...subject of this sketch was the son of a cooper, and was born at Salem, Massachusetts, March 26th, 1773. At an early age he had the misfortune to lose his mother, to whom, like most men of eminence, he owed much that was good and beautiful in his nature. He was...

...good old family in Westmoreland, and was born and brought up in the vicinity of the English lakes. At an early age he had the misfortune to lose his mother, and in his seventeenth year, his father marrying again, he and his brother left home and set out for...

...still cherished by a large circle of friends. He was born in Charleston, Essex County, Mass., in 1806. At an early age he had the misfortune to lose his mother, and then a kind step-mother, and finally at the tender age of eleven, he was left an orphan by the...