{"id":9032,"date":"2014-03-13T04:09:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T11:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=9032"},"modified":"2014-03-13T04:16:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T11:16:15","slug":"golden-roll-of-holyoke-of-vast-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/13\/golden-roll-of-holyoke-of-vast-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"“Golden Roll” of Holyoke of Vast Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

08 March 1925<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Holyoke<\/a>

Holyoke City Directory, 1876<\/p><\/div>\n

Many Residents, Listed 50 Years Ago, Still Alive and Prosperous<\/strong><\/p>\n

Holyoke, March 7 —<\/strong> There lies on this desk as this is being written a book about the size of the old first reader in the “district school.” It is a directory of Holyoke for 1875-6 — 5o years ago. There are yet living in this city men and women whose names appeared in this directory. It would be a matter of great interest if those who are still living could be named as a sort of golden roll of Holyokers. It would take much research and much knowledge of all sorts and conditions of men to be able to make this roll complete.<\/p>\n

Glancing through it one thinks perhaps about the first of John D. McElwain<\/strong>, whose birthday is celebrated the 17th of this month. Here it is: McElwain, J.S., treas. V. 1, Pap Co r Cottage blk, Maple St. A. F. Gingras’<\/strong>s name is there as an expressman, Perry block. Another man, who hasn’t changed a hair in appearance for 30 years at least, by the way, is George L. Bosworth<\/strong>, who was then paymaster at the Excelsior Paper Company. Principal W. E. Judd of the Morgan School was listed as “W. E. Judd<\/strong>, student, Amherst college, b. J. E. Kellogg.”<\/p>\n

Many Others<\/strong><\/p>\n

All the Sheehans<\/strong> spelt their name in this directory with one “e.” Assistant City Marshal Timothy Haley<\/strong> was then employed by D. Haley, later to be foreman for John Delane<\/strong>y in his many enterprises. It was disappointing not to find the name of Ashton E. Hemphill<\/strong> — he must have arrived later. But Dr. H. O. Hasting’s<\/strong> name is there and as a dentist — he must hold pretty near the record for service in dentistry in this part of the state. Of the Prentisses, Roland T. Prentiss<\/strong>, “flour and feed, Crescent Street” s the only survivor. Atty. T. B. O’Donnell<\/strong>, then of Northampton had an office in Orrell’s block. John O’Connell<\/strong> then had a grocery store, corner Elm and Lyman and lived at “13 Lyman corp,” whatever that was. It is fascinating to look over the pages; without doubt there are scores of other, but these illustrate what might be found in it. The book is the property of Dr. Frank A. Woods<\/strong>. His name does not appear in it, naturally; but his father’s name is there, Dr. J. U. Woods<\/strong>, and many of the older physicians, who have long since gone to their own place.<\/p>\n

Adapted from The Springfield Republican.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

08 March 1925 Many Residents, Listed 50 Years Ago, Still Alive and Prosperous Holyoke, March 7 — There lies on this desk as this is being written a book about the size of the old first reader in the “district school.” It is a directory of Holyoke for 1875-6 — 5o years ago. There are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9032"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9832,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions\/9832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}