Papers, 1857-1876.

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Papers, 1857-1876.

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Correspondence and ms. studies containing letters of Edward Ballard, John Gilmary Shea, Frederic Kidder, and others about Maine Indians and their language; lists of Indian vocabulary; miscellaneous historical notes on the Abenaki; newspaper clippings; pencil sketches; and "The Indian Prayer Book" compiled by Rev. Edmund-Louis Demillier.

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Maine Historical Society Library

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Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892

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John Dawson Gilmary Shea was born in 1824 in New York City. He attended law school before joining the Society of Jesus in 1848. He then studied at St. John's College (Fordham, NY) and St. Mary's College (Montreal, Canada). Shea left the order in 1852 to pursue a career as a historian. He married Sophie Savage in 1854. During his lifetime, Shea wrote or edited over 250 titles. His most popular works included Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley (1852), History of the Catholic Missi...

Ballard, Edward, 1804-1870

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Kidder, Frederic, 1804-1885

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Louis Agassiz (1807-1873, APS 1843) was a zoologist and geologist. A student of Georges Cuvier, Agassiz was renown for his six-volume work Poissons fossils, a study of more than 1,700 ancient fish. Equally important was his Ètudes sur les glaciers (1840). In 1845 Agassiz moved to the United States on a two-year study grant from King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia to compare the flora and fauna of the United States and Europe. While in the United States he was invited to deliver a c...

Demillier, Edmund-Louis

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Vetromile, Eugene, 1819-1881

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Abenaki linguist and missionary to Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Indians. From the description of Papers, 1857-1876. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70974747 ...