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Excerpt from Benjamin Apthorp Gould Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Ph. D., LL.D., was born in Boston, September 27, 1824. His father, for many years a teacher there, is remembered to this day in consequence of his faithful work, as well as through literary contributions of a professional character. Hannah Flagg Gould, the well-known poetess, was his father's sister. Of the poems of his aunt. Dr. Gould said: "They are characterized by a cheerful, frolicsome spirit, and earnest piety." These words, true of the poems, are also strikingly appropriate in descriptive application to the Gould of his later years, whom many of us knew; incomplete and merely suggestive as a description, it is true, sufficien...