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We here remain to greet again Another natal morn, To welcome now a coming age, A century newly born ; To hail, this day, our present good, With music and with cheers,
To send a glad, inspiring shout Ringing onward through the years.
To us majestic mountains send Their gifts from crystal springs, Our river, from the placid lakes, A highland tribute brings ; For us, in sunny southern fields, The cotton yields increase, The flocks that graze on distant plains Send many a snowy fleece.
Up, from the cheerless depths beneath, Come ores from many a mine; Swift messengers from all the earth, Bring oil, and corn; and wine. We take the rough and make it smooth, Our art the crude refines,
We clothe each hard and shapeless mass With beauty's flowing lines.
Who can forget the bold vanguard, Of brave old pioneers, That lived and planned and labored Through all the trial years- Wise men who builded better Than wise men ever knew,
Women who watched and loved and prayed, Brave, faithful, pure and true.
SAUNDERS, working, planning, trusting Never yielding to despair, Saw the city of his dreams arise, Bold, stately, proud and fair : LAWRENCE, a very prince of men, A tower of strength became, Leaving a stainless record, Giving an honored name.
STORROW, courtly, bold and gracious, Just with every brother man ; Look on our city to-day- It is his unfolding plan ! Thank God that in life's waning years, He lives to-day to see This natal morn, this festal time, This year of jubilee.
There were many strenuous leaders, Firm of purpose, strong of will, We clasped their vanished hands in ours, Heard voices that are still ; They come to us in silent hours, In memories and in dreams,
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And every faithful comrade A living presence seems. There were BENSON, BARTLETT, OLIVER, And PERRY, SPRAGUE and WHITE O'DONNELL, TAFFE and HARRINGTON, PACKARD, GILMORE, KNOWLES and WRIGHT, STEVENS, RUSSELL, DANA, TARBOX, MELVIN, BONNEY, CLARKE and ROWE, VALPSY, ROLLINS, KIDDER, EATON, HOADLEY, PLUMMER, HART and STOWE.
We had WILSON, BRIGGS and MERRILL, HERRICK, ALLYN. WOOD and GAGE, SARGENT, ROBINSON and COOLIDGE, OSGOOD, FURBER, PAUL and PAGE. Our faint and partial record Must at the outset close, But every unnamed hero God in his wisdom knows.
We honor all the sturdy band Who wrought in plainest ways, Who were true and faithful workers, Toiling on through trial days ; They wrought or taught or fought for us -- Each brave and faithful soul, Within our hall of fame we place Their name on Honor's roll.
There were men who climbed the ladders, 'Neath the burden of the hod, Strong men behind the shovels, Who turned the stubborn sod ; There were men behind the anvils, The hammers and the plough, And faithful household workers, They all have honor now.
There were wives beside the cradles, And mill-girls by the loom, There were preachers, there were teachers, Every working soul had room ; There were strong and sturdy soldiers Marching 'neath the southern suns, On battlefields and vessels' decks- Brave men behind the guns.
Some toiled for simple daily bread And dreamed and planned and prayed Over few but hard-earned dollars, And in heaven their record made ; These faithful souls, in simple ways, Life's pathway firmly trod, Forging a human chain to bind This working world to God.
The Mayflower and the Bevis brought Expectant Pilgrim bands, Now, high, resistless tides of life Roll in from older lands, From every zone, o'er every sea, Through every open door, They are coming-Fair Columbia- Uncounted thousands more.
They are workers, they are learners, They are fighters, if need be! They know our star-gemmed banner Is the emblem of the free; They have strength of will and muscle, They are marching into light ; They feel the freeman's impulse To defend and seek the right. ii-4
If wars should come (which God forbid), When the tide of battle flows, They will be with our defenders As the nation meets its foes ; We cannot, now, with partial hand, Inscribe the honor rolls, The Bells of Heaven one welcome ring For all triumphant souls.
Give to the winds all hate and scorn, Give greetings fair and free, Let the Orient and the Occident Shake hands across the sea ; And, as we march, from every tongue Let one glad song be heard, One motto-"Human Brotherhood," One creed, God's living word.
Never yet, in all the ages, since This formless earth was new, Have men known another cycle like The years we now review ; Years when hidden gifts and forces came From earth and air and sea, When Liberty, in shadowed lands, Set mourning captives free.
Old and hoary superstitions Rule no more the unfettered mind; Monarchs have lost their ancient power The human soul to bind ; The poorest and the weakest fear No more the bold and strong, And tyranny's recessional Is drowned in Freedom's song.
To-day no note of discord stirs The perfumed summer air, The hills, the fields and forests Bright hues of glory wear. The soft, south winds from Andover, Over Shawsheen's winding line, Bring « choes from sweet, restful bells, Calling to Learning's shrine.
And, when fresh northern breezes sweep Down from Methuen's Hills, The chimes of "Pine Lodge" Hood the ait And every bosom thrills, As louder, clearer, sounding forth Above our river's tide, The labor bells of Lawrence ring Their message far and wide.
Somehow, sometime, we know not when, Lured by still latent charms, Our mother towns will come within Their daughter's stalwart arms: Then all the bells will ring in tune And peal in triune song. The marriage day of work and worth, The death of greed and wrong.
Ring, changing bells of Lawrence ! Send echoes o'er the land ! Shine out, fair lights of Lawrence, To cheer the toiling band. Flame forth, Industria's altar fires ! The coming hosts to guide ! Bring down, O, highland river The mountain's crystal tide.
Come, bankers from the counting house, Come merchants from the marts,
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Come preachers, priests and teachers, Unite all hands and hearts; Gather horny-handed workmen, From forge and loom and plough, Come, too, young men and maidens And take the patriot's vow ; As a long life's thorny pathway, Each one his burden bears,
Ask the plain and simple question Are we sowing wheat or tares?
Above our hum and traffic, Above our triumph song, Hear the plain and stern inquiry, Are we doing right or wrong? As a free, united people, come This primal truth to know,
Communities, like every man, Must reap the crops they sow.
When our threadbare city charter Shall again be wisely made,
Weave in the ten commandments And know they are obeyed. For the people of the future Your wisest maxims draw- Usher in with glad thanksgiving, The reign of Love and Law;
Then our God, who holds the nations In the hollow of His hand, Will keep and guard our city In this grand old valley land.
Permit us Lord, with trembling hand, To touch Thy garment's hem, Cast on our path a light from out Thy royal diadem ;
Withdraw the veiling of thy face, Illume life's mystic page, And teach us what it means to live In this fair land and age.
To live in fair old Essex, Lashed by the ocean's tide
In this our grand old Commonwealth- Land of the Pilgrim's pride :
In old New England, won for us By patriots' wounds and scars, In this mightiest of nations, Beneath the stripes and stars.
To live in this glad century, Enriched by every clime,
This age that holds, in sure embrace, The garnered gifts of time ; Grant us to see, in the beyond- Majestic, pure and free --- Our possible, ultimate city Of years that are to be.
The Peabody family is said PEABODY to have originated in Eng- land about the year 61, at the time that Nero ruled Britain as well as the rest of the Roman empire. The ancient Britons, who were tribes of the more ancient Cambri, were vassals of Nero Parsutagus, in the right of Queen Boadicea, his wife, was the reigning king of Icena, Britain. When
he died, although he gave half his vast estate to the Emperor, the rapacity of the tyrant was not satisfied and he seized the whole. When the Queen interfered with his officers in their confiscation he ordered her publicly whipped. A rebellion followed. Boadie, a patriarch of one of the tribes, fought for the Queen and killed a Roman officer, Galbuta, whose armor he took as a trophy. The Britons were finally subdued, and Boadie retired to the hills. Hence the name Pea or Pay, meaning hill-Peaboadie or Paybodie. The name was variously spelled, but means "man of hills." The Peabody arms contains the insignia from the arms of Galbuta, two suns. The arms are described ; party per fess, nebule Gules azure; two suns proper with a garb; crest, scroll and motto. "Murus Aerus Conscientia Sana." The arms are very ancient.
(I) John Peabody, the immigrant ancestor of all the American branches of the Peabody family, came to America about 1635, probably with his son William, as their names are men- tioned together in the list of original proprie- tors of the town of Plymouth. Jolin Peabody owned ten acres at Bluefish in the Plymouth colony in 1637. He was admitted a freeman January 2, 1637-38, and with William Pea- body, his son, was one of the original proprie- tors of Bridgewater in 1645. He lived in Duxbury. His will is dated July 16, 1649, at Duxbury, Plymouth colony, and proved at Boston, April 27, 1667, but recorded at. Ply- mouth. He died at Bridgewater in 1667, aged seventy-seven years. He married Isabel
who survived him. Children : I. Thomas, mentioned in will in 1667. 2. Fran- cis, born 1614; mentioned below. 3. William, born 1619-20; came to Plymouth colony and settled in Rhode Island; married Elizabeth Alden. 4. Annis (Agnes), married John Rouse, who was with William Peabody, one of the original proprietors of Little Compton, originally Seaconet.
(II) Francis Peabody, son of John Pea- body (1), was born at St. Albans, Hertford- shire, England, in 1614. He came to New England in the ship "Planter," Nicholas Fra- rice, master, sailing April 2, 1635, and first settled in Ipswich, where he was a proprietor in 1636. In 1638 he was one of the original settlers of Hampton, New Hampshire, then Norfolk county, with Rev. Stephen Bachilor and twelve others, and they resided there sev- eral years. He was on the grand jury, also the trial jury there. He was admitted a free-
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man there May 18, 1642. He sold his estate at Hampton, May 25, 1650, and removed to Topsfield, Massachusetts, in order to be near- er Boston. His new farm was adjoining those of Richard Dorman and Mr. Simonds. He became a very prominent man there, both on account of his property and influence. He owned large tracts of land in Topsfield, Box- ford and Rowley. His will is dated January 20, 1695, and proved August 7, 1698. He died February 19, 1697-98, aged eighty-three years. His widow died April 9, 1705. He married Mary, daughter of Reginald Foster, of the family named in Scott's "Marmion" and "Lay of the Last Minstrel." Children : I. John, born 1642. 2. Joseph, born 1644; married Bethiah Bridges. 3. William, born 1647; mentioned below. 4. Isaac, born 1648. 5. Sarah, born 1650; married How, of Ipswich. 6. Hepsibah, born 1652. 7. Lydia, born 1654; married Jacob Perley. 8. Mary, born 1656; married John Death, of Framing- ham. 9. Ruth, born May 22, 1658. 10. Damaris, born January 21, 1660; died Decem- ber 19, 1660. 11. Samuel, born January 4, 1662; died September 13, 1677. 12. Jacob, born July 28, 1664. 13. Hannah, born May 28, 1668. 14. Nathaniel, born July 29, 1669.
(III) William Peabody, son of Francis Peabody (2), was born in 1647, and resided at Boxford, Massachusetts. He married Han- nah Hale, of Newbury, August 14, 1684. He died March, 1699. His widow died February 23, 1733. Children : I. Stephen, born Aug- ust 5, 1685. 2. Mary, born April 11, 1687; married Joseph Simonds. 3. Ephraim, born April 23, 1689; mentioned below. 4. Rich- ard, born February 7, 1691. 5. Hannah, born August, 1693; married Jonathan Foster. 6. John, born August 1, 1695. 7. Abiel, born 1697. 8. Oliver, born May 7, 1698.
(IV) Ephraim Peabody, son of William Peabody (3), was born April 23, 1689. He resided at Boxford. His mind was deranged from 1732 until his death, June 1, 1740. He had as guardians Thomas Reddington and his brother Stephen Peabody. His will was dated July 4. 1728, and proved June 23, 1740. He married Hannah Reddington, July 13, 1712. Children : I. Thomas, born July 14, 1713; resided at Boxford, then at Lunenburg. 2. Abraham, born October 6, 1717. 3. Ephraim, born February 10, 1720; resided at Ashford and Windham, Connecticut. 4. Hannah, born May 8, 1725. 5. Nathaniel, born December 18, 1727 ; mentioned below. 6. Stephen, born 1729, died 1733. 7. Mary, born 1731.
(V) Nathaniel Peabody, son of Ephraim Peabody (4), born December 18, 1727, died August 17, 1778. He resided at Boxford. He married, February 26, 1755, Hepsibah Barker, of Andover, Massachusetts. His estate was inventoried at eight thousand one hundred thirty-seven pounds eleven shillings four pence. Children : 1. Amasa, born May 23, 1755; resided at Boxford, afterward at Dra- cut ; married Rhoda Runnels. 2. Ephraim, born November 16, 1757; married Betsey Gage, of Pelham, 1783; died 1804; resided at Methuen. 3. John, born August 18, 1763; mentioned below. 4. Nathaniel, born 1767; resided at Boxford, afterwards at Dracut; married, April 1, 1789, Betsey Cole.
(VI) John Peabody, son of Nathaniel Pea- body (5), was born at Boxford, Massachu- setts, August 18, 1763. He settled in Brad- ford when he was twenty-four years old, re- moving thither with two brothers, Nathaniel and Ephraim Peabody. Nathaniel settled in what is now part of the city of Lowell, Mass- achusetts, and became a prosperous farmer ; Ephraim settled in Methuen, Massachusetts, where he also was successful in farming. John Peabody was a blacksmith by trade. He built a shop in Bradford, and followed his trade there the rest of his days, teaching it to two of his sons. He was a man of large frame and great strength, and, inclining to obesity, finally attained the enormous weight of almost five hundred pounds. He died in 1838, aged seventy-five years. He was a Democrat in politics, a man of sound character and good judgment. He married, September 15, 1788 (also given September 21, town records), Alice Carleton, born in Bradford. Children, born in Bradford: 1. Sally, born June 20, 1789. 2. Charlotte, born May 19, 1791 ; mar- ried Tenney. 3. Roxana, born March 6. 1793; died unmarried. 4. John Jr., born May 24, 1795; married first, Elizabeth Horn; second Elizabeth Allen. 5. Nathaniel, born July 7. 1797 ; mentioned below. 6. Leonard, born February 7, 1800 ; married first, Hannah Welch: second Dolly Abbott. 7. Eliza, born February 1I, 1802; married Deacon Allan, of Manchester, Massachusetts. 8. Martha, born August 6, 1804. 9. Mary, born October 16, 1806.
(VII) Nathaniel Peabody, son of John Peabody (6), born in Bradford, Massachu- setts, July 7, 1797 ; married, March 18, 1821, Mary Foote. He was educated in the com- mon schools, and learned the trade of black- smith in his father's shop and succeeded his
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father as the village blacksmith of Bradford. He also owned and conducted a tavern in Bradford for many years. He was a prom- inent and influential citizen. In religion he was a Congregationalist. He died in 1876, and his widow in 1889, aged eighty-seven years. Children, born at Bradford: I. Martha Jane, born August 24, 1821. 2. Cal- vin, born September 16, 1823. 3. William Henry, born October 17, 1825; resided at Bradford. 4. George, born February 4, 1828. 5. Walter Scott, born December 19, 1830; mentioned below. 6. Charles Nathaniel, born May 18, 1833. 7. Benjamin Carleton, born August 2, 1836. 8. Francis, born April 5, 1842; resides in Bradford, Massachusetts.
(VIII) Walter Scott Peabody, son of Na- thaniel Peabody (7), was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, December 19, 1830. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the trade of shoemaker, combining farming and shoemaking after the custom of New England farmers in his younger days. He died March 21, 1892. He was a Congregationalist in re- ligion, and a Democrat in politics. He repre- sented his district in the general court for one term, and was for some years selectman of the town of Groveland, which was set off from the town of Bradford, being originally the east precinct of Bradford and incorporat- ed as a separate town March 8, 1850. He married Mary E. Poore, born December 9, 1833, in Boston, and who survives him. She was the daughter of John D. Poore and Rebecca Hanson. Children : I. Winfield Scott, born September 8, 1855. 2. Frederick W., February 8, 1857; mentioned below. 3. George E., born June 14, 1858. 4. Fannie, born September 10, 1860, died December 28, 1863. 5. Martha Jane, born March 8, 1865. 6. Harry G., born December 19, 1870, died February 25, 1898. 7. Annie L., born Jan- uary 4, 1878.
(IX) Frederick W. Peabody, son of Wal- ter Scott Peabody (8), was born in Soutlı Groveland, Massachusetts, formerly Brad- ford, February 8, 1857. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and dur- ing his boyhood acquired the trade of shoe- maker, and divided his time when not in school between the farm in summer and the shop in winter. He had a special gift in music, and cultivated this talent, became a skillful violinist, and for a number of years was leader of an orchestra in Haverhill. He also gave instruction on the violin and became well known in musical circles in the state. In
1886 he purchased the Tasker Music House, located at 208 Merrimack street, Haverhill, and has conducted it successfully since. He deals in musical instruments of all kinds and in all sorts of musical publications for instru- ments and the voice. He has also another store in the same line in Amesbury, Massa- chusetts, another at Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, and a fourth at Gloucester, Massachu- setts. He is one of the best known and most prosperous dealers in pianos in northern and northeastern Massachusetts. He is treasurer of the William Bourne & Son Piano Com- pany, of Boston. The pianos made by this concern have been on the market for seventy years, and are especially well-known and liked in the city of Haverhill, where they have been sold in large numbers for the past thirty-five years. Mr. Peabody also sells the pianos of Vose & Sons; Paul G. Mehlin; the Peabody ; the Linderman; the Schirmer ; the Janssen, and others. He makes a specialty in recent years of phonographs and cylinders, and piano players.
He is a member of Saggahew Lodge of Free Masons; of Pentucket Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and of the Pentucket Club. He is a Republican in politics. Mr. Peabody stands high in the business world and has the esteem of all his townsmen. He married Lena L. Allan, born June 28, 1861, in Corinna, Maine, daughter of W. S. Allan. Children : I.
Pauline, born September 29, 1890; educated in public schools. 2. Allan K., born Febru- ary 13, 1895; student .. 3. Blanche, born March 12, 1902.
Abraham Howe, the immigrant HOWE ancestor of this family, born in England, settled early in Rox- bury, Massachusetts Bay. Soon after 1636 he located in the adjacent town of Dorchester, where his descendants have been numerous. It seems likely from the place of residence, the given names of children and the intimate con- nection between their families, that he was brother of James Howe, also of Roxbury. The descendants of these two pioneers settled in Ipswich, Gloucester, Marblehead, Dedham, Milton and other points along the sea coast. The early records of Dorchester show that Abraham "had leave granted to live in the house he built, although more than a mile from the meeting house." The settlers had to provide, for reasons of mutual protection against danger and for the sake of public worship, that the houses should be built in
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villages. He was admitted a freeman May 2, 1638; was a member of Mr. John Eliot's church, and in 1645 one of the signers of the Roxbury Latin School. Howe's wife died at Roxbury in 1645, and he married second, Sarah - His will was dated May 26, and proved November 2, 1676, shortly after his death. He bequeathed to children Abra- ham, Israel, Isaac, Hester, and Deborah; to daughter Sarah's children-Joseph, Isaac and Sarah. He was a weaver by trade. He sold a lot of land in Milton, March 16, 1668-69, to Robert Babcock. (Suffolk deeds vii, 280). Children : I. Abraham, baptized September 25, 1653; a weaver. 2. Elizabeth, died before her father. 3. Sarah, whose children were mentioned in her father's will. 4. Isaac, born June 24, 1639, baptized March 30, 1656; men- tioned below. 5. Deborah, born September 4, 1641. 6. Israel, born July 7, 1644; married Tabitha ; settled in Boston and Dor- chester. 7. Esther, married Henry Mason, and second, John Sears.
(II) Isaac Howe, son of Abraham Howe (I), born in Roxbury or Boston, June 24. 1639, died in Dorchester, September 15, 1714. He left a will. He married Hannah who died at Dorchester, December 20, 1728. He lived at Dorchester after the Narragansett war and perhaps earlier. Children, born at Dorchester: I. Isaac, Jr., born July 7, 1678; mentioned below. 2. Abraham, born April 7. 1680; married Hannah Wheeler, August 10, 1725. 3. Samuel, born June 17, 1685; re- sided in Dorchester. 4. Hannah, born March 18, 1688-89.
(III) Isaac Howe, son of Isaac Howe (2), born at Dorchester, July 7, 1678; married, November 26, 1702. Submit Bird, born May 13. 1678, died October 2, 1760, daughter of Thomas and Thankful ( Atherton) Bird. Howe died August 26, 1760. Children, born at Dorchester : 1. Mary, November 29, 1704. 2. Submit, April 10, 1707. 3. Thomas, Octo- ber 12, 1709; mentioned below. 4. Samuel, July 22, 17II. 5. Isaac, June 16, 1715. 6. Joseph, March 27, 1716-17. 7. Josiah, Decem- ber 16, 1718. 8. Sarah, May 18, 1722.
(IV) Thomas Howe, son of Isaac Howe (3). born in Dorchester, October 12, 1709; married, November 22, 1733, Sarah Searle, baptized June 17, 17II, died November 27, 1807, daughter of Jabez and Thankful (Top- liff) Searle. Howe died 1783-85. He settled in Dedham, where both he and his wife died. Children, born at Dorchester : I. Thomas ;
mentioned below. 2. Thankful, born August I, 1737. Probably others.
(V) Thomas Howe, son of Thomas Howe (4), born August 24, 1735; married, March 17, 1763, Hannah Leeds, born at Dorchester, March 17, 1741, died at Dedham, November 27, 1807, daughter of Consider and Margaret (Dolbeare) Leeds of Dorchester. Howe died at Dedham, November 27, 1807. Children, born at Dedham: I. Rebecca, December 4, 1763. 2. Thomas, mentioned below. 3. Joseph. April 3. 1768. 4. William, August 17, 1770.
(VI) Thomas Howe, son of Thomas Howe (5), born in Dedham, July 7, 1765, died there December 22, 1805: married Hannah, daugh- ter of Elijah and Mary ( Allen) Withington. She was born at Dorchester, June 2, 1767, and married second, September 11, 1808, General Nathan Crane, of Canton. She died May 5, 1848. Child of Thomas and Hannah Howe, Elijah, mentioned below.
(\'HI) Elijah Howe, son of Thomas Howe (6), born in Dedham, October 21, 1792 ; mar- ried first, March 26, 1826, Prudence, daughter of Major Jacob and Prudence (Stowe) Clark : second. November 18, 1824, Julia Ann, daughter of Moses and Mehitable (Holmes) Gay. She died December 12, 1880. Chil- dren, born in Dedham: 1. Elijah, Jr., born September 27, 1828; mentioned below. 2. William, born May 1, 1832: died August 19, 1832. He was educated in the public schools of Dedham, and learned the trade of carpen- ter and cabinet maker. With the exception of a year spent in Homesburg, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, he lived in his native town all his life and worked at his trade. He was a skilled craftsman. Among his ancestors having military records were General Hum- phrey Atherton, of the first settlers, and four who served in the revolution-Thomas Howe (4), Timothy Stow, Ebenezer Battle and Eli- jah Withington. He died at Dedham, No- vember 30, 1880. Children, born in Dedham: I. Elijah, Jr., born September 27, 1828; men- tioned below. 2. William, born May 1, 1832; died August 19, 1832.
(VIII) Elijah Howe, Jr., son of Elijah Howe (7), born September 27, 1828, died at Dedham, May 7, 1898. The family home- stead where he was born was on Ilighland street. Federal Hill, and is now owned and occupied by William H. Ivers. From there the family removed to a new house that the father built on the opposite corner of Lowder street in 1829. This house is now owned and
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occupied by Charles Shriver. In it Elijah, Sr., lived the rest of his life, and Elijah, Jr., his boyhood. Elijah, Jr., attended the public schools and began his preparation for college in the public school on Westfield street, in which Rev. Dr. Ebenezer Burgess took a special interest, and which later was given his name as a memorial. He completed his preparatory studies at Phillips Academy, Andover, dur- ing the winter of 1845, and entered Amherst College. He was an apt student and especial- ly brilliant in the classics. After his gradua- tion in 1849 he taught in the following schools in succession : The high school at South Had- ley, Massachusetts, one year ; the East Doug- las high school two years, and the academy at South Wilbraham one year. He was a student in the Andover Theological Seminary in 1852- 53, fitting for the Christian ministry, but his health proved unequal to the demands of the ministry. He returned to Dedham and gave his attention to business, filling the position of bookkeeper in the Shoe and Leather National Bank of Boston. In 1864 he resigned his posi- tion to become the agent in New England of Park Brothers & Company, of Pittsburg, the Black Diamond Steel Works, and continued in this position for twelve years. He had his headquarters in Boston, but traveled exten- sively throughout New England, visiting every machine shop and manufactory where steel was used. This company through him fur- nished the steel used for the drills in the Hoosac tunnel. He gained a wide and valu- able acquaintance with the metal manufactur- ing industries in this section of the country, and a broad and useful business experience.
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