Harrison Gray Otis, was a businessman, lawyer, and politician, becoming one of the most important leaders of the United States' first political party, the Federalists. He was a member of the Otis family.
Allen Towner Treadway was a Massachusetts Republican politician.
Samuel Atkins Eliot II was an American Unitarian minister. In 1898 the American Unitarian Association elected him secretary but in 1900 the position was redesignated as president and Eliot served in that office from inception to 1927, significantly expanding the association's activities and consolidating denominational power in its administration.
Samuel Leland Powers was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.
Samuel Atkins Eliot was a member of the notable Eliot family of Boston, Massachusetts who served in political positions at the local, state and national levels.
William Shepard was a United States Representative from Massachusetts (1797–1802), and a military officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. As a state militia leader he protected the Springfield Armory during Shays' Rebellion, firing cannon into the force of Daniel Shays and compelling them to disperse. He was also served in town and state government and was a member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council.
Thomas Norton Hart was an American manufacturer, businessman, and politician from Massachusetts who served as Mayor of Boston from 1889 to 1890 and from 1900 to 1902.
The Eliot family is the American branch of one of several British families to hold this surname. This branch is based in Boston but originated in East Coker, Yeovil, Somerset. It is one of the Boston Brahmins, a bourgeois family whose ancestors had become wealthy and held sway over the American education system. All are the descendants of two men named Andrew Eliot, father and son, who emigrated from East Coker to Beverly, Massachusetts between 1668 and 1670. The elder Andrew served the town and colony in a number of positions and in 1692 was chosen as a juror in the Salem witch trials. His son Andrew married Mercy Shattuck in 1680 in Beverly and died by drowning after falling off a ship.
Otis C. Norcross served as the nineteenth Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, from January 7, 1867 to January 6, 1868 during the Reconstruction era of the United States. Norcross was a candidate (1861) for the Massachusetts State House of Representatives; served as a member of Boston's Board of Aldermen from January 6, 1862 to January 2, 1865; Chairmen of the Board of Aldermen from January 4, 1864 to January 2, 1865; and served as a Trustee of the City Hospital, 1865 & 1866; and a member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council, under Gov. William Claflin (1869).
Frederick Ayer was an American businessman and the younger brother of patent medicine tycoon Dr. James Cook Ayer. In addition to his involvement in the patent medicine business, he is better known for his work in the textile industry. After buying the Tremont and Suffolk mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, he bought up many textile operations in nearby Lawrence, combining them in 1899 into the American Woolen Company, of which he was the first president. He was involved in other businesses of the time as well, such as being the co-founder of the Arctic Coal Company. He died on March 14, 1918, in Thomasville, Georgia, and is interred at Lowell Cemetery.
Hiller Crowell Wellman was an American librarian who served as President of the American Library Association (1914–15). He was librarian for the Springfield (Massachusetts) City Library from 1902 to 1948. Before his tenure in Springfield, Wellman served as librarian at the Brookline Library. In addition, Wellman was special editor for library terms for Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition.
Alvin Foye Sortwell was a Massachusetts politician who served as the twenty-sixth Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Edward Glines (1849–1917) was a Massachusetts politician who served as the eleventh Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts.
Elisha B. Maynard was an American attorney and politician who served on the city council and as Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts and as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court.
George Albert Clough was an architect working in Boston in the late 19th-century. He designed the Suffolk County Courthouse in Pemberton Square, and numerous other buildings in the city and around New England. Clough served as the first City Architect of Boston from 1876 to 1883.
Richard Dana was a prominent lawyer and politician in colonial Massachusetts, and member of the Dana family.
The Samuel Eliot Morison bibliography contains a list of books and articles written by American historian Samuel Eliot Morison.
John Avery Denison was an American politician and judge. He was Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts and a judicial appointee of Calvin Coolidge.
Charles Leonard Long was an Massachusetts lawyer, judge and politician who served as the Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts in 1895.
