. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . attain-ments, and beingin the prime of lifehas many years be-fore him for the pur-suit of his favoritestudies, and theworking out of thoseabstruse problemswhich the science ofstatistics presents toi t s votaries. is essentiallya man of the Massa-chusetts of to-day,and is one of the co-terie of bright, activethinkers who keepthe mental plane ofthe State at the highaltitude it has alwaysoccupied. HoraceG. Wadlin, chief ofthe MassachusettsBureau of S
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . attain-ments, and beingin the prime of lifehas many years be-fore him for the pur-suit of his favoritestudies, and theworking out of thoseabstruse problemswhich the science ofstatistics presents toi t s votaries. is essentiallya man of the Massa-chusetts of to-day,and is one of the co-terie of bright, activethinkers who keepthe mental plane ofthe State at the highaltitude it has alwaysoccupied. HoraceG. Wadlin, chief ofthe MassachusettsBureau of Statisticsof I,abor, was bornin South Reading,now W a k e fi e 1 d, Mass., Oct. 2, 1851. He is the son of Daniel H. andLucy E. (Brown) Wadlin. He was married Sept. 8,1875, to Ella Frances Butterfield, of Wakefield, and nowresides in Reading. After completing his education inthe public schools and by private instruction, Mr. Wad-lin studied the profession of architecture, beginningindependent practice in Boston in 1874, his specialInies of work including school, municipal and domesticbuildings. Among j^the structures erected under his. HORACE G, WADLIN. supervision are the Thornton Academy at Saco, the finenew high school at Biddeford, the Richard SugdenLibrary at Spencer, and numerous private residences inthe vicinity of Boston. In 1879 he became an attacheof the Bureau of Statistics of Labor, in charge of specialeconomic subjects, and was afterward connected withmany of the more important investigations undertakenby the bureau. In the decennial census of 1885 he waschief of the division of libraries and schools. Upon the resignatioji ofColonel Carroll D.^Vright, in October,1888, Mr. Wadlinwas appointed chiefof the bureau, retir-ing from the practiceof his profession todevote his entire at-tention to his oiificialduties, and was re-appointed in 1891by Governor was supervisorof the United Statescensus in 1890, con-ducting the work ofenumeration in Mas-sachusetts. Mr.\\
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