From Ruth Stearns family William Dennett Stearns, son of Joseph Oliver Stearns and Helen “Nell” Dennett from Salisbury High School, June 1883
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Friday, January 30, 2015
Salisbury High School Graduation June 25 1883
Labels:
1883,
C Warren Tucker,
E W George,
Frank Collins,
Louisa Twombley,
Rev S Evans,
Salisbury MA,
Susie Batchelder,
William Stearns
Location:
Salisbury, MA, USA
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Burbank Collection Family Photos and Art Collection Leonard Burbank
A Share from Ruth Stearns Another link to
Joseph Oliver Stearns and Hellen Louise "Nell" Dennett
The Stearns genealogy references Oliver Stearns and Dorcas Varnum (parents Charles Oliver Stearns), and their oldest child Anne Dorcas Stearns who married Freeman Huggins of Saco, ME, daughter Frances Anne Huggins, born July 19, 1833, who married Leonard E. Burbank. He is second cousin of William Dennett Stearns. Helen Louise Dennett Stearns’ parents were John Dennett and Louisa Frost Dennett. Louisa had a brother, Morrill Frost married Eliza Wadsworth.
John Dennett and Louisa Frost--oldest child was Ann May Dennett who married Elbridge Cushing Sawyer. They had a child, Ida Sawyer, born around 1861 or so, and they all visit the Dennett’s in the 1880’s per Joseph Oliver Stearns diary entries (since he lives with the Dennett’s) The Swayer's lived in Beverly. Ida was the only child of six of John and Louisa who survived her parents.
Worthen Dennett married Lorana Congdon, child Alice Louisa Dennett born in 1868. Worthen died three years later and Lorana remarried to Charles Kennard and had a son named Charles Kennard.
Alice Dennett married Milton Kendall, and had five children, including Ada Kendall. According to Ancestry.com, Ada died in Amesbury in 1965, married to William Grieve Carter. Alice died in Putnam, CT in 1952. Leonard Freeman Burbank was the son of Frances Anne Huggins and Leonard E. Burbank.
Willie 2nd cousin. Frances was the daughter of Anne Dorcas Stearns Huggins and Freeman Huggins. JOS 1st cousin. Anne was the daughter of Oliver and Dorcas Varnum Stearns…sister of Charles Oliver Stearns.
In October, 1897, Mrs. Eliza W. Frost of Winthrop offered $10,000 toward the erection of a library building, to cost at least $20,000, and to be called the Frost Public Library, in memory of her husband, the late Morrill Frost. Efforts to raise by subscription the amount needed to make the gift available proving unsuccessful, Mrs. Frost's proposition was brought before the town at the annual meeting in March, 1898; the town unanimously voted $10,000 toward the building, and also purchased a lot of land on which to erect the same; ground was broken for this purpose Aug. 29, 1898.
The exterior of the building is classical in design. The base is of Deer Isle granite, the cornices, belts and trimmings of entrances and windows, are of Indiana lime stone. The outside walls are of gray speckled bricks laid in light mortar. The roof is slated with Vermont green slate, with copper gutters and trimmings. The main building has a frontage on the park of seventy feet and a depth of thirty feet. The stack room extends northerly from the center of the main building forty feet, with a width of twenty-seven and one-half feet. The entrance is into an outer vestibule opening into an inner hall. The vestibules have mosaic floors of special design, marble bases with paneled oak walls. From the vestibule one enters the delivery room, to the right of which is the general reading-room; on the left is a reading-room for children and a room for books of reference. On the same floor are also rooms for the trustees and librarian. The second floor is reached by two stairways from the delivery room. Here are three rooms which will be used for the exhibition of pictures, historical relics and other articles of interest. From The Free Public Libraries of Massachusetts on 1962 Frost Public Library, Winthrop, Massachusetts by Mark Jackson Article Telegraph, Nashua, April 14, 1988
Joseph Oliver Stearns and Hellen Louise "Nell" Dennett
The Stearns genealogy references Oliver Stearns and Dorcas Varnum (parents Charles Oliver Stearns), and their oldest child Anne Dorcas Stearns who married Freeman Huggins of Saco, ME, daughter Frances Anne Huggins, born July 19, 1833, who married Leonard E. Burbank. He is second cousin of William Dennett Stearns. Helen Louise Dennett Stearns’ parents were John Dennett and Louisa Frost Dennett. Louisa had a brother, Morrill Frost married Eliza Wadsworth.
John Dennett and Louisa Frost--oldest child was Ann May Dennett who married Elbridge Cushing Sawyer. They had a child, Ida Sawyer, born around 1861 or so, and they all visit the Dennett’s in the 1880’s per Joseph Oliver Stearns diary entries (since he lives with the Dennett’s) The Swayer's lived in Beverly. Ida was the only child of six of John and Louisa who survived her parents.
Worthen Dennett married Lorana Congdon, child Alice Louisa Dennett born in 1868. Worthen died three years later and Lorana remarried to Charles Kennard and had a son named Charles Kennard.
Alice Dennett married Milton Kendall, and had five children, including Ada Kendall. According to Ancestry.com, Ada died in Amesbury in 1965, married to William Grieve Carter. Alice died in Putnam, CT in 1952. Leonard Freeman Burbank was the son of Frances Anne Huggins and Leonard E. Burbank.
Willie 2nd cousin. Frances was the daughter of Anne Dorcas Stearns Huggins and Freeman Huggins. JOS 1st cousin. Anne was the daughter of Oliver and Dorcas Varnum Stearns…sister of Charles Oliver Stearns.
Frances Ann Huggins Burbank, first cousin of Joseph Oliver Stearns and niece of Charles Oliver Stearns. |
Ada Kendall |
Ann May Dennett Sawyer |
Elbridge Sawyer |
Morrill Frost |
Eliza Wadsworth Frost |
In October, 1897, Mrs. Eliza W. Frost of Winthrop offered $10,000 toward the erection of a library building, to cost at least $20,000, and to be called the Frost Public Library, in memory of her husband, the late Morrill Frost. Efforts to raise by subscription the amount needed to make the gift available proving unsuccessful, Mrs. Frost's proposition was brought before the town at the annual meeting in March, 1898; the town unanimously voted $10,000 toward the building, and also purchased a lot of land on which to erect the same; ground was broken for this purpose Aug. 29, 1898.
The exterior of the building is classical in design. The base is of Deer Isle granite, the cornices, belts and trimmings of entrances and windows, are of Indiana lime stone. The outside walls are of gray speckled bricks laid in light mortar. The roof is slated with Vermont green slate, with copper gutters and trimmings. The main building has a frontage on the park of seventy feet and a depth of thirty feet. The stack room extends northerly from the center of the main building forty feet, with a width of twenty-seven and one-half feet. The entrance is into an outer vestibule opening into an inner hall. The vestibules have mosaic floors of special design, marble bases with paneled oak walls. From the vestibule one enters the delivery room, to the right of which is the general reading-room; on the left is a reading-room for children and a room for books of reference. On the same floor are also rooms for the trustees and librarian. The second floor is reached by two stairways from the delivery room. Here are three rooms which will be used for the exhibition of pictures, historical relics and other articles of interest. From The Free Public Libraries of Massachusetts on 1962 Frost Public Library, Winthrop, Massachusetts by Mark Jackson Article Telegraph, Nashua, April 14, 1988
During his lifetime, businessman Leonard Burbank surrounded himself with beautiful artwork and after he died he made certain that other Nashuans could do the same.
A living legacy of original artwork available to patrons of the Nashua Public Library will get special recognition this month when the Burbank Collection goes on exhibit at the Library.
Included in the exhibit will be original illustrations from children’s books that will be on permanent display in the Children’s Department. The remainder of the artworks form part of the library’s circulating art collection.
The Burbank Fund is named for Leonard Freeman Burbank. At the time of his death in 1932 he left $5000 to a body of associates to invest for 50 years with the stipulation that, at the end of that time, the principal and interest would become a permanent trust fund to purchase “pictures, paintings and works of art of then-living artists, for display in schools, libraries and public buildings, and for public exhibitions in the state.”.
The impact of the Burbank legacy is not to be dismissed lightly. The businessman and lawyer, who also enjoyed painting landcapes, was closely associated with Nashua nearly all his life.
He was born in Melrose, Mass., on Nov. 11, 1859, to Leonard E. and Frances A Burbank. The following year, the family moved to Nashua, where Burbank senior manufactured overalls in a factory on Merrimack Street in partnership with Fred Buxton, father of Mrs. Laurence A Barker, one of the original advisory group members.
After graduating from Nashua High School in 1878 and Boston University Law School in 1881, the young Burbank worked briefly as a lawyer in both Nashua and Atlanta, GA.
His tastes, however, were more inclined to the arts. He had a fundamental, intelligent interest in art in addition to being a painter himself. Burbank also wrote for newspapers and magazines and is credited with writing the centennial history of the First Unitarian Society in 1926.
Agnes Barker knew Burbank as a neighbor and as a businessman involved in their father’s overalls business. She recalls: “He loved his cup of tea, his paintings, and his garden… He was an artistic gentleman. I always remember him going off to the country with his easel to paint.”.
Burbank, a lifelong bachelor, traveled considerably, including a trip to Europe in 1893. Perhaps as a result of that voyage he built an English-style cottage at 7 Columbian Av., complete with elaborate flower garden.
Ever a lover of beauty, Burbank maintained the garden with great care and was not averse to putting his love of nature before his health. After he died, a group called the Burbank Associates, led by Fred D. Cross of the then-Second National Bank of Nashua, oversaw the investment of funds until 1973, when the group was dissolved and the Hillsborough County Superior Court ordered the assets, by then totaling some $25,000, turned over to the Board of Trustees of the Nashua Public Library. As of March 1988, Burbank’s original $5000 had grown to more than $106,000.
(article continues with info on the trustees, the Burbank Advisory Group, and the art collection). From the Telegraph Thursday April 14, 1988.
Labels:
Ada Kendall,
Agnes Barker,
Ann May Dennett Sawyer,
Elbridge Sawyer,
Frances A Huggins Burbank,
Fred Buxton,
Fred D. Cross,
Freeman Huggins,
Joseph Oliver Stearns,
Laurence A Barker,
Nashua NH
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Bossy Gills Tells His Story Newburyport 1928
Location:
Newburyport, MA, USA
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Comfort Bag Letters from Old West Newbury
From Archives Sea Breeze Magazine Volume 13 Would love to identify names of these children in West Newbury MA. Please post your comments or contact me.
Labels:
1901,
Boston Seaman's Society,
comfort letters,
Seamen's Friend Society,
West Newbury MA,
youth church
Location:
Newbury, MA, USA
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Newbury's 100th Year Celebration
Labels:
100th anniversary,
Albertson,
Charles F Brown,
F L Gowen,
George Noyes,
Hazel Hammond,
Helen Klober,
Indian Hill,
Leslie E Marshall,
newbury ma
Sunday, January 11, 2015
A Shakespearean intrigue: George Lowther and Eileen Herrick
December 8, 1939
The Boston Herald November 14 1939 was one of several newspapers to cover this bizarre story. The reports splashed headlines all over the country on the high society families who were at war. George Lowther and Eileen Herrick were modern day Romeo and Juliet...here's the scoop....Shakespearean intrigue:
George boiling in lust, love, and longing for daddy's girl debutante was willing to to go to any measures to gain accesses. Eileen's daddy was not so keen on George so he kept his daughter locked up at home. On a writ of habeas corpus George haled Eileen & father into court (TIME, Nov. 27), and got legal sanction for his courtship. However daddy Herrick did not concur with judge's decision to free Eileen so he whisked his daughter away which naturally left George frustrated, but delighed Manhattan's millions along with the rest of the country.
The hot determined couple managed to elope, after George stormed her Manhattan manor, but within six years time all the fire burned out and couple split giving the country more drama and a definite tragic ending.
Thursday, November 16, 1939
Paper: State Times Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Friday, January 5, 1940 Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
September 24, 1946 LA Times
Labels:
Eileen Herrick,
George Lowther,
New York,
North Conway,
wedding
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Laurie Cabot defends her Right to Pagan Practice using J F Kennedy
Labels:
First Amendment,
Free Speech,
Georgetown MA,
Halloween Party,
Jack F Kennedy,
Joan of Arc,
Laurie Cabot,
Religious Freedom,
Rev Donald Bentley,
Salem MA,
White Witch,
Witch trials
Location:
Salem, MA, USA
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