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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., A business man of long ago. (search)
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Horace Dudley Hall.
Horace Dudley Hall was the son of Dudley and Hepzibah Jones (Fitch) Hall, and was born in Medford, September 15, 1831.
As a boy he attended the private schools in the town, which were at that time common, and later at Jamaica Plain and Concord, Mass. In the latter he pursued a course to fit himself for college, but his desire to see the world led him to abandon the pursuit of education and take a trip to Smyrna in one of the vessels owned by his father.
Years afterwards, on a visit to Concord, he called on Miss Emeline Barrett, who had kept the school he had attended—a circumstance he was fond of relating—and endeavored to have her recognize him without disclosing his identity.
Not being able to do so, he asked her if she could recall the worst boy she had ever had in the school.
Why, this is n't Horace Hall!
and recognition immediately followed.
He was married on November 16, 1853, to Miss Abbie Allen of Medford, daughter of Kingsley and Abigail F