Grzelcyk (1994–), NHL hockey player for the Boston Bruins John Harvard (1607–1638), English benefactor and namesake of Harvard University Robert Haswell (1768–c.1801), maritime trader and officer in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France Oliver Holden (1765–1831), composer of hymns Howie Long (1960-), Pro Football Hall of Famer and television commentator Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872), inventor of the telegraph and Morse code Woolson Morse (1858–1897), early Broadway composer Jack O'Callahan (1957–), part of the 1980 Miracle On Ice team. Played for the Chicago Blackhawks and New Jersey Devils in the NHL. John Boyle O'Reilly (1844–1890), Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer, lived in Charlestown on Winthrop Square Alice May Bates Rice (1868–?), opera singer Robert Sedgwick (c.1611–1656), English merchant, first major general of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and first governor General of Jamaica Matthew Sherman, Mayor of San Diego 1891–1893, born in Charlestown Daniel C. Stillson (1830–1899), inventor of the Stillson pipe wrench John Hanson Twombly (1814–1893), President of the University of Wisconsin, Methodist minister See also Mayors of Charlestown References Bibliography James Frothingham Hunnewell. A Century of Town Life: A History of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1775-1887. 1888. Little, Brown and Company. James Frothingham Hunnewell. Bibliography of Charlestown Massachusetts and Bunker Hill. 1880. James R. Osgood and Company. Richard Frothingham. The History of Charlestown, Massachusetts. 1845. C.C. Little and J. Brown External links History in pictures and maps 1628 establishments in Massachusetts 1874 disestablishments in Massachusetts Former cities in Massachusetts Former municipalities in Boston Irish-American neighborhoods Neighborhoods in Boston Populated coastal places in Massachusetts Populated places established in 1628 Populated places disestablished in 1874