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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., At Medford's old civic Center. (search)
by the wife of Captain Trevet of the revenue service. She was a daughter of Major Warner of Medford. A Mr. Warner lived on the Bishop lot where later the first Thatcher Magoun erected the building now the home of the Public Library. Were these Warners identical? Two years later Mrs. Green returned to the west half, remaining until 1822, when, with the Gilchrist family, she moved to Charlestown, N. H. This part then became the home of widowed sisters from Georgia, Mrs. Howard and Mrs. Wallace, who were cousins of Mrs. William R. Gray of Boston. (Register, Vol. XXI, p. 28.) The old meeting-house next had for its neighbor one whose religious tenets were quite unlike those of the people who worshipped within its walls. A French Canadian, a music teacher whose name was Noreau, had a child born to whom the name was given of Jean Baptiste Napoleon Noreau. What a thrill must have run through the frame of the Puritan building when it became aware that the child had been christe
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., At Medford's old civic Center (continued). (search)
At Medford's old civic Center (continued). by Eliza M. Gill. Referring to the former article in last Register, relating to the Watson house, John Usher should have been the successor of Joseph Barrel, Jr. The first word in third line of page 14 should have been omitted, making the reading thus-as a counterbalance, also a Loyalist, etc. The Mrs. Wallace mentioned should be Mrs. Savage. With these corrections we will leave the Watson house, with its notable memories, and speak of the house on Rural avenue, the residence of the late General Samuel C. Lawrence, who was Medford's first mayor. It was of more recent construction than others we have noted, and was built by Samuel Train for his daughter Rebecca, who married George Lemist. While the Lemist family was there, the house was noted as being the social center for Medford's best families, and the writer recalls the complaint of one who said, When the Lemists left Medford there was no society. Many fine parties were given