COMPREHENSIVE INDEX TO THE SEVEN VOLUMES OF

MEMOIRS OF MEMBERS OF THE SOCIAL CIRCLE IN CONCORD

The Social Circle in Concord at Raymond Emerson's, May 1937.   From the CFPL Photofile.
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The Social Circle in Concord is a private men’s organization in Concord, Massachusetts.  Formed in 1794, it was preceded by two earlier versions, the first dating back to 1782, possibly before.  Limited by constitution to a membership of not more than twenty-five, the Circle’s original stated purpose was “To strengthen the Social affections and disseminate useful communications among its members.”  Membership is by invitation and from the beginning has included men active in local politics and influential in various spheres in Concord and beyond.  Meetings are devoted to conversation and held at members’ homes.
 
From time to time, the Circle publishes compilations of biographies of members who have died.  These biographies—for the most part written by other Social Circle members—are issued under the title Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord (seven volumes published as of 2010).  They are valuable for research on many Concord-related subjects.

The seven volumes issued to date are:

• The Centennial of the Social Circle in Concord, March 21, 1882[First Series](Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1882). 
• Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord: Second Series, from 1795 to 1840 (Cambridge: Privately Printed, The Riverside Press, 1888).  Includes Emerson in Concord, a book-length memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson by his son Edward Waldo Emerson, separately paged and bound in following the other memoirs in the series.
• Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord: Third Series, from 1840 to 1895 (Cambridge: Privately Printed, The Riverside Press, 1907).
• Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord: Fourth Series, from 1895 to 1909 (Cambridge: Privately Printed, The Riverside Press, 1909).
• Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord: Fifth Series, from 1909 to 1939 (Cambridge: Privately Printed, The University Press, 1940).
• Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord: Sixth Series, from 1939 to 1974 (Clinton, Massachusetts: The Colonial Press, 1975).
• Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord: Seventh Series, from 1975 to 2004 (Woburn, Massachusetts: Pride Printers, 2005).

All seven volumes of published Social Circle memoirs are available in both the circulating collection and the William Munroe Special Collections of the Concord Free Public.  Check the Minuteman Library Network catalog for the call number and availability of circulating copies.  

ADAMS, JOHN, by J. S. Keyes, 2nd Series, 159
BALDWIN, RAYMOND PEACOCK, by Livingston Hall, 6th Series, 265
BALL, NEHEMIAH, by J. S. Keyes, 2nd Series, 234
BALLOU, JULIAN WHEELER, by Thomas Flint, 6th Series, 225
BALLOU, MURRAY, by Berkeley Wheeler, 5th Series, 190
BARRETT, ABEL, by George M. Barrett, 2nd Series, 20
BARRETT, EDWIN SHEPARD, by J. S. Keyes, 4th Series, 165
BARRETT, GEORGE M., by J. Fay Barrett, 3rd Series, 94
BARRETT, HUMPHREY, by Nathan Brooks, 1st Series, 64
BARRETT, J. FAY, by E. R. Hoar, 3rd Series, 125
BARRETT, JOSEPH, by J. Fay Barrett, 2nd Series, 85
BARRETT, NATHAN, by J. S. Keyes, 2nd Series, 126
BARRETT, NATHAN, JR., by J. S. Keyes, 2nd Series, 266
BARRETT, RICHARD FAY, by William H. Brown, 5th Series, 102
BARRETT, RICHARD, by J. S. Keyes, 3rd Series, 167
BARRETT, WILLIAM, by Charles E. Brown, 4th Series, 171
BARTLETT BENJAMIN D., by Dr. Josiah Bartlett, 2nd Series, 141
BARTLETT, EDWARD JARVIS, by Edward W. Emerson, 5th Series, 111
BARTLETT, JOSIAH, by Grindall Reynolds, 2nd Series, 172
BARTLETT, SAMUEL, by Josiah Bartlett, 1st Series, 68
BARTLETT, WILLIAM BRADFORD, by Henry M. Keyes, 6th Series, 189
BATES, ADOLPHUS, by Grindall Reynold, 3rd Series, 106
BATES, GEORGE EUGENE, by Gordon H. Shaw, 7th Series, 151
BROOKS, EDWIN DEERING, by Arthur Perry, 6th Series, 251
BROOKS, GEORGE, by J. S. Keyes, 3rd Series, 219
BROOKS, NATHAN, by George M. Brooks, 2nd Series, 201
BROWN, CHARLES E., by Percy W. Brown, 5th Series, 321
BROWN, DAVID, by J. S. Keyes, 1st Series, 74
BROWN, EZEKIEL, by Grindall Reynolds, 1st Series, 79
BROWN, JOSEPH L., by Grindall Reynolds, 2nd Series, 1
BROWN, JOSEPH, name and motto only—no biography printed, 1st Series, 95
BROWN, PERCY WHITING, by Charles G. Edgarton, 6th Series, 181
BROWN, REUBEN, by William Whiting, 1st Series, 96
BROWN, REUBEN, JR., by William Whiting, 2nd Series, 168
BROWN, SIMON, by George Keyes, 3rd Series, 76
BROWN, WILLIAM HENRY, by Percy Brown, 6th Series, 71
BRYANT, REUBEN, by Grindall Reynolds, 2nd Series, 77
BULKELEY, BENJAMIN REYNOLDS, by Henry F. Smith, 5th Series, 312
BULL, EPHRAIM WALES, by William Barrett, 4th Series, 146
BURR, SAMUEL, by J. S. Keyes, 2nd Series, 209
BUSH, JAMES S., by William Barrett, 3rd Series, 176
BUTTRICK, SAMUEL, by Nehemiah Ball, 2nd Series, 157
BUTTRICK, STEDMAN, by Stedman Buttrick (son), 5th Series, 208
BUTTRICK, STEDMAN, by Stedman Buttrick, Jr., 7th Series, 27
BUTTRICK, STEDMAN, no author recorded, 6th Series, 249
BUTTRICK, WILLIAM ARTHUR, by Stedman Buttrick, 6th Series, 97
CHAMBERLIN, THEODORE, by Charles Hovey Pepper, 5th Series, 391
CHASE, FREDERICK HATHAWAY, by Raymond Baldwin, 6th Series, 119
CHENEY, JOHN M., by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2nd Series, 310
COGSWELL, EMERSON, by William S. Robinson, 1st Series, 99
COOLIDGE, HENRY DINGLEY, by Loren B. Macdonald, 5th Series, 179
COOLIDGE, HENRY JAMES, by Frank P. Coolidge Jr., 7th Series, 51
COUNIHAN, PAUL GERARD, by Russell Robb, 7th Series, 219
DAMON, EDWARD CARVER, by Henry F. Smith, 4th Series, 175
DANIELS, EDWARD PERRY, by Roger C. Fenn, 6th Series, 197
DAVIS, JONATHAN H., by Daniel Shattuck, 2nd Series, 102
DAVIS, JOSIAH, by E. R. Hoar, 2nd Series, 98
EATON, LORENZO, by Edward J. Bartlett, 4th Series, 238
EATON, WILLIAM LORENZO, by L. B. MacDonald, 4th Series, 307
EDGAR, DAVID L. R., by Frederick H. Lovejoy, Jr., 7th Series, 209
EDGARTON, CHARLES GARDNER, by C. F. and G. M. Edgarton, 7th Series, 43
EMERSON, EDWARD WALDO, by Allen French, 5th Series, 293
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO, 2nd Series, 1 (book-length memoir bound in after other biographies in volume, and separately paged)
EMERSON, RAYMOND, by Dana Greeley and Amelia F. Emerson, 7th Series, 33
FAY, ADDISON G., Grindell Reynolds, 3rd Series, 83
FAY, HENRY HOWARD, JR., by Frederick H. Lovejoy, 6th Series, 231
FAY, JONATHAN, by J.F. Barrett, 1st Series, 107
FENN, ROGER CARLISLE, by Walter W. Birge, III, 7th Series, 87
FLINT, THOMAS, by Frederick L. Day Jr. assisted by J. D. Shaw, 7th Series, 131
FRENCH, ALLEN, by Charles Hovey Pepper, 6th Series, 85
FROST, BARZILLAI, by Henry Frost., 3rd Series, 54
GAGE, DANIEL RIPLEY, by Raymond P. Baldwin, 6th Series, 203
GILMORE, JOHN L., by William B. Bartlett, 5th Series, 245
GOODWIN, HERSEY B., by Barzellai Frost, 2nd Series, 276
GOURGAS, FRANCIS R., by E. R. Hoar, 3rd Series, 25
GREELEY, DANA MCLEAN, by Timothy Matlack Warren, 7th Series, 97
GROUT, HENRY MARTYN, by William T. Harris, 3rd Series, 155
HALL, LIVINGSTON, by D. Elliott Wilbur and William Andrews, 7th Series, 189
HAMILTON, JAMES, by J. S. Keyes, 2nd Series, 143
HAMMOND, CHARLES, by George A. Thatcher (of Bangor), 2nd Series, 75
HARLOW, ANDREW J., by Grindall Reynolds, 3rd Series, 186
HARRIS, WILLIAM TORREY, by Percy Brown, 5th Series, 47
HEALD, THOMAS, by Grindall Reynolds, 2nd Series, 63
HEYWOOD, ABIEL, by Francis R Gourgas, 2nd Series, 228
HEYWOOD, CHARLES FAY, by Charles G. Edgarton and Roger Fenn, 6th Series, 21
HEYWOOD, GEORGE, by Edward Carver Damon, 4th Series, 159
HEYWOOD, JONAS, by E. R. Hoar, 2nd Series, 132
HEYWOOD, JONAS, by Lorenzo Eaton, 1st Series, 112
HEYWOOD, WILLIAM, by William Whiting, 2nd Series, 124
HOAR, EBENEZER ROCKWOOD, by Edward W. Emerson, 4th Series, 1
HOAR, SAMUEL, by E. R. Hoar, 3rd Series, 30
HOAR, SAMUEL, by Woodward Hudson, 4th Series, 265
HOAR, SAMUEL, by Egbert S. Newbury, Jr., 6th Series, 141
HOLLIS, THOMAS, by William B. Bartlett, 5th Series, 362
HORNBLOWER, EDWARD THOMAS, by William H. Hunt, 4th Series, 245
HOSMER, CYRUS, by George W. Hosmer, 2nd Series, 214
HOSMER, HENRY JOSEPH, by Charles E. Brown, 4th Series, 252
HOSMER, JOSEPH, by Josephine Hosmer, 1st Series, 134
HOUSTON, FRANCIS AUGUSTINE, by Woodward Hudson, 5th Series, 138
HOW, GEORGE P., by Grindall Reynolds, 3rd Series, 137
HOW, PHINEAS, by E. R. Hoar, 2nd Series, 273
HUBBARD, CYRUS, by Rebecca Wetherbee, 2nd Series, 192
HUBBARD, THOMAS, by Samuel Hoar, 1st Series, 120
HUDSON, BARZILLAI N., by George M. Brooks, 3rd Series, 120
HUDSON, WOODWARD, by Frederic H. Chase, 5th Series, 377
HUNT, JOSEPH, by William Whiting, 1st Series, 124
HUNT, REUBEN, by Simon Brown, 2nd Series, 15
HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY, by Allen French, 5th Series, 251
HURD, ISAAC, by E.R. Hoar, 1st Series, 164
HURD, ISAAC, JR., by Grindall Reynolds, 2nd Series, 110
HUTCHINSON, CHARLES WILLIAM, by Frederick Winsor, 5th Series, 349
INGRAHAM, DUNCAN, by Josiah Bartlett, 1st Series, 127
JARVIS, EDWARD, by J. S. Keyes, 2nd Series, 317
JARVIS, FRANCIS, by Edward Jarvis, 2nd Series, 30
JARVIS, FRANCIS, JR., by Edward W. Emerson, 2nd Series, 370
JOHNSTON, R. FULTON, by James W. Tyson II, 7th Series, 71
JONES, ELNATHAN, by Josiah Bartlett, 1st Series, 131
JONES, EPHRAIM, by Josiah Bartlett, 1st Series, 132
JONES, SAMUEL, by Josiah Bartlett and Elijah Wood, 1st Series 133
JONES, WILLIAM, by Grindall Reynolds, 2nd Series, 55
KEYES, GEORGE, by J. S. Keyes, 3rd Series, 209
KEYES, HENRY MULLIKEN, by Jonathan M. Keyes, 7th Series, 113
KEYES, JOHN SHEPARD, by Amelia F. Emerson, 5th Series, 71
KEYES, JOHN, by J. S. Keyes, 2nd Series, 161
KEYES, PRESCOTT, by Percy W. Brown, 6th Series, 37
KING, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, by Frederic H. Chase, 5th Series, 148
LANG, DAVID GOODWIN, by Edward J. Bartlett, 4th Series, 327
LEE, JONAS, by J. S. Keyes, 1st Series, 135
LITTLE, DAVID BRITTON, by Frederick L. Day, Jr. & D. Elliott Wilbur, 7th Series, 169
LITTLE, HARRY BRITTON, by David B. Little, 6th Series, 49
LORING, DAVID, by E. R. Hoar, 2nd Series, 377
LOVEJOY, FREDERICK HORR, by David B. Little, 7th Series, 57
MACDONALD, LOREN BENJAMIN, by Allen French, 5th Series, 201
MACKAY, TRISTRAM B., by E. R. Hoar, 3rd Series, 115
MERRIAM, EPHRAIM, by Grindall Reynolds, 2nd Series, 241
MERRICK, TILLY, by George M. Brooks, 2nd Series, 58
METCALF, LEONARD, by George M. Weed, 5th Series, 229
MINTON, ROBERT WILLIAM, by John C. Esty, 7th Series, 119
MOORE, ABEL, by John M. Cheney, 2nd Series, 286
MUNROE, ALFRED, by Henry F. Smith, 4th Series, 327
MUNROE, FRANCIS, by William Munroe, 3rd Series, 71
MUNROE, NATHANIEL, by William Munroe, Jr., 2nd Series, 114
MUNROE, WILLIAM, by William Munroe, Jr., 2nd Series, 145
NELSON, ALBERT H., by J. S. Keyes, 2nd Series, 382
NEWBURY, EGBERT STARR, by John Dyer Shaw, 7th Series, 77
PARKER, EDWARD LUDLOW, by Allen French, 5th Series, 222
PARKMAN, WILLIAM, by Grindall Reynolds, 2nd Series, 22
PEPPER, CHARLES HOVEY, by David B. Little, 6th Series, 127
PRATT, ALVAN, by Lorenzo Eaton, 2nd Series, 364
PRATT, FREDERICK ALCOTT, by Thomas Hollis, 5th Series, 59
PRESCOTT, JOHN L., by J. S. Keyes, 2nd Series, 80
PRICHARD, MOSES, by Grindall Reynolds, 2nd Series, 116
REYNOLDS, GRINDALL, by Prescott Keyes, 3rd Series, 240
RICE, REUBEN N., by E. R. Hoar, 3rd Series, 143
RICHARDSON, JOHN, by George Keyes, 1st Series, 159
RICHARDSON, JOSEPH SMITH, by Raymond Emerson, 6th Series, 165
RIPLEY, EZRA, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1st Series, 168
RIPLEY, SAMUEL, by James B. Thayer, 3rd Series, 1
ROBB, RUSSELL, by Roger C. Fenn, 6th Series, 167
ROBB, RUSSELL, by Stedman Buttrick, 5th Series, 268
SAEGER, WILFORD COOK, by Raymond P. Baldwin, 6th Series, 63
SANBORN, FRANKLIN BENJAMIN, by Raymond P. Baldwin, 6th Series, 1
SHATTUCK, DANIEL, by J. S. Keyes, 2nd Series, 134
SHATTUCK, LEMUEL, by George Keyes, 2nd Series, 224
SHAW, WALTER KEITH, JR., by Gordon H. Shaw, 6th Series, 273
SHEPHERD, WILLIAM, by J. S. Keyes, 2nd Series, 356
SKINNER, JOHN F., by Reuben N. Rice and Grindall Reynolds, 3rd Series, 66
SMITH, DUDLEY, by Josiah Bartlett, 2nd Series, 245
SMITH, HAROLD COLBY, by Francis S. Moulton Jr., 7th Series, 127
SMITH, HENRY FRANCIS, by Henry Francis Smith (son), 5th Series, 281
SMITH, HENRY FRANCIS, Jr., by William B. Bartlett, 6th Series, 77
SMITH, JULIUS MICHAEL, by Joseph S. and Laurence E. Richardson, 5th Series, 108
STACY, JOHN L., by Albert Tolman, 2nd Series, 188
STAPLES, SAMUEL, by John S. Keyes, 4th Series, 131
STOW, CYRUS, by Grindall Reynolds, 2nd Series, 295
STOW, NATHAN BROOKS, by Charles E. Brown, 4th Series, 203
TEMPLE, JAMES, by Julius M. Smith, 2nd Series, 52
TITCOMB, GEORGE EUGENE, by Raymond Emerson, 5th Series, 196
TOLMAN, ADAMS, by Allen French, 5th Series, 159
TUTTLE, JOHN L., by Samuel Hoar, 2nd Series, 71
TYSON, JAMES WOOD, II, by Arthur Perry and Arthur Stevenson, 7th Series, 145
VOSE, JOHN, by Cyrus Warren, 1st Series, 157
WALCOTT, CHARLES HOSMER, by Edward W. Emerson, 4th Series, 205
WALCOTT, HENRY JOEL, by Prescott Keyes, 4th Series, 332
WARDWELL, HUBERT MAURICE, by Harold C. Smith, 6th Series, 241
WARREN, CYRUS, by Grindall Reynolds, 2nd Series, 302
WEED, GEORGE MARSTON, by William B Bartlett, 6th Series, 111
WHEELER, BERKELEY, by Charles G. Edgarton, 6th Series, 235
WHEELER, EPHRAIM, by Francis R. Gourgas, 2nd Series, 67
WHEELER, HARVEY, by Loren B. Macdonald, 5th Series, 126
WHEELER, HARVEY, by Terry Rothermel and Henry W. Vaillant, 7th Series, 159
WHEELER, PETER, by Cyrus Snow, 1st Series, 138
WHEELER, SAMUEL G., by J. S. Keyes, 3rd Series, 60
WHEELER, WILLIAM, by Woodward Hudson, 5th Series, 221
WHEELOCK, JONATHAN, by Moses Prichard, 2nd Series, 82
WHEILDON, WILLIAM W., by Henry F. Smith, 3rd Series, 194
WHITE, JOHN, by Daniel Shattuck, 1st Series, 143
WHITING, WILLIAM, by E. R. Hoar, 2nd Series, 247
WHITMAN, WALTER GORDON, by John D. Shaw, 6th Series, 289
WHITNEY, JAMES LYMAN, by Edward J. Barrett, 5th Series, 94
WINSOR, FREDERICK, by Samuel Hoar, 6th Series, 27
WOOD, ELIJAH, by Elijah Wood, Jr., 2nd Series, 194
WOOD, ELIJAH, JR., by James B. Wood and Henry M. Grout, 3rd Series, 111
WOOD, EPHRAIM, by Elijah Wood, Jr., 1st Series, 152
WOOD, JAMES BARRETT, by Henry Dingley Coolidge, 4th Series, 257
WOOD, NATHAN, by Deacon Elijah Wood, 2nd Series, 84
WOOD, STEPHEN, by Elijah Wood, 2nd Series, 28
WYMAN, OLIVER C., by Nehemiah Ball, 2nd Series, 70

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This index to the seven published volumes of  Social Circle memoirs was prepared for the CFPL Special Collections by Sarah Chapin.