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There is no fairer region around Boston than this wooded, hilly country near Natick "the place of hills" with its little lakes, its tranquil, winding river, its hallowed memories of John Eliot and his Christian Indian chieftains, Waban and Pegan, its treasured literary associations with Harriet Beecher Stowe.
100 Yards. 9 3/5 seconds, made by Edward Donavan, at Natick, Mass., September 2, 1895. 220 Yards. 21 3/5 seconds, made by Harry Jewett, at Montreal, September 24, 1892. Quarter-Mile. 47 3/4 seconds, made by W. Baker, at Boston, Mass., July 1, 1886. Half-Mile. 1 minute 53 2/3 seconds, made by C. J. Kirkpatrick, at Manhattan Field, New York, September 21, 1895.
The trolley line out of Worcester is through Shrewsbury and Northborough to Marlborough, then a turn almost due south to Southborough, then east to Framingham, southeast to South Framingham, east through Natick to Wellesley, northeast through Wellesley Hills to Newton, then direct through Brookline into Boston.
His parents were in very humble circumstances, and at ten years of age he was apprenticed to a farmer till he was twenty-one. On attaining his majority, he went to Natick, Massachusetts, where he learned the trade of shoemaking, and worked at the business nearly three years.
The Natick Indians, "those poor despised sheep of Christ," as Gookin affectionately calls them, were hurried off to Deer Island, in Boston harbor, where they suffered excessively from a severe winter. A part of the praying Indians of Plymouth colony were confined, in like manner, on the islands in Plymouth harbor.
The Indian pastor of Natick, who had been trained by Mr. Eliot, died in 1716, and two years later was born one of the men who did all in his power, through his brief life, to hold up the light of truth to the unfortunate natives of America, as they were driven further and further to the west before the advancing tide from Europe.
Wilson was a shoemaker, then residing in Natick, Mass., and was known as the 'Natick Cobbler. The songs have nearly all faded from memory. I recall one line of our description of the prospective departure of Van Buren's cabinet from the White House: "'Let each as we go take a fork and a spoon. "There was one entitled 'Up Salt River, descriptive of the approaching fate of the Democratic party.
Cousin Torrey, of Weymouth, coming in yesterday, brought with her a very bright and pretty Indian girl, one of Mr. Eliot's flock, of the Natick people. She was apparelled after the English manner, save that she wore leggings, called moccasins, in the stead of shoes, wrought over daintily with the quills of an animal called a porcupine, and hung about with small black and white shells.
Cousin Torrey, of Weymouth, coming in yesterday, brought with her a very bright and pretty Indian girl, one of Mr. Eliot's flock, of the Natick people. She was apparelled after the English manner, save that she wore leggings, called moccasins, in the stead of shoes, wrought over daintily with the quills of an animal called a porcupine, and hung about with small black and white shells.
The amount of good done by Mike Murphy in steering boys into the right track can never be estimated." Prep' School boys athletically inclined followed Murphy. Many a man went to college in order to get Murphy's training. He was an athletic magnet. "The Old Mike" The town of Natick, Mass., boasts of Mike Murphy's early days. Wonderful athletic traditions centered there.
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