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The Winchester Grange (No. 343) Patrons of Husbandry, was organized in 1914; its charter was granted on February 24 of that year. Frederick M. Symmes was the first Grand Master, and the original membership was forty-nine. It has nearly doubled in size since it was founded, and offers to its members valuable social and educational opportunities, especially appreciated by those who love the soil and enjoy its cultivation. The Grange meets monthly in Lyceum Hall.
There are several social organizations among the business men of the town. The oldest is the Chamber of Commerce. This was originally formed as a Board of Trade in 1918, but four years later its name was changed. It may be said to be a lineal successor of the Village Improvement Association, and its purposes are similar The Chamber is active in a hundred different ways to improve the conditions of community life in Winchester. Mr. Charles H. Symmes was the first president of the organization, which has much in its history to commend it to the gratitude of the town.
The Winchester Rotary Club was formed in 1927. Mr. George T. Davidson was the original president. The Club, like all similar clubs, is made up of one member from each of the professions or businesses in the town. In addition to its social meetings which are held at the Calumet Club every week and are often addressed by speakers of distinction, Rotary has many useful civic achieve- ments to its credit, including the raising of considerable sums of money for the Winchester Hospital, an annual dinner at Christmas time for the less fortunate children in the town, etc.
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In 1929 the local Lions Club was formed, Dr. John R. Wallace being the first president. The Lions also meet regularly at the Calumet Club. Their membership includes one or two representa- tives of each business or profession. The fundamental charitable interest of the Lions is the care of the blind; the opportunities for that in Winchester are not large, but the Club has been active in various other useful ways, particularly in the support of the Winchester Hospital.
The Winton Club and the En Ka Society are two associations of young women which, apart from their social aspect, are both deeply interested in supporting the Winchester Hospital. The Winton Club, founded in 1911, contributes to the maintenance of the surgical rooms and the operating theatre, and raises money for that purpose by an annual cabaret "show" in the town hall, which is one of the chief social events of the season. The En Ka, which began as a high school sorority, keeps the linen room of the hos- pital supplied, and has of late promoted a very amusing "Street Fair" as a means of raising the needed money.
The social organizations of Catholic membership in Winchester are numerous and well-supported. The oldest is the Knights of Columbus; the charter of the local council dates from February 28, 1897. The charter members, thirty-nine in number, included such well-known citizens as William J. Daley, John Lynch, David H. DeCourcey, John T. Cosgrove, John F. Holland and Francis J. O'Hara. It was long an active and prosperous society, took a lead- ing part in the war work of the community in 1917 and 1918, and took justifiable pride in the fact that twenty-eight of its members served with the colors. In 1920 the Knights acquired the house on Vine Street in which Dr. Frederick Winsor had lived, and occupied it as a clubhouse. The building was in process of further improve- ment when on January 14, 1921 it was very seriously damaged by a fire that put the resources of the town fire department to a severe test. The Knights immediately set to work to repair and remodel it and continued to occupy it until 1927 when the house was sold
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to the Odd Fellows. The Knights of Columbus now holds its meet- ings in White's Hall at Church and Main streets.
Santa Maria Court, No. 150, of the National Order of the Catholic Daughters of America, was organized in Winchester in 1921. This order is the official auxiliary of the Knights of Columbus, but it functions in complete independence. Miss Mary Riley was the first regent of Santa Maria Court. The Catholic Daughters of America are active in social and charitable affairs, were conspicuous among the various groups which supported the community activi- ties during the war, and form the largest organization of Catholic women in the town.
The Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters has a flourish- ing chapter in Winchester (Court No. 225) which was instituted on March 16, 1908. It includes both men and women in its member- ship, and is benevolent and charitable in its purposes. No less than $38,000 has been paid to the families of deceased members since the Court was organized. Timothy J. O'Leary was the first Chief Ranger. Mrs. Isabel L. Mckenzie has served as Chief Ranger for twelve years and Mr. David Meskell for six. There are at present (1936) one hundred and forty-seven members of the court.
There are also active chapters of the Catholic Women's Guild and the Guild of the Infant Saviour in Winchester. These organ- izations are devoted to the support of the numerous charities maintained by the Roman Catholic Church.
The citizens of Winchester who are of Italian birth or blood have had since 1930 a very flourishing lodge (No. 1580) of the Order of the Sons of Italy. Two years later the women of the same race organized a lodge of the Daughters of Italy, and there is also a junior division of the Sons of Italy, which includes the boys and girls of the rising generation. October 12, Columbus Day, is the great day in the year for these lodges, and it is fittingly observed each year by a celebration, of which track and field sports are a leading feature.
There is also a local lodge of the Society Christoforo Colombo, a popular social and benevolent order with an Italian membership.
For many years the Italian people of Winchester celebrated
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the recurrence of the feast of the Assumption in mid-August with a two-day programme, the most spectacular feature of which was a really brilliant display of fireworks on Manchester Field. The occasion became widely famous among the surrounding towns, and crowds so large as sometimes to be troublesome were attracted to the field. In 1932 the fireworks were omitted; the day is still marked by religious processions, and a band concert on Manchester Field.
EPILOGUE
More than forty years ago, a young lawyer in Boston, having just married, and desiring to find a home in one of the suburbs of the city, went to Charles Francis Adams, second of the name, for his advice on so important a matter. Mr. Adams, all his life a resi- dent of what today we call Greater Boston, was at that time the chairman of the newly formed Metropolitan Park Commission, and few men were so well informed about the geography, scenery and community character of the towns and cities that surround Boston.
"Where," asked the young lawyer, "would you advise me to make my home?"
Mr. Adams did not hesitate. "In Winchester," he said. "Quite apart from the attractiveness of the town and its surroundings, you will find in the community a very unusual civic spirit. The people of that town take an intelligent interest in the management of its affairs and in its continual improvement and beautification. You can't do better than go to Winchester."
We hope that the judgment of so competent an observer as Charles Francis Adams may fairly be said to have been justified by the history of more than eighty years. Certainly there is an informed and progressive civic spirit in Winchester. The people of the town are proud of it; they believe it to be a good town in which to live and intend year by year to make it a better one. They have been liberal in spending money to improve its streets, to extend its park and playground system, to make its schools both as buildings and as instruments of education as good as the best, and to furnish the community with every desirable means of culture and comfortable living. They have displayed a unity of feeling and a deep attach- ment to their town which is rather rare in suburban places. The most capable citizens have always felt their responsibility for the proper management of Winchester's affairs, and have been ready to give devoted and unselfish service in the offices and on the boards that are charged with the government of the town. As a result that
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government has always been honest, prudent and efficient. With- out extravagance or even lavishness of expenditure Winchester has got the value of every dollar it has asked of its taxpayers, to the envy of some of its neighbors, who with comparable revenues have not seen them expended with comparable wisdom and fore- sight.
Endowed by nature with beauty, and developed by its people with affectionate and generous care, Winchester after almost three hundred years of community life is a New England town in which are expressed (we believe) the best of the qualities and virtues of the New England folk - their thrift, their prudence, their orderli- ness, their proper pride in maintaining a self-respecting home and community life, their interest in religion, education and the various aspects of that side of life we call - a little vaguely -culture. May the next three hundred years be as worthy of commemoration as the past.
APPENDIX A
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS
Who lived within the present limits of Winchester at the time of their service or in later years
Joseph Belknap
Jeduthan Richardson
Captain Samuel Belknap
Jesse Richardson
Zachariah Brooks
John Richardson, Jr.
Joseph Brown
Jonathan Richardson Luke Richardson
Samuel Carter
Benjamin Converse
Nathan Richardson
Robert Converse Andrew Evans
Peter Richardson
James Gardner
Zachariah Richardson, Jr.
Benjamin Hadley
Bill Russell
Captain John LeBosquet Jonathan Locke Josiah Locke Job Miller Daniel Reed
Captain John Symmes
Samuel Symmes
William Symmes
Nathaniel Watts
Samuel Watts
Abel Richardson
Philemon Wright
Abel Richardson, Jr.
David Wyman
Ebenezer Richardson
Hezekiah Wyman
Eleazer Richardson
Paul Wyman
Gideon Richardson
Jesse Wyman
James Richardson
Zachariah Richardson
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APPENDIX B
ELECTED TOWN OFFICERS OF WINCHESTER SINCE THE INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN
SELECTMEN
(The dates given are the years in which they were elected. Their terms of office were from March to March; when reelected for several terms the dates given are their first elections and the last years of their term.)
Nathan B. Johnson
1850, 1851
Loring Emerson
1850, 1851
Charles McIntire
1850-1852
Asa Locke, Jr.
1852, 1853
Gardner Symmes
1852, 1853
Aaron D. Weld
1853, 1857, 1860
Oliver R. Clark
1854-1857, 1863-1869
Nathaniel A. Richardson
1854-1856
Charles Kimball
1854-1856, 1859
Luther R. Symmes
1856, 1858
Cephas Church
1858-1860, 1862
Samuel M. Rice
1858, 1859
Sherborn T. Sanborn
1860, 1861
Wallace Whitney
1860, 1861
Thomas P. Ayer
1861, 1862
1862, 1863, 1872, 1873
H. K. Stanton Josiah F. Stone
1863, 1864, 1871, 1872, 1875-1876, I878 1864-1867
David N. Skillings
Samuel W. Twombly
1865-1870, 1886
John T. Manny
1867-1870
John C. Mason
1869-187I
Daniel W. Locke
1871-1873, 1877, 1878
John R. Cobb
1872
John T. Wilson
1873
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Samuel S. Holton
1874-1876
Albert Ayer
1874, 1890, 1892, 1897
Henry A. Emerson
1874, 1919
Asa Fletcher
1874
Robert Cowdery
1874
Warren Johnson
1877, 1885
Charles H. Dunham
1879, 1882
Henry C. Miller
1883, 1885
James Russell
1885, 1887-1892
David O. Blanchard
1886-1888
Arthur E. Whitney
1889, 1891
James F. Dorsey
1889, 1890
James H. Winn
1889-1892, 1893-1896
Charles W. Shattuck
1891
George W. Payne
1891, 1893
Marshall H. Dutch
1892-1894
John L. Ayer
1893-1896
Edward H. Stone
1894-1896
George H. Carter
1895-1897
Henry J. Winde
1896-1898
Henry F. Johnson
1897-1899
Lewis C. Pattee
1897-1900
Henry C. Holt
1898-1899
Francis J. O'Hara
1898
Nathan H. Taylor
1899-1902
James P. Boutwell
1899-1901, 1910, 19II
James J. Fitzgerald
1900-1902
Edward F. Jones
1900-1902
Charles W. Bradstreet
I90I
John Challis
1902-1905
John H. Carter
1902-1906
George C. Coit
1903, 1904
Samuel S. Symmes
1903-1906
Sanford D. Leland
1903
Frank L. Ferguson
1904
Ralph J. Ellis
1904
Frank E. Rowe
1905, 1906
William E. Beggs
1905-1907
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George Adams Woods
1905, 1906
William D. Richards
1906-1909
James H. Dwinell
1907-1909
F. Eugene Barnard
1907, 1908
Frank W. Winn
1907-1909
Peter Walling
1908, 1910
George B. Smith
1909, 1910
Preston Pond
1910-1912
William M. Belcher
1910-1912
George R. Nugent
1910, 19II
William J. Daly
1911-1913
Addison R. Pike
1912, 1913
Elbridge K. Jewett
1912, 1913, 1917
George T. Davidson 1913-1916
Maurice F. Brown
1913, 1914
Frederick N. Kerr
1914-1916
Charles E. Kendall
1914-1916
Henry C. Sanborn
1914-1916
George B. Hayward
1915, 1916
Robert B. Metcalf
1917
Rufus L. Clark
1917
Jonas A. Laraway
1917, 1918
John F. O'Connor
1917
Sewell E. Newman
1918-1920
Patrick Noonan
1918
Herbert L. Cox
1918, 1919
George C. Ogden
1918
Arthur A. Kidder
1919, 1920
Roland E. Simonds
1919
Joseph A. Dolben
1920, 1921
James W. Blackham
1920-1921
William L. Parsons
1920
George M. Bryne
1920-1923
J. Waldo Bond
192I
George W. Willey
192I
Thomas R. Bateman
1922-1925
Edward B. Smalley
1922
Charles R. Main
1922-1924
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APPENDIX B
Edward W. Berry
1923
Walter H. Dotten
1923-1930
Robert F. Whitney
1924-1926
William P. Callahan
1924-1926
Dr. J. Harper Blaisdell
1925-1928
John H. Powers
1925-1927
Thomas F. Fallon
1927, 1928
Joseph W. Worthen
1927-1929
Harry W. Stevens
1928-1930
Harris S. Richardson
1929-1932
Vincent P. Clarke
1929-1932
Irving L. Symmes
1930, 1933
William E. Ramsdell
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Harold V. Farnsworth
1932-1935
Henry J. Maguire
1932-1934
Donald R. Waugh
1933
Edward H. Merrill
1933, 1934
William N. Beggs
1934, 1935
Franklin J. Lane
1934, 1936
Raymond S. Wilkins
1935, 1936
James J. Fitzgerald, Jr.
1935, 1936
W. Allan Wilde
1935, 1936
Arthur S. Harris
1936
TOWN CLERKS
David Youngman
1850-1856
Josiah Hovey
1856-1865
George P. Brown
1865-1874
Warren F. Foster
1874-1883
George W. Spurr
1883-1890
Albert Ayer
1890-1898
George H. Carter
1899, 1909, 1910-1920
John G. Hovey
1909, 19IO
Arthur A. Kidder
May 3-June 7, 1920
Mabel W. Stinson
1920-
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HISTORY OF WINCHESTER
TOWN TREASURERS
Samuel B. White
1850-1854
Alvin Taylor
1854-1857
Nathaniel A. Richardson
1857-1861
Stephen Cutter
1861-1873
John T. Manny
1873-1887
George W. Spurr
1887-1890
Thomas S. Spurr
1890-1910
George H. Eustis
1910-1924
Harrie Y. Nutter
1924-
MODERATORS
(Until 1914 a moderator was chosen at each regular or special town meeting. Several different men, therefore, are listed as serv- ing in many of the early years. Since 1914 the Moderator has been annually elected.)
Samuel M. Rice 1850
Oliver R. Clark
1850-1853, 1856-1858, 1860-1866, 1868, 1869, 1871
Loring Emerson 185I
John A. Bolles
1851-1854
William A. Dodge
185I
Frederick O. Prince
1852, 1857
Nathaniel A. Richardson
1853, 1856, 1858, 1859
Josiah F. Stone
1853-1854, 1869, 1871, 1877, 1880 1854
A. J. Bellows
Charles P. Curtis, Jr.
1857, 1862
Salem Wilder
1860, 1867, 1868, 1870, 1873
Dr. Alonzo Chapin
1862, 1867, 1870, 1874
William A. Stone
1864
A. K. P. Joy
I865
William Everett
I866
Henry B. Metcalf
1868, 1870
Charles H. Moseley I868
David N. Skillings
1872, 1874
James H. Prince
1872
John T. Wilson
1872, 1873, 1881-1884, 1887-1897
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APPENDIX B
Thomas P. Ayer
1871, 1873-1880, 1885, 1886
James F. Dwinell
1875, 1895
George F. Parker
1876
Henry F. Johnson
1876
F. H. Nourse Alfred S. Hall
1878, 1879
1886
Arthur H. Russell
1897, 1898-1901, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1910
George L. Huntress
1898
George S. Littlefield
1898
William C. Newell
1899
Edgar J. Rich
1902-1904
Ralph E. Joslin
1904-1906
George C. Coit
1906
Charles N. Harris
1907-1910
Howard D. Nash
1909
Frederick Manley Ives
19II-1925
George B. Hayward
1926-
WATER COMMISSIONERS (Since 1907 Sewer Commissioners also)
David N. Skillings 1873-1877
Moses A. Herrick
1873-1890
James F. Dwinell
1873-1894
Irving S. Palmer
1878-1882
D. Nelson Skillings
1882-1902, 1904-1913
Lewis Parkhurst
1891-1898
John R. Freeman
1894-1896
Charles T. Main
1896-1907
George L. Huntress
1898-1904
Henry C. Ordway
1902-1910
Sanford D. Leland
1907-1910
Nathan H. Taylor
1910-1916
Maurice F. Brown
1910-1912
Arthur E. Whitney
1912-1918
Harold K. Barrows
1913-1916
Edmund C. Sanderson
1916-
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HISTORY OF WINCHESTER
Charles E. Kendall
1917-1934
Robert B. Davis
1918-1920
Edward S. Mansfield
1920-1924
Clarence P. Whorf
1924-
Elwell R. Butterworth
1934-
SEWER COMMISSIONERS (Merged with the Water Board in 1907)
Daniel W. Pratt
1894
Henry C. Miller
1894-1899
Frederick V. Wooster
1894-1904
Charles E. Corey
1895-1906
Charles M. Thompson
1899-1901
Frederick M. Symmes
1901-1907
Franklin C. Pillsbury
1904
Stillman Shaw
1905, 1907
John F. Holland
1906, 1907
PARK COMMISSIONERS
Forrest C. Manchester
1893-1899
D. Nelson Skillings
1893-1902
Louis Goddu
1893-1898
James F. Dorsey
1898-1906
Nicholas T. Appolonio
1899
A. Allen Chamberlain
1900-1902
Edmund H. Garrett
1902-1907
Preston Pond
1903-1910
Jere A. Downs
1907-19II
Frank F. Carpenter
1907-19II
Maurice F. Brown
19IO
Harry A. Wheeler
19II-1915
Clarence E. Ordway
1911-1916
Charles A. Lane
19II-1916
Frederic C. Alexander 1915-
Alfred B. Carhart
1916-1922
George T. Davidson
1917-
William S. Packer
1922-
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APPENDIX B
PLANNING BOARD
Flavel Shurtleff
1915-192I
Arthur W. Dean
1915-
Frank E. Rowe
1915-
Preston Pond
1915-1924
Charles F. A. Currier
1915-1918
Lewis Parkhurst
1915 (resigned)
Richard B. Derby
1918-1924
Maurice C. Tompkins
1921-1935
William L. Parsons
1924-
Arthur A. Kidder
1924-
Harris S. Richardson
1935-
COLLECTOR OF TAXES
Samuel Kendall
1850
Samuel S. Richardson
185I
James Bridge 1852
Nathaniel A. Richardson
1853-1860
Francis H. Johnson
186I
Mial Cushman
1862-1884
Albert Ayer
1884
George W. Spurr
1885-1890
Aaron C. Bell
1890-1906
John G. Hovey
1907-1909
A. William Rooney
1910-1917
Mabel W. Stinson (pro tem)
1917
F. Nelson Hawley
1918 (resigned)
William H. Stinson
1918-1924
Walter H. Dotten
1924
Nathaniel M. Nichols
1925-
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ASSESSORS
Cyrus Bancroft
1850-1863
Ezekiel Johnson
1850
Gardner Symmes
1850-1851
Thomas O. Hutchinson
1851
Marshall Symmes, Jr.
1852-1853
John S. Richardson
1852
Hiram Andrews
1853
Joshua Lane
1854
Oliver J. Locke
1854
Alvin Taylor
1855
Asa Fletcher
1855, 1863
Marshall Symmes, Jr.
1856-1860
Asa Locke, Jr.
1856-1857
Marshall Wyman
1857-1861
Samuel M. Rice
1858
Stephen H. Cutter
1858-1861
Horatio Symmes
1860
Loring Emerson
1862-1864
Albert Ayer
1862-1898
Charles Pressey
1864-1866, 1880
A. H. Field
1865, 1866
Luther Richardson 1867
Josiah F. Stone
1867-1872, 1875, 1878
Jacob C. Stanton, Jr.
1867-1870
Sumner Richardson
187I
Josiah L. Smith 1871
William Adams
1872-1877
Andrew N. Shepard
1874
Mial Cushman
1879-1883
Sherburn T. Sanborn
1880
George W. Spurr
1881-1886
James Russell
1884-1885
Warren Johnson
1885-1889
Samuel W. Twombly
1886-1890
Aaron C. Bell
1890-1893
George G. Kellogg
1891-1896
Thomas H. Stinson
1894
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APPENDIX B
George H. Carter
1895-1920
George W. Bartlett
1897-1899
George W. Payne
1899-1912
John T. Cosgrove
1900-1902
Fred V. Wooster
1903-1920
Percival B. Metcalf
1913-1924
Ralph S. Vinal
1920
Harry T. Winn
192I-
James Hinds
1921-1924
Frank H. Enman
1924-
John F. Cassidy
1924-
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
(There have been many changes in the size of the School Committee. There were three members in 1850, five in 1851, seven in 1852, five again from 1853 to 1858, six from 1858 to 1864, three from 1865 to 1874, six from 1874 to 1888, five in 1888, four in 1890, three from 1890 to 1920 and six since that year.)
Frederick O. Prince 1850-1852
Rev. John M. Steele
1850-1852
Charles Goddard 1850, 1860
Charles Kimball
1851-1855, 1858, 1859
Oliver R. Clark
1851-1854, 1856-1858, 1863
David Youngman
1851, 1852
Marshall Symmes, Jr. 1852
Dr. Alonzo Chapin
1852, 1866-1876
Rev. Reuben T. Robinson
1853, 1856-1862
Nathaniel A. Read
1853
Charles P. Curtis, Jr.
1853, 1854
Dr. William Ingalls
1854-1857
Stephen A. Holt
1854, 1861, 1862
John A. Bolles
1854, 1858, 1859
A. J. Bellows* 1855
William Brodhead
1855
Rev. E. W. Clark* 1855
H. K. Stanton 1855
* Elected in 1855 but declined to serve.
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HISTORY OF WINCHESTER
Luther Richardson
1855
S. L. Lothrop
1855
Josiah Hovey
1855-1857
Aaron D. Weld
1856-1858, 1861
William E. Simonds 1856
Rev. E. B. Eddy
1856-1859
Samuel D. Quimby
1857,1862
James A. Woodbury
1858
Alfred Norton 1858
Abraham B. Coffin
1859, 1860
James Russell
1859-1862, 1882-1888
Edwin A. Wadleigh
1860-1865, 1879-1887
Sherburn T. Sanborn
I860
Salem Wilder
1861, 1863
William F. Young
I862
Samuel S. Holton
I862
T. S. Chandler
1862, 1863
A. K. P. Joy
1863, 1864
William F. Stone
1863-1864
Allen F. Boone
1863, 1864
Rev. Henry Hinckley
1864-1866
Charles Pressey
1864-1866
Dr. Frederick Winsor 1864-1868
James H. Prince
1864
Benjamin F. Ham
I866
James C. Johnson
1867-1873, 1876
Rev. Richard Metcalf
I867
Wilson Palmer*
1867
Samuel J. Bronson
1868
Rev. George Cooke
1869-1873
Luther G. Barrett
1873
Joseph H. Tyler
1874, 1876-1879
George W. Gardner
1874-1879
Mrs. Ann B. Winsor
1874-1879
Mrs. Elizabeth P. Pressey
1874-1880
Mrs. Mary S. Lamson
1874-1876
George S. Littlefield
1875-1878, 1883-1897
* Served from September 2 to October II only.
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APPENDIX B
Leone S. Quimby
1876-1881
Horace F. Barnes
1877-1880
Alfred S. Hall
1880-1882
Mrs. Ellen Bradford
1880, 188I
Mrs. Martha S. Metcalf
1881-1884
Eugene Tappan
1881-1883
Mrs. Eleanor Huse
1881-1884
Dr. Daniel March, Jr.
1884-1887
Mrs. Clara T. Shepard
1886-1887
Mrs. Maria M. Twombly
I886, 1887
Lewis Parkhurst I888
Samuel S. Symmes
1888-190I
Stephen W. Reynolds
1888, 1889
Rev. John W. Suter
1889-1901
William B. French
1898-1900
Dr. Albert F. Blaisdell 1901-1908
Charles F. A. Currier
1901-1914
Frank F. Carpenter
1902-1906
Ralph E. Joslin
1906, 1907
Rev. Frederick H. Means
1908
Marcus B. May
1909-1914
Arthur F. Odlin*
1908
Charles E. L. Wingate
1908-1910
Edgar J. Richt
19IO
George C. Coit
1910-1918
Henry C. Metcalf
1912-1917
Ralph B. Redfern
1914-1916
Stillman P. Williams
1916-1923
Henry S. Chapman
1918-1922
Robert P. Guild
1919-1924
Dunbar F. Carpenter
1921-1923
Mrs. Rho F. Zeublin
192I-1922
Mrs. Stella R. Root
1921-1923
William A. Barber
1922-1924
Mrs. Elsie B. Tompkins
1922-1928
Danforth W. Comins
1923, 1924
Served from March to September only.
t Served from March to November.
372
HISTORY OF WINCHESTER
Mrs. Grace H. Hight
1924-1929
Robert M. Stone
1924-1929
Edward A. Tucker
1924-1933
John A. Maddocks
1925-1928
Frederick C. Clement
1925-1930
Mrs. Georgia Y. Farnsworth
1929-1931
Arthur S. Harris
1929-1935
Joseph W. Butler
1930-1936
Mrs. Madge H. Spencer
1930-1936
Burton W. Carey
1931-
James S. Allen
1934-
Kenneth F. Caldwell
1935-
Mrs. Nita A. Smith
1935-
Mrs. Caroline P. Spaulding
1936-
Geoffrey C. Neiley
1936-
TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY
Rev. Reuben T. Robinson 1859-1867
Aaron D. Weld
1859, 1860
Thomas Emerson
1859-1862
James Russell 1861-1863
Dr. Alonzo Chapin
1863-1874
Rev. Henry Hinckley
1864-1866
Wilson Palmer
1867-1869
Dr. Frederick Winsor 1868-1885
Samuel J. Bronson I868
Daniel D. Patten
1869-1873
Joseph H. Tyler
1874-1881
Edwin A. Wadleigh
1875-1883
Robert B. Metcalf
1881, 1884-1886
Alfred C. Vinton
1882-1887
Arthur E. Whitney
1886-1903
Lewis Parkhurst
1887, 1888
Frederick H. Page 1888-1890
Horace D. Bradbury
1889-1898
Edwin N. Lovering
1891-1902
James F. Dorsey
1898-1901
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APPENDIX B
George W. Davenport
1902-1904
George H. Eustis
1903-
Theodore C. Hurd
1904-19II
Robert Coit
1904-1922
Edgar J. Rich
1912-
Francis E. Smith
1923-
Ralph T. Hale
1929-
Mrs. Jennie C. Gates
1929-
M. Walker Jones
1929-
BOARD OF HEALTH
(From March 1, 1852 to April 30, 1868, the Cemetery Com- mission was entrusted with the duties of a Board of Health. Fom 1868 to March 27, 1878 the Selectmen discharged those duties. The following are the officials since the constitution of the inde- pendent Board of Health.)
Dr. Frederick Winsor 1878-1888
Abraham B. Coffin
1878-1891
Phineas W. Swan 188I
Edward A. Brackett
1882-1891
Dr. Benjamin F. Church
1889-1906
Daniel W. Pratt
1891, 1892
Edwin Robinson
1891, 1892
Alfred S. Hall
1892, 1893
Dennis B. Winn
1892, 1893
Louis F. Cutter
1893, 1894
Fred S. Canedy
1893
Charles H. Jordan 1894
Willard C. Stilson 1894
Charles H. Bowman 1894, 1895
Charles E. Shattuck 1895-1897
Charles M. Thompson 1896-1901
Charles N. Harris 1897-1902
James Hinds 1901-1907
John I. French
1903-1905
William M. Mason
1905-1908
Dr. Clarence J. Allen
1907-1919
374
HISTORY OF WINCHESTER
Frederick M. Ives
1907-19II
Marshall W. Jones
1908-1920
Danforth W. Comins
911-1919
Dr. Mott A. Cummings
1919-1923
Mark R. Jouett, Jr.
1920-1925
Dr. J. Harper Blaisdell
1924-
William A. Kneeland
1925-
Richard Parkhurst
1926-
CEMETERY COMMISSIONERS (Between 1851 and 1889, The Cemetery Committee)
Charles Russell
185I
Loring Emerson
1851
Nathan B. Johnson
1851
Charles Goddard
185I
John A. Bolles
1851-1855
Marshall Wyman
1851
Oliver R. Clark
1852-1872
Charles Kimball
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