History of Gloucester, (Essex County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Edwin Percy Whipple, author, was born in Gloucester, Mass., March 8, 1819; son of Matthew and Lydia (Gardiner) Whipple. His father died when he was quite young, and his mother removed to Salem, Mass. Whipple was employed in Boston, and became a member of the Mercantile library association, before which he read an original poem in 1840. His article on Macaulay in 1843, attracted considerable attention, and in the same year a lecture before the Mercantile Library association, began his long career as a lecturer. He was married in 1847, to Charlotte Hastings. He was a voluminous magazine correspondent, and the author of many books, including: Essays and Reviews (2 vols., 1848-49); Literature and Life (1849); Character and Characteristic Men (1866); Success and its Conditions (1871); Literature of the Age of Elizabeth (1869); Recollections of Eminent Men, published posthumously in (1887); also American Literature and Other Papers (1887). He died in Boston, Mass., June 16, 1886.

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

Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo, author, was born in Shirley, Mass., March 17, 1819. She was educated in the district schools of Shirley and at Westford academy, Mass., and began to write for publication in 1835, contributing to the Ladies' Repository, Universalist and other papers. She established in 1840, and edited, 1840-48, the Rose of Sharon, a religious annual, and also edited The Ladies' Repository, 1840-48. She was married, July 28, 1846, to the Rev. Amory Dwight Mayo . She edited The Poems of Mrs. Julia W. Scott, with a memoir (1840), and is the author of: The Palfreys (1840); Ellen Clifford (1842); The Flower Vase (1845); Spring Flowers (1846); The Floral Fortune Teller (1847); Fables of Flora (1848). She died in Gloucester, Mass., July 9, 1848.

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

Samuel Gilman, author, was born in Gloucester, Mass., Feb. 16, 1791; son of Frederick and Abigail Hillier (Somes) Gilman; and grandson of Samuel and Lydia (Robinson) Giddings Gilman. He was graduated from Harvard in 1811, was a tutor in mathematics there, 1817-19, and was then ordained pastor of the Unitarian church, Archdale street, Charleston, S.C., where he remained till the close of his life. He was married, Oct. 14, 1819, to Caroline, daughter of Samuel Howard of Boston, Mass. He received the degree of S.T.D. from Harvard in 1837. He contributed both prose and poetry to various periodicals; translated some of the satires of Boileau, and is the author of: Memoirs of a New England Village Choir (1829); Pleasures and Pains of a Student's Life (1852); and Contributions to American Literature (1856). He also wrote Fair Harvard for the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the college, 1636-1836. At the time of the nullification excitement in South Carolina he wrote Hail our Country's Natal Morn! a Union ode which was sung at a Union meeting in Charleston, and during the civil war was republished in the New York Tribune and became popular. He died at the residence of his son-in-law, the Rev. Charles J. Bowen, at Kingston, Mass., Feb. 9, 1858.

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

Mary Elizabeth Dewey, teacher, was born in Gloucester, Mass., Oct. 27, 1821; daughter of the Rev. Orville and Louisa (Farnham) Dewey, and granddaughter of Silas and Polly (Root) Dewey and of William and Hannah (Emerson) Farnham. She was educated at private schools and in 1860 opened a boarding school in Sheffield, Mass. In 1884 she was elected corresponding secretary to the Massachusetts Indian association. Her published writings include: Life and Letters of Miss Sedgwick (1871) and Autobiography and Letters of My Father (edited, 1883).

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