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ANNUAL KCP
OF THE Receipts and Expenditures OF THIE
TOWN OF BRAINTREE
FROM
Dec. 31, 1903, to Dec. 31, 1904, TOGETHER WITH THE REPORT OF THE
Town Clerk; Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, and Highway Surveyors; Town Treasurer ; Engineers of Fire Department ; Water Commissioners; Board of Health; Manager of Electric Light Plant; Trustees of the Thayer Public Library; and of the Board of School Committee.
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TOWN.
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MA
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1640
OBSERVER AND REPORTER PRINT : GEO. W. PRESCOTT & SONS, BRAINTREE, MASS. 1905.
TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1904.
Town Clerk, HENRY A. MONK. Town Treasurer,-BENJAMIN F. DYER. Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, and Highway Surveyors.
J. PARKER HAYWARD,
B. HERBERT WOODSUM, R. ALLEN GAGE
Water Commissioners and Sinking Fund Commissioners.
JAMES T. STEVENS . . Term Expires 1906 T. HAVEN DEARING. . Term Expires 1907
JOHN KELLEY Term Expires 1905
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Auditors.
DANIEL POTTER, ALVA S. MORRISON, NATHANIEL F. HUNT
Board of Health.
CHAUNCY M. MARSTIN Term Expires 1907
HENRY L. DEARING Term Expires 1905
FRANK W. BRETT (resigned) .
ROBERT F. BURLEIGH (appointed to fill vacancy) Term Expires 1906
School Committee.
MRS. ANNIE M. BROOKS . Term Expires 1907
C. F. HILL CRATHERN Term Expires 1906
ALBION C. DRINKWATER. . Term Expires 1907
WILLIAM C. HARDING
Term Expires 1905
MRS. CARRIE F. LORING Term Expires 1905
THOMAS A. WATSON. Term Expires 1906
Trustees of School Fund.
Term Expires 1907.
GEORGE H. ARNOLD)
RICHARD L. ARNOLD
BENJAMIN F. DYER
C. HARRISON HOBART WILL W. MAYHEW ALVA S. MORRISON
GEORGE D. WILLIS.
Trustees of Thayer Public Library.
HENRY A. JOHNSON FREDERICK R. GRIFFIN
ROBERT E. BELCHER Term Expires 1905
NATHANIEL H. HUNT. Term Expires 1905
Fence Viewers.
CHAS. S. HANNAFORD, J. MARCUS ARNOLD, ALVERDO H. MASON Tax Collector,-FRANK A. SMITH. Tree Warden,-ELMER E. ABERCROMBIE. Moderator,-B. HERBERT WOODSUM.
Constables.
PETER J. DONAHOE HENRY DUGAN, JR. JEREMIAH F. GALLIVAN FRANK A. GANNON CHARLES A. HOBART
HORACE F. HUNT JOHN KELLEY JAMES H. KING
MICHAEL J. LEVANGIE BENJAMIN J. LORING WILLIAM E. MAYBURY CONRAD MISCHLER JOSEPH F. MOHAN THOMAS SLAVIN FRANK O. WHITMARSH
REPORT
OF THE
Town Clerk of Braintree
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1904.
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Report of Town Clerk.
Braintree, Jan. 1, 1905.
In accordance with the usual custom, the Town Clerk respectfully submits the following report :
BIRTHS IN 1904.
JANUARY
DATE. NAME.
PARENTS' NAME.
1 Illegitimate
7 Elizabeth Wales
7 - Wood
10 Sarah Evelyn Thayer
13 Aaron Percy Whitcomb
14 Parker Edward Wynot
15 Nelsie Jane Pitts
Ernest De W. and Frances [Hale] Walter S. and Leva [Stevens] Ernest E. and Mabel F. [Mellen] Percy A. and Elizabeth M. [Collins J. Spurgeon and Clara J. [Piercy] Augustus and Mary J. [Frazer]
16 Parker Franklin Williamson Joseph H. and Susie F. [Baker]
21 - Fisber Harry A. and Georgianna V. [Johnston]
ـالالالـ
23 Winfield Brownell Freeman Clayton E. and Winifred [Brownell] 24 Helen Ellsworth George E. and Helen [Morrison 24 John Cushing Chase Samuel F. and Elizabeth H. [Bradford] Gordon and Edith F. [Ripley 26 Gordon Ripley Keating Richard and Martha [Scholz] 28 Adolph Scholz 30 Florine Elsie Burton Jolin F. and Bertha M. [Rydell] 31 Thomas Francis Finnegan Thomas F. and Alice M. [Boyle] Dennis J. and Mary E. [Keely] 31 Daniel Thomas Reardon Frederick G. and Mary B. [Hobart] 31 Ralph Baxter Pennock
FEBRUARY
1 Oscar Patten Semple
5 Raymond Taylor
5 Clement Taylor
5 Lillian Myrtle Arnold
8 Edith Kyte Whitman
9 Edith May Goodhue
12 Florence Irene Warburton
17 Blanche Eleanor Hart
18 Martha Nanlifur Nehubran
19 Timothy Joseph Sullivan
22 Stillborn
Charles W. and Louise [Patten] Alphonso and Margaret F. [Garland] Samuel V. and Sarah M. [Godfrey] Robert E. and Mellie M. [Kyte] Edward J. and Fannie [Rhea] Fred'k W. and Henrietta C. [Babbitt] Frank and Maude E. [Wade] Neshon and Mary [Sheans] Cornelius and Margaret [McCarthy]
23 Theodore Sylvester Pickering William E. and Ruth A. E. [Rogers] 23 George Edward Pitts John and Annie [Vineu] 24 Harold William Murphy John R. and Lavenia [Feehan] 24 Lewis Richards McGlauflin Ralph L. and Mary W. [Thayer] 26 Joseph Ernest Frazier Jeremiah and Catherine [Frazier] Charles B. and Ida [Golcher] 28 Mildred Ward
6
MARCH
4
Helena K. Berry
4
- Taylor
4 Frederick Pezzella
6 Catherine Gannon
8 William J. O'Brien
10 Thomas Leo Brow
12 Lillian DeCoste
17 Harold Franklin Torrey
24 Mary Ursula Reed
26 White
27 Ruth Marion Reviere
29
Herbert Wallace Barnes
3
Esther Lillian Levangie
3
Nora Louise McCarthy
5 Clarence Earle Bestick
5 Dora Alma Carmichael
10 Juliette La Fond
14 Stillborn
19 - Bondro
19 Elmer Edward McGibbon
20 Arthur Gordon Levangie
21 Leslie Osborne Crocker
24 Stillborn
24 Stillborn
24 Katherine Elizabeth Sullivan
John and Annie [Bentley
29 Stillborn
30
William Francis Gorman
William E. and Mary A. [Mullin]
MAY
1 Stillborn
3 Mabel Gladys Frazier
4 Mary Elizabeth Mclaughlin
5 Ruth Evelyn Allen
9 James Forrest Folsom
12 - O'Keefe
14 Dorothy Frances Taylor
27 Lawrence Vincent O'Niel
27 Marguerite May O'Neil
29 Helen Agnes Ryan
Peter and Annie [De Young] Philip A. and Mary E. [Sweeney] James D. and Sarah E. [Billiard] James E. and Ethel [Forest] John P. and Annie [O'Brien] Walter L. and Frances M. B. [Aplin] Jeremiah M. and Abbie [Quill] Jeremiah M. and Abbie [Quill] Joseph E. and Bridget [Frewin]
JUNE
2 Tage Ingver Olson
3 Lizzie Eleanor DeCosta
4 Elizabeth May Barrie
5 Mildred Ellen Walls
11 Alexander Chester DeCoste
Outon and Aurora [Kallstrom] Robert and Alice [Sampson] John and Margaret [Blayhok] Samuel G. and Carrie [Whitmarsh] Thomas and Rose [Mattie
13 Margaret May Heaney James and Margaret [Maguire
13 David Otis David and Mary A. [DeCoste
21 Annie Catherine McKenna William C. and Catherine T. [Cullinan
25 Stillborn
27 Florence Marguerite Levangie Joseph and Mary M. [Levangie]
George E. and Catherine [Roy]
Lyonal and Lillian M. [Dugal] Luigi and Filomenna [Intrisano] Patrick M. and Mary J. [Downs George and Margaret [Flavin] Thomas C. and Louise J. [Pitts] Christopher and Fannie [DeCoste Charles E. and Annie S. [Miller George N. and Cassie [McKeough Angus and Jennie [Savage George and Flora M. [Daly] Laban H. and Cora G. [Mann]
APRIL
Michael and Elizabeth [Murphy] Daniel and Ellen [Ryan] Clarence and Annie G. [Reviere] Frederick R. and Sarah M. [Reviere] Harmaine and Malvina [Gurdet]
Edmund and Mary E. [Carney] Peter, Jr., and Jennie [DeCoste] Joseph P. and Mary A. [Bennett] Fred M. and Elsie P. [Noyes]
7
JULY
4 Irving Richard Johnson
5 - Johnson
7 Charles Vernon Jackson
9 Grace M. Powers ·
9 William Handly
14 Arthur Carroll Eckl
15 Charles Raymond Bennett
17 Marion Delmar Miller
21 Alvin Frederick Bond
22 Herbert Wellington Anderson
23 Catherine Mary Hayes
27 Jacob Frederick Klay
29 - Skinner
31 Stillborn
Richard E. and Mabel E. [Pike] William C. and Minnie [Gilbert] Frank W. and Lavina [McKenna John and Mary [McDermott] Walter and Mary [Patrigain] George and Mary [Fruth
David and Mary [Kenney] James J. and Ruth G. [Sampson] Francis D. and Mabel H. [Smith] Arthur and Maude [Chapman] John and Lizzie [McKay] Jacob W. and Marie A. [Wuthrich] Walter P. and Carrie A. [Packard]
AUGUST
1 Marjorie Caroline Mansfield
2 Thomas Francis Mellier
6 Amealia Melichondi
9 William Francis McCarthy
12 Stillborn
12 Stillborn
13 Richard Shaw Gould
13 - MacDonald
18 Tellier
20 William Francis Welch
21 Mary Margaret Novelline
23 Alton E. Robery
23 - Atkinson
29 Harold Woodbury Cram
George F. and Caroline [Tucker] Steven and Nora M. [Welch] Martino and Mary [Spera] Jeremiah and Maggie [Quil]]
Chester H. and Sarah [Shaw] Alexander and Violet [Drysdale] Oliver and Annie [Glynn] George J. and Margaret M. [Craig] Josephi and Mary [Pasque] Daniel and Mary A. [Mitchell] H. C. and Nellie [Garrity] William and Vina [Kimball]
SEPTEMBER
1 Elizabeth Mclaughlin
1 Mary McLaughlin
1 - Furtaw
1 Illegitimate
2 Mary Elizabeth Harnish
2 - Fitzpatrick
3 James Ewell Whitcomb
5 Dennis Griffin
7 Elmer Frederick Piercy
10 - Wilson
12 Lucretia Mae Dalton
16 Rollo Raciardi
17 Albert Edward Rhodes
18 Joseph Edward Kingsbury
18 George Allen Arnold, Jr.,
19 Frankie Lewis Tucker
21 - McDonald
25 Francis Stevens Hayes
27 Celestia Lorenzo
28 Miriam Estelle Thompson
Joseph and Elizabeth [De Young] Charles A. and Elizabeth [Harris]
Fitzgerald and Annie [Sullivan] William H. and Nora [Danoher] Charles G. and Nellie H. [Lloyd] Jolın D. and Mary E. [McCarthy] Frederick W. and Jennie [Slack] Norris S. and Lucy A. [Peck] Thomas J. and Mary F. [Griffin] Tony and Schedof [Donardo] Albert E. and Alice [Wilbur] Joseph J. and Gertrude E. [Smithi] George A. and Edith E. [Cain] Charles L. and Edith E. [Hobart] · Reynold and Effie [McNeil] John and Mary A. [O'Connell] George and Lucy [McCarthy] Samuel and Maude E. [Lang]
8
OCTOBER
11 Gertrude Elizabeth Leth
11 Catherine Schlager
17 Judson Stackhouse
Gustave and Esther [Erickson] Max and Catherine [Kapper] Wesley and Marcella [Bonin]
18 Leo Richal William E. and Margaret M. [Connelly] 21 Warren Eugene Mansfield Francis J. and Etta M. [Beyett] 22 Joseph Hardy Perry Williams William H. and Martha A. [Blunt] James F. and Mary A. [Maher] 23 Helen Gertrude McDonnell Herbert W. and Emma [Grigg] 29 Dorothy Mildreth Borden Joseph A. and Georgie L. [Morrill] 30 Dorothy Louise Martin
NOVEMBER
1 - Drinkwater
2 Arnold Boardman Howe
9 Irene Elizabeth Levangie
9 Edward Douglass Howland
18 Jesse Hanner
27 Ellsworth Franklin Hollis
30 Burton Quincy Ewell
Horace R. and Eleanor [Clapp] Charles F. and Jessie R. [Arnold] Patrick and Christina [Beaton] Walter H. and Lillie R. [Penniman] Robert J. and Jessie [McDermott] Chester L. and Jessie [McIntosh] Nathan E. and Deborah S. [Le Bree]
DECEMBER
1 Grace Bouchard
1 - Corson
2 Stillborn
4 Illegitimate
5 Loretta DeCoste
6 Helen Cecelia Frazier
10 Frances Donovan
10 Laura Frances Allen
11 Catherine Alice McDonald
14 William Porter Allen
16 John Edward Trott
17 Elizabeth Williams Stone
19 Winkfield
19 Stillborn
25 Josephine Spera
25 - Cutler
28 James William Flynn
Joseph H. and Mary E. [Richardson] Tiner and Eda [Wyreanen]
Jeffrey and Annie [McCasker] Luke and Melvina [Levangie] Dennis W. and Annie L. [Murphy] Theodore B. and Britiania [Eddy] Peter and Mary E. [Martin] William T. and Ethel L. [Brooks] Joseph H. and Mary E. [Piercy] William S. and Ellen [Dewson] Fedro and Eva M. [Curtis]
Martino and Filomena [Grazuesa] Piercy D. and Charlotte A. [Rogers] Morris E. and Josephine E. [Maher
9
MARRIAGES IN 1904.
JANUARY
DATE. NAME.
AGE.
RESIDENCE.
Jan. 1. Leon Weston Delano
26
Braintree
Evelyn (Look) Tabbutt
25
Addison, Me.
66 6. Chester O. Keene
31
Weymouth
Jennie N. Wry
20
Braintree
7. Christopher Decoste Fannie Decoste
21
" 7.
John E. Meara Annie R. Dee
23
Braintree
" 20.
Albert T. Hollinshead
29
Catherine Sullivan
20
66
: 20. Wallace C. Luther
25
Weymouth
Sarah L. Bunker
24
Braintree
" 27. Frank L. Smith Elizabeth J. Mattie
19
66
FEBRUARY
Feb. 1. Leon Auger Mary Yourell
24
Braintree
23
Weymouth
8. Patrick Levangie Christina Beaton
35
Braintree
13. Robert S. Macintire Eva G. Higgins
19
66
18. Lewis F. Holbrook
35
60
Georgie Frances Davies
26
Holbrook
" 25. Cushing Adams Idanna H. (Hale) Anson
37
Braintree
" 27. Judah Wrightington Harriet Leavitt
22
Braintree
MARCH
Mar. 13. Guy A. Roxborough
21
Braintree
Bertha Saunders
20
66
" 30. James J. Miller Ruth Gladys Sampson
21
14
66
APRIL
Apr. 6. Charles S. Whiting Minnie S. Young
30
Braintree
30
66
" 20. Edward T. Dwyer
25
Weymouth
Margaret F. Kiernan
24
Braintree
21
Brockton
" 24. Gordon Roy Macdonald Annie L. Gurney
21
Braintree
66
24
22
66
35
Bellows Falls, Vt
37
Weymouth
66
22
66°
23
24
Holbrook
10
MAY
May 4. Walter Hollinshead Olive Elizabeth Dimmick 20
19
Braintree 6€
JUNE
June 1. Alexander A. MacDonald
22
Braintree
Violet Sarah Drysdale
17
66
8. John F. Clinton 27
Katherine V. Hart
28
Weymouth
" 11. James Henry Rogers Bertie Alma Green
19
Waltham
" 14. Henry W. Gore, Jr. Olive Litchfield
27
Hingham
" 15. Frank H. Walker Edith M. Stoddard
27
66
Drindie May Forcy
20
Hingham Braintree
" 19. Thomas A. Harben Susie E. Porter
33
66
" 29. Cornelius Sullivan Mary E. Mack
29
Holbrook Braintree
" 29. George C. King Bertha N. West
20
66
" 29. Louis N. Goodhue
32
66
Maude P. Walsh
27
66
" 30. Frederick W. Wolfe Alice J. MacDonald
24
66
JULY
July 3. Joseph Smith
24
Braintree
May Deno
22
" 6. Artemas Linwood Morrow Minnie Maude Robertson
27
Brockton
" 6. George E. Rowell Ann M. Mitchell
20
West Everett
· AUGUST
Aug. 3. Philip H. Sullivan
29
Braintree
Rose M. Starkie
29
Boston
" 10. Henry A. Putnum
54
Braintree
Grace A. Soule
39
Whitman
" 13. Frank S. Anderson Emma Louise Dalton
22
Braintree
" 13. Arthur S. Gibson Florence Arteisuan
28
18
66
" 16. Carl Ephriam Johnson
29
Randolph
Grace Etta Arnold
21
Randolph
-
' 19. John E. Arnold Bertha Marion Perry
27
Braintree
66
22
66
24
66
28
Braintree
" 16. Jasper Elliot Hamblin
35
Waltham
25
32
Braintree
29
31
23
66
29
22
Braintree
19
11
Aug. 20. Thomas A. Miller
24
Braintree
Etta Maude Burhoe
19
" 22. Urban T. Landry 27
Weymouth Braintree
Rose Frances Havey
27
" 24. Willis H. Martin Minerva Purvere Witherell
29
66
" 24. James Gee Angeline Parker Cain
43
Providence, R I.
" 24. Richard F. Smith Margaret D. Price
27
Boston
" 27. Thomas Greenough Mable Hunter
25
Braintree
21
SEPTEMBER
Sept. 7. Charles H. Mann
22
Randolph
Alma O. O'Neill
19
Braintree
" 14. Eugene E. Hall
36
Alice M. Smith
25
" 21. Irving Weston Morgan Mildred Lincoln
20
66
" 28. George Winslow Pratt Florence Evelyn Woodwortlı
20
" 28. Henry Davies Helen (Robinson) Birchnough
58
Braintree
" 28. Frank A. Whitmarsh Rose G. Brady 19
OCTOBER
28
Braintree
" 3. James W. Waters
27
Braintree
Charlotte M. Foster
34
" 4. Joseph Mclaughlin Elizabeth DeYoung
21
Braintree
47
Amherst
" 4. Samuel W. Crafts Cora B. Church
41
".11. George W. Ratcliffe Helen M. Wood
25
Chicopee
" 12. Scott E. Haseltine Mabel L. Randall
25
Holbrook
" 12. Arthur G. Locke Elsie L. Stoddard
20
Scituate
" 26. Ernest S. Barrand Ida C. Ratcliffe
29
Braintree
" 26. Daniel J. Daily Hannah Griffin
25
Braintree
" 26. Herbert Gleason Porter Annie Foster Mayo
25
Provincetown
" 27. H. Alphonso Stetson Susie E. (Simmons) Josselyn
52
Braintree
66
40
66
Oct. 3. Harry I. Phinney Lulu Rosengreen
25
Boston
22
Quincy
33
Braintree
23
Braintree
23
Boston
29
Brookline
27
Quincy
33
Malden
35
60
Arkwright, R. I.
34
Braintree
29
Cornville, Me. Braintree
20
58
Brockton
20
12
NOVEMBER
Nov. 3. Aymer W. Brown
23
Braintrce
May A. Hayden
23
Holbrook
" 9. Ralph C. Cain 23
Braintree
Edith E. Waters
23
66
" 14. Louie Durell Lizzie Levangie
26
66
" 16. Charles B. Lund
25
Angeline M. Gutterson
31
Weymouth
DECEMBER
Dec. 14. Frank Lints
20
Braintree
Eulah J. Wright
20
Weymouth
" 24. Clarence W. Reed
24
Brockton
Eva G. Chambers
21
Braintree
" 24. Fred H. Whitcomb Alice E. Lee
21
Holbrook
" 25. Everett Elwin Hobart
22
Bessie Maude Glover
19
Braintree
" 31. Robert G. Valentine
32
N. Y. City
Sophia French
36
Braintree
Whole number of marriages, 71.
Birthplace of Males-Braintree, 9; other places in Massachusetts, 33; British Provinces, 10 ; England, 5; N. H., 4; Maine, 4; R. I., Ohio, Sweden, Ireland, Scotland, France, one each.
Birthplace of Females-Braintree, 14; other places in Massachusetts, 35; British Provinces, 11; Maine, 2; Mich. Cal., N. H., Fla., Wales, Scotland, England, Ireland, one each; unknown, 1.
Residence of Males-Braintree, 49; Weymouth, 5; Quincy, 2; Ran- dolph, 2; Holbrook, 2; other places in Mass., 8; Vt., 1; R. I., 1; N. Y., 1.
Residence of Females- Braintree, 45: Holbrook, 4; Weymouth, 3; Randolph, 1; other places in Mass., 15; Maine, 2; R. I, 1.
Marriages solemnized in Braintree, 37; Weymouth, 9: Holbrook, 4; Quincy, 3; Boston, 8; Hingham, Somerville, Taunton, Everett, Roxbury, Whitman, Kingston, Chicopee, Randolph and Maine, one each.
22
66
24
66
13
DEATHS IN 1904.
JANUARY
DATE. NAME.
BIRTHPLACE.
AGE.
Y.
M.
D
1 Carbery McKaig
3 William Harrison Pray
Boston
77
4
-
4 Nathan E. Wright
Rockland
35
2
6
7 Nancy Jane Jones
Ohio
66
11
7
8. Joshua Frank Winslow
Abington
45
8
12
9 Albert Henry Conkey
Hardwick
28
4
16
10 Irene Isabelle Hollis
Braintree
-
11
12
13 Ellen J. Decoste
9
23
17 Harry Edson Hollis
Quincy
3
5
27
18 Clayton Wood Hollis
Braintree
2
3
20
20 Caroline Victoria Hollis
Pittston, Me.
62
8
4
FEBRUARY
2 Nancy Loraine Tisdale
Sharon
63
11
6
9 Mary Long
Ireland
57
3
19
11 Charles Gilbert Thompson
Weymouth
66
3
21
15 Sophia Link
Germany
68
-
-
-
-
-
-
15
22 - Dustin
66
-
-
-
23 Paul Wild
87
10
29
25 Clement Taylor
66
-
-
20
MARCH
5 William Kincaide
6 Catherine Gannon
Braintree
-
-
1
11 James J. Mahoney
Boston
55-
2
13
13 Emery C. Cummings
Bridgeport, Conn.,
72
6
13
14 Frances L. Chamberlin
Boston
44
-
-
15 Clara Jennie Spera
Braintree
8
20
16 Sarah M. Babcock
Lancaster
51
6
4
22 Daniel Dillon
Braintree
6
1
-
23 Harold William Murphy
23 Eliza Jane Pierce
N. Y. City
74
10
13
24 Clarabel Louise Simonds
Braintree
15
5
18
APRIL
1 James Warren Divoll
Roxbury
53
8
23
14 James Samuel Frazer
Fall River
6
2
14
14 John H. Knight
Randolph
43
-
-
Canada
29
-
-
76
18 Janette Smith
Scotland
20 Raymond Taylor
Braintree
Ireland
69
-
1
14
14
· Jones
16 Albion Paris Wight
21 Morris DeCoste
22 James Hall
Whitefield, Me.
90
10
24
Elliot
24 Elliot
24 Lottie Sullivan
29 Farrer
-
-
MAY
1 Thomas
2 Emma Jane Lovering
Lawrence
54
3
7
8 Mary Ann Green
Ireland
44
8
-
9 Sarah Sophia Arnold
Braintree
67
4
11
10 John B. Allen
66
88
10
7
10 Mary Starr
Ireland
87
7
25
12
- O'Keefe
Braintree
73
9
28
14 Harriet Ellen Van Buskirk
Bellville, N. J.
54
10
21
15 Sarah Drysdale
Nova Scotia
66
10
13
16 Hazel Marie Tucker
Braintree
1
7
5
19 John Edward Drysdale
Nova Scotia
73
5
26
21 Elizabeth Ann Edson
Hingham
70
4
16
23 Francis Packard Thayer
Braintree
57
-
29
23 Myra Elizabeth Hobart
46
10
11
JUNE
3 Tristram Rankin Newell
Lawrence
52
10
3
3 Harriet B. B. Lord
Francistown, N. H.
82
12
4 Jolin Edward Mellen
Boston
71
-
-
-
15 Robert H. Orr
Braintree
28
2
15
18 William B. Frazier
Braintree
1
-
10
66
46
10
12
25 John Gillon Owston
Stoughton
4
8
26
25
Hogan
29 Mary M. Cowles
Sheldon, Vt.
67
5
8
30 Agnes Catherine Cosgrove
Ireland
32
9
24
JULY
6 Jannette Anderson Munday
Newfoundland
71
3
28
10 Andrew Jackson Bates
Salem
67
3
28
Alabama
54
5
-
-
8
-
-
6
S
Durham, N. H.
73
10
22
31 - Roxborough
Braintree
-
1
-
I
Otisfield, Me.
84
7
22
Harbor-Bouche, N.S. 44
- Braintree 66 -
-
Nova Scotia
26
Braintree
-
-
-
14 Thomas Dalton
17 Rauel Decoste
Braintree,
23 Elsie Jane Pitts
28 Susan Hussey
Braintree
-
-
15 Ancel Dimmock
Falmoutlı
18
21 Walter Thayer Connell
1
14 Rachael Rebecca Hunt
Braintree
Braintree
15
AUGUST
2 George William Bird
Braintree 66
10
8
14
4 Skinner
-
6
6 Lougi Rizzi
Italy
23
9
-
10 Lydia Savory Gammons
Wareham
63
7
20
12 - Farina
Braintree
-
-
-
66
1
6
-
66
1
5
20
16 Thomas Gannon
Ireland
56
11
13
17 David Otis
Braintree
2
4
23 Alton E. Robery
31 Fannie Decoste
Nova Scotia
21
8
-
SEPTEMBER
4 Samuel Vinton Arnold
Braintree
73
4
13
10 Anna Gregg Greenlaw
Scotland
75
5
25
13 Charles Vernon Jackson
Braintree
2
6
13 Arthur Gordon Levangie
18 Eliza J. DeYoung
-
-
18
26 Herman Lawrence Harris
Oneonta, N. Y.
B
3
14
OCTOBER.
5 Silvia Ann Vinton
Plymouth
71
1
21
10
Mary Swanson
Sweden
36
6
15
10 Alice Irene Krohn
Calais, Me.
2
1
24
21 Abby F. Richards
Shrewsbury
72
4
20
21 Grace M. Powers
Braintree
3
12
27 Charles Howard Thayer
Randolph
59
-
17
NOVEMBER
1 Leo Richal
Braintree
-
-
14
5 Joseph Whiteley
England
76
7
21
8 Edward J. Branley
Braintree
25
-
10
12 John Francis Dignan
66
3
9
11
16 Mary Jane Mellen
Stoughton
71
11
12
19 Carlton A. Burrell
Braintree
16
6
29
18 Susannah Wild Buker
61
9
18
20 William Handley
66
4
11
22 William G. McMahon
6:
11
19
25 Theodore Sylvester Pickering
66
9
2
DECEMBER
1 George Wales
Braintree
84
6
27
2 - Porter
66
-
-
13 Emeline P. Adams
Bristol, Me.
74
3
16 Martda Kulleaueu
Braintree
-
-
-
-
-
19 Arza Benjamin Keith
Campello
74
6
14
20 Caleb H. Hayden
Randolph
65
22
31
Joseph Hardy Perry Williams
Braintree
-
2
9
-
66
-
-
-
13
19 - Drysdale
4
22
12 Julia Lafand
15 Richard Cochran
16
Whole number of deaths, 115; males, 68; females, 47; single, 54; married, 38; widowed, 23.
Birthplace-Braintree, 55; other places in Massachusetts, 27; British Provinces, 7; Ireland, 6; Maine, 5; New York, New Hampshire, Scotland, 2 each; Ohio, Connecticut, New Jersey, Vermont, Alabama, Germany, Italy, England, Sweden, one each.
Ages-Under 1 year, 34; between 1 and 5, 10; between 5 and 10, 2; between 10 and 15, 0; between 15 and 20, 3; between 20 and 25, 2; between 25 and 30, 4; between 30 and 35, 1; between 35 and 40, 2; between 40 and 50, 8; between 50 and 60, 11; between 60 and 70, 13; between 70 and 80, 18; between 80 and 90, 6; over 90, 1.
Birthplace-Fathers: Braintree, 19; other places in Massachusetts, 22; British Provinces, 15; Ireland, 13; Maine, 8; Scotland, 5; Italy, 4; New York and New Hampshire, 3 each; Rhode Island, 2; North Caroline, South Carolina, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Germany, France, Sweden, England and Finland, one each; unknown, 11.
Birthplace-Mothers: Braintree, 18; other places in Massachusetts, 27; British Provinces, 17; Ireland, 13; Maine, 5; Scotland and Italy, 4 each; New Hampshire, 3; North Carolina, New York, Alabama, Germany, England, Sweden, Finland, 1 each: Unknown, 17.
Diseases-Stillborn, 12; Heart Disease, 11; Arteric Sclerosis, 7; Pneu- monia, 7; Paralysis, 6; Cerebral Hemorrhage, 5; Phthisis Pulmonalis, 4; Bronchitis, 4; Cholera Infantum, 4; Scarlet Fever, 3; Accident, 4; Pul- monary Tuberculosis, 3; Marasmus, 3; Cancer, 2; Bright's Disease, 2; Colo-enteritis, 2; Nephritis, 2; Malnutrition, 2; Premature Birth, 2; Ty- phoid Fever, 2; Diphtheria, Softening of Brain, Phlebitis, Birth injury Intestinal Tuberculosis, La Grippe, Tumor, Meningitis, Senility, Chrosis of Lungs, Erysipelas, Spinal Degengeration, Tryonephrosis, Hemiplegia, Tranumatic Tetanus, Pertussis, Old Age, Acute Hepatitis, Intestinal Ob- struction, Odema, Measles, Cerebral Abcess, Hydrocephalous, Lupus, Con- gestion of Lungs, Dentition, Inanition, Pyemia.
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TOWN RECORDS.
WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Brain- tree, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall in said Braintree, on Friday, the 5th day of February, 1904, at 7.45 o'clock in the evening, to act on the fol- lowing articles, namely :
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meet- ing.
Art. 2. To hear the report of the Special Committee ap- pointed at the last Annual Town Meeting to examine into the financial affairs of the town and to act thereon.
You are to give notice of this meeting by posting true and attested copies of this Warrant in not less than nine public places in this town, seven days at least before the time of said meeting, and by publishing the same once in the Braintree Bee and Braintree Observer-Reporter.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands, at Braintree this twenty-second day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and four.
B. HERBERT WOODSUM, J. PARKER HAYWARD, WARREN B. KEITH.
Selectmen of Braintree.
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BRAINTREE, February 5, 1904. .
The Town met in accordance with the foregoing Warrant at the time and place' specified. The meeting was called to order, the Warrant read and also the officer's return of the same by the Town Clerk.
Article 1. Upon ballot with the use of the check list, B. Herbert Woodsum was elected Moderator and was sworn.
Art. 2. The vote passed at the Annual Town Meeting in March, 1903, authorizing the appointment of an Investigating Committee was read by the Town Clerk by request.
The report of the Committee was called for and was read by the Chairman, Mr. John W. West.
Voted, To receive the report and to take up the recom- mendations on each department separately.
After a lengthy discussion, the town voted to lay the report of the Committee on the table.
Voted, That this meeting now adjourn.
A true record,-Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Brain- tree, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified to vote in elections therein to meet at the polling places in their respective precincts, to wit :
Polling place in Precinct No. 1, Town Hall.
Polling place in Precinct No. 2, Hose House, Hollis avenue. Polling place in Precinct No. 3, Hose House, Allen street.
On Monday, the seventh day of March, 1904, at six o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to bring in to the Wardens of their respectives Precincts, their votes on one 'ballot for a Town Clerk, a Town Treasurer, three Selectmen, three Assessors, three Overseers of the Poor, three Highway Surveyors, three
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