Description:
A cabinet of shelves enclosed by two-paneled doors, superimposed an escritoire with hinged writing flap enclosing pigeon holes and small drawers, four beaded long drawers below, corners of the upper and lower cases are chamfered and reeded simulating quarter-columns mounted in bronze, base bordered with a fine cyma molding and rests on well-proportioned ogival bracket feet, purportedly descended in the family of Governor Caleb Strong of Northampton, Massachusetts. Desk and bookcase or secretary in cherry made for Governor Caleb Strong of Northampton together with a high chest of drawers (63.164). Caleb Strong (1744/5-1819), who was born and died in Northampton, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard in 1764 and was admitted to the bar in 1772. He was a member of the General Court during the Revolution and the Northampton Committee of Safety; county attorney from 1776-1800; member of the state constitutional convention in 1779; state senator from 1780-1789; U.S. senator from 1789-1796; and Massachusetts governor from 1800-1807 and 1812-1816.
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