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And on motion the meeting was dissolved at 7 o'clock P. M.
Attest, DON GLEASON HILL.
Town Clerk.
The Clerks of the Towns of Dedham and Norwood, in the County of Norfolk, comprising the Norfolk Representative Dis- trict Number One, at their meeting at Memorial Hall, in said Dedham, on Friday, the fifteenth day of November, A. D. 1895, at twelve o'clock noon, said day being the tenth day following the election, made out under their hands the following complete re-
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turns of all votes cast for Representative to the General Court in said District, as follows, viz :
Henry D. Humphrey, of Dedham, had nine hundred . ninety-four 994
Chester A. Reed, of Dedham, had six hundred
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David H. Greenhood, of Dedham, had two hundred . forty-nine . 249
Arthur W. Wight had one .
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Franklin L. Brown had two .
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C. C. Nichols had four
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Josh S. Atwood had one
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1918
DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk of Dedham. EDGAR L. BIGELOW, Town Clerk of Norwood.
Attest : DON GLEASON HILL,
Town Clerk.
TOWN MEETING WARRANT.
[Town Seal.]
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss. To any Constable of the] Town of Dedham, in said County, Greeting :
You are hereby required, in the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid, to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town of Ded- ham, qualified to vote in town affairs, to assemble at Memorial Hall, in said town, on Monday, the twenty-fifth day of November, A. D. 1895, at half-past seven o'clock P. M., to act on the follow- ing articles, namely :
Article One-To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article Two-To see what action the Town will! take in re- gard to the expenses of the Fire Department, and raise and appropriate money therefor.
Article Three-To see what action the Town will take in regard to the expenses for repairs of Highways, and raise and appropriate money therefor.
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Article Four-To see what action the Town will take in re. gard to the expenses of the Police Deparment, and raise and appropriate money therefor.
Article Five-To see what action the Town will take in re- gard to the expenses necessary for printing, advertising and stationery, and raise and appropriate money therefor.
Article Six-To see if the Town will empower the Selectmen to execute, for and in behalf of the Town, a deed, lease or other instrument, granting, by sale or otherwise, to the"Norfolk Central Street Railway Company, certain land of the Town in Sandy Valley, or a right of way through the same, and fix the terms of said grant.
Hereof fail not, but make return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, unto the Selectmen, on or before said day and time.
Given under our hands and the seal of said Town, at Dedham aforesaid, this fourteenth day of November, A. D. eighteen hun- dred and ninety-five.
J. EVERETT SMITH, LESTER A. NEWCOMB, DAVID NEAL, CHARLES H. ELLIS, GEORGE W. WEATHERBEE,
-- Selectmen of Dedham.
On this warrant the following return was made :
Norfolk, ss.
Dedham, November 25, 1895.
By virture of this warrant, I have notified and warned the legal voters of the Town of Dedham, aforesaid, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes specified in said warrant, by posting attested copies thereof in each of the post-offices in said town, and in twenty other public places in said town, seven days at least before the day of said meeting, and by causing an attested copy thereof to be published twice before the time of said meeting in the Dedham Transcript, a newspaper published in said town of Dedham.
JOHN DEAN, Constable of Dedham.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Dedham, in said County, qualified to vote in town affairs, held pursuant to the foregoing warrant, at Memorial Hall, in said town, on the 25th day of November, 1895.
The meeting was called to order at the time and place named in said warrant, by the Town Clerk, who presided at the choice of Moderator.
Article One-Alfred Hewins was chosen Moderator by written ballot, in receiving which the check list was used.
Article Two-Voted to appropriate eighteen hundred dollars, for the expenses of the Fire Department.
Article Three-Voted to appropriate five hundred dollars for the repairs of highways.
Article Four-Voted that this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article Five-Voted to appropriate two hundred dollars for printing, advertising and stationery.
Voted that the sums appropriated at this meeting under articles 2, 3 and 5, be borrowed on the note or notes of the Town signed by the Treasurer, and countersigned by at least a majority of the Selectmen, such note or notes to be made payable in one year, at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent per annum, and on this question two hundred forty-three persons voted in the affirmative, and two persons voted in the negative, and the Mod- erator declared the same as passed by more than a two-thirds vote.
Voted that this meeting be now adjourned, to meet at this place immediately upon the dissolution of the town meeting which . was called to meet here, at eight o'clock this evening.
Attest:
DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen, of the Town of Ded- ham :. The undersigned respectfully request you to call a special town meeting for the following purposes :-
Article One-To choose a Moderator for said meeting.
Article Two-To hear the report of the Committee appointed Sept. 16, 1895,on the question of purchasing land, and the erec-
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tion of a building for the accommodation of Hose Co., No. 3, at East Dedham, and raise and appropriate money therefor.
Article Three-To see if the Town will appropriate the overlay of this years taxes, to the abatement of the same.
Article Four-To hear the report of the Committee appointed to consider Articles 13, 14 and 18, of the Town Meeting Warrant, of Sept. 16, 1895, relating to the widening of Boyden's Square.
Dedham, November 18. 1895.
Charles C. Sanderson,
C. T. H. Richter,
William C. Williams,
H. A. Hutchinson,
George C. Stearns,
W. P. Withington,
J. W. Kennington,
Wm. F. Mitchell,
M. A. Galucia,
Frederick D. Ely,
Geo. C. McClellan,
Creighton Colburn,
E. W. Smith,
C. F. Ivers, Edwin A. Chase,
J. F. Packard,
Geo. P. Goding,
John Wardle, Jr.,
M. J. Moloney,
W. T. Tapley,
J. M. Ratchford,
Fred W. Morrow,
F. A. Campbell,
Monsena S. Knight,
Herman Richter,
C. P. Baker.
TOWN MEETING WARRANT.
[Town Seal]
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS. To any Constable of the Town of Dedham, in said County, Greeting:
You are hereby required, in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to notify and warn the inhabitants of the said Town of Dedham, qualified to vote in town affairs, to assemble at Memorial Hall, in said Town, on Monday, the twenty-fifth day of November, A. D. 1895, at eight o'clock P. M., to act on the fol- lowing articles, namely :
Article One-To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article Two-To hear the report of the Committee appointed Sept. 16, 1895, on the question of purchasing land, and the erec- tion of a building for the accommodation of Hose Company, No. 3, at East Dedham, and raise and appropriate money therefor.
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Article Three-To see if the Town will appropriate the over- lay of this years taxes to the abatement of the same.
Article Four-To hear the report of the Committee appointed to consider Articles 13, 14 and 18 of the Town meeting Warrant, of Sept. 16, 1895, relating to the widening of Boyden's Square.
Hereof fail not, but make return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, unto the Selectmen, on or before said day and time.
Given under our hands, and the seal of said Town, at Ded- ham aforesaid, this twentieth day of November, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
J. EVERETT SMITH, GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, DAVID NEAL, LESTER A. NEWCOMB,
Selectmen of Dedham.
On this warrant the following return was made:
Norfolk, ss.
DEDHAM, Nov. 25, 1895.
By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the legal voters of the Town of Dedham, aforesaid, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes specified in said warrant, by posting attested copies thereof in each of the post offices in said town, and in twenty other public places in said town, four days at least before the day of said meeting, and by causing an attested copy thereof to be published once before the time of said meeting, in the Dedham Transcript, a newspaper published in said town of Dedham.
WILLIAM F. DRUGAN, Constable of. Dedham.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS.
At a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Dedham, in said County, qualified to vote in town affairs, held pursuant to the foregoing warrant, at Memorial Hall, in said Town, on the 25th day of November, A. D. 1895.
The meeting was called to order at the time and place named in said warrant by the Town Clerk, who presided at the choice of Moderator.
Article One-Alfred Hewins was chosen Moderator by writ- ten ballot, in receiving which the checklist was used.
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Article Two-The Committee named in this article through C. C. Sanderson, presented a verbal report, and it was voted that said report be accepted.
Voted that the Town purchase land on Bussey street owned by Edgar Harding, commencing on said street at the land owned by the Dedham Gaslight Co., thence running in a southeasterly direction on said street about 150 feet, to from 4 to 6 feet south of the fireproof store house, thence turning and running in an easterly direction at right angles with the street, or on parallel line of the storehouse to the brook, thence turning and running in a northwesterly direction on line of said brook, to a point on the line which would strike a parallel line of the beginning, thence running on said line to the first mentioned bound, containing about 24,000 feet front land, and about 36,000 feet of back land together with the buildings thereon, and to appropriate therefor the sum of $3,000.
Voted that the same Committee be instructed to purchase the land described in the vote just passed.
Voted that said sum of $3,000 appropriated under this article two, be borrowed on the note or notes of the Town, signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by at least a majority of the Select- men, such note or notes to be made payable in one year at a rate of interest not exceeding 4 per cent per annum, and on this ques- tion 171 persons voted in the affirmative, and 5 persons in the negative, and the Moderator declared the same as carried by more than a two-thirds vote.
Voted that the further consideration of this artice as to moving and reparing the old engine house, or rebuilding a new one, be referred back to the same Committee with instruction to report estimates of cost of reparing or rebuilding said engine house, to the Town at some future meeting.
Article Three- Voted that the Town appropriate the over- layings of this years taxes, to the abatement of the same.
Article Four-The Committee mentioned in this article sub- mitted a report, which was accepted, and this report was as follows :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE.
The Committee appointed at the Town Meeting, held Sept.
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16th, to consider Articles 13, 14 and 18, and report to a future meeting, submit the following :-
Article 13 refers to the purchase of Real Estate at the corner of High and Bussey streets, East Dedham, for the purpose of widening Boyden's Square.
Your Committee has viewed the premises, priced the property, and carefully considered the whole subject.
The corner referred to is unquestionably a bad one, and to a certain extent dangerous, for both foot passengers and teams. Bussey St. leaves High St. at an acute angle and without care is used by persons driving, an accident is likely to occur.
Some work has lately been done at this point, which improves the level of Bussey St., making it less dangerous than heretofore.
If the property referred to could be purchased at a reasonable price, and the Town's financial condition was such that your Committee could conscientiously advise the improvement, they would report favorably upon this article. As both of the condi- tions are the reverse for a favorable report, your Committee recommend that the Article be indefinitely postponed.
Article 14 refers to the purchase of land at the corner of Walnut, Milton and High streets, for the purpose of widening Boyden's Square, and Article 18 to the widening of Tracy's Square, both at East Dedham.
Your Committee has not been able to discover any number of persons who are interested in either of these improvements, or able to discern any good reason for an expenditure of money to this end, and therefore recommend that both of these Articles be indefinitely postponed.
. CLIFTON P. BAKER, CHARLES C. SANDERSON, J. EVERETT SMITH, LESTER A. NEWCOMB, HORATIO G. TURNER.
Committee. .
Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted that this meeting be dissolved.
Attest :
DON GLEASON HILL,
Town Clerk.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Dedham, held by adjournment at Memorial Hall, in said Town, on the 25th day of November, 1895, under warrant dated Nov. 14, 1895. The meeting was called to order by the Moderator, Alfred Hewins, immediately upon the dissolution of the Special Town meeting, which was also called to meet on said day and in said place at eight o'clock P. M., and the business proceeded as follows :
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Article Six-Voted that a right of way on which to construct and permanently operate a street railway over a strip of land twenty-four feet in width through the Town farm, approximately as shown on a "plan of proposed track location" drawn by E. Worthington, Jr., November 20, 1895, together with a right to properly slope land adjoining said twenty-four feet for cuts and fills, is hereby granted the Norfolk Central Street Railway Com- pany, said grant being conditioned on the completion of said rail- way on or before January 1, 1897, and its operation thereafter without continuous lapse for more than twelve months, and the Selectmen are hereby empowered and directed to execute for, and in behalf of the Town, a deed of grant of said right of way to said railway.
And on motion the meeting was dissolved.
Attest :
DON GLEASON HILL, . Town Clerk.
The ballots cast at the last November Election have been destroyed according to law.
TOWN MEETING WARRANT.
[Town Seal.]
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
To any Constable of the Town of Dedham, in said County, Greeting:
You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth
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aforesaid, to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town of Dedham, qualified to vote in town affairs, to assemble at Memo- rial Hall in said town, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of January, A. D. 1896, at eight o'clock in the evening, then and there to act on the following articles, namely:
Article one-To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article Two-To see if the Town will vote to change the number of Selectmen to be hereafter elected, from five, the present number, to three, so that the Board shall consist of three Selectmen in the future.
Article Three-To see if the Town will vote to elect a sepa- rate Board of Highway Surveyors, to consist of three persons.
Hereof fail not, but make return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, unto the Selectmen, on or before said day and time.
Given under our hands, and the seal of said Town of Dedham aforesaid, this sixteenth day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
J EVERETT SMITH,
DAIVD NEAL,
Selectmen of
CHARLES H. ELLIS,
Dedham.
GEO. W. WEATHERBEE,
On this warrant the following return was made :-
Norfolk, ss. · Dedham, January 27, 1896.
By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the le- gal voters of the Town of Dedham, aforesaid, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes specified in said warrant, by posting attested copies thereof in each of the post offices in said town, and in twenty other public places in said town, seven days at least before the day of said meeting, and by causing an at- tested copy thereof to be published twice before the time of said meeting, in the Dedham Transcript, a newspaper published in said Town of Dedham.
JOHN DEAN, Constable of Dedham.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Dedham, in said County, qualified to vote in town affairs, held pursuant to the foregoing warrant, at Memorial Hall, in said Dedham, on the 27th day of January, A. D. 1896. The meeting was called to order at the time mentioned in said warrant by the Town Clerk, who presided at the choice of Moderator.
Article One-John R. Bullard was elected Moderator by written ballot, in receiving which the check list was used.
Article Two-Voted that this article be indefinitely post- poned.
Article Three-Voted that this article be indefinitely post- poned.
Voted that this meeting be dissolved.
Attest: DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
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FROM HIGHWAY BOOK.
At an adjourned Town meeting held April 8, 1895, the following report was accepted under Article Thirty-six of the warrant:
Description of location of Fairview street.
The Selectmen of the Town of Dedham, lay out and establish the following lines as bounds of a new Town wav, viz :
## Commencing at a stone monument, on the easterly line of Oak- dale avenue, distant 72 feet Northerly, from the monument at the Northerly end of the curve in the original location of said Oakdale Avenue, thence the Northerly line of Fairview street, runs upon a curve of 13.2 feet Radius, 24 feet over land belonging to the Metho- dist Parsonage, to a monument on the Northerly line of said street, as heretofore opened as a private way, thence running N. 85 deg. 27 E. 123.3 f. by the Southerly line of land of said Methodist Parson- age, to a monument, thence curving southwardly upon a radius of 40 f. 11. 9 feet by land of Lewis P. Cushman to a monument, thence running S. 75 deg. 30 E. 520 feet by land of said Cushman, and land of George Hewins, Harriet W. Hewins and Carrie A. Carroll, to a monument, thence running N. 43 deg. 44 E. 122. 9 feet to a monu- ment on the southwesterly line of Whiting Avenue. Said way to be not less than 40 feet wide, and to lie on the southerly side of the above described lines.
The location of the southerly line commences at a point on said Easterly line of Oakdale Avenue, 13 feet Northerly from the above described monument at the end of the curve, thence running N. 85 deg. 27 E. by the former location of said Private way, and continuing thence 40 feet distant, and parallel with the first above described line, and we award as land damages, seven 50-100 dollars to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
And when accepted and recorded is forever after to be known as a public highway.
Given under our hands at Dedham, this 20th day of February, A. D. 1895.
THOMAS P. MURRAY, -
J. EVERETT SMITH, DAVID NEAL. FERDINAND F. FAVOR, GEO W. WEATHERBEE.
Selectmen of Dedham.
Filed Feb. 20, 1895, and recorded after acceptance by the Town. DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
Highway Book, p, 141.
At an adjourned Town meeting held April 8, 1895, the following re port was accepted under Article Thirty-five of the warrant.
Town of Dedham,
In Board of Park Commissioners, February 25, 1895.
Whereas, the undersigned, duly appointed and qualified as the
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Board of Park Commissioners of the Town of Dedham, by virtue of and according to the provisions of the act of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, entitled " An Act authorizing Towns and Cities to lay out public parks within their limits," being Chapter 154 of the Acts of 1882, deem it desirable to take the follow- ing described parcels of land for the purposes and under the powers and limitations set forth in said Act. Now, therefore, we, the said Board of Park Commissioners, by the authority conferred upon us by the said Act, and by the Town of Dedliam, which has made the appropriations necessary to cover the estimated expenses of our action in the premises, have taken, and hereby do take, and locate . as and for a public park. the following described parcels of land. situated in that part of the Town of Dedham commonly called Stone Haven, namely :
A parcel of land belonging to the Town of Dedham, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the northwesterly corner of said land, at the south line of Elm View Place, at the corner of land belonging to Ward; thence running south SS deg. 40 min. East, by the southerly line of Elm View Place, 292.9 feet, more or less, to the stone wall and land lately belonging to Mrs. Louisa M. Morse ; thence along said wall south 30 deg. 59 min. East, by land formerly belonging to Mrs. Louisa M. Morse, 100.35 feet, more or less, to a fence and land belonging to George Cartwright ; thence running south 60 deg. 32 min. W. along land of said Cartwright, 228 feet, more or less, to a stone monument at the division line between lands of George Cartwright and Patrick Barrett ; thence south 63 deg. 23 min. West, 70.2 feet, more or less, along land of said Barrett to land belonging to Preston R. Mansfield; thence running north 13 deg. 58 min. west, along land of said Mansfield, 118.3 feet, more or less, to a fence line forming the southerly boundary of a private way, leading from Mt Vernon street to the land herein taken; thence southwesterly 25.1 feet, more or less, along the line of said boundary fence, upon said private way; thence north 13 deg. 23 min. west, 138.75 feet, more or less, crossing said right of way and along land of Ward to the point of beginning at Elm View Place.
A parcel of land belonging to the Town of Dedham, bounded and described as follows: Beginning on the Northerly line of Whit- ing Avenue Extension, as accepted by the Town of Dedham, Decem- ber 11, 1894, and at land belonging to George Cartwright ; thence running North 24 deg. 35 min. West, 105.36 feet more or less by a wall and fence along land of said Cartwright to an angle; thence North 29 deg. 35 min. West, 48 feet more or less by a fence along land of said Cartwright to an angle; thence North 36 deg. 2 min. West, 42. 0 ft. more or less by a stone wall along land of said Cart- wright ; thence North 30 deg. 59 min. West, 150 feet more or less by a wall along the land of said Cartwright, and land held by Trustees under deed of Eliphalet Stone and Elm View Place; thence South 59 deg. 1 min. West, 15 feet more or less by a wall ; thence North 14 deg. 35 min. West, 110. 5 feet more or less by a wall along land of Michael Smith, to the location line of the Readville Branch of Boston & Providence Railroad Corporation, now leased to New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad ; thence Easterly along the location line of said railroad by various courses, 1049.8 feet more or less to other land beloning to Mrs. Louisa M. Morse ; thence South 16 deg. 31 min. West, 214.77 feet more or less to the Northerly line of said Whiting Avenue Extension ; thence Westerly by said Northerly line of Whiting Avenue Extension, 750. 09 feet more of less to the point of beginning.
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All of said parcels of land being shown on a plan, entitled "Plan of Lands taken by Dedham Park Commissioners in Dedham Mass., for Stone Park, being lands formerly owned by Eliphalet Stone and Mrs. Lousia M. Morse," Scale 50 feet per inch, February 25, 1895, E. Worthington, Jr., Engineer, and on file in the office of, the Town Clerk of the Town of Dedham.
THOS. T. ROBINSON. Park
FRANCIS L. BABCOCK, E. WORTHINGTON, JR., Commissioners.
Filed March 4, 1895, and recorded after acceptance by the Town. DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
Highway Book, p. 142.
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The following is a list of the BIRTHS recorded n Dedham for the year 1895 : -
Date of Birth.
Name of Child.
Names of Parents.
Birthplace of Father.
Birthplace of Mother.
Jan. 4 Madeline Haak
Charles F. and Edith G.
Boston
England
11
Mary A. Rogers
Frank P. and Hannah
NovaScotia Ireland
14
Margaret Boyd
M. Gardner and Harriet T.
Dedham
Roxbury
15
Edward C. Suereth
Anthouy M. and Josephine
Germany
Cincinnati, Ohio.
16
Edward A. Bestwick
Edward H. and Lena .
Wiscasset, Me. Brunswick.
25
Warren H. Ellis
Charles H. and Emma F.
Dedham
Needbam
25
Roger F. Shine
Thomas P. and Delia E.
Dedham
Ireland
26
Francis Scarry
John and Nora H.
Ireland
Dorchester
Feb. 3 6
Thomas T. Kelly
.James J. and Julia M.
Dedham
Ireland
8
Dennis J. Sullivan
John D. and Nora M.
Ireland
Ireland
11 11
Freida Kreuger
Louis H. M. and Freida
Germany
N. F. Germany
12
John J. McDonald
James and Mary
Ireland
Ireland
13
Francis McDonough
Francis J. and Annie V.
Ireland
Dedham
Patrick and Mary
Ireland
Ireland
14 22
Joseph L. Gaynor
Joseph P. and Honora
Ireland
Ireland
25
Bernard F. Sherry
James and Bridget G.
Ireland
Ireland
26
Patrick J. McEntee
Patrick and Rose
Ireland
Ireland
Mar. 3
Frank Deroo
William B. and Mary A.
Boston Ireland
4
Joseph M. Hubbard
William B. and Carrie N.
Boston
Boston
4
Kath'ne Shaughnessy William L. McCarty
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