No. 21631 Charles Baker Adams Charles Baker Adams, 1814-1853 Charles Baker Adams, an American chemist and zoologist, born in Dorchester, Mass., Jan. 11, 1814, died in St. Thomas, Jan. 19, 1853. He graduated at Amherst college, and was associated with Professor Edward...
William E. Abbott Worth: $100,000 Inherited. Son of a clergyman of Beverly. Studied divinity, and preached a while at Billerica; but on the death of his uncle, Ebenezer Wales, he left his parish, came to Dorchester and took possession of his uncle’s farm, where he...
No. 5164 Painting of the Thaddeus Mason Harris House on the face of a brick from the house Edward A. Huebener, a former Board member of the Dorchester Historical Society, was a collector of materials relating to Dorchester history including a very large collection of...
No. 21952 Colton’s 1855 map showing the sweeping arc of the railroad line in Boston Harbor and its path through the South Bay toward Dorchester. At that time, it was called the Boston and New York Central. The track for this railroad line leaves Boston and travels to...
No. 8480 William T. Carlton Painter William Tolman Carlton was born in Boston in 1816 and moved to Dorchester in his adult life, dying there in 1888.Perhaps his most well-known painting hangs over Lincoln’s desk in the White House at Washington, DC. Watch...
