Statistics for occurrence #1 of “William Wells” in chapter 5 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge:

...d by his eldest daughter; the Oliver House was owned by Lowell, and is now occupied by his grandchildren; the Brattle House was occupied at one time by Margaret Fuller; the Ruggles House was owned by William Wells , when Lowell went to his school, and now belongs as part owner to his grandson Williams Wells Newell, founder and editor of the American Folk-Lore journal. it is now somewhat difficult for the passer...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
William Wells 166 4 14 0 0 user votes
William Wells Brown 12 0 0 0 0 user votes
William Wells Newell 2 0 0 0 0 user votes

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