The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . highest grade. For the past twenty years the stone factory formerlyknown as the Tainter Mill on Gardner street has been occupied as themanufactory. Mr. Forehand was a man of ability and integrity in business, and in hissocial relations affable and sincere. He left a wide circle of friends toregret his loss. He was a member of the Board of Trade, the WorcesterCounty Mechanics Association, the Worcester County Agricultural Society,The Worcester Society of Antiquity, and of the Massachusetts and HomeMarket Clubs of Boston. He
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . highest grade. For the past twenty years the stone factory formerlyknown as the Tainter Mill on Gardner street has been occupied as themanufactory. Mr. Forehand was a man of ability and integrity in business, and in hissocial relations affable and sincere. He left a wide circle of friends toregret his loss. He was a member of the Board of Trade, the WorcesterCounty Mechanics Association, the Worcester County Agricultural Society,The Worcester Society of Antiquity, and of the Massachusetts and HomeMarket Clubs of Boston. He was a Mason, affiliating with AthelstanLodge. In politics he was a loyal Republican, and in religion a Unitarian,and attended the Church of the Unity. He leaves two sons, who were asso-ciated with him in business, and two daughters. Calvin Foster,* late president of the City National Bank, was born inWorcester when that place was a village of about twenty-five hundredinhabitants. In his boyhood he entered the employment of Caleb Newcomb,, * See portrait on page FRANCIS A. GASKILL. The Worcester of 1898. 621 a dealer in stoves and hardware, whom he several years later succeeded inbusiness. In 1S34 Sir. Foster removed to Fitchburg, engaging in partner-ship in the same business, but soon returned to Worcester, and in 1840-bought with Amos Brown ^Ir. Xewcombs interest, and established thefirm so long known as C. Foster & Co. In 1S54 Sir. Foster erected the fine block at the corner of ^lain andPearl streets, which is said to have been the fi;rst iron front building-constructed in Xew England. The ground floor was occupied by thehardware business, and the City Bank, which Mr. Foster was instrumentalin fotmding, was established in the quarters it has occupied since in thesecond story. Mr. Foster was elected president of this bank in 1878, andheld that office until his death. He was also prominent in the organizationof the Safe Deposit & Trust Company, the Peoples Savings Bank, a
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