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Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, The Author of Mary had a little lamb. (search)
The Author of Mary had a little lamb. By Miss Mary A. Haley. [Read Before the Somerville Historical Society December 8, 1908.] Columbus Tyler was born in Townsend, Vt., in 1805. He had no special education save the training of the farm, the home, the meeting-house, and the common school. At the age of twenty-one he came to Boston, and in a few months secured the position of attendant at the McLean Asylum in Somerville, Mass., and in a few years he had passed through all the grades of its services. He remained there thirty-six years. He was associated with such distinguished men as Dr. Wyman, Dr. Luther V. Bell, and Dr. Booth, and was on most friendly terms with those who succeeded him. In 1835 he married Miss Mary E. Sawyer, of Sterling, Mass. In 1862 he gave up his position at the asylum, and built a handsome residence near the corner of Central and Summer Streets. This house is now occupied by the Unitarian minister and his wife. In the house are two full-length por
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Our Seal. (search)
base. Its walls, which are of bluestone (probably quarried on the hillside), are two feet thick. Within, the old structure formerly had three lofts, supported by heavy beams. Originally it had but one entrance, that on the southwest side. The following is from Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution:— On the first of January, 1776, the new Continental Army was organized, and on that day the Union flag of thirteen stripes was unfurled for the first time in the American camp, Somerville, Mass. On that day the king's speech was received in Boston, and copies of it were sent to Washington, who, in a letter to Joseph Reed, written January 4, 1776, said: The speech I send you. A volume of them were sent out by the Boston gentry, and farcical enough, we gave great joy to them without knowing or intending it, for on that day, the day which gave being to the new army, but before the proclamation came to hand, we had hoisted the Union flag, in compliment to the United Colonies. But
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Charles Darwin Elliot. (search)
dge fire department. In 1816 he moved to Foxboro, Mass., where he became a prosperous farmer; it was he who changed the spelling of the family name from Eliot to its present form. The children of Joel and Mary M. were: Mary Joanna, Joseph, Sarah Elizabeth, Caroline, Charles Edwin, Hannah, Timothy, Joel Augustus, and Nancy Maria. Joseph, son of Joel and Mary M. (Flagg) Elliot, and father of Charles D. Elliot, was born in Cambridge, near Harvard Square, January 1, 1807, and died in Somerville, Mass., July 7, 1874. He married, at Mt. Holly, Vt., December 24, 1835, Zenora, daughter of Stephen, Jr., and Sibil (Lawrence) Tucker. He built and settled in Foxboro Centre; he moved thence to Wrentham, from there to Malden, and in 1846 to Somerville, where for fifteen years he was station agent of the Prospect Street, now Union Square, station of the Fitchburg Railroad. He was at one time a member of the Somerville fire department, and in early life of the state militia; in his early day
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Memoir. (search)
Memoir. By J. Albert Holmes, Member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. Charles D. Elliot was educated in the schools of Foxboro, Wrentham, Malden, and in the old Milk Row School and the Prospect Hill Grammar School, Somerville, Mass., and in Henry Munroe's private school on Walnut Street, this city, which he left to enter, at the age of twelve years, the Hopkins Classical School, situated at that time on the south side of Main Street, now Massachusetts Avenue, a few rods westerly from Dana Street, Cambridge. This school was in existence from 1840 to 1854, and was supported from a fund left by Edward Hopkins, for a grammar school in Cambridge. The teacher during Mr. Elliot's attendance was Edmund B. Whitman. Mr. Elliot was a member of the first entering class of the Somerville High School. The front portion of the present Somerville City Hall was built and dedicated April 28, 1852, as a high school. The school from 1852 to 1867 occupied the upper floor, and afterwards
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Index (search)
y, Mass., 4, 22, 45. Smith, Alfred, 24. Snow, Lemuel H., 20, 22. Soley Lodge, 24. Somerville Avenue, 7, 11, 71. Somerville Avenue, Widening of, 59. Somerville Board of Trade, 60, 62, 64, 70. Somerville City Hall, 56. Somerville's Development and Progress, 62. Somerville High School, 56, 82. Somerville Historical Society, 23, 24, 60, 62. 63, 64, 72, 82. Somerville Journal, The, 59, 83, 84. Somerville Light Infantry, 19. Somerville in the Revolution, 61. Somerville, Mass., 22. Somerville National Bank, 17. Somerville, No. 1, 15. Somerville Past and Present, 61. Somerville Public Library, 17. Somerville Royal Arch Chapter, 24. Somerville Savings Bank, 19. Somerville in War Times, 61. Somerville Woman's Relief Corps, 64. Sons of American Revolution, 62. Sons of the Revolution, Massachusetts Society of, 51. Southern Prison Life, Reminiscences of, 32-41. South Sea Island, 77. Southworth, Gordon A., 22. Spear Place, Boston