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This is a fascinating 5"x8" autograph album that was created for a tale attendee to get autographs of their professors, and classmates.
In the beginning, it does have two engravings, the president of Yale at the time Jeremiah Day, and another of Benjamin Silliman the professor of Chemistry. The book has come part with only the front cover which is detached and the binding has also come apart in many places, although the autographs and pages are clean and dark.
The pages have over 60 autographs, with each autograph on its own album page. The autograph pages show a who's who of the Yale University staff and students. We have listed a few below, with the most famous one being Noah Webster. There are approximately 60 signed pages.
Noah Webster Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education". His "Blue-backed Speller" books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read. Webster's name has become synonymous with "dictionary" in the United States, especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.
Jeremiah Day (3 August 1773 – 22 August 1867) was an American academic, a Congregational minister and President of Yale College (1817–1846).
William Tully graduated from Yale College in 1806, studied medicine with a local preceptor, and then entered Dartmouth Medical College in 1808 where he studied with Nathan Smith.
Noah Webster Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education". His "Blue-backed Speller" books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read. Webster's name has become synonymous with "dictionary" in the United States, especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.
David Daggett (December 31, 1764 – April 12, 1851) was a U.S. senator, mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, Judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, and a founder of the Yale Law School.
Benjamin Silliman (August 8, 1779 – November 24, 1864) was an early American chemist and science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science, at Yale College, the first person to distill petroleum in America, and a founder of the American Journal of Science, the oldest continuously published scientific journal in the United States
Benjamin Silliman Jr. (December 4, 1816 – January 14, 1885) was a professor of chemistry at Yale University and instrumental in developing the oil industry.
Theodore Dwight Woolsey (31 October 1801 – 1 July 1889) was an American academic, author and President of Yale College from 1846 through 1871
Denison Olmsted (June 18, 1791 – May 13, 1859) was an American physicist and astronomer.[1] Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon.
Thomas Anthony Thacher (January 11, 1815 – April 7, 1886) was an American classicist and college administrator.
Alexander MacWhorter, DD (also spelled McWhorter) (July 26, 1734 – July 20, 1807) was an American clergyman.
William Augustus Larned (June 23, 1806 – February 3, 1862) was an American minister and professor at Yale College.
Bernard Jean Bettelheim (1811, Pozsony, Hungary - February 9, 1870 Brookfield, Missouri, USA) was a Hungarian-born Christian missionary to Okinawa, the first Protestant missionary to be active there. When Commodore Matthew Perry came to Japan in 1854, Bettelheim went aboard his ship to meet him. Bettelheim was helpful to Perry as an advisor, representative and commercial agent.