Show ila tl I 1 the hall AL 77 I 1 rl N V IV L k 2 4 17 1 P M S OA 2 2 we fi t zo hw T W ald 7 by C ELMO 1140 SCOTT WATSON there were unveiled jn in the hall of fame on the campus of new york university busts of nine great americans S it Is n remarkable fact that of these nine immortals who IV ho have thus taken 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 Is celebrating its tercentenary and honoring the men who helped add to her renown as a colony and a state tho the ceremony at the new york institution might properly be regarded as a part of the tercentenary celebration por for those seven men all sprang from the soll soil of the old bay state and five of them were graduated from Harv harvard ardt the nine who were thus honored in this years ceremony included two sia statesmen two historians an author aj a poet an educator au ai in lav 1 i jurist th pirir ear blames 68 aties and records of achievement are as follows fol lowi john quincy adams was born in braintree Brain tree mass blass july 11 1767 after graduation bom harvard he practiced law in massachusetts and first entered public life in 1794 1704 when president washington appointed him minister to holland and two years later minister to portugal in 1707 lie he became minister to prussia and at the end of his career in that post returned to massachusetts chu ebu where lie was elected to the state senate in 1802 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 the treaty of peace which ended the war of 1812 between great britain and the united states adams was next appointed minister to england and after an absence of eight years abroad he was called back to to america to serve as secretary of state under president monroe adams principal achievement as secretary of state was the treaty with spain whereby florida was ceded to to the united states for W in the campaign of 1324 lie he wits cwi i elected president over andrew jackson when the election waz was abro am into the house of representatives but in the election of 1828 jacon wai wag the victor how ever the ex president nt did not longre main in private life in iiii he wits was elected to congress where lie remained representing district di of massachusetts achu nelva until his benth in washington washingto n february george I 1 Banc bancroft reit horn born in worcester mass october 3 1800 was RISO also 1 harvard rd graduate gradi sate after studying abroad lie be selected history as aa ill hl special blanchand bran chand soon become widely known both in europe and amerlean american as a historian and teather teach vr th first volume of his greatest work history of the united states was published in 1834 t when james IC polk became president lie he appointed bancroft secretary of the navy and his greatest achievement in tills this position was to win the title of foun founder der of the united states naval acad academy by the training scho school 01 for our future sea at an all na polls md bancroft died in wash ington january 17 1891 james fenamore Fent more cooper born in N J september Septem bei 15 1789 1780 wits waa tle author who the american Amerl ran indian in his ag tales and whose sea stories revolutionized the literature of the sea one day while reading an engli english sh novel he made a remark which has become a classic of would be authors 1 I believe I 1 could write a better story myself En encouraged coura md av by his bis wife he be attempted lt it and in 1820 his hl first novel precaution was published anonymously it attract attra did il some come attention in england and it encouraged him birn to io continue his writing the result was waa the spy published a year later und during thra the winter of the american public awde to tho the 0 0 ay victor salvatote tote y tact fact that it possessed a novelist of its own cooper died in cooperstown Coopers town N Y september sep 14 1851 one phrase give me liberty or give me death 1 is synonymous for them the name of patrick henry the orator of the revolution born at studley va may 29 1730 the future advocate of freedom was an indolent pupil in school and a failure in business but when he lookup took up the study of law he found himself and soon became known as one of the most brilliant lawyers in a state noted tor for its legal luminaries mi min aries narles by 1703 lie he had acquired renown as an orator and this increased la in the famous persons parsons case when tie he denied the right of the british king to abrogate acts of the colonial legislature henry was an influential member of tile continental congress from 1774 to 1770 and a signer of the declaration of independence in 1770 lie he was chosen governor of virginia and served until 1779 ile he sat in the legislature from to 1784 again served its as governor from 1784 to nsf and ouch once more from 1780 to 1790 wits was a member of the state assembly ue he declined to serve in the constitutional convention ind and opposed the ratification of the constitution again in 1709 1719 lie he ran for the lej legislature slature and was elected but died in charlotte county cou rity june 6 1709 1790 before he could take hike ellas howe inventor of the sewing machine was another pay bay state product having baving been born in spencer muss mass in 1819 1810 in 1843 45 43 he experimented with a lock stitch sewing machine inne hine find and finally perfected it securing a patent in 1816 IS 18 10 16 for years he vainly sought recognition of his invention bothen both in this country and in england where he sold hla his lights ri ats in 1817 I for CO pounds sterling while absent abroad his patent was infringed upon by others but eventually the courts decided in howes favor and after years of wretched poverty howe suddenly found himself wealthy in 1803 1863 he erected a large sewing ewing si machine factory at bridgeport conn where he idled died in 1807 james russell lowell born in cambridge mass mas on february 22 1819 was one of the famous groups of writers which massachusetts give to the nation during the middle half of the nineteenth century and if f them all lowell was undoubtedly til most versatile having been graduated from harvard in 1838 he immediately entered the harvard law school took his degree in 1840 and began to practice after several years abroad lowell returned to become a teacher in harvard and to enter upon tin an epoch in hit his life as a scholar and critic he becala the first editor of the newly estaba established 4 shed atlantic atia title monthly in 1807 1857 resign resigning ing in iii 1801 to become associated with the north american review in 1804 ue he resigned that position in 1872 and again went abro adhere where the afie famous english colleges of oxford and cam cambridge boiago conferred degrees decrees bjon R kw V a A 5 HO jy 6 chares ceca mm in 1877 he was named unites unite states minister to spain and in 1880 was transferred to england returning to america in 1885 on august 12 1891 he died in cambridge horace mann born bom in franklin mass may 4 1700 after his graduation from brown university became a teacher and then A a lav lawyer yer helas he was a member of the massachusetts legislature from 1827 to 1837 and from 1837 to 1818 1848 18 18 served us as secretary of the massachusetts board of education mann visited europe in 1843 and brought back with him reports leports on foreign 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 1843 to IM 1833 munn blunn served as a member of congress after his term teim was over byer lie became president of antioch college in ohio and served there until his death in 1839 history Ill story has preserved his fame as the founder of the normal school system in this coun i try and father of the american public school system john lothrop motley won his fame fam e as a historian of a european country he was born in dorchester mass blass april 15 1814 and was graduated torn harvard in 1831 1931 lie he then went to germany to study and upon his hia return to this country studied law although literature was more to his taste ile he published oil an american novel in 1 but it attracted little attention after a short career at the Anie american rican legation in russia lie he returned to america again to serve a term in the massachusetts legislature after ten years of hard labor during which lie returned to europe and found it necessary to rewrite much of that which he had already written he published his history of the in 1850 and was immediately imme acclaimed both in america and abroad along with thesa literary honors tame came a call to public service sen ice and from 1801 1601 to he h served as american Ane rican minister to austria and from 1800 to 1870 to great britain motley died in dorchester england bugland may 29 1877 A statesman a writer an educator and inventor and two historians such was as the contribution of massachusetts to the 19 1030 0 O hall of fame ceremonies to wake make it complete slie she also provided a great jurist joseph story he was horn born at marblehead mass in 1779 harvard graduated him in 1718 1708 find salim salem saw htiu him begin be in practice as a lawyer in 1801 he wai was elected to congress in 1803 1808 anil and in 1811 became speaker of the louse house soon afterwards president derit madison appoInted him associate justice of the supreme court of the united states stales and dung ills his long career ot at o t 34 14 years on that tribunal he be assisted in the development of american ecat constitutional law and in fixing filing the status of the in admiralty patent and equity hiiri n died in cambridge in |