Contributions of the Lowell Historical Society

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Annual Report Of The Executive Committee For 1903-04. Prepared And Read By Solon W. Stevens, President, ' February 10, 1904. The attention of the members of the Lowell Historical Society is hereby invited to the second Annual Report of its Executive Committee. There are no dramatic incidents to relate, no...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Annual Report Of The Executive Committee For 1903-04. Prepared And Read By Solon W. Stevens, President, ' February 10, 1904. The attention of the members of the Lowell Historical Society is hereby invited to the second Annual Report of its Executive Committee. There are no dramatic incidents to relate, no startling announcements to make, and no brilliant prospects for the future on which the imagination is tempted to dwell. We have passed the second year of our organization as a body corporate in a quiet, unostentatious manner trying to make some contributions to the data already secured which appertain to the history of that particular section of Middlesex County .wherein originated the first great manufacturing establishments in textile industry which have made the Commonwealth of Massachusetts prominent in the sisterhood of States. At a special meeting held on Friday, February 27, 1903, a very interesting paper entitled Reminiscences of early Lowell, prepared by Mrs. Sarah W. Francis, was read before the Society by the President. At this same meeting Hon. Levi S. Gould of Melrose, County Commissioner, gave an admirable address on Middlesex County, ancient and modern, with biographical sketches of certain County Commissioners who have lived in or near Lowell. Portraits of these last named County Commissioners were exhibited. The address gave evidence of great research and ability in its preparation. At the regular meeting on May I3th, a paper prepared by the Mayor, Hon. Charles A. R. Dimon, entitled Army life among the Indians in Dacotah in 1864?5, was read Dv Charles Cowley, who stated that this paper had been given to Post 42 G. A. R., by Mr. Dimon, and that he was authorized by Post 42 to present this paper to the Lowell Historical Society as a gift. At..