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English > Timeline: 1850-1949
- 1849-1856:
Many English in Boston are under the influence of
the Know-Nothing
Party, which has an anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant
platform.
- 1850:
According to the census, New England has 11% of English-born
residents. This percentage remains constant until
1890 when it rises to 14.7%. Historians examining
the 1850 census have determined that the English lived
in no particular district of the city; like the French
and Germans, they were dispersed throughout Boston.
- 1854:
The first peak occurs fourteen years into the first
wave of nineteenth century English immigration.
- 1859:
Cambridge, Massachusetts physician and author Oliver
Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) uses the term "Brahmin
caste of New England" for the Anglo-Saxon elite in
Boston.
- 1860:
Another study of the English living in Massachusetts
finds that they live near one another less frequently
than do the Irish, Scottish and Canadian communities.
The exception is when they make up a large majority
of the factory population in an industrial town; for
example, calico printers from Lancashire live in English
Row in Lowell, Massachusetts and workers in Waltham,
Massachusetts live in their own area.
- 1866:
In Lawrence, Massachusetts, the Arlington Association
has 3,400 English workers as members.
- 1867:
Fall River Workingman's Cooperative Association establishes
a consumer co-op.
- 1870s:
As the Back
Bay is filled in, many street names have English
origins, e.g. Berkeley, Clarendon, and Dartmouth.
- 1873:
The second peak of nineteenth century English immigration
occurs with 75,000 immigrants during a nine-year wave.
The English are third most numerous behind German
and Scandinavian immigrants.
- 1874:
Fall River coal and ore miners incorporate a congregation
of the distinctively English sect, Primitive Methodism.
- 1876:
Lancashire workers in Fall River, Massachusetts start
an English-American Club to lobby for more power in
the city government. Likewise, the English workers
start clubs in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1883 and
Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1886.
- 1882
and 1888: The third peak in nineteenth century
English immigration occurs with 82,000 immigrants
in the wave between 1879-1893. This is the last sustained
wave of English immigration to the United States.
- 1885:
National Mule Spinners Union is founded in southern
Massachusetts and headed by Lancashire-born Robert
Howard; another countryman, James Tansey, succeeds
him.
- 1887:
The entry of 400 ticket-holders to the Faneuil
Hall banquet for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee is
disrupted by Irish protestors.
- 1887-1913:
British-American Citizen is published as part
of the larger English-American political movement.
- 1889:
Twenty-nine Odd Fellow Lodges, with 1,600 members,
exist in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
- 1890:
The census indicates that Boston is the city with
the fifth most English-born (13,454) in the United
States and that they are 3% of the city's population.
The number of English-born residents increased by
7,456 since 1870. Cambridge, Massachusetts native
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) publishes his anti-English
views, despite his grandmother having been a Loyalist
in the Revolution.
- 1895:
With the knowledge of three ancestors who came to
America on the Mayflower, Winston Churchill
(1874-1965) makes his first visit to the United States
long before becoming English Prime Minister during
World War II.
- 1898:
The Anti-Imperialism League is founded in Boston.
It is part of a larger movement which is lead by Massachusetts
Senator George Hoar and Maine Senator Eugene Hale
and which opposes the American acquisition of territory
and the suppression of popular insurrections in the
Philippines and Cuba.
- 1898-1914:
Possessing an English background returns to being
a positive good as anti-immigrant sentiment increases.
The identification with and admiration of English
traits is cemented in the world wars.
- 1900-1912:
Boston British societies celebrate the Dickens Centenary.
- 1915:
Essayist John Jay Chapman (1862-1933) describes Boston
resident Martin Brimmer (1829-1896) as "The Perfect
Brahmin."
- 1919:
Governor and future president Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
suppresses the Boston Police strike. Coolidge resided
in Northampton, Massachusetts during most of his life.
- 1927:The
President of Harvard University, A. Lawrence Lowell
(1856-1943), presides over the committee looking into
the Sacco-Vanzetti
trial. Under suspicious circumstances, two Italian
anarchists were convicted of murdering a South Braintree
man in 1920. Lowell's committee did not acquit them,
and the men were executed. In 1977, Governor Michael
Dukakis proclaimed that the trial had been unjust.
- 1932:
Boston native and son of Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) retires as the
oldest man ever to serve on the United States Supreme
Court.
- 1933:
Alfred Coulthand, an English shipyard worker, leads
Lynn General Electric workers to form the independent
Electrical Industrial Employees Union. By 1940, Lynn
Local 201 is the largest of any local union of the
United Electrical Workers.
- 1947:
Open-air
museum Plimoth Plantation exhibits the earliest
English colony in New England.
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