraits, ca.1850-1915. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 80830761 Member of the New York Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. From the description of Appomattox, April 9, 1865 : portraits of the officers present at the surrender of Gen. Lee, 1919 / from the collection of Companion Frederick H. Meser...

Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971

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Historian, journalist and educator. He attended the University of Illinois where he earned a B. A. 1912 and an M. A. in English, 1913. Nevins moved to New York to work and eventually was made a Professor of History at Columbia University. Wrote numerous biographies and articles on history. President of the American History Association in 1959. Helped found the Society of American Historians. From the description of Commencement address, June 1953. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Librar...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...