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Nine Massachusetts natives honored in New York Hall of Fame ceremony
The New York institution unveiled nine American hall of fame busts, seven born in Massachusetts and five Harvard graduates. Notables include John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft, James Fenimore Cooper, Patrick Henry, Elias Howe, James Russell Lowell, Horace Mann, John Lothrop Motley, and Joseph Story, highlighting Massachusetts’ tercentenary and Harvard ties with a roster of statesmen historians authors and jurist.
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