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Monthly Archives: February 2021
Dorchester Illustration no. 2501 Fire Station on River Street
Dorchester Illustration no. 2501 Fire Station on River Street When Dorchester was a separate town from Boston, the fire station at Lower Mills had the name Fountain Engine no. 1. In the early 1880s the City replaced a wooden fire … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration no. 2500 Waiting for the Hour
Dorchester Illustration no. 2500 Waiting for the Hour Carlton was a portrait and genre painter who was active in the Boston area from 1836 till after the Civil War. He moved to Dorchester in the 1850s and lived a little … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration no. 2499 Sharp and the Victoria Regia
Sharp and the Victoria Regia Active as a lithographer and photographer on Dexter Street, Washington Village, William Sharp lived and worked at the same address starting in the late 1850s. Sharp would have been a Dorchester resident except that the … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration no. 2498 William Munroe Trotter program
Dorchester Illustration no. 2498 William Munroe Trotter program The Dorchester Historical Society welcomes Historian Kerri Greenidge, author of “Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter About this Event William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934, in Dorchester 1899-1909) published the … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2497 Mason Regulator Company interior
Dorchester Illustration no. 2497 Mason Regulator Company interior Note: Dorchester Historical Society program to be presented through Zoom has been scheduled for Sunday, February 21, at 2 pm. Historian Kerri Greenidge will speak about her book Black Radical: The Life … Continue reading
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Harold Grant Mitten
Harold Grant Mitten World War I Veteran By Camille Arbogast Harold Grant Mitten was born at home, at 37 Folsom Street in Dorchester, on August 2, 1895, to George A. and Nellie Frances (Weeks) Mitten. George was born in Quebec, … Continue reading
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Charles Francis Maurice Malley
Charles Francis Maurice Malley World War I Veteran By Camille Arbogast Charles Francis Maurice Malley was born on December 1, 1871, in Milton, MA. His father, Patrick, was a coachman for the Angell family on Adams Street. Patrick was an … Continue reading
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Anthony Macaluso
Anthony Macaluso World War I Veteran By Camille Arbogast Anthony Macaluso was born on October 18, 1892, in Vicari, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, to Salvatore and Francesca (Costa) Macaluso. On his notecard for Anthony Macaluso, Dr. Perkins noted that Anthony attended … Continue reading
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Albert Louis Ibach
Albert Louis Ibach World War I Veteran By Camille Arbogast Albert Louis Ibach was born on June 27, 1895, at 58 Saint Alphonsus Street in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston. His father, Charles Ibach, was a hatter. He was … Continue reading
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Antonio Iazzetti and Alberto Iazzetti
Antonio Iazzetti and Alberto Iazzetti World War I Veteran By Camille Arbogast Antonio Iazzetti, known as Anthony Iazetti, was born on July 12, 1896, in Torremaggiore, Foggia, Apulia, Italy. His younger brother, Alberto, or Albert, was also born in Italy … Continue reading
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