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Major-General Humphrey Atherton (c. 1607 – September 16, 1661), [1] an early settler of Dorchester, Massachusetts, held the highest military rank in colonial New England. [2] [3] He first appeared in the records of Dorchester on March 18, 1637 and made freeman May 2, 1638. [3] He became a representative in the General Court in 1638 and 1639–41.
The Dorchester Reporter is a weekly community newspaper founded in 1983 by husband-and-wife Ed and Mary Forry to serve the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. [1] Following Mary Forry's death, Bill Forry, son of Ed and Mary, assumed the role of managing editor while Ed Forry assumed the role of associate publisher, [ 1 ] and Bill ...
Dorchester (/ ˈ d ɔːr tʃ ɛ s t ər /) is a neighborhood comprising more than 6 square miles (16 km 2) in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, Dorset, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
Despite having become completely blind, Coates learned how to make brooms after the war and married Rachael Sarah Drew April 21, 1867. Together they had five children, and sometime between 1870 and 1873 they moved to Dorchester, Nebraska. He died of pneumonia in Dorchester on January 27, 1880 [2] and is buried in Dorchester Cemetery.
Dorchester Temple Baptist Church is a historic African American Baptist church at 670 Washington Street in Boston, Massachusetts. It is now known as Global Ministries Christian Church. [2] The church was designed in 1889 by Arthur H. Vinal in the shingle style and added to the National Historic Register in 1998. The church was built for a ...
Wahlberg was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. He is the eighth of nine children, with older siblings, Arthur, Jim, Paul, Robert, Tracey, Michelle, Debbie and younger brother, Mark. Wahlberg began his entertainment career as the leader of the late 1980s/early 1990s boy band, New Kids on the Block. He also has three half-siblings ...
The Four Chaplains, also referred to as the Immortal Chaplains or the Dorchester Chaplains, were four chaplains who died rescuing civilian and military personnel as the American troop ship SS Dorchester sank on February 3, 1943, in what has been referred to as the one of the worst sea disasters of World War II.