The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ent of the Art Museum, and also a directorof the Board of Trade, and a trustee of several large estates. Mr. Dewey has been prominently identified for many years with the FirstUnitarian Parish, and has been superintendent of the Sunday school, andchairman of the Parish Committee. He is interested in works of benevolence,and is a director in the Associated Charities. He is a member of theAmerican Antiquarian Society, and of several other societies and clubs. Mr. Dewey was married in 1878 to Lizzie D., daughter of the lateHar
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ent of the Art Museum, and also a directorof the Board of Trade, and a trustee of several large estates. Mr. Dewey has been prominently identified for many years with the FirstUnitarian Parish, and has been superintendent of the Sunday school, andchairman of the Parish Committee. He is interested in works of benevolence,and is a director in the Associated Charities. He is a member of theAmerican Antiquarian Society, and of several other societies and clubs. Mr. Dewey was married in 1878 to Lizzie D., daughter of the lateHarrison Bliss, and has two children. Politically he is a Republican, andalthough he has a number of times been solicited to accept public office, hasdeclined, as he preferred to devote himself to his profession and to hisprivate business. William H. Dexter, son of John B. and Lucinda (Mclntire) Dexter, wasborn in Charlton, Massachusetts, January 11, 182;,. His father was anenterprising builder and contractor, and was also engaged in general * See portrait on page WILLIAM H. DEXTER. The Worcester of 1898. 599 merchandise business. He was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, in1797, and died in Worcester in 1867. The famih^ descended from GregoryDexter, one of the companions of Roger Williams when he foundedProvidence Plantations in 1636-7. William H. Dexter was educated in the schools of his native town, and atthe age of fourteen was with his father as an assistant in his store. Soonafter he was employed as a clerk at Burrillville, Rhode Island, remaining inthat place about two years, and then resumed duty with his father for ashort time. He then went to Boston as a clerk in a general merchandise
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