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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The Grand Army in Cambridge. (search)
country would keep its promises with these men whenever an organized movement was set on foot in their behalf. So the Grand Army of the Republic was born, and once fairly established and cut loose from all political entanglements, found its mission clearly defined and pressing for attention. Massachusetts stands tenth in the order of States to enlist in the ranks of this organization. Perhaps no one of the earlier posts entered into the spirit of the new order more heartily than did John A. Andrew Post 15 of Boston, and no Post, it is believed, had so large a suburban membership. A natural outgrowth of this situation, as the order became popular, was the withdrawal of members from the suburbs to establish new Posts in their own towns or villages. Such a withdrawal occurred under the enthusiastic lead of the late Captain J. Warren Cotton. Thus Post 30 was founded. It took the name of William H. Smart, an estimable Cambridge soldier, the first of her long list of martyrs in the
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
n of the present exigencies in public affairs, the president of this bank is authorized and requested to tender a loan of $50,000 to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This tender was made, and the following reply was received from his Excellency Governor Andrew:— Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Treasurer's Office, Boston, April 24, 1861. Benjamin Tilton, Esq., President Harvard Bank. Dear Sir,—Your communication of the 22d inst. containing the offer of your bank of a loan of $50,000 has been placed in my hands by his Excellency Governor Andrew for reply. He desires me to express to your board of directors his sincere gratitude for the intelligent patriotism which has prompted your liberality. No immediate necessity existing for its instant acceptance, I am directed to say, as has already been done in the case of similar offers, that with your permission he will hold your offer in reserve for such future emergencies as may arise. Very truly yours, Henry K. Oliver,
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), General Index. (search)
ge Safe Deposit and Trust Co., 307; Cambridge Savings, 309; Cambridgeport Savings, 311; North Avenue Savings, 311; East Cambridge Savings, 312. Baptist churches, 240. Bears in Cambridge, 9. Beginnings of Cambridge, The, 1-13. Belcher, Andrew, the first innkeeper, 11. Belcher, Jonathan, royal governor, 11. Berkeley Street School, 212. Bigelow, Dr. Jacob, 73. Blue Anchor Tavern, 11. Borland House, 28. Boston, preeminence of, 1; not intended for seat of government, 1; assembRed Men, Improved Order of, 293. Reed, Benjamin T., founds the Episcopal Theological School, 254, 255. Reemie, Marcus, barber shop of, VIII, 35. Reformed Presbyterian Church, 241. Regicide judges, their life in Cambridge, 11. Reid, Andrew, founder of the Cambridge Chronicle, 221. Reidesel, General, quartered in the Sewall House, 28. Reidesel, Madame, describes life in Tory Row, 28. Religious societies, 33. Rindge Field, 123. Rindge Frederick H., 83-86, 196, 224, 227