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Title: A little book for immigrants in Boston
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Boston (Mass.). Committee on Americanism
Subjects: Americanization
Publisher: City of Boston : Printing department
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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street. Often he was threatened with assassination, but he persevered until the slaves were freed. Samuel Gridley Howe has no statue, but his monument is a great institution of mercy. As a young man, he fought in the war for Greek independence and became chief of the medical staff in the Greek army. Later he fought for the freedom of Poland. In Boston he established a school for idiots and founded and directed the Perkins School for the Blind, which bears the name of a generous merchant of Boston who was its chief benefactor. At this school the celebrated deaf mutes, Laura Bridgman and Helen Keller, both of whom were blind as well as deaf, were taught. This noble philanthropist was succeeded in the directorship of the Perkins Institution by a Greek immigrant, Michael Anagnos. The Perkins Institution was formerly located in South Boston but is now in Watertown. Dr. Howes wife, Julia Ward Howe, became even more famous than her husband. She was the author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic
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5 zu u. uJ X UJ (J Z z UJ von IMMIGRANTS. 93 which is known to all the school children of Boston. The soldiers in the Civil War saii^ the air. It is one of the three principal national hymns of America, the others hein My Country, 'Tis of Thee and The Star-Spangled Banner. There is a bust of Mrs. Howe in the Public Library. The names of the Revolutionary patriots are household worlds in Boston. Among them was Paul Revere, a silversmith and engraver, who rode from Boston to Concord and Lexington on the night of April 15, 1775, to warn the Americans that the British were coming to attack them. Others were the orators, James Otis, Samuel Adams and Josiah Quincy I; Dr. Joseph Warren, who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill; John Hancock, the first governor; and Henry Knox, Washingtons general of artillery. There is a statue of Samuel Adams onAdams square and one of \\arren on \\arren street,Roxbury. The city of Quincy and the town ofRevere were named for two of these Revolutionaryheroes. Painti

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