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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., V. Town of Arlington. (search)
ic schools, representation of trades, citizens in carriages, and a cavalcade, in all over a mile and a half in length. It passed through the principal streets, and a collation was afterward partaken of by the school children in a large tent on the common near the Unitarian Church, and by the invited guests in a mammoth tent on the grounds of J. R. Bailey, Esq., on Pleasant Street. Dinner was prepared by J. B. Smith, and speeches were made by Governor Bullock, the Hon. Charles Sumner, Richard H. Dana, Jr., Generals Foster and Osborne, and Commodore Rodgers and General Banks of the late war. A poem, written by Mr. J. T. Trowbridge of Arlington for the occasion, was read by Prof. M. T. Brown. The celebration closed with a regatta of Harvard students on the lake. In the course of his remarks, Hon. Charles Sumner said: In coming here to take part in this interesting celebration, I am not insensible to the kindness of good friends among you, through whom the invitation was received