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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 1: (search)
er. He served as one of the committee of safety during the Revolution; and died in 1808, aged 79 years. He was the son of Joshua Jacobs of Scituate, who married Mary James in 1726. His father was David Jacobs, who settled in Scituate as early as 1688, and was a schoolmaster, and a deacon in the church. and Hannah (Hersey) Jacobs of Hanover, April 25, 1810,--a lady of strong mind, of an amiable disposition, and of graceful bearing. They resided in Hancock Street, and were attendants of King's Chapel, of which Mr. Sumner was for some time the clerk, and of which the Rev. James Freeman, D. D., the Rev. F. W. P. Greenwood, D. D., and afterwards the Rev. Ephraim Peabody, D. D., were the eloquent pastors. Charles Sumner, whose name is intimately associated with the stirring political events as well as with the literature of the country for the last thirty years, and whose life and public services this work is intended to commemorate, was the oldest son of Charles Pinckney and Relief (
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 3: (search)
s. On leaving college, at the age of nineteen years, Charles Sumner had a well-developed, manly form, a clear and resonant voice, and a character of unimpeachable integrity. His health was excellent, his aspiration lofty. He at once commenced upon a course of private study, reviewing carefully his college text-books, extending his knowledge of the modern languages, and his course of English reading. lie listened on the sabbath to the eloquent discourses of the Rev. Dr. Greenwood at King's Chapel, and occasionally heard the polished sentences of Edward Everett on the platform, and the solid arguments of Rufus Choate and Daniel Webster at the bar. His father's position as high sheriff of the county gave him ready access to the society of the leading lawyers of the day, and naturally inclined him to adopt the law as his profession. Whether at this period he read Mr. Garrison's uncompromising Liberator, established on the 1st of January, 1831, or sympathized with the rising pulsebe
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 19: (search)
r 19: Mr. Sumner's House at Washington. his love of art. last Sickness and death. obsequies at Washington. meeting of the General Court. meeting at Faneuil Hall. remarks of J. B. Smith. remains at the Doric Hall. services at King's Chapel. at Mount Auburn. personal Appearance of Mr. Sumner. religious Views. his works. his style. his integrity. his consistency. his statesmanship and learning. his fame. In the long roll of martyrs in the cause of liberty, the name o Charles Sumner, you gave us your life; we give you our hearts. Above the casket was suspended a crown, beneath which floated a white dove holding an olive-branch. At about half-past 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon, the remains were borne to King's Chapel, which was tastefully hung in black and decorated with costly The body of Charles Sumner lying in State, in Doric Hall, State House, Boston. flowers, when appropriate funeral services were performed by the Rev. Henry W. Foote, the pastor.