Joel Sumner Smith papers, 1848-1911 (inclusive).

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Joel Sumner Smith papers, 1848-1911 (inclusive).

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Correspondence, bills, invoices, notes, writings, clippings and other papers of Joel Sumner Smith. His correspondence includes accounts of his life as a student at Yale and as a teacher of music in a Young Ladies' Seminary in Racine, Wisconsin. Much of the remaining material concerns purchases made for the Yale University Library (especially Russian works). Also included are letters from others to his son, Frederick Sumner Smith.

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Yale University. Class of 1884

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Eli Whitney was born in Westborough, Massachusetts in 1765. Even as a child he showed an aptitude for mechanical work, repairing violins and taking on other mechanical work as it presented itself. Whitney set up shop making nails and when the demand for nails declined, he changed his business to manufacture hat pins, a commodity with increasing demand. Whitney eventually enrolled at Yale College in May 1789, and graduated three years later. He intended to further his education and become a lawye...

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Smith, David Hume.

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Smith, Frederick Sumner, 1855-1935.

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Smith, Joel Sumner, 1830-

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Joel Sumner Smith was born on September 11, 1830, in Paxton, Massachusetts. He received the degree of B.A. from Yale College in 1853. From 1853-1873, he studied and taught music in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1874, he cataloged the holdings of the Lowell Mason Library of Church Music, which had recently been acquired by Yale Divinity School. Between 1875 and 1894, he was in charge of Linonian and Brothers Library at Yale University. In 1894, he was appointed assistant librarian at Yale, a positio...