USA > Massachusetts > Suffolk County > Boston > The memorial history of Boston : including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880, Vol. III > Part 73
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88
8 In Church Court, contiguous to Thompson Square which was formed, in part, a few years ago, by cutting off the triangular building then standing at the northerly junction of Main and Warren streets, long known as " Crafts' Corner."
4 [See Dr. Miner's chapter in the present vol- ume .- ED.]
5 This was formerly the mansion of Colonel David Wood, Jr., a prominent citizen, who was
David Wood jr
a delegate to the Concord Convention of July, 1779, selectman, member of the school committee, fireward, etc. He was chosen representative in 1780, but declined serving. He was a director of the Charles River Bridge corporation. His daughter Ruth married the eldest son of Judge Gorham, in 1794 (see p. 549, note). The present mecting-house of the society, by a remarkable coincidence, stands upon the site of Massachu-
setts Hall, on Main Street. Colonel Wood's mansion stood between his father's -now known as the Edes Mansion (see p. 553, and note) - on the north, and the Hon. Samuel Dexter's (see p. 557, note), on the south. Judge Artemas Ward (H. C. 1783), LL.D., lived nearly opposite Mr. Dexter, on Main Street, - his estate being next above the northerly corner of Union Street.
There is a tradition that Colonel Wood's mansion was built before the Revolution; that it escaped the flames June 17, 1775; and that it was occupied during the Siege of Boston by the British Commissary, Jeremiah Dummer Rogers (H. C. 1762). The building is still standing on the northerly corner of Main and Miller streets, whither it was removed in 1818; after which it was known as the Eagle Hotel. Cf. Sabine, Loyalists of the American Revolution, ii. 232.
6 Its name was changed to the New Church in Charlestown in 1819, and to the Harvard Church in Charlestown in 1837.
7 Cf. ante, II. 318, note.
8 Dr. Walker was officially connected with the college as overseer, fellow, or president, from 1825 till 1860, and from 1864 till his death, Dec. 23, 1874. He was also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. During his resi- dence here he was President of the Trustees of the Charlestown Free Schools.
563
CHARLESTOWN IN THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS.
sermon July 14, 1839. During his ministry the present meeting-house was built. It was dedicated Feb. 10, 1819. Dr. Walker was succeeded by Mr. George Edward Ellis (H. C. 1833), who was ordained March 11, 1840. His ministry was signalized by the establishment of the Free Ministry and the building of the Harvard Chapel on Edgeworth Street (1846-56), for nearly twenty years (1850-69) in charge of the Rev. Oliver Capen Everett (H. C. 1832). He was professor of Systematic Theology in the Divinity School at Cambridge, 1857-63. He delivered his farewell discourse June 13, 1869. His ministry and that of his distinguished predecessor covered more than half a century (1818-69).1 The Rev. Charles Edward Grinnell (H. C. 1862) was installed his successor, Nov. 10, 1869, and he retired from his charge Dec. 28, 1873. The society was without a settled minister till Oct. 4, 1876, when its present pastor, the Rev. Pitt Dillingham (D. C. 1873), was ordained.2
Feb. 15, 1820, the trustees of the Methodist Religious Society in Charles- town were incorporated. They purchased and occupied the meeting-house on High Street, which had belonged successively to the Baptists and Uni- tarians. The Rev. Dr. Wilbur Fisk (B. U. 1815), afterward President of Wesleyan University, was their first minister. The society, known since June, 1862, as the Trinity Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now worships in a large brick meeting-house on High Street, opposite the head of Elm Street.8 March 1, 1833, the Legislature incorporated the Winthrop Society in Charlestown. This society, Orthodox in belief, was formed by a secession from the First Parish. It worshipped for a time in the Town Hall until a meeting-house could be built for it on the southerly side of Union Street. In 1849 the present commodious building on Green Street was completed. The Rev. Daniel Crosby (Y. C. 1823) was the first minister. The present pastor is the Rev. Alexander Stevenson Twombly (Y. C. 1854). The other religious societies are : St. John's Church (Episcopal), organized March 7, 1840, of which the Rev. Dr. Thomas R. Lambert is the present rector; the Bunker Hill Baptist Church,4 the pulpit of which is now vacant ; the Monument Square Methodist Episcopal Church,5 the Rev. Dr. James O.
I June 17, 1841, Dr. Ellis delivered here an oration, in which l'rescoit's right to be regarded as the commander in the battle of Bunker Hill was ably set forth. Forty years later it was his privilege to offer for the acceptance of the Bunker ITill Monument Association the noble statue of Prescott, to be mentioned presently. To Dr. Ellis's active interest the public is chiefly in- debted for one of the best pedestrian statnes in America. Cf. Proceedings of the Bunker Hill Monument Association for 1881.
2 A History of the Harvard Church in Charles- town, 1815-1879, octavo, pp 294, by the writer of this chapter, was "printed for the society" in 1879. It contains full biographical notices of all the pastors and nearly complete lists of their several publications.
8 The Rev. Dr. Henry White Warren (Wes- leyan Univ. 1853), now one of the bishops of the M. E. Church, was pastor of this society, 1868- 70. Its present pastor is the Rev. Dr. Horace W. Bolton.
4 In 1844, 222 persons were dismissed from the First Baptist Church to form another soci- ety, now defunct, which worshipped in a small wooden meeting-house that occupied a part of the site of the present Trinity (Methodist) Soci- ety on High Street. By some of those persons the present Bunker Hill Baptist Church was organized, Jan. 5, 1850, as the Betbesda Baptist Society.
§ This society, formerly known as the Union Church, dates from 1847. Its first settled pastor was the Rev. Edward Cook.
564
THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
Knowles, pastor; St. Mary's Church (Roman Catholic), opened for public worship in May, 1829, the Very Rev. William Byrne, V.G., pastor; and the Church of St. Francis de Sales (Roman Catholic), dedicated June 17, 1862, now under the charge of the Rev. Michael J. Supple.1
The burning of the Ursuline Convent on Mount Benedict by a mob from Boston, on the night of Aug. 11, 1834, is described in other chapters.2 The next day a town-meeting was held to take notice of the outrage, and a committee, consisting of the Hon. Edward Everett,3 Benjamin Whipple, John Soley, John Skinner, and the Hon. William Austin 4 was chosen to prepare resolutions expressing the indignation of the citizens at the lawless pro-
ceedings on the previous night. The resolutions were adopted, and a vigi- William Austin lance committee, consisting of General Austin and nine others, appointed " to take all such measures as may be neces- sary to preserve the public peace," and to detect and bring to justice the perpetrators of the deed. The town directed the selectmen to offer a re- ward for the detection of the culprits, and voted to request the Governor of the Commonwealth to offer an additional reward.
Questions of public policy have never been more earnestly or more warmly debated in any community than in this. In August, 1793, the town replied to a letter from the Hon. Thomas Russell,5 as chairman of a commit- tee of the town of Boston, expressing its sense of the impropriety of fitting out armed Thomas Ruffell vessels to cruise against the mercantile ma- rine of other nations at peace with the United States, and its opinion that such an act constituted a breach of neutrality ; and, further, that participants in such acts should be regarded as enemies of the country. In 1795 (July 21), the town having listened to the reading of Jay's treaty, voted to "disapprove of the treaty now pending between the United States and Great Britain;" and " that this town do disapprove of
1 Cf. the several chapters on the different de- sentative and State senator, and a graceful and nominations in the present volume.
2 See those by the Very Rev. William Byrne, V.G., which contains a view of the convent, and by James M. Bugbee, in the present volume.
8 Mr. Everett lived in Charlestown, 1828-37, chiefly while representing the Middlesex District in the Congress of the United States.
4 The Hon. William Austin (H. C. 1798) was a younger brother of General Austin (see p. 555, note). He was a college classmate of the Rev. Dr. William Ellery Channing and Mr. Justice Story ; declined to accept membership in the Phi Beta Kappa, to which he was elected, because it was then a secret society; studied law about two years in London, entering at Lincoln's Inn ; and after his return home became a prominent member of the Middlesex Bar He was repre-
vigorous writer. Five of his sons graduated at Cambridge -in 1825, 1830, 1831, 1839 (H. D. A.), and 1849; and his daughter Margaret married William Prescott Dexter (H. C. 1838), a grand- son of the Hon. Samuel Dexter (see p. 557 and note). Mr. Austin died here June 27, 1841, aged 63. Cf. Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, i. 83; Duyckinck, Cyclopedia of American Literature, i. 658, 659; Willard, Memories of Youth and Man- hood, ii. 13-15, 39, 165; Loring, The Hundred Bos- ton Orators, pp. 328, 329; and Wyman, Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, P. 33.
5 He was a son of the Hon. James Russell (ante II. 330). Cf. Rev. Dr. Peter Thacher's Sermon, April 17, 1796; Dr. John Warren's Eulogy, May 4, 1796; and Wyman, Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, p. 834.
565
CHARLESTOWN IN THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS.
the treaty as modified by the Senate of the United States." The selectmen, as instructed, communicated these votes to the President the next day. Washington replied August 31.1
July 20, 1807, resolutions were passed condemning the attack of the " Leopard" upon the "Chesapeake," 2 and approving the then recently issued proclamation of the President. Aug. 20, 1808, the selectmen re- ceived a letter from the selectmen of Boston concerning the proceedings of that town with respect to the embargo,3 and requesting that similar measures might be adopted by this town; but the receivers of the letter, being of a different political complexion from their Boston brethren, deemed it incx- pedient to convene the town to consider the letter, and sent of themselves a reply.4 Jan. 29, 1847, a town-meeting, convened in pursuance of a warrant signed by Jacob Foss, a justice of the peace, -the selectmen refusing to issue a precept, - appropriated fifteen hundred dollars "to fit out the company of volunteers raised in " Charlestown " who are about to embark for the seat of war," -- the Mexican. The selectmen (January 23) in refus- ing the prayer of Mr. Foss and others, expressed the opinion "that the town would have no authority to make such an appropriation as the peti- tioners contemplate."
The war for the Union found here the most cordial sympathy and sup- port. The amount of money appropriated and expended on account of the war and for aid to soldiers' families, less the amount refunded by the Com- monwealth, was $176,000. The city furnished for that struggle four thou- sand three hundred and seven men, a surplus of one hundred and eleven over all requisitions. One hundred and twenty-three of these were com- missioned officers. Seven complete organizations, of which the officers and nearly all the enlisted mien resided in Charlestown, constituted her nominal contribution to the national armies; but there were numerous enlistments- of Charlestown men in other organizations credited to other places, besides more numerous enlistments in the navy, of which no suffi- cient data are at hand.5 The Bunker Hill Soldiers' Relief Society,6 which was the first of its kind organized in the loyal States, had its inception in the mind of Miss Almena Brodhead Bates, through whose active interest a meeting of ladies was held for consultation at the residence of her father, the late Paymaster John Adams Bates, U. S. N., on Saturday evening, April
I Both letters are recorded in the Town Re- cords, ix. 387, 388. See Mr. Lodge's chapter in the present volume.
2 Cf. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812, p. 156 et seq.
3 Cf. Mr. Lodge's chapter in this volume.
4 Recorded in Town Records, x. 117-19.
6 For the facts in this paragraph I am under obligation to Major William H. Hodgkins who has kindly placed at my disposal his valuable col- lection of statistics concerning Charlestown in the Civil War. Cf. Robinson, History of the Fifth Regiment, M. V. M .; Record of the Mass.
Volunteers, 1861-65, published by the Adjutant- General in two vols., quarto; and the Charles- town Advertiser (newspaper), 1861-66. The Sol- dier's and Sailor's Monument, by Milmore, stands on the Training-field. It was dedicated June 17, 1872. The Grand Army of the Republic is rep- resented here by Abraham Lincoln Post No. 1I, and George L. Stearns Post No. 149. Charles- town is also well represented in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
8 The devotion of the late Miss Louisa Bray to the work of this society throughout its entire existence, was remarkable.
566
THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
20, 1861. The Hon. Richard Frothingham 1 presided. A Constitution was agreed upon, which was adopted by Richard frothing ham, the largest meeting of ladies ever held in Charlestown, in City Hall, on the following Monday afternoon, when a board of officers was elected.2 The beneficent work of this society was zealously carried on till the close of the war by the ladies of Charlestown. Its annual expenditures amounted to between $4,000 and $5,000, which was raised by the churches, by indi- vidual contributions, and by entertainments given for its benefit.
In 1823 measures were taken by Mr. Webster, Judge Tudor, Theodore Lyman, Jr., Colonel Thomas H. Perkins, General Dearborn, and other prom- inent gentlemen, to form an association for erecting a monument on Bunker Hill. An act incorporating the Bunker Hill Monument Association was passed June 7, 1823 ; and Governor John Brooks was chosen its first presi- dent, June 17. Plans were soon matured to raise the funds necessary to buy the site of the battle-field on Breed's Hill (which had been sectired by Dr. John C. Warren) and to build the monument.8 On the fiftieth anniver- sary of the battle, the corner-stone of the obelisk was laid with masonic ceremonies in the presence of La Fayette,4 and an oration pronounced by Mr. Webster, who was also the orator at the completion of the monument in 1843.5 In 1857 a marble statue, by Dexter, of General Joseph Warren was placed upon the grounds; and the present year has witnessed the tin- veiling of Story's admirable statue, in bronze, of Colonel William Prescott.6
' Mr. Frothingham was born here Jan. 31, 1812, and died here Jan. 29, 1880. He was a trustee of the schools as early as 1839; was rep- resentative in 1840 and subsequent years; and mayor 1851-53. He was a polit- ical writer, as well as the author of several historical works, which are authorities upon the subjects they treat. His History of Charlestown, from 1629 to 1775, appeared in seven numbers (1845-49). Harvard College conferred on him the degree of A.M. in 1858, and Tufts that of LL.D. in 1874. Mr. Thomas Bellows Wyman was born in Charlestown Dec. 11, 1817, and died here May
2 Cf. Schouler, Massachusetts in the Civil War, ii. 393-99, for a full account of this society and its officers.
Soloman Willard,
Thot B Nyman
19, 1878. He was cousin to Mr. Frothingham, but, unlike him, he never held any public office. His quiet and retired life was chiefly devoted to the preparation of his unique and unrivalled work, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, which entitles him to a respectful and grateful recognition in these volumes.
3 The obelisk is about two hundred and
twenty feet high.
The architect was Solomon
Willard. In 1824 the town declined the over- tures of the Association for the cession to it of the Training-field, on condition that a more spacious park should be laid out on Brecd's Hill.
4 General La Fayette was re- ceived here the preceding year (Aug. 27, 1824) by a large commit- tee of the town, which had spe- cially invited him to be its guest. Cf. Town Records, xi. 213, 214; and Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. xiv. 65-67.
5 Cf. Frothingham, History of the Siege of Boston, pp. 337-59; and Warren, History of the Bunker Hill Monument Association.
6 See Mr. Arthur Dexter's chapter in Vol. IV.
567
CHARLESTOWN IN THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS.
In 1804 a statement of the town's expenses was ordered to be printed annually and distributed among the citizens. In 1804-5 the State Prison was built at Lynde's Point.1 The original building, to which others subse- quently were added at different times, was of granite, two hundred feet long by forty feet wide, and four stories high. The buildings are no longer used as a penitentiary, the institution having been recently removed to Concord.2 In 1805-1807 the new burial-ground on Bunker Hill Street8 was laid out. In 1812 a Branch of the Washington Benevolent Society was established here. In 1813 the Washington Hall Association was incorporated. In August, 1815, it was voted to light lamps in certain streets, not named, at " the dark of the moon in October next." July 5, 1817, President Mon- roe was received by a large committee of prominent citizens of which the Hon. Josiah Bartlett was chairman.4 Oct. 6, 1818; the McLean Asylum for the Insane6 was opened. June Sim, weather 18, 1825, the Bunker Hill Bank was chartered; and Feb. 21, 1829, the Warren Institution for Savings was incorporated. In November, 1829, the town dismissed the petition of John H. Shaffer for the erection of a theatre ; and the following month the use of the Town Hall was granted to the Charlestown Lyceum, which was opened with an address by Major Walker, Jan. 5, 1830. Lyceum Hall was incorporated March 4, 1831.6
In 1802 the town was surveyed for the fourth time." The same year Nathaniel Prentiss and others were set off from this town to Cambridge.8 In 1824 the project of constituting as a separate town all that part of Charles- town which lay "without the Neck" was first seriously considered in town-
1 Cf. ante I. 387.
2 An excellent view (18 X 10} inches) of the prison and workshops in 1829, drawn in India- ink and colors by a convict, is in possession of the writer of this chapter. There is a brief ac- count of the prison, and a view of it from the water side, in Barber's Ilist. Coll. of Mass., pp. 367, 368. Cf. An account of the Massachusetts State Prison, Charlestown, 1806; G. Bradford, Description and Ilistorical Sketch, 1816; G. Haynes, Historical Sketch, 1869; and Bartlett, Ilistorical Sketch of Charlestown, p. 175.
8 A Roman Catholic burial-ground, on the summit of Bunker Hill, contiguous to St. Francis de Sales' Church, was consecrated later.
4 Dr. Bartlett's address of welcome, and the President's reply, are in the Town Records (xi. 53, 54). President Jackson visited Charles- town, by invitation, June 26, 1833. Hle was wel- comcd on Breed's Hill by Mr. Everett, who presented him with a mahogany box, suitably inscribed, containing a six-pound ball from the
battle-field of New Orleans and a grape-shot from the field of Bunker Hill. Mr. Everett's address and the President's reply are in the Town Records (xii. 250-55). July 22, 1845, resolutions on the death of General Jackson were adopted. Cf. Town Records, xiv. 262, 263.
5 Cf. ante. I. 391. There is a view and some account of the asylum in Barber's Ilist. Coll. of Mass., pp. 366, 367. Views engraved on steel may be found as frontispieces to Frothingham's Ilistory of Charlestown and Bowditch's History of the Mass. General Hospital, which see.
6 This year (1831) the first Charlestown Di- rectory appeared. Others followed in 1834, 1836, 1838, 1840, 1842, 1845, 1848, 1852, and then every two years till 1874, when the last of the series of twenty was issued. A complete set is in the Charlestown Branch of the Public Library.
7 This survey is printed in the Third Report of the Boston Record Commissioners, pp. 247-62. Cf. ante, 1. 393; 11. 324.
8 Cf. ante. II. 324.
568
THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
-
--
.....
SCALE
References
C
Point
JKE
-
T
I
6
Tothe New Lines.
MASSACHUSETTS:)
CHARLESTOWN PENINSULA
5.
-
4
NAVYYARD,
2
TUFTS'S PLAN OF CHARLESTOWN, 1818.1
meeting.2 The committee then appointed to confer with the persons desiring the separation, and to mature an acceptable plan, failed to accomplish its mission. In 1842, however, the town voted (Jan. 26) to accede to the petition of Guy C. Hawkins and others to be set off as the town, now city, of Somerville; and appointed a committee to confer with the legislative con- mittee engaged in drafting the bill authorizing the separation concerning the
1 Copies of this plan, taken from the original copperplate, were inserted in Volume II. of Wyman's Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown.
2 A petition for such a separation, signed by Samuel Tufts and others, was then pending in the General Court.
From Arrumale Suman
RLES RIVERB
--
569
CHARLESTOWN IN THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS.
lines of demarcation to be determined and the conditions attending the dis- ruption. The act incorporating the new town was passed March 3. April 22, following, Charlestown was newly divided into six wards .?
Jan. 5, 1846, the town considered a petition of the Hon. Henry P. Fairbanks and others, that application be made to the General Court for a city charter. Nov. 9, 1846, the selectmen were authorized, by a vote of 798 to 774, to petition for a charter. One was granted Feb. 22, 1847, and accepted by the town March 10, - the vote standing 1127 in favor of the Act, and 868 against it. March 20 the selectmen divided the town into three wards, as provided in the charter. April 19, upon a second trial,2 Mr. George W. Warren (H. C. 1830) was elected mayor.3 The first board of aldermen consisted of Ebenezer Barker, Dexter Bowman, John Cheever, Thomas Hooper, Phinehas J. Stone, and Paul Willard (H. C. 1817).
The Public Library had its inception in the offer of the Hon. Timothy T. Sawyer, the Hon. Edward Lawrence, Mr. Edwin F. Adams, and Mr. Nathan A. Tufts, to give $500 cach towards founding such an institution. It was established by a city ordinance, passed June 5, 1860. The library was opened Jan. 7, 1862, and was administered by trustees,4 chosen an- nually, until it became a branch of the Boston Public Library, in 1874. It now contains more than twenty-two thousand volumes. Cornelius Sowle Cartée (B. U. 1825) has been the librarian since 1870.5 .
The Mystic Water Works were constructed under a legislative act, passed in March, 1861, which was accepted by the people Sept. 10, by a vote of 944 to 251. Dec. 10, 1861, Messrs. Edward Lawrence, Matthew Rice, and George H. Jacobs were appointed commissioners to build the works. They organized by choosing Mr. Lawrence chairman, Jan. 8, 1862. April 5, Mr. Charles L. Stevenson was appointed chief engineer, and Mr. George R. Baldwin,6 consulting engineer. September 27, work was begun on the reservoir on Walnut Hill,7 Somerville. The water was formally in- troduced into the city with imposing ceremonies, Nov. 29, 1864. The ex- penditures of the commissioners, who made their final report Feb. 28, 1865, amounted to $731,515.83. The Mystic Water Board was created the same year (1865), and continued to manage the water department until it was
1 In 1841 the valuation of what is now Somerville amounted to $ 579,440, and of what remained after Somerville was set off, $4,008,680. Cf. Town Records, xiii. 366-69, 446-50; xiv. 35- 37, 164-68. En 1847 the valuation was $8,41 5,145. 2 A majority of the votes cast was then ne- cessary to a choice.
8 Mr. Warren's successors in the mayoralty were : Richard Frothingham, Jr., 1851-53; James Adams, 1854; Timothy T. Sawyer, 1855-57; James Dana (II. C. 1830), 1858-60 ; Horace G. Hutchins (D. C. 1835), 1861 ; Phinehas J. Stone, 1862-64; Charles Robinson, Jr., 1865-66; Liv- erus Hull, 1867-68; Eugene L. Norton, 1869; William H. Kent, 1870-72; and Jonathan Stone, 1873.
VOL. 111 .- 72.
+ The Hon. Timothy T. Sawyer was presi- dent of the board of trustees during the entire separate existence of the institution, to which his loyal and arduous service was conspicuous.
5 The covenant between the city and the original subscribers was recognized in sect. 12 of the Annexation Act of 1873, which provides that all books and documents then belonging to the library, or thereafter given or bequeathed to it, " shall be continued and kept within the pres- ent limits of Charlestown." Its funds and future bequests to it were similarly secured.
6 He was half brother to the Ilon. Loammi Baldwin (H. C. 1800). See p. 557, note.
7 Formerly called Walnut Tree Hill. Cf. ante, I. 391.
570
THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
merged with the Cochituate Water Works in the Boston Water Board. The Hon. Edward Lawrence was chairman of the commissioners and of the water board from Jan. 8, 1862, till July 15, 1873, when he resigned. The ability with which he administered this important trust, for which he received no pecuniary compensation, was fitly recognized by the city council upon his retirement.1 The total cost of the works to January, 1873, was $1,460,000. They yield a handsome revenue.2
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.