History of Brookline, (Norfolk County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Edward Atkinson, economist, was born in Brookline, Mass., Feb. 10, 1827. His studies were carried on wholly at private schools, and from early youth he was especially interested in the subject of economics, both practical and theoretical. He attained a position as one of the best and most thoroughly earnest writers on economic topics. He invented the Aladdin oven, and became president of the Boston manufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance company, being considered an authority on that subject. In 1899 he was deprived of the use of the U.S. mails on the charge of sending seditious matter by mail to the soldiers in the Philippines. He then turned editor, and published The Anti-Imperialist, a weekly, in which he set forth his views on the McKinley administration. He received the degree LL.D. from the University of South Carolina and Ph.D. from Dartmouth college; and wrote and lectured upon economic matters, the topics including such subjects as "Banking"; "Insufficiency of Economic Legislation "; "What Makes the Rate of Wages"; "Application of Science to the Production and Consumption of Food"; and "Prevention of Loss by Fire." Among his pamphlet sandbooks are "Our National Domain"; "The railroads of the United States"; "Argument for the Conditional Reform of the Legal Tender Act"; "The Railway and the Farmer"; "The Distribution of Products"; "The Margin of Profits"; "Slow Burning Construction"; "Labor and Capital?"Allies, not Enemies"; "What is a Bank"?; "The Industrial Progress of the Nation"; "Consumption Limited; Production Unlimited"; "Influence of Boston Capital upon Manufacturers"; "Cheap Cotton by Free Labor,"; "The Collection of Revenue ", and "The Science of Nutrition."

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

Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, author, was born at Salem, Mass., June 17, 1805; son of Nathaniel and Mary (Ingersoll) Bowditch. He was graduated from Harvard college in 1822, and admitted to the bar in October, 1825. He practised for a short time with his brother-in-law, Franklin Dexter, but severed the connection to devote his time to his specialty, conveyancing, in which he soon became a recognized authority. In 1827 he was elected secretary of the Massachusetts general hospital; in 1836, chairman of the board of trustees, and from 1850 to 1861 vice-president. In 1860 he established at Harvard college sixteen scholarships, four for each class, each with an annual income of $250. This endowment was $70,000. He published: "Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch "(1839); "The Ether Controversy" (1848); "A History of the Massachusetts General Hospital" (1851; 2d ed., 1872); "Wharf Property or the Law of Flats" (1852); "Suffolk Surnames" (1857), and fifty-five large volumes of land titles. In 1880 a collection of his "Gleaner Articles," from the Boston Transcript, was published. He died at Brookline, Mass., April 16, 1861.

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

Arthur Lawrence, clergyman, was born in Brookline, Mass., Aug. 22, 1842; son of William Richards and Susan Coorobs (Dana) Lawrence, and grandson of Amos and Sarah (Richards) Lawrence and of Samuel and Henrietta (Bridge) Dana. His ancestor, Richard Dana, of French descent, immigrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay colony, in 1640. Arthur attended Lawrence academy, Groton, Mass., a school in France, the Boston Latin school and the Boston private Latin school, and was graduated from Harvard university, A.B., 1863, A.M., 1866. He engaged in business in Boston, Mass., 1863-64; was a member of the U.S. Christian commission, 1864-65, and served as a volunteer aide on the staff of Gen. O. O. Howard during Sherman's march to the sea in 1864. He was graduated from the Episcopal Theological school at Cambridge, Mass., B.D., 1869, and was chosen rector of St. Paul's church, Stockbridge, Mass., in 1872. He was married, June 12, 1877, to Allison Turnbull, daughter of Samuel and Alison Lawrence. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Williams college in 1893.

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

Thomas Hamilton Murray, journalist and historian, was born in Brookline, Mass., May 25, 1857; son of Robert and Margaret (McGinnis) Murray; grandson of Thomas and Ellen (McCarthy) Murray, and great-grandson of Luke and Mary (Porter) Murray. His father was born in Cork county, Ireland, and his mother at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, of Irish parentage. He was educated in the schools of Brookline, Newton, Cambridge and Boston, Mass.; engaged in daily journalism at Boston for several years; edited daily papers in Providence, R.I., Bridgeport and Meriden, Conn., Lawrence, Mass., and Woonsocket, R.I.; was one of the founders of the American-Irish Historical society in 1897, and was elected secretary-general of the same. He was married, April 13, 1885, to Mary H. Sullivan of Boston, Mass. He is the author of many papers on historical, genealogical, literary and educational subjects, and in collaboration with the Hon. John C. Linehan of Concord, N.H., wrote: Irish Schoolmasters in the American Colonies, 1640-1775 (1898), and with George Washington of Dublin, Ireland, The Irish Washingtons at Home and Abroad (1898). Among his published papers are: The Libraries of Boston (1882); The Old Schoolmasters of Boston (1884); The Mason Name in New England History (1884); The Thayers in America (1884); Thirty Historic American Families (1889); The Irish Chapter in the History of Brown University (1896); The Irish Soldiers in King Philip's War, 1675-6 (1896); The Dempsey Name, Old and Puissant (1896); Some Patricks of the American Revolution (1897); Five Colonial Rhode Islanders (1897); The Irish Murrays and Their American Descendants (1900); The Romance of Sarah Alexander (mother of Commodore ?rry) (1901); The Story of Miss Fitzgerald, Dartmouth, Mass., 1687 (1901); Richard Dexter, Irishman, Massachusetts Bay Colonist, 1641 (1902).

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