. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . in Boston,where for five yearshe was the pupil ofB. A. Gould and Leverett, thenfamous 1828 he enteredHarvard Universityand was graduated inthe class of immediatelymatriculated in theHar\ ard DivinitySchool and was grad-uated in 1836. Forsix years he was anactive U n i t a r i a npreacher; in 1840he settled in North-ampton, Mass., butremained there onlyone year. He thenjoined the famousBrook Farm Associa-tion at Roxbury,Mass., an a
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . in Boston,where for five yearshe was the pupil ofB. A. Gould and Leverett, thenfamous 1828 he enteredHarvard Universityand was graduated inthe class of immediatelymatriculated in theHar\ ard DivinitySchool and was grad-uated in 1836. Forsix years he was anactive U n i t a r i a npreacher; in 1840he settled in North-ampton, Mass., butremained there onlyone year. He thenjoined the famousBrook Farm Associa-tion at Roxbury,Mass., an associationwhich, rightly orwrongly, is believedto have had a great formative influence upon nearly all of its members. Inthis association Mr. Dwight was a teacher of classics andmusic, and dipped a little into farming and gardening ;he was also one of the editors of the Harbinger, asomewhat noted periodical of the association. As amember of this association Mr. Dwight was broughtinto contact with many then young men who afterwardbecame famous, among them George Ripley, its founder,George P. Bradford, the late George William Curtis,. JOHN S. DWIGHT, and Charles A. Dana. The Rev. William Ellery Chan-ning, James Kay of Philadelphia, Margaret Fuller,Ral]ih Waldo Emerson, and A. Bronson Alcott weresometimes visitors. The Curtis brothers, Quincy , and James Sturgis were there as sympathizersand pupils. Curious as was this experiment, it is inter-esting to note that hardly one of its members failedto become more or less famous. In April, 1853, established Dwights Journal of Music, and this capable paperhe owned and editeduntil September,1881. Long pre-vious to this, indeedas early as 1839, hehad published a vol-ume of translationsof the smaller andshorter p o e m s ofGoethe and tastes werealways of a musicaland literary charac-ter, and in his homehe did much literaryand critical Dwight was mar-ried in 1851 to Mary,(laughter of Silasand Mary (Barre
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