Hassam (Frederick Childe) is born in Dorchester.

Born on Olney Street, Frederick Childe Hassam is the member of an old New England family, graduates from Dorchester High School, and studies art at the Lowell Institute. He works initially as an engraver and magazine illustrator, maintains a studio on West Street, and travels in Europe in 1883. Hassam returns to Boston, marries Kathleen Maud Doane in 1884, moves to Europe from 1886, and upon his return to the U.S. moves to New York City in 1889. The leading American Expressionist painter of his time, he and spends summers for three decades on the Isle of Shoals, where he is encouraged to drop the use of his first name by Celia Thaxter. Hassam dies in Easthampton, New York, on August 27, 1935.