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Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739. 1 1 Browse Search
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y for the purpose of mutual instruction in the arts and sciences, met at the upper factory school-house and organized the Rumford Institute. The credit of first proposing the plan of the society belongs to Isaac Parker, who secured the earnest cooperation of Rev. Bernard Whitman, Isaac Bemis, Esq., Dr. Samuel L. Dana and others. It is the earliest institution of the kind in the State and perhaps in the country. Mr. Rutter's Address. The first lecture was given before the Institute January 13, 1827, by Dr. S. L. Dana, on Chemistry. During the summer of 1827 the Boston Manufacturing Company erected the Rumford Building, fitted up a room for the use of the Institute, and gave them the rent of the Hall for their exercises, on the sole condition that they should purchase $60 worth of books a year for the Library of the Institute. The society dedicated the Hall on the evening of September 21st, and on September 29th the first lecture was given within its walls by Dr. James Jackson,