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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	178	178	Browse	Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans)	38	38	Browse	Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.)	22	22	Browse	Search
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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.	14	14	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)	10	10	Browse	Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.)	9	9	Browse	Search
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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 4 (search)

of Mass, pp. 515, 516, &c. The following inscription is on a monumental tablet recently erected (1878) to mark the spot where Wetherby's tavern stood: The site of the Black Horse Tavern, where met thabove we have depended on the newspaper accounts of the time. A memorial stone recently erected (1878) at the place, contains this inscription: At this spot, April 19th, 1775, the Old Men of Menotomy of Jason Russell, which is still standing, and here a monumental tablet has lately been erected (1878), with the following inscription: Site of the house of Jason Russell, where he and eleven others Jason Winship, at Cooper's tavern, the spot where a monumental tablet has recently been erected (1878) with the following inscription: Here stood Cooper's Tavern, in which Jabez Wyman and Jason Winshar of Cooper's tavern, about where on Russell Park a monumental tablet has recently been erected (1878), with this inscription: Near this spot Samuel Whittemore, then eighty years old, killed three Br

apt. William S. Brooks, who was appointed, and thus became first Postmaster of the town. The postmasters of the town have been: William S. Brooks, 1812-1814; Amos Whittemore, 1818-1827; Henry Whittemore, 1831-1834; Isaac Shattuck, Jr., 1835-1839; John Fowle, 1840-1846; Edwin R. Prescott, 1847-1862; Abel R. Proctor, 1862-1868; Frederick E. Fowle, 1869-1879. Belmont (before set off as a town)—John L. Alexander, 1865-1869. Arlington Heights—Jonas M. Bailey, 1876-1877; Charles L. Howard, 1878-1879. Capt. Brooks was an ardent Federalist and a public-spirited citizen, and opened the first lumber yard in the place, as well as a dry goods and grocery store. There were seven groceries in the town at this period, kept by William Locke, Tufts & Adams, Thomas Russell, Walter Russell, William S. Brooks and Miles Gardner, besides the Factory Store kept by William Whittemore & Co., though more business was done by Colonel Russell than by all the others combined, his store having been estab

mselves in the village; among others, Hon. Oliver Warner, Moses Fairbanks, F. V. B. Kern, and George R. Dwelley, Esqs., also Mr. J. T. White, under whose direction and superintendence nearly all the improvements have been made. The village now, 1878, contains about 60 houses—many of which are the best models of exterior beauty and interior comfort and convenience to be found in any houses of the class in the country—and some 250 inhabitants. There is but little local trade or manufacture carSchool, and the Poor Widows' Fund. 1877. The town voted to erect stones to mark localities of interest connected with the battle of April 19, 1775. These have been already alluded to in the account of the battle, under the year 1775. In 1877-78 the Locke School House was built at Arlington Heights. 1879. May 30, 1879, occurred the first extensive celebration of Decoration Day in Arlington, in honor of the soldiers of the late war. The Revolutionary tablets and the Revolutionary monumen

arren Rawson, 1871, 1872. John S. Crosby, 1872. Jesse Bacon, 1872. James Durgin, 1872, 1874-78. Henry Mott, 1873, 1878, 1879. Henry Swan, 1873. John Schouler, 1874-77. William G. Pe1878, 1879. Henry Swan, 1873. John Schouler, 1874-77. William G. Peck, 1874-77. William H. Allen, 1878, 1879. James A. Bailey, 1879. Assessors. Stephen Symmes, Jr., 1867. Albert Winn, 1867, 1868. Abel R. Proctor, 1867. Addison Hill, 1868-71. John F.1878, 1879. James A. Bailey, 1879. Assessors. Stephen Symmes, Jr., 1867. Albert Winn, 1867, 1868. Abel R. Proctor, 1867. Addison Hill, 1868-71. John F. Allen, 1868-72. George C. Russell, 1869-71. Ira O. Carter, 1872. Henry Mott, 1872, 1873-79. B. Delmont Locke, 1873-79. Charles Schwamb, 1873. Thomas. P. Peirce, 1873-79. Town Clerks. ft town). Rev. Amos Harris, 1874-76 (left town). John H. Hardy, 1874-76. Alfred Hobbs, 1874-78. Rev. George W. Cutter, 1876-76. John W. West, 1876-77. William H. Allen, 1876-79—term expireexpires 1882. F. V. B. Kern, 1876-79—term expires 1880. Daniel F. Jones, 1877-79—term expires 1881. Rev. Matthew Harkins, 1878-79—term expires 1881. Marcus Morton, 1879—term expi

ciety lost their meeting-house by fire. A new meeting-house (the present edifice) was dedicated Jan. 1, 1857. 1865, Oct. 2. Charles C. Salter chosen minister. Ordained June 6, 1866. Resigned Jan. 31, 1869. 1869, Dec. 27. George W. Cutter chosen minister. Ordained Jan. 26, 1870. Resigned Jan. 31, 1877. 1871. The steeple of the edifice belonging to this Society was blown down by a gale. A new spire was erected similar to the one blown down, and of the same dimensions, in 1872. 1878, July 15. William J. Parrot chosen minister. Installed Oct. 17, 1878. A Congregational Unitarian Society was established at Belmont, before that neighborhood was set off as a town, of which Amos Smith was minister, 1858-59. Baptist Society.—Meetings of persons friendly to sentiments of this denomination were held in this place as early as the year 1773. For this sketch we are indebted to a History of the Baptist Church in Arlington, mainly written by Dr. Swaim, and published in th

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