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The Lowell Directory, 1870

Date

1870

Type

book

Repository

Internet Archive (lowellma-directory-1870); a copy is in the house library

Locator

Cited pages: scan leaves 26, 54, 143, 175, 242, 261

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 1870).

Statements this record supports

• C-200 — Charles Lilley, the judge's father, is listed working for the Tremont Corporation in 1839, at the Hamilton Corporation in 1858 and as an overseer there in 1859, as an overseer until 1868, and as a machinist from 1870 to 1900. In 1875–76 his son, 'Lilley Charles S. designer, at carpet mill', boarded with him at 83 Cabot Street.
• 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-211 — The namesake of the Martha Rogers House was on Fairmount Street by 1875: the directories list 'Rogers Martha Mrs. widow, house 32 Fairmount, Bel.' in 1875–76 and 'Rogers Martha Mrs. house 32 Fairmount' in 1886; in 1870 she was a widow at 18 Kirk Street. Old No. 32 lies between old 18 (new 24) and old 46 (new 62), where the present No. 46 stands.
• C-212 — The Asa Hill of the Asa Hill House is Asa V. Hill, music teacher, not Asa Hill Jr., who died in 1870: the 1875–76 directory lists 'Hill Asa V. music teacher and musical instrument dealer, 129 Central, house 46 Fairmount, Bel.', and old No. 46 is the present 62 (Willard A. Brown is listed at 46 in 1886 and at 62 in 1894). In 1866–70 Hill lived at 25 Willow Street.
• C-225 — At 216 Nesmith Street 'Mr. John Avery commenced building the next house, but sold out to Mr. William A. Burke. He completed and occupied the elegant establishment. His son, E. N. Burke, now occupies the premises' (Russell, 1891). The 1870 directory has Burke, treasurer of the Suffolk and Tremont corporations, at 'house Nesmith, beyond Mansur'.
• C-242 — James C. Abbott moved from 10 Kirk Street (1868) to Fairmount Street (1870), and is listed at old No. 18 in 1875–76 and 1886, when he was mayor and president of the First National Bank, and at No. 24 in 1894; his widow Philena was there in 1916. Coburn gives his birth at Andover on June 3, 1823.