The Salem Directory ...H. Whipple., 1851 - Beverly (Mass.) |
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Page 5 - In the year 1887 there will be four eclipses, two of the Sun and two of the Moon. I.
Page 155 - Salem Athenaeum, incorporated in 1810, was formed by the union of the Social and Philosophical Libraries. "In the year 1760, a number of gentlemen signed a covenant for the formation of a library in Salem, to be called the 'Social Library.
Page 179 - Old Massachusetts has ever taken the lead in what is great, good, useful and profitable. She established the first school in the United States, the first academy and the first college. She set up the first press, printed the first book and the first newspaper. She manufactured the first cloth and the first paper.
Page 155 - Institute was incorporated in 1848, being founded upon the union of the Essex Historical Society and the Essex County Natural History Society.
Page 179 - She planted the first apple-tree and caught the first whale. She coined the first money, and hoisted the first national flag. She made the first canal and the first railroad She invented the first mouse-trap and washingmachine, and sent the first ship to discover islands and continents in the South Sea.
Page 156 - DA White, President ; John G. King, John Lewis Russell, John C. Lee, Vice-Presidents ; Henry Wheatland, Secretary and Treasurer; MA Stickney, Librarian ; Geo. A. Perkins, Cabinet Keeper.
Page 179 - Yankee Doodle, and gave a name forever and ever to the " universal Yankee nation." And where is she now ? Reaping the reward of her energy and perseverance. It is no exaggeration to state, that the people of Massachusetts are, at this moment, better fed, clothed, educated, and governed, than any other nine hundred thousand persons, taken collectively, on the face of the globe.
Page 4 - November, 1714, voted, that the spot "where the trainings are generally kept, before Nathaniel Higginson's house, shall be forever as a training field for the use of Salem.
Page 160 - October 5, 1820, and they have been continued annually in the month of September or October in several towns of the county, usually twice successively in the same place. This Society was the first in the State, to publish in detail its transactions — which have now extended to four large octavo volumes, containing much valuable information to the Agriculturist. A Library was commenced in the Autumn of 1849, by the purchase of the...