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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mather, Samuel 1705-1785 (search)
Mather, Samuel 1705-1785 Clergyman; born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 30, 1705; graduated at Harvard College in 1723; became colleague pastor of the Old North Church, Boston. Later he left that church with a number of its members and founded a separate congregation in the same city. His publications include Life of cotton Mather; Apology for the liberties of the churches in New England; America known to the Ancients, etc. He died in Boston, Mass., June 27, 1785. Mather, Samuel 1705-1785 Clergyman; born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 30, 1705; graduated at Harvard College in 1723; became colleague pastor of the Old North Church, Boston. Later he left that church with a number of its members and founded a separate congregation in the same city. His publications include Life of cotton Mather; Apology for the liberties of the churches in New England; America known to the Ancients, etc. He died in Boston, Mass., June 27, 1785.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
sted in the Indians, and her works dealing with that subject are A century of Dishonor (1881), and Ramona (1884); other works are Verses by H. H. （1870); Bits of travel (1872); Bits of talk about home matters (1873); Sonnets and Lyrics (1886). Died in San Francisco, Aug. 12, 1885. Knight, Sarah Born in Boston, Mass., April 19, 1666. She was the daughter of Capt. Thomas Kemble and wife of Richard Knight, and taught school in Boston, counting among her pupils Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Mather. Her Journey from Boston to New York in the year 1704,from the original manuscript, including the diary of the Rev. John Buckingham of a journey to Canada in 1710, was published in 1825. Died at Norwich, Conn., Sept. 25, 1727. Lanier, Sidney Born in Macon, Ga., Feb. 3, 1842. He graduated from Oglethorpe College, Midway, Ga., in 1860, and served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He published Tiger-Lilies in 1867, and was after the war a clerk, and principal of an acad
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Charlestown School in the 17th century. (search)
n in Braintree July 14, 1642. He graduated from Harvard College in 1662, the second in his class, and was appointed to, the master's place in the Boston school August 26, 1667. While teaching there, he had among his pupils the celebrated Cotton Mather, and thus ‘had the honor of helping forward that precocious youth, who, in burdensome gratitude, enlivens his Magnalia by references to his old master's poetry.’ After leaving Charlestown, we next find Mr. Thompson teaching in his native townd on the list of those who graduated from Harvard College in 1671. Isaac Foster, also from Charlestown, stood first, and Samuel Sewall (a name distinguished in our Colonial history) came third. The rest of the class, eleven in number, were Samuel Mather, Samuel Danforth, Peter Thacher, William Adams, Thomas Weld, John Bowles, John Norton, and Edward Tylor. In 1680, a year after he entered upon his labors as school teacher, he had fifty-three pupils. His services on Town Hill continued unti