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(ANONYMOUS)., Second Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, Celebrated in Boston, November 2, 1853; Including Also an Account of the Proceedings in Boston on the Day of the Funeral at Marshfield, and the Subsequent Obsequies Commemorative of the Death of Daniel Webster
Boston: James French and Company, 1854. Octavo, gilt decorated brown cloth. All edges gilt. 229pp. Illustrated. Frontispiece engraved portrait of Webster plus three additional engraved portraits; Sam'l Appleton, Marshall P. Wilder and J. Chickering. Phonographic report by Alexander C. Felton. Very good. A bit of wear at spine ends. Spine faded. This a presentation copy from Marshall P. Wilder to P. Barry, Esq. A merchant and amateur horticulturist from Dorchester, Mass. Marshall P. Wilder (1798-1886) was a key figure in American pomology during the mid- nineteenth century and a major supporter of agricultural education. A supreme organizer and institution builder, he was a founder and president of the American Pomological Society and United States Agricultural Society, and president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and New England Historic Genealogical Society. His 1849 address before the Norfolk Agricultural Society is often credited as an important catalyst for the creation of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and he served as trustee of the College from its opening in 1867 until his death in 1886.
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