In 1775 at age 38, John Hancock was one of the most eligible bachelors among the Boston rebels. Made wealthy by his...
In September of 1837, Henry Bright returned from Alabama to Massachusetts with his family. He had made a business career there, but...
In 1652, at age 28, John Hull began making money – literally. The Hull family was by then well established in Boston....
In July 1896, the Herbert Fuller put to sea from Boston with 11 people on board. The barkentine was loaded with lumber,...
In 1894 Annie Cohen Kopchovsky set out to bicycle around the world in 15 months as Annie Londonderry, and she did. Sort...
In March of 1845, J. Wright Boott wrote a letter to his old friend and business partner, John Amory Lowell; with it...