Alfred Victor DuPont (Dickinson Chronicles)

Scholarship
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Alfred Victor du Pont,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/d/ed_dupontAV.html.
Alfred du Pont was born on April 11, 1798 in France to Eleuthere and Sophie Dalmas du Pont. His father's career during the French Revolution as both moderate politician and printer fell into disfavor as the Revolution became increasingly radical. The du Pont family fled to the United States, arriving on January 1, 1800. After a period in Bergen Point, New Jersey, the family settled outside Wilmington, Delaware, where in 1802 the E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company was established to produce the high quality gunpowder in great demand at the time.

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James Wallace (Dickinson Chronicles)

Scholarship
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “James Wallace,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/w/ed_wallaceJ.htm.
James Wallace was born on March 14, 1818 to a prominent Dorchester County family in Cambridge, Maryland. He entered Dickinson College with the class of 1840 in the autumn of 1836. He was elected to the Belles Lettres Society and graduated with his class in the early summer of 1840. He returned to Cambridge and studied law, gaining admittance to the Maryland bar in 1842 and opened a successful practice.
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John Armstrong Wright (Dickinson Chronicles)

Scholarship
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “John Armstrong Wright,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/w/ed_wrightJA.htm.
John Armstrong Wright was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Archibald and Jane Berks Wright, on October 7, 1820. He prepared for college at Wibraham Academy in Massachusetts and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1838 in September 1834 when the College reopened under Methodist auspices. A young man of immense size and stature for the time, his career at the College was colorful indeed.
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“What Pennsylvania has Escaped,” New York Times, July 6, 1863

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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, April 5, 2011.
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document
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No
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Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
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Yes
Original caption
What Pennsylvania has Escaped
Source citation
“What Pennsylvania has Escaped,” New York Times, July 6, 1863, p. 4: 3.
Source note
Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

“The News,” Raleigh (NC) Register, July 8, 1863

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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, April 5, 2011.
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document
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No
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Yes
Original caption
The News
Source citation
“The News,” Raleigh (NC) Register, July 8, 1863, p. 2: 1.
Source note
Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

James Ronald Chalmers (Congressional Biographical Directory)

Reference
“Chalmers, James Ronald,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000272.
CHALMERS, James Ronald, (son of Joseph Williams Chalmers), a Representative from Mississippi; born near Lynchburg, Halifax County, Va., January 12, 1831; moved with his parents in 1835 to Jackson, Tenn., and in 1839 to Holly Springs, Miss.; attended St.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present

Peter Vivian Daniel, daguerreotype, circa 1850, detail

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Office of the Curator, Supreme Court of the United States
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, April 5, 2011. 
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Office of the Curator, Supreme Court of the United States
Permission to use?
Yes
Source citation
J.H. Whitehurst Galleries, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States
Source note
House Divided is grateful for the assistance of Franz Jantzen, Office of the Curator, Supreme Court of the United States, in providing this image.  

Peter Vivian Daniel, daguerreotype, circa 1850

Scanned by
Office of the Curator, Supreme Court of the United States
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, April 5, 2011. 
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Office of the Curator, Supreme Court of the United States
Permission to use?
Yes
Source citation
J.H. Whitehurst Galleries, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States
Source note
House Divided is grateful for the assistance of Franz Jantzen, Office of the Curator, Supreme Court of the United States, in providing this image.  
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