Goodrich family papers, 1732-1905 (inclusive), 1787-1860 (bulk).

Ford, Emily Ellsworth Fowler, 1826-1893

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Emily Ellsworth (Fowler) Ford (1826-1893), a granddaughter of Noah Webster (1748-1843) the lexicographer, and daughter of William Chauncey Fowler (1793-1881) a professor of rhetoric and oratory and English literature at Amherst College (1838-1843), grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts and moved to Brooklyn, New York in late 1853 upon her marriage to Gordon Lester Ford (1823-1891), a businessman and lawyer. Ford came from a prominent family, well-connected within both social and literary ...

Yale University.

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Goodrich, Chauncey A. (Chauncey Allen), 1790-1860

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Ann Arbor, Michigan, merchant, magistrate and coroner. From the description of Chauncey S. Goodrich papers, 1831-1909. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418435 American clergyman and lexicographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to Norman White, 1855 Oct. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269577165 Chauncey Allen Goodrich. From the description of Memorial album, 1860. (American Antiquarian Society)...

Goodrich, Elizur, 1761-1849

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Lawyer, politician, educator, of New Haven, Conn. Member of 6th U.S. Congress from Connecticut; professor of law, and secretary of Yale University, 1818-1846. From the description of ALsS : Washington, D.C., to Stephen Twining, New Haven, 1800-1801. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122347800 Connecticut lawyer, judge, politician, and educator. He was the son of Rev. Elizur Goodrich (1734-1797). From the description of Letter : Washington, [D....

Merriam, Charles, 1806-1887

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Webster, Noah, 1758-1843

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American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, word enthusiast, and editor; b. in Hartford, Conn.; attended Yale and taught school in the Hartford area; moved to New Haven, Conn., in 1798. From the description of Noah Webster papers, 1786-1980. (New Haven Colony Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 319706045 Noah Webster (1758-1843) was an American lexicographer, author and editor. He is best known for his spellers (early spelling textbooks) and his ...

Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt, 1791-1858

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Henry Leavitt Ellsworth graduated from Yale in 1810. He studied law at Litchfield Law School, and in 1832 he was appointed Commissioner of Indian tribes in Arkansas and Oklahoma. In 1835, Ellsworth was elected mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, but only served one month. In 1835, he was appointed U.S. Commissioner of Patents, remaining until 1845. Following this, Ellsworth settled in Lafayette, Indiana, acting as an agent for purchase and settlement of public land. From the description ...

Coe, Noah, 1786-1861.

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Goodrich, Julia Webster, 1793-1869

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Goodrich family.

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Chauncey Allen Goodrich was born in 1790 in New Haven, Connecticut. His grandfather, Elizur Goodrich (1734-1797), was a clergyman in Durham, Connecticut and a member of the Yale Corporation, and his father, Elizur Goodrich (1761-1849), was a member of Congress, a judge, professor of law at Yale College, and a member of the Yale Corporation. Chauncey Allen Goodrich was a clergyman, author of texts on Latin and Greek, lexicographer, and professor of rhetoric at Yale College, and of the pastoral ch...

Goodrich, Elizabeth Ely Coe, 1821-1885.

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Ellsworth, William Wolcott, 1791-1868

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Goodrich, Chauncey, 1759-1815

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Goodrich, Elizur, 1734-1797

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Biographical or Historical Data. From the description of Math book, 1749/50. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191311726 ...

Fowler, William Chauncey, 1793-1881

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Rev. William Chauncey Fowler was a graduate of Yale and came to Middlebury College as Professor of Chemistry and Natural History (1827-1838) which included responsibility for obtaining laboratory supplies, and as Treasurer of the college (1830-1837) was involved in the first fund raising undertaken outside Vermont. From the description of William C. Fowler papers, 1828-1841. (Sheldon Museum Research Center). WorldCat record id: 609599933 ...

Goodrich, Chauncey, 1817-1868.

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Goodrich, William H. (William Henry), 1823-1874

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Converse, Sherman, 1790-1873

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Yale graduate (1813); New York City and New Haven, Conn., printer, publisher and bookseller; and land company promoter associated briefly with the Peters Colony in Texas. In 1842, Sherman Converse, Charles Fenton Mercer, Daniel Carroll, and others obtained the interests of the eleven English investors in the Peters Colony, an empresario venture in north central Texas in contract with the Republic of Texas. Acting alone, Converse then secured the sole interest of the colo...

Webster, Rebecca Greenleaf, 1760-1842.

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