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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The beginnings of Cambridge. (search)
land occupied by Cambridge was bought of this tribe, apparently for £ 10 beside an annual present of a coat to the squaw sachem during her lifetime. The relations between white men and red men were friendly. In 1644, these Mystic Indians voluntarily put themselves under the protection and jurisdiction of the English government at Boston. Eliot's first sermon to the Indians was preached in 1646 at Nonantum, south of Charles River, and at that time within the limits of Cambridge. More than 1000 Indians in the country between Boston and Worcester came to profess Christianity, and it was hoped that Harvard College could be used effectively in civilizing them. But Harvard had only one Indian graduate, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, who received his degree in 1665 and died the next year. In the terrible crisis of King Philip's War some of the praying Indians found the ties of blood stronger than those of religion, and a fierce popular distrust was aroused against them. In the early spring o
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
Bunker Hill Monument, had to be built, and several new boilers to run the machinery had to be put in; the changes made necessary in the adoption of this improved system have largely increased the equipment and the facilities for carrying on the pork-packing business of this corporation. The live hogs are purchased in the West, and are shipped by rail to the packing-house in East Cambridge, and the freight paid for transportation amounts to a sum above $700,000 per annum. There are about 1000 men employed at the packing-house, and it may fairly be ranked as one of the important industries of the city of Cambridge. Mr. Squire was a man of strict business integrity, very modest and unassuming in his demeanor; a man who was just in his dealing with all men. He was a man who to a large business capacity and experience added a keen foresight and a power to forecast the future. The business has been continued since his death, January 7, 1893, by the corporation formed, as above st