Kinney Family (Newark, NJ) Papers, 1783-1900 (Bulk dates: 1850-1900)

Kinney family (Newark, N. J.)

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Kinney family of Speedwell (Morris County) and Newark, N.J. (Essex County). Includes Hannah Burnet Kinney (1761-1832), a founder of the Newark Female Charitable Society, her husband, Abraham Kinney (1762-1816); their sons, Thomas T. Kinney (1785-1826) and William B. Kinney (1799-1880), a diplomat and Newark newspaper publisher, and his wife, Elizabeth C. Kinney (1810-1889), a published poet and essayist; and William B. Kinney's son, Thomas T. Kinney (1821-1900), also a Newark newspaper publisher...

Kinney, Thomas T. (Thomas Talmadge), 1821-1900

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Thomas T. Kinney, the eldest son of William B. Kinney and his first wife, Mary (Chandler) Kinney, graduated from Princeton University in 1841. Kinney studied law with Joseph P. Bradley and was admitted to the bar in 1844. When his father retired from the Newark Daily Advertiser in 1851, Thomas Kinney took over as editor and manager of the paper. He managed the Newark Daily Advertiser until his own retirement in 1895. Thomas T. Kinney was also active in other areas. He was a founder of the Newark...

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. As one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, he argued over 200 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1814 and his death in 1852. During his life, he was a member of the Federalist Party, the Nati...

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887

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Dix was a humanitarian crusader for the mentally ill. She investigated the conditions of the hospitalized insane in many U.S. states and some European countries, and petitioned state and national legislatures for reforms. She was also superintendent of army nurses during the Civil War. Eliot was a Unitarian minister, an educator, and assisted in the founding of Reed College in Oregon. From the description of Letters to Thomas Lamb Eliot, 1869-1885. (Harvard University). WorldCat reco...

Newark Daily Advertiser (N.J.)

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Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850

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Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), the twelfth president of the United States. In 1841, he was appointed to the command of the Sourthern Division of the United States. In the spring of 1845, Taylor appointed to command the Army of Occupation stationed in Corpus Christi. In May 1846, Taylor led his army into north Mexico. Following the battle of Monterey, Taylor was ordered to join General Winfield Scott at the siege of Veracruz. Taylor's victory at at the Battle of Buena Vista made him a national hero....

Kinney, William B. (William Burnet), 1799-1880

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Newark Female Charitable Society (N.J.)

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The Newark Female Charitable Society (Essex County, N.J.) and its auxiliary groups: the Crazy Jane Society, the Mother's Meetings Committee, and the Fresh Air Fund. The Society was founded in 1803 by a group of 117 women, under the leadership of Mrs. Elisha Boudinot. District managers visited Newark's poor and provided aid in the form of financial assistance, food, clothing, medical supplies, firewood and other household necessities. The Crazy Jane Society, founded by Mr...

Abercrombie, Ralph, Sir, fl. 1850-1853.

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Kinney, Hannah Burnet, 1761-1832

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Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

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Martin Van Buren (b. Kinderhook, New York, December 5, 1782-d. July 24, 1862, Kinderhook, New York), studied law, was admitted to bar, New York, 1803; moved to Huson surrogate of Columbia Co.; member of State Senate, 1813-1820; attorney general of New York, 1815-1819; delegate to state constitutional convention, 1821; U.S. Senate Democrat, March 4, 1821-1828; Governor of New York, 1828-1829; U.s. Secretary of State, March 12, 1829 - August 1, 1831; Vice President, 1832; President, 1836-1840....

Kinney, Thomas T. (Thomas Talmadge), 1785-1826

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Cavour, Camillo Benso, conte di, 1810-1861

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Kinney, Elizabeth C. (Elizabeth Clementine), 1810-1889

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Elizabeth Dodge (1810-1889) was born in New York City to Sarah Cleveland and David Low Dodge, of Cedar Brook, New Jersey. Elizabeth was a writer and poet of some renown, publishing Felicita, a metrical romance; a volume of poems; Bianco Capello, a tragedy in blank verse; and various other magazine publications. Her five-installment article Mrs. Kinney's Italian Reminiscences, published in Neale's Monthly, described her experiences living in Florence, and her friendship there with Elizabeth Barre...

Kossuth, Lajos, 1802-1894

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Lajos Kossuth was a Hungarian lawyer and politican and regent-president of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1849. From the description of Certificate, 1850 Jul. 6, New York [for] Julius Cladek / L. Kossuth. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 191101164 Governor of Hungary. From the description of Papers of Lajos Kossuth, 1852-1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014911 Hungarian revolutionary leader; also known as Louis Kossuth. From the descrip...

Kinney, Abraham, 1762-1816.

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