Today’s Historic Wakefield Women salute looks at Miss Annie Warren, who served in Wakefield Public Schools for most of her life. A lineal descendant of Moses Warren, of Waltham, who fought at Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights, Annie was born in Maine and came to this town as a child. Her three brothers had fought…
Today’s “Women in Wakefield” spotlight is on Catherine Titus Landers. Catherine was born in Melrose, Massachusetts on August 14, 1920. She was the eldest of seven children of Kirk H. and Harriet E. (Chesley) Titus, Jr. She graduated from Wakefield High in 1936. Using a gift of money that her Grandmother Titus pulled from a…
One of the most powerful and passionate crusaders one could ever have the good fortune to meet, Esther Nowell was born in Melrose, MA on September 6, 1917. She was the daughter of Percival and Mary C. (Spaulding) Pratt and a graduate of Wakefield High School and UMass Amherst. In her professional career, she served as…
by Nancy Bertrand Not all of our ”Women in Wakefield” profiles end happily. Unfortunately, at least one of them ended very sadly indeed. This is the story of Lydia Dustin. Lydia and her husband Josiah were among the first settlers here in the then brand-new town then named Reading. (But of course, the majority of those first settlements…
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