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Caleb Brooks (search for this): chapter 9
o the neglect of other. For the year 1890 the book is of over six hundred pages, the valuation list occupying one-third. That year and the next the town had six voting precincts for elections, the precursor of what was coming. The census of 1890 gave 11,790 as Medford's population. In 1885 a petition was presented to the General Court from inhabitants of West Medford, asking that a division of the town be made, and that the western portion be incorporated as a new town under the name of Brooks. Medford had then a population of 9,041. The petitioners at this hearing set forth that they were opposed to a city form of government and desired separation in order to retain the management of their prudential affairs in the hands of the many, and not delegate all their rights and privileges to the control of a few. The hearings before the legislative committee, to whom it was referred, together with arguments of counsel, form interesting reading, published as it was in separate volumes
Samuel C. Lawrence (search for this): chapter 9
its action was accepted at a special town meeting. It is somewhat significant of the good sense of those earlier petitioners, who foresaw danger in delegating their rights and privileges to the few, that the charter was accepted October 6, 1892, by a vote of 382 as against 342. The first election for city officers occurred December 13, 1892, and the first inauguration January 2, 1893. The last Town Book was issued under the new city government and contains the inaugural address of Mayor Lawrence, 12 pages; the city charter, 24; and city organization, 6 pages. The tax list of 1892 covers 87 pages, and the various reports and financial statements bring the book to a total of 392. One thousand, six hundred and seventy-seven residents and 631 non-residents were assessed tax on property, while 2,350 were assessed poll tax only. The rate was $14.80, an excess of but 20 cents over the previous year. Two thousand, five hundred and eighty-three children were enrolled in the public sch
April 1st, 1920 AD (search for this): chapter 9
tor were furnished with a copy. This latest report shows a tax rate of $29.80 per thousand, and 11,584 assessed polls. Of these 1,471 are exempt(but 51 being veterans of Civil War.) Five thousand, one hundred and eighty-five individual residents and 1,391 individual non-residents were assessed on property. Eight thousand, one hundred and fiftyeight persons (and firms) assessed on property and 8,560 persons for poll tax only, the latter being $5.00. Population as found by assessors, April 1, 1920, 40,070. (At the present writing it is said to be 42,000.) We are told that the present enrollment of children in the schools is now 7,000 as against 6,378 in the report of 1920. Some of these annuals have been embellished with portraits of the inaugural incumbent, and some department reports illustrated by maps and views of some engineering construction. A few views show features now obliterated and the improvement there made. Twentyfive reports, from as many departments, were add
December 13th, 1892 AD (search for this): chapter 9
n showed the population to be 12,100, and recommended that a city charter be obtained. Such petition to the General Court being granted at its session of 1892, its action was accepted at a special town meeting. It is somewhat significant of the good sense of those earlier petitioners, who foresaw danger in delegating their rights and privileges to the few, that the charter was accepted October 6, 1892, by a vote of 382 as against 342. The first election for city officers occurred December 13, 1892, and the first inauguration January 2, 1893. The last Town Book was issued under the new city government and contains the inaugural address of Mayor Lawrence, 12 pages; the city charter, 24; and city organization, 6 pages. The tax list of 1892 covers 87 pages, and the various reports and financial statements bring the book to a total of 392. One thousand, six hundred and seventy-seven residents and 631 non-residents were assessed tax on property, while 2,350 were assessed poll tax
April 1st, 1921 AD (search for this): chapter 9
names. The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution caused a change in the form of the assessors' publication, which appeared in a separate book for each ward, with covers of differing color, entitled, Persons Listed as Residents of Medford, April 1, 1921. It is said to contain nearly twenty-seven thousand names upon 728 pages. Three wards are each divided into two voting precincts, each is separately listed. As this listing begins at the age of twenty and is supposed to be correct at AprilApril 1, 1921, it will be seen that there is in the hands of our people (such as have it) a valuable directory of the city. It might be improved by a plain general map, showing ward and precinct lines, and some method of showing the direction in which street numbers run. Never before has there been so accurate an enumeration of Medford's people made available. For instance, a family residing at number—, ——street, consists of the father, whose occupation is——. The mother is listed as housewi
November, 1921 AD (search for this): chapter 9
fore, could not get into the citizens' hands until after the new order began. But Medford had, by the narrow margin of forty votes, delegated its affairs to the management of the few. It is not the purpose of the present writing to criticise the various administrations of public affairs and expense during the thirty years that have elapsed, but to call attention to these publications as of local history. We will, however, say that the 1920 volume was not ready for distribution until November, 1921. Annually the reports for the year preceding have been issued, and citizens who were enough interested in the matter to apply to the auditor were furnished with a copy. This latest report shows a tax rate of $29.80 per thousand, and 11,584 assessed polls. Of these 1,471 are exempt(but 51 being veterans of Civil War.) Five thousand, one hundred and eighty-five individual residents and 1,391 individual non-residents were assessed on property. Eight thousand, one hundred and fiftye
October 6th, 1892 AD (search for this): chapter 9
the advisability of petitioning for such, which committee in November reported that its census taken showed the population to be 12,100, and recommended that a city charter be obtained. Such petition to the General Court being granted at its session of 1892, its action was accepted at a special town meeting. It is somewhat significant of the good sense of those earlier petitioners, who foresaw danger in delegating their rights and privileges to the few, that the charter was accepted October 6, 1892, by a vote of 382 as against 342. The first election for city officers occurred December 13, 1892, and the first inauguration January 2, 1893. The last Town Book was issued under the new city government and contains the inaugural address of Mayor Lawrence, 12 pages; the city charter, 24; and city organization, 6 pages. The tax list of 1892 covers 87 pages, and the various reports and financial statements bring the book to a total of 392. One thousand, six hundred and seventy-seven
1838 AD (search for this): chapter 9
substantially bound, are in need of rebinding, owing to the deterioration of the leather. Our first acquaintance with such Medford output was in the spring of 1871, when the constable left at our home the warrant for the annual town meeting—March meeting we called it then—accompanied by the Town book, or reports of the preceding year of 1870. The town meeting was then thus warned at every dwelling within its limits. Medford had then a population of 5,517, having more than doubled since 1838, when its first printed report was issued. The tax rate (1870) was $3.60 per thousand, there were 899 dwellings (61 being double), 1,480 ratable polls and 1,403 resident tax payers, including 747 who paid poll tax only, which was then $1.50. In that issue, thirty-four pages covered the tax payers list, forty-six the financial statements. The reports of various departments fill nearly one hundred pages, and ask for an appropriation for 1871 of $88,468.56. Medford had the previous year bui
November (search for this): chapter 9
to 93 nay, with 10 votes paired on each. The final effort of the petitioners in 1889 proved more ineffectual, the vote being 48 in favor, 109 against. This was the death knell of town government in Medford. In those years the population of the whole town had increased almost to the minimum number requisite for a city charter, the census of 1890 enumerating 11,770. The March meeting of 1891 appointed a committee to consider the advisability of petitioning for such, which committee in November reported that its census taken showed the population to be 12,100, and recommended that a city charter be obtained. Such petition to the General Court being granted at its session of 1892, its action was accepted at a special town meeting. It is somewhat significant of the good sense of those earlier petitioners, who foresaw danger in delegating their rights and privileges to the few, that the charter was accepted October 6, 1892, by a vote of 382 as against 342. The first election fo
1871 AD (search for this): chapter 9
ary. The issues of several years are grouped into one volume, and though at the time substantially bound, are in need of rebinding, owing to the deterioration of the leather. Our first acquaintance with such Medford output was in the spring of 1871, when the constable left at our home the warrant for the annual town meeting—March meeting we called it then—accompanied by the Town book, or reports of the preceding year of 1870. The town meeting was then thus warned at every dwelling within it who paid poll tax only, which was then $1.50. In that issue, thirty-four pages covered the tax payers list, forty-six the financial statements. The reports of various departments fill nearly one hundred pages, and ask for an appropriation for 1871 of $88,468.56. Medford had the previous year built its water works. The town debt, exclusive of water bonds, was $59,000, funded over a period of nineteen years, with a balance in the treasury of $21,386.09, with $2,000 due from the state. The t
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