Columbiana Manuscripts, 1572-1986 [Bulk Dates: 1850-1920].

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. The Library collects, preserves, describes, promotes, and provides access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. The Library builds and stewards deep collections in select subject areas and connects them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs...

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Johnson, William Samuel, 1727-1819

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William Samuel Johnson (October 7, 1727 – November 14, 1819) was an American Founding Father and statesman. During the Revolutionary War, he served as a militia lieutenant before being relieved following his rejection of his election to the First Continental Congress. He was notable for signing the United States Constitution, for representing Connecticut in the United States Senate, and for serving as the third president of King's College, now known as Columbia University. Born in Stratford, ...

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942

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Born in Minden, Germany, on July 8, 1858, the anthropologist Franz Boas was the son of the merchant Meier Boas and his wife, Sophie Meyer. Raised in the radical and tradition of German Judaism, Franz's youth was steeped in politically liberal beliefs and a largely secular outlook that he carried with him from university through his emigration to the United States. At the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, Boas studied physics and geography before completin...

Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Columbian Peithologian Society

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Chandler, Charles Frederick, 1836-1925

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Charles Frederick Chandler was an important American chemist and chemical educator. He was deeply involved in issues of chemistry, mining, and public health throughout the last third of the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries. As a professor at Columbia University, he revolutionized chemical education in the United States and was a major proponent of practical, scientific education. He was deeply involved in professional organizations and kept scrupulously abreas...

Chambers, Whittaker

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Columbia University. School of Law.

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Columbia University. School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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Columbia College (New York, N.Y.). Philolexian Society

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Muzzey, David Saville, 1870-1965

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of David Saville Muzzey : oral history, 1956. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309741525 ...

King's College (New York, NY)

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Alumni Federation of Columbia University

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Arrowsmith, R. 1860-1928.

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Cooper, Myles, 1737-1785

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Dwight, Theodore W. (Theodore William), 1822-1892

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Theodore William Dwight (1822-1892) was an American lawyer and professor of law. Dwight began teaching at the Columbia College Law School as its only professor in 1858, the year the school was founded. George W. Van Siclen and Edwin W. Coggeshall were law students at the Columbia College Law School. From the guide to the Notes from Theodore W. Dwight lectures, 1866-1867, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Theodore William Dwight (1...

Egleston, Thomas, 1832-1900

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Mineralogist, professor of Engineering, and founder of the Columbia School of Mines. From the description of Thomas Egleston papers, 1857-1929. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 493895680 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Thomas Egleston was a noted metallurgist and professor of metallurgy and mineralogy at Columbia University's School of Mines, which he helped found along with Charles F. Chandler and Francis Vinton in 1864. Egleston...

Spingarn, Joel Elias, 1875-1939

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Literary critic and reformer; taught at Columbia University in New York, 1899-1911. From the description of Letter : [New York], to Elbridge Colby, 1911 March 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 21417689 Joel E. Spingarn was an educator and writer who worked with social reform causes, primarily with the NAACP. From the description of Joel E. Spingarn Collection, 1910-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84422765 From the description of Joel E. Spingarn Co...

Erb, Frank C.

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Pumpelly, Josiah C. (Josiah Collins), 1839-1920

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McVickar, John, 1787-1868

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Columbia College (Columbia University)

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Gottheil, Richard J. H. 1862-1936.

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Nelson, John Norman, 1908-1991

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Howson, Roger, 1882-1962.

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Kemp, James Furman, 1859-1926

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Strong, George Templeton

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Attorney, New York City. From the description of Diary : holograph, 1835-1875. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58775484 BIOGHIST REQUIRED New York lawyer, Trustee of Columbia University. Strong took an active role in New York City's cultural and scoial life. From the guide to the George Templeton Strong Papers, 1835-1875., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) New York lawyer, Trustee of Columb...

Hamilton, Alexander, 1815-1907

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Army officer. From the description of Papers of Alexander Hamilton, 1872-1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450734 ...

Hu, Shi, 1891-1962

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Philosopher. From the description of Mankind must resolve to make this the last war : handwritten and typescript drafts, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451222 University president, literary historian, diplomat. From the description of Reminiscences of Shih Hu : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481592 Scholar, educator, and Chinese Ambassador to the United States from 1938-19...

St. Paul's Chapel (Columbia University, New York, N.Y.).

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Johnson, Samuel, 1696-1772

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First President of King's College (1754-1763), Anglican minister, & philosopher. From the description of Samuel Johnson papers, 1710-1971, bulk 1710-1772. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 506128785 Samuel Johnson was an Anglican minister and the first presdent of King's College (Columbia University). From the description of [Letter] 1769 Oct. 25, Stratford, [Ct. to] My dear son / S. Johnson. (Smith College). WorldCat record i...

Krans, Horatio Sheafe, 1872-1952

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Delta Upsilon Fraternity

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Delta Upsilon was the first organized anti-secret fraternity in the U.S. In 1834 students at Williams College formed the Social Fraternity which became Delta Upsilon in 1864. The national headquarters are now in Indianapolis, Indiana. From the guide to the Delta Upsilon Fraternity records, 1847-1942, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Delta Upsilon was the first organized anti-secret fraternity in the U.S. In 1834 stude...

de Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882

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Lawyer and Master in Chancery, New York; President of The New-York Historical Society. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1829-1839]. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58663705 Lawyer, Master in Chancery, president of The New-York Historical Society. From the description of Master's register, 1830-1834, 1837-1844. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58663476 ...

Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870

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Wood-engraver and physician of New York City. From the guide to the Alexander Anderson papers, 1795-1870, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Alexander Anderson (1775-1870) was a physician and a wood-engraver in New York City. From the description of Papers, 1793-1870. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 58657908 ...

Osgood, Herbert L. (Herbert Levi), 1855-1918

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Herbert Osgood was an professor of Americal history, with a specialty in colonial history, at Columbia University. From the guide to the Herbert L. Osgood Papers, [ca. 1900]-1924., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) ...

Reynolds, Stephen, 1881-1919

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Drisler, Henry, 1818-1897

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Jackson, A.V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937

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A. V. Williams Jackson was a professor of Indo-Iranian languages at Columbia University, 1895-1935. From the description of A. V. Williams Jackson papers, 1889-1909 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702169317 A. V. Williams Jackson was born in New York City, on February 9, 1862. For the majority of his life, Jackson was associated with Columbia University. He received an A.B. there in 1883, an A.M. the following year, an L.H.D. the year after that, and in 1886, a P...

Parmly, Wheelock Hendee, 1816-1894.

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Quackenbos, John D. (John Duncan), 1848-1926

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Benjamin W. Austin was an avid collector of autographs. From the description of John D. Quackenbos letter to Ben W. Austin, 18--. (New-York Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 725099610 ...

Jay, Peter, 1945-

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Moore, Nathaniel Fish, 1782-1872

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Professor, librarian, and president of Columbia College (N.Y.), 1842-1849. Having unsuccessfully attempted in May, 1845, to resign a college presidency assumed out of a sense of duty, Nathaniel Fish Moore escaped in July, 1845, for a six-week tour to the upper Mississippi. Sixty-three years old, Moore travelled by steamboat, train, and stage up the Hudson River and west to Buffalo, across the Great Lakes to Detroit and Chicago, west to Galena, up the Mississippi to St. P...

Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831

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Physician Joseph Carson taught medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The College of Philadelphia's Medical School, founded in 1765, became known as the University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Medicine In 1779. From the guide to the Joseph Carson letters, 1789-1858, 1789-1858, (American Philosophical Society) Physician and naturalist. From the description of Papers, 1792-1928. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35203561 Mitchill (Edinburgh, M.D. 17...

Columbia College (New York, N.Y.). College of Physicians and Surgeons

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Innes, J.H.

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Perry, Edward Delavan, 1854-1938

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Columbia University. School of Mines

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Based on the plan submitted by Thomas Egleston, Jr., to the Trustees of Columbia College in 1863, the School of Mines was founded in 1864 at the 49th Street location of the College. With only three professors in the School, supplemented by adjunct professors from the College, the School of Mines opened November 15, 1864, offering a three-year plan of study to its 24 entering students. The "Big Three" founding professors of the School were Egleston, as professor of Mineralogy and Met...