Named Entity Results, Charles Pinckney Sumner

h and intellectual Energy. settlement in America. William and Mary Sumner. Gov. Increase Sumner. Ancestral line of Charles Sumner. Major Job Sumner. Charles Pinckney Sumner. the Birth of Charles Sumner. his Brothers and Sisters. Nothing is more shameful for a man than to found his title to esteem, not on his own merits, born May 5, 1827, and now the wife of John Hastings, M. D., of San Francisco. They have three children,--Alice, Edith, and Julia. Mrs. Relief, widow of Charles Pinckney Sumner, was born Feb. 29, 1785, died of consumption, in Boston, June, 1866, and is buried beside her husband in the family enclosure in Mount Auburn. Charles nimated in speech, and very bright for a person of her age. She early went to live in Boston with her sister Relief, who boarded in the same family with Mr. Charles Pinckney Sumner, where an acquaintance was formed which eventuated in marriage. Her sister Matilda was the second wife of Deacon Galen James of Medford. Miss Hannah R

ere joined by Elizur Wright and Henry Wilson. Sumner came to dine with them, when he was not in Wahis right hand sat Governor Andrew, and either Sumner or Stearns on his left. Doctor Howe and Wilsobosses of that time, but his personal friends, Sumner, Wilson, and Frank Bird himself. In 1872 Em man felt that he could trust. His loyalty to Sumner bordered on veneration, and was the finest traappeared from the club, to the great relief of Sumner and his immediate friends. He had already shothree other candidates in the field; but both Sumner and Wilson brought their influence to bear agaged it in his favor. The difference between Sumner and the administration, in 1872, on the San Do Butler were unable to effect. Frank Bird and Sumner's more independent friends left the club, whic Hotel, and seceded to the Parker House, where Sumner joined them not long afterwards. Senator Wilsof the Bird Club were over. With the death of Sumner, in 1874, its political importance came to an

Sumner. Charles Pinckney Sumner, the father of Charles Sumner, was a man of an essentially veracious nature. He was high sheriff of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, and when there was a criminal to be executed he always performed the office himself. Once when some one inquired why he did not delegate such a disagreeable task to one of his deputies, he is said to have replied, Simply because it is disagreeable. It was this elevated sense of moral responsibility which formed the keynote of Charles Pinckney Sumner, the father of Charles Sumner, was a man of an essentially veracious nature. He was high sheriff of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, and when there was a criminal to be executed he always performed the office himself. Once when some one inquired why he did not delegate such a disagreeable task to one of his deputies, he is said to have replied, Simply because it is disagreeable. It was this elevated sense of moral responsibility which formed the keynote of his son's character. Charles Sumner's mother was Miss Relief Jacobs, a name in which we distinguish at once a mixture of the Hebrew and the Puritan. She belonged in fact to a Christianized Jewish family, but how long since her ancestors became Christianized remains in doubt. Yet it is easy to recognize the Hebrew element in Sumner's nature; the inflexibility of purpose, the absolute self-devotion, and even the prophetic forecast. Sumner was an old Hebrew prophet in the guise of an America

their learning, valor, and public services. Among them, increase Sumner had distinguished himself as one of the greatest judges and governors of the State. When he was inducted into office, his personal appearance was so imposing, as compared with Hancock and Adams— the former a cripple from the gout, the other bowed down with infirmity—that there was an exclamation of satisfaction on all sides—Thank God we have at last got a Governor that can walk! The late Senator's father, Charles Pinckney Sumner, maintained the judicial and scholarly prestige of his ancestry, and his father had done good work in the public cause during Colonial and Revolutionary days. We attach a good deal of importance to these facts; for, however common it may be in Democracies, to speak slightingly of noble descent, yet all men of sense are well aware that nothing more valuable can be inherited than good sound blood—strong, healthy constitutions,—ample and vigorous frames, well put together,—unle

is ninth child, who was the father of Charles Pinckney Sumner, and the grandfather of Charles Sumne the class of 1832. Judge Simmons and Charles Pinckney Sumner were faithful friends, and their famin Centinel, Boston, April 2, 1828, by Charles Pinckney Sumner. References to this company and its mand. General Hull, in a letter to Charles Pinckney Sumner, dated March 12, 1825, says: Your fatsome time afterwards, devolved largely upon Major Sumner. General Washington, Dec. 4, 1783, immediat784, his military career finally closed. Major Sumner was about five feet and ten inches in heighnction then less common than now. Before Major Sumner entered upon his duties as commissioner, hentinel, Sept. 26, 1789 The tombstone of Major Sumner is in the centre of St. Paul's Churchyard, by the Society of the Cincinnati. That of Major Sumner gives his age incorrectly,—it being thirty-eld, the victors yeild. In 1799, Charles Pinckney Sumner sought information as to the tomb fro[4 more...]