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The Lowell Directory, 1838

Date
1838
Type
book
Repository
Internet Archive (lowellma-directory-1838); a copy is in the house library
Locator
Cited pages: scan leaves 111, 118
Access
Public domain. The front cover and the pages cited on this site are reproduced here from the copy in the house library; the whole volume can be read at the Internet Archive. Read the source · Original at archive.org
Rights
Public domain (published 1838).

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The front cover and the 2 pages this site cites (3 page images), cut from the scanned book. The Lowell Directory, 1838. Internet Archive scan lowellma-directory-1838; copy in the house library. Public domain (published 1838). This copy is kept on this site so that it stays one click away.

  1. The Lowell Directory, 1838: Front coverFront cover
  2. The Lowell Directory, 1838: Leaf 111 of the scan. Cited in note C-189.Leaf 111 of the scan. Cited in note C-189.
  3. The Lowell Directory, 1838: Leaf 118 of the scan. Cited in note C-190.Leaf 118 of the scan. Cited in note C-190.

Statements this record supports

  • C-189 — The Bonneys were in Lowell by 1838: the directories list 'Bonney Abigail, wid boarding h. 3 Ham[ilton]' in 1838 and 1839 and a boarding house at 20 Hamilton in 1840, and in 1847 'Bonney Mrs. Abigail, h. Kirk', with Milton Bonney, bookseller and publisher, and Miss Caroline Bonney, milliner.
  • C-190 — Emma Bonney's father, Dr. Royal Call, is listed in Lowell as 'Dr.' on Middlesex Street from 1838; by 1840 he also had a lumber wharf, and in 1858 he was agent of the Merrimack River Lumber Company's steam saw mills; he lived at 225 Middlesex Street from 1855 to 1861.