Letters, 1819-1853.

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Letters, 1819-1853.

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Correspondence from family and colleagues in Massachusetts, New York, and South Carolina to Dennis Cooley. Colleagues include Stephen Elliot, a botanist, who writes about exchanging information on plants; and the botanist and chemist John Torrey, M.D., who writes on exchanging plant specimens, particularly Cryptogamia. H.P. Hartwell also writes about various drugs and other medical matters. Letters from family members Henry, Orrin, Caleb, and Eli address many topics: family matters; personal health; farming and gardening in Mass. and Georgia; Orrin's stay at Amherst College and his impressions of its newly-installed president, Heman Humphrey; and economic conditions and the business community in Deerfield, Mass. Another letter by N.C. Cooley gives impressions of Washington, D.C. in 1853, and comments on the construction of many new buildings and monuments. The collection includes a few letters written by Dennis Cooley himself.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Torrey, John, 1796-1873

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John Torrey (1796-1873) was one of the greatest figures in American botanical history. He led botanists in the adoption of the natural system of classification. His extensive herbarium became the foundation of the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium. Appointed botanist for the Geological Survey of the State of New York in 1836, he published the first compete flora of the state in addition to preparing descriptions of plants collected during surveys for the Pacific railroad routes, the...

Amherst College

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Founded in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary school Amherst Academy. The college was originally suggested as an alternative to Williams College, which was struggling to stay open. Although Williams survived, Amherst was formed and diverged into its own institution....

Hartwell, H. P.

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Humphrey, Heman, 1779-1861

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First President of Amherst College (1823-1845). Humphrey was born in Hartford County, Conn. and graduated from Yale University in 1805. He was ordained a Congregational minister on March 16, 1807. He pastored in Fairfield, Conn., 1807-1817 and Pittsfield, Mass., 1817-1823. After leaving Amherst College he relocated to Pittsfield and continued to preach and give lectures. From the description of Humphrey sermons, 1813-1861. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 52218792 ...

Elliott, Stephen, 1771-1830

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Elliott (Yale University, B.A. 1791) returned to South Carolina to operate a plantation in 1800. He also served in the state legislature (1796-1808); was bank president in Charleston, 1812-1830. Elliott was active in the founding of the Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina and served as its president from 1814-1830; he was presifdent of the Charleston Library Society; and he co-founded the Southern Review with Hugh Swinton Legare in 1828. In 1820 he was elected president of the U...

Cooley, Dennis.

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Physician and botanist living in Michigan. From the description of Letters, 1819-1853. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32878730 ...