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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 4: (search)
hereof shall be for the aforesaid purpose. These funds were left to accumulate till 1815, when it was deemed expedient to establish a Professorship of Law. The next year, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hon. Isaac Parker, was elected, bearing the title, Royall Professor of law. This learned and worthy man gave a course of lectures immediately; and, when thus brought in contact with college and legal education, he suggested the establishment of a Law School at Cambridge. This recommendation was joyfully greeted; and, in 1817, the law school was established. Thus Colonel Royal was indirectly an originator of that school. Professor Parker held office for eleven years, and, in 1827, resigned. Hon. Asahel Stearns (brother of Dr. Stearns, of Medford) was then chosen, 1817, and served acceptably till 1829, when John Hooker Ashman succeeded. He died, in office, in 1833; and, in 1834, Hon. Simon Greenleaf was chosen, and performed his duties with e
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)
d--  11-33Elizabeth, b. Jan. 9, 1691.  34Nathan, b. Oct. 25, 1694; d. Sept. 22, 1773, s. p.  35Susanna, b. Aug. 30, 1696.  36Sarah, b. Sept. 8, 1698.  37Tabitha, b. Nov. 9, 1699; m. Wm. Benford, Sept. 16, 1723.  38William, b. Feb. 9, 1705. 2-13Stephen Hall, of Charlestown, m., 1st, Grace----, who d., of smallpox, Nov. 12, 1721; and, 2d, Feb. 5, 1739, Mrs. Anne Nowel. He d. Sept. 3, 1755, aged 85. His children were--  13-39Stephen, b. Nov. 5, 1693.  40Grace, b. June 17, 1697; m. Isaac Parker.  41Esther, b. Dec. 27, 1700; m. Dec. 18, 1729, Peter Eades.  42Josiah, b. May 12, 1705.  43Willard.  44 Ruth, b. 1708; m.1st, July 8, 1725, John Weber. 2d, Dec. 11, 1735, T. Symmes. 2-14PERCIVAL Hall, of Sutton, 1720; m. at Woburn, Oct. 18, 1697, Jane Willis. He was one of the founders of the church at Medford; was one of the original proprietors of Sutton; was representative to the Provincial Congress; and deacon. He died Dec. 25, 1752. Children:--  14-45Percival, b.
The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn, History of Mount Auburn. (search)
ollowing Act was that year obtained from the Legislature of the Commonwealth, for the incorporation of the proprietors by themselves: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five. An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn. section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That Joseph Story, John Davis, Jacob Bigelow, Isaac Parker, George Bond, and Charles P. Curtis, together with such other persons as are Proprietors of Lots in the Cemetery at Mount Auburn, in the towns of Cambridge and Watertown, in the County of Middlesex, and who shall in writing signify their assent to this Act, their successors and assigns be, and they hereby are created a Corporation, by the name of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, and they shall have all the powers and privileges contained in the statute of the year One thou
The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn, Appendix II: list of original subscribers. (search)
rd, Enoch Hobart, Sarah L. Howe, Zachariah Hicks, Henderson Inches, William Ingalls, Deming Jarves, Charles T. Jackson, Joseph B. Joy, George H. Kuhn, Abel Kendall, Jr. Josiah Loring, Henry Loring, John Lamson, Seth S. Lynde, William Lawrence, Amos Lawrence, Abbott Lawrence, John Lemist, Francis C. Lowell, Charles Lowell, Henry Lienow, Isaac Livermore, Isaac Mead, R. D. C. Merry, Isaac McLellan, Francis J. Oliver, Thomas H. Perkins, Jr. George W. Pratt, Isaac Parker, Samuel Pond, John Pierpont, Francis Parkman, Edward W. Payne, Josiah Quincy, Henry Rice, Ebenezer Rollins, E. A. Raymond, James Read, James Russell, Henry Robinson, John Randall, John P. Rice, John L. Russell, James Savage, James S. Savage, Lucius M. Sargent, Isaac Staples, Charles B. Shaw, P. R. L. Stone, Lemuel Stanwood, George C. Shattuck, Joseph Story, Henry B. Stone, Leonard Stone, Robert G. Shaw, Asahel Stearns, Jared Sparks, David A. Simmons, David St
The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn, Appendix V: Officers of the corporation. (search)
Appendix V: Officers of the corporation. Joseph Story, President. George Bond, Treasurer, Office 9 Kilby Street. B. R. Curtis, Secretary, Office 16 Court Street. Trustees. Samuel T. Armstrong, Jacob Bigelow, George Bond, Martin Brimmer, Charles P. Curtis, Benjamin R. Curtis, Benjamin A. Gould, Isaac Parker, James Read, Joseph Story. Committee on lots. George Bond, Jacob Bigelow, Charles P. Curtis. Superintendent, James W. Russell. Terms of subscription. The price of a lot of 300 superficial feet is Eighty Dollars, and in proportion for a larger lot. Selections may be made on the following terms, and the person who first reports his selection to the Secretary, is entitled to a preference, to wit: 1. From any lots numbered 1 to 350 inclusive and unsold, (a choice from these having been offered by auction) at par. 2. From the remaining lots laid out and unsold, on payment of Ten Dollars. 3. From any other part of the Cemeter
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., January 15, 1738. (search)
bly disposed towards forming a society for the purpose of mutual instruction in the arts and sciences, met at the upper factory school-house and organized the Rumford Institute. The credit of first proposing the plan of the society belongs to Isaac Parker, who secured the earnest cooperation of Rev. Bernard Whitman, Isaac Bemis, Esq., Dr. Samuel L. Dana and others. It is the earliest institution of the kind in the State and perhaps in the country. Mr. Rutter's Address. The first lecture wa in Rumford Hall. The library increased till it numbered several thousands of volumes, and on the establishment of the public library in 1865, it was given to the town. In March, 1858, F. M. Stone, Eben Hobbs, Josiah Rutter, Horatio Adams, Isaac Parker and their associates were incorporated as the Rumford Institute, and the Act of Incorporation most appropriately received the signature of N. P. Banks, a member of the Institute, then Governor of the Commonwealth. The manufacture of watches