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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 6 0 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 4 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), Freemasonry in Cambridge. (search)
oseph Warren, Paul Revere, and other Revolutionary heroes were accustomed to meet at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern and talk of freedom as a Masonic principle. The Masonic Association, which was inaugurated in Cambridge by eighteen brethren on the 6th of February, 1805, was known at first as the Aurora Society. Meetings were held at Hovey's Tavern, on the southwest corner of Main and Douglass streets. The original call included a statement of purpose signed by Daniel Warren, Asa Ellis, Benjamin Bigelow, Charles Parks, Nathaniel Livermore, Isaac Barnard, Nathaniel R. Whitney, Jr., Nathan Crane, Samuel Albee, John Wheeler, Andrew Adams, Luke Hemenway, Elijah Learned, Nathan Fiske, Salmon Morton, Ebenezer Watson, Daniel Smith, and William Warren. This list includes many well-known Cambridge names. In accordance with this call, the first meeting was held on the 9th of February, and soon after by-laws were adopted and officers elected. The by-laws provided that not more than seven new m
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)
arch, 1863, Dr. Paige resigned the presidency to accept the cashiership again, and Robert Douglass was made president. He carried the bank through the trying period of the reorganization, and resigned, on account of ill health, in January, 1882, and was succeeded by Hon. Asa P. Morse, the present incumbent. Since the organization of the bank, the following persons, in addition to those named elsewhere, have served on the board of directors: Thomas Foster, E. T. Hastings, E. W. Metcalf, B. Bigelow, N. Childs, Francis Bowman, John Hayden, Ebenezer Kimball, Charles Haynes, Abel W. Bruce, Phineas B. Hovey, Hiram Brooks, Leonard Stone, Henry Potter, Flavel Coolidge, W. B. Hovey, Daniel U. Chamberlin, Jeremiah Wetherbee, Charles Wood, Edward Hyde, Ira Stratton, Alexander Dickinson, Curtis Davis, Samuel James, and Martin L. Smith. The number of directors has changed several times in the bank's history: at first nine members constituted the board, later this was increased to twelve, then
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 23: civil officers. (search)
J. Whipple, 1826, 1828-1834, 1836-1838. William Parmenter, 1829. Francis Dana, 1829. John Trowbridge, 1829, 1834. Ralph Smith, 1829, 1835, 1837. Benjamin Bigelow, 1830, 1835. James Hayward, 1830-1832, 1835. Jesse Hall, 1830. Abraham P. Sherman, 1830, 1831. Thomas Whittemore, 1831-1833, 1836, 1837. Levi Paellen, 1808-1810. John Hayden, 1808-1811. Royal Makepeace, 1808-1811. William Hilliard, 1808-1816, 1818, 1822, 1826, 1827. Josiah Mason, 1808. Benjamin Bigelow, 1812-1814. Thomas Austin, 1812, 1813, 1815. Phinehas B. Hovey, 1812-1814. Josiah Moore, 1814. Job Wyeth, 1814, 1815. John Cook, 1815, 1816. Fessenden, 1806. George Prentice, 1807. Newell Bent, 1807. Maj. Jonas Wyeth, 1808, 1809, 1812, 1813, 1817-1819. Thomas Mason, 1808-1813, 1815. Benjamin Bigelow, 1810, 1811, 1814, 1825, 1826, 1831-1835. Royal Makepeace, 1814. Thomas Austin, 1814, 1815. Nathaniel Livermore, 1815. Loammi Baldwin, 1816. R