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"Our County and Its People"
"Our County and Its People
A History of
HAMPDEN COUNTY Massachusetts
Editor ALFRED MINOT COPELAND
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Volume Three
THE CENTURY MEMORIAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
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COPYRIGHTED 1902 BY ALFRED MINOT COPELAND
To WILLIAM WHITING
ONE OF HOLYOKE'S MOST HONORED CITIZENS This volume is respectfully Dedicated
Contents
CHAPTER I
THE CITY OF HOLYOKE- Early History. Settlement and Devel- opment-Town Organization and Civil List-Municipal History -City Civil List-The Fire Department-City Water Works- The Public Parks-Educational Institutions-The Public Library-The City Hospital-Young Men's Christian Associa- tion-Holyoke Street Railway Company-Banking and Finan- cial Institutions-Industrial Holyoke The Business Men's Association-Cemeteries-Ecclesiastical History-The French People of Holyoke. 1
CHAPTER II
TOWN OF PALMER
123
CHAPTER III
TOWN OF WILBRAHAM.
165
CHAPTER IV
TOWN OF SOUTHWICK
196
CHAPTER V
TOWN OF WEST SPRINGFIELD 210
CHAPTER VI
TOWN OF GRANVILLE
247
CHAPTER VII
TOWN OF MONSON 266
CHAPTER VIIF
TOWN OF LUDLOW. 312
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CONTENTS CHAPTER IX TOWN OF MONTGOMERY
.... 335
CHAPTER X
TOWN OF CHESTER . 348
CHAPTER XI
TOWN OF HOLLAND. 394
CHAPTER XII
TOWN OF LONGMEADOW 410
CHAPTER XIII
TOWN OF EAST LONGMEADOW.
129
CHAPTER XIN
TOWN OF RUSSELL 438
CHAPTER AV
TOWN OF TOLLAND 453
..
CHAPTER XVI
TOWN OF WALES.
463
CHAPTER XVII
CITY OF CHICOPEE.
482
CHAPTER XVIII
TOWN OF AGAWAM 523
CHAPTER XIX
TOWN OF HAMPDEN 542
Illustrations
THE OLD BLACKBIRD TREE 4
OLD HOLYOKE HOUSE 8
THE OLD HOLYOKE DAM 13
CITY HALL, HOLYOKE 15
WILLIAM B. C. PEARSONS, PORTRAIT 18
"THE STRETCH," SPRINGDALE DRIVING PARK
33
HIGH SCHOOL, HOLYOKE
35
SOUTH CHESTNUT STREET SCHOOL, HOLYOKE
38
CITY HOSPITAL, HOLYOKE
50
THE ALMSHOUSE, HOLYOKE
52
HIGH STREET, HOLYOKE
56
OLD CRAFTS' TAVERN
69
THIRD LEVEL CANAL
76 79
JOSEPH C. PARSONS, PORTRAIT
OLD FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, HOLYOKE
87
CONVENT OF NOTRE DAME, HOLYOKE
104
SACRED HEART CONVENT AND PAROCHIAL SCHOOL, HOLYOKE 107
WASHINGTON ELM, PALMER 124
HISTORIC PINE TREE, PALMER 135
131
DEACON BRAINERD HOUSE, PALMER
138
FRINK TAVERN, PALMER
143
THE VILLAGE COMMON, THREE RIVERS
145
THREE RIVERS-BAPTIST CHURCH
146
BONDSVILLE SCHOOL BUILDING
147
PALMER BUSINESS BLOCKS 148
VIEW OF MAIN STREET, PALMER VILLAGE
149
JOSHUA SHAW HOUSE, PALMER 151
BAPTIST CHURCH, FROM THE DEPOT, PALMER VILLAGE 153
WASHINGTON TAVERN, NORTH WILBRAHAM 167
SITE OF FIRST ORDINATION, PALMER
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ILLUSTRATIONS
OLD HOUSE BUILT BY LIEUT. MIRICK, WILBRAHAM 170
An OLD-FASHIONED HOUSE FRONT 177
OLD ACADEMY, FISK AND BINNEY HALLS, WILBRAHAM 185
RICH HALL AND PRINCIPAL'S RESIDENCE, WILBRAHAM ISG
THE WARRINER HOMESTEAD, WILBRAHAM 187
THE OLD TAVERN, NORTH WILBRAHAM 191
NINE MILE POND, NORTH WILBRAHAM 193
ON SOUTHWICK STREET 206
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, SOUTHWICK 209
THE OLD STREET, WEST SPRINGFIELD 213
THE OLD TAVERN STAND. WEST SPRINGFIELD 232
VALLEY VIEW, MITTINEAGUE 233
MAIN STREET SCHOOL 235
SCHOOL BUILDING 236
OLD CHURCH ON ORTHODOX HILL 212
TOWN HALL AND PARK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
244
SCHOOL BUILDING, MITTINEAGUE . 246
GRANVILLE CORNERS-BAPTIST CHURCH 252
THE CHURCH ON GRANVILLE HILL 260
UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, GRANVILLE CORNERS 263
HOUSE BUILT BY DAVID HYDE, MONSON
269
RESIDENCE OF THOMAS STYLES, MONSON
273
A VIEW IN SOUTH MONSON . 277
281
MEMORIAL TOWN HALL, MONSON
282
LYON MEMORIAL LIBRARY, MONSON 285
OLD MONSON ACADEMY
288
MONSON ACADEMY
289
HOLMES GYMNASIUM, MONSON
291
MONSON ACADEMY (GENERAL VIEW) 292
THE LIBRARY, MONSON (SIDE VIEW)
295
HOSPITAL FOR EPILEPTICS, MONSON
297
FLYNT FOUNTAIN. MONSON
301
CUSHMAN FOUNTAIN, MONSON
307
SOLDIERS' MONUMENT, MONSON 309
THE ROAD TO WALES, SOUTH MONSON 311
LUDLOW RESERVOIR 313
SOLDIERS' MONUMENT, LUDLOW 321
OLD FASHIONED LUDLOW MANSION 323
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, MONSON
ILLUSTRATIONS
HUBBARD MEMORIAL LIBRARY, LUDLOW . 327
LUDLOW HOTEL AND STREET VIEW . 399
OLD RICHARD FALLEY HOMESTEAD, MONTGOMERY 340 . MONTGOMERY . 345
OLD BRIDGE, CHESTER 351
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, CHESTER CENTRE
365
DUTY UNDERWOOD, PORTRAIT 373
A BIRDS-EYE VIEW, CHESTER 379
EARLY WINTER VIEW IN CHESTER
381
HOLLAND POND
396
HOLLAND CHURCH
406
LONGMEADOW TOWN HALL 421
OLD COLTON PLACE, LONGMEADOW 423
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, LONGMEADOW 427
A STONE QUARRY, EAST LONGMEADOW 430
THE CENTER-EAST LONGMEADOW 434
OLD MILL ON BLANDFORD ROAD, RUSSELL 448
HIGH BRIDGE, FAIRFIELD 448
METHODIST CHURCH, RUSSELL 450
TOLLAND CENTER 461
THE VILLAGE FOUNTAIN, WALES 472
WALES-A STREET VIEW 474
THE STREET NEAR THE METHODIST CHURCH, WALES 480
OLD CHAPIN HOMESTEAD, CHICOPEE STREET 483
HISTORIC HOUSE IN JOHNNY CAKE HOLLOW, CHICOPEE FALLS 488
THE DAM-CHICOPEE FALLS 499
A VIEW OF CHICOPEE IN 1856
502
OLD HIGH SCHOOL-CHICOPEE FALLS
508
A CHICOPEE FALLS SCHOOL BUILDING
509
NEW HIGH SCHOOL, CHICOPEE
510
CITY HALL-CHICOPEE
512 514
CHICOPEE STREET
OLD UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, CHICOPEE
519
OLD HOUSE, SOUTH AGAWAM 530
SCHOOL BUILDING, FEEDING HILLS
532
FEEDING HILLS STREET 537
THE STREAM IN THE VALLEY, HAMPDEN
543
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, HAMPDEN 554
BAPTIST CHURCH, HAMPDEN 555
CHAPTER I
THE CITY OF HOLYOKE AND THE FACTORS IN ITS HISTORY
For a period of almost a century after the Pynchon colony was planted at Springfield, there was little attempt at founding other permanent settlements within the boundaries of the mother town. Two principal causes retarded settlement in these out- ward common lands : first, the original policy of the founders for many years opposed promiscuous granting of lands to all eomers and none were admitted to the benefits of the proprietary unless "approbated" by the committe charged with the duty of invest- gating the "worthiness" of applicants for membership in the colony. Thus many pioneers who came into the valley region, rather than submit to the exactions of the proprietors, sought homes and lands among the less restricted settlements at West- field. Hadley and Northampton ; and thus it was that these other localities enjoyed more rapid growth than Springfield during the first three-quarters of a century following the establishment of the colony on the bank of the Connecticut in 1636.
The second and more serious obstaele to settlement and de- velopment of the outward commons west of the river was the hos- tility of natives, who, smarting under the treatment and methods of Captain Mason of the Connecticut colony (a policy directly opposite to that pursued by the more conciliatory Pynchon) were never afterward friendly with the whites; and while for many years there were no acts of violence on the part of the Indians, they were not trusted and every settlement had its fort for protection against their attacks. It is safe to assert that previous to King Philip's war there was no permanent white set- tlement within the limits of what now is Holyoke, and probably
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none previous to about 1725; and even then, according to well established local tradition, the settlers betook themselves at night to the protection of a fortified house, the exact location of which no chronicler of Holyoke history has made known to ns.
It may be stated, also, that from the time of the Pequot war (1637) to the close of the American revolution (1783) the settlers in the Connecticut valley knew little of the blessings of peace, and that during that long period of nearly a century and a half the settlements and habitations of the whites were all too fre- quently the objects of Indian attack. This long series of wars is the subject of special mention in an earlier volume of this work. henee need not be treated here. In the same connection. also, the reader will learn something of the character. habits and eus- toms of the race which preceded the pioneer white man in the valley regions, yet there is little that is rich or interesting in the Indian history of this locality.
Evidenees of the aboriginal occupation have been discovered in various localities of the eity, and within comparatively reeent years Indian burial places have been found within its corporate limits. It is thought. however, that this locality was not more than a favorite fishing and hunting resort for the Nono- tucks, whose principal village was on the site of Northampton, or of the Woronocos of Westfield, or of the Agawams who eent- uries ago dwelt on the banks of the river further south. These. however, were allied branches of a single parent tribe, and while for years they professed friendship for the whites, King Philip's influence made them their most relentless and mereiless foes.
During the latter part of the seventeenth century, notwith- standing all the annoyances caused by Indian depredations, there arose a clamor for a survey and distribution of the lands held by the proprietors of the town of Springfield, and so well known was the attitude of the proprietors that at last it was in- timated that unless an allotment of the outward common lands was made, the general court would pass an aet of forfeiture to the crown. This was intended to refer particularly to the land east of the Connecticut. where settlements might be made with safety, but west of the river there was no attempt at
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permanent occupancy until several years later. The first divi- sion of lands on the west side was made in 1707, when the avail- able tracts were subdivided into plots of ten acres each and were apportioned by lot to the male inhabitants of the age of twenty- one or more years, the whole number of whom at that time was seventy-three persons. In 1696, according to authenticated rec- ords, there were only thirty-two families living in Springfield west of the Connecticut, a territory which extended from the south line of Northampton to the north line of the province of Connecticut, and included the present site of Holyoke and the towns of West Springfield and Agawam.
No authority extant informs us when the lands comprising our city were first granted, or enlightens us on the important questions of pioneership and early settlement. On account of the troublesome conditions which existed throughout the first hun- dred years of Springfield's history it is safe to assume that there were no permanent white settlers within our present limits earlier than 1725. West Springfield was set off as a town in 1774, and the Third parish (otherwise known as the North parish, and also as "Ireland" parish ) was an ecclesiastical division of the new town, so established in 1786.
Tradition also says that the region most frequently called "Ireland parish"-now Holyoke-was first settled soon after 1730, and that in 1745 only six families were living on its terri- tory. One of these was Benjamin Ball, a descendant of Francis Ball, the latter a settler in Springfield in 1643. Another settler of about the same time was one Riley, a son of Ireland, who loc- ated in the south part of the parish, on the stream named for him "Riley brook," which name is preserved to the present day, while the stream itself near its mouth marks the boundary be- tween Holyoke and West Springfield. Whence Riley came or when he departed no authority states, yet his settlement here stimulated similar action on the part of others of his nationality until in point of numbers the worthy sons of Erin outstripped all others and won for the locality the generally accepted name of Ireland parish. Capt. John Miller, a patriot of the carly wars, is recalled as among the first settlers on what now is Northamp- ton street.
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" The Old Blackbird Tree"
One of the few surviving monarchs of the forest. This unique specimen stands about a mile southwest of the City Hall in Holyoke, near what is familiarly known as the Horace Brown place
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In later years settlements increased with the development of the resources of the region, and about the period of the revolu- tion we find such names as Capt. Joseph Morgan, Lieut. Charles Ball, Amos Allen, Capt. Joseph Day, Joel Day, Deacon Josiah Rogers, Titus Tuttle, Lucus Morgan and Jonathan Birchard among the more conspicuous figures in local history. To this number we may add the names of Joseph Rogers, Timothy Clough, Jonathan Clongh, John Miller, Glover Street, Nathan Stephens, Peresh Hitchcock, Asahel Chapin, Jedediah Day, Caleb Humeston, Benjamin Basset, Joseph Ely, Austin Goodyear, all of whom were settled in the parish and engaged in agricultural and kindred pursuits previous to the beginning of the last century.
During the next twenty-five years the acquisition of new settlers and the suecession of sons to the estates of their sires changed again the personnel of the parish inhabitants, and the vear 1830 gives sueh additional names as John, Jason and Henry Ludington, Israel and William Perkins, Ephraim Barker, War- ren and Edmund Banks, Elisha Winchell. Thomas Howard, Ichabod Howe, Hezekiah Griswold, Jesse Cushman , Nathan Morse, Luke Parsons, Elisha Ashley, David Bassett, Samuel Hadley, William Jarvis, William Atkins, Isaac Allen , James Meacham, John Felt, Justus Clapp, Caleb Humeston, Aaron Moore, Miles Dickerman, Harvey Wright, Lyman Goodyear, Noah Wolcott, Job Bryant. Joseph Morgan, Abraham Ives, Plin Jones, Eleazer Day, Sylvester Munger, Ebenezer Alvord. Joseph Ely, John Chapin, Warren Chapin, John D. Ely, Joshua Allen, Nathan Parks, Joel Newell, Amasa Ainsworth, John Frink, Henry Robertson, Ebenezer and Titus Ingraham, Herman and Michael Fuller (colored men and tradesmen ), Moses and Pelatiah Ely, Alexander Day, Hiram and Ebenezer Jones, Roger Williams, Frederick Day, Horace Wilcox, Luke and Elijah IIitcheoek, John Dunham, Seth Bliss, Amos Allen, Day Powers, Charles Ball, Joshua, John, Frederick and George Street, Cyrus Frink, Henry Tuttle, Horace Atkins, Roswell Morgan, Jeremiah Sperry, Her- vey Chapin, Hiram Morgan, Caleb Street, Caleb Hill, Orrin Street, Justus Eaton, Eli Robinson, Francis Ball, Bishop Allen, Rev. Lucy A. Milton, has recently resigned.
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Stephen Hayes, Russel, Job and Willard Ely, Clark Pomeroy, Enoch Ely. Eliakim Danks, David Wood. William Boyd, Henry Archibald and others whose names are lost with the lapse of years. These were the factors in the history of Ireland parish during the quarter of a century immediately preceding the incor- poration of the town of Holyoke, and some of their descendants are now numbered among the constantly changing and ever in- ereasing population of our modern industrial eity.
Throughout all years preceding the period of which we write these worthy settlers and their ancestors were engaged in the peaceful arts of agriculture, and some of them, more venturesome than their fellows. had attempted some manufactures. In 1825 the parish could boast a saw mill. a grist mill, a tannery. a eement works, a eloth mill, a tavern (Chester Crafts, proprietor), and a distillery. At the same time two ferries were maintained aeross the Connecticut, one in the south part and the other farther up the river, just below the lower falls. Having ready access to the east side the entire people of the parish viewed with considerable interest the diversion of the waters of Chicopee river for manu- faeturing purposes and also took due cognizance of the industries then reeently established on the east bank of the Connecticut near the ferry landing: but in the course of another score of years they were both surprised and gratified to witness the construction of a dam aeross the river and the diversion of the waters for manufacturing purposes on their own side. although the wise- acres declared that the feat was impossible of accomplishment, just as the Springfield prophets derided the early attempts to build a bridge across the "Great Stream." In each ease the doubters were doomed to ultimate disappointment. and when the dam and canals at last were completed the parish took upon itself new life and energy, and soon thereafter acquired a new and . more substantial municipal character.
With the beginning of the work of the construction of the dam and eanals, a new. or rather a rapid growth of an old, ele- ment of population developed in the North parish. Day work- men were in demand and to supply the want large numbers of laborers, chiefly Irishmen, came to the locality and settled them-
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selves in the vicinity of the works. This gave rise to distin- guishing names for certain neighborhoods, hence we have the "Irish village," near the dam and canal sites, while the "Baptist village" was a name applied to the vicinity of the Baptist church, a locality now known as "Elmwood." In later years, a "French village" sprung into existence, but this was after the first mills were put in operation and the skilled operatives from the Can- adas appeared in the young town.
TOWN ORGANIZATION AND CIVIL LIST
In the incorporation of the town of Holyoke the usual order in such proceedings appears to have been reversed. Generally when it was proposed to create a new town the subject was dis- enssed in town meetings in the mother jurisdiction and the senti- ment of the inhabitants was ascertained by vote; but in this in- stance thesubjectof a division of the territory of West Springfield is not mentioned in the town records, and if there was indeed any opposition to the proposed new town the elerk's books give us no information concerning it. The first mention of a new town in the West Springfield records is that of an April meeting in 1850, when the selectmen were authorized to sell the "Town pauper farm and the hospital at Holyoke at auction, if agreeable to the town of Holyoke." Later on a committee of West Springfield men was chosen to meet a similar body from the new jurisdiction and settle the affairs in which both towns were interested.
The incorporation of the Hadley Falls company, and the great work of construeting the dam across the river and the sys- tem of water power eanals in the old North parish, led to the in- corporation of the town of Holyoke, and accomplished that end in less than two years after the charter was granted to the com- pany. Under the law the consent of the mother town was not pre-requisite to the new ereation, and the necessity of a new civil division of the county, including the territory of the previously known Ireland parish, was too apparent to admit of opposition, henee the independent and progressive people had direet re- course to the legislature, with the result of the passage of "An act to establish the town of Holyoke," which was approved and became a law March 14, 1850.
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The framers of the act, with commendable publie spirited- ness, named their new town Holyoke, and thus paid another tribute of respect to the memory of one of the most worthy pio- neers of the Connecticut valley. Long before this the name had been given to one of the towering mountain peaks away to the northward of the new town, and in allusion to the mountain the ~
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The Old Holyoke House-1867
name was afterward used to designate the now famous institution of learning.
The pioneer who first brought this honorable name to the val- ley country was Elizur Holyoke, a native of Tamworth, War- wiekshire, England, who came to New England during the early years of the colony. He reached Springfield in 1640 and died there in 1676. He was chosen deputy to the general court six times; was ten terms seleetman in Springfield: was town clerk
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first in 1656 and held that office continuously from 1661 to his death in 1676. He was deeply interested in the welfare of the plantation and subsequent town, was one of the pillars of the First church of Christ in Springfield, a man whose walk in daily life had an influence for good among his townsmen. The story of the naming of Mount Holyoke in allusion to him is an oft- told tale of early times, while the mountain itself gives name to Mount Holyoke college, situated on its foot-hills. Deacon Hol- voke married Mary, the daughter of William Pynchon, and to them were born eight children.
Population .- In 1840 West Springfield contained 3,626 in- habitants, and in 1850 the number was 2,979. Thus, assuming a uniform growth for the entire township, the mother town sur- rendered less than 647 of its stable population to the new juris- diction. However, in 1850 Holyoke's population was 3,245, and since that time the increase in number of inhabitants has been constant, as may be seen by reference to the census reports, viz. : 1855. 4,639 ; 1860, 4,997 ; 1865, 5,648 ; 1870, 10,733 : 1875. 16,260; 1880. 21.915; 1885, 27,895: 1890. 35,637; 1895, 40,322; 1900, 45,712.
Glaneing over the census reports relating to towns and cities in New England, and comparing their growth with that of our industrial eity. the latter is found in the very front rank : and this remarkable prosperity, growth and development is chiefly due to one first great cause-the construction and opera- tion of the water power system inaugurated by the Hadley Falls company and enlarged and made more perfect by the successor corporation, the Holyoke Water Power company. In a public ad- dress delivered by Edward Everett about the time of the com- pletion of the first dam, that distinguished statesman and orator declared that Holyoke would some time have a population of 50,000 inhabitants ; but it is doubtful if the orator himself then believed that population would be attained in the first decade of the twentieth century.
In accordance with the provisions of the act of incorporation Hervey Chapin, justice of the peace, issued his warrant, directed to Chester Crafts, "a principal inhabitant of the town, " requir-
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ing him to notify the qualified voters to assemble in town meet- ing in the school house on Chestnut street, on March 22, 1850, and proceed with the election of town officers. This was done, and on the day mentioned, under the moderatorship of C. B. Rising, the first town officers of Holyoke were duly elected.
The succession of principal town officers, selectmen, assessors, town clerks and treasurers, from 1850 to 1873 is as follows :
Selectmen: 1850, Fayette Smith, Alexander Day. Hervey Chapin.
1851-Alexander Day, Joseph M. Morrison, Amos Allen. 1852-Hervey Chapin, Daniel Bowdoin, Albert Graves.
1853-Austin Ely, Chester Crafts, Edwin H. Ball.
1854-Edwin H. Ball, Hervey Chapin, Asa O. Colby.
1855-Edwin H. Ball. Nathaniel W. Quinn, George C. Lyon. 1856-Russell Gilmore. Edmund Whitaker, Alfred White.
1857-Edmund Whitaker, Chester Crafts, Henry Wheeler.
1858-Edmund Whitaker, Edwin Il. Ball, Asa O. Colby. 1859-Edwin H. Ball, Joel Russell, Daniel E. Kingsley. 1860-Joel Russell, Austin Ely, Sheldon H. Walker.
1861-Joel Russell, Sheldon H. Walker, A. C. Slater.
1862-63-William B. C. Pearsons. Rufus Mosher, Chester Crafts.
1864-Edmund Whitaker. Edwin H. Ball, Robert S. Howard,
1865-Porter Underwood, Edwin H. Ball. John C. Newton.
1866-Edwin Chase, Chester Crafts, Joel Russell (de- elined ).
1867-Chester Crafts, Edwin Chase, Timothy Merrick.
1868-George C. Ewing, Chester Crafts. Allen Higginbot- tom.
1869-Allen Higginbottom, William A. Judd. Charles A. Corser.
1870-William A. Judd, Charles A. Corser, Allen Higgin- bottom.
1871-Allen Higginbottom. William A. Judd. Rufus Mosher.
1872-William A. Judd. John Delaney. Rufus Mosher.
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1873-William A. Judd, John O'Donnell, Ezra H. Flagg. Assessors .- 1850-Nathaniel Thorp, George C. Ewing, Ab- ner Miller.
1851-Jared P. Searles, Willard Ely, Lewis P. Bosworth.
1852-Ballard Pettingill, Solomon B. Davis, Henry Chapin.
1853-Sydenham Street, Cryns Frink, Sammel Flynn.
1854-Sydenham Street, Timothy O. Jones, William Mel- cher.
1855-Isaac Osgood, Russell Gilmore, J. E. Morrill.
1856-7-William B. C. Pearsons, Joseph Murray, Ezra H. Flagg.
1858-William B. C. Pearsons, Samuel B. Allyn, Joseph Murray.
1859-William B. C. Pearsons, Samuel B. Allyn, Pelatiah Ely.
1860-1-Ezra H. Flagg, William B. C. Pearsons, Hervey Chapin.
1862-Joseph Murray, Daniel E. Kingsbury, C. B. Wolcott. 1863-Joseph Murray, C. B. Wolcott, Ezra H. Flagg. 1864-Ezra II. Flagg, Henry J. Chapin. Henry A. Pratt. 1865-Joseph Murray, C. B. Wolcott, J. E. Morrill.
1866-Joseph Murray, J. E. Morrill, Edwin Perkins.
1867-Joseph Murray, J. T. Prescott, Hervey Chapin. 1868-Joseph Murray, D. E. Kingsbury, Hervey Chapin. 1869-D. E. Kingsbury, Geo. Thayer, Hervey Chapin. 1870-S. A. Hooker, Amos Andrews, Joseph Murray. 1871-Amos Andrews. D. E. Kingsbury, H. A. Pratt. 1872-Amos Andrews. P. B. Flanders, James Doyle. 1873-Amos Andrews, Joseph Murray, James Doyle.
Town Clerks.1-Lucien Morton. 1850 ; John M. Cavis, 1851-2; Gustavus Snow, 1852-65: Ezra H. Flagg, 1866-67; William S. Loomis, 1868-73.
Treasurers .- John M. Chapin, 1850; Henry S. Babbitt, 1851-52 : office consolidated with town clerk from 1853 to 1868; Robert B. Johnson, 1868-71 : Charles W. Ranlet, 1872-73.
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