Close of a long life His Career in Lynn and anti slavery leader
The long illness and death of Hon James N Buffum at his Lynn home end a life devoted to anti slavery and city development. Born 1807 in North Berwick Maine he helped build Lynn real estate, gas light and banks, promoted land plans and industry, aided fugitive slaves, and supported reform causes. He faced financial crises with grit, regained independence, and left a substantial fortune with family. He met leaders like Garrison, Douglass, Cobden, Bright and Phillips, and hosted visitors at his home, including Father Mathew and O Connell. He died peacefully after a long illness, with family by his side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James N. Buffum
Lynn
H. ©. Ahlborn
Boston
James Needham Buffum
North Berwick
Salem
England
Joshua Buffum
Endicott
Samuel Shattuck
Buffum
Messrs. Hook
Friends’ School
Providence
Ocean Street
Highlands
Massachusetts
Lynn Gas Light Company
Laighton Bank
Central National Bank
William Lloyd Garrison
Liberator
Amos P. Tapley
Mr. Buffum
Frederick Douglass
Great Britain
Free Church of Scotland
America
Henry C. Wright
George Thompson
Douglass
Scotland
Cobden and
Bright
Ireland
O'Connell
Father Theobald Mathew
Richard D. Webb
James Haughton
Dublin
Father Mathew
Webb
Edmund Quincy
Hespe
Garrison
Phillips
Quincy
Friends’ Society
Free Church
Samuel Johnson
Whittier
Friends
Wendell Phillips
General Butler
Benn Buffum remembered for kindness dedication and public service
Fortitude and patience marked his sufferings as he discussed funeral wishes. Sympathy letters on his eightieth birthday comforted him. His wife provided invaluable support along with two daughters, one married to Dr. Henry C. Ahlborn of Boston. Lynn honors his memory as a prominent citizen akin to High Rock, renowned for stature and presence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffum
Henry C. Ahlborn
Boston
Lynn
High Rock
Bishop William Bacon Stevens Dies at 71 in Philadelphia
The Rt Rev William Bacon Stevens D D LL D bishop of the Protestant diocese of Pennsylvania died at his Philadelphia residence Saturday morning in his seventy second year He was born in Bath Maine and educated in Boston He earned an M D from Dartmouth College in 1838 He wrote History of Georgia and later served as professor and rector before becoming assistant bishop and then head of the Pennsylvania diocese He authored historical and devotional works in later years
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Bacon Stevens
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Bath
Boston
Dartmouth College
Georgia
Episcopal Church
University of Georgia
St. Andrew’s Church
General Charles F Walcott Dies at Salem Harbor Camp
General Charles F Walcott of Cambridge died suddenly Saturday night at Gooseberry Island in Salem Harbor where he had been camping. The cause of death is unknown. A lawyer with Hale & Walcott, he was a former colonel of the Sixty first Massachusetts and brevetted general. Harvard 1857 graduate, he served in the Legislature. He was 50, leaving a widow, a son and a daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Walcott
Cambridge
Gooseberry Island
Salem Harbor
Walcott
Hale & Walcott
H. P. Walcott
State Board of Health
Sixty-first
Massachusetts
Harvard
Morrill Wyman
Deaths of Stetson Fayretto Sheridan Langley in Whitman Newport
Martin S Stetson 82 a Whitman resident and former shoe maker died yesterday. Born in East Abington now Rockland he built a Mobile wholesale house then ran a St Paul store during the Civil War era returning to Alabama in 1865. He retired in 1569 and left a widow and two children. London reported painter Signor Faye retto dead. William E Sheridan American tragedian died in Sydney N S W aged 18. Job T Langley Newport RI prominent business leader and former city official died last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin S. Stetson
Whitman
East Abington
Rockland
Mobile
Ala
St. Paul
Minn
Alabama
London
Signor Fayretto
Alameda
San Francisco
William E. Sheridan
Sydney
Job T. Langley
Newport
R. I
Music Promenade Concerts Open Third Season With Fine Return
The Music Hall promenades began their third season to a large audience Saturday. Conductor Ad Neuwendorff returned to lead an excellent program featuring a grand Wagner march and Strauss pieces with delicate, refined playing. The orchestra, drawn from the Symphony Orchestra, was expanded and decorated halls added to the evening's appeal. Concerts run on weekday evenings through the summer from 8 to 11 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Music Hall
Ad Neuwendorff
Neuendorff
Festival of Corpus Christi at Notre Dames de Victoires
The Corpus Christi festival at Notre Dames de Victoires drew about 1100 worshippers. Masses and vesper services were led by Fathers Audifred and Reisdof with Mme Fournier directing the choir. A priest led a two‑laps procession with the Sacred Host and the Benediction followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corpus Christi
Auditred
Paine Furniture shows wide rattan and willow display
Pack your MoguetTris Wiltons and tufted suits. cover floors with mattings. This season you will want variety in your rattan and willow furniture. Paine Furniture Company at 48 Canal street displays extent beauty of design quality of work and moderation in price, a display that has no equal in this market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paine Furniture Company
Canal Street
Powderly Speaks to 4000 in Town Hall Crowd
Terence V. Powderly, leader of the Knights of Labor, spoke at Mechanics' Building to a crowd of 4000 or more with Robert Howard of Fall River presiding. He defended the union, urged interwoven labor interests, endorsed equal pay for women, criticized officers' salaries, denied ties to anarchists, urged temperance, and collapsed briefly before finishing. He later attended Mass at the Immaculate Conception and traveled to Lynn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terence V. Powderly
Knights of Labor
Mechanics’ Building
Nater Robert Howard
Fall River
A. E. Carlton
Charles H. Litchman
Mr. Powderly
Boston
T. V. Powderly
Pennsylvania
Jersey
Thor
Powderly
Bob Howard
Senate
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Lynn
Bandanna and Hat Mark Thurman Boston Visit Ahead of Trial
Judge Allan G Thurman and wife occupy Revere House rooms once used by Jenny Lind as legal activity swirls around his Bell Telephone case. Notable visitors include Judge Grosvenor Lowrey Goode of Virginia and Judge Levi Woodbury. Thurman, though frail, wields a bandanna with defiant vigor as court pressures mount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allan G. Thurman
Ohio
Revere House
Senate
Seigneure
Boston
Theodore Best
Jenny Lind
Bowdoin Square
Governor Hill
New York
Albany Journal
Thurman
Boston Press
Judge Thurman
Gotham Bar
Grosvenor Lowrey
Department of Justice
Goode
Virginia
Opening regatta signals busy yacht season on Crystal Bay
Great Head Yacht Club opens the season at Crystal Bay Winthrop with about fifty yachts across four classes. Black Cloud and Em Ell Eye lead wins. Vic tor and Zoe duel in class three. Topsy wins class four. Eastern Yacht Club regatta looming June 21. foreign-built yachts face 50 cent per ton lighthouse dues. Seawanhaka Club reports brisk winds and tight finishes with Atlantic, Priscilla, Galatea and Titania among top finishers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Head
Topsy
Boston
Zoe
Massachusetts
Frank Gray
Scamp
Jack Mason
Mist
Etta
Eastern Yacht Club
Half-Way Rock
Atlantic
Priscilla
Galatea
Bedouin
Shamrock
Titania
Stranger
Thetis
Sachem
Halcyon
Julia
New York Yacht Club
Forbes
General Paine
Inner Harbor
New York
Lake 3
Newport
Seawanhaka Yacht Club of
Burgess
Children’s Sunday at Union Congregational Church
The Union Congregational Church on Columbus Avenue held a large Children’s Sunday with elaborate floral decorations. Dr. Meredith delivered a sermon on Proverbs xix and spoke to the children about conscience guiding a Christian life like a ship’s rudder. The afternoon featured child-led exercises, addresses by Rev A E Dunning and the pastor, and gifts of plants to each child. Dr. Meredith departs for Europe Thursday and will return in September to resume duties, with Rev J S Newman of Washington, D C presiding next Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Congregational Church
Columbus Avenue
Meredith
A. E. Dunning
Europe
J. 8S. Newman
Washington, D. C
Veteran Parade assigns divisions for June 17 civic procession
W W Wardrop commands the National Veteran Militia Association parade with staff and participating groups to meet at 10:00 a.m. at Boston Common centre gate. Units will form with right on Beacon Street and proceed to Tremont Street Mall before moving through West Street to Huntington Avenue. New York visitors stay at International Hotel Adams House and Young's Hotel. Hartford City Guard quarters at United States Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Wardrop
National Veteran Militia Association
Charles Street Mall
Boston Common
Beacon Street
Boylston Street
Boylston Street Mall
Tremont Street
Tremont Street Mall
West Street
Washington, School, Beacon
Dartmouth Streets
Huntington Avenue
Mechanics’ Hall
New York
International Hotel
Adams House
Young's Hotel
Hartford City Guard
United States Hotel
Pauline Revere Marries Nathaniel Thayer at Grim Old King's Chapel
Miss Pauline Revere and Mr Nathaniel Thayer wed Saturday morning in a society ceremony at Grim Old King's Chapel attended by a large audience including many notable guests. The chancel featured tropical plants and hydrangeas while the bride wore white satin rhadames with a decolletage corsage and a pearls necklace, escorted by her brother Frank Revere and given away by her mother in pearl gray ottoman silk. A reception followed at the residence of Mr Frederick L Ames. The Boston Young Men's Christian Association opened its summer open air meetings yesterday at the common, drawing a fair crowd as Rev G F Small preached on How We Ought to Live.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Revere
Frederick L. Ames
Boston Young Men's Christian Association
G. F. Small
Dr Meredith's Farewell From Union Bible Class in Tremont Temple
Dr Meredith ends a long chapter with farewell remarks at Tremont Temple as the Union Bible class honors him with a gold watch and passage money for Europe. John T. Colby praises his service and notes his health dictates a move. Meredith departs Boston for Europe soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Meredith
Moses
John T. Colby
Europe
Colby
Boston
Richard Meredith
Meredith
In Defence of the Indian by Dr Bland at Unitarian Church
Dr Bland spoke on the Indian question detailing tribal population declines from 8 million to under 300,000 since European contact. He traced the removal of five tribes to Indian Territory, noted their later civility, schooling, and Christian identity, and urged support for challenging the Dawes Act constitutionality. Several attendees pledged to join the Indian Defence Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A. Bland
Columbus Avenue Universalist Church
America
Indian Territory
Bland
Boston
Indian Defence Association
Amusements listings and theatre showings
The advertisement lists street theatre Evangeline and Streets of New York at several venues including Boston Theatre and Ward, with Ida Siddons Burlesque Company. Evening shows at 8 and matinees at 2. Also Kellar at the Ston Museum, a great picture at Torticultural and Promena concert at Music Hall with evening programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wae Street
Evangeline
Eyenne Ston
Kellar
Boston Theatre
Streets of
New York
Eyenne Ward
Ida Siddons
Gow Theate
Music Hall
Promena E Congeets
Marriages in North Reading and Nearby Areas
A series of June nuptials listed in brief notices across Massachusetts and nearby states. Notable couples include Wallace B. Burdett and Mary D. Upton in North Reading, William Allen Brown and Gertrude Guiteau in New York, Joseph W. Cox and Adeline F. Vose in Mattapan, and William A. Carter with Annie L. Putnam in this city. Other couples wed in Dorchester, Elmwood Kentucky, Somerville, Boston Highlands, Newton, and more, with multiple ministers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burdett
Upton
North Nee
Wallace B. Burdett
Mary D. Upton
North Reading
Brown—Guiteau
New York
James H. Hoadley
William Allen Brown
Providence
R.J
Gertrude
John Wilson Guiteau
Cox—Vose
Turner—Vose
Mattapan
Converse
Coster
Great Barrington
Mass
Po S. Sanderson
New Hartford
N. Y
Agnes Dibblee
Roxbury
Thaxter—Freeman
Newton
George A. Hull
Roland Thaxter
Mabel G Freeman
Edmund Freeman
Springfeld
Thayer-Revere
This City
Henry W. Foote
Nathaniel Thayer
Pauline Revere
Deaths and obituaries in Cambridge area notices
Death notices report William W. Boardman aged 85 at Sangus on June 9 and William Frost aged 7 months 4 days at Cambridge on June 10. Thomas Hilton aged 60 years 17 days died in this city on June 9. Abby W. Lucas of West Newton died June 10. Aaron Rowell aged 88 years 1 month 17 days died at Charlestown on June 9. Charles Folsom Walcott died suddenly in his 1st year at Gooseberry Island Salem. Panerai services arranged at coarke street Cambridge at 4 o clock Tuesday private.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boardman
Sangus
William W. Boardman
Frost
Cambridge
William Frost
Hilt
Thomas Hilton
Lucas
West Newton
Abby W. Lucas
Rowell
Charlestown
Aaron Rowell
Walu Ott
Gooseberry Island
Salem
Charles Folsom Wialcott
Panerai
Coarke Street
Sale of Henry Gassett estate on Centre street Dorchester
Special notices announce the sale by S. R. Knights & Co. of the Henry Gas sett estate on Centre Street Dorchester set for Tuesday next. The property lies near Melville avenue, where land values have risen sharply, and pending improvements are expected to boost value, making it attractive to capitalists for investment or development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. G
Ingersoll Lock Wood
Bar Harbor
Alsop Leffingwell
G. W. Dillingham
G. W. Carleton & Co
West 23d Street
New York
R. Knights & Co
Henry Gassett
Centre Street
Dorchester
Melville Avenue
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bishop Stevens
Mechanics
Great Head Yacht Club
The
Union Church
Thayer—Revere
Union Bible Class
NEW Publications
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Laughton, Macdonald & Co
Tremont St
Boston, Mass
NEW Summer Books
Res
E. R. Morse Safe Co
Sudbury ST
Eastern Banking
Milk Street
Francis A. Osborn
Edward T. Methew
Eastern Railroad Co
Eastern RR. Co
Essex RR
N. G. Chapin
Treas
John Jeffries & Sons
Devonshire Street
Portland
City of
Charles J. Chapman
ROYAL
Owsig Asaotuyaiy Pure
Eas Royal Baxixe PowoEk Co
Wall
Jocket
Aabon K, Gay & CO
Vna State Street
D.eddy & Son
Monks Wharf
Jenney Manufacturing Company
First and
E Streets
South Boston
Central Wharf
Coffin & Henry
OWA
Iowa
State St
Des Moines
Aomn Jeffries & Sons
GENTS
Vicinity
Devonshire St
Baeder, Adamson & CO
State Electrotype
Omni Fhaire
Peirin’s
Canal Ree
Damon Safe and Iron Works Co
Allston Street
Boston and Hingham Steamboat Co
Nantasket
Pemberton
Pemberton Iz
Peirce
Supt
Dustan
MR. Hale
Boylston Place
Harvard College
Institute
Albert Hale
Ee Hotels
Clarendon Hotel
Saratoga Springs
I. Steinfeld
Windsor
Victoria Street
Electric Light
Cleave
Chichester
Chichester Chemical CO
Penn
Gro. C. Goopwin & Co
Gorham, Rogers & CQ
Hollis Street Theatre
Isaac B. Rich
Edison
Rice’s
Boston Museum
I. R. M. Field
Bunker Hill
Eugene Tompkins
GEO. C. Boniface and
E. M. Gardiner
Harry Meredith
Howard Athen
Burlesque CO
Willie Edouin
Munkacsy
Christ
Pilate
Jesus
Pontius Pilate
W. L. Sheldon
Society of Ethical Culture
St. Louis
Christ Before Pilate
Horticultural Hall
the Music Hall
Grand Orchestra
Mr AD. Neuendorff
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