{"id":644,"date":"2014-08-03T16:06:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T16:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/?p=644"},"modified":"2014-08-03T16:06:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T16:06:32","slug":"charles-allen-sumner-honorary-m-a-1887","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/2014\/08\/03\/charles-allen-sumner-honorary-m-a-1887\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Allen Sumner, Honorary M.A. 1887"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Posted as 10 of 10 in a series on the College Archives by Emma Paine, a graduate student intern from Simmons College]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2014\/08\/Sumner_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-645\" alt=\"Sumner_1\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2014\/08\/Sumner_1-221x300.jpg\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2014\/08\/Sumner_1-221x300.jpg 221w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2014\/08\/Sumner_1-755x1024.jpg 755w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>I like Charles Sumner&#8217;s alumni file not because it tells a complete story, but because it opens so many possibilities\u2014every time I think I understand the man, I find out something new about his life!<\/p>\n<p>A writer for the 1900 Trinity College Bulletin perhaps said it best when he declared, \u201cHis career, full of energy and enterprise in the most varied fields, furnishes rare material for biography.\u201d\u00a0 In the course of his life, he was the head of the Junction Telegraph Office in North Adams, MA, a student of law and phonography, a sailor, a newspaper reporter, a shorthand court reporter, a special correspondent in the first stagecoach to ever cross the Sierra Mountains, an editor of the Sacramento Daily State Sentinel, Assistant Quartermaster in the U.S. Army, Colonel of the First Regiment Nevada Infantry, a Nevada State Senator, a Congressman from California, a lawyer, a legal stenographer, an orator, and a published author.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2014\/08\/Sumner_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-646\" alt=\"Sumner_2\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2014\/08\/Sumner_2-207x300.jpg\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2014\/08\/Sumner_2-207x300.jpg 207w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2014\/08\/Sumner_2-707x1024.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a>He fought against the Confederate Army, monopolies in the railroad industry, the \u201cnotorious Denis Kearney\u201d (a nativist labor organizer in California), and the Shafter land bill, \u201cwhich sought to dispossess most of the people of San Francisco.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 He convinced the San Francisco bar that shorthand reports of legal proceedings were important; he \u201csaved from public plunders the San Francisco Marine Hospital, which has become a Sailor\u2019s Home\u201d; and, as a Congressman, he introduced a \u201cBill to Enlarge the Postal Facilities of the People of the United States\u201d in an <i>attempt<\/i> to save the American people from the tyranny of telegram monopolies and expensive communication.\u00a0 He wrote a book of poems with his brother, including a piece on one of his favorite subjects\u2014short-hand reporting.\u00a0 Oh, and he was also an accomplished traveler, boarding the clipper ship Fleetwing in 1856 for a \u201cvoyage around the horn\u201d to California and later publishing a travel guide to Sweden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2014\/08\/Sumner_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-647\" alt=\"Sumner_3\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2014\/08\/Sumner_3-178x300.jpg\" width=\"178\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2014\/08\/Sumner_3-178x300.jpg 178w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2014\/08\/Sumner_3-609x1024.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a>To see this collection and learn more about any of Sumner\u2019s many activities, stop by the Watkinson and ask for the file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Posted as 10 of 10 in a series on the College Archives by Emma Paine, a graduate student intern from Simmons College] I like Charles Sumner&#8217;s alumni file not because it tells a complete story, but because it opens so many possibilities\u2014every time I think I understand the man, I find out something new about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}