Identifier: streetrailwayrev08amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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on of his fellow citizens, wereliy liim accounted as naught, compared with duty. He lived tosee justice triumphant, freedom universal, and to receive thetardy praises of his former opponents. The blessings of thepoor and friendless, and the oppressed, enriched him. In Bostonhe was liorn. Nov. 29, ISll, and died Feb. 2, 1884. This tablet waserected in 1894, by the order of the City Council of Boston. Samuel Adams home was a two-story wooden house with agarden, at Winter street and Winter place. Its site is marked bya tablet on Shepard, Norwell & Cos. dry goods store, thus in-scribed: On this site once stood the home of Samuel Adams,who bou.gIit it in October 2, 1803. In grateful memory of theFather of the Revolution, this tablet is placed by the Massachu-setts Society of Sons of the Revolution. 1893. Franklins Itirthplace. at No. 17 Milk street, is marked by abust of the great philosopher. No. 19 Milk street is the home ofthe Massachusetts Commandery Military Order of the Loyal Le-
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THE OLD BELFRY—LEXINGTON. gion. and of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. .lohn Winthrops home was near the present 28G Washingtonstreet, where a bronze talilet marks tiie site, where also dwelt,Iohn Norton and Samuel Willard. Winthrops house was iorndown for fuel, by the British garrison, in 1775. The Old Corner Book Store, at Washington and School streets,on the site of the house of the strong-minded heretic, Anne Hutcli-iuson (a relative of Dryden, the poet), was Ijuilt in 1712, anilcontained an apothecarys shop from 1712 to 179G, Thayers drygoods store from 1796 to 1816, and then a pharmacy run by JamesFreeman Clarkes father. Since 1828 it has been a book store,^^•here Ticknor & Fields held sway from 1,833 to 1865, wlien tiieplace was the favorite resort of Hawthorne, Hillard, Emerson.Agassiz, Sumner, Lowell, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Whip-ple, Thoreau, Howells, and other literary men. Here Dickens andThackeray used to browse among books, when in Bos

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