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Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908,
Union Square
and its neighborhood about the year 1846. (search)
Officer Page; Thomas F. Norris, editor of the Olive Branch; Colonel Rolin W. Keyes, member of the Legislature; Amory and Francis Houghton, who built the Glass house; Charles S. Lincoln, Esq., who also represented us in the Legislature; John S. Ware; Father Baker, one of the founders of the First Methodist church: James S. and Isaiah W. Tuttle, who built the first high school now our city hall; Dr. Charles I. Putnam; Dr. Weston, our earliest, or one of our earliest, postmasters; D. A. and S. H. Marrett, prominent storekeepers; and many others. Our family moved from Malden to Somerville in 1846 to a residence and store then facing on Union square, and owned by Jeremiah Jordan, a professional musician, I think connected with Ditson's music store. A man named Gossom kept store in this building when we moved to it; the building was afterwards owned by George A. and Albert L. Sanborn, who carried on the grocery business in it, and who christened it the Oasis. The Oasis originally stoo
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908,
Union Square
before the War.—(Il) (search)
in Hall. It stood where the new engine house in Union Square now stands, between Somerville Avenue, then Mil Street, and Washington Street; it was built sometime previous to 1852 by Deacon Robert Vinal. The main building was used by D. A. & S. H. Marrett as a grain and grocery store, and for a considerable time the post-office was kept there by them, on the easterly Milk Street corner of the building. Our chief of police, Mr. Parkhurst, was at one time a clerk in the Messrs. Marrett's storeMarrett's store. In the second story was the hall used for all kinds of meetings and entertainments,—as a church, as a drill room for the Somerville Light Infantry, a hall for political gatherings and harangues, for fairs, for concerts, colored minstrel and sleight-of-hand performers, and for the meetings of the Franklin Institute. The Franklin Institute was a library and debating association. Its first meeting was held December 3, 1852, at which James S. Tuttle was temporary chairman, and Thomas Gooding
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Index (search)
s Plantation, 79. Long Bridge, 64. Longstreet's Corps, 56. Loudon, N. H., 1, 2. Lowe, Martha Perry, 78. Lowell Railroad, 12. Lovett, Washington, 22. Lyle, Colonel, Peter, 45, 64. Magoun House, 52. Magoun, John C., 8, 55. Main Street, Charlestown, 54. Malden. Mass., 5, 28, 51, 52, 54. Mallet, Andrew, 51. Mallet, Jean, or John. 51. Manassas Railroad, Va., 43. Mann, Eben C., Jr., 15. Marcus Aurelius. 81. Market Bank, 10. Marks, Patrick, 27. Marrett, D. A., 5, 40. Marrett, S. H., 5, 40. Mars, The Temple of, 81. Martindale Barracks, 19. Maryland Heights, 20. Massachusetts, 82. Massachusetts Bay Colony, The. 78, 79, 80. Massachusetts Bay Colony. The First Governor of. 73, 78-80. Massachusetts Bay Company, The 78. Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 3. Maulsby, Professor, 74. McLean, Asylum, 12, 54. Mead, General. 20. Meade, General. 43, 44, 72. Medford Genealogies, 51. Medford, Mass., 3, 25, 52, 75, 79. Medford