Ohio History Journal

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OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL

OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL

SOCIETY

 

REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS

BY THE EDITOR

 

SARGENT GENEALOGY

Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants,

by Emma Worcester Sargent and Charles Sprague Sar-

gent. Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers, Boston

and New York, 1923.

One of the most valuable and finely wrought books

that has been added to the library of the Society is the

sumptuous volume entitled Epes Sargent of Gloucester

and His Descendants arranged by Emma Worcester

Sargent with biographical notes by Charles Sprague

Sargent. It is published by Houghton Mifflin Company

on paper of a superior quality. Steel engravings of

exquisite workmanship, some of them from paintings

by famous artists, abound in this work.

One is impressed in looking through the volume by

the wonderful contribution that this famous family has

made to American history. Prominent members of the

family have filled places of trust and honor since the

days of Epes Sargent, who was born in Gloucester, July

12, 1690, and died in Salem, Massachusetts, December

6, 1762. His descendants have been administrators,

soldiers, artists, historians, scientists, poets, ministers,

doctors, lawyers and contributors to almost every de-

partment of literature. A bibliography of their writ-

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