{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3520", "width": "2147", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "^c#\\n1725 Third ^emi-Pentennial of JDoncord 1875.\\nA DISCOURSE\\nGrowtli and DcTeloieiit of Coiitord, I.\\n1\\nIN THE LAST FIFTY YEARS BEING THE THIRD\\nSEMI-CENTENNIAL.\\nDELIVERED BY APPOINTMENT, IN THE CITV HALL OF CONCORD,\\nJUNE 17, 1375.\\nBy NATHANIEL BOUTON, D. D.\\nCONCORD:\\nPRINTED BY THE REPUBLICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.\\n1875.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "THIRD SEMI-CENTENNIAL.\\n1725. CONCORD, N. H. 1875.\\nThe present ear marks the termination of the third half century\\nthat has elapsed since the original grant of our township, in 1725.\\nA short time since, the City Council and the Board of Trade ex-\\ntended to Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, d. d., an invitation to address\\nthe people of Concord upon the subject of the moral, social, and civil\\nprogress of their city during the last fifty years. This invitation he\\nhas accepted, and a meeting will be holden for this purpose at the\\nCity Hall, on Thursday, the 17th day of June, proximo, at eleven o clock\\nA. M., that being the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the issu-\\ning of a grai t to the proprietors of the township of Pennycook, by\\nthe General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.\\nThe present year is the fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Dr.\\nBouton in this city. For half a century he has been a close observer\\nof all its varied interests, and of the events that mark its progress. Of\\nvery many of them he has been the recorder, and it is to him that we\\nare indebted for the admirable history of our town and city.\\nThe exercises at City Hall will consist of the address, and music by\\nthe Concord Choral Society. Dinner will be served to invited guests\\nand citizens, at the Eagle Hotel, at three o clock.\\nYou are respectfully invited to be present, with ladies, on the occasion.\\nJOHN KIMBALL, Mayor,\\nGEO. A. BLANCHARD, President Board of Trade,\\nJOSEPH B. WALKER,\\nJOHN M. HILL,\\nSARGENT C. WHITCHER,\\nCovitnittee of Invitation.\\nConcord, N. H., May 28, 1S75.\\n.01 ^A", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "City Clerk s Office, City Hall Building,\\nConcord, N. H., June 30th, 1875. S\\nRev. Dr. Bouton:\\nBear Sir At a meeting of the City Council, held June 26th, 1875,\\nthe following resolution was unanimously adopted\\nResolved, That the thanks of the citizens of Concord be and are\\nhereby extended, through the City Council in convention assembled,\\nto Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, d. d., for his valuable and interesting his-\\ntorical address, delivered in the City Hall, June 17, 1875, being the\\noccasion of the third semi-centennial of the settlement of the town,\\nand that a copy of the same be solicited for publication.\\nA true copy\u00e2\u0080\u0094 attest C. F. STEWART,\\nCity Clerk.\\nTo C. F. Stewart, Esq., City Clerk, Concord:\\nSir I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the\\nresolution passed by the City Council of Concord, June 26, 1875, con-\\nveying their vote of thanks, c., with a request for a copy of the dis-\\ncourse, delivered by me on the 17th of June, ult., for publication. I\\nhereby signify my compliance with said request, which I beg you to\\ncommunicate to His Honor the Mayor, and the gentlemen of the City\\nCouncil. Very respectfully yours, c.,\\nN. BOUTON.\\nConcord, N. H., July 3, 1875.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "DISCOUESE.\\nMr. May or Ge7ttlenien of the City Cojincil and of the Board\\nof Trade Ladies and Gentlemen\\nWere It permitted me to place passages of holy writ at the\\nhead of the discourse, which, by invitation, 1 have the honor\\nto address to you on this occasion, I would select, as most fit\\nfor my purpose, and most congenial with my sentiments, the\\nwords of the royal Psalmist: JMy times are in thy hatidy\\nThe lines arc fallen 2into me iit pleasant places; yea., I\\nhave a goodly heritage^^\\nStanding before you, fellow-citizens, perhaps for the last\\ntime, after the lapse of fifty years since I became a resident of\\nthe goodly town, now city, of Concord, I desire, first of all, on\\nthis occasion and in this presence, to render thanks to the\\nSupreme Author of all our blessings, that my times were\\nallotted me in this pleasant place, in an age and generation so\\nprolific of good. I desire, also, with the deepest sincerity, to\\nrender a humble tribute to Concord, the adopted and adop-\\ntive place of my residence, the birthplace of my children, the\\nfield of my labors, the scene of my experiences, joyous and sad,\\nand I hope, in the end, the place of my burial.\\nIt adds to the interest of this occasion that the times, which\\nin particular we commemorate, bring us to the one hundred\\nand fiftieth anniversary of the original grant of the township.\\nOn the 17th of June, 1725, a petition, signed by Benjamin\\nStevens, Andrew Mitchell, David Kimball, Ebenezer Eastman,\\nJohn Osgood, and Moses Day, in behalf of themselves and\\nothers, was presented to the Great and General Court of Mas-\\nPs. 31:15. i6;6.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "sachusetts, for a grant of the very lands for a township which\\nare now our heritage.* On that day the seed of that tree was\\nplanted whose fruit has ever been sweet to our taste, and under\\nwhose wide-spread branches we sit to-day with great delight.\\nJust fifty years from that day took place the ever memorable\\nbattle of Bunker Hill, in which a portion of our citizens shared\\na glorious part, and in commemoration of which, on this hun-\\ndredth anniversary, we heartily unite.\\nUnder these circumstances we might very properly review\\nthe times embraced in the whole period of our history, at least,\\nso far as to note the most prominent events in each fifty years\\npast to recall the names, labors, and sacrifices, the noble deeds\\nand worthy character of the first settlers and especially to note\\nthe steady growth of our town, from its beginnings in the wil-\\nderness, 1725, to its present honorable position and its distin-\\nguished advantages. But of both the first and second periods\\nit must suffice to sav, that the history of those times is already\\nwritten, and need not be rehearsed in the ears of this assembly. f\\nConcord in 1S25.\\nI. The theme which now invites our attention is, the growth\\nAND DEVELOPMENT OF CoNCORD IN THE LAST FIFTY YEARS.\\nBefore I ever saw the place, it had been described to me in an\\nofficial communication inviting me to preach as a candidate for\\nthe ministry here, as one of the most important stations in\\nNew England the seat of the state government, and the shire-\\ntown of the county as an agricultural town, with a pretty large\\nand very flourishing village nearly in the centre the general\\ncharacter of the people distinguished by sobriety and industry\\nthe town has been settled about a century, and has had but\\nthree ministers settled, whose ministry has filled up that whole\\nspace. These considerations, it was added, will show\\nyou that the field is large, and the labors abundant. This\\ndescription, by my life-long friend, Samuel Fletcher, Esq., was\\nnot exaggerated }ct of this nature everything is comparative.\\nOn reaching the place, and walking the streets of this then\\nSee Hist, of Concord, pp. 55, 63.\\nt See Hist, of Concord, and two Centcnni.il discourses by the writer, Nov. 21, 1S30.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "pretty large and very flourishing village, what did I behold?\\nIn the village, as then laid out, were two streets, which v/e now\\ncall Main and State streets, and a short, half laid out street\\nor avenue which we call Green street, together with four con-\\nvenient cross streets, which we call Franklin, Washington, Cen-\\ntre, and Pleasant streets. The whole village consisted of about\\n175 dwelling-houses, 17 stores, S taverns, 5 printing-offices, and\\na considerable number of small mechanical shops. The popu-\\nlation was estimated at about 1,100, or near one third of the\\npopulation of the whole town, which was not far from 3,000.*\\nThe greater part of this village population at that time lay\\nnortherl} of the Town Hall, the spot where we are now assem-\\nbled, where, also, the greater part of the business was done, on\\nMain street.\\nThe public buildings were the State House, State Prison, the\\nTown Hall, in which also was a county court room, and the old\\nNorth ]\\\\Ieeting-house. In the whole village, comprising what\\nis now the Union School District, were three school-houses, viz.,\\nthe old two-stor}^ brick at the North end, the Bell school-house\\nin the centre, and a small one-story house at the South end.\\nOn the line of Main street, from the Walker place to the\\nSouth end, or Butters tavern, were many vacant lots. A few\\nrods south of us, on Main street, was a low gully, through which\\nrun a brook that was crossed by a small plank bridge on one\\nside worn-out tan-pits, and on the other the famous old hay-\\nscales.-\\\\ In the whole village there was then only one brick\\ndwelling-house, the same now owned by ex-Gov. Stearns, built\\nthe year before by Doctor Thomas Chadbourne, though since\\ngreatly improved and enlarged. Fronting the state house, on\\nthe east side, was a decayed picket fence enclosing an old apple\\norchard, on a portion of which, two years subsequently, the\\nfirst Eagle Coflee House was built. J Along the midway of\\nMain street, the entire width of ward five, were fifteen dwelling-\\nThe U. S. Census of 1820 gave 2,838 that of 1830, 3,702 the increase of population\\nbeing greater the latter half of the decade than the first, we estimate the population of 1825\\nat 3,000 or 3,100.\\nf See Hist, of Concord, p. 539.\\nJ This was finished on the 8th of January, 1828, and in it was a ball the same evening, in\\nhonor of Gen. Jackson s victory at New Orleans, January 8, 1814.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8\\nhouses, including three taverns within the whole limits of\\nward six, soutli of Pleasant street, we count only fourteen dwell-\\ning-houses on the whole length of State street, then laid out\\nas far as Pleasant street, were only seven dwelling-houses on\\nthe west side, and one on the cast on Green street, three small\\none-story houses west of State street was a strip of swamp\\nland, overgrown with alders and other bushes, extending from\\nnear the State Prison the entire length of the village south the\\nrising groimd, further west, was pasture and tillage land, the\\nnorthern portion being known as saiid-hiU.\\nBe it remembered there were then no named streets in Con-\\ncord but the whole village was known, in town and out of it,\\nas the Street. Names were not assigned till 1S34.\\nI hope it will not detract from your estimate of this pretty\\nlarge and flourishing village, to be informed that in 1S25 there\\nwere here no pavements nor sidewalks, except such as were made\\non the road-side by foot-travellers that persons who walked to\\nmeeting in winter had the right of way in the middle of the\\nroad, and that by proclamation from the pulpit nor must you\\nesteem it the less because carpets on the best rooms of many of\\nthe best families in town were home-made and that the furni-\\nture of every kind was far more simple and inexpensive than\\nwould satisfy fiimilies of very moderate means at this day. I\\nremember when the first mahogany armed and cushioned chair\\nwas brought into the village, at the cost, I think, of fifteen dol-\\nlars, and it was talked of as quite extravagant.\\nThis reminds me that outside of the main village there was\\nbut one house in the whole of the West Parish where a carpet\\ncovered the floor of the best room that then, too, in that sec-\\ntion of the town, as also in the east, with perhaps two excep-\\ntions, there were no dwelling-houses painted white if painted\\nat all, red or yellow. I place to the credit of the families of\\nthat time, both in the village, and, more especially, in outer dis-\\ntricts, that nearly every house was a home-factory for domestic\\nfabrics. In a single school district (No. 3) in the West Parish\\nwere nineteen looms in daily use, for weaving by mothers and\\ndaughters, vv ho needed no illustrated, unabridged dictionary to", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "define the meaning of the shuttle, the spindle, and the\\ndistaff Very few stoves were then in use, either for parlor\\nor kitchen but the large, open fire-place, with plenty of wood\\nfor one dollar and fifty cents a cord, made the old hearth-stone\\na place of comfort and of joy. Then rare were pictures on\\nparlor walls, and still more rare, plants and flowers at windows.\\nI need hardly tell you that we had no Concord Director}^\\nin those times, nor did we need one for the people from every\\nsection, attending the same meeting on the Sabbath, their faces\\nand names and residences were well known to each other\\nand as the larger part stayed at noon, it came to pass that if\\nany case of sickness, or accident, or death, or marriage, or birth\\noccun-ed in any part of the town, it could be talked over in a\\nsocial way during intermission, without any great violation of\\nthe Fourth Commandment.\\nOutside of the two rival banks, acting under one and the same\\ncharter, there was no invested capital, no incorporated compa-\\nnies for manufacture or trade, no insurance company, except\\nthe old yEtna, of Hartford, Conn., whose insignia on every\\nhouse that it protected was a round, painted tin plate bearing\\nits name. Then all mechanical employments were caiTied on\\nsingle-handed the engine and machinery consisted of the brains\\nand hands of the master, with one or more apprentices. Our late\\nrespected citizen, Lewis Downing, had then but recently begun\\nto make his Concord wagons, his capital consisting of sixty dol-\\nlars in money, his tools, and his own hands. Even framing build-\\nings by the square-rule was then but just introduced, as certified by\\nour venerable master-builder, Atkinson Webster, Esq. A chief\\npart of trade was by barter and exchange, with very little cash\\nproduce taken into stores was transported to Boston or other\\nmarkets by river and canal-boats in summer, and in heavily\\nloaded sleighs or wagons in winter, the trip requiring a week\\nor more. Then you could nowhere cross the Merrimack river\\nwithout stopping to pay toll at a ferry or a bridge. The first\\nfree bridge over the Merrimack river, from its mouth to its\\nsource, was erected in Concord in 1839.\\nIt may seem strange to you, in these musical times, that in", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10\\nthe whole town there was, in 1825, but one piano-forte, and\\nthat was brought into town b} the (second) wife of Col. William\\nA. Kent, and, I may add, charmingly played by her youngest\\ndaughter, Miss Ellen Tucker. Our young ladies may be pleased\\nto Icarn that the charms of her music, or some other charms,\\ncharmed the heart and won the hand of a brilliant young cler-\\ngyman, preaching for the Unitarian Society, now the revered\\nphilosopher and sage of Massachusetts, and of wide-world\\nfiuiie Ralph Waldo Emerson.\\nThe first organ in town was set up in the Unitarian church\\nin 1S29, and was consumed with that edifice in 1854. The\\ninstrumental music in other churches, for years later, consisted\\nof a bass viol, a flute, and a violin.\\nMatekl\\\\l Growth.\\nSuch, in general, was Concord in 1825. How is it now.\\nLift up your eyes, and behold your city in 1S75 I will not\\npresume to describe it, but if you have leisure, take a walk\\nthrough this pretty large and flourishing village, containing,\\nas now laid out, surveyed, and measured, 120 streets and ave-\\nnues, equal, in aggregate length, to about twenty-seven miles,*\\nwithin whose bounds, by estimate, are to-day 2,000 dwell-\\nings and 10,000 inhabitants. Or, if you prefer it, come ascend\\nwith me to the cupola on the dome of the State House\\nlook down from that eminence on the Street, where all the\\nbusiness was done in 1825. Survey the magnificent brick\\nbuildings that stand in compact beauty and strength before\\nyour eyes turning westward, see, beneath you, the street where\\nwere only eight dwelling-houses, now extending the length of\\ntwo miles, studded with elegant houses on each side, and\\nornamented with beautiful shade-trees and flowering gardens.\\nLook on the successive tiers of streets and dwellings, rising\\none above another on the gentle slope of the hill westward,\\nuntil your eye rests on the stately mansions which crown its\\nbrow then extend your vision in the distance to Prospect Hill,\\nand the opening of that extension ground already made at-\\ntractive by its sightly buildings. Behold what now covers\\nSurvey by Mr. Warren Upham, 1875.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "II\\nthat valle}^ of worthless swamp-land or, turning noithward,\\nsee the line 06 houses exended till it reaches the ancient farm-\\nhouses of the West Parish.\\nIf you prefer it, take an open carriage, in this beautiful month\\nof June, and, commencing at the North end, drive over the\\nheight of land est of this City Hall. Soon you will find your-\\nself in the midst of a new district, the growth of the past seven\\nor ten years, where there are better houses and a more numer-\\nous population than in the whole of this pretty large and\\nflourishing village fifty years ago. Continuing your ride along\\nthese heights, there will soon burst on your vision a prospect so\\nwide, so picturesque, so beautiful, of elegant houses, turrets,\\ntowers, and steeples, intermixed with lofty and ornamental\\ntrees, that the ancient Concord will be lost sight of, and your\\nonly wonder will be when and how the change could have been\\nbi ought about. I would not have you stop here, but extend\\nyour ride and survey till you reach, on the south border, the\\nnew Broadway of our city, and see the productive gardens at\\nthe further extremity, which are at once as much a source of\\npleasure to visitors as of profit to the owners.\\nIf this view does not sufiice you, take a wider range, and,\\nwith your family, ride and enjoy together the varied and beautiful\\nscenery around our Long Pond or, better still, over the height\\nof land further west, till your eye sweeps the vast horizon, which\\ntakes in the Uncanoonucs, the grand Monadnock, the sublime\\nand solitary Kearsarge, the distant Ascutney, Cardigan, and\\nRagged mountains, and stretches far away towards the White\\nHills, In a more quiet way pass over the river at Fisherville,\\nlook on the Duston monument, survey the well-cultivated farms\\nin the mountain district, and see our village in the distance.\\nBefore you stop, pass through the shades of the pine plains and\\nwhen your ride is ended, I am sure you will testify, Our lines\\nhave fallen to us in pleasant places; yea^ we have a goodly\\nheritage I\\nBesides the growth of the main village, I must add that spe-\\ncial improvements are visible in the West village. The kit\\nfactory of ex-Mayor Humphrey, and the woolen factories of the", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12\\nHoldens, with other industries, have awakened new hfe in that\\nao-ricultural section of the town, as also enhancetl the value of\\nevery acre of their land. Their new brick school-house and\\nelegant stone church are proofs of progress.\\nEast Concord village, at this time, is aspiring to the dignity\\nof city streets and avenues and, by its proximity to the centre,\\nwith railroad accommodations, is attracting new branches of\\nbusiness and a growing population.\\nStill more undreamed of a half-century ago, on our north-\\nern border, upon the banks of the Contoocook, where there\\nwere but two dwelling-houses on this side of an old, dilapidated\\nbrido e, and three more on the interval near the railroad station,\\na village has sprung up much larger than the main one in 1825,\\ncontaining a population of about 2,500 souls, with capital in-\\nvested in factories over half a million, furnishing employment\\nfor about 700 workmen, and enjoying, as one ward of the city,\\nsimilar, if not equal, advantages of every kind as at the centre.\\nNor must I omit that even on the dark Pine Plains, which\\nused to be considered as barren as a desert, another village has\\nbegvm to rise, with neat houses, and cultivated and fruitful\\nfields, which, I doubt not, will increase from year to 3^ear, and\\nprove a convenient appendage for residents who do business in\\nthe centre precinct.\\nIndulge me, fellow-citizens, with a brief chapter of statistics,\\nwhich will tell in figures the whole story of our material growth\\nbetter than any description.\\nIn 1825, Concord ranked in population as the sixth town in\\nthe state, Portsmouth, Gilmanton, Sanbornton, Londonderry,\\nand Dover being in advance now it is the second, Manches-\\nter only, with its magnificent factories and its thousands of\\noperatives, standing at the head.\\nIn 1825, the number of taxable polls in Concord was 610,\\nand the assessed valuation of the town was $804,376 the\\nlast year, the taxable polls were 3,784, and the valuation\\n$9,000,526 next again only to Manchester. Then the highest\\ntax paid by any one individual was $94.86, and the tax upon", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "13\\nthe whole town was but $4,073.38 now the highest tax paid\\nis over $3,000, and I could name four individuals the sum of\\nwhose taxes last year was more than double that of the whole\\ntown in 1825. Then the amount of stock in trade was as-\\nsessed at $34,600 stock in banks at $14,735 money at interest,\\n$24,850 now the assessed stock in trade is jout down at\\n$830,811 and, besides all other money, unknown in amount,\\nin banks, in bonds, and at interest, there is on deposit in the\\nseveral savings banks of the state, in the names of citizens of\\nConcord, $1,333,609, and shares owned by them in railroads,\\nworth not less than $1,093,750.\\nIn regard to this material growth I can find a beginning in\\n1825, but I know not where to place the figures ending in 1875.\\nThe city collector has kindly furnished me a list of forty-two\\nnames of individuals or companies engaged in trade or manu-\\nfactures of different kinds I shall not tnidertake to give the\\nexact sum of their invested capital, nor the amount or profit\\nof their business. Some of these, however, stand out so prom-\\ninently that it will not be invidious to name them, and I am\\nsure they will not object to the statement. The carriage factory i\\ncommenced by Lewis Downing, Esq., as now carried on by the\\nAbbott Downing Co., has a capital of $400,000, employs an\\naverage of 250 men, and produces carriages of various kinds\\nto the value of $500,000 annually. The Granite business^ be-\\ngun in a humble way by Luther Roby, Esq., some twenty-five\\nyears ago, has grown into gigantic proportions. The several\\ncompanies I am told ten in all engaged in quarrying in the\\nledges and in hammering in their extended sheds, gave employ-\\nment last year to about five hundred men. Filling contracts\\nfor splendid monuments and magnificent public buildings, the\\nproducts of their labor are visible in our principal towns and\\ncities in every part of our country. One of our home-wrought\\nmonuments is at Muscatine, on the western banks of the Mis-\\nsissippi river.\\nWhy need I speak of the founderies and belting companies\\nof organ and melodeon manufactories of the power-presses\\nof Concord, or rather of the power of the Press in Concord\\nwhy of the Concord harness and the Concord churn;", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14\\nwhy of the monumental marble works, wrought with artistic\\nskill into all forms of beauty why of the silver ware, and the\\nbeautiful photography, and of builders of houses and churches,\\nand flour and grain and lumber dealers and why of our princely\\nmerchants, about two hundred in all I assume as substantially\\ncorrect, the statement that the capital invested in manufacto-\\nries of all kinds in Concord the last year was about $2,276,300,*\\ngiving employment to 2,150 men and boys, with some 500\\nwomen, and producing manufactured articles to the value of\\n$4,600,000. Concord to-day is a vast workshop bee-hive of\\nproductive industries.\\nPerhaps, however, the most conclusive evidence of the mate-\\nrial growth of Concord will be found in the records of the\\nPost-office for the number of letters sent and received, with\\nthe papers which pass through the office, indicate, somewhat,\\nboth the number of persons thus accommodated, and the amount\\nof business transacted through that channel. As we have said,\\nthe population of Concord in 1825 was about 3,000, with only\\none post-office. In that year Gen. Joseph Low was postmaster,\\nhis office being in a small wooden building where the Rumford\\nblock now stands.\\nThe postage on letters that year was $695.57\\nPostage on newspapers, 40.18\\nCommission on letters and newspapers, which con-\\nstituted his salary, 293.96\\nContingent expenses of the office were 85. 28\\nAllowance on free letters, 27.76\\nLeaving a balance due the United States, $329.22\\nThe last year, Moses T. Willard, Esq., postmaster, there\\nwere collected on regular newspapers alone $657.16, and the\\nrevenue from letters, letter-boxes, stamps, and postal cards was\\n$21,460, leaving a balance for the government, after all con-\\ntingent expenses were paid, of $14,476.14. This is not all:\\nthe ordinary letters sent through our village post-office last year\\nwere reckoned at 470,000, and the number of letters received at\\n500,000 to which add registered letters to the number of 2,269,\\nN. H. Gazetteer, 1874.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "15\\nand money-orders amounting to $84,025. Be it further re-\\ncorded, that 35 mail-bags are daily received, and 35 daily sent\\nout from this office and that the regular newspapers of Con-\\ncord sent out annually amount to one million.\\nHere, fellow-citizens, we might rest the evidence of our\\nmaterial growth in the last fifty years but I am indebted to\\nthe accurate pen of our city clerk for another item, which\\npartly explains, as cause and eftect, the basis of our growth.\\nFrom 1835 to 1830 (five years), the publishments of intentions\\nof marriage, by parties in our city, were 121, or an average of\\n24 a year; from 1870 to 1S75, the number of publishments was\\n850, an average of 1 70 a year.\\nIf you ask for further evidence of our material growth, I will\\npoint you to our new and improved methods and implements\\nof husbandry to our fire department, with its powerful steam\\nfire engines, its forty-five hundred feet of hose, and its trained\\ncompanies of more than four-score men, alert and of good-\\nwill to the superb, substantial, and free bridges, which\\nspan our rivers to the gas-works, which give light to our dwell-\\nings and illuminate our streets to the sewerage, which adds to\\nthe healthfulness of our city precinct to the railroad facilities\\nand telegraphic lines, which connect us with the whole world\\nand perhaps chief of all, to the water-works, which supply\\nus, from one of nature s inexhaustible reservoirs, with the\\npurest water for our domestic uses and for the extinguishment\\nof fires.\\nPlease excuse me, fellow-citizens, for not telling you how\\nmuch all these things cost, and the amount of our city debt.\\nPeriods of Growth.\\nIf, just here, we inquire into the periods and causes of the\\ngi-owth of Concord in the last fifty years, they will be found to\\ncentre, chiefly, in the fact of its being the Capital of the state\\nyet, I humbly conceive that is not the beginning, nor all. A\\ntrue history of its growth would include its location the char-\\nacter of its first settlers, as a select and elect company, fitted\\nSee Appendix, Note i.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "i6\\nfor so great an enterprise as a plantation in the wilderness.\\nLong before the white man came, the savage tribes of Penacook\\nhad made it their head-quarters, selecting it by an instinct and\\nsagacity which seldom erred, on account of the natural advan-\\ntages which it affoi-ded for fishing, hunting, and for defence.\\nHere was their ancient fort, where they fought the Mohawks.\\nIn the old Indian and French wars, R^imfoj d lay in the\\ndirect route for soldiers from eastern towns to Charlestown,\\nNo. 4, and thence to Ticonderoga and Crown Point. Concord,\\ntoo, in and after the Revolution, had acquired celebrity by the\\ncharacter of her citizens. The old minister, who had moulded\\nthe people by his teachings and example, was still alive\\nknown and reverenced throughout the state as a true patriot\\nas well as devoted servant of God. Here were Col. Gordon\\nHutchins and Capt. Joshua Abbot, both with their com-\\npanies in the battle of Bunker Hill here resided Col. Thomas\\nStickney, who, with his regiment of volunteers, was with Gen-\\neral Stark in the battle of Bennington here, also, was Timothy\\nWalker, Jr., Esq., one of the honorable councilors for Rock-\\ningham county, ever vigilant for the prosperity of the town.\\nWhen, therefore, in 1778, the subject of calling a Convention\\nto form a constitution was raised. Concord was named as the\\nmost suitable place halfway between the sea-coast and the\\nConnecticut river, and already become the highway of travel\\nfrom the northern sections of the state.\\nIn his early travels to the lake and mountain region of New\\nHampshire, the celebrated Dr. Dwight, president of Yale Col-\\nlege, passed thi-ough the place (1S13), and desciubed it as\\nbeautifully located on both sides of the Merrimack river, thrifty\\nand growing and predicted, It will probably be the perma-\\nnent seat of government.\\nIn the war of 1812-15, Concord was the more brought into\\nnotice by being the general rendezvous for soldiers on march\\nfor Canada. But when, by act of the legislature in 1S16, it\\nwas decided that the State House should be built here, then a\\nnew life began. From 1825 to 1S36 were years of unchecked\\nSee Hist. Concord, pp. 59, 60.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "17\\nprogress. There was then a temporary pause and reaction on\\naccount of the speculating mania in Concord home-lots and the\\nwild lands of Maine. But when it was decided that the Con-\\ncord Railroad should be built, connecting us with Boston, then\\nenterprise took a sudden leap. On the entrance of the first\\npassenger train from Boston, September 6, 1842, hundreds of\\ncitizens assembled to witness the new and strange sight shouts,\\nhuzzas, and firing of cannon celebrated the joyous event.\\nThencefoilh our growth advanced more rapidly than ever. In\\n1843, thirty-seven new dwelling-houses, making fifty-one tene-\\nments, besides one large church, various stores, offices, and\\nshops, were erected in the main village. Between 1840 and\\n1850, the population nearly doubled. The next great impulse\\nwas the adoption of our City Charter, in 1S53 thence onward\\nhas been our watchword, and onward our progress never\\nmore so than in the past three years. Even the great national\\ncalamity, which came upon us in the conflict for the life of the\\nnation, contributed to our increase and enrichment, inasmuch\\nas our city became the central rendezvous for the brave soldiers\\nwho came hither from every part of the state to be enrolled, and\\nhence to march to the battle fields of our country and, the war\\nended, to return and receive, amid rejoicings and tears, their\\nhonorable discharge.\\nI must record that, in that dread conflict, nobly and well did\\nConcord uphold the flag of our country, her municipal author-\\nities responding to every call, and furnishing her full quota\\nof 918 men for the Union army, all, as they went forth,\\ncheered by the hearts, the hands, and the prayers of her loyal\\nwomen.\\nNo marvel that, attracted by such influences, population has\\nflowed in upon us from every quarter. Laborers and mechan-\\nics of every craft have here sought and found remunerative em-\\nployment young men and maidens, from adjacent and remote\\nsections of the state, have come to learn trades, to fill the places\\nof clerks, and to enjoy superior social privileges professional\\nmen, attracted by the prestige of the capital, with brighter\\nprospects of wealth or fame, and gentlemen with families, who\\nhave acquired property and reputation in other towns, disposed\\n2", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "i8\\nto retire from active service and spend the evening of life_ in\\nquiet and comfort, have chosen our beautiful city for such laud-\\nable ends to these add that men of enterpx-ise, skill, and thrift\\nhave come to introduce new industries of trade, of mechanism,\\nof art, and merchandise, because from this, as a centre, they\\ncan more easily convey their products to places near or remote.\\nOccasions of Public Interest.\\nAt this point it may be pertinent to note, that among the at-\\ntractions and advantages of a residence in our city are to be\\nreckoned the occasions of great public interest, which draw\\nthe people together from every section of the state. I allude\\nto the attractions of our annual Election Day, giving to the\\npeople an opportunity to witness and to share in the display,\\nthe ceremonies, and festivities attending the Inauguration of\\nGovernor to the occasional conventions, political and for\\nother ends, at which sometimes thousands assemble. The\\nlargest remembered of this kind was on June 17, 1840, during\\nthe Harrison campaign, when the peoj^le came in masses, it\\nwas estimated to the number often or fifteen thousand when\\nTyppecanoe and Tyler too,\\nwas the song, and a log cabin with latchet of the door out, was\\nthe ensign of party. To which add the occasional visit and\\npresence of men eminently distinguished in some of the higher\\nwalks of life. Of such men in my times, I recall the names\\nof some on whom it was a privilege and honor even to look:\\nI name, first, the immortal General Lafayette, who visited us\\nin June, 1S25, the friend of Washington, the honored hero\\nand citizen of both France and America. At his coming the\\npeople gathered by thousands to shout his welcome. Old sol-\\ndiers of the revolution to the number of 3io, some of whom had\\nserved under him, gathered to do him homage at his presence\\nthey fought their battles o er again they took his hand, one by\\none, and, singular as it was happy, after so long a separation\\nhe recognized and called by name some of the old veterans that\\nhad fought by his side. After him, in June, 1S33, came Gen-\\neral Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, the hero\\nof New Orleans, the man of iron will. His heroic bearing,", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "19\\nhis hoary locks lying back on his lofty forehead, his flashing\\neye and venei-able form, struck every beholder with awe thou-\\nsands gazed upon him. Thrice on the Sabbath he worshipped\\nwith us in different congregations, and had the prayers and bene-\\ndictions of ministers and people. Accompanying him on that\\nvisit was his Secretary of State, Martin Van Buren, afterwards\\nPresident. We have also been honored with a visit from\\nPresident James A. Polk, and later, in the memory of us all,\\nthe indomitable Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Com^oeers or superiors\\nin honor and fame, we have looked on the august visage and\\nheard the inspiring eloquence of Daniel Webster we have seen\\namong us the Hon. Lewis Cass, his massive form laden with\\nthe burdens as well as honors of ofiice as a visitor among\\nhis relatives we have repeatedly seen the Hon. Salmon P.\\nChase, Chief Justice of the United States and the aspiring,\\never-working Hon. Levi Woodbury. May I not place these\\nfour in the front rank of New Hampshire s sons in the last fifty\\nyears. Specially invited, and pi oducing quite a sensation at\\nthe time, was the visit, in 1843, of Col. Richard M. Johnson,\\nwearing the same red vest which he woi^e when, in battle, in\\nhis opinion, he killed Tecumseh. Here, too, we have listened\\nto the entrancing music of the violin by Ole Bull, and seem,\\neven now, to hear the tones of supplication and entreaty thence\\nof a mother s prayer. We have looked on the benignant face\\nof Mr. George Peabody, whose wealth, amassed by high finan-\\ncial ability, patient industry, and sterling integrity, he dispensed\\nwith a royal munificence, for the benefit equallv of England and\\nAmerica.\\nOn the political platform, we have heard in eloquent debate\\nnot only New Hampshire s brilliant sons, Franklin Pierce and\\nJohn P. Hale, but also the rival champions of Illinois, Stephen\\nA. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. We have listened to the\\nsilver-tongued eloquence of Edward Everett, in eulogy of\\nWashington. Repeatedly have we been honoi^ed with the\\npresence among us though in a more private and humble\\nway of the late Professor S. F. B. Morse, who, we are proud\\nto say, came to us early in his illustrious career as a painter of\\nportraits, and who, leaving us, carried with him not only the", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20\\npicture but the heart of the fairest of our daughters. After he\\nhad completed his great invention of the electric telegraph, and\\nentered on his wide-world fame, he came back to us, and asked\\nthe privilege to look once more upon the very spot where he\\nfirst met and was introduced to the beautiful bride of his youth\\nMiss LucRETiA P. Walker.*\\nDistinguished Citizens.\\nWhile Concord has had the honor of visitors and guests\\nthus eminent in the public walks of life, she has not herself\\nbeen deficient in furnishing a fair quota of capable and honora-\\nble men to fill high positions in our own state, in other states\\nof the Republic, and in foreign countries. Of our citizens,\\neither native-born or resident, we have furnished one President\\nof the United States, four Governors of New Hampshire, two\\nSenators and two Representatives in Congress, eleven Judges\\nof our state courts, including four Chief Justices. One of our\\nsons has been Governor and Judge in an adjoining state, and\\nMinister to Rio Janeiro. We have furnished one United States\\nCommissioner abroad to settle disputed claims with England,\\nanother Minister, resident in Switzerland, and at least two\\nConsuls to other foreign countries. Others of our citizens have\\nbeen called to positions of instruction in colleges and other pub-\\nlic institutions, and many of our sons have, in other cities and\\nstates of the Union, acquired honor and wealth, with a good\\n.name, which is best of all. I need hardly add, that, in the last\\nfifty years. Concord has been well represented in the legislature\\nof the state, furnishing, among her able representatives, no less\\nthan six Speakers of the House, ten Senators, three of whom\\nwere Presidents, and five honorable Councilors.\\nIn regard to leading and influential citizens of Concord, be-\\nfore and in my times, it is gratifying to know that there have\\nalways been men living in different sections of the town with\\nthat amount of home talent, that round-about common sense,\\nwhich enabled them to manage the prudential affairs of the\\ntown wisely and well. For this service, the ancient families of\\nEastmans, Chandlers, Kimballs, Hoyts, Virgins, Rolfes, Car-\\nShe was the eldest daughter of Charles Walker, Esq., and was esteemed the belle of\\nConcord.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "21\\nters, Abbots, Farnums, Herberts, Stickneys, Ayers, Bradfeys,\\nand Walkers, to mention no more, have furnished a large\\nquota.\\nAllow me here to record a well-known historical foct, rela-\\nting to our central village For a long period, a sort of rivalry\\nand competition existed between the North end and South end,\\nor, rather, the middle^ which comprised the South end. The\\ndividing line between the two sections was a neutral space of\\nsome fifteen or twenty rods in front of the old Town Hall. Here\\na border warfare was not unfrequently carried on between the bel-\\nligerent boys of the different sections. This rivalry rose to its\\nhighest pitch in the location of the State House. In both sec-\\ntions resided men of note and influence. At the North end, in\\n1825, and later, were men who held office and had a con-\\ntrolling influence in town affairs through near a whole gener-\\nation. I trust it will not be thought invidious in respect of\\nothers if I name them Mr. Abiel Walker, a man of few words\\nbut sound judgment, himself a pattern of economy and thrift,\\nand deemed worthy of trust in town affairs. His neighbor,\\nSamuel Coffin, cool in manner, with a clear head, accurate and\\njust in accounts, was the financial conservator of town expenses.\\nHe would bring his estimate into each annual town-meeting,\\nseeming to say, Thus far, gentlemen, and no farther. It\\nwas hazardous to overstep his bounds. Gen. Robert Davis,\\nwho had the rare gift of knowing everybody in town, and held,\\nin turn, every office the people could confer. Chief of all,\\nRichard Bradley, whose name, placed on the list of voters at\\nthe age of twenty-one, and then appointed constable, never dis-\\nappeared from office of some kind till the age of seventy.\\nComprehending town affairs and town interests more perfectly\\nthan any of his compeers, positive in his opinions, sound in\\njudgment, reliable in word and deed, he was an acknowledged\\nleader during his whole life. It is well to note that these men\\nwere all natives of the town, who lived and died on the old\\nhomesteads where they were born. They were known as con-\\nservative North-end men.\\nAt the same time, residing in the middle section was another\\nband, who, distinct in almost all matters except what had a", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22\\nbearing on the interests and growth of their particular section,\\nheld an equiponderant influence. These men were Col. Wm.\\nA. Kent, whose intelligence, social position, and gentlemanly\\nmanners gave him a wide popularity Isaac Hill, a trained and\\nskilful politician, slow of speech but swift of pen, printer, edi-\\ntor, governor, senator, who swayed an influence throughout the\\nstate unsurpassed by any citizen Joseph Low, of soft words\\nand conciliatory manners, postmaster, bearing military titles,\\nand honored as first mayor of the city, by his personal good\\nqualities holding the esteem of a large portion of his fellow-cit-\\nizens and Nathaniel G. Upham, of dignified presence, lawyer,\\njudge, superintendent of railroad, and, later, commissioner to\\nEngland, had the gift of foresight more than most men, and in\\ngeneral character and position stood well with the people.\\nThese men, I say, distinct in their several lines of influence,\\nwere 3 et a unit in what they judged would be for the general\\nprosperity of the town, and particularly for the growth of the\\nsection where they resided. Not one of these men was native-\\nborn. They came hither from diflerent towns, with diverse\\nideas and associations they came young, and here began and\\nhere ended their lives.\\nThe first four, I have said, were conservative, slow to move\\nin new measures, or to adopt untried experiments the others\\nwere progressive, quick to discern the signs of the times, hope-\\nful of new measures, and prompt in execution.\\nAs in mechanics and science there is what is called a compo-\\nsition of forces, so I attribute to the counterbalancing and yet\\ncomposite influences of these, and such like men, with their\\nnumerous associates, the healthful growth of our town and city\\nat no time rapid and hazardous no rush to extremes no unad-\\nvised and rash expedients could be carried and no measures,\\nfairly proposed and deliberately adopted by a majority of our\\ncitizens, that have not proved a success. Thanks for the judi-\\ncious administration, not only of the town, but also of the city\\ngovernment.\\nPublic Buildings.\\nI alluded to the public buildings in Concord in 1825. The\\nState Prison has since been enlarged to nearly double its capaci-", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "23\\nty. The historic old meeting-house has passed away in flames.\\nThe old wooden Town Hall has given place to the substantial\\nbrick edifice in which we are assembled. The State House,\\nmore grand and beautiful in its proportions without, and more\\ncommodious for its purposes within, has also attractions and\\nadornments never thought of fifty years ago. Here are the\\nmemorial battle-flags of our brave soldiers, on which hundreds\\ncome to gaze with patriotic devotion. On the walls of the\\nRepresentatives chamber vv^e behold the full-length portrait of\\nthe Father of his Country, and by his side noble specimens of\\nNew Hampshire s noblest sons, both in ancient and modern\\ntimes. Over their heads, our military heroes of the Revolution\\nStark and Cilley, Scammell and Poor. In another chamber, hon-\\norable senators and in still another, a splendid galaxy of well-\\ndrawn portraits of the men whom the people have been pleased\\nto honor as chief magistrates. These beautiful adornments in\\nour Capitol are due to the gratuitous agency of one of our own\\ncitizens his work is his reward Hon. Benjamin F. Prescott,\\nSecretary of State.\\nOf other public buildings which have arisen since 1S35 I\\nwould speak if I knew how to discriminate. But we have\\nnow so many that in some respects are worthy of the name,\\nthat I hesitate. We call the building and libi^ary of the New\\nHampshire Historical Society, patronized as it is in part by\\nthe state, a \u00e2\u0096\u00a0p7Mic institution. The splendid Board of Trade\\nbuilding is public in a noble sense and the magnificent Opei a\\nHouse is designed to be public but there is one about which\\nthere can be no divided opinion.\\nIn the Institution for the Insane, first built in 1841, now an\\nornament to our city as it is an honor to the state, we claim a\\nspecial interest. The establishment of it was first earnestly\\nrecommended by Gov. Isaac Hill in his message to the legisla-\\nture in 1S36. It was then ably advocated by our representative,\\nCharles H. Peaslee, Esq., who was chairman of a committee of\\nthe legislature on the subject. Its location in Concord, rather\\nthan at Portsmouth or elsewhere, is mainly due to the wise\\nforesight of Hon. N. G. Upham. For the purchase of the\\nbeautiful grounds where the institution is situated, the town", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24\\napprojM-iatcd $10,000; and most gratifying of all, of the per-\\nmanent funds which are its chief endowment and reliance,\\namounting in all to $250,000, $190,000 of that sum were lega-\\ncies b}^ persons native-born or resident in Concord, viz.\\nBy Abiel Chandler, Esq., $25,000\\nthe Countess of Rumford, 15,000\\nMoody Kent, Esq., 150,000\\nTo which, adding the sum paid for land, $10,000, gives to\\nthe city of Concord an interest of $200,000 in that institution.\\nBut we may humbly ask, What is that compared with the\\nbenefit which has already accrued, and more that will in all\\nfuture time accrue, not only to Concord, but to all New Hamp-\\nshire, from the establishment of such a beneficent institution\\nAlready 3425 insane patients have been admitted into it, of\\nwhich 1364, or 40 per cent., have been wholly restored 768\\nothers improved and discharged. And in the last ten consecu-\\ntive years the rate of recoveries to the admissions of persons\\nwho had not been insane over six months, is 77 to the 100.\\nMoral Progress.\\nPermit me now, fellow-citizens, to lead you along another\\ntrack of progress. We who are now seventy years of age and\\nupwards have witnessed the whole course of what is called the\\nTemperance Reform. We knew the state of society here\\nin 1S25, and we know, comparatively, what it is now. Let\\nthen those who are in younger life, and strangers to our city in\\nformer times, step back with us fifty years, and receive the tes-\\ntimony of eye-witnesses and actors in the events and scenes of\\nthat and the period intermediate.\\nAt that time, and for about five years later, the use of ardent\\nspirits in Concord, in the form of rum, brandy, gin, whiskey, with\\nwine and other mixtures, was universal. In the families of the\\nmore wealthy and fashionable, they were displayed in elegant\\ndecanters, in an ornamented case on the side-board, placed on\\nthe table at dinner, offered as a token of civility to visitors by\\nday and evening, and regarded as among the indispensable\\ncomforts of life. These liquors were used equally on occasions\\nof joy and sorrow, for cold and heat, at births and deaths, at", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "25\\nmarriages and funerals. Farmers carried well-filled bottles\\ninto the fields with them mechanics kept them in their shops,\\nand professional men in their ofl^ices. The idea was universal\\nthat no laborer could do summer work without them and\\nhence, in haying and harvesting, farmers usually purchased\\nfrom ten o-allons to a barrel for their workmen. At funerals, it\\nwas the custom to pass round well-filled glasses to all the\\nmourners and relatives, and bearers received a double portion.\\nWe aver that, in 1S37, every store in town, then nineteen in\\nnumber, sold ardent spirits, not only by the quantity, to be car-\\nried away, but by the glass, to be drank by customers at the\\ncounter that every tavern, ten in number, kept an open bar,\\nglittering with glasses and labeled decanters of the choicest\\nliquors, to accommodate its guests. The aggregate quantity of\\nardent spirits of all kinds not including wines sold from stores\\nin Concord, in the year 1S27, was equal to four hundred hogs-\\nheads (of 120 gallons each), or about 48,000 gallons, enough\\nto furnish more than one gallon to every inhabitant of Mem-\\nmack county,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and the portion of it actually sold to the people\\nof this sober and moral community, as estimated and put\\ndown by the traders themselves, was about 14,500 gallons,\\nequal to four and a half gallons to every man, woman, and child\\nin town The cost of these liquors to consumers v/as not less\\nthan $9,000, which was more than double the amount of all the\\ntaxes the year previous for state, county, and town expenses,\\nincluding schools and the support of the poor.\\nYes, fellow-citizens, these were the good old times of\\nlicense^ when any man who wished to accommodate his neigh-\\nbors, and help himself, could, by asking for it, obtain a license\\nfrom the selectmen to diftuse the ctirses of rum broadcast over\\nthe town, only he must pay twenty cents to the town-clerk for\\nrecording his license And any man, on a certificate of good\\nmoral character, and the payment of two dollars, could obtain\\na license for a taverner rum and all.\\nThis Is not all. The product of every orchard in town, in\\nthose times, was converted into cider; from 15 to 30, 30, 50\\nbarrels, and often more, were stowed away in cellars for family", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26\\nuse and for hired laborers, and at the end of the next season\\nnot enough left for vinegar\\nSuch was the exact state of things in Concord in 1825, and\\ntill 1S30 and later.\\nHas anything been done in the intervening years to stay and\\nroll back the mighty flood of rum and cider which overflowed\\nour goodly town I will not ask you, fellow citizens, to go over\\nwith me, step by step, the history of all the efforts put forth in\\nthis temperance cause. The first blow was struck on Fast Day,\\nApril 13, 1837, in that old North Meeting-house. The battle\\nthere begun in weakness has been bravely fought out on the\\nline of total abstinence, and many a glorious victory has been\\nachieved. In proof, I point you to visible trophies\\n1. That in the whole city there is but one place where spir-\\nituous liquors can be laxvfully sold, and that only for medici-\\nnal, mechanical, and chemical purposes, adding wine for\\nsacramental uses.\\n2. That in all the stores in Concord, two hundred or more in\\nnumber, there is not one where a glass of such liquor can now\\nbe bought to be drank ojt the premises. If, as is conceded, it is\\nsometimes sold by apothecaries and druggists, it is presumed\\nto be in the line of their profession, for medicinal or chemical\\npurposes, rather than for use as a beverage. We confide in\\ntheir integrity, that, in this regard, they will keep a good con-\\nscience.\\n3. That not a single tavern in our city keeps, as formerly, an\\nopen bar, but, if kept at all, is out of sight and I offer it as\\nmy humble opinion, that there is not visible in all the families\\nof Concord, on side-boards or anywhere else, any signs of hav-\\ning on hand intoxicating liquors for daily use, or for treating\\ncallers and visitors.\\nThe first year I began my labors in Concord, in making pas-\\ntoral calls on a particular day, I was invited to drink at every\\nhouse, or an apology was made for not having any on hand. I\\nassume, that of the eighteen or twenty ministers now in Con-\\ncord, there is not one who in the last fifteen or twenty years has", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "27\\never been invited by a parishioner to drink intoxicating liquor\\nin any family which he has visited.\\n5. In brief, I submit that the customs and usages of social\\nlife in this regard have undergone a total change in the last\\nfifty, or, rather, the last thirty years. If spirituous liquors were\\nnow drank in the same proportion by the present population as\\nin 1825, instead of 14,500 gallons, as then, we should consume\\nnot less than 72,000 gallons, or 600 hogsheads. Instead of four\\nand a half gallons a year to every man, woman, and child, I\\nreally question whether the average would equal four and a half\\npints, or even four and a half gills. I know at least one who\\ndoes not drink that quantity. And if the same proportion of\\npeople in town were now reckoned intemperate, as then, we\\nshould have a staggering battalion in our streets of not less\\nthan six hundred drunkards. It is due to our good name to\\nsay that much of the liquor here sold in a clandestine manner\\nis bought and drank by people from other towns and I state\\non the best authority, that of the arrests made for drunkenness\\nby our police, two thirds at least are non-residents.\\nIt gives me great pleasure here to state that within a few\\nyears past a great accession has been made to the temperance\\nranks in Concord by a society composed of a class of our fellow\\ncitizens who had stood aloof from, or not been reached by,\\nother organizations. We welcome with double gladness the\\nSt. John s Catholic Temperance Society, composed mostly of\\nhale, robust, energetic 3 oung men, who will, we are sure, do\\nnoble service in winning their associates from the ranks of the\\ndestroyer. Besides these, among the same class of citizens, as\\nI am assured on the best authority, there are not less than eigh-\\nteen hundred who within the past eight or ten years have taken\\nthe pledge of abstinence from the hands, rather, from the lips,\\nof their reverend Father, and who on that account, perhaps,\\nwill stand the firmer and walk tlie more erect. These facts\\nexplain in part what we have all rejoiced to see, a marked\\nimprovement and elevation of character in that now large por-\\ntion of our community.\\nYet it is said, and we deplore the truth of it, that^there\\nare places in which, without license, in defiance of law, under", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28\\ncolor of beer or ale, in saloons and victualling houses, in pri-\\nvate dwellings and out-houses, in cellars and attics, the deadly\\nliquor is kc2)t for sale -and a cr} is raised as if nothing had\\never yet been done to stay or remove the evil. In regard to\\nthe facts of the case, we find in them a powerful incentive to\\npersistent action in this reform. We would array against the\\nuse and the sale all proper influences, moral, legal, social, re-\\nligious, that can possibly be made to bear. Let every existing\\ntemperance organization renew and augment its eflibrts. We\\nwelcome the Woman s Temjjerance League we ask a more\\nvigilant watch of our city police to ferret out the secret places\\nof the deadly sale we implore the cooperation of our munici-\\npal authorities to the legal extent of their power we invoke\\nthe majesty of our courts not to let justice be turned away\\nbackward and equity fall in our streets, but in all cases let the\\nlaw be vindicated. It is motive enough for such united and\\ndetermined action, that almost all the existing evils of our com-\\nmunity arise from or are allied with intoxicating drinks.\\nIn regard to the morals of this community in other respects,\\nI think it may be now said, with more propriety than in 1825,\\nthat the general character of the inhabitants of Concord is\\ndistinguished by good morals, sobriety, and industry. Com-\\nparisons are odious yet, com.pared with other places, we hum-\\nbly submit our opinion that neither in New Hampshire, nor\\nin New England, is there a village or city of equal population\\nwhere the people, as a body, are more industrious, sober, peace-\\nful, and well-ordered than here. Here order reigns street\\nfights and nightly brawls, outrages on decency and public peace,\\nare rare. Never, since the foundation of our settlement. 1725,\\nhas the cry of blood, for wilful murder, gone up to heaven from\\nour soil. In the last fifty years, two homicides have occurred,\\none the result of boyish passion, the other of drunken carousal,\\nwithout malice i:)re2Dense. Within the same period I can recall\\nbut three instances in which the public peace has been disturbed\\nby what might be termed riotous proceedings. The first was\\nin 1S35, i occasion of the visit of George Thompson, an elo-\\nquent anti-slavery lecturer from England. It may well humble\\nus to-dav to reflect that the whole disturbance on that occasion", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "29\\nwas caused by the action of the staid friends of law and order,\\nto prevent a lecture from that gentleman on the subject of sla-\\nvery in the poor old Town Hall. The chairman of the board\\nof selectmen turned the key against him. No one was hurt.\\nThe next occasion was 1836, after the Rev. George B. Cheever,\\nthen of Salem, Mass., had, by invitation, delivered a temperance\\ndiscourse in the old North Church. In the evening the pastor s\\nhouse, where Dr. Cheever lodged, was assailed by certain\\nrttm fellows of the baser sort, who, after shaking the door\\nand calling in vain for the man who dreamed the dream,\\nretreated to the state house yard and burnt him in effigy.\\nThe next day each one of the party was called before a justice\\nof the peace, and they were obliged to pay a fine and costs for\\ntheir rum-deed. The third and still greater excitement, fresh\\nin memorv, resulted in the destruction of an offensive press by\\nincensed soldiers, against the counsel and orders of our mvmici-\\npal authorities. Concord, with the motto on its city seal,\\nlaw, education, religion, indicates the true character of our\\npeople.\\nSchools.\\nOn the subject of schools it is less important that I enlarge,\\nbecause the annual reports of the superintending school com-\\nmittee, from 1827 till the pi esent time, have been published and\\ndistributed among all the people. The statistical facts which\\nenable us to mark the progress made in fifty years, are these\\nThe sum appropriated by the town for school pur-\\nposes in 1835 was $1,250.00\\nThe number of scholars in attendance, 935\\nThe sum appropriated in 1875 was 27,126.00\\nAnd the number of scholars returned, 3:549\\nThe sums above mentioned are exclusive of appropriations\\nfor building and repairing school-houses.*\\nIn place of three schools in this pretty large village, as in\\n1S35, we have now thirty distinct schools, and more wanted.\\nThe progress in our schools which is most marked is in the\\nsize, style, and convenience of our school-houses in the adop-\\nSee Appendix, Note II.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30\\ntion of the graded system of instruction, consequently a wider\\nrange of studies, better order and discipline, and more thorough\\ninstruction to which add, more recently, the introduction of\\nvocal mjisic as a branch of study, in the benefits of which the\\nsmaller children as well as the more advanced share.\\nWe look with just admiration and pride upon our substantial\\nand commodious grammar schools, and more upon our high\\nschool edifice, scarcely inferior in its accommodations, we\\njudge, to any in the state. It is a proud day when the youths\\nof our city, young men and maidens, without distinction of\\nrace, color, nationality, politics, or religion, having completed\\nthe prescribed course, stand forth in the presence of teachers,\\nparents, school committees, and friends, to give proof of their\\nattainments, and to receive diplomas as testimonials and lau-\\nrels of the success achieved. With laudable j^ride we say,\\nThese are our jewels.\\nAs pertaining to the history of education in Concord, I must\\nnot omit to mention that, fi-om the beginning, it has always\\nbeen an object to employ well-educated and competent teachers.\\nHence, students and graduates of college have often been em-\\nployed, some of whom have afterwards become distinguished\\nin public life. The first master in the ancient Penacook was\\nMr. James Scales, a graduate of Harvard College, afterwai ds\\nthe first minister of Hopkinton, N. H. in i773? Benjamin\\nThompson, the celebrated Count Rumford, began his illustrious\\ncareer as a school-master district No. S boasts that one term\\nHon. Levi Woodbury was their teacher; No. lo, that the late\\nRev. Dr. Burnham, of Pembroke, and Dudley Leavitt, the dis-\\ntinguished Mathematician and Almanack maker of New\\nHampshire, served them. The first term the old brick school-\\nhouse at the North end was opened it was taught by Hon.\\nGeorge W. Nesmith, and afterwards by Professor Edwin D.\\nSanborn. No. 3 was taught by Judge David Cross No, 12,\\nby the late Prof. Long, of Dartmouth College Nos. 4, 5, 7, 8,\\nby our most eminent literary son, Nathaniel H. Carter. The\\nlate Joseph Robinson, Esq., and Col. Chandler E, Potter,\\ntaught with ability and success, I might name other scholarly\\nand able men, still living among us.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "31\\nIn our educational history (further) the Concord Literary\\nInstitution and Teachers Seminary has a creditable record.\\nIt was established in 1S35. The building, 58 feet by 54,\\ntwo stories high and costing about $3,500, which was raised\\nby subscription, was located on a lot of land donated by\\nthe late Samuel A. Kimball, Esq., on what was then called\\nSand Hill, now covered with elegant and sightly dwellings,\\nand known as Academy Hill. First taught by Mr. T. D. P.\\nStone, a graduate of Amherst College, it attained a wide popu-\\nlarity, having students from all the New England states, from\\nNew York, Ohio, and Alabama, and one each from Greece and\\nfrom Spain. There were two departments, male and female\\non the roll of students we count about nineteen hundred names,\\namong which we discover the names of very many of our own\\nsons who have attained distinction in the various v/alks of life.\\nAmong them we count the names of nine who have become\\npreachers of the gospel, nine physicians, sixteen educated as\\nlawyers, several distinguished educators, and other successful\\nbusiness men. It gives me special pleasure to say that His\\nHonor the Mayor, the President of the Board of Trade, and the\\nSuperintendent of Public Instruction in this Union School Dis-\\ntrict, severally received their highest acadeinic honors from the\\nConcord Literary Institution and Teachers Seminary and I\\nhave the further pleasure to add, that in 1837 there appeared in\\nthe list of students the name of Henry Wilson, now Vice-\\nPresident of the United States. Here, wd believe, he received\\nthe last finish of the academic education which has borne him\\nto his high position. The Academy closed its mission in 1844.*\\nNor would I omit that all along through the past fifty years,\\nat least succeeding the Academy, there have been select schools\\nfor young misses, taught by ladies of culture and refinement, to\\nthe great advantage of our daughters.\\nThe Methodist Biblical Institute, the first of the kind in the\\nUnited States, established in our town in 1847, remained among\\nus twenty years, in which time five hundred and sixty-two young\\nmen were educated in it for the Christian ministr}\\nSee Appendix, Note III.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32\\nTo which I add the more recent school at Millville, estab-\\nlished in 1S55 b} the munificence of George C. Shattuck,\\nI\\\\I. D., of Boston, in which institution we take the more satisfac-\\ntion, because the miclais and basis of the beautiful villa that has\\nthere sprung up is the Jirst brick dwelling-house ever erected\\nin Concord, being built in 1S04 by Jacob Carter, Sen., the\\nfiither of our venerable living citizen bearing the same name.\\nIts prefix indicates the historic fact, that on the stream which\\nflows by it was erected in 1733 the first mill ever built in Con-\\ncord on the west side of Merrimack river.\\nIn the growing prosperity of this school we rejoice, sharing\\nas we do in the benefits of its rich endowments, its liberal cult-\\nure, its wealthy patronage, and its large disbursements.\\nAlthough, fellow-citizens, we do not claim to be the banner\\ntown of New Hampshire in the public education of our sons,\\nyet I have the pleasure to say that I have the names of eighty-\\nsix graduates of college since 1S35, our sons, native born or\\nresidents, making the whole number one hundred and sixteen\\nbesides others, number not exactly known, graduates of medical\\nand law institutions.*\\nSince 1S25, all the public libraries in our city have come into\\nexistence, viz.\\nThe City Library, containing about 6,350 vols.\\nThe Library of the N. H. Hist. Society, 7,000\\nThe N. H. State Libvary, 13,000\\nSabbath-school libraries, aggregating 9,000\\nThese are our proofs of progress in schools and education in\\nthe last fift} years.\\nChurches.\\nWhat shall be said of our religious progress.^ Step out with\\nme, fellow-citizens, and look at that old North Meeting-house as\\nit was, standing alone in this township of seven miles square\\nand more, opening its doors on the east, south, and west to re-\\nceive worshippers from every section. They come in wagons,\\non horseback, and on foot, to the average number of 750. In\\nthe whole town there is but one stated, settled minister, his sal-\\nSee Appendix, Note IV.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "33\\nary $750 annually, and the whole expense to the town in 1825\\nwas $806.13. The highest minister s rate, as it was called, was\\n$23.17 the next highest $13.05 and the average rate paid by\\nfive of the ablest men in the vicinity of the meeting-house was\\nbut $7.60.\\nLook again, and count to-day, on precisely the same territory,\\nat least twenty hovises and places of public worship, convenient,\\ncommodious, someofthem elegant, magnificent, and costly, each\\nwith its stated minister, and on the Sabbath well filled with\\nworshippers to the aggregate number of near 6,000. Do you\\nask at what expense The salaries alone of ministers aggregate\\n$24,450, and other expenses incidental at least $10,000 more\\nwhich sums are voluntarily raised by subscriptions or contri-\\nbutions, in not a few cases, of fifty, one hundred, two hundred\\ndollars, and more.\\nOne fact in our religious progress is worthy of historic note,\\nviz., that as our town itself has had its times of growth, its\\nimpulses, and particular periods of enlargement, so the churches\\nhave advanced in a like manner, more in some years than\\nin others. We call these years times of refreshing. In the\\nfirst quarter of our half century, particularly from 1S27 to 1842,\\nthere was almost a continuous religious interest pervading the\\nminds and hearts of the people. In that period there were\\nadded to the First or North Church alone 579 members to the\\nFirst Baptist, chiefly under the ministry of Rev. Dr. E. E.\\nCummings, 473 and a corresponding number to other churches\\nthat improved the heavenly visitation. Of similar seasons,\\nmore recent, I need not speak but I shall ever regard it as a\\nfavor of Divine Providence, for which my heart is glad, that\\nmy tiines, so ordered, shared in such blessings. I estimate\\nthe ratio of membership in the churches to our whole population\\nat 13 per cent, in 1835 now, at 18 per cent.*\\nI look upon it as a most gratifying circumstance, that re-\\ndounds to the credit of these several churches and congregations,\\nand equally to the honor of the whole community, that they\\nhave risen into existence in the most natural order to meet the\\n*SeeNote v.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34\\nwants and preferences of those who support them. The prin-\\nciple of religious liberty and equality is so well understood and\\nso uniformly acted upon, that although each church, and every\\nindividual member thereof, is well persuaded in his own mind,\\nand fixed in the faith and ecclesiastical order which he has\\nadopted, yet the broad mantle of Christian charit}^ is spread\\nover the whole, and no one has reason to complain that he\\ncannot worship God according to the dictates of his own con-\\nscience, having none to molest or make him afraid.\\nOf the ministers of Concord I shall so far magnify my office\\nas to say, that through the whole period of its history, one hun-\\ndred and fifty years, its prosperity, character, growth, and devel-\\nopment in morals, education, and religion, are due more to them\\nthan to any other single class of her citizens. The value of their\\nlabors and influence can never be calculated in dollars and cents,\\nbut only by the influences which have raised us to the position\\nwhich we hold to-day among the towns and cities of our state\\nand country.\\nMortality.\\nIf your patience, fellow-citizens, is not already exhausted,\\nI will claim your attention to one topic more. It is to remind\\nyou that all along the path of these fifty years, Death has kept\\neven pace with the growth of our population. According to\\nthe record of mortality in town, which I kept forty-two consec-\\nutive years, or till iS66, the number of deaths was 4,229 the\\nnumber since, according to a list furnished by the city clerk, is\\n1,284, making to the beginning of the year 1S75, 5,5 iS- This\\nlarge number of the dead, crowding the old burying-places,\\nhave demanded more room, and new grounds have been opened\\nto receive them. But notwithstanding the seemingly large\\nnumber of deaths, yet Concord is justly ranked as one of the\\nmost healthy localities in New England. Our rural disti icts\\nare equal in healthiness to any other portions of the state. In-\\ncluding the centre village, the deaths annually in the whole\\ncity are only as one to seventy-two inhabitants, or about fourteen\\nin a thousand, which is less than the best reported sections of\\nMassachusetts. Of all who have died in the last fifty years,\\neight hundred and sixty-two, or one sixth and four tenths of the", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "35\\nwhole numbei* attained seventy years. Seventy of this number\\nreached ninety years fifteen between ninety and ninety-six\\nyears ten between ninety-six and ninety-nine years and five of\\nthem one hundred years and over the oldest being one hundi ed\\nand three years, four months, and twenty-five days.\\nIt is an aflecting thought to me, that, of all the people in\\ntown who were fifty years of age in 1835, not one is known\\nto be among the living to-day of all the ministers then in the\\nstate in office, only two are known to survive as my seniors\\nand of all the members of the religious society of which I took\\ncharge, I find only five survivors among us to-day, then young\\nmen, now the old men of the town some of them are present.\\nI beg the privilege of naming them as my contemporaries, sup-\\nporters, and friends Col. William Kent, Dea. Ira Rowell,\\nJoseph Eastman, Ivory Hall, and Joseph P. Stickney.\\nFellow-citizens sometimes, with closed eyes, I seem to see\\nin retrospection a long procession passing before me of venera-\\nble men and women, representatives of past generations living\\nin 1825, but now numbered with the dead. I recognize their\\nwell-remembered faces and forms I rise up to do them rever-\\nence. I crave the liberty of saluting some of them by name as\\nthey pass along. Of those who resided on the east side of the\\nriver, I recognize the venerable, strong-minded, and large-hearted\\nold patriot, Jonathan Eastman, Sen., Esq. and next to him\\nCapt. John Eastman, as straight and strict in principle as he\\nwas in form, both leaving behind worthy descendants. I bow\\nto Stephen Ambrose, Esq., of gentlemanly manners and wide\\ninfluence and to his sensible and godly brother, Dea. Nathaniel,\\nas also to their neighbor, our capable selectman and representa-\\ntive, Jeremiah Pecker, Esq. There is Jacob Hoit, at the age\\nof ninety, in his ancient dwelling on the mountain, with a\\nmemory still fresh, and exuberant with facts of olden times. I\\nsee Asa Graham looking over his well-cultivated farm and\\nSamuel Goodwin, with that emblem of old age, his red cap\\ncovering his head, as he used to sit in the old North Meeting-\\nhouse. Of the West Parish, I recognize in this procession the\\n*Rev. Abel RIanning, of Goshen, in 1S25, now residing in Goffstown, and Rev. Liba\\nConant, of Northfield, now in Orfordville.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36\\nvenerable Capt. Joseph Farnum, ninety-seven years of age,\\nspending a portion of each day in reading a chapter of his large\\nBible Timothy Carter, Esq., justice of the peace Dea. Abiel\\nRolfe, esteemed for his dow^nright integrity and piety, whose\\npravers were sought as well as his counsels here passes honest\\nAmos Abbot, the owner of the granite ledges, which originally\\ncost fifty cents per acre, whose value, to him unknown, enriches\\nhis descendants, and is better than a mine of gold to our city\\nIsaac Dow, Esq., who well filled the ofiices of trust conferred\\non him Capt. Samuel Davis, and Richard Flanders, and Capt.\\nNathan Ballard, Sen., each at the age of eighty-nine, leaving\\ndescendants on the old homesteads to bear up their names.\\nI recognize, also, not a few residing in the ancient street,\\nwho were, in my eyes, old men fifty years ago there is Mr.\\nEnoch Coffin, living in the family mansion, still standing, under\\nthe shadow of that majestic elm which is the pride of our city.\\nAlong on Main street I see Mr. Nathaniel Abbot, whose hos-\\npitable mansion entertained many friends near him, often in\\nconverse, the friendly and devout Mr. Lemuel Barker Mr.\\nRichard Herbert, moving along with his staff which fell not\\nfrom his hands till the age of ninety-four here is my venerated\\npredecessor in office. Rev. Asa McFarland, D. D., serving the\\ntown twenty-seven years, justly reputed among the ablest min-\\nisters of the state and his near neighbors, Dr. Peter Green,\\nJohn Odlin, Esq., and the athletic Capt. Richard Ayer. Still\\nfollowing in the long line I see the self-possessed and dignified\\nlandlord, Abel Hutchins, sitting in the old Phoenix, just risen\\nfrom its ashes, and next him the genial Benjamin Gale I dis-\\ncover, too, without mistake, the venerable founder and father of\\nthe Concord Press, George Hough, Esq., still j^ausing to fix the\\npoints respected as ever, I recognize Judge Samuel Green,\\nwalking with unequal step, but holding an even and just bal-\\nance here is Albe Cady, Esq., with the pen in hand of a ready\\nscribe I see Maj. Timothy Chandler, ingenious and industrious,\\nregulating the time tripping along with elastic step, at the age\\nof ninety and over, is Mr. John Shute, Sen, near by, his\\nneighbor, the exemplary Dea. James Wiley, and Dea. Jonathan\\nWilkins, Esq., a graduate of Dartmouth College, in his home", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "37\\nat the Eleven lots, deliberate in step and in choice of words,\\nbut the more respected as the head of a large family of sons\\nand fair daughters. These all, and many more, were among\\nthe aged inhabitants of the town in 1S25.\\nThe long procession still moves. I recognize many that in\\nmy times were the supporters of our schools and churches\\nindustrious, moral, useful citizens here a group of those Chris-\\ntian women, who, like some of earlier times, followed and\\nserved the Saviour by ministering to his poor among them I\\nsee loving and loved ones who await our coming they all\\nseem now in shining garments alas many fair daughters,\\nwho faded and passed away just in the bloom of womanhood.\\nHere pass standard-bearers in our churches. One, with the\\nsame halo of sanctity about him as on the last Sabbath of his\\nservice in church and another, of graver aspect, but bearing\\non his front the impress of sincerity and fidelity to duty and to\\ntrust. I discern and salute men in the learned professions\\nevery one of the physicians of that day every one of the law-\\nyers, as also, much lamented, some of a more recent period.\\nHere are Chief Justices of the state,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 one the more learned and\\nexact, the other the more dignified and courteous. Here, also,\\nI discern fellow-laborers in the ministry\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a beloved Rector, fall-\\ning in the prime of manhood, with his robes yet fresh upon\\nhim, and later, a laborious and successful Pastor thirty-four\\nyears,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 both gone to give in their accounts. Passing, I see the\\nshadow of our second honored Mayor, suddenly dropping the\\ncares and honors of office, to be followed by a sorrowing com-\\nmunity to a premature grave. Some, too, I discern, more emi-\\nnent in their stations ex-Governors of the state a venerable\\nJudge, still wearing his ermine at the age of four score and\\nfour and a President of the United States. Closing up the\\nlong procession, I discern the brave boys in blue, sons,\\nwhose graves we strew with flowers of loyal affection. But\\nthe shadows fade as promiscuously they pass along rich and\\npoor, high and low, aged and young, parents and children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nall vanish from view, but yet live forever more\\nThough lost to sight, to memory dear", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38\\nPardon me, fellow-citizens, that I have detained you so long.\\nBut with renewed congratulations for the prosperity which has\\nattended and crowned our goodly heritage in the last fifty years,\\nwith renewed thankfulness to the Giver of all our mercies in\\nthat period, and with heartfelt satisfaction that in my times\\nI have shared and been identified with you in all the progress\\nwe have witnessed and enjoyed, I beg, in conclusion, humbly to\\nremind you that our surest and only guaranty of prosperity\\nfor the future lies in adherence to the princijoles of virtue, hold-\\ning high the standard of morals, encouraging habits of industry,\\nsobriety, economy, and diligence in our lawful avocations, cher-\\nishing our schools, training our children in the way they should\\ngo, guarding the Sabbath from profanation, and reverencing\\nand sustaining the institutions of our holy religion. Thus doing,\\nI see no grounds of apprehension for the future. The growth of\\nthe past fifty years is a prophecy and surety for its growth in\\nthe next. Our beautiful location may become still more attrac-\\ntive, our business relations and resources more expanded, our\\npopulation be again and again doubled, and ovu social, educa-\\ntional, and Christian privileges augmented. So, leaving this,\\nour heritage, our children and children s children shall bless the\\nGod of their fathers, and say, Our lines at c fallen 7i7ito 7cs in\\npleasajit places; yea, vje have a goodly heritage^", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX,\\nINCLUDING PORTIONS OF THE DISCOURSE OMITTED IN THE DELIVERY.\\nNOTE I, PAGE I 5\\nFIRE DEPARTMENT.\\nOf the number of fires in Concord in the last fifty years I shall not\\npresume to speak they are too numerous to mention. Some of them,\\nas will be readily recalled, were in the very heart of our city, and\\ndestructive of large amounts of property but, to the praise of the enter-\\nprise and energy of our people, our losses by fire have been our gain.\\nOut of their ashes have arisen new, larger, more substantial and costly\\nedifices, which stand to-day as proofs of our progress. Among the\\nruins by fire we count five of our churches, naming them in order the\\nUnitarian, 1854; the South Congregational, 1859; the West Congrega-\\ntional, 1869; the Old North, 1870, after standing about 119 years and\\nlast, the First Congregational, 1873.\\nIn 1825, and six or eight years later, the fire department was managed\\nby what were called fire-wards, appointed by the town, who, on occa-\\nsions of fire, bore aloft the distinguishing badge of their office, a\\nstaff five feet long, painted red, and headed with a bright spire six\\ninches long, with a blue ribbon streaming from the apex. In 1825,\\nand about eleven years later, there were only two small fire engines in the\\nmain village, one of them called the Literary which were worked\\nby a brake, six men on each side, with a hose from twenty to thirty feet in\\nlength, without any suction hose. At the cry of fire and the ringing of an\\nalarm bell, the fire-wards seized their badge, the firemen sprung for their\\nengines, to be drawn by hand, and the people, with pails and buckets,\\nrushed to the scene. Then would be heard the word of command from\\nSee Hist. Concord, p. 343.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40\\na fire-ward, like the colonel of a regiment, ringing out in stentorian\\ntones, Form a line! Then the people, all the people (whoever\\ndisobeyed did it at his peril) fell into line, rather, two lines, ^^one\\nto pass single buckets of water from the nearest accessible well, hand\\nby hand, to empty one by one into the tub of the engine the other\\nline to return the buckets to be refilled. Then, all ready, the engine\\nplaced as near the fire as would not be too uncomfortable, a stream of\\nwater from a half-inch pipe would be thrown upon the burning build-\\ning. Sometimes the men in line worked faster than the men at the\\nbrakes could throw the water, and then tubs from the neighborhood\\nwould be in requisition to hold the surplus till wanted. Very unfor-\\ntunate was it if a well, with five or six feet of water, should give out\\nbefore the fire was got under: but so it often happened. And if a\\nbuilding was so unfortunate as to be burnt up, it was not, be it spoken,\\nfor want of good-will, nor want of a good sweat on the part of the\\nbrakemen, nor want of being heard by the fire-wards, nor because the\\npeople in lines did not help all they could. I smile to remember how\\nmany times I have stood in line by the hour passing buckets from\\nhand to hand.\\nThe gentlemen of the Fire Department of 1875 iy congratulate\\nthemselves, not only on the superior, splendid engines and apparatus\\nwhich they possess for extinguishing fires, and at their superior skill\\nin management, but also that they stand in an honored line of succes-\\nsion. Among the engine men of 1827 were a good portion of the\\nmost worthy, honored, and honorable citizens of the town. In a list\\nof twenty-two names before me, I find the names of Francis N. Fisk,\\nJohn George, John West, Dr. Moses Chandler, Jeremiah Pecker, Or-\\nlando Brown, Richard Bradley, Robert Davis, Samuel Cofiin, Charles\\nHerbert, Richard Herbert, Luther Roby (chief engineer, 1S27), James\\nBuswell, and Samuel A. Kimball, Esqrs., with others of honorable\\nname.\\nI must not omit to record that at the fires in former times there was\\nalwa) s present one conspicuous character. Usually, first and foremost,\\nyou might see the glare of his big white eyes amid flames and smoke\\nseizing a ladder, and the fire-axe which he bore officially, he would\\nascend roofs, enter chambers, and cut his way to the very source of\\nthe fire then, face to face with the fire-fiend, and with the stuttering\\ncry of Water, water he would dash on pailful after pailful, or guide a\\nwell-directed stream from the engine to the exact spot. All due respect\\nto tlie memory of Thomas B. Sargeant, the champion fire-fighter of\\nConcord fifty years ago.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "41\\nNOTE II, PAGE 29,\\nSTATISTICS OF SCHOOLS, FURNISHED BY C. F. STEWART, ESQ., CITY CLERK.\\nSum appropriated for schools in 1825,\\n1826,\\n1827,\\n1828,\\n1829,\\n$1,250.00\\n1,250.00\\n1,250.00\\n1,250.00\\n1,250.00\\nTotal for the five years, $6,250.60\\nI can find no satisfactory statement of the number of scliolars for the\\nabove period, but in 1826 I find reported 893 scholars, with the number\\nin District No. 17 (partly in Hopkinton) and District No. 5 omitted,\\nwhich, if added, would probably give not far from a total of 925 scholars.\\nIn 1840 the appropriation for schools was raised to $2,070.00\\nNumber of scholars returned the same year, 1,062\\nAppropriation for schools in 1850, $4,174.20\\nScholars in 1850, 1*653\\nAppropriation for schools in 1 85 1, $4,219.32\\nScholars in 1851, 1,624\\nAppropriation for schools in 1852, $4,292.72\\nScholars in 1852, 2,197\\nequal to one fourth of the whole population so say the committee in\\ntheir rej^ort.\\nAppropriation for schools in 1853,\\nScholars in 1853,\\nAppropriation for schools in 1854,\\nScholars in 1854,\\nTotal appropriation for the five years.\\nAppropriation for year ending March, 1870,\\nNumber of scholars,\\nAppropriation for year ending March, 1871,\\nNumber of scholars,\\nAppropriation for year ending March, 1872,\\nNumber of scholars,\\n$5,471.86\\n2,300\\n$5,430.28\\n2,448\\n$23,588.38\\n$20,673.00\\n2,319\\n$20,751.00\\n2,401\\n$21,658.00\\n2,494", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42\\nAppropriation for year ending March, 1873, $~3,9S9-oo\\nNumber of scholars, 2,492\\nAppropriation for year ending March, 1874, .$25,126.00\\nNumber of scholars, *2,468\\nTotal appropriation for five years, $112,167.00\\nThe above does not include the large amount expended for school-\\nhouses during the same time.\\nTo the foregoing it may be added, that in 1825, and several years\\nlater, all the school-houses then in town, with the exception of the brick\\nhouse in No. 1 1, at the North end, and the old Bell school-house in the\\ncentre, were small one-story houses. With rare exceptions, all were\\nbuilt with large, old-fashioned fireplaces, and were warmed, not by\\nstoves, but by piling on large quantities of wood to meet the exigencies\\nof the weather. In the school report of 1827, the committee say, In\\nsome instances we have seen wood upon the fire, at one time sufficient,\\nif burned in a stove, to keep a house warm during school hours for two\\nor three days and frequently beheld, with emotions of pain, the suffer-\\nings which those nearest the fire endured from its excessive heat, while\\nothers, more remote, have actually shivered with cold.\\nINTERESTING LETTER FROM HON. G. W. NESMITH.\\nFranklin, January 15, 1875.\\nRev. Dr. Bouton\\nAfy Dear Sir: You inquire whether I ever taught school in your school\\ndistrict, No. 11. I answer, I did act the pedagogue for the term of four\\nmonths, commencing in the month of November, 1820, and terminating\\nin March, 1821. I was employed by the late Francis N. Fisk. I boarded\\nat the tavern then kept by Lemuel Barker. I cannot state to you the\\nexact amount of wages received by me per month. My recollection\\nwould be, not much over twenty dollars per month. The price of board\\nwas two dollars per week. The school generally averaged about sixty\\nscholars. Among the dead I recollect Paul George, Charles West,\\nCharles Emery and his sister, Mrs. Towle, Miss Coffin, who married in\\nNew York city, and the daughter of Nathaniel Abbott, by name Eme-\\nline, and some others who were superior scholars. Among the living,\\nof the same order, I remember the wife of Judge Perkins, Rev. Mr.\\nLe Bosquet, C. Thorn, and a few others. I find but a very few of my\\nlittle flock now alive.\\nThis was the number in actual attendance.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "43\\nMy testimony would place that district school above the average of\\ndistrict schools in this state at that time, in point of capacity and acquire-\\nments. Your brick school-house was erected in the year 1820, and I\\nwas the first to use it in my said capacity of school-master. I think my\\nimmediate predecessor in your district was a Mr. Bartlett, brother of\\nthe late Richard Bartlett, Esq. My successor was Samuel A. Burns,\\nEsq., of Plymouth. At a school-meeting of your district voters, holden\\nearly in March, Capt. Joseph Walker presented a claim against the\\ndistrict, which the voters refused to allow whereupon Capt. Walker\\nobtained possession of the key of the house, and notified the district\\nthat there could be no school unless his bill was paid. I was allowed\\na vacation of three days in consequence of this imbroglio. The bill was\\nat length paid up, and the house was opened. Of all this I did not\\ncomplain, because my pay went on, and I enjoyed the days of rest\\nand my scholars said they had a good time. Walker got his pay, and\\nthe district escaped a lawsuit and I never heard of any public meet-\\nings being held, either in Boston or New York, wherein Walker was\\ndenounced for employing i/ticonstitutio/ial ntcasures in obtaining my\\nkey, in order to enforce the payment of what was justly due him.\\nThe above occurrence formed an interesting episode in my school-\\nmaster experience in your district, and so forms a like episode in my\\nletter. I could proceed to detail to you many historical facts in relation\\nto the men and measures of the legislature of the fall session of 1820,\\nbut all this would not be an appropriate answer to your inquiries so\\nyou will allow me to stop here.\\nTruly your friend,\\nGeorge W. Nesmith.\\nNOTE III, PAGE 31.\\nCONCORD LITERARY INSTITUTION AND TEACHERS SEMINARY.\\nIn the fall of the year 1834, a young gentleman from Andover, Mass.,\\nMr. Timothy D. P. Stone, came into Concord and proposed to open a\\nHigh School, or Academy, provided a suitable building, with apparatus,\\ncould be furnished for the accommodation of the school. There being\\nthen no building that would answer the purpose, and the want of one\\nbeing sensibly felt, especially by parents who had children to educate,\\nthe proposition was at once made to erect a suitable building for the\\npurpose of a High School, or Academy. A subscription was accordingly", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44\\nopened,* and the requisite sum obtained, witli tlie general expectation\\nthat the building would be erected on land offered for the purpose by\\nGeorge Kent, Esq. but before the location was decided on, a propo-\\nsition was made, by individuals residing in the north section of the vil-\\nlage, that the building should be erected on Stickney s hill, so called, west\\nof the court house. This proposition not being agreed to,t it was then\\nIJroposed by individuals at the north section to erect a building for an\\nacademy on land offered by Richard Bradley, Esq., and a subscrip-\\ntion for the requisite sum was raised for the purpose. J In the mean-\\ntime trustees had been chosen by the subscribers in favor of the location\\non the ground of Mr. Kent, and by those in favor of the location on the\\nground of Mr. Bradley but as it was obviously unnecessary and inex-\\npedient that there should be two institutions of the kind, a proposition\\nwas made to unite and erect the proposed building on land offered by\\nSamuel A. Klmball, Esq., on the hill west of Union street, and since\\nknown as Academy Hill.\\nA subscription for the building and for the purchase of an additional\\npiece of land of Mr. Kimball was accordingly made, in shares of twenty-\\nfive dollars each, by individuals residing in the main village, and is as\\nfollows\\nSamuel A. Kimball, donation of land for the building.\\nWoodbridge Odlin, guaranty land on the side of the hill east of Mr\\nReuben Wyman, I Kimball s land, needful for a road, c.\\nShares.\\nSum.\\n1 Shares.\\nSum.\\nPeter Elkins,\\n2\\n$So.oo\\nEzra Carter,\\n^V2\\nI37-50\\nDavid L. Morrill,\\n4\\nlOO.OO\\nJohn Whipple,\\nI\\n25.00\\nJames Buswell,\\n2\\n50.00\\nIsaac Clement,\\n2\\n50.00\\nSamuel Herbert,\\n3\\n75-00\\nGeorge W. Ela,\\n2\\n50.00\\n[Provided the building on\\nNathaniel Bouton,\\n4\\n100.00\\nRichard Bradley s land does\\nJoseph C. Wallace,\\nI\\n25.00\\nnot go on.]\\nJewett Bishop, in work,\\nI\\n25.00\\nJohn Farmer, in books,\\nI\\n25.00\\nJohn Goss,\\n10.00\\nAbiel Walker fon condition\\nEdward Philbrick,\\n15-00\\nthat a majority of the pro-\\nMichael Tubbs,\\n10.00\\nprietors unite in this loca-\\n1\\nHenry M. Moore, in work,\\n}i\\n12.50\\ntion, and that a street be\\n1\\nPhilip Sargent,\\n1\\n12.50\\nopened for convenient com-\\nNelson P. Johnson,\\ni\\n12.50\\nmunication from State St.\\ni\\nHazen Walker,\\nI\\n25.00\\nto the lnstitution],\\n4\\n100.00\\nA. B. Kelly,\\nI\\n25.00\\nJohn Mfller,\\nA\\n12.50 j\\nShadrach Seavey,\\n12.50\\nReuben Wyman,\\nVz\\n12.50\\nIsaac Emery, Jr.,\\nVi\\n12.50\\nC. H. Peaslee,\\n1\\n25.00\\nJoshua K. Abbot,\\nI\\n25.00\\nNathaniel Abbot, in labor,\\nI\\n25.00\\nWoodbridge Odlin,\\nI\\n25.00\\nE. S. Towle,\\n3\\n75.00\\nRobert Davis,\\n3\\n75.00\\nTho. Chadbourne,\\n2\\n50.00\\nSamuel Coffin,\\n1\\n25.00\\nJohn Titcomb, in work,\\nI\\n25.00\\nRichard Herbert,\\n2\\n50.00\\nHoratio Hill,\\n3\\n75.00\\nIsaac Hill\\n4\\n100.00\\nJohn West,\\n75.00\\nRichard Bradley,\\n4\\n100.00\\nJoseph C. West,\\nI\\n25.00\\nSee MS. Files, No. i, in a bo.K in the Library Room of the N. H. Hist. Soc.\\nt See MS. File, No. 2.\\nt See MS. File.\\nSee Deed of Conveyance, on record in Register of Deed s office.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "45\\nSubscribei s at the South part of the Street, who have given their\\nnames, payable to William Gaiilt, Treasurer.\\nShares.\\nSum.\\nI\\nShares.\\nSum.\\nGeorge Kent,\\nS\\n\u00c2\u00a7200.00\\nAbraham Prescott,\\nJ25.00\\n25.00\\nAsaph EvanSj\\n5\\n125.00,\\nAsa Parker, in brick,\\nIsaac Hill,\\n4\\n100.00\\nAaron Alorse, in joiner s\\nJoseph Low, part in appara-\\nwork,\\n25.00\\ntus,\\n4\\n100.00; 1 Daniel Dunlap, in joiner s\\nNathaniel G. Upham,\\n4\\n100.00 work,\\n25.00\\nSamuel Fletcher,\\n4\\n100. ool] Porter Blanchard, in cabi-\\nWilliam Gault,\\n4\\n100.00! 1 net work,\\n25.00\\nAmos Wood,\\n4\\n100.00 Eliot A. Hill, in cabinet\\nBenjamin Thomson,\\n4\\n100.00! work,\\n25.00\\nJohn B. Chandler, in appa-\\njl Crockett Worth, in cabi-\\nratus,\\n4\\n100.00 1 network,\\n25.00\\nJoseph P. Stickney,\\n2\\n50.00! Woodbury Brown, in car-\\nGeorge Hutchins,\\n2\\n50.00 penterwork.\\n25.00\\nElisha Morrill,\\n2\\n50.00, 1 Jacob Abbot and Samuel C.\\nHall Burgin,\\n2\\n50.00! 1 Colby, in carpenter work,\\n25.00\\nBenj. Damon, in painting,\\n2\\n50.00 Cotton S. Brown, in carpen-\\nJames Straw, in joiner work.\\n2\\n50.00\\nter work\\n25.00\\nJoseph Robinson,\\n25.00\\nPhilip Watson, in carpenter\\nEbenezer E. Cummings,\\n25.00\\nwork,\\n25.00\\nWilliam Esterbrook,\\n25.00!; Thomas Butters, in work,\\n25,00\\nJoseph Grover,\\n25.00,; Silas G. Sylvester, in work,\\n25.00\\nBradbury Gill,\\n25.00\\nReuben D. Morse, in car-\\nWilliam T. Goodell,\\n25.00\\npenter work.\\n25.00\\nJ. C. Ernerson,\\n25.00\\nJames Whittemore, in v/ork,\\nWilliam Pearson, in work,\\n25.00\\nEnos Blake,\\n25.00\\n25.00\\nSamuel Evans,\\n25.00\\nHenry S. Robbins,\\n25.00\\nDaniel Carr,\\n25.00\\n1 John Wheeler, in work,\\n25.00\\nEdward Bracket!,\\n25.00\\nRichard Worthen, in brick\\nIra H. Currier,\\n25.00\\nor work,\\nI\\n25.00\\nAaron Carter,\\n25.00\\nFor the Purchase of Land of Samuel A. Kimball, north of the site\\ngiven for the Academy. Additional Subsc?-iptions.\\nShares.\\nSum.\\nShares.\\nSum.\\nIsaac H.tU, in addition to\\nWilliam West,\\ngio.oo\\nformer subscription.\\n?33-33\\nNath l Wheet, in apparatus\\n15.00\\nJosiah Rogers,\\nI\\n25.00\\nGardner P. Lyon,\\nI\\n25.00\\nHamilton Hutchins,\\nI\\n25.00\\nLewis Hall,\\n12.50\\nS. C. Badger,\\nI\\n25.00\\nJno. Whipple, in addition\\n8.33\\nGeo. Hutchins, in addition.\\n12.00\\nAmos Wood, in addition,\\n25.00\\nSamuel Fletcher, in addition.\\n25. ool\\nE. S. Chadwick,\\nI\\n25.00\\nA. Capen, Jr.,\\n10.00\\nGeorge T. Pilsbury,\\nI\\n25.00\\nBenjamin Damon, in work,\\n10.00\\nDavid Kimball,\\n10.00\\nEdward Brackett,\\n12.00\\nSamuel Morril,\\n15.00\\nAsaph Evans,\\n15.00\\nEzra Carter,\\n15.00\\nSeth Eastman,\\nlo.ooj\\nE. S. Towle, in addition,\\n15.00\\nWilliam Low,\\nI\\n25.00\\nSam l Herbert, in p.ddition\\n10.00\\nJoseph P. Sticknev,\\n25.001\\nFrancis N. Fisk,\\nI\\n25.00\\nJoseph Low, in addition.\\n33-33\\nWilliam Green, Plymouth\\nI\\n25.00\\nN. G. Upham, in addition.\\nPeter Renton,\\nI\\n25.00\\npaid by note,\\n33-33\\nSamuel Evans, in addition\\n12.50\\nThomas Chadbourne, in ad-\\nJ. B. Moore, paid by note\\nI\\n25.00\\ndition, paid by note,\\n25.00\\nThomas Brown,\\nI\\n25.00\\nN. Bouton, in addition, paid\\nJohn J\\\\]cDaniel,\\n5.00\\nby note,\\n25.00\\nRobert Davis, in addition\\n10.00\\nJohn J. Ayer, in addition.\\nDavid L. Morril,\\n1\\n25.00\\npaid by note.\\nI\\n25.00\\nJonathan Herbert,\\n10.00", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46\\nAt a general meeting of the above subscribers, all of whom were pro-\\nprietors of the Institution, i8th February, 1835, the following persons\\nwere chosen a Board of Trustees, viz. Nathaniel Bouton, Ebenezer\\nE. Cummings, David L. Mqrril, Samuel Fletcher, Samuel A. Kimball,\\nIsaac Hill, Nathaniel G. Upham, Hall Burgin, Thomas Chadbourne,\\nWilliam Gault, Abiel Walker, and Ezra Carter. The Trustees, on the\\n19th February, organized by choosing Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, Presi-\\ndent of the Board, Rev. E. E. Cummings, Secretary, and Dea. William\\nGault, Treasurer.\\nAn act of incorporation was obtained the building was erected on\\nthe proposed site, 58 feet long and 54 wide, two stories in height, with\\na cupola entrance, two doors in front, one for males and the other for\\nfemales the apartments separated on the lower floor by a partition,\\nwith sliding doors. In the upper story were rooms for library, appa-\\nratus, and recitations, with a spacious hall for exhibitions. The cost\\nof the building was about $3,500, exclusive of apparatus, and a library,\\nestimated at $200. The building was publicly dedicated to the pur-\\nposes of education i6th September, 1835, in the presence of the Trus-\\ntees and a numerous assembly, by appropriate services, with an address\\nby Rev. Mr. Bouton.\\nThe name of the institution was The Concord Literary Institution\\nand Teachers Seminary It comprised four departments\\nI. The Teachers Department, for the instruction of young men and\\nladies who wish to prepare to teach district schools.\\nII. The Academical DeiDartment, for instruction in classical studies\\nand preparing young men for college.\\nIII. The High School Department, for those who are preparing for\\nbusiness or usefulness in life without acquiring a classical education.\\nIV. The Preparatory Class, to consist of such as are too young or too\\nbackward to enter either of the above departments.\\nThe institution was opened for iiTStruction in the fall of 1835, Mr.\\nT. D. P. Stone, Principal; Miss Elizabeth Fuller, Preceptress; Miss\\nRowena Coffin and Miss Mary K. Coffin, Assistants.\\nMr. Stone resigned in August, 1837, and the teachers who succeeded\\nhim were, in\\n1837 two terms Mr. J. D. Berry, Miss Rowena Coffin.\\n1838 April term Mr. Eden B. Foster, Miss Sarah Foster.\\n1838 August term Charles Peabody, Miss S. Foster.\\n1838 December term Mr. A. C. Heaton,\\n1839\u00e2\u0080\u0094 April term\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mr. A. C. Heaton,\\n1839 August term Mr. Charles Peabody,\\n1S39 December term\\n1S40 April term", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "47\\n1840\u00e2\u0080\u0094 August term\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mr. Charles Peabody, Miss S. Foster.\\n1840\u00e2\u0080\u0094 December term\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Miss Dow.\\n1841 April term Mr. Wm. C. Foster, Miss Sarah Foster.\\n1 84 1 August term\\n1842 April term Mr. Clark S. Brown.\\n1 842 August\\n1842\u00e2\u0080\u0094 December term Mr. Aaron Day, Miss Emily Pillsbury.\\n1843\\nUnder the instruction of Mr. Stone the institution was very flourish-\\ning. From 1837 to the close of 1841, thirteen terms, the average\\nnumber each term, in the male department, was 43, and in the female\\ndepartment, 34. The average yearly income for tuition was $799.15,\\nwhich remunerated the teachers.\\nEmbarrassed with a debt of about $1 130, the Trustees in 1841 applied\\nto the town for relief, and received an assignment and transfer of 600\\nshares in the Concord Railroad, for which the town had subscribed,\\nbut which they concluded not to carry on. These shares were sold, and\\nby the Trustees transferred to Gen. Joseph Low, for $675. Thus only\\npartially relieved, and pressed with other difficulties, arising from sec-\\ntional, political, and sectarian causes, the Trustees, in March, 1844,\\ndecided to dispose of the corporate property of the institution, and\\nto offer the academy building for sale at public auction, on certain\\nspecified conditions. It was accordingly sold on the loth of May fol-\\nlowing. It was bid off by Richard Pinkhara, of Concord, for himself,\\nS. C. Badger, and Asa Fowler, for f 540. With this sum the debts of\\nthe institution were discharged.\\nFor some time afterwards, private schools were kept in the academy\\nbuilding; but in 184-, the building was sold* to Hon. Isaac Hill, taken\\ndown, and removed out of it were constructed two large dwelling-\\nhouses and a part of a third, situated at the lower end of Main street,\\nopposite to the carriage manufactory of Mr. Joseph S. Abbot. Thus\\nendeth the history of the yfr^/ and last public academy building ever\\nerected in the town of Concord. Peace to its remains f\\nNOTE IV, PAGE 32,\\nGRADUATES.\\nThe list of graduates being incomplete, the author thinks it inex-\\npedient to publish the names of those in his possession. They are\\nreserved for future use.\\nThe owners at this time were Richard Pinkham and S. C. Badger.\\nf For more particulars, see original records in the library of the N. H. Hist. Soc.", "height": "3359", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "1725thirdsemicen00bout_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48\\nyicUi^\\n1\\n8 8 ^8 8 1^2 8 8| 8 1\\n^1\\n8S J2^8\\ni\\n[ooqos qjcqqcg\\nKS,gS Kv8g. 2|g|S ^a\\nt;; jn\\n13\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2sjsquiatu\\nqojiiqa JO -Of^\\nO 00 00 00 On \u00c2\u00bbo m cj O in CO\\n^^s^s\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2SDUrpUSJJV 3Sl3J3Ay\\n88R gaS 8888v\u00c2\u00a7K\\n8? 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