Franklin Bowditch Dexter
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Franklin Bowditch Dexter (September 11, 1842 – August 13, 1920) was an American author, genealogist, librarian, and university administrator affiliated with Yale University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1400145|title=Dexter, Franklin Bowditch (1842–1920), educator, librarian, and historian |work= American National Biography|year=2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1400145|last1=Gale |first1=Robert L. |isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 }}{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalske06dextgoog|title=Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College: May 1745 – May 1763|first=Franklin Bowditch|last=Dexter|date=August 13, 1896|publisher=Holt|via=Internet Archive}} He was a major historian of New Haven, Connecticut and Yale.
Dexter was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1879.{{Cite web|url=https://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistd|title=MemberListD|website=American Antiquarian Society}}
Works
- [https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas/52/ A Sketch of the Life and Writings of John Davenport] (1875)
- The College Hymnal, for Divine Service at Battell Chapel, Yale College (1876)
- [https://archive.org/details/memorandaconcern00dextrich Memoranda concerning Edward Whalley and William Goffe] (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, 1876)
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=B50TAAAAYAAJ The Influence of the English Universities in the Development of New England] (Cambridge: University Press, 1880)
- [https://archive.org/details/newhavenin1784pa00dextiala New Haven in 1784] ([New Haven:] no publisher, [1884])
- The Pilgrim Church and Plymouth Colony (1884)
- Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (New York: Henry Holt and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1886–1912)
- [https://archive.org/details/biogsketchgrad01dextuoft volume one]
- [https://archive.org/details/cu31924092714496 volume two]
- [https://archive.org/details/biographicalsket03dextrich volume three]
- [https://archive.org/details/biographicalsket04dextrich volume four]
- [https://archive.org/details/biographicalsket05dextuoft volume five]
- [https://archive.org/details/biographicalske00dextgoog volume six]
- [https://archive.org/details/estimatesofpopul00dextrich Estimates of Population in the American Colonies, from the Report of the Council of the American Antiquarian Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting held in Worcester, October 21, 1887] (Worcester, Massachusetts: Charles Hamilton, 1887)
- [https://archive.org/details/sketchofhistoryo00dextuoft Sketch of the History of Yale University] (New York: Henry Holt, 1887)
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100388541 Selections from letters received by David Daggett, 1786-1802: Rread at the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society, April 27, 1887]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=eXoWAAAAYAAJ A Catalogue with Descriptive Notices of the Portraits, Busts, etc. Belonging to Yale University] (New Haven: Yale Corporation, 1892)
- [https://archive.org/details/onsomesocialdist00dextuoft On Some Social Distinctions at Harvard and Yale, before the Revolution] (Worcester, Massachusetts: Charles Hamilton, 1894)
- (editor) [https://archive.org/details/diaryofdavidmccl00mclu Diary of David McClure, Doctor of Divinity, 1748–1820] (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1899)
- An Historical Study of the Powers and Duties of the President in Yale College (New Haven: no publisher, 1899)
- (editor) The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles (New York: Scribner's, 1901)
- [https://archive.org/details/diaryezrastiles01stiluoft volume one]
- [https://archive.org/details/diaryezrastiles02stiluoft volume two]
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25079864 The Manuscripts of Jonathan Edwards] (1901)
- Abraham Bishop of Connecticut and His Writings (1905)
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100571060 Early Private Libraries in New England] (1907)
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001975681 Student Life at Yale in the Early Days of Connecticut Hall] (1907)
- [https://archive.org/details/biographicalnoti00dext Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College, including those graduates in Classes later than 1815, who are not Commemorated in the Annual Obituary Records] (New Haven: no publisher, 1913)
- [https://archive.org/details/newhavenoftwohun00dext The New Haven of Two Hundred Years Ago] (1913)
- [https://archive.org/details/historicalcata00dext Historical Catalogue of the Members of the First Church of Christ in New Haven, Connecticut (Center Church) A.D. 1639–1914] (New Haven: no publisher, 1914)
- [https://archive.org/details/removalyalecoll00dextgoog The Removal of Yale College to New Haven] (New Haven: no publisher, 1914)
- Ancient Town Records: New Haven Town Records (New Haven Colony Historical Society)
- 1649–1662 [https://archive.org/details/ancienttownrecor00newh volume one]
- 1662–1684 [https://archive.org/details/ancienttownrecor02newh volume two]
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001261717 Extracts from the itineraries and other miscellanies of Ezra Stiles, D. D., LL. D., 1755-1794, with a selection from his correspondence] (1916)
- [https://archive.org/details/jaredingersollpa00inge Jared Ingersoll Papers] (New Haven: no publisher, 1918)
- [https://archive.org/details/newhavenloyalist00dext New Haven Loyalists] (New Haven: no publisher, 1918)
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001261655 A selection from the miscellaneous historical papers of fifty years] (1918)
- [http://anglicanhistory.org/usa/trinity_newhaven/dexter1918.html The Reverend Harry Croswell, D.D., and His Diary] from Project Canterbury
References
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External links
- [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23620334/franklin-bowditch-dexter Grave] at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, from Find a Grave
- Franklin Bowditch Dexter Papers (MS 712). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
- [https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_1913.686?destination=edan-search/catalog_of_america%3Fpage%3D89%26edan_q%3D%252A%253A%252A%26edan_local%3D1%26edan_fq%255B0%255D%3Ddate%253A%25221910s%2522 Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery] Catalog of American Portraits
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