Mary P. Thompson papers, 1834-1893.

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Mary P. Thompson papers, 1834-1893.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32247977

Contains letters from many of Thompson's friends and family, including: Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Ezekiel Dimond, Mary Lyon, Justin Winsor, Ebenezer Thompson (1821-1869), Lucien Thompson, and Susan Demeritt Philbrick. Also includes materials Thompson collected while at Mt. Holyoke and abroad, several scrapbooks and notebooks, local historical and genealogical information, materials regarding the capture of Fort William and Mary, notes and drafts of her works A Memoir of Judge Ebenezer Thompson and Landmarks of Ancient Dover, and copies of her publications in The Catholic World and The Young Catholic.

15 boxes (5 cubic ft.)

UNH Durham, Dimond Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7339022

UNH Durham, Dimond Library

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Lyon, Mary, 1797-1849

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Mary Lyon, educator and founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College), was born on February 28, 1797, in Buckland, Massachusetts. Her parents were Aaron Lyon, a farmer, and Jemima Shepard Lyon. After her father's death in 1802 and her mother's remarriage 1810, Lyon remained on the family farm as a housekeeper for her brother. She started teaching in 1814 and continued her own education by attending Sanderson Academy in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Amherst (Massachusetts) Acade...

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

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Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was chartered in 1836; it was reincorporated as Mount Holyoke Seminary and College in 1888 and as Mount Holyoke College in 1893. From the description of Catalogue, 1862. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007161 ...

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907

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New Hampshire-born author and poet. From the description of Letter : Redman Farm, Ponkapog, Mass. to John M. Milson, 1904 May 25. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103796 From the description of Letters and ephemera, 1879-1891. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103833 From the description of Letters to Israel Tisdale Talbot, 1868-1875. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103776 During the Civil War Aldrich worked a...

Thompson, Mary P. (Mary Pickering), 1825-1894

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Mary P. Thompson, the daughter of Ebenezer Thompson (1797-1826), was educated in Durham and Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary. She converted to Catholicism in 1847 and entered the Notre Dame Convent in Cincinnati, Ohio. She also made several trips to Europe. Mary P. Thompson returned to Durham in 1877 and engaged in local historical and genealogical studies. She amassed a substantial library of books and manuscripts, and during her lifetime she was considered "the best cultured woman in New Hampshire....

Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897

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Historian, cartographer, and librarian of the Boston Public Library. From the description of Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to Henry Harrisse, Paris, France, 1891 Oct. 10. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 40998446 Winsor graduated from Harvard in 1853 and was a librarian at Harvard and at the Boston Public Library. From the description of Papers of Justin Winsor, 1847-1897 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972933 Winsor was libr...

Thompson, Ebenezer, 1821-1869.

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Ebenezer Thompson, son of Ebenezer Thompson (1797-1826), first worked for the Boston & Maine Railroad. He later moved to Dunkirk, N.Y. and worked as wood agent for the New York & Erie Railroad for several years. He returned to Durham in 1854, where he served as a justice of the peace and selectman. From the description of Ebenezer Thompson (1821-1869) papers, 1836-1879. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32247892 ...

Thompson, Mary P. (Mary Pickering), 1825-1894

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Mary P. Thompson, the daughter of Ebenezer Thompson (1797-1826), was educated in Durham and Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary. She converted to Catholicism in 1847 and entered the Notre Dame Convent in Cincinnati, Ohio. She also made several trips to Europe. Mary P. Thompson returned to Durham in 1877 and engaged in local historical and genealogical studies. She amassed a substantial library of books and manuscripts, and during her lifetime she was considered "the best cultured woman in New Hampshire....

Philbrick, Susan Demeritt.

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Dimond, Ezekiel Webster, 1836-1876

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Thompson, Lucien, 1859-

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