Notable Ashburnham Residents Born in Cambridge Grant
- Isaac Hill (1788–1851), a grandson of John Adams the Centenarian, NH State Representative, NH State Senator, Comptroller of the United States Treasury in the Andrew Jackson administration, U.S. Senator from NH, and Governor of New Hampshire
- Ivers Adams (1808–1890), Mass. State Representative, 1851
- Samuel G. Adams (1825–1886), Superintendent of Police for the City of Boston
- Ivers Whitney Adams (born 1838), founder of the Boston Red Stockings, first professional baseball team in Boston
- Melvin O. Adams (1847–1920), lawyer for Lizzie Borden
- Luther B. Adams (born 1829) and Andrew Jackson Adams (1828–1911), officers of the Boston Chair Manufacturing Company of Ashburnham, an aggressive innovator in mass production techniques and one of the three largest chair manufacturers in the United States in the third quarter of the nineteenth century
Read more about this topic: Cambridge Grant Historic District
Famous quotes containing the words notable, residents, born, cambridge and/or grant:
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.”
—Bible: New Testament, Philippians 3:4-6.
“If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war?—not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“I know that I will always be expected to have extra insight into black texts—especially texts by black women. A working-class Jewish woman from Brooklyn could become an expert on Shakespeare or Baudelaire, my students seemed to believe, if she mastered the language, the texts, and the critical literature. But they would not grant that a middle-class white man could ever be a trusted authority on Toni Morrison.”
—Claire Oberon Garcia, African American scholar and educator. Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B2 (July 27, 1994)