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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. 32 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 32 0 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 9 1 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 6 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 6 0 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 6 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 4 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 4 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 4 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 4 0 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12., Marm Betty. (search)
Marm Betty. A beloved teacher in ancient Medford. The recent dedication of Medford's newest orian Brooks said: Our town rejoiced in a Marm Betty ; but of her, nothing more, which seems to havbeen a singular omission. The story of Marm Betty harks back to the ancient mansion across the M in Charlestown; and to colonial days. Marm Betty's name was Elizabeth Francis. She was the eldn the maternal side, that the interest in Marm Betty's memory attaches. Her mother, Elizabeth Usheand helpless. Mrs. Samuel Swan, one of Marm Betty's scholars, who was placed in her charge when itically of Mr. Brooks' slight mention of Marm Betty. He was over a dozen years younger than his acob bless you; our God will take care of you, Betty, you will never want bread for your kindness tasting for several years before 1823. Marm Betty must have filled a worthy place in Medford's ame the Royall House. Who knows but that Marm Betty may have had a soldier lover, that never retur[6 more...]