The Boston Brahmins or Boston elite are members of Boston's traditional upper class. They are often associated with Harvard University;Anglicanism;upper-class clubs such as the Somerset in Boston,the Knickerbocker in New York City,the Metropolitan in Washington,D.C.,and the Pacific-Union Club in San Francisco;and traditional Anglo-American customs and clothing. Descendants of the earliest English colonists are typically considered to be the most representative of the Boston Brahmins. They are considered White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.
Abbott Lawrence was a prominent American businessman,politician,and philanthropist. He was among the group of industrialists that founded a settlement on the Merrimack River that would later be named for him,Lawrence,Massachusetts.
Augustus Lowell was a wealthy Massachusetts industrialist,philanthropist,horticulturist,and civic leader. A member of the Brahmin Lowell family,he was born in Boston to John Amory Lowell and his second wife Elizabeth Cabot Putnam. His great-grandfather,John Lowell,was among the first Judges for the newly created federal courts,appointed by Presidents George Washington and John Adams. Augustus' elder brother,Judge John Lowell,would be appointed to hold the same seats held by their great-grandfather,by Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Rutherford Hayes.
Amos Adams Lawrence was an American businessman,philanthropist,and social activist. He was a key figure in the United States abolitionist movement in the years leading up to the Civil War and the growth of the Episcopal Church in Massachusetts. He was instrumental in the establishment of the University of Kansas and Lawrence University in Appleton,Wisconsin.
Josiah Quincy IV was an American politician. He was mayor of Boston,as was his father Josiah Quincy III and grandson Josiah Quincy VI.
WLLH is a commercial radio station in the Merrimack Valley region of Massachusetts. The station is owned by Gois Broadcasting,LLC,and airs a tropical music radio format. There are actually two transmitters with the call sign WLLH. Both operate at 1,000 watts using non-directional antennas on AM 1400. One is in Lowell,and there was a synchronous transmitter in Lawrence,together forming the two Ls in the call sign. The station has shut off the Lowell transmitter and change the City of License to Lawrence.
Elisha Huntington was an American physician and politician who served as the Mayor of Lowell,Massachusetts and as the 19th Lieutenant Governor for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1853 to 1854.
Jerome Van Crowninsfield Smith was an American physician,author and politician,serving as the fourteenth mayor of Boston,Massachusetts from 1854 to 1855.
Walter Lawrence Ramsdell was a Massachusetts politician who served as the 28th Mayor of Lynn,Massachusetts.
Thomas Goodwin Pinnock was a Massachusetts politician who served as the 33rd Mayor of Salem,Massachusetts,United States.
Walter Edward Lawrence was an American politician and city manager who served as a member of Massachusetts House of Representatives and as Mayor of Medford.
Thomas Henry Braden served as the fiftieth Mayor of Lowell,Massachusetts.
John Albert Wilson was a Canadian sculptor who produced public art for commissions throughout North America. He was a professor in the School of Architecture at Harvard University for 32 years. He is most famous for his American Civil War Monuments:the statue on the Confederate Student Memorial on the campus of the University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill,and the Washington Grays Monument in Philadelphia.
The following is a timeline of the history of Somerville,Massachusetts,USA.
The 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial election will take place on November 8,2022,to elect the Governor of Massachusetts. As Massachusetts does not have gubernatorial term limits,incumbent Republican Governor Charlie Baker is eligible to run for re-election. However,in a joint press statement with Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito released on December 1,2021,Baker announced he would not seek a third term while Polito announced she also would not seek re-election nor would she run to succeed him.
The Boston mayoral election of 1858 saw the reelection of Frederic W. Lincoln Jr.
The 1938 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1938.
Elections are currently held every four years to elect the mayor of Springfield,Massachusetts.
James M. Dolliver was a 19th-century American Boston maritime pilot. During his pilot service he served on the pilot boats Lillie,Friend, and Louisa Jane. Dolliver was one of the oldest of the Boston pilots at the time of his death. He died on September 4,1896,in Provincetown,Massachusetts.
The Nashua and Lowell Railroad was a 14-mile-long (23 km) railroad built to connect Nashua,New Hampshire with the city of Lowell,Massachusetts. Chartered in June 1835,construction began in 1837;the first train ran the next year. The Nashua and Lowell was the first railroad built in the state of New Hampshire.
