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1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations |
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Making of modern law.
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Contents |
Vol. 1: Roger Sherman and his family -- Samuel Hoar -- Boyhood in Concord -- Famous Concord men -- Farm and school -- Harvard sixty years ago -- 1846 to 1850 - foundation of the republican party -Daniel Webster -- Life in Worcester -- Political history in Massachusetts from 1848 to 1869 -- The know nothing party and its overthrow -- Election to Congress -- Sumner and Wilson -- Personalities in debate -- The National House of Representatives in 1869 -- Political condition in 1869 -- Reconstruction -- Committee service in the house -- Salmon P. Chase -- Adin Thayer -- Political corruption -- Credit mobilier -- The Sanborn contracts -- Benjamin F. Butler -- Belknap impeachment -- Electoral commission -- Four national conventions, 1876 -- Four national conventions, 1880 -- Four national conventions,1884 -- Four national conventions, 1888 -- Saturday club -- The Worcester Fire Society. Vol. 2: Election to the senate -- President Hayes -- Cabinet of President Hayes -- Attempt to reopen the question of the title to the presidency -- The Senate in 1877 -- Leaders of the Senate in 1877 -- Committee service in the Senate -- The river and harbor bill -- Chinese treaty and legislation -- The Washington Treaty and Geneva Award -- The president's power of removal -- Fisheries -- The federal election bill -- Constitutional amendments and the presidential succession bill -- President Cleveland's judges -- Some southern senators -- Cushman Kellogg Davis -- George Bancroft -- Visits to England (1860, 1868, 1871) -- Visits to England, 1892 -- Visits to England, 1896 -- Silver and bimetallism -- Visits to England, 1899 -- A republican platform -- Official salaries -- Propriety in debate -- The fishball letter -- The bird petition -- The A.P.A. controversy -- The English mission -- President Roosevelt and the Syrian children -- National bankruptcy -- The Philippine Islands -- Appointments to office -- Oratory and some orators I have heard -- Trusts -- Recollections of the Worcester Bar -- Some judges I have known -- Political and religious faith -- Edward Everett Hale -- The Forest of Dean (by John Bellows) |
Summary |
Extra-illustrated volumes with tipped-in engraved portraits and autograph letters of 19th-century American political figures |
Analysis |
FAClaw Law |
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ER Internet Book Full text |
Notes |
Volume 2 Appendix: The Forest of Dean / by John Bellows (pages 449-470); Senator Hoar drove through a portion of this site and asked his companion, the author, to write a few notes on the visit for the American Antiquarian Society |
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Includes index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Online resource viewed October 27, 2015 |
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digitized 2023. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904.
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Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904 |
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Legislators -- Massachusetts -- Biography
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Legislators
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Politics and government
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United States -- History -- 1865-
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900.
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Massachusetts
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United States
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Electronic books
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letters (correspondence)
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Extra-illustration.
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portraits.
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group portraits.
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autobiographies (literary works)
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personal correspondence.
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Portraits
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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History
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Personal correspondence
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Personal correspondence.
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Portraits.
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Correspondance privée.
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Portraits.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Portraits de groupe.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Bellows, John, 1831-1902.
Forest of Dean
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