Tag: 1912

Teddy Roosevelt’s “whistlestop” in Ipswich, 1912

By Gordon Harris on September 27, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

Campaigning as the vice-presidential nominee with William McKinley in 1900, Theodore Roosevelt conducted one of the most famous political campaigns in U.S. history, traveling by train and making 480 stops in 23 states. Following the assassination of President McKinley in September 1901, Theodore Roosevelt, at age 42, succeeded to the Presidency, […]

Lowell women’s suffrage activist Florence Luscomb

By Gordon Harris on February 6, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

Florence Luscomb was born in Lowell on February 6, 1887 in Lowell. She was among the first women to graduate from M.I.T. with a degree in architecture, and in 1912 she and a fellow MIT graduate formed a two-woman firm in Waltham, specializing in designing public buildings and housing […]