ORGANIZATION

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

Founding Date:
1855

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	Walden
John Greenleaf Whittier	Poet	17-Dec-1807	7-Sep-1892	American abolitionist poet

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