Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff

NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

President, Leroy H. True Vice-Presidents, Albert G. Brock, George W. Jones, Alcon Chadwick, Albert F. Egan, Jr.,

Walter Beinecke, Jr., Mrs. Charles Clark Coffin Honorary Vice-Presidents, W. Ripley Nelson, Henry B. Coleman Secretary, Richard C. Austin Treasurer, John N. Welch Councillors, Leroy H. True, Chairman, Robert Metters, George A. Snell, terms expire 1975;

Mrs. H. Crowell Freeman, Miss Mary Gardner, terms expire 1976, Benjamin Richmond,

Francis W. Pease, terms expire 1977; Mrs. R.A. Orleans, H. Mitchell Havemeyer, terms expire 1978. Curator, Miss Dorothy Gardner Historian. Edouard A. Stackpole Editor, "Historic Nantucket", Edouard A. Stackpole; Assistant Editor, Mrs. Merle Turner

Orleans.

STAFF

Oldest House: Chairman, Mrs. Kenneth S. Baird

Receptionists: Mrs. Margaret Crowell, Miss Adeline Cravott Hadwen House-Satler Memorial: Chairman, Mrs. Phoebe P. Swain

Receptionists: Mrs. Irving A. Soverino, Miss Marjorie Burgess, Mrs. Alfred A. Hall, Mrs.

Henry G. Kehlenbeck, Mrs. James Nelson. 1800 House:

Receptionist: Mrs. John Kittila, Sr. Old Gaol: Chairman. Albert G. Brock Whaling Museum: Chairman, Hugh R. Chace

Receptionists: Mr. Clarence H. Swift, Mrs. Harold Killen, Mrs. Herbert Sandsbury, Mr.

Frank Pattison, Abram Niles, James A. Watts, Jesse Dunham, Miss Jane Appleyard, Miss

Lucia Arno. Peter Foulger Museum: Chairman and Director, Edouard A. Stackpole

Receptionists: Mrs. Elizabeth B. Worth, Mrs. Clara Block, Mr. Joseph Sylvia, Mrs. John

Stackpole.

Librarian: Mrs. Louise Hussey Nathaniel Macy House: Chairman. Mrs. John A. Baldwin

Receptionists: Miss Dorothy Hiller, Mrs. Henry C. Petzel Archaeology Department: Chairman, Paul C. Morris, Jr.

Field Supervisor, Miss Barbara Kranichfeld Old Town Office: Chairman, Hugh R. Chace Old Mill: Chairman, Richard F. Swain. Miller: Hugh MacVicar -olger-Franklin Seat & Memorial Boulder: Chairman. Francis Sylvia riends Meeting House-Fair Street Museum: Chairman, Mrs. Harding U. Greene, Cochairman, Mrs. Alfred M.P. Amey, Receptionist, John G. Lathrop

HISTORIC NANTUCKET

Published quarterly and devoted to the preservation of Nantucket's antiquity, its famed heritage and its illustrious past as a whaling port.

Volume 24 July, 1975 No. 1

CONTENTS

Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff Editorial — Lessons From the Past Report of the Administrator Ancestors for Lucretia Coffin Mott by Robert J. Leach Nantucket's Civil War Monument Gifts to the Nantucket Historical Association Print of Old Nantucket Map Available Financial Report Governor Edward Everett's Visit to Nantucket Grace Brown Gardner — A Tribute by Emil F. Guba, Ph.D. The Other Nantucket by Theodore C. Wyman Legacies and Bequests

Historic Nantucket is published quarterly at Nantucket, Massachusetts, by the Nantucket Historical Association. It is sent to Association Members. Extra copies $.50 each. Membership dues are — Annual-Active $5.00; Sustaining $25.00; Life — one payment $100.00 Second-class postage paid at Nantucket, Massachusetts Copyright, 1975, Nantucket Historical Association. Communications pertaining to the Publication should oe addressed to the Editor, Historic Nantucket, Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts 02554.

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