Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . lison Wes-leyan Academy, and when fourteen years of agewent to sea, following that vocation for five years,visiting all parts of the world and meeting withmany startling adventures. In 1870 he came toBoston and entered the employment of S. , machinist. Here he remained two yearsand then established the firm of Miller & Atkin-son, repairers of furniture. In June, 1873, heestablished the firm of B. A. Atkinson, which hasgrown to be the larges
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . lison Wes-leyan Academy, and when fourteen years of agewent to sea, following that vocation for five years,visiting all parts of the world and meeting withmany startling adventures. In 1870 he came toBoston and entered the employment of S. , machinist. Here he remained two yearsand then established the firm of Miller & Atkin-son, repairers of furniture. In June, 1873, heestablished the firm of B. A. Atkinson, which hasgrown to be the largest enterprise of its kind inNew England. This has been brought about solelythrough the perseverance and ability of Mr Atkin-son. His warerooras to-day cover an area of overten acres, and the volume of business is over onemillion five hundred thousand dollars per Atkinson was married Nov. 13, 1878, to Miss .Annie N., daughter of Robert Farnsworth : theyhave four children, and at present reside inMattapan. Atwoou, Harrison Henry, architect, son ofPeter Clark and Helen Marion (Aldrich) Atwood,was born in North Londonderry, Vt., 26, 1863. He obtained his school training in thepublic schools of the Charlestown district and Bos-ton proper. For some time after leaving schoolhe was in the law office of Godfrey Morse andJohn R. BuUard. Then he studied architecturewith S. J. F. Thayer for four years, and for a yearor more was with George A. Clough, formerly cityarchitect. After practising his profession in thecity for some time, in May, 1889, he was appointedcity architect, and -served in this position duringMayor Harts administration of two years. Whilecity architect he completed the legacies in thewayof unfinished public buildings left by former admin-istrations, namely, the Horace Mann School forDeaf Mutes, the South Boston G<-ammar School,the Roxbury High School, and several minor build-ings : and the new work laid out, completed, orunder contract during his term of
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