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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 5 (search)
Washington Warren appearing for the Lexington petition, and W. W. Warren for that of West Cambridge, it was agreed by a compromise, that the two enterprises should be merged in one, and an act of incorporation was prepared and presented in the same month, which, in the House Document No. 48, was passed under the title of the Lexington and West Cambridge Branch Rail Road. Under the Act the first meeting of the new corporation took place at Cutler's tavern in Lexington, April 14, 1845. Larkin Turner was chosen President, and W. W. Warren, Secretary. The act of incorporation was accepted, and a committee of nine was chosen to cause books of subscription to be opened, first of May, 1845, to the capital stock, not to exceed $200,000. This committee consisted of Benjamin Muzzey and Samuel Chandler, of Lexington; Doctor T. Wellington and John Schouler, of West Cambridge; John Wesson and John W. Mulliken, of Charlestown; Edward Munroe and Otis Dana, of Boston; and J. W. Simonds, of Bedfo