Papers of Jefferson Randolph Kean, 1765-1938.

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Papers of Jefferson Randolph Kean, 1765-1938.

The collection is divided into two parts. The first contains the autograph collection of William S. Worth, who collected letters of prominent men, chiefly from New England and New York in the late 18th century and early 19th century. Most of the correspondence, 1765-1832, is of a routine nature though of interest is a letter, 1804 December 28, from Thomas Rodney re: the political situation in West Florida and a cover note, 1805 March 4, from William Eaton to James Madison re: a treaty with Mamet Bashaw. The second half of the collection consists of letters, 1891-1938, to Jefferson Randolph Kean, chiefly from noted medical colleagues on routine matters, although James Carroll Flippin queries Kean on the University of Virginia's influence on Walter Reed. Correspondents are William Beaumont, Elias Boudinot, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin Butler, John Butler, Jonathan Dayton, Charles Edward Dudley, William Duer, Pierpont Edwards, Oliver Ellsworth, Gideon Granger, John Hancock, Richard Harrison, Stephen Higginson, Samuel Huntington, John Kean, Aaron Ogden, Harrison Gray Otis, Charles Petit, Caesar Augustus Rodney, Thomas Russell, Philip John Schuyler, William H. Seward, William Smith, Abraham Van Vechten, and Benjamin Wright. Also included are Fred Crayton Ainsworth, Dallas Bache, Andre Chantemesse, Enoch Herbert Crowder, Bernard Francis Dickmann, William Crawford Gorgas, Fitzhugh Lee, Franklin Henry Martin, Henry Pinckney McCain, Angus McLean, William Louis Rodman, William Howard Taft, William Holland Wilmer, and Leonard Wood.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Kean, John, 1756-1795

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John Kean (1756 – May 4, 1795) was an American merchant, banker and member of the Continental Congress from South Carolina who was the first in a long line of American politicians from his family. He notably served as a Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and as the first cashier of the Bank of the United States in Philadelphia. Born in Charleston in the Province of South Carolina, Kean was raised in Beaufort County, South Carolina. Kean apprenticed with his stepfather's business pa...

Higginson, Stephen, 1743-1828

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Stephen Higginson (November 28, 1743—November 28, 1828) was an American merchant and shipmaster from Boston, Massachusetts. Born in Salem in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Higginson attended the common schools before engaging in mercantile pursuits; from 1765 to 1775, he was an active and successful shipmaster. Higginson served in the Massachusetts legislature in 1782 and was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress in 1783. He took an active part in suppressing Shays' Reb...

Edwards, Pierpont, 1750-1826

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Pierpont Edwards (April 8, 1750 – April 5, 1826) was a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Born on April 8, 1750, in Northampton, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America, Edwards graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1768. He entered private practice in New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British America (State of Connecticut, United States f...

Dayton, Jonathan, 1760-1824

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Jonathan Dayton (October 16, 1760 – October 9, 1824) was an American politician from the U.S. state of New Jersey. He was the youngest person to sign the United States Constitution and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving as its third Speaker, and later in the U.S. Senate. Dayton was arrested in 1807 for treason in connection with Aaron Burr's conspiracy. He was never tried, but his national political career never recovered. Dayton was born in Elizabethtown (now known as Eli...

Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821

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Elias Boudinot (May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and served as President of Congress from 1782 to 1783. He was elected as a U.S. Congressman for New Jersey following the American Revolutionary War. He was appointed by President George Washington as Director of the United States Mint, serving from 1795 until 1805. Born in Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania, Boudinot received a classica...

Duer, William, 1747-1799

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William Duer (March 18, 1743 – May 7, 1799) was a British-born American lawyer, developer, and speculator from New York City. A Federalist, Duer wrote in support of ratifying the United States Constitution as "Philo-Publius". He had earlier served in the Continental Congress and the convention that framed the New York Constitution. In 1778, he signed the United States Articles of Confederation and is one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Born in the county of Devon in England, Due...

Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796

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Samuel Huntington (July 16, 1731 [O.S. July 5, 1731] – January 5, 1796) was a Founding Father of the United States and a jurist, statesman, and Patriot in the American Revolution from Connecticut. As a delegate to the Continental Congress, he signed the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. He also served as President of the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1781, President of the United States in Congress Assembled in 1781, chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court...

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

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John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that the term John Hancock or Hancock has become a nickname in the United S...

Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836

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Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician and lawyer. A Founding Father, he served as the third vice president of the United States during President Thomas Jefferson's first term from 1801 to 1805. His role in helping form the nation, however, would be overshadowed when he killed fellow Founding Father Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. The duel led to the collapse of Burr's political career and tarnished his legacy in American history. Burr was born t...

Ainsworth, Fred C. (Fred Crayton), 1852-1934

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Ainsworth was born in Woodstock, Vermont on September 11, 1852. In 1874 he received his medical degree from the University of the City of New York (now New York University). In December 1874 Ainsworth joined the Army Medical Corps as an Assistant Surgeon. He served initially in Arkansas and the Southwest United States, and was promoted to surgeon with the rank of captain in November 1879. In 1885 he was appointed recorder of the Army Medical Examining Board. His talents as an administrator re...

Reed, Walter, 1851-1902

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Born in Gloucester County, Va., Walter Reed received an M.D. from the University of Virginia in 1869 and another M.D. from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1871. He joined the Army Medical Corps in 1876. Reed served in many areas throughout the country, including Fort Lowell, Az., and Baltimore, before becoming professor of bacteriology at the Army Medical School in 1893. During the Spanish-American War he sought a cure for typhoid fever in Cuba. After the war, he remained in Cuba with the Y...

Granger, Gideon, 1767-1822

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American politician and Post Master General under Jefferson and Madison. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Canandaigua, to Samuel M. Hopkins, Esq., 1817 Dec. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269567163 American politician and P.M. general under Jefferson and Madison. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington City, to Bliss, Esq., 1803 July 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269587231 American politician and Postmaster ...

Eaton, William, 1764-1811

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Diplomat, adventurer, and U.S. Army officer, of Massachusetts. From the description of Autograph letter signed from William Eaton to Commodore Preble, 1807 June 25. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 123410762 Richard Dale was a naval officer. From the guide to the Richard Dale papers, 1780-1845, 1780-1845, (American Philosophical Society) American General. From the description of Autograph letter signed. (Unknown). World...

Beaumont, William, 1785-1853

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Physician and physiologist. From the description of William Beaumont collection, 1834-[ca. 1879]. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52247530 A native of Lebanon, Connecticut, Beaumont was certified to practice medicine by the Third Medical Society of Vermont in 1812. He served in the army during the War of 1812 and from 1819 to 1839 was an army medical officer. During that time he served at posts in the midwest including Fort Mackinac, Michigan; Fort Niaga...

University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

Lee, Fitzhugh, 1835-1905

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Fitzhugh Lee, grandson of Henry "Light-Horse Harry" and nephew of Robert E. Lee was Major General of the Confederate Army. After the war, he wrote about and taught the history of the South during the Civil War and wrote a biography of Robert E. Lee. In 1885-1889, he served as governor of Virginia. From the description of Papers of Fitzhugh Lee, 1863-1889 (bulk 1885-1889). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122446276 Fitzhugh Le...

Kean, Jefferson Randolph, 1860-1950

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Sanitary Advisor to the Cuban Provisional Government. From the description of Papers and correspondence of Gen. Kean's army career and tenure as Sanitary Advisor to the Cuban Provisional Government regarding Order of Indian Wars, Seventh Army Corps, 1898-1900 [manuscript] 1898-1949. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647970591 Surgeon and Army officer. From the description of Papers of Jefferson Randolph Kean [manuscript] 1897-1950. (University of Virg...

Dudley, Charles Edward, 1780-1841

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Senator from New York State, Mayor of Albany, N.Y. From the description of Letter, 1831 February 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122468612 A Senator from New York; born in Johnston Hall, Staffordshire, England, May 23, 1780; immigrated to the United States with his mother, who settled in Newport, R.I., in 1794; entered a counting room as clerk; moved to Albany, N.Y., where he engaged in the mercantile business; member of the State senate 1820-1825; mayor of Albany 1821-18...

Ellsworth, Oliver, 1745-1807

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Ellsworth, jurist and statesman; delegate to the Continental Congress (1777-1784); chief justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1796-1799). From the description of Letters to Rufus King, 1800-1801. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 237392171 From the description of Opinions of Oliver Ellsworth, 1774-1786. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339020 Member of the Continental Congress from Connecticut and later Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme C...

Gorgas, William Crawford, 1854-1920

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William Crawford Gorgas, an authority in the control of yellow fever, worked as sanitation expert in the preparation and construction of the Panama Canal. He was instrumental in the investigation and control of yellow fever in Cuba, Central and South America, and Africa. Gorgas was appointed Surgeon General of the United States Army January 1914. From the description of William Crawford Gorgas papers, 1912-1937. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 244484754 A m...

Flippin, James Carroll, 1878-1939,

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Chantemesse, André, 1851-1919

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French physician. From the description of André Chantemesse note, 1886, Apr. 8, Paris. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35005036 ...

Butler, John, 1728-1796

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Officer U.S.A. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Gen. Greene, 1781 Apr. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131796 Loyalist commander in the American Revolution. From the description of Letter : Larunanach, to Lieut. Col. Bolton, Niagara, 1778 July 8. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 56822577 Soldier, noted loyalist during the American Revolution. From the description of Letters to James Wadsworth, 1793. (Unkn...

Dickman, Bernard Francis, b. 1888,

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Bashaw, Mamet.

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Crowder, E. H. (Enoch Herbert), 1859-1932

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Judge Advocate, U.S. Army Headquarters, Department of the Platte, Omaha, Nebraska. From the description of Letters sent, 1897 January-December. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122629901 From the guide to the E. H. Crowder letters sent, 1897, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Harrison, Richard, 1750-1841

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Auditor general of the U.S. Treasury, 1791-1836. From the description of Letter : Philadelphia, to Manuel de Gayoso [i.e. Manuel Gayoso de Lemos], Natches, 1792 Feb. 16. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 37900935 Public official and agent. From the description of Letterbook of Richard Harrison, 1782-1788. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82844683 ...

Bache, Dallas, d. 1902,

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Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1795-1858

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American lawyer and politician; Attorney General. From the description of Letter signed : New York, to A.J. Bleecker, 1840 July 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132632 American lawyer and politician; Atty. General. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to C.H. Waddell, 1840 July 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131665 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to William L. Marcy, Secretary of War, 1845 Ma...