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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
taught in the conjugation of Greek verbs. I attended the Unitarian Church, as the rules of the school required. Boy like, I was confused by the new doctrine of one God and the Son of Man, as opposed to the doctrine of the triune God,--Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. I had been taught the latter, and I could not permit myself to have any doubts concerning it. In 1825, there was springing up on Pawtucket Falls of the Merrimack River, the second great manufacturing town in Massachusetts, Waltham on the Charles being the first. This town, afterwards Lowell, was then known as East Chelmsford. It had a growth unexampled in those days, and almost equalling the mushroom growth of towns in some of the western States at the present day. The constitutional convention of 1820, by a new section, made cities possible in Massachusetts, fixing the limit of population at which any town could become a city at twelve thousand. This was the population of Boston, and that town became a city in 18
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 21: practice of the law. (search)
I have a curious incident of that: A man of about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age broke into a small way station or depot of the Fitchburg railroad in Waltham,Mass., but did not find anything there which he chose to take away. He was seen in the act of departing on the train and went up the road a few miles to Lincoln.ght or nine years of age and the prisoner. The constable was about closing up his depot and said to the man, whose name was Carey: I have got to take you back to Waltham, but it is dinner-time, and if you will go into the house with me, --which was a little distance from the depot--we will have some dinner before we go. He had ry, breaking and entering, include almost every description of building save a depot or railroad station house, and the evidence was that he broke into a depot in Waltham. If that was not within the statute, it was a breaking and entering not a felony, for which the constable could not arrest him without a warrant, and therefore t