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- catalog abstract "Contains 41 diaries and 14 account books covering the years 1840-1894. The diaries span the years White attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale College, and Harvard Law School. The diaries also cover White's legal apprenticeship under Robert Rantoul and during his service as a Judge of the Probate Court in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. The diaries are especially descriptive about events and personages of the day touching on such topics as school work and environment, fugitive slaves, politics and politicians, the war with Mexico, legal study and practice, friends and family. The 14 account books cover the years 1853-1890 and describe his legal practice, its expenses and income, and the accounting of various trust funds for which he was executor.".
- catalog contributor b7035502.
- catalog date "1840".
- catalog description "Contains 41 diaries and 14 account books covering the years 1840-1894. The diaries span the years White attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale College, and Harvard Law School. The diaries also cover White's legal apprenticeship under Robert Rantoul and during his service as a Judge of the Probate Court in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. The diaries are especially descriptive about events and personages of the day touching on such topics as school work and environment, fugitive slaves, politics and politicians, the war with Mexico, legal study and practice, friends and family. The 14 account books cover the years 1853-1890 and describe his legal practice, its expenses and income, and the accounting of various trust funds for which he was executor.".
- catalog description "Diaries and account books of George White, Harvard Law School Library.".
- catalog description "White was born in Quincy, Mass. on 9 Nov. 1821. He studied under the instruction of William M. Cornell and at Phillips Exeter Academy; graduated from Yale College (A.B.) in 1848, from Harvard Law School (LL.B.) in 1850; and afterwards studied worked in the Boston law office of Robert Rantoul, Esq. He was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1851 and joined Rantoul as a partner. Upon the death of Rantoul, he formed a partnership with Asa French which lasted until 1858. In that year he was appointed judge of the probate. He also volunteered to various activities including editor of the Quincy Patriot. In 1853 he was a member of the State Constitutional Convention, and in 1857 presided at the Young Men's Convention at Worcester which nominated Nathaniel Banks for governor of Massachusetts. He married Frances Mary Edwena Noyes and had three children: George Rantoul White, Mary Hawthorne White, and Edward Noyes White. He died at Wellesley, Mass. in 1899.".
- catalog extent "55 v.".
- catalog issued "1840".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog subject "Curtis, Benjamin F.".
- catalog subject "French, Asa, 1829-1903.".
- catalog subject "Harvard Law School.".
- catalog subject "Lunt, William P. (William Parsons), 1805-1857.".
- catalog subject "Rantoul, Robert, 1805-1852.".
- catalog subject "Sims, Thomas, fugitive slave.".
- catalog subject "Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850.".
- catalog subject "Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852.".
- catalog subject "Woodbury, Charles Levi, 1820-1898.".
- catalog title "Diaries and account books of George White, 1840-1894.".
- catalog type "Account books 19th century. aat".
- catalog type "Diaries 19th century. aat".
- catalog type "collection".