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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Brooks Estates in Medford from 1660 to 1927. (search)
ted out the site of the identical elm tree under which the chocolate was said to have been served. This tree stood in the driveway on the east side of the Peter C. Brooks house, at that time called the Francis Brooks house. In recent years doubt has been cast on the authenticity of this tradition. In 1775 chocolate was being manufactured in Boston. In fact it is probable that the only chocolate then manufactured in the colonies was made in the corner of a saw mill on the banks of the Neponset river on the site of the present mills of Walter Baker & Co. The maker was a young Irishman, Richard Harman. At his death, a few years later, a Doctor Baker who had interested himself in the young man's enterprise took over the operation of the infant industry, installing his son, Walter Baker, to learn the art of making chocolate. From that beginning sprang the present firm which bears his name. In the latter part of the eighteenth century chocolate as a beverage had become an expensive lu
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., History of St. James' church, Wellington. (search)
, in 1920. With land secured, a temporary church erected, plans were rapidly forming looking forward to the hoped-for future day when a permanent church would be erected. In June, 1920, Rev. Ralph W. Farrell was appointed curate to assist Father O'Donnell. Father O'Donnell labored for almost six years among the people of Wellington and Glenwood, and sincere regret was felt when in September, 1925, he was rewarded for his faithful work by being made pastor of St. Anne's church, Neponset, Mass. On September 8, 1925, a new pastor came to Wellington to take Father O'Donnell's place—Rev. Dennis F. Murphy, who had been for many years assistant pastor at St. Paul's, Cambridge. Father Murphy at once took up the reins and made plans looking to a start on the new church in the spring of 1926. The ground for the new church was broken in the early spring of 1926, and at once the corner at the Fellsway and Fourth street became the scene of activity. The corner-stone of the new