Statistics for occurrence #1 of “William Wells” in chapter 7 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies:

...enant-Colonel December 4, 1862; killed at Port Hudson, La., May 27, 1863. the many Boston and Cambridge boys who met thirty years ago at the boarding-school of that fine old-fashioned Englishman, William Wells , in the near neighborhood of Harvard University, can hardly have forgotten one schoolmate who came among us from New Bedford, in the year 1836. He was a large, heavy, rather unwieldy boy, of great ...
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William Wells 166 19 14 1 0 user votes
William Wells Brown 12 0 0 0 0 user votes
William Wells Newell 2 0 0 0 0 user votes

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