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| Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 22 | 22 | Browse | Search |
| Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 20 | 20 | Browse | Search |
| Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) | 12 | 12 | Browse | Search |
| M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background | 10 | 10 | Browse | Search |
| J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary | 7 | 7 | Browse | Search |
| Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. | 6 | 6 | Browse | Search |
| Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White) | 5 | 5 | Browse | Search |
| Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Appian, The Foreign Wars (ed. Horace White) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10.. You can also browse the collection for 1600 AD or search for 1600 AD in all documents.
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Charles Cummings.
June 7, 1817—February 28, 1907.
Another member of our Historical Society, a beloved and honored citizen of Medford, has gone out from our midst, to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade.
Mr. Charles Cummings, was born in Hollis, N. H., June 7, 1817.
He was the eighth of ten children of Thomas Cummings, who was of the eighth generation from Deacon Isaac Cummings, who, born about the year 1600, came to America on the ship Sarah Ann, somewhere about 1630, settling in Topsfield, Mass. The intervening links between this ancestor and his father, were John, John, Samuel, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas.
His early instruction must have been obtained in the schools of his native town, for among his cherished possessions is an old paper covered writing book, bearing at the bottom of several of its pages, in very immature chirography, these words,—Hollis, January, 1828.
At the age of fourteen, he became clerk in the store of Col. D. M. G. Mean