Papers of Allen Foster Boone

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Papers of Allen Foster Boone

1857-1897

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The collection provides documentation of Boone's undergraduate experience at Harvard College, chiefly consisting of term bills, Class Day ephemera, Hasty Pudding Club Theatre broadsides, and a class album for the Harvard College Class of 1861. Additional scattered items include a letter to his sister (the first letter written by Boone as a Harvard College student), a notice of his election in the Rumford Society, freshman rank list, a certificate of matriculation and a certificate from the steward. The collection also documents Boone's continued association with the College as an alumnus through attendance at Hasty Pudding Club Theatre productions and a donation to his Class Fund.

0.73 cubic feet (1 half document box, 1 flat box, and 1 portfolio folder)

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Harvard University. Rumford Society

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The Rumford Society was so called in honor of Count Rumford, who ... bequeathed ... money to Harvard College ... for the purpose of founding a Professorship 'to teach the utility of the physical and mathematical sciences, for the improvement of the useful arts.' ... This Society was founded on the 16th of November, 1848, by a few members of the Junior class who were interested in the study of Chemistry and desired the means of acquiring knowledge in this department of Natural Philosophy. The Col...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1861

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Boone, Allen Foster, 1838-1915.

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Allen Foster Boone was born on November 1, 1838. He received his Harvard AB in 1861. In August 1862, he enlisted in the Forty-Fourth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, serving until July 1863. Boone then went into business with his brother in the firm of Boone & Frost in Boston. He married Frances Chapman in 1864; they had two sons. In 1871, Boone became a member of the firm of Boone, Cannell and Co., in Boston; the firm dissolved in 1881. From 1882 he worked for the paper manufactur...

Hasty Pudding Club

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The Hasty Pudding Theatricals is a student theater group at Harvard University that has been performing since 1844. The first productions were adapted shows of professional theater but by the 1860s students were writing the shows themselves. From the description of Hasty Pudding Club Theatricals vocal scores, 1892-1954. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 777411550 From the description of Hasty Pudding Club Theatricals souvenir programs, 1899-2003. (Harvard University)...