Category: Biographies
Northampton, Massachusetts, half a century ago, was one of the best examples of a typical New England town--among stately hills, on the banks of the Connecticut River, with broad streets well shaded by great spreading elms, with large homesteads still occupied by the descendan...
Northampton, Massachusetts, half a century ago, was one of the best examples of a typical New England town--among stately hills, on the banks of the Connecticut River, with broa...
2. Part 2During and after the Civil War, the ordinary expenses of life increased, and Mr. Whitney's family was growing. The income which had sufficed for the young and unmarried professo...
3. Part 3In March, 1864, Mr. Whitney delivered at the Smithsonian Institution a series of six lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science--probably lectures which he had given to th...