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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 1 1 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 8: Education. (search)
rother. He was a good workman, a steady young man, and promised to be an able editor. After the death of Ebenezer, his brother Samuel removed to Boston, and remained there till 1781, when he returned to Salem, and, on Thursday, Oct. 17, 1781, published the Salem Gazette. The last sheet of this paper which he issued was on Thursday, Nov. 22, 1785. After this, he removed to Boston; and on Monday, Nov. 26, of that month, he issued the first sheet of the Massachusetts Gazette. He died Oct. 30, 1807, aged sixty-seven. He was an able writer, and an impartial editor; a very industrious man, and a friendly neighbor; a true American patriot, and a humble, pious Christian. Rev. John Pierpont. The Portrait, a Political Poem1812 Airs of Palestine, a Religious Poem1816 Sermon, What think ye of Christ? 1823 Sermon, Knowledge is power, --Annual Fast1827 Sermon occasioned by the Death, at Sea, of Rev. Dr. Holley, his immediate Predecessor1827 Sermon before the Ancient and Hono
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hall, Samuel 1740-1807 (search)
Hall, Samuel 1740-1807 Printer; born in Medford, Mass., Nov. 2, 1740; was a partner of the widow of James Franklin in 1761-68, in which year he published the Essex gazette in Salem, Mass. He removed to Cambridge in 1775 and published the New England chronicle, and subsequently the Massachusetts gazette. He died in Boston, Mass., Oct. 30, 1807.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wadsworth, James Samuel 1807- (search)
Wadsworth, James Samuel 1807- Military officer; born in Geneseo, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1807; educated at Harvard and Yale colleges; studied law with Daniel Webster; and was admitted to the bar in 1833, but never practised, having sufficient employment in the management of a large patrimonial estate. He was a member of the peace convention in 1861, and was one of the first to offer his services to the government when the Civil War broke out. When communication between Washington and Philadelphia was cut off in April, 1861, he chartered a vessel and filled it with supplies, with which he sailed for Annapolis with timely relief for Union soldiers there. In June he was volunteer aide on General McDowell's staff, and was noted for bravery in the battle of Bull Run. In August he was made brigadier-general of volunteers, and in March, 1862, military governor of the District of Columbia. In that year he was Republican candidate for governor of New York, but was defeated by Horatio Seymour
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1828. (search)
for the Union. They were brave, generous, hopeful, and constant; while some, to whom they had a right to look for counsel and example, were cowardly, despondent, unstable, and selfish. An intelligent foreigner declared with great truth that General Wadsworth was a noble incarnation of the American people. He certainly displayed throughout the same earnest, self-sacrificing, undismayed spirit which they collectively manifested. James Samuel Wadsworth was born at Geneseo, New York, October 30, 1807. He was the eldest son of James Wadsworth, who had emigrated from Durham, in Connecticut, and whose family was among the most ancient and respectable in that State. It is said that one of his ancestors was that sturdy Puritan, Joseph Wadsworth, the captain of train-bands who concealed in the famous oak at Hartford, in defiance of the authority of the tyrant Andros, the precious charter which Charles II. had given to the Colony; and who afterwards, when another intruding governor, Col