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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 1 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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the time of its incorporation there were but nineteen institutions of the kind in the State. The original incorporators were William J. Whipple, William Hilliard, and Levi Farwell, and at a meeting of these gentlemen held in Mr. Hilliard's office on the southerly side of Brighton (now Boylston) Street, October 27, 1834, their number was increased to nine by electing Eliab W. Metcalf, Abel Willard, William Watriss, William Brown, John B. Dana, and Charles C. Little. At a meeting held November 17, 1834, at the Charles River Bank, forty-four more were added to the number, making fifty-three in all. The first choice for president of this time-honored institution was no less a personage than Judge Joseph Story, who was elected November 24, 1834, but his resignation was read at the next meeting, December 19, 1834, so that he never presided at any of its deliberations. The first active president was Asahel Stearns, elected January 5, 1835. The first vice-presidents were Simon Greenlea