Correspondence of John Abbot Emery and the Emery family, 1832-1849, 1932 and undated.

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Correspondence of John Abbot Emery and the Emery family, 1832-1849, 1932 and undated.

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The collection consists of twenty letters relating to John Abbot Emery and the Emery family. It contains six letters written by John as an undergraduate student to his father, brother, and sister-in law; three letters written to John as a student at Phillips Exeter from friends at Harvard; one letter written to John as an undergraduate student from a cousin; one letter written to Robert Emery, John's father, from members of Harvard's Society for Religious Improvement after John's death; and nine family letters, all written after John's death. Also included in the collection is a first day of issue cover of a Daniel Webster stamp, October 24, 1932.

0.22 cubic feet (1 half legal document box)

Harvard University Archives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8150114

Harvard University Archives.

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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...

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. As one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, he argued over 200 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1814 and his death in 1852. During his life, he was a member of the Federalist Party, the Nati...

Society for Religious Improvement (Harvard University)

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Parker, Francis E. (Francis Edward), 1821-1886

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Phillips Exeter Academy

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Emery, John Abbot, d. 1842.

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John Abbot Emery was born on September 20, 1818, to Robert Emery and his third wife, Mary Lyman Emery. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire before entering Harvard College in 1839 with the Class of 1843. While at Harvard, he was the secretary of the Institute of 1770 and president of the Society for Religious Improvement. Emery died during his senior year on October 8, 1842, after a short illness. John Abbot Emery's father, Robert Emery, was born ...

Emery family.

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