The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . sachusetts,September 12, 1839. He is a descendant of Captain John Parker of Lex-ingtiin fame. He received his education in the public schools of Princetonand at the Millbury Academy. He first engaged as clerk in a store inOakdale, and came to Worcester in 1856, and entered the employ of A. , a dry-goods merchant, with whom he remained until the warbroke out. He was in service with theCity Guards in 1861, and was compelledb) serious illness to return to Worcesterwithin a few months, and was never ableto again enter
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . sachusetts,September 12, 1839. He is a descendant of Captain John Parker of Lex-ingtiin fame. He received his education in the public schools of Princetonand at the Millbury Academy. He first engaged as clerk in a store inOakdale, and came to Worcester in 1856, and entered the employ of A. , a dry-goods merchant, with whom he remained until the warbroke out. He was in service with theCity Guards in 1861, and was compelledb) serious illness to return to Worcesterwithin a few months, and was never ableto again enter the service, although heattempted to enlist twice. In 1864 he was in the employ of Bar-nard, Sumner & Co., the leading dry-goods firm in this city, and later in thefurniture business in the firm of Parker,Denny & Co. For ten years from 1868he was general agent of the Massa-chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Com-pany, and afterwards an auctioneer andappraiser for several years, and later waswith the furniture house of Putnam &Sprague Company. amos m. IS6 The Worcester of 1898.
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