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Roswell Farnham Diary, 1848-1849
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- 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 from WILLIAM WESTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated July 25, 1848.
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- Creator: Weston, William.
- Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated December 25, 1848.
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- Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882.
- Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh - Spencer Fullerton Baird Correspondence, George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD and MARY CHURCHILL BAIRD, dated September 15, 1848.
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- Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882.
- Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh - Spencer Fullerton Baird Correspondence, George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, July 8, 1848
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- Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865.
- Description: Topics include Secretary of Agriculture's opposition to the farm bill being considered in a Special Session of the Senate.
- Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 7, 1848
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- Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865.
- Description: Topics include farm bill and centralization of power in the Federal government.
- Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress
Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to JACOB COLLAMER, dated September 11, 1848.
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- Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882.
- Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated April 4, 1848.
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- Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882.
- Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh - Spencer Fullerton Baird Correspondence, George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated February 14, 1848.
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- Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882.
- Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh - Spencer Fullerton Baird Correspondence, George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated April 18, 1848.
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- Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882.
- Parent Collections: George Perkins Marsh - Spencer Fullerton Baird Correspondence, George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center