Note: Put the word between quotation marks (“example”) to perform an exact search.

Showing 1361 - 1370 of 5327 Records

Roswell Farnham Diary, 1848-1849
Image nop
    • Creator: Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903.
    • Date Created: 1848-1849
    • Description: Roswell Farnham was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 23, 1827, the son of Roswell and Nancy Bixby Farnham. Farnham's family moved to Bradford, Vermont in 1840, and he received his education at Bradford Academy and the University of Vermont, from which he graduated in 1849. Married to Mary Elizabeth Johnson on December 25, 1849, Farnham taught school before gaining admittance to the Orange County bar in 1857. When the Civil War broke out, he entered the First Vermont Regiment with the Bradford Guards militia as a Second Lieutenant. Farnham served with distinction in both the First Vermont and the Twelfth Vermont, and left the Army in July of 1863 as a Lieutenant Colonel. Following the war, Farnham became general counsel for the Vermont Copper Company and continued to work as both lawyer and administrator of the VCC for the rest of his life. In addition, he held a number of local and state political offices culminating in his defeat of Democrat Edward J. Phelps for the governorship of Vermont in 1880. After completing a single popular term as governor, Farnham returned to his law practice. In 1889 he also became president of the newly-formed New England Company, a group of Northern investors interested in developing the coal and iron deposits of northwestern Georgia. The New England Company was never a success, and Farnham spent much of the last decade of the nineteenth century trying to save it and the VCC from bankruptcy. Badly injured in a fall in November 1898, Farnham recovered sufficiently to resume some of his work but never regained full health. Roswell Farnham died at his home in Bradford on January 5, 1903, at the age of seventy-five. Three of Farnham’s four children lived to adulthood: Charles Cyrus Farnham (1864–1937), Florence Mary Osgood (1866–1958), and William M. Farnham (1869–1927). His first child, Roswell Phelps Farnham Jr., died in infancy in 1861. Farnham was predeceased by a half-brother, Cyrus C. Farnham, in 1863. Topics in this diary include the curriculum, faculty, and student experience at UVM in the late 1840s; Burlington and neighboring towns in the late 1840s, UVM’s Lambda Iota fraternity, Zachary Taylor and the Whig Party, and teaching in Vermont and Canada in the mid-nineteenth century. Near the end of the diary are several essays written by Farnham during his senior year at UVM. Topics in these essays include religion, natural history, and King Lear.
    • Parent Collections: Diaries


    Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, July 10 1940
    Image nop
      • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
      • Description: Letter to wife. Topics include health of son Samuel P. Crafts; health of members of Congress; votes on admitting Missouri to the United States with slaves failed by three and six votes on successive days.
      • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress


      [Katherine Fletcher?] to Carl Smith\, 1883 April 29
      Image nop
        • Creator: Fletcher, Katherine.
        • Description: Topics include her sister Carrie's recent illness with St. Vitus' dance (Chorea) and her own attempts to collect advertising cards.
        • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family


        Catherine Smith to [Edward C. Smith?]\, 1884 March 3
        Image nop
          • Creator: Smith, Catherine.
          • Description: Topics include a big snow storm in Burke, NY, B(ent)'s lumber hauling business, and scarlet fever among the children in the community.
          • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family


          George B. Smith to Henrietta Fletcher\, no year March 8
          Image nop
            • Creator: Smith, George B.
            • Description: Topics include his rebuttal of an accusation of oweing money to the Fletchers and not properly caring for their mother.
            • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family


            [Mamie Flagg] to Katherine Fletcher\, undated
            Image nop
              • Creator: Flagg, Mamie.
              • Description: Topics include meeting Katherine in an hour.
              • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family


              Edward C. Smith to Henrietta Fletcher\, 1885 June 14 and Katherine Fletcher to Henrietta Fletcher\, 1885 June 24
              Image nop
                • Creator: Smith, Edward C., Fletcher, Katherine.
                • Description: Topics include Edward's prosperity in California, his refusal of a business proposition from Henrietta, and Katherine's concern about Catherine Smith's health.
                • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family


                Willis Hubbard to Katherine Fletcher\, 1885 November 1
                Image nop
                  • Creator: Hubbard, Willis.
                  • Description: Topics include playing on a sports team (baseball?), attending the Lodge (temperance?), and request that Katie describe her boyfriend.
                  • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family


                  Willis Hubbard to Katherine Fletcher\, 1885 November 23
                  Image nop
                    • Creator: Hubbard, Willis.
                    • Description: Topics include the split between two mutual friends.
                    • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family


                    Carrie Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, 1885 December 8
                    Image nop
                      • Creator: Fletcher, Carrie.
                      • Description: Topics include Katherine's plans to visit home and Carrie's school.
                      • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family