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Samuel Orcutt was born in Boston on February 11, 1813. He spent his boyhood days at his grandfathers house in the town of Cohasset where he received a limited education. At the age of fourteen he apprenticed himself to the machinist trade. After serving his apprenticeship he engaged in the business on his own account. In 1840, Mr. Orcutt invented and patented a card printing press which was earliest rapid printing press ever patented in the United States. Althought it was a hand press, it was a great improvement on anything previously invented. In 1844, Mr. Orcutt engaged in the book business, on Winnisimmet Street. He later moved his store to corner of Third Street and Broadway. Mr. Orcutt published a map of Chelsea and was involved in many public improvements. He represented Chelsea in the legislature in 1856 and served on the board of selectmen before Chelsea became a city. He served on the board of assessors an fifteen years |
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on the school committee. He was a trustee of the Chelsea Savings Bank and secretary of the Garden Cemetery Corporation. In 1898 he labored to develop a system for numbering streets in Chelsea. |
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Rev. C. C. Pierce |
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Rev. Charles Clark Pierce was born in Meredith, New York in 1858. He was one of a large family of ten boys and one girl. He received his early education in the Meredith schools and the attended the New York State Normal College in Albany, N.Y. After graduating he taught school for five years in New Jersey and New York City. In 1888 he graduated from Colgate University at Hamilton, N.Y. While at Colgate he won many prizes in competition with his fellow students and in his senior year was awarded first prize for the senior historical thesis. After graduation he began to prepare for the ministry at Hamilton Theological Seminary. He was ordained and assigned as pastor at the First Baptist Church at Oneonta, N.Y. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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Dr. Joseph Morrill Putnam was the son of Osgood and Rhoda Ann (Hall) Putnam, and was born in Groton, Massachusetts. Dr. Putnam was educated at Lawrence Academy and Harvard University, and was graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York in 1870. He remained at Bellevue for a few months to learn hospital work and then moved to Chelsea where he began the practice of his profession. On February 25, 1875 he married Hattie A. Holbrook, a native of Lubec, Maine. They had two children, Ralph, born August 7, 1876 and Beatrice, born August 9, 1880. He was city physician of Chelsea from February 1875 to 1887. From January 1, 1884 to January 1, 1887, he was visiting surgeon to the Chelsea Soldiers Home. He served on the medical and surgical staff and the medical board of the Rufus S. Frost General Hospital from its inception until September of 1896. In June of 1877 he became a member of the Massachusetts |
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M. E. Rice |
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M. E. Rice was born in Brookfield, Vermont. He came to Massachusetts at an early age and began his mercantile career as a clerk for the firm of Hogg, Brown & Taylor in Boston. In 1872 he opened up a dry goods store in Milford, Massachusetts. In the fall of 1880 he came to Chelsea and purchased the Woodward & Lathrop store at 222 Broadway and renamed the firm Rice & Miller. Two years later he bought out his partner's interest and the new company became M. E. Rice. The store became very profitable and the need for expansion was evident. He purchased the adjacent store at 224 Broadway and combined the two to make the largest store in Chelsea. The two pictres are from 1898 and show the M. E. Rice store on Broadway and the interior after expansion. |
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Colonel John H. Roberts |
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Colonel John Hemmenway Roberts was born in Alfred, Maine on October 8, 1831. He moved to Chelsea in 1865. After being educated in the common schools of Alfred, Maine in 1850 moved to Charlestown where he was engaged in the West India goods and foreign fruit business. In 1861 he enlisted in the army and was mustered into service as a Second Lieutenant in Company F, Eighth Maine Volunteers. In May of 1862 he was promoted to First Lieutenant and the following August was made Captain of the company. He went to the front, his regiment being assigned to the first brigade (Sherman's expediency corps), of the Army of the Potomac. He participated in the capture of Port Royal, Fort Sumter and Pulaski and Jacksonville. In January 1, 1864, at the request of the governor of Maine, he was transferred to the Second Maine Calvary, then being organized, and was made Captain of Company M. Ordered to New Orleans after the Red River campaign, |
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he went to La Fourche and Tesche counties to exterminate guerillas. The following July he was ordered to assist in the Siege of Mobile, when he was attached to the First Brigade Cavalry, 19th Army Corp, and from that until the close of the war engaged in raids and scouting through West Florida and Southern Alabama. Captain Roberts captured large quantities of cattle, horses, Confederate army stores and supplies, and carried emancipation to the negroes in the area. In May of 1864 Captain Roberts was made inspector-general of the forces at New Orleans and later judge advocate general of the department. He served in that capacity on a military commission the following January, at the trial of important criminal cases. After the close of the war he entered the state militia and in 1869 was appointed adjutant of the First Battery Cavalry. In 1873 he was elected Lieutenant Colonel commanding, bring his regiment to such a state of efficiency that at the centennial celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill he was complimented by General Sherman of the U. S. Regular Army and General Grant, then president. When the war ended, Captain Roberts resumed his former business career and then joined the Boston office of the Mutual Life Insurance Company. While a resident of Chelsea he served on the board of aldermen in 1876 and representative to the legislature in 1870. He always took an active interest in the affairs of Chelsea. Colonel Roberts was married twice: first to Miss Louisa Southward of Charlestown, by whom they had three children: Lillian Louise, who married A. J. Hayman of Brookline, Gertrude Abbey and Martha E. B. who married a Mr. H. W. Asbrand. His second marriage was to Miss H. Edwina Phelps in 1868 in Chelsea. |
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