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Boston Herald, Wednesday, May 14, 1919. Click to enlarge. Distortion of his likeness aside, this article contains some of his trial testimony. William James Sidis, who was graduated from Harvard at the age of 15, told Judge Albert F. Hayden in the Roxbury Municipal Court yesterday that he is a Socialist, a believer in the soviet form of ...
Sidis was born to Jewish emigrants from Ukraine, on April 1, 1898, in Boston, Massachusetts. [2] His father, Boris Sidis , had emigrated in 1887 to escape political and antisemitic persecution. [3] His mother, Sarah (Mandelbaum) Sidis, and her family had fled the pogroms in the late 1880s. [4]
- John W. Shattuck, Frank Folupa, Parker Greene, Jacob Marmor
- July 17, 1944 (aged 46), Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- April 1, 1898, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
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Aug 14, 2022 · William Sidis briefly courted controversy when he was arrested at a Boston May Day Socialist March in 1919. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison for rioting and assaulting a police officer, but he had actually done neither.
Upon graduation, William James Sidis had told a reporter from the Boston Herald that he vowed to remain celibate and never to marry because women did not appeal to him. However, during his incarceration in Roxbury Police Station, he had developed a strong affection for Martha Foley, a fellow prisoner in a nearby cell.
Feb 12, 2023 · Boston Herald started the report about Sidis’s court case in 1919: “William James Sidis, who was graduated from Harvard at the age of 15, told Judge Albert F. Hayden in the Roxbury...
Apr 8, 2023 · In the early 20th century, a child prodigy captured the world’s attention with his exceptional intellect and early accomplishments. His name was William James Sidis, and his remarkable abilities in various fields of study, including mathematics, language, and history, earned him a reputation as one of the most intelligent people ever known.
