The report
of the special committee was read, and a resolution passed accepting the
design of J.P. RINN, of Boston for a Battle Monument. A committee was
then appointed to report the details to the President of the United
States and the governors of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, which
action will entitle the Association to receive the appropriations made
by Congress and the Legislatures of these states for the monument. The
fund now amounts to $80,000.
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On August 12th, General HENRY KEMBLE OLIVER died in Salem,
Mass., at the advanced age of eighty-five years. He was born in Beverly,
Mass., Nov. 24, 1800, a son of Rev. Daniel Oliver and Elizabeth Kemble;
was educated in the Boston Latin School, and Harvard College (for two
years) and was graduated from Dartmouth College. After his graduation,
he settled in Salem, and as Principal of the High and Latin Schools, and
also of a private school, he was virtually at the head of the
educational interests of the town for a quarter of a century. In 1848,
he moved to Lawrence, Mass., to become agent of the Atlantic Mills.
While living in Lawrence, he was appointed superintendent of schools,
and in recognition of his services the "Oliver Grammar School" was
founded.
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