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Title: Sketch of Mound cemetery, Marietta, Ohio
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Cotton, Willia Dawson. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Marietta, O. Mound cemetery. (from old catalog)
Publisher: (Marietta, Ohio) Marietta register print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Samuel P. Robbins and Dr.Thomas Wickes, the second and fourth pas-tors of the First Congregational Church. Itwas during Mr. Robbins pastorate, in 1809,that the First Religious Society built anddedicated its meeting-house, which soon be-came known as the Two-Horned Church. In this part of the cemetery may also befound the graves of two representatives ofthe early press of Marietta, Royal Prentissand Caleb Emerson. The former began hisnewspaper career as apprentice in the officeof the Ohio Gazette and Virginia Herald,which was published in the Stockade in 1801by Wyllys Silliman and Elijah Bachus. Thispaper was purchased in 1810 by Caleb Em-erson, who changed its name to the WesternSpectator. Mr. Emerson was an attorney ofability, a profound thinker and a gracefulwriter. When John Quincy Adams stoppedat Marietta in 1843, it is said he found hispeer in the Marietta editor. Somewhere in the shadow of the Great Mound sleeps David Everett, who came to Marietta in 1813 and was editor of The40
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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH American Friend, of which Timothy andDaniel Hand Buell were proprietors. Hedied in the same year, but the few monthspassed in the little town gained for him manyfriends who, we are told, ever dwelt uponhis remembrance with melancholy sensa-tions. Mr. Everett was a man of great lit-erary ability and an author; but while hisessays on moral and economical topics havelong been forgotten, a few lines of a littlepoem which he wrote for a small boy tospeak at a school exhibition more than onehundred years ago, are often quoted, thotheir origin is seldom known. Youd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage, And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero Dont view me with a critics eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow. Mr. Nahum Ward was a gentleman of theold school. All who remember him speak ofhis polished manners, his generous natureand his great hospitality. He had the ho

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