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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 1 1 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oklahoma, (search)
organized in Kansas the Oklahoma Town Company and the Southwest Colony —with twenty-five men, enter the Territory and begin the settlement of the town of Ewing, but within three weeks they are arrested by United States troops and imprisoned......1880 Payne enters Oklahoma with a colony of 600 men, women, and children, and founds the town of Rock Falls......May, 1884 Under proclamation by President Arthur, July 1, the settlement at Rock Falls is broken up by United States troops......August, 1884 Many armed men under W. L. Couch encamp at Stillwater on the Cimmaron River and defy the military......December, 1884 Couch and his forces surrender to the United States troops, and are marched across the Kansas line and arrested under federal warrants......Jan. 27, 1885 Inhabitants of No Man's Land organize the Territory of Cimmaron, not recognized by Congress......1886 Delegates of Creek nation meet in Washington Jan. 19, and cede the western half of their domain for $2,280
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 13: closing years (search)
s occasion by men only, while the far more conservative Holmes saw before him a brilliant gathering of both men and women. I think it was the general agreement that the second celebration was even more successful than the first. Whittier of course made no speech on this later occasion, but he sent to the New York Critic on a subsequent birthday of his old friend, a summary of his qualities that was better than a speech. It is as follows:-- To the editor of the New York Critic. 8th mo., 1884. Poet, essayist, novelist, humourist, scientist, ripe scholar, and wise philosopher, if Dr. Holmes does not at the present time hold in popular estimation the first place in American literature, his rare versatility is the cause. In view of the inimitable prose-writer, we forget the poet; in our admiration of his melodious verse, we lose sight of Elsie Venner and The Autocrat of the breakfast-table. We laugh over his wit and humour, until, to use his own words,-- We suspect the
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., The Tufts family residences. (search)
produced the proof of their statements. See register, Vol. VII, p. 53. Those facts, just alluded to, when first read in the Society rooms, were not enthusiastically received, so contrary were they to the published statement of fifty years before, and we recall the statement of one at our side, It's too bad; better have let it been as it was. It was a pleasant myth. The oldest house in America, and such was the caption of an article in Carpentry and Building, published in New York, August, 1884. The wood-cut engravings that illustrate it show the front and easterly end of the house as it then was, an interior view of fireplace and window, and six detail drawings of construction, all from sketches made on the spot by our own artist. These and the technical part of the text are highly interesting and instructive. The historical part follows in its detail Mr. Brooks' history. A correspondent in Medford directed attention to it, and in another column we find the following:—
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Shepherd Brooks. (search)
became the wife of Hon. Edward Everett, and Abigail Brown Brooks the wife of Hon. Charles Francis Adams, son of President John Quincy Adams. Gorham Brooks of Medford, son of Peter Chardon Brooks, was born at Medford 10 February 1795, entered Harvard College, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1814 and that of Master of Arts three years later, and died 10 September 1855. He married, 20 April 1829, Ellen Shepherd, who was born in Louisiana 22 August 1809 and died II August 1884, daughter of Resin Davis and Lucy (Gorham) Shepherd. Their only daughter died in infancy; but their eldest son, Peter Chardon Brooks, A. B. (Harvard, 1852), A. M. (ib., 1871), who was born at Watertown 8 May 1831 and died in Boston 27 January 1920, married, 4 October 1866, Sarah Lawrence, daughter of Amos Adams Lawrence, A. B. (Harvard, 1835), A. M. (ib., 1838), and was a well-known and public-spirited resident of Boston and Medford, while their younger son, Shepherd Brooks, is the subje
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
t for it is a building of unusual interest, having had apparently a triple casement window on each side of the front door. I suppose I could not see with the eyes of an architect, but I could see no trace of the triple casement windows, but all of us who love Medford and appreciate its old houses must feel that it would be a certain sacrilege to change the form or construction of the old brick house. It is singular that Mr. Warren, if he contemplates changing the building into a two-family house, has plenty of precedent from the former owners of the house, two of whom, at least, deliberately willed the house as a two-family residence. This was done, however, without remodelling, and with a sacrifice of privacy of family life which the modern generation is unwilling to make. If any society is to take an interest in its future, it must be our own. What shall we do about the preservation of the Peter Tufts house? From Carpentry and building, August, 1884: engraved by its artist.