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WELLESLEY , a township of See also:Norfolk See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., 14 M. S.W. of See also:Boston. Pop. (189o) 3600, (1900) 5072, of whom 1306 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 17 were negroes, (1910 See also:census) 5413. See also:Area, 10.4 sq. m. Wellesley is served by the Boston & See also:Albany railway, and is connected with See also:Natick (3 M. W.), See also:Newton, Needham, Boston and See also:Worcester by electric lines. The See also:north-eastern boundary of the township is the See also:Charles See also:river, which divides it from the See also:city of Newton. The See also:surface of the township is hilly and abundantly wooded, with many small streams and lakes; the two See also:principal villages are Wellesley Hills and Wellesley, and smaller villages are Wellesley Falls, Wellesley Farms and Wellesley Fells. The highest point is Maugus 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 (416 ft.), near Wellesley Hills See also:village. In the See also:northern See also:part of Wellesley and extending into See also:Weston is a large See also:forest See also:tract known as " The Hundreds." Within the township are parts of two of the reservations of the See also:Metropolitan See also:Park See also:system, 66.07 acres of the Charles river See also:reservation, and 4.58 acres of See also:Hemlock See also:Gorge. Hunnewell Park is the former See also:home of Dr W. T. G. See also:Morton, who discovered the anaesthetic properties of sulphuric See also:ether. See also:West of Wellesley village, among the hills, See also:lie '-4lorses See also:Pond and See also:Lake Waban, on which are beautiful See also:Italian gardens and (on the north See also:side) the buildings and extensive grounds (350 acres) of Wellesley See also:College (undenominational, 1875) for See also:women, which was established by 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 Towle Durant (1822-1881), a prominent Boston lawyer. In 1910 the college had 130 instructors and 1319 students. The library (65,200 volumes in 191o) was endowed by Eben N. Horsford, the chemist and ethnologist; it contains a library of See also:American linguistics collected by See also:Major J. W. See also:Powell and Mr Horsford, and the Frances See also:Pearson Plimpton library of See also:early Italian literature. There are about 30 buildings, of which twelve are residential halls or cottages. Instruction is in classical, See also:literary and scientific branches, and the degrees of A.B. and A.M. are awarded.
Wellesley was settled about 1640, being then within the limits of See also:Dedham. When the township of Needham was set off from Dedham in 1711, Wellesley was included within the new territory, and in 1774 was organized as the west See also:parish of Needham or West Needham. In 1881 it was incorporated under its See also:present name.
See J. E. See also:Fiske in D. H. See also:Hurd's See also:History of Norfolk County (Boston, 1884).
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