When I was tracing people in Boston, I used a Business Library to great
advantage.  It was located close to the Court House and had a variety of
reference materials.  It might be of some help.



David Fahey wrote:

> Martha Pickrell (email: [log in to unmask]) will soon publish a
> short biography of the ribbon worker Emma Molloy together with some of her
> writings (forthcoming this April from Guild Press in Indianapolis).  There
> is one loose end that she would like help in tying up: a reference in 1876
> to a meeting of a ribbon society in Boston at the Friendly Inn.  Martha
> Pickrell hopes to be able to identify the Friendly Inn.  She thinks it may
> have been a temperance hotel.  The Boston Public Library has been unable to
> find the Friendly Inn in its records.