Papers of the Rives family [manuscript] (1777) 1822-1945.

Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892

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Montgomery C. Meigs was an army officer and engineer. He was born in Augusta, Ga. on May 3, 1816. Meigs graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1836, where he studied civil and military engineering. Meigs was engaged in several federal engineering and surveying projects from 1836 to 1851. Between 1852 and 1860, he was supervising engineer for the Washington Aqueduct and for the U.S. Capitol dome and wings. Meigs served as a brigadier general during the Civil War and parti...

Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873

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Napoleon III (born Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, 20 April 1808, Paris, France – died 9 January 1873, Chislehurst, Kent, England), the nephew of Napoleon I and cousin of Napoleon II, was the first president of France, from 1848 to 1852, and the last French monarch, from 1852 to 1870. First elected president of the French Second Republic in 1848, he seized power in 1851, when he could not constitutionally be re-elected, and became the emperor of the French. He founded the Second French Empire ...

Marie-Amélie, Queen, consort of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, 1782-1866

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Queen consort to Louis Philippe. From the description of Letter, 1837. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699445 ...

Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886

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Winfield Scott Hancock (February 14, 1824 – February 9, 1886) was a United States Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880. He served with distinction in the Army for four decades, including service in the Mexican–American War and as a Union general in the American Civil War. Known to his Army colleagues as "Hancock the Superb", he was noted in particular for his personal leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. His military service continued afte...

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

Eggleston, J. D. (Joseph Dupuy), 1867-1953

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Bellinger family.

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Ryves, William, Major

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Stanard, William Glover, 1859-1933

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Author, editor of VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. From the description of Extracts from the records of Henrico County, Virginia, 1677-1771. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145411567 ...

Lemordant, Jean Julien 1882-1968

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Macmurdo family.

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Ernst, Bernard Morris Lee, 1879-1938,

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McClelland, Robert, 1807-1880

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Robert McClelland was a Michigan congressmen and governor. He was born in Greencastle, Pennsylvania on August 1, 1807, and graduated from Dickinson College, Carlistle, Pennsylvania in 1829. He worked as a teacher before his admission to the Pennsylvania bar in 1831. McClelland moved to Monroe, Michigan two years later, becoming delegate in the state constitution convention in 1835. Robert McClelland served as Governor of Michigan, 1851-1853 and Secretary of the Interior, 1853-1857. He died in De...

Chaloner, John Armstrong, 1862-1935

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Great-grandson of John Jacob Astor; from Cobham (Albemarle County), Va. From the description of Papers, 1862-1935. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19465007 Albemarle County, Va., philanthropist and eccentric. From the description of Letter to George Perkins, 1907 December 16. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32958766 ...

Hovey, Richard, 1864-1900

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Hovey was born in Normal, Ill. in 1864, the son of Charles Edward and Harriette Farnham Hovey. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1885. During the years 1891 and 1892 he travelled in England and France. In 1894 he married Mrs. Henriette Kanpp Russell and wrote Men of Dartmouth. In 1899 he accepted a position as lecturer at Columbia University and professor of English at Barnard College. He died in New York City in 1900. From the description of Papers, 1878-1961. (Dartmouth Co...

Van Rensselaer, Cornelia Paterson,

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Gottschalk, Louis Moreau

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American composer and pianist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York, 2 November 1863, to an unidentified friend, 1863 Nov. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270925412 Composed originally for piano solo 1845-46.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Le bananier / by Louis Moreau Gottschalk ; orchestrated by Sam Dennison. 1977. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52147492 This is also known as Sym...

Walker family.

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General Armstrong (Ship)

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Stark family.

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Wellford, Roberta, 1873-1956

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Roberta Wellford was a charter member, secretary, and director of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia and worked to push the organization of the Virginia League of Women Voters (VLWV) in the 1920s. She participated in the World War I war effort. She did work with the YMCA for troops in Paris and in Germany. As a member of the VLWV, she actively promoted public education in Virginia and supported the League of Nations and the World Court. Wellford was a member of the Daughters of the Confederac...

Franklin, William Buel, 1823-1903

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Educated West Point, graduated 1843. Served in Mexican-American War, as Professor at West Point for three years and as an engineer until the outbreak of the Civil War. As a Union Army General, he saw action at Antietam and Fredericksburg. After the war he became manager of Colt Firearms. From the description of W. B. Franklin letter to Col. George E. Waring, Jr. [manuscript], 1870 Jul 1. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 225134864 Army officer. From t...

Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863

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Stonewall Jackson (1824-1863) was a Confederate Army officer from Lexington (Rockbridge Co.), Va. From the guide to the Stonewall Jackson papers, 1855-1906, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) Confederate general. From the description of Stonewall Jackson papers, 1842-1898 (bulk 1861-1862) [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23186323 Confederate Army officer, from Lexington (Rockbridge Co.), Va. From the de...

Page family.

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Anderson, Joseph R. (Joseph Reid), 1813-1892

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Joseph R. Anderson (1813-1892) was associated with the Tredegar Company, a major iron works and armorer in Richmond, Virginia. He was a Confederate brigadier general and friend of Robert E. Lee. From the description of Papers, 1861-1867. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122395576 Native of Botetourt County, Virginia; graduate of West Point; associated with and owner of Tredegar Iron Works from 1841; served in the Confederate Army from 1861-1862, then was reassigned to keep the...

Reeve family.

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Ewell, Richard Stoddert, 1817-1872

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Lieutenant-general, Confederate Army, during Civil War. From the description of Letter : Richmond, Va., to Hugh [W.] Sheffey, 1865 March 14. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30366216 U.S. and Confederate Army officer. From the description of Richard Stoddert Ewell papers, 1838-1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063194 Benjamin Stoddert Ewell was born in Georgetown, D. C., 10 June 1810, the son of Thomas Ewell and Elizabeth ...

Troubetzkoy, Pierre, 1864-1936

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Richmond and Danville Railroad Company

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Incorporated in Virginia in 1847; main line opened in 1856 from Richmond to Danville, Va. (140 miles); grew through purchase, lease, and other means to 3300 miles of railroad by 1890; controlled by Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company (1886-1894); reorganized as Southern Railway Company in 1894. From the description of Records, 1847-1894. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28410076 Stem (Granville Co.), N.C. railroad company. From the ...

Sanford, H. S., 1823-1891

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Diplomat. Secretary of Legation in Paris, 1849 to 1854; Minister Resident to Belgium 1861 to 1867. Authored books on international systems of penal codes. Known as "General" because of his enrollment as a major-general in the Minnesota militia during the Civil War, in recognization of his gift of a pair of field pieces to the 1st Minnesota Volunteers. Founder of Shelton, Florida. From the description of Letters : Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium, to Samuel Sullivan Cox, 1861-1885....

Gilmer, Jeremy Francis, 1818-1883

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Jeremy Francis Gilmer was born in 1818 and died in 1883 in Savannah, Georgia. He graduated from West Point and was an engineer in the United States Army. Gilmer married Louise Frederika Alexander of Savannah in 1850. In 1861, he was appointed colonel in the Confederate States Army and Chief Engineer to Major General Albert Sidney Johnston. Gilmer was later appointed Major General, Chief Engineer of the Department of Northern Virginia and Chief Engineer of the War Department. He assisted in setti...

École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.

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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...

Brooke, John M. (John Mercer), 1826-1906

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John Mercer Brooke was a U.S. and Confederate naval officer, scientist, inventor, and professor at Virginia Military Institute. From the description of John M. Brooke papers, 1859-1898 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 26243089 John Mercer Brooke was a United States and Confederate naval officer, scientist, inventor, and professor at Virginia Military Institute. From the guide to the John M. Brooke Papers, ., 1859-1898, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil...

Archer, Adair Pleasants,

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Ryves, William, Major, d. ca. 1777.

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