Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Francis Oliver Dorr, who has just died in Lansinburg, N. Y., was the last surviving member of the class of '25 of Harvard, as well as being the oldest living graduate of the Boston Latin School. He was born in Boston, in 1805, his father being a well-known merchant of this city. Among his class-mates at college were Frederic H. Hedge, Charles Francis Adams, Seth Ames, Samuel K. Lathrop, John L. Sibley, Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis, Horatio Alger, and Sears Cook Walker...
...farmer who lived in the country near Stratford. Three children were born to them, Suzanna and the twins, Hamnet and Judith. Hamnet, the similarity of whose name to that of "the Dane" will at once be noticed, was Shakspere's only son and it is probable that the father's affections were strongly centred on him. However, he died when only eleven years...
During the service the choir sang the following anthems: "Praise Ye The Father," - Gounod. "For I am the Lord," - Wareing. "Lord God of Abraham," (from Elijah). - Mendelssohn. Soloist...
...religion largely as it is connected with the individual as such, not to him as a member of society, worshipping with others beside himself. The conference this evening is on a subject substantially different from those of the preceeding lectures. In speaking on the Principle of Authority in Religion, Father Byrne enters a new and unsettled ground. From his position as Vicar-General of Boston he is able to speak from a very wide experience and whatever he says will have the increased interest of being the result of long years of thought and study. His ideas will, moreover...
...numerous bequests to relatives, the residue of the estate is to accumulate until it shall reach $40,000, when $10,000 each is to be given Yale, Amherst, Dartmouth and the Minnesota State University, to found four scholarships, which are to bear the names, respectively, of Mr. Howard's father, mother and two brothers...