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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1., chapter 21 (search)
Some notes of the history of Medford from 1801 to 1851.
read before the Medford Historical Society. by Hon. Thomas S. Harlow.
I have been requested to speak of the history of Medford during the first half of the present century.
An old writer once said, Happy are the people who have no history.
This is only another mode of expressing the quiet happiness of the calm, contented life in which so many of our New England towns moved on, with little to record and little to disturb them.
N m, Edmund Gates and Abiel R. Shed, were killed in battle.
Another distinguished son of Medford, Alexander Scammell Brooks, eldest son of Governor Brooks, made a good reputation in this war. Born in Medford in 1777, he entered Harvard College in 1801, and leaving it in 1804 entered the merchant service as a mariner.
But the Embargo of 1808, so destructive to the mercantile prosperity of New England, closed that career for a time, but it was renewed soon after, and he returned to his chosen pr