Statistics for occurrence #1 of “William Wells” in chapter 3 of The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation:

...oys, who were mostly the sons of the aforesaid college worthies, and who went to the private day-school and boarding-school of William Wells, in the rambling old house still occupied by his grandson, William Wells Newell, opposite Elmwood Avenue. I can well remember the wide berth I was accustomed to give, as one of the younger Wells boys, to our late excellent fellow-citizen, Alderman Chapman, the rather aggr...
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William Wells 166 8 14 0 0 user votes
William Wells Brown 12 0 0 0 0 user votes
William Wells Newell 2 2 0 0 0 user votes

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