Ithaca diary, 1857-1858.

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Ithaca diary, 1857-1858.

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Diary of an unidentified Ithaca businessman, possibly a grocer. He was a member of the Oddfellows Lodge and the DeWitt Guards. The diary comments on the escape of Edward Rulloff, on lecturers and preachers, including C. M. Clay and Horace Mann; and frequently on the weather. He also notes the scarcity of certain provisions in the city, the opening and closing of canal traffic, the flood of June 17-18, depressed business in the fall of 1857, the bank's suspension of specie payment in October, and what he is reading.

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Rulloff, Edward H. (Edward Howard), 1819-1871

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Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

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Horace Mann was an educator and a statesman who greatly advanced the cause of universal, free, non-sectarian public schools. Mann also advocated temperance, abolition, hospitals for the mentally ill, and women's rights. From the description of Horace Mann Letter, 1858. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 213372958 Horace Mann, "Father of our Public Schools," was born in Franklin, Massachusetts on May 4, 1796. His family was poor and his father di...