Henry W. Blair's Campaign to Reform America: From the Civil War to the U.S. Senate

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201 Notes Introduction 1. Henry Adams, Democracy: An American Novel (New York: New American Library, 1961), 90. 2. Matthew Josephson, The Politicos: 1865–1896 (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1938); William F. Gillette, Retreat from Reconstruction: 1869–1879 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979). 3. John G. Sproat, “The Best Men”: Liberal Reformers in the Gilded Age (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965), 70–93, 112–41; John M. Dobson, Politics in the Gilded Age: A New Perspective on Reform (New York: Praeger, 1972), 108–20, 161–70. 4. Ari Hoogenboom, Outlawing the Spoils: A History of the Civil Service Reform Movement, 1865–1883 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961), 252–67; Gabriel Kolko, Railroads and Regulation, 1877–1916 (New York: Norton, 1970), 45–83. 5. Richard E. Welch, George Frisbee Hoar and the Half-Breed Republicans (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), 99–168. 6. Daniel W. Rowe, “American Victorianism as a Culture,” American Quarterly 27 (December 1975): 515–17. 7. Ibid., 522–27. 8. Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970). 9. Lawrence A. Cremin, ed., The Republic and the School: Horace Mann on the Education of Free Men (New York: Columbia University Teachers College Bureau of Publications, 1957), 91. 10. Ferenc M. Szasz, “Daniel Webster—Architect of America’s ‘Civil Religion ,’” Historical New Hampshire 34 (Fall–Winter 1979): 223–43. 11. See Henry W. Blair, The Temperance Movement; or, The Conflict between Man and Alcohol (Boston: William B. Smythe, 1888), 372–96. 1. Early Years 1. Alice Felt Tyler, Freedom’s Ferment: Phases of American Social History from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Civil War (New York: Harper & Bros., 1952), 70–78. 202 Notes to Pages 7–12 2. This account was related to me as part of the family’s oral history by Giles Low II, a grandnephew of Henry Blair’s, in June 1980. 3. Timothy L. Smith, Revivalism and Social Reform: American Protestantism on the Eve of the Civil War (New York: Harper & Row, 1957), 114–34; Charles W. Kern, God, Grace, and Granite: The History of Methodism in New Hampshire, 1768–1988 (New York: Phoenix, 1988). 4. Stephen J. Stein, The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003). 5. Newell G. Bringhurst, Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier (Boston: Little, Brown, 1986), 20–26; Claudia Lauper Bushman and Richard Lyman Bushman, Building the Kingdom: A History of the Mormons in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001); Works Progress Administration (WPA), New Hampshire: A Guide to the Granite State (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938), 219. 6. George Wallingford, John Humphrey Noyes, the Putney Community (n.p., 1931). 7. WPA, New Hampshire, 408. 8. Emily W. Leavitt, The Blair Family of New England (Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1900), 22–23, 151–55. 9. Peter Blair et al., Agreement, Campton Congregationa1 Church Records, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord. 10. Quincy Blakely, A Historical Discourse Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Congregational Church in Campton, N.H., October 20, 1874 (Boston : Alfred Mudge & Son, 1876), 21. 11. Leavitt, Blair Family, 155–56; Eben Little, Davy Baker, and Jacob Giddings , Statement, December 11, 1826, Henry William Blair Papers, New Hampshire Historica1 Society; Blakely, Historical Discourse, 65. 12. Blakely, Historical Discourse, 65; P. C. Headley, Public Men of Today (Hartford: S. S. Scranton, 1882), 94. 13. Henry W. Blair to Blanche L. Baker, April 6, 1911, Blair Papers. 14. Ibid. 15. Ibid. 16. Henry W. Blair, “Memoir of Gen. John Leverett Thompson,” Grafton and Coos Bar Association Proceedings 3 (1895–1898): 156. 17. Henry W. Blair to Blanche L. Baker, April 6, 1911, Blair Papers. 18. Ibid. 19. Ibid. 20. Henry W. Blair, Memorandum, April 15, 1914, Blair Papers. 21. Eliza N. Blair, ’Lisbeth Wilson: A Daughter of New Hampshire Hills (Boston : Lee & Shepard, 1895), 95–108. 22. James O. Lyford, Life of Edward H. Rollins (Boston: Dana Estes, 1906), 310. 203 Notes to Pages 12–17 23. Henry W. Blair, Memorandum, April 15, 1914, Blair Papers. 24. Henry W. Blair to Charles McGregor, June 19, 1899, in Charles McGregor , History of the Fifteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers (Concord, NH: Fifteenth Regiment Association, 1900), 124; “Hon. Henry William Blair,” Granite Monthly 6 (April 1883): 194. 25. Blair to McGregor, June 19, 1899, in McGregor, Fifteenth Regiment, 124. 26. Henry W...