Francis Whiting Hatch Noah Brooks Collection, 1856-1950.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882

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Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. She served as First Lady from 1861 until his assassination in 1865 at Ford’s Theatre. Daughter of Eliza Parker and Robert Smith Todd, pioneer settlers of Kentucky, Mary lost her mother before the age of seven. Her father remarried; and Mary remembered her childhood as “desolate” although she belonged to the aristocracy of Lexington, with high-spirited social life and a sound private education. Just...

Independent Order of Odd Fellows San Francisco

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Jarvis, Charles, 1788-1865

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Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903

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Brooks was an American author and journalist. From the description of Letter, an envelope, and a newspaper clipping, 1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83593410 Noah Brooks was born 1830 Oct. 30 in Castine, Me., and died 1903 Aug. 16 in Pasadena, Calif. He worked in the newspaper business in various capacities and was a writer of children's books, along with historical and biographical works, including Tales of the Maine Coast. From the description of Letter : ...

Hatch, Francis Whiting, 1925-,

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Brooks was an American journalist and author. From the guide to the Francis Whiting Hatch Noah Brooks collection, 1856-1950., (Houghton Library, Harvard University) Brooks was an American journalist, editor and author of historical fiction for young people. From the description of Francis Whiting Hatch Noah Brooks Collection, 1856-1950. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612198220 ...