Abram S.Hewitt papers, n.d.

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Abram S.Hewitt papers, n.d.

This a collection of the surviving undergraduate papers, notebooks, and memorabilia of Hewitt, including a group of college themes and exercises, the manuscript of Hewitt's Greek Salutatory Address (4 October 1842), three volumes of lecture notes, eight volumes of translations from Greek authors, and three volumes of lecture notes made by Hewitt's brother-in-law and business partner, Edward Cooper (1824-1905). Also, a group of various commemorative medals.

2 file boxes.

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Hewitt, Abram S. (Abram Stevens), 1822-1903

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Hewitt graduated from Columbia in the class of 1842 and became, in turn, an attorney in New York City, a manufacturer of iron and steel, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1875-1879, 1881-1886, and Mayor of New York, 1887-1888. From the description of Abram S.Hewitt papers, n.d. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 496102421 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Hewitt graduated from Columbia in the class of 1842 and became, in turn, an attorney in New Yo...

Cooper, Edward, 1804-1905.

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