Papers of William W. Greenough, 1823-1890.

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

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Edward Everett was an American statesman, clergyman, and orator, as well as professor of Greek at Harvard University and president of Harvard University, 1846-1849. Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard with highest honors in 1811, completing an M.A. in Divinity in 1814. After a brief stint as a minister, Harvard offered him the newly created position of Professor of Greek; brilliant but untrained, Everett went to Göttingen to prepare for...

Eliot, Samuel Atkins, 1798-1862

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Samuel Atkins Eliot was born in Boston, Mass., March 5, 1798; attended the Boston Latin School; was graduated from Harvard University in 1817 and from the divinity school in 1820; member of the State house of representatives 1834-1837; mayor of Boston 1837-1839; served in the State senate in 1843-1844; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert C. Winthrop and served from August 22, 1850, to March 3, 1851; declined to be a candidate for...

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...

Boston Public Library

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Evarts, William Maxwell, 1818-1901

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William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818 – February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York. He was renowned for his skills as a litigator and was involved in three of the most important causes of American political jurisprudence in his day: the impeachment of a president, the Geneva arbitration and the contests before the electoral commission to settle the presidential election of 18...

Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864

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Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts; United States and Massaschusetts legislator; and, President of Harvard University. From the description of Josiah Quincy letter, portrait and autograph, 1839-1889. (Boston College). WorldCat record id: 63118297 President of Harvard. From the description of Autograph note signed : [Cambridge, Mass.], addressed to the Rev. John Pierpont, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616000 From the description of Autograph note ...

Hillard, George Stillman, 1808-1879

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George Stillman Hillard was a Boston lawyer, politician, and author. As a lawyer he practiced practiced in partnership with Charles Sumner, and served both in the Massachusetts legislature as well as U.S. district attorney for Massachusetts. He also wrote extensively and edited a number of periodicals. From the description of George Stillman Hillard letters, 1840-1866. (New-York Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 711612596 American lawyer and biographer. ...

United States exploring expedition (1838-1842)

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The United States Exploring Expedition under the command of Charles Wilkes left U.S.A. Aug. 1838, returning July 1842. The ships in the expedition were the Flying Fish, Oregon, Peacock, Porpoise, Relief, Seagull and Vincennes. The expedition visited the Antarctic, Sydney Harbour, Bay of Islands, N.Z., various islands in the Pacific and areas on the coast of South America and U.S.A. From the description of Records [microform]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225845806 ...

Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897

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Historian, cartographer, and librarian of the Boston Public Library. From the description of Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to Henry Harrisse, Paris, France, 1891 Oct. 10. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 40998446 Winsor graduated from Harvard in 1853 and was a librarian at Harvard and at the Boston Public Library. From the description of Papers of Justin Winsor, 1847-1897 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972933 Winsor was libr...

Bowles, Samuel, 1797-1851

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Greenough, Catherine Scollay Curtis, 1821-1899.

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Greenough, William W. (William Whitwell), -1899

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Merchant, politician. Trustee of the Boston Public Library, 1856-1899. From the description of Letters received, 1850-1892. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14707184 Written while Greenough (A. B. 1837) was a student at Harvard. From the description of Rudiments of a grammar of the Anglo-Saxon tongue ; A Moeso-Gothic grammar : manuscript, 1834. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612827421 Merchant and public official of Boston, Mass.; born ...

Rose, John, Sir, 1820-1888

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Canadian statesman, privy councillor and first minister of finance for the Dominion, 1867-1868, receiver general for the Duchy of Lancaster, 1883, and privy councillor, 1886. From the description of Papers, 1870-1888. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20122420 ...

Curtis, George Ticknor, 1812-1894

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Curtis was a graduate of Harvard Law School (1834) and brother of Benjamin Robbins Curtis. From the description of Letter regarding Dred Scott case, 19 December 1856. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 236049551 George Ticknor Curtis was an American lawyer and historian. Born in Watertown, Massachusetts, he was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1836. He practiced law and served a term in the Massachusetts House,...

MacGregor, John, 1825-1892

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John MacGregor, Vice President of the Ragged Schools Society and founder of the Shoeblack Brigade, took up canoeing in 1865. His narrative of his first long journey, A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe (1866), went through thirteen editions. He chronicled his journey to the Middle East in The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Red Sea and Gennesareth (1869). A dedicated promoter of the sailing canoe, he founded the Royal Canoe Club. From the description of Log books of voyages in the Rob Roy, ...

Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1898

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President of Trinity College, philanthropist, author. From the description of Samuel Eliot letter to Count Adam de Gurowski [manuscript], [18__] Dec 26. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 182579807 American historian and educationist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to J. Pierpont Morgan, 1895 Jan. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270743938 Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Cata...

Greenough, William, 1792-1874.

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Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896

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Horatio Hale served as philologist of the Wilkes Exploring Expedition. From the description of Horatio Hale notebooks : on the languages of the California and Oregon Indians : ms, [1841]. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122368994 Lawyer and enthnologist. Full name: Horatio Emmons Hale. From the description of Poetic dialect of the English language : a grammar and lexicon of words and forms of speech peculiar to English poetry : holograph manu...