Excerpt from Proceedings of the Brookline Historical Society: At the Annual Meeting, January 28, 1903 Ladies and Gentlemen, - The second annual meeting of your Society, I am pleased to report, finds it in a flourishing condition with 147 members upon its roll, a gain of 35 during the year. The losses have been five, three by death, Messrs. John Emory Hoar, your vice-president, Edward B. Hill, and Mrs. Tirza S. Emerson and two by resignation, Messrs. Charles Knowles Bolton and Hiller C. Willman, who have re moved to other fields of usefulness without the town. There has been received in the year past for membership fees, the sum of and there has been paid out for ex penses leaving a balance of in the treasury January I, 1903, and there remain a number of fees and dues yet to be collected. It is hoped and much desired that in the year we are now entering the gain in numbers and financial strength of the Society will be greatly enlarged, as it ought to be, to enable it to do the work it ought to do. If each member will make an effort to bring in one additional, the membership would be doubled, and that does not seem to be a great task in a popu lation of Doubling the membership would double the energy and financial ability of the society to perform the work for which it was organized, a work which organized ef forts alone can hope to accomplish. Brookline, as it has been before stated, is a rich field of historical research, and only energy and means are needed to enable this Society to till and to reap a bountiful harvest, for the benefit of the towns people and for all lovers of New England history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.