s of meetings and entertainments,—as a church, as a drill room for the Somerville Light Infantry, a hall for political gatherings and harangues, for fairs, for concerts, colored minstrel and sleight-of-hand performers, and for the meetings of the Franklin Institute.
The Franklin Institute was a library and debating association.
Its first meeting was held December 3, 1852, at which James S. Tuttle was temporary chairman, and Thomas Gooding secretary.
Upon the permanent organization, Quincy A. Vinal was elected president, and J. Manly Clark and Thomas Gooding vice-presidents, and Charles F. Stevens secretary.
It had about fifty members, among whom, besides those named, were William L. Burt, Isaiah W. Tuttle, E. A. Norris, editor of the Olive Branch, Charles Williams, Jr., Robert A. Vinal, John W. Vinal, N. Carleton Hawkins, Charles S. Lincoln, Emery H. Munroe, Phineas W. Blodgett, John Runey, Francis Tufts, William and Edwin Mills, Clark Bennett.
R. W. Keyes, Edwin C. Bennett, C
15, 16, 32, 39, 42, 76.
Union Square and its Neighborhood About 1846, 5-16.
Union Square Before the War, 32-42.
United States, 41.
United States of North America, 82.
Unitarian Hall.
73, 76.
Unitarian Society. 39.
Upper Basin, The, 33.
Van De Sande, George, 18.
Vestals, 81.
Vinal, Alfred E., 7.
Vinal, Edward E., 7, 41.
Vinal, Elizabeth, 7.
Vinal, Emeline, 7.
Vinal, John W., 7, 41.
Vinal. Lucy, 7.
Vinal, Lydia, 7.
Vinal, Margaret, 7.
Vinal, Martha, 7.
Vinal, Quincy A., 7, 40, 78.
Vinal, Robert, 52, 55.
Vinal, Deacon, Robert, 7, 32, 33. 40.
Vinal, Robert A., 7, 41.
Walford, Thomas, 79.
Walnut Street, 7, 32.
Wrapping, Eng., 31.
Ware, John S., 5.
Warren Bridge, 12.
Warren, General, 44, 45, 70.
Warrington Junction, 23.
Warrington, Va., 21.
Waters, Elizabeth A., 75.
Waters, Sarah, 49.
Watertown, Mass., 52.
Waterville, Va., 20.
Washington, D. C., 18, 19.
Washington Street, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 26, 33, 37, 39, 40, 52.
Washington S