See also:AMOS See also:LAWRENCE (1786—1852)
, See also:American See also:merchant and philanthropist, was See also:born in Groton See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., on the 22nd of See also:April 1786, a descendant of See also:John See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence of Wisset, See also:Suffolk, See also:England, who was one of the first settlers of Groton
.
Leaving Groton See also:academy (founded by his See also:father, See also:Samuel Lawrence, and others) in 1799, he became a clerk in a See also:country See also:store in Groton, whence after his See also:apprenticeship he went, with $20 in his See also:pocket, to See also:Boston and there set up in business for himself in See also:December 1807
.
In the next See also:year he took into his employ his See also:brother, See also:Abbott (see below), whom he made his partner in 1814, the See also:firm name being at first A
.
&;A
.
Lawrence, and afterwards A
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& A
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Lawrence & Co
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In 1831 when his See also:health failed, See also:Amos Lawrence retired from active business, and Abbott Lawrence was thereafter the See also:head of the firm
.
The firm became the greatest American See also:mercantile See also:house of the See also:day, was successful even in the hard times of 1812—1815, after, wards engaged particularly in selling woollen and See also:cotton goods on See also:commission, and did much for the See also:establishment of the cotton textile See also:industry in New England: in 183o by coming to the aid of the financially distressed See also:mills of See also:Lowell, Massachusetts, where in that year the Suffolk, Tremont and Lawrence companies were established, and where See also:Luther Lawrence, the eldest brother, represented the firm's interests; and in 1845—1847 by establishing and See also:building up Lawrence, Massachusetts, named in See also:honour of Abbott Lawrence, who was a director of the See also:Essex See also:company, which controlled the See also:water See also:power of Lawrence, and afterwards was See also:president of the See also:Atlantic Cotton Mills and Pacific Mills there
.
In 1842 Amos Lawrence decided not to allow his See also:property to increase any further, and in the last eleven years of his See also:life he spent in charity at least $525,000, a large sum
.
Year
.
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Doubles
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1894 E
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P
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See also:Fischer and See also:Miss J
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P
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See also:Atkinson Miss J
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P
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Atkinson Miss J
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P, Atkinson Miss Laura Henson Miss Carrie Neely
Miss Edith Rastall Miss M
.
Hunnewell Miss See also:Marion See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
Jones Miss E
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H
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See also:Moore Miss See also:Chapman
Miss E
.
H
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Moore Mrs See also:Clarence See also:Hobart Miss See also:Coffin
Miss Sayres
Miss E
.
Rotch
Miss H
.
Hotchkiss Miss H
.
Hotchkiss
1895 E
.
P
.
Fischer 1896 E
.
P
.
Fischer 1897 D
.
L
.
Magruder 1898 E
.
P
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Fischer
1899 A
.
L
.
See also:Hoskins 1900 See also:Alfred Codman 1901 R
.
D
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Little 1902 W
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C
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See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant 1903 Harry See also:- ALLEN, BOG OF
- ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
- ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
- ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
- ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
- ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)
Allen 1904 W
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C
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Grant
1905 Clarence Hobart 1906 E
.
B
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Dewhurst 1907 W
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F
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See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson 1908 N
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W
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See also:Niles 1909 W
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F
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Johnson 1910 J
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R
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See also:Carpenter
in those days
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He gave to See also:Williams See also:college, to See also:Bowdoin college, to the See also:Bangor theological See also:seminary, to See also:Wabash college, to See also:Kenyon college and to Groton academy, which was re-named Lawrence academy in honour of the See also:family, and especially in recognition of the gifts of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Lawrence, Amos's brother; to the Boston See also:children's infirmary, which he established, and ($1o,000) to the Bunker See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill See also:monument fund; and, besides, he gave to many See also:good causes on a smaller See also:scale, taking especial delight in giving books, occasionally from a bundle of books in his See also:sleigh or See also:carriage as he drove
.
He died in Boston on the 31st of December 1852
.
See Extracts from the See also:Diary and See also:Correspondence of the See also:late Amos Lawrence, with a Brief See also:Account of Some Incidents in his Life (Boston, 1856), edited by his son William R
.
Lawrence
.
His brother, ABBOTT LAWRENCE (1792–1855), was born in Groton, Massachusetts, on the 16th of December 1792
.
Besides being a partner in the firm established by his brother, and See also:long its head, he promoted various New England See also:railways, notably the Boston & See also:Albany
.
He was a Whig representative in See also:Congress in 1835–1837 and in 1839–184o (resigning in See also:September 184o because of See also:ill-health); and in 1842 was one of the commissioners for Massachusetts, who with commissioners from See also:Maine and with See also:Daniel See also:Webster, secretary of See also:state and plenipotentiary of the See also:United States, settled with See also:Lord See also:Ashburton, the See also:British plenipotentiary, the question of the See also:north-eastern boundary
.
In 1842 he was presiding officer in the Massachusetts Whig See also:convention; he See also:broke with President See also:Tyler, tacitly rebuked Daniel Webster for remaining in Tyler's See also:cabinet after his colleagues had resigned, and recommended See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Clay and John See also:Davis as the nominees of the Whig party in 1844—an See also:action that aroused Webster to make his famous Faneuil See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall address
.
In 1848 Lawrence was a prominent See also:candidate for the Whig nomination for the See also:vice-See also:presidency, but was defeated by Webster's followers
.
He refused the portfolios of the See also:navy and of the interior in President See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor's cabinet, and in 1849–1852 was United States See also:minister to See also:Great See also:Britain, where he was greatly aided by his See also:wealth and his generous hospitality
.
He was an ardent protectionist, and represented Massachusetts at the See also:Harrisburg convention in 1827
.
He died in Boston on the 18th of See also:August 1855, leaving as his greatest memorial the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard university, which he had established by a See also:gift of $so,000 in 1847 and to which he bequeathed another $50,000; in 1907–1908 this school was practically abolished as a distinct See also:department of the university
.
He made large gifts to the Boston public library, and he See also:left $50,000 for the erection of See also:model lodging-houses, thus carrying on the See also:work of an Association for building model lodging-houses for the poor, organized in Boston in 18J7
.
See See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton A
.
Hill, Memoir of Abbott Lawrence (Boston, 1884)
.
See also:Randolph Anders' Der Weg zum See also:Gluck, See also:oder See also:die Kunst Millionar zu See also:werden (See also:Berlin, 1856) is 'a pretended See also:translation of moral See also:maxims from a supposititious See also:manuscript bequeathed to Abbott Lawrence by a See also:rich See also:uncle
.
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