. The New England magazine . St. Stephen s Church and Lynn Commor THE CITY OF LYNN. B\ Edwin A. one were called upon toname a typical Americancity, a city embodyingthe distinctive char-acteristics of oursocial, political, andindustrial life, hecould choose nonebetter than its beginningsback to those of NewEngland, aboundingin historic associations and old traditions,Lynn is, nevertheless, a modern town,summing up in its past and present all thatis essential in the American life and char-acter, so far, at least, as its Anglo-Saxonelements are concerned. Settled in 1629,T^y m
. The New England magazine . St. Stephen s Church and Lynn Commor THE CITY OF LYNN. B\ Edwin A. one were called upon toname a typical Americancity, a city embodyingthe distinctive char-acteristics of oursocial, political, andindustrial life, hecould choose nonebetter than its beginningsback to those of NewEngland, aboundingin historic associations and old traditions,Lynn is, nevertheless, a modern town,summing up in its past and present all thatis essential in the American life and char-acter, so far, at least, as its Anglo-Saxonelements are concerned. Settled in 1629,T^y men from Governor Endicotts Salemcolony, three years after the settlementof that town and a year before the settle-ment of Boston, Lynn received the stampof all the early Puritan settlements, God-fearing, industrious, thrifty, and brave,with the stern fortitude of the New Eng-land pioneer. From this early stage ithas passed, by the natural steps of devel-opment, into the busy, aggressive life ofto-day, retaining, however, to a notable■degree the impress of its earlier years. It stands, as has been
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