Frank Waterman Stearns papers, 1683-1966 (bulk: 1788-1879, 1900-1938).

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Frank Waterman Stearns papers, 1683-1966 (bulk: 1788-1879, 1900-1938).

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Chiefly letters, memos and clippings by and about Frank W. Stearns of Boston, director of R.H. Stearns department store, trustee of Amherst College and campaign manager for Calvin Coolidge. The bulk of his material relates to Amherst College, in particular, the hiring and firing of Alexander Meiklejoh, President of Amherst 1912-1923. The material on the store concerns mostly with real estate on Temple Place and Tremont Street in Boston. There are some papers documenting his relationship with Calvin Coolidge as well as his personal scrapbooks, 1900-1928. The collection includes material by Foster Stearns who spent many years compiling information about his ancestors and those of his wife, Martha Genung Stearns. He also collected papers from various families that were related to him and his wife: Clark, Cushing, Frost, Genung, Richards, Sprague, and Waterman, 1683-1880. There are also photographs, including some of the R.H. Stearns building.

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New England Historic Genealogical Society

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New England Historic Genealogical Society

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Amherst College

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Founded in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary school Amherst Academy. The college was originally suggested as an alternative to Williams College, which was struggling to stay open. Although Williams survived, Amherst was formed and diverged into its own institution....

Richards family.

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Meiklejohn, Alexander, 1872-1964

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Alexander Meiklejohn was born in England in 1872, and brought to the United States in 1880 at the age of eight. He was educated in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and graduated from Brown University in 1893. He took his M.A. at Brown and in 1897, received his doctorate in philosophy from Cornell University. He taught philosophy and metaphysics at Brown and was dean from 1901 to 1912. He became president of Amherst College in 1912 and served until 1924. After Amherst he went to the University of Wiscons...

Clark family.

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Waterman family.

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Genung family.

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Stern family.

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R.H. Stearns Co. (Boston, Mass.)

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Stearns, Foster, 1881-1956

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U.S. representative from New Hampshire. From the description of Papers, 1943-1944. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963892 ...

Cushing family.

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Sprague family.

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Frost family.

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Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

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Epithet: president of the United States British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x00001d Calvin Coolidge's son John married John Trumbull's daughter Florence. From the description of Letter, 1931 March 16, Northampton, Mass., to John H. Trumbull, Plainville, Conn. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 25622017 For information on Pres. Coolidge, see an encyclopedia. No information is...

Stearns, Frank W. (Frank Waterman), 1856-1939

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Frank Waterman Stearns, 1856-1939, was the son of Richard Hall Stearns and Louisa Maria Waterman (1836-1922). Frank's father Richard was the founder of R.H. Stearns Co., an extremely successful women's specialty store in Boston. Frank Stearns served as a director of R.H. Stearns Co. from 1880 until his death in 1939. He served on the Board of trustees of Amherst College from 1903 until at least 1927. Frank married Emily Williston Clark (b. 1856). His only son, Foster Stearns, was successively a ...