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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Recollections of my childhood. (search)
asted this couplet:-- Can't never yet did anything; Try has done wonders. Then came Miss Mansfield's school, and Mr. Magoun's. Who does not look back with pleasure to Mr. Magoun's reign? I loved him, even though he inflicted many an indignityMr. Magoun's reign? I loved him, even though he inflicted many an indignity upon me, by causing me to follow him while he slowly moved through the seats of the boys' side, mending their quill-pens or filling their inkstands, thereby mortifying greatly my sweet elder sister who never did anything wrong; and all — for what? Whispering, Mr. Magoun called it, but in my opinion, it was friends taking sweet counsel together. My copy of the old American First Class Book, the reader used then, is among my choicest possessions. It has my name written by Mr. Magoun, on the Mr. Magoun, on the fly-leaf, dated 1844. We had singing lessons once a week given by Mr. Joseph Bird from Watertown, who drove down in a covered wagon, and sometimes brought pails of brilliant gold and silver-fish, for those who had paid good attention to his teach
Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909, chapter 3 (search)
antecedents I have learned little. In her later years she was quite alone in the world; her burial was at Goffstown, N. H. The photograph which is reproduced with this article was contributed by Mrs. Woodbury, of Methuen. August 17, 1846, Adaline L. Sanborn was elected teacher of the Milk Row Primary. Her first examination took place September 28 following, when she had on her list 101 scholars. She had to undergo no slight ordeal that day, when she faced Messrs. Bell, Allen, Forster, Magoun, and Hill, of the School Board, who no doubt had come to see how the new teacher was doing. Another primary school was started that year in the Leland district near by. This school was held in a room hired for the purpose, and Miss Frances B. Adams was the teacher. At her examination October 2 she had an enrollment of sixty-eight pupils. Meanwhile on the lot of land recently purchased, at the corner of Milk and Kent Streets, a schoolhouse was built, the duplicate of one that was being ere
Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909, Index (search)
Lincoln, Martha, 29. Lincoln, Mass., 34. Littlefield, A. M., 68. Littlefield, Catherine W., 66. Littlefield, James M., 66. Littlefield, Joshua, 68. Littlefield, Joshua, Jr., 68. Littlefield, Martha A., 68. Littlefield, Mary Ethelinda, 66. Littlefield, R., 68. Liverpool, Eng., 47. Locke, Ann W., 33, 34. Locke, John F., 4, 17. Locke, Lucy Brooks, 21. Long, Michael, 78. Lovett, Washington, 17. Lower Winter Hill Primary, 36. Lower Winter Hill School, 30. Ludkin, Aaron, 78. Magoun, 39. Maitland, Nova Scotia, 68. Major, Daniel, 43. Mallet, Andrew, 89. Mallet, John, 89. March, Oliver, 35. Maulsby, D. L., 72. McCarthy, John, 17. McClernand, General, 51, 57. McClune, James, 46. McGurdy, Alexander, 17. McJunkin, Samuel, 17. McLean Asylum, 24. McLearn, Annie, 68. McLearn. Elizabeth, 68. McLearn, John J., 68. McLellan Hospital, 5. McNall, George, 17. McQuade, John, 11. Mead, Sarah A., 32. Menotomy River, 87. Merritt, John S., 17. Methodist Churc
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 13., Stage-coach days in Medford. (search)
ept Sunday. In 1845 Medford had four omnibus trips each day, and in 1846, six, according to The Boston Almanac. It would be pleasant to know who were the passengers by the stage-coach in the early days of the Medford line. Probably Timothy Bigelow, who moved to Medford about this time, and later his son, John Prescott Bigelow, for they were lawyers, and must have used this means to reach their office, 7 Barristers' Hall, Court Square, Boston. Perhaps, too, some members of the Brooks, Magoun or Porter families, when they did not choose to use their own carriages, travelled by stage-coach. Many Medford citizens who have passed the four-score mile-stone were among the later passengers, and they enjoy recalling their old-time experiences of travel. The successful merchants and business men of today who ride over our country in palace cars would often, as young lads, walk one way and ride the other when the necessary fare was not jingling in their pockets. As one told me, Why,
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., The Jonathan Watson house. (search)
mer school children—was gathered up by one interested, and incidents carefully noted. Of these written, but unpublished, notes we mention a few. One who was then a young miss tells how gaily she was attired, and speaks of the polite bow the President accorded her as he passed her home. Another, a boy, and of course interested in horses, tells of the cavalcade of gentlemen that escorted Washington from Boston, and how the horses were cared for at his father's stable, where is now the vacant Magoun mansion. Another girl remembers her elders of the women telling how General Brooks requested Mrs. Brooks to have Indian corn cakes for breakfast, knowing his superior's especial liking therefor. In after years, when a Medford boy visited Governor Brooks, who took great pride in his garden and was taking the boy about it, the Governor told him with much pleasure of his illustrious visitor, remarking that it was their last interview. The house had a succession of tenants till in 1810 Sa
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., An old Landmark. (search)
ccupied by William Tufts. This house stood upon the site of the Unitarian Church and was removed to its present location on the land above described to make way for the new third meeting-house, the land on which it stood having been selected by the town of Medford as a site for the new meeting-house. May 14, 1772, the selectmen of Medford gave liberty to Mr. Noah Floyd to build a shop on his land before the meeting-house. A noticeable feature of this house is that the living rooms are at the northern side, this being caused by the removal and reversed frontage in its new location. This house has been known in recent years as the Magoun cottage, and was damaged by fire in March, 1915. The shop has long since disappeared, and a portion of the land is now occupied by the street, the use of which for street purposes was probably anticipated by Mr. Bishop when he conveyed to Mr. Floyd, although it was over one hundred years before it became a portion of High street. John H. Hooper.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., chapter 28 (search)
he elder Theodore Lyman, whose tastes were similar to his own, and who often sent from his Waltham nurseries standard stock trees, with a man to plant them, and furnished him with the first espalier which covered his fruit wall. Today the garden, now owned by Mrs. Mary Tufts, has something of the aspect the garden had years ago. The terraces are the same, the foundations of the greenhouse are the old ones used by Timothy Bigelow, the frames only being new, and the brick wall between the Magoun estate on the east and the wall on the west by the land of Grace church are the same. This was the upper garden. The lot of Mrs. Prescott was an orchard, and for many years after her father purchased it a large greening apple tree yielded fine fruit. The garden of today, although a pleasant spot, does not show the elegance of the one a hundred years ago, for that was a wealth of shrubbery, plants and trees, and the greenhouse was filled with rare plants, and trees were trained on the bric
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Fin De Siecle. (search)
east with nature's own beverage, and was the starting point of three principal roads of the baker's dozen the selectmen named. The first was from the town pump, west to Charlestown line, High street; second, east to Malden line, Salem; and third, south to foot of Winter hill, Main. Three streets branched to the right from High street to Woburn line. Purchase (now Winthrop), Woburn and Grove. Today only the three Hall houses below Governors avenue, the Unitarian parsonage, and the old Magoun cottage opposite remain of those standing in 1829. The present Winthrop square was then called Turell's corner. A new road had then been recently proposed which would have crossed the Playstead and Brooks estate, and also the Aberjona river, to the West Cambridge road, but instead, another was partially bought, hence its name. It made a more direct and level route to Upper Medford, and left old Woburn street to become a residential section. Let us now look at old High street, beginning
The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Southern affairs. (search)
close of the present war. The vote for State officers of Louisiana. The Baton Rouge Advocates gives the follow as the result of the vote at the election on the 4th inst., for State officers — the parishes of Jackson and Morehouse yet to be heard from: For Treasurer--Defreese, 32,380. For Auditor--Peralta, 27,636; Haynes, 3,793; Thompson, 2, 493 For Superintendent of Public Education--Avery, 11,279: Magruder, 15,555; Harp, 3,401; Winfree, 3,773; Wederstrandt, 556; Magoun, 509. Something New — a repulsive daguerreotype. From the Danville Register, of the 28th inst., we copy the following daguerreotype of a very mean man: We have seen for the first time to-day, something new, since the war commenced.--That something, reader, was an old man, who owns some seventy slaves, but who refuses to give one cent to have them protected.--Speculators and extortioners have been familiarly known to us, before and since the war. But never since the inauguratio