For the year 1892, City Marshal Rufus B. Hilliard submitted the following report for persons arrested in the city during the year.
News
Harry WiddowsThe Strange Case of Typhoid Mary
Mary Mallon, popularly known as Typhoid Mary, for ten years, between 1900 and 1915, transmitted the deadly disease known as Typhoid to forty-seven distinct individuals, causing the death of three.
Richard BehrensLuther’s Four Corners and Lizzie’s Chairs
Within an hour of deplaning, we were hurtling backwards in time to a bygone era of the 18th century.
Kat KooreyWhen Cotton Was King
Lizzie Andrew Borden had immense pride in the Borden family being largely responsible for the launch and development of the cotton cloth industry in Fall River.
Neilson CaplainHarvesting the Other Crop: The Cook-Durfee Ice House and the Natural Ice Industry in Fall River
Initially, Cook and Durfee had no real competition and dominated the Fall River industry until the late 19th century when several new ice houses sprang up on both the North and South Watuppa ponds.
Bill GoncaloInterlachen Interiors
They represent a portfolio of the interior of Spencer Borden’s Interlachen, the “Big House” as he loved to call it.
Stefani KooreyInterlachen: The Man Between the Waters
Interlachen was the location in Fall River, Massachusetts, of the opulent residence of industrialist Col. Spencer Borden—textile entrepreneur, pedigree horse breeder, and celebrated author.
Michael BrimbauEmma Lost and Found: Emma’s Wheaton Years
Emma Lenora Borden attended Wheaton Female Seminary, in Norton, Massachusetts, from April 1867 until July 1868—four semesters in all—starting when she was but 16 years old.
Emma Lost and Found: Making a Proper Lady
The recent discovery that Emma Borden attended Wheaton Female Seminary for a year and a half is an exciting revelation.
Shelley DziedzicDear Abby, May, 2007
Dear Abby is a humorous series that purports that people wrote into the Fall River newspaper and Abby Borden responded with sage advice—well, sometimes.
Sherry Chapman