John Tyler

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Library of Congress
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 5, 2008.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
Tyler, Pres. John
Source citation
Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress
Source note

Shield Green, detail

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National Park Service
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 4, 2008.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
National Park Service
Permission to use?
Public
Source citation
National Park Service, John Brown's Raid(National Park Service,1973), 24.
Source note
Original image appeared in Harper's Magazine and appears to be the only representation of Green that exists.

William Laws Cannon (Dickinson Chronicles)

Scholarship
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “William Laws Cannon,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/c/ed_cannonW.htm.
Cannon was born on April 6, 1839 at Bridgeville, Delaware. His father, William Cannon, was a successful merchant who later became governor of Delaware during the war.  At Dickinson, Cannon was a member of the Union Philosophical Society as well as Phi Kappa Sigma.  He received his bachelor of arts degree in 1860.  After graduation he obtained a position at the Census Bureau in Washington, D.C.
Dickinson Chronicles

George Maxwell Robeson (Congressional Biographical Directory)

Reference
“Robeson, George Maxwell,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000330.
ROBESON, George Maxwell,  (nephew of George Clifford Maxwell), a Representative from New Jersey; born at Oxford Furnace, near Belvidere, Warren County, N.J., March 16, 1829; pursued an academic course and was graduated from Princeton College in 1847; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1850 and practiced in Newark and subsequently in Camden; appointed prosecuting attorney for Camden County in 1858; was active in organizing the State troops for service in the Civil War and was commissioned brigadier general by Governor Parker; elected attorney general of New Jerse
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present

Daniel Drayton, detail

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Library of Congress
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 4, 2008.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
American Memory, Library of Congress
Permission to use?
Public
Source citation
Daniel Drayton, Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, for Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (For Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail (New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1855), frontispiece.
Source note
Full text posted on American Memory

Daniel Drayton

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Library of Congress
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 4, 2008.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
American Memory, Library of Congress
Permission to use?
Public
Source citation
Daniel Drayton, Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, for Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (For Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail (New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1855), frontispiece.
Source note
Full text posted on American Memory
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