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Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908,
Union Square
and its neighborhood about the year 1846. (search)
ity hall; Dr. Charles I. Putnam; Dr. Weston, our earliest, or one of our earliest, postmasters; D. A. and S. H. Marrett, prominent storekeepers; and many others. Our family moved from Malden to Somerville in 1846 to a residence and store then facing on Union square, and owned by Jeremiah Jordan, a professional musician, I think connected with Ditson's music store. A man named Gossom kept store in this building when we moved to it; the building was afterwards owned by George A. and Albert L. Sanborn, who carried on the grocery business in it, and who christened it the Oasis. The Oasis originally stood quite out to the southerly line of Union square, and about one hundred and twenty feet east of Webster avenue; it had a piazza in front, which was the rendezvous of the idlers of that part of the village. At the easterly corner of this piazza, overshadowed by a lofty and picturesque elm, stood one of the town pumps, with its well of delicious water. Elm and pump are gone, except i
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, chapter 1 (search)
ir cuds, with watchful eye turned on passers-by, particularly the one on the end next the street. Of the four children born to this couple, two were well known as proprietors of a grocery store in Union Square in the sixties, George A. and Albert L. Sanborn. A daughter, Martha Maria, married Richard H. Sturtevant. Another daughter, Mary Jane, died while attending the high school. Hannah Adams Stone is said by her granddaughter to have taken care of her father in his last years, and of tho846 the boys' company, so called because composed of young men from sixteen to twenty years old, was organized. According to some of its members, David A. Sanborn was assistant foreman. Other members were Quincy A. Vinal, Robert A. Vinal, Albert L. Sanborn, and Daniel Sanborn. In November, 1849, the town appropriated money for the purchase of a good and sufficient fire engine. It was styled Somerville, Number 1. The selectmen appointed a board of fire engineers, and more than fifty men a
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Index (search)
r., 82. Rockland, Me., 58. Rogers, Rev., Nathaniel, 53. Roulston, John, 29, 30. Runey, George, 16. Runey, Horace, 16. Runey, John, 14, 18. Russ, Rev. Mr., 13. Russell District, 48. Russell, James, 43. Russell, Levi, 42, 46, 47. Russell, Philemon, 42. Russell, Philemon R., Jr., 42, 44, 45. Russell, Rebecca, 47. Russell's School, The, 42. Russell Street, 44. Russell, Kezia, 45. Russell, Kezia Teel, 45. Sabine Pass, 67. Sabine River, 81. Sakaski, Lizzie, 82. Sanborn, Albert L., 12, 15. Sanborn Avenue, 14. Sanborn, Daniel, 15. Sanborn, Daniel A., 57. Sanborn, David A., 12, 14, 15, 18. Sanborn, George A., 12. Sanborn, Hannah Adams (Stone), 18. Sanborn Insurance Map Co., 57. Sanborn, Martha, 14. Sanborn, Robert, 11, 12, 14. Sanborn, Martha Maria, 12. Sanborn, Mary Jane, 12. Sargent, Aaron, 20. Sargent, Rev., John, 6. Saugus, Mass., 45. Saunders, Hon., Charles Hicks, 62, Savannah, Ga., 38, Sawyer, Mary E., 25, 26. Sawyer, William Brewster,