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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), An Old-time Society. (search)
hoever should be the successful competitor, he was to be fined ten cents for every day that he retained the articles beyond the time allowed, which, in the case of the tubs, was one week. The first election of officers was held at Porter's Tavern on the 24th of August, 1814, when the following were chosen: president, Rev. Abiel Holmes, D. D.; vice-president, Rev. Henry Ware, D. D.; secretary, Levi Farwell; treasurer, Levi Hedge, Esq.; trustees, Samuel Bartlett, Esq., A. Bigelow, Esq., Dr. T. Foster, William Hilliard, and Israel Porter. It was when the society had been thus fully equipped with a board of officers that the address was issued to the inhabitants. It has a somewhat modern air, in spite of its more than modern dignity of expression. Let us read:— All are ready to acknowledge, they say, the great obligations we are under as men, and especially as Christians, to supply the wants and relieve the sufferings of our brethren; and so numerous are the evils incident
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
wn, although it had long been a wealthy town. In March of that year the Cambridge Bank was chartered. The first meeting of its stockholders was held in Ebenezer Kimball's tavern, March 22, 1826. William I. Whipple was elected moderator, and Thomas Foster clerk. The act incorporating the Cambridge Bank had been passed by the General Court, March 4, and at this meeting the charter was accepted. Subscriptions for the stock were opened, and a board of directors elected as follows: James P. Chapaccount of ill health, in January, 1882, and was succeeded by Hon. Asa P. Morse, the present incumbent. Since the organization of the bank, the following persons, in addition to those named elsewhere, have served on the board of directors: Thomas Foster, E. T. Hastings, E. W. Metcalf, B. Bigelow, N. Childs, Francis Bowman, John Hayden, Ebenezer Kimball, Charles Haynes, Abel W. Bruce, Phineas B. Hovey, Hiram Brooks, Leonard Stone, Henry Potter, Flavel Coolidge, W. B. Hovey, Daniel U. Chamberl