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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 1 1 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1842. (search)
no profession, developed no marked ambition. He was satisfied, perhaps too easily, with the competence and the pleasant surroundings to which he was born; and, retiring after graduation to his native city, he passed twenty years so quietly that his name was hardly mentioned beyond it, save among a small inner circle of his early companions, until the war called him forth for duty and for death. William Logan Rodman was the only son of Benjamin and Susan (Morgan) Rodman, and was born March 7, 1822. He was descended, on the mother's side, from a prominent family in Philadelphia, and on the father's side from a line of worthy ancestors, all members of the Society of Friends, and numbering in their ranks the most influential merchants and ship-owners of Nantucket and New Bedford. Joseph Rotch, his great-great-grandfather, William Rotch, his great-grandfather, Samuel Rodman, his grandfather, were all men of uncommon character and ability, who left a permanent impression on the comm
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
robbery, Apr. 6, 1797 Stephen Smith, on the Common, for arson, Oct. 30, 1797 Samuel Tulley, a pirate, at South Boston, Dec. 10, 1812 Henry Phillips, on the Neck, for murder, Nov. 13, 1817 Roy, and three other pirates, on the Neck, Feb. 8, 1819 Michael Powers, on the Neck, for murder, May 25, 1820 Holmes, and two other pirates, on the Neck, June 25, 1820 Michael Martin, at East Cambridge, for highway robbery, Dec. 20, 1821 Close and Clisby, on the Neck, for murder, Mar. 7, 1822 Samuel Green, on the Neck for Murder, Apr. 25, 1822 Hanged John Holland, rear of the jail, for the murder of a watchman, Mar. 3, 1826 Charles Corliss, in rear of the jail, for piracy, Feb. 1, 1827 John F. Knapp, at Salem, murder of Mr. White, Sep. 29, 1830 Gadette and Colinett, pirates, in rear of the jail, July 1, 1831 Henry Joseph, for murder, in rear of the jail, Dec. 2, 1834 Five Spanish pirates in rear of the jail, June 9, 1835 Ruiz, a Spanish pirate, in