Genealogy, 1859.

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Genealogy, 1859.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16818132

A bound ms. genealogy of the Cotton family of England, ancestors and relatives of the New England puritan John Cotton, prepared by Horatio Gates Somerby. The second volume is a copy of the first by William Gray Brooks. Includes 2 letters to Brooks from Charles Francis Adams. Includes genealogical charts, biographical information, and sketches and engravings of Trinity College (University of Cambridge). Also, engravings of buildings and scenes in Lincoln and Boston, England. 300 pages.

2 v.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915

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Soldier, businessman, civic leader and historian. Descendant of two presidents and the son of a noted diplomat, Adams served with distinction as a Union officer during the Civil War. After the war, he became a nationally recognized authority on the railroad industry, chairing the Massachusetts Railroad Commission from 1869 to 1879, and ultimately taking on the presidency of the Union Pacifc Railroad for six stormy years, 1884-1890. From 1890 to 1915, Adams was content to be a man of a...

Somerby, H. G. (Horatio Gates), 1805-1872

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Cotton family.

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Cotton, John, 1584-1652

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Clergyman. From the description of An abstracte of the lawes of Newe England : manuscript, 1641? (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145381251 ...

Trinity College (University of Cambridge)

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Brooks, William Gray, d. 1910.

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