Lena Lillian Hill Severence papers, 1903-1916.

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Lena Lillian Hill Severence papers, 1903-1916.

Letters to Lena Hill Severence, plus two pamphlets and a mimeographed item. Letters concern her efforts to secure pension legislation for teachers in New York State. Correspondents include New York State Normal School officials Myron T. Scudder, William J. Milne, and Isaac B. Poucher; university presidents Andrew D. White, Jacob Gould Schurman, James B. Angell, David Starr Jordan, and Charles W. Eliot; lawyer and politician Elihu Root; New York State legislator Jesse S. Phillips; and New York State Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles R. Skinner.

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Cornell University Library

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Skinner, Charles Rufus, 1844-1928

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Skinner was State Superintendent of Public Instruction, New York State Postmaster, New York State legislator, and a librarian. From the description of Skinner, Charles R papers, 1865-1920, 1883-1911 (bulk). (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155436722 ...

Milne, William J.

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Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942

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Jacob Gould Schurman was born May 22, 1854 on Prince Edward Island. He was Professor of Philosophy at Acadia College and Dalhousie College; Cornell University's Sage Professor of Philosophy, 1886-92, and President, 1892-1920; President of the first U.S. Philippine Commission, 1899; U.S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro during the Balkan Wars; and was a diplomat involved with foreign policy making in China, the Far East, and Germany. From the description of Jacob Gould Schurman paper...

Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

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Eliot served as president of Harvard University (1869-1909). From the description of Correspondence of Charles W. Eliot, 1870-1920. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339031 Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was President of Harvard University from March 12, 1869 to May 19, 1909. He also taught mathematics and chemistry at Harvard University (1858-1863) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1865-1869). Eliot was one of the most influential educa...

Severence, Lena Lillian Hill, 1856-1944.

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Lena Lillian Hill Severence was born in North Hero, Vermont. She worked as a teacher and received a B.S. in Science and Letters from Cornell University in 1879. She was a founder of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (later the American Association of University Women) in the Buffalo area and chaired its Education Committee during the time of the pension bill fight mentioned in the letters. In this position she worked closely with Mrs. Andrew Dickson White, who accompanied her on a trip to Al...

Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931

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Educator, author, and naturalist. From the description of Papers of David Starr Jordan, 1861-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068098 Zoologist David Starr Jordan was elected president of Indiana University in 1885. He left IU in 1891 to become Stanford University's first president. Jordan died in 1931. From the description of David Starr Jordan papers, 1874-1929, bulk 1895-1929. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 61225195 American ichthyolog...

Poucher, Isaac B.

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Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

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Elihu Root, born in Clinton, NY, attended Hamilton College (A.B., 1864, A.M. in course, 1867) and University Law School of New York. He served as member Alaskan Boundary Tribunal; United States District Attorney, Southern New York, 1883 - 85; Secretary of War, 1899 - 1904; Secretary of State, 1905 - 09; U.S. Senator from New York, 1909 - 15; Senior Counsel for the U.S., North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration, The Hague, 1910; Ambassador at Head of Special Diplomatic Mission to Russia, 1...

Phillips, Jesse S.

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White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918

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The second International Peace Conference was held at the Hague in 1907. From the description of Hague Peace Conference documents, 1907. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64052217 Ambassador to Russia; first president of Cornell University. From the description of Andrew Dickson White papers, 1901-1902. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155410378 Andrew Dickson White was born at Homer, New York, November 7, 1832. ...

Association of Collegiate Alumnae (Buffalo, N.Y.)

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Angell, James W. (James Waterhouse), 1898-1986

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American Association of University Women. Education Committee (Buffalo, N.Y.)

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Scudder, Myron T. (Myron Tracy), 1860-1935

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