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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 119 GRANT STREET <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> 0 2225 <br /> A building is marked in the vicinity of today's 119 Grant Street in both 1853 (owned by H. Reed) and 1875 (F. B. Hayes?), but <br /> are thought to be too early for the style of the present house. In 1906, this building was still owned by the Hayes Estate, which <br /> stood atop Meriam Hill, on the opposite side of Grant Street. (Three other buildings also owned by the Hayes Estate stood <br /> diagonally across Grant Street from number 119.) No barn is indicated here on the 1906 map, although one likely did exist early <br /> on, given the property's agricultural associations and commercial uses. <br /> The property is thought to have been occupied from ca. 1910 through 1965 by members of the Forsythe and Mabey families. <br /> Thomas Forsythe, born in Canada in 1866, worked as a hostler, expressman, and furniture mover. Although these occupations <br /> officially did not include farmer, in 1920, his property is described as a farm, and earlier, in 1910, a hired man who boarded here <br /> was identified as a "garden" laborer, perhaps taking care of the land while Thomas ran his express company. Thomas Forsythe <br /> and his wife Sarah (born in Ireland) had three children, Arthur, Sarah, and Delia. Sarah married Edison R. Mabey, a shipper for <br /> a lumber company who was boarding here in 1920. Thomas Forsythe and Edison Mabey later became partners in an <br /> eponymous moving company, Forsythe & Mabey, which in 1934 advertised "Furniture and Piano Moving /Pianos Taken In and <br /> Out of Windows/ Local and Long Distance Trucking of All Kinds/Ashes and Rubbish Removed" (1934 town directory). Delia is <br /> identified at this property through at least 1965; her brother-in-law Edison was here in 1945 and 1955, and her sister Sarah was <br /> here at least through 1945. Edison Mabey continued in the trucking business at least through 1955. (Local historian Sam Doran <br /> suggests contacting Guy Doran for further information on the Mabey family.) <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Historic maps and atlases: Walling 1853; Beers 1875; Walker 1889; Stadly 1898; Walker 1906; Sanborn 1908, 1918, 1927, <br /> 1935, 1935/1950. <br /> Lexington Directories: 1899, 1908-09, 1915, 1922, 1926, 1934, 1936. <br /> Lexington List of Persons: 1935, 1945, 1955, 1960, 1965. <br /> Massachusetts Historical Commission. "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Lexington." 1980. <br /> U.S. Census: 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940. <br /> SUPPLEMENTARY IMAGES <br /> Left side and front (fagade) elevations <br /> Barn: Front (facade)and right side elevations <br /> Continuation sheet 2 <br />
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