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| | JOSIAH QUINCY - LoveToKnow Article on JOSIAH QUINCY |
 | | Quincy left Congress because he saw that the Federalist opposition was useless, and thereafter was a member of the Massachusetts Senate until 1820; in 182122 he was a member and speaker of the state House of Representatives, from which he resigned to become judge of the municipal court of Boston. | | | Josiah Quincy (1802-1882) had two sonsJOSIAH PHILLIPS (1829-1910), a lawyer, who wrote, besides some verse, The Protection of Majorities (1876) and Double Taxation in Massachusetts (1889); and SAMUEL MILLER (1833-1887), who practised law, wrote on legal subjects, served in the Union army during the Civil War, and was breveted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1865. | | | Quincy is the seat of St Francis Solanus College (1860) and St Mary's Institute (Roman Catholic); The Chaddock Boys' School (Methodist Episcopal), until 1900 known as Chaddock College; two schools of music; and the Gem City Business College. |
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| | Josiah Quincy |
| | Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) was a Congressman, judge of the Massachusetts municipal court, state representative, mayor of Boston and president of Harvard College. | | | Back at home in Massachusetts Quincy served in the State Senate, 1813-20, in the House, 1821-22, as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1820, and, most importantly, as Mayor of Boston, 1823-28. | | | Quincy's parents were Abigail Phillips and patriot leader Josiah Quincy, who died in 1775 returning from a diplomatic visit to Britain. |
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| | Josiah Quincy - Freepedia |
| | Quincy left Congress because he saw that the Federalist opposition was useless, and thereafter was a member of the Massachusetts Senate until 1820; in 1821-22 he was a member and speaker of the state House of Representatives, from which he resigned to become judge of the municipal court of Boston. | | | Josiah Quincy (February 23, 1744 - April 26, 1775) was a famous American lawyer. | | | He was born in Boston on the 23rd of February 1744. |
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| | Josiah Quincy Statue in Boston, Erected in 1879 |
| | Josiah Quincy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1805, and was one of the first to denounce slavery. | | | Josiah Quincy is best known for his work as Mayor of Boston from 1823 to 1828. | | | Quincy wrote several books including The Municipal History of the Town of Boston, The History of Harvard University, A Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams, and The Journal of Mayor Samuel Shaw. |
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| | iBoston - Your Guide to Massachusetts History |
| | The son of pre-Revolutionary patriot Josiah Quincy, Jr, he had served two terms in the US Congress, been Speaker of the Massachusetts House, and Judge of the Municipal Court of Boston. | | | Quincy's son became Boston's 11th mayor, and succeeded in providing municipal water; Quincy's grandson was Boston's 32nd mayor. | | | Quincy consolidated his power by appointing himself to chair of all city committees. |
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| | Freedom Trail: Josiah Quincy |
| | His father, also named Josiah Quincy, vigorously denounced the Stamp Act and British colonial policies in a series of articles written under various pen names for Boston newspapers. | | | In 1805 the younger Josiah became a member of the US Congress. | | | In 1829 he accepted the presidency of Harvard University, which he held until 1845. |
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| | Quincy, Josiah (4 Feb. 1772-1 July 1864), Federalist congressman, Boston mayor, and president of Harvard, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Josiah Quincy, Jr., a lawyer and revolutionary pamphleteer, and Abigail Phillips. | | | Quincy's father died in 1775, leaving him to be raised by his mother and grandfather, Colonel Josiah Quincy. | | | Quincy ran as a Federalist for Boston's congressional seat in 1800, losing narrowly in the Jeffersonian sweep. |
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| | Edmund Quincy |
| | Quincy's recollections of such incidents of the Revolutionary war as came within her childish ken are especially interesting.--Their eldest son, Josiah, born in Boston, 17 January, 1802; died in Quincy, 2 November, 1882, was graduated at Harvard in 1821. | | | He was a judge of the supreme court from 1718 until his death. | | | Quincy showed a disposition to independent action, as in refusing to follow his party in dealing with Randolph's malcontent faction known as the "quids." He fiercely opposed the embargo and the war with England. |
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| | Old Park Street: Chapter 15 |
| | Quincy was elected Mayor of Boston in 1895, and served four years. | | | The Honorable Josiah Quincy, the younger (1802-82), a prominent citizen of Boston (Harvard, 1821), was Mayor of the City from 1846 to 1848. | | | The Honorable Josiah Quincy, third of the name, was born at Quincy in 1859, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. |
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| | Birthplace of the American Dream |
| | Colonel Quincy was the first in a long line of Josiah Quincys - a line that would produce three mayors of Boston and a president of Harvard University. | | | During the pre-Revolutionary War years, the Quincy Homestead was a meeting place for patriots such as John Adams, Josiah Quincy, Benjamin Franklin and Hancock. | | | From there, you'll travel to "Peacefield," the stately Adams mansion that served as summer White House to both Adams presidents and home to generations of their descendants. |
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| | Josiah Quincy - Portraits of Legislators On State House Third Floor |
| | Quincy was twice elected to the State House of Representatives (1824, 1825), and he continued his law practice, riding from one court term to another. | | | In this way Quincy became known around the state, and he was twice elected President of the State Senate (1841, 1842). | | | He was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar at age twenty-two (1815). |
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| | Quincy Historic Walking Trail |
| | John Adams, second president of the United States, was born in the north house in 1735. | | | He stipulated that the school be built over the cellar of the former house of Rev. John Hancock, the minister of his boyhood church and father of his friend, John Hancock. | | | This hall was erected by the Quincy Masonic Builders Association. |
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| | Josiah Quincy |
| | He graduated from Harvard in 1790, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1793. | | | He wrote a Memoir of his father (1825); a History of Harvard University (1840); the Journals of Mayor Samuel Shaw (1847); The History of the Boston Athenaeum (1851); The Municipal History of the Town and City of Boston (1852); a Memoir of the Life of J. Adams (1858). |
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| | Parsons |
| | First circle Bostonians Justice Joseph Story (1779-1845) and Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) were initially political foes, Quincy reporting the rage of fellow Federalists in 1811 when “Joe Story, that country pettifogger, aged thirty-two” (Josiah Quincy 195), was appointed an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. | | | On a coach ride from Boston to Washington in 1826, Josiah Quincy (1802-1882), the son of Josiah Quincy famous for his attack on Justice Story, remembers Justice Story’s telling of his admiration for Mrs. | | | Josiah Quincy visited his father’s friend in Washington in 1826 on the second part of the trip begun with Judge Story. |
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| | Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers: Finding Aid |
| | JOSIAH P. Josiah was the son of the Honorable Josiah Quincy of Boston. | | | He graduated from Harvard in 1880, attended Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Bar in 1884. | | | Helen - Born 1861, married 1894 to James Muirhead |
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http://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/findingaids/pph/descript4.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Josiah Quincy |
| | Quincy, Josiah (1744-1775), American lawyer and patriot, born in Boston, and educated at Harvard College. | | | Quincy, Josiah (1772-1864), American politician and educator, son of Josiah Quincy, born in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, and educated at... | | | Quincy (Massachusetts), city, Norfolk County, eastern Massachusetts, on Quincy Bay, just south of Boston; settled 1625, incorporated as a city 1888.... |
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| | §26. Albert Gallatin; Roger Brooke Taney; Josiah Quincy; Edward Everett. XV. Publicists and Orators, ... |
| | Josiah Quincy (1772–1864), an orator of no mean power, represented during the earlier part of his life the narrow New England Federalism which was so bitterly opposed to the politics of Jefferson and Madison. | | | Roger Brooke Taney (1777–1864), secretary of the treasury under Jackson, and chief justice of the United States from 1836 to 1864, was a learned jurist, whose fame was clouded for the later part of his life by his opinion in the Dred Scott case. | | | Albert Gallatin; Roger Brooke Taney; Josiah Quincy; Edward Everett. |
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| | Antique Stocks and Bonds - Great Starters [1-8] |
| | Josiah Quincy, Junior (1772-1864) was a statesman and an educator to bar; member of the U.S. House of Representatives; opposed the Embargo Act, admission of Louisiana, and War of 1812; member of Massachusetts State senate; mayor of Boston; president of Harvard; author of The History of Harvard University (2 vols., 1840), A Municipal History... | | | Signed by Josiah Quincy, Junior as mayor, son of the infamous American lawyer and political leader, Josiah Quincy, Senior who was born in Boston 1744, and died at sea on his return trip from a mission to England to argue the cause of the colonies in 1775. | | | Signature light punch cancelled, otherwise very fine, $199.00 |
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| | Quincy, Josiah Phillips |
| | Grandson of Josiah Quincy (1744-1775), orator, lawyer, Senator from Massachusetts, Mayor of Boston, President of Harvard and abolitionist. | | | Josiah Phillips Quincy, Tax-exemption no excuse for spoliation considerations in opposition to the petition, now before the Massachusetts legislature, to permit the sale of the Old South church (Boston: Proprietors of "Old and new," 1874) | | | Quincy was a lawyer and writer; author of dramatic poems "Lyteria" and "Charicles," and as the novel The Peckster Professorship. |
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| | Brief Biographies of Jackson Era Characters (Q) |
| | Responsible for building of Quincy Market, and, with Joseph Story, for the development of Harvard Law School. | | | Revolutionary patriot; father of Josiah Quincy, 1772-1864 who was mayor of Boston, etc. | | | Born in Rhinebeck, NY; settled in 1821 as a lawyer in Natches, MI. |
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| | Great American History Fact-Finder - -Quincy, Josiah |
| | Quincy served as mayor of Boston (1823-29), and as president of Harvard (1829-45) he instituted many reforms. | | | A member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts (1805-13), Quincy was a Federalist who opposed the policies of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. | | | He refused to support the War of 1812 and argued for states' rights. |
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| | Quincy Homestead |
| | The house was also the childhood home of Dorothy Quincy Hancock, the first First Lady of Massachusetts, the wife of John Hancock, the president of the Second Continental Congress, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first governor of the Commonwealth. | | | Their progeny include President John Quincy Adams and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. | | | The Homestead served as a home for five generations of Quincys, one of the leading families of Massachusetts. |
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| | OSV - Document Viewer - Doc # 1120 |
| | Josiah Quincy, Massachusetts, General Court, Committee on Pauper Laws [Boston, Printed by Russell and Gardner, 1821], 1-9. | | | In 1820, the Massachusetts General Court (State Legislature) appointed a special committee, headed by Josiah Quincy, a well-known politician and reformer. | | | The Committee recommended the extension of the poorhouse system and served as the basis for the extension of the poor farm system throughout the state. |
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| | Picture History - Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) |
| | Quincy was an American politician from Massachusetts who served as a United States congressman, a state senator, mayor of Boston, and president of Harvard University. | | | He was a federalist who opposed the war of 1812 and slavery. | | | Custom requests may take up to two weeks to be fulfilled and require an additional charge. |
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| | Law Office of Josiah Q. Hamilton |
| | The Law Office of Josiah Quincy Hamilton, pllc | | | Copyright © 2001-2004, The Law Office of Josiah Q. Hamilton, pllc. | | | Josiah Q. Hamilton is authorized to practice before all courts in the State of Texas. |
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| | Historical Journal of Massachusetts: Magic of the Many: Josiah Quincy and the Rise of Mass Politics in Boston, ... |
| | Some readers may wonder whether Crocker overstates his case when he argues that the peculiar blend of paternalism, state activism, and populism practiced by Quincy and his supporters was the harbinger of an emergent Jacksonian political culture, but Crocker argues his case vigorously and, on the whole, very persuasively. | | | Calling their coalition the Middling Interest, opponents of the ruling Federalist machine elected Quincy mayor of Boston in 1823 and reelected him annually in the next four mayoral contests, 1824-1827. | | | Quincy's policies were admired by many, but they eventually created numerous enemies who combined to defeat his bid for a sixth term in the 1828 mayoral election. |
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| | Family: Josiah Quincy + Hannah Sturgis |
| | M Child 1: Edmund Quincy died at age: 35 Born: 1733 in Died: 1768 in | | | Born: 1709 in Died: 1784 in Father: Edmund IV Quincy Mother: Dorothy Flynt | | | M Child 2: Samuel Quincy died at age: 54 Born: 1735 in Died: 1789 in |
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| | UMass Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press |
| | On the one hand, as Boston's "Great Mayor," Quincy established himself as one of the nineteenth century's most powerful and dictatorial city executives. | | | The anatomy of a popular insurgency that ushered in a new age of American democracy | | | Josiah Quincy and the Rise of Mass Politics in Boston, 1800–1830 |
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| | A Bible Fit for Children |
| | He married and had five children, the oldest of whom (named Josiah, to no one’s surprise) became Mayor of Boston. | | | (The previous Josiah, his father, had been Mayor of Boston, as had his grandfather, who also served as the president of Harvard.) In the foreword Mitchell notices this, as I suppose every reader would, and quite properly singles out this amazing outburst from Josiah: | | | For all of Josiah’s verbal precocity, his inability to comprehend grief is an indelible mark of his youth. |
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| | Josiah Daniel ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews |
| | John Smibert, American (born in Scotland), 1688-1751 Judge Edmund Quincy 1737 Oil on canvas 75.56 | | | John and Josiah Boydell, Shakespeare - Othello - Act V, Scene II, 19th century | | | Samuel William Reynolds, Senior, Portrait of Josiah Wedgwood, Esq., 18th - 19th century |
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| | Quincy, Massachusetts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Quincy is a city located in Norfolk County, Massachusetts and bears the nickname "The City of Presidents". | | | Tombs of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and their wives, in a family crypt beneath the United First Parish Church. | | | Quincy was first settled by English immigrants in 1625, as Mount Wollaston (with a most unusual history), subsequently became part of Braintree, Massachusetts, was officially incorporated as a separate town in 1792, and made a city in 1888. |
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| | Josiah Quincy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Josiah Quincy III - president of Harvard University. | | | Josiah Quincy was the name of three men in Massachusetts history; | | | This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. |
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| | The Nation, 10/31/1867 - Josiah Quincy |
| | ...Quincy drew to himself from Democratic, from Southern, and even from some of his own federal associates in Congress... | | | ...Quincy was the first citizen of the United States who ever advanced the doctrine of absolute State sovereignty as a basis of the right of secession by a single State... | | | ...Quincy has abundantly enriched his pages from his father's own papers and productions... |
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| | National Portrait Gallery Gilbert Stuart |
| | Quincy was mayor of Boston at the time and preoccupied with work to revitalize the waterfront (now Quincy Market). | | | Josiah Quincy (1772–1864), who knew Stuart from a former sitting in 1806, ordered an updated image as a gift for his daughter Eliza Susan. | | | Stuart, whose practice required conversation, no doubt heard all about the project and used it to form his conception for the portrait. |
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| | Historic New England: Defining the Past. Shaping the Future. |
| | The family produced three mayors of Boston and a president of Harvard. | | | For generations, the Quincys, like the Adamses, to whom they were related, played important roles in the social and political life of Massachusetts. | | | Built as a country estate, Quincy House was originally surrounded by fields and pasture overlooking Quincy Bay. |
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| | Josiah Quincy House Quincy, Massachusetts (Historic Houses) |
| | The Josiah Quincy House was built in 1770 by the prominent lawyer and Revolutionary leader Colonel Josiah Quincy (1744-75). | | | In addition to furniture and memorabilia from several generations of Quincy descendants, the house has period wall paneling and fireplaces surrounded by English titles. | | | USA > Massachusetts > Quincy > Society and Culture > History > Historic Buildings > Historic Houses |
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| | HarpWeek American Political Prints 1766-1876 Medium Image |
| | Caricature of wealthy American politician and civic reformer Josiah Quincy, an outspoken apologist for Great Britain and an opponent of the War of 1812. | | | He holds a scepter in his left hand, and says, "I Josiah the first do by this my Royal Proclamation announce myself King of New England, Novia Scotia and Passamaquoddy, -- Grand Master of the noble order of the Two Cod Fishes." | | | Quincy stands stiffly on a rocky shore while fish frolic in the sea behind him. |
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| | History of Harvard University Josiah Quincy Scientia |
| | History History of of Harvard Harvard University University Josiah Josiah Quincy Quincy Scientia Scientia | | | Titel History of Harvard University Josiah Quincy Scientia hier | | | For help, please send mail to the webmaster (webmaster@feldspat.granodiorit.de), giving this error message and the time and date of the error. |
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| | September 12, 1863 |
| | Seward arranges for F. Barreda to present letter of ceremony to President at 12 M. Seward to Lincoln, 10 September 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. | | | Abraham Lincoln to Josiah Quincy, 12 September 1863, CW, 6:443. | | | Lincoln expresses his "personal gratification" upon receipt of letter from former Cong. |
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| | QUINCY, Josiah (1772-1864) Bibliography |
| | Hewlett, Richard G. “Josiah Quincy: Reform Mayor of Boston.&; New England Quarterly 24 (June 1951): 179-96. | | | McCaughey, Robert A. Josiah Quincy, 1772-1864, the Last Federalist. | | | Nash, George H. “From Radicalism to Revolution: The Political Career of Josiah Quincy, Jr.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 79 (1969): 253-90. |
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| | Josiah - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Josiah |
| | Vagabond, errand-boy, vagabond, labourer, porter, clerk, chief manager, small partner, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown. | | | Carey often stopped at the bank to deliver a message to Josiah Graves, the manager, who was choir-master, treasurer, and churchwarden. | | | The book likewise contained portraits of James Otis and Josiah Quincy. |
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