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"Soldiers' Monuments," NEHGR, vol. XXI (1867), pp. 73-75.

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Dedication of the Ladd and Whitney Monument at Lowell

The dedication of the Ladd and Whitney Monument, erected in honor of those two young men of Lowell, Luther C. Ladd and Addison Otis Whitney, who fell in Baltimore, on the memorable 19th of April, 1861, and who, with two others, Needham of Lawrence, and Taylor, whose history is unknown, were the first of our slain, took place on Saturday, the 17th of June, 1865.

The material of this monument is a light-colored granite, the height about twenty-five feet, and the position fitly chosen--the square at the junction of Merrimac and Moody Streets. The whole cost was $4000. The procession consisted of Spaulding's Light Cavalry, 6th Massachusetts Regiment, a portion of the 33d Massachusetts, with their tattered banners telling of severe strife and victory, a battalion from Boston, a company of finely trained juvenile Zouaves, Irish organizations, Odd Fellows, and Masons in plenty, besides the guests--Governor Andrew and several officers, and gentlemen from Baltimore and Maryland, the city governments of Boston, Lawrence, etc.

The exercises at the monument were Masonic, entirely. After these were finished, prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Blanchard, and an oration was delivered by Gov. Andrew.

The chief feature of interest was the presentation of a beautiful flag to the State of Massachusetts, by the State of Maryland. The day was hot, and the crowd oppressively great. Lowell will not soon forget it. -- Congregationalist.

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"Marriages and Deaths", NEHGR, vol. XXI (1865), pp. 78-83, 285-291.

[p. 78] Marriages

Story=Smith.-- At Brighton, October 17, by the Rev. Frederic Augustus Whitney, Edward Augustus Story, Jr., born at Brighton, Aug. 10, 1842, son of Edward Augustus and Susan Dana (Fuller) Story, and Mary Virginia Smith, born at Weymouth, Nova Scotia, 1841, daughter of William L. and Mary C. Smith.

[p. 83] Deaths

Whitney, L. Henry, Brush Hill, Milton, Mass., eldest son of Mr. Henry A. and Fanny L. Whitney, and grandson of Mr. Joseph Whitney, of Boston, Oct. 23, aged 13 years. He was accidentally shot by a young companion with whom he was gunning. He was a lad of great promise, and we tender our kindest sympathies to the deeply afflicted family.

Index Listings: Henry Austin Whitney and Henry Lawrence Whitney

[p. 291] Deaths

Whitney, Dea. David, Westminster, Mar. 25, aged 99 years, 7 months and 9 days.

He was born and always lived in the same house, and on the same farm, where his father settled in 1752.

He has enjoyed a life of uninterrupted health, having never had occasion to call medical attendance since he was ten years old, at which time his life was despaired of, but was apparently saved by the skill of a camp doctor, then stationed at Rutland, Mass., as prisoner of war, his attendance being suggested by other Dutch prisoners then boarding at this father's house. Being eight years old when the revolutionary war broke out, he remembered and would relate many incidents of those times. He was able to perform light work till within two or three years of his death.

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"Book Notices", NEHGR, vol. XXI (1867), pp. 93-96.

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An Oration delivered at the Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument, in Evergreen Cemetery, Brighton, Mass., on Thursday afternoon, July 26, 1866. By Rev. Frederic Augustus Whitney. With an Appendix containing the other Exercises, and Notices of the deceased Solders. Boston : S. Chism. 1866. 8vo. pp. 62.

The oration by Rev. Mr. Whitney is very appropriate to the occasion. He glances at the dedication of the Cemetery sixteen years before, when he himself delivered the address of consecration, and at the civil war, so little dreamed of at that time, which has since desolated so many firesides in the land; speaks of monuments to commemorate the dead in all ages, and gives a list of those erected in this country, beginning with that placed at Sudbury, by the filial piety of President Wadsworth of Harvard University, in memory of his father and his brave soldiers slain there in a sanguinary fight with the Indians in 1676. He also refers to what the men of Brighton did in the Revolutionary war, as well as in that just closed.

In the Appendix, biographical sketches of the twenty-three deceased soldiers, whose memory this monument is intended to commemorate, are given. They are very precise in facts and dates, and must have cost Mr. Whitney a great deal of labor. The whole pamphlet is a model for such productions.

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Colburn, Jeremiah, "Bibliography of the Local History of Massachusetts", NEGHR, vol. XXI (1867), pp. 37-44, 145-156, 237-249, 317-329.

For the towns of Ashburnham [p. 38], Athol [p. 38], Berlin [p. 39], Bolton [p. 40], Boylston [p. 151], Brookfield [p. 152], Charlton [p. 239], Douglas [p. 245], Dudley [p. 245], Fitchburg [p. 247], Gardner [p. 248], Gerry (now Phillipston) [p. 248], Grafton [p. 317], Hardwick, [p. 319], Harvard, [p. 319], Holden, [p. 321], Hubbardston [p. 321], Lancaster [p. 323], Leicester [p. 324], Leominster [p. 324], and Lunenburg [p. 326]

the following notation is givene

See "History of Worcester County" by Peter Whitney. Worcester, 1793

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BRIGHTON

Churches of. "American Quarterly Register," Vol. 11. Boston, 1839

Address at the Consecration of Evergreen Cemetery, Aug. 7, 1850. With an Appendix. Frederic A. Whitney. pp. 24. Boston, 1850.

Address in the First Church, Feb. 4, 1855, at the Funeral of Mrs. Champney. With an Historical Appendix. Frederic A. Whitney. pp. 36. Boston, 1855.

Oration at the Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument, July 26, 1866. Frederic A. Whitney. With Appendix, pp. 62. Boston, 1866.

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