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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., West Medford in 1870. (search)
gregational, was well attended by the children and youth. The only social organization of my knowledge was the West Medford Lyceum and Library Association, which was incorporated in 1852. During the winter of ‘70–‘71 it had a course of lectures in Mystic Hall, as also in previous seasons. Since then the society has had but irregular meetings, though still legally existent. What remained of its library was a few years ago placed in the Brooks School Library, where it now remains. George G. Lincoln was its secretary and Herbert Magoun its treasurer. The only business enterprises in West Medford in 1870 were the granite works of R. K. Carpenter, the building business of John H. Norton and that of John H. Duane, the florist. It could hardly be expected that a little village of less than one hundred dwellings, many of whose occupants were men of leisure, merchants, brokers, retired clergymen, bookkeepers and artisans whose places of employment were in Boston, would abound in fac<
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 13., The Congregational Church of West Medford. (search)
ists, two families were Universalist, two were Episcopalian, four were Methodist, four were Baptist, eight were Unitarian, and seventeen were Congregationalist, and fifty-one of the one hundred and forty-six were from these seventeen Congregational families. Mr. Merritt served as superintendent one year. Mr. Franklin Patch was the second to hold this office, and served eighteen months, to December, 1867, resigning on removing to Lexington. Both were members of the Mystic Church. Mr. George G. Lincoln, assistant superintendent, completed the year, was elected and served as superintendent during the school's fourth year. He served another six months, January to June, 1872. He was a member of the First Trinitarian Congregational Church. The West Medford Christian Union employed Rev. M. B. Chapman, a Methodist, to preach in Mystic Hall, and he served one year as superintendent. Mr. O. A. Buzzell, a Baptist, served eighteen months, to December, 1871, resigned, and moved to Neva