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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cambridge (search)
Cambridge City, and one of the county seats of Middlesex county. Mass., separated from Boston by the Charles River; was founded in 1631 under the name of Newtown; and is noted as the place where Washington took command of the Continental army on July 2, 1775; as the seat of Harvard University (q. v.); and as the place where the sons of Alvan Clark carry on the manufacture of astronomical instruments which have a world-wide reputation. In 1900 the city had a total assessed valuation of taxable property of $94,467,930, and the net city and water debt was $6,226,182. The population in 1890 was 70,028; in 1900, 91,886. The second Synod of Massachusetts met at Cambridge in 1646, and was not dissolved until 1648. The synod composed and adopted a system of church discipline called The Cambridge platform, and recommended it, together with the Westminster Confession of Faith, to the general court and to the churches. The latter, in New England, generally complied with the recommend
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833- (search)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833- Historian; born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 20, 1833; adopted journalism as a profession, but at the beginning of the Civil War entered the National service and rose to the rank of colonel of United States volunteers in 1863. He is the author of Nooks and Corners of the New England coast; The making of New England; Old landmarks of Boston; History of Middlesex county, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nason, Elias 1811-1887 (search)
Nason, Elias 1811-1887 Clergyman; born in Wrentham, Mass., April 21, 1811; graduated at Brown College in 1835; ordained in the Congregational Church in Natick, Mass.: and later became popular as a lecturer. His publications include Our obligations to defend our country, and sermons on the War; Eulogy on Edward Everett; Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln; Gazetteer of Massachusetts; History of Middlesex county, etc. He died in North Billerica, Mass., June 17, 1887.