Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs - Volume I

Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs - Volume I

George Sewall Boutwell, American statesman who served as Secretary of the Treasury (1818 – 1905)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Introduction

- Biographical Sketch

- Incidents Of My Early Life

- Life As A Store-boy And Clerk

- Changes And Progress

- Schools And School-keeping

- Groton In 1835

- Groton In 1835-continued

- Beginnings In Business

- First Experience In Politics

- The Election Of 1840

- Massachusetts Men In The Forties

- The Election Of 1842, And The Dorr Rebellion

- The Legislature Of 1847

- Legislative Session Of 1848-funeral Of John Quincy Adams

- The Legislature Of 1849

- Massachusetts Politics And Massachusetts Politicians 1850-51 And 1852

- Acton Monument

- Sudbury Monument

- Louis Kossuth

- The Coalition And The State Constitutional Convention Of 1853

- The Year 1854

- Organization Of The Republican Party In Massachusetts In 1855-and The Events Preceding The War

- As Secretary Of The Massachusetts Board Of Education

- Phi Beta Kappa Address At Cambridge

- The Peace Convention Of 1861

- The Opening Of The War

- The Military Commission Of 1862 And General Fremont

- Organization Of The Internal Revenue System In The United States