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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) 8 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 6 0 Browse Search
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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), The Rindge gifts. (search)
of a main building 70 by 62 feet, with wings 60 feet square. A description of the work of the students will be given elsewhere in this volume by Mr. Morse, its superintendent. The building and equipment cost about $100,000. The school, since its foundation, has been supported wholly by Mr. Rindge. The city Hall. The architects of the city hall were Messrs. Longfellow, Alden & Harlow. A suitable site was purchased by the city government, located on Main Street, and extending from Bigelow to Inman streets. Ground was broken February 1, 1889, and the corner-stone was laid, with appropriate ceremonies, on May 15, 1889, by Most Worshipful Henry Endicott, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Massachusetts. On December 9, 1890, the new city hall, finished and furnished, was formally transferred to the city, with exercises simple in character, in accordance with the wish of Mr. Rindge. The building is of quarry-faced stone, and stands well back from the street, with
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), An Old-time Society. (search)
igent persons; but whoever should be the successful competitor, he was to be fined ten cents for every day that he retained the articles beyond the time allowed, which, in the case of the tubs, was one week. The first election of officers was held at Porter's Tavern on the 24th of August, 1814, when the following were chosen: president, Rev. Abiel Holmes, D. D.; vice-president, Rev. Henry Ware, D. D.; secretary, Levi Farwell; treasurer, Levi Hedge, Esq.; trustees, Samuel Bartlett, Esq., A. Bigelow, Esq., Dr. T. Foster, William Hilliard, and Israel Porter. It was when the society had been thus fully equipped with a board of officers that the address was issued to the inhabitants. It has a somewhat modern air, in spite of its more than modern dignity of expression. Let us read:— All are ready to acknowledge, they say, the great obligations we are under as men, and especially as Christians, to supply the wants and relieve the sufferings of our brethren; and so numerous are
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
of Cambridge conceived the idea of organizing a new bank, an action due to the foresight, courage, and enterprise of Mr. Benjamin Tilton, who was its controlling spirit. The Harvard Bank was organized November 7 under the general banking laws of the Commonwealth, with a capital of $200,000, and occupied rooms in the house known as the Dowse building, at the easterly corner of Main and Prospect streets. Its first directors were Benjamin Tilton, Daniel U. Chamberlin, George Livermore, Alanson Bigelow, John Sargent, Edward Hyde, Charles Wood, Newell Bent, Louis Colby, William A. Saunders, Estes Howe, and Z. L. Raymond; Hon. Charles Theodore Russell acting as solicitor. It was the intention of the directors to begin business on the first day of March, 1861, but the political condition of the country was unsettled, and as the prevention of President Lincoln's inauguration had been threatened, it was decided to postpone opening until after the inauguration had taken place. The banking
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), General Index. (search)
idgeport National, 302; Lechmere, 303; National City, 303; Charles River National, 304; First National, 305; Cambridge National, 307; Cambridge Safe Deposit and Trust Co., 307; Cambridge Savings, 309; Cambridgeport Savings, 311; North Avenue Savings, 311; East Cambridge Savings, 312. Baptist churches, 240. Bears in Cambridge, 9. Beginnings of Cambridge, The, 1-13. Belcher, Andrew, the first innkeeper, 11. Belcher, Jonathan, royal governor, 11. Berkeley Street School, 212. Bigelow, Dr. Jacob, 73. Blue Anchor Tavern, 11. Borland House, 28. Boston, preeminence of, 1; not intended for seat of government, 1; assembling of General Court at, 2; means of communicating with, 4; troops stationed in, 20; granted authority to improve the river bank, 106; its city council opposes the construction of Harvard Bridge, 107; completes the Charlesbank, 107; no provision for girls in its early schools, 189; high school opened for girls in, 192. Boston Massacre, 20.. Boston P
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 23: civil officers. (search)
Saunders, 1857, 1858. Wm. T. Richardson, 1857, 1859. John C. Dodge, 1857. Josiah Burrage, Jr., 1857. Nathan K. Noble, 1858-1860. William Page, 1858. Alanson Bigelow, 1859. Francis L. Chapman, 1860-1861. George W. McLellan, 1860, 1861. Anson Hooker, 1861, 1862. Charles Beck, 1862, 1864. Hamlin R. Harding, 1862, mmon Council. Isaac Livermore, 1846. John Sargent, 1847, 1852, 1853. John C. Dodge, 1848, 1854. Samuel P. Heywood, 1849, 1850. John S. Ladd, 1851. Alanson Bigelow, 1855. Ezra Ripley, 1856. Resigned Jan. 31, 1856. George S. Saunders, 1856, 1857, 1863, 1864. James C. Fisk, 1858, 1859. Hamlin R. Harding, 1860, Joseph M. Doe, 1852. Phinehas B. Hovey, 1852, 1853. George L. Mitchell, 1852, 1853. William Stevens, 1852, 1853. Francis L. Batchelder, 1853, 1854. Alanson Bigelow, 1853-1855. Barnabas Binney, 1853. Daniel U. Chamberlain, 1853, 1854. John B. Cook, 1853, 1854, 1863. Lloyd Crossman, 1853, 1854. George H. Davies,