This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...of Massachusetts, in which office he continued until 1843. n 147 he was elected mayor of Roxbury, and was reelected every subsequent year until his death, in July, 1851. In 1829 the first movement was made by some gentlemen in the vicinity of Boston for a systematic cultivation and promotion of the arts of horticulture ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...of Massachusetts, in which office he continued until 1843. n 147 he was elected mayor of Roxbury, and was reelected every subsequent year until his death, in July, 1851. In 1829 the first movement was made by some gentlemen in the vicinity of Boston for a systematic cultivation and promotion of the arts of horticulture; for this end they formed a society--the first in New England--and General Dearborn became its first president. While holding this office he became intensely interested in the project for a rural cemetery, and Mount Auburn cemetery stands as a monument to his industry and taste. Forest Hills, also, is largely of his erection, and Dr. George Putnam, in his address before the city government of Roxbury, on the Life and Character of General Dearborn, said: "You know well how much our own 'Forest Hills' owes to him; his whole heart was in that pious work; his genius presided over its progress; it was to him a sacred labor of love--strictly that. Fitly and beautifully the laborers there replenish daily the marble vase of flowers which they have promptly placed at the foot of his grave--not only the token of their affectionate remembrance of him, but a memorial also of his tender and disinterested thoughtfulness for all the dead who should be borne there and all the living who should resort there, to mourn, to meditate or to worship." He was emphatically the friend of internal improvements, and on this subject his sagacity was almost prophetic and his zeal amounted to enthusiasm. He followed Washington in the general idea, which that great man announced as early as 1784, of connecting the Atlantic with the Great Lakes by multiplied means of communication; and he was early and indefatigable in his endeavors to induce the people of Massachu...
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