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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 18 (search)
ne 23, 1711.  5William, b. Dec. 28, 1712.  6Dorothy, b. Apr. 23, 1715.  1FILLEBROWN, Thomas, ma very improbable one. 4-10John Francis, and Dorothy, his wife, who d. Sept. 25, 1737, aged 33, haancis, jun., who d. Apr. 2, 1776, had by wife Dorothy--  30-31Manning, b. Nov. 20, 1748; d. Sept. -, and had--    Hannah,b. Sept. 2, 1696. Dorothy,   Mary Kidder m. Caleb Brooks, Jan. 1, 176ept. 17, 1710.  7Anne, b. Sept. 17, 1712.  8Dorothy, b. Jan. 24, 1715; m. Henry Fowle, Mar. 6, 17ercy, b. June 20, 1695; d. Aug. 19, 1697.  21Dorothy, b. Mar. 27, 1697; d. Nov. 29, 1697.  22Mercan. 31, 1700.  24Sarah, b. May 13, 1702.  25Dorothy, b. Dec. 14, 1704; m.----Bradshaw.  26Lydia,-, by whom he had--   Elizabeth, b. 1687.   Dorothy, b. Feb, 17, 1689.   He d. Nov. 24, 1689. 1Dec. 31, 1683.  13Anne, b. Oct. 7, 1685.  14Dorothy, b. Mar. 12, 1687; m. Jona. Willis, Oct. 17,t. 10, 1707.  22Sarah, b. Jan. 18, 1709.  23Dorothy, b. Feb. 22, 1711.  24Rebecca, b. Jan. 28, 1
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Corrigenda. (search)
n. All those under that record — viz., Nos. 15, 16, 17--belong to Hezekiah No. 1. Page 556.John Usher married Elizabeth Slidgett, not Sidgett. Page 558.Jonathan Wade (No. 1) had Mary, baptized October, 1663, who married William Symonds; also daughter Sarah. Prudence (No. 5) married, second, Rev. Seaborn Cotton. Page 558.Jonathan (No. 1-2) had Deborah, baptized March 24, 1667; Prudence, June 6, 1669; Catharine, Aug. 27, 1671,--died soon; Catharine, June 22, 1673; Susanna, June 10, 1677; Dorothy, July 10, 1681; all before Dudley (No. 2-8). Page 563.Technically, Bedford was a precinct of Billerica when John Whitmore resided there. Page 568.I am authorized to say that John Willis was very probably the same as No. 3-11. note.--The compiler desires to offer his thanks to the following gentlemen for valuable aid in pursuing his investigations: to Dr. Booth and Dean Dudley, Esq., for the Tufts; to Rev. A. H. Quint, for the Halls; to T. B. Wyman, jun., for the Wymans, and others;
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Introduction: the spirit of nationality (search)
s he was an honored professor in the Harvard Law School and a much sought after poet for social occasions. But in 1857 his series of essays in The Atlantic Monthly, under the title The Autocrat of the breakfast table, brought him national recognition. Their wit and humor have made them the most popular essays written in America, and they have gained wide reception in England. He also wrote three novels, the best known of which is Elsie Venner. Many of his poems, such as The last Leaf and Dorothy will long continue to give him a warm place in the public heart. The poem in this volume, Brother Jonathan's lament for sister Caroline, is characteristic of Holmes' kindly disposition—striking as a piece of prophecy before the war had really begun. The last thirty-four years of his life, ending in 1894, were filled with a large variety of literary work. extension of my time to enable me to continue my work. I am further thankful, and in a much greater degree thankful, because it has en
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Madison, James 1751- (search)
te supremacy. They were adopted. In 1801 he was appointed Secretary of State, which office he held until his inauguration as President. He very soon became involved in disputes about impressment with the government of Great Britain, and, in 1812, was compelled to declare war against that nation (see below). He was enabled to proclaim a treaty of peace in February, 1815. Retiring from office in 1817, he passed the remainder of his days on his estate at Montpelier. His accomplished wife, Dorothy (commonly called Dolly ), shared his joys and sorrows from the time of their marriage in Philadelphia in 1794 until his death, June 28, 1836, and survived him until July 2, 1849. She was a long time among the leaders in Washington society. President Madison, seeing that the capital was in danger when victory remained with the British at Bladensburg (q. v.). sent messengers to his wife, advising her to fly to a place of safety. She had already been apprised of the disaster on the fiel
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Doctor Holmes. (search)
e suffered permanently from this attack. The general public, especially the republic of womankind, forms its own opinion, and pays slight attention to literary criticisms of that description. Holmes's poetry rarely rises to eloquence, but neither does it descend to sentimentality. It resembles the man's own life, in which there were no bold endeavors, great feats, or desperate struggles; but it was a life so judicious, healthful and highly intellectual that we cannot help admiring it. Dorothy Q. is perhaps the best of his short poems, as it is the most widely known. The name itself is slightly humorous, but it is a perfect work of art, and the line, Soft and low is a maiden's Yes, has the beautiful hush of a sanctuary in it. A finer verse could not be written. Also for a comic piece nothing equal to The wonderful one-hoss Shay has appeared since Burns's Tam O'Shanter. It is based on a logical illusion which brings it down to recent times; and the gravity with which the
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 23: writers of familiar verse (search)
d Holmes in the delicate blending of pathos with humour, as exemplified most strikingly in The last leaf, in which fantasy plays hide and seek with sentiment. Scarcely less delightful in its eighteenth-century quaintness is the family portrait, Dorothy Q; and close to those two masterpieces are lesser lyrics like Contentment, Bill and Joe, and the lines On Lending a Punch Bowl and To an Insect: I love to hear thine earnest voice, Wherever thou art hid, Thou testy little dogmatist, Thou prettr cities have been inspired to risk the dangers of familiar verse and to rhyme the sayings and doings of their fellow citizens. Sometimes they give to their airy nothings a local habitation and a name as easily recognizable as the background of Dorothy Q. Could Nothing to wear, detailing the sad plight of Miss Flora McFlimsy of Madison Square, and the Visit from Saint Nicholas on the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse —could e
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 7: books for children (search)
rity and was translated into many languages. The public kept demanding other stories; and An Old-Fashioned Girl (1869), Little Men (1871), Eight Cousins (1874), Rose in Bloom (1876), and Under the Lilacs (1878) were almost as popular and as meritorious. Some of these were written for St. Nicholas, in which Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge was nearly equalling her achievement. The two books which next to Miss Alcott's have the most assured position are Mrs. Dodge's Hans Brinker (1865) and Donald and Dorothy (1883). The former still remains the best story about Holland, and was awarded a prize by the French Academy; the latter runs it close for naturalness and interest. A little later these artistic successes were matched by Betty Leicester of Sarah Orne Jewett, See also Book III, Chap. VI. whose work for young people has the charm and distinction of her short stories for adults. St. Nicholas became in itself a library of choice literature for children, and many of the books which this ch
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
e comedy, the, 40 Divine tragedy, the, 39 Divinity School address, 20, 209 Dixie, 291, 292, 303, 305 Dobson, Austin, 243 Doctor Byles's cat, 149 Dodd, W. E., 75 n. Dodge, Mary Mapes, 402, 409 Dodgson, C. L., 408 Donald and Dorothy, 402 Donne, 343 Dorothy Q., 239, 341 Dotty Dimple books, 402 Douglass, Frederick, 351 Douw, Gerard, 49 Dowden, Edward, 271 Do Ye Quail?, 308 Doyle, Pete, 271 Drake, B. M., 351 n. Drake, J. R., 150 Drayton, William HenrDorothy Q., 239, 341 Dotty Dimple books, 402 Douglass, Frederick, 351 Douw, Gerard, 49 Dowden, Edward, 271 Do Ye Quail?, 308 Doyle, Pete, 271 Drake, B. M., 351 n. Drake, J. R., 150 Drayton, William Henry, 104, 105 Dreaming in the trenches, 291, 303 Dream-Land, 66 Dred Scott case, 89 Driving home the Cows, 286 Drum, the. See Reveille, the Drummer boy's burial, the, 286 Drummond of Hawthornden, 340 Drum Taps, 269, 270 Dryden, 5, 125, 237 Duane, Wm., 181 Dublin University, 373 DuBois, W. E. Burghardt, 351 Dubourg, Miss, 55 Dudley, Anne, 225 Dudley, Thomas, 225 Duganne, A. J. H., 280 Dukesborough tales, the, 347, 389 Dulham ladies, the, 383 Dum Vivi
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 7: romance, poetry, and history (search)
He lingered himself until the autumn of 1894, in his eighty-sixth year-The last Leaf, in truth, of New England's richest springtime. No, my friends, he had said in The Autocrat of the Breakfast table, I go (always, other things being equal) for the man who inherits family traditions and the cumulative humanities of at least four or five generations. The Doctor came naturally by his preference for a man of family, being one himself. He was a descendant of Anne Bradstreet, the poetess. Dorothy Q., whom he had made the most picturesque of the Quincys, was his great-grandmother. Wendell Phillips was his cousin. His father, the Rev. Abiel Holmes, a Yale graduate, was the minister of the First Church in Cambridge, and it was in its gambrel-roofed parsonage that Oliver Wendell was born in 1809. Know old Cambridge? Hope you do.- Born there? Don't say so! I was,too. Nicest place that was ever seen- Colleges red and Common green. So he wrote, in scores of passages of filial dev
History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904, Sunday School members (search)
, Donald42 Tufts Street Bussy, Russell 42 Tufts Street Carter, Eugenie42 Spring Street Chandler, Lulu96 Cross Street Chandler, Alice 96 Cross Street Chapin, Dorothy 5 Boston Avenue Coggin, Freddie 14 Allston Street Coker, Marguerite 66 Flint Street Cole, Russell22 Edmands Street Cole, Marjory22 Edmands Street Coolidgter 34 Montrose Street Kenny, Ellen51 Munroe Street Kenny, Russell 82 Boston Street Kenny, Robert 82 Boston Street Kennelly, Maud13 Pinckney Street Kimball, Dorothy 9 North Union Street Kimpton, Anna 40 Gilman Street Landon, Raymond179 Pearl Street Landon, Helen179 Pearl Street Landon, Grace179 Pearl Street Landry, Estheden, Louise83 Boston Street Marsten, Marion20 Sever Street, Charlestown Maxwell, Rev. and Mrs. H. D.80 Myrtle Street Maxwell, Bernard80 Myrtle Street Maxwell, Dorothy80 Myrtle Street Maxwell, Marjory 80 Myrtle Street Maxwell, Imogene 80 Myrtle Street Mayo, Liva A.14 Chester Avenue Mess, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.19 Chester Avenue
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