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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, May (search)
n of one company which preceded them on Tuesday, they have been on duty for several days past.--National Intelligencer, May 3. Governor Andrew, the Mayors of Lowell and Lawrence, and others, met at the State House, in Boston, Mass., for the purpose of identifying the bodies of the Massachusetts soldiers killed in Baltimore. Several articles which were the property of the deceased were exhibited, but failing to identify the bodies by these, the company proceeded to the vault beneath King's Chapel, where the coffins were opened. The first corpse was at once recognized as Sumner H. Needham of Lawrence, by two of his brothers. The second was recognized as that of Addison 0. Whitney of the Lowell City Guards, by three of his intimate friends. He was reported as among the missing when the regiment reached Washington. He died from a shot in the left breast. He was a spinner in the Middlesex Mills, and has a sister at Lowell. The third body proved to be that of Luther C. Ladd of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Edes, Henry Herbert, 1849- (search)
Edes, Henry Herbert, 1849- Historian; born in Charlestown, Mass., March 29, 1849; is a member of many historical societies, and the author of History of the Harward Church in Charlestown; Historical sketch of Charlestown; editor of Wyman's genealogies and estates of Charlestown; Foote's annals of King's Chapel, Boston, etc.; and a contributor to the Memorial history of Boston.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Unitarians, (search)
Unitarians, Frequently termed Socinians from Laelius Socinus, who founded a sect in Italy about 1546. In America Dr. James Freeman, of King's Chapel, Boston, in 1783, removed from the Prayer book of common prayers all reference to the Trinity or Deity and worship of Christ; his church became distinctly Unitarian in 1787. In 1801 the Plymouth Church declared itself Unitarian. Dr. William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) was the acknowledged head of this church until his death. The American Unitarian association was formed May 24, 1825; headquarters at Boston, Mass. The Western conference organized 1852, and a national Unitarian conference at New York City, April 5, 1865. Reports for 1900 showed: 550 ministers, 459 churches, and 71,000 members.
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 1: (search)
er. He served as one of the committee of safety during the Revolution; and died in 1808, aged 79 years. He was the son of Joshua Jacobs of Scituate, who married Mary James in 1726. His father was David Jacobs, who settled in Scituate as early as 1688, and was a schoolmaster, and a deacon in the church. and Hannah (Hersey) Jacobs of Hanover, April 25, 1810,--a lady of strong mind, of an amiable disposition, and of graceful bearing. They resided in Hancock Street, and were attendants of King's Chapel, of which Mr. Sumner was for some time the clerk, and of which the Rev. James Freeman, D. D., the Rev. F. W. P. Greenwood, D. D., and afterwards the Rev. Ephraim Peabody, D. D., were the eloquent pastors. Charles Sumner, whose name is intimately associated with the stirring political events as well as with the literature of the country for the last thirty years, and whose life and public services this work is intended to commemorate, was the oldest son of Charles Pinckney and Relief (
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 3: (search)
s. On leaving college, at the age of nineteen years, Charles Sumner had a well-developed, manly form, a clear and resonant voice, and a character of unimpeachable integrity. His health was excellent, his aspiration lofty. He at once commenced upon a course of private study, reviewing carefully his college text-books, extending his knowledge of the modern languages, and his course of English reading. lie listened on the sabbath to the eloquent discourses of the Rev. Dr. Greenwood at King's Chapel, and occasionally heard the polished sentences of Edward Everett on the platform, and the solid arguments of Rufus Choate and Daniel Webster at the bar. His father's position as high sheriff of the county gave him ready access to the society of the leading lawyers of the day, and naturally inclined him to adopt the law as his profession. Whether at this period he read Mr. Garrison's uncompromising Liberator, established on the 1st of January, 1831, or sympathized with the rising pulsebe
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 19: (search)
r 19: Mr. Sumner's House at Washington. his love of art. last Sickness and death. obsequies at Washington. meeting of the General Court. meeting at Faneuil Hall. remarks of J. B. Smith. remains at the Doric Hall. services at King's Chapel. at Mount Auburn. personal Appearance of Mr. Sumner. religious Views. his works. his style. his integrity. his consistency. his statesmanship and learning. his fame. In the long roll of martyrs in the cause of liberty, the name o Charles Sumner, you gave us your life; we give you our hearts. Above the casket was suspended a crown, beneath which floated a white dove holding an olive-branch. At about half-past 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon, the remains were borne to King's Chapel, which was tastefully hung in black and decorated with costly The body of Charles Sumner lying in State, in Doric Hall, State House, Boston. flowers, when appropriate funeral services were performed by the Rev. Henry W. Foote, the pastor.
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 3: (search)
Addison O. Whitney, and Sumner H. Needham, who were killed in Baltimore on the 19th of April, reached Boston. Even then the names of the dead were not positively known. The bodies were properly received, and placed in the receiving-vault at King's Chapel. That same afternoon, the Governor wrote to Colonel Jones, of the Sixth Regiment,— Mr. Merrill S. Wright arrived at Boston this afternoon in charge of the bodies of three Massachusetts soldiers who fell at Baltimore. They were receivetaff and the Executive Council, where we took them in charge, and, under the escort of the corps of Independent Cadets, bore them through our streets, thronged by sympathizing citizens, and placed them in the Vassall tomb, beneath the ancient King's Chapel, at the corner of Tremont and School Streets. There they remain, subject to the orders of those friends who have the right to decide their final disposition. But it would be most grateful to the Executive Department, in co-operation with tho
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eleventh: his death, and public honors to his memory. (search)
following may be given as a nearly literal translation: Humanity and Justice Mourn and will mourn Thee, O Sumner, most renowned Fosterer of Justice! Justice, on account of thy most pure life Among the base; Humanity, in that she never was a stranger to Thee. Thou rejoicest in the end of labors and the beginning of Immortality. O Happy, Blessed, and Fortunate One, In such a Death that none like Thee remains. Rising to Glory, Hail! Viii. At half-past 2, the procession moved to King's Chapel. On entering, preceding the Mayor were four men who bore a massive cross nine feet in height, composed of calla lilies, camellias, lilies of the valley, violets and other exotics. At the base, in a bed of white violets, were the words: A tribute from his native city and home. Impressive ceremonies were held. After the response from the choir, at the close of the special invocation— Almighty and ever-living God, we fly to Thee as our eternal refuge; we rest ourselves upon Thee, the
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Viii. (search)
Viii. At half-past 2, the procession moved to King's Chapel. On entering, preceding the Mayor were four men who bore a massive cross nine feet in height, composed of calla lilies, camellias, lilies of the valley, violets and other exotics. At the base, in a bed of white violets, were the words: A tribute from his native city and home. Impressive ceremonies were held. After the response from the choir, at the close of the special invocation— Almighty and ever-living God, we fly to Thee as our eternal refuge; we rest ourselves upon Thee, the Rock of ages, etc.—they sang Montgomery's hymn, Servant of God, well done. The benediction followed, and the services closed with the playing of the funeral march of Mendelssohn as the assemblage moved slowly from the church. Of the grand procession to Mount Auburn, the Daily Globe said: The absence of any great military or civic display would have impressed an intelligent foreigner as a strange thing in a funeral ceremony of a gre
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The Protestant churches of Cambridge. (search)
hurch was formed in the college, with the assistance of the pastor and delegates of the First Church. All was done in friendliness, but it was a serious withdrawal of men of consequence, and the church must have felt it. The services of the University church were discontinued after the resignation of Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody. But a much sadder experience came fifteen years later, in 1829, when the church separated from the parish and the meeting-house. It was more than forty years after King's Chapel, in Boston, had become a Unitarian church. Other churches had adopted the new views. At last the crisis came here. The majority of the parish dismissed Dr. Holmes, and the church went out with him. Some members remained in the old house, but the church, acting as a church in a religious point of view, having the ordinances administered and other religious offices performed, went out with the pastor. There were, then, under the decision of the Supreme Court, the church as a purely rel
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