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street, its wood carvings on the stairways being considered the finest in the country of its kind. The early Sargents [[founded?]] the Universalist Independent [[--irstian?]] Society, the first Universalist church in America being located in [[Gloucester?]] near the old house, The [[society?]] is now the owner of the Sargent [[house?]] and it is being restored. The [[artist?]] was accompanied to Gloucester by Prof. Charles Sprague Sargent of Harvard University, an acknowledged authority on horticulture, whose ancestors were also the Sargents of Gloucester. J. Sargent brought with him a portrait [[of?]] Prof. Sargent and it will be placed [[in?]] the Sargent memorial room.