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Francis H. Bridge (search for this): chapter 6
antiquities, National museum, Stockholm, Sweden, is on the exchange list of the Reg-Ister. Medford was never formally incorporated as a Town. The first reference to Medford in Records of the State is 1630. Colonial Records, vol. 1, P. 59. Members. Life, members since the annual March meeting:— Gilbert Hodges. Andrew F. Curtin. Hon. Samuel C. Lawrence. Mrs. Carrie R. Lawrence. Hon. Charles S. Baxter. Hon. William Cushing Wait. Miss Zipporah Sawyer. Hon Daniel A. Gleason. Hon. Daniel A. Gleason. Miss Agnes W. Lincoln. Walter F. Cushing. David H. Brown. Hon. Lewis H. Lovering. Edward P. Boynton. Leonard Tufts. New members since the annual March meeting:— Charles M. Ludden. Mrs. Charles M. Ludden. Harry Highley. James Mott Hallowell. George W. Mills, M. D. James C. D. Clark, M. D. Samuel C. L. Haskell. George C. Tidden. Francis H. Bridge. Frederick W. Gow. James Morrison. Wm. H. Couch. William P. Martin. George W. Nichols
Samuel Dana (search for this): chapter 6
ge with remarkable facility, exact method and system, thus enabling him to compass a vast amount of reading. He soon acquired a wide reputation and a large practice in Middlesex, Suffolk, Essex and Worcester counties, and in New Hampshire. Samuel Dana, Jr., another noted lawyer, and Mr. Bigelow became the leaders of the Middlesex bar. They were retained in the most important cases of the neighborhood, and were generally on opposite sides. In politics, as well as at the bar, they were pitted astrong logic and fervid eloquence which marked the advocate and politician and rendered his control over juries and popular gatherings almost unbounded. He delivered the Phi Beta Kappa oration at Cambridge, July 21, 1796; a funeral oration on Samuel Dana before the Masonic Lodge at Amherst, N. H., April 4, 1798. His exordium on the immortality of the soul in this oration is worthy of a divine. He delivered a eulogy on Washington before the Columbian Lodge of Masons at Boston, February 11, 18
Samuel Dexter (search for this): chapter 6
rature were manifested during his employment on the press by his devotion of leisure hours to the acquisition of the elementary branches of English and the rudiments of Latin. In 1778 he was put under the charge of the Rev. Joseph Pope of Spencer, but a year later found him with his father in the Continental army, being then only twelve years old, and too young to perform a soldier's duty. On his return he was in the office of Benjamin Lincoln, and was later placed under the tuition of Samuel Dexter, who prepared him for admission to Harvard University, which he entered in 1782, graduating with high honors in the class of 1786. He entered at once upon the study of the law in the office of Levi Lincoln, Esq., and was admitted to the bar in 1789. He commenced practice in Groton, where he became acquainted with and married, September 30, 1791, Lucy, daughter of Hon. Oliver and Lydia (Baldwin) Prescott. It is said he sat in his office six weeks without taking a fee, and then received
William P. Martin (search for this): chapter 6
antiquities, National museum, Stockholm, Sweden, is on the exchange list of the Reg-Ister. Medford was never formally incorporated as a Town. The first reference to Medford in Records of the State is 1630. Colonial Records, vol. 1, P. 59. Members. Life, members since the annual March meeting:— Gilbert Hodges. Andrew F. Curtin. Hon. Samuel C. Lawrence. Mrs. Carrie R. Lawrence. Hon. Charles S. Baxter. Hon. William Cushing Wait. Miss Zipporah Sawyer. Hon Daniel A. Gleason. Hon. Daniel A. Gleason. Miss Agnes W. Lincoln. Walter F. Cushing. David H. Brown. Hon. Lewis H. Lovering. Edward P. Boynton. Leonard Tufts. New members since the annual March meeting:— Charles M. Ludden. Mrs. Charles M. Ludden. Harry Highley. James Mott Hallowell. George W. Mills, M. D. James C. D. Clark, M. D. Samuel C. L. Haskell. George C. Tidden. Francis H. Bridge. Frederick W. Gow. James Morrison. Wm. H. Couch. William P. Martin. George W. Nichols
Edgar A. Thomas (search for this): chapter 6
ed in that great early struggle for life through which this country successfully emerged. His elementary education was in the public schools of his native town; but the perils of war suspending school operations, he entered the office of Isaiah Thomas, proprietor of the famous Spy. His passion for books and strong love of literature were manifested during his employment on the press by his devotion of leisure hours to the acquisition of the elementary branches of English and the rudiments of Lgs 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 fidelity and ability. He was a Republican, and well known in Masonic circles. He died
Hetty Fulton Wait (search for this): chapter 6
Charles E. Hurd; gift of Horace D. Hall. A miscellaneous collection from Mrs. Dinsmore of Dorchester, formerly of Medford. Picture of the Cradock House worked in worsted, and frame from wood of the Cradock House, from Calvin Clark. Picture of first M. E. Church, Medford, Salem street, a rare picture, loan, Dr. Cleaves. Historical Gossip. Col. Chas. K. Darling gave an extremely interesting and valuable talk oil Porto-Rico in 1898-1902 before the Society, May 5, 1902. Miss Hetty Fulton Wait, on June 1, 1902, completed her fiftieth year as a teacher in the Medford Public Schools. On June 3, the Teachers' Association tendered her a complimentary reception, which was largely attended by former pupils and friends. James A. Hervey, Esq., in behalf of the assembly, presented Miss Wait with fifty American beauty roses, having in the centre fifty dollars in gold. No other teacher has such a record, or has had it, except Marm Betty Francis, who taught a dame school for sixty
Charles E. Hurd (search for this): chapter 6
all kinds to the infant settlement? —Venerate the Historic. Gifts and Loans to the Society. Invitation of Gen. and Mrs. Washington to Miss Cary, January 22, 1776. Miss Cary was later Mrs. Dowse of the Royall House. A rare picture of the old Fountain Tavern presented by Miss Zipporah Sawyer in memory of her brother, Rufus Sawyer. Records of the Centennial Committee of Medford, 1875-6, loaned by Thos. Blackinton. New England Library of Genealogy and Personal History, by Charles E. Hurd; gift of Horace D. Hall. A miscellaneous collection from Mrs. Dinsmore of Dorchester, formerly of Medford. Picture of the Cradock House worked in worsted, and frame from wood of the Cradock House, from Calvin Clark. Picture of first M. E. Church, Medford, Salem street, a rare picture, loan, Dr. Cleaves. Historical Gossip. Col. Chas. K. Darling gave an extremely interesting and valuable talk oil Porto-Rico in 1898-1902 before the Society, May 5, 1902. Miss Hetty Fulton
Thomas Lechford (search for this): chapter 6
Correction, the stocks and the schools. Beside the meeting-house was the whipping post; in the market-place was the stocks. The dealing out of justice was rough and substantial, though direct and effective. When we remember the fate of Thomas Lechford, who seems to have been the first lawyer in Massachusetts, it is with a feeling of trepidation that we seek for his successors for many years after. I am kept, wrote Lechford, from the sacrament, and all places of preferment in the CommonLechford, from the sacrament, and all places of preferment in the Commonwealth, and forced to get my living by writing petty things, which scarce finds me bread, and therefore I sometimes look to planting corn, but have not yet here an house of my own to put my head in or any stock going. It was not until the last quarter of the eighteenth century that law as a profession offered any inducement to men of learning and ability and that the dominant prejudice was overcome. About 1768 there were about twenty-five lawyers in Massachusetts; they were clustered at the
Barr (search for this): chapter 6
college man, he was well educated and became very popular and active in town affairs. Elected to the school board in 1847, which position he filled for five years, his broad and progressive views soon overcame the narrow ideas of his associates, and compelled them to adopt a more liberal policy than they had ever dared to adopt before. He was in the Massachusetts Senate in 1853. He had offices in the Turrel Tufts house, and in the railroad building soon after it was erected. He married Miss Barr of Ipswich, N. H., in 1847. In 1856 he went to Chicago, Ill., where he died September 12, 1884. Elihu Church Baker was born August 2, 1825, in Campton, N. H. He was an ardent politician, connected with the Know-Nothing Party, and always more or less prominent in the political arena. He began life as a merchant, but this being distasteful to him, he studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 17, 1854. In the early stages of the Rebellion he was a war Democrat, turned into
Spencer (search for this): chapter 6
ssfully emerged. His elementary education was in the public schools of his native town; but the perils of war suspending school operations, he entered the office of Isaiah Thomas, proprietor of the famous Spy. His passion for books and strong love of literature were manifested during his employment on the press by his devotion of leisure hours to the acquisition of the elementary branches of English and the rudiments of Latin. In 1778 he was put under the charge of the Rev. Joseph Pope of Spencer, but a year later found him with his father in the Continental army, being then only twelve years old, and too young to perform a soldier's duty. On his return he was in the office of Benjamin Lincoln, and was later placed under the tuition of Samuel Dexter, who prepared him for admission to Harvard University, which he entered in 1782, graduating with high honors in the class of 1786. He entered at once upon the study of the law in the office of Levi Lincoln, Esq., and was admitted to th
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