Transcriber’s Note: Italic text is enclosed in _underscores_. Additional notes will be found near the end of this ebook. OF YANKEE GRANITE _An Account of the Building of Bunker Hill Monument_ By E. H. CAMERON [Illustration] With a Foreword by John Silsbee Lawrence BOSTON Bunker Hill Monument Association 1953 Copyrighted 1952 by the Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and reprinted 1953 by their permission. FOREWORD _Had the British bullet that went through the hat of Major Samuel Lawrence of Groton near Bunker Hill on 17 June 1775 been aimed a bit lower, some thousand descendants of Major Lawrence would not have been born and I should not now have his dispatch wallet, nor his letter explaining the battle and mentioning General Dearborn, my first wife’s ancestor. The Bunker Hill Monument might not have been built; the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company might not have been developed; various charitable institutions might not have had adequate financial support and the dams at Waltham, Lowell and Lawrence might not have been constructed to provide the power to operate textile mills. John Brown might not have been sent by the Emigrant Aid Society of Boston to Kansas, where he called his camp Lawrence, now one of the flourishing cities of Kansas. Had Major Lawrence been killed we should not have had a Lawrence as Mayor of Lowell, or as Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Two Bishops of the Episcopal Church, a President of Harvard College, the present Senator Saltonstall, and many young men and women now actively interested in the problems of our nation might never have been born and I should not have qualified for membership in the Society of the Cincinnati._