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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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1HENRY N. HOOPER & CO. BELL ¹
3BELL inscribed "Henry N. Hooper & Co., Boston, 1859."
4In St. Paul's Methodist Church, Lynn, Mass.
5This was the third bell of this church, procured and selected for its tone, for use in the building which replaced the one burned in 1859. It was installed for the dedication Aug. 11, 1861, and is noted as the bell which inspired Longfellow's poem The Bells of Lynn. It evidently had been intended for a Roman Catholic Church, possibly for a chime, since it bears below the maker's name the Latin stanza in Old English letters:
7"Laudamus te, benedicimus te,
8Adoramus te, glorificamus te,
9Gratias agimus tibi
10Propter magnam gloriam tuam."
12BELL MOULD PATTERNS AND BELL BY GEO. H. HOLBROOK
14* TWO BELL MOULD PATTERNS of the firm of George H. Holbrook, East Medway, now Millis.
15At the Medway Historical Society, Old First Parish House, [address hidden], West Medway, Mass. To see apply to Mr. H. N. Hixon or Mrs. Cole, [address hidden], W. Medway.
16Made of mahogany ebonized. Constructed of small strips of wood glued together. Gift of Mr. James L. Payson whose wife was a granddaughter of Edwin L. Holbrook, grandson of Major Holbrook. Business started in 1816 with the casting of a bell for the East Medway Meeting House, exchanged in 1855 for another, still in Millis, by Major George Holbrook, who had once been an apprentice in a foundry of Paul Revere. Business continued by his son, George Handel, and other descendants till 1882. Firm cast altogether over 11,000 bells.
18ONE BELL cast in 1828, sent around Cape Horn to California, was in the Santa Barbara Mission as late as 1925.
20Chimes
21ENGLISH MAKE
23FIRST CHIMES in America.
24In Christ Church, [address hidden], Boston.
25Cast in 1744 by Rudhall of Gloucester, England. Consists of 8 bells. Have been rung for every great event from 1744 to the present. Are played every Sunday. See page 184 for more information about them. Illustrated on front cover of booklet Facts Regarding the Bell Foundry of Blake Bell Company.
27Wm. Blake & Co.
29SIXTH CHIME in Mass. Has 9 bells, aggregate weight 5045 lbs., cast in 1869.
30In Trinity Church (Episcopal), Haverhill, Mass. Bells rung regularly though they have no regular chime playing.
32¹ From The Bells of Lynn, A Paper Given Before The Lynn Historical Society, Dec. 10, 1914, by C. J. H. Woodbury, President, Register of the Society, Volume XVIII, Lynn, Mass., 1915, p. 31.
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