Papers, 1890-1916 (bulk 1903-1916).

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Papers, 1890-1916 (bulk 1903-1916).

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Correspondence, biographical files, business records of the National Biographical Society, illustrated materials, photographs, and other papers, relating primarily to Elder's creation and publication of biographical directories for the society. Includes research and publication materials for Charles Henry Grosvenor's Book of the presidents with biographical sketches (1902) and other biographical directories. Biographical files contain correspondence, biographical entries, clippings, printed materials, and photographs, regarding prominent local, state, and national politicians, capitalists, and philanthropists. Individuals represented include Charles F. Chickering, W.W. Corcoran, Moody Currier, H.A. Du Pont, Mary Baker Eddy, Isaac E. Emerson, Charles W. Fairbanks, Marshall Field, Julius Fleischmann, Ulysses S. Grant II, Solomon R. Guggenheim, William Guggenheim, Edward Everett Hale, Marcus Alonzo Hana, David N. Hershey, Christian Heurich, Henry Edwards Huntington, Charles Kellogg, Henry Miles Knowles, Daniel Scott Lamont, Craige Lippincott, Nicholas Longworth, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Darius O. Mills, J. Pierpont Morgan, Levi P. Morton, Gottlieb Muhlhauser, Francis G. Newlands, George Mortimer Pullman, and Matthew Stanley Quay. Also includes material relating to sales of a directory at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915-1916. Correspondents include National Biographical Society officials Lucy S. Bahnsen, Robert E. Doan, Charles Henry Grosvenor, R.E.C. Montague, and Richard R. McMahon.

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Corcoran, William Wilson, 1798-1888

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Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909

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Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was an American author and Unitarian minister. Hale was involved in many social reform movements, including abolition and popular education. He is best known for his 1863 short story, "The Man Without a Country," which promoted patriotic support of the Union. From the guide to the Edward Everett Hale Letters, 1884-1897, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Fairbanks, Charles W. (Charles Warren), 1852-1918

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Longworth, Nicholas, 1869-1931

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Guggenheim, Solomon R. (Solomon Robert), 1861-1949

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Doan, Robert E. (Robert Eachus), 1831-1919

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Lamont, Daniel Scott, 1851-1905

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Du Pont, H. A. (Henry Algernon), 1838-1926

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Henry Algernon du Pont (1838-1927) was born at Eleutherian Mills near Wilmington, Delaware, the eldest child of Henry and Louisa du Pont and the grandson of E.I. du Pont. In 1856 he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point from which he graduated five years later and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers. During the Civil War he was promoted to the rank of Captain and served in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. He retired from the Army in...

Heurich, Christian, 1842-1945

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Field, Marshall, 1834-1906

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Hanna, Marcus Alonzo, 1837-1904

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Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821-1910

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McMahon, Richard Randolph, 1860?-1935

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Lippincott, Craige, 1846-1911

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Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913

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Muhlhauser, Gottlieb, 1836-

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McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884

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Elder, Abram P. T. (Abram Peter Turner)

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Kellogg, Charles, 1825-1892

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Emerson, Isaac E. (Isaac Edward), 1859-1931

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Isaac Edward Emerson was born in Chatham County, N.C., in 1859. His family moved to Chapel Hill in 1868. Emerson was graduated from the University of North Carolina as a chemist in 1879. He worked out and patented the formula for Bromo-Seltzer, a headache remedy, upon which Emerson's immense wealth was based. Emerson organized the Emerson Drug Company; built the Emerson Hotel; was president of the Citro Chemical Works of America, Maywood N.J.; chair of the American Bromine Company; ...

Knowles, Henry Miles, 1850-1903

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Montague, R. E. C.

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Mills, Darius O. (Darius Ogden), 1825-1910

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Chickering, Charles F., 1827-1891

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Guggenheim, William, 1868-1941

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Currier, Moody, 1806-1898

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Fleischmann, Julius, 1872-1925

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Bahnsen, Lucy S.

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