Amherst , Town, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Named for Lord Jeffery Amherst , it is a college town. Emily Dickinson was born and lived there all her life. Helen Hunt Jackson was also born there, and Ray Stannard Baker, Eugene Field, Robert Frost, and Noah Webster lived in the town...