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the Salem Public Library. If you would like to learn more about any of these
topics, please visit the Sources page where you can find links to books
available there.
the Salem Public Library. If you would like to learn more about any of these
topics, please visit the Sources page where you can find links to books
available there.
It happened on this day in
Salem, Massachusetts:
Salem, Massachusetts:
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April 28, 1994 City Council finally voted on the petition
submitted by Salem High School students to ban cigarette machines
throughout the city. The measure was approved and the ban went
immediately into effect.
1996 The Trustees of the Salem Public Library held a 200th
Birthday Party for Captain John Bertram in his mansion at 370
Essex Street. That home, where the Bertram family lived for
years, now houses the Public Library. Ed Tufts played Captain
Bertram at the party.
2006 The City of Salem paid tribute to radio station WESX, which
began its history in 1939 at the Peabody Building on Washington
Street. The station had been sold and was moved.
April 29, 1797 The ship “Polly” of Salem was captured by the
French privateer “Zenador”. She was carrying a cargo of
provisions and lumber.
1813 The Salem built “U.S.S. Essex” captured the British whalers
“Montezuma”, “Georgiana”, and “Policy” off Chile.
1825 Jean Bertram died in Salem at the age of 53. He was the
father of merchant/philanthropist John Bertram.
1912 Theodore Roosevelt, running this time on the Bull Moose
Party ticket, made a campaign stop at Town House Square.
April 30, 1848 Mary Peabody Mann and her husband Horace, in
Washington D.C. as a representative to the U.S. Congress,
welcomed their third son, Benjamin Pickman Mann.
1915 Elm Street was renamed Hawthorne Boulevard.
1995 Woodcarver Ken Dudley unveiled a sculpture of Samuel
McIntire he created from a twelve foot oak tree stump.
May 1, 1788 Construction began on the Essex Bridge. It would be
completed September 23.
1801 A schooner was wrecked on Baker’s Island.
1843 Mary Peabody and Horace Mann were wed at the Peabody house
on West Street in Salem. The couple met with Mr. Mann was in
town to lecture on public education at the Lyceum. Her sister
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne had been wed to Nathaniel in the same
house.
1870 Captain John Bertram’s barque “Glide” entered Salem from
Zanzibar, the last vessel to do so as well as the last to enter
from anywhere beyond the Cape of Good Hope. The cargo was copal,
an important ingredient in varnish.
1922 Robert S. Rantoul died in Beverly. He served as Mayor of
Salem in the 1890s and President of the Essex Institute. His
extensive writings on local history, most written in his home at
17 Winter Street, included stories on Wenham Lake, The Cod in
Massachusetts History, Cat Island, The Early Quarantine
Arrangements of Salem, and the Cruise of the “Quero.”
May 2, 1649 The part of Salem known as Marble Harbor was set off
as the town of Marblehead.
1830 Dick and George Crowninshield were arrested for the murder
of Captain Joseph White.
May 3, 1695 Ten cannons had arrived by ship at Wolcott’s Wharf
near present day Washington and Front Streets. A crowd of men
had gathered to “supervise” their unloading. One of the guns was
fired, and it split into pieces, killing an upholsterer, George
Herrick. (Perly 334)
May 4, 1776 William Henckling Prescott was born in Salem. In an
accident, he would lose the sight in one eye while attending
Harvard. Later, another accident robbed him of sight in the
other eye, but he went on to write histories anyway. His works
included “The Conquest of Mexico” and “The Conquest of Peru.” A
school, Prescott Primary, would be named for him on Howard Street.
1796 Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts. He married
Mary Peabody, whose sister Sophia married Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Mr. Mann was the first Secretary of the Board of Education in
Massachusetts, and he is the namesake of a school in Salem.
1802 Charles Wentworth Upham was born in St. John, New
Brunswick. The Harvard graduate was Mayor of Salem in 1852 as
well as serving In the U.S. House of Representatives and in the
Massachusetts General Court and Senate. He was the author of a
number of history books, including “History of Salem Witchcraft”
and “The Life of Timothy Pickering”.
1853 Sarah Parker Remond and two friends refused to sit in the
segregated balcony at a performance of the Gaetano Donizetti
opera “Don Pasquale”. Police were called to remove them, and Ms.
Remond sued the Boston Police and won $500.
1910 The John Ward House was moved from its original location on
St. Peter’s Street to the Essex Institute.
1957 Mayor Francis X. Collins declared this day Mary Curtis-Verna
Day in Salem. She was a world renowned opera singer who
graduated from Salem High and had worked at Salem Hospital.
2002 Armory Park was dedicated in Salem on the site of the Cadet
Armory that had been gutted by fire in 1982. It was acquired by
the Essex Institute, which had merged with the Peabody Museum.
In a controversial move the museum demolished the façade and sold
part of the building to the National Park System. The monument
to the founding of the National Guard located next to the
flagpole in Salem Common was also dedicated by the Rotary Club of
Salem.
May 5, 1860 From Bath, England, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote to his
friend Henry Bright:
You will not find any photograph nor (so far as I am aware)
any engraving of the Faun of Praxiteles. There are photographs,
stereoscopic and otherwise, of another Faun, which is almost
identical with the hero of my romance, though only an inferior
repetition of it. My Faun is in the Capitol; the other, in the
Vatican. The genuine statue has never been photographed, on
account, I suppose, of its standing in a bad light. The photo
graph of the Vatican Faun supplies its place very well, except as
to the face, which is very inferior.
1919 The World War I Roll of Honor memorial was dedicated at the
corner of Highland Ave and Proctor Street. It was given in honor
of John J. Cunney.
Last week's history is archived here.
submitted by Salem High School students to ban cigarette machines
throughout the city. The measure was approved and the ban went
immediately into effect.
1996 The Trustees of the Salem Public Library held a 200th
Birthday Party for Captain John Bertram in his mansion at 370
Essex Street. That home, where the Bertram family lived for
years, now houses the Public Library. Ed Tufts played Captain
Bertram at the party.
2006 The City of Salem paid tribute to radio station WESX, which
began its history in 1939 at the Peabody Building on Washington
Street. The station had been sold and was moved.
April 29, 1797 The ship “Polly” of Salem was captured by the
French privateer “Zenador”. She was carrying a cargo of
provisions and lumber.
1813 The Salem built “U.S.S. Essex” captured the British whalers
“Montezuma”, “Georgiana”, and “Policy” off Chile.
1825 Jean Bertram died in Salem at the age of 53. He was the
father of merchant/philanthropist John Bertram.
1912 Theodore Roosevelt, running this time on the Bull Moose
Party ticket, made a campaign stop at Town House Square.
April 30, 1848 Mary Peabody Mann and her husband Horace, in
Washington D.C. as a representative to the U.S. Congress,
welcomed their third son, Benjamin Pickman Mann.
1915 Elm Street was renamed Hawthorne Boulevard.
1995 Woodcarver Ken Dudley unveiled a sculpture of Samuel
McIntire he created from a twelve foot oak tree stump.
May 1, 1788 Construction began on the Essex Bridge. It would be
completed September 23.
1801 A schooner was wrecked on Baker’s Island.
1843 Mary Peabody and Horace Mann were wed at the Peabody house
on West Street in Salem. The couple met with Mr. Mann was in
town to lecture on public education at the Lyceum. Her sister
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne had been wed to Nathaniel in the same
house.
1870 Captain John Bertram’s barque “Glide” entered Salem from
Zanzibar, the last vessel to do so as well as the last to enter
from anywhere beyond the Cape of Good Hope. The cargo was copal,
an important ingredient in varnish.
1922 Robert S. Rantoul died in Beverly. He served as Mayor of
Salem in the 1890s and President of the Essex Institute. His
extensive writings on local history, most written in his home at
17 Winter Street, included stories on Wenham Lake, The Cod in
Massachusetts History, Cat Island, The Early Quarantine
Arrangements of Salem, and the Cruise of the “Quero.”
May 2, 1649 The part of Salem known as Marble Harbor was set off
as the town of Marblehead.
1830 Dick and George Crowninshield were arrested for the murder
of Captain Joseph White.
May 3, 1695 Ten cannons had arrived by ship at Wolcott’s Wharf
near present day Washington and Front Streets. A crowd of men
had gathered to “supervise” their unloading. One of the guns was
fired, and it split into pieces, killing an upholsterer, George
Herrick. (Perly 334)
May 4, 1776 William Henckling Prescott was born in Salem. In an
accident, he would lose the sight in one eye while attending
Harvard. Later, another accident robbed him of sight in the
other eye, but he went on to write histories anyway. His works
included “The Conquest of Mexico” and “The Conquest of Peru.” A
school, Prescott Primary, would be named for him on Howard Street.
1796 Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts. He married
Mary Peabody, whose sister Sophia married Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Mr. Mann was the first Secretary of the Board of Education in
Massachusetts, and he is the namesake of a school in Salem.
1802 Charles Wentworth Upham was born in St. John, New
Brunswick. The Harvard graduate was Mayor of Salem in 1852 as
well as serving In the U.S. House of Representatives and in the
Massachusetts General Court and Senate. He was the author of a
number of history books, including “History of Salem Witchcraft”
and “The Life of Timothy Pickering”.
1853 Sarah Parker Remond and two friends refused to sit in the
segregated balcony at a performance of the Gaetano Donizetti
opera “Don Pasquale”. Police were called to remove them, and Ms.
Remond sued the Boston Police and won $500.
1910 The John Ward House was moved from its original location on
St. Peter’s Street to the Essex Institute.
1957 Mayor Francis X. Collins declared this day Mary Curtis-Verna
Day in Salem. She was a world renowned opera singer who
graduated from Salem High and had worked at Salem Hospital.
2002 Armory Park was dedicated in Salem on the site of the Cadet
Armory that had been gutted by fire in 1982. It was acquired by
the Essex Institute, which had merged with the Peabody Museum.
In a controversial move the museum demolished the façade and sold
part of the building to the National Park System. The monument
to the founding of the National Guard located next to the
flagpole in Salem Common was also dedicated by the Rotary Club of
Salem.
May 5, 1860 From Bath, England, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote to his
friend Henry Bright:
You will not find any photograph nor (so far as I am aware)
any engraving of the Faun of Praxiteles. There are photographs,
stereoscopic and otherwise, of another Faun, which is almost
identical with the hero of my romance, though only an inferior
repetition of it. My Faun is in the Capitol; the other, in the
Vatican. The genuine statue has never been photographed, on
account, I suppose, of its standing in a bad light. The photo
graph of the Vatican Faun supplies its place very well, except as
to the face, which is very inferior.
1919 The World War I Roll of Honor memorial was dedicated at the
corner of Highland Ave and Proctor Street. It was given in honor
of John J. Cunney.
Last week's history is archived here.
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