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Someone once remarked that "there are more people buried in Old Granary who are known to more people than are buried in any other cemetery in the country," and he was probably right. Visitors are often disappointed that the conspicuous granite obelisk bearing the name "Franklin" is Benjamin Franklin's parents, not himself; but there is ample compensation for Ben's absence. Around the Franklin memorial are scattered the graves of such patriots as Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, and James Otis, as well as ten early Massachusetts governors and the victims of the Boston Massacre...
...summer of 1800, when Dr. Benjamin Rush began his autobiography, he was 54, America's foremost physician, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and an intimate of many of the great and near great of his day. He called his autobiography Travels Through Life, and began it this...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN RUSH (399 pp.)-Edifed by George W. Corner-Princeton...
Courts & Prisons. Rush may have had engaging qualities; his humorless autobiography fails to disclose them. Yet, visiting Europe, he called on great men who not only made him welcome but asked him to come again. Benjamin Franklin, then in London, took him to the court of George III, introduced him to his literary friends, and lent him money. Rush dined with Artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, Novelist Oliver Goldsmith ("He spoke with the Irish accent"), and crotchety Literary Czar Samuel Johnson, who reports Dr. Rush was rude to Goldsmith. Rush even got himself invited as a dinner guest of famed Political...
Perhaps he was a flattering listener. His curiosity was insatiable, and the commonplace books are filled with all sorts of trivia picked up from travelers. Sometimes he merely recorded little but the subjects of his chats: 1786, Sept. 23: conversation with Dr. Benjamin Franklin about the plague in Turkey; 1791, Oct. 8: Mr. Stewart about the horrors of the Hindu religion and the manners of Laplanders...