Show into info icv e Hall Fanie walk rt sr 4 al 1 IV x vu mac aa W 40 F y 4 1 k M 9 4 VW K 5 x 1 1 W aa X ir A LA faar C if c 6 J 6 cy by ELMO SCOTT WATSON there were unveiled in the hall of fame on the campus of L ew york urill anh errity busts ol of nine nice great americans it is a remarkable fact that of these nine immortals mortals who hale hae thus taken their places in this american valhalla seven were natives of the same state and five fire of them were graduates of the same uni university erdity insofar as massachusetts this year Is celebrating its tercentenary and honoring the men who helped adato her renown as a colony and a state the ceremony at the new york institution might properly be regarded as a part of the tercentenary celebration for those seven men all sprang from the soft coil of the old bay state and five of them were graduated from harvard the nine who were thus honored to in this years tears ceremony included two statesmen two historians an author a poet an educator an inventor and a jurist their names and their records of achievement are as follows john quincy adams was born in braintree Brain tree mass july 11 1707 1767 after graduation torn harvard he practiced law in massachusetts and first entered public life in 1794 when president washington appointed him minister to holland and two years later minister to portugal in 1707 1797 he became minister to prussia and at the end of ills his career in that post returned to massachusetts chu where he be was elected to the state senate in 1802 the next year he was elected to the united states senate president Mil madison dison appointed dm bim minister to russia in 1809 and he played nn an important part in arranging the treaty of pence peace which ended the war of 1812 between great britain and the united states adams was waa next appointed minister to england and after an of eight nears ears abroad he was called back to america to serve ns as secretary ecret ary of state under president monroe adams principal achievement its as secretary of state was the treaty with spain whereby florida was celpa to the united states for ZOO OW in ill the campaign of 1824 he was elected president over andrew jackson when the election was thrown into the lion hoube se of representatives but in the election of I 1 1828 jackson was the victor however the ex president did not long remain in private life in 1831 he was elected to congress where lie remained rL representing presentIng the same district of massachusetts achu until ills his death in wash ington february 23 george bancroft born in worcester mass october 3 1800 was us niso a 1 11 harvard arvard graduate after stud ln abroad he be selected history as liis ills special branch and soon became widely known both in europe r drope find and american as a historian and teacher the tha first volume of his greatest work history of the united states was published in when james K polk became president he appointed bancroft secretary of the navy find and his big greatest achievement in this position was to win the title of founder of the united states stales academy by establishing the training school for our future sea captains at annapolis na polls ud md bancroft died in washington january 17 1801 james fenimore cooper born in N J september 35 iso 1789 was tle me author who immortalized tile the Amer american lLan indian in ills his leather stoc blocking klug tales and whose sea stories revolutionized the literature of tile the sea one day while reading an all english novel lie he made a remark reman which has become a classic of would be authors 1 I believe I 1 could write a better story myself encouraged by his wife he attempted it and in sits bis first novel precaution was published anonymously it attracted attract sd d boire attention in england and it encouraged him to continue ills his w writing r iti nr I 1 th the result was the spy bubli islieb a leae arar later and during the winter of 22 thi american public awoke to the k 4 1 f y t 0 1 1 14 IN 0 w 4 I 1 00 al 1 t zi by ya aar tote fact that it possessed a novelist ot of its own cooper died in cooperstown Coopers town N Y september 14 1851 one phrase glie ghe me liberty or give me de death ath Is synonymous for the name of patrick henry the orator of the revolution corn born at studley va may 29 the future advocate of freedom was an indolent pupil in school and a failure in business but when he took up the study of law he found himself and soon became as one of the most brilliant lawyers in a tate state noted doted for its legal luminaries min ini aries narles by he had bad acquired renown as un an orator and this was increased in I 1 the famous 1 parsons I ir sons case when he be denied tile the right of the british king to abrogate acts of the colonial legislature henry was an influential member of the continental congress from 1771 N to and a signer feigner of the declaration of independence in lie he was chosen governor ot of virginia and served until 1769 1779 lie ile sat in the legislature from 1780 to 1784 again served its as governor bernor oer nor from 1784 to 1780 and once onca wore more from 1786 to 1790 1700 was a member of the state assembly ile he declined to serve in the constitutional convention and opposed the ratification of tile the constitution again in 1709 1799 he ran tor for the legislature and was elected but died in charlotte county tune june 6 1799 1709 before lie he could take office ellas eilas howe inventor ot of the sewing machine was another bay state product having been born in spencer MRs in ISM 1819 in 15 45 lie experimented with a lock stitch sewing machine and finally perfected it securing a patent in for years he vainly recognition of his indention tion both in tills this country and in england he sol sold ills his lights in for 50 pounds sterling while absent his patent was infringed upon by others but eventually the courts decided in blowes baior and after years of wretched poverty howe suddenly found himself film elf wealthy in it lie he erected a large sewing selving ti machine lachine factory at bridgeport conn where he died in jumes james russell rufsell lowell born in ID cambridge muss mass on february 22 1819 was one of the famous groups of writers ers which illch massachusetts gue gae to the nation luring during tile the middle halt half of tile the nineteenth century find and of them nil fill lowell was undoubtedly the most versatile having been graduated from IIa barard rard in lie immediately entered the harvard law school took ills his degier in 1840 and began to practice alter after beveral years abroad lowell returned to become a I 1 e ach C r I 1 in a harvard and to enter upon an epoch in it ills his life as a scholar and critic lie he became bec nine the first editor of tile newly established atlantic Mon monthly tilly in as 7 resigning in to become associated with the north american in lie he resigned that position in 1372 and again went abroad abroad where the amous english colleges of oxford and 0 ambridge conferred degrees decrees djoa him in 1877 he was named unites states minister to spain and in 1880 was transferred to england returning to america in on august 12 10 1691 he died in cambridge horace mann born in franklin mass may 4 1700 after his graduation from brown university became a teacher cr and then a lawyer ile he was a member of the massachusetts legislature from a 1827 to and from 1837 to 1848 served as secretary of the massachusetts board of education mann visited europe in 1813 18 13 and brought back with him reports on foreign el u school systems system which attracted wide attention due to his efforts the school system of massachusetts was entirely reorganized and became a model for ninny many other states from 18 as to 1853 mann served as a member of congress after ills his term was over lie became president of antioch college in ohio and served there until his death in eltory has preserved ills his lame fame as the founder of tile the normal school system in tills this country and father of the american public school system jolin john lothrop motley won his fame faille as a historian of a european country ile he was born in dorchester mass april 15 1814 and nas w as graduated torn harvard in 1831 lie then ert to germany to study and upon ills return to tills this country studied law although literature was more to ills his taste ua ile published an american novel in but it attracted little attention after a short career at the american legation in russia he returned to america again to serve a term in tile the legislature after ten years of hard labor during ill which lie he returned to europe rope and found it necessary to rewrite te much of that which lie had already written he published tits his history of the dutel dutch 1 in 1850 1856 and was ly acclaimed both lit in america and abroad along with these literary honors came a call to public service lit mid from 1801 1861 to he served a as american minister to austila Au stlla and from to 1870 to great britain motley lied died in dorchester england may 2 19 9 1877 A statesman a writer an educator mid and inventor unil and two hist historians suel suck was the contribution of massachusetts to the 1010 hull hall of 0 fame sime ceremonies to make it complete slie she also provided a great jurist joseph story lie ile was waa horn ut tit marblehead Maible head mass in 1779 harvard graduated him la in 1793 null and salem saw him begin practice as a lawyer in tsoi lie ho was elected to congress in 1808 and in 1811 became speaker tp eaker of 0 the iio bouc ute soon afterwards Pios ries ident madison up appointed pointed him ass associate justice of the supreme court of 0 the united states and dining its his long career of crt 34 years on that high tribunal he assisted in the development of american constitutional law and in fixing the status of the american admiralty patent and equity jurisprudence uce IS II died in cambridge in 18 1615 |