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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Medford Wedding and Medford ships. (search)
itizens. Their home for many years was in the second house west of the Central Fire Station, on the north side of South street. He was of the firm of Hayden & Cudworth, and in a list of twenty-four ship-builders only five built more ships than this firm. The output of their yard was thirty-nine vessels, the first in 1847, the last in 1866. The largest tonnage, 1,250, was only surpassed by three vessels built in Medford ship-yards. Mr. Hayden came from Scituate, and his partner from Marshfield. The South Shore towns furnished nearly all the workmen in the yards here. They were sturdy, thrifty men, skilled in their trades, an honor to their times and to American labor, and we might well wish to see their type reproduced today. Many became prosperous and influential, and a goodly number established their homes here, along the river, especially in the vicinity of Ship street, and their descendants are still our citizens. Mrs. Hayden died in Medford, August 29, 1872, and her h
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., Elisha Briggs Curtis, 1835-1915. (search)
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