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Nine Massachusetts figures honored in New York Hall of Fame
The 1930 Hall of Fame ceremony at New York University unveiled busts of nine Americans, seven born in Massachusetts and five Harvard graduates. Parmi them are John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft, James Fenimore Cooper, Patrick Henry, Elias Howe, James Russell Lowell, Horace Mann, John Lothrop Motley, and Joseph Story, spanning statesmanship, history, literature, invention, education, and law.
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