Trustees Records, Vol. 1, 1835 (page 128)

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to designs presented by him to this meeting.

Voted. To adjourn.
A true record
Attest Geo. W^m. Bond Secretary pro tem.
A true record ex relatione Geo. W^m. Bond
Attest Henry M. Parker. Secretary.

Trustees.

A meeting of the Trustees was holden at the office of C.P.
Curtis Esqr. on Friday September 12^th 1845 at 11 o'clock A. M
Present Messrs Bigelow, Brimmer, C.P. Curtis, B. R. Curtis,
Gould, Read, and Crockett.

C.P. Curtis was chosen Chairman pro. tem.
In the absence of the Secretary, B. R. Curtis was
chosen Secreary pro tem.

Joseph Story memorial of.

Dr. Bigelow offered the following resolutions which
having been read was unanimously adopted: -

The Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery deeply affected
by the event which has taken from them their presiding
head, and from society one of its most beloved and
distinguished ornaments are anxious that some suitable
memorial should be placed in remembrance of his
worth upon a spot which was beloved and frequented
by him in life, and to the improvement of which he
devoted much of his time and ardent interest.

Therefore voted. That the Trustees offer to the friends
and fellow citizens of the deceased a place in the new
Chapel now in the progress of erection at Mount
Auburn for the reception of a marble statue of the
late Joseph Story, when such a work, worthy of the