Diaries, 1847-1974 (bulk 1847-1853).

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Diaries, 1847-1974 (bulk 1847-1853).

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The diaries of a student and Civil War soldier. Included are 58 handwritten diaries by Benjamin Browne Foster from the years 1847 when he was 15 years old until 1853 when he was a student at Bowdoin College. The diaries are numbered 10 through 77 and a few of them are missing (15, 16, 26, 44, 55, 67-70). Journal no. 18 includes Benjamin's account of his attending a performance by Tom Thumb. Included in the journal is a copy of the pamphlet "Sketch of the life, personal appearance, character and manners of Charles S. Stratton ... known as General Tom Thumb" printed in New York by Van Norden & Amerman in 1847. Included also is a photocopy of a typescript "Reminiscences" (p. 23-61) by Benjamin Browne Foster. In it he describes his service in the Civil War. Included also is a photocopy of a typescript "A diary of the American Renaissance" which contains portions of the diaries by Benjamin Browne Foster. It was published as Down East Diary by Benjamin Browne Foster and edited by Charles H. Foster. Some of the pages of the typescript are missing.

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Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883

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Charles Stratton (1838-1883), stage name General Tom Thumb, was an American showman noted for his small stature. He was the first major attraction promoted by the circus impresario P.T. Barnum. He was not quite five years old when Barnum hired him for his museum, but Barnum publicized him as General Tom Thumb, an 11-year-old dwarf from England. He quickly became a celebrated figure in the United States and abroad. In 1863 Stratton married Lavinia Warren (1841–1919)—another of Barnum’s performers...

Bowdoin College

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Foster, Benjamin Browne, 1831-1903

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Benjamin Browne Foster was born November 23, 1831, in Orono, Maine, the second in a family of six children. During his youth he lived in Weston, Maine and in Boston and Newburyport, Massachusetts. He attended Bowdoin College and graduated in 1855. He was admitted to the bar in Maine in 1858 and practiced in Bangor, Castine, and Lincoln. When the Civil War began he enlisted. He married Sarah Gibson Howell from New York in 1863, and after the War he practiced law in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1873 he m...

Foster, Charles H. (Charles Howell), 1913-

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Foster served in the U.S. Navy during World War II from 1944-1945. He was assigned to the USS Winged Arrow and achieved the rank of seaman first class. From the description of Memoir, ca. 2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80144118 Charles Howell Foster, originally from Luray, Virginia, was a Professor of American Literature at the University of Minnesota. From the guide to the Charles Howell Foster Papers, 1920-1979, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manusc...