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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 2 2 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 8: Education. (search)
luences of this academy can hardly be over-stated. Uniting extensive literary accomplishments with the highest moral qualifications, these ladies performed their legislative and executive duties with dignity and quietness, and labored to give that instruction which develops all the powers for health, usefulness, and station. They have lived to receive showers of blessings from grateful pupils. Fide et amore. Mr. John Angier (H. C. 1821) opened a boarding-school, for boys and girls, May 1, 1821, and took the same house which Dr. Hosmer had formerly used. Having already acquired a reputation as teacher, and being as highly esteemed as he was well known in Medford, his success came early and copiously. He devoted his whole mind and time to his duties, and had a crowded school as testimony to his fidelity and usefulness. For twenty years his school grew in popularity; and there was general regret when his health compelled him to resign it in 1841. During his teaching, he had
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
6, aged 25, he m. Sarah, dau. of Jacob Rhoades, Apr. 30, 1778. She was b. Dec. 1, 1756, and d. Nov. 6, 1829, aged 72. He d. Feb. 19, 1807, leaving--  6-22Isaac, b. Feb. 3, 1779; m. Hepzibah Shed.  23Sarah, b. Sept. 1780; d. unm. Sept. 15, 1807.  24Mary, b. Jan. 29, 1782; d. unm. July 11, 1805.  25Hannah H., b. Apr. 5, 1784; m. Henry Reed.  26Rebecca, b. Nov. 6, 1786; m. John Burridge, jun.  27Abigail H., b. Nov. 24, 1788; m. Thomas Shed.  28Eliza H., b. Sept. 14, 1791; d. unm. May 1, 1821.  29Harriet, b. Nov. 14, 1794; m. Henry Rogers. 1-13GARDINER Greenleaf, m. Lydia----, and had--  13-30Gardiner, b. May 5, 1789. 1-16Jonathan Greenleaf m. Joanna Manning, May 5, 1778, and had--  16-31Jonathan, b. Feb. 16, 1784.  32Mary Manning, b. Dec. 28, 1786.  33William, b. Oct. 7, 1788.  34Joseph, b. Jan. 31, 1794.  35Sarah, b. Oct. 25, 1797. 6-22Isaac Greenleaf m. Hepzibah Shed, Feb. 18, 1803, who was b. April 6, 1780, and d. Sept. 21, 1827. He had--  22-36Hepzibah
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Scherzer, Karl von 1821- (search)
Scherzer, Karl von 1821- Explorer; born in Vienna, Austria, May 1, 1821; participated in the discussion of social reforms during the revolution; exiled to Italy in 1850; came to the United States in 1852, and explored large parts of North America; sailed around the world in the frigate Novara in 1857-59; and became Austrian consul-general in Genoa in 1884. He was the author of Travels in North America; The republic of Costa Rica; Statistical and commercial part of the Novara expedition, etc.