Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-05

famous men lie. The general court of
Massachusetts, erected monument to his
memory. describing him as ''the delight
OF his own people, but of none more than
the Senate, who, as a. testimony of their
love and gratitude. have ordered this cpl
taph to be inscribed
News Travelled slowly in those days, and
the death of the Judge was not known in
| Massachusetts until two months after IT
occurred Then a grand funeral was
held, when the governor and all the pro-
Vlnc1at d1gnltarleS assembled and formed
| a procession which was escorted by the
Suffolk regiment of militia to the meeting
| house. where the Rev. John Hancock
father Of the President of the Continental
congress, preached a sermon upon The
Instability Of Human Greatness"
| According to tradition. the clean to" on
! the north side Of the mansion was built
| for the accommodation of Grandmother
| t1ynt, who occupied 1t until she died. I'm
| 1897. at the age of ninety years, and for
/ Tutor Flynt, a SCHOLARLY witty and &C.
| centric bachelor, who educated the beau
| tiful Dorothy and her brothers and sis
| tiers and walked the floor of his study so
| constantly that you can see the depres-
| sion that was worn by him IN the boards
| The fourth Edmund Quincy. and the
eldest son of the judge, went to Boston.
where he engaged in the shipping bust
ness and became the father of the "Doro-
thy O.. who married John Hancock, and
whose romance was related in these COL
umns the other day. She never lived in
began i'll philadelphia where her husband
was President of the Continental Con-
sress, and was prolonged for half cen
fury In Boston, where she reigned SUI
pTeme over her devoted subjects.
After the revolution the ancient home of
the Quincys was sold under a mortgage,
and passing through several oWnerships
came into the possession of EbeniZer
Woodward, who beQueatlsed it to the
town of Quincy as part Of an endow-
ment of the Woodward Institution for
Girls During the forty years that the
town authorities held the estate in trust
the mansion was occupied by Peter But
Ter who revived the hospitality and the
social fame of early days. Later the es-
tate was acquired by the Adams Trust
Company from which it was purchased
by the Rev. Daniel NJ Wilson. minister
Of the First Church, who lived i'm it until
he removed to Brooklyn. and then sold
it to the Colonial Danes.
Famous Men Boys Together.
john Hancock, 1.-THE signer'' was a son
of the minister of the First Church, and
was born the same day that an
other John came into the world at the
humber home of Deacon Joseph Adams.
The son of the deacon and the son of
the minister, as fate had decreed, be-
came famous as well useful in the re-
demption of the political world. AS boys
same school, they were in the same class
at the Sunday school, and at meeting one
sat in the ministers pew and the other
in the deaconS. at either side Of the pull
pit, and undoubtedly exchanged glances
of disapproval over the length of the SER
mons The deacons son went to Harvard
College and became a lawyer: the minis
ter's son went to Boston to work for
Thomas Hancock, his uncle. who was a
merchant of wealth and large affairs,
and afterward inherited his none. John
the lawyer. was the legal counsel of John
the merchant, and they are said to have
played whist and drank toddy together
regularly.
The site of the home Of the Rev. John
Hancock. where John. the signer, was
born. is now occupied by the Adams
Academy for Boys. Opposite. in one of
the three houses that belonged to the
Quincys, is the Quincy Mansion School
for Girls.
Tutor Flynt was once offered the presl-
dency of Yale College. but declined it on
the ground that he preferred to remain
tutor and do as he pleased.
The Quincy granite, which is famous the
world over as standard building stone. is
taken from uuarries in a ridge on the out
skirts of the city and was used as early
as 1749. Kings Chapel in Boston was
the first building of consequence in which
it was used, and required so much ma
terial that the community became
alarmed and the next town meeting voted
to forbid further removal until other
wise ordered. Later permission was Sc
cured to furnish the material for the ia
NOUS Hancock mansion on Beacon Hill,
Boston, which might not have been given
if Hancock had not been a native of the
town. The stone for Kings Chapel and
the Hancock mansion was broken out by
building fires upon it until it was thor
oughIy heated and then dropping heavy
iron balls, which cracked it. 1t was not
until 1903 that wedges were used to split
the stone.
The largest early contract was for
Bunker Hill monument. That famous
structure marked an epoch in the history
of Quincy, and also in that of the United
mentioned as the most notable event in
the administration Of John Quincy
Adams. In order to transport the stone
from the quarries to tide water a railway
was built by laying parallel timbers and
lining them with strap iron. The cars
were hauled by horses and the first train
was run October q, 1906. This was the
first railway in the United States The
stone was carried from the cars to a
dock in Charleston on bargeS.
The railway was bought by the Old Col
ony company forty years ago and its road
bed is now q part of one of the suburban
lines of the New York. New Haven and
Hartford system.
The Crane Memorial Hall, an architec-
tural gem, designed by Richardson, con-
tans the library bequedthed to the town
by John Adams. 1t was erected by the
late Thomas Crane. a journeyman stone
cutter who became master workman
and eventually the owner Of one of the
largest quarres and the most prominent
stone contractor in the United States. In
an address delivered at the dedication of
the Memorial hall, it is stated that dur
ing nearly thirty years of active construc-
ton as any great city ever saw there
were few buildings of magnitude erected
in New York in which granite was used
to which Thomas Crane did not con-
tribute, and which did not contribute to
him.
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