Contributions of the Lowell Massachusetts Historical Society

Last Updated on January 5, 2015 by Dennis

The Lowell Historical Society of Lowell Massachusetts published 2 volumes of “contributions” to the recording of the history of Lowell Massachusetts at the turn of the century. These contributions were preceded by the contributions by the Old Residents Historical Association of Lowell, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Volume I

• Bunker Hill, The Battle of, and Those Who Participated Therein from the Towns from which Lowell was Formed, Mrs. Sara Swan Griffin
• Fiske, Rev. John, by Henry S. Perham
• Francis, Mrs. Sarah W., by Miss Mabel Hill
• Lincoln, Abraham, Centennial Anniversary of
  • Introductory Address, Solon W. Stevens
  • Recollections of Lincoln in Lowell in 1848, Samuel P. Hadley
  • Recollections of the Assassination of Lincoln, William M. Clarke
  • Reminiscences of Personal Interviews with Lincoln, Moses G. Parker
• Lowell High School Historical Essays,
  • 1906 “The Lowell High School, Its History, and the History Its Boys and Girls have Made.”
    • Presentation of Prizes, Alfred P. Sawyer
    • First Prize Essay, Alfred M. Caddell
    • Second Prize Essay, Harold P. Conklin
  • 1907 “The Concord River in History and Literature.”
    • Introduction
    • First Prize Essay, Miss Edith C. Erskine
    • Second Prize Essay, Miss Annie Louise Naylor
  • 1909 “Lowell the Site for a Beautiful City.”
    • First Prize Essay, Miss Tessie G. Curry
    • Second Prize Essay, Miss Geneva AT. Coggins
• Manning, Manse, The, Mrs. Louise C. Howard
• Marisquelles, Col. Marie Louis Amand Ansart De, Mrs. Sara Swan Griffin
• Middlesex County, Ancient and Modern, Levi S. Gould
  With brief biographical sketches of the men who have served as county commissioners from Lowell and adjacent towns.
• Middlesex Village, Boyhood Reminiscences of, Samuel P. Hadley
• Mining Operations near Lowell, Early, Alfred P. Sawyer
• Old Homes and Historic Byways of Lowell, Mrs. Sara Swan Griffin
• Railroading, Early Days of, Herbert C. Taft
• Snow-Shoe Scouts, The, George Waldo Browne
• Varnum, Gen. James M., A Sketch of the Life of, George B. Coburn
• Webster, Daniel, Some Reminiscences of, Samuel P. Hadley
• Witchcraft, A Trial in the Days of, Francis N. Chase

Volume II

• Acadian Exiles, The Mrs. Sara Swan Griffin
• Blaxton, William, The First Settler of Boston, Rev. Wilson Waters
• Booksellers, Reminiscences of Lowell Hon. Samuel P. Hadley
• Brownell, George, Journal of His Voyage to England in 1839
• Childhood Literature and Amusements of My Younger Days, Reminiscences Regarding Hon. Samuel P. Hadley
• Early Legislation Relating to Lowell and Vicinity, Hon. Samuel P. Hadley
• Early Manufacturing in the City of Lowell, A Retrospect of Mr. Edward W. Thomas
• Granites of Middlesex, The Hon. Herbert E. Fletcher
• Grants of Land, which in 1701 was included in the Territory called Dracut. Description of Mr. Silas R. Coburn
• Hadley, Samuel P., Memorial of
• Important Events in the Year 1840, Hon- Samuel P. Hadley
• Little Red School House of Sixty Years Ago, The Rev. Smith Baker, D. D.
• Lowell High School Historical Essays
  • 1910 “The Merrimack River in History and Literature.”
    • First Prize Essay. Miss Gladys L. Melloon
    • Second Prize Essay. Miss Ruth P. Wedge
  • 1911 “Chelmsford.”
    • First Prize Essay, Miss Mildred M. Durham
    • Second Prize Essay, Miss Ida F. Cumings
  • 1912 “Lowell In the Civil War.”
    • First Prize Essay, Miss Gladys Storm
  • 1913 “The Canals of Lowell.”
    • First Prize Essay, Miss Angela V. O’Brien
  • 1914 “The Streets of Lowell.”
    • First Prize Essay, Aliss Helen Thessiay
  • 1915 “The Mills of Lowell.”
    • First Prize Essay, Miss Evelyn C. Anderson
  • 1916 “The Part Borne by the Parent Towns of Lowell in the War of the Revolution.”
    • First Prize Essay, Miss Agnes H. Garvin
  • Historical Essays, Lowell High School, Report
• Lowell High School, Reminiscences of the Miss Mary A. Webster
• Lowell Names in Early Ohio History, Rev. Wilson Waters
• Lumbering on the Merrimack River, Mr. Nicholas W. Norcross
• Police Court of Lowell, Historical Sketch of the Hon. Samuel P. Hadley
• Stevens, Solon W.
• Writing of Local History, The Rev. Wilson Waters

[box]Source: Contributions of the Lowell Historical Society. Vol. 1-2, Published by the Lowell Historical Society, 1909-1926.[/box]