Papers, 1806-1873

Dartmouth College. Chandler Scientific Dept.

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In 1851 Abiel Chandler, a Harvard graduate and businessman of Walpole, N.H., bequeathed $50,000 to the Trustees of Dartmouth College for the establishment and support of a school or department "in the practical or useful arts of life", such as civil engineering, architecture and drawing, and modern languages, and stipulated that a board of visitors be entrusted with the interpretation of the provisions of his will. John James Dixwell and Francis Brown Hayes were appointed to the Board of Visitor...

Chandler, Abiel, 1777-1851

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Abiel Chandler was born in Concord, New Hampshire, and educated at Fryeburg Academy, Phillips Academy, and Harvard College. After a decade of teaching, he became a commission merchant in Boston as a partner in the firm of Chandler, Howard & Company. He retired to Walpole, New Hampshire, in 1845 and died in 1851. By bequest, he founded the Chandler Scientific Department at Dartmouth College and provided a substantial endowment to the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane. He also provided for h...

Dartmouth College

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The celebration of the 150th anniversary of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dartmouth College Case was held on April 9, 1969, in the Court of Claims, Washington, D.C.; the celebration also commemorated the career of Daniel Webster, the advocate who defended the case before the Supreme Court. During the ceremony Justice Earl Warren, Senator Thomas J. MacIntyre, and Dartmouth College President John Sloan Dickey spoke before an audience of legislators, jurists, historians, and alumni....

West, Orilla Flanders.

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Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

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Horace Mann was an educator and a statesman who greatly advanced the cause of universal, free, non-sectarian public schools. Mann also advocated temperance, abolition, hospitals for the mentally ill, and women's rights. From the description of Horace Mann Letter, 1858. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 213372958 Horace Mann, "Father of our Public Schools," was born in Franklin, Massachusetts on May 4, 1796. His family was poor and his father di...