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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 4., Medford Historical Society. (search)
L. Weitz, Herbert A. Wellington, Mrs. H. E. Wheeler, Joseph H. Deceased.Whitmore, William H. Wilber, Nahum E. Wilber, Mortimer E. Wilcox, Miss E. J. Wilcox, Miss Martha C. Wild, Miss Helen T. Winkley, William H. Williams, Lombard. Withington, Henry. Wood, Joseph W. Woolley, Fred H. C. Wright, Thomas. Life Members.Wright, Walter C. Honorary members M. E. Chandler. Deceased.Hon. T. S. Harlow. Mrs. Geo. L. Stearns. Charles Cummings. L. Weitz, Herbert A. Wellington, Mrs. H. E. Wheeler, Joseph H. Deceased.Whitmore, William H. Wilber, Nahum E. Wilber, Mortimer E. Wilcox, Miss E. J. Wilcox, Miss Martha C. Wild, Miss Helen T. Winkley, William H. Williams, Lombard. Withington, Henry. Wood, Joseph W. Woolley, Fred H. C. Wright, Thomas. Life Members.Wright, Walter C. Honorary members M. E. Chandler. Deceased.Hon. T. S. Harlow. Mrs. Geo. L. Stearns. Charles Cummings.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 4., Elizur Wright and the Middlesex Fells. (search)
Elizur Wright and the Middlesex Fells. [Extract from a paper read by Miss Ellen M. Wright, before the Medford Historical Society.] IN his later years Mr. Wright deemed forest preservation among the most urgent of his causes. He was a member of the American Forestry Association, and whenever possible made his voice heard at its gatherings; but in this interest his most important achievements were the rescue of a territory of Minnesota land from a speculation criminally destructive of its forests, and in his widely known effort to secure the Fells as a forest park, of which the Metropolitan Park System is the outcome. In 1844, while in England, he was strongly impressed with the necessity of forests in or near every large city, and in 1847 suggested through his paper, the Chronotype, the establishment of a great rural playground for Boston such as Greenwich is to London. And premonitory of the Metropolitan effort he says: A fine park might be had in two or three places on our