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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), Cambridge a city. (search)
Cambridge a city. George Rufus Cook. Dante might choose his home in all the wide, beautiful world; but to be out of the streets of Florence was exile to him. Socrates never cared to go beyond the bounds of Athens. The great universal heart welcomes the city as a natural growth of the eternal forces. F. B. Sanborn. Rome, Venice, Cambridge! I take it for an ascending scale, Rome being the first step and Cambridge the glowing apex. But you would n't know Cambridge—with its railroad, and its water-works, and its new houses. J. R. Lowell. [1856.] There were three memorable Cambridge days in 1846. On the 17th of March, Governor Briggs signed the legislative act, which incorporated the City of Cambridge. On the 30th day of the same month, the voters of Cambridge adopted this act. On May 4, the first city government was inaugurated, and the career of Cambridge as a chartered municipality began. It is the purpose of this chapter to indicate the progress which Cambridge h
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Government of the city of Cambridge, 1896. (search)
Board. James M. W. Hall, President. Stillman F. Kelley. Wellington Fillmore. Frank A. Allen. George H. Howard. Clerk of the Board, Walter H. Harding. Acting Superintendent of Water-Works, Edwin C. Brooks. Assistant Superintendent of Water-Works, Charles B. Parker. Pumping Engineer, Edwin C. Brooks. Water Registrar, Walter H. Harding. Park Commissioners. Henry D. Yerxa, President. Rev. John O'Brien. George Howland Cox. General Superintendent of Parks, George R. Cook. trustees of Cambridge public Library. William Taggard Piper, President. Augustine J. Daly. William J. Rolfe. Thomas W. Higginson. Samuel L. Montague. Albert M. Barnes. Jabez Fox. Librarian, W. L. R. Gifford. Overseers of the poor. William W. Burrage, Chairman. Charles Walker. Stephen Anderson. Alexander Millan. Charles Bullock. Secretary, David P. Muzzey. Visitor, Vespasian Danforth. Superintendent of Almshouse, Martin L. Eldridge. Assistant