The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ther, in 1842,he entered the store of an uncle, awholesale grocer in Albany, and soonafter became a clei-k in the law officeof Rufus W. Peckham. He was sub-sequently employed in va
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ther, in 1842,he entered the store of an uncle, awholesale grocer in Albany, and soonafter became a clei-k in the law officeof Rufus W. Peckham. He was sub-sequently employed in various capac-ities until his brother-in-law, John having been elected comp-troller of the state of New York, inJanuary, 1853, Mr. Worcester enteredhis office in a confidential subsequently was discount clerkin the Commercial Bank of there the consolidation often companies occurred, by which, in 1853, the NewYork Central Railroad Co. was formed, and he be-came its treasurer. In the latter part of 1872 hetook the leading part in the proceedings for leasingthe Harlem line to the Central, and he drew thelease and other papers to effect the plan. In 1873he was made secretary and treasurer of the LakeShore and Michigan Southern Railway Co. prepared and negotiated in New .Yorkand London a considerable part of the bonds of a$40,000,000 mortgage made by the New York Cen-. tral Co. in that year, and in 1875 he became a di-rector in the AVestern Union Telegraph Co. In1878, when Mr. Vanderbilt secured control of theMichigan Central Railroad Co., he took the secre-taryship of that company, having previously becomeconnected with the Canada Southern also, by beingthe most active member of a committee which ef-fected a practical purchase of it. He visited Europe in1869, and again in 1883. In the latter year a changewas made in the organization of the Lake Shore Co.,and also in that of the Michigan Central Co., and hebecame vice-president of each,
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