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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
n; 709 brick and stone and 67 wooden buildings burned; loss $70,000,000; nearly 65 acres burned over; fourteen lives lost......Nov. 9-10, 1872 Legislature meets in extra session to devise means of relief for Boston......Nov. 19, 1872 William A. Richardson appointed Secretary of the Treasury......March 17. 1873 Oakes Ames, M. C., father of the Credit Mobilier, dies (aged sixty-nine)......May 8, 1873 Massachusetts Normal Art School at Boston opened......May 8, 1873 Charlestown. Brighton, and West Roxbury annexed to Boston by vote at election held.......Oct. 7, 1873 Hoosac tunnel completed......Nov. 27, 1873 Prof. Louis J. R. Agassiz, scientist, born 1807; dies at Cambridge......Dec. 14, 1873 United States Senator Charles Sumner, born in Boston, 1811, dies at Washington......March 11, 1874 Governor Washburn, elected United States Senator to succeed Sumner, resigns executive office to Lieut.-Gov. Thomas Talbot......April 30, 1874 Bursting of a reservoir dam
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whitney, Frederic Augustus 1812-1880 (search)
Whitney, Frederic Augustus 1812-1880 Clergyman; born in Quincy, Mass., Sept. 13, 1812; graduated at Harvard College in 1833 and at its Divinity School in 1838; was pastor at Brighton, Mass., in 1843-59. He was the author of Historical sketch of the old Church at Quincy; Biography of James Holton, etc. He died in Brighton, Mass., Oct. 21, 1880. Whitney, Frederic Augustus 1812-1880 Clergyman; born in Quincy, Mass., Sept. 13, 1812; graduated at Harvard College in 1833 and at its Divinity School in 1838; was pastor at Brighton, Mass., in 1843-59. He was the author of Historical sketch of the old Church at Quincy; Biography of James Holton, etc. He died in Brighton, Mass., Oct. 21, 1880.