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

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Alice Bennett, physician, was born at Wrentham, Mass., Jan. 31, 1851, daughter of Francis Land Lydia (Hayden) Bennett. After receiving a common-school education she began to teach in country schools, following this occupation from 1868 to 1872, entering in the latter year the Woman's medical college of Pennsylvania, whence she was graduated in 1876. During the spring and summer of that year Dr. Bennett worked in a dispensary in the poorest quarters of Philadelphia, and in October she returned to the medical college as demonstrator of anatomy, at the same time establishing a practice and studying for a Ph.D. degree, which the University of Pennsylvania conferred upon her in 1880. Shortly after her graduation she was made superintendent of the women's department of the Pennsylvania state insane hospital, which position she held until 1896, resigning to devote herself to private practice. Dr. Bennett was a member of the American medical association, the Pennsylvania state medical society, the American academy of, political and social science, the Philadelphia medical jurisprudence society, the Philadelphia neurological society, and the Montgomery county medical society, of which last she was chosen president in 1890. She was one of the first women to make a special study of insanity, and was the very first to occupy a practical chairmanship of a great institution, In 1893 she became a member of a commission appointed by the governor to erect a new hospital for the insane in Pennsylvania.

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

Elias Nason, clergyman and author, was born in Wrentham, Mass., April 21, 1811. He was graduated from Brown university, A.B., 1835, A.M., 1836, and taught in Cambridge, Mass., 1835-36, and in Augusta, Ga., 1836-40. He edited the Georgia Courier and delivered lectures on the flora of the south. He edited the Watch Tower, Newburyport, Mass.; was a teacher of the Latin and high school, 1840-49, and master of the high school at Milford, Mass., 1849-52. He was pastor of the First church (Congregational) at Natick, 1852-58; pastor at Medford, 1858-60; Exeter, N.H., 1860-65; resided at North Billerica, Mass., 1865-87; was pastor at Dracut, Mass., 1865-77, and at Lowell, Mass., 1877-85. He served as a member of the Christian commission during the civil war; was a member of the New England Historic Genealogical society; of the New York Historical society, and of the American Antiquarian society. He edited the New England Historical and Genealogical Register and is the author of: Songs for the School Room (1842); Christomathie Fran?aise (1849); Memoir of Rev. Nathaniel Howe (1851); Thou Shalt Not Steal (1852); Strength and Beauty of the Sanctuary (1854); Congregational Hymn Book (1857); Hymn and Tune Book (1858); Our Obligations to Defend Our Country, and Sermons on the War (1861); Songs for Social and Public Worship (1862); Eulogy on Edward Everett (1865); Fountains of Salvation (1865); Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln (1865); Life of Sir Charles Henry Frankland (1865); Gazetteer of Massachusetts (1872); Life of Henry Wilson (1872); Lives of Moody and Sankey (1872); History of Middlesex County (1872), and left in manuscript a History of Hopkinton and History of the Nason Family. He died in North Billerica, Mass., June 17, 1887.

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

George Park Fisher, theologian, was born in Wrentham, Mass., Aug. 10, 1827; son of Lewis and Nancy (Fisher) Fisher; grandson of Lewis Fisher and of Luther Fisher, and a descendant of Samuel Fisher. He was graduated from Brown university in 1847, studied theology at Yale, 1848-49, was graduated from the Andover theological seminary in 1851 unit spent some time as a student in Germany. He was pastor of the church in Yale college, his title being professor of divinity, 1854-61, and in 1861 he was elected to the chair of ecclesiastical history. He received the degree of D.D. from Brown in 1866, from Harvard and the University of Edinburgh in 1886, and from Princeton in 1896; that of A.M. from Yale university in 1867, and that of LL.D. from Princeton in 1879. He was a member of the editorial board of the New Englander, 1866-92, and in 1892 became a member of the editorial staff of the Yale Review His published sermons bear the titles: History of the Church of Christ in Yale College (1858); National Faults (1860); Thoughts Proper to the Present Crisis (1861); Life and Service of Dr. N. W. Taylor ; and Discourse Commemorative of Josiah Willard Gibbs (1861). He is also the author of: Essays on the Supernatural Origin of Christianity (1865); Life of Benjamin Silliman (1866); History of the Reformation (1873); The Beginnings of Christianity (1877); Faith and Rationalism (1879); Grounds of Theistic and Christian Belief (1883); Outlines of Universal History (1885); The Christian Religion (1886); History of the Christian Church and Manual of Christian Evidences (1888); Notice and Method of Revelation (1890); Colonial History of the United States (1892); Manual of Natural Theology (1893); History of Christian Doctrine (1896); and numerous contributions to periodicals.

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

Enoch Pond, clergyman, was born in Wrentham, Mass., July 29, 1791; son of Elijah and Mary (Smith) Pond; grandson of Jacob and Sarah (Fales) Pond, and a descendant of Daniel (Dedham, Mass., 1652) and Abigail (Shepard) Pond. Enoch Pond was graduated from Brown, A.B., 1813, A.M., 1817, and ordained to the Congregational ministry, March 1, 1815. He was pastor at Ward, Mass., 1815-28, and editor of the Spirit of the Pilgrims, Boston, Mass., 1828-32. He was connected with the Bangor, Maine, Theological seminary as professor of systematic theology, 1832-56; professor of ecclesiastical history and lecturer on pastoral duties, 1856-70; president of the institution, 1856-82, and professor emeritus, 1870-82. He was married, first, Aug. 28, 1814, to Wealthy Ann, daughter of William Hawes of Wrentham, Mass.; secondly, May 17, 1825, to Julia Ann, daughter of John Maltby of Northford, Conn., and thirdly, July 9, 1839, to Anne, daughter of Thaddeus and Anne (Smith) Mason of Dedham, Mass., and widow of John S. Pearson of Bangor, Me. Dartmouth conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1835. He edited John Norton's "Life of John Cotton "(1852), and is the author of memoirs of President Samuel Davies (1829), Susanna Anthony (1830), Count Zinzendorf (1839), John Knox (1886), and The Rev. Harrison Fairfield (1858); Wickliffe and his Times (1841); Morning of the Reformation (1842); No Fellowship with Romanism (1843); The Mather Family (1844); Young Pastor's Guide (1844); The World's Salvation (1845); Pope and Pagan (1846); Probation (1846); Swedenborgianism Reviewed (1846); Plato (1846); Lives of Increase Mather and Sir William Phipps (1847); The Church (1848); The Ancient Church (1851); The Wreck and the Rescue (1858); Swedenborgianism Examined (1861); Sketches of the Theological History of New England (1880). He died in Bangor, Maine, Jan. 21, 1882.

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