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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
Francis Adams, nearly twenty years after the close of the Civil War: August 6, 1883 C. F. Adams, Jr., spent the morning here. He thinks the country not yet recovered from the tremendous excitement of war and demands quiet more than anything; hence the greatest weakness of [Governor] Butler's position. Thinks there must be a class of professional politicians, but that there is never a time of excitement when a man of character and energy cannot ride over them. His grandfather, P. C. Brooks, was at time of death the richest man in New England (over two millions), this thirty-five years ago. But his annual expenses for city and country house, greenhouse, etc., were but six thousand dollars a year. November 28, 1883 This morning I spent in taking Matthew Arnold to schools in Boston: Normal Art, Boys' Latin, Boys' English High, and ditto ditto girls. He is very cordial and appreciative, not in the least cynical or patronizing; shook hands with all the teachers as friendly
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 14: the Boston mob (first stage).—1835. (search)
himself, and purify it of the abolition pamphlets; After the burning, the Charleston Committee of Twenty-one arranged with the postmaster to suppress anti-slavery documents in the office. The mail-packets were boarded on crossing the bar, and kept anchored till morning, or until the Committee could make their inspection. and the Postmaster-General, Amos Kendall, neither approves nor disapproves of this proceeding. . . . In Boston there is a call for a town-meeting, with H. G. Otis and P. C. Brooks at their head. This meeting is to be held next Friday, and is to pass resolutions against the abolitionists, to August 21, 1835. soothe and conciliate the temper of the Southern slaveholders. All this is democracy and the rights of man. Mr. Garrison, in what he called the hurricane excitement of the times, with its special draught towards his own person, might well be excused for not taking Mr. Adams's passionless view of the situation. His first editorial article after his retu
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., chapter 5 (search)
end, John Adams. Hon. Isaac Hill. 1848 The Hon. James Russell, in behalf of the committee for erecting a monument over the grave of the Revolutionary heroes in the old cemetery in the town, submitted a report, which is entered at length on the town records. An account of this monument has already been given elsewhere (see p. 70). The expense of its erection was $460.67, toward which the voluntary contributions of inhabitants of West Cambridge were $360.67, and the donation of Hon. P. C. Brooks, of Medford, was $100. 1849 Dogs first licensed by the town. A school-house in the East District erected, on the plan of other large schoolhouses in the town. 1850 A suitable safe purchased for the use of the town. The Union School District is divided. 1851 New almshouse built. Old school-house in Wyman District sold. Tornado of Aug. 22, 1851.—A little work of 72 pages, entitled The Tornado of 1851, in Medford, West Cambridge and Waltham, Middlesex County, Mass.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1., chapter 21 (search)
Works now stands. As the canal boats came along, as they constantly did, they were always ready, when asked, to sheer up to the bank and take us on board, and so we passed on, through the beautiful single-arched stone bridge in the grounds of Mr. Brooks, and then, leaving the boat, made our way to the pond. Mr. Brooks was always kindly disposed, and took pleasure in allowing his friends to visit his beautiful garden and grounds. We had no steam railroad till 1835, when the Boston & Lowell Mr. Brooks was always kindly disposed, and took pleasure in allowing his friends to visit his beautiful garden and grounds. We had no steam railroad till 1835, when the Boston & Lowell Railroad was laid out. So little foresight had its projectors as to its future uses and values that it was thought desirable to avoid the towns between the termini and have no way stations. So the road, instead of its natural course through the Mystic valley, was carried at great additional expense through Winter and Walnut hills and away from the centre of the town. When the road was opened, in the spring of 1835, Mr. P. C. Brooks, desirous of giving his townsmen the novelty of riding for the
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The road through the woods. (search)
ad one moonlight night to their new home in the West End of Medford. It was then known as Grove street, but not till about a century ago it was announced by the selectmen thus: From High street near the canal bridge by P. C. Brooks' to Symmes corner, Grove street. This reminds us that the Middlesex canal had been cut through the Brooks land and in operation in 1803. The bridge at High street was somewhat elevated and one was required to unite the dissevered parts of his estate. In 1820, Mr. Brooks, at his own expense, had built one of granite, an elliptical arch of marvelous beauty and construction. After the closing of the canal it was ever kept in excellent condition until it passed into new ownership which failed to appreciate its historic worth to the new village and used it in cellar wall building. But at the other end of the Brooks property, just a century ago, the canal company rebuilt their Aberjona aqueduct of granite, within the estimated cost and so it would require no