Elihu Yale was a British-American colonial administrator and philanthropist. Born in Boston,Massachusetts,Yale only lived in America as a child,spending the rest of his life in England,Wales,and India. He became a clerk for the East India Company at Fort St. George,and eventually rose to the Presidency of the settlement. He was later removed from the post under charges of corruption for self-dealing and required to pay a fine. In 1699 he returned to Britain with a considerable fortune,around £200,000,mostly made by selling diamonds,and spent his time and wealth in philanthropy and art collecting. He is best remembered as the primary benefactor of Yale College,which was named in his honor,following a donation of books,portrait,and textiles under the request of Rev. Cotton Mather,a Harvard graduate. He had no male heir,and no descendants of his have survived past his grandchildren.
The Boston Brahmins or Boston elite are members of Boston's traditional upper class. They are often associated with a cultivated New England or Mid-Atlantic dialect and accent,Harvard University,Anglicanism,and traditional British 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 (WASPs).
The Lowell family is one of the Boston Brahmin families of New England,known for both intellectual and commercial achievements.
The Dominion of New England in America (1686–1689) was an administrative union of English colonies covering all of New England and the Mid-Atlantic Colonies,with the exception of the Delaware Colony and the Province of Pennsylvania. The region's political structure was one of centralized control similar to the model used by the Spanish monarchy under the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The dominion was unacceptable to most colonists because they deeply resented being stripped of their rights and having their colonial charters revoked. Governor Edmund Andros tried to make legal and structural changes,but most of these were undone and the Dominion was overthrown as soon as word was received that King James II had vacated the throne in England. One notable change was the forced introduction of the Church of England into Massachusetts,whose Puritan leaders had previously refused to allow it any foothold.
Charles Henry Bell was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Exeter,New Hampshire. Bell served New Hampshire in both the New Hampshire House of Representatives and the New Hampshire Senate,as a U.S. Senator,and as the 38th governor of New Hampshire.
Jonathan Mason was a Federalist United States Senator and Representative from Massachusetts during the early years of the United States.
George Russell Stobbs was an attorney and politician. A Republican. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts for three terms.
Col. Isaac Allerton Jr. was planter,military officer,politician and merchant in colonial America. Like his father,he first traded in New England,and after his father's death,in Virginia. There,he served on the Governor's Council (1687-1691) and for many years in the House of Burgesses,representing Northumberland County and later Westmoreland County.
Samuel Hurd Walley was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as a member of the U.S. representative from Massachusetts.
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 the Boston Board of Aldermen from January 6,1862 to January 2,1865;chairman of the Boston 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).
Simon Willard (1605–1676) was an early Massachusetts fur trader,colonial militia leader,legislator,and judge.
John Sherburne Sleeper (1794–1878) was an American sailor,ship master,novelist,journalist and politician.
Jeremiah Gridley was a lawyer,editor,colonial legislator,and attorney general in Boston,Province of Massachusetts Bay,in the 18th century. He served as "Grand Master of the Masons in North America" around the 1760s,and was associated with the founding of the Boston Bar Association.
Major-General Humphrey Atherton,an early settler of Dorchester,Massachusetts,held the highest military rank in colonial New England. He first appeared in the records of Dorchester on March 18,1637 and made freeman May 2,1638. He became a representative in the General Court in 1638 and 1639–41. In 1653,he was Speaker of the House,representing Springfield,Massachusetts. He was chosen assistant governor,a member of the lower house of the General Court who also served as magistrate in the judiciary of colonial government,in 1654,and remained as such until his death." He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts and held the ranks of lieutenant and captain for several years before rising to the rank of major-general. He also organized the first militia in Massachusetts.
Benjamin Bullivant was appointed by Joseph Dudley as the first Attorney General of the Dominion of New England.
Charles Henry Warren was a Massachusetts attorney,politician and judge who served as President of the Massachusetts Senate in 1853.
Samuel Phillips was an American Congregational minister and the first pastor of the South Church in Andover,Massachusetts. His son,John Phillips,was the founder of Phillips Exeter Academy,and his grandson,Samuel Phillips Jr.,was the founder of Phillips Academy Andover and briefly the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts.
James Graham was a Scottish born colonial American politician who served as the Speaker of the New York General Assembly.
James Atherton was an early settler and one of the founders of Lancaster,Massachusetts. He emigrated to the New England Colonies from the parish of Wigan,Lancashire,England,in 1635.
Charles Levi Woodbury was an American lawyer and politician.
