Excerpt from The Dedication of Goodnow Memorial Building and Bagg Hall: Princeton Massachusetts, September 6th, 1887 In the year 1884, Edward A. Goodnow by a deed of gift transferred to the Town of Princeton the Memorial Library Building which he had erected in the Centre. At a later date he gave to the Town for the site of a town hall a suitable lot of land adjoining the site of the Memorial Building together with such a sum of money as insured the construction of the building in its present style and completeness. These enterprises made it desirable that the Congregational church, standing directly in front, should be removed in order to give the new buildings their full effect. The proprietors of the church happily concurred in this view and the edifice was removed and the land which it had occupied was made a public possession. When these things had been accomplished, the Town at its annual meeting in March 1887 made provision for the dedication of the new buildings; and all things being in readiness the Dedication took place on the sixth day of September in the same year. The principal addresses and speeches on the occasion here follow, while an account of the proceedings, preliminary and concurrent, will be found with other matters in the Appendix. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.