. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. in Boston, Mass., i86g; educated public andprivate schools, Boston and Harvard ; engaged in thelife insurance business in Boston ; died 1899. SAMUEL WELLS, Jr., Business Man, was bornin Boston, Massachusetts, January 19, 1869,sun of Samuel and Catherine Boott (Gannett) paternal grandfather was Hon. Samuel Wells,Governor of Maine and a Justice of its SupremeCourt, and his father is a well-known law
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. in Boston, Mass., i86g; educated public andprivate schools, Boston and Harvard ; engaged in thelife insurance business in Boston ; died 1899. SAMUEL WELLS, Jr., Business Man, was bornin Boston, Massachusetts, January 19, 1869,sun of Samuel and Catherine Boott (Gannett) paternal grandfather was Hon. Samuel Wells,Governor of Maine and a Justice of its SupremeCourt, and his father is a well-known lawyer of Boston. On the maternal side he was a great-grandson of President Stiles of Yale, a grandson ofRev. Ezra Stiles Gannett, a prominent UnitarianMinister of Boston in his day, and his mother isMrs. Kate Gannett Wells, the well-known writer,public speaker, and reformer, of the same attended the Prince School and Mr. NicholsPrivate School, Boston, he entered Harvard, wherehe pursued the regular Academic course and wasgraduated with the Class of 1891. After leavingCollege, he engaged in the life insurance businessin Boston, which he followed successfully for some. WFI,T,S, TR. time, finally settling in Detroit, Michigan, and hisdeath occurred in Redlands, California, February10, 1S99. Mr. Wells was a member of the Puritanand Athletic Clubs, Boston. WIGGLESWORTH, Edward Harvard in Maiden, Mass., 1693 ; graduated Harvard,1710; HoUis Prof, of Theology, 1722-65; Fellow of theCorporation, 1724-65; Edinburgh, 1730; died 1765. EDWARD WIGGLES\\ORTH, , Theo-logian, was born in Maiden, Massachusetts,in 1693. He was the son of the Rev. MichaelWigglesworth (Harvard 1651), who was born inEngland and brought to .Xmerica by his father atan early age, becoming noted as a preacher, a skil- UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 339 ful physician and a poet. Edward Wigglesworthwas graduated at Harvard in 1710, subsequendystudying theology there. Upon the foundi
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