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Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925

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William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1896, 1900, and 1908 elections. He also served in the United States House of Representatives and as the United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson. Just before his death, he gained national attention for attacking the te...

Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925

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Miles was born in Westminster, Massachusetts, on his family's farm. He worked in Boston, read military history, and mastered military principles and techniques, including battle drills. Miles was working as a crockery store clerk in Boston when the American Civil War began. He entered the Union Army as a volunteer on September 9, 1861, and fought in many crucial battles. He became a lieutenant in the 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel of t...

Sanborn, John B. (John Benjamin), 1826-1904

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American lawyer and soldier. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to the President, 1869 Dec. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634500 John B. Sanborn was born in Epsom, New Hampshire, December 5, 1826, the youngest of five children. Interested in the law, he attended one quarter at Dartmouth College (1851-1852) but left to join the law office of Asa Fowler in Concord. He was admitted to the bar in 1854, and moved West, settling in St...

Bagg, Lyman Hotchkiss, 1846-1911

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Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg: author, journalist; editor of Yale Literary Magazine, 1868-1869, and of the College Courant (New Haven), 1870-1871; wrote weekly College Chronicle for the New York World, 1876-1882; author of numerous books. From the description of Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg papers, 1828-1907 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702168720 Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg: author, journalist; editor of Yale Literary Magazine, 1868-1869, and of the College Courant (New Haven), 1870-...

Stevens, Walter Fremont, 1856-1919.

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Metcalf, Henry Brewer, 1829-1904.

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Sprague, Homer B. (Homer Baxter), 1829-1918

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Rogers, J. H. (John Henry), 1845-1911

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John Henry Rogers, 1845-1911, was born in Bertie County, N.C.; moved to Mississippi in 1852; served in the Confederate army; studied law at the University of Mississippi; practiced law in Fort Smith, Ark., beginning in 1869; served as state district judge in Arkansas, 1877-1882; was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1882 and served until 1892; served as federal judge for the western district of Arkansas, 1896 until his death in 1911. From the description of J. H. Rogers...

Ruffner, William Henry, 1824-1908

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William Henry Ruffner was born February 11, 1824, the son of Henry Ruffner, a Presbyterian minister and college president. He graduated from Washington College (Lexington, Va.) where his father served, in 1842. Ruffner attended Union Theological Seminary (Richmond, Va.) in 1845 and 1846, and graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1847. He married Harriet Anne Gray of Collicello, Va. in 1850. Ordained by the Presbytery of Philadelphia in 1852, he served for a year as pastor of Seventh P...

Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948

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Josephus Daniels, son of Josephus and Mary (Cleves) Daniels, was born in Washington, North Carolina, May 18, 1862. He attended the Wilson Collegiate Institute. On May 2, 1888, he married Addie W. Bagley. At the age of eighteen, he was editor of the "Wilson Advance"; admitted to the bar in 1885; state printer for North Carolina, 1887-1893; chief clerk, Department of the Interior, 1893-1895; editor of the "Raleigh State Chronicle", 1885; editor of the "Raleigh State News and Observer", 1894-1919; ...

Converse, James Booth, 1844-1914.

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Cooley, Mortimer E. (Mortimer Elwyn), 1855-1944

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Dean of the College of Engineering of the University of Michigan. From the description of Mortimer E. Cooley papers, 1873-1944. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418437 From the description of Mortimer E. Cooley papers, 1873-1944. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 82298333 Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan. From the description of Mortimer Elwyn Cooley papers, 1943-1944. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record i...

Gardiner, H. Norman (Harry Norman), 1855-1927

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Gardiner was born in Norwich, England and immigrated to the United states to attend Amherst College (A.B., 1878; M.A., 1885). He graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1881 and with a travel grant studied in Germany at Gottingen, Heidelberg and Leipiz. He joined the Smith College Philosophy Dept. in 1884 and remained there until his retirement in 1924. Gardiner was a founder of the American Philosophical Society and its president in 1907 and was a member of the Board of Trustees of Andover...

Cathell, D. W. (Daniel Webster), 1839-1925

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Jennings, Edwin Bloom, 1855-

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Boutwell, George S. (George Sewall), 1818-1905

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George Sewall Boutwell (1818-1905) was an active political figure and lawyer all his life. Initially a Democrate, his antislavery leanings made him a prominent Free Soiler who was elected Governor and susequently reelected by the dominant Massachusetts Free Soil coalition in 1851-1852. He became a lawyer and founder of the Massachusetts Republican Party, later being a Radical Republican in Congress and among the most forecful opponents of President Andrew Johnson. Boutwell served as Secretary of...

Carson, John Miller, 1837-1912.

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John H. Carson emigrated from Tennessee to East Texas in 1858. He enlisted in the Texas Partisan Rangers Regiment of the Confederate cavalry in August 1862. After his parole on July 24, 1865, he returned to his family in East Texas. From the description of John H. Carson papers, 1854-1976. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 255584651 ...

Chaffee, Adna Romanza, 1842-1914

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Army officer; in command of the San Carlos Indian Reservation in Arizona from 1879 to 1880. In 1882, he led the army in the Battle of Big Dry Wash. He was stationed at Fort McDowell and Fort Huachuca and took part in the Geronimo Campaign of 1885-1886. He was Inspector General of the Department of Arizona from 1890 to 1893. From the description of Chaffee papers, 1876-1914. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 37863612 Army officer. ...

Curtis, Geo. M. (George Milton), 1843-1915

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Hopkins, Albert J. (Albert Jarvis), 1846-1922

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Bartlett, Charles L. (Charles Lafayette), 1853-1938

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Wellington, George L. (George Louis), 1852-1927

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Mason, William E. (William Ernest), 1850-1921

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Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

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Frederick Burr Opper (1857-1937) was an American cartoonist and creator of the newspaper comic strips Happy Hooligan, And Her Name Was Maud!, Alphonse and Gaston and many others. From the guide to the Frederick Burr Opper Cartoons, 1931, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Cartoonist and illustrator; b. in Madison, Ohio. From the description of Three cartoon sketches, [undated]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70971290 Ame...

Arnold, James N. (James Newell), 1844-1927

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Kane, Thomas Franklin, 1863-1953

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Sanford, Maria Louise, 1836-1920

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Maria Sanford was Professor of Rhetoric and Elocution at the University of Minnesota 1880-1909. From the description of Maria Sanford papers, 1869-1922. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63301117 Born on December 19, 1836 in Saybrook, Connecticut, Maria Sanford attended the Normal School in New Britain, graduating at the age of 19. After graduation, she taught local children in various Connecticut communities until 1871. Since women wer...

Christie, Francis A. (Francis Albert), 1858-1938

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Anderson, Thomas McArthur, 1836-1917

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American army officer. From the description of Report signed : Ringold Barracks, Texas, to the Acting Asst. Inspector General of Texas, 1872 May 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132676 General Thomas Anderson, was colonel of the 14th Infantry and in command at Vancouver Barracks for many years. From the description of Army episodes and anecdotes; or Life at Vancouver Barracks. The romance and the reality of the frontier /by Thomas McArthur Anderson, 1853-1893...

Wilkinson, William Cleaver, 1833-1920

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Rice, William Gorham

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Rice was born in Albany, N.Y. and attended the Albany Academy. He married Harriet Langdon Pruyn, daughter of John VanSchaick Lansing Pruyn in 1892. Rice was Assistant Paymaster General of the New York State National Guard and secretary to Governor Cleveland. In 1895 he became U.S. Civil Service Commissioner. He later served as a member of the New York State Civil Service Commission. Rice was the author of several works on carillons and was an expert on the subject. From the descripti...

Howe, Lucien, 1848-1928

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Noted opthamologist and founder of the Buffalo Eye and Ear Infirmary. Elected president of the American Opthamological Society in 1918; responsible for legislation combating eye disease in children. From the description of Viennese relief correspondence, 1895 Feb. 6-1920 Dec. 17 (bulk 1920 Mar. 21-Dec. 17). (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 33310870 Howe, an ophthalmologist, was founder of the Buffalo Eye and Ear Infirmary (1876), author of the New York State How...

Brown, Arthur Judson, 1856-1963

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Arthur Judson Brown was a Presbyterian clergyman, author and pioneer in the ecumenical and world missionary movements of the 20th century. He earned a B.A. degree in 1880 and a M.A. degree in 1886, both from Wabash College, and graduated from Lane Theological Seminary in 1883. The positions he held included administrative secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions (1895-1929), charter trustee of the Church Peace Union [now the Council on Religion and International Affairs] (1914), o...

Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904

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U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. From the description of George Frisbie Hoar letter to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1894 January 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 694733616 George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) was a Republican Senator from Massachusetts (1877-1904). From the description of Autograph collection, 1598-1945. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122405022 From the guide to the George Frisbie Hoar autograph collection, 1598-194...

Welsh, Herbert, 1851-1941

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Herbert Welsh established the Indian Rights Association in 1882, and served as the organization's corresponding secretary, president and president emeritus. The Association investigated and publicized conditions of Indians, and was particularly successful in arousing public interest and exposing frauds on reservations. Bishop William Hobart Hare (1839-1909), known as the "Apostle to the Sioux," was appointed in 1872 Bishop of Niobrara, which was expanded and renamed the ...

Woodruff, Francis E. (Francis Eben), 1844-1914

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Scovel, Sylvester F. (Sylvester Fithian), 1835-1910

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Osborne, Thomas Mott, 1859-1926

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Pomeroy, Eltweed, 1860-

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Editor, manufacturer, and socialist leader. From the description of Papers of Eltweed Pomeroy, 1893-1912. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79870710 ...

Tuttle, Daniel Sylvester, 1837-1923

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First Episcopal bishop to Utah. He served as bishop from 1867-1886. From the description of Correspondence. 1873-1883. (Utah State University). WorldCat record id: 18231611 Episcopal Bishop of the Missionary District of Montana, Idaho, and Utah, and the Missionary District of Utah and Idaho; Bishop of the Diocese of Missouri; and Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (1903-1923). From the description of Daniel Sylvester Tuttle papers, 1871-1915. (Unknown). Wor...

Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

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Elihu Root, born in Clinton, NY, attended Hamilton College (A.B., 1864, A.M. in course, 1867) and University Law School of New York. He served as member Alaskan Boundary Tribunal; United States District Attorney, Southern New York, 1883 - 85; Secretary of War, 1899 - 1904; Secretary of State, 1905 - 09; U.S. Senator from New York, 1909 - 15; Senior Counsel for the U.S., North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration, The Hague, 1910; Ambassador at Head of Special Diplomatic Mission to Russia, 1...

Rothrock, Joseph T., 1839-1922

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Joseph T. Rothrock was a physician, botanist, and forester. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1877. From the description of Letters, 1878-1884, to Eli K. Price. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122608845 Joseph T. Rothrock was a physician, botanist, and forester; he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1877. From the guide to the Joseph T. Rothrock letters, 1878-1884, to Eli K. Price, 1878-1884, (...