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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 1: Ancestry. (search)
nants of Montgomery's army, then hard pressed and on their retreat from Canada. In one of these regiments Sumner was a lieutenant,— healthful, active, and intelligent. By the invitation of his general officers, Schuyler and Arnold, he was induced to quit for a while his station in the line and enter the flotilla of gunboats, which those generals found it necessary to equip on Lake Champlain. An account of this flotilla may be found in Marshall's Life of Washington, Vol. III. pp. 4-10; Irving's Life of Washington, Vol. II. p. 384, ch. XXXIX. In this service, in which he was appointed captain, July 1, 1776, by General Arnold, he distinguished himself as commander of one of the armed vessels. On this account, by recommendation of the Board of War, which reported that in this service he had, in several actions, behaved with great spirit and good conduct, Congress voted, April 7, 1779, that he have a commission as captain in the army, to rank as such from July 1, 1776. Journals
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 2: Parentage and Family.—the father. (search)
iley, on South-Russell Street. Miss Jacob, at the time of her marriage, was living with Shepard Simonds, on the corner of May (Revere) and South-Russell Streets. She had, since leaving Hanover, been earning her livelihood with her needle, upon work received at her room. Crossing the street from the Simonds house, they were married by Justice Robert Gardner, in their new home, a frame house which they had hired, situated at the West End, on the southeast corner of May (Revere) and Buttolph (Irving) Streets, occupying a part of what is now the site of the Bowdoin school house. Here eight of their children, all but the youngest, Julia, were born. Mr. Sumner occupied this house, as a tenant, till 1825, or early in 1826, when, soon after his appointment as sheriff, he hired number sixty-three (then fifty-three) Hancock Street, opposite the site of the Reservoir. In 1830, he purchased number twenty Hancock Street, which was occupied at the time by Rev. Edward Beecher. He removed to thi
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 3: birth and early Education.—1811-26. (search)
Chapter 3: birth and early Education.—1811-26. Charles and Matilda, the eldest and twin children of Charles Pinckney and Relief Sumner, were born in Boston, Jan. 6, 1811. Their birthplace was the frame-house on the south-east corner of Revere (then May) and Irving (then Buttolph) Streets, the site of which is now occupied by the rear part of the Bowdoin Schoolhouse. The neighbors, who took a kindly interest in the event, remember that they weighed, at the time of birth, only three and a half pounds each, and were not dressed for some days. At first, the tiny babes gave little promise of living many hours; but, surviving the first struggle for existence, they soon began to thrive. The boy was retained by his mother, and the girl was provided with another nurse. The parents rejoiced in their first-born. To the father, whose heart was full of gladness, it seemed as if the whole town knew his good fortune as soon as he knew it himself. Indeed, children, as they came one after
History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904, Parish list (search)
C. A.25 Munroe Street Smith, Mr. and Mrs. D. A.8 Arlington Street Smith, Miss Grace31 Thurston Street Smith, Mrs. H. A.26 Flint Street Smith, Mrs. Ida 12 Woodbridge Street, Cambridge Smith, Miss Ida R. 12 Woodbridge Street, Cambridge Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Irving12 Sewall Street Southworth, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. 13 Webster Street Southworth, Miss Abbie13 Webster Street Spaulding, Mr. and Mrs. A. C.10 Putnam Street Spratt, Mrs. Lizzie D.16 Grant Street Staples, Mr. and Mrs. M. G.42 ProspecMrs. Irving12 Sewall Street Southworth, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. 13 Webster Street Southworth, Miss Abbie13 Webster Street Spaulding, Mr. and Mrs. A. C.10 Putnam Street Spratt, Mrs. Lizzie D.16 Grant Street Staples, Mr. and Mrs. M. G.42 Prospect Street Stevens, Miss Edith A. 11 Grant Street Stone, Mrs. H. H.69 Heath Street Story, Mr. and Mrs. O. L.Devroe Street, Arlington Stover, Miss Annie44 Highland Avenue Strout, Mr. and Mrs. C. O.17 Flint Street Studley, Mr. and Mrs. C. S.84 Boston Street Sturtevant, Mrs. Lydia A.31 Warren Avenue Sturtevant, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm .33 Warren Avenue Surrell, Mrs. Frances 59 Preston Road Sylvester, Mrs. Roscoe 28 Montrose Street Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. William 91 Glen Street Taylor, Miss Sar
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)
t Robinson, Mrs. Iona 32 Vinal Avenue Robinson, Marjory 32 Vinal Avenue Robinson, Edward32 Vinal Avenue Roffe, Myra 253 Medford Street Royal, Estelle 42 Columbus Avenue Rupprecht, Martha 160 Washington Street Rupprecht, Eda160 Washington Street Rupprecht, Robert 160 Washington Street Russell, Frank 89 Flint Street Saben, Alice 110 Pearl Street Saben, Nellie110 Pearl Street Sanborn, Eva 7 Hamlet Street Sault, Raymond 19 Arthur Street Shedd, Mrs. Sophia 19 Benedict Street Smith, Irving 12 Sewall Street Smith, Adalina 12 Sewall Street Smith, Grace31 Thurston Street Smith, Ida 12 Woodbridge Street, No. Cambridge Smith, Mrs. Ida12 Woodbridge Street, No. Cambridge Smith, Mrs. D. A.8 Arlington Street Smith, Vera13 Benedict Street Smith, Edna25 Munroe Street Smith, Myra25 Munroe Street Smith, Robert25 Munroe Street Snow, Esther25 Joseph Street Southworth, Abbie D.13 Webster Street Spaulding, Florence 44 Tufts Street Spofford, Helen9 Gilman Street Spratt, Mrs. L. D.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Literature as an art. (search)
instance, that his style is adequate to his needs, because the needs are immense, and Thoreau, at least, sometimes disdains effort. But the only American authors, perhaps, whose style is an elastic garment that fits all the uses of the body, are Irving and Hawthorne. This has no reference to the quality of their thought, as to which in Irving we feel a slight mediocrity; no matter, there is the agreeable style, and it does him all the service he needs. By its aid he reached his limit of exeIrving we feel a slight mediocrity; no matter, there is the agreeable style, and it does him all the service he needs. By its aid he reached his limit of execution, and we can hardly imagine him, with his organization, as accomplishing more. But in Hawthorne we see astonishing power, always easily expressed, and capable of indefinite expansion within certain lateral limits. His early solitude narrowed his affinities, and gave a kind of bloodlessness to his style; clear in hue, fine in texture, it is apt to want the mellow tinge which indicates a robust and copious life. Even such a criticism seems daring, in respect to anything so beautiful; and
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors, Hawthorne. (search)
ly have, for romantic purposes, a past; two hundred years being really quite enough to constitute antiquity. This was what his environment gave him, and this was much. But, after all, his artistic standard was his own: there was nobody except Irving to teach him any thing in that way; and Irving's work lay rather on the surface, and could be no model for Hawthorne's. Yet from the time when the latter began to write for The Token, at twenty-three, his powers of execution, as of thought, appeaIrving's work lay rather on the surface, and could be no model for Hawthorne's. Yet from the time when the latter began to write for The Token, at twenty-three, his powers of execution, as of thought, appear to have been full-grown. The quiet ease is there, the pellucid language, the haunting quality: these gifts were born in him; we cannot trace them back to any period of formation. And when we consider the degree to which they were developed, how utterly unfilled remains his peculiar throne; how powerless would be the accumulated literary forces of London, for instance, at this day, to produce a single page that could possibly be taken for Hawthorne's,--we see that there must, after all, be s
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 2 (search)
, to beg me, in the name of their king, to go on shore. And, when they saw that I paid no attention to them, they came to the ship in their canoes in countless number; many of them wearing pieces of gold on their breasts, and some with bracelets of pearl on their arms. V.—Columbus thinks himself near the earthly paradise. [from the same narrative. It was generally believed, in the time of Columbus, that the garden of Eden, or earthly paradise, still existed somewhere on the globe. Irving's Columbus (Appendix) gives an account of these views.] I have always read, that the world comprising the land and water was spherical, as is testified by the investigations of Ptolemy and others, who have proved it by the eclipses of the moon, and other observations made from east to west, as well as by the elevation of the pole from north to south. But I have now seen so much irregularity, as I have already described, that I have come to another conclusion respecting the earth; namely,
Rev. James K. Ewer , Company 3, Third Mass. Cav., Roster of the Third Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment in the war for the Union, Company G. (search)
3, 1862. Died, Andersonville, Ga. July 31, 1864, prisoner of war. Lucien M. Titus, Prescott, 28, s; butcher. Sept. 1, 1864. Disch. May 20, 1865. Unof. Oscar A. Titus, Prescott, 25, s; farmer. Sept. 1, 1864. Disch. May 20, 1865. Unof. William M. Tourtillotte, Prescott, 26; farmer. Sept. 1, 1864. Disch. My 20, 1865. Unof. Dennis Tracey, Lowell, 32, m; laborer. Aug. 21, 1862. Disch. disa. Jan. 18, 1864. Unof. Bradbury E. True, Boston, 31, s; carpenter. Oct. 31, 1862. Deserted, Dec. 2, 1862, New York city. William Twomey, Lowell, 18, s; laborer. Aug. 11, 1862. Disch. June 1, 1865. George H. Upton, Prescott, 22, as; farmer. Sept. 1, 1864. Disch, May 20, 1865. Marcus Vaughn, Irving, 24, m; mechanic. Sept. 17, 1864. .Disch. May May 20, 1865. Prior serv. Charles F. Warner, Prescott; 33 m; farmer. Sept. 1, 1864. Disch. May 25, 1865. Unof. George Wilson, Lowell, 21, s; laborer. June 12, 1862. Died, March 19, 1864. Richmond, Va. Unof.
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Appendix. (search)
tillery battalion. (See First regiment.) First Cavalry battalion (merged into Ninth Cavalry): Beale, Richard L. T., major; Johnson, John E., lieutenant-colonel. First Cavalry battalion Local Defense Troops: Browne, William M., colonel. First regiment Partisan Rangers. (See Sixty-second mounted infantry.) First Cavalry regiment: Brien, L. Tiernan, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Carter, R. Welby, major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Drake, James H., major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Irving, Charles R., major, lieutenant-colonel; Jones, William E., colonel; Lee, Fitzhugh, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Morgan, William A., major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Stuart, James E. B., colonel; Swann, Robert, major. First Infantry battalion regulars (Irish battalion): Bridgford, D. B., major; Munford, John D., major; Seddon, John, major. First Infantry battalion Local Defense Troops (Armory battalion): Ayres, Thomas H., major; Downer, William S., major; Ford, C. H., major. First
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