Since the Civil War, the population had increased from 3,603 to 15,397 due to the growth in the fishing industry and subsequent great waves of immigration.
Since the Civil War, the population had increased from 3,603 to 15,397 due to the growth in the fishing industry and subsequent great waves of immigration.
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The Tarr & Wonson Copper Paint Factory was established at Tarr’s wharf in 1863 by Augustus Wonson and James G. Tarr but moved to its present location in 1870.
The Cape Ann Granite Company used 15 oxen to tow the largest slab they had ever provided downtown. The step stayed in place until 1966 when it was moved to the path to the Fitz Henry Lane House by the Cape Ann Historical Association.
Solomon Trumbull, Charles A. Chadwick, and John Todd formed a business partnership under the name Gloucester Granite Company. They owned quarries in West Gloucester and in Bay View.
The steamboat ran throughout the year.
The bell was built by Jones & Company of Troy, New York, and weighed 4,400 pounds. It was donated for the dedication of the new Town House. The Cape Ann Advertiser remarked, “Mr. Samuel E
The hotel coach, known as the “California mud wagon,” made the seven-mile journey with twenty passengers. It was operated by Levi Dennen.
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Alfred Mansfield Brooks was born in Michigan in 1870. His mother died soon after his birth and his father gave him to his maternal grandmother, Abigal Somes (Davis) Mansfield of Gloucester to raise.
The new Town House was dedicated on June 22, 1871. Addison Gilbert, the chairman of the building committee addressed the large crowd, a choir sang, and Reverend Robert P. Rogers offered a prayer.
The board also voted to name the library the Sawyer Free Library after its largest benefactor.
The Gloucester National Bank, formerly the Gloucester Bank, was established in 1796.
This organization offered affordable housing to the widows and children of lost fishermen in Gloucester.
On May 28, 1871, the fire “destroyed several buildings on the site of Webster’s and Bergengren’s Block.”
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A storm started on June 4 and continued for two days, with some of the heaviest northeast gales Cape Ann had ever experienced. Various shipwrecks occurred off the coast of Cape Ann, including the coasting schooner Julia from St
This outbreak closed the Collins and Town House School.
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During the annual meeting of 1872, the library voted to incorporate and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued a charter to the Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library, Inc
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The first election was held on December 1, 1873.
John J. Somes was chosen as the city clerk, a position he occupied for 46 years.
Selectman Robert R. Fears, a Democrat, defeated former selectman Addison Gilbert, the Republican candidate and became the first mayor of Gloucester
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“Ordered that the sum of six hundred ($600) dollars be appropriated in full payment of the Gloucester Tenement Association for all claims or damage arising from the occupancy of their building by the Town of Gloucester. And that the same be charged to the Contingent account.” April 12, 1875
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Like Lane, Homer was primarily self-taught and apprenticed in Boston as a lithographer
A. Piatt Andrew (1873-1936) was a Harvard economist, politiciation who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and the founder and director of the Ambulance Field Service during World War I. The A. Piatt Andrew Bridge in Gloucester was named for him.
Margeson painted strong maritime work, and at the same time operated a telegraph key, ran a stationery store where he sold the first art supplies in town, and worked for the town as a tax collector. He was followed by artists Parker S. Perkins (1862-1942) and Eric Hudson (1864-1932).
This was a turning point for tourism in the Magnolia region of Gloucester.
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After the Sawyer Free Library was fully organized and devoted to the circulation of books, the original members of the Lyceum were still interested in its original mission of providing “intellectual improvement” through the use of forums by popular speakers
Hunt studied and worked for several years in France. He became friends with and was heavily influenced by the work of Jean Francois Millet (1814-1875) and the Barbizon School. Those artists were dedicated to painting outside, and Millet brought the idea to Magnolia later.
The city charter was approved during a special town meeting.
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The event took place in City Hall under the leadership of Reverend F. barrow Makepeace, the pastor at the local Congregational Church.
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Hunt devoted the last decade of his life to teaching women students. Many of them followed him from Boston to Magnolia, including Ellen Day Hale (1855-1940) and Hunt’s protégée Helen M. Knowlton (1832-1918). Hunt and his students transformed Magnolia into a serious, though brief, art colony.
The country needed an outlet for its post-war feelings. Homer’s work was emblematic of this broadening range of the permissible in art. In his transition to fine art, Homer called upon the artwork he did in Gloucester.