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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 10 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. 6 0 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 11., Galen James. (search)
only two of whom lived to maturity—Horace and Matilda Turner. Mrs. James died December 13, 1831, and Mr. James married, second, Amanda Jacobs, daughter of David Jacobs, April 14, 1833. She had no children. The first Mrs. James was only thirty-four years old when she died, and we know very little about her except the influence of her Christian character upon her children. It is a family tradition that Miss Jacobs declared that she never would be a step-mother to anybody's children, but when her suitor came rowing down the river and asked her to come up to Medford and be a mother to his two, she did not say him nay. She was a cousin of Mary Rand Taired sight, but she put her own ailments in the background and interested herself in the cares of her household and the welfare of those about her. A sister of Miss Jacobs was the mother of Hon. Charles Sumner. The son, Horace James, was educated at Andover and Yale, became a clergyman and was settled at Wrentham, Worcester and