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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clark, Alvan 1804- (search)
Clark, Alvan 1804- Optician; born at Ashfield, Mass., March 8, 1804, a descendant of the captain of the Mayflower. He showed a genius for art in early youth, and became an engraver and portrait-painter. In 1835 he relinquished engraving and set up a studio for painting in Boston. He was over forty years of age before he became practically interested in telescopemaking. Owing to the extraordinary acuteness of his vision, his touch, and his unlimited patience, he was specially skilful in grinding lenses of enormous size. Just before the Civil War he produced object-glasses equal, if not superior, to any ever made. One, 18 inches in diameter, then the largest ever made, went to Chicago. It revealed twenty stars, hitherto unseen by mortal eyes, in the nebula of Orion. With his sons, Mr. Clark established a manufactory of telescopes at Cambridge. They have produced some of extraordinary power. In 1883 they completed a telescope for the Russian government which had a clear ap
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hall, Granville Stanley 1845- (search)
Hall, Granville Stanley 1845- Educator; born in Ashfield, Mass., May 5, 1845; graduated at Williams College in 1867. He served as professor of psychology in Antioch College, Ohio, in 1872-76. Later he studied in Bonn, Leipsic, Heidelberg, and Berlin. Returning, he lectured on psychology in Harvard University and Williams College in 1880-81. In 1881 he became Professor of Psychology in Johns Hopkins University, and remained there till 1888, when he accepted the presidency, with the chair of psychology, of Clark University. He is author of Aspects of German culture; Hints toward a select and descriptive bibliography of education (with John M. Mansfield), etc. In 1900 he was editor of The American journal of psychology and The Pedagogical Seminary.
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 7: Franklin County. (search)
h, was $155,457.38, making the aggregate $527,526.90. The following is the war record of each town in the county:— Ashfield Incorporated June 21, 1765. Population in 1860, 1,302; in 1865, 1,221. Valuation in 1860, $606,201; in 1865, $854,7ng, to act upon matters relating to the war, was held on the 6th of May, at which it was voted to pay all inhabitants of Ashfield who have enlisted, or who shall thereafter enlist, to the number of fifteen, twenty-six dollars a month while in the milpurposes. 1866. March 5th, Six hundred and fifty dollars were appropriated to erect a monument in honor of the men of Ashfield who had sacrificed their lives to sustain the Government against the slave-holders' Rebellion. Ashfield furnished oneAshfield furnished one hundred and twenty-four men for the war, which was a surplus of sixteen over and above all demands. One was a commissioned officer. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Index. (search)
Index. A. Abington 536 Acton 367 Acushnet 116 Adams 60 Agawam 294 Alford 62 Amesbury 172 Amherst 331 Andover 175 Arlington (see West Cambridge) 467 Ashburnham 603 Ashby 369 Ashfield 254 Ashland 371 Athol 604 Attleborough 118 Auburn 606 B. Barnstable 27 Barre 607 Becket 65 Bedford 372 Belchertown 332 Bellingham 482 Belmont 373 Berkley 122 Berlin 609 Bernardston 256 Beverly 177 Billerica 375 Blackstone 611 Blandford 296 Bolton 613 Boston 582 Boxborough 377 Boxford 180 Boylston 616 Bradford 182 Braintree 483 Brewster 31 Bridgewater 538 Brighton 378 Brimfield 298 Brookfield 616 Brookline 485 Buckland 267 Burlington 381 C. Cambridge 382 Canton 490 Carlisle 391 Carver 540 Charlestown 393 Charlemont 259 Charlton 618 Chatham 33 Chelmsford 399 Chelsea 591 Ches
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
telescope, we find it to commence with so small a matter as the accidental breaking of a dinner-bell, in the year 1843, at the Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. One of the students, George B. Clark by name, gathered up the fragments of the bell, took them to his home in Cambridgeport, melted them, and cast them into a disk. His father, Alvan Clark, assisted him, and the combined skill of father and son produced a five-inch reflecting telescope. Alvan Clark, the father, was born in Ashfield, Mass., in 1804, and was at this time a portrait painter; he had decided mechanical tastes, and at one time had worked as a fine-line engraver. Taking up his new work with ardor, he spent several years making glasses of gradually increasing size. The first recognition of his genius came from England. The Rev. W. R. Dawes, a leading amateur astronomer, gave him an order for a glass, which was immediately followed by an order for a second one. Mr. Clark commenced the construction of a te
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, X. Charles Eliot Norton (search)
nshine over Shady Hill. The reference to the combined manly and womanly qualities of Norton spoke for itself, and won applause even before the place of residence was uttered; and I received from Norton this recognition of the little tribute:-- Ashfield, 2 July, 1904. My dear Higginson,--Your friendly words about me in your Phi Beta poem give me so much pleasure that I cannot refrain from thanking you for them. I care for them specially as a memorial of our hereditary friendship. They brin singular felicity which characterizes him, says of Norton: He has been an epitome of the world's best thought brought to our own doors and opened for our daily use. Edith Wharton with equal felicity writes from Norton's well-known dwelling at Ashfield, whose very name, High Pasture, gives a signal for what follows: Come up — come up; in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the breeze Has stretched the thwart boughs bare to meet the
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 56: San Domingo again.—the senator's first speech.—return of the angina pectoris.—Fish's insult in the Motley Papers.— the senator's removal from the foreign relations committee.—pretexts for the remioval.—second speech against the San Domingo scheme.—the treaty of Washington.—Sumner and Wilson against Butler for governor.—1870-1871. (search)
iples of international law. Sumner lingered in Washington (the Senate adjourning May 27) till the second week of August. He passed his time in studies, relieving them by afternoon drives, during which George William Curtis, then in Washington as chairman of the civil service commission, was often his companion, and they ended the day by dining at the senator's house. Mr. Curtis was a stanch supporter of the President, though not agreeing with his San Domingo scheme. He wrote from Ashfield, Mass., July 28: My summer days in Washington were a delightful episode in my life. Our long talks, our drives, our dinners, our differences, our debates, linger happily in my memory, my only regret being that I could not quite bring you to see the truth as it really is. Sumner on his way from Washington stopped at Philadelphia to call upon Mr. Forney and Thomas Fitzgerald, Proprietor and editor of the Philadelphia Item. He died in 1891 at the age of seventy-one. and in New York, wher
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 2 (search)
, 1864. Brevet Maj. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Mustered out, Jan. 7, 1866. Died, June 17, 1882. Chickering, Thomas Edward. Born at Boston, Mass., Oct. 22, 1864. Colonel, 41st Mass. Infantry, afterward 31 Mass. Cavalry, Sept. 15, 1862. On duty at New Orleans, Dec., 1862. Military Governor of Opelousas, Apr., 1863. Mustered out, Sept. 1, 1864. Brevet Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Died at Boston, Feb. 14, 1871. Clary, Robert Emmet. Born at Ashfield, Mass., Mar. 21, 1805. Cadet, U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1823, to July 1, 1828. Brevet Second Lieutenant, U. S. Infantry, and Second Lieutenant, 5th U. S. Infantry, July 1, 1828. First Lieutenant, Apr. 1, 1836. Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, July 7, 1838. Captain, Apr. 3, 1839, to June 18, 1846. Major, staff, Quartermaster, May 17, 1861, to Aug. 4, 1861. Chief Quartermaster, department of West Virginia, Nov., 1861, to July, 1862, and of the Army of Virginia, July to Oct., 1862
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, XIV. Massachusetts women in the civil war. (search)
at north-western sanitary fair in Chicago, which yielded nearly $100,000 for the association; and it was she who obtained from President Lincoln the original draft of his Emancipation Proclamation, which was sold for $3,000 at this fair. T. W. H. Names of cities and towns of Massachusetts where soldiers' aid societies were organized that Contributed to the Sanitary Commission. Abington. Abington Centre. Acton. Amesbury. Andover. Arlington. Ashburnham. Ashby. Ashfield. Ashland. Assabet. Assonet. Athol. Athol Depot. Attleborough. Auburndale. Baldwinsville. Barnstable. Barre. Bellingham. Belmont. Belvedere. Berkley. Berlin. Bernardston. Beverly. Billerica. Blackstone. Bolton. Boston. Boylston. Braintree. Brewster. Bridgewater. Brighton. Brimfield. Brookfield. Brookline. Burlington. Cambridge. Cambridgeport. Canton. Carver. Centre Northbridge. Centrevil