The Town & the City: Lowell before and after The Civil War

Dr. Green's diaries are the property of the Lowell National Historical Park.

They are in nine self-bound, hard-cover, unpublished, and hand-written books.

Each book contans appoximately 22 "volumes."

Each volume contains approximately 24 or 32 pages.

They will be posted on this website as they are digitally photographed and cataloged.

Dates in the tables/spreadsheets below are in a yyyymmdd format. For example, 18160501 is 05/01/1816 or May 5, 1816.

The fifth column (furthest to the right) titled "Keys" in the tables/spreadsheets below sometimes contains additional information about a specic entry on that page in the diary. If the designation “*NPS.GOV” without quotes appears in the Keys column, it means that there is a reference to something on that page in Clee A. Ace, and Dan Walsh, The Green Family Diaries: A Finding Aid, Catalog Number: LOWE - 1473, Lowell National Historical Park, 2007.
To access this finding aid, click on

https://www.nps.gov/lowe/learn/historyculture/upload/revgreen_drgreenguide.pdf [for pdf download]
or
https://fdocuments.us/document/the-reverend-aaron-green-1791-national-park-service.html?page=1 [for online viewing].

The page number in the finding aid is included right after the *NPS.GOV designation in parens with pg. before the page number of the document. For example *NPS.GOV (pg. 14).

Autobiography, by Dr. John O. Green

Consecration of St. Anne's Church, March 16, 1825

Kirk Boott, A Letter from Dr. John O. Green to Rev. Theo. Edson, D. D.

Lowell and Harvard College

Memoir of Samuel I. Dana, M. D., LL. D., A. A. S. (with a likeness)

Members of the Massachusetts Medical Society in Lowell, from 1822 to 1883

John Orne Green's grave at findagrave.com Dr. Green's grave is in the Lowell Cemetery.

Please note; Dr. Green's first wife, Jane Thomas Green 1803 - 1828), is not listed on  Dr. Green's page at findagrave.com.

Jane Thomas Green is buried at Drake Cemetery in Tyngsborough, MA, also known as the Tyng Family Graveyard.

The New York Times, December 26, 1885, Page 5

"The capital of the poor man" - The history of public health in Lowell

The Schools in Early Lowell

Lowell Board of Health 1836 to 1840

Lowell Institution for Savings Bank Examiners 1825 to 1834

Rev. Theodore Edson Diaries

 Note: 1816 was known as The Year without a Summer