Harvard and its surroundings . , and his uncle was Thomas Brattleof Boston, treasurer of Harvard College for twenty-five years, and a prominentmerchant, whose liberality toward the Brattle Street Church caused thechurch and street to be named after him. From this family Brattle Street,Cambridge, derives its name. Thomas Bi-attle (class of 1760), son of Will-iam Brattle, made his grounds the most celebrated in New England, andalthough a fugitive in 17 75, nevertheless, upon his return after the war, hehad his political disabilities removed. The drowning of several student?,while bathing, caused
Harvard and its surroundings . , and his uncle was Thomas Brattleof Boston, treasurer of Harvard College for twenty-five years, and a prominentmerchant, whose liberality toward the Brattle Street Church caused thechurch and street to be named after him. From this family Brattle Street,Cambridge, derives its name. Thomas Bi-attle (class of 1760), son of Will-iam Brattle, made his grounds the most celebrated in New England, andalthough a fugitive in 17 75, nevertheless, upon his return after the war, hehad his political disabilities removed. The drowning of several student?,while bathing, caused Brattle, with his usual kind-heartedness, to erect a freebath at the foot of the street formerly known as Bath Lane, now Ash Mifflin, while quartermaster to the continental army, occupied thehouse, which, during his occupancy, was visited by many persons distinguishedin the Revolution. Samuel Appleton, a Boston merchant, was proprietor ofthe place at one time. Abraham W. Fuller, who relinquished his business as. Brattle House (60).
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