Word: survivor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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John Torrey Morse '32, who was the oldest living graduate of Harvard, and the sole survivor of his class, died last Thursday at his home, 153 Beacon street, Boston. He was 93 years old and death was due to the natural infirmities of extreme old age. Mr. Morse was a brother-in-law of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Up to 1860 he engaged in the merchant trade, but for the past 46 years he has lived in retirement at his home in Boston...
...Oliver O. Howard, the sole survivor of the few heroes of the Civil War who were honored by name with resolutions of thanks from Congress, will give an address Sunday evening, at 7.30, in the First Church, Congregational, corner or Garden and Mason streets. Gen. Howard held commands in many of the most important battles of the war, including Antietam, Gettysburg, and Chattanooga, and led Sherman's right wing in the march from Atlanta...