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3 unusual facts about Massachusetts Historical Society


John Langdon Sibley

He also compiled the initial volumes of Sibley's Harvard Graduates (covering the Classes of 1642 to 1679) and bequeathed funds to the Massachusetts Historical Society for continuation of this project.

Maillardet's automaton

The Massachusetts Historical Society holds a drawing created in 1835 by an automaton in the collections of papers and artwork of the Minot family.

Robert Treat Paine, Jr.

Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol.


Neil MacNeil

Elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society, 1974, and the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1977, MacNeil served as a trustee of the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire, since 1975.


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