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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., Francis A. Wait. (search)
nd street with his three sisters, Misses Susan M., Hetty F. and Sarah H. Wait, for some fifteen years. The family previously lived in a house on Main street, near Cradock bridge, the site of which was included in the takings of the Metropolitan Park Commission. This house was on the site of the Wait homestead, and was built to replace the one destroyed in the great fire of 1850. The burned house was the house in which Mr. Wait was born, July 28, 1829, the second son of Nathan W. and Susan (Smith) Wait. His father and his grandfather were blacksmiths. His father's grandmother was Sarah Bradlee Fulton, and Mr. Wait was an attendant at the exercises of dedication of the monument placed in the Salem-street cemetery in her honor by the Sarah Bradlee Fulton Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. He received his education in the Medford public schools. When quite young he learned the trade of a blacksmith in his father's shop, and successively as apprentice, journeyma
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., The little Republic. (search)
The little Republic. Sixty years ago a little book of two hundred and twenty-eight pages was published by a lady who soon after became, and for some years was, a resident of Medford, the preceptress of the famous Mystic Hall Seminary, Mrs. Eliza T. P. Smith. In her preface she says:— Most of the articles in this little volume were kindly contributed by the respective writers expressly for this purpose, and these writers include some of the most distinguished in the land. ... The editor has interspersed some trifles of her own, which she hopes may be leniently regarded. The volume is intended as an agreeable and instructive Miscellany, for presentation, free from all sectarian prejudices, and such an one as may contribute to the moral and intellectual progress of Young America. The title of the book is The Little Republic Original Articles by Various Hands, edited by Mrs. T. P. Smith, from the press of Wiley & Putnam, New York, and is dedicated, on a special page, to her
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., My father. (search)
My father. by Eliza T. P. Smith. And I am conscious of affecting thoughts, And dear remembrances, whose presence soothes And elevates the mind. Wordsworth. My father! What remembrance dear Arises when that name I hear. Memory's voice brings back to me Childhood's moments full of glee, All its gambols, all its plays, All my father's kindly ways. Ah! it brings to me again Days of weariness or pain, When soft cradled in his arms, Gentle songs soothed all alarms. Those years, alas! how quickly flown— Those years, with love and blessings strewn. Memory's voice it wakes again— That parental, tender strain; Love and precept, line on line Did my father's word combine— Yes, it was his lavish hand Ever placed at my command All that could adorn and bless, Knowledge, truth and happiness. Those halcyon days have passed away— But his counsels with me stay. My father! yes I see him now, With generous hand and sunny brow, Making happy those around— Soothing grief wherever found, And