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George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 188 188 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), Cambridge a city. (search)
hbors, New Bedford became a city in 1847, Worcester in 1848, and Lynn in 1850. Then came Newburyport in 1851, Springfield in 1852, Lawrence in 1853, Fall River in 1854, and so the list has lengthened, year by year. With the exception of the three early ventures of Boston, Salem, and Lowell, the era of Massachusetts municipalitie, Mass. Clergyman. Sidney Willard.1848-49-50.1780.1856.Beverly, Mass. Professor. George Stevens.1851-52.1803.1894.Norway, Maine. Manufacturer. Abraham Edwards.1854.1797.1870.Boston, Mass. Lawyer. Zebina L. Raymond.1855-1864.1804.1872.Shutesbury, Mass. Merchant. John Sargent.1856-57-58-59.1799.1880. Hillsboroa, N. H. Chas. . Lawyer. William E. Russell.1885-86-87-88.1857.Cambridge, Mass. Lawyer. Henry H. Gilmore.1889-90.1832.1891.Warner, N. H. Manufacturer. Alpheus B. Alger.1891-92.1854.1895.Lowell, Mass. Lawyer. Wm. A. Bancroft.1893-94-95-96.1855.Groton, Mass. Lawyer. From the above it will be seen that all of our mayors have been New Englan
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Burial-places in Cambridge. (search)
urchased on Broadway, at the corner of Norfolk Street. This was used nearly a half century, mostly by the inhabitants of those sections of the town, until the year 1854, when the present cemetery on Coolidge Avenue was laid out under the direction of a committee appointed by the city government. The services of consecration werurpose, making provision for two hundred and twenty burials. The number of interments, including the removals from the Broadway ground, since its consecration in 1854, have been twenty thousand one hundred and twenty-five. In 1892 an iron fence was constructed on Coolidge Avenue, together with a neat, substantial iron and stone gateway, in place of the original one of wood, built in 1854. By a wise foresight, a generation or more ago, this beautiful spot was selected as a place of burial. Through the liberal appropriations of the several city councils, it has been enlarged on either side, and with the faithful, judicious oversight of those intrust
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The public schools of Cambridge. (search)
. Here the records must be dropped. Even in their fullness, the story they tell is somewhat meagre; and it is only a snatch or two from that story that is given here. It is not the story of a golden age in our school history, except so far as that age might have lived in the dreams of men who sought to advance the schools. It is certain, however, that the graphic, high-toned, and fearless reports of William A. Stearns Rev. William A. Stearns was the president of Amherst College, from 1854 to the time of his death in 1876.—editor. and his associates did wonders in quickening the town's educational conscience, and in toning up the schools to the better standards of the times. The schools of Cambridge to-day. The School Committee of Cambridge numbers fifteen members. The term of service is three years, one third of the committee retiring each year. Thus the board is practically a continuous body, always containing a majority that have had experience in school management.
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Freemasonry in Cambridge. (search)
egular meetings and proper business of the lodge. After the reorganization, meetings were held in the hall of Friendship Lodge of Odd Fellows, on Main Street, nearly opposite Pearl Street, and this hall was used until its destruction by fire in 1854, when Amicable Lodge removed with the Odd Fellows to Friendship Hall on Pearl Street, between Green and Franklin streets. In 1866 their present commodious apartments were fitted up on Main Street, now Massachusetts Avenue, No. 685. On the 18th sual vicissitudes in Masonic institutions everywhere,—and it still remains the largest of the five now in existence. Of these, Putnam Lodge, of East Cambridge, numbering now 159 members according to the report of August 31, 1895, was chartered in 1854; Mount Olivet Lodge was chartered in 1863, and reports 151 members; Mizpah was chartered in 1868, and has 180 members; Charity Lodge, dating from 1870, has 101 members. The Cambridge Royal Arch Chapter was chartered in 1864, and Cambridge Command
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)
were attempts made to raise the capital to $150,000 in 1853, and to $200,000 in 1854. The board of directors held its first meeting March 27, at the house of Dr. volumes for collectors. Musical instruments The Mason & Hamlin Co. In 1854 Henry Mason and Emmons Hamlin formed a partnership for the manufacture of melode square feet of working floor space. The first Mason & Hamlin organ was made in 1854 and the first piano in 1881. The capacity of the factory is ten thousand organsture of soap for export, a large business was done with the woolen mills, and in 1854 the manufacture of candles was added. Business kept on increasing, and the builge. The business was established on Bridge Street, near Prison Point Street, in 1854, by D. & W. L. Lockhart, and so continued until 1858, when W. L. Lockhart becamepring-bed Co. The manufacture of spring-beds was established in Cambridge in 1854 by Tyler and Otis Howe, father and son. The elder Howe died in 1880, and the bus