Edward John Phelps papers, 1854-1938.

Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892

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Cyrus West Field (1819-1892) was a merchant and capitalist who promoted the laying of the first Atlantic cable linking the U.S. with Europe. He formed a company to build cable communications between Newfoundland and Ireland, helped establish elevated trains in New York City, and participated in the development of the Wabash Railroad. Other business ventures included ownership of a New York newspaper, the Mail and Express. From the description of Cyrus W. Field papers, 1831-1905, bulk...

Yale Law School. Class of 1898

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McCullough, Ella

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Scott, Walter, 1771-1832

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Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Abbotsford, Melrose, to the Marchioness of Abercorn, [1818] Mar. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 747107129 From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified to Charles [Sharpe], [1817 or later?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 745119219 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to [William Slade], 1803 June [3]. (Unknown). W...

Phelps, Edward John, 1822-1900

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Lawyer, politician, diplomat, and educator, of Burlington, Vt., and New York, N.Y.; born in Middlebury, Vt.; attended Yale Law School (1841-1842) and admitted to the bar in 1843; second comptroller of the U.S. Treasury (1851-1853), U.S. minister to Great Britain (1885-1889), and senior counsel (1893) for the U.S. in the arbitration of the Bering Sea Fur-Seal Controversy with Great Britain; founder and president (1880) of American Bar Association; taught law at Yale after 1881; died in New Haven,...

McCullough, J. G. (John Griffith), 1835-1915

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Lawyer and businessman, of North Bennington, Vt.; b. in Newark, Del.; attended Delaware College and University of Pennsylvania; went to California in 1859 and served as attorney general of California during the Civil War; moved to Bennington, Vt., 1873; state legislator and served as governor of Vermont, 1902-1904; m. Eliza Hall Park; father of Hall Park McCullough. From the description of John G. McCullough papers, 1853-1931 (bulk 1887-1891). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 681951499...

Jefferson, Joseph, 1829-1905

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American actor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Palm Beach, to Mrs. Sullivan, 1903 Feb. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270489232 From the description of [Letter] 1893 Feb. 22 [to] Madame / J. Jefferson. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 244251899 From the description of Letter, 1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155451408 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Clancy and Reilly, 1880 Mar. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...

McCullough, Hall Park, 1872-1966

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Lawyer and Americana collector, New York City. From the description of Alexander Hamilton collection, 1783-1806. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 58665441 Lawyer, collector, and civic leader, of New York, N.Y., and Bennington, Vt.; son of Gov. John G. and Eliza Hall Park McCullough; married Edith van Benthuysen; died in North Bennington at the age of 94. Very civic minded, he served on several boards, including the Bennington Museum, and was one of the museum's mos...

Harmon, George Willard, 1909-1989

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George Willard Harmon (1909-1989) was a farmer from Utah. George Willard Harmon was born April 24, 1909 in St. George, Utah, to Melvin Myron Harmon and Alice Cannon Woodbury Harmon. George Harmon graduated from Dixie High School in 1928 and later graduated from Dixie Junior College in 1930. Following graduation from Dixie he worked for one year as a construction worker and farmer. The following year, 1931, he enrolled in the Utah State Agriculture College in Logan, Utah,...