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718 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. G. E. Marindin, William Smith, LLD, William Wayte) alphabetic letter S
   The Idaean Dactyli, or Fingers from Mount Ida, are attributed sometimes to Ida in Phrygia, sometimes to Ida in Crete; besides possessing skill in magic, they are said to have invented the working of iron. (51.24)

2. James Adam, The Republic of Plato book 3, section 391E
   is Zeus (who was Tantalus' father), and they worship him on the heights of Ida. Tantalus' territory extended to Ida: see Strabo l.c. (21.97)

3. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *l, entry leukhnai/
   ) on Mt.Ida, . (19.45)

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2 from The Works of Christopher Marlowe

1. Christopher Marlowe, Dido, Queen of Carthage act 3, scene 2, line 96
   Venus Sister, I see you savour of my wiles,
   Be it as you will have it for this once,
   Meane time, Ascanius shall be my charge,
   Whom I will beare to Ida in mine armes,
   And couch him in Adonis purple downe.
   (6.21)

2. Christopher Marlowe, Dido, Queen of Carthage act 5, scene 1, line 36
   Hermes If that all glorie hath forsaken thee,
   And thou despise the praise of such attempts:
   Yet thinke upon Ascanius prophesie,
   And yong Iulus more then thousand yeares,
   Whom I have brought from Ida where he slept,
   And bore yong Cupid unto Cypresse Ile.
   (1.74)

6 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter C, entry 4706
   Persian scholar; wife of an army officer; long resident at Peshawur; published ‘Ida Craven,’ a novel, 1876; wrote on Omar Khayyam, 1879; died at Florence. [viii. (3.69)

2. Charles Knight, Guide cards to the antiquities in the British Museum guidecard 18, object 1
   Others again have considered this figure to represent Hercules; not the Theban Hercules, who was not born at the time of the mythological nativity of Minerva, but another, who was born on the Ida of Crete, and who was more ancient even than Jupiter. (3.51)

3. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter B, entry 2488
   [See IDA, d. 559; ADDA, d. 565; ETHELFRID, d. 617; OSWALD, 605? (3.51)

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23 from American Memory: California

1. A Yankee trader in the gold rush; the letters of Franklin A. Buck. Compiled by Katherine A. White page 149
   Ida May I see is another abolition story. (6.37)

2. Sixty years in Southern California, 1853-1913, containing the reminiscences of Harris Newmark. Edited by Maurice H. Newmark; Marco R. Newmark page 473
   Milton Lindley, formerly an Indiana saddle-maker and Treasurer of Los Angeles County in 1879, arrived here in 1875, accompanied by Walter, the physician; Henry, the banker, who settled at Whittier; Albert, an attorney; and Miss Ida B., a teacher. (4.54)

3. Sixty years in Southern California, 1853-1913, containing the reminiscences of Harris Newmark. Edited by Maurice H. Newmark; Marco R. Newmark page 669
   Lindley, Ida B., 473 (4.43)

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153 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Fifty years on the firing line page 30
   The summer previous I had met Jesse Kennedy, a prominent farmer of Ida County, at his home near Ida Grove. (8.19)

2. Petticoat surgeon page 250
   There was a beautiful relation between Mother Howe and her adopted daughter, Ida. One day at the dinner table, Mother Howe started to tell us something, but was stopped imperiously by Dr. Ida. Again Mother Howe made an unsuccessful attempt, but Dr. Ida said, “Mother Howe, I know what you are trying to tell, and I will not allow it. (7.91)

3. Michigan biographies, including Members of Congress, elective state officers, Justices of the Supreme Court, Members of the Michigan Legislature, Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, State Board of Agriculture and State Board of Education page 453
   He was married in 1889 to Ida L. Gray. (6.54)

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11 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. George Johnston, The Poets & poetry of Cecil county, Maryland. Collected and ed. By George Johnston spage 12
   IDA McCORMICK. (5.17)

2. Charles Frederick Stansbury, Lake of the Great Dismal page 57
   ) Northbound: Tug John Taxis, Whitehurst, N. C., to Norfolk; schooner Ida G. Farron, Bloodgood, N. C., to Norfolk, lumber; schooner Wm. Young, Russell, N. C., to Norfolk; schooner R. T. Ellyson, Watkins, N. C., to Norfolk, oysters; tug Helen, Goodwin, N. C., to Philadelphia; barge W. B. Blades, N. C., to Philadelphia, lumber; barge E. E. Dale, N. C., to Philadelphia, lumber; barge J. W. Jannings, N. C., to Philadelphia, lumber; tug Cyrene, Eure, N. C., to Norfolk; barge John Quinn, N. C., to Norfolk, juniper logs; barge Vanslyck, N. C., to Norfolk, juniper logs; tug W. W. Graham, Morrisette, N. C., to Norfolk; schooner Freddie Hamblin, Burriss, N. C., to Washington, D. C., shingles; schooner Maggie Davis, Truitt, N. C., to Norfolk, oysters; schooner Pearl Cullen, Buzzy, N. C., to Norfolk, oysters; schooner Edna A. Brown, Carpenter, N. C., to Norfolk, oysters; schooner M. J. Delan, Munford, N. C., to Norfolk, oysters; schooner Thos. (3.51)

3. Mrs. Marian Campbell Gouverneur, As I remember; recollections of American society during the nineteenth century, by Marian Gouverneur page 412
   Russell, Ida, 266, 267. (3.51)

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2 from Tufts University History

1. Department of Athletics, Athletics Rosters section 85
   Mt. Ida (5.59)

2. Tufts College: a Centennial History section 14
   A course leading to a degree in engineering was established in 1865, the same year that Princess Ida, an operetta of the early days (3.69)