Lowell firsts

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Across
  1. 5. Sarah G. ______; first female telegrapher. Also labor activist and reformer
  2. 6. Addison ______; One of the first casualties of the Civil War (1861)
  3. 8. James ______ developed the first modern water turbine (1849)
  4. 13. Charles ______; One of the first casualties of the Civil War (1861)
  5. 14. First Irish American mayor of Lowell (1882)
  6. 17. First president to visit Lowell
  7. 19. ______ Bartlett; First mayor of Lowell (1836)
  8. 21. Luther ______; One of the first casualties of the Civil War (1861)
  9. 22. Lowell is the first city in the US to have ______ numbers (1880)
  10. 26. Edith ______ Rogers; first woman elected to congress from Massachusetts
  11. 27. ______ Howe; worked in Lowell before inventing the first practical sewing machine
  12. 28. L'______; The first Franco-American daily newspaper in the US (1881)
  13. 31. Hugh ______; his Irish laborers dug the first power canals (1822)
Down
  1. 1. Saint ______'s School; first Franco-American school in the diocese (1883)
  2. 2. John ______;Lowell's first Polish American mayor (1954)
  3. 3. ______ Church; Lowell’s first evening school, kindergarten, and nursery school
  4. 4. ______ Boydon installed his first turbine in the Appleton Mill in 1844
  5. 7. Sumner ______; One of the first casualties of the Civil War (1861)
  6. 9. Sokhary ______; First Cambodian American Mayor in the US
  7. 10. Lowell is the first integrated and ______ high school in the US
  8. 11. Lowell ______ Railroad Company; first ______-powered streetcar. Completed in 1864
  9. 12. First mass-produced soft drink in the US
  10. 15. Father John ______; celebrated first mass in Lowell (1827)
  11. 16. Gustavus D. Dows; invented the first marble ______ fountain and ice shaver (1863)
  12. 18. First Customer _____ Store opens in Lowell(1963)
  13. 20. First major textile mill (1823)
  14. 23. George C. _______; Lowell's first Greek American mayor (1951)
  15. 24. Lowell _______; the city's first large entertainment venue (1840)
  16. 25. John ______; nickname of first locomotive on the Boston & Lowell RR (1835)
  17. 29. Bucky ______; first black professional basketball player (1902)
  18. 30. Rev. Theodore ______; First Minister of St. Anne's