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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9., Female Union temperance Society. (search)
the same interest is manifested in the cause. Officers. Presidents. 1846.Mrs. Joseph James, Mrs. Timothy Cotting. 1847-8.Mrs. Caleb Stetson. 1849.Mrs. George Fuller. 1850-1.Mrs. Luther H. Angier. 1852-5.Mrs. James O. Curtis. 1856-1898.Mrs. Samuel Joyce. Vice-Presidents. 1846-8.Mrs. George Fuller. 1849-51.Mrs. Henry Withington. 1852.Mrs. Ebenezer Waterman. 1853.Mrs. Henry Withington. 1854-5.Mrs. Samuel Joyce. 1856-8.Mrs. James O. Curtis. 1859-1865.Mrs. Timothy Cotting. Curtis. 1847.Miss Mary R. Bishop, Miss Ann E. Perkins. 1848.Miss C. M. Blake. 1849.Mrs. Ebenezer Waterman. 1850.Mrs. Silas F. Wild. 1851.Miss Susan E. Withington. 1852-3.Miss Ann E. Perkins. 1854.Mrs. B. T. Clark. 1855.Mrs. B. T. Clark. Mrs. Geo. T. Goodwin, pro tem. 1856-1875.Mrs. John Brown. 1876-1895.Mrs. William H. Burrell. Treasurers. 1846.Mrs. Milton Fuller. 1847-50.Mrs. Timothy Cotting. 1851.Mrs. Caroline Chase. 1852-3.Mrs. Timothy Cotting. 1854-1898.Mrs. Ira Barker.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10., John Fuller Libby. (search)
Library Association, was a member of the school board and also was a member and president of the common council of the city. In the year 1892, he left Rockland and settled in West Medford, beginning with John E. Hanley a law business in Boston, under the name of Hanley & Libby, which was continued until 1897, when he opened an office of his own. He served as mayor's clerk in the city of Medford from 1897 to 1900, and represented the 12th Middlesex District in the General Court in the years 1898 and 1899. In his second term he was elected without opposition, receiving one thousand and thirty-nine votes, to ten for all others. In April, 1901, he was appointed by Govenor W. Murray Crane, as special justice of the First District Court of Eastern Middlesex, and in February, 1906, he was appointed city solicitor of Medford. Both these positions he held until the day of his death. He likewise served the city as chairman of the board of water and sewer commissioners. Mr. Libby was ma
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 13., Medford's water supply. (search)
rt of it, has any representation upon this board, any more than the village of Squam has. The board is appointed by the Governor. To be sure, the State's credit is being used and the State should have a large voice in the management of the great enterprise, but eventually the district will have a large sum of money invested and no control over it, and the State will have nothing invested and will control everything. Medford's Spot Pond supply was taken by the Metropolitan board January I, 1898, because it makes an ideal reservoir for the district. It allows a large quantity of water to be held at a proper location north of the Charles river, and at a suitable elevation for distribution. The Metropolitan board offered as payment to Medford, Malden and Melrose, in compensation for this taking, approximately $250,000. This being an unsatisfactory amount, suit was brought, and the court finally awarded $1,239,479.91, Medford's share being $469,821.70, Medford's expense in the suit
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. (search)
l hour and reunion in the chapel, and a more formal gathering (with music, addresses by former pastors and present members) in the audience room. It was the writer's privilege then to give an historical address, illustrated as this has been; not this, but a different paper. One illustration then given cannot be given tonight, but I quote these words: A faithful brother entered into rest. Before his departure he made provision for the excellent pipe organ that was installed in the autumn of 1898. A noble memorial of a worthy man, presented to the church he dearly loved, it bears this simple inscription, Gift of Elisha Pierce, March 20, 1898. In the darkness and quiet of the room the faintest tones of the organ began, gradually swelling until the last word, when the full organ was heard in his memory. Other gifts there are—the pulpit, altar-rail and the windows, memorials of loved members and friends of the church. All these are expressions of the love for and interest in the
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., An old ship-master's experience. (search)
An old ship-master's experience. Captain Jacob H. Holmes, who resided on Cudworth street for several years after his retirement from active sea-faring life and died in 1898, had a memorable experience on his last voyage. He put into the harbor of Valparaiso, South America, with a cargo of nitrate, his vessel being the ship Republic, owned in Boston by Messrs. George C. and Charles Lord. (This ship was built at Newburyport, and registered 1,200 tons.) Valparaiso harbor is peculiar in that it is not safe to make fast to the stone abutments and pier, so that all vessels with cargoes are unloaded into hulks or old vessels anchored some distance out in the harbor. A northwest wind, for which this coast is famous, sprang up, and Captain Holmes' vessel, heavily loaded, was caught between two of the old hulks and his foremast and rigging, and mainmast also, were torn away, and the mizzenmast had to be cut away to save a worse disaster, The captain's wife (now living on Dudley stree
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 17., Medford bells. (search)
reports, a slight accident was much overdrawn. The girls had two strings to their bow, i.e., the bell rope and the cord of the tolling hammer, and the two do not work properly together. The composition of this bell is seventy-eight per cent. Lake Superior copper and twenty-two per cent. imported tin. It weighs 1,001 lbs., is 116 inches in circumference at the sound bow, and its medium tone is A. The inscription cast upon the bell is— Tufts College given in June, 1908 by the class of 1898 Pax-et-Lux The dedication, in which over thirty persons took part, is commemorated by a bronze tablet set in the outer doorway of the chapel tower. All the other bells we have mentioned were, and are, of a similar composition of copper and tin, known as bell metal, which has an intrinsic value, and a bell of such metal, if cracked or broken, can be recast. The latest Medford bell, rung for the first time on Easter Sunday (this year), is in the tower of the Hillside People's Church (Met
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., The Seccomb records. (search)
The Seccomb records. Extracts from Texts Books of Deacon Joseph Seccombe, copied from the thirty-fourth volume of the Essex Institute Historical Collections, 1898, January to June. FAST day January 8. 1756 (Medford) Text in the morning from Isaiah 42: 25. This fast was appointed by reason of the surprising earthquakes which we have been visited with of late. Aug. 7. 1757. Timothy 2: 1 & 2. Now this sermon was preached on account of our Governor Thomas Pownall Esqr who arrived the 3d inst. Oct. 9th 1757. Jeremiah 10, first part of 25 verse. This is the first Sabbath that we kept in the new house. The Seccomb house in Medford square. Aug. 20th 1758. The Sabbath after we heard the joyful news of the surrender of the city of Louisbourg to the English; the text was from Jeremiah 23: 24. Thanksgiving day Sept. 14th 1758. Text. Psalm 115: 1. 2. 3; this Thanksgiving was appointed by Reason of the Reduction of Louisbourg. which was surrendered up to the English
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., 7-7-7 military call. (search)
7-7-7 military call. As in 1775, 1861 and 1898, Medford men responded to the country's call on June 21, 1916. As we go to press, we have only time to allude to our illustration of Medford square which shows Co. E, Fifth Regt. leaving for camp.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., Medford's disused subway. (search)
ssential part, was also complete and ready for service. At one time three hundred and fifty men were employed, making a scene of busy activity along its course through Medford. The completed works supplied not only Charlestown, but Somerville, East Boston, Chelsea and Everett, and were taken over by Boston on the annexation of Charlestown, and later by the Metropolitan Commission. Because of the pollution of the water by the leather factories of Woburn and Winchester this Mystic supply was abandoned in 1898, and since that time this brick conduit has been the disused subway of which we spoke in beginning. That it will ever be used again now appears unlikely, unless, indeed-and who knows?-some new and now unthought—of industry, public or otherwise, should arise, to which this great work of a half century ago may in some equally unthought—of way lend itself. Of the dam at the Partings, the pumping station and reservoir we may make other mention as of interest in Medford ann
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., What the women of Medford are doing in the present War crisis. (search)
organized in the interest of those veterans and true allegiance to the United States, it is not strange that initiative steps in time of war should be taken by the local corps. During the Spanish American war, and in the later Mexican trouble, Grand Army hall was a busy center for work for Company E. In the present European war, preparedness work was again started in the same hall, several of the older members of the corps enjoying the distinction of having engaged in similar work in 1861, 1898 and 1916. In co-operation with the Special Aid Society for American Preparedness two hundred comfort bags, one for every boy who enlists from Medford, have been made and filled with useful articles. Fourteen were sent to the enlisted boys from Wellington, being paid for by a benevolent individual from that section; twelve were called for, to supply those going from the high school; and the remainder are stored in the armory, ready for distribution, and more will be furnished if needed.
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