MEMOIR OF JOHN GALLISON, ESQ. FROM THE CHRISTIAN DISCIPLE. Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1821. 15, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, remnant of front wrapper,...
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Asked to contribute to a symposium on legal publishing in 1889, John B. West—a former traveling book salesman from St. Paul, Minnesota, who in 1876 founded...
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He was born at Salem, Massachusetts. Initially, he followed his father's career and became a merchant mariner with command of his own ship at the age of...
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In the fall of 1863, Civil War soldier Levi Downs wrote to his sister in Connecticut to apologize for not sending a dog home to her son.
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Greenfield- Fern A. (Houle) Gallison, 49, of Bayberry Court died Friday 1/31/14 at home. She was born in Norwich, CT on April 28, 1964,...
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In 1851 Reverend Washington Roosevelt and his family lived at 234 West 30 th Street (later renumbered 354). He and his wife, the former Jane Maria Young, had a...
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May 10, 1839 was Eliza Lawrence Trask's wedding day in New York City. Her father, Israel Elliot Trask, was not there to walk her down the aisle or to celebrate.
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the First Circuit: (1812-1875).
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