Browsing named entities in Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies. You can also browse the collection for William Sturgis or search for William Sturgis in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1852. (search)
that ripens autumn's sheaf Has poured a summer's wealth of rays. William Sturgis Hooper. Vol. A. D. C. (rank of Captain), Major-General Banks's staff, December 4, 1862; died at Boston, September 24, 1863, of disease contracted in the service. William Sturgis Hooper was born in Boston, March 3, 1833. The name of his father, Samuel Hooper, has been for many years as familiar in the commercial world as it is now in the affairs of the nation. His mother was Anne, daughter of William Sturgis, whose early career, as one of the pioneers of our commerce in the Pacific, and whose later prominence among Boston merchants, are well known in the community. Both by his father's and mother's line the subject of this sketch was allied to a race of merchants; and the taste and faculty for business which his manhood developed had been born in him, and had grown with his growth. In his early school-days there was little of interest, and of those days he afterwards had no cheerful rec
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1860. (search)
ed that, beneath this quiet exterior, lay all the qualities that belong to a man of more than common character. This was Robert Shaw, who now lies buried on Morris Island, in Charleston Harbor, one of the many thousand young men who have fallen victims to that Moloch, American Slavery, or we may rather say, to whose victorious lives and deaths the Moloch, American Slavery, has fallen a victim. He was born in Boston on the 10th of October, 1837, the son of Francis George and Sarah Blake (Sturgis) Shaw. He early showed marked traits of character; he was quicktempered, but very affectionate, easily led, but never to be driven. At a very early age he was sent to the school of Miss Mary Peabody (now Mrs. Horace Mann); then to that of Miss Cabot, in West Roxbury; and finally to that of Mr. William P. Atkinson, with whom he began the Latin Grammar. When he was nine years old, his parents removed to Staten Island, where he went to a small private school, kept by a learned and very impa