Watertown People
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Charles Burke.
description - Sigrid Reddy, Library Director and Charles Burke, Library Trustee, signing copies of Crossroads on the Charles edited by them. subject - Authors -- Watertown (Mass.).; Watertown (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.; relation - Identifier - figure 1928
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Sigrid Reddy.
description - Sigrid Reddy, Library Director and Charles Burke, Library Trustee, signing copies of Crossroads on the Charles edited by them. subject - Authors -- Watertown (Mass.).; Watertown (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.; relation - Identifier - figure 1916
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"Festa" Sons of Italy Piave Fiume Lodge.
description - The Watertown Sons of Italy Lodge Piave Fiume was founded in 1920 by Salvatore Cesareo, Antonio Abbondanzio and Michele Pane along with a group of 20 other Italian immigrants living in Watertown, Massachusetts. The name Piave Fiume was given to the… subject - Watertown (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.; City and town life -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Festivals -- Watertown (Mass.).; relation - Identifier - figure 1781
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Archbishop Michael, Greek Orthodox Church Taxiarchae.
description - Greek Orthodox Church Taxiarchae. Archbishop Michael served as spiritual leader of Greek Orthodox Christians in the Western Hemisphere from 1949 until his untimely death in 1958. He was a noted scholar, theologian, pastor, ecumenist, author and… subject - Watertown (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.; City and town life -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Churches -- Watertown (Mass.).; Constantinides, Thucydides -- 1892-1958. relation - Identifier - figure 1779
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"Festa" Sons of Italy Piave Fiume Lodge.
description - The Watertown Sons of Italy Lodge Piave Fiume was founded in 1920 by Salvatore Cesareo, Antonio Abbondanzio and Michele Pane along with a group of 20 other Italian immigrants living in Watertown, Massachusetts. The name Piave Fiume was given to the… subject - Watertown (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.; City and town life -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Festivals -- Watertown (Mass.).; relation - Identifier - figure 1777
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"Festa" Sons of Italy Piave Fiume Lodge.
description - The Watertown Sons of Italy Lodge Piave Fiume was founded in 1920 by Salvatore Cesareo, Antonio Abbondanzio and Michele Pane along with a group of 20 other Italian immigrants living in Watertown, Massachusetts. The name Piave Fiume was given to the… subject - Watertown (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.; City and town life -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Festivals -- Watertown (Mass.).; relation - Identifier - figure 1775
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Armenian Celebration.
description - St. James Armenian Church. Established as an organization in 1900, the St. James Armenian Church (Eastern Diocese) went through many years of fundraising until finally building their existing structure in 1937. In 1927, the property was purchased for… subject - Watertown (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.; City and town life -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; relation - Identifier - figure 1774
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William H. Ingraham.
description - Town Clerk during and after the Civil War. Supporter of building Main Library in 1884 and founding member of the Historical Society. He belonged to the independent Order of Odd-Fellows for over forty years. Ingraham ran a store in the Town Hall and… subject - Portraits.; Ingraham, William H.; relation - Identifier - figure 1764
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Captain Joseph Croft.
description - 16th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, Company K, which fought in the Civil War. The 16th Regt. Mass. Vol. Inf. was made up of companies recruited in Middlesex County in April and May, 1861. subject - Portraits.; Croft, Joseph.; relation - Identifier - figure 1755
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Albert O. Davidson.
description - Manager of Aetna Mills. Brig. Gen. A. O. Davidson, commissary general, born in Genesee Falls, N. Y. Enlisted in 1863 and served his term of nine months, for 29 years agent of Aetna Mills of Watertown: president of Watertown Savings Bank and of Water-… subject - Portraits.; Davidson, Albert O.; relation - Identifier - figure 1749
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Oliver Shaw.
description - Died 1894. President of Union Market Bank in 1883-4, Officer of the Watertown Savings Bank, Manager of Pratt's Foundry on Main Street. Lived at 120 Mount Auburn Street. Manage of Walker and Pratt Manufacturing Company. Shaw was selectman 1874-5,… subject - Portraits.; Shaw, Oliver -- d. 1894 .; relation - Identifier - figure 1748
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"Festa" Sons of Italy Piave Fiume Lodge, 1975.
description - The Watertown Sons of Italy Lodge Piave Fiume was founded in 1920 by Salvatore Cesareo, Antonio Abbondanzio and Michele Pane along with a group of 20 other Italian immigrants living in Watertown, Massachusetts. The name Piave Fiume was given to the… subject - Watertown (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.; City and town life -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Neighborhood -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; relation - Identifier - figure 1738
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Ann Maria Howard White (Mrs. Abijah White)
description - Reverse image of figure 848 Line # 943. subject - Portraits.; White, Ann Maria (Howard) -- 1791-1848.; relation - Identifier - figure 1498
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Benjamin Robbins Curtis, 1809 - 1874.
description - Justice of U.S. Supreme Court. Wrote the dissenting opinion in the Dred Scott decision. He presided over the impeachment trail of President Andrew Johnson in 1868. Benjamin Robbins Curtis was an American attorney and United States Supreme Court… subject - Portraits.; Curtis, Benjamin Robbins -- 1809-1874.; relation - Identifier - figure 1480
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Charles Pratt, 1830 - 1891.
description - Made his fortune in the oil business partnered with John D. Rockefeller. Founded the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Gave the Watertown Free Public Library a trust fund in honor of his father, Asa. The Pratt Room is located on the ground floor of the… subject - Portraits.; Pratt, Charles -- 1830-1891.; relation - Identifier - figure 1477
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Samuel Barnard.
description - Owned a farm on Belmont Street circa 1860. Possibly had influence on Anne Whitney to take up sculpture. subject - Portraits.; Barnard, Samuel.; relation - Identifier - figure 1476
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Dr. Walter Hunnewell, 1769 - 1855
description - Dr. Hunnewell was born in Cambridge, August 4, 1769. He graduated at Harvard College in 1787, in the same class with John Quincy Adams, William Cranch, Thaddeus Mason Harris, James Lloyd, and Samuel Putnam. He studied medicine with Dr. Spring, of… subject - Portraits.; Hunnewell, Walter -- 1769-1855.; relation - Identifier - figure 1471
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Miles Pratt (1825 - 1882).
description - Co-founder of the Walker and Pratt Foundry and member of the Town committee that raised money to begin the library. Miles Pratt built a foundry in 1855. A long brick warehouse was flush with the sidewalk on Galen street, the moulding room was flush… subject - Portraits.; Pratt, Miles -- 1825-1882.; relation - Identifier - figure 1468
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Samuel Walker.
description - He gave the land on which the present Main Library now stands and also gave $4,500 for the new building. He came to Watertown in 1854 and engaged in country produce until 1859 when he turned to manufacture and sail of coal oils. He was a selectman… subject - Portraits.; Walker, Samuel -- b. 1818.; relation - Identifier - figure 1462
