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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., A home-comer's Opinion, 1871. (search)
A home-comer's Opinion, 1871. A former resident of Medford, Caleb Swan, while on a visit to his brother doctor, went to Oak Grove Cemetery. On his return to his home in New York, he attached the following to page 429 of his copy of Brooks' History of Medford and marked the margin against the matter of tree removal:— One of the first things done by the committee was to cut down the grand, noble, old oak tree on an eminence near the grave of Mr. Jonathan Brooks. When I first saw it, June 6, 1866, I stood nearly ten minutes looking at it with admiration: it had noble large branches and was probably two or three centuries old. I enquired the names of the Cemetery Committee and was informed they were Mr. Goldthwaite, Chairman, J. W. Mitchell, Mr. Vinal. They might be called a Goth & Vandal Committee. C. S., 1871. Mr. Swan never lost interest in his boyhood's home, and, on publication, purchased five copies of the history, four of which he gave to friends and relatives l
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Why Medford? (search)
ross a reference to the meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, of which I copied the record and enclose it herein. His theory seems plausible at least, and is new to me. It may be that it has sufficient novelty for the Register. Mr. Brooks offered some remarks on the origin of the name of the town of Medford, tracing it through the Cradock family— the original owners of the plantation on the Mystic river—to the manor of Metford in Staffordshire in England, also owned by the same family. The change from Metford to Medford, Mr. Brooks said, could not be explained. The name was written in different ways in the town records, but, since 1715, was invariably spelt as at present time. [From proceedings of >Massachusetts Historical Society, Meeting of July, 1858.] Extract from diary of Rev. Charles Brooks, Medford July 15th, 1858. Today I met with the Mass. Hist. Soc'y and gave an account of the origin of the name of Medford. Perhaps it will not be misplaced, if