Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FIGURES OF THE PAST-Josiah Quincy-Little, Brown ($4). These chronicles well bear periodic repub-lication.-Their author was as alert in his late seventies as he had been in his youth when, graduated by Harvard at 19 (class of 1821), he entered the front ranks of military, political and private society in "our somewhat stiff and exclusive city," Boston. He became a mayor of that city, like his father before him and his grandson later, but writing in his age, he found more meat in his youthful journals than in the official acts of his public career. Sunday, Sept...
...Plus Viscount Inchcape, Chairman, P. & O. Navigation Co. ; Henry Bell, Director Lloyd's Bank, Ltd. ; Sir Josiah Stamp, President, London Midland and Scottish Ry. ; Lionel Nathan de Rothschild of N. M. Rothschild & Sons; and 36 other equally potent financiers...
...class ('78) were also the late Dr. Josiah Royce, Harvard philosopher ; Dr. Henry C. Adams, University of Michigan political economist; Dr. Thomas Craig, editor of The American Journal of Mathematics...
...first incumbent of the Alford Professorship was Levi Frisbie '02. He was followed by Levi Hedge '92, James Walker '11, Francis Bowen '33, G. H. Palmer '64, Josiah Royce '11 and W. E. Horking...
...merchant of great wealth, who, having purchased extensive estates in New England, had emigrated to Massachusetts in 1738. Isaac Royall settled in Charlestown, of which town he was a Representative for nine years. Later, he became a Counsellor, and held that office until 1774. However, says Josiah Quincy '28, "his judgment was not in unison with the patriotic spirit of the times. After the battle of Lexington he sailed for England, where he remained until his death." His former popularity saved his estates from confiscation under the "conspirators act," but the Government took possession of his property under the fact...