To the Memory of Our Patriotic Dead

The 1872 Building Committee Records for Memorial Hall Library lists a $567 line item payable to Bowker, Torrey & Company for the purchase of tablets.  The Boston stonework firm owned by Edwin Bowker and Charles Torrey, owned a marble quarry in Carrara, Italy. At one time, Charles Torrey's brother Franklin Torrey was the American Consul in Florence, Italy.  The firm's work can also be seen in the Massachusetts State House and The Boston Public Library. It is likely that only the central two-column tablet was purchased in 1872. Reporting in the Andover Townsman mentions the purchase of additional tablets funded by the G.A.R. Relief Corps as late as 1922. 

Sources
Andover Townsman, Relief Corps plans New Tablet for Memorial Hall, 5/26/22, page 2. 
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, (1901). Proceedings of the One Hundred & Sixth Annual Meeting. Entries for Charles Torrey and Edwin Bowker. Lincoln & Perry Printers. 
Trustees of Memorial Hall Library, (1872) Records, p.47. (housed in The Andover Room at Memorial Hall Library) 

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alphabetical list of names

Click a name to find its location in the tablets.

• Charles E. Abbott
• Edward P. Abbott
• Frank F. Abbott
• George B. Abbott
• Lewis F.F. Abbott
• Moses B. Abbott
• Noah B. Abbott
• William A. Abbott
• Samuel Aiken
• Walter B. Allen
• James I. Anderson
• James Ashworth
• Thomas A. Bagley
• George A. Bailey
• James H. Bailey
• Charles P. Barnard
• George N. Barnard
• Charles H. Bell
• Joseph Bell
• Robert Bell
• Albert Berry
• Alonzo P. Berry
• Israel A. Berry
• James B. Black
• Thomas D. Black
• Joshua M. Blunt
• Samuel W. Blunt
• Willard G. Bodwell
• George T. Brown
• Leroy S. Brown
• Epaphras K. Bryant
• George Buchan
• Phineas Buckley, Jr.
• Henry O. Burnham
• John Busfield
• Albert J. Callahan
• Charles H. Callahan
• Isaac S. Carruth
• George W. Chandler
• Henry F. Chandler
• Joseph Chandler, Jr.
• Frank B. Chapin
• Josiah L. Chapin
• Benjamin Cheever
• Samuel Cheever
• Aaron S. Clark
• George B. Clark
• Jesse H. Clark
• John Clark
• Amasa Clarke
• Charles A. Clement
• Moses W. Clement
• Timothy Collins
• David Craig
• George Craig
• William Craig
• Andrew J. Curtis
• Abalino B. Cutler
• Granville K. Cutler
• Elmore Dane
• George Dane
• John S. Dearborn
• Daniel Devine, Jr.
• George W.W. Dove
• Charles Dugan
• James H. Eastes
• Francis W. Edwards
• Edward Farmer
• George T. Farmer
• David T. Farnham
• Moses L. Farnham
• Orrin L. Farnham
• Samuel P. Farnham (1)
• Samuel P. Farnham (2)
• James S. Findley
• John A. Findley
• Enoch O. Frye
• Newton C. Frye
• David B. Gilcreast
• William Gillispie
• Albert Goldsmith
• Jeremiah Goldsmith
• Joseph C. Goldsmith
• Sanford K. Goldsmith
• John F. Gooch
• George W. Grant
• Jesse E. Gray
• William Greeley
• Charles Greene
• William M. Greene
• William S. Hall
• Franklin Hardy
• George W. Harnden
• William Hart
• Andrew Y. Hatch
• Enoch M. Hatch
• Lewis G. Hatch
• George E. Hayward
• Albert G. Hervey
• Samuel C. Hervey
• Henry C. Higgins
• Ballard Holt
• Harrison Holt
• Horace Holt
• Jonathan A. Holt
• Joseph F. Holt
• Lewis G. Holt
• Newton Holt
• Samuel M. Holt
• Warren E. Holt
• John C. Hovey
• Oberlin B. Howarth
• Amos Hunt
• William Hunter
• Wyman D. Hussey
• John E. Ingalls
• James Jaquith
• E. Kendall Jenkins
• Harrison Jenkins
• John B. Jenkins
• Omar Jenkins
• Solon Johnson
• David Johnston, Jr.
• Redmond Joice
• Charles E. Jones
• Archibald Higgins Jr.
• Bernard Kavanaugh
• John Keating
• Henry C. Kimball
• Philip Lavalette
• William H. Lemon
• Robert Lindsay
• James Logue
• Benjamin C. Lovejoy
• George W. Lovejoy
• Henry L. Lovejoy
• Joseph T. Lovejoy
• Newton Lovejoy
• William W. Lovejoy
• William H. Luke
• Aaron S. Luscomb
• Michael Mahoney
• Charles H. Marland
• William Marland
• Edward Mason
• Josiah Mason
• Warren Mason
• John McCullough
• Bernard McGurk
• James McGusker
• John McKenzie
• John McLaughlin
• Calvin Mears
• Charles Mears
• George Mears
• Warren Mears, Jr.
• Sylvester G Melcher
• Edward C. Merrill
• James W. Merrill
• William F. Merrill
• Charles W. Morrison
• William B. Morse
• James R. Murray
• William W. Nichols
• Malachi Nolan
• Aaron G. Noyes
• Edward O'Hara
• William A Pasho
• Andrew K. Patrick
• George E. Pike
• Charles H. Poor
• Thomas F. Porter
• Patrick Qualey
• Aaron G. Ray
• Jefferson N. Raymond
• Walter L. Raymond
• Silas Richardson, Jr.
• Charles W. Ridley
• Joseph P. Robinson
• J. Waldo Rogers
• Robert Rollins
• James H. Rothwell
• Augustine K. Russell
• James Russell
• John B.A. Russell
• Joseph Russell, Jr.
• Winslow Russell
• William Russell
• Leonard W. Ryley
• John S. Sargent
• James Saunders
• Charles M. Shattuck
• Charles W. Shattuck
• Henry T. Sherman
• James Skerritt
• George M. Smart
• David Smith
• George Smith
• James B. Smith
• Peter D. Smith
• Thomas Smith
• Benjamin F. Stevens
• Daniel Stevens
• George Stewart
• John W. Stewart
• Joshua H. Stott
• George H. Taylor
• Milton B. Townsend
• William W. Townsend
• William Trulan
• Moses W. Tuck
• William H. Tucker
• George A.W. Vinal
• James Ward
• Thomas Wardman
• Alfred Wardwell
• Joseph W. Wardwell
• William H. Wardwell
• Amos Whittaker
• Thomas F. Winthrop
• William H. Withey
• Elliot Wood
• Francis Woodbridge
• Elgin Woodlin
• Francis C. Young