In and about historic Boston . ELMWOOD, historic mansion, erected in 1767. is splendidly located in the midst of trees and shrubbery. It was occupied by Lieutenant-Governor Oliver in 1774, who wasCouncillor to the Crown, and also by Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States. Here James Russell Lowell was born in 1819, and it remained his homethroughout his whole life. The poets study, where he wrote nearly all his poems, was on the third floor. Lowell exercised a powerful influence as a finished man ofletters, succeeded Longfellow as a professor of literature at Harvar
In and about historic Boston . ELMWOOD, historic mansion, erected in 1767. is splendidly located in the midst of trees and shrubbery. It was occupied by Lieutenant-Governor Oliver in 1774, who wasCouncillor to the Crown, and also by Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States. Here James Russell Lowell was born in 1819, and it remained his homethroughout his whole life. The poets study, where he wrote nearly all his poems, was on the third floor. Lowell exercised a powerful influence as a finished man ofletters, succeeded Longfellow as a professor of literature at Harvard, and served as ambassador to England with great distinction. He died in JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER—BIRTHPLACE AND was born in Haverhill, December 17. 1807. His parents were Quakers. While a young man he was for several years the editor of an abolitionist journal,and his first reputation was won by a remarkable series of anti-slavery poems. Whittier developed more than any other American poet the power of expressing ina striking way the latent thought of the common people, and his mature works became immensely popular. Oak Knoll, Danvers. where he lived for many years,was the scene of much of his literary labor and is now a shrine to thousands of the poets admirers. - •? Oak Knoll,He died in 1892.
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