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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 2: birth, childhood, and youth (search)
lebrated Hartford Convention of Federalists; a presidential elector, and a member of Congress. In earlier generations the poet's grandfather was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas; his great-grandfather was a graduate of Harvard College in 1742, and was afterward town schoolmaster, parish clerk, and register of probate; his great-great-grandfather was a village blacksmith; and his ancestor once more removed, the American founder of the family, was William Longfellow, who was born in Hampshire County, England, in 1651, and came in early life to this country, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. Thus much for the paternal ancestry. To turn to the spindle side, Mr. Longfellow's mother was Zilpah Wadsworth, eldest daughter of General Peleg Wadsworth, who was the son of Deacon Peleg Wadsworth, of Duxbury, Mass., and was the fifth in descent from Christopher Wadsworth, who came from England and settled in that town before 1632. The Peleg Wadsworth of military fame was born at Du
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
2, 74, 113,148; his Life of Nathanael Greene, quoted, 53, 54; Longfellow writes to, 57, 59, 67, 244. Greenleaf, Mrs. Mary (Longfellow), 92. Griffin, J., 69. Griswold, Rufus W., his Correspondence, cited, 143 note, 145 note, 168 note, 192 note. Grosvenor, Edwin A., 3. Gustavus III., 95, 96. Gustavus IV., 96. Habersham, Henry N. 119. Haga, 95, 96. Hagalund, 96. Hall of Fame, the, 6, 248. Halleck, Fitz-Greene, on Skeleton in Armor, 141. Hamburg, 106, 108. Hampshire County, Eng., 12. Harper and Brothers, 166. Hartford, Conn., 245. Hartford Convention, the, 11. Harvard College or University, 11, 12, 46, 57, 156, 159, 184, 215; library, 70; invites Longfellow to become professor, 84, 85; Longfellow elected to professorship of, 86; Longfellow as an organizer in, 176; early elective system in, 178, 179; Longfellow's letters to President and Fellows of, 179, 180,203-205; their reply, 180-182; Longfellow on elective system of, 182, 183. Harvard Colle