Henry Woodhull Green Collection of Princeton University senior speeches, 1819-1820.

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Henry Woodhull Green Collection of Princeton University senior speeches, 1819-1820.

This collection consists of a notebook of speeches delivered by the graduating students at the College of New Jersey of 1819 and 1820. The notebook contains the text to four of the speeches, a poem, and a complete list of the Subjects of Senior Speeches of 1819 and 1820. Speeches were delivered by: John A. Stuart, William Peronneau Finley, James H. Gholson, and Bloomfield McIlvaine.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7671926

New Jersey Historical Society Library

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Princeton University

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The collection documents the physical expansion of the University from its earliest period through the acquisition of large tracts of land in the 20th century, including the properties around Carnegie Lake and numerous farms. Early records document transactions with such Princeton University notables as Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, John Witherspoon, Walter Minto, John and Richard Stockton, and John Maclean. For the most part, the papers consist of standard legal documents with detailed descriptions ...

Gholson, James H., 1798-1848.

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McIlvaine, Bloomfield

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Stuart, John A. (John Allan), 1800-1852

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Finley, William Peronneau

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Green, Henry Woodhull, 1804-1876

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Many of the graduating Seniors of the classes of 1819 and 1820 of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) delivered speeches on various national, international, moral and philosophical topics, as demonstration of their achievements and education at the institution. The compiler of this collection of Senior speeches, Henry Woodhull Green, was a graduate in 1820, who later went on to study at the Litchfield Law School, and to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, Ne...

College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)

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