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Charles Sumner Tainter, 1854 – 1940. Inventor and associate of Alexander Graham
Bell. Opened a shop in Cambridge to make scientific instruments, invented the gramophone
and the dictaphone, developed hard, flat disc wax record, collaborated with Bell for 7
years. Settled a dispute with Thomas Edison in 1887 over a patent claim on phonograph. |
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Portrait of Reverend Seth Storer, 1724 – 1774, by John Smibert. Graduated from
Harvard circa 1742. Became pastor of the Town Church (now First Parish) circa 1745. |
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Portrait of Lucy Thaxter by William Page, daughter of Jonas and Lucy (Dana) White,
wife of Levi Thaxter, born February 20, 1781. |
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Levi Lincoln Thaxter, married poet Celia Laighton in 1852 |
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William Webster, first headmaster, Watertown High School, October, 1853 and the
first master of Pequossette Lodge, Order of Freemasons, 1853. |
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Caroline Dana White (Mrs. Montgomery Davis Parker), born July 2, 1843 |
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Lois Lilly White (Mrs. Estes Howe). Born August 23, 1824 |
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Portrait of Ann Maria (Howard) White, 1791 – 1848. Wife of Abijah White and
mother of William Abijah White and Ann Maria White Lowell (Mrs. James Russell Lowell). |
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Ann Maria White (Mrs. James Russell Lowell), 1821 – 1853 |
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Mary Greene White. Born December 29, 1826. Married Charles W. Elliott, July 25,
1835. |
