UP TO DATE. 529 



Edward D. Peters. Edward Cunningham. 



Dr. Samuel Kneeland. ' B. C. Clark. 



Eliphalet (ones. Mrs. T. B. Williams. 



Alexander Williams. Samuel T. Snow. 



George O. Sears. Henry Tolman. 



Charles Grant. Washington Brown. 



T. Henry Perkins. Henry D. Hyde. 



Dr. Charles T. Jackson. GrenviHe T. W. Braman. 



Nathaniel D. Silsbee. J. B. Moors. 



Francis P. Appleton. Matthew Luce. 



There were others whose names have not been ascer- 

 tained that might be added to these. 



Among the recent persons of renown who have be- 

 come Cohasset resorters are the late Lawrence Barrett 

 and several living actors and playwrights, who have taken^ 

 a genuine interest in the town. From the first occa- 

 sional outings many men of means have come to establish 

 permanent summer homes where the sea cools our 

 shore. 



The influence of this part of our town's populace has; 

 been shown in many instances where expensive improve- 

 ments have been encouraged and patronized by them. 

 For example, the electric lighting system is another town 

 improvement which has been made feasible by means of 

 the large addition to our taxes paid by the summer resi- 

 dents and by means of the patronage they furnish in 

 lighting their own homes with electricity. 



When the old cattle herders from Hingham village used 

 to spend their summers here as early as 1640, their light 

 in the evenings was the same as the Ouonahassit Indians 

 had used — camp fires. When settlers came, forty years 

 after, such as Daniel Lincoln, Ibrook Tower, and others, 

 tallow candles, both molded ones and "dips," were in- 

 dulged in. During a century of the feeble flare of tallow 

 and bayberry wax, the use of sperm oil lamps for polite 

 occasions crept gradually into Cohasset homes. Indeed, 

 for nearly two centuries the little rod of tallow with its 

 wick of linen was scepter of the night. Its sway was 

 narrow, for none of the streets could be lighted except as 



