Uriel Crocker was a public-spirited Boston citizen,head of the Crocker &Brewster publishing house during its 58-year existence (1818-1876),and actively involved in other enterprises including railroads.
Samuel Leland Powers was a United States representative from Massachusetts.
Linus Bacon Comins was a Massachusetts politician who served as Mayor of Roxbury,Massachusetts and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1855 to 1859.
William Gray was a Massachusetts merchant and politician. Born into a lower-class family in Lynn,Massachusetts,he managed to build his own business and rise through the state's political ranks,becoming the richest man in New England,and in the eyes of many the richest man in all of America. Prior to the War of 1812,William Gray had the largest private fleet in the United States with 60 square-rigged vessels.
William Henry Haile was an American businessman and politician who served as the Mayor of Springfield,Massachusetts in 1881,and as the 35th Lieutenant Governor for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1890 to 1893.
Joshua Bates was an American international financier who divided his life between the United States and the United Kingdom.
Edward Dowse was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Charlestown in the Province of Massachusetts Bay,Dowse moved to Dedham in March 1798 to escape the yellow fever epidemic in Boston. He purchased five acres of land on both sides of the Middle Post Road,today known as High Street. He lived in an already existing house at first,and then built a home on the land in 1804. His brother-in-law was Samuel Nicholson,the first captain of USS Constitution.
William Sarsfield McNary was an American Democratic politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Boston,Massachusetts and exercised tremendous influence over the Massachusetts Democratic Party.
Nathan Webb was a teacher,firefighter,and public official in Boston,Massachusetts,in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He arrived in Boston from Windham,Connecticut around 1783,when he was 16 years old. In 1783,he began work as a teaching assistant at the North Writing School,a public school under the direction of schoolmaster John Tileston,on Love Lane in the North End. Webb continued teaching through 1789. According to his diary (1788-1791),in his young adult years he was active in the Independent Musical Club,a private music club with both male and female members founded in 1789. When George Washington visited Boston in 1789,Webb attended the parade that took place by the triumphal arch on Washington Street.
Edwin Monroe Bacon was an American writer and editor who worked for the Boston Daily Advertiser and The Boston Globe and also wrote books about Boston,Massachusetts,and New England. His books include Bacon's Dictionary of Boston.
Phineas Jones Stone was a Massachusetts politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a member of the Board of Selectmen for the Town of Charlestown,Massachusetts,as a member of and president of the Common Council and as the seventh mayor of the City of Charlestown,Massachusetts.
Eugene L. Norton was a Massachusetts politician who served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature,and as the tenth mayor of Charlestown,Massachusetts.
Henry King Braley was an American politician who served as Mayor of Fall River,Massachusetts.
Mark F. Burns was an American politician who served on the Board of Aldermen,as a member and President of the Common Council,and as the sixth Mayor,of Somerville,Massachusetts.
Ordway Hall (est.1852) was a theatre in Boston,Massachusetts located off Washington Street in the former Province House. John P. Ordway established and managed the hall,which specialized in "negro minstrelsy," particularly the Ordway Aeolians,his own troupe.
Baxter Edwards Perry was a Massachusetts attorney and politician. Perry served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as the second Mayor of Medford,Massachusetts.
Levi Clifford Wade was a lawyer,politician and railroad executive who served as a member,and the Speaker of,the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1879,and as the president of the Mexican Central Railway from 1884 until his death in 1891.
Homer Baxter Sprague was an American author,educator,abolitionist,and Lieutenant Colonel of the Union Army. A native of Sutton,Massachusetts,Sprague was a Captain of the 13th Connecticut Infantry Regiment in 1861 when the American Civil War began,and quickly rose to the rank of Colonel before being captured as a prisoner of war by the Confederate Army in 1864. In 1865 he was released in a prisoner exchange,and remained active within the military until the end of the war.
Richard Baker Jr. was an American businessman who was called the "King of Merchants". He is best known today for building Westcliff,a large cottage in Newport,Rhode Island designed by Richard Morris Hunt.
