seeing her. The sale of her books, the subscriptions to her magazine fell off to a ruinous extent.
Thenceforth her life was a battle, a constant rowing against the stream of popular prejudice and hatred.
And through it all she bore herself with patience, fortitude, and unshaken reliance upon the justice and ultimate triumph of the cause she had espoused.
Whenever there was a brave word to be spoken, her voice was heard, and never in vain.
In a letter written to the Rev. Samuel J. May in 1867, Mrs. Child refers as follows to the change in her circumstances made by the publication of the Appeal: With regard to society I was a gainer decidedly, for though the respectables, who had condescended to patronize me, forthwith sent me to Coventry, AntiSlav-ery introduced me to the noblest and best in the land, intellectually and morally, and knit us together in that firm friendship which grows out of sympathy in a good but unpopular cause.
I was quite surprised one day, some time before
hitmore was born at Dorchester, Sept. 6, 1836, and died at Boston June 14, 1900.
He was a son of Charles O. and Lovice (Ayres) Whitmore, and was educated in the public schools and was graduated at the Boston Latin School in the class of 1851.
In 1867 Harvard and Williams Colleges conferred the degree of A. M. upon Mr. Whitmore.
Mr. Whitmore entered upon a business life in Boston and was connected with successful firms.
He early showed a masterful interest in antiquarianism, particularly i, many of which have been reprinted.
He contributed, in 1855, the genealogical portion of Brooks' History of Medford.
In literary lines, wholly or in part, he edited in 1860 the works of William Mackworth Praed; in 1865 the Hutchinson Papers; in 1867 the Dunton Letters; in 1868 the American Genealogist; in 1869-74 the Andros Tracts; in 1870 the Massachusetts Civil List; in 1878 Copp's Hill Epitaphs; in 1882 the History of the Old State House.
These are esteemed standards and do not include al
Let's see, was the answer; there are Sam, Dan, Jo, Han, Lin, Tim, and Ca—Oh, Lin is the elder!
The names, properly extended, were Samuel, Daniel, Joseph, Hannah, Lincoln, Timothy, and Caleb.
Daniel Swan was the beloved physician of this town, and most pleasantly remembered by our citizens who have passed middle age.
One of the most interesting memorials of the past standing in Medford was the Tufts house in the public square, on the western corner of Forest street. It was torn down in 1867.
It was a large unpainted wooden building, three stories high in the front, and sloping down to one low story in the rear.
Such was the picturesque style of building our fathers affected a century and a half ago. During the later years of its existence the house was in a dilapidated, not to say ruinous, condition, its bulging walls and sunken floors threatening immediate collapse.
I think it was only upheld by its immense chimney—the largest I ever saw—which stood in the centre of the hous<
54; was a member of the Institute Society, the Hasty Pudding Club and the Phi Beta Kappa; formed the Harvard Glee Club, and was its first leader; graduated in 1858; entered the Andover Theological Seminary in 1859; became rector of Grace Church, Medford, in 1863. October 14, married Susan Ellen Perley of Danvers.
On the sixth of September, 1865, Mr. Learoyd went to Europe, and the Rev. C. Ingalls Chapin acted as supply until his return on the twenty-third of the following September.
In 1867 the parish entered upon the work of building a new church, and the sum of fifteen thousand dollars was subscribed for the purpose; but subsequently the undertaking was assumed by the family of the late Gorham Brooks, Esq. The amount subscribed by the parish was placed in the hands of the Trustees of Donations as a permanent fund.
The corner stone of the church was laid September 17, 1867, by the Rev. Mr. Learoyd, when an address was delivered by the Rev. Henry C. Potter, D. D., the present b
ice.
For thirty years previous to his death no man took a more active part in town affairs than did Mr. Hayes.
In 1862 he was appointed Trial Justice for Middlesex County, and served in that capacity until 1873, when he resigned.
From 1864 to 1867 he was Assistant United States Assessor under Phineas J. Stone of Charlestown
He became a member of the School Board in 1870, and chairman of the Board of Water Commissioners after the introduction of water into the town.
He was a representati time captain of the Lawrence Rifles.
In 1869 he was elected a trustee of Medford Savings Bank, and later served this institution in many capacities, and at the time of his death was president.
He married (1) Abbie Dwight Stetson of Medford in 1867, who died in 1869.
（2) On November 7, 1876, he married Mary Hall, daughter of Judge Thomas S. and Lucy (Hall) Harlow of Medford.
Judge Hayes was both a familiar and well-known figure to us all. He discharged his duties as a town official with
sh his intention to enter upon the practice of law, and we find from his journal and notes that during all the time he was teaching at Lexington he was pursuing his law studies.
He also was very active in his literary work, writing stories and essays, likewise perfecting himself in stenography.
It was while teaching here that he first took up with enthusiasm the study of systematic botany, and laid the foundations for those later works that will be his enduring monument.
In the summer of 1867 he left Lexington, to take charge as principal of the Nantucket High School, where he remained two years. Here he kept up the same lines of activity as in Lexington—reading law, practicing stenography, writing for papers and magazines, and botanizing.
In the summer of 1869 he removed to Stoneham, having been chosen principal of the high school of that place.
From this time his journals are silent on the subject of his law studies, and having given up all idea of other occupation than his
scible.
But nothing ever disturbed the good deacon's serenity.
After the death of Mr. Fay, the firm was reorganized with C. A. Richardson and W. L. Greene as partners.
This co-partnership, with Mr. Richardson as office editor, continued until 1867, when Mr. James at the age of seventy-seven retired.
It was with great reluctance that Mr. James severed these ties of business.
In July, 1866, he wrote his partners: I had hoped that our present arrangement and ownership in the Congregationalisence in your judgment and ability.
I believe I give you credit for all that you have done for the paper.
I hope the paper may continue to increase in prosperity just as much for your sakes as my own; and still more, for the good it may do.
In 1867 Rev. Horace James, having returned from the south, was able to carry out his father's dearest wish and assume his place in the business.
Each of the three partners then contributed equally to merge the Boston Recorder—the oldest religious paper i
Gen. S. C. Lawrence's estate.
The streams thus utilized were Winter, Meeting-House, Whitmore brooks, in addition to Gravelly creek, before mentioned.
When the increased demands of modern living made it evident that a better supply of pure water was needed in Medford than that furnished by wells and cisterns, it was natural that the attention of our citizens should turn to that fine body of water partly within the limits of the town.
The Spot Pond Water Company had been incorporated in 1867 by a committee from the towns of Medford, Malden and Melrose, with a view to the future needs of these places, and two years later the franchise was purchased by them.
In 1870, by way of Salem street, and the year following by way of Forest street, Medford was piped and supplied by water from this pond, and this service continued until the needs of Greater Boston for a supply of water became a great and burning question.
The Metropolitan Water Board was established in 1895.
Medford beca
firm trust in the God of the widow and fatherless, carried her through.
Hers were twenty-six years of widowhood, and those years were replete with earnest labor for others.
Mrs. Saxe was a woman of many activities.
Taken to the Sabbath School by her parents, even before her recollection, her name has been on its roll for sixty-three years. Early taught, and interested in the truths of religion, she of own choice and conviction of duty united with the First Methodist Episcopal Church in 1867.
In its Sabbath School she led others in the way she herself had early learned.
She was a leader among women, and the responsible and difficult position of president of the Ladies' Society she successfully filled for many years.
Secretary and also president of the Methodist Ladies' Union of Greater Boston, she served as each one year with signal success.
When the Methodist Episcopal Church, by its action in General Conference, admitted women to its councils and officiary, the Medf
t should have made him one of the leading minds of the church he had elected to serve.
But controversies vitally affecting the Unitarian Church were then foremost, and deeply interested him. He was not sufficiently reverent of others' reverences, inclined to make differences of view, personal differences, and it was not long before the favor which his ministry created in the beginning changed, and after a serious division of the parish, threatening its welfare, his ministry came to an end in 1867.
In March, 1869, mine began, covering now nearly half of the history of the parish since its organization in 1824.
I have been telling the history of this parish for more than seventy-five years as it is recorded in the life of its ministers, because this way of tracing the history is more convenient.
But the minister is little without the people who are behind him, who work together with him for the purpose for which a church exists, the establishment of righteousness in the earth.
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