Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...digestion and good temper to eat one's breakfast hurriedly, under the impression that the hour of chapel is upon us, and then when the clock says 8.40 have the hands set carefully back to 8.31. We would not be understood as taking offence at the slight put upon Father Time, but we would like to see the old gentleman regulated a little earlier in the morning...
BOSTON MUSEUM. - John Gilbert in "Grand-father Whitehead," and "Simpson...
BOSTON MUSEUM. - John Gilbert in "Grand-father Whitehead," and "Simpson...
...twelve years from 1625 to 1637, John Harvard had lost his father, two step-fathers, his mother and two brothers, and almost the whole family property had fallen to him. He appears to have been the only scholar in the family, although his brother Thomas seems to have signed his name to his will. His father and mother both made their marks. The whole family connection were tradespeople, but his mother by her marriage came into possession of property enough to give a college education to her oldest son. The education of that one delicate youth has had far reaching...
George Bancroft has given $10,000 to the city of Worcester to found a scholarship in memory of his father and mother. The income is to be used to assist young men through college...