Forty of Boston's historic houses; a brief illustrated description of the residences of historic characters of Boston who have lived in or near the business section . daughter of Hon. Peter C. Brooks of Boston, was a prominent citizen formany years, and had the distinction of being respectively grandson and son of thesecond and sixth Presidents of the United States. He was elected in 1858 a mem-ber of the national House of Representatives in the Thirty-sixth Congress, and atthe close of the session in 1861 was appointed United States minister to Englandby President Lincoln. In this office, dur
Forty of Boston's historic houses; a brief illustrated description of the residences of historic characters of Boston who have lived in or near the business section . daughter of Hon. Peter C. Brooks of Boston, was a prominent citizen formany years, and had the distinction of being respectively grandson and son of thesecond and sixth Presidents of the United States. He was elected in 1858 a mem-ber of the national House of Representatives in the Thirty-sixth Congress, and atthe close of the session in 1861 was appointed United States minister to Englandby President Lincoln. In this office, during the Civil War and for three years after-wards, Mr. Adams served to the satisfaction of the nation. He returned to Europein 1871 to represent the United States in the Alabama Claims Tribunal at Geneva,Switzerland. The decision of the Tribunal, by which England paid to the UnitedStates fifteen and a half millions of dollars, gave great satisfaction to Mr. Adams, andhe returned to his native land considering this to be the crowning achievement ofhis life. Mr. Adams died in 1886 in the eightieth year of his age, and his widowsurvived him less than three WENDELL PHILLIPS HOUSE Essex Street The modest dwelling No. 26, and later No. 50, Essex Street, was the home ofWendell Phillips, the anti-slavery leader, from 1841 until the year 1882, when it wastaken down for the extension of Harrison Avenue from Essex to Bedford living in this house, Mr. Phillips accomplished his great work in the anti-slavery cause, and he was aided in it by his wife, who, although a confirmed invalidfor more than forty years, was always deeply and actively interested in her husbandslabors for the African race. After leaving their old home in Essex Street in 1882,Wendell and Ann Phillips removed to Common Street, a distance of half a they found an old house on an old street, and in it they passed the eveningof their lives. He died in 1884, and she followed him in a little mor
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