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Davis, Miss Lucy S. Delano, Clarence A. Doliber, Thomas . Doliber, Mrs. Ada Ripley Dolliver, Mrs. Ella Augusta
20 Kent street. 20 Kent street.
20 Kent street.
4JI Washington street.
411 Washington street. Rawson road. 172 Aspinwall avenue. 40 St. Paul street. Newton street. Warren street. 25 Gardner road. 117 Harvard street. 125 Buckminster road. Heath street. Clark road. 187 Gardner road.
100 Tappan street. Greenough street. Goddard avenue. Goddard avenue. Humboldt avenue, Roxbury.
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Drew, Charles Henry Driscoll, Michael Duncklee, Charles B.
Emerson, Mrs. Elijah C, Esty, Clarence H.
Eustis, Miss Elizabeth M.
Eustis, Henry D. Eustis, Joseph Tracy Eustis, Miss Mary S. B. Eustis, William Tracy
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, Tappan Eustis
French, Alexis H. Furber George P.
Gay, Frederick Lewis Gibbs, Emery Brewster Goddard, Miss Julia Gooding, Mrs. Josiah Griggs, Mrs. Susan Vining Gross, Willard Young
Gross, Mrs. Susan Magoun Guild, Mrs. Sarah E. M.
Hastings, Robert Worthington Head, Miss Lydia *Hill, Edward B. Hoar, David Blakely
*Hoar, John Emory Hobbs, Franklin W. · Hook, Miss Maria C. Howe, Miss Harriet Augusta Howe, Miss Louise
Jones, Jerome
Kenrick, Alfred Eugene Kent, John Kimball, Miss Helen Frances Kingman, Abner A. Kittredge, Mrs. Martha A.
24 Winthrop road. 9 Kent street. 20 Stedman street.
81 Davis avenue. Addington road. 950 Beacon street. 950 Beacon street. 21 Center street. 950 Beacon street. 950 Beacon street.
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 avenue. 35 Cypress street. 55 Davis avenue.
Holland road. 85 School street. Goddard averre. 207 Harvard street. 555 Washington street. II Holden street. II Holden street. Elm place.
Warenst.
30 Kilsyth road. Upland road. 61 Cypress street. 100 High street. 100 High street. 36 Maple street. Newton street. Linden street. Linden street.
101 Summit avenue.
71 Gorham avenue. Norfolk road. 292 Kent street. 136 Park street. Gardner road.
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Lamb, Henry W.
Lamb, Miss Augusta T.
Lawrence, Francis W.
Lincoln, Albert L., Jr. Lincoln, William Henry
Little, James Lowell
Little, Mrs. James Lowell Lyman, Anson M. Lyon, William Henry Lyon, Mrs. Louise Dennison
Mann, George Sumner Meader, Joseph T.
Mowry, Oscar B.
Nash, Mrs. Susan W. S.
Otis, Herbert Foster
Packard, John C.
Pattee, Mrs. Eleanor T.
Pearson, Charles Henry Perry, John F.
Pierce, Dean
Poor, Mrs. Mary W.
Poor, Miss Agnes Blake Preston, William Gilbert
Read, Charles French Rice, Mrs. Elizabeth G.
Richardson, Edward B. Ritchie, Andrew Montgomery
Sanford, Daniel S. Schweinfurth, Julius A. Sears, William Barnas Seaver, William James Spencer, Charles Amos Woodbury Stearns, Charles Henry Stearns, James Pierce Stearns, John Goddard Stearns, Mrs. Ellen Abbot *Steese, Edward Steese, Mrs. Edward Swan, Reuben S. Swan, Robert T. Swan, Mrs. Robert T. Sweetser, Frank E.
Utley, Charles H.
138 High street. 138 High street. 187 Mountfort street. 50 Edgehill road.
Beech road.
Goddard avenue.
Goddard avenue.
Buckminster road.
353 Walnut street.
353 Walnut street.
1760 Beacon street. 22 Emerson street. 136 St. Paul street.
14 Auburn street.
165 Fisher avenue.
14 Searle avenue. 21 Center street.
350 Tappan street. 25 John street. Fisher avenue.
389 Walnut street. 389 Walnut street. 1063 Beacon street.
14 Elm street. 2 Wellington terrace. 83 Francis street. 268 Walnut street.
48 Allerton street. 10 Webster place. 91 Prospect street. 76 Longwood avenue.
75 Prospect street. 265 Harvard street. 31 Pleasant street. 24 Pleasant street. 24 Pleasant street. 105 Gardner road. 105 Gardner road. 91 Babcock street. 1015 Beacon street. 1015 Beacon street. Warren street.
23 Garrison road.
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Walker, Joseph
Ware, Henry
Watson, Miss Mary
68 Upland road. 84 High street. Goddard avenue.
Watson, Mrs. Eliza Tilden Goddard Wellman, Hiller C.
Goddard avenue. Public Library.
White, Charles
Warren street.
White, Mrs. Louie D.
Warren street.
White, Norman H.
60 Gardner road.
White, Mrs. Norman H.
60 Gardner road.
White, William Howard
164 Chestnut Hill avenue.
Whitney, Henry M.
519 Boylston street.
Willcutt, Levi Lincoln
9 Longwood avenue.
Williams, Charles A.
Williams, Fred Homer
Williams, Moses
Winsor, Alfred
35 Walnut place. 22 Coolidge street. 35 Walnut place. 204 Walnut street.
Winsor, Mrs. Alfred
204 Walnut street.
Woods, J. Henry Worthley, George Henry
39 Salisbury road.
12 St. Paul street.
ريان بريت
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 Hononary 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.
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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 news- papers 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 preside 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.
ARTICLE XI.
DUTIES OF THE TREASURER.
The Treasurer shall collect all moneys due the Society, and pay all bills against the Society when approved by the Board of Trustees. He shall keep a full account of receipts and expendi- tures in a book belonging to the Society, which shall always be open to the inspection of the Trustees; and at the annual meeting in January he shall make a written report of all his doings for the year preceding. The Treasurer shall give bond in such sum, with surety, as the Trustees may fix, for the faithful discharge of his duties.
ARTICLE XII.
DUTIES AND POWERS OF TRUSTEES.
The Board of Trustees shall superintend the prudential and executive business of the Society, authorize all expenditures of
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money, fix all salaries, provide a common seal, receive and act upon all resignations and forfeitures of membership, and see that the by-laws are duly complied with. The Board of Trustees shall have full powers to hire, lease, or arrange for a suitable home for the Society, and to make all necessary rules and regulations required in the premises.
They shall make a report of their doings at the annual meeting of the Society.
They may from time to time appoint such sub-committees from their own number as they deem expedient.
In case of a vacancy in the office of Clerk or Treasurer they shall have power to choose the same pro tempore till the next meeting of the Society.
ARTICLE XIII.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint four standing committees, as follows : -
Committee on Rooms.
A committee of three members, to be styled the "Committee on Rooms," to which shall be added the President and Clerk of the Society ex-officio, who shall have charge of all arrangements of the rooms (except books, manuscripts, and other objects appro- priate to the library offered as gifts or loans), the hanging of pictures, and the general arrangements of the Society's collection in their department.
Committee on Papers.
A committee of three members, to be styled the "Committee on Papers," who shall have charge of the subjects of papers to be read, or other exercises of a profitable nature, at the monthly meetings of the Society.
Committee on Membership.
A committee of three or more members, to be styled the " Com- · mittee on Membership," whose duty it shall be to give information in regard to the purposes of the Society, and increase its mem- bership.
Committee on Library.
A committee of three or more members, to be styled the " Com- mittee on Library," who shall have charge of the arrangements of the library, including acceptance and rejection of books, manu- scripts, and other objects tendered to the library, and the general arrangement of the Society's collections in that department.
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These four committees shall perform their duties as above set forth under the general direction and supervision of the Board of Trustees.
Vacancies that occur in any of these committees during their · term of service shall be filled by the President.
ARTICLE XIV.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint two members, who, with the President, shall constitute the Com- mittee on Finance, to examine from time to time the books and accounts of the Treasurer, to audit his accounts at the close of the year, and to report upon the expediency of proposed expenditures of money.
ARTICLE XV.
AMENDMENTS.
These by-laws may be altered or amended at any regular meeting by a two-thirds vote of the members present, notice of the subject- matter of the proposed alterations or amendments having been given at a previous meeting.
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BROOKLINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
SECOND ANNUAL MEETING.
The second annual meeting of the Brookline His- torical Society was held in the G. A. R. Room, Town Hall, Brookline, Mass., on Wednesday, January 28, 1903, at 8 P. M., in accordance with a notice mailed to every member. President Rufus G. F. Candage was in the chair.
The records of the last monthly meeting were read by the clerk and approved.
The President then read his annual address.
PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL ADDRESS.
Members of the Brookline Historical Society :-
Ladies and Gentlemen,-The second annual meeting of your Society, I am pleased to report, finds it in a flourishing condition with 147 members upon its roll, a gain of 35 during the year. The losses have been five, three by death, Messrs. John Emory Hoar, your Vice-President, Edward B. Hill, and Mrs. Tirza S. Emerson; and two by resignation, Messrs. Charles Knowles Bolton and Hiller C. Willman, who have re- moved to other fields of usefulness without the town.
There has been received in the year past for membership fees, the sum of $441.00 and there has been paid out for ex- penses $141.45, leaving a balance of $648.75 in the treasury January 1, 1903, and there remain a number of fees and dues yet to be collected.
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It is hoped and much desired that in the year we are now. entering the gain in numbers and financial strength of the Society will be greatly enlarged, as it ought to be, to enable it to do the work it ought to do. If each member will make an effort to bring in one additional, the membership would be doubled, and that does not seem to be a great task in a popu- lation of 22,000. Doubling the membership would double the energy and financial ability of the society to perform the work for which it was organized, a work which organized ef- forts alone can hope to accomplish. Brookline, as it has been before stated, is a rich field of historical research, and only energy and means are needed to enable this Society to till and to reap a bountiful harvest, for the benefit of the towns- people and for all lovers of New England history.
In the year past, eight valuable historical papers have been read before the Society, all of which should be printed and placed in the hands of its members and in New England his- torical libraries as safe repositories, and they will be, if the ' funds needed for that purpose shall be forthcoming.
The officers of your Society are much interested in its work and have devoted time and thought to make it a Society of which its members may feel proud. Your president takes this opportunity to thank them, and all members, for their aid and assistance contributed for the success of the Society.
In the year upon which we now enter, as well as in the year past, it will be the aim of your officers and committees to advance the interests of the Society in all ways within their power, and to have a paper prepared and read at each of its stated meetings. In that effort they most cordially invite the aid and co-operation of each and every member. United effort can accomplish much, where unaided individ- ual effort might prove a failure.
The papers read before the Society in the past year have been as follows :- Jan. 28, "The Sewall Family," by Mr. Charles H. Stearns ; Feb. 26, a letter describing the battle of Bunker Hill, by Mr. Charles F. Read ; March 26, "Mrs. Deming's Journal of the Flight from Boston after the Battle of Lexington," by Capt. O. O. Folsom ; April 23, "The Goddard
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House, Warren Street, built about 1730, its Owners and Oc- cupants," by Miss Julia Goddard ; May 28, " Machias and some of its Early Settlers," by Mr. Watts H. Bowker ; Octo- ber 22, "Jeremy Gridley, Esq.," by R. G. F. Candage ; Nov. 19, " Muddy River or Colonial Brookline," by Mrs. Emeline C. Ricker ; Dec. 17, "Brookline Village from 1865 to the Present Time," by Mr. Martin Kingman.
SOME OLD HOUSES IN BROOKLINE
have been demolished in the past with histories, of which, it is to be regretted, no photographs or pictures are known to be in existence. The Andem House of Andem place, erected about 1670 and taken down in 1879 was one of them. That house had an exceedingly interesting history, which at a future day, it is hoped, will be written out and read before the Society.
The old Punch Bowl in the village, built in 1740 by John Ellis, was another old building with an exceedingly interest- ing history, which it is to be hoped some member of the Society will write up and read for our pleasure and edifica- tion. Miss Woods in "Historical Sketches of Brookline " states that " the extent of the patronage of the old Punch Bowl may be roughly estimated from the fact that it was common for a row of teams to occupy the side of the street above and below the tavern, from what is now Harrison place (Kent street) to the gas works (corner of Brookline avenue) in a continuous line, while the men and horses were being fed and rested. The Punch Bowl was not patronized by this class alone, however, but was a famous place of resort for gay parties, not only from the surrounding towns, but even from Boston, and was much frequented by British officers just before the Revolution. The mill-dam, the bridges and the opening of the Worcester railroad, at last took all the business away from the old Punch Bowl. It was bought by Mr. Isaac Thayer about 1833 and torn down."
THE OLD WHITE OR COREY HOUSE, WASHINGTON STREET.
On the right hand side of Washington street, between Beacon street and the Brighton line, stood a lone house built
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and occupied by Major Edward White, who died in 1769, aged 76. In that house was born his son Benjamin and his grandson Oliver, who was Postmaster and Town Clerk many years, and whose house at the foot of Walnut street stood until taken down for the extension of High street in the early sixties.
The old Washington street house was for a long time owned by Captain Timothy Corey and his heirs, later by James Bartlett, who sold it with the farm, running up to the top of Corey Hill to the late Eben D. Jordan, who removed the house and improved the land near where it stood.
There is no picture of that old house, so far as is known, which is much to be regretted as it was one of the historical places in Brookline. Around that house and its occupants, the Whites, Coreys and Bartletts, center incidents and historical data of the old town of Brookline-a mine of historical wealth which we hope will be worked, and its result laid before this Society at some future day.
THE VINCENT DRUCE OR EBENEZER CRAFT HOUSE, NEWTON L STREET.
The old farmhouse that stood on the Denny Farm, New- ton street, was taken down and blotted from the map in 1902, thereby removing the oldest building in that section of the town.
It was built by Vincent Druce in the latter part of the 17th century and had attained to the age of more than two hun- dred years. In " Brookline a Favored Town " the date of its building is stated to have been between 1660 and 1670.
Obadiah Druce, son of John, and supposed nephew of Vincent, inherited the property and house, and spent the re- mainder of his life in it. John Druce, the third of that name, was a graduate of Harvard College in 1738, and settled as a physician in Wrentham, Mass. The first John Druce was a soldier in Captain Prentice's company, a troop of horse in King Philip's War, and was mortally wounded in July, 1675, in a battle near Swansea, Mass. He was brought home and died in his own house, aged thirty-four years. His son John, then a child, was probably father of the Wrentham physician.
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THE DRUCE-CRAFT HOUSE. NEWTON STREET
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Deacon Ebenezer Crafts of Roxbury was the next owner of the house. The family and all its branches in Roxbury and Brookline trace their line of descent from Griffin Crafts, who came to this country with the early settlers of Massa- chusetts Bay Colony. Griffin Crafts' son Ebenezer built the house which until within a year stood on Tremont street, now Huntington avenue, opposite Hillside, with the date 1709 on its chimney. In that house the Deacon Ebenezer Crafts first mentioned, lived in his youth. He married Susannah, daughter of Mr. Samuel White of Brookline. His son, Caleb Crafts, held a Lieutenant's commission in the war of the Revolution. Many of the old military orders which he received are still extant, and Miss Harriet Woods in her " Historical Sketches of Brookline " quotes several of them.
During the greater part of the Revolutionary War, Lieu- tenant Caleb Crafts was in a Brookline company under Captain Thomas White. He was a deacon of the church ; he died in 1791, aged eighty-six years. His son Samuel re- ceived from his grandfather, Samuel White, a farm on what is now the corner of South and Grove streets, long and until recently known as the Crafts place. Samuel Crafts was about to marry Ann, daughter of Deacon David Weld, when he died at the age of thirty-nine in 1775, and the farm came into possession of his father.
In 1791 it was purchased by Lieutenant Caleb Crafts, his brother, who still lived in the Druce house, Newton street, and continued to live there until his marriage in 1812 to his third wife Jerusha, daughter of Benjamin White and Sarah (Aspinwall) White, daughter of Captain Samuel Aspinwall. From him and his first wife Eleanor White, sister of Jerusha, descended the Crafts of South street. His second marriage was to Sarah, daughter of Robert Sharp, from whom descended the Crafts of Washington street. Caleb Crafts died in 1826, aged upward of eighty years, in the house on South street. His son Caleb and a grandson Caleb lived on the South street farm, and the last of the family to reside there were George and his maiden sisters.
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The Newton street house was sold by Samuel Crafts, who removed to the lower part of the town. Members of the Crafts family have settled elsewhere, and the name is now nearly if not entirely extinct in Brookline. Mr. William A. Crafts, secretary of the Railroad Commission, who lives oppo- site Hillside, Roxbury, on Huntington avenue, is of the Newton street family.
The old Newton street house and farm passed in the early sixties into the possession of Mr. Francis P. Denny. He built a new house upon the hill, and the old house was the residence of his farmer, Mr. Charles R. Dow, who lived in it until about 1891, when it was sold by the Denny heirs to Mr. George F. Bouvé, who held possession until his death in 1898, when the estate was sold to a company of gentlemen for the purpose of improvement. The farm has been cut up by streets, divided into lots, and several houses have been built thereon and the appearance much changed. A large tract on , the north side of Newton street has been purchased by the town for park purposes, and the old house, after an existence of more than two hundred years, has been torn down to give place to the march of improvement.
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