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Jonathan Homer
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Jonathan Homer
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Thursday, March 20, 2025
Abraham Fuller and “the exact records of the military stores”
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Yesterday I quoted a description of the Rev. Jonathan Homer of Newton late in life, by the poet and doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes. Homer...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025
“The procession of the old clergymen who filled our pulpit”
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Back in January I quoted Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes on one of the impressive clergymen who came to preach in his father’s pulpit in Cambrid...
Friday, October 31, 2008
Young James Lovell Makes His Move
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Yesterday, when we left James Lovell , the illegitimate son of the South Latin School usher of the same name, he had stormed out of that sch...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Latin School Entrance Exam
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Master John Lovell (shown here, in an image from the 1886 Catalogue of the Boston Public Latin School ) didn’t let just any child into Bost...
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