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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1Boston Copper Co., and in 1860 at [address hidden] They used as a trade mark a bell with the words "Hooper & Co. Trade Mark" on it. This firm was dissolved December 31, 1868 and succeeded by
3Wm. Blake and Wm. S. Blake
4under the "style" of Wm. Blake & Co. with the foundry at the corners of Allen, Brighton & Charles Streets, Boston. This firm was succeeded by C. T. Robinson in 1888, which in turn was followed in 1890 by
6Blake Bell Co. with Wm. S. Blake as manager.
7The Blake Bell Co. was located from about 1890 to 1900 at [address hidden] corner of Brighton.
9Bay State Brass Foundry & Blake Bell Co.
10presently listed as just Bay State Brass Foundry, was located in 1900 at 155 A St., South Boston. This company went out of business sometime around 1913.
12Some of the chimes cast by the successors of the firm of Paul Revere & Co. are:
14The Boston Copper Co.
15cast the first complete chime of bells in America in 1825, consisting of eight bells, the tenor 2000 pounds.10
17H. N. Hooper & Co.
18The second chime made in the country—11 bells, tenor 3000 lbs. E-flat had on exhibition at the Mechanics' Fair, in Boston, in 1850 for which a silver medal was awarded.11
201860—[address hidden]. Church, Boston—
21the "Phillips' Chime" consisting of 16 bells aggregate weight 14,960 pounds.
22"This Chime of 15 bells (the 16th was afterwards added by the Rev. Dr. Gannett, the pastor) was a gift from the Hon. Jonathan Phillips to the religious society of which he had long been a member, on the erection of a new Meeting House, 1860."12
241860—Tower of Christ Church, Cambridge13—
25chimed for the first time on Easter Sunday by Henry P. Munroe, who was instrumental in having the number increased from eight to thirteen to represent the thirteen original states. The largest "D" weighed 3108 pounds and the smallest "G" 200, aggregate weight being 12,661. The cost—about $5,000—was raised by subscription.
2710 The place for which they were cast was not stated in the Blake Bell Company's booklet.
2811 Facts Regarding the Bell Foundry of Blake Bell Co.—a booklet p. 5.
2912 New England Historical and Genealogical Register. "Early Bells of Massachusetts" by Elbridge H. Goss of Melrose, Vol. 28 p. 182.
3013 Ibid p. 279.
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