Browsing named entities in Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22.. You can also browse the collection for William Wilkins Warren or search for William Wilkins Warren in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., When a boy in Medford (search)
When a boy in Medford There comes to us a bit of information relative to a boy's life in the Medford of nearly a century agone and worth noticing, from the autobiography of William Wilkins Warren, son of Isaac Warren of old Menotomy. By some change in family fortune William was placed in the care of his paternal grandfather, Amos Warren of Medford, at the age of six years, in 1820, and lived with him eight years. Amos Warren came from old Menotomy (then the west parish of Cambridge), now Arlington, in an early year of the century, and bought a small farm in the western part of Medford on the side of a hill, with an orchard of fifteen acres, and lived there until his death in 1831. It was doubtless the old home of the pious deacon John Whitmore on which the later residence of James M. Usher was built. Across the street was the old Bucknam house, in recent years removed, making room for the West Medford post-office, and the cottage of Captain Wyatt, which still remains as a