Saltonstall family papers, 1524-1969.

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Saltonstall family papers, 1524-1969.

Large multi-generational collection of papers of the Saltonstall family of Haverhill and Salem, Mass., 1524-1969, includes correspondence, legal and business papers, genealogical information, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, letterbooks, deeds, pamphlets, speeches, printed material, diaries, and other papers largely of and collected by Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845) and Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895). The collection includes family correspondence to and from Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall (1746-1815) of Salem, a 1766 graduate of Harvard College and physician; William Gurdon Saltonstall (1831-1899), acting master of the Commodore Hull, a ship involved in the North Atlantic blocking squadron during the Civil War; Richard M. Saltonstall (1849-1929) an 1880 graduate of Harvard College, businessman and investor; U.S. House of Representative, Salem, Mass. Mayor, Mass. Senator and Representative, and Harvard College 1802 graduate, Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845); Collector of Customs, lawyer, and 1844 graduate of Harvard College Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895); U.S. Senator, Mass. Gov., Mass. State Senator, Democrat, and 1914 Harvard Graduate, Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979); William G. Saltonstall (1905-1989), principal of Phillips Exeter Academy and a sailor in the United States Navy during World War II; and Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall (1894-1919), a volunteer in a French Army unit during World War I and European and California traveler. Other family members heavily represented in the collection include Gurdon Saltonstall, Endicott Peabody Saltonstall, Anne E. Saltonstall, William Lawrence Saltonstall. Also includes extensive genealogy and estate papers for many Saltonstall family members. Many Saltonstall men were on the Harvard College Board of Overseers. Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845) collected much of the earlier material and manuscripts of Sir Richard Saltonstall (1610-1694) and Royal Gov. of Connecticut Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724). Additional correspondents include Mary Elizabeth Sanders Saltonstall, Richard Saltonstall, Francis G. Saltonstall, Lewis Cass, William Minot, John Gorham, Peter Chardon Brooks, William Prescott, Charles Pelham Curtis, Lemuel Shaw, Caleb Cushing, Rufus Choate, Nathaniel Bowditch, Joseph Story, Josiah Quincy, Levi Lincoln, Edward Everett, Daniel Webster, Robert Charles Winthrop, Daniel Putnam King, Henry H. Edes, Theodore Roosevelt, and members of the Lee, Brooks, Cabot, Orne, Middlecott, Varnun, and Merrill families.

53 boxes, 27 v., 3 folder, and 7 oversize containers. Partially processed.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7958163

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Saltonstall, Leverett, 1892-1979

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Lawyer; speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; president of the Massachusetts Senate; first mayor of Salem, Mass., 1836-8; member of the U.S. Congress, 1838-43. From the description of Letter : Salem, to Sir, 1832, Mar. 30. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 57352026 ...

Saltonstall, Mary Elizabeth Sanders, 1788-1858

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Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866

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Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1809-1894

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Curtis, Charles Pelham, 1792-1864

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Choate, Rufus, 1799-1859

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Brooks family.

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Minot, William, 1783-1873.

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King, Daniel P. (Daniel Putnam), 1801-1850

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U.S. representative of Massachusetts and farmer. From the description of Letter of Daniel P. King, 1841. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009943 ...

United States. Collector of Customs (Boston, Mass.)

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Cabot family.

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Varnum family.

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Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 2006

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Lee family.

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Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838

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American writer on navigation. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Salem, to an unidentified recipient, 1810 Nov. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270910812 From the description of Letter signed : Boston, to William Vaughan in London, 1837 May 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270910815 Astronomer, mathematician, and insurance executive. From the description of Nathaniel Bowditch correspondence, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 794511...

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The upper house of the General Court consisted in the colonial period (1629-1686) of assistants sitting with the governor and deputy governor and originally called the Court of Assistants--though in 1634 the court's legislative powers were ceded to the General Court as a whole and by 1644 that term was reserved for the assistants serving solely in their judicial capacity only; during the intercharter period under a revival of colonial government (1689-1692) and in the provincial and...

Middlecott family.

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Saltonstall, Eleanor, 1894-1919

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Phillips Exeter Academy

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Prescott, William, 1762-1844

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William Prescott (1762-1844) earned his Harvard AB 1783; he later served Harvard as Overseer (1810-1821) and Fellow (1820-1826). Oliver Prescott (1762-1827) earned his Harvard AB 1783 and was given an honorary MD 1815. From the description of Letter to his brother, Oliver Prescott, 1782 October 19. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064767 ...

Shaw, Lemuel, 1781-1861

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Chief justice of Massachusetts, 1830-1860. His daughter Elizabeth married the author Herman Melville. From the description of ALS : Boston, to Joseph B. Felt, 1834 Oct. 14. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122475395 Shaw was chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1830-1860). Webster and Parkman were on the faculty of Harvard Medical School at the time of Parkman's murder. From the description of Sentence of John W. Webster...

Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864

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Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts; United States and Massaschusetts legislator; and, President of Harvard University. From the description of Josiah Quincy letter, portrait and autograph, 1839-1889. (Boston College). WorldCat record id: 63118297 President of Harvard. From the description of Autograph note signed : [Cambridge, Mass.], addressed to the Rev. John Pierpont, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616000 From the description of Autograph note ...

Saltonstall, William Gurdon, 1831-1889.

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Saltonstall, Gurdon, 1666-1724

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Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 2006

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The early 19th century was a time of student unrest at Harvard. Perhaps in reaction to the disturbances and protest of previous classes, Faculty Records vol. IX tell that President Kirkland announced early on in the Class of 1822's college years that no students were to have any meeting for the purpose of eating or drinking in college. Although the Class of 1822 is a serene one as compared with its generation, many of the students of the Class of 1822 received public admonishments as a result of...

Gorham, John, 1783-1829

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John Gorham (1783-1829), a chemist and physician from Boston, Massachusetts, served as Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica from 1809 to 1816 and Erving Professor of Chemistry from 1816 to 1827 at Harvard University. Gorham helped establish the chemistry department at the Harvard Medical School. His treatise on chemistry, The Elements of Chemical Science (1819-1820), was one of the first systematic text books on chemistry adapted to the needs of college students in Amer...

Merrill family.

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Saltonstall, Richard

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Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives

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Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from an equal number of single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. Representatives serve two-year terms. From the description of House of Representatives, Order, Massachusetts, 1776 January 22. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 189065354 From the gu...

Saltonstall, Nathaniel, 1746-1815.

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Saltonstall family.

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Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 2006

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The early 19th century was a time of student unrest at Harvard. Perhaps in reaction to the disturbances and protest of previous classes, Faculty Records vol. IX tell that President Kirkland announced early on in the Class of 1822's college years that no students were to have any meeting for the purpose of eating or drinking in college. Although the Class of 1822 is a serene one as compared with its generation, many of the students of the Class of 1822 received public admonishments as a result of...

Brooks, Peter Chardon, 1767-1849

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Edes, Henry Herbert, 1849-1922

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Orne family.

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Commodore Hull (Schooner)

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Story, Joseph, 1779-1845

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Jurist, politician, and professor of law Joseph Story (1779-1845) was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts on September 18, 1779. He received an AB from Harvard in 1798, an AM in 1801, and an LLD in 1821; he also received law degrees from Brown University and Dartmouth College. In 1802, Story married Mary Lynde Oliver. After Mary's death in 1805, Story married Sarah Waldo Wetmore in 1808. Story practiced law in Salem, Mass. and served as a representative in the state legislature before b...