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Fiske's house now stands and lived there many years, but afterward moved to what is now called Buckingham Street, where he died.
Another famous Cambridge editor was Theophilus Parsons, Dane Professor of Law at Harvard, but also founder and editor of the ‘United States Free Press,’ and for several years engaged in literary pursuits.
William Lloyd Garrison, of ‘The Liberator,’ lived in Cambridge, on the northwest corner of Broadway and Elm Street, from 1839 to 1843, and did some right good editorial work during that period.
John Gorham Palfrey was one of the editors of the ‘Boston Daily Whig,’ the precursor of the Free Soil press, about 1846, and was one of the editors of ‘The Commonwealth.’
Robert Carter, who was also one of the early editors of ‘The Commonwealth,’ had previously aided James Russell Lowell in editing ‘The Pioneer,’ a short-lived magazine.
And Lowell himself in 1848 was ‘corresponding editor’ of the ‘Anti-Slavery Standard,’ editorial correspondent of the ‘London Daily News,’ and later, in 1863, was joint editor, with Professor Charles Eliot Norton, of the ‘North American Review.’
Another of the ‘Abolition editors’ was Rev. J. S. Lovejoy of Cambridgeport, of ‘The Emancipator;’ while Rev. Thomas Whittemore of this town was editor of ‘The Universalist Magazine’ and of ‘The Trumpet.’
But the list of Cambridge men who have been prominently known as journalists and editors and writers for magazines strings out to a portentous length.
Among many others there are Francis Ellingwood Abbott, Rev. Edward Abbott, Professor Charles F. Dunbar, Mr. Joseph Henry Allen, Francis Foxcroft, Professors Francis Bowen, Charles Eliot Norton, and Andrews Norton, Rev. William Ware, William Brewster, William D. Howells, Samuel H. Scudder, Horace E. Scudder, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who so gracefully links the younger and older generation of Cambridge writers.
Yet with all this roll of Cambridge men famous in this sphere of work it remained for an obscure stranger to make the first venture in local journalism in our city.
From 1842 until 1845 the residents of Old Cambridge were earnestly striving, both in town meeting and in the legislature, to be set off from the Port and East Cambridge as a separate town under the name
Cambridge, 1896.
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