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In 1808, the library began as a collection of about 100 books by Samuel Morse. [1] He was a portrait artist and had an interest in developing a circulating library. [2] By 1852, the collection, entitled the Citizen's Library, amassed 425 books. [3] The Morse Institute Library was instituted in 1862 by Mary Ann Morse, Samuel Morse's ...
Eddy was born Mary Morse Baker on July 16, 1821, in a farmhouse in Bow, New Hampshire to farmer Mark Baker (d. 1865) and his wife Abigail Barnard Baker, née Ambrose (d. 1849). Eddy was the youngest of six children: boys Samuel Dow (1808), Albert (1810), and George Sullivan (1812), followed by girls Abigail Barnard (1816), Martha Smith (1819 ...
Mary Ann Isabella Wellstead was the first Stationmaster and telegraph operator of the Bremer Bay Telegraph Station, and likely the first female telegraphist in Australia. [1] She worked at the telegraph station from 1876-1881.
Born Mary Morse Baker on a farm in Bow, New Hampshire, Eddy was the youngest of six children in a family of Protestant Congregationalists.Her father, Mark Baker, was a deeply religious man, although, according to one account, "Christianity to him was warfare against sin, not a religion of human brotherhood."
Jeremy DanielSome plays charge out of the gate. Some meander, then come into focus. And some just unfold at their own very individual pace, and rather like becoming acquainted with an independent ...
Kerry Washington portrays Lt. Col. Charity Adams in the Netflix film. The real-life leader was born in Kittrell, N.C., on Dec. 5, 1918, and raised in Columbia, S.C.
The Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection is a research collection of more than 1200 volumes on textiles and decorative art subjects, which is held in the Library of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. It was assembled over the course of her career by the weaver, textile artist and author Mary Ann Beinecke.
Bill Clinton “Hillary and I mourn the passing of President Jimmy Carter and give thanks for his long, good life,” Clinton, the country's 42nd president, said in a statement on Sunday.