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Page xc - Boston, in the years 1849— 1854, and for some years was principal of a school in Boston. From 1859 to 1867 he was rector of Grace Church in Salem, and while there was appointed by the Governor a member of the State Board of Education. In 1861 and 1862 he assisted in raising the Nineteenth and Twenty-third regiments of Massachusetts Volunteers. He organized a field hospital, volunteered as its head and was appointed chaplain. In 1867 he became rector of Christ Church at Riverdale on the Hudson,...
Page cxli - On that best portion of a good man's life, — His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
Page lxxiv - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things.
Page lv - Paris, of the. Historical Societies of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, of the American Historical Association, and of the Pennsylvania Medical Society. He was elected corresponding member of the New-England Historic Genealogical Society in 1881. He was also a member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Society of the Army of the Potomac and the Grand Army of the Republic. He was historian of the Pennsylvania Society of the...
Page lxi - In 1862 he became treasurer, and in 1868 secretary of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, and in 1880 he became secretary of the American Philosophical Society, and five years later its librarian. He was a member of many learned societies at home and abroad, and in many cases was the only American who was thus honored. His works on the currency in the Colonial times and during the Revolutionary war were among the earliest works on these subjects. The Supreme Court of the United...
Page lxii - Philadelphia, of the New York Historical Society, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, the American Geographical Society, and other similar associations.
Page lxxiv - ... at the private schools of Mr. TB Hayward (HC 1820), and Mr. Charles K. Dillaway. Entering Harvard College as a freshman, he graduated in the famous class of 1844, which included in its ranks, Dr. Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Francis Parkman, Leverett Saltonstall, Kobert Codman and other prominent men. While in college, he was a member of the Institute of 1770, of the Hasty Pudding Club, and of the Porcellian Club.
Page xxxvii - Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York . .New York, NY Soldiers
Page civ - He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth College in 1878, and was held in wide esteem by many scholarly and bookish men, who found in him kindred traits.

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