Remarks Relating to the Hundredth Anniversary of the Inauguration of President Franklin Pierce: Historical New Hampshire/ by Elmer Munson Hunt.

Title:

Remarks Relating to the Hundredth Anniversary of the Inauguration of President Franklin Pierce: Historical New Hampshire/ by Elmer Munson Hunt.

Author:

Hunt, Elmer Munson.

Call Number:

977.8 N5321h

Publication Information:

Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1953.

Physical Description:

p.23-48 : some illustrations.

Source:

Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1953 Vol. 9 (1953) Historical New Hampshire

Description:

The article presents a speech by New Hampshire Historical Society Director Elmer Munson Hunt, delivered at the Society's Annual Meeting in April 1953. It focuses on the career of U.S. President Franklin Pierce. The author examines Pierce's education at Bowdoin College, his marriage to Jane Appleton, and his stances on the spread of slavery to the West, particularly Kansas. His relationships with U.S. Senator Daniel Webster and abolitionists John Brown and Amos Adams Lawrence are noted.

Subjects:

Periodicals History.

People:

Hunt, Elmer Munson, 1883-1968. , Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869. , Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852. , Brown, John, 1800-1859 , Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886.

Organizations:

New Hampshire Historical Society Periodicals History.

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