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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 13 (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, Index of names of persons. (search)
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 5 (search)
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., Editorial note. (search)
Editorial note.
In 1883 a third edition of Mr. Warren's Life on the Nile in a Dahabeaeh was published.
A copy of this, with illustrations, has just come into the Society's library by courtesy of his nephew, Henry W. Hart.
In 1884 Mr. Warren published his autobiography (forty-five pages), with the genealogies of affiliated families (Bennett, Schouler, Russel, Wilkins and others), the former containing interesting side-lights on Medford history.
On page 217, Brooks' History of Medford,Mr. Warren's Life on the Nile in a Dahabeaeh was published.
A copy of this, with illustrations, has just come into the Society's library by courtesy of his nephew, Henry W. Hart.
In 1884 Mr. Warren published his autobiography (forty-five pages), with the genealogies of affiliated families (Bennett, Schouler, Russel, Wilkins and others), the former containing interesting side-lights on Medford history.
On page 217, Brooks' History of Medford, is a view of his boyhood home when in Medford.
When a boy in Medford
There comes to us a bit of information relative to a boy's life in the Medford of nearly a century agone and worth noticing, from the autobiography of William Wilkins Warren, son of Isaac Warren of old Menotomy.
By some change in family fortune William was placed in the care of his paternal grandfather, Amos Warren of Medford, at the age of six years, in 1820, and lived with him eight years.
Amos Warren came from old Menotomy (then the west parish of Cambridge), now Arlington, in an early year of the century, and bought a small farm in the western part of Medford on the side of a hill, with an orchard of fifteen acres, and lived there until his death in 1831.
It was doubtless the old home of the pious deacon John Whitmore on which the later residence of James M. Usher was built.
Across the street was the old Bucknam house, in recent years removed, making room for the West Medford post-office, and the cottage of Captain Wyatt, which still remains as a