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...Hathorne, who came over to New England with Governor Winthrop. Both this first American ancestor and his son John were men of mark in the little colony. But they were also infamously noted, one for causing Shaker women to be whipped, the other for his cruel treatment of the Salem witches. John Hathorne, it is credibly reported, was cursed by one of the victims of his cruelty, and popular superstition always believed that prosperity left the Hathornes from that hour and on account of that curse. True it is, at all events, that from the time of John Hathorne down...
...Saltonstall was born in Salem March 16, 1825. He prepared for college at the Salem grammar and Latin schools, having entered the latter at the age of nine years. At fifteen he entered Harvard, graduating with the class of '44 of which the late Francis Parkman was also a member. In 1845 Mr. Saltonstall entered the Law School and took the degree of LL. B. two years later. After two years and a half spent abroad, he returned to Boston and entered the law office of Sohier and Welch. In 1850 he was admitted to the bar and continued...
...petition has been sent to the Faculty asking permission to give the following concerts: April 3,S.F.Smith Testimonial; April 6, University Club; April 24, Roxbury; April 26, Lowell; April 30, Salem; May 6, Newton; May 10, Fall River...
Manuel Emilio Fenollosa, of Salem...
...Society will, on the last day of the meeting (July 28), arrange a pilgrimage to historic cities and towns in New England and the Middle States. The pilgrimage will leave Philadelphia July 30, and following as closely as practicable Washington's Revolutionary movements, visit Hartford, Boston, Cambridge, Lexington, Concord, Salem, Plymouth, Pomfret, Fishkill, Newburg, West Point, Tarrytown, New York, Princeton, Trenton, returning to Philadelphia August...