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We would recommend that one of the boilers now in use be taken out, leaving the second in position, and that a tubular boiler be put in the place of the one removed,-a boiler large enough to furnish all the steam that can, by any possibility, be required during the very coldest weather, and with some considerable still in reserve. The economy of such a plan must be obvious to all; for then only a single furnace and boiler would be needed at any and all times. The small one would serve as at present, early and late in the season, while the new tubular boiler alone would supply steam enough during the winter season.
Some $650 will be required to make the desired change.
Turning to the work of the schools, we report that it has been properly carried on and that they are now in a condition quite creditable and satisfactory. The same teachers remain in charge, the only change in the number consisting in the addition of Miss Mary E. Rogers who was appointed as teacher of the new school in the Locke building. Miss Rogers is a teacher of experience and her work here already convinces us of her excellent qualifications for the position.
Miss Simmons has returned to her duties at the High School to the great satisfaction of all connected with it. During her year's absence her place was supplied by Miss May C. Hardy and it is a source of satisfaction to the Com- mittee that we were able to find one of our own graduates capable of filling a position, in some respects of peculiar difficulty, with so much intelligence and success.
The High School has had a prosperous year. The build- ing although never designed for the purpose and with some incurable defects has, nevertheless, within the last few years been so altered as to be much less unfit than formerly and
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the rooms have been made attractive by the addition of valuable pictures, etc., procured largely by the efforts of the scholars under Mr. Fisher's direction.
The course of study has been modified from time to time as experience directed, and so as to make it conform to the requirements for admission to college, and, as it now stands, is printed with this report, together with the list of text- books now in use. This is done in response to frequent requests from parents and from others outside our own town for our printed course of study. We believe it will be seen to be an attractive and useful course, and one well adapted to modern needs.
COURSE OF STUDY FOR THE COTTING HIGH SCHOOL.
ENGLISH COURSE.
FIRST TERM.
SECOND TERM.
THIRD TERM.
FIRST YEAR.
Algebra. Physiology. History.
Algebra. Eng. Composition. General History.
Algebra. Rhetoric. Botany.
SECOND YEAR.
Geometry. Arithmetic. French. Rhetoric.
Geometry. Arithmetic. French. Eng. Literature.
Astronomy, or Mineralogy. French. Eng. Literature.
THIRD YEAR.
Physics. French. Eng. Literature.
Physics. French. Eng. Literature.
Civil Government. French. Eng. Literature.
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CLASSICAL COURSE.
FIRST TERM.
SECOND TERM.
THIRD TERM.
FIRST YEAR.
Algebra. Physiology. Latin.
Algebra. Eng. Composition. Latın.
Algebra. Rhetoric. Latin.
SECOND YEAR.
Geometry. Arithmetic. Rhetoric. Latin.
Geometry. Arithmetic. Eng. Literature. Latin.
Mineralogy, or Astronomy. Eng. Literature. Latin.
THIRD YEAR.
Physics. Eng. Literature. Latin.
Physics. Eng. Literature. Latin.
Civil Government. Eng. Literature. Latin.
COLLEGE COURSE.
FIRST TERM.
SECOND TERM.
THIRD TERM.
FIRST YEAR.
Algebra. Physiology. Latin.
Algebra. Eng. Composition. Latin.
Algebra. Rhetoric. Latin.
SECOND YEAR.
Latin. Greek. French.
Latin. Greek. French.
Latin. Greek. French.
THIRD YEAR.
Latin. Greek. French.
Latin. Greek. French.
Latin. Greek. French.
FOURTH YEAR.
Låtin. Greek. Physics. Adv. Algebra. Arithmetic.
Latin and Greek. Greek History. Physics. Adv. Geometry.
English. Roman History. Astronomy. Latin. Greek. .
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TEXT-BOOKS USED IN THE COTTING HIGH SCHOOL.
Mathematics.
Algebra, Wentworth's
| Latin.
Elements. Geometry, Wentworth's Plane and Solid. Geometry, Bradbury's Elements. Arithmetic, Thompson's Commercial. Avery's Elements. Steele's Fourteen Weeks. Dana's Elements. Rolfe and Gillette's. Hutchison's. Gray's How Plants Grow.
Greek.
Physics. Chemistry.
Mineralogy. Astronomy. Physiology. Botany.
History.
Berard's English. Barnes' General. 66 United States. Leighton's Rome. Smith's Greece. Kellogg's.
Chittenden's.
Allen and Greenough's Grammar.
English Literature. Music.
Allen and Greenough's Cæsar. Allen and Greenough's Ovid. Allen and Greenough s Virgil. Allen and Greenough's Cicero.
Collar and Lessons.
Daniell's
Daniell's Sentences from Cæsar. Jones' Prose Composi- tion. Bennett's Prose Com- position. White's Lexicon. White's Lessons. Goodwin's Grammar. Anabasis.
Boise's Iliad. Goodwin's Herodotus. Jones' Prose Composi- tion. Sidgmik's Prose Com- position. Liddell and Scott's Lexicon. Keetel's Analytical Grammar. Keetel's Reader. Sauveur's Grammar. 66 Causeries. Henniquin's Idioms. Duffet's Literature. Cassell's Lexicon. Littre's Various authors are used for reading. Various books and lec- tures. Eichberg's High School Reader. Holt and Tuft's High School Reader. Veazie's High School Reader.
Rhetoric. English Com position. Latin.
Gray's Manual and Field Book.
French.
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To facilitate the work in the scientific branches, a con- siderable quantity of apparatus in physics and astromony has been procured at an expense astonishingly small com- pared with its educational value. Special mention should be made of Yaggy's Physiological Chart, which has recently been obtained.
The mention of Yaggy's Chart suggests a topic in regard to which inquiries have often been made, viz. the teaching of physiology in our schools with especial reference to the temperance question. The legal requirement is (St. 1885, ch. 322) : "Physiology and hygiene, which in both divisions of the subject, shall include special instruction as to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics on the human system, shall be taught as a regular branch of study to all pupils in all schools supported wholly or in part by public money," except certain special schools. The Com- mittee believe that the law is observed, not simply to the letter but in spirit as well, in all our schools, although as in all other studies the amount and character of instruction must vary with the age and capacity of the pupils. .
In the grammar and primary schools there is little that calls for special comment. On the establishment of the Locke district Miss Pierce was made principal, with the same authority in matters of study and discipline as is given to the grammar masters in the other districts. Miss Scanlan was also given the same powers in the Crosby district. By such division of authority the proper supervision of schools is best secured, the schools in each district having a respon- sible head, while each school is under the further supervision of a sub-committee of this Board and all under the control of the Chairman. The question of the appointment of a Superintendent of Schools which has frequently been before this and former Committees again arose this year and was referred to a sub-committee who after mature deliberation
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were unable to recommend the appointment of such an officer, believing that under the above described system, our schools are not suffering from lack of proper oversight.
The attendance of pupils. has as a general thing been good. Parents evidently appreciate the advantages freely offered by our schools and willingly co-operate with the Committee in seeing that children attend school regularly and punctually. Such cases of truancy as have arisen have been promptly and vigorously taken in hand by the truant officers and satisfactorily and quickly settled, without further legal pro- ceedings. It is a noticeable fact that these cases almost without exception have occurred in the Russell district.
The town has been remarkably healthy during the year 1887, as far as those contagious diseases are concerned which affect school attendance. While severe epidemics of contagious diseases, - notably of scarlet fever, - have ap- peared in Boston and in several of the smaller cities and towns about us,-some of such severity as to make the tem- porary closing of school necessary, the situation with us has at no time been grave enough to lead us to think for a moment of the advisability of closing any of our schools. In fact the question has never come before us at all in any form. And yet, under the circumstances described, it was to be expected that exaggerated reports should circulate of the existence of large numbers of cases of scarlet fever in our schools, and, on more than one occasion, of our decision to close some school.
We are fortunate in being able to report so favorably, since there are good reasons for believing that the State laws and our town rules bearing on this subject have not always been carefully and promptly complied with. These laws and the rules and regulations of our Board have of course been established for the general good, and constant watchfulness and willing obedience to such rules are at all times necessary.
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Bearing in mind the old adage, " In times of peace pre- pare for war," and feeling that such fortunate freedom from epidemics as we have lately enjoyed is very apt to be fol- lowed by carelessness or at least indifference, it has seemed advisable to state here just what the statutes require and what our own special regulations provide.
The laws of the Commonwealth provide [Rev. St. 1882, Chap. 47, Sect. 9], that " The School Committee shall not allow a child who has not been duly vaccinated to be admit- ted to or connected with the public schools." Again they provide [St. 1884, Chap. 98 ], that the Selectmen or the Board of Health, and through them the School Committee shall be promptly notified of the existence of every case of contagious disease. by the householder in whose family such case exists, and also by the physician in charge. And again [St. 1885, Chap. 98], they provide as follows :
AN ACT
to prevent the spread of contagious diseases through the Public Schools.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :
Chapter sixty-four of the acts of the year eighteen hun- dred and eighty-four is hereby amended so that it shall read as follows :-- The school committees shall not allow any pupil to attend the public schools while any member of the household to which such pupil belongs is sick of small-pox, diphtheria, or scarlet fever, or during a period of two weeks after the death, recovery or removal of such sick person ; and any pupil coming from such household shall be required to present to the teacher of the school the pupil desires to attend a certificate from the attending physician or Board of
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Health, of the facts necessary to entitle him to admission, in accordance with the above regulation.
The rules of our Board read as follows :
1. No pupil shall be admitted into any school without a certificate from a physician that he or she has been vaccinated.
2. No teacher or scholar shall be allowed to attend school from any house in which small-pox, varioloid, scarlet fever, or diphtheria exists.
3. No teacher or scholar shall be permitted to return to school from any house in which small-pox, varioloid, scarlet fever, or diphtheria has existed, without a written state- ment from a physician that such length of time has elapsed from the commencement of the last case in such house as to make the return safe, in his judgment.
4. No teacher or scholar shall be allowed to attend school who is affected with measles or whooping cough. .
5. Teachers shall have authority to exclude, temporarily, from school any scholar who may be affected with other diseases or eruptions of doubtful character; but all such cases shall be at once reported to the sub-committee having charge of the school.
It is hoped that all our town's-people will acquaint them- selves with these rules and bear them in mind at all times ; and that parents will, if necessary, err on the safe side, rather than run any risk in doubtful cases, until the doubt is settled. In such cases, if all will work together for the public good, we can reasonably expect to report just as favorably a year hence.
Mr. W. E. Wood reports for the sub-committee on Music as follows :
"Musical instruction has received especial attention in all the grades, both from Prof. L. B. Marshall and from the teachers. The new Holt and Tuft's text-books, which were introduced last year, and which have been supplemented during this year by an additional grade,-' The Introductory
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Third Reader,'-have afforded abundant material for hard work, and it is gratifying to report that the interest of the scholars seems to have been stimulated by the vigorous har- mony of the exercises and songs, which has caused them to develop, even among the younger classes, a comprehension of scientific musical chords and progressions, which once would have been thought to be entirely beyond their power to appreciate.
No year has ever produced better educational results in music in our schools than the one just closed. While the casual listener might say that the concerted singing of the classes is now no better than one year ago, the musically- versed can discern in their work a mastering of difficulties in intervals, in suspensions, in relation of keys, in discordant harmonies, and in broken time, which evinces faithful and intelligent application, and which is of more real benefit to the pupils than scores of pretty songs, rote-learned, could be.
Self-reliance on the part of the scholars has noticeably in- creased ; and it seems fair to predict that a continuation of present methods of musical instruction will result in surpris- ing accomplishments, in sight-reading and correct intonating, and will elevate the musical taste of our school-children to a standard of appreciation which was not possible to be obtained in former days except by expensive private tuition."
In conclusion we would commend our schools to your favorable consideration ; and would ask that by more fre- quent visits to the schools while in session, and by an appropriation of money for school purposes, liberal as heretofore and commensurate with the grand object aimed at, you may show that our schools have your hearty support and your Committee your entire confidence.
Approved by the School Committee.
WILLIAM A. WINN, Chairman.
ARLINGTON, Dec. 31, 1887.
TABULAR STATEMENT OF ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOLS.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Whole No.
| Av'ge Attend
Whole No.
Avʼge Attend.
Whole|Avige No.
Av'ge Atten Attend.
COTTING HIGH .
.
.
Eliza A. Simmons .
58
56
55
53
65
61
57
| May C. Hardy
1
27
25
25
23
42
39
29
3d
.
·
Caroline C. Turner Anna Pillsbury
47
43
42
38
53
50
44
5th
1st division .
Ada E. Flanders
35
31
35
32
37
35
33
5th
·
.
Louisa R. Warren .
38
34
34
30
41
36
33
6th
2d
.
Elizabeth L. Geer
.
46
41
44
37
52
45
41
M. Carrie Lawrence
56
48
54
46
55
49
48
3d
" 1st division
Mabel E. Blake
37
29
45
36
33
23
29
3d
2d
Lizzie A. Day
34
26
49
36
37
30
31
Mary F. Scanlan
48
14
52
43
51
47
45
Annie C. Snelling .
34
27
45
38
46
37
34
CUTTER GRAMMAR -- 1st & 2d Classes
Nathan T. Soule
24
23
22
21
3d and 4th Classes
Jennie A. Chaplin .
42
40
39
35
5th Class
Mary L Pierce
44
41
41
38
6th
Mary J. Copeland .
54
46
49
44
Mary M. Brady
26
23
29
27
Elizabeth DeBlois
33
25
35
33
LOCKE PRIMARY
.
Fannie E. Taylor
48
38
52
48
35
33
4th and 5th Classes
42
38
6th and 7th
Mary M. Brady
50
46
8th and 9th
Elizabeth DeBlois .
28
24
LOCKE GRAMMAR~2d & 3d Classes
20
18
4th and 5th Classes ·
43
39
6th and 7th
.
Mary E. Rogers
41
34
8th and 9th
·
· .
Fannie E. Taylor
36
30
INSTRUCTOR IN MUSIC
·
.
Leonard B. Marshall
901
797
903
800
984
880
826
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RUSSELL GRAMMAR - 1st Class
.
Horace A. Freeman Olive M. Hobart .
44
41
37
35
49
46
41
50
46
48
43
53
49
16
4th
·
·
Elisa A. Sargent
40
37
36
34
34
33
35
6th
66 1st
Elizabeth B. Blake
36
33
35
30
41
38
34
RUSSELL PRIMARY - 1st Class
2d Class .
·
·
.
·
·
CUTTER PRIMARY-1st & 2d Classes 3d Class
·
·
.
CUTTER GRAM'R -- 1st, 2d & 3d Classes
Nathan T. Soule
Jennie A. Chaplin
.
·
.
.
Mary L. Pierce
1
Mary J. Copeland
.
FIRST TERM.
SECOND TERM.
THIRD TERM.
YEAR.
( A. Gardiner Fisher
Anna J. Newton
.
2d Class
.
2d
CROSBY PRIMARY-1st & 2d Classes 2d and 3d Classes
.
.
STATISTICS
OF THE
TOWN OF ARLINGTON.
MAY 1,1887.
Valuation of Real Estate,
$4,045,760 00
" Personal Estate,
839,165 00
Amount " Town Grant,
78,525 00
" State Tax, 6,030 00
" County Tax, 2,819 60
66 " Overlayings, 628 20
Number of Polls, 1422, at $2.00 each,
2,844 00
Rate of taxation on $1000, . . 16 00
Number of persons paying a tax on property, 1,005
Number of persons paying a Poll Tax only,
925
Total number of tax-payers,
1,930
66 " dwelling-houses,
843
" horses, 511
"' COWS, 159
Increase in number of dwelling-houses since May
1, 1886, 24
ARLINGTON, May 1, 1887.
ALFRED D. HOITT, Assessors B. DELMONT LOCKE, JAMES A. BAILEY,
of Arlington.
LIST OF JURORS OF THE TOWN OF ARLINGTON.
REVISED BY THE SELECTMEN, JAN. 21, 1888.
George G. Allen,
Calvin Andrews,
James A. Bailey,
William H. Jones,
W. Washington Kimball,
George W. Lane,
Charles W. Bastine, James Baston.
Mark D. Lawrence,
Henry W. Berthrong, Joseph H. Butterfield,
Leander D. Bradley,
George H. Lancaster, Albert C. Learned, George D. Moore,
Thomas H. Carens,
Nathan L. Chaffin,
William A. Clark,
Albert W. Cotton,
Edmund W. Noyes, T. Ralph Parris,
John S. Crosby,
Darwin A. Proctor,
Henry E. Chamberlin, Edward H. Cutter, Warren Cutter, Lorenzo H. Dupee,
Rollin P. Puffer,
Warren A. Peirce,
Warren Rawson,
David Richards.
Henry D. Dodge,
Frank J. Rogers,
John A. Easton,
Edward T. Russell,
Charles B. Fessenden,
Thomas H Russell,
Francis S. Frost,
Carl W. Schwamb,
George T. Freeman,
Theodore Schwamb,
Edward S. Fessenden,
Edwin S. Farmer.
George A. Teel, Lucian C. Tyler,
Charles O. Gage, James Gibson, Charles E. Goodwin, Thomas Gray,
Waterman A. Taft, Samuel B. Thing,
David P. Green,
Apollos J. Tillson. Andrew W. Turner, Edward E. Upham, Joseph P. Wyman, Richard A. Welch,
Cassius M. Hall, James Hanna, Joseph J. Hewes, George Hill, Jr., Jacob F. Hobbs, Alfred D. Hoitt,
Charles H. Wharton, Benjamin F. Woods, Charles P. Wyman.
JAMES A. BAILEY, GEORGE D. TUFTS, GEORGE D. MOORE,
Selectmen of Arlington.
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Richard M. Johnson, Eben E. Jacobs,
Linnæus J. Bailey, Joel Barnard,
Edwin B. Lane,
Henry L. Lawrence,
Edwin P. Bryant,
James A. Marden,
Oran B. Marston,
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
ON THE
SOLDIERS' MONUMENT.
To the Town of Arlington :
The committee appointed by the town March 10, 1885, under Article 31 of the warrant, "for the building of a monument, in memory and in honor, of the patriotism of those citizens of the town, who lost their lives in military service in the War of the Rebellion," hereby report, that they have attended to the duty assigned them, erecting the Monument standing at the junction of Arlington avenue and Broadway.
The design and working plans were drawn by the emi- nent architects Messrs. Van Brunt & Howe of Boston ; the builders were the "Mitchell Granite Works" of Quincy. The height of the Monument is forty-two feet ; the founda- tion is of granite, nine feet deep, laid in cement; the base or podium of Quincy granite; the structure above the podium of Barre, Vermont, granite, with the exception of the
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four monolithic panels of Westerly, R. I., red granite, upon which are engraved the names and brief records of thirty- three of the soldiers of this town, who sacrificed their lives, that the Nation might live.
The Monument bears, upon the pedestal, in raised letters, the following inscriptions :
On the front or westerly panel.
IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE SOLDIERS OF ARLING- TON WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES TO THEIR COUNTRY IN THE WAR FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE UNION, 1861-1865.
On the southerly panel. MANASSAS TO APPOMATTOX.
On the easterly panel.
"THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE, SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH." -Lincoln.
On the northerly panel. ERECTED 1886.
Encircling the entablature, is Webster's Sentiment,- "LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE."
The inscriptions borne upon the monolithic panels of the shaft are as follows :
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On the Front or Westerly Panel.
40th Reg. N. Y. Inft., Arlington Co. ALBERT S. INGALS, Major,. Wounded June 30, 1862, before Rich- mond, Va. Died Aug. 11, '62, Annapolis, Md.
JOHN LOCKE, 2d Lieut., Died Sept. 22, '62, Arlington, Mass.
SEWALL B. ELLIS, Sergt. Killed June 9, '62, before Richmond, Va.
JOHN B. WILEY, Corp., Killed Sept. 1, '62, Chantilly, Va.
JOHN P. GAMMON, Died Feb. 9, '62, Alexandria, Va.
ALEXANDER H. GREENLAW, Killed May 5, '62, Williamsburg, Va.
ANDREW J. KENNEY, Killed May 5, '62, Williamsburg, Va.
EZRA W. THOMPSON, Killed June 9, '62, before Richmond, Va.
THOMAS E. BANKS, Killed Dec. 13, '62, Fredericksburg, Va.
JOHN H. HILL, Wounded Dec. 13, '62, Fredericksburg, Va, Died Dec. 25, '62, at Richmond, Va.
On the Southerly Panel.
5th Reg. Mass. Inft. WM. H. LAWRENCE, Sergt. Killed July 21, 1861, Bull Run, Va.
13th Reg. Mass. Inft.
JAMES B. DUNN, Died April 12, '62, Williamsport, Md.
16th Reg. Mass. Inft.
MICHAEL CAMPBELL, Killed May 12, '64, Spottsylvania, Va.
22d Reg. Mass. Inft. EDWIN D. CLARK, Died June 20, '62, Arlington, Mass.
24th Reg. Mass. Inft.
CHAS. J. MOORE, Corp. Died April 11, '64, Washington, D. C.
WILLIAM THOMPSON, Died August 16, '64, St. Helena, S. C.
28th Reg. Mass. Inft.
CHARLES MARCHANT, Died Aug. 29, '64, Andersonville, Ga.
33d Reg. Mass. Inft.
JOSEPH P. BURRAGE, 2d Lieut. Killed Oct. 29,'63, Lookout Mountain, Tenn.
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On the Easterly Panel. 42d Reg. Mass. Inft. DENNIS DAILEY, Died Aug. 1, 1863, Hempstead, Texas.
43d Reg. Mass. Inft.
GEORGE H. SPRAGUE, Died March 27, '63, New Berne, N. C.
45th Reg. Mass. Inft. ALBERT BROOKS, Killed Dec. 14, '62. Kinston, N. C.
JAMES MURPHY, Killed Dec. 14, '62, Kinston, N. C.
56th Reg. Mass. Inft.
PATRICK KERRIGAN, Killed July 30, '64. Petersburg, Va.
60th Reg. Mass. Inft.
CHARLES C. HASKELL, Died July 29, '64, Readville, Mass.
61st. Reg. Mass. Inft. JOHN D. GRANT. Died July 27, '65, Arlington, Mass.
On the Northerly Panel. 14th Battery Mass. Light Artillery. THOMAS MITCHELL, Died Nov. 6, 1864, Andersonville, Ga.
2d Reg. Mass. Heavy Artillery. JOHN KELLEY, Died Oct. 12, '64, New Berne, N. C.
Ist Reg. Mass. Cavalry, THOMAS MARTIN, Wounded June 9, '63, Stephensburg, Va., Died June 10, '63, Licking Run, Va.
JAMES FERGUSON, Wounded Nov. 27, '63, New Hope Church, Va., Died Dec. 13, '63, Alexandria, Va.
3d Reg. Mass. Cavalry, ROBERT GUILD, Died July 14, '64, New Orleans, La.
4th Reg. Mass. Cavalry. GEORGE W. TRASK, Died May 3, '62, Port Royal, S. C.
5th Reg. Mass. Cavalry. JOHN DOUGHTY, Died April 4, '64, Readville, Mass.
HENRY L. BRISON, Died April 30, '64, Readville, Mass.
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REPORT ON SOLDIERS' MONUMENT.
As early as 1865, the closing year of the war, the " Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society" of this town donated five hundred dollars towards the erection of a monument to per- petuate the memory of our fallen soldiers. This money was placed in the hands of Mr. John Field, who acted as treasurer of the fund.
On Oct. 21, of the same year, a public meeting of cit- izens was held in the town hall, to adopt measures for carry- ing forward the work towards which the ladies had so liberally contributed.
Addresses were made by John Field, William E. Par- menter, John Schouler, Joseph S. Potter, Rev. Wm. E. Gibbs and others, earnestly commending the object, and a committee of fifteen gentlemen was chosen to procure the erection of a suitable monument.
John Field, Samuel Butterfield, James C. Converse, George H. Gray, John Schouler, John P. Wyman, Timothy Eaton, William E. Parmenter, Benjamin Poland, Addison Hill, Addison Gage, Samuel S. Davis, Joseph S. Potter, Josiah Crosby and Cyrus H. Cutter, constituted said committee. Subsequently at a meeting of the committee Albert Winn was chosen in place of Mr. Converse. John Field was elected chairman, and George Y. Wellington clerk of the meeting and committee.
Mr. Wellington kept a full record of this meeting, and of the transactions of the committee, which record is now in the possession of the town.
The committee went actively to work to procure volun- tary subscriptions from citizens, with a view of asking the town to make an appropriation of such additional sums as might be required to complete the structure.
They received designs of monuments from different archi- tects and decided upon one of granite, forty feet in height ; but learning that the cost of building at that time, would be
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