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Concerning his skill and success during this season abroad, Mr. Gilmore said, in writing to his father, George Emerson, under date of May 13, 1879:
It was always a pleasure to me to see him take the solo stand, knowing that there lived no other young American who could do more honor to the country so far as national renown could be advanced by cornet playing. The rapidity of his tonguing, and the great facility of his execution, surprised some of the slow coaches of the old world, and they really began to believe that America was a dashing, go ahead, fast country.
His performances were a brilliant ornament in our concerts, and in several respects he was considered the most remarkable performer ever heard abroad.
Mr. Emerson died June 1, 1893.
1 Letter from her father, dated Berlin, February 18, 1902.
CHAPTER XXI.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
M ANY literary men and women have made Melrose their home. Their works have been of many kinds - his- torical, biographical, theological, political, scientific, electrical, educational, medicinal, musical and fiction. All cannot be enumerated; only the most important, giving the authors' names in alphabetical order.
REV. JOHN GREENLEAF ADAMS, D. D., was a Universalist minister. Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, July 30, 1810; died at Melrose Highlands, May 4, 1887. He was a prolific writer. Among his most important works are Memoir of Thomas Whittemore, Universalism of the Lord's Prayer, Talks About the Bible, Fifty Notable Years, and The Inner Life. During his life he was editor of various Sabbath School papers of the Universalist denomination. For many years he was closely identified with the history of Malden. Deloraine P. Corey, in his sketch of Malden for Drake's History of Middlesex County, published in 1880, thus speaks of Dr. Adams, who was settled over the Universalist Church of Malden many years, in con- nection with Rev. Alexander W. McClure, who was settled over the Congregational Church at the same time:
But I may linger a moment over the names of two clergymen whose memories are cherished and honored in the churches and town which they loved. The Rev. Alexander W. McClure, the caustic wit of the Trinitarian Society, and the Rev. John G. Adams of the First Parish, revived in the nineteenth century, for a while, the pastorates of the olden time. Both heartily earnest in their work, they became as one with the people of their charges, and were, to the rich and poor alike, faithful pastors and sympathetic friends. Nor were they less earnest in their duties as neighbors and townsmen in the daily and secular affairs of life. Antagonistic as they were in their religious beliefs, with the memories of the recent conflicts of their societies still alive, they stood stoutly shoulder to shoulder and hand in hand in the many
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reforms which they instituted or promoted, and cemented a friendship which time did not destroy, which is still green in the hearts of the survivor, and which may make more joyous the meeting on the shores of life. In the temperance cause, in charitable work, and in educa- tional matters they urged reforms and introduced new methods by which the interests of the people were advanced and their prosperity promoted.
GEORGE LOWELL AUSTIN, M. D., was born in Lawrence, September II, 1849 and died in Melrose, June 5, 1893. He wrote a Life of Franz Schubert, 1872; The History of Massachu- setts, from the Landing of the Pilgrims to the Present Time, 1876; The Indispensible Handbook of Useful and Practical Information, 1878; Water-Analysis, A Handbook for Water-Drinkers, 1882; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; His Life, His Works, His Friend- ships, 1883; and The Life and Times of Wendell Phillips, 1884.
JOSEPH EDWARD BABSON was born in Newburyport, in 1831, and died in Melrose Highlands, May 19, 1875. He was a frequent contributor to the Boston newspapers, under the pseudonym of "Tom Folio." He was an ardent student, and particularly fond of the English prose writers. He edited an edition of Charles Lamb's works, and gathered from various English magazines the scattered contributions of Leigh Hunt, Douglas Jerrold and Charles Lamb, as follows: Eliana, Being the Hitherto Uncollected Writings of Charles Lamb, 1869; A Day by the Fire, and other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected, by Leigh Hunt, 1869; The Wishing-Cap Papers by Leigh Hunt, Now First Collected, 1872; Fireside Saints, Mr. Caudle's Breakfast Talk, and Other Papers, by Douglas Ferrold, 1873. Mr. Babson left a very fine library, now the property of Mrs. Caroline W. Clinkard, to whom he bequeathed it; and it is now in her home on Park Street, Melrose.
CAPTAIN GEORGE PICKERING BURNHAM was born in Boston, April 24, 1814, and died in Melrose, April 17, 1902. He came to Melrose in 1850, the year in which it was incorporated. His literary career covers a period of over fifty years. In journal- ism he has been reporter, sub-editor, editor, and the writer of many sketches and stories. He has given much attention to a specialty in fowls and birds, and has written a dozen books connected with that subject, including his humorous treatment of The History of the Hen Fever, published in 1855, and which had a very extensive sale. In this same year he also wrote an
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anti-slavery story, entitled The Rag-Picker; or, Bound and Free. His other writings include Memoirs of the United States Secret Service, American Counterfeits, and A Hundred Thousand Dollars in Gold.
REV. DANIEL DORCHESTER, D. D., was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, March 11, 1827. He was appointed by Presi- dent William Harrison, Superintendent of Indian Schools of the United States, May 1, 1889. He served nearly five years. His published works are Concessions of Liberalists to Orthodoxy, 1878; Giving and Worship, 1882; Problem of Religious Progress, 1882; The Liquor Problem in All Ages, 1884; Christianity in the United States, 1888; Latest Drink Sophistries vs. Total Abstinence, 1885; The Indictment of the Liquor Traffic, 1885; The Why of Methodism, 1887; Romanism vs. the Public School System, 1888 and Christianity Vindicated by its Enemies, 1896. He has ever been conspicuous in all temperance measures, and an authority in statistical studies pertaining to the ecclesiastical and reform- atory departments of inquiry.
COLONEL SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE has written many works of an historical character. He was born in Boston, December 20, 1833. At the breaking out of the Great Rebellion he was a resident of Kansas, and was appointed colonel of the Seventeenth Regiment of Kansas Volunteer Infantry, serving throughout the war. His first book was Old Land-marks and Historic Personages of Boston, issued in 1873. This was followed by Historic Fields and Mansions of Middlesex, Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast, Bunker Hill, General Israel Putnam, the Commander at Bunker Hill, History of Middlesex County, The Heart of the White Mountains, Around the Hub, New England Legends and Folk Lore, Our Great Benefactors, The Old Boston Taverns and Tavern Clubs, The Making of New England, The Making of the Great West, Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777. The Taking of Louisburg, The Battle of Gettysburg, Campaign of Tren- ton, Watch Fires of '76, and On Plymouth Rock. He has writ- ten one historical novel, entitled, Captain Nelson: a Romance of Colonial Days, and has contributed to Our Young Folks, Our Boys and Girls, and Harper's Magasine; also the articles " Florida," " Georgia," and "Sebastian Cabot," for the Cyclo- paedia Britannica.
REV. RICHARD EDDY, D. D., was born in Providence, R. I.,
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June 21, 1828. For several years he was a pastor of the Universalist Church. Many of his sermons have been printed. His larger works are: History of the Sixtieth Regiment, New York State Volunteers, of which he was chaplain; Universalism in America, Alcohol in History, and Alcohol in Society. He has been editor of different newspapers, among them the Universalist Quarterly and General Reviewe.
HON. DANIEL WHEELWRIGHT GOOCH was born in Wells, Maine, January 8, 1820. Graduated at Dartmouth College in
1843, and admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1846. Came to Melrose ( then North Malden) [in 1848, where he died Novem- ber 1, 1891. He was elected a representative to the General Court in 1852, and a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1853. He was an adherent of the Free-Soil party until the formation of the Republican party, with which he has ever since acted. He has several times been elected a Representa- tive to Congress; was a member of the Thirty-fifth, Thirty- sixth, Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses, in the
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latter serving as a member of the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War, and was chairman on the part of the House; its four years of investigations were printed in several volumes. Having been elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, he resigned, September 1, 1865, to accept from President Johnson the appointment of naval officer for the port of Boston, which position he held for a year. In 1868 he was elected a delegate to the Chicago Convention. In the Forty- third Congress he again served as Representative for the Fifth Massachusetts District. From 1875 to 1886 he was Pension Agent at Boston, after which he resumed the practice of the law. A number of his legal arguments have been printed, notably those in the Hoosac Tunnel, Troy & Greenfield Railroad, and Joseph M. Day, Judge of Probate, cases. Many of his Congressional speeches were printed in pamphlet form; among them were The Lecompton Constitution and the Admission of Kansas into the Union, Polygamy in Utah, The Supreme Court and Dred Scott, Organization of the Territories, Any Compromise a Surrender, Recognition of Hayti and Liberia, and Secession and Reconstruction.
REV. JOHN HEALY HEYWOOD was born in Worcester, March 30, 1818. Graduated from Harvard College in 1836, and from the Divinity School in 1840. He was first settled in Louisville, Ky., in 1840, when he succeeded the late Rev. James Freeman Clarke, D. D. After a pastorate of forty years he resigned. He was settled over the Unitarian Church of Melrose, in 1884, having occupied, since leaving Louisville, the pulpit at Ply- mouth, Mass., for one year, that of Dr. Putnam in Brooklyn, for six months and that of the Independent Congregational Church, in Baltimore, Md., for three months. His printed volumes are as follows: Unitarian Views l'indicated, 1854; The Causes and Cure of Intemperance, 1874; The Unitarian Banner, 1878; Our Indian Mission and our First Missionary, Rev. Charles H. A. Dall; and William Greenleaf Eliot, 1887.
FREDERICK KIDDER was born in New Ipswich, N. H., April 16, 1804, and died in Melrose, December 19, 1885, in his eighty-second year. Went to Boston in 1822, and with his brother was several years in business in Wilmington, N. C.
In 1845, Messrs. Benjamin F. and Charles Copeland, together with Mr. Kidder, bought of the Barings, of London, a tract of land on the Schoodic Lakes, in Eastern Maine, containing over
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a hundred thousand acres, being more than thirty miles in extent. This proved to be a very profitable investment, and would have been much more so had they continued to hold the land for a while longer than they did. He was one of the trustees of the Public Library from 1870 to 1882, most of the time chairman.
His first literary work was a history of his native town, New Ipswich, N. H., which was issued in 1852. In that early day of town histories, this was one of the most complete and thorough works that had appeared. His other volumes are: The Expedition of Captain Lovewell, and his Encounters with the Indians, Military Operations in Eastern Maine and Nova Scotia during the Revolution, History of the First New Hampshire Regi- ment in the War of the Revolution, and History of the Boston Massa- cre, March 5, 1770. His magazine articles reprinted in pamph- let were: The Adventures of Captain Lovewell, The Abenaki Indians, The Swedes on the Delaware, and The Discovery of North America by John Cabot: A First Chapter in the History of North America.
ROBERT FOWLER LEIGHTON, born in Durham, Maine, Janu- ary 23, 1838, was for several years principal of the High School of Melrose, during which time he wrote several educational works: Greek Lessons, Latin Lessons, and Harvard Examination Papers. Since then he has given his attention to historical works, and has written a History of Rome, History of Greece, Cicero's Select Letters, and Historia Critica M. T. Ciceronis Epistu- larum ad Familiares; this was published in Latin, in Leipsic, Germany.
MARY ASHTON LIVERMORE was born in Boston, December 19, 1820; was a teacher in Charlestown and Duxbury, Mass. In 1857 her husband, Daniel P., established the New Covenant, a Universalist journal, of which she became associate editor for twelve years, during which time she frequently contributed to periodicals of her denomination and edited the Lily. When the Rebellion broke out she became connected with the United States Sanitary Commission, headquarters at Chicago, per- forming a vast amount of labor of all kinds -organizing auxiliary societies, visiting hospitals and military posts, con- tributing to the press, answering correspondence, and the thousand and one things incident to the wonderful work done
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by that institution. She was one that helped organize the great fair in 1863, at Chicago, when nearly $100,000 was raised, and for which she obtained the original draft of the Emancipa- tion Proclamation from President Lincoln, which was sold for $3,000. As she says in her extremely interesting volume, My Story of the War: "Here were packed and shipped to the hospitals or battle-field 77,660 packages of sanitary supplies, whose cash value was $1,056,192.16. Here were written and mailed letters by the ten thousand, circulars by the hundred
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thousand, monthly bulletins and reports. Here were planned visits to the aid societies, trips to the army, methods of raising money and supplies, systems of relief for soldiers' families and white refugees, Homes and Rests for destitute and enfeebled soldiers, and the details of mammoth sanitary fairs.
When the war was over she instituted a paper called the Agitator, which was afterwards merged in the Woman's Journal. Of this she was editor. for two years and has been a frequent contributor to it since. On the lecture platform she has had a
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remarkable career, speaking largely in behalf of the woman suffrage and the temperance movements. A few years ago she was "one of the four lecturers that were most in demand and that commanded the largest fees, the other three being men." Many years she has traveled 25,000 miles annually, speaking five nights each week for five months of the year.
Her printed volumes are: Thirty Years Too Late, first pub- lished in 1847 as a prize temperance tale, and republished in 1878; Pen Pictures, or, Sketches from Domestic Life ; What Shall We Do with Our Daughters? Superfluous Women and Other Lectures; and My Story of the War. A Woman's Narrative of Four Years' Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in Reliet Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps and at the Front during the War of the Rebellion. Of this work one has well said: "Should every other book on the war be blotted out of existence, this one would completely reflect the spirit and work of the Women of the North."
For Women of the Day she wrote the sketch of the sculptress, Miss Anne Whitney; and for the "Centennial Celebration of the First Settlement of the Northwestern States, at Marietta, Ohio, July 15, 1788," she delivered the historical address.
Her last work was published in 1897. Its subject, character and scope is given on its title-page, which contains a compre- hensive biography of the author: " The Story of My Life; or, The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years, by Mary A. Livermore, Teacher, Author, Wife, Mother, Army Nurse, Soldiers' Friend, Lecturer, and Reformer. A Narrative of Her Early Life and Struggles for Education, Three Years' Experience on a Southern Plantation among White Masters and Black Slaves, Her Courtship, Marriage, Domestic Life, etc., with hitherto unrecorded Incidents and Recollections of Three Years' Ex- perience as an Army Nurse in the Great Civil War, and Rem- iniscences of Twenty-five Years' Experiences on the Lecture Platform, including Thrilling, Pathetic, and Humorous Inci- dents of Platform Life."
REV. DANIEL PARKER LIVERMORE, born in Leicester, Mass., June 17, 1818, and died in Melrose, July 5, 1899. He was a Universalist minister, and besides editing the New Covenant for a dozen years and contributing to newspapers and magazines, has published several pamphlets of a denominational character,
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and a half-dozen on the subject of " Woman Suffrage," in favor of which he strongly argued.
THOMAS D. LOCKWOOD, born in England, December 20, 1848, is an eminent electrician, an acknowledged authority in all matters pertaining to electrical telephony. He is electrician in charge of all matters connected with patents, and the collec- tion and collation of electrical information for the American Bell Telephone Company. Besides very many articles contributed to the electrical press, he has published three volumes: Electricity, Magnetism- and Electric Telegraphy, Electrical Measurement and the Galvanometer, and Practical Information for Telephonists.
To get an idea of the vast amount of literature that has been published on electricity, one should visit Mr. Lockwood's de- partment connected with the Telephone Co., and see the array of works that have been issued, in many languages, on that subject; no other such collection can be found, and to this he has himself contributed not a little. During the winter of 1885-86, he delivered a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute, Boston, on The Electric Telegraph and Telephone. His essay entitled On the Electrical Disturbances occurring in Tele- phonic Circuits, and the methods proposed for obviating or overcoming them, was published by the United States Government, in 1886. He is a constant contributor to the electrical journals of the country.
GILBERT NASH was born in Weymouth, Mass., April 22, 1825, and died there April 13, 1888. He lived many years in Melrose. He wrote a history of his native town, a Memoir of General Solomon Lovell, and a volume of poems, entitled Bay Leaves.
CHARLES J. NOYES was born in Haverhill, Mass., Au- gust 7, 1841. Graduated from Haverhill Academy in 1860, as the valedictorian of his class. Graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1864. Delivered the Honorary Chancel- lor's Address for that College in 1888, receiving the degree of LL.D. Admitted to the bar in 1864. Elected to the Massa- chusetts Senate in 1867, and to the House of Representatives in 1866, '77. '78, '79, '80, '81, '82, '87 and '88, during which time he served five years as Speaker. He has delivered a number of addresses which have been printed, his last one being in our
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City Hall, at the Memorial Services of President William McKinley. His only printed volume is a Revolutionary story, Patriot and Tory, published in 1902. He has another story ready for the press, entitled Not Accordin' ť' Scriptur'.
THOMAS BELLOWS PECK, many years resident of Melrose, Chairman of School Committee in 1877, and Trustee of the Public Library from 1884 to 1887, now living in Walpole, N. H., his native place, published in 1898, The Bellows Genealogy; or John Bellows, the Boy Emigrant of 1635, and his Descendants, a volume of 657 pages.
WILLIAM FREDERICK POOLE, LL. D., the eminent librarian and bibliophile, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, December 24, 1821, and died in Evanston, Illinois, March 1, 1894. He graduated from Yale College in 1849. While there he became the assistant librarian, which was the beginning of a life-long profession. He was librarian of the Mercantile Library Asso- ciation of Boston for four years; of the Boston Athæneum for thirteen years; of the Cincinnati Public Library for five years; of the Chicago Public Library for fourteen years; and from 1887 to the day of his death, of the Newberry Library of Chicago, founded by the munificence of the millionaire Walter L. Newberry. For many years he lived in Melrose, during which time his pen was ever busy. During the controversy between the Webster and Worcester Dictionaries, in 1855-56, he published three pamphlets championing Webster as being the best authority: Websterian Orthography, Dictionaries in the Boston Mercantile Library and Boston Atheneum, and The Ortho- graphical Hobgoblin.
In the discussion concerning the historical claims of " The Popham Colony," he wrote many articles in the Boston Daily Advertiser and the Bibliography of the Popham Colony. In 1867 a new edition of Edward Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence of Zion's Saviour in New England, was published, for which he wrote an introduction and numerous historical notes. He has issued several pamphlets connected with "Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft," and wrote the chapter on "Witchcraft in Boston," for the Memorial History of Boston, issued in 1880; and for Justin Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America, vol. 6, he wrote the chapter entitled, "The West, From the Treaty of Peace with France, 1763, to the Treaty of
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Peace with England, 1783." In 1874-75, in Chicago, he edited a monthly literary paper called The Owl, which was succeeded by The Dial, to which he was a constant contributor, chiefly in historical criticism, in which he had few equals.
In this department his work has always been in the nature of a plea for judicial fairness and candor in historical writing, and his pen has constantly been on the alert to discover and expose the pet fallacies of the villifiers of the fathers of New England, and of all those with whom the demands of rhetoric seem louder than those of truth.
His best known work is Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, which was first issued in 1848, as Index to Subjects Treated in the Reviews, and other Periodicals to which no Indexes have been Published, enlarged as An Index to Periodical Literature, in 1853, and again enlarged and issued in 1882. To this a supple- ment is to be published every five years. This "is a work of the times, for the times; the vast and hitherto pathless conti- nents of periodical literature are surveyed, systematized, and made accessible." A half dozen supplementary volumes have now been issued.
He contributed during his life many historical articles and reviews to the Boston and Chicago papers, and delivered several addresses before the literary clubs of Cincinnati and Chicago. Among his latest publications are: The Early North- west, The Ordinance of 1787, and The University Library and the University Curriculum, the last issued in 1894, but a short time before his death.
Mr. Poole has been President of the American Historical Association and of the American Library Association. His many papers on library architecture, and on matters pertaining to libraries in the Library Journal and other periodicals, have attracted much attention, not only in our land, but in Europe, and if collected would make quite a volume. The Chicago Literary Club issued an In Memoriam, a pamphlet of forty-two pages. It says:
He was a great teacher. .. . He was widely admired, at home and abroad, for his exceptional scholarship and knowledge. To be known as his friend, in any of the great libraries of Europe, was the best of introductions. If he was a man to be admired for his attainments, still more was he to be loved for his character, which was formed for friendship. Impatient of shallow and trifling natures, it was not easy for all to approach him on familiar terms; but those once admitted to his friendship, he held in a life long intimacy.
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OLIVER AYER ROBERTS, born in Haverhill, Mass., March 17,. 1838. Went to Yale College one year, 1858, then entered Antioch College, Ohio. When the War of the Rebellion broke out, he returned to Massachusetts and enlisted in the Fiftieth Regiment, nine months' troops, as Sergeant Major. Then in 1864, re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Tenth Ohio Regi- ment, serving in Virginia, and was discharged in June, 1865, at the end of the war. He then returned to, and graduated at Antioch College. He published the Herald of Gospel of Liberty, in Dayton, Ohio, for two years. Then for two years, 1869-70, was principal of Le Grand Institute, at Le Grand, Iowa. In 1869, he was ordained as a Christian minister at Winterset, Iowa. Settled over the Independent Church, New Bedford, in 1871, continuing for seven years. During this time he served as Auditor, a member of the School Committee and Trustee of the Public Library. In 1879, he was settled over the church at Salisbury, Mass., where he remained until No- vember, 1887, removed to Melrose, retiring from the ministry, and devoting himself to literary work, coupled with duties as an assistant in the recording grand secretary's office of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts.
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