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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), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
& Son, and has been continuous since that date. The successors to Jacob Foster & Son were Charles Foster, 1828; Foster, Lawrence & Co., 1833; Edward Lawrence, 1856; Braman, Shaw & Co., 1863; Shaw, Applin & Co., 1877; A. B. & E. L. Shaw, 1887. TheEdward Lawrence, 1856; Braman, Shaw & Co., 1863; Shaw, Applin & Co., 1877; A. B. & E. L. Shaw, 1887. The old firms of Foster, Lawrence & Co. and Edward Lawrence employed convict labor at the Massachusetts State Prison in Charlestown, but when Braman, Shaw & Co. succeeded to the business it was removed to East Cambridge. For the past ten years the preLawrence & Co. and Edward Lawrence employed convict labor at the Massachusetts State Prison in Charlestown, but when Braman, Shaw & Co. succeeded to the business it was removed to East Cambridge. For the past ten years the present firm have occupied the Geldowsky factory, and they employ from one hundred and fifty to two hundred hands. The firm do the largest business in the manufacture of fine upholstered furniture in New England, and have furnished some of the finest cEdward Lawrence employed convict labor at the Massachusetts State Prison in Charlestown, but when Braman, Shaw & Co. succeeded to the business it was removed to East Cambridge. For the past ten years the present firm have occupied the Geldowsky factory, and they employ from one hundred and fifty to two hundred hands. The firm do the largest business in the manufacture of fine upholstered furniture in New England, and have furnished some of the finest clubs, lodges, and hotels in the country, among the latter The Niagara at Buffalo, Hotel del Coronado of San Diego, Cal., The Imperial, The Netherlands, and The Savoy of New York city, The Walton of Philadelphia, and the Jefferson of Richmond, Virgin
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 13 (search)
Kidder, D. B., Boston. King, Putnam, Sutton. Knights, Samuel, Charlestown. Knights, Francis H., Reading. Kingsley, Chester W., Cambridge. Kingsley, Daniel, Brighton. Knowlton, William, Upton. Langdon, W. C., Monterey. Lawrence, Edw., Charlestown. Lawtou, Geo., Waltham. Lee, Eliot, Dracut. Leland, Horace, Sutton. Lewis, Willard, Walpole. Lincoln, B., Boston. Little, Geo. W., Charlestown. Livermore, John, Cambridge. Livermore, Caroline H., Cambridge Miss A. P., Boston. Rogers, H. B., Boston. Rogers, Mrs. H. B., Boston. Ruggles, Miss Emily, Reading. Russell, Daniel, Melrose. Sage, Orrin, Weymouth. Sanborn, A. C., Cambridge. Sargent, John, Cambridge. Saunders, Daniel, Lawrence. Sawin, Nathaniel D., Cambridge. Sawtelle, Andrew, Charlestown. Shapleigh, Mrs. Samuel C., Boston. Shaw, Cassina, Raynham. Shaw, Miss M. L., Boston. Shaw, Mrs. Mary L., Boston. Shaw, Wm. F., Boston. Shaw, Thaxter, Montagu
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, Index of names of persons. (search)
4 Larcom, Lucy, 675 Larned, B. F., 427 Larned, D. W., 308 Larned, W. L., 472 Larry, J. H., 308 Latchford, Thomas, 427, 472, 491 Latham, G. W., 88 Lathrop, G. P., 675 Lathrop, J. H., 308 Lathrop, J. M., 308 Lathrop, John, 308 Lathrop, T. J., 308 Lathrop, W. H., 384 Laugel, Auguste, 675 Lauriat, G. W., 219, 308, 538 Lavery, Richard, 88 Lavery, T. J., 88 Law, E. M., 675 Lawler, A. J., 219 Lawrence, Alvin, 88 Lawrence, Center H., 427, 472, 538 Lawrence, Charles H., 88 Lawrence, Edward, 588 Lawrence, G. F., 308 Lawrence, G. L., 308 Lawrence, G. P., 427 Lawrence, G. W., 88 Lawrence, Levi, 25th Mass. Inf., 308 Lawrence, Levi, 57th Mass. Inf., 308 Lawrence, S. C., 219 Lawrence, W. H., 187, 308, 427, 538 Lawry, I. F., 308 Lawson, Elias, 88 Lawson, F. B., 88 Lawson, H. T., 219 Lawson, John, 308 Lawton, Andrew, 88 Lawton, Elbridge, 88 Lawton, F. C., 308 Lawton, George, 583 Lawton, J. W., 308 Lawton, J. W., 428, 472 Lawton, T. C., 384 Lawton, T. E., 88
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., The Mystic water-works. (search)
ly broken on Saturday, September 27, at the site of the reservoir. At 3 P. M. the members of the City Government and invited guests came upon the grounds. Mr. Edward Lawrence, chairman of the Water Commissioners, prefaced his remarks by asking a prayer of Rev. Mr. Miles and after a few words introduced the Mayor of the City, who after a short speech, received a spade and placed a sod in a wheelbarrow. Mr. Lawrence then made a speech and placed another sod in the wheelbarrow, after which Mr. James McDonald the contractor wheeled the sods away and placed them on the site of the embankment. The President of Aldermen, Chairman of Common Council, Chief engin Nothing is said in this record of Mr. Buchanan's about the wheeling away of these numerous sods, but in another column is the testimony of an eye-witness. Mr. Lawrence invited those present to his home, where a collation was served, thus ending the formal beginning of the work. Mr. McDonald sublet the construction of the e
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., Medford Branch Railroad. (search)
, added to the estimate already given, total $34,735.10, to which ten per cent. ($3,473.50) was added for engineer, contingencies, etc., making $38,208.60. As yet we have not ascertained the actual cost of the branch, as only the accounts of the Boston and Maine can give proof. By this it appears that the recent Interurban project and even the defunct Mystic valley were not the first to consider a way paralleling the Medford turnpike. Mr. Hayward placed his report before Messrs. Bishop, Lawrence and others, the corporators of the railroad (Mr. Usher says a committee of citizens employed him), closing thus The distance to Boston by the northern route is thirty-two hundred feet greater than that by the southern route; and the southern branch will be forty-two hundred feet longer than the northern. They decided for the shorter branch, all within the bounds of Medford, but the longer distance to Boston. It was twenty years before the Wellington district began to increase materia
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Destructive fire. (search)
ss says: The fire spread with great rapidity east and west — on the east, burning J. J. Minetree's carriage-house, and a large two-story workshop, occupied by Mr. W. H. Ferguson, coach maker, &c. Yarbrough & Barrow's store, opposite, was rescued by great exertions, but it sustained considerable damage. The flames spread, also, west from the saloon, destroying R. Noble's store, occupied by Joel Thomas, and next to P. J. Brown & Son's and Wm. G. Collins' --lower story occupied by Dr. Edward Lawrence--from thence north, burning T. N. Carliles', Dr. W. R. King, Shaw & White, and greatly endangering the residence of Mrs. H. Shaw. From Collier's corner the devouring element crossed the street, burning to the ground the store of Ballard & Massenburg; also, N., B. Walker's and the Temperance Hall, where its devastations were checked by the almost superhuman efforts of those on hand. In rear of Ballard & Massenburg's was situated Dent's Hotel, which soon, with all the out-houses,
The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Wanted, a Situation as Servant, to cook, &c, for an officer in the army. Apply to Edward Lawrence, five man of color, by note, through Dispatch office. fe 4--1t*