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Jabez Chickering
Jabez Chickering (circa 1782-October 20, 1826) was a lawyer and businessman from Dedham, Massachusetts. Personal life Chickering was the son of the minister in Dedham's South Church, also named Jabez Chickering, and his wife Hannah, the daughter of Thomas Balch. He was a descendant of Francis Chickering. His older brother, Joseph Chickering, was a minister in Woburn and Phillipston and his uncle, Manasseh Cutler, was a congressman and minister. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1804. At Harvard, the topic of his graduation speech was "The evils arising to society from Avarice, Indolence, and Ambition." He was described by a family historian as a "young man howas ambitious and... felt equal to many things. From his boyhood he had always lived in the sunlight of prosperity. He was attractive, popular, and restless. He was very involved in town affairs. He had a wife, Deborah Dorothy Alleyne, who was from "an old and illustrious Dedham family and 'considered something of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dedham, Massachusetts
Dedham ( ) is a New England town, town in, and the county seat of, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Located on Boston's southwestern border, the population was 25,364 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. First settled by English colonists in 1635 and incorporated in 1636, Dedham established the first public school in America in 1643. Dedham is home to the Fairbanks House (Dedham, Massachusetts), Fairbanks House, the oldest surviving timber-frame house in the United States. On January 1, 1643, by unanimous vote, Dedham authorized the first taxpayer-funded Public school (government funded), public school, "the seed of American education." The first man-made canal in North America, Mother Brook, was created in Dedham in 1639. The town took an Dedham, Massachusetts in the American Revolution, active part in the American Revolution and was home to the Dedham Liberty Pole in the late 18th century. When a split occurred at the First Church and Parish in Dedham, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dedham Bank
The Dedham Bank was a bank in Dedham, Massachusetts. It was located on the corner of High and Pearl Streets. Those involved with the establishment of the bank in 1814 include Elijah Crane, Willard Gay, Samuel Haven, John Guild, Jabez Chickering, Horatio Townsend, Jeremiah Baker, and Martin Marsh. Early meetings of the bank were held at the Norfolk House. The founders asked Nathaniel Ames to be a director, but he declined, citing the large number of lawyers involved with its creation. Ten months after creation, however, the bank had 66 shareholders in Dedham, Boston, Bellingham, Medway, Dover, Walpole, Franklin, Needham, Woburn, Roxbury, Medfield, Sharon, Wrentham, Hopkington, Bridgewater, Canton, and Sherburne. Its first president was Willard Gay who lived and carried on the business of packing beef and pork at West Dedham. He resigned his office May 20, 1829 and was succeeded by John Worthington Ames. Upon the decease of Ames in 1833, Dr. Jeremy Stimson was elected on Febr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Davis (Massachusetts Lawyer)
Daniel Davis was the Solicitor General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He represented the First Church and Parish in Dedham The First Church and Parish in Dedham is a Unitarian Universalist congregation in Dedham, Massachusetts. It was the 14th church established in Massachusetts. The current minister, Rev. Rali M. Weaver, was called in March 2007, settled in July, and ... in the case of Baker v. Fales. Notes Works cited * * * 19th-century American lawyers Solicitors general of Massachusetts Year of birth missing Year of death missing {{US-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Although the claim is disputed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the SJC claims the distinction of being the oldest continuously functioning appellate court in the Americas, with a recognized history dating to the establishment of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature in 1692 under the charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Although it was historically composed of four associate justices and one chief justice, the court is currently composed of six associate justices and one chief justice. History The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court traces its history back to the high court of the British Province of Massachusetts Bay, which was chartered in 1692. Under the terms of that charter, Governor Sir William Phips established the Superior Court of Judicature as the province's local court of last resort (some of the court's decisions could be appealed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Wilde
Samuel Sumner Wilde (1771–1855) was an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Wilde was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1789, winning admission to the Massachusetts Bar in 1792. He practiced law in several towns of the state's Maine District before settling in Boston after Maine achieved statehood in 1820. In 1815 he was appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (the state's highest), serving until he retired in 1850. He was the judge in the case of Baker v. Fales. Wilde was a prominent attorney in Massachusetts and served as a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. In 1814 he was elected as a representative to the Hartford Convention. Wilde was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Haven (judge)
Samuel Haven (April 5, 1771 – September 4, 1847) was an American judge. Personal life Haven was the son of Jason Haven and the grandson of Samuel Dexter through his daughter, Catherine. He was born April 5, 1771, in Dedham. On March 6, 1799, he married Elizabeth Cragie in Dedham. He attended Harvard College as a member of the class of 1789 and then studied law with Fisher Ames and Samuel Dexter. Haven was the father of Samuel Foster Haven. He died in Roxbury on September 4, 1847, at the home of his daughter, Catharine Dexter Haven Hilliard. Later in life he would become a member of the Swedenborgian Church. Haven Street in Dedham was named for him and his father. House In 1798, he built a house designed by Charles Bulfinch kitty-corner from the Norfolk County Courthouse that is today the Dedham Community House. It was built on land originally owned by his father and maternal grandfather. It was noted as one of the most hospitable houses of the day in Massachusetts. The H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Davis (U
John Davis may refer to: Academics * John A. G. Davis (1802–1840), professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, shot to death by a student * John Aubrey Davis Sr. (1912–2002), African American activist and political science professor * John Adelbert Davis (1871–1934), American bible college founder * John Davies (lecturer) or Davis (fl. 1816–1850), English chemist and lecturer * John Davis (academic) (1938–2017), English anthropologist and Warden of All Souls College, Oxford * John Emmeus Davis (born 1949), scholar, writer and community organizer * John J. Davis (theologian) (born 1936), American theologian, archaeologist, and Christian educator * John Jefferson Davis, professor of theology and Presbyterian pastor * John June Davis (1885–1965), American entomologist * John Warren Davis (college president) (1888–1980), African American educator, college administrator, and civil rights leader * John Davis (paediatrician) (1923–2025), British professor of paed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baker V
A baker is a tradesperson who bakes and sometimes sells breads and other products made of flour by using an oven or other concentrated heat source. The place where a baker works is called a bakery. History Ancient history Since grains have been a staple food for millennia, the activity of baking is a very old one. Control of yeast, however, is relatively recent.Wayne Gisslen, ''Professional Baking'' (4th ed.: John Wiley & Sons, 2005), p. 4. By the fifth and sixth centuries BCE, the ancient Greeks used enclosed ovens heated by wood fires; communities usually baked bread in a large communal oven. Greeks baked dozens and possibly hundreds of types of bread; Athenaeus described seventy-two varieties. In ancient Rome several centuries later, the first mass production of breads occurred, and "the baking profession can be said to have started at that time." Ancient Roman bakers used honey and oil in their products, creating pastries rather than breads. In ancient Rome, bak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvinists
Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed Christian, Presbyterian, Congregational, and Waldensians traditions, as well as parts of the Methodist, Anglican (known as "Episcopal" in some regions) and Baptist traditions. Reformed theology emphasizes the authority of the Bible and the sovereignty of God, as well as covenant theology, a framework for understanding the Bible based on God's covenants with people. Reformed churches emphasize simplicity in worship. Several forms of ecclesiastical polity are exercised by Reformed churches, including presbyterian, congregational, and some episcopal. Articulated by John Calvin, the Reformed faith holds to a spiritual (pneumatic) presence of Christ in the Lord's Supper. Emerging in the 16th century, the Reformed tradition developed over several generations, esp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unitarianism
Unitarianism () is a Nontrinitarianism, nontrinitarian sect of Christianity. Unitarian Christians affirm the wikt:unitary, unitary God in Christianity, nature of God as the singular and unique Creator deity, creator of the universe, believe that Jesus Christ was Divine inspiration, inspired by God in his moral teachings and that he is the Redeemer (Christianity), savior of mankind,. but he is not equal to God himself. Accordingly, Unitarians reject the Ecumenical Councils and ecumenical creeds, and sit outside traditional, mainstream Christianity. Unitarianism was established in order to restore "Restorationism, primitive Christianity before later corruptions set in". Likewise, Unitarian Christians generally reject the doctrine of original sin. The churchmanship of Unitarianism may include Liberal Christianity, liberal Christian denominations, denominations or Unitarian Christian denominations that are more Conservatism, conservative, with the latter being known as Biblical unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvan Lamson
Alvan Lamson (November 18, 1792 – July 18, 1864) was a minister at First Church and Parish in Dedham, Massachusetts. His ordination led to a split in the church and eventually a lawsuit, '' Baker v. Fales'', that helped disestablish the church and state in Massachusetts. Personal life Lamson was born on November 18, 1792, in Weston, Massachusetts to John and Hannah (née Ayres) Lamson. He grew up on a farm and then attended Phillips Andover. Lamson was graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1817 and received a doctorate of divinity from Harvard in 1837. He was a great supporter of the Dedham Public Schools and was instrumental in establishing Dedham High School. It was said of the 24 year member of the School Committee that "probably no citizen of the town ever took a deeper interest in the schools or worked harder to raise their character and standard." He organized reading circles in the parish library and engaged in editorial pursuits with other Unitarian ministers. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Haven
Jason Haven (March 2, 1733 – May 17, 1803) was the longest serving minister of the First Church and Parish in Dedham. Personal life Haven was born on March 2, 1733, in Framingham, Massachusetts. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1754. While at Harvard, he was a classmate of John Hancock and one year ahead of John Adams. Following a fever in 1774, for which a day of fasting and prayer was called, he remain "an invalid" for the rest of his life. He married the oldest daughter, Catherine, of his predecessor in the Dedham Church, Samuel Dexter (minister), Samuel Dexter. He also had a son, Samuel Haven (judge), Samuel. Two of his children died in infancy, one at one month old and the other at seven months old. His corn barn collapsed in the late 1700s. Haven died, May 17, 1803. The family lived in the Dexter's home. His first cousin, once removed, was Elias Haven. Haven Street in Dedham was named for him. Political activity He was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
