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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Shepherd Brooks. (search)
The Brooks estate was one of the show places of Medford, and was famed throughout the East. It possessed also much historic interest, and evidences of the old-time canal, the Indian monument, and the slave wall could until recently be found there. He was a leading citizen in the home town of his progenitors and one of its principal benefactors, and was identified with many of its institutions. He married in Boston, 10 December 1872, Clara Gardner, daughter of George and Helen M. (Read) Gardner of Boston, who survives him, together with a son, Gorham Brooks of Boston, A. B. (Harvard, 1905), and two daughters, Helen, wife of Robert Wales Emmons of Boston, A. B. (Harvard, 1895), and Rachel, wife of James Jackson of Westwood, Mass., A. B. (Harvard, 1904), who is at present Treasurer and Receiver-General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Funeral services for Mr. Brooks were held in King's Chapel, Boston, and his body was placed in the family tomb in Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The history of the Royall house and its occupants. (search)
t one time forty-two boys and ninety-six girls. The estate was sold by the heirs in 1804 to Robert Fletcher for 16,000 pounds. It then passed into the hands of William Welsh of Boston, who in 1810 sold it to Francis Cabot Lowell, and two years later it was sold to Jacob Tidd for $9,000. After the death of Mr. Tidd his widow, who was a sister of William Dawes, lived here for fifty years, up to the time of the Civil War in 1860, since which time it has been occupied by various families until 1905, when the Royall House Association was organized. Much credit is due to the Sarah Bradlee Fulton Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, for their conception and active interest to preserve the house. The association purchased the mansion with its slave quarters and three-fourths of an acre of land surrounding it. Old trees planted by the Royalls still shade the roof and peonies blossom in the flower beds. Few houses can boast of such a succession of eminent owners, and not man
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Assailer of tradition. (search)
Assailer of tradition. Such is the name applied to our city's Committee on Historic Sites (of 1905) in a recent article on Medford in Boston Herald, which contains this engaging tradition:— On the occasion of the launching of each ship there was placed in Medford square an open hogshead of rum, to the brim of which lung tin cups, wherewith and whereby the populace might indulge themselves ad lib and ad infinitum, according to their capacity. To the editor, fifty-six years a resident, now one of three surviving assailers of tradition, the above quotation is a novelty and is not credible. We still emphasize James Hervey's trite saying, If we are to be historical, let us tell the truth. We also add that while fiction often reads interestingly, a little common sense is also eminently desirable
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Brooks Estates in Medford from 1660 to 1927. (search)
rd, gave both land and church edifice to Grace Episcopal church. In 1897 the Commonwealth received from the latter a gift of forty acres of land once owned by the Middlesex Canal Corporation, now a part of the Mystic Valley parkway. The Whitmore brook reservation was created in 1901 out of land presented to the Commonwealth by Peter C. and Shepherd Brooks. Brooks road, on the east side of the South Winchester reservoir, owes its plan and construction to the gift of the same two brothers in 1905. Shepherd Brooks made feasible for West Medford a suitable approach to Oak Grove cemetery, through the extension of Playstead road, and gave additional land for the enlargement of the cemetery. In 1924, the heirs of Shepherd Brooks, through his son Gorham Brooks, made a gift to the city of the Flat Iron lot on Grove street for a public park. In 1926 another portion of that estate was made over as a bird sanctuary open to the public, the latest of the many benefactions which are barely lis
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Thatcher Magoun house. (search)
h house of St. Joseph's church. In fine location and stately in appearance, the grey old mansion with its surrounding trees, its well kept grounds, its red gravel, box-bordered walks and marble statuary, was one of the show places of old Medford. The writer first noticed it at his coming fifty-seven years ago, but was never upon the grounds or within its walls until the present work was well under way. It was the Register's purpose to present the view shown in Medford Past and Present (1905), but that half-tone cut has gone into the limbo of lost things. We can only present our Group of Medford Buildings, and note the upper left of our Frontispiece. We would also refer to wood engraving in the Usher history of Medford, printed in 1886. And again to the steel engraving in Brooks' history, making later reference thereto. Now, let us look into the history of this old place on High street, also at a little of history and genealogy not written by Brooks or Usher. An old reside
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