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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., A home-comer's Opinion, 1871. (search)
e-comer's Opinion, 1871. A former resident of Medford, Caleb Swan, while on a visit to his brother doctor, went to Oak Grove Cemetery. On his return to his home in New York, he attached the following to page 429 of his copy of Brooks' History of Medford and marked the margin against the matter of tree removal:— One of the first things done by the committee was to cut down the grand, noble, old oak tree on an eminence near the grave of Mr. Jonathan Brooks. When I first saw it, June 6, 1866, I stood nearly ten minutes looking at it with admiration: it had noble large branches and was probably two or three centuries old. I enquired the names of the Cemetery Committee and was informed they were Mr. Goldthwaite, Chairman, J. W. Mitchell, Mr. Vinal. They might be called a Goth & Vandal Committee. C. S., 1871. Mr. Swan never lost interest in his boyhood's home, and, on publication, purchased five copies of the history, four of which he gave to friends and relatives less favo