William Righter and Mary Wager Fisher Papers, 1830-1934 and undated

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William Righter and Mary Wager Fisher Papers, 1830-1934 and undated

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36206621

The papers of William Righter Fisher and Mary Wager Fisher consist primarily of correspondence, but also include photographs (several of them tintypes and cartes-de-visite), financial papers, diaries, clippings, printed material, and writings and speeches. Among correspondents are many journalists, physicians, educators, and other notable figures of the late nineteenth century including Lucy Abbott, Mercy Baker, Jennie Chapin, Mary L. Booth, W.S. Burke, James Gowdy Clark, M.E. Dodge, Weston Flint, P. Girard, S.D. Harris, Albert Leffingwell, Henry C. Olney, W. Trickett, George Boyer Vashon, and Frank J. Webb. The collection also includes letters from James B. Hazelton of the First Regiment, New York Artillery. Hazelton's letters describe battles and political events of the Civil War, including Lincoln's re-election campaign and the anti-draft riots. The papers are particularly rich in documentation of women in medicine and women's medical education in the second half of the nineteenth century; the Freedmen's schools in the Reconstruction South; the movement for women's rights; and friendship among American women in the late Victorian era.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7378171

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Vashon, George Boyer, 1824-1878

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Booth, Mary L. (Mary Louise), 1831-1889

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Author, translator, editor. From the description of Letters of Mary Louise Booth, 1884-1886. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50390642 ...

Baker, Mercy.

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Webb, Frank J.

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Fisher, Mary Wager, 1849-1932.

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William Righter Fisher was a lawyer and an educator in Philadelphia, and his wife Mary Wager Fisher was a prominent journalist and sometimes published under the pseudonym "Minnie Mintwood." From the description of William Righter and Mary Wager Fisher Papers, 1830-1934 and undated (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36206621 ...

Trickett, William, 1840-1928

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Leffingwell, Albert, 1845-1916

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A native of Aurora, N.Y., A.J. Leffingwell received his medical degree from the Long Island Hospital Medical College in 1874. Soon after he joined the medical staff of Our Home on the Hill Side, the water-cure established in 1858 in Dansville, N.Y. by Leffingwell's uncle, James C. Jackson. After the fire of June 1882, the institution re-opened as The Sanitarium (1883) with James H. Jackson, the founder's son, and three of the Leffingwell brothers as owner-managers. A bitter struggle for ownershi...

Abbott, Lucy

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Fisher, William P. (William Phineas), 1843-1932

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William Fisher, a graduate of Dickinson College, class of 1870, also attended the University of Heidelburg. From 1874-76 he taught modern language at Dickinson College. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1876. He married Mary A.E. Weiger in 1876. Mrs Fisher wrote children's stories and travel articles. From the description of Papers, 1874-1917. (Dickinson College). WorldCat record id: 18690575 ...

Chapin, Jennie.

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Flint, Weston, 1835-1906

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

United States. Army. New York Artillery Regiment, 5th.

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