A guide-book of Boston for physicians . overnment service. Brigadier-General John Glover, one of the bravest and most distin-guished officers of the Revolution, who died in 1797, is buriedin the old cemetery on the hill overlooking Marblehead Har-bor. There is a statue of General Glover on CommonwealthAvenue in Boston. The streets of Marblehead are notorious for their crooked-ness. Apparently, every man built his house on this rockypromontory exactly where he pleased, without much referenceto his neighbors, so that while one front door looks squarelyupon the street, the next one will be at an
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . overnment service. Brigadier-General John Glover, one of the bravest and most distin-guished officers of the Revolution, who died in 1797, is buriedin the old cemetery on the hill overlooking Marblehead Har-bor. There is a statue of General Glover on CommonwealthAvenue in Boston. The streets of Marblehead are notorious for their crooked-ness. Apparently, every man built his house on this rockypromontory exactly where he pleased, without much referenceto his neighbors, so that while one front door looks squarelyupon the street, the next one will be at an angle of ninetydegrees, and the third house will be entered from the oldest Episcopal Church in New England is St. Michaels(1714), a modest structure hidden away in a nest of woodenbuildings, not a stones throw from the electric cars, whichpass through the centre of the town. The Colonel Jeremiah Lee mansion (1776), No. 169 Wash-ington Street, with its old colonial staircase, should be visited; 142 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. ST. MICHAEL S CHURCHMARBLEHEAD also the birthplace of ElbridgeGerry (nearly opposite the NorthChurch), a signer of the Declara-tion of Independence, Governor ofMassachusetts and Vice-Presidentof the United States. The well of theFountain Inn, where began theromance of Agnes Surriage, cele-brated by Edwin Lasseter Bynnerin a novel, and by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes in a poem, isto be seen at a point only a few steps from the terminus of theelectric-car line. The Eastern Yacht Club, with ample accommodations for itsmembers, has its house and landing stage on the Neck, andalso the Corinthian Yacht Club. A steam ferry connects themainland with the Neck and also a good road across the cause-way. On the town side of the harbor the Boston Yacht Clubhas a house and wharf. Both steam and electric cars connectMarblehead and Salem, some five miles apart. Salem, fourteen miles to the northeast of Boston, on the Bos-ton & Maine Railroad, was settled in 1626.
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