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Show (?r m i.-i-. vj " a wir-y " wvri) fjXLttiZCK HXmr .-n ? yJ-AM&5F;tf3J.KU. i.crwzj, t tjoiar QimrcrADAirJ i nfe -X by Charles Keck fe-j : 6yAan CarJc ; Ig4 6y JTdjnund T.Quitvx i Wlfir V-o& World rhobes IKVTy V T By ELMO SCOTT WATSON tECENTLY there were unveiled un-veiled In the Hall of Fame on the campus of New York university, busts of nine great Americans. Amer-icans. It Is a remarkable fact that of these nine lm-mortuls lm-mortuls who have thus taken their places In this American Valhalla, seven were natives of the same state and five of them were graduates of the same university. Insofar as Massachusetts this year la celebrating Its tercentenary and honoring hon-oring the men who helped add to 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 soil of the Old Bay state and five of them were graduated from Harvard ! The nine who were thus honored In this year's ceremony Included two statesmen, two historians, an author, a poet, an educator, an Inventor and a jurist. Tlielr names and their records rec-ords of achievement are as follows: John Qulncy Adams was born in Eraintree, Mass., July 11, 1707. After graduation fom 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 he became minister min-ister to Prussia, aod at the end of his career in that post returned to Massachusetts Massa-chusetts where he was elected to the state senate In 1S02. The next year he was elected to the United States senate. President Madison appointed him minister to Russia in 1809 and he played an Important part In arranging arrang-ing the treaty of peace which ended the War of 1812 between Great Britain Brit-ain and the United States. Adams was next appointed minister to England, Eng-land, and after an absence of eight years abroad he was called back to America to serve as secretary of state tinder President Monroe. Adams' principal achievement as secretary sec-retary of state was the treaty with Spain, whereby Florida was ceded to the United States for $5,000,000. In the campaign of 1824 he was elected President over Andrew Jackson when the election was thrown Into the house of representatives, but In the election of 1828 Jackson was the victor. However, How-ever, the ex-President did not long remain re-main In private life. Iu 1S31 he was elected to congress where he remained, representing the same district of Massachusetts, Mass-achusetts, until his death in Washington Wash-ington February 23, 1S48. George Bancroft, born in Worcester, Mass., October 3, 1SO0, was also a Harvard graduate. After studying abroad he selected history as his special branch and soon became widely wide-ly known, both In Europe and American Amer-ican as a historian and teacher. The first volume of his greatest work, "History of the United States," was published In 1S34. When James K. Polk became President he appointed Bancroft secretary of the navy and his greatest achievement In this position posi-tion was to win the title of "founder of the United States Naval academy" by establishing the training school for our future sea captains at Annapolis, An-napolis, Md. Bancroft died in Washington, Wash-ington, January 17, 1S91. James Fenimore Cooper, born In Burlington, N. J September 15, 1789, was the author who immortalized the American Indian in his "Leather-stocking "Leather-stocking Tales," and whose sea stories revolutionized the literature of the sea. One day while reading an English novel he made a remark which has become a classic of would-be authors: au-thors: "I believe I could write a better story myself." Encouraged by his wife, he attempted It, and In 1S20 his first novel "Precaution" was published pub-lished anonymously. It attracted some attention in England and it encouraged encour-aged him to continue his writing. The result was "The Spy," published a year later, and "during the winter of 1S21-22 1S21-22 the American public awoke to the tar ;J rK:' TraSiP k h irft fWjV ! : V . yij by Victor Saiyatore y Chares JiecM fact that it possessed a novelist of Its own." Cooper died in Cooperstown, N. Y., September 14, 1851. One phrase, "Give me liberty or give me death !" Is synonymous for the name of Patrick Henry, "the Orator Ora-tor of the Revolution." Born at Stud-ley, Stud-ley, Va., May 29, 1736, the future advocate ad-vocate of freedom was an indolent pupil pu-pil in school and a failure in business. But when he took up the study of law he fouDd himself and soon became known as one of the most brilliant lawyers law-yers in a state noted for Its legal luminaries. lu-minaries. By 17G3 he had acquired renown as an orator and this was increased in-creased in the famous "Parson's Case" when he denied the right of the British Brit-ish king to abrogate acts of the colonial co-lonial legislature. Henry was an Influential member of the Continental congress from 1774 to 1776 and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. In 1776 he was chosen chos-en governor of Virginia and served until un-til 1779. He sat in the legislature from 17S0 to 1784, again served as governor from 1784 to 1786, and once more, from 17S6 to 1790, was a member mem-ber of the state assembly. He declined de-clined to serve In the Constitutional convention and opposed the ratification ratifica-tion of the Constitution. Again in 1799 he ran for the legislature and was elected but died in Charlotte county, June 6, 1799, before he could take office. Ellas Howe, Inventor of the sewing machine, was another Bay State product, prod-uct, having been born in Spencer, Mass., in 1S19. In 1843-45 he experimented ex-perimented with a lock-stitch sewing machine and finally perfected It, securing se-curing a patent in 1846. For years he vainly sought recognition of his Invention, Inven-tion, both In this country and in England, Eng-land, where he sold his rights in 1847 for 50 pounds sterling. While absent abroad his patent was Infringed upon by others, but eventually the courts decided in Howe's favor, and after years of wretched poverty Howe suddenly sud-denly found himself wealthy. In 18i3 he erected a large sewing machine factory fac-tory at Bridgeport, Conn., where he died in 1867. James Russell Lowell, born In Cambridge, Cam-bridge, Mass., on February 22, 1SK), was one of the famous groups of writers writ-ers which Massachusetts gave to the nation during the middle half of the Nineteenth century, and of them all Lowell was undoubtedly the most versatile. ver-satile. Having been graduated from Harvard In 1S38 he immediately entered en-tered the Harvard law school, took his degree In 1840 and began to practice. After several years abroad Lowell returned to become a teachor In Harvard Har-vard nnd to enter upon an epoch In his life as a scholar and critic. He became the first editor of the newly established Atlantic Monthly in 1S07, resigning in 1SG1 to become associated associ-ated with the North American Review in 1S64. He resigned that position in 1S72 and again went abroad, where the famous English colleges of Oxford and Cambridge conferred degrees upon him. In 1877 he was named United States minister to Spain and in 18S0 was transferred to England, returning to America in 1885. On August 12, 1891, be died in Cambridge. Horace Mann, born In Franklin. Mass., May 4, 1796, after his graduation grad-uation from Brown university became a teacher, and then a lawyer. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature legis-lature from 1827 to 1837, and from 1837 to 1848 served as secretary of the Massachusetts board of education. Mann visited Europe lu 1843 and brought back with him reports on foreign for-eign school systems which attracted wide attention. Due to his efforts the school system of Massachusetts was entirely reorganized and became a model for many other states. From 1848 to 1853 Mann served as a member mem-ber of congress. After his term was over he became president of An-tioch An-tioch college In Ohio and served there until his death In 1S59. History has preserved his fame as the founder of the normal school system In this country coun-try and "father" of the American public pub-lic school system. John Lothrop Motley won his fame as n historian of a European country. He was born in Dorchester, Mass., April 15, 1814, and was graduated gradu-ated fom Harvard in 1831. He then went to Germany to study, and upon his return to this country studied law, although literature was more to his taste. He published an American novel nov-el in 1S39, but it attracted little attention. at-tention. After a short career at the American legation In Russia he returned re-turned to America again to serve a term in the Massachusetts legislature. After ten years of hard labor, during dur-ing which he returned to Europe and found it necessary to rewrite much of that which he had already written, he published his "History of the Dutch Republic" in 1S56 and was immediately immediate-ly acclaimed both In America and abroad. Along with these literary honors came a call to public service, and from 1SG1 to 1SG7 he served as American minister to Austria, and from 1S69 to 1S70 to Great Britain. Motley died In Dorchester, England, May 29, 1877. ' A statesman, a writer, an educator and Inventor and two historians such was the contribution of Massachusetts to the 1930 Hall of Fame ceremonies. To make It complete, she also provided a great jurist Joseph Story. He was born at Marblehead, Mass., In 1779. Harvard graduated him in 1798 and Salem saw him begin practice as a lawyer In 1S01. He was elected to congress In 180S and In 1S11 became speaker of the house. Soon afterwards President Madison appointed him associate Justice Jus-tice of the Supreme Court of the United Unit-ed States, and during his long career of 34 years on that high tribunal ho assisted in the development of American Amer-ican constitutional law aud in fixing the status of the American admiralty, patent and equity Jurisprudence. Ut died In Cambridge In 1843. I |