Alice Duer Miller papers 1899-1942.

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Alice Duer Miller papers 1899-1942.

Bibliographies, professional and family correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, typescripts, screenplays, radio broadcast transcripts, essays related to her literary and theatrical career and notebooks and certificates related to her studies at Barnard and Columbia. Also, files, correspondence and a typescript related to her research on Duer Family history.

4.75 linear ft. (6 boxes) (12 scrapbooks).

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Duer, William, 1747-1799

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William Duer (March 18, 1743 – May 7, 1799) was a British-born American lawyer, developer, and speculator from New York City. A Federalist, Duer wrote in support of ratifying the United States Constitution as "Philo-Publius". He had earlier served in the Continental Congress and the convention that framed the New York Constitution. In 1778, he signed the United States Articles of Confederation and is one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Born in the county of Devon in England, Due...

Duer, Elizabeth Meads, 1844-1908.

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Elizabeth Meads Duer was the mother of Alice Duer Miller and Caroline King Duer. From the description of Elizabeth Meads Duer papers (1901-1906). (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 275961421 ...

Alexander, William, 1726-1783

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American Revolutionary soldier; Lord Stirling. From the description of Document signed : [n.p.], 1772 July 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132554 Revolutionary soldier; better known as Lord Stirling. During the French and Indian War, he was aide and secretary to Governor Shirley, and defended Shirley before the House of Commons in 1756. From the description of Letter : on board the sloop Massachusetts, to Governor Robert Hunter Morris, 1755 July 6. (Buffalo...

Duer, William Alexander, 1780-1858

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American jurist and educator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Aaron O. Dayton, 1839 Mar. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870697 Originally commissioned in 1856, by 1862 Wabash was a permanent part of the Charleston blockade, operating out of Port Royal. That year, a landing party from it occupied St. Augustine, Florida; another manned a battery that bombarded Fort Pulaski, Georgia, forcing its surrender. Its howitzers supported land troops...

Duerr family.

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Barnard College. Board of Trustees.

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Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942

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Alice (Maude) Duer Miller served as a Trustee of Barnard from 1922-1942, collaborating with Susan Myers-on " Barnard College; the First Fifty Years" published in 1939. She graduated from Barnard in 1899 and did graduate work in Mathematics at Columbia. Miller was an author, writing short stories, novels, screenplays and poetry. She acted in the film, "Soak the Rich." Miller was member of the Algonquin Roundtable a charter member of Alexander Woollcott's literary colony on Neshobe Island, Lake Bo...