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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 6 2 Browse Search
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 3 1 Browse Search
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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 1: (search)
t, studious, and promising pupil, very fond of reading and of repeating speeches, and am having been uniformly kind to her through life. In his will he remembered her by a life-annuity of $500. who long taught a private school on Beacon Hill, Boston, and who is still living in Hanover at the advanced age of ninety-one years. He was a bright-eyed, obedient, and well-behaved boy, of tall and slender form, and quick of apprehension. He began to ascend the ladder of learning by the study of Perry's Spelling-book and The child's assistant; and, with his twin-sister Matilda, was soon initiated into the elements of arithmetic, grammar, and geography. The Columbian orator of Mr. Caleb Bingham, then a popular school-book in Boston and vicinity, gave him great delight. He early became an excellent reader; and his speech, as might be well inferred from the influences of a home of culture, was naturally correct and easy. The eloquent Dr. James Freeman was his early pastor, and, with other
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 13: (search)
rounded by a dense crowd of people, who rent the air with enthusiastic acclamations. With his widowed mother he appeared at the parlor window, and was again received with cheers of parting, when the multitude retired, and he himself sought that repose which his feeble system, after the demonstrations of the day, demanded. His injuries from the assault of Mr. Brooks were much more serious than he at first anticipated. For several months he remained at home, under the treatment of Dr. Marshall S. Perry, and the unremitting care of his affectionate mother. He found, however, strength to dictate several letters, referring mostly to the interests of the Republican party and of suffering Kansas. On the 17th of November, for instance, he wrote a letter to M. F. Conway, to the effect that State legislatures should contribute to sustain the cause of liberty in Kansas, which, with a letter from Mr. Wilson to the governor of Vermont, was in a great measure instrumental in securing an appr