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Mallory (search for this): chapter 1
asture, where is now Jackson College, the new Chem. Lab. and the Oval. In the foreground is a sylvan scene. Large trees border both sides of Two-penny brook as it courses through the entire plain and broadens into a pond in which are their shadows, and where a cow has waded in to drink. Thirty years later, in the reprint of the history, this view is again given, printed from the same steel plate. Of but one other we speak, the Brooks Schoolhouse, 1851, a wood engraving by Kilborn & Mallory, which must have been made from the architect's drawings. Whatever the schoolhouses of Medford were in years before, there was some architecture in this, made possible by the gifts of interested citizens of West Medford. This has been reproduced in the Register of July, 1916, with its authentic story. An enlargement of it hangs in the principal's room in the present Brooks school building. In 1854 the Mystic Hall Seminary at West Medford was opened. This was a private boarding scho
Lauriat (search for this): chapter 1
s is unknown, but, in a way, he showed the high embankment stretching across the Mystic marshland, with engine and cars upon it, the bridges over the river and canal, in which latter a boat going westward drawn by horses, and in the distance the lock and tavern is seen. A surprising feature is in evidence: a balloon hovering over the whole and in the foreground (where is now the Parkway-Auburn street bridge) stand a man, woman and child viewing the scene. Possibly the Medford aeronaut Lauriat may have made an ascension and sailed over about this time. Who knows? So far as is known, no reproduction of this view has ever been made, though several attempts have failed. In 1839, Barber's Historical Collection was published, the author himself making the illustrating sketches in the various Massachusetts towns he visited and described. In the Register of September, 1920, may be seen his work in portraying Medford. This view is printed from the same wood block made and used
Frederic Gleason (search for this): chapter 1
till, to old residents the view was cognizable. In 1839 the engraver on steel or wood had to be furnished a sketch or drawing of the scene to be portrayed, and not all artists were expert, as we have already shown. Some painted on canvas, some pencilled on paper— and some drew on their imagination—and sometimes the engraver added a little for effect. It is an interesting study to follow the various gradations, as seen in such illustrations, in points of time and process. In 1851 Frederic Gleason began, in Boston, to publish his famous pictorial weekly. His illustrations were on a larger scale, engraved on wood, and though the invention of Daguerre was in 1839, there is little evidence of its being employed in the Pictorial. The tornado of August 23, 1851, is there depicted, the locality being the site of the West Medford postoffice and opposite. How artists' views might differ can be seen in a view of the same place and occurrence in the Illustrated National Mirror. In
Sarah J. Blanchard (search for this): chapter 1
tesy of Zion's Herald, in which both story and illustrations appeared. Remembrances. by Sarah J. Blanchard. [September, 1905]. My mind goes back to childhood's days. I remember that during thetetson, April, 1910; who added, Taken in March, 1871. They are (left to right): [Miss] Sarah J. Blanchard,b. Jan. 13, 1829. [Miss] Emeline A. Sparrell,b. Feb. 7, 1830. Mrs. Lucy B. Conery, nee Bntances. It is thought that each had a copy, and that after their going, only the nephew of Miss Blanchard had the thoughtfulness to provide for the preservation of hers, and to furnish the authentict in June, 1885, the first dry-goods store in West Medford was opened on Harvard Avenue, and Miss Blanchard was in charge of it from the first and for several years. The Bee-Hive was a lively competiich managed to continue in business only by taking in other lines. At the anniversary time, Miss Blanchard contributed to the local press some reminiscences of the old sexton (her father) and others,
Mary Peaslee (search for this): chapter 1
1905, and who had then attained the age of seventy-five years. The names of the six were written (upon protecting paper pasted upon the back of the frame), by its donor, the late George W. Stetson, April, 1910; who added, Taken in March, 1871. They are (left to right): [Miss] Sarah J. Blanchard,b. Jan. 13, 1829. [Miss] Emeline A. Sparrell,b. Feb. 7, 1830. Mrs. Lucy B. Conery, nee Butters,b. Feb. 2, 1829. Mrs. John F. Sanborn,b. Dec. 1830. Miss Ellen A. Jaquith,b. Aug. 3, 1829. Mrs. Mary Peaslee, nee Butters,b. Dec. 14, 1832. note.—Of the above, the first three and fifth are the four above alluded to. Examination of the picture revealed the fact that brown paper backing was deteriorating; therefore the above copy is made and hereby transferred to the Regis-Ter's page. On p. 24, Vol. XIV, mention was made of the passing away of the first and eldest of the six, who were so nearly of an age. Inquiry fails to show that they were related to each other (except as stated), o
Kilborn (search for this): chapter 1
g in the pasture, where is now Jackson College, the new Chem. Lab. and the Oval. In the foreground is a sylvan scene. Large trees border both sides of Two-penny brook as it courses through the entire plain and broadens into a pond in which are their shadows, and where a cow has waded in to drink. Thirty years later, in the reprint of the history, this view is again given, printed from the same steel plate. Of but one other we speak, the Brooks Schoolhouse, 1851, a wood engraving by Kilborn & Mallory, which must have been made from the architect's drawings. Whatever the schoolhouses of Medford were in years before, there was some architecture in this, made possible by the gifts of interested citizens of West Medford. This has been reproduced in the Register of July, 1916, with its authentic story. An enlargement of it hangs in the principal's room in the present Brooks school building. In 1854 the Mystic Hall Seminary at West Medford was opened. This was a private boa
Aaron Magoun (search for this): chapter 1
nue, over what is now Mr. Bartlett's store. Then Mr. Gilbert Blanchard kept a small grocery store there. Two of Dr. Gregg's daughters attended Miss Foster's school. . . . In unpleasant weather the doctor would come for them and take all the children to their homes. One snowy afternoon he came with his big sleigh, loaded it full of children, turned round slowly and tipped us all out, and down the hill we rolled; he, laughing, called out to get in quickly if we wanted a ride. . . . Mr. Aaron Magoun taught in the brick school house near the Cross street burying ground. Pupils were admitted when eight years of age, but I know of two who were permitted to enter a year younger. He was a dear, good man, thoroughly acquainted with his pupils, visiting them often in their homes. He died May 21, 1899, in the ninety-first year of his age. I called to see him about a year before his death, and was surprised to note so few indications of old age, he coming downstairs without assistance.
Trowbridge (search for this): chapter 1
inary buildings have been reproduced in the Register, Vol. XI, No. 3, and illustrate the story of the famous school written (and read at a Society meeting) by one who attended and graduated from it. Two views of the little mill on the Arlington side of the river, whose wooden dam old W——d was the cause of an incipient riot in 1870, the Register has presented. One is from a pencil drawing by Francis Wait, the other shows it at an earlier time. It was the Tinkham Brothers' Tide-mill of Trowbridge's famous story, the Wood's mill of actual fact. In the first Medford Journal of 1857 there was no attempt at pictorial illustration, nor yet in the great blanket sheet of Usher's Medford Journal of 1871, that we can recall. No files were preserved by the publisher and only a few stray copies are known. In 1865 Mr. Nathan Brown of West Medford sketched a view of the river, looking up-stream from the railroad embankment, and painted in oil two copies. The central feature is the pictur
Fras Minot (search for this): chapter 1
e. If you go to the West Indies please to lay out the neat proceeds in good Produce which leave to Your Iudgment what may best answer the great end of Getting money. I wish You Health & Prosperity being sincerely Your Friend & H'ble Servt Fras Minot P. S. As Loaf Sugar always sells better to Windward than to Leeward, should be glad You would sell mine as You go down the Coast—the barrells may be easily come at between Decks. The Medford historian (Brooks) said (on p. 436) The genhe merchant owner, and, we doubt not, by his clerk, who was an adventurer in a small way—twelve pounds worth of sugar. This is not a children's story (or song) but a young man's business adventure. We have no means of telling of its result. Clerk Minot was an expert penman, somewhat liberal in use of flourishes and in the merchant's employ for several years for the great end of getting money, as emphasized by his use of capitals in his letter to Captain Gwin. The merchant had several vess
Peter Gwin (search for this): chapter 1
orian Brooks, writing about midway between the time of these papers and the present day, said, How will the above read in the capital of Liberia two hundred years hence? How does it read in Medford (where rum was made) today? But the Nantucket-Boston-Medford men were not sinners above all men. There were others, as a recent publication, A Rhode Island Slaver (Shepley Library, Providence, 1922), clearly proves by reproducing the Trade book of the Sloop Adventure, 1773-4. Of Captain Peter Gwin, his various commands, voyages and doings, the letters and instructions of his assured friend and owner give much information, and are a side light on a business once considered legitimate. To continue Lack of space in our last issue precluded our saying all we desired regarding the Register. At the urgent request of the Society we begin a new volume, and with this number complete fifteen years of editorial service, which we must ere long turn over, we trust to younger and abl
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