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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., When a boy in Medford (search)
armer, and in the winter months attended the town school, primary and grammar he styles them. As there was no school then in the West End, he was a Fagender at the old one near the meeting-house. He says I never identified myself with the Medford fighting-boys who were hostile to the Charlestown boys on the frozen Middlesex canal, and had many hard fights. The passage of the boats through the lock and the alewife fishing on the river near by were more to his taste. Mr., afterward Dr., Furness and Luther Angier were his teachers in the town school. The latter recommended him, when twelve years old, to Medford Academy, as he styles Mr. John Angier's school, and for a time he was in Mr. Angier's family. While attending the town school he walked to Charlestown bridge, and alone, to see Lafayette and the great procession to the corner-stone laying at Bunker Hill, which was to him a most notable occasion. While at the academy he paid for his tuition by work in and about the place.