New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 2

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William Richard Cutter
Lewis historical publishing Company, 1914 - New England - 2149 pages
 

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Page 550 - Massachusetts, is to be expended for books for the College Library. The other half of the income is devoted to scholarships in Harvard University for the benefit of descendants of HENRY BRIGHT, JR., who died at Watertown, Massachusetts, in i6S6.
Page 749 - Whether the elements of success in life are innate attributes of the individual, or whether they are quickened by a process of circumstantial development, it is impossible to clearly determine. Yet the study of a successful life is none the less interesting and profitable by reason of the existence of this same uncertainty.
Page 846 - Holding offices of the highest trust, no important measure was proposed, or any responsible agency ordered in which he had not a part. He was often one of the Council of War, many times an...
Page 604 - He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Page 1067 - Cut down and wither'd in an hour.] 6 [Our age to seventy years is set ; How short the term! how frail the state! And if to eighty we arrive, We rather sigh and groan than live.
Page 730 - Medicine from the time of its organization in 1904 and was its president at the time of his death. He was also a member of the Academy of Medicine and of the Cleveland Medical Library.
Page 749 - Yet the study of a successful life is none the less interesting and profitable by reason of the existence of this same uncertainty. So much in excess of those of successes are the records of failures or semi-failures that one is constrained to attempt an analysis in either case and to determine the method of causation in an approximate way.
Page 804 - In politics he was a Republican. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Free and Accepted Masons, in Bristol.
Page 789 - He is a member of the County and State Medical Societies and of the American Medical Association.
Page 814 - Sprague are the founders of the settlement in this place, and were persons of substance and enterprise, excellent citizens, generous public benefactors, and the head of a very large and respectable family of descendants.

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