hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. 1 1 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. 1 1 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. 1 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14.. You can also browse the collection for January 13th, 1829 AD or search for January 13th, 1829 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., Sarah Jane Blanchard. (search)
Sarah Jane Blanchard. Sarah Jane Blanchard was the youngest daughter of Aaron and Elizabeth (Tufts) Blanchard, and was born in Medford, January 13, 1829. She died in Medford, December 18, 1909. On her mother's side she was a descendant of Peter Tufts, the first of the name in Medford, and on her father's side from George Blanchard, the first permanent settler in that part of Medford now called Wellington. Her father was for many years the sexton of the First Trinitarian Church of Medford, and in childhood and youth she attended that church, but in April, 1867, she united, on confession of faith, with the Mystic (Congregational) Church; thereafter she was devoted to its interests and benevolences. In her young womanhood she was forewoman in the cloak-making department of the store of Spaulding, Hay and Wales of Boston. Later she bought the millinery business formerly conducted by Mrs. Cameron in Usher's Building, High street, Medford. She continued this occupation unti