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The Lowell Directory, 1906

Date
1906
Type
book
Repository
Internet Archive (lowellma-directory-1906); a copy is in the house library
Locator
Cited pages: scan leaves 30, 39, 111, 393, 451, 468, 482, 485, 528, 543, 548, 556, 562
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 1906).

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The title page and the 13 pages this site cites (14 page images), cut from the scanned book. The Lowell Directory, 1906. Internet Archive scan lowellma-directory-1906; copy in the house library. Public domain (published 1906). This copy is kept on this site so that it stays one click away.

  1. The Lowell Directory, 1906: Title pageTitle page
  2. The Lowell Directory, 1906: Leaf 30 of the scan. Cited in note C-139.Leaf 30 of the scan. Cited in note C-139.
  3. The Lowell Directory, 1906: p. 28 (leaf 39 of the scan). Cited in note C-165.p. 28 (leaf 39 of the scan). Cited in note C-165.
  4. The Lowell Directory, 1906: p. 140 (leaf 111 of the scan). Cited in note C-165.p. 140 (leaf 111 of the scan). Cited in note C-165.
  5. The Lowell Directory, 1906: p. 422 (leaf 393 of the scan). Cited in note C-140.p. 422 (leaf 393 of the scan). Cited in note C-140.
  6. The Lowell Directory, 1906: Leaf 451 of the scan. Cited in note C-217.Leaf 451 of the scan. Cited in note C-217.
  7. The Lowell Directory, 1906: Leaf 468 of the scan. Cited in note C-233.Leaf 468 of the scan. Cited in note C-233.
  8. The Lowell Directory, 1906: Leaf 482 of the scan. Cited in note C-222.Leaf 482 of the scan. Cited in note C-222.
  9. The Lowell Directory, 1906: Leaf 485 of the scan. Cited in note C-215.Leaf 485 of the scan. Cited in note C-215.
  10. The Lowell Directory, 1906: Leaf 528 of the scan. Cited in note C-240.Leaf 528 of the scan. Cited in note C-240.
  11. The Lowell Directory, 1906: Leaf 543 of the scan. Cited in note C-245.Leaf 543 of the scan. Cited in note C-245.
  12. The Lowell Directory, 1906: Leaf 548 of the scan. Cited in note C-228.Leaf 548 of the scan. Cited in note C-228.
  13. The Lowell Directory, 1906: Leaf 556 of the scan. Cited in note C-139.Leaf 556 of the scan. Cited in note C-139.
  14. The Lowell Directory, 1906: Leaf 562 of the scan. Cited in note C-244.Leaf 562 of the scan. Cited in note C-244.

Statements this record supports

  • C-139 — Owen J. Tansey, the Bonneys' coachman, declared in his naturalization petition of November 1893 that he lived at No. 172 Fairmount Street and that his occupation was that of a coachman. Born at Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland (the petition gives August 13, 1870; other records 1867), he arrived at Boston on May 15, 1888, married Kate E. Burns at Ayer in 1892, and died June 16, 1955. He left service with the house before 1900, when the directory lists him as a fireman at Wyman's Exchange, living at 286 High Street, and became a Lowell police officer: from 1906 to 1931 the directories list 'Owen J police Market bldg', and the police department rosters of 1906, 1916 and 1926 name him among the patrolmen. He lived at 25 Bowden Street (1906–16) and then at 68 Loring Street with his wife, Catherine A. (1926–31), where he is still listed in 1950.
  • C-140 — John J. McGowan was the Lilleys' coachman and later chauffeur and lived with his family on the estate in two spans, about 1897-1906 and 1916-1931 (James Dunn was the coachman in 1910; C-395, C-406): the Lowell birth registers give his occupation as coachman at 236 Fairmount Street in June 1897 and June 1903; he was there in 1920 and 1921 (in 1916 and 1921 described as chauffeur), and in 1928 and 1931 he was the caretaker. The 1930 census lists the McGowans at 'rear 234 Fairmount'; the 1931 directory gives 'rear 236'. His mother, Mary (McHugh) McGowan, the 'widow' of the 1900 directory, came from Ireland in 1896 and died in Lowell on February 25, 1921.
  • C-165 — The 1906 Lowell directory's list of societies gives the Battles Home's founding date and first officers: 'Battles Home Corporation for Aged Men, 15 Belmont street. Organized April, 1902. Pres., Rev. A. St. John Chambre. Clerk, Walter H. Howe. Treas., William T. Sheppard. Matron, Mary C. Battles.'
  • C-215 — Willard D. Pratt, the namesake of 195 Fairmount Street, was a foreman at 557 Dutton Street in 1906 and by 1916 president of the Pratt & Forrest Company there, living on Middlesex Street; in 1926 the directory lists 'Willard D (Jane R) pres Pratt & Forrest Co 557 Dutton h 195 Fairmount'.
  • C-217 — Franklin Nourse was agent of the Lawrence Manufacturing Company and lived at 53 Mansur Street in 1900 and 1906. By 1916 the agent was Everett H. Walker and Nourse lived at 187 Nesmith Street; in 1886 and 1894 the agent was John Kilburn.
  • 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-228 — Ex-Mayor Charles A. Stott 'owns and occupies' the house on the corner of Porter Street (Russell, 1891); in 1875-76 he was agent of the Belvidere Woolen Manufacturing Company at old No. 119 Nesmith Street, and in 1906 he is still listed at 173 Nesmith, as treasurer of the company, with Charles W. Stott, its superintendent, boarding there.
  • C-233 — The Alice and Lina Parker House was the home of Alice C. and Lina S. Parker, daughters of Samuel Griffin Parker: Coburn writes that they 'reside in Lowell, their home being at No. 57 Belmont avenue', and the 1906 directory lists 'Alice C Miss' and 'S Lina Miss' there.
  • 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-244 — The namesake of the Henry Tibbetts House is Henry Llewellyn Tibbetts, lumber dealer (Whitney & Tibbetts, Western Avenue), who lived at 279 Westford Street in 1886 and is listed as 'Henry Llewellyn h 124 Mansur' in 1906.
  • C-245 — The William Sprague of the William Sprague House is William H. Sprague, son of Levi Sprague of 52 Mansur Street: the directories list 'William H h 221 Nesmith' in 1906 and 1916.

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