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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 2 (search)
on Petersburg, Apr. 2, 1865, where he was severely wounded. Maj. General, U. S. Volunteers, Sept. 29, 1865. Mustered out, Jan. 15, 1866. Died at Newport, R. I., Feb. 19, 1887. Pratt, Benjamin Franklin. Born in Massachusetts. Captain, 35th Mass. Infantry, Aug. 11, 1862. Lieut. Colonel, 36th U. S. Colored Infantry, Sept. 5, 1863. Brevet Colonel, and Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Resigned, Oct. 27, 1865. Died, July 30, 1890. Pratt, Calvin Edward. Born at Princeton, Mass., Jan. 23, 1828. Colonel, 31st N. Y. Infantry, Aug. 14, 1861. Present at the battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, and in the engagement at West Point, Va., May 7, 1862. Present at the engagement of Garnett's and Golding's Farm, June 28, 1862; Glendale, June 30, 1862; Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862. Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Sept. 13, 1862. Resigned, Apr. 25, 1863. Prescott, George Lincoln. Born at Littleton, Mass., May 21, 1829. Captain, 5th Infantry, M. V. M., in service of
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), chapter 1 (search)
idge-Port, Massachusetts, on the 23d of May, 1810. Among her papers fortunately remains this unfinished sketch of youth, prepared by her own hand, in 1840, as the introductory chapter to an autobiographical romance. Parents. My father was a lawyer and a politician. He was a man largely endowed with that sagacious energy, which the state of New England society, for the last half century, has been so well fitted to develop. His father was a clergyman, settled as pastor in Princeton, Massachusetts, within the bounds of whose parish-farm was Wachuset. His means were small, and the great object of his ambition was to send his sons to college. As a boy, my father was taught to think only of preparing himself for Harvard University, and when there of preparing himself for the profession of Law. As a Lawyer, again, the ends constantly presented were to work for distinction in the community, and for the means of supporting a family. To be an honored citizen, and to have a home o
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), Appendix. (search)
October 17, 1767. He married Abigail Holton, and they had ten children—six sons and four daughters. Timothy Fuller, the sixth child and third son of the second Jacob Fuller, was born at Middleton, on the 18th of May, 1739. He entered Harvard University at the age of nineteen, and graduated in 1760. His name over that date may still be seen on the corner-stone of one of the college buildings. He applied himself to theology; and in March, 1767, received from the church and town of Princeton, Mass., a nearly unanimous invitation to become their pastor, having previously supplied their pulpit for two years. Here he was ordained the first minister of Princeton, 9th September, 1767. In 1770 he married Sarah Williams, daughter of Rev. Abraham Williams, of Sandwich, Mass. He was successful as a preacher, and his people were united in him till the war of the revolution broke out. He declared at the time, and ever afterwards, that he was friendly to the principles of the revolution, an
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford. (search)
that in some way escaped destruction are those of both Mr. Kendall and Mr. Gray. Neither of them seems to have been acceptable to the committee. Nathaniel Cogswell was continued through the summer, and in the winter William H. Furness taught a term, and as no other man seems to have been employed with him the second room was probably unoccupied. Teachers in the third School-house 1795-1846 FromToHarvard classNotes 1795May, 1796Joseph Wyman 1796Aug.-Dec. 1796Thomas Mason1796from Princeton, Mass., b. 1769 1796Dec.-July, 1797Leonard Woods1796from Princeton, b. 1774 1797Aug.-Aug. 1799Daniel Appleton White1797from Methuen, b. 1776 1799Sept.-Nov. 1800Silas Warren1795from Westown, b. 1767 1800Mch.-April, 1803Abner Rogers1800from Hampstead, N. H., b. 1775 1803May-June, 1803Peter Nourse1803from Boston, b. 1774 ??Daniel Swan1803b. 1781 at Charlestown 1806Feb.-Aug. 1807Samuel Weed1800from Amesbury, b. 1774 School-house enlarged and two schools established 1807 1807July-May, 1809
The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Hustings Court. (search)
At a family party at the house of widow Powers, in Princeton, Massachusetts, last week, there were present Mrs. Powers, aged ninety-eight, her daughter from Leominster, and her grand- daughter, great-grand daughter and her great-grandson — in all, five generations. One of the uncles usually found only in novels has lately died in Ireland, leaving two nieces, now in a convent school in France, a fortune of one million pounds sterling. The eighty-first in the group of asteroids was discovered by Mr. Tempel, of Marseilles, on the 30th of September, in the constellation Pisces. Captain Pike, a son of General Albert Pike, was, some time since, captured with seven of his men, and killed after they had surrendered. Twins are becoming fashionable at Bridgeport, Connecticut. One physician announces four cases within the last ten or twelve days. The new capital of Italy, Florence, is to be fortified at a cost of thirty millions of francs. About $36,000 are w
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