Nathaniel Barratt Smithers (Dickinson Chronicles)

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John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Nathaniel Barratt Smithers,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/s/ed_smithersNB.htm.
Nathaniel Smithers was born in Dover, Delaware on October 8, 1818 the son of county prothonotary Nathaniel and Susan Fisher Barratt Smithers. He was educated at Ezra Scovell's school in Dover and then at the West Nottingham Academy under Rev. James Magraw. He gained his undergraduate degree at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1836 and then, after funding his further education with teaching for a year in Maryland, entered the law department of Dickinson College, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1840.

“Untitled,” Ripley (OH) Bee, September 10, 1859

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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, March 24, 2009.
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“Untitled,” Ripley (OH) Bee, September 10, 1859, p. 1: 7.
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Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

“The Presidential Malaprop,” New York Times, September 7, 1859

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Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
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The Presidential Malaprop
Source citation
“The Presidential Malaprop,” New York Times, September 7, 1859, p. 4: 3-4.
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Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

“Breaking Up Rapidly,” New York Times, September 12, 1859

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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, March 24, 2009.
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Breaking Up Rapidly
Source citation
“Breaking Up Rapidly,” New York Times, September 12, 1859, p. 4: 5.
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Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

Andrew Galbraith Miller, detail

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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 23, 2009.
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Parker McCobb Reed, The Bench and Bar of Wisconsin: History and Biography, with Portrait Illustration (Milwaukee, WI: P.M. Reed, 1882), 44.

Andrew Galbraith Miller

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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 23, 2009.
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engraving
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No
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Public
Source citation
Parker McCobb Reed, The Bench and Bar of Wisconsin: History and Biography, with Portrait Illustration (Milwaukee, WI: P.M. Reed, 1882), 44.
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