Watertown People

description - Coverse Francis was the last minister to be hired by the Town. He was minister for twenty-three years. He moved the First Parish from congregationalism to Unitarianism without the usual anger that accompanies this change. Convers Francis was lacked… subject - Portraits; Francis, Convers -- 1795-1863.; First Parish -- Watertown (Mass.).; relation - Identifier - figure 1461

description - Founder of Watertown Enterprise in 1879. Owner of S.S. Gleason and Company, a grocery. Gleason was a selectman in 1874-5, and Secretary and Treasurer of the Watertown Co-operative Bank, Trustee of the Watertown Savings Bank and Director of the… subject - Portraits.; Gleason, Samuel S. -- d.1911; Newspapers -- Watertown (Mass.).; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; relation - Identifier - figure 1457

description - Portrait of the librarian by James Rattigan. First librarian, Watertown Free Public Library (1868 -- 1917)forty nine years. He was also a principal and teacher at the high school in both Watertown and Cambridge, MA. He was one of the founders of the… subject - Portraits.; Whitney, Solon-- 1831-1917.; Watertown Free Public Library -- Watertown (Mass.).; relation - Identifier - figure 1454

description - Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, 1860 -- 1867. He was also a college roommate to Oliver Wendell Holmes. When George Tyler Bigelow graduated from Harvard in the class of 1839 at age 19, he was deemed too young to begin a career in law… subject - Portraits.; Bigelow, George Tyler-- 1810-1878.; relation - Identifier - figure 1451

description - Mabel Lowell, daughter of Boston Brahmin man of letters and diplomat James Russell Lowell and Maria White Lowell married Edward Burnett, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Burnett was elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4,… subject - Portraits.; Lowell, Mabel -- 1847-1898.; relation - Identifier - figure 1447

description - Cottage industry in Watertown, MA. subject - relation - Identifier - figure 1437

description - Cottage industry in Watertown, MA. subject - relation - Identifier - figure 1435

description - Harriet Hosmer was born at Watertown, Massachusetts, and completed a course of study in Lenox, Massachusetts. She was a delicate child, and was encouraged by her father, a physician, to pursue a course of physical training by which she became expert… subject - Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908.; Sculpture, American.; Women sculptors.; Women artists -- Exhibitions.; relation - Identifier - figure 1402

description - Mrs. James Russell Lowell. Maria White Lowell (July 8, 1821 -- October 27, 1853) was an American poet and abolitionist. subject - Portraits.; Lowell, Maria White -- 1821-1853.; relation - Identifier - figure 1313

description - Harriet Hosmer was born at Watertown, Massachusetts, and completed a course of study in Lenox, Massachusetts. She was a delicate child, and was encouraged by her father, a physician, to pursue a course of physical training by which she became expert… subject - Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908.; Sculpture, American.; Women sculptors.; Women artists -- Exhibitions.; Page, William -- 1811-1885.; relation - Identifier - figure 1191

description - Duplicate of figure 2652 Line #1026 (which is the better image). subject - Watertown Arsenal -- Watertown (Mass.).; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano -- 1882-1945.; relation - Identifier - figure 2653

description - Graduated from Harvard circa 1742. Became pastor of the Town Church (now First Parish) circa 1745. Seth Storer was born in Saco ME. He graduated from Harvard in 1720 at the age of eighteen. He had a sister, Mary. Who was carried away by the Indians… subject - Portraits.; Storer, Seth-- 1724-1774.; relation - Identifier - figure 833