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Page Sketch of Mary Larcom Dow 9
Old Days at Beverly Farms 25
Lucy Larcom--A Memory 63
Letters written by Mrs. Dow 68
Appreciation by Sarah E. Miller 79
Extracts from letters about Mrs. Dow 81
THE LIFE
MARY LARCOM DOW
"It seems as if the spirit had dropped out of Beverly Farms since Molly Ober died."
One of her friends said this and the others feel it. For sixty years or more she was the leader in the real life of the place. And speaking of friends, there is no limit of them, for her genial kindly nature allowed us all to claim that prized relationship.
Mary Larcom Ober was the daughter of Mary Larcom and Benjamin Ober. Mrs. Ober's parents were Andrew and Molly, Larcom. Andrew's father and mother were Jonathan and Abigail Larcom; they had eight children, the three youngest of whom are connected with this story. The oldest of these three was David who married Elizabeth Haskell known as "Aunt Betsey"; they had a son David. The next brother was Benjamin whose first wife was Charlotte Ives, and his second, Lois Barrett. Of this second marriage, one of the daughters was Lucy Larcom, the poetess and the editor also of the "Lowell Offering." Andrew Larcom was the youngest of these brothers. Thus it is that his granddaughter, our Mary, was a cousin in the next generation of Lucy Larcom; although she was older than Mary they were always great friends and what Lucy tells us in "A New England Girlhood" of her experience is as true of one as of the other little girl.
"Our parents considered it a duty that they owed to the youngest of us to teach us doctrines. And we believed in our instructors, if we could not always digest their instructions."
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