Collection Overview
Title: Harry Glass Collection
Dates: 1844-1970
Bulk Dates: 1844-1923
Creator: Harry Glass
Repository: Drew Archival Library
Call Number: DAL.MSS.092
Accession Number: DAL.2015.017
Location: Fogg Archives Room
Quantity: 1 box
Language: English

Administrative Information
Access Restriction: Collection is open to researchers
Acquisition Information: Donation, Harry Glass, 2015
Preferred Citation: DAL.MSS.090, Harry Glass Collection, Duxbury Rural & Historical Society
Finding Aid Prepared by Carolyn Ravenscroft, 2017

Scope and Content
The Harry Glass Collection contains the ledger book (1844-1870) of John Glass. The ledger has accounts for many Duxbury residents, including Gershom Bradford Weston, various members of the Drew family, the Bradfords, and others. Also included are five photographs of Duxbury in the early 20th century: two of Partridge Academy (c. 1900 and 1904), a parade on Washington Street led by Joseph Soule (1903), the Duxbury High School baseball team (1923), and a class photo of a Duxbury school with teacher, Grace Peterson Berriman, students, and a dog. There is also a panoramic photograph of the Pilgrim Tercentenary pageant (1921). The collection includes a newspaper clipping from the Duxbury Clipper with a photo of the 1913 class of the Point School and other copies of images.

Biographical Information
John Glass (1802-1882) was a farmer in Duxbury during the mid-19th century. He was the son of Ezekiel Glass and Mary Thomas. In 1820 he married Mary “Polly” Churchill (1802-1883) of Kingston, MA. The couple had eight children: Sarah C. (b. 1824), Daniel (b. 1827), Mary (b. 1836), John (b. 1834), Stephen (b. 1830), Harrison (b. 1840), Horace (b. 1842), and Sarah C. (b. 1845). Two of the Glass children, John and Mary, died in 1853 of consumption. Harrison T. Glass died in the Battle of Port Hudson during the Civil War.