Word: governors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will of ex-Governor Roger Wolcott '70, which was filed last week at the Suffolk Probate Court, Harvard College is to receive the sum of $20,000. There also are several other public bequests as follows: Massachusetts General Hospital, $5000; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, $5000; Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, $1000; Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, $1000; trustees of the Wolcott Library of Litchfield, Conn., $1000; trustees of the Public Library of Milton...
Roger Wolcott '70, ex-governor of Massachusetts, died of typhoid fever at his home in Boston yesterday afternoon, after a long illness...
...Governor Wolcott was born in Boston on July 13, 1847. and entered Harvard as a Sophomore in the class of 1870. Always ranking high in his class, he graduated among the first twenty-five and was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa. He was also Class Day orator. While in College he wrote several articles for the Advocate, which was at that time the only college paper at Harvard. After graduation he spent one year as a tutor at Harvard and then went for three years to the Law School, getting his LL.B...
...lieutenant-governor from 1893 to the death of Governor Greenhalge in 1896, he began to take up the responsibilities which he bore so well during the next three years as Governor of the State. His labors in these years were a great strain upon him, for he tried to meet all the claims that his great popularity made upon him. While resting in Europe last summer he was appointed ambassador to Italy, but he has since refused the honor...
Lieutenant-Governor and Governor of Massachusetts, he filled these important offices with marked ability, dignity, and devoted service. The same noble qualities marked also every stage of his career. The only son of a wealthy family, he came to College with the determination to make the best use of his time and opportunities,--and he did so. For ten years he was a member of the Board of Overseers; and in one public service or another he spent the remainder of his life...