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JOHN
ALDEN
Puritan settler in Plymouth Colony. He came to America on
the Mayflower and was prominent as assistant to the governor of the
colony. He moved (c.1627) to Duxbury and there was neighbor and
friend of Miles Standish . Alden's marriage to Priscilla Mullens
gave rise to the romantic legend made familiar by Longfellow's poem,
The Courtship of Miles Standish.
The
Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John
Alden c.1599-1687,
Author not
available, ALDEN, JOHN., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
2008
JOHN FORRESTER ANDREW
.
ANDREW, John
Forrester, a
Representative
from
Massachusetts; born
in
Hingham,
Plymouth
County,
Mass.,
November
26,
1850;
attended private
schools
in Hingham
and
the
Phillips
School
and
Brooks School in
Boston;
was
graduated from
Harvard
University
in
1872 and
from
Harvard
Law School
in 1875; was
admitted to
the
Suffolk
bar in 1875
and
commenced practice
in
Boston;
member of
the
State
house of
representatives
1880-1882;
served
in the
State
senate in
1884 and
1885;
commissioner
of parks
for
Boston
1885-1890
and
again in
1894;
unsuccessful
Democratic
candidate for
Governor in 1886;
elected as
a
Democrat to
the
Fifty-first and
Fifty-second
Congresses (March
4,
1889-March 3,
1893);
chairman,
Committee on
Reform in
the Civil
Service
(Fifty-second
Congress);
unsuccessful
candidate
for
reelection
in 1892
to
the
Fifty-third
Congress;
resumed
the
practice of
his
profession;
died
in
Boston,
Mass., May
30, 1895;
interment in
Mount Auburn
Cemetery,
Cambridge, Mass.
Source:
Biographical Directory of the United States
Congress,
1771-Present
[Contributed by Anna Newell]
GROVER CLEVELAND,
22nd
& 24th
PRESIDENT
Grover Cleveland, well known for his
enjoyment of the outdoors, good
food
and
beverages
spent his
summers duck hunting and fishing while staying
at
the
Idlewild
Hotel
in
Manomet Bluffs. In
1884, he began his
first
term
as
the
22nd
President of
the United
States. While
serving
this
term,
then in
his
fifties, he
caused
quite a stir by
marrying
Frances
Folson,
age 21.
He
lost
his
re-election
bid to
Benjamin
Harrison
in
part through
the efforts
of
the
Prohibition
League
that campaigned
against
his
life
style.
In
between
his
terms,
in
1890,
he purchased the
above
parcel to build his own
summer
cottage.
Later he was returned to office, becoming
the
only
President to
be
elected
for
non-consecutive
terms.
After
his
second term,
in
1897,
the
President and
his
wife, then living in
Buzzards Bay, sold the
property.
Please note the unusual deed restriction
within this
document.
Compliments of Register of Deeds John R.
Buckley, Jr.
and Paul
J.
Garvin
[Manomet 1890 - Book 590 Page 472]
From
the “Plymouth County Registry of Deeds Notable
Land
Records
Collection”
REGINALD AUBREY FESSENDEN
Historic Trans-Atlantic Two-Way
Broadcast
First Radio
Broadcast
A Canadian born engineer by the name of
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
conducted
the first
two-way trans-Atlantic
radio broadcast in 1906
between his Brant
Rock
Station and
Scotland. Later that year
on
Christmas Eve, in
the
Brant
Rock
section
of
Marshfield,
on
property
owned
by Mrs.
Olive
Blackman,
radio
broadcast
history
was
made.
Fessenden produced a radio broadcast
which included music and the
religious
hymn
“Silent
Night” which was
heard
by
ships
as far
away
as the
Caribbean.
The 420 foot radio tower known as the
“Fessenden Tower” was dismantled in
1917.
However, the base
on
which
it
stood
remains
today
along with
a
plaque
memorializing
the event.
Fessenden had previously worked for the
National Weather Bureau and as
chief
chemist
for
Thomas Edison. After
moving
to
New
London,
Connecticut,
he
had
a
successful
career in
underwater
sound.
Fessenden’s achievement in 1906 continues
to
be
recognized
by
the Town
of
Marshfield,
Plymouth
County and
other
national
organizations.
Compliments of Register of Deeds John R.
Buckley, Jr.
and Robin
L.
McGonagle
[Marshfield 1896 - Book 712 Page
272]
From the
“Plymouth County Registry of Deeds Notable
Land
Records
Collection”
TOM
THUMB
The Columbia Encyclopedia,
Sixth Edition
Tom Thumb 1838-83, American entertainer, whose original name was
Charles Sherwood Stratton, b. Bridgeport,
Conn. His career as
General Tom Thumb began
in
1842, when the
showman P. T. Barnum gave him the title and arranged with
the
child's
parents
for his
exhibition
as a
midget.
His height then
was less
than 2 ft (61
cm), and at no time did
it exceed 33 in. (84
cm). Barnum aroused
the
intense curiosity of
people throughout the
world by consummately
skillful publicity and
profitably displayed
the general in many
countries, bringing Tom
Thumb wealth and fame.
At the age of 10 the
general had already been
the guest of
President
Polk, Queen Victoria,
Isabella of
Spain, and
King Louis
Philippe of
France. His
courtship
of
Lavinia
Warren, a
dwarf,
led to a
fashionable
wedding in
New York's Grace Church
in 1863. In the
course
of their
wedding
trip
President
Lincoln
received
them at the
White
House. Thumb
and
his
wife continued
to
entertain
audiences
in
the
United States
and
abroad until their
retirement in 1882. He
died
at the age of
45,
and
Mrs. Tom
Thumb died
at
77.
[Author not
available,
TOM
THUMB., The Columbia
Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition
2008]
DANIEL
WEBSTER
LAWYER...ORATOR...STATESMAN...SENATOR
Born in New Hampshire in 1792, he was
educated and trained in the Law. He
established a
practice
in Boston in 1820, in
that year he delivered
an
oration in
Plymouth
celebrating
the
bicentennial
of the
Pilgrim’s
arrival.
As a
lawyer,
he
came
to
national
prominence
as
counsel
in
many
Supreme
Court
cases,
which
remain
major
precedents
in the
constitutional
jurisprudence of the United
States.
Webster's record in the House of
Representatives
and
his
celebrity as an
orator
led to his
election to
the Senate
in
1827, where he served until
1836.
He was appointed Secretary of State by
President Harrison in 1840, re-elected to the
senate
in 1845, and
again appointed Secretary
of State by
President
Fillmore in 1850, where
he
served until
his
death in
Marshfield in
1852. He
is best
remembered
for his
skill
as
a
Senator in the
pre-Civil War era and
was so
esteemed
that in
1957,
he was
officially
named
by the
Senate as
one of its five most
outstanding
members.
The
deed below
represents
a
portion
of
his
purchase
of
the two
largest
estates in
Marshfield
formerly
owned
by
the
Thomas
and
Winslow
families.
[1833 Marshfield Book of Deeds - Book 175
page
238]
Compliments of
Register of
Deeds
John
R. Buckley,
Jr.and
Anthony M.
Markella
From the
“Plymouth County Registry of Deeds Notable
Land Records
Collection”
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