. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . gland, composedof manufacturers anddealers in dyestuffsand chemicals. Ihisclub was formed inMarch, 1885, byHenry D. Dupee andabout a dozen othergentlemen in thesame line of Dupee was itsfirst president, andhas been four timesre-elected to thatoffice. Ever sincei t s formation theclub has been one ofthe most influentialof the many tradeorganizations in Bos-ton, having represen-tation in the Associ-ated Board of Tradeand in the ExecutiveBusiness
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . gland, composedof manufacturers anddealers in dyestuffsand chemicals. Ihisclub was formed inMarch, 1885, byHenry D. Dupee andabout a dozen othergentlemen in thesame line of Dupee was itsfirst president, andhas been four timesre-elected to thatoffice. Ever sincei t s formation theclub has been one ofthe most influentialof the many tradeorganizations in Bos-ton, having represen-tation in the Associ-ated Board of Tradeand in the ExecutiveBusiness Mens As-sociation. is of Hugue-not descent, his an-cestors, the Dupuis family, coming to Boston about the year 1700, soonafter the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. JohnDupuis, the first settler of the family in America, waselder of the old Huguenot church in Boston. Thespelling of the family name was changed to Dupee, inorder to preserve, as far as possible, its French pronun-ciation. Mr. Dupees paternal great-grandfather wasa captain in the Revolutionary War under GeneralWashington, and his maternal great-grandfather was. HENRY D. DUPEE killed at the battle of Bunker Hill. Mr. Dupee wasborn in Dorchester, June 28, 1848, the son of James Elizabeth (Baldwin) Dupee. His father was anoted Boston banker. After studying in public andprivate schools, in Roxbury, Brookline, and Boston, heentered the Military Academy at Worcester, and subse-quently went to the old Park Latin School in Boston,where he remained one year. In 1865, having deter-mined to learn the chemical, paint and oil business, he went to work forThayer, Babson &Co., of Kilby remained threeyears with this firm,and then went to theBoston Diatite Com-pany, of which, oneyear later, at the ageof twenty-one, h ewas made superin-tendent. Severinghis connection withthis company in1870, he went intobusiness on his ownaccount as brokerand commissionmerchant in dye-stuffs, and in 187ibegan, in a smallway
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