History of Dudley, (Worcester County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Daniel Dorchester, clergyman, was born at Dudley, Mass., April 28, 1851; son of Daniel and Mary Payson (Davis) Dorchester; and grandson of Daniel and Mary (Otis) Dorchester and of Henry and Matilda (Upham) Davis. He was prepared for college at Wesleyan academy and was graduated from Wesleyan university in 1874. He was instructor in Latin and Greek in the Vermont conference seminary, 1874-76, and in 1875 joined the New England conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was stationed at Springfield, Vt., 1878-80; Hopkinton, Mass, 1880-81; and at the Winthrop street church, Boston, Mass., 1881-83. In 1883 he became assistant professor of political economy, rhetoric and English literature in Boston university, and in 1886 was advanced to the full professorship of these branches. He resigned in 1895 to become pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Pittsburgh, Pa. He was married in 1875 to Cleora E. Clark. He received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1888 and the same degree from Boston university in 1891.

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

Nora Perry, author, was born in Dudley, Mass., in 1841. She removed to Providence, R.I., with her parents in childhood, and was educated at home and in private schools. At the age of eight she wrote her first story, "The Shipwreck," which was never published, and in 1859 she began to write for publication. Her first published story appeared in a religious magazine; her first successful poem, "Tying Her Bonnet under Her Chin," in a newspaper in Washington, D.C., and her first serial story, "Rosalind Newcomb," in Harper's Magazine. 1859-60. She then removed to Boston, Mass.; became the correspondent of the Chicago Tribune and the Providence Journal; contributed stories and poems to magazines, and for several years before her death confined herself to writing stories for girls. She is the author of: After the Ball and Other Poems (1874); The Tragedy of the Unexpected and Other Stories (1880); Book of Stories (1881); For a Woman (1885); New Songs and Ballads (1886); A Flock of Girls (1887); The Youngest Miss Lorton and Other Stories (1889); Brave Girls (1889); Lyrics and Legends (1890); Hope Benham (1894); Her Lover's Friends and Other Poems, and Three Lit-the Daughters of the Revolution (posthumous, (1896). She died in Dudley, Mass., May 13, 1896.

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