At annual Concord Town Meeting in 1885, it was voted to appropriate $1,500 for celebration on Sept. 12, 1885 of 250th anniversary of town's incorporation and for erection of historical markers. Among members of Committee of Arrangements: Henry T. Hosmer (Chairman); Richard F. Barrett (Secretary); Charles E. Brown (Treasurer); George M. Brooks; Stephen G. Brooks; Edward C. Damon; Edward Waldo Emerson; John L. Gilmore; Samuel Hoar; John Shepard Keyes; Grindall Reynolds; Charles H. Walcott; George E. Walcott. Subcommittees: Tablets; Programme; Dinner; Reception.
(Cont.) Oration; Music; Executive. Orator: George F. Hoar; President of the Day: John S. Keyes; Chief Marshal: Richard F. Barrett; Chaplain: Benjamin R. Bulkeley. Invitations issued to George D. Robinson, James Russell Lowell, William M. Evarts, George William Curtis, Charles W. Eliot, Hapgood Wright, George Bancroft, Selectmen of Acton, Bedford, Carlisle, and Lincoln, and others.
From the description of Records of Committee of Arrangements for 1885 celebration in Concord, Mass., of 250th anniversary of incorporation of town, 1885. (Concord Public Library). WorldCat record id: 33987674
