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Show TODAY IN HISTORY I SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1910. The Physlclan-Patrlot. Today Is tho birthday of Joseph Warren, War-ren, the physlclan-patrlot of tho revolution, revolu-tion, who wus born at Roxbury, Mass., on June 1J. 1711. 'Descended from a sturdy stock of New Knglunders, dating back to tho middle of tho seventeenth century. Dr. Warion, when still a young man. was greatly Interested In the efforts of the colonists to throw olf the yoke of England. Eng-land. At tho llrst sound of the war tocsin he rushed to tho front to die for his people's liberties. The poet has paid thc following irlbuo to him: "So Wnrrcn stood on Bunker Hill at eve. And saw amid thc battlo's blare ariso Thc futurc'a glory and thc land's rc-prlovc! rc-prlovc! And so ho died with triumph In his eyes. God, in new perils, send us such as he, The gentlest knight of freedom's chivalry." chiv-alry." Warren first came Into prominence In the early stages of tho agitation through articles he prepared for tho Boston papers, pa-pers, which were full of patriotism and assisted materially In shaping the affairs af-fairs of tho time. He was present at all of tho town meetings held In Boston, from the arrival of tho British troops In October. 176S. to their removnl In March. 1770. One of the Tory pamphleteers pamphle-teers stylod him "One of our most bawling demagogues and voluminous writers Is a crazy doctor." Of the committee of safety, chosen thc following year. Warren was mnde chairman, chair-man, and under his direction Immediate stops wero taken for thc public defense. When the meeting was arranged for In the Old South church, and the British officers declared that any one who would dare address the rebels would surely lose his life. Warron wan not faltered by the threat. Tic did nddrcss the jiatrlots. nnd while moro thnn forty British officers were present, who hissed I ho speaker from the steps of tho pulpit, no ono had courage enough to lay their hands on him or prevent the finishing of his address. ad-dress. In March. 1772. ho delivered tho anniversary anni-versary oration on thc Boston massacre, and during tho next two years he was active In co-operation with Samuel Adams, and when. In August, 1774. that leader went (o attend the continental congress con-gress at Philadelphia, tho leadership of tho party Jn Boston devolved upon Dr. Warren. Dr. Warren's paper, known as the "Suffolk "Suf-folk Resolve." which was unnnlmouslv adopted, placed Massachusetts In nn attitude at-titude of rebellion, and a copy of thc "resolves" was- forwarded to the conti nental congress. It was Dr. warren w h, upon obsorvlng thc movoment of tho British troops, sent William Dawes and Paul Revere on their famous rides. When he heard of tho firing at Lexington, he left his patientH In charge of Ills assistant, assist-ant, and rode oft to the scene of ac- UDurlng the next six weeks ho was Indefatigable In-defatigable In urging on the mllllnry operations op-erations of the Now England colonic.. On Juno lfi ho prosldcd over tho provincial congress and passed the night In tlio transaction of public business. The next morning ho mot thc committee of safety at General Ward's hcadqunrtors on the Cambridge common, and about noon, hearing thnt tho British troops had landed at Charleston, he rode over to Bunker HIt'ls said that both Putnam nnd F'res-cott F'res-cott successively signified their reodlnoHS to take orders irom him. but ho refused, saving that ho had como as a volunteer aide to take a lesson In warfare under such well-trained officers. At the final struggle near, Prescott s redoubt, as ho was endeavoring to rally ih militia, he-was he-was struck In tho head by a mtiskoi ball and Instantly killed. The British General Gen-eral Gage declared that his fall was "worth that of live hundred ordinary Dr. Warren closed his "Boston mas-sncre.V mas-sncre.V speech with the toov;nf; m-trlotlc m-trlotlc utterance: "May th s Almighty Being graciously preside In all our councils! coun-cils! Mav Ho direct us to such meapuros as Ho Himself shall approve and be pleased to bless! May we over he a people peo-ple favored of God! May our land be . .1 land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in thc whole oarth. until tho last shock of time shall bury the empires of tho world In one common undistinguished ruin!" Juno 11 is the birthday of Ell Thayer, educator and Inventor (1819): Augustus H. Garland, attorney eenpral under Cleveland (1832), and W 111am Robert Brooks, thc astronomer (mi). Tt Is ; the dato of the death of Roger Bacon 02Wi' George T. of England ( 1727). and Sir John Franklin MS47). On June 11. 1500. Henry VTTI. married Catherine of Aragon; the mad parliament assembled In !2oS, and WAlker. the flllbuslorCr. landed In Nicaragua Nica-ragua In 1S55. |