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The Lowell Directory, 1916

Date

1916

Type

book

Repository

Internet Archive (lowellma-directory-1916); a copy is in the house library

Locator

Cited pages: scan leaves 52, 64, 81, 84, 108, 322, 359, 365, 417, 436, 473, 478, 492, 500, 505, 563, 566, 576

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 1916).

Statements this record supports

• C-114 — The Kerwins were the Lilleys' neighbors across the street: the 1906 Lowell directory lists 'Kerwin James J lawyer 20 Hildreth bldg h 239 Fairmount', and the 1926 directory lists him with his wife Irene P. at 239 Fairmount. In May 1920 Judge Charles S. Lilley, his daughter Bonney L. Dunbar and Irene P. Kerwin won a Superior Court verdict against the Lowell Gas Light Company for shade trees on their Fairmount Street properties killed by gas escaping from a broken service pipe. The Lilley plaintiffs were awarded $1,250; Mrs. Kerwin was awarded a three-figure sum, probably $400.
• 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-166 — In 1916 the Battles Home Corporation for Aged Men was still at 15 Belmont Street, 'Organized April, 1902', with Albert D. Carter as president, Walter H. Howe as secretary, William T. Sheppard as treasurer and Mrs. Mary A. Hapgood as matron.
• C-176 — The directories trace C. Brooks Stevens's offices and homes. He was superintendent of the United States Bunting Company in 1894 and its treasurer from 1900; treasurer also of the Middlesex Company by 1916; president of the Ames Worsted Company by 1926; president and treasurer of the Lawrence Manufacturing Company by 1931; and in 1946 treasurer of the Heinze Electric Company. He boarded at 24 Huntington Street in 1894, lived at 403 Andover Street in 1900 and 1906, and at Tewksbury from 1916; he never had a directory residence at 236 Fairmount Street.
• C-199 — In 1916 Judge Charles S. Lilley was president of the Lowell Cemetery corporation, with William S. Southworth as vice president.
• 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-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-216 — In 1926 the house at 137 Fairmount Street was the home of 'Harry A' (Henry A.) Keep, who worked in Boston, and of Mrs. H. Sanford Keep; in 1916 both households were at 154 First Street.
• 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-218 — Henry J. O'Dowd, namesake of the O'Dowd Double House, was a bookkeeper in 1886, a dealer in carriages and harnesses (H. J. O'Dowd & Co.) living at 388 High Street in 1894 and 1900, and an insurance agent living at 423 High Street in 1916. He did not live on Mansur Street; Mrs. Mary F. O'Dowd is listed at 42 Mansur Street in 1926.
• C-219 — Col. Albert Pindar (also printed Pinder), across the street from the stone house, lived at 'rear 239 Fairmount' in 1894, 1906 and 1916 and let the front house: to Alfred Clarke, general manager of the Eastern Electric Light and Storage Battery Company, in 1894; to Harry C. Raynes, architect, in 1900; and from 1906 to the lawyer James J. Kerwin, who was still there in 1926. In 1900 Pindar was superintendent of the City Farm and lived there. In 1875-76 Albert Pinder, of the police, was at old No. 181 Fairmount.
• 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-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.

Events on the timeline that cite it

• The coachman becomes a chauffeur (1906–1916)
• The chauffeur’s family (January 1920)
• The Battles Home moves to Rolfe Street (1916–1926)