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The Evolution of the Medford public Library. by Mary E. Sargent.
Read before the Medford Historical Society, Jan. 16, 1899.
IN the matter of libraries, as with individuals, we take a pardonable pride in tracing their origin to as remote an ancestry as possible.
Obeying the Scriptural injunction, Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land, as individuals we may aspire to a right to belong to the Sons or Daughters of the Revolution, the Colonial Dames, or, better still, to be a Mayflower descendant; but in the case of libraries we are quite content with a very small and humble beginning.
In many towns the public library was an outgrowth of the district-school library, which by an act of the Legislature of 1837 the school districts were authorized to establish for the use of common schools, provided a certain amount of money should be raised by the town.
In looking through the Town Records I find, Nov. 14, 1842, that it was voted to appropria