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The Lowell Directory, 1886

Date

1886

Type

book

Repository

Internet Archive (lowellma-directory-1886); a copy is in the house library

Locator

Cited pages: scan leaves 51, 61, 74, 106, 133, 136, 173, 225, 356, 374, 394, 489, 531, 551, 572, 587, 593, 602, 713

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 1886).

Statements this record supports

• C-158 — The Fairmount Street renumbering can be read from householders listed at the same house before and after it: old No. 18 became 24 (James C. Abbott), 46 became 62 (Willard A. Brown), 50 became 70 (William G. Ward), 58 became 84 (George A. Marden), 87 became 129 (Charles D. Palmer), 121 became 149 (George W. Dutton), 127 became 157 (Orrin B. Silver), 139 became 175 (Beata Thorne) and 163 became 205 (George A. Chase). Old No. 170, Atherton's house, became 236.
• C-169 — James M. Battles, husband of the Home's first matron, was elected clerk of the Lowell Water Board on September 2, 1875, and in May 1881 was re-elected 'for the seventh consecutive year'; in 1886 the directory lists him as 'Battles James M. clerk, house Belmont, near Westford.'
• C-170 — The Battles Home's first president, the Rev. A. St. John Chambré, was rector of St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Lowell from May 15, 1884; the 1897 Illustrated History also names him president of the Theodore Edson Orphanage and of the Lowell Institution for Savings.
• C-186 — Bonney's lesser offices in the directories and in Hurd: a director of the Howard Fire Insurance Company of Lowell in 1859–61; master in chancery for Middlesex in the lists of county officers for 1859 and 1861; a justice of the peace (1859, 1861, 1886, 1894); and, about 1890, president of the Lowell Bar Association, organized in October 1875.
• C-205 — Atherton was paid $100 as secretary of the Board of Health for 1871, and as its treasurer returned an unexpended balance of $703.58 to the city in 1872. In 1886 he was a Lowell justice of the peace, and his son Charles T. Atherton boarded with him at 170 Fairmount 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-213 — The Eli Thorn House stood by 1875: the 1875–76 directory lists 'Thorn Eli, mason, house 139 Fairmount, Bel.' (old No. 139 is the present 175), and his widow Beata is listed there in 1886 and, as 'Thorne Beata, widow, house 175 Fairmount', in 1900.
• C-214 — John W. Pead, the namesake of 185 Fairmount Street, was a draftsman at the Merrimack Manufacturing Company in 1886 and its agent by 1900; in 1916 the directory lists him at 175 Fairmount Street 'and at Wilton N H', and in 1926 at 185 Fairmount Street.
• C-220 — David E. Chase lived at old No. 163 (the present 205) Fairmount Street, opposite Whitman Street, in 1875-76 and died on November 5, 1885; George A. Chase, of Boston, is listed at the house in 1886 and, as No. 205, in 1894. David E. Chase is not in the Lowell directories of 1858, 1861, 1866, 1868 or 1870, so the roster's 'about 1856' for the house is not supported by them.
• C-221 — The Mardens lived at 84 (old 58) Fairmount Street without a break from at least 1880 to 1936: George A. Marden was assessed for a sewer on Fairmount Street in 1880, is listed at 58 Fairmount in 1886 and at 84 in 1894, his widow Mary Porter Marden in 1916, and their son Philip S. Marden, editor-in-chief of the Courier-Citizen, in 1926–36. Coburn writes that 'Mr. Marden made his home for the last thirty-five years of his life at 84 Fairmount street.'
• C-222 — The 'T. Tweed' of the T. Tweed / H. Pollard House was Timothy G. Tweed, apothecary (Carleton & Hovey, 164 Merrimack Street), listed at old No. 82 (the present 96) Mansur Street in 1886; his widow Mary H. was there in 1894, and Harry G. Pollard by 1906. City water had been run 'on Mansur street to the house of T. G. Tweed' in 1882.
• C-226 — In February 1891 William S. Lamson's house at the corner of Sherman Street was going up: 'The next house is on the corner of Sherman Street, not yet finished; Mr. Lamson, of the Store Service Consolidation, is building a palace there' (Russell). In 1886 Lamson, treasurer of the Lamson Store Service Company, lived at 331 Westford Street.
• C-235 — Albion C. Taylor, of Cook, Taylor & Co., moved from 50 Bartlett Street (1875–76) to 'Fairmount, east of reservoir' (1886), listed as No. 166 in 1894; his widow Susan E. was there in 1916.
• C-236 — Moses Little, Albion C. Taylor's partner in Cook, Taylor & Co., lived at 9 Elm Street in 1875–76, at old No. 63 Mansur Street in 1886, and at No. 77 in 1894 and 1900.
• C-239 — Alexander G. Cumnock, agent of the Boott Cotton Mills, lived at 41 Kirk Street in 1875–76 and on 'Belmont av. opp. Talbot' by 1886 (No. 52 in 1894); from 1900 he was treasurer of the Appleton Company. Coburn records his death on August 17, 1919.
• C-240 — James W. B. Shaw, a dry-goods merchant in 1859–68, was chairman of the Board of Health in 1886, living on 'Belmont av. cor. Talbot'; in 1894 he was in real estate at 47 Belmont Avenue, and the 1906 directory records that he 'died Jan 14 1906'.
• C-241 — John A. Faulkner, of Luther W. Faulkner & Sons, was still on Faulkner Street in 1886 and is listed in 1894 at 'house 32 Belmont av. opposite Ma[nsur]'; in 1900 he was agent of the Bay State Mills and president of the Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank.
• 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.

Events on the timeline that cite it

• No. 170 becomes No. 236 (1893)
• The Battles Home opens on Belmont Street (April 1902)