ORGANIZATION

Society of Boston writers and intellectuals, founded 1855. Met the fourth Saturday of every month at the Parker House hotel on Tremont Street.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Louis Agassiz	Paleontologist	28-May-1807	14-Dec-1873	Ichthyologist at Harvard
Richard Henry Dana	Author	1-Aug-1815	6-Jan-1882	Two Years Before the Mast
Charles Dickens	Novelist	7-Feb-1812	9-Jun-1870	Oliver Twist
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Essayist	25-May-1803	27-Apr-1882	Essayist, wrote Nature
James Thomas Fields	Editor	31-Dec-1817	24-Apr-1881	Editor of the Atlantic Monthly
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Author	4-Jul-1804	19-May-1864	The House of the Seven Gables
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Author	29-Aug-1809	7-Oct-1894	The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
William Dean Howells	Author	1-Mar-1837	11-May-1920	The Rise of Silas Lapham
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Poet	27-Feb-1807	24-Mar-1882	Evangeline
James Russell Lowell	Author	22-Feb-1819	12-Aug-1891	The Biglow Papers
John Lothrop Motley	Diplomat	15-Apr-1814	29-May-1877	The Rise of the Dutch Republic
Francis Parkman	Historian	16-Sep-1823	8-Nov-1893	France and England in North America
Charles Sumner	Politician	6-Jan-1811	11-Mar-1874	Anti-slavery Senator from Massachusetts
Bayard Taylor	Author	11-Jan-1825	19-Dec-1878	Europe seen with Knapsack
Henry David Thoreau	Author	12-Jul-1817	6-May-1862	Reclusive author of Walden
John Greenleaf Whittier	Poet	17-Dec-1807	7-Sep-1892	American abolitionist poet

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