Records of Concord, Mass., Committee on Gunboat "Concord", 1889-1891.

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Records of Concord, Mass., Committee on Gunboat "Concord", 1889-1891.

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Records include: correspondence (incl. letters from Daniel Chester French, Secretary of Navy B.F. Tracy, and Commander O.A. Batcheller); drawing by Edward Waldo Emerson of proposed placement of statuette; and ms. reports.

27 items ; 32 cm. or smaller.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 7352683

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Concord (Gunboat)

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Tracy, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1830-1915

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Benjamin F. Tracy, a lawyer, served as Secretary of the Navy, 1889-1893, where he presided over the development of the Modern Navy and the increase in the number of battleships and the formation of a naval reserve. He resumed his law practice in New York in 1893 and died there in 1915. From the description of Naval order, July 18, 1889. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 729740231 From the description of Signature, 1890. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 1797421...

United States. Navy Department

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Smith was a private citizen and donor to the "Eyes for the Navy" program. From the description of Memorandum, no date. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 708036591 From the description of Memorandum, September 30, 1918. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 708034981 From the description of Certificate, no date. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 708036793 The United States Navy operated a radio station with call sign NUG in Calumet, Michigan...

Batcheller, Oliver A.

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Keyes, J. S.

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John Shepard Keyes (1821-1910) was a lawyer, Mass. Senator, Sheriff of Middlesex County, Mass., U.S. Marshal, Judge of District Court of Eastern Middlesex, resident of Concord, Mass., and President of Concord Antiquarian Society. Adams Tolman (1862-1920) was an antiquarian, historian of Concord, collector of Native American artifacts, amateur botanist and entomologist, Secretary and Director of Middlesex Mutual Fire Insurance Company (Concord), and Secretary of Concord Antiquarian Society. ...

Emerson, Edward Waldo, 1844-1930

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Concord (Mass.). Committee on Gunboat "Concord"

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Committee of Concord, Mass., appointed in 1889 to arrange for gift by town of "some appropriate ornament" for twin screw gunboat "Concord." Committee consisted of John Shepard Keyes (Chairman), Charles H. Walcott, Edward J. Bartlett, Samuel Hoar, and Edward Waldo Emerson. Committee proposed bronze statuette of Daniel Chester French's Minuteman statue (full-size original of which was dedicated at Concord's North Bridge in 1875). Secretary of Navy B.F. Tracy accepted proposal on behal...

French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931

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Sculptor and artist. From the description of Daniel Chester French papers, circa 1848-1968 (bulk 1911-1945). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450719 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. and Glendale, Mass. From the description of Daniel Chester French letters, 1908-1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122648173 Biographical Note 1850, Apr. 20 Born, Exeter, N.H....