. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ies withwhich he has beenconnected from timeto time have all prof-ited by his 1845 he was aclerk in the drugstore of J. W. Snow,Boston, and twoyears later enteredthe dry goods estab-lishment of J. \.Jones. He soonmastered all the de-tails of the business,and in 1853 openeda store of his own,under the name ofJohn Shepard & keen business man,he was successfulfrom the start, andin 1861 bought outBell, Thing & Co.,of T r e m o n t Row,which he c
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ies withwhich he has beenconnected from timeto time have all prof-ited by his 1845 he was aclerk in the drugstore of J. W. Snow,Boston, and twoyears later enteredthe dry goods estab-lishment of J. \.Jones. He soonmastered all the de-tails of the business,and in 1853 openeda store of his own,under the name ofJohn Shepard & keen business man,he was successfulfrom the start, andin 1861 bought outBell, Thing & Co.,of T r e m o n t Row,which he continueduntil 1865, under thename of Farley &Shepard. When the first store was opened on Winter Street, Mr. Shepardsaw that that was soon to become one of the principalbusiness thoroughfares, and he decided to make achange. He chose as his associates, Henry Norwell,at one time in the service of Hogg, Brown & Taylor,and T. C. Brown, salesman for Jordan, Marsh &Co., and in January, 1865, they opened the store onWinter Street under the name of Shepard, Norwell &Co. Mr. Brown retired from the firm soon after, and. JOHN SHEPARD Robert Ferguson, of K. T. Stewart & Co., of New York,took his place. Mr. Shepard is a director of the Lin-coln Bank, and was one of the original projectors ofthe Connecticut River Paper Company, and presidentof the Bernstein Electric Company. Mr. Shepard is anardent lover of fast horses, and has owned a numberthat have become record breakers all over the the sixties, his physician having recommended driv-ing as a recreation, lie first became interested in horses. He bought the bestthat money couldbuy, and his OldTrot was well knownto horsemen. H esold Aldine to Vanderbilt forfifteen thousand dol-lars, when as a mateto Maud S. the teammade a mile in ,He also owned DickSwiveller, which hesold to Frank \\orthfor twelve thousanddollars. His MillBoy and Blondinebecame famous in1881, by making amile in , at thattime the fastest teamrecord in
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