he Library) to accept or reject such books as should be offered for gift or deposit, and to act until in a meeting of the subscribers, a set of rules be formed and the proper officers be chosen by them for managing the concerns of the Institution.—The committee chosen were (from the Church) Brothers Jonathan Porter, Nathaniel Hall, Jonathan Brooks, Nathan Adams, John Symmes, jr., and (from the Cong.) Messrs. Dudley Hall, Turrell Tufts, Abner Bartlett, Joseph Swan, Ebenezer Hall, jr., and Isaac Sprague.
The meeting was then dissolved.
This last date, as you see, was September, 1825.
I have been unable, as yet, to find any report of that committee as to the success of their mission; but there is in the possession of the Public Library the financial record of the Medford Social Library, from April, 1826, to January, 1856, at which latter date it became the property of the town and was made public.
The presumptive evidence is that these records show the perfecting of the scheme f
red dollars.
Shareholders.
No.
of Shares
Jonathan Brooks,5
Samuel Train,10
Marcus Whitney,10
Luther Angier,10
Timothy Cotting,5
Galen James,5
John Angier,5
David Kimball,5
Thatcher Magoun, Jr.,5
Henry Porter,5
Joseph Manning, Jr.,5
George W. Porter,5
George L. Stearns5
Thomas R. Peck,5
S. P. Heywood,5
Dudley Hall,5
B. M. Clark,1
Thomas H. Floyd,3
No.
of Shares
Thatcher Magoun,10
Nathaniel H. Bishop,10
Andrew Blanchard, Jr.,5
Samuel Kidder,5
Turell Tufts,10
Isaac Sprague,5
Francis R. Bigelow,5
John W. Mulliken,5
Joseph and Milton James,5
Jonathan Porter,5
Waterman & Ewell,2
Nathan Sawyer,2
Isaac and James Wellington,2
Jotham Stetson,3
Isaac H. Haskins,2
James O. Curtis,2
Abner Bartlett,1
Abigail Whitney,5
Under this association, which had for its main purpose the keeping of a temperance house, the building was enlarged.
In the upper story of the ell was a large and commodious dance hall.
The first landlord under this new arrangement was