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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 8: Education. (search)
mas Savage Clay1819 William H. Furness1820 Edward B. Hall1820 George B. Osborn1820 John Angier1821 Ward C. Brooks1822 Caleb Stetson1822 Charles Angier1827 Elijah N. Train1827 John James Gilchrist1828 Joseph Angier1829 Charles V. Bemis1835 George Clisby1836 Thomas S. Harlow1836 Thompson Kidder1836 Andrew D. Blanchard1842 Horace D. Train1842 Benjamin L. Swan1844 Hosea Ballou, 2d1844 Timothy Bigelow1845 Sanford B. Perry1845 James A. Hervey1849 Albert F. Sawyer1849 Thomas Meriam Stetson1849 George D. Porter1851 Peter C. Brooks1852 Gorham Train1852 Samuel C. Lawrence1855 Medford once had eight under-graduates, at the same time, in Harvard College. Physicians. For many years the inhabitants of Medford employed the physicians of the neighboring towns; and there was small need of medicine where all had simple diet, fresh air, and moderate labor. As early as 1720, two doctors appear in the town records,--Dr. Oliver Noyce and Dr. Ebenezer Nutting. The fir
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Some errors in Medford's histories. (search)
westerly bounds of the said marsh,. . . Excepting from the above, 12 acres of the meadows lying by Mistick river next unto the land of the said Edward Collins. These twelve acres of marsh land above described are bounded by Marble brook (it being the brook mentioned above) on the west, Mystic river on the south, north on the upland between High street and said marshland. It included that point of marshland that was cut off, when a new channel of the river was made by Messrs. Curtis and Stetson, shipbuilders, as a passageway for their ships. This point of marshland or island has been removed by recent improvements made in the river. The easterly part of these twelve acres is the land in the rear of the Armory building. This deed shows that the Mansion house therein spoken of could not have been the so-called Cradock house. In Book 3, page 397, of the abovesaid records, Richard Russell of Charlestown sells to Jonathan Wade of Ipswich 3/4 part of the land purchased of Edward C
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., An old Medford Schoolboy. (search)
An old Medford Schoolboy. On February 10, at New Bedford, there passed away one, a native of Medford (and whose boyhood days were spent here), who is kindly remembered by his old associates still living. These lines are not intended as obituary; rather an appreciative mention of one we have never met, or even heard of, till in recent years. Thomas Meriam Stetson was the son of Rev. Caleb Stetson, the second Unitarian pastor of Medford's First Parish. His birth occurred in the house on High street, later the home of Rev. Charles and Miss Lucy Ann Brooks, June 15, 1830. His later boyhood home was the parsonage house, erected on the site of the present St. Joseph's parochial residence. His early education was in the schools of Medford (public and private), and his college course was at Harvard, graduating there in 1849. After study in the Dane Law Zzz. to the bar in 1854. His father's pastorate (of twenty-one years) in Medford closed in 1848, prior to the son's graduat
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., Patriot's day Observance. (search)
r Greenhalge settled the matter, and wisely, too, by giving the name, Patriot's Day. Locally observed in previous years, Lexington and Concord came into prominence by the observances of 1875, the first of the Centennials, probably for both the greatest ever. Unlike the day a century before, the weather conditions were unfavorable and dependents on the railroad for conveyance were sadly disappointed. No one had any idea of the crowd that would come—but it came. A Medford-born boy, Thomas Meriam Stetson, was chairman of the day. President Grant was present, we remember our long perch on a fence looking over the vast crowd to see him riding in the procession. We also saw the erstwhile famous Magoun Battery in all its prestige with the diminutive Swallow guns. Since that day every year has noted the influx of visitors to the historic spot on April 19. On its first occurrence after the legislative enactment it was noted by a ride over the route taken by Revere by a Medford man