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Edmund L. Cushing, one of New Hampshire's ablest lawyers, and formerly judge of the Supreme Court, died at Charlestown Sunday. He graduated at Harvard and was admitted to the bar in 1835, and was a member of the legislature from...
While he lived here he had charge of the church at Charlestown, but, of his success as a minister, nothing is said. He could not have been a great preacher; we judge that he was only a man with an earnest purpose and fair ability. That he was generous is obvious, for when, after a year, he died, he left directions in his will that half of his estate, about Pound 800, and all his library should be devoted to the founding of a "schoale or colledge," to rear up both white and Indian boys, "in knowledge ande godlynes" This...
...very impressive service was held at the Harvard Church in Charlestown yesterday morning, on the occasion of the dedication of a beautiful mural monument to the late Dr. James Walker. The service was of especial interest to Harvard men from the fact that Dr. Walker was a member of the class of '14, and from 1818 until 1860 was officially connected with the university, filling the offices successively of overseer, fellow, Alford Professor and president. The service opened promptly at 10.30 with the rendition of an organ voluntary and the singing of the anthem "Integer Vitae" by the college choir...
...College Choir will sing in Charlestown tomorrow morning...
...mural monument to Dr. James Walker, president of the university from 1853 to 1860, will be dedicated next Sunday in the Harvard Church in Charlestown of which he was pastor for more than twenty years - 1818-1839. The Rev. William Orne White (1840) son of Judge Daniel Appleton White (1797), an intimate friend of President Walker, will make the principal address. President Eliot will also speak. The choir of Appleton Chapel will perform the choral part of the service. All persons who are interested are cordially invited to be present at the service which will begin at 10.30 o'clock...