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The territorial spreading of Haver- hill as it adapted it- self to the expand- ing shoe-business and to the constant arrival of new resi- dents, is quite re- markable. The town, so long a compact little settlement, start- ed after the Civil War to become too widely scattered for wholly comfortable management now-a-days. Such men as Edwin Bowley, John C. Tilton and Franklin Brickett bought large fields, divided them into new streets and houselots and often financed home-building on them. And since towards the end of the century professional land-developers from outside greatly extended the process, Haverhill by the time of the World War had become in area a really large city. Fifty years ago circuses pitched their tents in "Recreation Park" where Columbia Park now lies; fairs were held between Webster Street and what was then called Pond Street; and the Carleton Farm in Bradford was really a farm.
Haverhill held its Two Hundred and Fiftieth Birthday in 1890. It was a bustling, self-suffi- cient, almost eccentric town then, and it remained so for another twenty-five years, until easy and swift methods of travel broke down its isolation. There was a vital pulsation in the activities of its people. Life here may have been insular, but it was vibrant and various. Its atmosphere was a compounding of the inflowing of foreign peoples, the building of miles of new streets and row after row of new houses; the characteristic hum of steam-driven shoe-machinery along Washington Street, and the smell of leather being worked on
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Haverhill Board of Underwriters 1882-1940
An organization of insurance agencies cchose purpose is to support RIGHT PRINCIPLES and oppose bad prac- tices in insurance underwriting.
1882 Members
1940 Members
Edward F. Adams
Anthony Insurance Agency
George F. Kimball Robert E. Kramer
J. Fred Adams
Michael A. Basso
Ladd & Milnes
Harry P. Goodell
Cowan & Sadowitz, Inc.
Agnes C. Mckeon
Walter S. Goodell
City Insurance Agency, Inc.
Nealley & Hatton, Inc.
Charles F. Jewett
Henry Dea
Moses G. Nichols
William 'H. Page
Joseph Gardella & Son
Norwood Ins. Agency
John F. Smith
Margaret Hoar-Glidden
William E. Nutter
L. V. Spaulding
Clement W. Hall
Page Insurance Agency
F. S. Hamlin Insurance Agency
Fred R. Smith
A. G. Harding, Inc.
H. R. Villeneuve Agency
Nellie J. Hyde
A. T. Ingham
F. E. & William Watson Justin F. White
TAYLOR-GOODWIN CO. Coal and Building Materials
Telephone 153
BEST FOOD IN TOWN Kenoza Diner
20 Kenoza Avenue, Haverhill, Mass. TWENTY-FOUR HOUR SERVICE
Philbrook - MacKenney Shop Incorporated
CORSETS - HOSIERY - LINGERIE Phone 1352 18 Merrimack Street, Haverhill The Corset Shop of Personal Service
Established 1879
Butrick's Dairy, Inc.
Incorporated 1932
OVER SIXTY YEARS DISTRIBUTORS OF DAIRY PRODUCTS THAT SATISFY DAIRY MADE ICE CREAM 28 - Delicious Flavors - 28
Buttermilk Haverhill, Mass.
Milk and Cream Telephone 4264
our stand 791 Broadway
John E. McDonald
Jones Frankle
Ernest F. Brooks & Son
Harold J. Corcoran
Goodell-Martin Insurance Agency
C. J. O'Neill
16 South Main Street BRADFORD DIST., HAVERHILL
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across country and over-seas; the sequence of horse-cars, trolley-cars and buses, of driving- horses, bicycles, and motor-cars; toboggan-shutes, roller skating rinks, the Pines; troupes of reper- tory players at the Academy of Music, band con- certs at City Hall Park; Merrimack Street
FUENTES
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MAIN STREET from White's Corner about 1857. The First Parish Church then faced south. The Old Tosen Hall, built in 1848 and torn down in 1860, is at the left approximately where the present City Hall stands.
crowded on Saturday evenings; the Haverhill baseball team in the New England League. Peo- ple learned to use telephones without self-con- sciousness. Most streets were deeply muddy in early spring, but nobody really minded. They coasted down Main Street after snowstorms, held amateur horse-racing on the frozen river and pro- fessional trotting meets at the track on the New- ton Road. There were many "town characters" and their oddities were actually encouraged, for distinctiveness in dress and manners was considered amusing. The principal reason for keeping chil- dren off the streets was the danger from run-away horses; and the splendid horses of the fire depart- ment used to dash excitingly off to fires.
It was a period of great personal freedom. There were no zoning laws, no industrial pensions; and even the regulations for the protection of public health and safety were as general and as lightly ap- plied as possible. A handy man could for instance wire his own home for electricity and even install his own plumbing; and there was no willingness then to contribute large taxes for the construction of admirably surfaced streets everywhere nor for other immense public enterprises and benefits. It was a proud, intensive, somewhat reckless era which needed a vast amount of human energy to carry it on; and in any event the swing away from
cuperation was inevitable.
The catastrophe of the World War put an abrupt end to the engaging era. For the huge and abnormal business, which brought to Haverhill incredibly high wages and sudden fortunes that seemed to melt away so soon, hardly out-lasted the duration of the conflict. Since that time Haverhill has continued to make many shoes, to tan much leather, to try stoutly to solve the problems of a changing civiliza- tion; but the excessive ardour of the pre- ceding era is somewhat abated during a pe- riod of restoration. Back and forth the pendulum has swung through history and indeed through geologic eons, and back and forth it must always swing. "This too shall pass away" is the reminder which the king's philosopher gave to him equally to check his vanities and to console him in his mis- ery. Haverhill is growing today, and in one way or another it will continue to grow so long as its people remain uncorrupted and courageous. We are only three hun- dred years old. We are just coming of age. We have not yet really begun our part of the fighting.
In less ponderable matters we have grown, and are still growing admirably. For a very practical and busy city Haver- hill can show among its citizens a pretty just balancing between the material and the intangible values of life. From the time when there began to appear on Water Street man- sions of calculated proportions, decorated with carved panelling and gradually filled with furni- ture made in London and Philadelphia and silver articles from Boston and silken stuffs from Asia, there have continued generations of people with time to cultivate a taste for the finer products of
THE EAGLE HOUSE, on the present site of the Paramount Building. When raised in 1911, the scoodscork from toro rooms was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
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Home Circle Store Members
Patronize Them for Savings HAVERHILL DIVISION
W. B. AYER
G. DIBIASO 1454 Broadway
62 Emerson St.
GULEZIAN CASII MARKET
63 So. Central St.
JOHN L. RAYMOND
1103 River Road
J. J. LAVOIE
54 Central St.
S. MALAKOS & CO.
55 Locke St.
A. PHANEUF
99 Blaisdell St.
SWAIN'S MARKET
392 So. Main St.
VILLENEUVE MARKET
30 Lafayette Square
BRADFORD CONFECTIONERY
JAMES HILL 178 So. Pleasant St.
Rock's Village
DUFOUR'S MARKET
111 Lafayette Square
GROVELAND STREET MARKET
334 Groveland St.
M. J. DUGGAN
988 Saunders Ilill
COLONIAL MARKET
34 Main St.
ARLINGTON MARKET
+1 So. Main St.
WARD HILL MARKET
40 Cross Road, Ward Hill
B. A. NASON
111 White St.
MARY WYKA & SON
415 Washington St.
CEDAR STREET CASII MARKET
76 Cedar St.
ELM PARK GROCERY
Groveland
JOIN N. DUSTON
J. R. FROST
Hampstead, N. H.
THOMAS HOBBS
West Hampstead, N. II.
C. II. KIMBALL STORE
South Danville, N. II.
ALBERT CHORLEY
Salem, N. II.
ROBERT TEFFT
Newton, N. II.
SOUTHI END MARKET
367 Marcy St., Portsmouth, N. II.
M. J. NADEAU
16 Fourth Ave., Dover N. 11.
F. A. AZIZ
42 Court St., Dover, N. II.
FLANAGAN'S MARKET
971/2 11. Law Ave., Dover, N. II.
J. FRAM
24 Fair St., Newburyport
M. BOYAJIAN
66 Milk St., Newburyport
ALICE G. SWAP
.West Newbury
With Best Wishes from
HOME CIRCLE STORES
Specializing in
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. GERROS'
MEN'S SHOP
CLOTHING OF
RECOGNIZED VALUE
Opposite Post Office
E. C. Wentworth Corp.
Manufacturers of White Pine Boxes and Shooks Kindling Wood and Sawdust 115 Hale Street, Haverhill, Muss. Phone 2478
Wm. J. Leith Ella Kaulbach Leith F. A. Leith, Jr. Kaulbach-Leith Flowers
Member of FLORISTS' TELEGRAPH DELIVERY ASSOCIATION
18 MAIN STREET HAVERHILL., MASS. Telephone 504.
Compliments of HERBERT HOLTZ SHOE CO.
151 ESSEX STREET, HAVERHILL
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Burchell Coal Co.
ANTHRACITE and BITUMINOUS COAL
CLEERCOAL-COKE FRANKLIN COALS
90 So. KIMBALL ST., HAVERHILL, MASS.
Plaistow, N. H.
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art and of hte and with a generous mind to help others to share their enthusiasms. Some houses in the township contain choice paintings and prints; and a good many modest homes are furnished in excellent taste. Our people have al- ways needed books, and have appreciated good music and serious drama, and they have formed lyceums and library soci- eties and clubs, large or small, for intel- lectual and artistic association. Musi- cians who perform in Haverhill are al- ways pleasantly moved by the respon- sive audiences here.
Bradford in particular, long without niuch business of its own, was a favoured home of prosperous manufacturers, whose families have continued to live there gently and tastefully. The spire on its White Church is so exquisitely pro- portioned that it is not merely the most serene thing made by man in Haverhill but is perhaps unexcelled by any other steeple, built in the style of Christopher Wren, in the whole world; and the agreeable households who have passed their lives about it are doubtless aware of what they owe to its poised grace. Those who have lately helped towards its restoration after the battering hurri- cane in 1938 have shown themselves wise protectors of beauty. And Brad- ford is of course tremendously proud of its Col- lege, which started in 1803 as a village upper- school, became an Academy for girls, and has re- cently been made a Junior College for women. Any community which can include such an institution, devoted to the highest ideals of living, is fortunate and must itself grow worthily.
Of John Greenleaf Whittier, Haverhill's great poet, only reverent mention need be made. He, whose sincere and spiritual poems grow always
SPIRE of White Church in Brad ford.
WHITTIER'S BIRTHPLACE on the Amesbury Road three miles from the center of Haverhill. It was built in 1685, note maintained by the Whittier Home Association.
more precious to Americans and bring a very pres- ent help to millions in the safeguarding of their virtue and their faith, was born in 1807 in the East Parish and spent the first third of his life in the an- cient farmhouse built in 1685 by his an- cestor. The impressions which he gained there from the plain calm exist- once in a pleasant countryside gave to his poetry its characteristic quality of sim- plicity in form combined with a deep un- derstanding of the basic forces of life. In 1893, not long after Whittier's death, James H. Carleton, a townsman of just appreciation, acquired the homestead which had become neglected and turned it over to trustees to be held as an ever- lasting memorial to the famous dead poet. Each year thousands of visitors come there, moved by the wish to com- prehend more clearly through the con- tact the lofty ideals to which Whittier dedicated his genius. Immeasurable growth has come and will come to Ha- verhill in all periods, when the markets and the traders flourish and when they decline, through these influences. Noth- ing can make Haverhill unimportant while it retains these memories; nor ought Haverhill ever to become dis- 1 heartened, for it has nurtured and pos- sessed this ideal of greatness as its own. An analyst in drawing a graph of Haverhill's progress would start with a slowly rising line to indicate just the sort of growth, sound but not phe- nomenal, that a new settlement, attractive to ad- venturous men through its offer of unexploited op- portunities, should have. When he came to the Indian raids he would have to curve the line down- ward; and at their ending he must resume the slow rise for nearly a century, with small dips now and then due to such incidents as the Revolutionary War. Moses Gale's advertisement would make
PLEASURE STEAMER MERRIMAN paddling dosen-river from Haverhill in the early 1900's. This boat continued to operate until 1910.
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KNIPE BROS., Inc.
Offers EIGHTY STYLES in men's dress and sport shoes with character so distinctive they have a recognized standard of SERVICEABILITY, QUALITY, STYLE and VALUE that makes them outstanding in the retail field. They are UNION MADE and sold at the pop- ular prices of
$3.00 - $3.50 - $3.95 - $5.00 DIRECT FROM FACTORY TO YOU IN A WIDE RANGE OF SIZES AND WIDTHS TO SELECT FROM
KNIPE BROS., Inc.
Open Evenings Exclusive Sales Agents in Haverhill
Retail Division
Tel. Haverhill 1441
Junction Oxford Ave. and Knipe Road, Ward Hill
IF IT'S FOR YOUR CAR YOU WILL FIND IT AT HUBLEY'S
MOTOR CAR SUPPLY CO.
HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS
Style Begins at The MANHATTAN SHOP
1 MERRIMACK STREET
Lucas' Diner House of Good Food Fried Clams a Specialty
D. J. Casey Paper Co. Stationers
64 Washington Street, Haverhill
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the une of givwin aimiost juinp upwald, and inc appearance of Whittier a little later would also bend it sharply up the sheet. So for a hundred years and more the line would mount the chart, sometimes showing little reverse curves when wars and panics and natural agencies, or pauses when the preceding advances had been too strenuous, pulled it down; and containing also many extra spurts up- ward, as when the people thronged to hear Ole Bull or Booth, or when Ezekiel Hale founded a
Tale public holly for mis thy, of when strong Wil- liam Moody rising through the support of his com- munity became a great jurist. If such a diagram were scientifically drawn, students in future times must conclude from it that the city of Haverhill in the year 1940 and in every year thereafter stood just as ready as was the town in 1776 to "engage with their lives and their fortunes" in defending the citadel, in supporting the Nation, and in keep- ing itself a strong and upright force therein.
HAVERHILL TODAY
(Continued from Page 63)
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
Our public school system is one of which every citizen may be truly proud. We have twenty-five schools with a total enrollment of 7,734 pupils ( 1937) and 248 teachers. The valuation of school buildings and land is $2,675,725. The Haverhill Trade School is recognized as one of the finest vo- cational schools in New England. There are 150 students enrolled in the five departments covering the auto repair, plumbing, printing, sheet metal, machine and electrical trades. Recently three gen- eral vocational departments were organized as a pre-trade training course.
The Parochial School system of Haverhill adds greatly to the educational facilities. The St. James Parochial school system is composed of a grammar school and high school with a total of 850 pupils. The grammar school has a faculty of fifteen and the high school a faculty of ten instructors. The St. Joseph's Parochial school has an enrollment of 519 registered pupils for grades one through eight. The faculty is composed of twelve instructors and the principal.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
The Haverhill Fire Department is well known .
for its efficiency and has compiled an enviable rec- ord in dealing with emergencies. There are eight fire stations housing a force of eighty-four firemen and twenty pieces of fire apparatus. There are 655 hydrants in the city limits. In 1937 the depart- ment answered 921 alarms of all types.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
The police department is thoroughly moderniz- ed with the latest police equipment. This consists of a two-way radio system with three patrol cars, teletype, and police telegraph. The road equip- ment is one ambulance, patrol wagon, and four motorcycles. The personnel consists of a chief, deputy-chief, two captains, one lieutenant, three
sergeants, and fifty-two patrolmen. In addition there is a police matron.
When we fully realize the present importance and enormous investment represented by our city our hearts should swell with pride and we should firmly resolve that the Haverhill of the future will represent continued rapid progress and that its importance to the nation may be still more firmly established.
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TILTON'S TOWER shortly after its erection in 1887 by John C. Tilton. Admission was charged to observe Haverhill and environs through a telescope.
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TAGOT ILIHISVAH
Haverhill Co-operative Bank
CHARTERED AUGUST 20, 1877
191 Merrimack Street
Assets $2,275,494.42
OFFICERS 1940
Matthew J. Fowler
President
Charles A. Bodwell
Vice-President
James G. Page
Treasurer
Edna E. Gage
Asst. Treasurer
DIRECTORS
Surplus $259,268.96
Frank I). Babcock
Charlton F. Johnson
Charles A. Bodwell
Eugene J. Kempton
Willard G. Cogswell
James D. McGregor
Matthew J. Fowler
James G. Page
Brad D. Harvey
James R. Page
John Hutchison
William W. Roberts
Visitors Are Always Welcome at the
GARDNER FUNERAL HOME
We invite you to inspect the beautiful paintings which are being given to the bereaved families. These enlarged portraits are made from Photos or Snapshots of the loved ones taken before their passing on. This is just one thing more that has been added to the Service which is given to you by
CLIFFORD J. GARDNER, Inc.
50 Summer Street
Telephone 511-W
Whitten's Taxi . 24-Hour Service
Frank E. Watson William Watson
Telephones 638 - 639 - 7
13 Emerson Street Haverhill, Mass.
Real Estate - Auctioneers - Insurance
HAVERHILL'S MODERN DRUG STORE
FILMS CAMERAS
WHELAN DRUG CO.
COSMETICS DRUGS
82-98 MERRIMACK STREET
() UR LUNCHEONETTE
SERVICE
UNEXCELLED
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Haverhill City Council-1940
HIS HONOR ALBERT W. GLYNN, Mayor
Board of Aldermen
JAMES M. COSTELLO Commissioner of Public Buildings
PHILIP H. STACY Commissioner of Public Welfare
GEORGE F. RAMSEY Commissioner of Highways
THOMAS L. WOOD
Commissioner of Public Safety
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ill Savings Ba
iver
We desire to extend thanks to the following organizations and institu- tions which have aided materially in compiling the material contained in this volume:
HAVERHILL PUBLIC LIBRARY
HAVERHILL. EVENING GAZETTE
HAVERHILL. ARTISTS' GUILD
HAVERHILL CAMERA CLUB
HAVERHILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
MCINTOSH BUSINESS COLLEGE
PROFESSIONAL, GROUPS
HAVERHILL, HISTORICAL SOCIETY MERRIMACK NATIONAL BANK
The HAVERHILL TERCENTENARY COMMITTEE joins the PROGRAM MAGAZINE COMMITTEE in expressing their appreciation for the hearty co- operation of the advertisers which has resulted not only in the publication of this book but has aided in the financing of the celebration as a whole.
FARLE F. BOYD, General Chairman MISS ESTHER T. MANSON, Advertising Chairman OFFICIAL PICTORIAL, MAGAZINE COMMITTEE
THE RECORD PRESS LUNION A HADED 5
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Haverhill Savings Bank
Officers for 1828
JAMES H. DUNCAN . President
ISAAC R. How , Vice-President
BENJAMIN GREENLEAF
Vice-President
CHARLES WIIITE . Secretary
CHARLES WHITE .
. Treasurer
Trustees
JOHN DOW
JAMES H. DUNCAN
BENJAMIN GREENLEAF
THOMAS HARDING
ISAAC R. How
ELIPHALET KIMBALL
DAVID MARSH, JR.
WILLIAM MERRILL
THOMAS NEWCOMB
GILMAN PARKER
MOSES WINGATE
LEONARD WHITE
Officers for 1940
ALFRED E. COLLINS . President
HARRY R. DAVIS Vice-President
GEORGE E. MCGREGOR Treasurer IRVING S. LITTLEFIELD Assistant Treasurer
HARRY R. DAVIS Assistant Treasurer
KATHERINE C. MACINTOSII Clerk
Trustees
CHARLES A. BODWELL
DANIEL J. CAVAN
ALFRED E. COLLINS
JOHN A. CURRIER
HARRY R. DAVIS
CHARLES E. DOLE
GEORGE E. DURGIN
LAWRENCE J. EWING
RALPH E. GARDNER
HAROLD M. GOODWIN
WALLACE F. HUBLEY CHARLTON F. JOHNSON IRVING L. KEITH
HERBERT W. KIMBALL
HERMAN E. LEWIS
ALLAN B. MACGREGOR
J. CORTLANDT TYLER ARTHUR H. VEASEY
Incorporated 1828 153 Merrimack Street
FOR ONE HUNDRED and TWELVE YEARS this Bank has served the commun- ity of Haverhill in a manner uniformly satisfactory to its officers and to the public. Founded for the purposes of receiving and sately investing the savings of small depositors, and of loaning these funds in a manner to aid the people of the town and city in acquiring a home, the management feel a pride in its success over this long period. They ask tha confidence be continued, and assure the public of the same courteous treatment and ser- vice for the future as that ren- dered in the past.
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Resources $ 14,676,500
MUTUAL SAVINGS CENTRAL FUND INC
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WELCOME TO HAVERHILL
BAR LOUNGE
ANCP LANHON
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HOTEL WHITTIER AT YOUR SERVICE
HAVERHILL is famous for its friendly hospitality; and HOTEL WHITTIER stands as the host to assure you of a warm and hearty welcome.
Dining Room -- NEW -- Bar and Lounge
Tercentenary Headquarters
ED. S. BANKERT, Resident Manager
Direction Grenoble Hotels, Inc. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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