Annie Burr Jennings collection, 1775-1930 (inclusive).

Thornton, William, 1759-1828

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William Thornton, architect, inventor, and public official, was born in the Virgin Islands on May 20, 1759, of English parents. He came to the United States in 1787 and became a citizen in 1788. On September 12, 1794 Thornton was appointed one of the commissioners of the new federal city of Washington. He championed his own design for the Capitol and the north wing had been constructed in accordance with his ideas by the time Congress removed to Washington in 1800. In 1802 Congress abolished the...

Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902

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Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) was a landscape painter from New York, N.Y. From the description of Albert Bierstadt letters, 1880-1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233006971 Landscape painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Albert Bierstadt letters, 1880-1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557002 German-American painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Hiram Powers, 1870 Apr. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat ...

Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803

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Samuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams. Adams was b...

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 ...

Green, Ashbel, 1762-1848

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Philadelphia clergyman. From the description of ALS : Princeton, to Robert L. Green, 1812 Dec. 31. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122580962 Ashbel Green; prominent Presbyterian during Federal period; pastor, Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.); chaplain, U.S. Congress (1792-1800); Stated Clerk, General Assembly (1790-1803) and later Moderator (1824); President of Princeton University (1812-1822); a founder of Princeton Theological Seminary. ...

Blennerhassett, Harman 1765-1831

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Lawyer, planter, and scholar. From the description of Harman Blennerhassett papers, 1755-1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979849 Harman Blennerhassett was an attorney born in County Cork, Ireland. He received his law degree from Trinity College in Dublin in 1790 and lived on the continent for several years afterward. In 1796, Blennerhassett married his niece, Margaret Agnew, daughter of Robert Agnew, the lieutenant-governor of the Isle of Man. Because of their marriage...

Orleans, Antonio d'

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Wadsworth, James, 1730-1817

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Green, E. K.

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Silliman, Gold Selleck, 1777-1868

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Orleans, J. C. d'

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Call, Daniel, 1765-1840.

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Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883

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The German opera composer Richard Wagner was at the beginning of his career at the time of this letter. From the description of Manuscript copy of letter from Richard Wagner, 1832 June 15, Leipzig, addressed to Schott's Söhne, Mainz, [1896?]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122571065 From the guide to the Manuscript copy of letter from Richard Wagner, 1832 June 15, Leipzig, addressed to Schott's Söhne, Mainz, 1896?, (The New York Public Library. Music Divisio...

Jennings, Annie Burr, 1855-1939

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Annie Burr Jennings (1855-1939) was the aunt of Annie Burr Lewis, the wife of Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895-1979). From the description of Cookbook, 1875. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702183288 ...

Martin, Luther, 1748-1826

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Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and attorney general of Maryland. From the description of Papers, 1789-1810. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20030129 Martin was a noted lawyer, served as the Attorney General of Maryland (1778-1805, 1818-1822) and remembered as the defense attorney for Aaron Burr in Burr's trial for treason in 180. He served as representative from Maryland to the Confederation Congress of 1785 and to the Constitutional Convent...

Sands, Comfort, 1748-1834

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The Sands family was one of the original three families that settled in and owned what is now Sands Point, N.Y. Born in Reading, Berkshire, England, James Sands (d. 1695) immigrated to Plymouth, MA with his wife Sarah and their children, circa 1658. Along with several other men, James Sands obtained what is now Block Island, R.I. from the original inhabitants of the island, the Narragansetts, in 1660. In 1661, Sands sailed from Taunton, MA and moved his family to Block Island. James...

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...

Colden, Cadwallader D. (Cadwallader David), 1769-1834

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Green, Jacob, 1722-1790

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Reverend Jacob Green was born at Malden, Massachusetts, in 1722. He graduated from Harvard in 1744 and set out for Georgia with Reverend Whitefield. When they reached Elizabethtown, New Jersey, Green decided to remain there where he studied divinity under the Reverend Jonathan Dickinson; he became the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey, in 1746. Despite being a member of the clergy, Rev. Green took an active role in political issues, throwing his suppor...

Wickham, John, 1763-1839

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Richmond, Va., lawyer, defender of Aaron Burr. From the description of Letter to J.T. Mason [manuscript], 1798 February 22. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816529 Williamsburg and Richmond, Va., lawyer. From the description of Letter to William Wirt [manuscript], 1809 January 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647807875 From the description of Letter to William Wirt, 1809 January 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record...