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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 8 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)
ple. 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 members should be admitted; that meetings should be held every Wednesday evening in Mr. Hovey's southeast chamber, and be adjourned at half past 9 o'c
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 Austin and Inman streets). Dr. Chaplin was elected the first president of the bank. Martin Lane was elected cashier, and Luke Hemenway's store was purchased for the bank's quarters. The cashier was ordered to report for duty Monday morning, May 22, but it is probable that the bank did not begin business until the following Monday, the 29th. It is said that it opened for business simultaneously with the inauguration of hourly coaches between Cambridge and Boston. The bank occupied Mr. Hemenway's store until it bought the brick building numbered 689 Main Street, where it had its rooms on the second floor. The bank remained there until 1870, when the brick building, which it now owns and occupies, was erected. The young institution prospered. In less than a year it paid a four per cent. dividend, and its stock was at a premium. In 1843 an attempt was made to wind up its affairs, but the attempt did not succeed. The bank reorganized as the Cambridgeport National Bank in Jun