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MEMBERS.OF THE LOWELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
Tonight it is my proud privilege to speak to you for a little while about
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the Portuguese in Lowell.
But, before I go into my assigned topic, I feel that
it is a long-awaited and opportune rooment, expecially while we are in the midst
of our Bicentennial Commemoration, to speak briefly about the story of Portugal
and the Portuguese, who have contributed so much, and which unfortunately, has
not earned or shared much of the limelight, during the hundreds of years in
which we have been in the United States of America.
The Portuguese are a modest people.
For this reason, I feel it is not
only fitting, but long overdue, that Americans should know more, and as a result,
appreciate to a greater extent, the vast historic and geographic contribution
that the Portuguese have made, first to the world, to America, to Massachusetts
and lastly, to the City of Lowell.
I shall touch very lightly upon the first
three, but hope to spend a few additional minutes, telling you about your
friends, neighbors, co-workers and fellow citizens, in this area.
Two-thirds of the world was discovered by the Portuguese. Of the twenty
centuries, beginning since the Christian Era, there is one, the fifteenth, that
belongs entirely to them.r It was then that Portugal produeed the men of that
time, most advanced in navigation, cartography, geography and mathematics, permitting Portugal to hold the largest empire in the world and to maintain the
Portuguese influence in all continents.
The soft, melodious Portuguese language
was the first modern language to be spoken in all continents of the world, a
cultural achievement matched only by her great sea power. With the circumnavigation of the globe, Portugal forced the sea to give up its last great
secrets and the maritime glory of that small country reached its zenith.
On a smaller scale, both coasts of the United States were discovered and
named by Portuguese navigators. While archeological evidence has been found
that Phoenicians, Romans, or Vikings once lived in America, there is no evidence
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of their return or written proof of their settlement.
The entire coast of California,,,was discovered and named by Portuguese navigators when, Joao Rodgigues Cabrilho, on September 28, 1549 set foot in San Diego
and declared, in Portuguese, that he was taking possession of this land, these
waters and this harbor.
The Atlantic Coast, from LaQrador along Newfoundland, from Cape Cod te.,the
tip of the Floridas, was discovered by Portuguese narigators many years before
sailors of other nations ventured to explore it.
On the East Coast, only about 50 miles from here in Dighton, Massachusetts,
we find a document in rock, the only witness to the discovery of our great nation,
the first chapter of American History.
For centuries this monument had rested on the left bank. of the Taunton River,
here in our own state, the tip covered by 3 to 4 feet of water, visible only at
very low tide.
Recognizing it as being of great historical significance, many
proposals to move it to various museums had been made, but in 1963 action finally
was taken when the Department of Natural Resources, at a cost of $50,000., built
at Cofferdam, 11 feet above the ori gi na 1 1evel, upon which the stone, surro.unded
by a fence, was set where it now rests, for all to see, in an area of 100 acres,
at Dighton State Park.
For centuries, historians and scholars had attempted to
decipher the inscriptions, which could not be passed off lightly as doodlings or
weather cracks, but yes, concrete evidence that all lines carved were done so by
human hands, using sharp instruments of metal or hard stone. A study of the rock,
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had been initiated in 1680 by the Reverend John Danforth,/it was only"as late as
1960, culminating a study of 20 years, that Dr. Manuel Luciano Da Silva, a prominent physician in our neighboring state of Rhode Island, deciphered the message,
amid the mass of scratchings and pictographs on this limestone, which bears the
name of Miguel Corte Real, the Cross of the Order of Christ, testimonial of all
Portuguese discoveries in those days, and the date 1511, an indication that this
valiant Portuguese navigator, and his crew, must have survived at least ten years
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among the Indians.
Letters, dated in Lisbon, during that century, now archived
in the Historical Museum of the Discoveries, attest to this fact, as they contain
detailed descriptions of the course and length of the voyage, vivid descriptions
of the Indians and their way of living, while in England archived today in London,
as one reads the story told by the first Pilgrims, it tells of many Portuguese
words they found spoken by the Indians they encountered here:
When in 1960,
Dr. Silva presented the results of his reasearch, to the first International
Congress of the Histories and Discoveries, h!s presentation was enthusiastically
received for it corroborated the first cartographical representation, entitled
The Nautical Chart of 1491, recently discovered in the huge bibliographical collection of the late English statesman, Sir Tbomas Phillips, wherein decisive proof
had been established that the Portuguese reached and inhabitetelhese shores as
early as 1424.
Columbus, although born in Italy, acquired his nautical knowledge in the
First Nautical School of the World, established in Sagres, Portugal, by Prince
Henry, the navigator, in 1415.
For ten years, as a youth, he sailed in Portuguese
caravels along the Atlantic Coast. He married Filipa De Prerestelo in 1479,
daughter of the Gover.nor of the Portuguese Madeira Islands and only after the
death of his father-in-law, leaving him access to maps and secret information
about the lands to the west, did he make plans for a voyage across the Atlantic.
His first stop, in his return to Spain, was at the Porutuguese Island of Santa
Maria, to give thanks to Almighty God for his safe return, the church, so duly
inscribed, stands on the Island today.
The first hundred years mf our national existence was a period of unimpeded
ilTBlligration.
were welcomed.
New settlers were important to the young nation and immigrants
Through these years, the ever arriving Portuguese also played an
important role in all wars and history of the United States.
There is no more valiant figure, 4~ the whole history of America's fighting
men that that of Peter Francisco, whose remarkable character and courage earned
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him the respect and friendship of the outstanding leaders of the American Revolution, including George Washington, whose life, he was personally credited as having
saved. At tee age of 5, he was found abandoned on a wharf at Hopewell, Virginia,
as he spoke only in Portuguese, later did they learn that his name was Peter Francisco and that he had been abandoned by Portuguese whalers who, apparently, lost
sight of him when their vessel had stopped there.
He was cared for by Judge
Anthony Winston, uncle of Patrick Henry, until at the age of 16, he joined the 10th
Virginia regiment.
He stood six feet, six inches tall and weighed 260 pounds.
General Washington officially ordered a sword for him that was said to have a five
foot blade, as he had complained that the regulation army weapon was too light
and too short.
Both he and General Lafayette were wounded in the battle of Brandy-
wine and became good friends during their convalesence, a friendship that was to
endure the rest of their lives.
In 1824, long after the revolution, when Lafayette
visited America, Francisco accompanied the Marquis on his triumphant tour through
Virginia.
He died in Richmond on June 16, 1831 and was buried with full military
honors.
When just before the turn of the century, the Daughters of the American
Revolution planted thirteen liberty trees, one for each of the original colonies,
in our National Capitol, each tree nourished by the soil taken from the grave of
a revolutionary hero, Virginia's symbol was a chestnut tree and the earth planted
around it was taken from the grave of Peter Francisco, the abandoned little boy
from the Azores.
In music, from 1854-1932, we find the name of John Philip Sousa, of Portu;
guese parentage. A brilliant composer of light opera, but most famous for his
numerous marches, he led the United States Marine Band from 1880 to 1892, known
as the king of marches, his world famous Semper Fidelis, the Stars and Stripes
Forever, El Capital, are still counted amont the worlds favorites and played in
all public ceremonies.
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In literature, John Dos Passos, hailed as one of the world's most important
writers for more than three decades.
In 1969, realizing that few Americans are
more than vaguely aware of Portugal 1 s role in world history, he sought to remedy
the situation by writing his acclaimed book, The Portugal Story, encompassing
three centuries of exploration and discovery, already in its 3rd publication.
We can trace the arrival of the first permanent Portuguese settlement in
Lowell as early as 1851, although there must have been a few scattered ones.
The Azores being the nearest point to America, a distance of only 2,110 miles,
and agriculture there being one of the principal occupations, some early stragglers with an adventurous spirit, must have found their way to the farms in
existence hereabouts.
East Chelmsford, and Dracut, to this day, have large
Portuguese populations that date well back over 100 years.
Fame of Lowell as a manufacturing center soon reached the Azorean shores
and they too succumbed to the promises of persuasive mill agents sent out to recrµit
help for their expanding mills.
Despite the fertility and delightful climate of
the Islands, overpopulation, lack of sufficient means with which to raise their
families, compulsory military service, all, led many to venture forward into the
unknown, to the frigid, unfriendly land of opportunity which beckoned them.
By 1885, a sizeable number already had settled in Lowell, Longing to hear
the traditional marital music which had ac~ompanied all religious processions in
their native villages, we find the first concerted effort of the community was to
establish a Portuguese band which was played at funerals and other public prominent occasions.
The system of Boarding Houses for the welfare of the operatives, introduced
by Mr. Lowell and first adopted in 1814 by the Boston Mfg. Company, soon found
their counterpart in the establishment, around 1862, of the first Portuguese
Boarding House, which, by the turn of the century had mushroomed to a number of
at least ten, set up along back Central, Charles, Chapel, Union, Cherry, North
and other neighboring streets.
Established mostly for the hundreds of young,
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unmarried people who were pouring into the City, they were called by them "Casas
De Borde". A name which caused great consternation to mothers of young sons who
had left the family scene.
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in Portuguese means to embroider and when
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letters from sons arrived stating that they were Bordando in Americag puzzled
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and anxious mothers, relating the adventures of their sons to neighbors, would
lament the fact that Manuel or Antonio had never picked up a needle at home and
now was embroidering in America.
Countless are the tales emanating from these
"Casas De Borde" .• Acqu!ring a vocabulary all their own, not understanding the
language which they heard spoken, hilarious stories are told those days.
story in particular, has always tickled me.
One
Columbus Day which was duly cele-
brated as a great holiday, was interpreted by them as the day of Columbus, which
pronounced by them suddenly became, 0 Dia Dos Clamos, which aclually means the
day of Clams, and only scores of years later, as told to me, did that generation
learn why their mother, every year, bought clams from the local fish market, to
be eaten loyally on that day.
So, turkeys for Thanksgiving and clams for Colutnbus.
At times, tn or more houses were rented or owned by the Bodmeesa as the
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Boardmistress was called, one only of these contained a huge dining and sitting
room, while all other rooms, with the exception of the common kitchen, .were
converted into much needed bedrooms, where the young mill people slept soundly,
after a long day's work in the mills.
Respect and strict morality were the
hallmark of these early Portuguese boarding houses, permission would have to be
obtained from the always authoritative Bordmeesa for even a walk across the street
for a minute of gossip, a visit to a sick mill companion or to attend the nearby
Edson School.
The girl's bedrooms usually were placed downstairs, where in a
room containing two double beds, they were piled three to a bed, while upstairs
the young males slept under the same accomodations, and they stayed just there.
Morality',' I repeat was of the highest, even Caesar's wife could have slept there
without reproach.
No hanky-panky was -tolerated or existed and the only semblance
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of impropriety was the embarrassment encountered each morning, a veritable rat
race, when the young girls would try to reach the bathroom, or cazinha
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little house, as they called it, to empty their chamber pots before the young men
began to arrive from upstairs, bearing theirs.
Code inspection had not even reached
the embryonic stage in those days, so that one can imagine the veritable catastrophes
that must have resulted.
The young men paid $3.00 per week for room and board,
while the young ladies paid $2.50, as they took care of cleaning their rooms and
laundry.
Many romances during the turn of the century, emanated from these Boarding
Houses.
On Sunday afternoons, to the tune of their beloved violas and guitars,
the young people would gather to find comfor:ti in singing their traditional songs
and dancing to native tunes.
A furtive glance from Manuel cast at demure dancing
Maria often bloomed into a romance under the watchful eyes of all present, resulting in a proposal of marriage and hardly a week passed without a wedding.
Salaries
at the mills, averaging between four and seven dollars a week left little to save
for furnishing a future home, so most couples started their married life in the
Boarding House, too.
The couple would then occupy a single room where the only
improvement, I have b~en told, was a new wide white ribbon tied to the chamber pot.
For an entire week, the bride did not appear at the dining room table, to embarrassed to meet the eyes of her fellow boarders, only the groom would appear, fill a
plate for her, and gallantly take it up to her bedroom, Strength must be sustained
for her new duties as a wife.
And, by the way, he saved 50¢, $5.00 was the charge
for married couples, and that included babies who would come later to occupy the
room.
As with other non-English speaking gro~ps, the early Portuguese immigrants
suffered deeply in the assimilation process. As the community increased, the
natural calamities of illness and death ft1Tlowed.
Pride, to which to this day
exists, prevented them seeking city aid, besides trying to communicate their misery
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in a language unknown to them, they were often subjected to ridicule.
It became
evident to them that action must be taken by them on their own behalf~ which resulted in the estallishment on May 13, 1895 of the Portuguese Benefit Socie~y,
later to be known as the Benefit Society of Saint Anthony, and followed by others
through the year.
It was instituted in Lowell as early as 1885 and became incorpo-
rated on May 13, 1895 when approval was given by the then Secretary of State
William M.Olin, for its incorporation. According to the statutes any Portuguese
or descendant of Portuguese, between the ages of 15 and 50 was eligible to join.
An initial entry fee of five dollars was required, the Society, of no political
or religious character, would exact the sum of one dollar, as a contribution to
the funeral expenses of any deceased member, and was, with all due apologies to
~lie Cross and Blue Shield, paid medical costs in the amount of five dollars a week
for thirteen weeks, after which a member was eligible to receive an additional
three dollars for seven weeks.
As the average one week stay, at the Corporation
Hospital amounted to about nine dollars, the members were fairly well protected,
compared to present day rates.
The next concerted movement of the colony which now was.iassuming great proportions was to establish a house of prayer. Strong in their catholic faith,
they found the church dominated by the Irish, whose leaders at times tried to use
it as an instrument of Americanization.
This attempt, and the sound of a language
which they did not understand, besides increasing ethnic tension and stimulated
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in their hearts, a desire to form a parish of their own, as they saw in mixed
parishes, a threat to the survival of their particular cultural heritage, so on
January of 1901, a group of Portuguese men journeyed to Boston, to intercede with
the proper church authorities so that a parish might be established in Lowell.
The first meetings were held in Fair Hall of Saint Peter's parish during February
and March of 1901. Odd Fellows Temple was used until April of that year and on
the 19th of May, the first church, a small white wooden structure located at Congress
and Gorham Streets, was purchased from the Primitive Methodists and established.
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As the gates were open and unguarded and all were free to come to the United
States, continued migration of Portuguese into the city soon necessitated the
acquisition of a larger church.
Funds were raised throughout the Portuguese colony
for this purpose and land on Central Street, the present site, to erect a new
church was purchased.
The following year on May 30, 1908., although only the
basement of the huge cathedral like structure planned had been completed, the
church was officially dedicated, and, according to a front page account in the
Lowell Sun of that day, sacred vessels were carried through the streets, lined
with hundreds of parishioners, and deposited in the new church.
The earliest group of immigrants came from the Azores and by the turn of the
century we find their number greatly swelled by hundreds that began to arrive
from the beautiful island of Madeira.
Unlike the immigrants from the Azores, the
majority who came from Madeira were males, and came with the idea of staying only
a few years and then of returning to their homeland. They settled mostly in the
area of the Tre,mont Mills and their boarding houses were mostly filled with men.
The Treemonts as they were known to the other Portuguese.
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Later, however, many
did settle permanently in Lowell and together with a small number from the continent,
soon formed an integral part of the Portuguese community.
Since the early group came from the Azores, the ancient tradition of devotion
to the Holy Ghost, had early become a part of their religious life and festivities.
Since the turn of the century each Pentecost Sunday, the Feast of the Holy Ghost.
had been faithfully observed.
This resulted in the formal establishment of the
Holy Ghost Society in Lowell in 1923.
Vincent Silva, a pioneer in the Portuguese
colony, was the first president of the Society which was incorporated in that year.
Its purpose being: To furnish a place and means for the education and recreation
of its members and for social, religious and civic purposes. On September 2, 1923,
two and one half acres of land were purchased on Village Street, off outer Rogers
Street for tliis purpose.
Continued imprp,vements through the years have transformed
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stands one of the finest and most modern structures within city limits.
The Quota Law of 1924, introducing for the first time numerical limitations
on immigration, resulted in a sharp curtailment in the arrival of more immigrants,
which according to staUstrics for the year 1920, revealed a total of twelve thousand
Portuguese in the city. The outbreak of influenza during the first world war, the
onset of tuberculosis developed by many from working in factories filled with
lint-laden air, the fear that now they would not be joined here by their loved ones,
and the outlook of greater opportunities in California, led many to depart from
the city, and the large numbers~envisioned by the original planners of the cathedrallike church and builders of the enormous rectory, never were realized.
In fact,
in reference to the enormous rectory, which still stands today, according to a
story circulated in Portuguese circles, it was the reason that brought to Lowell,
His Excellency, the late Bishop Henry Joseph Reed Da Silva, a first cousin to the
then reigning, Dom Carlos, the King of Portugal.
The Bishop was retu,ning to Portu-
gal from India and had stopped in the United States to dedicate a new Portuguese
church in the city of Fall River.
During this time, a crucial period developed in
Po.rtugal, and plans were completed for the overthrow of the monarchy.
The assasina-
tion of his cousin the King, resulted in his decision to remain in this country
until it was felt safe for him to return.
As the rectory of Saint Anthony's Church
was the largest and most imposing that he had met in his travels hereabouts~ he
deemed it the only one worthy of a prince of the church and he reamined here from
1911 until 1924.
He was dearly loved by the Lowell CAtholic communi'ty, expecially
the Irish, with whom he was a great favorite.
Many of them in those days resided
in the area around the church and became his closest friends.
spoten of lovingly by them.
To this day he is
He was a great musician, a renowned pianist and was the
author of several unpublished masses and historical books.
Although, the immigration Act of 1924, brought immigration into the United
States to a mere trickly, and later the discriminatory Mccarron-Walter Act, which
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colony remained always an active one, retaining its religious customs and traditions, it gave always its first love and loyalty to the country it had adopted.
Although the majority of early arrivals were illiterate, due to the lack of opportunities in their homeland, through the years they managed to establish here a respected ethnic group who through its modest and unassuming habits of head work,
honesty, liquidation of debts, and low crime rate, gradually assumed its place
in the community. We now find many of their sons and daughters, first and second
generation Americans, occupying positions, reflecting great credit upon themselves
and the community.
And now, the year 1976, we find a great renaissance in the Portuguese community
in Lowell.
Due to the new Immigration Law which was signed at the foot of the
Statue of Liberty by the late President Johnson, in 1965, Portugal as all other
countries in the eastern hemisphere, is now allowed to send a total of 20,000
immigrants each year and we find that during the last ten years, we have admitted
over 1,000 into the city of Lowell. At first the majority of those eligible to
come, had been born in Lowell whose parents had departed many years ago, later
their children who as sons and daughters of American citizens, by law are allowed
to come and now we continue to receive the children of these, as children of lawfully admitted aliens, are the beneficiaries of relative petitions filed in their
behalf.
Although we are now receiving a literate and more evolved immigrant, modern
advances in technology, radio and television, couples with mandatory school liws
can account for this, the present immigration, which still remains to a larger
extent, from the Azores, it cannot be described as the "brain drain that we are
now receiving from the Philipines and other asiatic countries.
Higher education
is still hard to come by in the Azores, where only two of the nine islands are
equipped with high schools and only children of wealthy parents who are able to
afford boarding them away from home, are able to continue their education.
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islands are still difficult and life there continues to be a challenge.to the
natives.
However, we are happy to note, that they are bringing with them the
basic values of their predecessors, which actually make for the true backbone
of any community.
A recent Boston Globe article described the transformation, by the newly
arrived Portuguese immigrants in the city of Lowell, that has taken place in the
so-called "Flats" section where they are settling. Old homes they are purchasing,
soon become newly painted or covered aluminum or vinyl siding, may be seen dotting
the many streets running off back central.
The smallest extra space of land is
invnediately transformed into a vegetable producing the green leafy vegetables
that go into the hearty soups, they like so well.
Flowers that grew in profusion
on their beloved islands, attempt to bloom bravely in the rigor of our New
England climate, at the entrance to their homes.
Employers, especially, seek
them out for their diligent hard working habits, merchants welcome their accounts
as their reputation for paying bills is widespread, real estate agents are amazed
at the size of deposits made on newly acquired properties and the banks welcomeL
them as new depositors.
Today, as we enter the bicentennial year, we admire the undaunted spirit
of cour§g@ they bring with them as evidence by the fact that the tiny country
of Portugal, during the past year, without the benefit of outside involvement,
has succeeded in stamping out the threat of communism which attempted to penetrate its shore and we share with them their pride in the fact that one of their
beloved inmigrants from the AzoPes, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, now heads the
great Archidiocese of Boston.
Throughout the years, all immigrants have brought with them a great contribution and our attitude toward them has gradually matured to a full appreciation of the great cultural, technical and scientific gifts they made.
The Portuguese are a modest people.
But tonight I pay tribute to them for
they, as all other immigrants who have come to this great nation, too, have woven
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a few bright threads in the colorful tapestry that portrays, the nation of
immigrants, the United States of America.
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<div style="text-align:left;">This collection focuses on the life of Deolinda Mello. The photographs (and some writings) highlighted in this collection showcase her close ties with Lowell's Portuguese and immigrant communities.</div>
<strong><br />Biographical</strong> <strong>Note:</strong><br />Deolinda Machado Mello was born in Lowell in 1914 to Joseph (João) Perry (Pereira) and Maria (Rocha) Machado. João Perry (1886-1939) immigrated from Terceira around 1900, settled in Lowell, and worked as a weaver in the Appleton Mills. He eventually became a skilled loom fixer and was among the highest paid occupations on the shop floor in the textile industry. Maria Machado (1888-1958) immigrated one year later and also worked initially in a cotton mill. João and Maria were communicants at St. Anthony’s Church, where they married in 1906. For a few years, João and Maria lived in Ayer’s City, where there was a small number of Portuguese families, but they subsequently moved to Lincoln Street near Chelmsford Street. They later resided in the Highlands neighborhood. In addition to Deolinda, they had a daughter Mary (1908-1972), and two sons, Henry Perry (1912-1987), and John Machado (1917-1983).<br /><br />Deolinda received her education at Keith Academy and, after graduating, she attended Lowell State College and Boston University. She subsequently received a degree in social sciences at the University of Rhode Island. By the late 1930s, Deolinda worked as accountant at the Laganas Shoe Factory in Lowell, one of the city’s largest shoe manufacturers. She was also active in the Portuguese-American Civic League and in 1939 served as a delegate to the state convention of civic leagues. She became increasingly active at St. Anthony’s Church, notably in the Holy Rosary Sodality Society. The following year she married Tebert Joseph Pacheco Mello, a furniture upholsterer who eventually operated his own upholstering business.<br /><br />Tebert Joseph Pacheco Mello (1905-1967) was born in Terceira to Antonio and Josephine Augusta Mello. His family immigrated to the United States when he was a baby. He was a member of Saint Anthony’s Church from its founding days, an active committee member in the Holy Name Society, and served as Director of Lowell’s Portuguese American Civic League. Tebert and Deolinda had once son, Robert, who went on to serve in the US Navy, attend Newbury College, and eventually opened and ran several restaurants in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.<br /><br />Deolinda worked as a board member of the International Institute of Lowell, which provided social and educational services to the city’s immigrant communities. In 1958, she became executive director of the International Institute, a position she held for over 20 years. In 1959, Deolinda took a diplomatic trip to Portugal in 1959, where she was able to meet and interview Antonio Salazar at his summer residence.<br /><br />For her many years of service at the International Institute, she was honored at a testimonial dinner, attended by over 500 friends and dignitaries, and received letters of commendation from the state’s major educational and political leaders, including U.S. senators Edward Kennedy and Paul Tsongas. She died in 1988, leaving her son Robert Mello, her daughter-in-law, Charlene, and two grandchildren, Bob and Elena.
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Portuguese American women
Community activists
Community organization
Catholic Church--Dioceses
Priests
Immigrant families
Immigrants
Cultural assimilation
Immigrants--Cultural Assimilation--United States
Fasts and Feasts
Portugal--Colonies
Portugal--History
United States--Discovery and exploration
Indigenous peoples--America
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Boardinghouses
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Madeirans
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Politicians
Snow
Dogs
Christmas
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Altars
Swimming
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Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Beaches
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Portuguese
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1917-1988
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Sagres School
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History of the Portuguese in Lowell speech
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1976
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Mello, Deolinda
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Deolinda Mello delivered this speech to the Lowell Historical Society.
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Portuguese American women
Portugal--History
Portugal--Colonies
United States--Discovery and exploration
Indigenous peoples--America
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Azorean Americans
Veterans
Mills and mill-work
Immigrants
Portugal--Emigration and immigration
Boardinghouses
Manners and customs
Cultural assimilation
Catholic Church--Dioceses
Catholic Church--Societies, etc.
Madeirans
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Dighton (Mass.)
Lowell (Mass.)
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Feast of the Holy Ghost
Holy Ghost Society (Lowell, MA)
Saint Anthony's Church (Lowell, MA)
Saint Anthony's Portuguese Benevolent Society
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George W. Rose Collection [1900-2003]
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Entrepreneurship
United States. Army.
World War, 1939-1945
Veterans
Waste disposal
Portuguese American women
Ethnic neighborhoods
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Radio broadcasting
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Digital scans donated from the personal collection of the Rose family, courtesy of Carol Rose Camelio.
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Dighton (Mass.)
Medford (Mass.)
Recife (Brazil)
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This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
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I guess it all started when my dad immigrated to this country from Brazil as a young boy in this early teens my grand mother sent him to the United States with only a birdcage and a suitcase and a note into his lapel telling the reader where he should be sent when he arrived here you see he could only speak Portuguese and coming to a strange company it was a very hard time for him he was quite bacon at the awkward stage and a young boy’s life my grandmother was very strong willed woman and after years of medical and physical abuse with my grandfather in Portugal she decide to go to receive a Brazil and live is where my dad was born and where they made their home for about 13 years or so being where the people spoke the same language made it a little easier for my dad and his mother she left much of her wealth in Portugal when she left my grandfather as her family on many acres of farmland etc. which my grandfather in a drunken rage would make her sign over to him for his money vases it was after one of the many meetings that she received his hand so she finally decided to leave and start a new life by herself and my dad.
when my dad‘s boat arrived in Boston pier harbor since he cannot speak no English a police officer from the north end of Boston took him to a Portuguese barber who is called upon to translate what my father would tell him the new on his lapel told of where his master could be reaching where to send him with his vacation toe and it’s only suitcase he was put on a bus to Dayton MA where his master is waiting for him he was to work on a fireman earn his room and board and intern they provide him with schooling and clothes
he was placed in the second grade of school where the kids used to make fun of him because of his size he couldn’t put his knees under the desk he was so large at times he was at the desk right off the floor screws and all many of the teachers would get aggravated at us and lost patience with him it’s on top of the kids making fun of him and teasing him for all the time and taking his hat and running away it was a frustrating time for dad at times they would throw his hat over a small cliff or he would have to climb down risking his life to get it the older boys also would beat him up and he on many occasions would go home with a bloody nose boys can be very cruel to other boys when they are not like them and don’t speak their language it’s hard for them to understand how my dad felt all the time
for recreation my dad and his friends would play with the iron barrels that came off the boats loaded with blubber from the wells they caught one day while he was playing with his friends they rolled him off a 20 foot cliff by the water and the Coast Guard had to come to rescue before the tide came in or he would’ve drowned
as he went to the older grades the children got bigger and became more resentful of him by the time he was getting stronger and stronger from all the hard work he did on his masters farm he would lift the barrels over his head and build up his muscles. The iron barrels were used by the wailers store blower oil which was used to burn lanterns he became more confident as he got stronger and would wrestle anyone to the ground he would cut occasionally get beaten up but all in all he try to hold his own his master had no sympathy for him when he did get her he was still apply to do his work on the farm his chores were many these were very lonely times for my dad he felt so alone and I haven’t seen that no one cared about him or his problems this is surely a place to inject that tough times never last tough people to my dad was one of the tough people and he had faith in him self
there was one time on his way home from school that my dad was stopped by three men who beat him up very badly he didn’t even know why the police patrol found him on the beach after his master and reported him missing he spent three days in the hospital and by this time he was getting very disgusted with America and the life he had here he decided to turn his life around then and there so when he got out of the hospital he started taking boxing lessons this wasn’t easy to find the time to do this so he would arise at 5:30 AM and go take his lessons from the Portuguese man who lives nearby and then go do his chores before going to school and be on his way he felt better about himself at this point in time and one day coming home from school he saw the same three men who would be in him up earlier and put them in the hospital he followed them and as it was getting darker they split up and when they were only two of them he caught their bear face and. he was so late it after doing this and satisfied himself that he thought it was the first time that he didn’t get the short end of the stick America is going to look better and better to him he continue taking boxing lessons in became quite good at it he loves school and he was in the fifth grade and besides working on his masters farm he helped load roll the drums of love or oil onto the beach where they would be loaded on the horse and buggy teams the boiler sometime so the barrels to the hardware stores nearby after dark when they wouldn’t be seen this was illegal.
One day on the way home from school three men stop my dad and them up very badly he didn’t even know why the police patrol found them on the beach after his mastered reported that he didn’t get home to work in the fields to pick the strawberries or take the potatoes he spent three days in the hospital by this time he was getting very disgusted with American his life here he started going to a boxing club that was near his masters house he would arrive at 5:30 AM and go take lessons from Portuguese man he liked him he learned how to defend himself there on one special day coming home from school he saw the same three men who would be in them up a few months earlier he waited just before dark and it’s better now they were only two of them with his bare hands my father got even with them he was so later that he would accomplish this and made a very satisfied it was the first time since he arrived here in America that he didn’t get the short end of the stick and he be the two of them he continue taking boxing lessons for three years and then left school in the fifth grade he would earn money helping roll the drums of love royal onto the beach where they were to will turn them to the horse and buggy teams.
Another incident that is where they have now is one time with my dad claimed over a cliff to get Eagles eggs which she was totaled bring a good amount of money and then put a rope over the cliff and let my father down to nest after retrieving about six or seven eggs one of the guys he previously picking up came by and without anyone knowing he cut the rope and my dad fell down to the rocks in the waters edge 20 people he broken arm and a leg another time while training he was holding onto a windmill blade and a glass of wine threw him to the ground and he broke his nose and are the Coast Guard with someone once again to rescue him from his fall off the cliff shortly after this his mother right here from Brazil and took charge of him he continued his boxing and became pretty good at it. he had an important fight scheduled for the Boston garden when he met and married my mother Anna Suzanne from the north of Boston they got married in the Portuguese church on Portland Street and it Cambridge East Cambridge where they settled my fathers boxing should promise in a big fight was promoted for him at the garden by the time my mother is about to give birth to my oldest sister Anna and wasn’t doing very good so my dad wouldn’t leave her side and the fight was forfeited he was barred from the ring and never thought again he worked hard without education to bring up eight children for boys and four girls not to mention taking into adopted children one time and then two more adopted children whose mother had died and they were close to my mother we also had my uncle living with us for a while my father had a heart of gold and so did my mother
we were 14 and all sitting down at the table and not much money coming in at the time we all survive the one way or another I can remember my grandmother making sheets out of the empty flower bag she got from Paula‘s bakery which was across the street from where we lived she would wash them out by hand and on a wash board in the sink and then set them out to dry after about four washings they would be soft enough for us to sleep on and sometimes there’s enough flour left in the sacks to make homemade bread and we sure look towards this we would put butter on it and have it with coffee or cocoa and sometimes we eat bananas with it
Mini time I can remember going to the railroad yard after school with a two wheel truck that my dad had made me to pick up Cole along the tracks I had fallen off the trains we swept the floor by a potbelly stove in the parlor and the school help to keep it going and keep us warm weather outside would be about three below zero and they would be 2 feet of snow outside my mother always had a big pan on the stove cooking a shoulder or ham there are plenty of vegetables in Portuguese kale and sausages my brothers and sisters all earned a little to help out the food situation at home no one went beyond high school education wise we didn’t have a lot of money but we had a set of parents who loved us tremendously we always came first with them
our parents sacrifice an off a lot of themselves make us happy the older ones kind of looked after us younger ones eaten a family and six others to feed was no easy task in those days without food and housing as it were
sickness in the house would be a catastrophe it would disrupt the whole household especially if dad or mother got sick but we survived at all and we came through strong and able to face I need to feed handed down to us in later life like a season sold or you learned thank the good Lord from day today and you learn to roll with the punches
what our families need today is to have hardship and then they try harder to better yourself by working more productively and you also learn the value of the book you remember the hard times and you spend accordingly you certainly do not wanna live your past over again you want to accomplish something so your parents will be proud of you knowing they sacrifice so much for you when you were young
things are bad at home although our monthly rent was only $30 that was hard for my father to me at Cambridge rubber company where my dad worked move down south and he was out of a job the company could operate their business cheaper down south
One of the things I did to help out at home moneywise was to sell newspapers after and before school I also sold bottled but like whiskey the papers I would pick up on third and Otis St., Berks candy store this would pay me one sent a paper two days a week I would go to Wanda’s café to pick up about 10 bottles half pints and pint of whiskey we called it bathtub rum and I would have to go to the rear of the café to pick it up in my little car that I would put under my papers and sell them to people on my paper and couldn’t get out the house I was I would receive $.25 for half pint and $.50 per pint and will get two cents back on the empties of which I received one cent I would deliver to the courthouse judges quarters and leave the whiskey with the secretary or janitor and sometimes get paid later the shares house was also a delivery spot as he lived across from the courthouse his cock was a good customer and will take 3 pints twice a week this is my big sale every week
One of the things I did to help out at home moneywise was to sell newspapers after and before school I also sold bottled but like whiskey the papers I would pick up on third and Otis St., Berks candy store this would pay me one sent a paper two days a week I would go to Wanda’s café to pick up about 10 bottles half pints and pint of whiskey we called it bathtub rum and I would have to go to the rear of the café to pick it up in my little car that I would put under my papers and sell them to people on my paper and couldn’t get out the house I was I would receive $.25 for half pint and $.50 per pint and will get two cents back on the empties of which I received one cent I would deliver to the courthouse judges quarters and leave the whiskey with the secretary or janitor and sometimes get paid later the shares house was also a delivery spot as he lived across from the courthouse his cock was a good customer and will take 3 pints twice a week this is my big sale every week
after this period of my life I got interesting in basketball and sports and give up the bootlegging and paper route I got a license to drive at 16 to I was captain of her basketball team each year and also the smallest player scored the most points for the three years that I was in school of all the weeks there was a boy name smoky from the Robert school who we always ended up playing in the finals on our team we had sent a red Callaway the tallest right card Joe Almeida let’s guard Tony Paiva left forward and Rivera or Cosmo Danito then Jesse Rogers Ralph’s for a Connie and Benny Spira were managers Horace Jake up was principal for school and Jerry Higgins was a seventh grade teacher he was also the coach I was written up in the papers all the time and the coach from wrench tech came to my house to see my parents and try to get them sent me to the school they guaranteed me a scholarship to almost any college that I could play basketball for them my grades in school weren’t that good at graduation they put me in in the central vocational School for one year I played basketball for school and the coach them and she said come down to the gym to watch me and talk to me about having good grades so I could go to his school
I went one year to vocational school and then transfer to wrench to Chi school where I made the varsity squad in my first year as a freshman this was somewhat of a fee and we went into the tractor tourney that year and I was riding high while playing basketball on the eighth grade at the Putnam school we had this team that played in the park department league of the city four of us from our school at the time we were champions and three others in the neighborhood when the city championship and how to play the new team who are also champs in their city I’ll never forget when we went to pay them a new one who’s the first three out of five games for the championship they had a beautiful new school gym and they came out with at least five basketballs they were sponsored by people with money and beautiful outfits they were new sneakers and warm-up suit and all the fringes they also cheerleaders and oranges to get a break towels and all the trimmings they really look like big dick on the other hand we were dress very raggedy dirty sneakers torn pan some of us even had string holding them up a couple of warm towels and two old basketballs I went one year to vocational school and then transfer to wrench to Chi school where I made the varsity squad in my first year as a freshman this was somewhat of a fee and we went into the tractor tourney that year and I was riding high while playing basketball on the eighth grade at the Putnam school we had this team that played in the park department league of the city four of us from our school at the time we were champions and three others in the neighborhood when the city championship and how to play the new team who are also champs in their city I’ll never forget when we went to pay them a new one who’s the first three out of five games for the championship they had a beautiful new school gym and they came out with at least five basketballs they were sponsored by people with money and beautiful outfits they were new sneakers and warm-up suit and all the fringes they also cheerleaders and oranges to get a break towels and all the trimmings they really look like big dick on the other hand we were dress very raggedy dirty sneakers torn pan some of us even had string holding them up a couple of warm towels and two old basketballs we didn’t feel very good about it as we knew people were laughing at us but we got into our huddle party started and said our usual prayer and encourage each other not to let their luxe fool us we can beat them we said they’re a bunch of pansies we hit them hard and made a couple files but we let them know we were around I was a captain and give the boys my usual peptalk or coach that we could do it just go out there and play basketball I think I got something like 26 points for the game I wanted to beat them so bad we ran circles around them in the final score was 66 to 45 I think we beat them so bad that in the end they were embarrassed not us the shirt is a vivid memory in my mind
I quit school and went into the cc cc my dad was on the PWA and I couldn’t afford to go to school any longer I had to walk about 2 miles each day just to go to school and another 2 miles to come home the coach begged me to stay in school but I had made up my mind to go to the service and go out to Powell Wyoming this will help my parents out and pay the rent to keep our three family house on 3rd St., Cambridge the adventure of going into the cc was also there for me and I even forge my age to get in I was a little under age at the time.
I received a check for $30.00 each month and assigned this to my parents. It at least, paid the rent. I attained the rank of Corporal and would then receive $36 per month. After that, they made me Sgt. at $45.00 per month. I kept sending the $30. allotment home and the balance was kept with me at camp. $15 I spent as I saw fit and I also made a few dollars on Saturday nights by boxing downtown at the American Legion Hall.
I could make $50 on Saturday night and get a blackeye or swollen leg but I managed to save a few bucks sometimes I would bet on myself I tried very hard for this my captain was a fight freak he liked me and a couple of other fighters and encouraged us it was nice to give orders a surgeon no one gave me any backtalk they knew I could handle myself one Saturday night I received a pretty good whipping from a local boy in the fight was a draw but I got my $50 anyway after this I never thought again I thought it was pretty good looking and I didn’t want to mess up my face it seemed ironic that my father father because he was not an American and at the time I was fighting it was because I was an American in the army barracks we were controlled by army officers lived barracks and wore khaki uniforms
The towns people didn’t like us that much it was also survival of the fittest the money also played a major part life is funny that way I gained respect in town and it helped our camp a lot of people seem to like me after a while and our camp did a lot of good for the towns people we did a lot of fundraising for them also
I came home two years later and looking back I think that this was the best thing I ever did joining the cc he got me right at the time I was into stealing cars at Boston Garden and selling them for bucks we would sell fog lights for five dollars or $10 a set breaking into cookie factory on front Street I also still radio some cars in Cary number slips for the buggies in both numbers for people in the north end I was getting in with a bad element when I went away and was fortunate that I was never caught I can’t help but think back at the age of about nine I would get up at 5:30 AM and go over to louisville Plaza gon’s five houses away from where I lived in a three family house Paula bakery was on the corner of our street and I used to go get the horse at the barn feed him out and then hook them up to the team give him water Comes Main in Mall they’re loading the team with the fresh Portuguese bread I will get $.25 a day for doing this then I would start my paper route
I did well on my paper route also selling the whiskey and picking up the returned bottles I had a compartment under my papers for that stuff and delivered it only in the wee hours of the morning
Joe Lopez whose mother and father of my godparents Luis Lopez on the barn where Joe archer pretty kept his horse and where Paula boarded his horse and team the old man my godfather Luis Lopez was a furniture mover with his horse and team are used to go with him sometimes in the summer to take chunks to the ships people going to Portugal or Island Ireland etc. I like to go with him at 6 PM the people in the ships are nice to us they would give us food to eat that we never tasted before and some fish to take home also young Tony Lopez worked at the courthouse he drove a pick up truck for the county maintenance department he liked me and was always ready to do anything he could for me he had keys for every office and I can leave my papers in the little bottles for judges etc. he was well liked at the courthouse and could do anything that he wanted to he was also very honest and religious he got me the job at the Institute movies through father Flaherty the priest from the Sacred Heart church who owned the show.
Joe Lopez was Tony Lopez’s brother he was always drunk and worked for the city of Cambridge on the street department rolling out barrels rubbish I was the only one he would pay any attention to he liked me because I was tough if he was in a fight I would stop him and take him home he was always being locked up by the Cambridge police for one thing or another fighting mostly huge fight with anyone he was a look-alike for Wallace berry one day it took five policeman to put him into the patty wagon as we called it he was handcuffed and beat up so badly they had to call the ambulance to take him to the hospital I kicked and punched a police man I was crying the police man give me a shovel and I landed on my fanny and didn’t get up about 10 minutes Joe saw me crying and that started him off again while he lay there in a puddle of blood waiting for an ambulance with five cop standing over him with handcuffs twisters on both wrists and they were bleeding badly I have never forgotten the side of the corner of third and Spring Street by the old courthouse and the police box was on the pole two doors down with Joe Lopez brother Manuel Lopez and his wife Agnes use the box with my dad at the training camp they had in the north end of Boston
When I got my license to drive a contact with the book is in the north end they trusted me and give me an address where to pick up certain people and take them to the table games card and dice games already given an address for the games will be held and I was the only one who knew that that was because if they were ever read it by the police no one would rob the games I was trusted by the boys in town as long as I was I could get five dollars for delivery and five dollars for pick up I was asked to get involved in a credit card cashing in other schemes but always refused my poor dad was on the PWA administration making $27 a week eight hours a day 40 hours a week I was making more money than him with my little schemes I would carry slips on my person that were written up by the book is the slips range from one cent five dollars sometimes I have cash of three dollars for four dollars and I would have a slips duplicated the customer also had a copy of what number they played for the day the number will come out of the race track meets phone number track meets ph When I got my license to drive a contact with the book is in the north end they trusted me and give me an address where to pick up certain people and take them to the table games card and dice games already given an address for the games will be held and I was the only one who knew that that was because if they were ever read it by the police no one would rob the games I was trusted by the boys in town as long as I was I could get five dollars for delivery and five dollars for pick up I was asked to get involved in a credit card cashing in other schemes but always refused my poor dad was on the PWA administration making $27 a week eight hours a day 40 hours a week I was making more money than him with my little schemes I would carry slips on my person that were written up by the book is the slips range from one cent five dollars sometimes I have cash of three dollars for four dollars and I would have a slips duplicated the customer also had a copy of what number they played for the day the number will come out of the race track Mutual number of three and four digits the person who played would get six dollars for every one dollar they pay anywhere from one cent on three numbers to any amount in for numbers also if someone got a good hair I would get a five dollar bill from them I could run like hell so I’d ride in the car with the pick up man who would pick up cash and slips in the buggies if we were stopped by the police five please I was a takeoff on foot with the slips on my person and find my way to Prince Street third-floor in Boston where we turn the men that was an extra bonus when this happened the police were old and fat and had my none of them could catch me I would go into apartment houses over roofs and had my getaway routes marked days before four or five times I have some close calls but I never got caught don’t think the police ever really tried that hard they would see me at other times and threaten to kick my ass but they really weren’t that forceful I guess they play the numbers and selves and didn’t feel it was doing much harm to the neighborhood only around election time were the politicians making noise about gambling.
Today we are almost doing the same thing with her lottery games only in the states get the profit and it is legal now millions of dollars are going into the state treasury department I know because I worked for the lottery picking up the slips the stores in my own vehicles I lost it for about six months and couldn’t hack it anymore getting in and out of my car my back bothered me so much so I resigned it seems ironic that I was doing the same thing for the state legally that was I was doing years ago illegally boy does time in politics make a difference the state took the Buckys gaming away but replace it with her own that’s OK though
Now it seems clear found out that my nephew Ronnie rose my brother son Eddie is in California he left his wife Mary when is three boys Ronnie Eddie and Jackie were small I hope his wife Mary whenever I could to help bring up the kids Ronnie was the oldest and he had a pilots license to fly a plane anyway it seems cliff and Josie got involved with the connection in Columbia cliff and Joe went over there and came back and took Ronnie over to Columbia to pilot a route to bring some stuff into the US to Florida it seems they made the drop from the plane they were to pick the stuff up on a small island so I had to pick the stuff up before them when they got there with the big boat that was assigned to them by the people from Argentina the stuff was already picked up so close blame Joe and Joe blamed Ronnie Ronnie figured it was close friends so they were fighting amongst themselves one night Ronnie called me and said Cliff wanted to meet him in East Boston at a certain garage that was connected with the big boys in Boston in New England it seems that Clift you some of the money for the operation and they wanted to find out Now it seems clear found out that my nephew Ronnie rose my brother son Eddie is in California he left his wife Mary when is three boys Ronnie Eddie and Jackie were small I hope his wife Mary whenever I could to help bring up the kids Ronnie was the oldest and he had a pilots license to fly a plane anyway it seems cliff and Josie got involved with the connection in Columbia cliff and Joe went over there and came back and took Ronnie over to Columbia to pilot a route to bring some stuff into the US to Florida it seems they made the drop from the plane they were to pick the stuff up on a small island so I had to pick the stuff up before them when they got there with the big boat that was assigned to them by the people from Argentina the stuff was already picked up so close blame Joe and Joe blamed Ronnie Ronnie figured it was close friends so they were fighting amongst themselves one night Ronnie called me and said Cliff wanted to meet him in East Boston at a certain garage that was connected with the big boys in Boston in New England it seems that Clift you some of the money for the operation and they wanted to find out Who is lying maybe get a bullet as well Ronnie knew I had a lot of friends and his boss and also all the big guys in town because I used to know them well and had friends in high places in the underworld I picked up numbers in my earlier days Ronnie and I were to meet Cliff over there at about 8 PM we didn’t know that Joe castrato was going to be there also anyway Ronnie and I pulled up across the street from the garage and Cliff pulled up behind us with another fellow a little short kid sullivan I guess he knew me also I was on the left driver side Ronnie close the sidewalk when I saw Cliff pull up behind me and his caddy he got out as soon as I stopped I got out walked back to him and I saw that he had a handgun he said I’m going to kill a little bastard and started across the rear of my car towards Ronnie who’s just about to get out of the car I had it cliff off and grab the hand with a gun and swing him around and had his face on the back trunk of my car and his other hand not the one with a gun bent up and back of him and he was pending couldn’t move I stayed down Ronnie He’s gone hand is still free against the back window but in an awkward position I said what the hell is the matter with you Cliff he said the little bastard fingered the job I said I found out who did it at this moment I would’ve told Cliff anything else across the street and my friend at the garage with a shotgun with two policeman slow down and we’re about to stop when I said it’s OK fellows they are friends of mine in the cruiser just kept on going I said Cliff get into my car first and first then I said Ron you get in also click on the backseat right in front with me driving cliff walk to run in the back of the head more of a slap in a punch he said to me you are strong little bastard I said what’s wrong with you because it ain’t worth going to jail for life when you don’t even know the whole truth of what happened we pulled away and stopped at the road where we were alone his car followed and Josie followed along behind him I said OK Ryan let me hear your story then we will hear yours Cliff he said He’s gone hand is still free against the back window but in an awkward position I said what the hell is the matter with you Cliff he said the little bastard fingered the job I said I found out who did it at this moment I would’ve told Cliff anything else across the street and my friend at the garage with a shotgun with two policeman slow down and we’re about to stop when I said it’s OK fellows they are friends of mine in the cruiser just kept on going I said Cliff get into my car first and first then I said Ron you get in also click on the backseat right in front with me driving cliff walk to run in the back of the head more of a slap in a punch he said to me you are strong little bastard I said what’s wrong with you because it ain’t worth going to jail for life when you don’t even know the whole truth of what happened we pulled away and stopped at the road where we were alone his car followed and Josie followed along behind him I said OK Ryan let me hear your story then we will hear yours Cliff he said OK cousin no one else could do this to me only you because I love and respect you I said promise me you’ll behave yourself and let him finish his story of what he knows happened I said I can’t understand how you guys got tied up in the shit anyway do you know the harm that dope does to a lot of nice families OK Ryan let’s hear what your story is I kept her in his truck because I knew there would be a blow up close kept interrupting wrong but I will shut him up and then listen to Cliff and I said my piece and told him what I knew about the whole deal after talking to Ron Josie and the boys in town and who I thought and they knew the right story I promise class at the boys really knew what had happened and that they were in the clear it was because of Josie’s friendship with the fellow who is served with in jail that they got drunk together one night and Joe trusted him a little too much he evidentially had made a couple of scores
with the fellow interested him on this job that Cliff Joe and Ron we’re going on drinking together with friends makes loose lips as we say in the service loose lips sink ships anyway Cliff felt relieved that he was off the hook with the boys he sponsored him he said I never knew you were in good with so many people he and Ronnie talked but I want to talk with Joe and he still had his gun right beside him he said he knew cliffy and that was why he brought it with him I told him the whole story he wouldn’t talk to Cliff he said just tell Cliff to stay away for me and I will him as long as we know the whole story and the boys in town are looking for us I assured him of that cliff hugged me and said thanks Cuz I appreciate all you’ve done in this I said you I could’ve gone to jail I had your gun on me and the cops are going to stop he said he was sorry and we all left
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Recollection written by George W. Rose.
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Immigrants
Brazilian Americans
Family violence
Bullying in schools
Boxing
Portuguese American women
Paperboys
Basketball teams
Civilian Conservation Corps
Automobile theft
Police
Bookmakers (Gambling)
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Recife (Brazil)
Dighton (Mass.)
Cambridge (Mass.)
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George W. Rose Collection [1900-2003]
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Entrepreneurship
United States. Army.
World War, 1939-1945
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Waste disposal
Portuguese American women
Ethnic neighborhoods
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Radio broadcasting
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Dighton (Mass.)
Medford (Mass.)
Recife (Brazil)
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1900-2003
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This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
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how my father came here from Brazil
my father was born in Recife Brazil being brought there by his mother who immigrated from Portugal she was married to a gambler and a womanizer who used to beat her up when in a drunken rage he would make her sign overland him to be used for as many vases her family was wealthy and owned acres of farmland etc.
after one of the many beatings she received she landed in the hospital and she then decided to leave her husband in Portugal and moved to Brazil this is where my dad was born they lived there for about 14 years and then my grandmother decided to send my dad to the United States where she thought life would be easier for him
here right by boat in Boston MA with only a birdcage a suitcase and a note pinned to his lapel telling the reader where he should be sent since he could speak no word of English is difficult for him to communicate with anyone he was supposed to go to a family in Dayton who in those days were called masters he was to work on their farm for food clothing and board in room is ship arrived at the Boston pier located in the north end and my grandmother told no one where she sent him after he arrived he was taken to a Boston police officer who brought him to a Portuguese barber who intern interpreted the note that was pinned to Isabell and instructed where my father should be sent and they put him on a bus to Dayton where his master met him and looked after him
he was placed in the second grade in school and the kids used to make fun of him because he couldn’t put his knees under the desk being so big he would lift the desks right off the floor taking out the screws as he did this the teachers would get very aggravated with us and the kids will make fun of him and tease him by taking his hat and running away sometimes they would throw his hat over a small cliff where he would have to climb down to get it and at times the older boys would beat him up he would go to his master with a bloody nose on occasion boys can be very cruel to other boys when they are foreign and don’t understand their ways this was the case with my dad
as children they played with wooden barrels and my father would climb inside so they could roll him of course his feet would stick way out he was so back one day they rolled him off a 20 foot cliff by the water in the Coast Guard had to come to rescue him before the tide came in or he would’ve drowned
when my dad went into the fourth grade he was with bigger children and became stronger by all the hard work on the farm he could wrestle anyone to the ground and many times he got beaten up but even if he was hurt he saw that you shared work on his masters farm sometimes even after dark he felt so all alone at times and it seem to him that no one cared about him or his problems
at this point in time he started to lift barrels that were along the beach he lifted them up over his head to build up his strength they were made of iron and were used by the wailers for storing blood broil which was used to burn lanterns sometimes the wheelers would sell these barrels of oil to the local hardware stores for money they would stink them out after dark
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Brazilian Americans
Family violence
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Immigrant families
Bullying in schools
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Recife (Brazil)
Dighton (Mass.)