ry and history of music, a good bass singer, a
good organist, and the author of several popular compositions. Of these
"Federal Street" seems likely to become permanent in musical literature.
In his youth he sang in the Park street church in Boston and for many
years he led the choir of the North church in Salem. "Oliver's
Collection of Church Music" is one of the results of his labors in this
direction. In conjunction with Dr. Tuckerman he published the "National
Lyre." He was a member of the old Handel and Hayden Society and the
Salem Glee Club, both famous musical organizations of his early days.
In 1825 General Oliver married Sally, daughter of Captain Samuel Cook,
by whom he had two sons and five daughters, as follows: Colonel S.C.
Oliver, Dr. H.K. Oliver, Jr., Sarah Elizabeth, who married Mr. Bartlett
of Lawrence, and who died about four years ago, Emily Kemble, who is the
wife of Colonel Andrews, U.S.A., Mary Evans Oliver, who has been the
faithful attendant of the general in his declining years, and Ellen
Wendell, who married Augustus Cheever of North Andover.

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August 13.--Boxford, Mass. celebrated its bi-centennial. Among the
addresses was one by Sidney Perley, author of the "History of Boxford
from 1635 to 1880," who spoke particularly on the formative period of
the history of Boxford, alluding to the fact that Boxford was a frontier
in 1635 and was then a wilderness and the fighting ground of the Agawam
and Tarantive Indians.

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August 19.--Third annual meeting of the American Boynton Association
held in Worcester, Mass. The Secretary said that he had been able to
trace over three hundred families back to William and John Boynton, who
settled in Rowley, Mass., in 1638. They came from Yorkshire, England,
and the family there is traced back through thirty generations, to 1067,
when their estate was confirmed to them by William, the Conqueror. It
was reported that work is being pushed in the preparation of the family
memorial to be published.

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August 19.--Centennial of Heath, Franklin County, Mass, incorporated
February 14, 1785. The celebration had been postponed to August for the
sake of convenience. About 2,500 people attended the exercises. The
principal addresses were by John H. Thompson, Esq., of Chicago, and Rev.
C.E. Dickinson of Marietta, Ohio.

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