Identifier: memoirofsolomonw00whei (find matches)
Title: Memoir of Solomon Willard, architect and superintendent of the Bunker Hill monument
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Wheildon, William W. (William Willder), 1805-1892 Bunker Hill Monument Association
Subjects: Willard, S. (Solomon), 1783-1861 Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher: (Boston) Prepared and printed by direction of the Monument association
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
d their childrens children, will become familiar with hisname in the school house; the workmen will be reminded ofhim by the machines which they use and the ledge which bearshis name, and all will recognize his work and his benevolencein the Cemetery, where the Rejected Column rises with somuch massive grandeur, and is, in so many ways, significant ofhim who placed it there. Such was Solomon Willard, and such the service he renderedto the public in his day and generation. He has left prominentevidences of his ability and skill in invention and execution;of his industry, perseverance and public spirit; of his generos-ity, magnanimity and benevolence, and his name and memoryremain registered and enshrined in the hearts of the peopleamong whom he lived. One record more, in justice to him,remains to be made: the duty of making that belongs to theBunker Hill Monument Association ; and it is to inscribe uponone the blocks of granite in their monument, the name of Solomon Willard, Architect.
Text Appearing After Image:
APPENDIX — BEACON HILL MONUMENT. 263 APPENDIX. BEACON HILL MONUMENT. A brief notice and description of Beacon Hill Monument will befound on pages 31 and 32 of the present volume. The suggestionthere made respecting the rebuilding of this early historical memo-rial of the Eevolution, has attained to practical importance by theready action of the Bunker Hill Monument Association. At itsannual meeting on the seventeenth of June, 1864, at which thesuggestion was presented, a committee was appointed to considerthe subject, It is due to a member of that committee, Mr. EobcrtC. Winthrop, to say that, had the suggestion so distinctly made byhim in his classical and patriotic oration in aid of the WashingtonEquestrian Statue,f been known to the writer, he would have takengreat pleasure in the previous pages in awarding to him the honor,so justly his due, of first suggesting the rebuilding of this beau-tiful column. As it is, simply claiming to have made the samesuggestion from a conviction o

Note About Images