68 Asqnani Lake and its Environs.
worth $16, It does not appear that Matthew Harvey was active in va-
Matthew Harvey ever tilled a field, rious civil enterprises. He was one
though he owned a pasture. of the earliest trustees of Hopkinton
In 1850, Matthew Harvey moved academy, founded in 1827. He was
to Concord, where he died in 1866. many years connected with the New
A single circumstance is of social in- Hampshire Historical society, being
terest in this connection. In Hop- its vice-president from 1829 to 1831,
kinton he had outlived most of his and its president from 1832 to 1834.
old local, public confreres. A new He enjoyed judicial prominence. In
generation had come upon the scene. 1830 he was made a United States
The former reserve, dignity, and district judge, from which fact he
stateliness of the leaders in Hopkin- was widely recognized as " Judge
ton society had almost entirely passed Harvey."
away. Familiarity and freedom were Matthew Harvey's grave is in the
becoming characteristics of the in- old city cemetery at Concord, by that
creasing social common-place. De- of his wife, who survived him a few
prived of his accustomed social op- years. The remains of their daughter
portunities, Matthew Harvey became were removed from Hopkinton to
lonesome. He sought a new home. Concord, her monument also being
It is said he remarked, in substance, transported. Frederick, only son of
that dignity had ceased to abide in Matthew and Margaret Harvey, died
Hopkinton, and he was therefore go- in Louisiana in 1866. He was a phy-
ing awa}'. It was an impulsive remark, sician. There is no living descendant
suggested by unavoidable and unsat- of Matthew Harvey, jsfactory change
��ASQUAM LAKE AND ITS ENVIRONS.
By Fred Myron Colby.
" I felt the cool breath of the north of idvlHc books, poems like the Gcor-
Uefween me and the sun : • • i-i
O'er deep, still lake and lidsy earth gics and the OdvSSCV, StOrieS like
1 saw the cloud shades run. ' " . " , - . ,,
Mrs. Stowe s "Ministers Wooing
" Before me, stretched for glistening miles, n ,, k
Lay mountain-girdled Squam: and the old romaUCC Ot " AUCaSSlU Like ereen-wineed birds the leafy isles , .-.. , ., ,, t ^ t j-
Upon its bosom swarm.'^ and Nicolettc, and deeper studies
- unrifiier. j. j,^ ^ ^ ^^^^ Country By- Ways " and the
Reader, have you ever been at Lake "Letters of Cicero and Atticus," and,
Squam? If not, then let me invite of course, fish lines and reels,- —
you, when lengthening days bring for, like gentle Isaak Walton, you
thoughts of summer vacation, and will thank heaven for leisure to go-a-
Leo's heats suggest the fiannel shirt fishing; and, when there, you will
and wide straw hat, to hasten thither enjoy yourself as you can just in no
by the nearest route, with a trunk other spot. He who has once been
packed for a month's stay, a number there will have no need to be asked
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