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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Literary Medford. (search)
n the subject, caused the normal school system to be adopted in Massachusetts. Mr. Brooks also wrote, by request of the citizens, The Torn Rev. Elias Nason published several biographies, a gazetteer of Massachusetts, and edited a hymn book. The Rev. E. C. Towne printed many o The Flora of Middlesex County, Typical Elms and Other Trees of Massachusetts and the Hand-book of the Trees of New England, with Ranges throwhich are in print. Of his inaugural address, when governor of Massachusetts, President Monroe said, I am willing to take the principles of of the Essex Gazette, New England Chronicle, Salem Gazette, and Massachusetts Gazette, 1768-1807. Edward Brooks was a contributor to the the author of Quakers in New England, 1870; Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts, 1883; Pioneer Quakers in Massachusetts, 1887. Mrs. Anna DavMassachusetts, 1887. Mrs. Anna Davis Hallowell edited the Life and Letters of James and Lucretia Mott, 1884. John Ward Dean, whose long and valuable services as librarian o
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Union Congregational Church. (search)
was thus used until the main audience room was completed and the church dedicated in November, 1890. From its starting, sister churches on Winter Hill and those in the Woburn Conference gave friendly counsel and substantial financial aid, and acting under advice and assistance of these friends the church soon completed the new edifice. The sister churches contributed the sum needed to make last payments for the same, and the house, costing $3,000, was dedicated free from debt. The Massachusetts Home Missionary Society assisted the church in the support of a pastor from the beginning, and has continued its aid up to the present time, although the church at present comes very near to self-support, and contributes liberally toward the various missionary and benevolent organizations of the denomination. The Congregational Church Building Society has assisted towards the expense of the church building when occasion has required such aid. The Mystic Church of Medford presented the f
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., The Mystic Mansion. (search)
ere has recently come the building of the modern motor boats; the other famous product (no longer made) is becoming rare, the real article commanding a high price; but the old houses are well holding their own. The subject of this sketch is not one of the oldest, but attains the century mark this present year, and is now generally known as the Mansion House. Now in private ownership, it was at the time of its erection a public building, the Medford almshouse. The Puritan settlers of Massachusetts had little need for almshouses, for idleness was whipped out of the men by the magistrates and out of the boys by their parents; at least so says the historian. It was not till a hundred and sixty years after the town's settlement that an almshouse was provided, and then by the purchase of a house and three acres and a half of land, barely enough for a vegetable garden, as was said; and this house served for twenty years, till it became unsuitable. At the March meeting, in 1811, steps
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., A first citizen named first-rate town. (search)
such occasion was there observed, a letter was addressed to the mayor of Chardon, who replied and also sent the local paper's account of the celebration. This will find place in the Historical Society's archives. Chardon is the county seat of Geauga County, Ohio, twenty-eight miles east from Cleveland, and six hundred feet above Lake Erie—quite an elevation for that section. A portion of the clipping reads thus:— The hill was owned by Peter Chardon Brooks, a first citizen of Massachusetts. It was quite the fashion those days for a gent to found a town and thus put his name on the map. But Brooks, while he craved the perpetual publicity thus to be attained, really was too much of a gent to drive an ox cart to Geauga-co. to do the founding act himself. So he agreed to donate a village plat if the county seat would be called after him. What's in a name? argued the prominent pioneers, accepting. They were a little bit dismayed, though, when Brooks announced that