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Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908,
Union Square
and its neighborhood about the year 1846. (search)
e from Ogdensburg, N. Y. He was father of Miss Mary O. Giles, one of the first teachers of Somerville, and of Joseph J. Giles, the first boy born in Somerville after its incorporation, and a veteran of the Civil war. Miss Mary O. Giles married Isaac Barker, and moved to California. There were other children. In this Giles house lived for a time Dr. Stephen B. Sewall. On the southwest corner of Washington and Prospect streets was the ancient engine house, with its little belfry and bell, Mystict street, north of the railroad, were the houses of David A. Sanborn, in one of which he afterwards lived; in another, a double house, the former residence of John C. Giles, lived, if I remember aright, the families of Nathaniel Blair and of Isaac Barker, brickmakers. On the east side of Prospect street, south of the railroad, about opposite the present Oak street, was the residence of Amos Hazeltine, also brickmaker; his was the only house on the east side of Prospect street. Much of the
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908,
Union Square
before the War.—(Il) (search)
l tower stands was about its original height. I have spoken about the birds and fishes with which most of the younger people around Union Square were familiar in the forties and fifties, which suggests that the amusements of gunning and fishing were common then; almost every boy owned a gun and was a huntsman. Rifle and pistol practice were also common, especially on the brick yards, and I well recall some of the more noted of our marksmen near the Square, among then Nathaniel Blair, Isaac Barker, Frederick Kinsley, brother of Willard C. Kinsley, after whom the Somerville G. A. R. post is named, and who was himself a colonel in the army. The Messrs. Whittemore were also good shots, as they ought to have been, for they were in the rifle manufacturing business here in Somerville, and made the best. Among other amusements in those days was bowling at the alley of Thomas Goodhue, whose alley and residence were on the westerly side of Bow Street, just north of the present Hill Bui
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Index (search)
Bridge, 20. Arlington, D. C., 18. Arlington, Mass., 26. Armory, The, 81. Army of the Potomac, 44, 56. Arnold, J. Frank, 8. Arnold, Leonard, 8, 10. Arnold, William J., 56. Associated Charities, 75. Austin, Richard, 29. Avery, Mathew, 30. Ayer, John F., 74, 76. Ayer, William, 28. Bachelder, Abigail, 29. Bachelder, William, 29. Baker, Rev., Charles, 39. Baker, William, 30. Baker, William A., 18. Baltimore, Md., 77. Banks, Governor, 38. Banks, Hon. N. P., Jr., 42. Barker, Isaac, 10, 14, 36. Barden, —, 67. Barrell, Hannah, 53. Barrell, Joseph, 53. Bay State League, 74, 75. Beacon Street, 14, 15, 33. Bealton Station, Va., 21. Bean, G. W., 22. Bean, Hattie E., 10. Beck, G. W., 13. Beecher, Thomas, 30. Bell, Dr. Luther V., 41, 55. Bennett, Clark, 10, 11, 14, 41, 55. Bennett, Dana, 10. Bennett, Dexter, 10. Bennett, Edwin Clark, 10, 41. Bennett, George Eldon, 10, 41. Bennett, Herbert W., 10. Bennett, Irving M., 107 Bennett, Josiah, 10. Bennett