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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 4: (search)
n at Kittery Point, Maine, in 1696. He died at Kittery, June 6, 1759. Colonel Royal was appointed one of the Mandamus Councillors for this Province by his Majesty, Aug. 9, 1794; but he did not take the oath of office. 1743: He gave Charlestown £ 100, which was used to build a parsonage. While Representative, he returned to the town treasury his salary. In 1745, he gave £ 80 to the school on Charlestown Neck. By his will, he gave to Medford one hundred acres of land in Granby (South Hadley), for the use and better support of the common schools of the town. This Granby farm was sold, 1788, for one hundred dollars, to Mr. Richard Hall. Generosity was native with him, and shone the salient feature of his character. He loved to give, and loved to speak of it, and loved the reputation of it. Hospitality, too, was almost a passion with him. No house in the Colony was more open to friends; no gentleman gave better dinners, or drank costlier wines. As a master, he was kind to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Canals. (search)
After the Revolution, the States of Virginia and Maryland took measures which resulted in the formation of the famous Potomac Company, to carry out Washington's project. In 1784 Washington revived a project for making a canal through the Dismal Swamp, not only for drainage, but for navigation between the Elizabeth River and Albemarle Sound. The oldest work of the kind in the United States is a canal, begun in 1792, 5 miles in extent, for passing the falls of the Connecticut River at South Hadley. The earliest completed and most important of the great canals of our country is the Erie, connecting the waters of Lake Erie with those of the Hudson River. A committee appointed by Congress during Jefferson's administration reported in favor of this canal, and a survey was directed to be made. Commissioners were appointed in 1810, who reported to Congress in March, 1811. In consequence of the War of 1812, the project languished until 1817. In that year ground was broken for the Eri
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colleges for women. (search)
re 145 colleges and seminaries authorized to confer degrees, having 2,441 professors and instructors, 20,548 students and $3,236,416 in total income. The institutions exclusively for women, organized on the general basis of college requirements, were divided into two classes. The first comprised the following: Mills College, in Mills College Station, Cal.; Rockford College, Rockford, Ill.; Women's College, Baltimore, Md.; Radcliffe, in Cambridge; Smith, in Northampton; Mount Holyoke, in South Hadley; Wellesley, in Wellesley—all in Massachusetts; Wells, in Aurora; Elmira, in Elmira: Barnard, in New York City; and Vassar, in Poughkeepsie—all in New York; Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; and Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, Va. These colleges had 543 professors and instructors, 4,606 students, seventeen fellowships, 254 scholarships, $6,390,398 invested in grounds and buildings, $4,122,473 invested in productive funds, and $1,244,350 in total income. The second division, which com
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
ommenced......1826 Abbott Academy (for women), Andover, established......1829 Massachusetts obtains from the United States $430,748.26, for services of militia during the War of 1812-14......May 31, 1829 the Liberator (anti-slavery) first published......Jan. 1, 1831 Burning of the St. Ursula Convent at Mount Benedict by a mob on the night of......Aug. 11, 1834 Board of education established and organized......June 29, 1837 Mount Holyoke College (for the education of women), South Hadley, opened......1837 Arrest of George Latimer in Boston as a slave......1842 [Liberated on payment of $400 by citizens of Boston.] College of the Holy Cross founded at Worcester......1843 Completion and dedication of Bunker Hill monument with imposing ceremonies......June 17, 1843 [President Tyler present, Daniel Webster orator.] Samuel Hoar, sent by the State to Charleston, to test the constitutionality of the act of South Carolina, whereby any negro on any vessel entering
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 9: Hampshire County. (search)
ia several boxes and barrels of lint, bandages, clothing, socks, wines, jellies, and other necessaries, to the value of one hundred and twenty-five dollars. South Hadley Incorporated April 12, 1753. Population in 1860, 2,277; in 1865, 2,098. Valuation in 1860, $1,040,313; in 1865, $1,103,491. The selectmen in 1861 and 1and Paoli Lathrop were, with the selectmen, appointed a committee to endeavor to raise and drill a military company, to arm and equip such persons belonging to South Hadley as may volunteer into the military service, to make all proper and necessary provision for the comfortable maintenance of their families, to aid and assist theown filled. On the 4th of November, the town voted to raise three thousand dollars to pay State aid to the families of soldiers and bounties to volunteers. South Hadley furnished two hundred and forty-two men for the war, which was a surplus of twenty-three over and above all demands. Three were commissioned officers. The wh
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Index. (search)
Rowley 232 Roxbury 515 Royalston 667 Russell 314 Rutland 669 S. Salem 234 Salisbury 239 Sandisfield 99 Sandwich 49 Saugus 241 Savoy 100 Scituate 574 Seekonk 151 Sharon 520 Sheffield 102 Shelburne 283 Sherborn 444 Shirley 446 Shrewsbury 670 Shutesbury 285 Somerville 447 Somerset 154 Southampton 357 Southbridge 675 Southborough 673 South Scituate 576 South Danvers (Peabody) 243 South Hadley 356 South Reading (Wakefield) 450 Southwick 316 Spencer 678 Springfield 318 Sterling 679 Stockbridge 104 Stoneham 452 Stoughton 522 Stow 454 Sturbridge 681 Sudbury 455 Sunderland 286 Sutton 682 Swampscott 245 Swanzey 156 T. Taunton 158 Templeton 684 Tewksbury 457 Tisbury 168 Tolland 320 Topsfield 246 Townsend 458 Truro 51 Tyngsborough 460 Tyringham 106 U. Upton 686 Uxbridge 68
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Our pioneer educators. (search)
s continued the motive power and main spring of that first of American schools for young women. And her reward was not long delayed It came in the triumph of her own school. It came in the increased stimulus she had given to the cause of woman's education. It came in the readier facilities accorded to young women in our collegiate institutions; and still more signally in those large institutions expressly for women which her success had made possible. We can now readily see how much South Hadley, Oberlin, Antioch, Packer, and Vassar are indebted to her pioneer work. While achieving this success at home, she had not been unmindful of the claims of woman abroad. In 1830 she had sought abroad the rest and health which her home duties required, and the relief from her professional work gave her the opportunity to examine the educational condition of women in other lands Her womanly heart was touched with the report which came to her of the degraded condition of woman in classic G
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 7 (search)
nfantry, July 1, 1842. Second Lieutenant, 1st U. S. Infantry, Jan. 31, 1844. Transferred to 8th Infantry, July 8, 1844. Brevet First Lieutenant, May 9, 1846. First Lieutenant, 8th Infantry, Sept. 21, 1846. Captain, May 15, 1851. Major, 5th U. S. Infantry, Feb. 27, 1862. Retired from active service, Aug. 27, 1863, for disability resulting from long and faithful service, and disease and exposure in line of duty. Died at Canton, Mass., Jan. 5, 1876. Judd, George Edwin. Born at South Hadley, Mass., Mar. 23, 1838. First Sergeant, 3d Mich. Infantry, June 10, 1861. Second Lieutenant, Aug. 1, 1861. First Lieutenant, Oct. 28, 1861. Captain, June 23, 1862. Captain, Veteran Reserve Corps, Jan. 29, 1864; accepted, Feb. 8, 1864. Second Lieutenant, 45th U. S. Infantry, Aug. 19, 1868; accepted, Aug. 25, 1868. Transferred to 14th Infantry, Aug. 14, 1869. Unassigned, Sept. 27, 1869. Retired with rank of Captain, May 28, 1870, loss of left arm from wound in line of duty (Acts Aug. 3, 18
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 8 (search)
ieutenant, Dec. 1, 1862. First Lieutenant, Apr. 15, 1864. Mustered out, Dec. 9, 1864. Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Frontier Cavalry, Mass. Volunteers, or 26th N. Y. Cavalry, Dec. 27, 1864. First Lieutenant, Apr. 10, 1865. Mustered out, June 30, 1865. Joy, George Mills. Corporal, 23d Mass. Infantry, Dec. 4, 1861. Discharged for promotion in 1st N. C. Infantry, Dec. 17, 1862. First Lieutenant, 1st N. C. Infantry. Discharged, Mar. 19, 1863. Judd, George Edwin. Born at South Hadley, Mass., Mar. 23, 1838. First Sergeant, 3d Mich. Infantry, June 10, 1861. Second Lieutenant, Aug. 1, 1861. First Lieutenant, Oct. 28, 1861. Captain, June 23, 1862. Captain, Veteran Reserve Corps, Jan. 29, 1864; accepted, Feb. 8, 1864. Second Lieutenant, 45th U. S. Infantry, Aug. 19, 1868; accepted, Aug. 25, 1868. See U. S. Army. Julian, George Naylor. Private, 2d Battery Mass. Light Artillery, July 31, 1861. Captain, 13th N. H. Infantry, Sept. 27, 1862. Mustered out, Feb. 1, 1865.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 13 (search)
telle, Andrew, Charlestown. Shapleigh, Mrs. Samuel C., Boston. Shaw, Cassina, Raynham. Shaw, Miss M. L., Boston. Shaw, Mrs. Mary L., Boston. Shaw, Wm. F., Boston. Shaw, Thaxter, Montague. Shumway, Eliel, Groton. Shumway, Wm. T., Webster. Silsbee, Benj. H., Salem. Silsbee, Francis H., Salem. Simmons, Noble S., Dighton. Slade, Wm. L., Somerset. Slade, Avery P., Somerset. Slade, Jonathan, 2d, Somerset. Smith, Martin L., Cambridge. Smith, G. A., South Hadley. Smith, De Witt S., Lee Southard, Chas. E., Brighton. Sonthworth, Sumner, Williamstown. Sparks, Jared, Cambridge. Spencer, Mrs. W. V., Cambridge. Spooner, Mrs. Wm. B., Boston. Spooner, Wm B., Boston. Stackpole, D. D., Boston. Stanton, Jabez, Huntington. Stearns, Mrs. M. F., Pittsfield. Stearns, Henry, Pittsfield. Stearns, Mrs. M. B., Pittsfield. Stearns, Daniel, Pittsfield. Stearns, Mrs. Mary E, Medford. Stearns, Geo. L., Medford. Stebbins,
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