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Sir Richard Saltonstall. Eiigraving from the portrait 

 by Rembrandt painted in Holland 1644 and now in pos- 

 session of bis lineal descendants. Loaned hy Mr. F. H, 

 Lee, 



Saltonstall was born in Halifax, England, 1586; died in England, lfi58. One of 

 the grantees under the Council for New England. Came to this country with Win- 

 throp. 



Elias Haskett Derby. Copy by Joseph De Camp from 

 portrait in possessio!! of Peabody Academy of Science. 



Kssex Institute. 



Born in Salem Aug. 16, 1729; died Apr. 8, 1799. One of Salein'8 most eminent mer- 

 chants. His vessels were the flrstfrom New England to engiige in the India and 

 China trade. 



Natbaniel Bowditch. Copy by Miss A. W. Woodbury 

 from portrait in possession of Peabody Academy of Science. 



Essex Institute. 



Learned mathematician, born in Salem 1773. President of a Marine Insurance 

 Co. in Salem 1804 to 1823, when he became Actuary of Massachusetts Hospital Life 

 Insurance Co. ; died in 1838 in Boston. 



Joseph Story. Copy by Joseph De Camp from portrait 

 in possession of Essex Institute. 



Noted Jurist and writer. Justice of United States Supreme Court. His law work 

 comprises sixty-one volumes. Published a volume of poems in 1804. Born in Mar^ 

 blehead. Practised law in Salem many years. Died, 1845, in Cambridge, aged 66. 



Natbaniel Hawthorne. Painted by Miss H. Frances 

 Osborne from photograph taken at request of Mr. James 

 T. Fields. Essex Institute. 



Author of Scarlet Letter, Twice Told Tales, etc. The most distinguished writer 

 of Romance in America. Surveyor of Salem 1846-1850. In Boston Custom House 

 1838 to 1841. Born in Salem July 4, 1804; died at Plymouth, N. H., May 19, 18{)4. 



Dr. William Paine. Photograph from painting. Loaned 

 hy Mr. F. H. Lee. 



Physician in Salem and Woreester. Loyalist. During the Revolution absent in 

 England. Introduced to George III. at Court in the costume iu which portrait was 

 painted. 



Joseph B. Feit. Engraving. Essex Institute. 



3orn in Salem 1789; died there Sept. 8, 1869. Historian, Author of the Annais 

 of Salem, History of Ipswich, History of Essex, Life of Hugh Peters, etc. 



William Hicklinof Prescott. Eno^ravins:. 



Essex Institute. 



Born 1796; died 1859. Author of the History of Ferdinand and Isabella 

 Conquest of Mexico and many other woiks. Born on Site of Plummer Hall. 



