Hannah Shuttleworth

[1] Jeremiah was Dedham's first postmaster with the post office housed in their family home, located at the corner of Church and High Streets.

[11][12][13][14][15][16][4][7][6][3][9] In 1886, the 250th anniversary of the founding of the town, Don Gleason Hill announced the gift at the Society's annual meeting in March.

[14] The fireproof, colonial style building[16] consisted of a lecture-display hall, basement storage area, and office space.

[9][4][7][11][6][13][14][15][3] In April 1886, a lot of 19,101 square feet in size was purchased for $2,000 using her bequest on the corner of Church and Norfolk Streets; ground was broken to construct the library on October 13.

"[7][6] As he wrote in Dedham Records, published in 1888 “The morning following her funeral, a cold blustering February day, Gariboldi, the statuary manufacturer, was summoned from Boston, and inside the receiving tomb a plaster cast of her face was taken, and from this alone, with the descriptions which a few friends who knew her best could furnish, Miss Annie R. Slafter, of Dedham, made the crayon portrait which now hangs in the place of honor over the great mantel in our Historical Society room.”[7]The death mask, drawing, and Shuttleworth's bonnet are now all in the collection of the Historical Society.

[20] "Her munificent bequeaths," the dedication said, "to our Historical Society and public library, and also to the Town of a large permanent fund to aid the worthy poor, will make her a name a household word.