Alaska Sentinel, Wrangell, Alaska
Dated: October 10, 1907

SLAVES IN MASSACHUSETTS
House in Which They Were Sold Relic of Town of Hanover.
     A relic of slavery days in New England in the middle of the eighteenth century, the old Tilden house on winter street, west Hanover, the only house on Winter street, West Hanover, the only house in that town where slaves were kept for market, is now being demolished, says the Boston Herald.
     The house is one of the best-known landmarks in Plymouth County and has stood for nearly 200 years.  It was used as a tavern in its early days and later for a residence.  Of recent years it has been abandoned to the elements and has rapidly fallen into decay.
     No one knows the exact date of the building of the house, but historians agree that it was long before the corporation of the town of Hanover in 1727.
     Jedediah Dwelley, of North Hanover, who has spent much time in gathering facts concerning the early history of the town says: "While there was more or less buying and selling of slaves (as in the middle of the eighteenth century nearly all the wealthy families owned one or more) this probably was the only place where the traffic was carried on for revenue.  I have seen two bills of slaves sold from this house.  One was from Job Tilden to a Mr. Bailey, of Scituate, a negro child named Morrow, 9 years of age, of good bodily health and a kind disposition."
     One of Mr. Tilden's slaves named Cuffee served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and according to an old pay roll he was stationed at Hull, Mar. 1, 1777.  He was with Col. Bailey and died at Valley Forge.  He was known as Cuffee Tilden and was so inscribed on the printed rolls.
     The books of the First Congregational Church of Hanover record the marriage by the Rev. Benjamin Bass on Feb. 8, 1751, of Jack and Billah, servants owned by Job Tilden, and also the death of a negro boy owned by Job Tiden, Feb. 12, 1760.
     There are many other brief records of slaves kept in different families in Hanover.

Alaska Sentinel, Wrangell, Alaska
Dated: October 10, 1907

HARRY A. GARFIELD

Another Son of the President Has Fitted Himself for Large Things.

     Williams College in Massachusetts has selected Prof. Harry Augustus Garfield of Princeton as its president to succeed Rev. Dr. Henry Hopins.  Prof. Garfied is the eldest son of James A. Garfield, twentieth President of the United States, and was born Oct. 11, 1863, at Hiram, Portage county, Ohio.  He was graduated from Williams in 1885, studied law at the Columbia Law School and then went abroad and spent a year at Oxford and the Inns of Court in London.
     On June 14, 1888, he married Miss Belle Hartford Mason of Mentor, Ohio and the same year began law practice in Cleveland.  He rapidly became prominent in the commercial and railroad business of Cleveland as a director of the Cleveland Trust Company, vice president and director of the Garfield Savings and Banking Company, and in 1898 president of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce.  He was an organizer and afterward president of the Municipal Association of that city, a member of the National Municipal League Executive Committee, a vice president of the National Civil Service Reform League, a director of the American Social Science Association, chairman of the social committee of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce on the reorganization of the United States consula_ service and a trustee or director of several other Cleveland business and civic associations.  Since December, 1903, he has been professor of politics in Princeton university.  He is an intimate friend of ex-President Cleveland and is popular at Princeton.
     Prof. Garfield's wide experience with men adn affairs and the practical character of his career make him, in the opinion of the trustees of Williams, at ideal choice for executive of that college.  Of late years  trustees of colleges and universities have been inclined to select for executives men who are comparatively young and who are practical business men as well as scholars.  Prof. Garfield is regarded as at excellent example of the modern college president.