Some Interesting Boston Events (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Some Interesting Boston EventsFor assistance in preparing the present pamphlet the Trust Com pany desires to give credit first of all to the o cers of this Company, then to the late Governor, Curtis Guild, for valuable suggestions as to the subject-matter, also to Mr. Samuel Morison for other sugges tions, to Mr. Otto F leischner, of the Boston Public Library, for valu able assistance in the selection of reference books, to Mr. C. K. Bolton, of the Boston Athenaeum, and Mr. Charles F. Read, of the Bostonian Society, to Mr. P. K. Foley and Mr. C. E. Goodspeed for assistance covering certain pictures and references.For assistance on specific subjects the Company wishes to thank Mr. Louis A. Cook for help in connection with the account of the first settlement in Boston Harbour, Prof. A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard College, Mr. William C. Lane, of the Harvard College Library, and Mr. Roger Pierce, for information furnished in regard to Fair Harvard, Dr. J. Collins Warren and Mr. C. K. Bolton for their assistance in obtaining certain facts in connection with the Old North Church, Mr. Charles H. Taylor, Jr., Miss Clara Parker, of the Nantucket Athenaeum, Miss Anne W. Bodfish, Secretary of the Nantucket Historical Society, Mr. George H. Tripp, Librarian of the New Bedford Library, and Mr. William Rotch for information con cerning Mr. Rotch's Counting House in Nantucket, Mr. C. H. W. Foster, Mr. W. S. Crane, and Mr. William Sumner Appleton for suggestions in regard to the Province House, Mr. F. H. Curtiss, of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, for books and information furnished in regard to the United States Branch Banks, Mr. Eric Pape and Dr. Robert T. Moffatt for information and photographs furnished concerning the frigate Constitution. Mr. J. Paulding Meade, of Boston, Mr. Charles W. Noyes, of New York, and Mr.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.