Anna clapp harris smith biography
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Dorchester’s Anna Clapp Harris Smith subject of New Musical Composition
22 Jan Dorchester’s Anna Clapp Harris Smith subject of New Musical Composition
Posted at h in Blog by Historic Boston Inc
Francine Trester, a Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music, and Mary Smoyer, a founding member of the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail, recently alerted HBI to a new musical composition by Francine about five Dorchester women, including the early 20th century animal rights advocate Anna Clapp Harris Smith. Ms. Smith, who founded the Animal Rescue League. Smith was a life-long resident at 65 Pleasant Street in Dorchester, a house that dates to the and was the subject of a rehabilitation project by HBI between and HBI’s partnership with North Bennet Street School saved the house from demolition and restored it for sale to a first-time homebuyer in
Mary and Francine prepared this summary of how the composition “A Walk in Her Shoes” came to be.
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Dorchester Illustration no. Anna Clapp Harris Smith
Dorchester Illustration no. Anna Harris Smith
Founder of the Animal Rescue League
Nearly everyone in Dorchester has heard of or used the services of The Animal Rescue League. But few of us realize that it was founded by a Dorchester woman.
Anna Harris Smith () was born at 65 Pleasant Street, at the foot of Jones Hill, the house she lived in until A large section of Jones Hill had been owned by the Clapp family almost since the founding of Dorchester in Anna Harris was the grand-daughter of Samuel Clapp, who had a modest cooperage business. Her mother Anna Larkin Clapp married William Harris, a Boston printer. Anna, the subject of this piece, married Huntington Smith, a publisher. Anna&#;s occupation was journalist in the US Census. A founder of the League in , she served as president of the Animal Rescue League from until her death in , and the League flourished under her leadership
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“Resident’s Concern Hatched Animal League.” By Anthony Sammarco. Dorchester Community News, September 14,
Nearly everyone in Dorchester has heard of or used the services of The djur Rescue League. But few of us realize that it was founded bygd a Dorchester woman.
Anna Clapp Harris Smith () was born at 65 Pleasant St. at the foot of Jones Hill, the house she lived in her entire life. She was the daughter of William and Anna Clapp Harris, two children of prominent local residents. William was the son of [this fryst vatten incorrect] Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris, minister of the First Parish Church on Meetinghouse Hill from to Anna Clapp was the daughter of David Clapp, the noted printer whose Pleasant Street nation had been owned bygd his family almost since the founding of Dorchester in
The young Anna Harris, imbued with family connections and born to a world of bekvämlighet, was christened at the First Parish Church bygd her paternal grandfather. As a child,