Scrap Book of Mormon Literature, Volume 2 (of 2) by Various

“Josiah Quincy, from whose “Figures of the Past” we quote, was born in Boston in 1802. He was the Mayor of Boston from 1845 to 1849. He was graduated from Harvard in 1821 and took his master’s degree in 1824. He died in 1882, soon after he wrote “Figures of the Past.” The work was taken from his diary and from letters written at the time of his visit to Nauvoo.” -an excerpt