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Dixwell's Private Latin School, also known as the Dixwell School and later renamed Hopkinson School and Legate's Private Classical School, was a college-preparatory school in Boston, Massachusetts, Un
Bas-relief of school founder Epes Sargent Dixwell, date unknown
Epes Dixwell ran Boston Latin School, the nation's oldest public school, from 1836 to 1851. During his tenure, BLS moved into a new facility on Bedford Street.
Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was one of the Dixwell School's first students and its most eminent alumnus. He later married E.S. Dixwell's daughter.
Harvard University president Charles William Eliot and his family were closely associated with the school. E.S. Dixwell was Eliot's old teacher, and Eliot sent his son to the school.
John Collins Warren was an American surgeon and president of the American Surgical Association.
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…Nathaniel Thayer III, railroad executive John Collins Warren Jr., president of the American Surgical Association William F. Wharton, United States Assistant Secretary of State…
John "Coll" Collins Warren
J. Collins Warren performing one of the first abdominal operations in the Bradlee Ward at Massachusetts General Hospital, 1889.