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USA > Massachusetts > Essex County > Lynn > History of Lynn, Essex county, Massachusetts: including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscott, and Nahant, Vol. II. 1864-1893 > Part 26
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Years : : : : 1830
1840 9.367
1850
14.257 1860 19.083
1870
1880
Population : : 6.138
28.233 38.284
STREETS OF LYNN. The number of streets, the present year, [1882] is 509, and the lighting is by 313 gas burners and 253 kerosene lamps. The first paved street was Munroe; and the paving was done during the summer of the year just named, the material being dimension granite blocks. It has hitherto been an expensive and laborious charge to keep our streets in a proper condition, for they are extensive and not in all cases laid upon the best bottoms. But yet they have been kept in remark- ably good repair, for we have had at hand a supply of serviceable material. Our many beautiful drives have long been a source of boasting for ourselves and of pleasure for visitors. When however, a place has attained a population of forty thousands, something more than crushed stone and gravel is needed on the constantly used avenues.
POLICE BUSINESS - POLICE COURT. The number of arrests for criminal offences, in 1881, was 1.289; among them, for drunken- ness, 771 ; assault and battery, 156; larceny, 89; truancy, 30 ; profanity, 27 ; vagrancy, 21 ; breaking and entering, 20; stubborn- ness, 16; malicious mischief, 13; violation of liquor law, 12 ; and one or more for almost every other offence known in the catalogue of crime. A large portion of the persons arrested were examined in the Police Court.
Down to 1849, all justices of the peace here, had authority to try minor cases, civil or criminal. But population having then become considerable, it was thought best to have some more
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centralized and regular jurisdiction. In pursuance of this view the writer headed a petition to the town asking their intercession with the legislature for the establishment of a Police Court. The matter was favorably acted on, and the Court went into operation during that year. It was made a court of record, in 1862. And before it are tried the " small cawses," as they were called in colonial times, civil and criminal. It has a Standing Justice, two Special Justices, and a Clerk. See 'Annals, 1879.
CHILDREN'S HOME. In 1881 a two-story wooden building was erected on Tower Hill, and called by the above name- the purpose being to provide suitable nurture and education for exposed young children, to save them from the stigma of work- house life and from the sometimes worse consequences of vicious and degraded homes. The house occupies one of the most healthy and beautiful sites in all Lynn - airy, and commanding charming views. This unpretending institution can hardly fail to do a meritorious work, and may be the means not only of saving many from lives of degradation and misery, but of developing characters that will in a ten-fold degree repay all the cost and care that the benevolent enterprise will involve. At the opening of the Home, in 1882, some twenty-five children were received from the alms-house.
STATISTICAL ITEMS. As elsewhere remarked, it can hardly be necessary to occupy much space with statistical details, as the information that is given year by year in our Annals, supplies all that will in most cases be desirable. And then, as to the management of our municipal affairs : the annual reports from the various departments are so full and so accessible, that nothing beyond here and there a brief summary can now be needed. Yet, in a work of this kind, which in years hence may be looked to for information of almost every kind there is scarcely any topic that should be passed by in entire silence. The few items that follow relate to the year 1881, excepting where otherwise stated.
Valuation and Taxation. The total valuation of the city was $24.992.084, viz : Real Estate, $19.036.008 ; Personal Estate, $5.956.076. Rate of taxation, $ 17.40 on $1.000. [In 1882 the valu- ation was a little lower, and the rate of taxation $21.00 on $1.000.]
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City Debt. Whole debt, $2.208.000.00 ; but by certain assets, usual in municipal reckoning, the net amount of the debt was $1.646.633.94.
Appropriations and Expenditures. Whole amount of appropri- ations, including certain receipts, $706.591.15. Expenditures, $686.571.45.
New Buildings. Two hundred and sixty-five buildings were erected during the year-253 of wood, II of brick, and one of stone. 153 were dwellings. That the frequent removal of buildings, for which Lynn has been long noted, is a custom still in practice, is shown by the fact that during the year sixty- two were started on their travels.
Number of Polls - 10.990. [In 1882, 11.465.]
The number of Houses in Lynn, in 1882, was 6.309. The number of Horses, 1.962. The number of Cows, 438.
Free Public Library. There is, and always has been, a steady accession to the number of volumes in this institution, from month to month, and, it is believed, a corresponding increase in its usefulness. The number of volumes at the close of 1881 was 30.500-a very satisfactory growth from the 4000 of 1862. Number delivered during the year, 95.927. The largest number taken out in one day was on Saturday, March 5, when 972 were delivered.
Pine Grove Cemetery. The number of interments in this beautiful burial place, during the year, was 418, which was a little more than half of the whole number who died, the other burial places receiving the remains of the others. The first inter- ment in this cemetery was on Sunday, October 13, 1850, when the remains of Harriet Newell, wife of George W. Stocker, were laid there. And the whole number of burials there has now reached 7.801.
Vital Statistics. There were 799 deaths in Lynn, during 1881, of which 153 were by consumption, 59 by pneumonia, 50 by diphtheria, 39 by cholera infantum, 24 by typhoid fever, and 6 by scarlet fever. Two hundred and seventy-two of the deceased were under the age of five years.
Marriages. The number of marriages during 1881, was 513.
Banks - of discount and circulation, 4, with an aggregate capital of $1.000.000. Savings banks, 2.
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CITY CLERKS. In our 1865 edition may be found a list of Clerks of the Writs and Town Clerks, extending back to the earliest days. It is unnecessary to repeat the list here. But it may be convenient for the reader to have by him the names of the City Clerks, in the order in which they served. And hav- ing at hand engraved fac-similes of their autographs it may not be amiss to use them, as they will not require much space, although one or two appear in other connections in the present volume.
force affett.
WILLIAM BASSETT - Served in 1850,'51 and '52.
Chas Ment. CHARLES MERRITT- Served in 1853, '54, '56, '57 and '58.
John Batchelden. JOHN BATCHELDER - Served in 1855.
E. Acugelli.
EPHRAIM A. INGALLS- Served in 1859 and '60.
Buy 6 Jours.
BENJAMIN H. JONES- Served from 1861 to 1875, both inclusive.
Cho. E. Parsons.
CHARLES E. PARSONS- Elected in 1876, and yet [1882] in office.
It need not be remarked that the Clerks are elected annually by the City Council. And the neatness and accuracy of the multifarious records are the best evidence that thus far no mistake in the choice has occurred.
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.
A GOOD Chronological Table is, of itself, a succinct history. And the following is inserted without hesitation, on account of its unquestionable usefulness, though it was prepared by the writer for the Centennial Memorial, in which and in the book giving an account of the proceedings on the celebration of our Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, it substantially appeared. Additions, however, have been made, and occurrences down to 1882, noted.
1629. Five families, chief among them Edmund Ingalls and his brother Francis, arrive and commence the settlement.
1630. Thomas Newhall born - the first person of European parentage born here. Wolves kill several swine belonging to the settlers, September 30.
Fifty settlers, chiefly farmers, and many of them with families, arrive and locate in different parts of the territory.
1631. Governor Winthrop passed through the settlement, October 28, and noted that the crops were plentiful.
1632. First Church ~- fifth in the colony -formed ; Stephen Bachelor, minister.
1633. A corn mill, the first in the settlement, built on Strawberry brook.
1634. John Humfrey arrives and settles near Nahant street.
The settlement sends her first Representative - Capt. Nathaniel Turner -to the General Court.
1635.
William Wood, one of the first comers, publishes " Nevy Englands Prospect.' Philip Kertland, the first shoemaker, arrives.
1637. Name of the settlement changed from Saugus to Lynn.
At this time there were thirty-seven plows in the colony, most of them in Lynn. Settlement of Sandwich commenced by emigrants from Lynn.
1638. Firstdivision of lands among the inhabitants.
1639. Ferry established across Saugus river.
First bridge over Saugus river at Boston street crossing built.
1643. Iron works established near Saugus river ; the first in America.
1644. Hugh Bert and Samuel Bennett, of Lynn, presented to the grand jury as " common sleepers in time of exercise." Both were convicted and fined.
1646. Lynn made a market town - Tuesday, the lecture day, being market day.
1658. Dungeon rock alleged to have been rent by an earthquake, entombing alive Thomas Veal, the pirate, with treasure.
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1666. A year of disasters. Several die of small pox. "Divers are slain by light- ning." Grasshoppers and caterpillars do much mischief.
I669. Boniface Burton dies, aged 113 years.
1671. A year remarkable for storms. A violent snow storm, Jan. 18, with much thunder and lightning.
1680.
Dr. Philip Read, the first physician here, complains to the Court of Mrs. Margaret Gifford, as a witch.
1681. 1682. I686.
The great Newtonian comet appears in November, exciting much alarm. The Court allows Lynn to have two licensed public houses.
Old Tunnel Meeting-house built.
Indian deed of Lynn given, September 4.
1687. I688. 1692. Great witchcraft excitement.
Thomas Newhall, the first white person born here, dies, in March, aged 57. Excitement about Edward Randolph's petition for a grant of all Nahant.
1694.
A church fast appointed by Rev. Mr. Shepard, July 19, for the arrest of the " spiritual plague " of Quakerism.
1696. Severe winter ; coldest since the settlement commenced ; much suffering.
1697. Great alarm on account of small pox.
1706. Second division of lands among the inhabitants.
1708.
A public fast held on account of the ravages of caterpillars and canker worms. Extraordinary darkness at noonday, Oct. 21 ; dinner tables lighted.
1717.
Memorable snow storms, Feb. 20 and 24; one-story houses buried.
1719. Northern lights observed for the first time, Dec. 17 ; an alarming display.
1723. Terrific storm, Feb. 24. The sea came in raging and roaring fearfully. First mill on Saugus river, at Boston street crossing, built.
1726. £13.15 awarded to Nathaniel Potter, for linen manufactured in Lynn.
I745. Rev. Mr. Whitefield preaches on Lynn Common, creating much excitement.
1749. Great drought, hot summer, and immense multitudes of grasshoppers.
1750. John Adam Dagyr, an accomplished shoemaker, arrives.
1755. Greatest earthquake ever known in New England, occurs Nov. 18.
A whale, seventy-five feet in length, landed on King's Beach, Dec. 9.
1759. A bear, weighing 400 pounds, killed in Lynn woods.
1768. A catamount killed in Lynn woods, by Joseph Williams.
I770. Potato rot prevails, and canker worms commit great ravages.
1775, Battle of Lexington, April 19 - five Lynn men killed.
1776. Twenty-six negro slaves owned in Lynn.
1780. Memorable dark day, May 19 ; houses lighted as at night.
1782. Whole number of votes given in Lynn, for governor, 57 ; all but 5 for Hancock.
1784. Gen. Lafayette passed through Lynn, Oct. 28. receiving enthusiastic plaudits. 1788. Gen. Washington passed through town, in October, and was affectionately greeted by old and young.
1793. 1794.
Lynn post-office established, and first kept on Boston street, near Federal. On Christmas day, at noon, in the open air, the thermometer stood at 80 deg.
1795. Brig Peggy wrecked on Long Beach, Dec. 9, and eleven lives lost.
1796. The first fire engine for public use purchased.
1800. Memory of Washington honored ; procession and eulogy, January 13. An elephant first exhibited in Lynn. First dancing school opened. Manufacture of morocco introduced.
1803. Boston and Salem Turnpike opened, and Lynn Hotel built. A snow storm occurred in May, the fruit trees being then in bloom. Miles Shorey and his wife killed by lightning, July ro.
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1804. Independence day first celebrated in Lynn. Snow fell in July.
1805. First Masonic Lodge - Mount Carmel -constituted June 10.
I808. First law office in Lynn, opened by Benjamin Merrill. Great bull fight at Half Way House. Bulls and bull dogs engaged. Lynn Artillery chartered, November 18, and allowed two brass field pieces. Trapping Lobsters first practised at Swampscott.
1812. Lynn Light Infantry chartered, June 30.
1813. Moll Pitcher, the celebrated fortune-teller, dies, April 9, aged 75.
1814. Lynnfield incorporated as a separate town.
First Town House built.
First Bank established.
1815. Saugus incorporated as a separate town.
Terrific southeasterly gale, Sept. 23 ; ocean spray driven several miles inland ; fruit on the trees impregnated with salt.
1816. Great horse trot on the Turnpike, in Lynn, Sept. 1 ; said to be the first in New England. Major Stackpole's "Old Blue" trotted three miles in eight minutes and forty-two seconds.
1817. President Munroe passed through town.
1819. The great sea-serpent appears off Long Beach. Nahant Hotel built. Alms- house at Tower Hill built.
1824. Gen. Lafayette visits Lynn, Aug. 31, and is enthusiastically welcomed.
1825. First Lynn newspaper -the Weekly Mirror - issued September 3.
1826. First Savings Bank incorporated.
1827. ' Broad and brilliant night arch, Aug. 28.
1828. A whale, sixty feet long, cast ashore on Whale Beach, May 2.
1829. Splendid display of frosted trees, Jan. IO.
1830. Donald McDonald, a Scotchman, dies in Lynn alms-house, Oct. 4, aged 108. He was at the battle of Quebec when Wolfe fell, and at Braddock's defeat. 1832. First Lynn Directory published by Charles F. Lummus.
1833. Extraordinary shower of meteors, Nov. 13.
1837.
Surplus United States revenue distributed. Lynn received $14.879, and applied it to the payment of the town debt. Saugus received $3.500, and appropriated it to the building of a Town Hall. Lynnfield received $1.328 29, and applied it to the town debt.
1838. Eastern Rail-road opened for travel from Boston to Salem, Aug. 28.
1841. The first picture by the new art known as Daguerreotype, or Photography, ever taken in Lynn, was a landscape, taken this year, by James R. Newhall, by apparatus imported from France.
1843. A splended comet ; first appeared about noonday, Feb. I.
Schooner Thomas wrecked on Long Beach, March 17, five men perishing. Breed's Pond formed. Theophilus N. Breed built a dam across the valley, on the northeast of Oak street, flowing some fifty acres, thus forming the pond and securing water power for his iron works.
1846. Mexican war commenced. Lynn furnished twenty volunteers.
Congress boots began to be manufactured.
1847.
Destructive fire on Water Hill, Aug. 9. Large brick silk-printing establish- ment, spice and coffee mill, and two or three smaller buildings destroyed. President Polk made a short visit to Lynn, July 5.
1848. Carriage road over harbor side of Long Beach built. Lynn Common fenced.
George Gray, the hermit, dies, Feb. 28, aged 78.
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1849. Lynn Police Court established. Large emigration to California.
1850. Lynn adopts the city form of government. Pine Grove Cemetery consecrated, July 24.
Thirteen persons of a pic-nic party from Lynn, drowned in Lynnfield Pond, August 15.
1851.
Ten hour system - that is, ten hours to constitute a day's work -generall adopted. Previously the time was indefinite. Bells were rung at 6 p. m. On March 18, and April 15, the tide, during violent storms, swept entirely over Long Beach.
Hiram Marble commences the excavation of Dungeon Rock.
= 1852. Swampscott incorporated as a separate town.
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian exile, is enthusiastically received here, May 6. Henry Clay's death noticed ; flags raised at half-mast and bells tolled, July 3 Funeral services in memory of Daniel Webster, in First Congregational meeting-house, Oct. 29, the day of the statesman's burial at Marshfield.
- 1853. Nahant incorporated as a separate town, March 29.
Prize fight on Lynnfield road, Jan 3 ; parties arrested.
Illuminating gas first lighted in Lynn, Jan. 13.
Cars commence running over Saugus Branch Rail-road, Feb. I.
1855. City Charter so amended as to have the municipal year commence on the first Monday of January instead of the first Monday of April.
1856. Two bald eagles appear on the ice in Lynn harbor, Jan. 17.
Ezra R. Tebbetts, of Lynn, killed by a snow-slide from a house in Bromfield street, Boston, Feb. 12.
Egg Rock light shown for the first time, Sept. 15.
1857. Bark Tedesco wrecked at Swampscott, all on board, twelve in number, perish- ing, Jan. 18.
Many small pearls found in muscles at Floating Bridge and Flax ponds. Trawl fishing began to be practised this year.
1858. Telegraphic communication between Lynn and other places established. Impromptu Atlantic cable celebration, Aug. 17, on the arrival of Queen Vic- toria's message to President Buchanan.
Blue fish appear in the offing, in large numbers, in early autumn, and are supposed to have carried on a successful war against the menhaden, as bushels of the latter were picked up dead on the shore.
Magnificent comet, Donati's, visible in the north-west, in the autumn.
Catholic Cemetery, St. Mary's, consecrated, Nov. 4.
1859. British bark Vernon, from Messina, driven ashore on Long Beach, Feb. 2. crew saved by life-boat.
Roman Catholic church, St. Mary's, Ash street, burned, May 28.
Brilliant display of northern lights ; whole heavens covered, Aug. 28. Union street Methodist meeting-house destroyed by fire, Nov. 20.
Church bells tolled at sunrise, noon and sunset, Dec. 2, in observance of the execution of John Brown, at Charlestown, Va.
1860. Harbor so frozen in January, that persons walked across to Bass Point. Shoemakers' great strike commenced in February. Prince of Wales passed through Lynn, Oct. 20. First horse rail-road cars commence running, Nov. 29. Market street first lighted by gas, Dec. 7.
I861. Alonzo Lewis, historian and poet, dies, Jan. 21, aged 66.
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1861. A splendid comet suddenly appears, July 2, the tail having actually swept the earth, three days before, producing no disturbance, and only a slight apparently auroral light in the atmosphere.
The extensive edifice known as Nahant Hotel, destroyed by fire, Sept. 12. Lynn Light Infantry and Lynn City Guards, two full companies, start for the seat of the Southern Rebellion, April 16, only four days after the attack on Fort Sumter, and but five hours after the arrival of President Lincoln's call for troops.
1862. Lynn Free Public Library opened.
Enthusiastic war meeting on the Common, on Sunday, Aug. 31 ; church services omitted.
Soldiers' Burial Lot, in Pine Grove Cemetery, laid out.
Nathan Breed, jr., murdered in his store, Summer street, Dec. 23.
Extraordinary ravages of caterpillars and canker worms.
1863. 1864. The thermometer rose to 104 degrees in shady places, in Lynn, June 25 ; indicating the warmest day, here, of which there had been any record.
Free delivery of post-office matter begins.
Great drought and extensive fires in the woods, during the summer.
First steam fire engine owned by the city, arrives, Aug. II.
The Town House burned, Oct. 6, and Joseph Bond, confined in the lockup, burned to death.
Schooner Lion, from Rockland, Me., wrecked on Long Beach, Dec. 10, and all on board, six in number, perish. Their cries were heard above the roaring of the wind and sea, but they could not be rescued.
I865. News of the fall of Richmond received, April 3. Great rejoicing - church bells rung, buildings illuminated, bonfires kindled.
News of the assassination of President Lincoln received, April 15. Mourning insignia displayed in public buildings and churches.
Corner stone of City Hall laid, Nov. 28.
I866. Gen. Sherman passes through Lynn, July 16, and is cordially greeted. A meteoric stone falls in Ocean street, in September.
1867. Terrific snow storm, Jan. 17.
City Hall dedicated, Nov. 30.
1868. Memorial Day - called also Decoration Day - observed, May 30. Soldiers' graves strewed with flowers. [In ISSI the day was made a legal holiday.] Hiram Marble, excavator of Dungeon Rock, dies, Nov. 10, aged 65, having pursued his arduous and fruitless labors about 17 years. [His son Edwin succeeded him in the work and died at the Rock, Jan. 16. 1880, aged 48, without having reached the supposed deposit of gold and jewels.]
Destructive fire on Market street, Dec. 25. Lyceum Building, Frazier's and Bubier's brick blocks destroyed. Whole loss about $300.000.
Mary J. Hood, a colored woman, dies Jan. 8, aged 104 years and 7 months. Another destructive fire on the night of Jan. 25, commencing in the brick shoe manufactory of Edwin H. Johnson, in Munroe street, and destroying property to the amount of some $170.000.
On the evening of April 15, there was a magnificent display of beautifully tinted aurora borealis, during which a meteor of great brilliancy shot across the eastern sky.
Severe gale on Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 8; next in violence to that of Sept. 23, 1815. Several small buildings destroyed, and a multitude of trees uprooted. More than 400 shade trees prostrated in Lynn.
1869.
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1869. The old Turnpike from Salem to Boston becomes a public highway this year. Sidney B. Pratt dies, Jan. 29, aged 54, leaving by will $10.000 for the benefit of the Free Public Library.
1870. Young Men's Christian Association incorporated, March 31.
First regatta of Lynn Yacht Club, June 17.
Land near Central rail-road station sold at $5 per square foot ; the highest rate known in Lynn up to this time.
1871. Rev. Joseph Cook, at the time minister of the First Church, gives a series of Sunday evening lectures, in Music Hall, early this year, creating con- siderable excitement by his rather sensational denunciations. [He after- wards became famous in this country, in Europe, and in other parts of the world, by his ethical discourses.]
Terrible rail-road disaster at Revere, Aug. 26; eleven Lynn persons killed. Whole number of lives lost, 33 ; number of wounded, about 60.
Electric fire alarm established.
President Grant passed through Lynn, Oct. 16.
William Vennar, alias Brown, murders Mrs. Jones, is pursued, and in his further desperate attempts is shot dead, Dec. 16.
1872. City Hall bell raised to its position in the tower, March 2.
Meeting of the City Council commemorative of the recent death of Professor Morse, inventor of the electric telegraph, April 16.
S. O. Breed's box factory, at the south end of Commercial street, struck by lightning and consumed, Aug. 13. [The summer of this year was remark- able for the frequency and severity of its thunder storms.]
Brick house of worship of First Church, South Common street, dedicated Aug. 29.
Ingalls and Cobbet school houses dedicated.
Odd Fellows' Hall, Market street, dedicated, Oct. 7.
Brick and iron station of Eastern Rail-road, Central square, built.
Singular disease, called epizootic, prevailed among horses during the latter part of the autumn. Wheel carriages almost entirely ceased to run, excepting as drawn by oxen, dogs, or goats, and sometimes by inen.
Much speculation in real estate ; prices high, and business active. Pine Hill Reservoir built.
1873. Pumping engine at Public Water Works, Walnut street, first put in operation Jan. 14.
English sparrows make their appearance in Lynn-no doubt the progeny of those imported into Boston. [Soon declared a nuisance.]
Soldiers' Monument, Park square, dedicated Sept. 17.
Grand Masonic parade, Oct. 22.
Friends' Biennial Conference held here, Nov. 19.
Birch Pond formed, by running a dam across Birch Brook valley, on the east of Walnut street, near Saugus line.
874. " Lynn Home for Aged Women " incorporated, Feb. 6.
Grand celebration of St. Patrick's day, in Lynn, March 17, by the Irish organ- izations of Essex county.
1875. Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Rail-road opened for travel, July 22. Sea-serpent alleged to have been seen off Egg Rock, in August. The General Convention of Universalists meet in Lynn, Oct. 20.
Great depression in business affairs succeed the days of unhealthy prosperity. Many tradesmen and merchants fail, and real estate falls greatly in price.
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1875. An unusual number of Tramps-that is, homeless wanderers from place to place-appear in Lynn, and receive temporary relief.
1876. The great World's Exposition, at Philadelphia, marking the centennial year of the Republic. Lynn makes a good show of her manufactures, and a large number of her people attend the exhibition.
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