Papers, 1789-1932 (bulk 1789-1872).

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Papers, 1789-1932 (bulk 1789-1872).

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Correspondence, scrapbooks, mss., newspaper clippings, and other papers, chiefly of Samuel Elliott Coues, merchant and civic leader, his wife, Charlotte Haven Ladd Coues, author of poems and articles, and other family members. Subjects include Samuel Coues's activities as founder of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, life in Washington, D.C. (1854-1866) when he worked for the U.S. Patent Office, presidency of American Peace Society, Portsmouth Temperance Society, and Portsmouth Athenaeum, and the fire in Portsmouth in 1802. Family members represented include Samuel's son, Elliott Ladd Coues, naturalist and author of Key to North American Birds (1872), Elliott's brother-in-law, Charles A. Page, journalist, Samuel's adopted daughter, Lucy Coues Flower, a social reformer, and an aunt, Rebecca (Elliott) Hopper, of Paddington, England.

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Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum

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Coues family.

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Residents of Portsmouth, N.H. From the description of Papers, 1789-1932 (bulk 1789-1872). (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70938076 ...

United States. Patent Office

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Coues, Samuel Elliott, 1797-1867

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Coues, Charlotte Haven Ladd, 1813-

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Portsmouth Temperance Society (Portsmouth, N.H.)

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American Peace Society.

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Formed in 1828 in New York City; headquarters later moved to Hartford, Boston, and Washington, D.C. From the description of Certification, 1871 Jan. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70963148 The American Peace Society was the first nationally based secular peace organization in the United States. It was formed in 1828 from the merging of several state and local peace societies of New York, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts; the oldest, the New York Peace Society, dat...

Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899

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American naturalist. From the description of ALS, 1874 Aug. 25, Rocky Mountains, lat. 40° N [Montana], to Thomas George Gentry. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122617038 William Clark requested that Nicholas Biddle, scholar, statesman, and financier, write a narrative of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which was published in 1814 as "History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark." From the guide to the Nicholas Biddle correspondence,...

Hopper, Rebecca Elliott

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Flower, Lucy Coues

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Page, Charles A., 1838-1873

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Portsmouth Athenaeum (Portsmouth, N.H.)

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Private membership circulation library incorporated in 1817; library and museum open to the public in 1986. From the description of Records, 1817-1985. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70938086 ...

New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane

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Established by a private committee in 1839; incorporated by the state of New Hampshire and opened in 1842; became New Hampshire State Hospital in 1902 and later called New Hampshire Hospital. From the description of Records, 1839-1871. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963830 ...