The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . e was known before the death of his father,came to Worcester in 1840 and opened a small stationery store, which heconducted in connection with the manufacture of blank-books on a limitedscale; but his business increasing and demanding larger quarters, he in1842 erected, in connection with the late George Bowen, the building at389 Main street as now numbered and at present occupied by Putnam,Davis & Co., book-sellers. To his stationery business Mr. Grout addedbook-selling, and his store became the favorite resort of purchase
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . e was known before the death of his father,came to Worcester in 1840 and opened a small stationery store, which heconducted in connection with the manufacture of blank-books on a limitedscale; but his business increasing and demanding larger quarters, he in1842 erected, in connection with the late George Bowen, the building at389 Main street as now numbered and at present occupied by Putnam,Davis & Co., book-sellers. To his stationery business Mr. Grout addedbook-selling, and his store became the favorite resort of purchasers ofthose commodities, who were equally attracted by the large and well-selected stock and the refined tastes and discrimination of the the next ten years the business of the establishment greatlyincreased, and Mr. Grout also engaged in other enterprises which provedequally profitable, and which demanded so much of his attention that hedisposed of his interest in the book-store in 1S52 to John Keith. About this- * See portrait on page 292. ^s^. DOCTOR THOMAS H. GAGE. The Worcester of 1898. 639 time he was interested in the manufacture of portemonnaies, of copying-presses, of perforated paper, and indirectly, through pecuniary investment,in the enterprises of Doctor Russell L. Hawes, who invented the machineryfor making, and who produced in Worcester the first machine-madeenvelopes in the world, which were put upon the market by Mr. these undertakings were in a greater or less degree successful, and hiscareer was in the main a very prosperous one. In a single instance ofbusiness misfortune, such was his high-toned conception of honor andpersonal integrity that he paid, after he had been legally released by hiscreditors, all their claims in principal and interest. He was a man of greatbusiness tact, energy and sagacity, quick to decide and to act, the scopeand rapidity of his mental calculation giving him great advantage in largetransactions, the magn
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