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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 0 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)
liam H. Furness1820 Edward B. Hall1820 George B. Osborn1820 John Angier1821 Ward C. Brooks1822 Caleb Stetson1822 Charles Angier1827 Elijah N. Train1827 John James Gilchrist1828 Joseph Angier1829 Charles V. Bemis1835 George Clisby1836 Thomas S. Harlow1836 Thompson Kidder1836 Andrew D. Blanchard1842 Horace D. Train1842 Benjamin L. Swan1844 Hosea Ballou, 2d1844 Timothy Bigelow1845 Sanford B. Perry1845 James A. Hervey1849 Albert F. Sawyer1849 Thomas Meriam Stetson1849 George D. Porter1851 Peter C. Brooks1852 Gorham Train1852 Samuel C. Lawrence1855 Medford once had eight under-graduates, at the same time, in Harvard College. Physicians. For many years the inhabitants of Medford employed the physicians of the neighboring towns; and there was small need of medicine where all had simple diet, fresh air, and moderate labor. As early as 1720, two doctors appear in the town records,--Dr. Oliver Noyce and Dr. Ebenezer Nutting. The first died in 1721; and the
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1862. (search)
in, now Professor of Greek in Harvard College. On the departure of Mr. Goodwin for Europe in the summer of 1853, Henry was placed under the care of the late George D. Porter, and afterwards of Sidney Willard, who fell at Fredericksburg as Major of the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers. Mr. Willard was of the greatest service ere the army had lain the month following the retreat across the Peninsula. The regiment belonged to what was known as the Regular Division, or Sykes's division, Porter's corps. There was a great contrast between the soldiers who had served through the campaign and the men who had just come out; and our young captain was at firsambulance; but he resumed the march the next morning; and never, during the long campaign that followed, was he absent an hour from his company. At Newport News, Porter's corps embarked in transports for Aquia Creek; thence it marched to Falmouth; then followed the famous march from that place to join Pope's army, the disastrous
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1863. (search)
call for soldiers, he again appealed to his parents for permission to offer his services to his country, and they did not feel at liberty to withhold their consent. In October, 1861, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Twenty-second Massachusetts Volunteers, which was then raising by Senator Wilson. He left Boston with the regiment, and proceeded to Washington, where his captain was transferred to General Butler's department in Louisiana, and his first lieutenant placed on General Porter's staff. He was thus left in command of his company, and being the only commissioned officer, his duties were exceedingly arduous. For three months he devoted himself to them so faithfully that, although stationed within seven miles of Washington, where some of his immediate family were spending a part of the winter, he visited the city only twice, and then in the performance of his official duties. Early in the spring of 1862 the Army of the Potomac was suddenly transferred to the
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Appendix. (search)
July 3d, 1863. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Cambridge: Privately Printed. 1863. 8vo. pp. 32. Newcomb (H. U. 1860). Waiting for Daybreak. A Discourse at the Funeral of Lieutenant Edgar M. Newcomb of the Massachusetts 19th Regiment, who died December 20, 1862, of wounds received at Fredericksburg. Preached in Park Street Church, December 27, by Rev. J. O. Means, Minister of Vine Street Church, Roxbury. Boston: Printed by Alfred Mudge & Son, 34 School Street. 1863. 12mo. Porter (H. U. 1845). (See Wadsworth.) Ripley (H. U. 1846). Proceedings of the Class of 1846 of Harvard College, August 12, 1863, on the Death of Lieutenant Ezra Ripley. Boston: Printed for the Class, by John Wilson and Son. 1863. 8vo. pp. 16. Spurr (H. U. 1858). In Memoriam. A Discourse preached in Worcester, Oct. 5, 1862, on Lieut. Thomas Jefferson Spurr, Fifteenth Massachusetts Volunteers, who, mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam, died in Hagerstown, Sept. 27th following. B
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9., Porter family record. (search)
in Medford. George Washington; b. in Medford, Jan. 26, 1801; d. Dec. 2, 1860, in Medford. Augusta; b. in Medford, March 1, 1803; m. James T. Woodbury, May 31, 1827. Settled in Bath, N. H. Jonathan Porter;3 m. Catherine Gray of Medford, July 22, 1823. Settled in Boston, but returned to Medford. Children. Mary Gray; b. in Boston, May 1, 1824. Anna Gray; b. in Medford, Sept. 25, 1825; d. May 20, 1851. George Doane; b. in Boston, June 20, 1831; and d. Nov. 25, 1861. George D. Porter4; m. Lucretia E. Holland of Boston, Aug. 8, 1860. Child. George Jonathan Porter;5 b. in Medford, April 21, 1861; m. Julia Marvin of Boston, June 6, 1894. Children. Catherine Gray; b. July 18, 1897. Reginald; b. May 22, 1905. Henry Porter;3 m. 1st, Susan S. Tidd, May 13, 1824. 2d, Adeline S. Child, May 16, 1855. Children. Susan Emily; bap. June 19, 1828; m. Thomas A. Cunningham; and d. in Medford, March 15, 1902. Theodore Child; b. in Medford, Jan. 20, 1860; m. 1st,