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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1837. (search)
ing his college eccentricities when I was a boy in Cambridge, and was largely occupied, like most Cambridge boys, in studying human nature as exhibited among the undergraduates. Long after, I was associated with him in post-graduate studies at the same university, where he lingered long; and I have known him ever since. And any acquaintance with him came near to intimacy, because of his open and eager nature and his warmth of heart. James Richardson was born in Dedham, Massachusetts, May 25, 1817. His mother's maiden name was Sarah Elizabeth Richards. His father was James Richardson, of Dedham, a man who had been a good deal in public life, and was in his old age quite an interesting relic of the stern Federalist days. I remember his fighting his battles over by the fireside, and telling me anecdotes of my grandfather, a warm Federalist like himself. The old man and his son seemed as intimate with each other as two school-boys, and it was easy to see whence the latter had inh
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, chapter 1 (search)
at the age of fifty-four years. The widow lived on Bow Street for many years. The last years of her life were passed in the home of her son, James A. Wood, of Cambridge. Her daughter, Miss Sarah Bolles Wood, was for thirty years a clerk at the Registry of Deeds. She was of a sweet and retiring disposition, much interested in church work. James A. Wood married Caroline A. Blaisdell April 19, 1870. Two of their four children live with them at Cambridge. Nathaniel Tufts Stone married May 25, 1817, Sarah Rand, daughter of Thomas Rand, who lived under the old elm tree on Somerville Avenue, near the foot of Central Street. They lived for a time in the old house which was moved before Pythian Block was built, before mentioned. Nathaniel died in 1822 of consumption. A child was born the following year, and named for his father. Of the three born previously, the eldest, Charles Henry, lived with an uncle and aunt in Cambridge, and was drowned in the Charles River at the age of fourte
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
s. of John (2) [b. 25 July, 1784—Wyman ], m. Betsey Homer, 14 Apr. 1813. He resided in Charlestown, and had John Bonnar, bap. 2 Nov. 1814; Thomas Oliver, bap. 25 May, 1817; Jacob Homer, bap. 15 Nov. 1818; Elizabeth Wellington, bap. 1 Oct. 1820; Adeline Matilda, bap. 11 Aug. 1822; Maria Louisa, bap. 27 June, 1824. A child of Thomg. 1812—Frances m. Jesse Buckman, 24 May, 1827. Had also William, bap. 6 June, 1813; Elmira, bap. 21 May, 1815, m. Benjamin Poland, 1 Sept. 1836; Samuel, bap. 25 May, 1817; Eliza, bap. 6 June, 1819; James, bap. 5 Nov. 1820; Rebecca, bap. 4 May, 1823; Harriet, bap. 9 July, 1825. （William Prentiss, the father, d. 30 Dec. 1845, a. e, 1815, m. B. F. Cutter (husband of her sister Esther) 13 Mar. 1831, was of Pelham, N. H., in 1842—see Cutter (par. 77）—and d. 9 Jan. 1844; Lydia Adams, bap. 25 May, 1817, d. 27 Apr. 1827, a. 10; Benjamin Franklin, bap. 6 June, 1819, m. Cynthia Cutter, intention 30 Apr. 1843; Maria Louisa, bap. 29 Dec. 1822, m. Cyrus H. Cutt