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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) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 4 0 Browse Search
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corner of Mount Auburn and Holyoke streets, which had long been used by the Shepard Congregational society. After some alterations he opened it for worship during the same year, and gathered as its congregation about two thousand souls. In 1875 it was set off as a separate parish, with the Rev. William Orr as its resident pastor. Father Orr, assisted by two curates, Fathers Coan and Ryan, is still directing its affairs. He has added the property on Mount Auburn Street, known as the Gordon McKay estate, and erected a large school upon it. He contemplates within a short time placing also upon this site a commodious new church. This parish now numbers about four thousand. The New St. John's Parish, Rindge Avenue. The rapid increase of the congregation of St. Peter's church had again made that structure too small at the time Father Flatley was appointed to be its pastor, and soon after taking charge of the parish, he began to interest his people to secure additional facilitie
interior work, State Street, Cambridgeport; Graves & Phelps, tables; T. B. Wentworth, pulpits; A. M. & D. W. Grant, William W. Robertson, P. A. Pederson, and Lee L. Powers, makers of cabinet work. Miscellaneous manufactures. Boston Woven hose and Rubber Co. the reader is indebted for this interesting description of the Woven hose Co. To Colonel Theodore Ayrault Dodge.—editor. In 1870 Lyman R. Blake, the inventor of the original sole sewing machine, so successfully exploited by Gordon McKay, long a citizen of Cambridge, devised a machine for sewing up strips of rubber-coated canvas into hydraulic hose. This machine was shortly afterward purchased by Colonel Theodore A. Dodge, who, having been placed on the retired list of the army, had taken up his residence in Cambridge, and the manufacture of Blake hose was begun. At first the article produced was acceptable rather from its cheapness than from its solidity; and although the original somewhat flimsy garden hose graduall