Papers, 1823-1851.

Commodore of the U.S. Navy; of Princeton, N.J. From the description of Pay order, 1829 Sept. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70965932 From the description of Receipt, 1829 Apr. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70965933 U.S. Navy officer. From the description of Papers of William Bainbridge, 1804-1828. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130858 American naval officer From the guide to the William Bainbridge letters and documents, 1807-18...

Edward Preble House (Portland, Me.)

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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...

Parris, Alexander, 1780-1852

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Engineer and architect. From the description of Letter, 1812 Nov. 12, Boston, to Jonathan Richards, New York. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 190870981 Alexander Parris (1780-1852), architect and builder, began as an apprentice to a carpenter in Pembroke, Me., and worked as an architect in Portland, Me., before his enlistment as captain of a company of engineers during the War of 1812. Afterwards, Parris settled in Boston, where he performed his most important work, ...

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

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Martin Van Buren (b. Kinderhook, New York, December 5, 1782-d. July 24, 1862, Kinderhook, New York), studied law, was admitted to bar, New York, 1803; moved to Huson surrogate of Columbia Co.; member of State Senate, 1813-1820; attorney general of New York, 1815-1819; delegate to state constitutional convention, 1821; U.S. Senate Democrat, March 4, 1821-1828; Governor of New York, 1828-1829; U.s. Secretary of State, March 12, 1829 - August 1, 1831; Vice President, 1832; President, 1836-1840....

Monhegan Island Light (Me.)

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Armstrong, Samuel Turell, 1784-1850

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Boston publisher and politician. From the description of Financial accounts, 1840-1850. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 76691872 Samuel Turell Armstrong (1784-1850) was a Boston publisher, mayor, and later lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Letters, 1813-1837. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 207109134 ...

New York Naval Shipyard

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The origins of the Brooklyn Navy Yard (officially known as the New York Naval Shipyard) date to 1801, when the United States Navy acquired what had previously been a small, privately owned shipyard in order to construct naval vessels. By the time the Department of Defense ceased shipbuilding activities at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1966, 88 vessels had been manufactured at the facility. In 1967, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was acquired by the City of New York and was converted for private commercial u...

Town, Ithiel, 1784-1844

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Ithiel Town was an architect and bridge builder. He studied with Asher Benjamin in Boston and was a partner with Alexander J. Davis for a few years. Town was a leader in the Greek and Gothic Revival styles in American architecture. But it was his profits from bridge building that enabled him to amass the largest library of art, architecture, and engineering books and prints in the United States. He began to sell off his library before his death in 1844. From the description of Auctio...

Charlestown Navy Yard (Mass.)

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United States Marine Hospital at Boston

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Sumner, Thomas Waldron, 1768-1849

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Pensacola Navy Yard.

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Pleasonton, Stephen, -1855

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Public official. From the description of Letter of Stephen Pleasonton, 1823. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449384 Born in Delaware, in 1817 appointed Fifth Auditor in the Treasury Dept. and held that appointment until his death in 1855. From the description of Letter, March 24, 1823. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53882391 ...

Baldwin, Loammi, 1780-1838

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Loammi Baldwin, 1780-1838, class of 1800, Harvard College, was a lawyer and later a civil engineer whose projects included canal construction and harbor improvement, railroads, water power projects, and city water supplies. He was in charge of the design and construction of dry docks at the Charlestown, Massachusetts, and Norfolk, Virginia, Navy Yards. His father (Loammi Baldwin, 1745-1807) was one of New England's first civil engineers, and his brothers, James Fowle Baldwin and George Rumford B...

Willard, S. (Solomon), 1783-1861

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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (U.S.)

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Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (U.S.)">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (U.S.)</a>. From the guide to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (U.S.) Ledger, 1869-1870, (Special Collections Research Center) ...

Gosport Navy Yard (U.S.)

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Massachusetts general hospital

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Dr. James Jackson and Dr. John C. Warren initially sought funds for a hospital in Boston, Mass. which would also be made available to student s of the Harvard Medical School for clinical training. It was incorporated in 1811 as Massachusetts General Hospital, and in 1817 Jackson and Warren were appointed as acting physician and surgeon, respectively. The first patients were admitted in 1821. McLean Hospital was chartered in 1811 and opened in 1818 as the psychiatric facility of Massachusetts Gen...

Parris, Albion K. (Albion Keith), 1788-1857

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Lawyer, U.S. District Court judge. State legislator, member of U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, and Governor of Maine from 1822 to 1826; from 1828 to 1836 an associate justice of the Maine State Supreme Court; from 1836 to 1849 he was the second comptroller, U.S. Treasury; of Portland, Me. From the description of Albion K. Parris autograph letter signed, 1839. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978493 Justice of the Supreme Court of Me. ...

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