Identifier: littlebookforimm00bost (find matches)
Title: A little book for immigrants in Boston
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Boston (Mass.). Committee on Americanism
Subjects: Americanization
Publisher: City of Boston : Printing department
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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P. Axel Rydberg, botanist. J. U. Sebcnius, engineer. Otto Folin, chemist. Swiss.Louis Agassiz, naturalist. Rudolph Ganz, musician. Albert Gallatin, statesman. F. .\. Kolstcr, engineer. Adolph Bandelier, archaeologist. Sebastian G. Messmer, archbishop. Syrian.Abraham ^L Rihbany, clergyman and writer. Uruguayans.Joeeph Jacinto Mora, sculptor. F. Luis Mora, artist. Welsh.Henry M. Stanley, .\frican explorer. James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor. One of the most beautiful monuments in Bostonwas erected in lionor of one of these immigrants,John Boyle OReilly. It stands at the Boylstonstreet entrance of the Fens. There is a bust ofGovernor Ciroenhalge, another immijrrant, in theState House, and a monument to Patrick A. Collins,Mayor of this city, who was a native of Ireland,on Commonwealth avenue near the Fenway. Inmiigjant artists have done much to beautifyour city. The Soldiers Monument on the Commonwas designed by Martin Milmore. The Shaw Monu-ment, opposite the State House, is the work of
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MONUMENT 70 /^ENCELL PHILLIPS von IMMICH.WTS. 87 Auj^ustus St. Gaudens. Homy II. Kilson was tlicsculptor of the statue of Admiral Farragut at MarinePark and the statue of Robert Burns in the BackHay Fens. Dr. William Rimmer executed thegranite statue of Alexander Hamilton on Common-wealth avenue, as well as the Falling (Jladiator in theArt Museum. The architect of the Boston Collegebuildings, near Chestnut Hill Reservoir, was CharlesJ). Maginnis and I. Kirchmayer, of Cambridge, aremarkable sculptor in wood, has adorned churcliesin and around l^oston. As for music, it would be hard to overestimate thedebt that Boston owes to its foreign-born musicians. G. The History of Boston. The early exi)lorers soon discovered that BostonHarbor was the finest haven for vessels on what isnow the New England coast. In 1630 about fifteenhundred persons, well furnished with cattle and farm-ing tools, settled on the shores of Massachusetts Bay.They founded the towns now called Dorchester,Charlestown. Wa

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