Early Settlers
Collman - free book download here
Elwell - free book download here
Goss
Gott
Poole
Thurston
Notable residents
This is an incomplete list of one-time residents of Gloucester, Massachusetts
Willie Alexander, member of The Velvet Underground
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A. Piatt Andrew, congressman, Assistant Treasury Secretary, and Harvard professor
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Roger Babson, founder of Babson College and presidential candidate for the Prohibition Party in 1940
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Howard Blackburn, fisherman and adventurer
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Clarence Birdseye, founder of the modern frozen food industry
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Virginia Lee Burton (1909–1968) children's book author and illustrator (The Little House and Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel)
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Vincent Ferrini, poet, first Poet Laureate of Gloucester
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Henry Ferrini, critically acclaimed independent filmmaker, nephew of Vincent Ferrini
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Gregory Gibson, author of Goneboy: a Walkabout, Demon of the Waters and Hubert's Freaks
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Emil Gruppe, painter
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John Hays Hammond, Jr., inventor known as "The Father of Radio Control", built Hammond Castle as his home and laboratory
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Walker Hancock, sculptor
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Israel Horovitz playwright
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Alfred "Centennial" Johnson, first recorded single-handed crossing of the Atlantic Ocean
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Fitz Henry Lane, Luminist painter, was born and lived in Gloucester
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Tony Millionaire, artist and animator best known for his comic strip Maakies and Cartoon Network's Drinky Crow Show, grew up in Gloucester.
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William Monahan, Academy Award–winning American screenwriter, literary novelist, and former journalist, has lived in Gloucester off-and-on since the late 1970s
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The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church, spent a great deal of time in Gloucester and the Unification Church at one time held a large amount of waterfront property.
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Judith Sargent Murray, feminist, essayist, playwright, and poet
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Herb Pomeroy, influential jazz musician, was born in Gloucester
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William Stacy (1734–1802) American Revolutionary War officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country, was born in Gloucester.
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Capt. Marty Welch, schooner captain, winner of first International Fishing Schooner Championship Races.
Gloucester consists of an urban core on the north side of the harbor and the outlying neighborhoods of Annisquam, Bay View, Lanesville, Folly Cove, Magnolia, Riverdale, East Gloucester and West Gloucester.
Neighbors
Old Postcards and Pictures
