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Harold Wilson Hyland was born October 28, 1890, at Weymouth, son of Thaddeus G. and Emma J. (Brumbaum) (died 1913) Hyland; brother of T. Franz E., and Hosea D. Hyland. Massachusetts Agricul- tural College, 1913. Student Instructor, Oregon Agricultural College, 1913-1915. Instructor in Chemistry, High School, Hemet, California. Entered Officers' Training School, Camp Upton, December, 1917. Har- old W. Hyland Post No. 53, A. L., Hemet, California, named in his honor.
William Joseph Johnson, Private: died Oct. 29, 1917, of disease at Base Hospital, No. 1, France. Enl. May 21, 1917, Co. K, 5 Inf., Mass. N. G .; reported for duty July 25, mustered Aug. 8, 1917, assigned to Co. K, 101 Inf., 26. Div. Over- seas, Sept. 7, 1917.
William Joseph Johnson was born December 14, 1897, in Boston, son of William E. and Josephine Mary (Tobin) Johnson; brother of Fran- cis J., Alphonsus, Clarence, Anna, Edward L., Robert, and Walter Johnson, all of East Weymouth. Leather worker.
*Parker Bradford Jones, 2 Lieut., Inf .: killed in action, July 19, 1918 (near Vauxcastille). En1. April 14, 1914, Co. D, 1 Corp Cadets, M. V. M. (1 Engrs., Mass. N. G.); reported for duty July 25, mustered Aug. 4, 1917; trans. to Co. D, 101 Engrs., 26 Div .; Jan. 27, 1918, to Co. C, 101 Engrs., 26 Div. Corporal,
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March 5, 1917; sergeant, June 16, 1917. Dis. June 13, 1918, to accept com- mission as 2 Lieut., Inf., assigned to 23 Inf., 2 Div. Overseas, Sept. 26, 1917.
Parker Bradford Jones was born July 9, 1886, at Hyde Park, son of Parker (died 1924) and Mary A. (Kells) (deceased) Jones; brother of Mrs. Annie F. Blumenkrantz, of Norwood. Sales Manager: Fairbanks Scale Company. Squares in Hyde Park and South Weymouth named in his memory.
*Harold Britton Klingeman, Corporal: killed in action, Nov. 10, 1918 (near Bezonvaux). Enl. April 2, reported for duty July 25, mustered Aug. 1, 1917, Troop C, 1 Separate Squadron Cavalry, Mass. N. G., trans. to Co. C, 102 M. G. Bn., 26 Div. Corporal, Nov. 1, 1918. Overseas, Sept. 23, 1917. Recommended for D. S. C .: "In charge of company, Oct. 22 to Nov. 10, and under most trying circumstances; under heavy bombardment and machine-gun fire, he directed complete liaison at all times. He was killed while crossing a field under intense machine-gun fire."
Harold Britton Klingeman was born July 7, 1897, at Pembroke, son of William Nelson and Emma M. (Cunningham) Klingeman, of South Weymouth; brother of Ralph A., and Dorothy J. Klingeman. Clerk.
*William A. R. Monteith, Private: killed in action, July 15, 1918 (in the Boise de la Jute). Enl. Oct. 8, 1917, R. A., 2 Rct. Co., Gen. Serv. Inf .; trans. Oct. 25, 1917, to Co. A, 6 Engrs., 3 Div. Overseas, Dec. 4, 1917.
William A. R. Monteith was born in 1897, at Helensburgh, Scotland, son of Ambrose and Effie (Kennedy) Monteith; brother of Ambrose E. Monteith, Jr., of South Weymouth. Automobile mechanic. Resident in Massachusetts four years.
*Ernest Burnside Mowry, Private, U. S. M. C .: killed in action, Nov. 2, 1918 (near Sivry). Enl. April 20, 1917, assigned to R. D., Philadelphia, Pa .; May 1, 1918, to Co. A .; June 3 to 23 Co., 6 M. G. Bn., 2 Div. Overseas, June 27, 1917.
Ernest Burnside Mowry was born August 27, 1896, at Malden, son of Charles Burnside and Susan (McClellan) Mowry, of Weymouth; brother of Harold W. Mowry of U. S. M. C., Fort Sill*, and Gladys McClellan Mowry of Weymouth. Printer. Square named in his memory.
*Two years in service in Haiti.
Harold Lamont Procter, Sergeant, 1st class: died March 18, 1920, of disease, at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C. Enl. July 30, 1917, R. A., 53 Aero Sq., A. S .; trans. Aug. 22 to 16 Aero Sq .; Oct. 15 to 38 Aero Sq .; Dec. 11 to 39 Aero Sq. Corporal, Oct. 1, 1917; sergeant, Nov. 1, 1917; sergeant, 1st class, June 5, 1918.
Harold Lamont Procter was born April 26, 1893, at Framingham, son of Frank Newell and Mabel Amanda (Pierce) Procter; brother of Marion Frances (wife of Almon E.) Deane, Gerald Burton and Lloyd Vernon Procter and of Raymond Herbert Procter (who served as sergeant, 151 D. B.). Carpenter. "Passed examination for Lieutenant, but never received his commission."
Grover Sprague, Seaman, U. S. N .: died June 13, 1917, of disease, U. S. S.
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"New York," at Yorktown, Va. Enl. April 20, 1916; April 6, 1917 on U. S. S. "New York."
Grover Sprague was born August, 1897, at South Weymouth, son of Amos Owen (died 1920) and Irene (Hayden) (died 1926) Sprague; brother of Arthur Owen, Amos Winfield, Lester David, Horace Ben- jamin, and Hilda Florence Sprague, Annie Irene (wife of Fred A.) Tirrell, Eva Gertrude (wife of Michael) Fitzgerald, Bertha Melissa (wife of John) Fitzgerald, Dorothy Hazel (wife of Merton) Nash, Ethel Matilda (wife of Mario J.) Crosta, and Ida Ardell (wife of William Proctor) Brigman. Mason's Apprentice.
William Sweeney, Private: died Dec. 31, 1918, of disease. Enl. July 12, 1917, R. A., assigned to 3rd Ammunition Train. Overseas, March 16, 1918.
William Sweeney was born February, 1897, at Tulsa, Oklahoma, son of Mrs. Ada Levangia of Beachmont, 1919. £ Resident in Massa- chusetts 16 years.
*Ralph Talbot, 2nd Lieut., Prov., M. C. R .: killed in action, Oct. 25, 1918 (at Sangatte). Enr. Oct. 5, 1917, U. S. N. R. F., appointed Ensign, Prov., April 3, 1918, assigned to Naval Air Station, Miami, Fla. Dis. May 22, 1918. Commis- sioned 2nd Lieut., Prov., M. C. R., May 26, 1918. Served with Northern Bomb- ing Group, Aug. 7 to Oct. 25, 1918. Overseas, Aug. 1, 1918. Congressional Medal of Honor: "For exceptionally meritorious service and extraordinary hero- ism while attached to Squadron C, First Marine Aviation Force, in France. He participated in numerous air raids into enemy territory, and on Oct. 8, 1918, while on such a raid, he was attacked by nine enemy scouts, and in the fight that followed, shot down an enemy plane. Also, on Oct. 14, while on an air raid over Pittham, Belgium, Lt. Talbot and one other plane became detached from the formation due to loss of power by motor, and were attacked by twelve enemy scouts. During the severe fight that followed, his plane was shot down by one of the enemy scouts. His observer was shot through the elbow and his gun jammed. He cleared the jam with one hand while Lt. Talbot manoeuvered to gain time, and then returned to fight. The observer fought on until shot twice in the stomach and once in the hip. When he collapsed, Lt. Talbot attacked the nearest enemy scout with his front guns and shot him down. With his ob- server unconscious and his motor failing, he dived to escape the balance of the enemy and crossed the German trenches at an altitude of fifty feet, landed at the nearest hospital, and left his observer and returned alone to his aerodrome."
Ralph Talbot was born January 6, 1897, at Weymouth, son of Richard J. (deceased) and Mary (O'Connell) Talbot; brother of John O. Talbot and Mrs. Alice L. Hall; all of South Weymouth, and of Mrs. Blanche O. Wall of Hingham. Student: Yale University, pre- pared at Mercersburg Academy. Name appears on memorial tablet in State House.
*Joseph Haskell Whall, Corporal, U. S. M. C .: died Oct. 6, 1918, of wounds received in action. En1. Aug. 5, 1917, Co. I, Parris Id .; trans. Jan. 8, 1918, to 134 Co., Quantico; Sept. 6 to 76 Co., 6 Regt. Corporal, April 14, 1918. Overseas, March 27, 1918.
Joseph Haskell Whall was born August 1, 1890, at Quincy, son of
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Joseph Stokes (died 1917) and Mary Alice (Newcomb) (died 1905) Whall; brother of Clifford Sawyer Whall of San Juan, Porto Rico. Garage Manager. (Square named in his memory).
WRENTHAM
*George W. MacInnis, Private: died June 3, 1918, of wounds received in action. Enl. July 23, reported for duty July 25, mustered Aug. 9, 1917, Co. I, 5 Inf., Mass. N. G .; trans. to Co. I, 101 Inf., 26 Div. Overseas, Sept. 7, 1917.
George W. MacInnis was born November 4, 1900, at North Attle- boro, son of John (deceased 1904) and Mary Jane MacInnis (Mrs. Eben W. Wheeler, 1925) (both born in Scotland) ; brother of Mrs. Alice W. Shepard. Clerk, employed in Walpole. American Legion, Post No. 225, at Wrentham, named in his honor,
Walker Briggs Mason, Landsman for Electrician, Radio, U. S. N. R. F .: died May 19, 1918, of disease, at Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill. Enr. Nov. 30, 1917, assigned to Naval Tng. Station, Great Lakes, Il1.
Walker Briggs Mason was born July 15, 1889, at Providence, Rhode Island, son of Otis Nathan and Cora Bell (Gates) Mason, of Wren- tham; brother of Louise Catherine (wife of Frank P.) Walker. New Bedford Textile, 1914; prepared at St. Luke's School, Wayne, Pennsyl- vania. Employed in South Bend, Indiana. First Wrentham man to die in service.
*Earl M. Rhodes, Private: killed in action, July 28, 1918 (on heights north and east of Sergy). Ent. Oct. 4, 1917, Co. K, 302 Inf., 76 Div .; trans. Feb. 13, 1918, to 7 Co., 1 Inf. Tng. Regt .; April 4 to Co. I, 165 Inf., 42 Div. Overseas, March 12, 1918.
Earl M. Rhodes was born September, 1889, at Providence, Rhode Island, son of Thomas Addison and Jennie Carlena Rhodes; brother of Thomas Eliot Rhodes of East Providence, Rhode Island, and of Mrs. Ethel Jeannette Atkinson of Providence, Rhode Island. Farm- er. Resident in Massachusetts three years.
IN FOREIGN SERVICE
BROOKLINE
*Stephen Balshaw, Private, B. E. F .: died Sept. 6, 1915, of wounds received in action, in Mesopotamia. Enl. 6 Bn., King's own Royal Lancashire Regt., at Blackburn, England.
*Albert Elmer Eugene Bower, Private, C. E. F .: killed in action, Feb. 6, 1918. Enl. at Sussex, N. B., Sept. 8, 1915, 64th Battalion; served in France in 25th Battalion.
Albert Elmer Eugene Bower was born October 19, 1897, son of Arthur F. and Sophia E. (both born in Nova Scotia) Bower of Brook- line; brother of Lawrence A., Harold V., and Andrew L. Bower .* *Said to have served during the World War.
Charles Robert Cross, Jr .: died Oct. 8, 1915, at French Military Hospital 64,
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Dinard, France, result of accident, Oct. 4, 1915, near village of Ploubalay. Enl. Jan., 1915, American Ambulance Service in France and later as Executive As- sistant on staff of Red Cross. Sanitary Commission in Serbia and Montenegro.
Charles Robert Cross, Jr., was born June 17, 1881, in Boston (Rox- bury) son of Charles Robert and Mariana (Pike) Cross. Harvard 1903. Harvard Law School 1906. (M. I. T. 1898-99). Prepared at Noble and Greenough School, Boston. Mount Cross in Canadian Rockies named in his honor by Geographical Board of Canada. Member of Btry. A, Massachusetts Militia from 1905 to 1911.
*James Delaney, Private, C. E. F., killed in action, Sept. 29, 1918. Enl. March 16, 1918. Served in France, 43 Bn.
William Becker Hagan, Cadet, R. A. F .: died May 11, 1918, of pneumonia, at Toronto, Canada. Enl. May 26, 1917, American Field Service; attached to Section 12 in Champagne until Oct. 31, 1917. Entered R. A. F. after six months' serv- ice in A. F. S.
William Becker Hagan was born February 12, 1898, at Dorchester, son of Oliver and Josephine (Fitch) Hagan. Student: Phillips An- dover Academy.
*W. J. Montague: reported "killed in action." O. CL. Oct. 30, 1918, Boston "Transcript."
CANTON
*Elton Delvecchio, Corporal, Italian Army: killed in action, Dec. 13, 1917, at Il Berelta. Served in 5th Co., 278 Regt. of Inf .; later in 7 Co., 252 Inf.
Elton Delvecchio was born December 3, 1890, in Italy. His mother and one sister living in Italy survive him. "His cousin Fiorenza Delvecchio of Canton also returned to Italy to join the army." "Lived in Canton five years where he was employed in one of the leather factories."
Pietro Gallo, Italian Army: died Oct. 20, 1918, of influenza at Mirabello, Italy, while on furlough to visit his mother. Enl. through Italian Consul at Boston on entrance of Italy into war.
Pietro Gallo was born at Avellino, Italy. Served 3 years at front; in mountain warfare in Trentino. Resident of Canton 8 years.
*John G. Shaw, Private, C. E. F .: killed in action, June, 1916. Enl. May, 1915.
John G. Shaw was born April, 1889, at Leeds, England. Employee : Woolen Mills.
NEEDHAM
*Paul Everett Libby, Private, C. E. F .: killed in action, Sept. 2, 1918. Enl. March 4, 1918; served in France in 44 Bn.
QUINCY
*William Robertson Bissett, C. E. F .: killed in action, Jan. 27, 1916 (at Loos, France). 10 Bn., Cameron Regt., Scotch Rifles.
William Robertson Bissett was born 1877, at Aberdeen, Scotland,
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son of John (deceased 1921) and Elizabeth (Robertson) (died 1886) Bissett (both born in Scotland) ; brother of Eliza Ann (wife of Wil- liam) Carter and of Alexander, Robert and John Bissett. Granite cutter.
*John M. (Henry) Cliffe, Jr., C. E. F .: killed in action at Arras, Sept. 5, 1918. Canadian Heavy Artillery. (1 Div. Army Ammunition Column.)
Cecil Corkhill, reported "dead." Otta. Cas. List. Boston "Transcript," Feb. 28, 1919, p. 7. (Corkhill, Cecil, private, Enl. May 4, 1918. Died Feb. 14, 1919, of pneumonia, at 50 Cas. Clearing Station, France 14 Bn.)
*Albert Grossman: killed in action, Aug. 26, 1918, in France. Enl. Oct. 10, 1918. Served in France, 1 C. M. R. (Ottawa War Office.) ("K" Crossman, Otta. Cas. List. Boston "Transcript," Sept. 12, 1918, p. 4.)
*James Haldane, Private: killed in action, Aug. 18, 1918, at Roye, France. Enl. Sept. 25, 1917, McLean Kilties; served in France, 2 Bn., 42 Black Watch.
James Haldane was born April, 1886, at Partick, Scotland, son of William (died 1915) and Margaret (Ross) (died 1894) Haldane; brother of William, Ross Jean and Isabella Haldane, and of Mrs. Agnes Barber, Mrs. Margaret Wilson and Mrs. Mary Connell. Mar- ried Jean Finlayson of Partick, Scotland. Traveling salesman.
*James Harris, Corporal, C. E. F .: killed in action, Sept. 11, 1918, at Cambrai, France. Enl. 15 Battalion, 1st Div., C. E. F. (From Quincy Honor Roll.)
*A. John Luxton, Royal Med. Corps, B. E. F .: killed in action, 1915. (Quincy Honor Roll.)
*James Donald Macleod, C. E. F .: killed in action Sept. 28, 1918, at Cambrai. *Malcolm John Macleod, C. E. F .: killed in action, Nov. 1, 1918, in France. Enl. 72 Battalion (Seaforth Highlanders). (Quincy Honor Roll.)
*Charles Francis McGrath: killed in action, June 6, 1917, Flanders Field. Enl. 3 Battalion (Wellington Inf.) N. Z. E. F. (Quincy Honor Roll.)
*Irwin Russell Miller, C. E. F., Private: killed in action, Oct. 1, 1918 (at Tilly, near Cambrai). Enl. Oct. 28, 1915, at Winnipeg, Man. Served 179 Bn., in England, Oct. 13, 1916, to Nov. 12, 1916; France Nov. 13, 1916, to death. (Wounded Oct. 29, 1917, at Vimy Ridge.)
Irwin Russell Miller was born June 28, 1899, at Quincy, son of John H. and Barbara J. (Patrickwin) Miller. Dist. Conduct Medal (Brit.) and Brit. Mil. Medal.
*Archie T. Phillips, C. E. F .: killed in action, Oct. 8, 1917, by hand grenade. Enl. in Winnipeg, Canada, 13 Canadian Highlanders. (Quincy Honor Roll.)
*Wallace Sutherberg, C. E. F .: killed in action at Vimy Ridge, April 9, 1917. (14th Bn., C. E. F.) (Quincy Honor Roll.)
*James MacNeil Smith: killed in action, Sept. 3, 1918. Canadian Kilties, C. E. F.
STOUGHTON
*James Grant Fraser: killed in action, Sept. 27, 1918, at Cambrai. Enl. March 15, 1918; served in France in 22 Bn. Overseas, April 19; to France Aug. 8, 1918.
James Grant Fraser was born July 9, 1887, at Grantown on Spey, Scotland, son of Patrick and Catherine Fraser. Butler. Resident in United States since 1909. ("Boston Trans.," October 11, 1918, part 1, p. 9. Ottawa War Office Record, Stoughton T. R.
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*Francis William Kennedy, C. E. F .: killed in action, April 9, 1917, at Ypres. Enl. Sept., 1915, 1st Grenadiers of Canada at Montreal; 1st Overseas Bn., C. E. F. Overseas, May, 1916.
Francis William Kennedy was born 1884, at Roscommon, Armagh, Ireland, son of Alexander and Margaret Kennedy (both deceased). Resident in United States since 1905.
*George Colley Wheldale Smith, Private, B. E. F .: died May 3, 1917, from wounds received at the Arras front (near Frevent). Enl. 1915, 11 East York- shire Regt .; to France April 14, 1916. Engaged at Somme River and on Arras front.
George Colley Wheldale Smith was born May 10, 1895, at Hull, Eng- land, son of John William and Eliza Jane Smith. Employee : Last factory. Resident in United States three years.
WEYMOUTH
*Neil Morrison, Sergeant: died Oct. 10, 1918, accident, England. Enl. July 16, 1917, at Aldershot, N. S. Served C. F. C. in England, Nov. 19, 1917, to death. (Ottawa War Recs.)
HISTORICAL INDEX
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Abington honor roll, 653-656 and 686
Abington, 508-521; town shod half an army, 508; local institutions and utilities, 509-510; Public Library, 510; town officers, 511; Vis- iting Nurse Association, 512; patriotism, 512- 515; churches in early times, 515; inventor of tack machine, 516; first pastor owned pious slaves, 517; casting of meeting-house bells, 518; ship outlived live-oak forests, 519; Ab- ington sliced to form other towns,/ 520; black- birds, wildcats and women, 520-521
Abolitionist activities, 64
Abolitionists, a county of, 261-284
Abolitionists who would be heard, 352-356
Aborigines, little journey to the, 89-90
Aborigines, Samuel Johnson concerning, 92
Academies, Famous, at their height, 321-322
Adams family of Quincy, 983
Adams family were abolitionists, 1023
Adventurers and Discoverers, Early, 22; Cap- tain John Smith, Bartholomew Gosnold, Pring, Weymouth, Dermer, Hudson, and oth- ers, 23-25
Agriculture and patriotic sacrifices, 846-864; "Good art is good business," 850; the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce; the Cape Cod Canal, 851; Cape Cod in the struggle for in- dependence, 854; Tories on Cape Cod especial- ly dangerous, 858; gave their lives and for- tunes, 860; inhumanity of the British, 862; re- sumption of fishing and extension of sea trade, 864
Agriculture in the Old Colony, 325-343
Agriculture, Massachusetts Society for Promo- tion of, organized, 787
Allin, Rev. John, his long service, 941,
Ames, Hon. Fisher, native of Dedham, 980 Anchors, dragging for, 837-838
"Anne" and "Little James," newcomers on, 326 Anniversary of Pilgrims' Landing, 616-617 Anti-slavery agitation, 353
Anti-slavery song, 65
Apaumet, a Mohican scholar, 91
Aphrodite of American jurisprudence, 691-702; tributes to the Pilgrims by President Eliot and Senator Lodge, 695; famous witticisms founded on facts, 698; Pilgrim's house is still coming over, 701
Apostle to the Indians, 919
Apple trees planted by Peregrine White, 787
Apples, cranberries and poultry, an important trio, 158
Arbitrary seating regulations in the meeting- houses, 226-227
Aristocracy, an intellectual, 957 Arrival of the "Lion," 903
As Thoreau, Dwight and Webster saw it, 835- 846; dragging for anchors, 837; salt, houses, and furnishings described, 839; glassmaking an important industry, 841; fathers and moth- ers to be proud of, 845
Avon, Norfolk County, 1071-1704; incorporation, 1071; Avon Sole Company, a leading indus-
try, 1072; fine water supply, and public utili- ties, 1073
Avon's honor list, 1137-1138
Awashonks, squaw sachem, 72
"Baggage Wagons," no mad speed for, 232 Banks early in Plymouth County, 323
Barker family, tradition of, 614
Barnstable (Cotuit) honor roll, 883|
Barnstable County, 690, et; seq
Barnstable, county seat of Barnstable County, 872 Barrister, title of, first used, 950
Battle of Lexington Bell, disappearance of, 222- 223
Bay Psalm Book, used in Colonial churches, 940 Befo' th' war decade, 800-802
Belfries, stories rang out from, 227-228
Bellingham honor list, 1138
Bench and bar chronicles, 961
Bible not read in early churches, 241
Bible, part of one not inspired, 1003
Billington guilty of first offense, 39
Birth of Freedom in Plymouth County, 3
Birthplace of American Liberty, 1071-1136
Blackbeard, pirate, 782
Blueberry crop on the Cape, 848
Blue Laws purely imaginary, 961
Boundary line' dispute, 912-913
Bounties offered for extermination of crows and animals, 788
Bourne (Pocasset) honor roll, 883
Bourne (Sagamore) honor roll, 883
Bourne was Pilgrim trading-post, 872
Bradford, Governor and his history, 31
Bradford, William, Governor, 404-405; 699-700
Braided straw bonnet and hat industry at Lake- ville, 8
Braintree honor list, 1139
Braintree's incorporation; its ancient annals, its industries, 1074
Brewster honor roll, 884
Brewster, named in honor of Elder Brewster of the "Mayflower," 873
Bridgewater, first settlement in, 530
Bridgewater, 521-531; an iron town, 521; be- quest for a hospital, 523; public welfare, and water, 524; public library, 525-526; babies and other assets, 526; town officers, 527; early school days, 527; original deed from Massa- soit, 529; first meeting-house a fortress, 539; honor roll of the Civil War, 531
Bridgewater honor roll, 656-659 and 686
Brockton Agricultural Society, 485
Brockton, a pioneer city in community chest enterprise, 533
Brockton at first an iron-smelting and casting community, 468
Brockton, 531-553; county's only city, 531; pro- motion of the Brockton idea, 534-535; Chan- ber of Commerce, 536; community chest, 536; hospital, 537; shoe workers well paid, 540; million dollars for charity fund, 541;
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Plymouth County Development Company, 542; other trust funds and donors, 543-545; city learning to drink more milk, 544; mu- nicipal housekeeping fund, 544; fire depart- ment, 545; since North Bridgewater became Brockton, 545; petition for city charter, 546- 548; how improvements came along, 548- 549; growth of the religious movement, 549- 550; worst disaster that befell the city, 550; the wars, 551; list of municipal officers, 553
Brockton "Daily Enterprise," first newspaper in the county, 406
Brockton, first city in Massachusetts to estab- lish grade crossings, 533
Brockton first so named, 549
Brockton honor roll, 659-664 and 686
Brockton known for its low death rate, 533
Brockton, mayors of, 552
Brockton's chief place in shoe manufacturing, 453, et seq.
Brookline honor list, 1140-1152
Brookline, largest town in the State, 1074; town meeting appropriations, incorporation, public institutions, 1075; ancient description of the locality, 1076
Brookline men in foreign service, 1189-1190
Bryant, Dr. Philip, grandfather of William Cul- len Bryant, poet, 125
Burial Hill, Plymouth, 624
Buried treasure on Cape Cod, 783
Buttonwood trees, ancient, at Pembroke, 54
California voyagers, 775
Cannon on the "Mayflower," 794
Canton had first cotton factory, 1000
Canton honor list, 1152-1153
Canton men in foreign service, 1190
Canton, the town of John Eliot and of Paul Revere; investments in public properties; Blue Hills Reservation; World War Memorial, 1077; early manufacturing plants; Paul Re- vere and Company copper works; Neponset Manufacturing Company, 1078
Cape Cod as it is today, 871-881
Cape Cod Canal, 851
Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, 851
Cape Cod in the struggle for independence, 854; 859
Cape Cod ponds, 821-824
Cape Cod Poultry Association, 850
Cape Cod Tories especially dangerous, 858
Cape Cod tourist attractions, 854
Capital punishment in old laws, 904
Carver cotton gin works at East Bridgewater, 7 Carver honor roll, 665
Carver, 553-556; town of the first tea kettle, 553; education and defense, 555
Castine, Baron de, assisted King Philip, 101-102 Catechisms, ballads and broadsides, 1064 Chantry House, 701
Characters in the drama of freedom, 723-734; first birth and death at Cape Cod, 726; Pil- grims and Puritans not the same, 727; re- markable group of survivors, 728; rocks, min- erals, animals and birds, 729-731; description of Barnstable County and neighbors, 731-734
Chatham, 873
Chatham honor roll, 884
Chicataubut, heirs of, make demands, 922
China, our inter-relations with, 315
Christian Science, first student of, 938 Christmas observance believed idolatrous, 785 Christmas observance neglected at first, 178-179 Christmas superstition in the Old World the cause of the non-observance of the holy day among the Pilgrims, 179
Church, Benjamin, activities of, 78, et seq.
Churches, rise of more liberal, 235-247
Civil War, comparison at close of, 318-320
Civil War, decade before the, 360-362
Civil War, outbreak of, 262; oldest militia com- pany in the State responded from Halifax, 262; Standish Guards and its captain, 262; companies F and I leave for the front, 263; Abington sent more than a full regiment, 264; Pembroke lost seventy men in the serv- ice, 264; Kingston's Grand Army Post named for the patriotic nurse, Martha Sever, 264; Lakeville men in army and navy, 265; other towns fill their quotas, 266; Edward H. De- lano, naval constructor, 267; town meeting votes at war's beginning, 268; early regiments to leave the State, 271-272; War Governor John A. Andrew buried in Hingham, 272; Fletcher Webster Regiment, 272, et seq .; Old Colony Regiment, 275; Twenty-ninth and other regiments, 275, et seq .; Company I, First Massachusetts Cavalry, 278-280; Fourth Regiment of Cavalry, 280; First and Third Heavy Artillery, 280-281; Martland's Band, 281-282
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