Revolution, British Force and Leading Losses in the Revolution, British Losses in the Rice, Alexander Hamilton _Daniel B. Hagar, Ph.D._ Siege of Boston Developed, The _Henry B. Carrington, U.S.A., LL.D._ Town and City Histories _Robert Luce_ Webster, Colonel Fletcher _Charles Cowley, LL.D._ Webster, Daniel, Fourth-of-July Oration of Wilder, Marshall P. _John Ward Dean, A.M._ Young Men's Christian Associations _Russell Sturgis, Jr._ Young Men's Christian Associations of Massachusetts _Russell Sturgis, Jr._ POETRY. Bells of Bethlehem, The _James T. Fields_ His Greatest Triumph _Henrietta E. Page_ Rent Veil, The _Henry B. Carrington_ Song of the Winds _Henry B. Carrington_ Tuberoses _Laura Garland Carr_ Yesterday _Kate L. Brown_ [Illustration: Marshall P. Wilder] THE BAY STATE MONTHLY. _A Massachusetts Magazine_ VOL. I. JANUARY, 1884. No. 1. * * * * * Hon. MARSHALL P. WILDER, Ph.D. BY JOHN WARD DEAN, A.M. [Librarian of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.] The editors of THE BAY STATE MONTHLY, having decided to begin in its pages a series of articles devoted to the material advancement and prosperity of Massachusetts, and the record of her past greatness, have selected the Honorable Marshall Pinckney Wilder as a representative man, and have decided that his memoir shall be the initial article in the series, and also in this periodical. He has as a merchant won for himself a high position, and by his enterprise has essentially advanced the business of the city and the State. He has also been active in developing our manufacturing industries, while his name is first on all lips when those who have increased the products of the soil are named. His life affords a striking example of what can be achieved by concentration of power and unconquerable perseverance. The bare enumeration of the important positions he has held and still holds, and the self-sacrificing labors he has performed, is abundant evidence of the extraordinary talent and ability, and the personal power and influence, which have enabled him to take a front rank as a benefactor to mankind. MARSHALL PINCKNEY WILDER, whose Christian names were given in honor of Chief-Justice Marshall and General Pinckney, eminent statesmen at the time he was born, was the eldest son of Samuel Locke Wilder, Esq., of Rindge, New Hampshire, and was born in that town, September 22, 1798. His father, a nephew of the Reverend Samuel Locke, D.D., president of Harvard College, for whom he was named, was thirteen years a representative in the New Hampshire legislature, a member of the Congregational church in Rindge, and held important town offices there. His mother, Anna, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Crombie) Sherwin (married May 2, 1797), a lady of great moral worth, was, as her son is, a warm admirer of the beauties of nature.