. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . thepatriotic enthusiasmof the times, culmi-nating in his enlist-ment in the Thirty-sixth Regiment ofMassachusetts \o\-unteers, being at thetime one of theyoungest soldiers tooffer his services. Hefollowed the fortunesof his regimentthroughout its termof service, sharingthe various c a m-paigns in which theyp a r t i c ipated. Re-turning to civil life,he devoted some timeto study and to hisfurther mental equip-ment, and then joinedthe reportorial staffof the
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . thepatriotic enthusiasmof the times, culmi-nating in his enlist-ment in the Thirty-sixth Regiment ofMassachusetts \o\-unteers, being at thetime one of theyoungest soldiers tooffer his services. Hefollowed the fortunesof his regimentthroughout its termof service, sharingthe various c a m-paigns in which theyp a r t i c ipated. Re-turning to civil life,he devoted some timeto study and to hisfurther mental equip-ment, and then joinedthe reportorial staffof the Boston Adver-tiser, remaining withthat palter for four-teen years, and ad-vancing, during that period, from reporter to editor,and then to the position of Washington 1879 he was appointed private secretary and militarysecretary to his Excellency, Governor Talbot, and wasre-appointed to those offices by Governor Long in 1880,1881, and 1882. In May, 1882, he became privatesecretary to Collector Worthington, when that gentle-man was placed at the head of the Boston CustomHouse. On Collector Worthingtons retirement, in. WILLIAM MILO OLIN December, 1885, Mr. ()\\\\ was appointed private secre-tary to Senator Dawes, leaving the latter to become pri-vate secretary to Collector Beard in March, 1890. It waswhile filling the last-named position that he was electedSecretary of State, in the fall of 1890, to which office hewas handsomely returned for a third term at the lastState election. He has always taken a deep interest inthe military affairs of the Commonwealth, and for sevenyears filled the office of assistant adjutant-general of the First Brigade, Mass-achusetts VolunteerMilitia, under Gen-eral Nat. Wales, andrendered good ser-vice in bringing thecitizen soldiery of theState to the high mil-itary standing it en-joys at present. Heis also a devoted andenthusiastic memberof the Grand Army ofthe Republic, hasbeen commander ofhis post, and was ad-jutant-general of the
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