Charles William Super (Dickinson Chronicles)

Scholarship
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Charles William Super,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/s/ed_superCW.htm.
Charles William Super was born near Newport, Pennsylvania to Henry and Mary Diener Super on September 12, 1842. He was educated in local common schools and at the Juniata Valley normal school in Millerstown, before entering Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1863. At the College he was elected to the Union Philosophical Society and became a member of Phi Kappa Sigma fratenity. He graduated with his class in 1866. He was the older brother of Ovando Byron Super who later graduated from the College with the class of 1873.

Richard Wilson Carr, detail

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R. Wilson Carr, Sedalia, Mo.
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"Our Portraits," American Homoeopathist 20 (1894): 311.

Charles William Super, detail

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Photograph Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

James Alexander Ventress Pue (Dickinson Chronicles)

Scholarship
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “James Alexander Ventress Pue,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/p/ed_pueJAV.htm.
J. A. V. Pue was born in Howard County, Maryland to Arthur and Sallie Dorsey Pue on July 20, 1841.  He prepared for his undergraduate career at the Dickinson Grammar School and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1855 with the class of 1859.  He was elected as a member of the Belles Lettres Society and graduated with his class in the early summer of 1859.

Thomas Samuel Ashe (Congressional Biographical Directory)

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"Ashe, Thomas Samuel," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000309.
ASHE, Thomas Samuel, (nephew of John Baptista Ashe of North Carolina and cousin of John Baptista Ashe of Tennessee and of William Shepperd Ashe), a Representative from North Carolina; born in Hawfields, near Graham, Alamance County (then a part of Orange County), N.C., July 19, 1812; attended Bingham’s Academy, Hillsboro, N.C., and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1832; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1834 and commenced practice in Wadesboro, Anson County, in 1835; member of the State house of commons in 1842; solicitor of the

"A Mishap on the Underground Railroad," New York Herald, April 21, 1860

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A Mishap on the Underground Railroad
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"A Mishap on the Underground Railroad," New York Herald, April 21, 1860, p. 10: 6.
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Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

John Hall to William Still, March 25, 1856

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William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872), 252.
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Mr. N. Coryell to William Still, September 29, 1856

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William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872), 331.
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Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

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