Letters relating to faculty salaries, 1781-1812.
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Harvard University. Corporation.
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Harvard College's primary governing board, the Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College (known as the Harvard Corporation), was established by the Massachusetts General Court in 1650. The charter conferred on the Corporation the duties of managing the College, including appointing and removing administrators, faculty, and staff, creating orders and by-laws for the College, and managing finances, properties, and donations. The first recorded meeting of the Corporation was held on December 10, 16...
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...
Lowell, John, 1743-1802
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John Lowell (June 17, 1743 – May 6, 1802) was a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation, a Judge of the Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture under the Articles of Confederation, a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the First Circuit. Born on June 17, 1743, in Newburyport, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Lowell graduated from Harvard University before re...
Wigglesworth, Edward, 1732-1794
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According to a manuscript note (f. 4v) Wigglesworth wrote the sermon while a professor at Harvard College. Wigglesworth (A.B. 1749) succeeded his father, Edward Wigglesworth, as professor of theology in 1765. From the description of Sermon : manuscript, [not before 1765] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612847034 Edward Wigglesworth (ca. 1693-1765), a Harvard professor, was born ca. 1693 in Malden, Massachusetts. He received an AB from Harvard in 1710 a...
Storer, Ebenezer
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Ebenezer Storer graduated from Harvard in 1747 and received master's degrees from Harvard and Yale in 1750. He served as treasurer of Harvard from 1777-1807. From the description of Diplomas, 1750. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 406084827 Ebenezer Storer, Treasurer of Harvard College, was born on January 27, 1729/30 to Captain Ebenezer and Mary (Edwards) Storer in Boston. He received his Harvard AB in 1747 and his AM in 1750; that same year, he receiv...
Norton, Andrews, 1786-1853
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Andrews Norton received his A.B. from Harvard in 1804. Norton became a tutor in 1811, was Librarian of the Harvard College Library 1813-1821, Dexter Lecturer on Biblical Literature 1813-1819, and Dexter Professor of Sacred Literature, 1819-1830. From the description of [Student themes] , ca. 1803. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072624 Author, Biblical scholar, and educator Andrews Norton was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1804. Aft...
Williams, Samuel Robinson, 1879-
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Physicist (magnetism, optics). On the physics faculty at Columbia University (1906-1907); Oberlin College (1908-1924); and Amherst College from 1924-1947. From the description of Papers, 1904-1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80362528 From the description of Williams papers, 1877-1956 (bulk 1904-1955). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154306677 Williams was born Mar. 2, 1879 to John Dockray and Alam (Davis) Williams in Marengo, Iowa. He graduated from Grinnell Coll...
