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Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885

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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant, Ohio-died July 23, 1885, Wilton, New York) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans, created the Justice Department, and reestablish the public credit. Promoted lieutenant-general, in 1864, Grant led the Union Army in winning the American Civ...

Bancroft, George, 1800-1891

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George Bancroft was an American historian and statesman, and an active promoter of secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. As U. S. Secretary of the Navy under James K. Polk, Bancroft established the Naval Academy at Annapolis and later served as U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1846-1849), Prussia (1867-1871), and the German Empire (1871-1874). He is best remembered however for his 10-volume History of the United States, a work which fellow historian Leop...

Torrey, H. W. (Henry Warren), 1814-1893

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Henry Warren Torrey graduated from Harvard in 1833, taught history, law and elocution and served as Overseer at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Henry Warren Torrey, ca. 1844. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972903 ...

Marsh, George P. (George Perkins), 1801-1882

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George Perkins Marsh was born in Woodstock, Vermont, educated at Dartmouth, and taught Greek and Latin in a local academy, then studied and practiced law. He was elected to the Vermont legislature, then to Congress in 1843, where he actively supported the Library of Congress and the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution. He was appointed Minister to Italy, 1861-1862. He was an active lecturer, and his book Man and Nature (1864) earns him credit today as the first environmentalist...

Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901

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Caroline Crane Marsh was the wife of George Perkins Marsh, Dartmouth College Class of 1820, envoy to Turkey, 1849-1853. From the description of Letters, 1849-1851, to Susan Marsh. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 237352265 American poet. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Scarsdale and Rome, to John W. Field (3) and his wife (1), 1886 Apr 26-1886 Oct. 21 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270608646 ...

Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918

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Lucretia Rudolph Garfield served as First Lady of the United States in 1881 until the assassination of her husband, President James A. Garfield. In the fond eyes of her husband, President James A. Garfield, Lucretia “grows up to every new emergency with fine tact and faultless taste.” She proved this in the eyes of the nation, though she was always a reserved, self-contained woman. She flatly refused to pose for a campaign photograph, and much preferred a literary circle or informal party to ...

Pringle, Edward Jenkins, 1826-1899

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Born into an aristocratic Charleston family, Edward J. Pringle attended the South Carolina College in 1841 and transferred to Harvard, where he graduated with honors in 1845. He was admitted to the bar in 1847, but first decided to enjoy his wealth, and embarked on a two-year grand tour of Europe. Strong to his family business of being wealthy planters, he wrote in defense of slavery in 1857 with a work titled, "Slavery in the Southern States." Finding insufficient legal work in Charleston, he e...

Hamilton, Schuyler, 1822-1903

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Hamilton was born on July 22, 1822 in New York City. He was the fifth of 14 children born to John Church Hamilton (1792–1882) and Maria Eliza van den Heuvel. His paternal grandparents were Alexander Hamilton (1755/7–1804), a Founding Father of the United States, and Elizabeth Schuyler (1757–1854). His maternal grandfather was Baron John Cornelius van den Heuvel, the one-time governor of Dutch Guiana. Through his sister, Elizabeth Hamilton (1831–1884), he was the brother-in-law of Gen. Henry Hall...

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

Quincy, Eliza Susan, 1798-1884

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Eliza Susan Quincy (1798-1884) was the daughter of Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), congressman, Massachusetts state senator, and president of Harvard University. Her great-grandfather was Colonel Josiah Quincy (1710-1784). His fortune was increased when the merchant vessel Bethell, of which he was part owner, captured a Spanish treasure ship. In 1770, he built a large house in that part of Braintree, Massachusetts, which later became Quincy. Eliza Susan and her sisters Abigail Phillips (1803-1893) an...

Halstead, Murat, 1829-1908

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American journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Brooklyn, New York], to Mr. Ford, 1890 Oct. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270498303 American newspaper editor and magazine writer. From the description of Murat Halstead letters [manuscript], 1870-1895. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 764681283 ...

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Potts, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1836-1887

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Ohio senator (Republican); later, territorial governor of Montana (1870-1883). From the description of Letter, 1870. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32520303 ...

Smith, Thomas Kilby, 1820-1887.

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Thomas Kilby Smith, Union general. From 1843 to 1853, practiced law in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1853 he became special agent in the Post Office Department at Washington, and later served as U.S. marshal for the Southern District of Ohio and deputy clerk of Hamilton County. In October 1861, Thomas Kilby Smith was commissioned Colonel of the 54th Regiment of Ohio Infantry, which he commanded at Shiloh and the advance on Corinth. He 1863-1864 he fought in under Sherman and Grant in Mississippi and Tenn...

Waite, Morrison R. (Morrison Remick), 1816-1888

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Waite practised law in Ohio beginning in 1839 and was chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1874-1888. From the description of Letters, 1871-1882. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235163433 Waite gained attention in 1871 as a representative with the U.S. delegation to an international arbitration involving a dispute between the United States and Great Britain over the outfitting of Confederate vessels in British ports. In the settlement, the United St...

Talbot, Thomas H. (Thomas Hammond), 1823-1907

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Lieutenant colonel of the First Maine Heavy Artillery. From the description of A balaklava of our Civil War, [ca. 1893-1894]. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978542 Assistant Attorney-General and publicist. From the description of Letter signed : Washington, D.C., to the Secretary of War, 1870 Jul. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270581291 ...

Thurman, Allen Granbery, 1813-1895

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U.S. Senator from Ohio who served on the Senate Judiciary Committee. From the description of Letters, 1880. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55941341 U.S. representative and senator from Ohio and jurist. From the description of Allen Granbery Thurman correspondence, 1881 January 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980616 ...

Hazen, William Babcock, 1830-1887

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William Babcock Hazen was the commander of the United States Army's 15th Corps from Tennessee. From the description of Request for passage North, 1865. (College of Charleston). WorldCat record id: 47968197 Hazen served as colonel in the regular army (41st Ohio Infantry) and major general of volunteers during the Civil War. In 1880 he was appointed brigadier general and chief signal officer in the War Department. In this capacity, he was very critical of the failure of Secret...

Thornton M.

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Hitchcock, Peter M. (Peter Marshall), 1839-1906

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Judge, of Mentor, Ohio. From the description of Mentor Marsh scrapbook, 1900-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70969911 Cleveland, Ohio lawyer. From the description of Papers, 1885-1893. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 22694637 Judge and lawyer, of Chardon, Ohio. From the description of Correspondence, 1896-1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70966966 ...

Army officer, lawyer, and geologist, of Cleveland, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1827-1897. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 18446173 Soldier, lawyer, geologist, and historian who resided in Cleveland, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1806-1909 / Charles Whittlesey. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 19898834 From the description of Charles Whittlesey papers, 1806-1909 [microform]. (Rhinelander District Li...

Glasgow, E.

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Anderson, Thomas McArthur, 1836-1917

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American army officer. From the description of Report signed : Ringold Barracks, Texas, to the Acting Asst. Inspector General of Texas, 1872 May 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132676 General Thomas Anderson, was colonel of the 14th Infantry and in command at Vancouver Barracks for many years. From the description of Army episodes and anecdotes; or Life at Vancouver Barracks. The romance and the reality of the frontier /by Thomas McArthur Anderson, 1853-1893...

Foraker, Joseph Benson, 1846-1917

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Ohio lawyer and jurist; Ohio governor, 1886-1890; U.S. senator, 1896-1908; brevet captain, 89th Ohio Infantry, Company A, during Civil War. From the description of Letter : Cincinnati, [Ohio], to B[enjamin] H[enry] Grierson, Whipple Barracks, A.T., 1885 Nov. 4. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30607647 Joseph Benson Foraker served as both governor of and U.S. senator for the state of Ohio. Archibald Gracie was the author of a Civil War history enti...

White, William M.

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Epithet: Deputy Registrar of the Consistory Court of Westminster British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x0000d4 Epithet: Captain; Bengal Army British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x0000cf Epithet: of St Pierre, Martinique British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_...

Owl's Nest

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Chase, Camp

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C. F. Force

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Hatch, Edward, 1832-1889

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Edward Hatch was a major-general in the Union army. From the description of Letter, 7 September 1865, Knoxville, Tennessee to Edwin M. Stanton. (University of Tennessee). WorldCat record id: 60404761 American army officer. From the description of Report signed : Fort Davis, Texas, to the Acting Asst. Inspector General in Austin, 1870 Sept. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270483456 Soldier. Born in Bangor, Me., and educated in N...

Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906

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Shaler (Harvard, S.B., 1862) taught paleontology and geology at Harvard and was Dean of the Lawrence Scientific School. From the description of Papers of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, 1872-1914 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972881 Prominent geologist and scholar, served with the Kentucky Geological Survey, and as a professor at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University. From the description of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler : paper...

Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900

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Scotch war correspondent. From the description of Outlook for war in Europe : autograph manuscript. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270538497 Archibald Forbes was a British author, perhaps most famous as a war correspondent. After graduating from Aberdeen University, he enlisted in the Royal Dragoons, but subsequently left the service and became a journalist. He covered various wars with great success and acclaim, and was noted for both the quality of his writing and his inge...

Mackenzie, Ranald Slidell, 1840-1889

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American army officer. From the description of Document signed : Fort Richardson, Texas, 1872 Nov. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609167 From the description of Letter signed : Fort Richardson, Texas, 1872 Nov. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609291 Ranald S. Mackenzie was a colonel in the 4th United States (U.S.) Cavalry Regiment. From the description of The Randald S. Mackenzie papers, 1867-1874. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat reco...

Peter Force

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Dennison, William, 1815-1882

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Lawyer, Ohio state senator, Ohio governor (1860-1862), and U.S. Postmaster General. From the description of Correspondence, 1861. (Ohio Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 40600940 Ohio governor, U.S. postmaster general, and commissioner of the District of Columbia. From the description of Letter, 1878 March 1. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70941725 U.S. postmaster general and governor of Ohio. From the desc...

Groesbeck, William S. (William Slocomb), 1815-1897

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Came to Detroit from Albany about 1788, and in 1792 married Therese Beaufait. The census of 1779 lists Groesbeck and Teller as Detroit traders. (MMQ) (blue index cards) From the description of William Groesbeck marriage contract, 1787. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 429047610 No information is available on Groesbeck. From the description of Correspondence, 1789. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 41536862 ...

Kaga, A.

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Noah, H.

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Hunt, R. C.

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Morgan, John Tyler, 1824-1907

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A lawyer from Dallas County, Alabama, Morgan was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1876 and served there until his death. As chairman of the Inter-oceanic and Foreign Relations Committees, he promoted the annexation of Cuba and the construction of an isthmian canal. From the description of Papers, 1857-1907. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id: 26181771 U.S. senator from Alabama and lawyer. From the description of Papers of John Tyler Morgan, 1840-1907 (bulk 1882...

Gray, Horace, 1828-1902

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American jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Charles P. Lyman, 1891 Oct. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 753969918 Gray graduated from Harvard College (1845) and Harvard Law School (1849), and served as reporter of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (1854-1861) and was appointed as a justice in 1864. In 1881 he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. From the description of Letters, 1858-1897. (Harvard Law School Libr...

Ware, William R. (William Robert), 1832-1915

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Architect. Ware was the founder of the School of Architecture at Columbia University, which began as the Department of Architecture in the School of Mines at Columbia College, New York, N.Y. From the description of William Robert Ware papers and photographs, circa 1834-1920. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505720026 ...

Sherman, Henry, 1808-1879

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Henry Sherman: studied at Yale Law School, graduating 1829; admitted to the bar in 1832; practiced in New York City from 1841 to 1850, while also publishing on legal subjects; practiced in New Haven, 1850-1860; in 1861 moved to Washington, D.C., and was employed until 1868 by the Treasury Department; served briefly as Chief Justice of the Territory of New Mexico. From the description of Henry Sherman family papers, 1795-1926 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702167544 ...

City, Rapid

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Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

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Eliot served as president of Harvard University (1869-1909). From the description of Correspondence of Charles W. Eliot, 1870-1920. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339031 Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was President of Harvard University from March 12, 1869 to May 19, 1909. He also taught mathematics and chemistry at Harvard University (1858-1863) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1865-1869). Eliot was one of the most influential educa...

Yade, Yehr.

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Horsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1893

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Horsford (Harvard, A.B., 1847) taught chemistry at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Eben Norton Horsford, ca. 1857. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972793 Engineer, college professor and industrial chemist; president of Wellesley. From the description of E. N. Horsford letter to a Miss Reid [manuscript], 1884 February 14. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 713898870 David Zeisberger served as a Moravian minister. ...

Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896

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English reformer and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Old Square [London], to John Ruskin, 1866 Oct. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269516755 Thomas Hughes, English social reformer and children's writer, best known for his Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857). From the description of Thomas Hughes manuscript material : 2 items, 1871-1872 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 430711041 From the guide to the Thomas Hughes man...

Noyes, Edward F. (Edward Follansbee), 1832-1890

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Diplomat and governor of Ohio. From the description of Letter of Edward F. Noyes, 1879. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451813 American army officer, governor of Ohio and diplomat. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cincinnati, to J.M. Dalzell, 1888 Jul. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609888 ...

Belknap, William Worth, 1829-1890

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William Worth Belknap was born in Newburgh, New York on September 22, 1829, the son of career soldier William G. Belknap and Anne (Clark) Belknap. Belknap's father had fought with distinction in the War of 1812, Florida War, and Mexican–American War. Belknap attended the local schools in Newburgh, and graduated from Princeton University in 1848. In addition to attending Princeton with Hiester Clymer, the Democratic Congressman who later led the investigation into Belknap's War Department corrupt...

Force, M. F. (Manning Ferguson), 1824-1899

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U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and historian. From the description of M.F. Force letter, 1852. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984107 Force was a lawyer and judge in Ohio, an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War, and an author of historical works. From the description of Papers, 1845-1900 (inclusive), 1853-1886 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122575000 From the guide to the Papers, 1845-1900 (inclusive), 1853-1886 (bulk)., (Hough...

Matthews, Stanley, 1824-1889

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Matthews was a member of the U.S. Senate from Ohio (1877-1879), and served as counsel before the Electoral Commission in the Hayes-Tilden presidential dispute (1877) and was an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1881-1889). From the description of Letters, 1877, 1881. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235127345 Graduate of the University of Michigan, BL (1897), LLB (1899), from Escanaba, Michigan. From the description of Stanley M. Matth...

Force, Manning Ferguson, 1824-1899.

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American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cincinnati, to William W. Belknap, 1873 Nov. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270517911 ...

Goodman, Alfred Thomas, 1845-1871.

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Writer and historian who became secretary of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1868-1871. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17462698 ...

Reynolds, Thomas

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