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Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908,
Union Square
and its neighborhood about the year 1846. (search)
treet, near the square, was the mansion of Deacon Robert Vinal, a pleasant home, with grape arbors, peach, apple, and pear orchards, flower gardens and conservatories. I shall never forget one tree of whose fruit I was especially fond, a blue pearmain apple. Mr. Vinal had a fine barn and stable in the rear of his house; these were afterwards destroyed by incendiary fire. Deacon Vinal's children were Robert A., Quincy A., John W., Edward E., Alfred E., Margaret, afterwards wife of General William L. Burt, postmaster of Boston, Emily, afterwards Mrs. Wilder, Elizabeth, Lydia, Martha, and Lucy. Deacon Vinal was one of the largest property holders in the town; I recollect him as a pleasant gentleman of the old school: his and Mrs. Vinal's pleasant greeting to me on my return from the army will always be an agreeable memory. Next north of Deacon Vinal's, on Bow street, came the estate of Robert Sanborn, the father of Jane, wife of Richard Sturtevant, Esq. She lived on part of the ol
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908,
Union Square
before the War.—(Il) (search)
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 M. P. Banks, Jr. November 19, 1855, by Charles S. Lincoln, Esq.; subject: True Merit. December 17, 1855, by Charles H. Hudson, Esq., dramatic readings. February 11, 1856, by John C. Cleur, Esq., on the Scotch Poets, and an address by William L. Burt, Esq. The dissolution of the society occurred March 31, 1856, at which meeting it was voted to sell its library. There is much more I should like to and might say about Union Square, about other citizens not mentioned in my first paper
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Index (search)
lry. 2. Bullard's Bridge, 33, 34. Bullard, William, 31. Bull Run, 23. Bull Run Ridge. Va., 43. Bull's Church, 60. Bunker, George, 30. Bunker Hill, 36, 77, 84. Bunker Hill Day, 1864, 66. Burbank, Alonzo, 14. Burbank, William A., 74. Burt, William L. Esq., 41, 42. Burt, General William L., 7. Butler, General, 63. Caesar, 80. Cambridge Electric Light Co., 10. Cambridge, Mass., 14, 18, 26, 27, 29, 33. 36, 37, 39, 49, 52, 53, 54, 69, 76. Cambridge Street, 35. CambridgBurt, General William L., 7. Butler, General, 63. Caesar, 80. Cambridge Electric Light Co., 10. Cambridge, Mass., 14, 18, 26, 27, 29, 33. 36, 37, 39, 49, 52, 53, 54, 69, 76. Cambridge Street, 35. Cambridgeport, Mass., 26, 33, 39. Campagna, 80. Camp Chase, 18. Camp Nordquest, 22. Campton, N. H., 2. Canada, 37. Canton, Mass., 2. Capen, President, 78. Castor and Pollux, Temple of, 81. Catlett's Station, Va., 43. Cedar Mountain, 45. Cedarville (Sandwich), Mass., 2. Centerville, 23. Central Hill, 32, 81. Central Street, 12, 16, 32. Chain Bridge, 19. Chancellorsville, Battlefield of, 44. Charles City Court House, 65. Charlestown, Genealogies and Estates of, 51. Ch