Papers of Robert S. Pace [manuscript], 1669-1993 (bulk 1830-1965).

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

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John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that the term John Hancock or Hancock has become a nickname in the United S...

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

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...

United States. Supreme Court

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Supreme Court of the United States, final court of appeal and final expositor of the Constitution of the United States. Within the framework of litigation, the Supreme Court marks the boundaries of authority between state and nation, state and state, and government and citizen. Scope And Jurisdiction The Supreme Court was created by the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as the head of a federal court system, though it was not formally established until Congress passed the Judiciary Act in 17...

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady throughout her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office (1933-1945). She was an American politician, diplomat, and activist who later served as a United Nations spokeswoman. A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved–...

Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890

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John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, military officer, and politician. He was a US Senator from California, and in 1856 was the first Republican nominee for President of the United States. A native of Georgia, Frémont acquired male protectors after his father's death, and became proficient in mathematics, science, and surveying. During the 1840s, he led five expeditions into the Western United States and became known as "The Pathfinder". During the...

Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978

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Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. He was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1968 presidential election, losing to Republican nominee Richard Nixon. Born in Wallace, South Dakota, Humphrey attended the University of Minnesota. At one point he helped run his ...

Blair Jr., Francis Preston, 1821-1875

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Blair was born in Lexington, Kentucky. He was the third and youngest son of newspaper editor and politician Francis Preston Blair, and Eliza Violet (Gist) Blair. He was the brother of Montgomery Blair, a Mayor of St. Louis and Postmaster General under Lincoln, and the cousin of B. Gratz Brown, a U.S. Senator and Governor of Missouri. Blair attended schools in Washington, D.C., was matriculated in Yale and the University of North Carolina, but graduated from Princeton University in 1841, and then...

Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, born in 1800 in Leicestershire, England, was an historian and author. He was educated at Cambridge. After the success of an essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review in 1925, he contributed regularly to that journal. He was called to the bar in 1826 and elected to Parliament in 1830. After various distinguishing public duties, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Macaulay of Rothley in 1859. He also continued to write during these public appointments, primarily on histo...

Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895

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French chemist and microbiologist. Amongst other things Pasteur proved that microrganisms caused fermentation and disease, he originated and was the first to use vaccines for rabbits, anthrax and chicken cholera and he performed important pioneer work in stereochemistry and he originated pasteurization. From the description of Letter. 1890 Apr. 26. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225747724 French physician and chemist. From the description of Papers, 1...

Donovan, William Joseph, 1883-1959

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William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat, best known for serving as the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II. He is regarded as the founding father of the CIA, and a statue of him stands in the lobby of the CIA headquarters building in Langley, Virginia. A decorated veteran of World War I, Donovan is the only person ...

Shaw, Gardiner Howland, 1893-1965

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Shaw earned his Harvard AB in 1915 and his AM in 1917. From the description of Notes, papers, and examinations in Economics 2, spring 1915-1916. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075187 From the description of Reports on cases in Government 4, 1916-1917. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075275 From the description of Notes and papers in Comparative Literature 51, 1913-1914. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075081 From the des...

Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849

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James Knox Polk followed a career path which was blazed by Andrew Jackson. Both men hailed from southwestern North Carolina. Both migrated to Tennessee, where they practiced law and entered politics, and both were elected president of the United States. As similar as their paths were, James Polk was a different personality from his fiery predecessor. His life and career were marked by a relentless pursuit of his goals instead of the dramatic aura that perpetually surrounded Jackson. The effect...

Woodbury, Charles Levi, 1820-1898

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Lawyer, jurist, and author, of Portsmouth, N.H., and Boston, Mass. From the description of Charles and Levi Woodbury papers, 1833-1894. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70940287 ...

Burling, Arthur Hart

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Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964

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American clergyman and reformer. From the description of The voice of God is calling : autograph poem signed, 1930 Nov. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269557327 John Haynes Homes (1879-1964) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised near Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1902 and Harvard Divinity School in 1904. He received honorary doctorates from Benares Hindu University, Rollins College, and Meadville Theological School. He served as...

Woodbury family.

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United States Military Academy

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West Point, N.Y., was originally utilized as a strategic defense location during the American Revolution. West Point is geographically located on a 100 ft. plateau overlooking the Hudson River. After the American victory Congress created a Corps of Invalids (veterans) that were transferred to West Point for the purpose of instructing candidates for commission. In 1802 Congress legally established the United States Military Academy at West Point. The Academy produced many leaders of American forc...

De Vries, William Levering, 1865-1937,

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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Pearl S. Buck was the daughter of American missionary parents, and spent the first seventeen years of her life in China. Her third novel, The Good Earth, won the Pulitzer Prize, and a Nobel Prize for literature followed, citing The Good Earth as well as her biographies of her parents. Critical reception for her works has been mixed since these early successes. A prolific and optimistic author, most of her fiction is set in China, and she displays great affection for the place and her characters....

Gallaudet, Edward Miner, 1837-1917

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Biographical Note T. H. Gallaudet 1787, Dec. 10 Born, Philadelphia, Pa. 1805 B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1808 M.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1814...

Burling, Judith Hart, 1900-

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Author and orientalist. From the description of Judith Hart Burling papers, 1929-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78236877 ...

Porter, David Dixon, 1878-1944,

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Madison, James, 1751-1836

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James Madison (1751-1836) was the fourth president of the United States, born in Port Conway, Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia legislature from 1776 to 1780 and from 1784 to 1786, and the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1783. His proposals at and management of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 earned him title "father of the U.S. Constitution." He cooperated with Alexander Hamilton and Jay in writing a series of papers (pub. 1787-88 under title of The Federalist) explaining the ne...

Proctor, James McPherson, 1882-1953,

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Fickenscher, Arthur

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Completed 1934. First performance by the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Richmond, Va., December 4, 1934, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Out of the gay nineties / Arthur Fickénscher. [19--]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 51823017 American composer, pianist, teacher, inventor, and University of Virginia professor, 1920-1941. From the description of Papers of Arthur Fickénscher, 1895-1995. (Univers...

Barrow, W. J. (William James), 1904-1967

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Rockenbach, S. D. (Samuel D.), 1869-

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Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946

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First director, United States Forest Service (1905). He changed the name of protected "forest preserves" to "national forests" and advocated a controversial "wise use" policy for the resources of the national forests, whereby a greater use of forest resources, such as tree harvests and grazing rights could be permitted. From the description of Correspondence, 1905-1945. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 40804560 Forester and governor of Pennsylvania. F...

Sanger, Joseph Prentiss, 1840-1926

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Jones, William W. (William Whitmore), 1917-

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De Saussure, Henry William, 1763-1839

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Revolutionary soldier, director of the U.S. Mint, South Carolina legislator, and judge of the Chancery Court in South Carolina, from Charleston. From the description of Papers, 1788-1916. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19491506 Jurist; Federalist; director, U.S. Mint, 1795; member, Pennsylvania bar; S.C. state representative and senator; of Charleston, S.C. From the description of Henry William DeSaussure papers, 1795-1837. (University of South Ca...

Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895

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French chemist and microbiologist. Amongst other things Pasteur proved that microrganisms caused fermentation and disease, he originated and was the first to use vaccines for rabbits, anthrax and chicken cholera and he performed important pioneer work in stereochemistry and he originated pasteurization. From the description of Letter. 1890 Apr. 26. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225747724 French physician and chemist. From the description of Papers, 1...

Belmont, Perry, 1850-1947

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American banker and politician; US Congressman from NY, 1881-1889 From the guide to the Perry Belmont letters, 1886, 1896, 1906, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Perry Belmont served as a congressional representative from New York from 1881-1888, and as a major in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War. He was the son of Augustus Belmont, and brother of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. From the description of Perry Belmont lett...

Sutherland, Howard V. (Howard Vigne), 1868-

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Howard Vigne Sutherland was born in Cape Town, South Africa on August 3, 1868, the son of Thomas and Sophy (Fairbridge) Sutherland. He was a playwright, journalist, and poet who authored "Jacinta, a California Idyll and Other Verses" (1900); "Bigg's Barr and other Klondyke Ballads" (1901); "Songs of a City" (1904); Idylls of Greece, 3 series (1908-1914); and "Other of the North" (1913), among other works. From the description of Howard Vigne Sutherland papers, 1901-1910. (University ...

Day, Thomas, 1777-1855

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Brown, Ted W., 1906-1984

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Clark, Frank Emerson, 1860-

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Chamberlain, Samuel, 1895-1975

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Moses Pond (1787-1873): lawyer; Connecticut State representative (1837-1855); and selectman of Wolcott, Connecticut. From the guide to the Samuel Chamberlain postcard and photograph collection documenting Yale University, circa 1940, (Manuscripts and Archives) Samuel and Narcissa Chamberlain were noted authorities in the field of gastronomy. In 1974 they donated their collection of over 800 cookbooks from France, Italy, Great Britain, and the United States to the Arthur and ...

Larner, John B. (John Bell), 1858-1931

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Wilson, John M. (John Moulder), 1837-1919

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Siddons, Frederick Lincoln, 1864-1931,

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Hammond, John Hays, 1855-1936

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Engineer. From the description of Letter of John Hays Hammond, 1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450745 John Hays Hammond, Sr., (1855 March 31-1936 June 8) was a mining expert and superintendent of mines in California and Mexico, 1881-1893; worked for Cecil Rhodes and others in South Africa, 1893-1899; consultant in England, 1896-1900, and in Mexico, 1900; general manager and consulting engineer for Guggenheim Exploration Co., 1903-1907; chairman Engineers, Exploration ...

Fox, Gustavus Vasa, 1821-1883

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Gustavus Vasa Fox served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War. From the description of G. V. Fox letter to H. R. Anthony, 1865 November 10. (University of California, Santa Barbara). WorldCat record id: 746765569 Assistant secretary, U.S. Navy, 1861-1866. From the description of Letter : Ports[mout]h, N.H., [18]65 Aug. 10. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30798411 Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ...

Pace, Robert Septimius,

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Davis, Varina, 1826-1906

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Second wife of Confederate States of America president Jefferson Davis. From the description of Letter and article: New York [N.Y.], 1905 Oct. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 29417912 First Lady of Confederacy. From the description of Letter: Montgomery [Al.], 1863 March [1]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122415155 Author; wife of Jefferson Davis [1808-1889], president of the Confederacy. From the description of V...

Robison, John Marshall, 1878-1949,

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Bullitt, William C. (William Christian), 1891-1967

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William Christian Bullitt (b. Jan. 25, 1891, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-d. Feb. 1967), was Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. from 1933 to 1936, and to France from 1936 to 1941. He was ambassador at large in 1941 and 1942, and special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy in 1942 and 1943. He began his career at the State Department in 1917 where he also served as an attaché to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at the end of World War I. In 1944 he joined the French Army and was a major in the...

Grew, Joseph C. (Joseph Clark), 1880-1965

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Grew was a U.S. diplomat and author. He was attached to embassies in Egypt, Mexico, Russia, Germany, and Austria (1904-1916); secretary-general to the U.S. delegation at the Paris Peace Conference; minister to Denmark (1920) and to Switzerland (1921-1923); negotiator at the Lausanne Conference on Near Eastern Affairs (1922-1923); under secretary of state (1924-1927, 1944-1945); ambassador to Turkey (1927-1932) and to Japan (1932-1941); special assistant to the secretary of state (1942); and dire...

Hopkins, Archibald, 1842-1926

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Washington, George, 1732-1799

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George Washington (b. Feb. 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Va.-d. Dec. 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, VA) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Washington came from a family of farmers and landowners. He had little education but showed an aptitude for mathematics. He used this talent to become a surveyor. At 15, Washington took a job as assistant surveyor on a team sent to map the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia. In his early 20s, Washington joined the Virgin...

Noell, Thomas Estes, 1839-1867.

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Schulte, William Theodore, 1890-

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Douglass, Paul F.,

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Martin, Edward, 1879-1967

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Edward Martin was a Governor and U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. From the description of Edward Martin papers. [archival material]. 1947-1958. (bulk 1957-1958). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83499536 ...

McLean, John R. (John Roll), 1848-1916

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Pace, Robert E.

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Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-1997

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Author; d. 1997. From the description of James A. Michener Chesapeake collection, 1975-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70973705 Author. From the description of James A. Michener papers, 1906-1992 (bulk 1945-1992). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063535 James Albert Michener was born in 1907 to unknown parents and raised as an orphan in the care of widow Mabel Michener of Doylestown, Pennsylvania. By the time he graduated from high school in 1925, h...

Woodbury, John, d1641.

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Colclough, Thomas Arthur

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Marlow Coal Company.

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Woodbury, Levi, 1789-1851

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Lawyer, governor of New Hampshire, U.S. senator, U.S. secretary of the Navy, U.S. secretary of the treasury, and U.S. Supreme Court justice. From the description of Letters, 1813-1851. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963939 U.S. senator from and governor of New Hampshire, U.S. secretary of the navy, U.S. secretary of the treasury, and Supreme Court justice, and lawyer. From the description of Levi Woodbury family papers, 1638-191...

Mattingly, Robert Edgar, 1868-

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Pace, Mary Elizabeth King,

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Himmel, Joseph, 1855-

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Perkins, Augustus Thorndike, 1827-1891

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Blair, Woodbury, 1852-1933,

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Blair family.

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Noyes, Frank B. (Frank Brett), 1863-1948

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Blair, Montgomery, 1813-1883

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St. Louis, Missouri, lawyer; U.S district attorney, Missouri, 1839-1841; mayor, St. Louis, 1842-1843; judge, Court of Common Pleas, 1843-1849; first solicitor, U.S. Court of Claims, 1855; counsel for Dred Scott, 1856; postmaster general, 1860-1864; Maryland congressman, 1878. From the description of Letter: Wash[ington, D.C.] to Rev[erend] W[illiam] B[uell] Sprague, Albany, N.Y., 1865 Nov. 20. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27327626 Montgomery Bl...

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1818-1889), wife of Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868). From the description of Letter to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1888 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476494 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born in Kentucky. He attended Transylvania University for a short time before enrolling at West Point in 1824, at the age of 16. He graduated in 1828 and immediately joined the First Infantry. His regiment was engaged in the Blackhawk War of 1831. In 1833, he became a...

Chicheley, Henry, fl. 1669.

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Coxe, Richard S. (Richard Smith), 1792-1865

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New Jersey lawyer who moved to Washington, D.C. in 1822 and developed a large legal practice. From the description of Letter : Georgetown, D.C., to Garret D. Wall, Trenton, N.J., 1822 Jan. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22341773 Lawyer, of Philadelphia, Pa., Burlington, N.J., and Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers, 1770-1844. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 28375336 Lawyer, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Burlington, Burlington County, New...

Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956

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Louis Bromfield was an American author and conservationist from central Ohio who gained international recognition winning the Pulitzer Prize and pioneering innovative scientific farming concepts. From the guide to the Louis Bromfield correspondence to Edna Wolfe, 1942-1949, (Ohio University) American author and conservationist. From 1939-1969 he lived and did sustainable farming at Malabar Farm, Lucas, Ohio. From the description of [Signature, 19--] / Louis Bromf...

Robertson, Walter Spencer, 1893-

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Walter Spencer Robertson (1893-1970) was an investment banker, a financial and cultural leader in Richmond, Va., and a specialist in international Far Eastern affairs. He was the son of William Henry Robertson (1855-1908) and Anne Maria (Robinson) Robertson (1856-1910). From the description of Papers, 1824-2002, of Walter Spencer Robertson. (Virginia Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 496286891 Walter Spencer Robertson (1893-1970) was an investment banker, a fi...

Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963

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Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of Estes Kefauver : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419842 Estes Kefauver was a long-time senator from Tennessee and an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for president. From the description of Personal papers, 1934-1939 (University of Tennessee). WorldCat record id: 44918282 Carey Estes Kefauver (b. July 26, 1903, Monroe Count...

Bayard, Thomas F. (Thomas Francis), 1868-1942

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Brown, David Paul, 1795-1872

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Cox, William Van Zandt, 1852-1923

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William Van Zandt Cox was an employee of the Smithsonian until 1906 and then President of the Second National Bank in Washington, D.C. From the description of William Van Zandt Cox papers, 1860(ca.)-1922. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155441678 ...

Noyes, Theodore W. (Theodore Williams), 1858-1946

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As editor of the Star, a leading Washington, D.C. newspaper, Noyes was deeply involved in leadership positions with the Board of Trade, D.C. Public Library, George Washington University, Oldest Inhabitants Association, and other social organizations. He also led efforts to promote and enlarge local responsibility for self-government, the right of District residents to vote, as well as efforts to establish the Zoo and Park system. From the description of Scrapbooks, 1861-1943. (Distri...

Bradley, Joseph G.

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Judd, Walter H., 1898-1994

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Physician, congressman, missionary. From the description of Reminiscences of Walter H. Judd : oral history, 1970. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376703 United States representative from Minnesota, 1943-1963; founder, Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals; co-founder, Committee of One Million. From the description of Walter Henry Judd papers, 1922-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872154 ...

Low, A. Maurice (Alfred Maurice), 1860-1929

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Jefferies, John, fl. 1669.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Grovitch, S.G.,

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Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919

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Rear Admiral Chadwick served on various naval vessels, taught at the Naval Academy, and served as naval attache of the American legation in London, and as Chief of the Naval Intelligence Service and of the Naval Bureau of Equipment. He was among the officers appointed to investigate the destruction of the Maine, which action precipitated the Spanish-American War in 1898. In 1900, he was named President of the Naval War College at Newport and in 1903 Commander in Chief of the South Atlantic Fleet...

Randall, Henry Stephens, 1811-1876

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Henry Stephens Randall (1811-1876), educator and historian, author of Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858). Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881), newspaper editor, man of letters, and Virginia historian. From the description of Correspondence between Henry Stephens Randall and Hugh Blair Grigsby, 1856-1861. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 228736119 Agriculturalist, educator, politician, and writer. Author of numerous books and articles...

Setters, David Foote, 1874-1949,

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Hart, Ringgold, 1886-1965,

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