The Lowell Directory, 1853
- Date
- 1853
- Type
- book
- Repository
- Internet Archive (lowellma-directory-1853); a copy is in the house library
- Locator
- Cited pages: scan leaves 66, 201, 225
- 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 1853).
Read the source
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The title page and the 3 pages this site cites (4 page images), cut from the scanned book. The Lowell Directory, 1853. Internet Archive scan lowellma-directory-1853; copy in the house library. Public domain (published 1853). This copy is kept on this site so that it stays one click away.
Title page
Leaf 66 of the scan. Cited in note C-181.
Leaf 201 of the scan. Cited in note C-224.
Leaf 225 of the scan. Cited in note C-208.
Statements this record supports
- C-181 — Before 355 Merrimack Street (C-054), Bonney lived on Bridge Street in Centralville from 1853 to 1861 ('opposite Third' in the directories of 1858, 1859 and 1861) and boarded at 12 Hurd Street in 1864–66; the 1875–76 directory places him at 355 Merrimack Street, corner of Austin.
- 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.
- C-224 — The house at 194 Nesmith Street 'was built by Mr. Samuel C. Pratt, the first principal of the Green School', and was later owned by John Mixer, father-in-law of ex-Mayor Abbott, who sold it to Addison Putnam (Russell, 1891). The 1853 directory lists 'Pratt Samuel C. Rev. house Nesmith, near Wyman'.