Author: Otis Frederick Reed Waite
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Category : Claremont (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 766

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Author: Martha Elizabeth Hodes
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393052664
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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"What a terrific book! I could hardly put it down... A story of triumph over adversity."--James McPherson. Award-winning historian Hodes presents the true, extraordinary story of Eunice Connolly, a woman whose misfortune and defiance make up the grand themes of American history--opportunity and racism, war and freedom.

Author: Martha Hodes
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393078396
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 377

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A finalist for the Lincoln Prize, The Sea Captain's Wife "comes surprisingly, and movingly, alive" (Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly). Award-winning historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor in New England, Eunice moved from countryside to factory city, worked in the mills, then followed her husband to the Deep South. When the Civil War came, Eunice's brothers joined the Union army while her husband fought and died for the Confederacy. Back in New England, a widow and the mother of two, Eunice barely got by as a washerwoman, struggling with crushing depression. Four years later, she fell in love with a black sea captain, married him, and moved to his home in the West Indies. Following every lead in a collection of 500 family letters, Hodes traced Eunice's footsteps and met descendants along the way. This story of misfortune and defiance takes up grand themes of American history—opportunity and racism, war and freedom—and illuminates the lives of ordinary people in the past. A Library Journal Best Book of the Year and a selection of the Book of the Month Club, Literary Guild, and Quality Paperback Book Club.

Author: Otis F. R. Waite
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331609585
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 758

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Excerpt from History of the Town of Claremont, New Hampshire: For a Period of One Hundred and Thirty Years, From 1764 to 1894 George L. Balcom, be authorized to act as a committee to procure the writing and publication of a history of Claremont. Agreeably to the authority thus conferred, the committee, on behalf of the town, contracted with Otis F. R. Waite to write and prepare such history, from the grant of the township and its settlement through all its subsequent growth and progress down to the close of 1894. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Oliver S. Hayward
Publisher: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
ISBN: 1611680921
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 399

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This is the first full-scale biography of Nathan Smith -- medical pioneer, founder of Dartmouth Medical School and cofounder of three other medical schools (Yale, Vermont, and Bowdoin), and progenitor of a long line of physicians. Smith was a central figure in early American medical education, from 1787 when he began practicing in New Hampshire, to his death in New Haven in 1829. In his day, Smith was probably the nation's leading physician, surgeon, and medical educator, and well ahead of his time in insisting that doctors practice "watchful waiting" and emphasizing patient-centered care. In the process of telling Smith's life and story, authors Hayward and Putnam fill out in new ways the picture of medical treatment and medical education in post-Colonial America. The tale of Smith's remarkable career unfolds in New England, where the authors create a sense of time and place through an exhaustive study of primary and secondary sources, and especially Smith's own letters and lecture notes taken by his students. Readers become immersed in Smith's life and the spirit of the times as they examine early Victorian notions of disease, how medical students were taught (the chapter on body snatching is especially lively), the politics and economics of founding professional medical schools in early America, and other topics. The book provides a vivid description of what it was like to study and practice medicine, and be the recipient of the ministrations of physicians, during this critical period.

Author: Otis Frederick Reed Waite
Publisher:
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Category : Claremont (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Francess G. Halpenny
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780802033987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1084

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The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is the definitive biographical reference work in Canadian history. "No serious student of Canada's past can function without access to this thorough, balanced and reliable source." R. Hall, Globe and Mail.

Author: OTIS F. R. WAITE
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ISBN: 9781033990698
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Abner Sanger
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 696

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This book is essential reading for those interested in the history of New England and the Connecticut River Valley states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont. The journal provides insights into the migration and settlement of up country New England and for gealogists, the book lists more than 1,000 people.