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Samuel Tucker 1747 - 1833
High on the roll of the valiant fighting men of the Old Navy, he captured sixty-two enemy vessels, more than six hundred cannon, and three thousand prisoners. A pride to the North End, he lived on Fleet Street.
Increase Mather 1639 - 1723
Father of Cotton Mather, Minister of the North Church in North Square, President of Harvard College, 1685 - 1701. Instrumental in securing the Massachusetts Royal Charter of 1691. He lived in North Square and on Hanover Street, and lies buried in Copp's Hill Burying Ground.
Edward Holyoke 1689 - 1769
Pupil in the North Grammar School, and President of Harvard College, 1737 - 1769. Liberal in temper, his administration of thirty-two years was one of the longest and most prosperous in the annals of the college. He was born in North Square.
Edward Everett 1794 - 1865
Statesman and orator, Governor of Massachusetts, 1836 - 1840, and President of Harvard College, 1846 - 1849. He lived as a boy on Richmond Street and was a pupil of "Old John Tileston"
Christian Gullager 1862 - 1826
Among the artists who painted Washington, he was active as a portrait painter during the earlier Post-Revolutionary period. A skillful craftsman his work records in simple and honest realism the people of his day. He lived on Hanover Street. |