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The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is the oldest and largest genealogical society in the United States, founded in year 1845. NEHGS provides family history services through its staff, scholarship, website, [3] [4] educational opportunities, and research center. Today it has over 250,000 members and more than 90 staff and ...
The Wayside – built circa 1717; later the home of Samuel Whitney, a Minuteman who fought the British regulars at the North Bridge on April 19, 1775; home of Louisa May Alcott and her family 1845–1848; home of Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family 1852–1870; purchased in 1883 by Boston publisher Daniel Lothrop and his wife, author Harriett ...
The Putnam family of prominent old colonial Americans was founded by Puritans John and Priscilla (Gould) Putnam in the 17th century, in Salem, Massachusetts. Many notable individuals are descendants of this family, including those listed below. John Putnam was born about 1285 and came from Aston Abbotts, Buckinghamshire, England. He was married ...
Our Mother of Sorrows Monastery and Retreat Center is an historic Passionist monastery at 110 Monastery Avenue in West Springfield, Massachusetts.The Spanish Colonial Revival building on the campus (construction begun in 1925) is the only structure of its type in the city, was the first monastery established in western Massachusetts.
Western Massachusetts, known colloquially as "western Mass," is a region in Massachusetts, one of the six U.S. states that make up the New England region of the United States. Western Massachusetts has diverse topography; 22 colleges and universities including UMass in Amherst, MA , with approximately 100,000 students; [ 1 ] and such ...
Henry Rice (1786–1867), U.S. military officer, merchant and Massachusetts state legislator; Henry Mower Rice (1816–1894), U.S. Senator from Minnesota, prominent in its statehood; Horace Jacobs Rice (1882–1964), Massachusetts lawyer and law school administrator; Ingraham "Gitz" Rice (1891-1947), Canadian military officer and musical ...
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Death's head carved by John Homer, Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts Funerary art in Puritan New England encompasses graveyard headstones carved between c. 1640 and the late 18th century by the Puritans, founders of the first American colonies, and their descendants.