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Committee on Rooms.
MISS JULIA GODDARD. MRS. SUSAN VINING GRIGGS. CHARLES H. STEARNS.
RUFUS G. F. CANDAGE, President. 1 ex-officio : EDWARD W. BAKER, Clerk. -
Committee on Papers.
MISS ELLEN CHASE.
CHARLES H. STEARNS.
CHARLES F. WHITE.
Committee on Membership.
ALBERT A. FOLSOM. W. TRACY EUSTIS.
WILLARD Y. GROSS.
Committee on Library.
CHARLES F. READ. W. TRACY EUSTIS.
MISS H. ALMA CUMMINGS. ALBERT A. FOLSOM.
TAPPAN E. FRANCIS.
Committee on Finance.
JAMES M. CODMAN, JR. CHARLES H. STEARNS. RUFUS G. F. CANDAGE, President ex-officio.
Committee on Publications.
RUFUS G. F. CANDAGE. CHARLES F. READ. EDWARD W. BAKER.
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MEMBERS.
1904.
** Benefactors.
Adams, Iames Addison, Daniel Dulany
Arnold, Mrs. Tirzah S.
Aspinwall, Thomas
Atkinson, Edward Atkinson, Mrs. Mary C.
Heath avenue.
Heath avenue.
Bailey, Arthur H.
Baker, Charles M.
Baker, Mrs. Edith C.
Baker, Edward Wild
29 Vernon street.
Baker, Mrs. Alice Souther
29 Vernon street.
Baker, William L.
29 Bartlett crescent.
Bent, Samuel Arthur
219 Gardner road.
Blanchard, Benjamin S.
432 Washington street. 224 Aspinwall avenue.
Bowker, Edwin P.
Bowker, Watts Henry
224 Aspinwall avenue.
Burdett, Frank W.
54 Harvard avenue.
Burgett, Henry W.
20 Park street.
*Candage, Rufus George Frederick
*Candage, Mrs. Ella Marie Candage, Robert Brooks Carroll, B. Frank Chandler, Alfred Dupont Channing, Walter Chase, Caleb Chase, Miss Ellen
20 Kent street. 20 Kent street.
20 Kent street.
217 Walnut street.
411 Washington street.
27 Chestnut Hill avenue.
Chase, Heman Lincoln
Chase, Walter G. Clapp, Miss Mary C.
Clark, Lyman J. Clement, Thomas W. Codman, James Macmaster
Codman, James Macmaster, Jr. Comer, John Heron *Conant, Lewis S. Conant, Nathaniel Coolidge, Miss Ellen G. Corey, Mrs. Sarah E.
*Life Members.
90 Longwood avenue. 47 Garrison road.
81 Davis avenue. 14 Hawthorn road.
195 Davis avenue. III Ivy street. - III Ivy street.
1546 Beacon street. Rawson road. 172 Aspinwall avenue. 40 St. Paul street. Newton street. 63 Harvard avenue. Davis avenue. Warren street. Warren street. . 193 Aspinwall avenue. 72 Park street. 25 Gardner road. Harvard street. 888 Washington street.
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Cox, Edwin Birchard *Cox, William Emerson Cummings, Miss Harriet Alma Cummings, Lincoln G. *Cummings, Prentiss
Davis, Miss Lucy S. Doliber, Thomas *Doliber, Mrs. Ada Ripley, Dolliver, Mrs. Ella Augusta Driscoll, Michael Duncklee, Charles B.
Estabrook, Willard W. Esty, Clarence H.
*Eustis, Miss Elizabeth M. *Eustis, Henry D. Eustis, Joseph Tracy
*Eustis, Miss Mary S. B. Eustis, William Tracy
Fabyan, George F. Fay, James H. FitzGerald, Desmond Fleming, John F. Flint, Charles L. Folsom, Albert Alonzo Folsom, Mrs. Julia E. Francis, Carleton S. Francis, George H. Francis, Mrs. Elania Thayer Francis, Francis Eustis French, Alexis H.
*Gay, Frederick Lewis Gibbs, Emery B. ** Goddard, Miss Julia Gooding, Mrs. Josiah Griggs, Mrs. Susan Vining Gross, Willard Young Gross, Mrs. Susan M. Guild, Mrs. Sarah E. M.
Hastings, Robert Worthington Hedge, Frederick H. Hoar, David Blakely Hobbs, Franklin W. Hook, Miss Maria C. Howe, Miss Harriet Augusta Howe, Miss Louise
125 Buckminster road. Heath street. Clark road. Egmont street. 187 Gardner road.
100 Tappan street. Goddard avenue. Goddard avenue. Humboldt avenue, Roxbury.
9 Kent street. 20 Stedman street.
60 Longwood avenue. Addington road. 1020 Beacon street. 1020 Beacon street. Ivy street. 1020 Beacon street. 1020 Beacon street.
Warren street. Linden place. 408 Washington street. 295 Pond avenue. 40 Harris street.
23 Garrison road.
23 Garrison road. 26 Davis avenue. 295 Walnut street. 295 Walnut street. 35 Davi3 street. 35 Cypress street.
Holland road. 85 School street. Warren street. 207 Harvard street. 555 Washington street. II Holden street, II Holden street. Elm place.
The Beaconsfield. 440 Boylston street. 100 High street. 78 Upland road. Newton street. Linden street. Linden street.
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*Jones, Jerome
Kenrick, Alfred Eugene *Kimball, Miss Helen Frances Kingman, Abner A. *Kittredge, Mrs. Martha A.
Lamb, Henry W. Lamb, Miss Augusta T.
Lee, Mrs. Sara White
LeMoyne, Macpherson Lincoln, Albert L. Lincoln, William E. Lincoln, Mrs. William E.
Lincoln, William Henry .
Little, James Lowell
Little, Mrs. James Lowell Lyon, William Henry
Mann, George Sumner Meader, Joseph T. Merrill, Frank A. *Merrill, Luther M. Mowry, Oscar B. McKey, Joseph
O'Brion, Thomas L. Otis, Herbert Foster
Pattee, Mrs. Eleanor T. Pearson, Charles Henry
** Perry, Arthur Perry, John F. Pierce, Dean Poor, Mrs. Mary W.
Poor, Miss Agnes Blake Preston, William Gibbons
Read, Charles French Rice, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Richardson, Edward B. Ritchie, Andrew Montgomery Rooney, James C.
Sanford, Daniel S. Saxe, John W. Schweinfurth, Julius A. Sears, William Barnas Seaver, William James Shaw, Edward Payson Sherburne, John H., Jr.
IOI Summit avenue. 1
71 Gorham avenue. 292 Kent street. 136 Park street. Gardner road.
138 High street. 138 High street.
43 Harvard avenue.
93 Pleasant street.
Walnut place.
54 Gardner road. 54 Gardner road. Beech road.
Goddard avenue.
Goddard avenue. 353 Walnut street.
1760 Beacon street. 22 Emerson street. Dean road.
62 Green street. 136 St. Paul street. 24 Stearns road.
9 Regent circle. 165 Fisher avenue.
Ivy street. 350 Tappan street. 112 Lancaster terrace.
25 John street. Fisher avenue. 389 Walnut street. 398 Walnut street. 1063 Beacon street.
14 Elm street. 2 Wellington terrace. 83 Francis street. 268 Walunt street. 50 Kent street.
48 Allerton street. 324 Tappan street. 10 Webster place. 91 Prospect street.' 76 Longwood avenue. 30 Still street. 262 Walnut street.
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Snow, Franklin A. Spencer, Charles A. W.
Stearns, Charles Henry Stearns, James Pierce Stearns, William Bramhall Steese, Mrs. Edward Stevens, Frederick Thayer Stevens, Mrs. Mary Louise Storrs, Miss Maria Swan, Reuben S.
Swan, Robert T.
Swan, Mrs. Robert T.
Sweetser, Frank E.
Thayer, Frank Bartlett
Utley, Charles H.
Ware, Henry
Warren, Edward R.
Watson, Miss Mary
Watson, Mrs. Eliza Tilden Goddard Goddard avenue.
White, Charles F.
Warren street.
White, Mrs. Louie D.
White, Norman H.
White, Mrs. Norman H.
White, William Howard
164 Chestnut Hill avenue.
Whitney, Henry M.
519 Boylston street.
Willcutt, Levi Lincoln
9 Longwood avenue.
Williams, Charles A.
35 Walnut street.
Williams, Fred Homer
22 Coolidge street.
Williams, Moses
35 Walnut street.
Winsor, Alfred
Winsor, Mrs. Alfred
Woods, J. Henry
204 Walnut street. 204 Walnut street. 39 Salisbury road.
CORRESPONDING MEMBER.
Ricker, Mrs. Emeline Carr Dorchester.
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523 Washington street. 75 Prospect street. 265 Harvard street. 31 Pleasant street. Pleasant street. 105 Gardner road. 39 Columbia street. 39 Columbia street. 130 Aspinwall avenue.
91 Babcock street. 1015 Beacon street. 1015 Beacon street. Warren street.
1668 Beacon street.
23 Regent circle.
I Perrin road. 76 Walnut street. Goddard avenue.
. Warren street. 105 Gardner road. 105 Gardner road.
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No. 9016.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Be it Iknown That whereas RUFUS GEORGE FREDERICK CANDAGE, EDWARD WILD BAKER, JULIA GODDARD, JOHN EMORY HOAR, HARRIET ALMA CUMMINGS, CHARLES HENRY STEARNS, JAMES MACMASTER CODMAN, JR., CHARLES FRENCH READ, EDWIN BIRCHARD COX, WILLARD Y. GROSS, CHARLES KNOWLES BOLTON, TAPPAN EUSTIS FRANCIS, DESMOND FITZGERALD, D. S. SANFORD, and MARTHA A. KITTREDGE have associated themselves with the inten- tention of forming a corporation under the name of the
Brookline historical Society,
for the purpose of the study of the history of the town of Brookline, Massachusetts, its societies, organizations, families, individuals, and events, the collection and preservation of its antiquities, the establish- ment and maintenance of an historical library, and the publication from time to time of such information relating to the same as shall be deemed expedient, and have complied with the provisions of the statutes of this Commonwealth in such case made and provided, as appears from the certificate of the President, Treasurer, and Directors of said corporation, duly approved by the Commissioner of Corporations and recorded in this office ;
Nom, therefore, E, William M. Olin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify, that said RUFUS GEORGE FREDERICK CANDAGE, EDWARD WILD BAKER, JULIA GODDARD, JOHN EMORY HOAR, HARRIET ALMA CUMMINGS, CHARLES HENRY STEARNS, JAMES MACMASTER CODMAN, JR., CHARLES FRENCH READ, EDWIN BIRCHARD COX, WILLARD Y. GROSS, CHARLES KNOWLES BOLTON, TAPPAN EUSTIS FRANCIS, DESMOND FITZGERALD, D. S. SANFORD, and MARTHA A. KITTREDGE, their associates and successors, are legally organized and established as and are hereby made an existing corpora- tion under the name of the
Brookline historical Society,
with the powers, rights and privileges, and subject to the limitations, duties and restrictions, which by law appertain thereto.
@fitness my official signature hereunto sub- scribed, and the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereunto affixed, this twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.
WM. M. OLIN, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Un 'cord
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REPORT OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE.
The committee appointed to nominate officers of the Society for 1904 made the following report : -
For Clerk and Treasurer, EDWARD W. BAKER.
For Trustees,
RUFUS G. F. CANDAGE,
MISS JULIA GODDARD,
MRS. J. C. KITTREDGE,
CHARLES H. STEARNS,
MRS. SUSAN V. GRIGGS,
CHARLES F. WHITE,
EDWARD W. BAKER. (Signed) GEORGE S. MANN, JAMES ADAMS, FRANK B. THAYER.
The report was accepted and it was voted to proceed to ballot. The ballot was taken and the candidates nominated were unanimously elected.
Voted, That the Society print the President's annual ad- dress, Treasurer's report, by-laws, list of officers and mem- bers, and such papers as have been read before the Society as the Committee on Publications may select.
EDWARD W. BAKER, Clerk.
ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY, 1901-1903.
Donor.
Vol. Pam.
Aspinwall, Thomas
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Baker, Edward W.
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Belknap, George E.
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Beth-Horon Lodge
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Boston Cemetery Department
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Bostonian Society
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Bowker, Watts H.
2
Candage, Rufus G. F.
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Dows, Azro M.
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Cunningham, Henry W.
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Eustis, W. Tracy
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Fisher, Milton M.
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Folsom, Albert A.
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Goddard, Miss Julia
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Hatch, Edward
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Hosmer, Jerome C.
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May, Henry A.
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Purchased
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Read, Charles F.
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Roxbury Military Historical Society
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Syracuse [N. Y.] Public Library
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Tilden, William S.
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Washburn, George
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Worthley, George H.
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Bunker Hill Monument Association
No. 9016. Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Be it Itnown That whereas RUFUS GEORGE FREDERICK CANDAGE, EDWARD WILD BAKER, JULIA. GODDARD, JOHN EMORY HOAR, HARRIET ALMA CUMMINGS, CHARLES HENRY STEARNS, JAMES MacMASTER CODMAN, JR., CHARLES FRENCH READ, EDWIN BIRCHARD COX, WILLARD Y. GROSS, CHARLES KNOWLES BOLTON, TAPPAN EUSTIS FRANCIS, DESMOND FITZGERALD, D. S. SANFORD, and MARTHA A. KITTREDGE have associated themselves with the inten- tion of forming a corporation under the name of the
Brookline Historical Society,
for the purpose of the study of the history of the town of Brookline, Massachusetts, its societies, organizations, families, individuals, and events, the collection and preservation of its antiquities, the establish- ment and maintenance of an historical library, and the publication from time to time of such information relating to the same as shall be deemed expedient, and have complied with the provisions of the statutes of this Commonwealth in such case made and provided, as appears from the certificate of the President, Treasurer, and Directors of said corporation, duly approved by the Commissioner of Corporations and recorded in this office ;
Now, therefore, I, William M. Olin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify, that said RUFUS GEORGE FREDERICK CANDAGE, EDWARD WILD BAKER, JULIA GODDARD, JOHN EMORY HOAR, HARRIET ALMA CUMMINGS, CHARLES HENRY STEARNS, JAMES MACMASTER CODMAN, JR., CHARLES FRENCH READ, EDWIN BIRCHARD COX, WILLARD Y. GROSS, CHARLES KNOWLES BOLTON, TAPPAN EUSTIS FRANCIS, DESMOND FITZGERALD, D. S. SANFORD, and MARTHA A. KITTREDGE, their associates and successors, are legally organized and established as and are hereby made an existing corpora- tion under the name of the
Brookline historical Society,
with the powers, rights and privileges, and subject to the limitations, duties, and restrictions, which by law appertain thereto.
Offitness my official signature hereunto sub- scribed, and the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereunto affixed, this twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.
WM. M. OLIN, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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BROOKLINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
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OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES.
1904.
Trustees.
RUFUS G. F. CANDAGE, President. MRS. J. C. KITTREDGE.
MISS JULIA GODDARD. CHARLES H. STEANS, Vice-President.
MRS. SUSAN V. GRIGGS. CHARLES F. WHITE .. EDWARD W. BAKER, Clerk and Treasurer.
Committee on Rooms.
MISS JULIA GODDARD. MRS. SUSAN VINING GRIGGS. DANIEL S. SANFORD. RUFUS G. F. CANDAGE, President. 1 ex-officio : EDWARD W. BAKER, Clerk.
Committee on Papers.
MISS ELLEN CHASE.
CHARLES H. STEARNS.
CHARLES WHITE.
Committee on Membership.
ALBERT A. FOLSOM. W. TRACY EUSTIS.
WILLARD Y. GROSS.
Committee on Library.
CHARLES F. READ. W. TRACY EUSTIS.
MISS H. ALMA CUMMINGS. ALBERT A. FOLSOM. TAPPAN EUSTIS FRANCIS.
Committee on Finance.
JAMES MACMASTER CODMAN, JR. CHARLES H. STEARNS. RUFUS G. F. CANDAGE, President, ex-officio.
Committee on Publications.
RUFUS G. F. CANDAGE.
CHARLES FRENCH READ.
EDWARD W. BAKER.
BROOKT BAF MEIOSISIT- 2001 LA
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MEMBERS.
1903.
· ** Benefactors.
*Life Members.
Adams, James Addison, Daniel Dulany
Arnold, Mrs. Tirzah S. Aspinwall, Thomas Atkinson, Edward Atkinson, Mrs. Mary Heath
90 Longwood avenue.
47 Garrison road.
81 Davis avenue. 14 Hawthorn road.
Heath avenue.
Heath avenue.
Bailey, Arthur H.
Baker, Charles M.
Baker, Mrs. Edith C.
III Ivy street.
Baker, Edward Wild
29 Vernon street.
Baker, Mrs. Alice Souther
29 Vernon street.
Baker, William L.
29 Bartlett crescent.
Bent, Samuel Arthur
219 Gardner road.
Blanchard, Benjamin S.
432 Washington street.
Bowker, Edwin P.
224 Aspinwall avenue.
Bowker, Watts Henry
224 Aspinwall avenue.
Burdett, Frank W.
54 Harvard avenue.
Burgett, Henry W.
20 Park street.
*Candage, Rufus George Frederick 20 Kent street.
*Candage, Mrs. Ella Marie Candage, Robert Brooks
20 Kent street.
20 Kent street.
Chandler, Alfred Dupont Channing, Walter Chase, Caleb
1546 Beacon street. Rawson road.
Chase, Miss Ellen
Chase, Heman Lincoln
172 Aspinwall avenue.
Chase, Walter G. Clapp, Miss Mary C.
Newton street.
Clark, Lyman J. Clement, Thomas W.
Davis avenue.
Codman, James Macmaster
Warren street.
Warren street.
193 Aspinwall avenue.
72 Park street.
25 Gardner road. Harvard street.
888 Washington street.
125 Buckminster road. Heath street. Clark road. 187 Gardner road.
*Conant, Lewis S. Conant, Nathaniel Coolidge, Miss Ellen G. Corey, Mrs. Sarah E. Cox, Edwin Birchard
*Cox, William Emerson Cummings, Miss Harriet Alma *Cummings, Prentiss
411 Washington street.
27 Chestnut Hill avenue.
40 St. Paul Street.
63 Harvard avenue.
Codman, James Macmaster, Jr. Comer, John Heron
195 Davis avenue. III Ivy street.
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Davis, Miss Lucy S. Doliber, Thomas *Doliber, Mrs. Ada Ripley Dolliver, Mrs. Ella Augusta Driscoll, Michael Duncklee, Charles B.
Estabrook, Willard W. Esty, Clarence H. *Eustis, Miss Elizabeth M.
*Eustis, Henry D. Eustis, Joseph Tracy
*Eustis, Miss Mary S. B. Eustis, William Tracy
Fabyan, George F. Fay, James H. FitzGerald, Desmond Fleming, John F. Flint, Charles L. Folsom, Albert Alonzo Folsom, Mrs. Julia E.
Francis, Carleton S. Francis, George H.
Francis, Mrs. Elania Thayer
Francis, Francis Eustis French, Alexis H.
*Gay, Frederick Lewis Gibbs, Emery B. ** Goddard, Miss Julia Gooding, Mrs. Josiah Griggs, Mrs. Susan Vining Gross, Willard Young Gross, Mrs. Susan M. Guild, Mrs. Sarah E. M.
Hastings, Robert Worthington Hedge, Frederick H. Hoar, David Blakely Hobbs, Franklin W. Hook, Miss Maria C. Howe, Miss Harriet Augusta Howe, Miss Louise
*Jones, Jerome
Kenrick, Alfred Eugene *Kimball, Miss Helen Frances Kingman, Abner A. *Kittredge, Mrs. Martha A.
100 Tappan street. Goddard avenue. Goddard avenue. Humboldt avenue, Roxbury. 9 Kent street. 20 Stedman street.
60 Longwood avenue. -
Addington road. 1020 Beacon street.
1020 Beacon street. Ivy street. 1020 Beacon street. 1020 Beacon street.
Warren street. Linden place. 408 Washington street. 295 Pond avenue. 40 Harris street. 23 Garrison road.
23 Garrison road. 26 Davis avenue. 295 Walnut street. 295 Walnut street. 35 Davis street. 35 Cypress street.
Holland road. 85 School street. Warren street. 207 Harvard street. 555 Washington street. II Holden street. II Holden street. Elm place.
The Beaconsfield. 440 Boylston street. 100 High street. 78 Upland road. Newton street. Linden street. Linden street.
IOI Summit avenue.
71 Gorham avenue. 292 Kent street. 136 Park street. Gardner road.
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Lamb, Henry W. Lamb, Miss Augusta T.
LeMoyne, Macpherson Lincoln, Albert L. Lincoln, William E. Lincoln, Mrs. William E. Lincoln, William Henry Little, James Lowell Little, Mrs. James Lowell Lyon, William Henry
Mann, George Sumner Meader, Joseph T. Merrill, Frank A. *Merrill, Luther M. Mowry, Oscar B.
O'Brion, Thomas L. Otis, Herbert Foster
Pattee, Mrs. Eleanor T. Pearson, Charles Henry
** Perry, Arthur
Perry, John F.
Pierce, Dean Poor, Mrs. Mary W. Poor, Miss Agnes Blake Pray, Mrs. Arthur Preston, William Gibbons
Read, Charles French, Rice, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Richardson, Edward B. Ritchie, Andrew Montgomery Rooney, James C.
Sanford, Daniel S. Saxe, John W. Schweinfurth, Julius A.
Sears, William Barnas Seaver, William James Shaw, Edward Payson Sherburne, John H. Jr. Snow, Franklin A. Spencer, Charles A. W. Stearns, Charles Henry Stearns, James Pierce Stearns, John Goddard Stearns, Mrs. Ellen Abbott
138 High street. 138 High street. 93 Pleasant street. Walnut place.
54 Gardner road.
54 Gardner road. Beech road.
Goddard avenue. Goddard avenue. 353 Walnut street.
1760 Beacon street. 22 Emerson street. Dean road. 62 Green street. 136 St. Paul street.
9 Regent circle. 165 Fisher avenue.
Ivy street. 350 Tappan street. 112 Lancaster terrace.
25 John street. Fisher avenue.
389 Walnut street. 398 Walnut street. Hotel Wadsworth, Kenmore st., Bo. 1063 Beacon street.
14 Elm street. 2 Wellington terrace. 83 Francis street. 268 Walnut street. 50 Kent street.
48 Allerton street. 324 Tappan street. 10 Webster place.
91 Prospect street. 76 Longwood avenue.
30 Still street. 262 Walnut street. 523 Washington street. 75 Prospect street. 265 Harvard slreet. 31 Pleasant street. 24 Pleasant street. 24 Pleasant street.
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Stearns, William Bramhall Steese, Mrs. Edward Stevens, Frederick Thayer Stevens, Mrs. Mary Louise Storrs, Miss Maria . Swan, Reuben S. Swan, Robert T. Swan, Mrs. Robert T. Sweetser, Frank E.
Pleasant street. 105 Gardner road. 39 Columbia street. 39 Columbia street. 130 Aspinwall avenue. 91 Babcock street. 1015 Beacon street. 1015 Beacon street. Warren street.
Thayer, Frank Bartlett
Utley, Charles H.
23 Regent circle.
Ware, Henry
Warren, Edward R.
I Perrin road. 76 Walnut street. Goddard avenue.
Watson, Miss Mary
Watson, Mrs. Eliza Tilden Goddard Goddard avenue. White, Charles F. Warren street ..
White, Mrs. Louie D.
Warren street.
White, Norman H.
105 Gardner road.
White, Mrs. Norman H.
105 Gardner road.
White, William Howard
164 Chestnut Hill avenue.
Whitney, Henry M.
519 Boylston street.
Willcutt, Levi Lincoln
9 Longwood avenue.
Williams, Charles A.
35 Walnut street.
Williams, Fred Homer
22 Coolidge street.
Williams, Moses
35 Walnut street.
Winsor, Alfred
204 Walnut street.
Winsor, Mrs. Alfred
204 Walnut street.
Woods, J. Henry
39 Salisbury road.
CORRESPONDING MEMBER.
Ricker, Mrs. Emeline Carr Dorchester.
Waverly street.
BROOKLINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
BY-LAWS.
ARTICLE I.
NAME.
The name of this corporation shall be Brookline Historical Society.
ARTICLE II. OBJECTS.
The objects of this Society shall be the study of the history of the town of Brookline, Massachusetts, its societies, organizations, families, individuals, events ; the collection and preservation of its antiquities, the establishment and maintenance of an historical library, and the publication from time to time of such information relating to the same as shall be deemed expedient.
ARTICLE III. MEMBERSHIP.
Any person of moral character who shall be nominated and approved by the Board of Trustees may be elected to membership by ballot of two-thirds of the members present and voting thereon at any regular meeting of the Society. Each person so elected shall pay an admission fee of three dollars, and an annual assess- ment of two dollars; and any member who shall fail for two con- secutive years to pay the annual assessment shall cease to be a member of this Society; provided, however, that any member who shall pay twenty-five dollars in any one year may thereby become a Life member; and any member who shall pay fifty dollars in any one year may thereby become a Benefactor of the Society, and thereafter shall be free from all dues and assessments. The money received from Life members and Benefactors shall constitute a fund, of which not more than twenty per cent, together with the annual income therefrom, shall be spent in any one year.
The Society may elect Honorary and Corresponding members in the manner in which annual members are elected, but they shall have no voice in the management of the Society, and shall not be subject to fee or assessment.
ARTICLE IV. CERTIFICATES.
Certificates signed by the President and the Clerk may be issued to all persons who become Life members, and to Benefactors.
ARTICLE V.
OFFICERS.
The officers of this Society shall be seven Trustees, a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary (who shall be Clerk of the Society and may also be elected to fill the office of Treasurer), and a Treasurer, who, together, shall constitute the Board of Trustees. The Trustees, Clerk, and Treasurer shall be chosen by ballot at the annual meeting in January, and shall hold office for one year, and until others are chosen and qualified in their stead. The President and Vice-President shall be chosen by the Board of Trustees from their number at their first meeting after their election, or at an adjournment thereof.
ARTICLE VI. MEETINGS.
The annual meeting of this Society shall be held on the fourth Wednesday of January. Regular stated meetings shall be held on the fourth Wednesday of February, March, April, May, October, November, and December.
Special meetings may be called by order of the Board of Trus- tees. The Clerk shall notify each member by a written or printed notice sent through the mail postpaid at least three days before the time of meeting, or by publishing such notice in one or more newspapers published in Brookline.
At all meetings of the Society ten (10) members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. .
The meetings of the Board of Trustees shall be called by the Clerk at the request of the President, by giving each member personal or written notice, or by sending such notice by mail, post- paid, at least twenty-four hours before the time of such meeting ; but meetings where all the Trustees are present may be held with- out such notice. The President shall call meetings of the Board of Trustees at the request of any three members thereof. A majority of its members shall constitute a quorum for the transac- tion of business.
ARTICLE VII. VACANCIES.
Vacancies in the offices of Trustees, Clerk, or Treasurer may be filled for the remainder of the term at any regular meeting of the Society by the vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting. In the absence of the Clerk at a meeting of the Society, a Clerk pro tempore shall be chosen.
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ARTICLE VIII. NOMINATING COMMITTEE.
At the monthly meeting in December, a Nominating Committee of three members shall be appointed by the presiding officer, who shall report at the annual meeting a list of candidates for the places to be filled.
ARTICLE IX. PRESIDING OFFICER. -
The President, or in his absence the Vice-President, shall pre- side at all meetings of the Society. In the absence of those officers a President pro tempore shall be chosen.
ARTICLE X. DUTIES OF THE CLERK.
The Clerk shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duties. He shall notify members of all meetings of the Society, and shall keep an exact record of all the proceedings of the Society at its meetings.
He shall conduct the general correspondence of the Society and place on file all letters received.
He shall enter the names of members in order in books or cards kept for that purpose, and issue certificates to Life members and to Benefactors.
He shall have charge of such property in possession of the Society as may from time to time be delegated to him by the Board of Trustees.
He shall acknowledge all loans or gifts made to the Society.
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