fostered many young men in their school and college course. Holding in venerating regard his descent from one of the first English settlers in this place, he has caused a representative statue of him, as a Pilgrim, to be planted near by us on the Common, a gift to the city. And now he has done a similar loving service to the college. The two statues commemorate two worthies of our earliest years, who doubtless met on this virgin soil; and who, we can imagine, may now exchange from their metal enshroudings some grave recognitions.

In a quotation which Doctor Ellis makes from the oldest extant document in type which clearly recognizes the existence of Harvard College, a pamphlet published in London in 1643, entitled, "New England's First Fruits in Respect to the Progress of Learning in the College at Cambridge, in Massachusetts Bay," and so forth, this mention of John Harvard is made:

And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly gentleman and a lover of learning then living amongst us) to give the one-half of his estate (it being in all about £1700) towards the erection of a college, and all his library.

Referring to Mr. Harvard, Doctor Ellis says:

He was admitted as an inhabitant of Charlestown in this Colony, August 1, 1637. With Ann, his wife, he became a member of the church, which gave him the full rights of citizenship, November 1, 1637. He received grants of land from the town and was member of a committee on "providing some laws." He had built a comfortable dwelling, the site of which is known in Charlestown. It was occupied by the minister

of the town after his death.

Chief Justice Sewall tells us of his enjoying its hospitality on the night of January 26, 1697, and of the pious and grateful memory of John Harvard which came to him in his chamber: "Jany. 26, 1697, I lodged at Charlestown, at Mrs. Shepard's, who tells me Mr. Harvard built that house. I lay in the chamber next the street. As I lay awake past midnight in my meditation, I was affected to consider how long agoe God had made provision for my comfortable Lodging that night, seeing that was Mr. Harvard's house. And that led me to think of Heaven, the House not made with hands which God for many Thousands of years has been storing with the richest furniture (saints that are from time to time placed there) and that I had some hopes of being entertain'd in that Magnificent, Convenient Palace, every way fitted and furnished. These thoughts were very refreshing to me."

In another reference to Mr. Harvard, Doctor Ellis says:

The young scholar and minister-hardly could he have been thirty years of age-felt upon him the touch of mortal disease. He thought of the property, considerable for those days, which he had left in England. By a nuncupative will preceding his death (September 24, 1638, N. S.) he bequeathed the half of his estate to the college. No probate or administration on his will appears as having been made here. The college records appear to recognize the receipt of only half the amount of his bequest. The brooding troubles of the civil war in England may have hindered or impaired its transmission. We know him to have been beloved and honored, a well trained and accomplished scholar of the type then esteemed. There is a tender reverence in every early mention of him. It may be said of him, in the words of Cotton Mather of another, that he left his old English home and took New England on his way to heaven.

Not far from Charlestown Square stood the house built by John Harvard, in which Chief Justice Sewall, on the night of January 26, 1697, enjoyed the hospitality of Mrs. Shepard and was refreshed by his midnight meditations. It is good for us to dwell upon the memory of John Harvard, and I am glad that we have a Harvard Church, Harvard School, Harvard Street, Harvard Square, and the Harvard monument in the old Phipps Street burial-ground to aid in keeping it alive and forever green. It is well frequently to refer to his noble qualities of mind and heart as an example to those who are continuing the history of the good old town, and upon whose intelligence and character its future reputation must depend.

In closing the ceremonies of unveiling the statue, President Eliot of the college made these remarks:

It is my pleasant duty to declare that the University gratefully accepts the interesting and inspiring memorial of John Harvard which generosity and genius have conspired to produce. The university counts of inestimable worth the lessons which this pure, gentle, resolute youth will teach as he sits in bronze looking wistfully into the western sky. He will teach that one disinterested deed of hope and faith may crown a brief and broken life with deathless fame. He will teach that the good which men do lives after them, fructified and multiplied beyond all power of measurement or computation. He will teach that from the seed which he planted in loneliness, weakness, and sorrow, have sprung joy, strength, and energy ever fresh, blooming year after year in this garden of learning, and flourishing more and more, as time goes on, in all fields of human activity. Let us go and look at the silent and impressive teacher.

The statue was then uncovered, and the enthusiasm of the undergraduates of the college found expression in cheers nine times repeated; then, with "'rah! 'rah! 'rah!" as many times given, first for the donor and then for the sculptor, the ceremonies of the occasion were closed.

Samuel J. Bridge was one of the original subscribers to the church erected for Starr King in San Francisco, California, and is a large contributor to the statue of Mr. King soon to be set up in Golden Gate Park. The writer had the pleasure, a few weeks ago, of looking at the model of this statue in the studio of the artist, Mr. French, in New York. It presents a pleasing and satisfactory likeness of Mr. King, and when cast in bronze it must be looked upon with favor as a fine work of art. When it is set up, it will commemorate the successful and useful life of a noble man whose genius and patriotism earned for him a world-wide fame. And will it not be pleasing to remember that his boyhood and young manhood were spent in Charlestown; that the development of his charming character and wonderful powers of mind was commenced here; that his attractive personal qualities were enjoyed here for years, and that his interest in the place, and in the friends who remained in it, was never lost?

The early days of Thomas Starr King, his life in Charlestown, and his promise of growth at that time, must be the subject of notice later on.

MAY 10, 1890.

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Edward Everett

Elected Governor while a Resident of Charlestown His Addresses Reminisences.

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town to Boston, the house on Town Hill, or Harvard Street, a description of which I have given, became the residence of Edward Everett, who lived in it for six or seven years. He had previously occupied the John Odin estate on the summit of Winter Hill, then a part of Charlestown. The square house at the junction of Broadway and the road leading to Medford, fronting directly down the hill and now known as the Hittenger house, was once the home of the distinguished scholar, and many of the papers and speeches which in early life made him famous and popular were doubtless written and prepared under that roof. After his removal to Harvard Street he showed much interest in the affairs of the town and was oftentimes a speaker and adviser on important questions under consideration at political and public meetings. He looked with great favor upon the Charlestown Lyceum, attended many of its lectures, gave occasional lectures himself, and honored by his presence the social gatherings and entertainments sometimes given after the close of the meetings.