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ving many dead, wounded, some prisoners, stores, a few pieces of cannon, and other things behind him. General George B. Crittenden is a Kentuckian, about fifty-five years of age. He entered the United States service as brevet Second Lieutenant, Fourth Infantry, July first, 1832; resigned April thirtieth, 1833, was appointed Captain of Mounted Rifles, May twenty-seventh, 1846, and served with much distinction in the Mexican war, and was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Mounted Rifles, December thirtieth, 1856. He is generally considered to be an excellent and reliable officer when free from the influence of drink and gay company. It is said that, previous to his appointment as commander at Beech Grove, he had rendered himself unfit for service by intemperance, and there are many who protest that he was greatly under the influence of liquor during the battle of Mill Spring. This vice is too prevalent among talented men of the South. When this news was brought to Bowling Green, it e
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16: ecclesiastical History. (search)
ed 12 March, 1826. 1826,Rev. Ebenezer Blake. 1827, 1828Rev. Enoch Mudge. Died 2 April, 1850. 1829,Rev. Ephraim Wiley. 1830,Rev. Bartholomew Otheman. 1831,Rev. Ephraim Wiley. 1832,Rev. Leonard B. Griffing. 1833,Rev. George Pickering. Died 8 Dec., 1846. 1834,Rev. James C. Bontecou. 1835,Rev. Edward Otheman. 1836,Rev. Elijah H. Denning. 1837,Rev. Stephen G. Hiler, Jr. 1838, 1839,Rev. Henry B. Skinner. 1840, 1841,Rev. Edmund M. Beebe. 1842, 1843,Rev. Shipley W. Willson. Died 30 Dec., 1856. 1844, 1845,Rev. Samuel A. Cushing. 1846, 1847,Rev. Joseph A. Merrill. Died 22 July, 1849. 1848, 1849,Rev. James Shepard. 1850, 1851,Rev. John W. Merrill, W. U. 1834, D. D. (McK. C.) 1844. 1852, 1853,Rev. William H. Hatch. 1854, 1855,Rev. Converse L. McCurdy. Died 22 Nov. 1876. 1856,Rev. Abraham D. Merrill. 1857, 1858,Rev. George Bowler. 1859, 1860,Rev. Moses A. Howe. Died 27 Jan. 1861. 1861, 1862,Rev. David K. Merrill. 1863,Rev. Samuel Tupper. Died 11 Jan. 1869. 1864, 1
John Pierpont. Rev. Mr. Pierpont was at that time the Unitarian minister in Medford, and he was accustomed to expressing his sentiments forcibly. Medford had a course of Lyceum Lectures in those days and two and a half columns were devoted to an account of Rev. Dr. Adams' Ideal of a Merchant. These were usually in the Town Hall, but on this occasion American Hall was used. A comment was, The hall was well lighted, warmed and very convenient. The Ladies' Fair and Levee, on December 30, 1856, (same evening as the lecture) in the Town Hall, drew together, a highly respectable company. The Methodist ladies were raising money to buy an organ for their church, (beside Gravelly brook then). The Universalist minister (Maxham), and the Orthodox (Marvin), were present and spoke encouraging words. And be it noticed, the levee was opened by singing of hymns and prayer. Their minister was Rev. E. S. Best. Hon. J. M. Usher was there (of course he was) and in his remarks, for he was
is now the oldest member of the New England Conference and was present and participated in the exercises of laying the corner-stone when the Medford church he served fifty years before erected their fourth house of worship in 1905. During his second year at Medford, after some improvements in the second house, efforts were made to procure an organ. The indefatigable Ladies' Aid Society sponsored the enterprise (see Register, Vol. XII, p. 91) by holding a Fair and Levee in Town Hall December 30, 1856, and secured an excellent pipe organ that served till the larger new building was erected in 1873. But one of the witty speakers at the Levee still insisted that the Best organ was at the other end of the meeting house. When, during the Civil war, Mr. Best was stationed at Milford, Mass., an incident occurred which must have been a happy surprise to him: While making a call on one of his aged parishioners, the good lady asked of the country of his birth, and he replied, Yes, I am—o
Brig. Gen. George B. Crittenden, of the Provisional Army of the Confederate States, is a native of Kentucky, and a graduate of West Point of the class of 1832. He was appointed Second Lieutenant 4th infantry in that year, but resigned from the army in the spring of 1833. At the opening of the Mexican war he was appointed Captain of a corps of mounted riflemen, and commissioned on 25th May, 1846. For gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, 20th August, 1847, was brevetted Major; on 30th December, 1856, was raised to the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel. Gen. Crittenden will be remembered as having been in Charleston to attend a court-martial held at Fort Moultrie for the trial of Surgeon B. M. Byrne in the spring of 1859. The distinguished cavalry officer, Col. Charles May, was also one of the Court.