Word: ancestors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very interesting lecture was given on the 4th inst. by Dr. Phillips Brooks of Trinity Church to the students of Phillips Academy, Exeter, a school intimately connected with Harvard, and of which an ancestor of Dr. Brooks was the founder. We have only seen a partial report of the lecture in one paper, the Journal, but that is more than sufficient to create a strong desire either that the whole lecture should be published, or that the Reverend lecturer, who is so warmly esteemed and honored at Harvard, would deliver either the same, or a similar one, before the undergraduates...
...suitable that Mr. Bridge should address the college at large, but as he had refused, his modesty must be the substitute for his speech. That he had traveled much and has twice encircled the globe was unnecessary to remind those present, as well as the fact that his ancestor was one of the first settlers in the town of Cambridge and the founder of the system of public schools which has made New England justly celebrated for educational facilities. Mr. Bridge had once before made the city of Cambridge his debtor by presenting it with a statue of John Bridge...
This fall the statue of Harvard which General Bridge offered to present to the college will be erected on the delta to the west of Memorial Hall. General Bridge presented the statue of his ancestor Josiah Bridge to Cambridge not long ago and within a short time these two statutes of early settlers in the colony will stand in close proximity. The sculptor who has been selected to execute the design is a young man of promise, Mr. D. C. French, who has already modeled some well known figures, among them the "Minute Man" at Concord, Mass., and a bust...
...understand that Professor William Watson Goodwin, of Harvard College, is about to build a house for summer use on Clark's Island. Professor goodwin will have the pleasure of building on land which has descended to him from his ancestor, in an unbroken line, for nearly two hundred years. clark's Island was originally granted by the town, is 1680, to Elkanah Watson and two others. Mr. Watson soon bought out the other proprietors, so that practically the estate has been in the Watson name for nearly two centuries. -[Old Colony (Plymouth) Memorial...