. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ed dollars. Dur-ing this time he re-ceived a fair publicschool education,which was all thetraining he ever hadfrom schools, thoughby careful readingand application hehas obtained an ex-ceptional fund of gen-eral knowledge. Atthe age of fifteen hesecured employmentin the Quincy Mar-ket, and later took aposition with a firmdealing in shoe find-ings. .\t nineteenyears of age he joinedthe volunteer forcesof the Union .\rmy,and went to the frontas second lieuten
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ed dollars. Dur-ing this time he re-ceived a fair publicschool education,which was all thetraining he ever hadfrom schools, thoughby careful readingand application hehas obtained an ex-ceptional fund of gen-eral knowledge. Atthe age of fifteen hesecured employmentin the Quincy Mar-ket, and later took aposition with a firmdealing in shoe find-ings. .\t nineteenyears of age he joinedthe volunteer forcesof the Union .\rmy,and went to the frontas second lieutenantof the Thirty-fifthMassachusetts I n -fantry, kwg. 22, ])romotion to first lieutenant, March 23, 1863, and to captain, AprilI, 1864, are evidences of his ability and valor. Heserved in the principal Virginia campaigns, was withBurnside in Tennessee, with Grant at Vicksburg andwith Sherman at Jackson, Miss. He commanded FortHell before Petersburg, and in the last attack led hisregiment into the city. He was then but twenty-oneyears of age. He was brevetted major for gallantconduct at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., and. ALBERT A. POPE lieutenant-colonel for gallant conduct in the battlesof Knowille, Poplar Springs Church and front ofPetersburg. After the war Colonel Pope went intobusiness for himself, in shoe manufacturers su]i] 1877 he became enthusiastic over the bicycle, anddetermined to go into its manufacture. This was doneunder the name of the Pope Manufacturing Companv,a corporation for which he furnished the capital, andof which he became,and has since continued, the presi-dent and active man-ager. There was nodemand for wheelsat that time, and inmany places theprejudice againstthem was opposition hadto be overcome antla market Pope exer-cised great diplo-macy in treating thisphase of the busi-ness. Through theinfluence and en-couragement of thePope Manufactur-ing Company wasbrought about tlieproduction of boo
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