This three-volume set provides first a history of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a whole, and then proceeds systematically through all fifty-four cities and towns in the county, setting forth extensive historical, biographical, and genealogical information for each of these municipalities.     

The opening chapter on the history of the county includes lists of hundreds of names of county officers over the period of two and a half centuries. A lengthy companion to this first chapter presents biographies of hundreds of members of the Massachusetts bar.

A different author wrote each of the chapters devoted to the various cities and towns. As a result, these chapters vary greatly in length and arrangement. Common features of most of the chapters are an account of the founding of the town and of the town's churches, lists of men who served in the wars, and lists of town officers.

The town and city chapters include hundreds of brief biographies scattered through the topical sections of the chapters, and many of these chapters conclude with additional, lengthier biographies of hundreds more of prominent inhabitants.

Scattered throughout the volume are many engravings of the subjects of the biographies, and in many cases of their residences.





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