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Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 4 0 Browse Search
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Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
nted, May 24, 1859 Col. Wells went to war, and was killed, 1861 Edwin Wright, appointed, 1861 Rogers, Maine, and Wright retire, June 30, 1866 Abolished, and Municipal is substituted, July 2, 1866 Municipal, New, Bacon, Hurd, and Chamberlain, July 2, 1866 Francis W. Hurd, resigned, Feb. 20, 1871 Joseph M. Churchill, appointed, Mar. 3, 1871 John W. Bacon, resigned, Nov. 24, 1871 William E. Parmenter, appointed, Dec. 12, 1871 Mellen Chamberlain, resigned, Oct. 1, 1878Mellen Chamberlain, resigned, Oct. 1, 1878 John Wilder May, appointed, Oct. 12, 1878 Justices allowed to marry persons in the county, 1695 Were required to patrol the streets on Sundays, 1746 K. Kean, Edmund hissed down at the Boston Theatre, Dec. 7, 1818 Kendall, Edward astonishes people with his bugle, July 4, 1835 Kenny, Hannah in jail, charged with killing her husband, Dec. 22, 1840 Kearney, Dennis Sand Lot orator, arrives in Boston from San Francisco, July 28, 1878 Kid, Capt. Robert in
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1., The importance of Preserving early history. (search)
The importance of Preserving early history. by Hon. Mellen Chamberlain. several things are essential to the accomplishment of this purpose. One of the most important is the systematic collection of historical material. I assume that the Medford Society is designed primarily for the collection and preservation of Medford history, of which few towns have one more creditable. No one who has not undertaken to write the history of his own town can have an adequate sense of the difficulties to be encountered in such an undertaking. He first seeks all former attempts likely to aid him, whether in printed volumes, or in outlines of town history found in Thanksgiving sermons, Fourth of July orations, or occasional discourses. But in twenty-five years after such addresses were printed, he may seek long, far, and wide without finding a copy of either. I speak from experience. Therefore any proposed collection should include not only all such discourses, but also town reports and
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1., Notes. (search)
be sent to any member of the committee. the Society has in its rooms a fine collection of army relics, the same being a permanent loan from Mr. M. E. Chandler, of Maiden. the Publication Committee regrets that it will not be able to give to the readers of the register the admirable papers read before the Society by Rev. Henry C. DeLong, on the Early Ministers of Medford, and by Rev. C. A. Staples, of Lexington, on the Hancock Clark House, or the interesting address of Mr. Sylvester Baxter, of Malden, on the Metropolitan Park System. the Society would gratefully receive as gifts or loans books or articles of historic interest and value. Memberships in the Society are cordially invited. the Publication Committee makes its appreciative acknowledgments to Hon. Mellen Chamberlain for his paper on The Importance of preserving Early History, written for this number of the register. Joel Goldthwait & Co., Carpets, 169 Washington Street, Boston. Goods delivered in Medford.