Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Feb. 9, 1889.

Wm. P. Blake, Esq., Boston.

Dear Sir:-

I called at your office today but did not find you. I find that the tree in the Dehon lot is in such a position that it is improbable that a grave can be made at either side or in front of it without more or less injury to the tree. Perhaps it would be best, if convenient to you to come out and decide the location on the spot.

Respectfully yours,

Supt.

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Feb. 13, 1889.

Dr. O. B. Campbell, Ovid, Mich.

Dear Sir:-

Your note is received. The monument in this cemetery to Charles Sumner was designed and executed by Alexander McDonald & Son Cambridge, Mass.

Respectfully yours,

Supt.

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conscientious I think they were particularly careful to state^^only what they felt a conviction of the truth of. They were both quite old men, & are well known in Waltham as men of high respectability. One I think is an uncle of claimant's husband, but neither have any interest in the claim. There are six young children and a husband between claimant and any other person who could have a possible interest. Both the claimant and her husband, so far as I can learn are highly respectable and industrious.

3^d Mr Francis Conolly the husband is a weaver - has been out of business for two months, by reason of woolen mills stopping. He has been everywhere looking for work, & having a wife and six young children, is sorely pressed now for means to live.

For the sake of hungry children, let nothing, I entreat you, short of punishable fraud, make delay in their claim. The appeals made to me can only reach you through me. Personally, I care nothing about it, but I am persuaded of their righteousness of their case.

I have never knowingly or carelessly, that I can find, taken in hand an unjust claim. I am well known to Senators Sumner & Wilson & many others I could name: among them ass^t P.M. Gen^l M^c Lellan- and I assure you the Government will not suffer in this case.

I trust you may deem this explanation sufficient.

Very Respectfully yours

A.J. Coolidge

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1700 Edmund P. Dolbeare of Boston, son of Edmund P. Dolbeare, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1700;

1709 Gilbert E. Pierce of Boston, son of Rebecca Pierce, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1709;

1875 Sarah Lincoln of Charlestown, daughter of Nathan Webb, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1875;

1876 Lydia W. Forster of Charlestown, daughter of Charles Forster, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1876;

1999 Frederick W. Mozart, of Philadelphia, Pa. son-in-law of Jacob A. Johnson, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 1999;

2061 Maria A. Thayer of Salem, daughter of Elias B. Thayer, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 2061;

2170 Edward Fillebrown of Boston, son of Edward Fillebrown, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 2170;

2271 W^m T. Chandler of Boston, brother of Nathan B. Chandler, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 2271;

2279 Chas. E. Phillips of E. Somerville, son of Linus A. Phillips, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 2279;

2447 Charles Sumner of Boston, son of Relief Sumner dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 2447;

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Trustees. June 10^t, 1874.

stockade fence, at an estimated expense of six hundred and fifty dollars ($650.–)

Appropriation of $650.– made for above purpose

Voted, – that the recommendations of the Committee be adopted, and the sum of six hundred and fifty dollars appropriated to meet the estimated cost of the fence-work referred to

Colored Societies of Boston & vicinity. Proposal by to visit Cem'y to decorate grave of Senator Sumner ref. to Pres^t with powers.

M^r J. T. Bradlee laid before the Board a communication dated May 22^d, purporting to come from "the various colored Societies of Boston & vicinity" proposing to visit the Cemetery on the 17^t inst. for the purpose of decorating the grave of the late Senator Sumner, and requesting information as to entering the Cemetery, rules to be observed, &c. On motion of M^r Bradlee, it was

Voted, – that the communication of the colored societies be referred to the President with full powers.

Moss Path, &c. req. for re-location & rec. for changes in dep^t of engineering & surveying, ref to Com. on Grounds

The same gentleman submitted a communication from the Superintendent, under date of the 4^t inst., with reference to a request for the relocation of Moss Path near Central Square.

Also a communication from the Superintendent dated the 8^t inst., recommending certain changes in the department of engineering & surveying

Voted, – that the communication of the Superintendent be referred to the Committee on Grounds

Fountain Av., extension of bank upon, ordered. [Appropriation of $525.– made for.]

M^r J. T. Bradlee in behalf of the Committee on Grounds submitted a recommendation that the Committee be authorized to cause an additional section of the bank on Fountain Avenue, Extending from the