The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . est advocate of temperance. Prior to the Rebellionhe belonged to the Salem Cadets. William Joseph Ham Nourse was born in Canada April 24, 1S64. Hisgrandfather, William Nourse, came a boy from Scotland in the early part ofthe present century in the employ of the Hudsons Bay Company, marrieda Miss Corrigill, whose mother was a descendant of one of the great Indianchiefs, and became in course of time chief factor of the company. His sonCharles, father of the subject of this sketch, born at Sault Ste. Marie, wasalso employed by
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . est advocate of temperance. Prior to the Rebellionhe belonged to the Salem Cadets. William Joseph Ham Nourse was born in Canada April 24, 1S64. Hisgrandfather, William Nourse, came a boy from Scotland in the early part ofthe present century in the employ of the Hudsons Bay Company, marrieda Miss Corrigill, whose mother was a descendant of one of the great Indianchiefs, and became in course of time chief factor of the company. His sonCharles, father of the subject of this sketch, born at Sault Ste. Marie, wasalso employed by the Hudsons Bay Company. He married Elizabeth , who was descended from an English family of distinction. William J. H. Nourse received his early education in the common schoolsof-Canada, and at a private school in Memphis, Tennessee, the family passingthe winters in the South, his father owning a cotton plantation at He was graduated at Whitby Cnllegiate Institute, whichmaintained a military training department, and in which he was one of the. JOHN C. OTIS. The Worcester of i^ 705
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