Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . ill, andthis also was kept grinding both night and day, andfrecjuently on Sundays. During his experience atthis business, Mr. Walworth, always alive to whatwas taking place around him, saw that an investmentin land would yield good returns, and consequentlyentered several thousand acres of government landin Iowa, paying for it about § per acre. Inabout the year 1847, on account of the poor healthof his wife, he returned East, intending to spen
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . ill, andthis also was kept grinding both night and day, andfrecjuently on Sundays. During his experience atthis business, Mr. Walworth, always alive to whatwas taking place around him, saw that an investmentin land would yield good returns, and consequentlyentered several thousand acres of government landin Iowa, paying for it about § per acre. Inabout the year 1847, on account of the poor healthof his wife, he returned East, intending to spend onlya few months here. Leaving her at the old home atCanaan, he came to Boston, where his brother Jameswas then engaged in manufacturing. With an ideaof familiarizing himself with his brothers business,and, if practicable, to establish a similar plant inIowa, he entered the concern. But he continued onindefinitely, eventually giving up the plan of goingback to the West. Three years after he began workhere he became superintendent of the this time he had mastered every detail of thework, and had made himself invaluable. In 1852 M. A/D.)f^:L^^r^^
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