The horrific fire in downtown Natick on Jan. 13, 1874, was a transformative event in the town’s history. It’s a bit too easy to forget that an earlier fire on March 2, 1872 caused similar devastation and change in commercial and civic life in South Natick.
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Francis Davis Millet
Millet was smoking and playing cards in a gentleman’s lounge on the Titanic when he heard commotion outside the room about 20 minutes after the accident.
The East Bridgewater native rushed into the hallway and a passenger told him the ship had struck an iceberg.
Millet, 65, an internationally celebrated painter traveling first class with Major Archibald Butt, military aide to President William Howard Taft, found a warmer jacket and overcoat in his cabin and then went back onto the deck.
A passenger who survived the sinking recalled seeing Millet, Butt and John Jacob Astor IV, the richest passenger aboard the ship, helping people onto lifeboats.
A researchers quest led her to The Paris News, where one reporter in the 1930s stood up to defend the rights of a Black football player, Lou Montgomery, who was