Excerpt from Two Noble Lives: Samuel Gridley Howe, Julia Ward Howe

MY father, Samuel Gridley Howe, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, November 10, 1801. He came of good Colonial stock on both sides, his grandfather, Edward Compston Howe, having been one Of the Indians of the Boston Tea Party, while his mother's uncle, Richard Gridley, was a gallant soldier and engineer, who served at Louisburg in 1745, fortified Bunker Hill the night before the battle, and, under Washington's orders, aided in preparing the siege-works which finally drove the British from Boston.

Sam Howe, as my father was called, was a handsome boy, with dark hair, rosy cheeks, and bright blue eyes, full of fun and mischief.

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