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The Lowell Directory, 1847

Date
1847
Type
book
Repository
Internet Archive (lowellma-directory-1847); a copy is in the house library
Locator
Cited pages: scan leaves 76, 207
Access
Public domain. The title page 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 1847).

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The title page and the 2 pages this site cites (3 page images), cut from the scanned book. The Lowell Directory, 1847. Internet Archive scan lowellma-directory-1847; copy in the house library. Public domain (published 1847). This copy is kept on this site so that it stays one click away.

  1. The Lowell Directory, 1847: Title pageTitle page
  2. The Lowell Directory, 1847: Leaf 76 of the scan. Cited in note C-189.Leaf 76 of the scan. Cited in note C-189.
  3. The Lowell Directory, 1847: Leaf 207 of the scan. Cited in note C-208.Leaf 207 of the scan. Cited in note C-208.

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-208 — Georgiana Atherton's father, Hiram Spearing, is listed in Lowell from 1847, at the Lowell Machine Shop; he kept a boarding house at 8 South Street in 1853, worked as a machinist, engineer and patternmaker (engineer at Norcross & Saunders' in 1868), and in 1886 lived with the Athertons at 170 Fairmount Street.