History of North Adams, (Berkshire County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Caleb Atwater, author, was born at North Adams, Mass., Dec. 25, 1778. After his graduation from Williams college in 1804 he became a lawyer, and in 1811 removed to Circleville, Ohio, where he became prominent in local politics, serving in the Ohio legislature, and also as Indian commissioner. He published: "Remarks made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien" (1831); "Writings of Caleb Atwater" (1833); "Western Antiquities" (1833); "History of Ohio, Natural and Civil" (1838), and an "Essay on Education" (1841). He was a contributor to the transactions of the American antiquarian society. He died at Circleville, Ohio, March 13, 1867.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

John Darby, educator, was born in North Adams, Mass., Sept. 27, 1804. He was graduated at Williams college in 1831; was teacher of sciences and mathematics at Brahamville female institute, Columbia, S.C., four years; professor of sciences in the Wesleyan female college, Macon, Ga., fourteen years; professor of mathematics in Williams college, 1845-46; founder of the Culloden, Ga., female college; professor of natural sciences in Auburn female institute, Auburn, Ala.; professor of chemistry and natural history in the Eastern Alabama college, and president of the Kentucky Wesleyan college, 1869-75. He removed to New York city in 1875. His publications include: Manual of Botany (1841); The Botany of the Southern States (1855); and Chemistry (1860). He died in New York city, Sept. 18, 1877.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Joseph LeRoy Harrison, librarian, was born at North Adams, Mass., Oct. 12, 1862; son of John LeRoy and Ellen Maria (Hawks) Harrison; and grandson of John and Irene (Van Dyke) Harrison and of Elihu Smead and Sophia Elizabeth (Abby) Hawks. His paternal grandfather, John Harrison, was born in Langton, England, and was of an old Yorkshire family; and his maternal grandfather, Dr. Elihu S. Hawks, was born in Deerfield, Mass., and was a direct descendant of John Hawks, who in 1659 left Windsor, Conn., and became one of the first settlers of the Deerfield Valley. Joseph L. Harrison was prepared for college at Drury academy, North Adams, Mass., and at Cascadilla school, Ithaca, N.Y. He was a member of the class of 1886, Cornell university, leaving at the end of his junior year; attended the University of Heidelberg, Germany, 1890, and the New York state library school at Albany, N.Y., 1891-93, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Library Science from the Regents of the University of the state of New York in 1893. He was on the editorial staff of the New York Commercial Advertiser, 1885-88; assistant Washington correspondent on the New York Commercial Advertiser, the New York Commercial Bulletin and the Philadelphia Evening Telegram, 1888-89; sub-librarian, legislation, of the New York state library at Albany, 1893-94, and in 1894 became librarian of the Providence Athen?um, Providence, R.I. He was a member of the co-operative committee of the American library association, 1894-95; president of the New York state library school association, 1895-96, and vice-president, 1897-98; vice-president of the Massachusetts library club, 1898-99, working in connection with the New England education league on "Library and Post-office Movement," in 1899. In addition to these associations he was elected a member of the Rhode Island historical society, the Rhode Island school of design, the Hope club, the Art club and the Psi Upsilon club, all of Providence, and of the Psi Upsilon club, New York city. In March, 1900, he went to Paris to take charge of the installation of the American library association exhibit at the Paris exposition and remained in charge of the exhibit until July. He is the author of: The Great Bore; a Souvenir of Hoosac Tunnel (1891); editor of Cap and Gown: Some College Verse (1893); joint author with W. G. Forsyth of A Guide to the Study of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1895); joint compiler of Comparative Summary and Index of State Legislation in 1893 (1894) and of the same for 1894 (1895); and editor of With Pipe and Book; a Collection of College Verse (1897). He also contributed to the New England Magazine, the New York Tribune, and other periodicals. In 1900 he was appointed editor of the Co-operative Bulletin of the Providence Libraries: a monthly record of additions to the Providence public library, the Providence Athen?um and the Brown University library.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

George Anson Jackson, clergyman, was born in North Adams, Mass., March 17, 1846; son of Jerome B. and Lydia A. (Ward) Jackson; grandson of Samuel and Anna (Brown) Jackson, of Fairfield, N.Y., and of Daniel and Lydia (Grover) Ward, and a descendant of Theophilus Jackson, a member of the committee of safety of King's District, N.Y., in 1775, who came from Rhode Island, his ancestors coming from the "English Pale"; of William Ward, born in England in 1597, and settled in Newton, Mass., in 163-, and of Chad Brown . He was graduated from Yale, Ph.D., 1868, A.M., 1887, and from Andover Theological seminary in 1871, and was ordained to the Congregational ministry, Sept. 26, 1872. He was pastor at Leavenworth, Kan., 1872-73; Globe Village, Mass., 1874-78; and Swampscott, Mass., 1878-97, and in 1897 was elected librarian of the General Theological library, Boston, Mass. He was married in 1871 to Belle Donald, of Andover, Mass. He was elected member of the American Historical association and of the New England Historic Genealogical society. He is the author of: The Apostolic Fathers and the Apologists of the Second Century (1879); The Fathers of the Third Century (1881); The Post-Nicene Greek Fathers (1883); The Post-Nicene Latin Fathers (1883); The Son of a Prophet, historical fiction (1894); The New Creed Catechism (1885), and various contributions to periodicals.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor