History of Auburndale, (Middlesex County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Albert F. Bellows, painter, was born at Milford, Mass., Nov. 29, 1829. His childhood was passed in Salem, Mass, and in 1845 he obtained a position in the office of a Boston architect. His taste and aptitude for drawing made him eminently fitted for this business, and at the age of nineteen he became a partner in a firm of good standing. After remaining in business a short time he adopted painting for a profession, and was for some years principal of the New England school of design. He soon after went abroad and divided his time between New York and the art centres of Europe. He was elected an associate of the National academy in 1859, academician in 1861. He was one of the first members of the American society of painters in water colors, and in 1868 was made an honorary member of the Royal Belgian society of water colorists, which honor cannot be given without a unanimous vote of the members of the institution. Before going abroad he confined his work chiefly to oils, in which he was less successful than in his later water colors. Among the best of these are: "Study of a Head" (1876); "Autumn Woods" (1876); "Sunday Afternoon in New England" (1876); "New England Homestead" (1878); "The Willow Wagon," "Sunday in Devonshire," and "The Village Elm." Several of his pictures have been reproduced in steel or copper-plate engravings. The Art Journal for March, 1877, says: "Bellows' soft river hanks, his trees trembling with light, and the quiet skies of summer have long made his paintings loved, and they have also served to develop the taste for water colors among us." He died at Auburndale, Mass., Nov. 24, 1883.

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

James Elijah Latimer, educator, was born in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 7, 1826. He was graduated from Wesleyan university in 1848; taught languages in Newbury seminary, Vt., in 1848; Latin and geology in Genesee Wesleyan seminary, Lima, N.Y., 1849-51; was principal of the New Hampshire Conference seminary, Northfield, N.H., 1851-54; of Fort Plain seminary, N.Y., 1854-58, and in 1858 joined the East Genesee conference. He was married in 1853 to Anna E. Ross, of Elmira, N.Y. He was teacher of languages at Elmira Female college, 1859-60; was pastor of First church, Elmira, 1861-62; Asbury church, Rochester, N.Y., 1863-64; First church, Rochester, 1865-67, and in 1868 went to Europe to study methods of instruction. He was pastor at Penn Yan, N.Y., 1869-71; professor of historical theology, sacred and church history in Boston university, 1871-74; dean of the school of theology, 1873-84; lecturer on history, 1874-75, and professor of systematic theology, 1874-84. He received the degree D.D. from Wesleyan university in 1868. He is the author of: What of the Night? a missionary sermon preached before the East Genesee conference at Waterloo, N.Y., Sept. 2, 1865; Mysticism (1878), and a work on systematic theology which he left incomplete. He died at Auburndale, Mass., Nov. 26, 1884.

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

Horatio William Parker, musician and composer, was born in Auburndale, Mass., Sept. 15, 1863; son of Charles Edward and Isabella Grahame (Jennings) Parker; grandson of Elijah and Sally (Hall) Parker, and of John and Susan Cornelia (Keyes) Jennings, and a descendant of Thomas Parker, who sailed from London in the Susan & Ellen March 11, 1635. He was graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music, Munich, in 1885, and was married in 1886 to Anna, daughter of Franz and Rosa (H?brich) Ploessl, of Munich. He was professor of music at the Cathedral School of St. Paul, Garden City, Long Island, N.Y., 1845?87; organist of Holy Trinity, N.Y., 1887?93; and organist of Trinity, Boston, 1898?1901. In 1894 he was appointed Bartell professor of the theory of music at Yale, receiving the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1894, and that of Mus. Doc. from Cambridge (England) University in 1902. He composed the oratorio Hora Novissima which was performed at the Festival of the Three Choirs, Worcester, England, September, 1899; and at the Chester, England, Festival in July, 1900; the oratorio St. Christopher; the cantatas King Trojan and The Kobolds; and A Wanderer's Psalm, which last was given under his direction at the Hereford festival, England, in 1900. He conducted St. Christopher at the Three Choirs Festival, in Worcester, September 1902, and in Bristol, Oct. 9, 1902.

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