. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . cation at thepublic school in hisnative town, at theacademy in Milton,and also at theacademy and StateNormal School atBridgewater. In1850 he became con-nected with thechocolate manufactory of Walter Baker& Co. Four yearslater he took chargeof the entire busi-ness, and from thattime to the presenthas been the solemanager. He beganto take an interestin public questionswhile still a school-boy, and was one ofthe earliest and mostzealous promoters ofthe movemen
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . cation at thepublic school in hisnative town, at theacademy in Milton,and also at theacademy and StateNormal School atBridgewater. In1850 he became con-nected with thechocolate manufactory of Walter Baker& Co. Four yearslater he took chargeof the entire busi-ness, and from thattime to the presenthas been the solemanager. He beganto take an interestin public questionswhile still a school-boy, and was one ofthe earliest and mostzealous promoters ofthe movement whichled to the organiza-tion of the Republi-can party. He served as the representative from Dorchester in theGeneral Court during the sessions of i860, 1861, 1862and 1866, and was the author of a luimber of importantlegislative measures. On the annexation of Dorchesterto Boston, in 1869, he was elected for the two years fol-lowing to the Board of Aldermen. In 1872 he waselected mayor of Boston, being the choice of the citi-zens, without regard to party, .^gainst very strongopposition he reorganized the health and fire depart-. HENRY L PIERCE ments, and freed them from the personal and partisaninfluences to which they had been subject. Before theexpiration of his term he received the Republican nom-ination for representative to Congress, and was electedby a nearly unanimous vote. During his service of fouryears as the representative of the third district, he tookan active part in committee work and made a numberof important speeches on the floor of the House, —opposing the Force Bill, so called, favoring an amend-ment to the Consti-tution, limiting theterm of office of thePresident, favoringreciprocity withCanada, defining theproper distributionof the Geneva Awardand opposing thecounting of the elec-toral vote sent fromLouisiana in 1876. S/mBEm ■ 1 ^^^^ again elected mayor of Boston andserved one most importantact of his adminis-tration was the reor-ganization of
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