Massachusetts year book and business directory of every town and city in the state 1899, Part 5

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Southwick 1012

South Williamstown, see

Williamstown

South Worcester, see Wor- cester

South Worthington, see Worthington

South Wrentham, see Wrentham

South Yarmouth, see Yar- mouth

Spencer 1013

Springdale, see Canton

Townsend 1080

Townsend Harbor, see Townsend

SPRINGFIELD 1016 Tower Hill, see Randolph

Traskville : Fitchburg

Tremont, see Wareham Trowbridgeville, see Wor- cester

Truro 1081

Tuckernuck, Nantucket Tuftsville, see Dudley Tully, see Orange

Turner's Falls, Montague Turnpike, see Rowley

Tylerville, see Belchertown 'Tyngsboro 1082

Tyringham 1082

Union Market, see Water- town

Union Square, see Somer- . ville

Unionville, see Easton Unionville, see Franklin Unionville, see Holden Unionville, see Wellesley

Upper Falls, see Needham Upton 1083

Upton Center, see Upton

Uxbridge 1084 Uxbridge Center, see Ux- bridge

Valley Village, Princeton Valley Village, see West Boylston

Van Deusen, see Great Barrington

Vineyard Haven, Tisbury Vineyard Highlands, see Cottage City

Waban, see Newton

Wadsworth's, see Franklin

Wakeby, see Sandwich

Wakefield 1086

Wakefield

Junction,

see

Wakefield

Wales

1089

Walker, see Taunton

Walnut Hill, see Dedham

Walnut Hill, see Woburn Walpole 1090

WALTHAM 1091

Wamesit, see Tewksbury

Wanwinet, see Nantucket

Wapping, see Deerfield Wapping, see Kingston

Waquoit, see Falmouth

Wardell's Corner, see Westport

Ward Hill, see Haverhill Ware 1101

Wareham 1104

Warren 1106

Warwick 1108

Washington 1108

Waterford, see Blackstone Watertown 1109

Waterville, see Middleboro Waterville, Winchendon

Waveland, see Hull

Waverley, see Belmont Wayland 1112

Webster 1113

Webster Depot, Webster

Webster Mills, Webster Webster Village, Scituate Weir, see Taunton

Wellesley 1116

Springdale, see Holden

Springdale, see Holyoke

Spring Hill, see Sandwich Spring Hill, see Somerville Springville, see Topsfield Spruce Corner, see Ashfield Squantum, see Quiney

Squibnocket, see Chilmark State Farm, Bridgewater State Line, see West Stock- bridge

Stearnsville, see Pittsfield Steep Brook, see Fall River Sterling 1049

Sterling Junction, Sterling Stevens Village, see North Andover

Still River, see Harvard

Stockbridge 1050

Stone District, Northbridge Stone Factory, see Canton Stoneham 1051

Stone Haven, see Dedham Stoneville, see Auburn

Stony Beach, see Hull

Stony Brook, see Kingston

Stony Brook, see Norfolk

Stony Brook, see Weston

Stoughton 1054

Stow 1056

Straw Hollow, see Boylston Sturbridge 1057

Sudbury 1058

Sunderland

Surfside, see Hull

Surfside, see Nantucket

Sutton 1059

Swampscott 1061

Swansea

1062

Swansea Center, Swansea Swansea Village, Swansea Sweet's Corners, see Wil- liamstown

Swift River, Cummington

Symmes' Corner, see Win- chester

Tack Factory, Middleboro Tapleyville, see Danvers Tarkiln, see Duxbury

Tasseltop, see Douglas

Tatham, West Springfield Tatnuck, see Worcester TAUNTON 1063

Teaticket, see Falmouth

Templetoll 1074

Tennyville, see Palmer

Tewksbury 1076

Tewksbury Junction, see Tewksbury

Texas, see Oxford

The Green. see Middleboro Thomastown. Middleboro Thompsonville, see Newton Thorndike, see Palmer

Three Rivers. see Palmer Tihonet, see Wareham Tillotson's, see Pittsfield Tilton's, see Walpole Tisbury 1077

Tolland Topsfield

Touset, see Orleans

1078

1079

Wellesley Falls, Wellesley Wellesley Farms, see Wellesley

CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES.

Wellesley Hills, Wellesley West Leyden, see Leyden | Weymouth Landing, see Wellfleet 1118

Wellingsly, see Plymouth Wellington, see Medford

. Wenaumet, see Bourne

Wendell 1119

Wendell Depot, Wendell 1120

Wenham

Wenham Center, Wenham Wenham Neck, Wenham West Abington, Abington West Acton, see Acton

West Auburn, see Auburn West Barnstable, see Barn- stable

West Becket, see Becket West Berlin, see Berlin

Westboro 1121

West Boxford, see Boxford West Boylston 1123 West Brewster. Brewster

West Bridgewater : 1125 West Brimfield, Brimfield West Brookfield 11:25

West Cambridge, see Cam- bridge

West Chatham, Chatham West Chelmsford, see Chelmsford

West Chesterfield, see Chesterfield

West Corners, Randolph

West Cummington, see

Cummington

Westdale, see E. Bridge- water

Westdale, see West Bridgewater

West Dedham, see West- wood

West Deerfield, Deerfield West Dennis, see Dennis West Dighton, see Dighton West District, Hamilton West Douglas, see Douglas West Dudley, see Dudley West Duxbury, Duxbury West Falmouth, see Falmouth

West Farms, see North- ampton

West Farms, see West- field

Westfield 1126

Westfield, see Dedham

West Fitchburg, see Fitch- burg

Westford 1133

Westford Corner, see Westford

West Foxboro, Foxboro West Gardner, Gardner

West Gloucester, see Gloucester

West Granville, Granville West Groton, see Groton Westhampton 1135

Westhampton Centre, see Westhampton

West Hanover, Hanover West Harwich, Harwich West Hatfield, Hatfield West Hawley, sec Hawley West Hingham, Hingham West Leominster, see Leominster

W. Longmeadow, see Long- meadow

West Lynn, see Lynn West Manchester, see Man- chester

West Mansfield, Mansfield West Medford, see Medford West Medway, see Medway West Millbury, Millbury Westminster 1135

Westminster Depot, see

Westminster

West New Boston, see Sandisfield

Whittenton, see Taunton Wianno, see Barnstable

Wigginville, see Tewksbury Wilbraham 1151

Wilkinsonville, see Sutton Williamsburg 1152

Williamstown 1154

Williamstown Station, see Williamstown

Williamsville, see bardstou Williamsville, see West Stockbridge

Willimansett, see Chicopee Willow Bridge, Somerville Willowdale, see Ipswich Wilmington 1155

Wilmington Center, see

Wilmington

Wilmington Junction, see Wilmington

Winchendon 1156

Winchendon Center, see Winchendon

Winchendon Springs, see Winchendon

Winghendon Village, see Winchendon

Winchester 1159

Windsor 1162

Windsor Hill, see Windsor Winetuxet, see Plymouth Winneconnet, see Norton Winslow's, see Norwood Winslow's Crossing, see

Hanover

Winter Hill, see Somer- ville

Winthrop 1162

Winthrop Center, see Win- throp

Winthrop Highlands, see Winthrop

Wire Village, see Spencer WOBURN 1164

Wollaston, see Quincy Woodbury, see Sutton

Wood's `Holl, see Fal- mouth

Wood's Village, Shirley Woodville, Hopkinton Woodville. see Wakefield WORCESTER 1181

Worthington 1227

Wrentham 1928

Wyoma Village. see Lynn Wyoming, see Melrose Yarmouth 1229

Yarmouth Farms, see Yar- mnouth

Yarmouthport. Yarmouth Zoar, see Charlemont

Zylonite, see Adams

Hub-

West Parish, see Andover West Parish, see Haverhill West Part, see Natick

West Part, Southampton

West Peabody, Peabody West Pelham, see Pelham West Plymouth, Plymouth Westport 1138

Westport Factory, see Dartmouth

Westport Factory, see Westport

Westport Harbor, see Westport

Westport Point, Westport West Quincy, see Quincy West Royalston, Royalston West Roxbury, Boston West Rutland, see Rutland West Shrewsbury, see Shrewsbury

West Somerville, see Som- erville

West Springfield 1139

West Sterling, see Sterling West Stockbridge 1142

West Stockbridge Center, see West Stockbridge

West Stoughton, see Stoughton

West Sutton, see Sutton

West Tewksbury, see Tewksbury

West Tisbury 1143

West Townsend, Townsend West Upton, see Upton Westvale, see Concord Westville, see Sturbridge Westville, see Taunton West Ware. see Ware West Wareham, Wareham West Warren, see Warren West wood 1143

West Worthington see Worthington

West Wrentham, see Wrentham

West Yarmouth, Yarmouth Weymouth 1144

Weymouth Center, see Weymouth Weymouth Heights, see Weymouth

Weymouth Whately 1148

Whately Center, Whately Wheelerville, see Athol Wheelerville, see Millbury Wheelock's. see Uxbridge Wheelwright, Hardwick

White Oaks, see Williams- town

Whiteville, see Mansfield Whitinsville, Northbridge Whitman 1149

West Newbury 1136

West Newton, see Newton

West Northfield, Northfield Weston 1137

West Orange, see Orange West Otis. see Otis

West Oxford, see Oxford

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ALL MODERN FACILITIES.

GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS IN MASSACHUSETTS.

BY HON. ALFRED S. ROE.

Under the Constitution, thirty-five men have held the office of chief ex- ecutive. This number does not In- clude lieutenant-governors who have been acting governors, nor the one Instance of the Executive Council serving in that capacity.

By special act, the first election for governor was had September 4. 1780, that day being the first Mon- day in the month, and thereafter till 1831 the elections came on the first Monday in April. The governor held his office for one year after the last Wednesday in May, this system ob- talning till 1832, when his term be- gan on the first Wednesday in Jan- uary.

For many years the Legislative Manual has given the names of the governors and their terms of office. but curiosity is often piqued to know who the defeated ones were, and what were the politics of those win- ning as well as of those vanquished; an effort is made herein to satisfy such pardonable desire and, at the same time, to give sundry other facts which may be of utility. Lack of space prevents giving the natural biographical data which each name suggests and the Items of political interest, once momentions, but now largely forgotten. It is exceedingly difficult at this date to trace the is- snes on which parties divided 100 years ago. At first there were Fed- erallsts and Anti-Federalists; the latter gradually grew to be called Democratic-Republicans, next Re- publicans, and finally Democrats. To the Federalists succeeded the Na- tloual Republicans, who became, after a while, Whigs. The later Re- publican party was made up of Free Soll Whigs and Democrats.

In the following list are given, first, the year and day of the election; the total vote, the name of the success- ful candidate, and, In most cases, those of the leading defeated ones. " It must be remembered that Massa- chusetts Included the district of Malne till 1820.

1780, September 4, the total vote was 12,281, not including Dukes and Nantucket, for which no returns are found; JOHN HANCOCK had 11,-

207; James Bowdoin. 1,033; all others, 41, from one to six votes being cast for Sam. Adams, Jos. Hawley, John Worthington, Jeremiah Powell, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, James Otis, Stephen Choate, Wm. Cushing, Geo. Watson, Artemas Ward, Benj. Lincoln, James Sulli- van, Azor Orne and Ebenezer Mann. Hancock was a Federalist In politics, as was Bowdoin also. The issue seemed to be one of personal prefer- ence.

1781. April 2: total vote, 8,585: JOHN HANCOCK had 7,996: all others 589: James Bowdoin was still the leading opponent. but a long ways beltind; votes were cast for twenty- four others.

1782. April 1; total vote, 7.744: JOHN HANCOCK had 5,855; all others, 1,889; James Bowdoin is again a poor second, with a field of forty-one, the majority of them recelving a single vote.

1783. April 7; total vote. 9,108; JOHN HANCOCK had 6.693; Jas. Bow- doin creeps slowly up, though still a long ways behind. with thirteen fol- lowing him; this number would, doubtless, be increased were all the counties reported: for this year and the following the returns, as pre- served, are imperfect.

1784. April 5: total vote, 7,631: JOHN HANCOCK had 5,160; the oppo- sition is divided among thirty-eight men. including James Bowdoin and nearly all those voted for in 1780; sometimes the entire vote of a town- ship is thrown for a local favorite.

1785. April 4; total vote. 9,065; James Bowdoin had 3,519; Thomas Cushing. 3,005: Benj. Lincoln. 1,145; Oliver Prescott, 298; the remaining votes were scattered among forty- six men, melnding John Hancock. who. on account of Illness, had de- clined being a candidate; as there was no election by the people the contest was thrown Into the Legis- lature, where May 26, at 4 P. M .. in accordance with the terms of the Constitution, "two out of four per- sons who had the highest unniber of votes" were named to be reported to the Senate for election. The House gave Thomas Cushing 134 votes and

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James Bowdoin 89. Later in the same day, the Senate elected JAMES BOWDOIN by a large majority. Both Bowdoln and Cushing were Federal- ists; indeed, all the candidates named differed very little in politi- cal belief. Thelr votes arose, largely, from personal and local causes. Cushing was the first lieutenant- governor under the Constitution. Lincoln was the Revolutionary gen- eral of Hingham, and Prescott was a Groton physician, though he later moved to Newburyport, where he dled. The names of these men ap- pear for years, with more or less fol- lowing, in the returns of gubernato- rial votes.

1786, April 3; total vote, 8.231; JAMES BOWDOIN had 6,001; John Hancock, 1,220; the remaining votes were divided among thirty-three men, Including some of the most notable in the State.

1787, April 2; total vote, 24,588; JOHN HANCOCK had 18,459; James Bowdoin, the leading competitor, was badly beaten, having only 5.414 votes; his firmness in suppressing Shays' Rebeillon the preceding year completely destroyed his popularity, and reinstated Hancock; the remain- ing ballots were shared by eighteen men.

1788, April 7; total vote, 22,157; JOHN HANCOCK had 17,841; Elbridge Gerry, 4,105; sixteen others, includ- ing James Bowdoin, the remainder. Gerry was a follower of Thomas Jef- ferson,; then called a Republican, really a believer in what was later known as the Democracy.

1789, April 6; total vote, 21,384; JOHN HANCOCK had 17,264; James Bowdoin, 3,458; twenty-three others, what was left.

1790, Aprii 5; total vote. 16,518; JOHN HANCOCK had 14,283; James Bowdoln, 1,SSG; all others, the bal- ance. As ex-Gov. Bowdoin died Nov. 6 of this year, he disappeared as a candidate, though his son, James, took his place among the scattering for the next fifteen years.

1701, April 4; total vote, 17,032; JOHN HANCOCK had 15,996; Francis Dana, 278; the remaining bailots were scattered among forty men; Dana, a Federalist, from 1791 to 1806 was chlef justice of the Su- preme Court of Massachusetts. He was the father of Richard H. Dana, 1st, America's earliest poet of note.

1792, April 2; total vote, 16,894; JOHN HANCOCK had 14,628; Francis Dana, 826; Samuel Phillips, 610; the balance was scattered among forty- seven men. Phillips, a Federalist, was president of the State Senate.

1793, April 1; total vote, 18,266: JOHN HANCOCK had 16,428; Elbridge Gerry, 669; all others, thirty-seven

men, the remainder. As Gov. Han- cock died in office Oct. 8, 1793, his name disappears from subsequent lists.

1794, April 7; total vote, 23,454; SAMUEL ADAMS had 14,425; Wm. Cushing, 6,997; the remaining bal- lots were cast for thirty-five differ- ent men. Adams was opposed by the Federalists; he was a moderate Repnhlican or a modern Democrat. Cushing, a Federalist. was the first chief justice of the Supreme Court under the Constitution, resigning in 1789 to become an associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court.

1795, April 6; total vote, 17,710; SAMUEL ADAMS had 15,976; Wm. Cushing, 535; forty-eight others had the remainder In varying numbers.

1796, April 4; total vote. 26,493: SAMUEL ADAMS had 15,195; Increase Sumner, 10,196; twenty-eight mon re- ceived the rest. Sumner was a Fed- erallst and a judge of the Supreme Court.

1797, April 3; total vote. 25,658: INCREASE SUMNER had 14,540; James Sullivan, 6,810: Moses Gill. 3,502; tilrty-nine others the remainder. Sullivan was a Republican; Gill, a Federalist.

179S, April 2; total vote. 21,259: INCREASE SUMNER had 18.245; James Sullivan, 1,943; thirty-eight other names received votes.

1790, April 1: total vote. 33.013: INCREASE SUMNER had 24,073; Wm. Heath, 7,709; forty-three men were remembered In the remaining ballots. Sumner died in office June 7. 1799. Heath was a Revolutionary general of Republican tendencies, living in Roxbury.

1800, April 7: total vote, 39.050; CALEB STRONG had 19.630. a majori- ty of only 100 votes; Elbridge Gerry, 16,050; the remaining vote was scat- tered among forty-two men. Strong was a thorough Federalist and Gerry a Republican, the name by which the Democrats of a century ago were known. Strong had been the first senator in the Federal Congress and was, by all odds. the most popular man in the Connecticut valley. Northampton was his home.

1801, April 6; total vote, 45,816: CALEB STRONG had 25,452: Elbridge Gerry, 18,984; forty-five other names were balloted for.

1S02, April 5; total vote, 49,583; CALEB STRONG had 29.983: Elbridge Gerry, 19,443; thirty other names had scattering votes.

1803, April 4; total vote, 43,409; CALEB STRONG bad 29,199; Fibridge Gerry, 13,850; forty-two other names appear in the summary.

1804, April 2; total vote, 54,499; CALEB STRONG had 30,011; James

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Sullivan, 23,996; the aggregates in- clude thirty-eight other names.

1805, April 1; total vote, 68,986; CALEB STRONG had 35,204; James Sul- livan, 33,517; the remaining ballots, less than three hundred, went to twenty-nine others.

1806, April 7; total vote, 75,171; CALEB STRONG had 37,740; James Sul- livan, 37,009; forty others had what was left.

1807, April 6; total vote, 81,503; JAMES SULLIVAN had 41,054; Caieb Strong, 39,224; 325 votes were scat- tered among no less than 281 individ- uals; this was the long-delayed Dem- ocratic triumph, thongh it was called Republican then. Governor Sullivan of Boston had long been known as Judge Sullivan, having sat on the Supreme bench from 1776 to 1782.

180S, April 4; total vote, 81,147; JAMES SULLIVAN had 41,193; Christo- pher Gore (Federalist), 39,643; sixty- elght men divided the remaining 311 votes. Governor Sullivan died in of- fice Dec. 10, 1808; and the next year the State lapsed again into Federal- ism.

1809, April 3; total vote. 93,322; CHRISTOPHER GORE had 47,916; Levi Lincoln (Republican), 45,118; the re- maining 288 ballots went to 85 per- sons. Lincoln was the father of the subsequent governor, Levl Lincoln. Governor Gore was the law pre- ceptor of Daniel Webster, and in 1814 was elected to the U. S. Sen- ate.

1810, April 2; total vote, 90,813; ELBRIDGE GERRY had 46,511; Chris- topher Gore, 44,079; what was left, 193 votes, went to thirty-four individ- mals: a Republican victory then, it wonid be called Democratic now.

1811, April 1; total votes, 83.917; ELBRIDGE GERRY had 43,328; Chris- topher Gore, 40,142; thirty-eight others had 447 scattering votes.

1812, April 6; total vote, 104,156; CALEB STRONG had 52,606; Elbridge Gerry, 51,326; thirty-four others had the remaining 134 ballots; the State was again Federal, but Gerry's grief was alleviated by his being elected vice-president this year, living, how- ever, only two years to enjoy hls honors.

1813, April 5; total vote, 100,223; CALEB STRONG had 57,751; Joseph B. Varnum (Republican), 42,789; thirty- seven persons had 680 ballots. J. B. Varnum of Dracut was at this time U. S. senator, having been a repre- sentative in Congress for many years. He had been speaker of the national House and later was acting vice- president of the U. S. He had won fame in the Revolutionary War.

1814, April 4; total vote, 102,236; CALEB STRONG had 56,374; Samuel Dexter (Republican), 45,953; one hun-

dred and fifty votes were scattered among fifty-four men. Dexter had been in both branches of Congress: had been secretary of war and of the treasury. Originally a Federal alist, he had drifted In to Republi- canisin.

1815, April 3; total vote. 94,433; CALEB STRONG had 50,921: Samuel Dexter, 43,938; all others, fifty-eight In number, had 158 bailots.

1816, April 1; total vote, 97,081; JOHN BROOKS had 49,578; Samuel Dexter, 47,153; forty-three others re- ceived 253 votes; Brooks was a Fed- erailst. Apparently Dexter's Repub- licanlsm had grown cold, for on his nomination he wrote, stating that he differed widely from those thus hon- oring him. This was only a few weeks before his death, which took place in Athens, N. Y., May 3, 1816. 1817, April 7; total vote, 84.496; JOIN BROOKS had 46,160; Henry Dearborn (Republican), 38,129; 207 scattering ballots were cast for 59 persons. General Dearborn had been conspicuous in the War of the Revo- lution and that of 1812.

1818, April 6: total vote, 70,929; JOHN BROOKS had 39,538; Benj. W. Crowninshield (Republican), 30.041; the remaining 1348 ballots went to eighty men. B. W. C. was a Salem man, long In publle life, had been secretary of the navy In cabinets of Madison and Monroe; later was a representative in Congress.

1819, April 5; total vote. 79,SS5; JOHN BROOKS had 42,875; Benj. W. Crowninshield, 35,271; the 1739 scat- tering votes went to sixty-seven in- dividuals.

1820, April 3; total vote, 53,297; JONN BROOKS had 31,072; Wm. Enstis (Republican), 21,927; sixty-one others had 298 votes. This was the first election after the setting off of the district of Maine, hence the falling off in the vote. Doctor Eustis had been a surgeon In the army throngh- out the Revolution, and for several years had been a representative in Congress. Also secretary of war in Madison's Cabinet.

1821, April 2; total vote. 49,086; JOIN BROOKS had 28,608: Wm. Eus- tis, 20,268; 210 votes were scattered among eighty-six names.

1822, April 1; total vote. 49,819; JOHN BROOKS had 28,487: Wm. Eus- tis, 21,177; all others, 185; nelther names nor numbers given.

1823, Aprll 7; total vote. 65,330; WILLIAM EUSTIS had 34,402; Harri- son Gray Otls (Federallst), 30,171; all others, 757; a Republican victory; In later parlance, Democratic. Wm. Eustis was the last man of Revolu- tlonary note elected to the office of governor. He ended the first period In the political history of the State. Otis, nephew of James Otls. was ac-

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counted one of the finest gentlemen of his day and a Federalist to the core. He was repeatedly president of the Senate.

1824, April 5; total vot'

WILLIAM EUSTIS had 38.650: Samuel Lathrop (Federalist), 34.210: all others, 191; Governor Eustis died in office Feb. 6. 1825. Lathrop was one of the most noted citizens of Spring- field, afterwards president of the Senate.

1825. April 4; total vote. 37.426: LEVI LINCOLN had 35,271: scattering. 2,205; there appeared to be no organ. ized opposition to the election of Lin- coln, who was a Democratie Repub- Ilcan, but had been nominated by the Federalists also. Diligent search in the archives reveals nothing further than the above.

1826, April 3; total vote, 39.992: LEVI LINCOLN had 27.884; Samuel Hubbard (Federalist), 9,082: there were 3,026 votes given to 180 dif- ferent men. Hubbard was a Boston lawyer of distinction: in 1842 he was made a judge of the Supreme Court.

1827, April 2; total vote, 39,119; LEVI LINCOLN had 29.029; Wm. C. Jarvis (Free Bridge), 7,130; scatter- Ing, 2.960: among the half dozen names thus honored was that of Daniel Webster. Opposition to Gov- ernor Lincoln arose from his veto- ing the Charlestown Free Bridge Act. It is probable, too, that the gov- ernor's opinions were undergoing change, for, thereafter. there was steady Republican opposition and when he left his office in 1834, he was a Whig.

Jarvis was a soldier of fortune. long prominent In affairs. represent- ing at different times. Pittsfield, Charlestown and Woburn in the Gen- eral Court. He ended life, finally, hy his sulcide at father's home. Weathersfield. Vt. In 1827 and later he was speaker of the House. His father. William, and his grandfather. Dr. Charles, had been conspicnons men In State and nation.

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Massachusetts year book and business directory of every town and city in the state 1899, Part 5

Author: Publication date: 1899 Publisher: Worcester, Mass. : F.S. Blanchard & Co. Number of Pages: 1302

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Publication date: 1899
Publisher: Worcester, Mass. : F.S. Blanchard & Co.
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