The Northampton book; chapters from 300 years in the life of a New England town, 1654-1954, Part 36

Author: Northampton (Mass.). Tercentenary History Committee
Publication date: 1954
Publisher: Northampton, Mass., Tercentenary Committee
Number of Pages: 476


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Butler, Simeon, 379, 380


Butler, William, 83, 378, 379, 382


Butler's Bookstore, 380


Buttons, 81-82, 270, 351-352


Chase, Charles H., 212 Cheney, George, 356


Cable, George Washington, 308, 312 Cabot, George, 62 Callery, P. F., 197


Calvin, 183


Calvin Coolidge Memorial Bridge, 323


Campbell, David, 106


Campbell, L. L., 248, 316


Campion, Samuel S., 309


Capen (house), 149


Capen School, 221


Carlile, Dorothea, 22 I


Carlisle, Annie Clark, 212-213


Carnegie, Andrew, 218, 308


Carnegie, Mrs. Andrew, 218, 308


Cattle Show, 240


Cavanagh, James Ellsworth, 375


Center Street School, 192


Central Labor Union, 261, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 275-276


Central Massachusetts Railroad, 234, 272 Central Oilgas Stove Company, 339


Chace, Louisa, 341


Chafee, Orwell, 118


Chafee, Robert Searle, 325


Chafee, Zachariah, Jr., 325


Chamber of Commerce, 224, 318, 321,


326, 353 Chamberlain, Cyrus Nathaniel, 128, 130, 136


Champney, James Wells, 164


Chandler, Joseph Goodhue, 163


Channing, William Ellery, 94


Chapin, Israel, 36


Chapin, Samuel, 3


Chapman, Charles, 368


Chapman, Reuben Atwater, 99


Cheverus, Jean Louis de, 90-95, 367, 384, 388, 396 Child, David Lee, 122


Child, Lydia Maria, 122


Childs, Annie H., 319 See also Childs, Mrs. C. E.


Childs, C. E., 326 Childs, Mrs. C. E., 326 See also Childs, Annie H.


Childs Park, 151, 326, 394


Chilson, Haynes H., 2 12


Chittenden, Martin, 70


Choate, Rufus, 89, 240, 290


Index 415


Church of St. Catherine the Martyr, 391 Church of the Annunciation, 392 Church of the Blessed Sacrament, 392 Churches, 340, 383-393 Churchill, Alfred Vance, 165 Circle Players, 325


Circuses, 183 City Charter, 284, 285 City Hall, 279, 283-284, 310, 317 City Officials, 284, 286 City Property, 279-280


City Seal, 32I Civil War, 127-138


Clapp, Jonathan, 37-38 Clapp, Joseph, 39 Clapp, Paul, 38


Clapp, William W., 379 Clark, Calvin, 348


Clark, Charles N., 318


Clark, David H., 346


Clark, Edward, 149


Clark, Ezra, 32 Clark, Joseph, 287 Clark, Josiah, Jr., 32 Clark, Russell, 38 Clark, Samuel, 54


Clark, William, 337 Clark (house), 354


Clarke, Ann, 188 Clarke, Calvin, 388


Clarke, Christopher, 211, 311-312


Clarke, John, 100, 154, 202-203, 209, 291, 31I Clarke, Joseph, 94, 368, 396


Clarke, Olive Cleveland, 187


Clarke, William, 5, 364-365 Clarke Library, 210, 211, 213, 31I Clarke School for the Deaf, 191, 195, 201-206, 223, 276, 296, 311, 369 Clason, Charles R., 323 Claussner Hosiery Corporation, Mc- Callum Division, 257, 274


Clay, Henry, 366 Cleaveland, 97 Clement Cutlery Company, 236, 273 Clement Manufacturing Company, 257, 261, 266 Clement, William T., 236, 238, 260 Clinton, DeWitt, 99 Coe, William, 114, 116 Cogswell, Joseph, 189, 387 Cole, Thomas, 163


College Hall, 155, 156


Collegiate Institute, 152, 190, 195 Colonial Life, 268-269


Columbian Building, 154 Committee of Correspondence, 36


Committee on Public Safety, 323


Community Chest, 318


Community Hall, 238


Company A, 27th Massachusetts Regi- ment, 127 Company C, 10th Massachusetts Regi- ment, 127-138 Company C, 52nd Massachusetts Regi- ment, 127 Company G, 27th Massachusetts Regi- ment, 127, 136 Company I, 26th Division, 315 Company I of the 3d Battalion, 2d Regiment of Massachusetts Vol- unteer Militia, 306, 312


Conant, Joseph, 82, 114, 118, 339


Congdon, Fayette K., 32 1


Congregation B'nai Israel, 387, 392-393


Conkey, Ithamar, 99


Connecticut Land Company, 97


Connecticut River Road, 234


Connecticut Valley Railway Com- pany, 263 Connecticut Valley Unemployment Committee, 319 Connor, Rowland, 346


Cook, Benjamin E., Jr., 284-285


Cook, Joseph, 38, 39, 94


Cook, Noah, 36


Cook, Rufus H., 291, 292


Cook and Cook, 291


Cook (house), 150


Cook's Vaudeville House, 183


Cooley Dickinson Hospital, 221, 234, 311, 318, 319, 326-327 Coolidge, Calvin, 183, 205, 219, 220, 290, 291, 295-304, 307, 310, 312, 315, 316, 317, 318 Coolidge, Mrs. Calvin, 316, 317, 324 See also Goodhue, Grace Anna Coolidge, John C., 301 Coolidge Collection, 212, 213 Cornish, Joseph, 6, 184-185, 193 Corticelli Silk Company, 235, 257, 274, 339 Cosmian Hall, 164, 191, 346, 347 Cotton, 83 Crane, Denzel, 191


416 Index


Critchlow, Alfred P., 342, 344, 351, 352, 353, 354 Critchlow, A. P. & Company, 82, 235, 236, 352 Crooks, E. P., 237 Crosier, John, 292


Crown Point, 22, 23, 27, 29


Cummings, Thomas F., 198, 303-304, 317 Curran, John, 370


Curtis, Benjamin L., 313


Curtis, Henry, 4


Cushing, Caleb, 62


Cushing, Fanny, 201, 202


Cushing, Thomas, 43, 64


Cutler, Henry F., 338


Cutler, Plympton Company, 338


Cutter, Charles A., 211, 213


Cutter, William P., 213


Daily Gazette, 380


Daily Hampshire Gazette, 322, 382


Daley, Dominic, 90-95, 367


Damons, Isaac, 145-146, 147, 148, 157, 163, 175, 366 Dana, Henshaw, 168


Darby, Ronald J., 32 1


Davenport, Fred, 353


Davenport, John, 12


Davis, E. C., 247-248


Davis, Herbert John, 224, 225, 226, 322


"Davy Crockett," 87


Day, Edwin E., 1 32


Day, Jonathan (house), 354


Day, Luke, 59


Day, Myron, 356


de Gogorza, Maitland, 165


Delano, Charles, 290, 291


Democrats, 366


Denio, Benjamin, 358


Denniston, E. E., 124


Denton, William, 347


Depression, 318-319


DeRose, Harriet Williams, 382


Devens, Charles, 131-132, 134-135


Dewey, Charles Augustus, 99, 148-149, 156, 216, 289


Dewey, Mrs. Charles Augustus, 99


Dewey, Josiah, 337 Dickinson, Mary Clark, 354 Dickinson, Reuben, 52 Diet, 7


Dimock, Emma, 354


Dimock, Ira, 237 Dimock, Lucius, 354


Disasters, 355-363


Dix, Dorothea, 372-373


Doeskin Products, Inc., 275


Douglass, Frederick, 111, 343, 347


Dow, Frank E., 375


Downing, Alexander Jackson, 151


Draper Hotel, 240, 365, 367, 368, 369, 370 Drewsen, Pierre, 327


Drury, George B., 192


Dudley, Lewis J., 190, 191, 195, 203


Dudley, Theresa, 203


Dudley Hall, 145


Dunlap, James, 252-253


Dutch, 333


Dwight, Margaret, 152, 188, 189, 190


Dwight's Select Ladies Seminary, Miss, 167


Dwight, Joseph, 26


Dwight, Nathaniel, 365


Dwight, Timothy, 42, 50, 186


Dwyer, William E., 292


Earle, Pliny, 210, 372


Earle, Ralph, 161, 165, 367


Edson, William, 249, 251, 252, 253


Edwards, Alexander, 4


Edwards, Jonathan, 5, 12, 14, 15-21, 41, 81, 93, 166, 188, 269, 282, 377, 378, 383, 395 Edwards, Lewis B., 167


Edwards, Oliver, 38


Edwards, Oscar, 209, 249


Edwards, William, 81


Edwards Church, 220, 361, 388, 391


Edwards (house), 151


Eldridge, Melville L., 303


Elks Home, 183


Elm (Jonathan Edwards), 311-312


Elmer, Edward, 4


Ely, Joseph B., 304, 320


Ely, Samuel, 46-55


Ely Outbreaks, 46-55, 59


Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 346, 368


Emery, Clinton F., 315


Emery Wheel Company, 256


English, 334


English Canadians, 333, 334


Essex Junto, 62, 64, 65 Everett, Edward, 240


Index 417


Factory Village, 348 Farmers Institutes, 242 Farmington Canal Company, 85, 88 Farrar, Frederick A., 297, 300, 353 Faulkner, Mrs. Harold, 319 Feiker, William, 263, 31I


Ferry (house), 143 Field, Erastus Salisbury, 163 Field, Henry P., 291, 320


Fiftieth Anniversary of Northampton as a city, 320 Fire Department, 234


Fires, 361-363, 367, 368, 391


First Baptist Church, 155, 386, 388, 389


First Church of Christ, Congrega- tional, 151, 155, 156, 177, 178, 217, 362 First Church of Christ, Scientist, 391 First Hampshire Militia Regiment, 33 First Massachusetts Turnpike Corpo- ration, 61 First National Bank, 246, 251, 253


First Square, 4


Fiske, John, 347 Fitch, Joseph, 4


Fitch House, 368


Fitzgerald, Michael J., 316


Flagg, Henry C., 88


Flood Control, 8, 323, 361


Floods, 323, 355-361


Florence, 126, 337-347


Florence Amusement Association,


347


Florence Casket Company, 235


Florence Church Society, 391


Florence Congregational Church, 391


Florence Dramatic Club, 347


Florence Furniture Company, 235, 257, 273 Florence Heights, 326


Florence Machine Company, 256, 274 Florence Manufacturing Company, 82, 235, 255, 273, 274, 307-308, 340 Florence Oil Stove, 235 Florence PTA, 319


Florence Savings Bank, 247


Florence Sewing Machine Company, 79, 235, 273, 339 Florence Tack Company, 235 Flower Garden Prize Competition, 308 Fluoridation, 327


Foote, E. N., 236


Forbes, Charles Edward, 99, 100, 207- 209, 210, 289-290 Forbes, Jesse, 207 Forbes Library, 25, 31, 35, 157-158, 162-163, 173, 191, 207-213, 289- 290, 296, 311, 322, 324, 325, 367 Fortification, 6-7


France, 333 "Franklin," 89 Frederick, Arthur, 382


Free, Alfred, 346, 347 Free Congregational Society of Flor- ence, 345-347, 390-391


Freemen, 10


French, 194, 195, 392


French, Jacob, 167


French Canadians, 78, 80, 333, 334


French Order of Sisters of St. Joseph, 197 Frink, Doctor, 146


Fuller, George, 164


Fyler, George, 289


Garrison, William Lloyd, 109, 114, 115, 117, 346


Gawith, Frances W., 203


Gaylord-Bassett (house), 151


Genetics Experiment Station, 225


Gere, Collins H., 382


Gere, Edward C., 382


Gere, Henry S., 77, 80, 84, 187, 381, 382 Gere, Isaac, 162


Gere, Jemima Kingsley, 162


Germans, 333, 334


Gerry, Elbridge, 44, 63, 65, 68


Gilbert, George W., 315


Gilfillan, James R., 182


Gillett, Edward, 216


Gillern, William L., 300


Godfrey, Bill, 297 Goodhue, Grace Anna, 205, 296, 310 See Coolidge, Mrs. Calvin


Gore, Christopher, 73


Gothic Seminary, 152, 188, 195


Gould, Thomas, 92


Government, 279-287, 307


Graham, John, 103


Graham, Sylvester, 102-107, 12I


Graham Cracker, 102


Graham Journal of Health and Lon- gevity, 106


418 Index


Granfield, W. J., 320 Granite Block, 149 "Granny Book," 19 Graves, Collins, 355, 356


Graves, Herbert R., 247-248


Graves, Roxana, 97 Great Awakening, 19


Great Flood of 1874, 355-357


Greeley, Horace, 106, 343, 368


Green, Eleanor Dow, 165 Green Mountain Spring, 123


Greene, John M., 215, 216


Greenville, 338 Greenville Manufacturing Company, 83, 236 Griswold, Roger, 70 Guild, Curtis, Jr., 309


Hadley, 7 Half-Way Covenant, 12, 13


Hall of Records, 320


Hallett, Henry C., 309


Halligan, James, 90-95, 367


Halpin, Mary, 296


Hammond, Elisha, 342, 344, 345 Hammond, John C., 291


Hammond, Thomas J., 291, 315, 320


Hammond and Field, 296, 303


Hammond (house), 158


Hampden and Hampshire Company, 85, 88 Hampden County, 6


Hampshire Bank, 245


Hampshire Choral Society, 325


Hampshire Christian Depository, 385 Hampshire County, 5-6


Hampshire County Law Library, 291 Hampshire County National Bank, 246-247 Hampshire County Trust Company, 247


Hampshire County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, 311 "Hampshire deacon," 63, 67


Hampshire Education Society, 385


Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden Agricultural Society, 240, 244 Hampshire Gazette, 59, 80, 83, 163, 377-382 Hampshire Gazette and Courier, 381 Hampshire Herald, 80, 381 Hampshire Heights, 326


Hampshire Male Chorus, 169


Hampshire Musical Society, 167 Hampshire Sabbath School Union,


385 Hampshire Savings Bank, 247 Hampshire Society, 384-385


Hancock, John, 43


Hannigan, Tom, 359


Hannum, William, 4 Harding, Chester, 162, 163, 165


Harding, Warren G., 299, 301, 353


Harris, Edgar P., 297, 300


Harrison, Bertram, 182, 312


Harrison, Joseph Leroy, 213, 322 Harrison, Samuel, 370 Hart, Francis, 359


Hawkes, Clarence W., 236, 238


Hawkes Collection, 212


Hawley, Elisha, 42


Hawley, Joseph (1682-1735), 6, 19, 40, 185, 186, 377 Hawley, Joseph (1723-1788), 19-20, 32, 33, 36, 40-46, 48, 50, 51, 52, 57, 58, 59, 63, 185, 289, 377


Hawley, William A., 380, 382


Hawley Grammar School, 46, 192


Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 115-116


Hayden, Daniel, 83 Hayden, David, 83


Hayden, Joel, 83, 236


Hayden, Josiah, 351


Hayden Brothers, 270


Hayes, Rose, 319 Heady, William, 266, 267


Hemingway Silk Company, 257


Hennessy, Anna J., 212


Hennessy (house), 354


Henry, Patrick, 44


Henshaw, Martha, 162


Henshaw, Samuel, 162


Henshaw, Mrs. Samuel, 162


Henson, Father, 342


Herald and Courier, 80


Herter, Christian A., 327


Higbee, E. W., 84


Hill, A. G., 237


Hill, Samuel Lapham, 82, 114, 116, 119, 191, 235, 237, 271, 339, 340-342, 343, 345, 346, 352, 390 Hill and Martin Cash Carrier Com- pany, 273 Hill Institute, 238, 342 Hills, Mrs. Reuben, 316 Hillyer Gallery, 156


Index 419


Hinckley, Frederick A., 346 Hinckley, Henry R., 153, 237 Hinckley, S. L., 237 Hinckley, Samuel, 82, 89, 246, 260 Hines, Frank T:, 317 Hoch, Theodore A., 374 Hog's Bladder, 4 Hoisington, Colonel, 366


Holland, J. G., 192


Hollander, Alfred, 375-376


Holyoke, Elizur, 3, 4


Holyoke Bank, 246


Home Culture Clubs, 218, 308 Honey Pot Bend, 85


Hooker, John, 92


Hooker, John, 366


Hooker, Samuel, 58


Hooker, Sarah, 58


Hoover, Herbert, 303


Hopkins, Erastus, 128


Hopkins, Bridgman and Company, 380 Horse Racing, 243, 282


Hotel Northampton, 224, 317, 324, 369, 370 Hotels, 364-370 Houghton's Stove Store, 178-179


Housing Projects, 326


Houston, John A., 373


Howe, Julia Ward, 346


Howe, Samuel, 190, 290


Howe, Samuel Gridley, 201, 202


Howe, Solomon, 167


Howe (house), 149


Hubbard, Gardiner Greene, 202, 203,


204 Hubbard, Mrs. Gardiner Greene, 202 Hubbard, George W., 100, 208, 209, 216 Hubbard, Mabel, 201, 202, 204 Hughes, Charles Evans, 303 Humphrey, Heman, 103


Hunt, Ebenezer, Jr., 32


Hunt, Mrs. Ebenezer, 283


Hunt, Jonathan, 4, 22, 23, 337


Hunt, Martha Williams, 23


Hunt, Mary, 23


Hunt, Seth, 289


Hunt Building, 361


Huntington, Charles Phelps, 99, 246, 380 Huntington, Frederic Dan, 98 Hurricane, 323, 360-361


Hutchinson, Thomas, 42, 43 Hutchinson family, 169, 176 Hyde, Andrew, 170 Hydropathic Institutes, 121-126


Immigration, 331-336, 396-397 Incorporation of city, 284 Incorporation of town, 280 Indians, 4, 6-7


Industry, 77-84, 233-239, 255-259, 268-276, 339-340, 348-352


Influenza Epidemic, 221, 312


Ingersoll, Robert, 347


Inness, George, 164


Institute of Music Pedagogy, 169


International Brotherhood of Elec- trical Workers, 263 International Silver Company, 256, 257, 275, 308 Irish, 78, 80, 194, 332-333, 334, 335, 389 Irving, Washington, 367 Italians, 194, 333, 334 Ivory Button Company, 351


Jackson, Benjamin, 349


Jackson, "Stonewall," 124


Jackson Street School, 322


James, William, 4


Jarvis and Hurd Company, 85


Jeames, William, 185


Jefferson, Joseph, 218


Jefferson, Thomas, 65, 68


Jennys, J. William, 162


Jennys, Richard, 162


Jewett, Enoch, 338 Jewish Families, 334


Jewish Congregation, 392-393


Judd, Frances, 116-117


Judd, Hall, 111, 117


Judd, Hophni, 379, 380


Judd, Jonathan, Jr., 35, 36, 53


Judd, Sylvester, 117, 380, 381, 387


Judd Manuscript, 212


Kehren, Walter, 370


Kenney, John, 195, 198


Kindergarten, 191, 342, 343


King, Franklin, 362


King, John, 4


King, Rufus, 49 King, Stanley, 304 Kingsbury Box and Printing Com- pany, 237


420 Index


Kingsley, Calvin, 131, 134


Kingsley, Elbridge, 163-164, 165


Kingsley, Enos, 167


Kingsley, George, 167-168


Kingsley, Peleg, 147


Kingsley Collection, 212


Kirkland (house), 145


Kollmorgen Optical Corporation,


160, 257, 275, 326


Labor, 78, 80, 238, 270, 271, 275, 350- 351


Labor Unions, 260-267, 275-276


Lafayette, Marquis de, 368


Lambert Company, 274


Lambie, Mrs. J. E., 168


Lampron, Mrs. Edward, 327


Langdon, Leander, 339


Last Division, 4


Lyman, Oliver, 38


Lathrop Home, 318


Lathrop (house), 149


Laurel Park, 306


Lawyers, 288-294


Lazerowitz, Alice, 266


Lead mines, 8, 366


Lee, Samuel W., 212, 354


Lee, W. W., 238


Leeds, 338, 348-354


Leeds Evangelical Religious Society, 390-391


Leeds School, 322, 354


Legal Fees, 289


Lenten University of Life, 393


Leonard, Bessie N., 203


Lewis, Dio, 347


Lewis and Strong, 368


Lickingwater School, 186


Lilly, Alfred Theodore, 82, 237, 247, 274, 340, 343, 345, 346, 390


Lilly Hall of Science, 238, 343, 390


Lilly Library, 212, 238, 343, 390 Lind, Jenny, 84, 169, 177, 209, 218, 368


Lippitt, Mrs. Henry, 202 Lippitt, Jeanie, 201, 202 Lithuanians, 317


Littlefield, Daniel Greene, 82, 83, 237, 238, 274, 340, 344, 352 Littlefield and Parsons, 235


Log drives, 308, 309 Long, John D., 309


Longfellow, Samuel, 346


Longpre, J. H. Fernand, 375


McCallum, Alexander, 237, 263, 319 McCallum, George, 237


McCallum Hosiery Company, 237, 257, 261, 263, 264, 265, 273, 274, 275, 308, 369


McCarthy, Charles J., 370


McCarthy, Frank, 263


McCloud, Lucy, 293


McDonald, William, 261


McGrath, William, 359


Mckinley, President, 218


Mack, David, 113, 116, 119


Mack, Mrs. David, 113


Mack, Doctor, 123-124


Macomber, Frederic A., 212


Made-in-Northampton Exposition,


318 Madison, James, 68, 70, 73 Main Street, 164


Maloney, Jim, 297


Mandell Quadrangle, 160


Mandelle, Miss, 22 1


Manhan Meadow, 4


Mann, Elias, 166-167


Manse, 142, 143, 144, 147, 150, 153, 156


Look, Frank N., 237


Look, Mrs. Frank N., 318


Look Park, 238, 394


Louisburg, 24, 25, 27


Lucey, Jim, 297, 300


Lucey, Mike, 297


Lumbering, 308, 309


Lyceum, 347 Lyman, A., 83


Lyman, Clifford, 296


Lyman, E. H. R., 100, 181, 209


Lyman, Elias, 33


Lyman, Elizabeth, 128


Lyman, Frank, 312


Lyman, Joseph, 71, 216, 241, 368


Lyman, Joseph M., 382


Lyman, Moses, 19


Lyman, Phineas, 103


Lyman, Robert, 8


Lyman, Samuel F., 97


Lyon, Marcus, 90


Lyman Block, 361


Lyons, Michael, 315


Lyric, 183


Index


42 I


Mansion House, 81, 84, 87, 88, 100, 327, 366, 367, 368, 394, 395 Marsh, William, 368


Marsh, William R., 128, 129, 132, 134 Marshall, John, 65


Martin and Hill Cash Carrier Co., 235 Mason, Lowell, 167 Mason, Thomas, 4 Mason Building, 159 Mass, First, 91


Massachusetts Tercentenary, 317


Mather, Cotton, 12


Mather, Eleazer, 5, 11, 12, 365


Mather, Increase, 11, 12


Mather, Richard, II


Mather, Warham, 6, 185, 288


Matignon, Francis, 91, 92


Mattoon, Ebenezer, 90


Mayer, Robert J., 371


Maynard, C. A., 236, 238


Mayors, 284-285


Meekins, Thomas, 169


Meeting House, 4, 383-384, 386


Meeting House Hill, 287


Meeting Houses, 281-282


Melvin, Eleazar, 26


Memorial Hall, 210, 311


Methodist Class, 388


Meyer, Fred M., 376


Middle Meadow, 4 Mill River Flood, 233-234, 273, 355- 357 Miller, Ozro, 132, 134 Miller, Robert J., 212 Miller, William, 4 Mills, Elijah Hunt, 162, 190, 207, 289, 290 Minute Men, 33-34 "Monarch of Hampshire," 41


Moody (house), 151


Moody, B. O., 359


Moody, Gordon, 359


Moody, Samuel, 57


Morrow, Dwight, 297


Morrow, Mrs. Dwight, 223, 224


Morse, A. D., 241, 315


Mt. Tom Sulphite, 255, 257, 261, 262 Movies, 182-183 Moyce, Patrick V., 194, 389


Mulberry Trees, 82, 270, 339 Munde, Charles, 124-126, 169, 338, 343 Munde Water Cure, 125, 126


Municipal Theatre, 181 Munyan, Alanson, 137 Musgrove, Thomas, 348 Music, 166-171


Napier (house), 154 Nash, W. Briceland, 243 Naval Training School for Women Officers, 224


Negro Slaves, 57 Neilson, William Allan, 220, 221, 222, 223, 313, 320, 321, 322, 369


New Haven-Brattleboro-Dartmouth Stagecoach Route, 81 New Haven and Northampton Canal, 85-89, 366


New Haven and Northampton Com- pany, 88


New Haven and Northampton Rail- road, 234, 272 Nims, Edward B., 373


Niquette, Edmund, 306-307


Nonatack, 3


Nonotuck Savings Bank, 246, 247 Nonotuck Silk Company, 82, 235, 238, 255, 257, 261, 271, 273, 274, 308, 339, 351


Nonotucks, 4 "Northampton," 87 Northampton, Ohio, 97 Northampton Amateur Opera Com- pany, 169 Northampton Association for Educa- tion and Industry, 82, 108-120, 121, 122, 235, 270-271, 338, 341, 342, 390 Northampton Bank, 245-246


Northampton Bank Robbery, 186, 248-254


Northampton Commercial College, 246 Northampton Charts, 191 Northampton Co-operative Bank, 154, 246, 247 Northampton Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company, 348 Northampton Courier, 381 Northampton Cutlery Company, 236, 257, 260, 273 Northampton Driving Park Associa- tion, 242 Northampton Emery Wheel Com- pany, 235, 273, 274


422 Index


Northampton High School, 160, 322, 362 Northampton Historical Society, 22, 161, 163, 166, 364 Northampton Hive, 381


Northampton Industrial Union Coun- cil, 266


Northampton Insane Hospital, 373 Northampton Institution for Savings, 246


Northampton Law School, 190, 290, 366


Northampton Lunatic Hospital, 372 Northampton National Bank, 154, 246, 248, 250, 253


Northampton-New Haven Canal, 81, 272 Northampton Paper Box Company, 256


Northampton Pegging Machine Com- pany, 235, 273


Northampton Players, 312


Northampton Public Library, 291


Northampton Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 391


Northampton Silk Company, 79, 82, 114, 270, 271


Northampton Society for the Detec- tion of Thieves and Robbers, 234 Northampton State Hospital, 320, 371-376 Northampton Street Railway, 234, 326


Northampton Vocal Club, 169, 309


Northampton Woman's Club, 319, 325 Northampton Woolen Manufactur- ing Company, 270, 351 Northampton, England, 309


Norwood Engineering Company, 236, 256, 273, 274 Nurses Home, 319


Occupations, 258-259, 269


O'Donnell, John B., 195, 291 O'Donnell, Walter W., 323


Old Bank, 248, 251


Old Church, 147, 164, 386, 387, 389, 391 Old Grist Mill, 108


Old Rainbow, 4, 394 O'Malley, James A., 197 O'Meara, Stephen, 298 Oneida, Ltd., 256, 274 Onions, 396


Opera House, 180-181 Otis, J. L., 238 Otis, James, 43


Packard, Albert L., 315


Packard, Elijah, 207


Packard, Mary, 207


Painters Union, 263, 265


Palace, 183


Palisade, 6-7


Pancake Plain, 93


Paper, 83


Paper Mill, 379


Paper Mill Village, 379


Paradise of America, 84, 368


Paradise Pond, 368


Parker, Dexter, 134


Parsons, Henry, 130


Parsons, I. S., 82, 238, 274, 338, 339, 352


Parsons, I. S. and Company, 338, 339


Parsons, John, Jr., 365


Parsons, Joseph, 4, 8, 337, 364


Parsons, Joseph (house), 142


Parsons, Joseph B., 129, 131, 134, 136, I37 Parsons, Joseph, Jr., 38


Parsons, Mary, 8, 288


Parsons, Noah (house), 144


Parsons, Samuel, 339


Parsons, Theophilus, 62, 66


Parsons' Garage, 360


Pascommuck, 7


Patrick Henry of Massachusetts, 40


Payson's Indelible Ink, 236


Peabody, Elizabeth, 191, 342


Peary, Robert E., 369


Pease, Alvin, 196


Peck, Ludella L., 312


Pennsylvania Temperance Society, 104 People's Institute, 218, 223, 308, 325 Phelps, Charles Porter, 98


Phelps, Julius, 338


Phelps, Theophilus Parsons, 99


Phillips, Wendell, 109, 341, 346


Pickering, Timothy, 62 Pierce, Franklin, 190, 290


Pierce Hall, 156


Pierrepont, Sarah, 17


Pioneer Valley Association, 321


Pinkerton's Detective Agency, 250, 251, 252, 263 "Plain" School, 186 Plaza, 183


Index 423


Plummer, Frederic W., 321 Police Department, 234 Police Station, 192 Polish, 194, 333, 334-335 Pomeroy, Asahel, 91, 94, 161, 361, 366, 367, 368 Pomeroy, Mrs. Asahel, 91


Pomeroy, Brentwood C., 22


Pomeroy, Daniel, 39, 365-366


Pomeroy, Ebenezer, 22, 24, 288, 365


Pomeroy, Eltweed, 22


Pomeroy, Jonathan, 36


Pomeroy, Joshua, 337


Pomeroy, Luther, 34


Pomeroy, Mary, 23


Pomeroy, Medad, 4, 22, 288, 337, 365


Pomeroy, Polly (house), 145


Pomeroy, Quartus, 22


Pomeroy, Seth, 22-31, 33, 34, 35, 94, 161, 365, 367, 395


Pomeroy, Titus, 29


Population, 77, 78, 233, 238, 240, 255, 269, 271, 307, 314-315, 331-336, 340, 383


Porter, Elisha, 52


Porter, Moses, 98


Post Office, 246, 338


Potter, B. L., 182


Powell, Elizabeth M., 345-346


Pratt, Thomas, 146-147, 152, 153, 154, I55


Pratt, William G., 283


Prescott, Benjamin, 378


Presser, Joseph, 165 Priessnitz, Vincent, 122


Prince, William Henry, 372


Pro-phy-lac-tic Brush Company, 235, 255, 257, 258, 274, 275, 340, 369 Proprietors of the Locks and Canals of the Connecticut River, 61 Proprietors' School, 187


Propper-McCallum Hosiery, 274


Prospect Apartments, 148


Protestant Ministers Association, 393 Puritanism, 9-14 Purrington, Wilbur M., 317 Purseglove, Havelock, 362


Putnam, Karl, 283


Putnam, R. F., 158


Pynchon, John, 3, 4


Pyro-fibrine Company, 255-256


Radio Station WHMP, 322 Radio Telephone, 326


Rahar, Richard, 297, 306, 369


Rahar's Inn, 364, 369, 370 Rail Hill District, 348


Railroad, 234, 366, 380


Rainville, Noel, 195-196, 392


Recreation Commission, 325


Red Castle, 146


Red Cross Blood Center, 327


Red Tavern, 365, 366, 367, 394


Released Time, Religious Education, 322, 393 Religion, 5, 9-14, 15-21, 383-393 Religious Education, Released Time, 322, 393 Reservoirs, 307


Republican Spy, 66


Revivals, 18-19


Revolution, 32-39


Riley, P. T., 367


River Gods, 42, 50, 58, 73


Rocky Hill Basin, 86


Rogers, Harriet B., 202, 203


Rogers Hall, 145


Rogers Silver Company, 256, 274


Roman Catholic Church, 194


Roman Catholics, 354, 388-389


Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D., 303


Root, Elihu, 37


Root, Thomas, 4


Round Hill, 145


Round Hill Hotel, 368


Round Hill School, 189-190, 204, 366, 387 Round Hill Water Cure, 124


Rubeck, Charles, 358


Rubeck, Mrs. Charles, 358


Ruggles, David, 121-125, 343


Ruggles' Water Cure Establishment, 123 Russell, Hezekiah, 94


Russell, Patty, 187


Russians, 33, 334


Ryan, James, 356


Ryder, Albert, 164


Sacred Heart Parish, 392


Sacred Heart School, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198


St. John Cantius Church, 392


St. John's Episcopal Church, 155, 387, 391, 393 St. John the Baptist Church, 388-389


St. Mary of the Assumption Church, 151, 155, 195, 365, 367, 392


424 Index


St. Michael's High School, 198 St. Michael's School, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198


St. Valentine Polish National Church, 392


Sage, Catharine B., 293


Saltonstall, Leverett, 323


Sanborn, Franklin D., 202


Sanders, Margaret, 165


Scales (house), 160


Schine Corporation, 370


Schleisinger, Rabbi, 347


Schmitter, Henrietta B., 213


Schools, 6, 184-193, 194-200, 340, 392


Schuyler, Montgomery, 154


Scott, George A., 340


Scotland, 333


Scott, Robert, 252-253


Scott, William, 266, 267


Second Congregational Society, 386, 387


Second Square, 4


Sedgwich, Theodore, 92, 93


Seelye, Henrietta Chapin, 218


Seelye, Laurenus Clark, 164, 216, 217, 218, 219, 223, 300, 306


Sessions, Roger, 313


Settlement, 3-8, 268


Sewage, 307


Sewall, Samuel, 92


Shady Lawn, 152, 195, 198


Shaw, Edward L., 291


Shays, Daniel, 47, 48, 55, 59


Shays Rebellion, 46, 57, 59, 60, 92


Sheehey, Robert, 137


Shepherd, Charles, 348


Shepherd, James, 348, 349, 350, 351, 353


Shepherd, James (house), 353


Shepherd, Levi, 94, 245, 348


Shepherd, Mary, 94


Shepherd, Thomas, 85-86, 245


Shepherd, Thomas M., 318


Shepherd, Thomas Watson, 380


Shepherd, Thomas and Company, 349-351


Shepherd (house) Bridge Street, 150 Shepherd (house) Round Hill, 145 Shepherd's, 83 Shepherd Mill, 270


Shepherd Woolen Manufacturing Company, 349 Shepherd's Factory, 348


Shepherd's Hollow, 338, 348 Short, William J., 313 Shurtleff, Flavel, 129, 137


Silk Industry, 82, 113, 234-235, 255, 256, 257, 270-271, 273, 274, 275 Singing Schools, 166


Sisters of the Order of the Presenta- tion, 197, 392


Sisters of St. Joseph, 195, 392


Skilton, Charles Sanford, 169-170


Skinnerville, 355


Smart, Elisha, 132


Smith, Almira, 97


Smith, Austin, 100, 215


Smith, Benjamin, 97


Smith, James (house), 352-353


Smith, Mary Morton, 96


Smith, Oliver, 96-101, 245, 311, 395


Smith, Oliver (case), 366


Smith, Samuel, 96


Smith, Sophia, 100, 208, 214-215, 218, 219, 220, 223, 229


Smith Charities, 96-101, 154, 245, 290 Smith College, 155, 159-160, 164, 165, 170, 182, 183, 210, 211, 212, 214- 229, 237, 238, 265, 266, 276, 306, 319, 320, 324, 362, 369, 370, 392 Smith College Chapel, 154


Smith College Concert Course, 171


Smith College Day School, 222


Smith College Library, 212


Smith College Nursery School, 222


Smith College Relief Unit, 220, 312


Smith College School for Social Work, 221 Smith College School of Music, 170- I71 Smith's Agricultural School, 311, 322, 362-363


Smith's Ferry, 310


Snow Shoe Men, 24, 25


Social Library, 209


Spencer, Ann G., 346


Spencer, William, 346


Springdale Water Cure, 84, 124


Stagecoach Travel, 81, 240, 368


Standley, Samuel S., 371


Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 346


Star Printing Company, 164


Starkweather, Roxana, 98


Steam Power, 79, 233, 273


Stearns, Frank W., 297, 299, 300


Index 425


Stearns, Jonathan, 38 Stebbins, Daniel, 82 Stebbins, Giles, 117 Stevens, Walter L., 291, 292, 296, 300, 303 Stevens and Dunphy, 292 Stimson, Cyrus, 165


Stoddard, John, 19, 24, 25, 26, 41, 288


Stoddard, Solomon, 5, 12-14, 15, 17, 18, 40-41, 142, 185 Stoddardean Doctrine, 13


Stone, Ellen, 306


Stone, Harlan F., 304


Stone, Lucy, 346


Story, Helen, 317


Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 367


Street, Whiting, 209


Strikes, 326 Strong, Caleb (1710-1766), 57 Strong, Caleb (1745-1819), 39, 45, 48, 50, 51, 52, 56-74, 162, 289, 379


Strong, David, 38, 39


Strong, John, 56, 185


Strong, Paul, 338


Strong, Seth, 150 Stuart, Gilbert, 162


Sullivan, Catherine, 363


Sullivan, James, 65-66, 67, 92 Swan, Timothy, 167 Swift, Earle, 118


Tappan, Benjamin, 162 Tappan, Sarah, 162


Taverns, 364-370


Taxes, 8, 11, 307


Teachers Union, 265


Telephone Service, 234, 305 Thayer, Elias, 36 Thayer Brothers, 83


Theatre, 172-183


Theatrical and Stage Union, 263, 264 Third Massachusetts Turnpike Cor- poration, 61 Third Square, 4 Thompson, A. W., 152, 195 Three County Fair, 82, 113, 240-244 Tilton, Barney, 266-267


Tobacco, 308, 396 Todd, William H., 182 Tornado, 355, 363 Town, Ithiel, 148 Town Hall, 152, 175, 176, 178, 179, 283-284


Town Meetings, 4-5, 281-282 Town School, 192 Townsmen, 5 Train Band, 364 Transportation, 8, 271-272, 276


Treadway, A. T., 320, 323


Trolley Riding, 307


Trumbull, James Russell, 50, 174-175, 381 Truth, Sojourner, III, 343


Tryon, Dwight W., 165


Tucker, Mark, 386 Tufts, Charles, 371


Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniver- sary, 309 Tyler, William S., 216


Ullman, Karl B., 317, 369 Underground Railroad, 122, 342-343, 390 Underwood, Herbert W., 324


Underwood, Mrs. Herbert W., 324


Underwood, Robert, 266


Unitarian Church, 147, 386


Unitarian Church of Northampton and Florence, 390 United States General Hospital, Get- tysburg, 136


U.S.S. Northampton, 327


United States Veterans Hospital, 276, 317, 320, 353-354


Van Buren, Martin, 367 Venturer's Field, 4 Vichulis, John, 317


Wages, 238, 271, 350-351


Wakeman, Marion Freeman, 165


Waldron, James, 165


Walnut Trees, 4


Walsh, David I., 323


Wampam, 4 War Archives, 212, 213


War of 1812, 67-73 Warner, A. S., 353


Warner, Daniel, 337


Warner, Edward, 172-173


Warner, Eliza A., 98


Warner, George P., 353


Warner, Henry, 353 Warner, J. L., 353


Warner, Joseph, 337, 338


Warner, Lewis, 247 Warner, Moses, 353


426 Index


Warner, Oliver, 368 Warner, Solomon, 353 Warner, William, 338 Warner Block, 361 Warner's Coffee House, 366, 368 Warner Farm, 318 Warner House, 81, 361-362


Warner School District, 338, 340 Warren, Seth, 42 Warriner, James, 249, 252


"Washington of Massachusetts," 63 Water Cures, 84, 121-126, 343, 366 Water Power, 268, 270, 273


Waterworks, 234


Watson, Arthur, 212, 307


Watson (house), 151


Watts, Helen, 317


WAVES, 224, 324, 370


Weather, 395 Weaver, Sterrie A., 169


Weavers Union, 261


Webb, John, 4, 364, 365


Webster, Daniel, 99, 100, 290, 366-367, 395 Webster, Noah, 71, 240, 241


Weld, Theodore, 346


Wells, Hiram, 238


Wells and Littlefield, 235


Wesselhoeft, 122


West Farms, 388


West Farms Meeting House, 386


West Indian Trade, 60-61


Western Union Telegraph Office, 234 Wetherell, James H., 129, 137, 138


Wheat, 8 Whigs, 366, 368 White Bank, 247


White, Josiah, 338


Whitefield, George, 17, 19, 388


Whitmarsh, Samuel, 78, 82, 83, 124, 235, 237, 269, 339 Whitney, Edward W., 374 Whitney Building, 381 Whittelsey, John, 248-249, 251, 252, 254


Whittelsey, Mrs. John, 248, 249


Wiggins, Lewis N., 369-370


Wiggins' Old Tavern, 269-270 Wikander, Lawrence E., 213, 322


Wilde, Samuel Sumner, 99 Willard, Benjamin, 386, 390


Willard, Samuel, 25


Williams, Eliphalet, 246 Williams, Ephraim, 29 Williams, Elizabeth, 164 Williams, H. F., 238


Williams, H. L., 238 Williams, Israel, 18, 26, 29, 30, 41, 43


Williams, L. B., 152, 238 Williams Manufacturing Company, 236, 255, 256, 273, 274


Williams, Solomon, 66, 93, 386-387


Williston, A. Lyman, 236 Williston, J. P., 80, 83, 236


Williston, Joseph P., 122


Williston, Payson, 122, 192


Williston, Samuel, 81, 83, 100, 236, 270


Williston (house), 156


Wilton, David, 365


Wise, Aaron, 347 Witchcraft, 8, 288


Women Jurors, 326


Women Voters, 315


Wood, E. E., 238


Wood Cutlery, 274


Woodward, Henry, 365


Wool, 269, 270, 275


Workingmen's Savings Bank of Flor- ence, 247


World War I, 312-313


World War II, 323-325


Worthington, John, 45, 58


Wright, Andrew, 66-67, 167


Wright, Benjamin, 85


Wright, Benjamin Fletcher, 226, 227, 228, 322


Wright, Daniel, 166


Wright, Daniel and Company, 166


Wright, Ephraim, 32, 38, 39


Wright, Justus, 53


Wright, Samuel, Sr., 4


Wright Home for Young Women, 318


Yale, Caroline A., 203 Young Men's Christian Association, 234, 325 Young Men's Institute, 209


Young Rainbow, 4, 394 Young's Cafe, 102


Zawacki, John, 360


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


The courtesy of Frederick A. Farrar, Eric Stahlberg, E. O. Kollmorgen, the Free Congregational Society of Florence, Forbes Library, and the News Office, Archives, and Alumnae Associa- tion of Smith College in permitting reproductions of pictures and photographs is appreciated.





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