The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . rom Henry, the progenitor in this country of the Lelandfamily, who came to America in 1652. His father and others of thefamily spelled the surname Haws, but the subject of this sketch preferredto add the c. He received his early education in the public schools of hisnative town, and studied medicine with his family physician in Leominster,attended medical lectures at Boston and New York, and received hisdegree from Harvard Medical School in 1843. He very soon began thepractice of his profession in Worcester, but the bent of
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . rom Henry, the progenitor in this country of the Lelandfamily, who came to America in 1652. His father and others of thefamily spelled the surname Haws, but the subject of this sketch preferredto add the c. He received his early education in the public schools of hisnative town, and studied medicine with his family physician in Leominster,attended medical lectures at Boston and New York, and received hisdegree from Harvard Medical School in 1843. He very soon began thepractice of his profession in Worcester, but the bent of his mind was inanother direction, and his genius manifested itself in the field of invention,and produced marvelous results. In some way his attention was drawn tothe paper-making machinery in the manufactory of Goddard, Rice & Co.,and he made several valuable improvements, and in the interest of thatfirm visited Europe. After his return his most successful efifort, theenvelope-machine, was brought to a degree of perfection and put in 650 The Worcester of RUSSELL L. HAWES. manufacture with George He was one of the operation, and was a w<in(ler of the time,the first machine-made envelopes beingproduced by it, and these were sent outfrom Worcester to supply the marketsof the world, and brought a large returnto the inventor. This was the founda-tion of the great envelope industry ofto-day. Doctor Hawes also originatedse\eral other imjirovements, machines andmethods, among them the Gaines print-ing-press, a wrygler used in woolen manu-facture, and a machine for making paperhags and one for printing wall-paper. Hisinventions had an important connectionwith the industries of Worcester, and lieacquired a handsome fortune as the rewardof his efforts. Dtiring the last years ofhis life he was engaged in the woolenRice and Benjamin Bottomly at Cherryoriginal directors of the W^orcester GasLight Company, and was connected with that corporation as long as helived; a dir
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