Papers, 1841-1903.

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Papers, 1841-1903.

Papers include biographical material, correspondence and records pertaining to Dr. Mary Olive Hunt's training and career as a physician, circa 1860s- 1890s; and correspondence to suffragist Elizabeth Bisbee Hunt from such notables as Susan B. Anthony, Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone, Harriot Stanton Blatch, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, circa 1880s-1902.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7608828

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906

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Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activ...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910

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Julia Ward Howe, née Julia Ward, (born May 27, 1819, New York, New York, U.S.—died October 17, 1910, Newport, Rhode Island), American author and lecturer best known for her “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Julia Ward came of a well-to-do family and was educated privately. In 1843 she married educator Samuel Gridley Howe and took up residence in Boston. Always of a literary bent, she published her first volume of poetry, Passion Flowers, in 1854; this and subsequent works—including a poetry collec...

Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940

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Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (b. Jan. 20, 1856, Seneca Falls, NY–d. Nov. 20, 1940, Greenwich, CT) was the daughter of activists Henry Brewster Stanton and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in mathematics in 1878. She married Harry Blatch and lived in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Her daughter, Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, was the first U.S. woman to earn a degree in civil engineering. While in England, Blatch conducted a statistical study of rural English working ...

Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne, 1851-1926

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Daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Concord], to Mrs. Badger, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270595594 From the description of Memoirs of Nathaniel Hawthorne : autograph manuscript pages of drafts of text for the book, with transcripts of letters, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270599130 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Concord, to "Dear Fanny", 1862 Mar. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

Hunt family.

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Physician; Suffragist. Mary Olive Hunt, M.D., (1819-1908) was an early woman physician of New Hampshire. She graduated from New England Female Medical College, circa 1866-67, and was in active practice in Manchester. Her niece by marriage, Elizabeth ("Bessie) Bisbee Hunt (1844-1919) was born in Derby, Vermont and was a suffragist. From the description of Papers, 1841-1903. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 49517203 ...