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QUINCY , a See also:city of See also:Norfolk See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, situated on Massachusetts See also:Bay, and separated from See also:Boston by the Neponset See also:river on the N. and from See also:Weymouth by Fore river on the S. Pop. (1890) 16,723; (1900) 23,899, of whom 7662 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 32,642; See also:area, about 16 sq. m. It is served by the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railway, and by an interurban electric See also:line. To a large degree Quincy is a residential suburb of Boston. The birthplaces of See also:John See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams, built in 1681, and of John Quincy Adams, built in 1716, are still See also:standing. The See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
Stone See also:Temple, or First (Unitarian) Congregational See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, is the See also:burial-See also:place of the two Adamses. Quincy was also the See also:home of See also:Charles See also:Francis Adams. John Adams gave to the See also:town his valuable private library, and in 1822 founded here the Adams See also:Academy for boys (now closed). In the home of See also:Josiah Quincy (1802–1882) in See also:Wollaston See also:Park is the Quincy See also:Mansion School for Girls. See also:Woodward See also:Institute (1894) is an endowed high school for girls. The public school See also:system, the " Quincy' System," was made famous in 1875–188o by See also:Col. Francis See also:Wayland See also:Parker (1837–1902), who abolished learning lessons by rote, and introduced Froebelian principles. A public library was opened in 1871, and in 1882 it was housed in the See also:Crane Memorial See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, designed by H. H. See also:Richardson, and given by the See also:family of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Crane (1803–1875), who had spent his See also:early youth in the town, but had lived in New York City from 1827 until his See also:death. The library contained about 26,000 volumes in r9o8. The city has a See also:fine system of parks, among them being Merrymount and Faxon, the latter named in See also:honour of the family of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry H. Faxon, who in 1882 secured a negative See also:vote by the town to the question whether " licenses be granted for the See also:sale of intoxicating liquors"; subsequently there has been a similar vote each See also:year. The manufactures of Quincy were See also:long unimportant, with the exception of " Quincy See also:granite," 1 which was first quarried in 1825, this being the first " systematic siliceous crystalline See also:rock See also:quarrying " in New See also:England—and of which the output in the See also:form of tombstones and monuments in 1905 was valued at $2,018,198, and in the form of " See also:marble and stone See also:work " was valued at $364,924. But manufacturing rapidly increased in importance between 1900 and 1905; in this See also:period the value of factory products increased 198.2%, to $8,982,446, and the See also:capital invested increased 389%, to $9,220,870. Quincy granite, a See also:hornblende, See also:pyroxene, bluish or greyish, without See also:mica, was used for the construction of the Bunker See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill See also:monument at See also:Charlestown (in '826), and of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:Chapel, Boston; and for interior decorations it has found some use, for example in the See also:Philadelphia city buildings. Engines, and See also:iron and See also:steel See also:ships are built at a shipyard2 on the Fore river, and tubular rivets and studs, gearing, foundry products, and translucent fabrics are among the city's other products.
1 Since 1877 the Granite Cutters' See also:Journal has been published here by the Granite Cutters' See also:International Association of See also:America. For a description of the granite quarried in the vicinity of Quincy, see T. N. See also:Dale, The See also:Chief Commercial Granites of See also:Mass., New See also:Hampshire and Rhode See also:Island (See also:Washington, 1908), Bulletin 354 of the U.S. Geol. Survey.
2 Here were built various vessels of the U.S. See also:Navy, including the battleship " See also:North Dakota."
The site of the See also:present city was settled in 1625 as Merry See also:Mount or Mount Wollaston by Thomas See also:Morton (q.v.)—the present Wollaston Heights is a See also:part of the See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of 60o acres made in 1636 by the town of Boston to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Hutchinson, See also:husband of See also:Anne, the Antinomian, and was formerly known as See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor's Hill. A Puritan See also:settlement was made here in 1634. This first settled part of See also:Braintree (q.v.)—a name given in 164o to the community then organized—after 1708 was officially called the North See also:Precinct of the Town of Braintree; here the Adamses and the Hancocks lived, and Quincy was the See also:birth-place of John See also:Hancock—in a See also:house on Hancock See also:lot lived the first Josiah Quincy; the Mount Wollaston See also:farm was a See also:legacy to John Quincy (1689-1767), in whose honour the township was named on its separation from the township of Braintree in 1792, and whose name was See also:borne by his See also:great See also:grandson, John Quincy Adams. In 1826 a railway about 4 M. long to the Neponset river was built here—the first in New England—for carrying granite from the quarries to See also:tide-See also:water; the cars were See also:drawn by horses. The township Lad previously been engaged in maritime pursuits, See also:agriculture, and the manufacture of See also:leather. Township See also:government, owing to the abolition of the See also:committee on See also:general business and the consequent confusion of handling so many and See also:minute details, and to the addition to the See also:population of a large Irish See also:element and a large New Hampshire element, both workmen in the quarries, reached the minimum of efficiency in 1840-1870; in 1870, how-ever, the town-meetings were reformed, and in 1874 a committee to consider business details was again appointed. In 1888 Quincy was chartered as a city.
See " A Study of Church and Town Government," by C. F. Adams, in the second See also:volume of his Three Episodes of Massachusetts See also:History (Boston, 1892), for an admirable history of the community; his Centennial Milestone, an Address in See also:Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the See also:Incorporation of Quincy, Mass. (See also:Cam-See also:bridge, Massachusetts, 1892); D. M. See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson, Quincy, Old Braintree and Merry Mount (Boston, 1907), and Where See also:American See also:Independence Began (Boston, 1902); and D. M. Wilson and C. F. Adams, Col. John Quincy of Mount Wollaston, '689–1767 (Quincy, 1909), published by the Quincy See also:Historical Society, and containing addresses made at the celebration in See also:February 1908 in honour of Col. Quincy; and W. S. Pattee, History of Old Braintree and Quincy (Quincy, 1878).
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