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    Jared Sparks (May 10, 1789 – March 14, 1866) was an American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister. He served as President of Harvard College from...
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  • Jared is a given name of Biblical derivation. In the Book of Genesis, the biblical patriarch Jared (יֶרֶד‎) was the sixth in the ten pre-flood generations...
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  • to His Young Countrymen. Joseph Allen Publishers. "Sparks, Jared, 1789–1866. Papers of Jared Sparks : an inventory". Harvard University Library. 2005....
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    Edward Everett". Harvard Library. Retrieved January 2, 2024. "Papers of Jared Sparks, 1820-1861, 1866". Harvard Library. Retrieved January 3, 2024. "Papers...
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    May 5, 1819, given at the ordination of the theologian and educator Jared Sparks (1789–1866) as the first minister of the newly organized First Independent...
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    Edited by Jared Sparks. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1836–1840. Franklin, Benjamin. The Life of Benjamin Franklin. Edited by Jared Sparks. Boston:...
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    Geographic Society, 2005. Memoirs of the Life and Travels of John Ledyard, Jared Sparks, 1828. American Traveler: The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the...
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  • baseball players Robert Rolfe and Sam Fuld; educators Claudine Gay, Jared Sparks and Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.; composer Adam Guettel; musician and podcaster...
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  • "Jared Anderson – Top Rank Boxing". Top Rank. Retrieved July 4, 2022. "Boxing record for Jared Anderson". BoxRec. Rafael, Dan (July 11, 2020). "Jared Anderson:...
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    Greek Revival architecture, further notable as the home of historian Jared Sparks. Now owned by Harvard University, it was moved to its present location...
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  • William Ellery Channing, Henry Ware Jr., Andrews Norton, George Bancroft, Jared Sparks, and Edward Everett. In addition to articles on religion it contained...
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    14 Lengel p. 332 Lengel p. 333 Lengel p. 335 Davis p. 21 Davis p. 36 Jared Sparks (ed.), The diplomatic correspondence of the American Revolution, Nathan...
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  • ordained pastor of the First Independent Church in Baltimore, where Jared Sparks had preceded him, and which position he retained till his death. He married...
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  • (1719-1776), Irish stage actor Jamie Sparks (born 1992), British rower Jamie Sparks (singer), Canadian singer Jared Sparks (1789–1866), American historian...
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    Harvard presidents Josiah Quincy, Edward Everett, Jared Sparks, James Walker, and Cornelius Conway Felton each served as members of the Harvard Corporation...
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    In 1819 William Ellery Channing preached the ordination sermon for Jared Sparks in Baltimore, outlining the Unitarian position. The American Unitarian...
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  • the book with Whatley, while Franklin gives full credit to Whatley. Jared Sparks in The Works of Benjamin Franklin 1840, credits Franklin for the notes:...
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  • past winners include (with year of award and professional highlights): Jared Sparks, 1815, historian and president of Harvard Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820 and...
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    Life and Treason of Benedict Arnold, published in 1832 by historian Jared Sparks; it was particularly harsh in showing how Arnold's treacherous character...
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    issued prior to the APS-Yale publication, which includes those of editors Jared Sparks (1836–1840), John Bigelow (1900-1903) and Albert Henry Smyth (1905-1906)...
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  • will of wealthy merchant John McLean. The first McLean Professor was Jared Sparks who held the chair between 1838 and 1849; he was later President of Harvard...
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    guerra dell' Independenza d'America (1809), Tom. II, Lib. 7, quoted in Jared Sparks, The Life of George Washington, Henry Colburn, London (1839), vol. I...
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    Under the Stuarts, London: Routledge Upham, Charles Wentworth (1842), Jared Sparks (ed.), Life of Sir Henry Vane, Fourth Governor of Massachusetts in The...
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    n.d. extracted from The Writings of George Washington, Volume II, by Jared Sparks (Boston: Charles Tappan, 1846), pp. 184–186. Buck, Solon J. "The planting...
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    Records Administration. Sparks, Jared, Life of George Washington, 522–23 [1] Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis' letter written to Jared Sparks, 1833 Meade, Bishop...
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    Washington was strongly pro-British. In 1839, Washington biographer Jared Sparks maintained that Washington's "Farewell Address was printed and published...
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    was George Washington Parke Custis, Martha's grandson. In the 1820s, Jared Sparks interviewed her for his biography of Washington, which she did in exchange...
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  • in this Generation (1675) A Denunciation of War Franklin, Benjamin; Sparks, Jared; Temple, William; Franklin; Storm, G. F.; Andrews, Joseph (1856). The...
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    House nine Harvard presidents lived from 1726 to 1849. In 1849, when Jared Sparks decided to stay in his nearby home, Harvard presidents ceased to live...
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    and she rented rooms on the second floor. Previous boarders included Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, and Joseph Emerson Worcester. It is preserved today...
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