Isaac Webb collection, 1829-1929 (bulk 1829-1845).

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Isaac Webb collection, 1829-1929 (bulk 1829-1845).

Papers relating to Isaac Webb's school, known by its catalogs as the Private Boarding School or the Family School. Also includes account books and other papers relating to his personal finances. The artifacts include two signs and a stamp.

.417 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8123584

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Webb, Isaac, 1798-1842

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Isaac Webb was born in Chester, Conn., in 1798. He graduated from Yale College and became president of Nichols Academy in Dudley, Mass., from 1823-1824. Soon afterwards, he received his law degree. He was a member of the Yale Law School faculty and also a tutor at the college. Webb opened a law office in Middletown, Conn., in 1827. Later he went to Cincinnati to be a lawyer but returned to start a boys school in Middletown, Conn. It was open for nine years and counted President Rutherford B. Hay...

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893

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Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822 and earned degrees from Kenyon College and Harvard Law School before starting a career as a lawyer in Cincinnati. Hayes served as a major general in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1864. Hayes then was elected Governor of Ohio and later served one term as President of the United States (1877-1881) before retiring to his home in Fremont, Ohio, where he died in 1893.President of the Uni...

Private Boarding School (Middletown, Conn.)

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