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...William Goddard, now of Charlestown, is the oldest living graduate of Harvard. Mr. Goddard was born in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1796 and graduated in the class...
Barrow, H. W., 25 Polk street, Charlestown...
...senator from Florida, Samuel Pasco, is an Englishman. He was born in London, June 28, 1834. Ten years after his parents made their residence at Charlestown, Mass., where he received his preparatory education. He took the full course at Harvard, graduating in 1858. Early the next year he became a citizen of Florida, and taught school and read law in a place called Waukeenan...
...antiquaries we now know little more than what was the line of his ancestry and how he acquired a fortune, which for the early days of the Colony was considerable, and will help account, together with his private character, for the honorable way in which the early records of Charlestown show that he was received here. Let us go back to 1605 and to Stratford-upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Stratford. We may stretch a point in trying to associate together the name of William Shakespeare, the first name in English literature, with that of John Harvard, the most august...
...association with Emmanuel, the puritan seed-plot, had given a bent to his theological views - soon married Ann Sadler and drawn by those sympathies, we may well believe, which took Cotton and the other Emmanuel men to the New World, he is found before long in the New England Charlestown, where he built a house, which Judge Sewall tells us of, and which seems to have stood till the fire which swept the slopes of that peninsula during the battle of Bunker Hill, levelled it to the soil...