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The Lowell Directory, 1926

Date
1926
Type
book
Repository
Internet Archive (lowellma-directory-1926); a copy is in the house library
Locator
Cited pages: scan leaves 28, 68, 578, 746, 763, 840, 851, 954, 988
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 1926).

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The title page and the 9 pages this site cites (10 page images), cut from the scanned book. The Lowell Directory, 1926. Internet Archive scan lowellma-directory-1926; copy in the house library. Public domain (published 1926). This copy is kept on this site so that it stays one click away.

  1. The Lowell Directory, 1926: Title pageTitle page
  2. The Lowell Directory, 1926: Leaf 28 of the scan. Cited in note C-139.Leaf 28 of the scan. Cited in note C-139.
  3. The Lowell Directory, 1926: Leaf 68 of the scan. Cited in note C-167.Leaf 68 of the scan. Cited in note C-167.
  4. The Lowell Directory, 1926: p. 591 (leaf 578 of the scan). Cited in note C-216.p. 591 (leaf 578 of the scan). Cited in note C-216.
  5. The Lowell Directory, 1926: p. 759 (leaf 746 of the scan). Cited in note C-214.p. 759 (leaf 746 of the scan). Cited in note C-214.
  6. The Lowell Directory, 1926: p. 776 (leaf 763 of the scan). Cited in note C-215.p. 776 (leaf 763 of the scan). Cited in note C-215.
  7. The Lowell Directory, 1926: p. 853 (leaf 840 of the scan). Cited in note C-176.p. 853 (leaf 840 of the scan). Cited in note C-176.
  8. The Lowell Directory, 1926: p. 864 (leaf 851 of the scan). Cited in note C-139.p. 864 (leaf 851 of the scan). Cited in note C-139.
  9. The Lowell Directory, 1926: p. 1025 (leaf 954 of the scan). Cited in note C-114.p. 1025 (leaf 954 of the scan). Cited in note C-114.
  10. The Lowell Directory, 1926: p. 1059 (leaf 988 of the scan). Cited in note C-218.p. 1059 (leaf 988 of the scan). Cited in note C-218.

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-167 — By the 1926 directory the Battles Home had moved from 15 Belmont Street to 93 Rolfe Street: 'Battles Home Corporation for Aged Men—93 Rolfe street. Organized April, 1902. Pres., Harry Dunlap. Sec John Hunnewell. Treas., Harold D. Macdonald. Supt., Mrs. William Lane. Matron, Lydia L. Green.'
  • 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-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-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.

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