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Elisha Briggs Curtis, 1835-1915.
Still in short intervals of pleasing woe, Regardful of the friendly dues I owe; I to the glorious dead forever dear, Indulge the tribute of a grateful tear.
—Pope.
It is but an act of homage amid the activities of life in short intervals of quiescent being, to pause, and to inscribe a feeble tribute of recognition to an honored and worthy member of this Society, Elisha Briggs Curtis.
Mr. Curtis was born in Marshfield in 1835, and was one of the direct descendants of John and Priscilla Alden.
In early youth he came to Medford and received his preliminary education in our public schools.
When a young man he was engaged in the shipping business in Boston, and later, at about thirty years of age, became associated with the Second National Bank of Boston, which position he faithfully and honorably filled for a period of twenty-five years, retiring from active mercantile affairs in 1890.
In 1863 he was married to Miss Lucia J. Leadbette
William Henry Cummings, 1839-1915.
Amidst the feverish excitement of the present day there is brought home to the thoughtful mind the frailty of humanity; today we are here and tomorrow have stepped over the great divide into the realms of eternity.
And it is well that there should be something more than mere passing mention made of the decease of one of the members of the Society who was for a long time an inhabitant and honored citizen of Medford, William Henry Cummings.
Though not prominent in active affairs of the city, yet he was keenly alive to the interests and progress of city affairs.
Mr. Cummings was born in Boston, August 10, 1839, from which city his parents moved to New York state.
When he was about fourteen years of age he came to Medford.
At about nineteen he engaged in business in Cuba for a period of five years, returning to the United States near the close of the war. Within a short time he again went to Cuba and remained two or three years, returning
The Society's meetings, season 1914-1915.
ON October 19 the opening meeting of the season was held.
The paper of the evening, In the Beginning of the Age of Steam, was one prepared some ten years before, but thus presented for the first time to fill an emergency gap in the program.
This was by Moses W. Mann, who gave it as the Cruise of the Merrimack.
An abstract of this paper was then in press for the register under that title.
Rosewell B. Lawrence, Esq., one of our vice-presidents, on November 16 entertained the society (as he has previously done) with an account of his vacation trip, this time to the Hawaiian Islands.
Mr. Lawrence's interesting story was made the more vivid by numerous views, most of which were secured by his own camera and shown by Mr. Brayton.
On December 21 another of our members, Mrs. Augusta Brigham, favored us with her story of Ten Soldier Brothers in the Revolution, an uncommon occurrence, and the story most interestingly told.
At the Januar
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Old landmarks gone. (search)