. Guide through Mount Auburn : a hand-book for passengers over the Cambridge railroad : illustrated with engravings and a plan of the cemetery . business in his own exertions he accumulated a large fortune. Hewas of a literary turn of mind, and formed during his life-time a most valuable library of standard and rare works,which, a short time before his death, he presented to theMassachusetts Historical Society. This collection is nowknown by the donors name. He left by will a large sumof money to be distributed by his executors for such charita-ble or literary purposes as they
. Guide through Mount Auburn : a hand-book for passengers over the Cambridge railroad : illustrated with engravings and a plan of the cemetery . business in his own exertions he accumulated a large fortune. Hewas of a literary turn of mind, and formed during his life-time a most valuable library of standard and rare works,which, a short time before his death, he presented to theMassachusetts Historical Society. This collection is nowknown by the donors name. He left by will a large sumof money to be distributed by his executors for such charita-ble or literary purposes as they might deem expedient. Ofthis sum ten thousand dollars were presented to the city ofCambridge, the income of which is to support a course ofpublic lectures in the City Hall. Mr. Dowse was bornDec. 28, 1772, and died Nov. 4, 1856. Marble monuments on the Dorr and Harris lots, at theright, will be noticed, and next beyond them, on the sameside, a most beautifully-sculptured marble on the lot of LeviBrigham. At the left, on the corner of Spruce Avenue, is amonument on the Dillaway lot. This monument always at- ■;iliii r*^ . \ |!:|iii ^^ i. THE STORY page 40. 44 HANDBOOK. tracts attention ; it is exceedingly appropriate in design, andis most beautifully executed. On the left is the marblemonument on the Adams lot, recently erected by AlvinAdams. It is of pure white marble, exceedingly rich in de-sign and beautiful in execution. On the corner of Pine andYarrow Paths is the Homer lot, with a large freestone mon-ument, in form like a sarcophagus, — In memory of George Joy Homer, a citizen of Boston, who was bornJan. 4, 1782, and died June 7, 1843, — an intelligent and upright mer-chant, a friend and benefactor of tlie poor, a guide and consoler of theerring, tender and true in all the relations of domestic life, a devoutand sincere Christian, —this monument is erected, to commemorate hisvirtues, by many friends. On the right, opposite the Homer lot, is a very neat a
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