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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boyden, Seth, 1788-1870 (search)
Boyden, Seth, 1788-1870 Inventor; born in Foxboro, Mass., Nov. 17, 1788; was educated at a district school. His mechanical inclination led him to pass much time experimenting in a blacksmith shop. He first devised a machine for making nails and files. Later he designed a machine to split leather, and in 1815 took it to Newark, N. J. and engaged in leather manufacture. In 1816 he made a machine to cut brads, and afterwards invented patent leather, which he manufactured until 1831, when with a system of his own he began making malleable-iron castings. In 1835 he gave his attention to steam-engines, and both changed the crank in locomotives to the straight axle and made the cut-off to take the place of the throttle-valve. He went to California in 1849, but meeting with no success, returned to New Jersey, engaged in farming, and produced a variety of strawberry never before equalled in size or quality. He spent the greater part of his life in Newark, N. J., where a statute of h
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Roster of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
in. hostler, Ft. Erie, Can. 4 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. Wounded 20 Feb 64 Olustee, Fla. $50. Higgins, Thomas 22, mar.; waiter; New Brunswick, N. J. 8 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. Wounded 18 Jly 63 Ft Wagner. $50. Holmes, George 31, mar.; laborer; Elmira, N. Y. 8 Apl 63; died of wounds 14 Aug 63 Gen. Hos. Beaufort, S. C. Wounded 18 Jly 63 Ft. Wagner. $50. Jackson, Simon A. 22, sin.; coaster; Haddam, Conn. 12 May 63; died 19 Aug 63 Regtl. Hos. Morris Id. S. C. $50. James, Henry 23, sin.; laborer; Foxborough. 18 Dec 63; 20 Aug 65. $325. Cambridge. Johnson, Alexander 34, sin.; laborer; Elmira, N. Y. 8 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Johnson B. S. 21, sin.; blacksmith; Adrian, Mich. 8 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Johnson, Charles H. Corpl. 19, mar.; shoemaker; Warren. 23 Feb 63; died of wounds 18 Sep 63 Gen. Hos. Beaufort, S. C. Wounded 18 Jly 63 Ft Wagner. $50. Johnson, James P. 21, sin.; barber; Owego, N. Y. 8 Apl 63; killed 18 Apl 65 Boykins Mills, S. C. $50. Jones, Willis 35, sin.; labore
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 2: (search)
good, and to comfort those who are afflicted. Among these letters is one dated April 19, from Mrs. Frances Wright, of Foxborough, and signed by one hundred young ladies of that town, offering their services as nurses, or to make soldiers' garments,on, quartermaster; Henry M. Saville, of Quincy, surgeon; William L. Faxon, of Quincy, surgeon's mate; Alvin E. Hall, of Foxborough, sergeant-major; and George W. Barnes, of Plymouth, quartermaster-sergeant. Company A, Union Light Guards, Canton. Ollen, captain; Lewis Soule and John W. Mitchell, lieutenants,—all of South Abington. Company F, Warren Light Guards, Foxborough. Officers: David L. Shepard, captain; Moses A. Richardson and Carlos A. Hart, lieutenants,—all of Foxborough. CompanFoxborough. Company G, Light Infantry, Taunton. Officers: Timothy Gordon, captain; Zaccheus Sherman and Frederick A. Harrington, lieutenants,—all of Taunton. Company H, Hancock Light Guards, Quincy. Officers: Franklin Curtis, captain; Edward A. Spear and Benjamin F<
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 12: Norfolk County. (search)
s: In 1861, $74.48; in 1862, $545.33; in 1863, $364.02; in 1864, $342.40; in 1865, $250.00. Total amount, $1,576.23. Foxborough Incorporated June 10, 1778. Population in 1860,2,879; in 1865,2,769. Valuation in 1860, $1,287,735; in 1865, $1,28d Carpenter; in 1863, 1864, and 1865, Robert W. Kerr. 1861. On the first call of the President for militia in April, Foxborough, at twelve hours notice, sent forward Company F, Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Militia, to Boston, to take its place ind of them. September 20th, It was voted to pay a bounty of one hundred and fifty dollars to each of the inhabitants of Foxborough who enlisted in Company F, Fourth Regiment, for nine months service, and if more men are needed to fill the town's quots to each volunteer who would enlist to complete the quota of the town under the call of the President then pending. Foxborough furnished two hundred and seventy-six men for the war, which was a surplus of thirteen over and above all demands. Nin
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Index. (search)
D. Dalton 69 Dana 621 Danvers 184 Dartmouth 124 Dedham 493 Deerfield 262 Dennis 35 Dighton 125 Dorchester 497 Douglas 622 Dover 500 Dracut 402 Dudley 624 Dunstable 404 Duxbury 542 E. East Bridgewater 543 Eastham 37 Easthampton 336 Easton 127 Edgartown 166 Egremont 71 Enfield 339 Erving 264 Essex 187 F. Fairhaven 130 Falmouth 38 Fall River 133 Fitchburg 625 Florida 73 Foxborough 501 Framingham 405 Franklin 502 Freetown 137 G. Gardner 628 Georgetown 188 Gill 265 Gloucester 191 Goshen 341 Gosnold 168 Grafton 630 Granby 342 Granville 302 Great Barrington 74 Greenfield 266 Greenwich 343 Groton 408 Groveland 194 H. Hadley 345 Halifax 546 Hamilton 196 Hancock 77 Hanover 550 Hanson 547 Hardwick 631 Harvard 633 Harwich 41 Hatfield 346 Hawley 268 Haverh
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
ng the prominent American cities using the Blake water-works engines may be mentioned: Boston, New York, Washington, Camden, New Orleans, Cleveland, Mobile, Toronto, Shreveport, Helena, Birmingham, Racine, La Crosse, Mc-Keesport, etc. A partial list of places in Massachusetts includes: Cambridge, Newton, Brookline, Woburn, Natick, Hyde Park, Dedham, Needham, Wakefield, Malden, Arlington, Belmont, Walpole, Lexington, Gloucester, Marlboro, Weymouth, North Adams, Maynard, Mansfield, Randolph, Foxboro, Cohasset, Lenox, Chelsea, Brockton, Franklin, Provincetown, Canton, Stoughton, Braintree, and Wellesley. These engines are also in use in foreign water-works, as for instance at St. Petersburg, Honolulu, and Sydney. The new United States Navy is practically fitted out with Blake pumps, a partial list including the following vessels: Columbia, New York, Iowa, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Newark, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Massachusetts, Indiana, Maine, Puritan, Miantonomoh, Monadnock, Terror,
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 43: return to the Senate.—the barbarism of slavery.—Popular welcomes.—Lincoln's election.—1859-1860. (search)
It was delivered once before the election in Boston October 1, and after the election at Concord, where he was Emerson's guest, and also at Providence and Lowell; and on each of these three occasions he was waited upon after his return from the hall by companies of Wide-Awakes, to whom he replied with counsels for moderation in victory, and also for firm resistance to menaces of disunion. Works, vol. v. pp. 344-347, 350-356. The lecture was repeated the same autumn at other places,—as Foxborough and Woonsocket, R. I., and New Haven, Conn. Leaving home for Washington November 27, Sumner stopped in New York to repeat his lecture at Cooper Institute, where, with Mr. Bryant in the chair, it was received with the same favor as his address in the summer at the same place. The passage which held up Lafayette as steadfast against compromise was greeted with nine cheers. Weed's Life, vol. II. p. 308. Near the end of December, during the recess of Congress, he repeated it in Philad
History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904, Rev. L. M. Powers (search)
uating, he entered the Wesleyan Academy at Kent's Hill, Me., with the idea of becoming a Methodist minister. He read the works of Channing and Emerson, and became deeply interested. Early in life he heard Rev. Henry Blanchard preach, and the sermon proved to be the turning point in Mr. Powers' career. He decided to become a member of the Universalist Church and a preacher of its doctrines. He entered Tufts Theological School and took the regular two-years' course, devoting his time to hard study. Lacking the necessary funds to complete his education, he taught school for the purpose of securing money, and a year later obtained a position as city editor of the Atlantic City Times, of Atlantic City, N. J. He returned to Tufts in 1888 and finished his course, graduating with honors in 1890. He was at once called to pastorates at Mansfield and Foxboro, from which he came to Somerville. Rev. Mr. Powers resigned his pastorate in this city to accept a call to Grace Church, Buffalo.
History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904, History of the church (Supplementary.) (search)
n had no use for brains; they only needed ears and strength of will to keep awake. Needless to record, during this martyrdom the congregations dwindled until only the faithful few remained. In fact, all parish activities were affected by this lethargy. On the advent of Mr. Powers, the reaction was sudden, and to some seemed sensational; it was but the turn of the tide, which, having reached its lowest ebb, began once more to rise to its flood. Rev. L. M. Powers was preaching in Foxboro, Mass., when our parish called him to its pastorate, April 11, 1892. He accepted in a letter dated April 20, and preached his first sermon as pastor June 5 of the same year. He was officially installed October 9. A young man of exceptional ability, full of ideas and enthusiasm, his pastorate was a notable one. Numerous organizations were formed under his direction, the most prominent of which was the Men's Club. In fact, every age and both sexes were amply provided for, and the church s
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, I. List of officers from Massachusetts in United States Navy, 1861 to 1865. (search)
dit, Boston, Ward 1.Sweden.Mass.Mass.Dec. 13, 1864.Actg. Master's Mate.Alabama. Potomoc; Chocura. Paul Jones.North Atlantic. West Gulf. East Gulf.May 13, 1867.Hon. discharged.Actg. Master's Mate. Draper, Edgar L. R.,Mass.Mass.Mass.Apr. 14, 1863.Actg. Asst. Surgeon.Naumkeag.Mississippi.Nov. 30, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. Asst. Surgeon. Drew, Edwin O.,Mass.Mass.Mass.Sept. 1, 1864.Actg. Ensign.Midnight.South Atlantic.Aug. 18, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. Ensign. Drew, George H., Credit, Foxborough.Mass.Mass.Mass.Dec. 9, 1861.Actg. Master's Mate.Constellation.Mediterranean.Nov. 27, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. Ensign. Oct. 15, 1863.Actg. Ensign. Drummond, Thomas M.,-Mass.Mass.Nov. 13, 1862.Actg. Asst Surgeon.Bohio; Naubec; W. G. Anderson.West Gulf.Jan. 22, 1869.Hon. discharged.Actg. Passed Asst. Dec. 4, 1867.Actg. Passed Asst. Surgeon. Duly, Wilraot W., Credit, Cambridge.Me.Mass.Mass.Sept. 17, 1862.Actg. Ensign.Kanawha.West Gulf.Nov. 25, 1866.Hon. discharged.Surgeon. Actg. E
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