Leading business men of Marlboro, Hudson, SoFramingham, Natick, and vicinity; embracing also Saxonville and Cochituate . TOWN HALL, MARLBORO. dollars was afterward appropriated for war purposes, and a great deal more wassubsequently expended in bounties and in many other ways, the total amount putout, exclusive of State aid being $51, Of the 869 men furnished by thetown that actually engaged in the war, 574 served three years, 91 served one year,108 served nine months and 96 served 100 days. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF MARLBORO. The first settlers of Marlborough fully appreciated the value of
Leading business men of Marlboro, Hudson, SoFramingham, Natick, and vicinity; embracing also Saxonville and Cochituate . TOWN HALL, MARLBORO. dollars was afterward appropriated for war purposes, and a great deal more wassubsequently expended in bounties and in many other ways, the total amount putout, exclusive of State aid being $51, Of the 869 men furnished by thetown that actually engaged in the war, 574 served three years, 91 served one year,108 served nine months and 96 served 100 days. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF MARLBORO. The first settlers of Marlborough fully appreciated the value of an education,but their means were very limited and it was only by a hard struggle that they were able to offer even the meagre facilities they THE elms. system of to-day is worthy of un-stinted praise. It is but little morethan half a century since the manu-factures of Marlborough amountedto more than enough to supply localneeds and a volume might be writtenon this topic alone for it is of thedeepest interest, not only on accountof the important bearing it has onthe prosperity of the town, but alsoby reawon of the manner in whichour industries have been developedfrom very small beginnings. Theproduction of boots and shoes isnow carried on here on an immensescale, and present indications arethat it is destined to be much moreextensively developed in the Boyd was the first one toput into practice the making of boots For some years there was no reg-ular school-house, but in Decem-ber, 1698, it was voted to buildone. More were built from timeto time, and in \11\ CaptainEphraim Brigham left £111 foreducational purposes ; the inter-est of this sum being applied tothe maintenance of what wasknown as the Brigham Schoo
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