Papers. 1866-1911.

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Papers. 1866-1911.

Letters including Carrington to Brig. General W.H.H. Terril, l866, describing opening of new westward route and Indian problems; and 1910-1911, to E.O. Randall of the Ohio Historical Society, re. Carrington's Civil War career.

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Carrington, Henry Beebee, 1824-1912

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Early life Carrington was born in Wallingford, Connecticut. An ardent abolitionist in his youth, he was graduated from Yale University in 1845. He was professor of natural science and Greek at the Irving Institute in Tarrytown, New York from 1846 to 1847. Under the influence of the school's founder, Washington Irving, he subsequently wrote Battles of the American Revolution, which appeared in 1876. In 1847 he studied at Yale Law School, taught school briefly at a women's institute, and the...