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	Charlotte Smith - LoveToKnow 1911
		CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806), English novelist and poet, eldest daughter of Nicholas Turner of Stoke House, Surrey, was born in London on the 4th of May 1749.
		She married in 1765 Benjamin Smith, son of a merchant who was a director of the East India Company.
		Charlotte Smith's novels were highly praised by her contemporaries and are still noticeable for their ease and grace of style.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Charlotte_Smith (407 words)

	Bernard Barton - LoveToKnow 1911
		BERNARD BARTON (1784-1849), English poet, was born at Carlisle on the 31st of January 1784.
		Barton is chiefly remembered for his friendship with Charles Lamb, which arose, curiously enough, out of a remonstrance addressed by him to the author of Essays of Elia on the freedom with which the Quakers had been handled in that volume.
		When Barton contemplated resigning his bank clerkship and supporting himself entirely by literature, Lamb strongly dissuaded him.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bernard_Barton (283 words)

	Benjamin Smith Barton Papers , American Philosophical Society
		A physician, natural historian, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) was one of the central figures in Philadelphia's early national scientific establishment.
		Barton's monograph on the "fascinating faculty" of the rattlesnake and his efforts in historical linguistics (New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, 1798) were widely read, and his Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal (1804-1809) was one of the nation's first medical journals and an important outlet for natural historical research.
		Barton, Benjamin Smith, Hints on the etymology of certain English words :and on their affinity to words in the languages of different European, Asiatic, and American (Indian) nations (Philadelphia, 1803).
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/b/barton.htm (2047 words)

	Barton Database - pafg61 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Eliza A. Barton was born on 13 Aug 1816.
		Eliza A. Barton was born on 6 Jun 1827.
		Benjamin Smith Barton [Parents] was born on 10 Feb 1766 in Lancaster,, PA, USA.
	www.bartondatabase.info /bartondat/pafg61.htm (431 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Barton,
		Barton, Benjamin Smith BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH [Barton, Benjamin Smith] 1766-1815, American physician and botanist, b.
		Barton, Elizabeth BARTON, ELIZABETH [Barton, Elizabeth] 1506?-1534, English prophet, called the Maid of Kent or the Nun of Kent.
		She was a domestic servant who, after a period of illness, began (c.1525) to go into trances and to utter prophecies, which were claimed to be of divine origin.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Barton, (606 words)

	Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Barton expressed an interest, were his health sufficient, in accompanying Lewis at least part of the way.
		Barton had the trust of Jefferson, to whom he had dedicated his book on languages, and for whom he had named a plant.
		Barton saw it there, made drawings of it and, perhaps on the presumption that having recognized it as a new genus he could claim the privilege of naming it, did so: Jeffersonia diphylla.
	www.lewis-clark.org /content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=2320 (923 words)

	Slaving in the Garden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Barton was a romantic with grand notions of self importance and accomplishments.
		Barton's goal was to build a huge herbarium of American plants and then produce a new flora of North America.
		Benjamin Smith Barton was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on February 10, 1766, the son of the Reverend Thomas Barton and Ester Rittenhouse Barton.
	www.lewis-clark.org /content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=503 (1044 words)

	February 2-8, 1803
		Benjamin Smith Barton from the University of Pennsylvania Library.
		The first of the tutors to be contacted was Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815), natural scientist, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
		Barton, the nephew of the astronomer and mathematician David Rittenhouse (1732-1796), Philadelphia’s greatest scientist after Franklin, was the author of the first botany text published in America, Elements of Botany (1803).
	www.lclark.edu /org/bicprog/200/020203.html (708 words)

	bartonb10a_8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Benjamin Smith Barton, son of Rev. Thomas and Esther (Rittenhouse) Barton, was born February 10, 1766, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
		Orphaned as a teenager, Barton went to live with an elder brother and became a medical student at the College of Philadelphia under the tutelage of Dr. William Shippen, Jr.
		Barton was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1790.
	www.collphyphil.org /FIND_AID/B/bartonb10a_8.htm (434 words)

	biography of Benjamin Smith Barton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Benjamin Smith Barton was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on 10 February 1766.
		Unfortunately, Barton died unexpectedly at the age of 49 on 19 December 1815.
		Barton only returned three of the volumes, of which there were known to be ten or twelve.
	www.vcdh.virginia.edu /lewisandclark/biddle/biographies_html/barton.html (332 words)

	Thomas Barton
		Barton was graduated at the University of Dublin, and in 1751 settled in Philadelphia and became tutor in the academy, afterward the College of Philadelphia, now University of Pennsylvania.
		On the death of his uncle, Dr. born S. Barton, he became professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, and was for several years professor of materia medica and botany at Jefferson Medical College.
		Barton was a fellow of the College of physicians in Philadelphia, president of the Linnaean society, and a member of the American philosophical society, and other scientific societies.
	famousamericans.net /thomasbarton (1017 words)

	Benjamin Smith ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Benjamin Smith, The Alto Relievo in front of the Shakespeare gallery; represents Shakespeare seated between the Dramatick(sic) muse and the genius of painting, 18th - 19th century
		Benjamin (Benjamin Roubaud), Caricature of Barye, the sculptor (1796 - 1875), 1838
		Smith's passion for paper inspires her creative approaches to printmaking and reinforces the importance of this aspect of her work.
	wwar.com /masters/s/smith-benjamin.html (1580 words)

	L³ - The Lewis And Clark Rediscovery Project
		Benjamin Barton taught Meriwether Lewis much about preserving the flora and fauna specimens Lewis would gather.
		In Lewis, Barton had a student somewhat familiar with the properties of wild plants thanks to the knowledge Lewis had gained from his herbalist mother.
		Barton died in 1815 after years suffering from gout and pulmonary bleeding.
	www.l3-lewisandclark.com /ShowOneObject.asp?SiteID=29&ObjectID=68 (321 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / “…and the mound-builders vanished from the earth”
		Benjamin Smith Barton, a Philadelphia naturalist, suggested in 1787 that they were Viking tombs; for it had been noticed that Norsemen had interred their lords in burial mounds not much different from those in Ohio.
		Barton went on to suggest that after their sojourn in Ohio the Vikings had moved along to Mexico, whose stone pyramids seemed to many like improved versions of the earthworks in the United States.
		Barton’s fanciful notions contrasted with the more conservative ideas of another Philadelphia, the famed botanist William Bartram, who had taken a solitary jaunt through the mound country of the Southeast in 1773–77.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1969/4/1969_4_60.shtml (5315 words)

	Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants
		Benjamin Smith Barton, professor of botany and natural history at the University of Pennsylvania, rose to read a letter he had written to a European botanist.
		Barton confided to his journal that what Jefferson called "one of the most stupendous scenes in nature" did not equal his expectations.
		Barton arrived at the author's house in August, crossing the Rivanna River at the Shadwell ford and noting plentiful pawpaw trees, some castor-bean plants, and "a good deal" of horsemint.
	www.twinleaf.org /articles/jeffersonia.html (2284 words)

	Advisor to Naturalists
		Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815), often considered the first academic botanist in America (and a member of both of the organizations mentioned above), spent a considerable amount of time in Bartram’s garden studying the plants there and consulting with William.
		Benjamin Smith Barton, Elements of Botany, Philadelphia, 1803.
		A definitive biography of Benjamin Smith Barton by Dr. Joseph Ewan of Tulane University is presently in its final stages of completion.
	www.bartramtrail.org /pages/biography/bio8.html (997 words)

	Barton, Benjamin Smith - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH [Barton, Benjamin Smith] 1766-1815, American physician and botanist, b.
		Barton's chief works were Elements of Botany (1803), the first botanical textbook published in the United States, and Collections for an Essay toward a Materia Medica of the United States (1798-1804).
		Football: Barton brace stuns Green; FESTIVAL LEAGUE: Rangers cause big upset.(Sports)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-barton-b1.html (193 words)

	University of Delaware:Benjamin Franklin: Scientist
		Benjamin Franklin's Experiments and Observations is the most important scientific book of eighteenth century America and established Franklin as the first American scientist with an international reputation.
		Benjamin Franklin, although not a serious gardener himself, was influential in the development of horticulture in Philadelphia.
		Benjamin Smith Barton, nephew of the scientist David Rittenhouse, was America's leading academic botanist of the late eighteenth century and author of this standard text on botanical medicine.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/franklin/science.htm (1674 words)

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		Thus, it was to Barton that Jefferson sent his private secretary, Meriwether Lewis, for instructions in botany in May and June of 1803.
		Benjamin Smith Barton was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on 10 February 1766, the son of the Reverend Thomas Barton and Ester Rittenhouse Barton.
		Smith organized Linnaeus' collections, manuscripts, correspondence and library and again made all of it available for critical study by naturalists throughout the world.
	www.life.umd.edu /emeritus/reveal/pbio/LnC/pursh.html (5576 words)

	Yale and Medicine, 1701-1901: Founding of the Medical Institution of Yale College
		His hiring of Benjamin Silliman as professor of chemistry at Yale College in 1802 and his support for Silliman's subsequent training in chemistry and medicine, was a first step creating a medical faculty.
		Nathan Smith received his training in medicine by apprenticeship to a physician in Vermont, by attending Harvard Medical School, and by studies in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London.
		Smith's most important work was his Practical Essay on Typhus [typhoid] Fever in which he gives a clear clinical description of the disease and recommendations for its treatment.
	info.med.yale.edu /library/exhibits/yalemed1/medinstyalecoll.html (2218 words)

	Benchmarks: Peales on Parade - Portraits from the University Collection
		Barton brought Rittenhouse to the attention of William Smith, the first provost of the College of Philadelphia.
		Benjamin Smith Barton (1768-1815) was a graduate of the College of Philadelphia.
		He was appointed professor of natural history and botany in the medical department in 1789, and professor of materia medica (pharmacology) in 1796, before succeeding to the professorship of the theory and practice of medicine in 1813.
	www.upenn.edu /almanac/v43/n08/peales.html (1246 words)

	Richard W. Judd \| A 'Wonderfull Order and Ballance': Natural History and the beginnings of Forest Conservation in ...
		Benjamin Silliman announced that the "study of nature is but the study of the works of the Almighty.
		Harvard naturalist Benjamin Waterhouse explained how significant this interconnectedness was to a generation just beginning to appreciate nature's more subtle influences on society: "Ask the woodsman for what a tree was made—he will tell you to bear nuts; to be cut into boards; to burn, to keep him warm, and to cook his victuals.
		Benjamin Smith Barton noted that elk once frequented the banks of the Susquehanna and recommended laws to "prevent many of our animals from being almost entirely extirpated in a few years, through the whole of that extensive tract of territory within the limits of the United States."
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/eh/11.1/judd.html (10643 words)

	Barton Families (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lineage I families are the predominate group of Barton families in the U.S. The ancestral home is presumed to be in Lancashire, England.
		Lineage III and IV Lineages III and IV are associated with Edward Barton of Maine and are found mostly in New England and with westward migration.
		Lineage V families are the descendents of Rufus Barton of Rhode Island.
	www.bartonsite.org /inc_family_history/inc_family_history.html (1316 words)

	Barton Benjamin Smith 1766 1815 Miscellaneous papers, 1788-1815. AIP International Catalog of Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Barton Benjamin Smith 1766 1815 Miscellaneous papers, 1788-1815.
		Benjamin Smith Barton was a Philadelphia physician and naturalist.
		Forms part of the Benjamin Smith Barton Papers.
	www.aip.org /history/catalog/icos/5517.html (101 words)

	Benjamin Rush — FactMonster.com
		Rush, Benjamin, 1745?–1813, American physician, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b.
		Benjamin RUSH - RUSH, Benjamin (1746—1813) RUSH, Benjamin, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born in Byberry...
		Benjamin Smith Barton - Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766–1815, American physician and botanist, b.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0842693.html (297 words)

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		Encoding of the Barton finding aid was made possible by a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries.
		Thanking Barton for taking care of his brother, Thomas, while he was in Philadelphia and also mentioning Thomas's recent ill health.
		Boyd, the editor of "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson," informed Williams that the letter from Barton to Jefferson dated 18 Jan. 1801 was probably not sent.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/b/barton.xml (2483 words)

	Seeing is Believing
		Benjamin Smith Barton wrote the first original textbook of botany published in the United States, Elements of Botany (Philadelphia, 1803).
		Thomas Jefferson urged Barton to write a natural history of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
		Left unfinished at Barton's death, the work began appearing two years later, and was one of the first botanical works with colored plates to be published in the United States.
	seeing.nypl.org /221Bt.html (164 words)

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