| Show int ahe flail fame I 1 aj 3 fp at 1 a A A q q 00 r e N Z n n cl wk a ah yida way id photos IP lav ay t by ELMO SCOTT WATSON E there were un veiled belled in the flail of rame fame on the campus ot of new york university busts of nine great americans logans it Is a remarkable fact that of these nine immortals imm m 0 atals who have thus 1 taken ken their places in tills this american valhalla seven were natives of the same state and five of them were graduates of th the e same university insofar as massachusetts this year Is celebrating its tercentenary and honoring the men who helped add to her renown as a colony and a state tho the carem ceremony cei emony ODY at tile tho new york in institution ution might properly be regarded as a part 0 of f tile the tercentenary celebration for those seven men till sprang front from tile the soil of the old pay hay state and five of thern were ivere graduated graduate from IIan aidt the nine who were mere thus thui honored in tilts years sears ceremony cei emony included t two W statesmen Stu state mon two ti 0 nn author auth 0 to a poet tin educator nn an inventor anil and a jurist their alic li nims anil i lid rec of tire me as follows john quincy adams was ns bum born in an Brain braintree tree miss masl july 11 1707 after graduation torn foin harvard lie practiced law in massachusetts ond first entered public life hie in 1701 when president appointed him minister to holland and two years eais later minister tr to portugal Poi in 17 1707 07 lip lie became m minister in to prussia and ut at the end of his career in that post returned to massachusetts chu where lie was pleated to the state senate in ISO tho the next year ejr he was elected to the united states senate semite president millson appointed him minister to russia in ili 1809 and lie he planed tin nn important part in arranging the treaty of pence peace which ended the war of 1812 between great britain and the united states adams was wt next appointed minister to em lang land and after an absence of eight years abroad lie was called back to america to serve sene as secretary secie tary of state under president monroe adams principal achievement as secretary of state was the treaty with spain whereby florida was ceded to tile the united states tor for in the campaign of 1824 he was elected president over oer andrew jackson when the election was thrown into the house of but in tho the election of 1828 jaclson jackson was the victor however the ex president did not long remain in private life in 1831 he wits was elected to congress where lie he remained re representing I 1 resenting the same district of massachusetts achu until ills death in washington february 23 george bancroft born in worcester mas blass october 3 1800 was ulso also a Il arvard graduate after studying 9 abroad he selected selo cled history as tits his branch and soon became wide ly known both in europe and amerlean american as ai a historian and teacher tha first volume alume of ills greatest work Ill history story of the united states was published Ishi ed in 1814 when james K polk beame president lie appointed bancroft secretary of the navy und and ills greatest achievement in tills this position was to win the title of founder of the united states naval academy 1 by establishing the training school for our future so sea D captains at annapolis iia polls md hd bancroft died in washington january 17 james fenimore cooper born in burlington N J september 15 1789 was tile author who immortalized the american Ampil can indian in tits hla leather enles and whose sea stories revolutionized the literature of the sea one day while rending reading an berj ich novel lie made tt a remark which hia has become a classic of would be authors 1 I believe I 1 could write a boter better story myself encouraged by his wife lie he nt attempted tempted it and in 1 S 0 ills his first novel ancl precaution was wai published anonymously it attracted some in ingland england and it enczur aged tim him to tn continue ills writing the result w a the spy published a year later and a 1 I during 1 the tha winter of lat er a the public awoke to the 0 a W j 1 I t 0 3 71 7 1 Z I 1 q 1 1 7 J A i f laa y victor esy chares seca fact that it possessed a novelist ol of its own cooper fed died in cooperstown Coopers town N Y september 14 isai IS il one phrase give ghe me liberty or give me death I 1 la Is synonymous for the name of patrick henry tile the orator of the revolution coin born at studley va alay 20 the future nil nd of freedom was an all indolent pupil in school and a 0 fiill uie e in it business but when lie he tools took up the study of law lie he found himself and soon became known as one of the most brilliant law yora in I 1 a state noted for its legal luminaries lui ini I 1 min ni aries hy by 1703 lie till hud acquired renown us as tin an orator and tills this wits was increased in famous parsons case when lie dented denied the right of the british king to abrogate acts act of the colonial legislature henry was an influential member of the continental congress from 1774 to 1770 and a signer of the declaration of independence in 1778 1770 lie was chosen governor of virginia and served until til 1779 1770 lie ile sat in the legislature from 1780 to 1784 again served as governor from to 1780 end and once OIK O wore from 1786 to 1700 was a member of the state assembly lie ile declined to serve in the constitutional convention and opposed tile the ratification of the constitution again in 1709 ile he ran for the legislature and was elected but died in charlotte county june 6 1700 before he could take office ullas ellas howe inventor of the sewing machine was another boy bay state product having been born in spencer mass blass in 1810 1819 in 1813 46 lie experimented with a lock stitch sewing machine and finally dually perfected it so se curing a patent in 1840 for years bears he v sought recognition of ills his invention II 11 t I 1 on both lu in this country and in ling im land he sold his rights lights in 1817 for 50 pounds sterling while absent abroad tits lita patent was infringed upon by others but eventually tile the courts decided in ilovea favor and after years of wretched poverty howe suddenly found himself wealthy thy in lie he erected a large sewing machine macli lne factory at bridgeport conn where he dle died in 1807 lames Ii lowell low ell lorn born in ili cambridge mass mas un on february 22 1811 wai one of the famous groups of writers ers which massachusetts gave gae to tile the nation during the middle half of tile nineteenth century and of them all al lowell was undoubtedly the most versatile er having been graduated from Il harvard arvard to in 1113 11 13 lie he immediately en the harvard law sel tool took his fits degree in 1830 1810 and beg beann rin to practice after several years abroad lowell returned to become a teacher in harvard and to enter upon an all epoch in tits his life fire ns its a scholar and critic lie he became the first editor of tile newly es established At atlantic monthly in 1857 1957 resigning in to become associated with the north american review in lie ile resigned that position in 1872 and again went abroad where the famous english colleges of oxford and cambridge conferred deg upon him in 1877 ili lie was nas named united states minister to spain and lu ili was tran transferred berred fe to england Un gland returning to america in 1885 on august ILI 12 1591 lie he died in cambridge horace mann born in franklin mass slay may 4 1790 after ills graduation from brown university became a teacher and then a lawyer lie ile wail was a member of the massachusetts le legislature gle from 1827 to to 1837 and front from 1837 to 1848 1843 served a as 1 secretary of the massachusetts boar blaid d of education mann visited europe in 1843 and brought back with him film reports on oil foreign el n school systems 83 sterna which attracted wide attention due to its his efforts the school system ot of massachusetts was wai entirely reorganized and became it a model for many other states aro dioro m 1818 1848 to 1853 1833 7 mann served as a member of congress after his term teim was over 01 er lie he berame president pios ident of antioch college in ohio and served there until ills his dent death in 1559 1859 history Ill story line ims pre sered ills his fame as tile founder of the normal school system la in till this country and father of the american pub lie lic school system john lothrop motley won his fame its as a historian of a Buro european country ile he was barnin dorchester mass april 15 1814 and wits was bradu abed forn harvard in 1831 ile he then went to germany to study and upon ills return to this country studied law although literature wa haq more to lili lil taste ile ho published an american novel in 1830 but it attracted little nt at tent lon after a short career at the american legation tn in russia lie he returned to america again to servo serve a n term in ili tile the massachusetts legislature after ten years of hard labor during which lie he returned to europe and found it necessary to rewrite much of that which lie he had already written ho he published his history of the dutch republic in fit 18 1838 and was immediate ly acclaimed both in america and abroad abinad along these literary honors tame came a call to public service and from 1801 to 1807 he served ns its american minister to austria la and from to 1870 to rest britain motley died lu in dorchester Dorc liester may 1 10 9 1877 A statesman nian a writer an educator and inventor and two hIst historians such was the contribution of massachusetts to the 1000 1030 halt hall of fame ceremonies to malto it complete she also provided it a groat great jurist joseph story ile he was wag born nt at muss mass in 1770 1771 harvard graduated blin in ili 1703 and salem saw him be besan in practice as aa a lawyer in 1801 ile he was elected to congress in 1809 and in 1811 became speaker of the house soon scon afterwards president madison appointed liliu lafin associate justice of tile the supreme court of tile the unit pd ed states state and during his fits tong long career of 24 t geors on that high tribunal lie ha assisted in the development dc of amerlean american law baw and in fixing the status of the american patent and equity jurisprudence 04 H died in cambridge in ll 11 |
