Excerpt from A Guide to the Local History of Brookline, Mass The following Guide to the Study of Brookline History was originally undertaken by the History Committee of the Education Society in response to a request from the teachers of the third primary grade. As the work developed, however, the attempt to limit its scope to the needs of any particular grade was abandoned, and the resolution formed to make it simply a suggestive outline and bibliography which, on the one hand, might serve as a basis of study for all grades, from the primary to the high school, while on the other hand, it depended for its value chiefly upon the ability of the teacher to expand it and to adapt it to the needs of her particular pupils. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from A History of Brookline, Massachusetts, From the First Settlement of Muddy River, Until the Present Time, 1630-1906: Commemorating the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Town And for their encouragement, it was voted that the selectmen should provide a schoolmaster for them, to teach their children to read, write and cypher, and order his pay out of the town treasury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Historical Sketches of Brookline, Mass The sketches of which this volume is composed, do not claim to be an exhaustive Town History, but are prin cipally a series of articles written under the title of Brookline as it was, and published in the Brookline Transcript, during the years 1871 - 2. They are chiefly descriptive of the oldest streets and houses, with biograph ical sketches of some interesting persons, and local aneo dotes and events. These papers have lately been care fully revised and corrected by the author, who has added new matter, including a chapter on Brookline in the late war. She has been largely indebted for material, to the writings of Rev. Dr. Pierce (whose biography is con tained in this work), to old family records and legal doc uments, and to verbal information from old inhabitants of the town. Deacon Thomas Griggs, Benjamin B. Davis, Esq., the late Dr. S. A. Shurtleff, George Craft, Esq., A. W. Goddard, Esq., the late Otis Withington, the Misses Heath, and many others, have contributed valuable information. The various publications of the New England Historic Genealogical Society have been frequently consulted, as also the genealogical works of Bond, Savage, and others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Brookline: The History of a Favored Town As an important residence district in one of the oldest, wealthiest, and largest centers of population of the United States, Brookline must always have a certain claim to distinction, much like that of Belgravia in London. As a small town, nearly surrounded by a great municipality, yet maintaining through the loyalty of its citi zens a corporate existence, Brookline has a further claim to consideration. Never were the affairs of a town, spending nearly a million dollars a year, more quietly nor more ably administered. There has been heretofore no chronological, illustrated history of Brookline in the hands of the people. The present little book has grown from materials collected during the preparation of a paper, which was read before the Hannah Goddard chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the First Parish club, the All Saints Parish club, and the Isaac Gardner chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.