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Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Charles Darwin Elliot. (search)
esex County. Charles Darwin Elliot, son of Joseph and Zenora (Tucker) Elliot, was born in Foxboro, Mass., June 20, 1837. Among Mr. Elliot's ancestors were Major Eleazer Lawrence, Lieutenant Elea and Joanna (Morse) Eliot were: Joel and Hannah. Joel was born August 30, 1775, and died at Foxboro, Mass., July 23, 1864; his wife, Mary Murray (Flagg) Elliot, was born in Cambridge July 14, 1782, and died in Foxboro January 23, 1865; she was daughter of Timothy and Sarah (Hicks) Flagg, and granddaughter of John Hicks, a member of the Boston Tea Party, and one of the Cambridge minute-men who fed Square; he was at one time a member of the Cambridge fire department. In 1816 he moved to Foxboro, Mass., where he became a prosperous farmer; it was he who changed the spelling of the family name early days Joseph Elliot was much interested in politics, and was offered the postmastership of Foxboro, which he declined. He was identified with the old Democratic party in its contests with the W
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Memoir. (search)
Memoir. By J. Albert Holmes, Member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. Charles D. Elliot was educated in the schools of Foxboro, Wrentham, Malden, and in the old Milk Row School and the Prospect Hill Grammar School, Somerville, Mass., and in Henry Munroe's private school on Walnut Street, this city, which he left to enter, at the age of twelve years, the Hopkins Classical School, situated at that time on the south side of Main Street, now Massachusetts Avenue, a few rods westerly from Dana Street, Cambridge. This school was in existence from 1840 to 1854, and was supported from a fund left by Edward Hopkins, for a grammar school in Cambridge. The teacher during Mr. Elliot's attendance was Edmund B. Whitman. Mr. Elliot was a member of the first entering class of the Somerville High School. The front portion of the present Somerville City Hall was built and dedicated April 28, 1852, as a high school. The school from 1852 to 1867 occupied the upper floor, and afterwards
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Index (search)
ish, Cambridge, Mass., 8. First Universalist Church, 13, 18. First Universalist Church, Men's Club of, 62, 64. First Universalist Society in Somerville, 55. Fitchburg, Mass., 26. Fitchburg Railroad, 57, 74, 78. Five Cents Savings Bank, Charlestown, The, 25. Flagg, Sarah (Hicks), 54. Flagg, Timothy, 54. Florence, S. C., 38. Forster School, 50. Fort Bisland, 66. Fort Butler, 68. Fort Darling, 38. Fort St. Philip, 64. Fowle, F. E., 48. Foxboro Centre, Mass., 55. Foxboro, Mass., 53, 54, 55. Franklin, General, 67, 81. Franklin Literary Association, 74. Franklin Street, Arlington, Mass., 48. Freetown, 5. Frost, Elisha, 46. Frost, Rebecca, 20. Fuller, J. F., 58. Gage, General, 52. Gardenville, 32. Gardner, Mary B., 47. Gardner, Miles, 47. Gardner Row, 47. Gardner, Thomas, 5. Gates, General, 51, 54. Geddis' Twine Factory, 12. Gerrish, Elizabeth, 43. Goddard, Thomas, 19. Goldsboro, 39. Goodhue, Eliza, 10. Governor John Winthrop and His