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But man owes a more sacred debt to his times than merely to improve the material condition of those about him. This duty Mr. Buffum has not neglected.
In 1831 a distant relative, Mr. Arnold Buffum, brought to his house William Lloyd Garrison. This was the be- ginning of a life-long friendship. Profoundly moved by Garrison's appeals, Mr. Buffum devoted himself with characteristic energy to the anti-slavery and kindred movements. Thenceforward his house was the home of all social reformers ; the appeal for temperance, peace, anti-
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slavery, woman's rights, for relief to labor, found shelter always under his roof. With means, voice and pen he gave to all his generous aid. Attending all the large conventions, he took an active and influential part, be- coming soon a fluent, able and attractive speaker, and exerting a wide influence. While New England was hunting-ground for the slaveholder, the fugitive was always safe under Mr. Buffum's roof.
On the 16th of August, 1845, he sailed with Frederic Douglass for Great Britain, spending a year there and in Ireland. Their addresses had a marked effect in stirring the sympathy of the Old World, and secured him many valuable friends. Mr. Buffum's position in the anti- slavery and other reforms necessarily made him bitterly unpopular. Not that personally he ever had an enemy. Indeed, no man has been a more general favorite. But advanced views on grave questions inevitably bar one from political life ; and the Garrisonian party, to which Mr. Buffum belonged, distinctly renounced all part in the government.
But after the war had changed this, and when many of what had been his advanced views were accepted by the community, he was welcomed to the political ranks, and did efficient service there. In 1868 he served as one of the Massachusetts Electors in the first election of Gen. Grant. In 1869 he was chosen Mayor, and discharged the duties of the office with eminent success. In his In- augural Address he recommended the introduction of water for the city, and had the satisfaction of seeing it done during his administration. He was again elected in 1872, and may claim that the plans he advocated, however criticised or opposed at the time, have been finally crowned with general approbation.
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In the Legislature he represented Lynn in 1874. There his business tact, ability in debate, and skill in the management of business, were conspicuous. No man in the city better represents the self-sustaining energy and pluck, the inventive genius and resources which we asso- ciate with the Yankee race. Hardly another can be found who, while seeing and fostering the business interest and material prosperity of Lynn, has been so true to the spirit of progress, so devoted a philanthropist, and so fair a specimen of the honorable manhood of Lynn. In- dependent in thinking for himself, far-sighted in seeing the nation's truc honor and highest welfare, honest in his willingness to stand by his convictions and suffer with them and for them, he came late into political office. But his success has shown that a man may be humane and philanthropic without losing his skill in business or State affairs, and that the true man is not only the best example for the young, but the ablest servant of the State.
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EDWIN WALDEN.
EDWIN WALDEN, the thirteenth Mayor of the city, was born in Lynn, Nov. 25, 1818. His ancestors were among the early settlers of New England. William and Rich- ard Walden, or Waldron (the spelling is not uniform), were settled in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1635. Wil- liam left no children. Richard, from whom Mr. Walden traces his descent, is frequently mentioned in the annals of the settlement. Ile was a member of the House of Deputies for twenty-four years, and for eight years its Speaker. He was killed by the Indians, June 27, 1689, when he was more than eighty years of age.
The ancestors upon the mother's side came to Massa- chusetts at an early date, and settled in Worcester county. The farm upon which Mrs. W. was born is still owned by the family, having descended from father to son through six generations.
The first resident of Lynn whe bore the family name was Nathaniel Walden, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He was a native of that portion of Dan- vers now called West Peabody, and came to Lynn when a young man to learn the trade of a shoemaker. IIc married, in 1790, Hannah Ramsdell, of Lynn, and soon after settled in the neighborhood known as Breed's End. Hle had six sons and two daughters.
Caleb Walden, the oblest son of Nathaniel, was born May 13, 1791. He adopted his father's occupation, and followed it with steady industry for more than sixty
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years. In 1817 he married Betsey Houghton, a daughter of Peter Houghton, of Harvard, Mass. They lived, after the modest fashion of those days, in their own house on Summer street, in West Lynn, and gave to their children as many advantages as lives devoted to daily toil could well secure. On the first day of the year, 1837, the mother died, leaving a son (Edwin) and two daughters. The father lived to a good old age, closing his busy and useful life April 20, 1869.
Mr. Walden's opportunities for early mental training were quite limited. He had a good New England home, and such privileges as the district school in West Lynn could give to any lad who loved books and study. At the age of thirteen he began to work with his father, at his trade. His school days were over ; but he had acquired the rudiments of an education, and a decided taste for reading. His early associates remember him as one who was accustomed to read long and often to his shopmates, and to join heartily in the lively discussions that were sure to follow. By such means, aided by the lyceum and the debating-club, he attained a rare facility in the use of ap- propriate language, that has found ample employment in recent years.
In the spring of 1843 Mr. Walden removed to Ver- non, Connecticut, to commence, in a small way, the manufacture of shoes for his new employer. Returning to Lynn after a four years' absence, he was engaged for a short time in the purchase and sale of periodicals. In 1850 he was again in the shoe business, and soon after entered the field as a manufacturer ; a calling which he has prosecuted with reasonable success until the present time.
Mr. Walden's public services began in connection with the old-time fire department, of which he was an active
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member for fourteen years. He also held a commission as Lieutenant in the Lynn Artillery, the oldest of our chartered military organizations. In 1853 he was a member of the Common Council. While serving in that body, he was chosen an Alderman, and also a Repre- sentative to the General Court for the session of 1854, during which he was a member of the committee that reported the original Hoosac Tunnel bill. He was again a Representative in 1857 ; and was a Senator from the First Essex District in 1860 and 1861. In 1865 he was appointed by Gov. Andrew one of the Inspectors of the State Prison for a term of three years.
The war for the suppression of the Rebellion devolved upon our municipal authorities new and grave responsi- bilities. In these Mr. Walden had a full share. He was for three years an Alderman during the administration of Mayor Neal, and subsequently, for a like term, a mem- ber of the Common Council. His name is honorably associated with all the important measures of those busy years, especially with the legislation that gave to the city the Public Library, the City Hall, and the steam fire en- gine with the consequent re-organization of the fire de- partment.
Mr. Walden entered upon his duties as Mayor Jan. 3, 1870. Ilis term of service comprised two years of great business activity. There were urgent demands for exten- sive improvements in streets, for commodious school build- ings in the populous portions of the city, and for a permanent water supply. To these as to all other mat- ters pertaining to his official trusts, Mr. Walden gave the closest study, bringing to the discharge of his duties ex- perience, tact, a habit of careful investigation, and famil- iarity with the forms and methods of public business. His
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administration was distinguished by harmony and unity of purpose in all departments of the government.
During these years, in accordance with the recom- mendations of the Mayor, the fine buildings now occupied by the Cobbet and Ingalls schools were erected ; the fire- alarm telegraph was introduced and put in successful op- eration ; decisive action was taken in reference to the Soldiers' Monument ; careful surveys were made of the ponds and water-courses of Lynn and its vicinity ; cx- tensive water-works were constructed ; and water for man- ufacturing and domestic uses was first brought to the city.
Since 1871 Mr. Walden has been constantly in public service as President of the Public Water Board, and for a portion of the time as a Representative in the General Court. In 1873 he was appointed by Gov. Washburn one of the Commissioners to superintend the erection of the State Asylum for the Insane for Eastern Massachusetts.
For many years he has been favorably known as a speaker and writer. In official reports he has discussed questions of public policy in a manner that has given his writings a permanent value in relation to our municipal history. Ilis speeches in deliberative bodies, though never long, have commanded the attention of his asso- ciates, and have exerted a favorable influence upon the course of public business. With voice and pen he has been the persistent advocate of progress. Recognizing all that was good in the past, he has been in earnest co- operation with the men who have done the most to make the new ways better than the old.
Mr. Walden married, in 1850, Ann Maria, daughter of Henry Farmer, of Boston. Their oldest daughter, Helen Maria, died in infancy. Their surviving children are, Edwin jr., Annie Farmer, William, Charles Henry, and Charlotte Matilda.
Jacob M. Leurs
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JACOB MEEK LEWIS.
THIS gentleman stands as the fourteenth, in order of time, in our list of Mayors, and, with the exception of Hon. P. M. Neal, is the only one retained in office through a continuous term of four years. Mr. Lewis's family is strictly native to Lynn ; his ancestor, Edmund Lewis, having been the first to settle, in 1639, on the street afterwards named for him, and on the spot near which Mayor Lewis was himself born, Oct. 13, 1823, being the son of Robert and Hannah (Humphrey) Lewis. He was married, October 13, 1845, to Roxanna, daughter of Joshua and Sally Stone, but had no children.
Mr. Lewis may be very well described as a man of the people. ITis whole history is one highly illustrative of the common fortune of our better classes, while it is so diversified as to identify him in experience and interests with a rather unusually large share of our leading indus- tries. Ilis family not being one of fortune, he spent his earlier youth in the common school, and afterwards, for a short time, in the " Lynn Academy," alternating these opportunities with the occupation of the shoe bench, at that period the almost invariable heritage of the boy of Lynn.
After his marriage he passed two years in business as a grocer, on Lewis street ; and ten years subsequently as a fisherman, hailing from the neighboring village of Swampscott. He finally, however, laid aside all these
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less remunerative callings, and, having formed a part- nership with Mr. Thomas Collyer, also of Lynn, estab- lished himself as a shoe manufacturer in 1858, on Union street, near the center of the city. The house of Lewis and Collyer is still active, and doing a substantial business.
A youth and earlier manhood made up like this could hardly fail, with common sense and good New England shrewdness, to qualify its subject for almost any duty found in a popular government. The fair, though not liberal, education he had enjoyed, with the experience of such varied and important callings, left his mind en- dowed with a large stock of the practical wisdom of life, and impressed with the surest and most useful of all the facts of ordinary knowledge. It may be said, without flattery, that of this Mr. Lewis has given extended and agreeable evidence. In 1852 he filled a seat in the Common Council, in the delegation from Ward Three. And this makes Mr. Lewis the seventh Mayor of Lynn who has had previous experience in that branch. Dur- ing following years he spent nine different terms in the Board of Aldermen in successive association with Mayors Davis, Neal, Usher and Walden. IIe is thus also the seventh Mayor who hase done service in the Board, and shared with Messrs. Neal, Usher and Walden alone the advantage of practical knowledge in both divisions of the government.
On the establishment of the Public Water Board, in 1871, he was made one of its members, and shared influ- entially in the debates so copiously arising out of the water question in that and the succeeding years. His course in all these positions was always such as com- manded high respect, though he was thus connected with
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some of the most difficult periods of the municipal his- tory. In 1860 his influence was held of high value during the embarrassments of the " Great Strike " of that year ; and in 1862, '63, '64 and '65, he was a sub- stantial member of the well-remembered " War Board," which continued through all that critical time almost without alteration of membership, and the duties of which were more severe, probably, than those of any before or since. And as the life and character of every public officer are largely identified with the events and recur- rences of his time of prominence, and usually to be rec- ognized as definitely connected with the progress, so it appears pertinent to allude to a few more notable things that, happening in the administration of the subject of this sketch, are natural accessories in this brief biog- raphy.
The patriotic feeling of the citizens of Lynn, freely moving itself toward a recognition of the services and sacrifices of the men whose lives had been given in de- fence of the nation, had already decided that some val- uable public work should be erected to commemorate the worth of those noble vindicators of American liberty. The deliberations on the point had resulted in the selec- tion of a classical design for a public monument from the hand of Mr. John A. Jackson, an American artist of Florence, Italy. During the summer of 1873, the construction of this work, located in Park Square, was favorably completed, and on the 17th of September of that year the "Soldiers' Monument," the first and almost the only specimen of ornamental art ever yet provided at public expense in Lynn, was consecrated with appropriate ceremonies.
Mr. Lewis's incumbency in the office of Mayor com-
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menced in January, 1873, and terminated in January, 1877. He is a gentleman of peculiarly quiet and un- obtrusive manners, easy and agreeable to all, yet rather inclined to reserve in his general deportment. His ac- tion is usually cautious, never precipitate, but always firm ; and though he may take a position with what seems to be slowness, he is rarely, if ever, under the necessity of retreating from it afterward. His adminis- trations have been marked with a decided regard for public economy, and it was probably in a good degree owing to his efforts that, in his last two official years, a very gratifying reduction was actually made in the public debt of the city ; yet no enterprise looking to the real good of the community has ever failed for want of en- couragement from him.
In person Mr. Lewis is of average height, with a florid complexion and some disposition to stoutness. His whole appearance is that of a calm-spirited, thought- ful man, whose aim has been to live well and happily himself, and do what he might to secure the like benefit to those around him.
INDEX.
[ Surnames appear in this Index arranged alphabetically with the subjects.]
A.
Abbott, 143.
Adams, 61, 65, 163.
Address to President Adams and his reply, 64, 65. Aged Women, Home for, 113, 138.
Allen, 95, 109.
Alley, 71, 95.
Ancient and Honorable Artillery, 37,110.
An Irew, 169, 193. Andros, 45, 130, 181. Animals, 81, 129, 131.
Assassination of President Lincoln, 71. Attwill, 103. Austin, 111.
B.
Bachelor and Batchelder, 12, 13, 108, 109, 111, 129, 171. Baker, 108, 110, 146, 151, 152, 151. Ballard. 110. Bancroft, 20, 21, 23. 32.
Bands of Music, 113.
Banks, for Discount and for Sav- ings, 111. Barrett, 109. Bassett, 109.
Beaches and Shores, 85, 86.
Benevolent. Literary and other So- cieties, 112. Bennett. 110, 130. Bert. 130. Bickford, 150. Biddle, 72, 71.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND PERSONAL NOTICES :
Bachelor, Rev. Stephen, 13. Baker, Daniel C., Mayor, 151.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHIES AND PERSONAL NOTICES, CONTINUED.
Breed, Andrews, Mayor, 159.
Breed, Ebenezer, 59.
Breed, Hiram N., Mayor, 175.
Buffum, James N., Mayor, 187.
Burchstead, Dr. John Henry, 27.
Barrill, George. 18.
Cobbet, Rev. Thomas, 15.
Davis, Edward S., Mayor, 171.
Gray, William, 32.
Holyoke, Edward, 16.
Hood, George, Mayor, 143.
Humfrey, Lady Susan, 33.
Ingalls, Edmund and Francis, 12.
Johnson, Wm. F., Mayor, 167.
Lewis, Alonzo, 121.
Lewis, Jacob M., Mayor, 195. Merrill, Benjamin, 28.
Moody, Lady Deborah, 34.
Mudge, Benj. F., Mayor, 147.
Mudge, Ezra W., Mayor, 163.
Neal, Peter M., Mayor, 179.
Newhall, Dr. Horatio, 23.
Newhall, James R., 125.
Newhall, Landlord, 56.
Pickering, Timothy, 18.
Richardson, T. P., Mayor, 155.
Usher, Roland G., Mayor, 183.
Walden, Edwin, Mayor, 191. Washburn, Reuben P. and son, 29. 30. Whiting, Rev. Samuel and wife, 13. Wood, William, author, 24.
Birch Pond formed, 138.
Blanchard, 163. Bonaparte, 33.
Bond. 136. Bonfires, 71, 125.
Bontwell, 176. Bowditch, 126.
Bowler, 51, 145.
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Braddock, 132. Bray, 166.
Breed, 21, 59, 60, 61, 70, 95, 108, 110, 133, 143, 116, 159, 160, 161, 175, 176, 177, 178. Breed's Pond formed, 133. Brice, 185.
Bridges, (surname), 110.
Brimblecom, 159, 160.
Brooks, (water), 82.
Brown, 128, 135.
Bubier, 99, 154.
Bucknam, 184.
Buffum, 108, 187, 188, 189.
Bull Fight at Half Way House, 132. Bullock, 186.
Burchstead, 27.
Burrill, 18, 95, 125, 146.
Burton, 130.
Butler, 185.
C.
Campbell, 128.
Celestial Phenomena, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136. Cemetery, Pine Grove, 133. Centennial Year, Lynn, in, 73, 93, 116. Chadwell, 163, 174.
Channing, 126.
Chase, 74, 108, 111, 154, 163.
Cheever, 54.
Chesapeake and Shannon, battle of, 67.
Choral Union, 112.
Chronological Table, 129.
Churches, 112. City Clerks, 109.
City Debt, Expenditures and Re- ceipts, 99.
City Marshals, 109.
City Mission, 112.
City Property, Valuation of, 97, 98.
City Treasurers, 109.
Claflin, 186.
Clark, 108.
Clay, 134, 182. Clergymen, number of, 115. Clerks, City, 109. Clifford, 180, 186.
Cobb, 180. Cobbet, 12, 15. Coldam, 110. Cole, 110. Collins, 95, 146. Collyer, 196.
Commencement of Settlement, 10. Common Council, Presidents of, 108.
Court, Police, 110, 133. Cox, 160. Cromwell, Oliver, 42. Crowninscheldt, 27. Currier, 74. Cushing, 23.
D.
Dagyr, 49, 131. Dana, 20.
Dark Days, 130, 131.
Davis, 108, 162, 171, 172, 174, 196.
Deaths, Causes of, ( Vital Statistics), 103. Deaths by Drowning, 131, 133, 133, 134.
Debt, City, Expenditures and Re- ceipts, 99.
Decoration Day, 72.
DeCormis, 74.
Deed of Lynn, Indian, 130.
Dexter, 170.
Diamond, Mary, 78.
Dillon, 109.
Donohoe, 75.
Douglass, 189.
Downing, 111, 167.
Drowning, Deaths by, 131, 133, 133, 134. Dudley, 184. Dungeon Rock, 77, 130, 133.
Dwellings, 93. 115.
E.
Early Settlers, condition of, 42. Eaton, 75.
Etlitors' and Printers' Association, 113.
Education in early times, 44.
Egg Rock Light, 134.
Electric Telegraph, 111, 137.
Epizootic, horse disease, 137. Evelyn, 42.
Events, Chronological Table of, 129.
Excitement concerning Andros and Randolph, 45.
Expenditures, City, Receipts and Debt, 99, 102. Exposition, World's, at Phialdel- phia, 64, 138.
F.
Families, old, 95. Number of, in 1875, 115. Farmer, (surname), 194. Fay, 110.
INDEX. 201
Financial Condition of Lynn, 99. | Horse Disease, (epizootic), 137. 100, 101. Horse Trot, first, 132. Hose, (surname), 50. Hospital, Lynn, 113, 138. Houghton, 192. Fires, Fire Department, Insurance, 107, 133,135,136. First Church gathered, 11. First Settlers, 12.
First white person born in Lynn, 23. Fisheries and Manufactures, 41, 53 60, 61. 115, 131. Flax, cultivation of, 53.
Flora of Lynn, 80. Free Masons, 112, 132, 138. Frosted Trees, 132.
Funeral, provisions at Rev. Mr. Cobbet's, 16.
G.
Garrison, 188. Geology of Lynn. 38, 79. Gifford, 26, 27, 130. Golden Spike of Pacific Railroad, 25. Gorges, 181. Gowan, 22. Grand Army of the Republic, 112. Grant, 137, 186, 189. Graves, 95. Gray, 32, 110, 133. Green, 18.
II.
Hancock, 131. IIanson, 124. Ilarmon, 110. Ilarris, 75. Ilart, 22, 125. Hartwell, 167. Hathaway, 16. Haven, 21. Hawkes, 108, 110. Hayden, 118. Hazeltine, 27. Ilewes, 25, 110. High School, studies in, 106. ITills, (surname), 74. Ifills (elevations) of Lynn, 81. Hinks, 70. Hitchings. 111. Ilolder, 108. Holmes, 74. Holyoke, 16, 83. Holyoke, Mount, 17. Holyoke Spring, 17. 83. Home for Aged Women, 113, 138. Hood, 108, 136, 143, 114. 115, 116. Ilook, 187. Hooker, 89.
Howe, 37. 110. Hudson, 70, 121. IInmfrey, 33, 34, 35, 110, 129, 195. Ilurd, 160.
Huse, 163. IIntehinson, 19, 110.
1.
Independence. celebrations of, in Lynn. 73, 132. Indian Deed of Lynn, 130. Indians, Visits of, 91. Indian Wars, Lynn's action con- cerning, 49, 61.
Ingalls, 12, 70, 95, 109, 129, 145 Ireson. 1.16. Iron Works, 39, 130.
J.
Jackson, 67. 72, 163, 197. Johnson, 16, 95, 108, 110, 146, 167, 168, 169. Jones, 109. Judges of Lynn Court, 110, 127
K.
Kent, 109. Kertland, 22, 27, 129. Kieft, Dutch Governor, 35, 37. Knight, 109. Knights of Pythias, 112. Kossuth, 134.
L.
Ladies' Benevolent Societies, 113. Lafayette, Gen., visits Lynn, 131, 132. Lawyers, 28. 29, 115. Lechford. 35. Lee, 71, 180. Lewis, 51, 75, 87. 91, 95, 108, 120, 121, 122, 123, 121, 128. 135, 145, 195, 196, 197, 198. Libraries, 112, 115. 135, 137. Lighting of Dwellings, 89. Lincoln, 60, 71, 136. 181. Lion, schooner, wrecked, lives lost, 136. Long, 109. Lovejoy, 109.
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LYNN, its name, aspect and condi- tion at different periods, 36, 41, 43, 48, 75, 93, 116. Lynnfield, 132. Drowning of 13 persons, in Pond, 133.
M.
Madison, 60.
Mansfield, 55, 95, 146.
Manufactures and Fisheries, 41, 53, 60, 61, 115, 131.
Marble, 133.
Market Supplies, 94.
Market Town, Lynn, made, 41.
Marsh, 111, 118.
Marshall, 110.
Masonic Institutions, 112, 132, 138. Mather, 83.
MAYORS OF LYNN, Biographical Sketches of, with Portraits, viz:
Baker, Daniel C., 151.
Breed, Andrews, 159.
Breed, Iliram N., 175.
Buffum, James N., 187.
Davis, Edward S., 171.
Ilood, George, 143.
Jolinson, William F., 167.
Lewis, Jacob M., 195.
Mudge, B njamin F., 147.
Mudge. Ezra Warren, 163.
Neal, Peter M., 179.
Richardson, Thomas P., 155.
Usher, Roland G., 183. Walden, Edwin, 191.
Mayors of Lynn, List of, with dates of inauguration, 108.
McDonald, 132.
McGuire, 134.
Medical Society, 113. Merrill, 28.
Merritt, 109.
Meteors, shower of, in 1833, 133. (See Celestial Phenomena.)
Military of Lynn, 111, 132, 135. Mineral Spring, 83. Ministers, number of, 115.
Mission, City, 112.
Monument, Soldiers', 72, 138.
Moody, 34.
Morocco manufacture, 60, 61, 131. Morrell, 179.
Morse, 137.
Mudge, 108, 109, 110, 147, 148, 149, 150, 163, 161, 165, 186.
Mulliken, 111.
Munroe, 70, 109, 132.
Music, Bands of, 113.
Mutual Benefit Societies, 113.
N.
Nahant, 45, 85.
Name of Lynn, origin of, 36. Neal, 108, 110, 179, 180, 182, 193, 195, 196.
Nettleton, 72. Newhall, 23, 56, 69, 71, 75, 95, 108,
109, 111, 116, 125, 128, 129, 142, 146, 151, 155, 161. 174. Newspapers and Printing Offices, 115. Nullification, South Carolina, 67. Nye, 147.
0.
Odd Fellows, 112, 137. Old Families, number of voters of, 95.
Oliver, 110, 111.
Onslow, 19.
Orcutt, 160.
Ossian, 92.
Otley, 110.
P.
Parker, 20, 32.
Parsons, 109.
Patch, 109.
Payne, 60.
Peggy, brig, wrecked, 131.
Purdy, 133.
Personal Notices. (See Biograph- ical Sketches. )
Petition for Nahant, by Randolph, 45.
Phenomena. (See Celestial Phe- nomena.)
Philip, (Indian King), 48.
Phillips, 30, 95, 167.
Physicians, 26, 115.
Pickering, 18.
Pierson. 23.
Pine Hill Reservoir, 138.
Pine Tree Coins, 39.
Pitcher, Moll, 73, 132.
Police Court, 110, 133.
Polk, President, 133.
Ponds, 82. Birch, 138. Breed's, 133.
Population table, 56.
PORTRAITS, with Biographical Sketches. Baker, Daniel C., faces page 151
Breed, Andrews, 66
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Breed, Hiram N., 66 175
Buffum, James N., 66 187
Davis, Edward S., 171
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PORTRAITS, with Biographical Sketches, continued.
Hood, George, faces page 143
Jolinson, Wm. F.,
6. 167
66 121 Lewis, Alonzo, 66
Lewis, Jacob M., 46 195
Mudge, Benj. F.,
Mudge, Ezra W.,
4 6 163
179
Newhall, Jas. R., 66 125
Richardson, T. P., 66 155
Usher, Roland G., Walden, Edwin
183
191
Post Office, 111, 131. Pratt, 137.
President John Adams, Address to, and Reply, 61, 65.
Presidents of Common Council, list of, 108.
Printing Offices and Newspapers, 115. Public Library, 112, 135, 137. Pynchon, 17.
R.
Railroads, steam and horse, 111, 133, 134, 135, 138. Ramsd: 11, 55, 146, 191. Randolph, 42. 45, 46, 130. Rebellion, Shays's, 66.
Rebellion, Southern, Lynn's action in, 69. Receipts, City, Expenditures and Debt, 99. Reed, 26, 130. Religious Societies, 112. Reservoir, Pine IIill, 138. Revolutionary Times, 50 to 53. Rhodes, 116, 167. Richardson, 74, 108, 113, 155, 156, 157. Richmond, fall of, 71. Robinson, 108, 110, 111.
S.
Sadler, 129. Sanderson, 74. Schools, 105. Scott, 21. Scythe, improvement in, 40. Sea Serpent, 132, 138. Settlement of other places by Lynn people, 51. Shakespeare, 16. Shays's Rebellion, 66. Shepard and Shepherd, 46, 109. Shepley, 186. Sherman. 136.
Shipwrecks, 131, 133, 131, 135, 136. Shoe Business, 49, 59, 114. Shoemakers' Strike, 135, 173. Shores and Beaches, 85, 86. Skinner, 160.
Small Pox, 130.
Smith, 110.
Societies, Benevolent, Literary, &c., 112, 113.
Soldiers' Monument, 72, 138, 194, 197. Spiritnal Interference, Witchcraft, &c., 26. 44, 130.
Springs, 82. Statistics, (tables), 95 to 115. Steele, 74. Stickney, 111, 147.
St. John, 13. Stone, 109, 170, 178, 195.
Stone Walls, 52.
Stores, 115.
Storms, 87, 130, 131, 132, 137. Story, 29. Streets, Courts, Squares, 94, 115. Swan, 124.
T.
Tables, Statistical, 95 to 115. Tapley, 70, 155. Tavern, Landlord Newhall's, 56. Tea Tax and Tea destroyed in Lynn, 51.
Tebbetts, 134. Tedesco, bark, wrecked, 134.
Temperance Societies, 113, 172.
Thacher, 29. Thomas, schooner, wrecked, 133.
Thurston, 109. Tomlins, 110.
Town receives name of Lynn, 36.
Tracy, 80.
Travel, modes of, 89.
Trees, indigenous. 81. Trouble with the Dutch, 37.
Turner, 47. 110, 129. Tyng, 24.
U.
Usher, 70, 72, 75, 108, 110, 111, 183, 184, 185, 186, 196. V.
Valuation, Polls, Taxation, Voters, 97. Value of City Property, 98. Van Ton Haven, 37. Veal, the pirate, 130.
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Neal, Peter M.,
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Vernon, bark, wrecked, 135. Vinton, 21. Vital Statistics, 103.
W.
Walden, 108, 191, 194, 196. Walker, 110. Ward, 48. Washburn, 29, 31, 194.
Washington, 18, 131, 132.
Water Works, 98, 138, 194.
Webster, 134. Whales, 27, 131, 132, 138.
Wheaton, 19. Whitefield, 131.
Whiting, 12 to 15, 33, 34.
Whittle, 108, 109.
Wiley, 29.
WVillar.1, 163.
Winthrop, 129. Witchcraft, &c., 26, 41, 130.
Wolfe, 132.
Wood, 24. 82, 83. 86, 110, 129.
World's Exposition at Philadel- phia, 64, 138.
Y.
Yacht Club, 113. 137. Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, 112, 137.
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