Agassiz, Alexander, son of Louis and Cecile (Braun) Agassiz, was born in Neufchatel, Switzerland, December 17, 1835. His early educational training was received in the gymnasium of his native place. He came to this country in 1849, after his father, the celebrated naturalist, and entering Harvard College, was graduated there from in the class of […]
JAMES P. MORIARTY – To succeed in the legal profession a man must have broad general knowledge, highly specialized training, an acute mind, and ability to study hard. To begin on co-exigent a career presupposes ambition and energy, qualities that James P. Moriarty showed early in his career. He determined to educate himself thoroughly for
Final List of the Members of the Narragansett Tribe Entitled to a Share of the Purchase Money 1881.
The family bearing this name in New Bedford, where it is one of nearly one hundred years’ standing one, too, of prominence and wealth, is a branch of the ancient Knowles family of the town of Eastham, Barnstable county, this Commonwealth. Reference is made to some of the descendants of the brothers Thomas and James H. Knowles of Eastham, several of whose sons – at least two of the former and one of the latter – in their earlier manhood cast their lot with the people of New Bedford. The firm of Thomas Knowles & Co. for many years was one of the greatest engaged in the whale fishery business in New Bedford; and its members in turn have been succeeded in business by younger generations who have most worthily worn the family name and sustained its reputation; and today the name continues of record in and about the city of their birth connected prominently with many of the most extensive commercial establishments and banking institutions of the locality.
Mr. Joseph Hixon of Mounserrat & Mrs. Nabby Cooper Jan. 2, 1777 James Jancey Esq. of Virginea & Mrs. Abigail Cudworth Jan. 2, 1777 Samuel Hicks & Martha Hammon Jan. 6, 1777 Capt. Nathl. Byfield Lyde & Hannah Foster Jan. 6, 1777 William Snukes & Olive Cook Jan. 8, 1777 Joshua Lane & Jane Mellet
William Sadler & Mary Gasewell Jan. 6, 1785 Doctor Jacob Nonmus & Eleanor Read (woman’s name wrong) Jan. 10, 1785 William Starr & Elizabeth Goodridge Jan. 13, 1785 John Collins & Mary Magines Jan. 13, 1785 Joseph Harding of Chatham & Polly Phillips Jan. 13, 1785 Robert Currie of Providence & Hannah Gardner Jan. 18,
Names Date Town Seth Webber & Sarah Browne Jan. 1, 1752 Rowland Merwick & Susanna Nottage Jan. 1, 1752 John Gerrish & Hannah Cooper Jan. 2, 1752 Benjamin Jennings & Abigail Shad Jan. 4, 1752 Moses Richardson & Mary Prentice Jan. 8, 1752 Dennis Lee & Margaret Allen Jan. 9, 1752 John Malony & Mary
Francis Costar & Margaret Hubbard Jan. 2,1762 Joseph Selva & Jane Chamberlain Jan. 4, 1762 Joshua Thornton & Lucretia Lehay Jan. 7, 1762 Nicholas Fitzgerald & Katharine Gough Jan. 14, 1762 Robert Gadd & Hannah Tuffs Jan. 18, 1762 Paul Burbeen & Elizabeth Granger Jan. 22, 1762 Luke Hall & Sarah Barnard Jan. 27, 1762
EDWARD A. GAMMONS of Wareham, well-known citizen and banker, is a native of that section of the State, born in South Wareham Jan. 15, 1842, son of William and Deborah Bryant (Gallt) Gammons. The Gammons family is supposed to be of English origin, and is found in many parts of New England. The name has
SAMUEL LYMAN MUNSON IT IS both interesting and profitable to trace the prosperous career of men of enterprise in our midst, whose highest aim is to keep abreast with the progressive commercial spirit of the day and to develop or carry on some important branch of industry. Of this class we have a notable example
Howe, Charles Sumner; college pres.; born, Nashua, N. H., Sept. 29, 1858; son of William R. and Susan D. Woods Howe; B. S., Massachusetts Agricultural College, and Boston University, 1878; post-graduate course, mathematics and physics, Johns Hopkins; Ph. D., University of Wooster, 1887; (Sc. D., Armour Institute Tech., Chicago, 1905; LL. D., Mt. Union College,
William R. Murrow. Kansas, with splendid natural resources and true western energy and progressiveness, has afforded to her native sons the best of opportunities, and it is gratifying to note that the greater percentage of the younger generation representative of pioneer families has had the good judgment to pay unfaltering allegiance to the Sunflower commonwealth
James H. Bean, M. D., has attained a distinctive position in connection with the medical fraternity of southern Idaho, and is now successfully engaged in practicing in Pocatello, where he also conducts a drug store. Realizing the importance of the profession, he has carefully prepared himself for his chosen life work, and spares no effort
Daniel Waldo Field, an extensive shoe manufacturer of Brockton, Mass., and one of the founders and for a number of years president, of the Clark-Hudson Company, shoe jobbers, of Boston and New York, is a citizen of whom Brockton is justly proud. Besides establishing a large and prosperous industry which has brought plenty and content into many a workingman’s home, he has given largely to philanthropic enterprises, some of which actually owe their existence to his generosity. He was born in Brockton, Feb. 18, 1856, son of William L. and Mary D. (Holmes) Field.
Among the representative orange groves of that section of Riverside colony known as Brockton square, mention should be made of the one owned by Mr. Heller. His residence and land, ten acres in extent, is located on the south side of Rubidoux Avenue, about half a mile west of Brockton Avenue. Five acres of his
Barron, Amos N.; manufacturer; born, Charlestown, Mass., Aug. 24, 1866; son of Henry and Elana Barron; educated, Prescott Grammar School, Charlestown, Mass.; Boston Latin School, Boston, Mass.; Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; married, Cleveland, Feb. 11, 1908, Jane Carson; one year with The General Electric Co. in Lynn, Mass.; and for one year with one of
(III) Joshua, son of Ebenezer Locke, was born August 21, 1709, and married (first) at Woburn, March, 1732, Hannah, born January 2, 1712, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Reed. He married (second) Tabitha, daughter of Dr. Isaac Bellows, of Southboro, buried at Boston, April, 1744. He lived in Woburn, Westboro, Boston ( ?) and Southboro,
REV. ARTHUR BUCKMINSTER FULLER, the third son of Hon. Timothy Fuller, was born August 10, 1822. He was early instructed by his father and his sister, Margaret Fuller. At the age of twelve, he spent one year at Leicester Academy; and, subsequently, studied with Mrs. Ripley, the wife of Rev. Samuel Ripley, of Waltham. In
Names Date Town Richard Williamson & Margaret Burgis Jan. 1,1754 Thomas Smith & Delight Tayler Jan. 3, 1754 James Masters & Rebecca Fowle Jan. 3, 1754 Lemuel Holmes & Prudence Henderson Jan. 3, 1754 Richard Sayward & Jennet Furrest Jan. 3, 1754 Luke Ryan & Sarah Sale Jan. 5, 1754 John Kimball & Elizabeth Patch
According to traditional authority, the morning star of the Choctaws religious era, (if such it may be termed) first lit up their eastern horizon, upon the advent of the two great Wesley’s into the now State of Georgia in the year 1733, as the worthy and congenial companions of the noble Oglethorpe; but also, it
