Dr. John Lewis Hildreth
New Ipswich Historical Society
Hildreth Residence in Smithville
On this day - July 30, 1908
James Roger diary entry
30th (Thursday)
Warm and muggy. David at Club House with Royce and Daniel. Jessie and Alice went berrying in morning got 8 quarts. Ordination day at church. Council met at 11 o’clock. Ordination service at 2pm. Ministers present: Dr. Bolster, Minsters Wilcox, Gale, Corson, Loomis and Eastman.
On this day - July 30, 1897
William Jurian Kaula diary - no entry
Records and Reminiscences of the New Ipswich Children’s Fair from 1862 to 1911 - Songs and Poems (pages 48 - 49)
SOME OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS made to the CHILDREN'S FAIR OF NEW IPSWICH in the last Fifty Years.
THE FLAG OF THE FREE., Spoken by CHAUNCY PERRY.
When our Fathers of yore,
Sought a home on this shore,
They resolved it should be,
The home of the free.
The flag they unfurled,
Proclaimed to the world
That defiance to tyrants
They evermore hurled
This flag with its bars
And its group of bright stars,
And its red, white and blue,
Still to freedom is true.
And the eagle, whose eye
Pierces ocean and sky,
Is perched on its standard,
All foes to descry.
"The flag of our country!
O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free,
And the home of the brave."
WHAT THE CHILDREN DID FOR THE FAIR - ANNIE CHANDLER.
Well, Jamie he brought a pumpkin, The largest that could be found.
He had asked for seed, the vine from which "Would cover an acre of ground."
And Sammy, he raised a melon, So luscious, and ripe, and red, That for fear the family'd eat it, He hid it under his bed.
And Susie, she gathered cranberries, And down on her bended knees,
As she put them one by one in her pail, "The freedmen," she said, "shall have these."
Little Jacob raised potatoes
"Not one of them should be little ; The largest kind of White Elephants, Only one would fill a kettle !"
"These eggs that were laid by my Bantam," Rachael said to her younger brother, "I'll give to the little boys and girls Who haven't a father or mother."
Baby Mabel sat in her rocking-chair Carefully tending her dolly, She gave it a hug, and swallowed a sob, "Mama, I'll give little Polly."
HARVEST SONG - By all the Children
We welcome with gladness
The joyful harvest days, We banish all sadness
And tune our lips to praise. The reapers mow the whitening grain, The fruits are ripe on hill and plain. Rejoice! rejoice! the harvest time has come!
Rejoice! rejoice! the land is full of plenty!
We welcome with gladness The joyful harvest days, We banish all sadness
And tune our lips to praise. In autumn glory, field and wood Proclaim the Lord our God is good! Rejoice! rejoice! the land is full of plenty! Rejoice! rejoice! the harvest time has come.
JOHN LEWIS HILDRETH was born in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts, November 29, 1838, and graduated from the New Ipswich Appelton Academy in 1860, and from Dartmouth College in 1864, having served in the field in the employ of the United States Sanitary Commission during the latter part of his college course. He had begun to teach school in 1857, and in 1865 became Principal of the Peterborough Academy, a position which he held for nearly three years, at the same time studying medicine at the Harvard and Dartmouth Medical Schools. Graduating from the latter in 1867, he first established himself in Townsend, Massachusetts, but removed in 1870 to Cambridge, where he has since resided. Dr. Hildreth has held many public appointments in the line of his profession and otherwise, among which may be mentioned almost continuous service on the Cambridge School Board from 1873 to 1889. He has always been active in
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forwarding all forms of public improvement, particularly hygienic and sanitary. In 1873, he organized the Cambridge Dispensary, and acted as its clerk for six years. Among the notable things accomplished by him as a member of the School Committee are: the rule forbidding children in whose homes a contagious disease exists from attending school, which is now copied in almost all the cities and towns of the United States; the introduction of laboratory methods into the scientific courses of the High Schools; and a careful attention to the hygienic and sanitary arrangements of all school houses in the city.
In 1894 Dr. Hildreth accepted a call to the chair of Clinical Medicine at Tufts, and has entered into his work at the school with characteristic enthusiasm. -https://dl.tufts.edu/teiviewer/parent/dz011115g/chapter/c6s15
My cousin Ollie Niemi lives at 4 Hildreth Pl in the old Wheeler house. The dam is next to his house. I'm guessing that the picture shown is what we call the Martin property today. The only other property on Hildreth Pl is at the end but too far from the dam to have both the dam and house in the same picture. The Chauncy Perry poem was interesting. Perry's grandson, also named Chauncy Perry was (is) a friend of mine. Last I knew he was living in Waltham. They owned a summer home on River Rd. Beautiful home, no electricity, murals painted by a vagabond when it was an inn (built in 1750), victim of arson in 1970s.