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Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910 2 2 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 1 1 Browse Search
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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
rm was no hindrance to him in his later experience in business life. His first introduction to business was in his sixteenth year, when he entered the store of Mr. Gad Orvis, in the village of West Windsor, Vt. He remained with Mr. Orvis until the winter of 1837, and, although everything was conducted on a very small scale, he gained a good deal of insight into the methods of business management. In the winter of 1837, feeling the need of a better education, he attended the academy at Unity, N. H., of which the late Rev. A. A. Miner was then the principal; and during a part of the same year, to enable him to pay his expenses at the academy, he taught school at Cavendish, Vt. This finished his school education. He left the home of his boyhood, and moved to Boston March 19, 1838. He went to work immediately for Nathan Robbins, who was in business in Quincy Market, now commonly called Faneuil Hall Market, and continued with him until April 30, 1842, when he started for himself and f
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, The Walnut Hill School. (search)
Charlestown control, and also the first and second winters after Somerville was established. Mr. Russell was employed more than once to teach at West Cambridge, in the district known as the Rocks. Philemon Robbins Russell was born January 2, 1795, and died June 6, 1863, at the age of sixty-eight. He received his education in an academy at Lexington. Russell Street of this city was named for him, and it was in that neighborhood that he lived and died. He married Miss Mary Wilkins, of Unity, N. H., and was survived by two daughters, Mary M., the wife of Edwin R. Prescott, and Susan E., the second wife of the late Amos Haynes. The annual report of the trustees for 1838-39 says of Mr. Russell: His efforts and skill are worthy of the highest commendation. He insisted upon the thoroughness of all his pupils. His uniform practice is, if a pupil makes a blunder in recitation, he is compelled afterwards to repeat that part of his answer correctly, as a word going around the class must
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Index (search)
s, Samuel, 7. Tufts, Timothy, 7. Turner, Rev., Edward, 43. Turner, Captain, William, 53. Tyler, Mary E., 26, 30, 31. Tyler, Columbus, 25, 27. Underwood, James, 42, 48. Union Flag Unfurled, 52. Union Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society, 82. Union, Rock County, Wis., 82. Union Square, 7, 8, 12, 15, 17, 19, 74. Union Square Before the War, 62. Union Square and Its Neighborhood About the Year 1846, 62. Unitarian Church, 27. Unitarian Parsonage, 18. United Colonies, 52. Unity, N. H., 44. Upham, John, 49. Upham, William Henry, 49. Urann, Captain, Thomas, 77. Veteran Firemen's Association, 18. Vicksburg, 65. Victoria, 72. Vinal, Alfred E., 14, 18. Vinal Avenue, 6, 14. Vinal, Edward E., 14. Vinal, Emmeline A., 14. Vinal, John W., 14,--18. Vinal, Lucy A., 14. Vinal, Lydia, 14. Vinal, Lydia M., 13, 18. Vinal, Lydia (Stone), 17. Vinal, Margaret F., 14. Vinal, Martha A., 14. Vinal, Mary Elizabeth, 13. Vinal, Quincy Adams, 14, 15, 17, 62 Vinal,