Diary, George Y. Wellington, 1900

Item Information

Title:
Diary, George Y. Wellington, 1900
Description:
George Y. Wellington was the founder and second President of the Arlington Historical Society. He was born at the Dr. Timothy Wellington House (today's number 86 Pleasant Street), his many decades of public service began when, in his teens, he worked to bring the railroad to town. A successful insurance agent resided from 1874 onwards in the Gothic Revival " Potter Cottage" at 16 Maple Street. It is one of Arlington's most architecturally significant homes.
Creator:
Wellington, George Y.
Date:
1900
Format:
Objects/Artifacts
Genre:
Diary
Location:
Arlington Historical Society
Collection (local):
Arlington Historical Society Collection
Subjects:
Age & employment
Baptist churches
Bathrooms
Charity
Construction
Doctors
Droughts
Elderly persons
Electioneering
Elections
Families
Fire
Fire departments
Fire fighting
Fire prevention
Food
Football
Heat
Homes
Household equipment
Housekeeping
Houses
Hurricanes
Ice cutting
Insurance
Lightning
Lightning strikes
Medical care
Medicine
Medicines
Memorial rites & ceremonies
Memorial services
Middle class
Middle classes
Pageants
Physicians
Piazzas
Plays
Political participation
Politicians
Politics & government
Post offices
Postal delivery
Prohibition
Rail transportation
Railroad construction & maintenance
Railroad employees
Railroad horse cars
Railroads
Reminiscing
Social & civic facilities
Social life
Social life & customs
Socialites
Societies
Suburban life
Suburbs
Summer
Temperance
Trains
Transportation
Unitarian churches
Voting
Winter
Work
Workers
Chase, Frederick Monroe
Dunham, Thomas
Ellwell, Mrs. William
Elwell, William
Fessenden, Almira Tufts
Grant, Mrs
Harrington, Jonathan
Ingalls, Albert S.
Locke, Mary Ame
Locke, Mrs. Eliza W.
Lord, Maria Eunice
Parker, Charles Symmes
Parmenter, William E.
Proctor, Annie Louise
Proctor, Elizabeth Lane
Rawson, Warren
Rawson, Warren W.
Robbins, Caira (1866-1938)
Robbins, Edwin
Robbins, Eliza Parker (1864-1923)
Robbins, Ida
Robbins, Olney
Robbins, Winfield
Schultz, Susan Ann
Schwamb, Theodore
Stanwood, Ellie
Symmes, Stephen, Jr.
Trowbridge, John Townsend
Wellington, Annette Stanwood
Wellington, Arthur Jefferson
Wellington, Ellen
Wellington, Ethel Levering
Wellington, Ethel Levering L.
Wellington, Francis
Wellington, Francis Yates
Wellington, George Yates
Wellington, Maria Eunice
Wellington, Mrs. Florena G.
Wellington, Stanwood Gray
Wellington, Timothy
Wellington, William Ware
Whittemore, Julia Ann
Whittemore, Rebecca*
Whittemore, Sophronia
Winn, Sarah Georgiana
Winn, Susanna Adams
Yates, Lydia
15 Wellington Street
16 Maple Street
20th Century
3 Jason Street
4th of July
735 Massachusetts Avenue
819 Massachusetts Avenue
86 Pleasant Street
Academy Street
Addison Gage & Co
April 19
Arlington Boat Club
Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank
Arlington Heights
Arlington Heights Baptist Church
Arlington Historical Society
Arlington Improvement Association
Arlington Insurance Agency
Baptist Church
Baptist Church Fire
Baptist Society
Boston Elevated Railway
Broadway
Camp Arlington
Center District School House
Chase-Wellington House
Civil War
Cooke Parsonage
Cutter School
Election Day
Elevated railroad
Eureka
Florida
Galveston, TX
Grand Army Hall
Grand Army of the Republic
Greenwich, MA
Harrison-Van Bure Campaign
Harvard College
Horse Car
Horse Rail Road
Ice Age
Ice Cutting
Jason Street
Juvenile library
Maple Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Memorial Day
Orthodox Church
Orthodox Congregational Church
Patriots' Day
Pleasant Hall
Post Office
Potter Estate
Potter House
Quabbin Inn
Spring Valley
Spy Pond
Spy Pond at Spring Valley
St. Athanasius Greek Orthodox Church
Steam railroad
Symmes Arlington Hospital
Symmes Family
Symmes Hospital
Theodore Schwamb Co
Town Hall
Town Meeting
Trolley cars
Trolley Hub
Trolley Tracks
Washington, D.C.
Waterman Taft House
Wellington Family
Wellington House
Wellington Kindergarten
Wellington Street
West Cambridge Horse Railroad Company
Woman's Club
Wood & Co
Wood's Ice Tool Factory
York Beach, ME
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Identifier:
2006.2.81
04E617E0-DC77-4E2E-B17B-693493729026