Bostwick Company records, 1819-1856 (inclusive)

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Bostwick Company records, 1819-1856 (inclusive)

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The records consist of correspondence from the business records of William Bostwick (1796-1863), merchant of Augusta, Georgia and New Haven, Connecticut, who dealt primarily in cotton. While most of the letters are on business, there are personal letters (1854, 1856) from Benjamin Silliman, Noah Porter, James Browning Miles and Willis Strong Colton. The records also include sixty-two account books.

.25 linear ft. (l box)

Yale University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8270319

Yale University Library

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Burton & Bostwick.

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Porter, Noah, 1811-1892

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Noah Porter: Congregational clergyman, educator, president of Yale College; B.A., Yale, 1831; studied at the Yale Divinity School with Nathaniel W. Taylor; ordained in 1836; from 1843-1846 pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Springfield, Massachusetts; president of Yale from 1871-1886. From the description of Noah Porter papers, 1781-1889 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702169079 Congregational minister, metaphysician, author, and president of Yale. ...

Edward Campfield & Co.

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Colton, Willis Strong.

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Miles, James B. (James Browning), 1823-1875

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John Hill Burton

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Coordinator for the 1st and 13th Districts of COPE, UAW Citizenship Department. While with Kaiser-Frazer and Local 142, Mr. Burton played an important role in securing equal employment opportunities for Afro-Americans. From the description of John Burton papers, 1949-1959. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32320863 Epithet: of Add MS 28509 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/8...

Bostwick, William, 1796-

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Autobiography written in Fairhaven, Connecticut describes Bostwick's trip to Chicago via the Great Lakes in 1842 and his continued life and travels in Illinois. Bostwick's father served as an Episcopalian rector in Joliet from 1842-1845. He sent a copy of the manuscript to Rev. C.W. Leffingwell in Knoxville, Illinois. From the description of Manuscript of autobiography, ca. 1890. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 48843896 ...

Bostwick & Baird.

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Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864

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Benjamin Silliman was a chemist and naturalist, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1805. From the description of Correspondence, 1808-1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466220 Physician and chemist of New Haven, Connecticut. From the description of Note, 1853, Sept. 28 : New Haven, Connecticut, to Isaac Waldron. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35359361 Educator and scientist. From the description of Papers of...

Banks & Baird.

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Bostwick Company.

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