The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . r a much-needed restbecame treasurer of the Globe Corset Company, which position he nowholds. ^Ir. Lancaster was a member of the Common Council from 1878 to 1882,and served on prominent committees, including the committee having incharge the building of the City Hospital, the removal of the Mechanic streetburial-ground, and the opening of Foster street. Mr. Lancaster has been a trustee of the Worcester Five Cents SavingsBank since 1873, and vice-president since 1893; is a director and auditor ofthe Merchants & Farmers Fire
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . r a much-needed restbecame treasurer of the Globe Corset Company, which position he nowholds. ^Ir. Lancaster was a member of the Common Council from 1878 to 1882,and served on prominent committees, including the committee having incharge the building of the City Hospital, the removal of the Mechanic streetburial-ground, and the opening of Foster street. Mr. Lancaster has been a trustee of the Worcester Five Cents SavingsBank since 1873, and vice-president since 1893; is a director and auditor ofthe Merchants & Farmers Fire Insurance Co.; has been a trustee of theWorcester County Mechanics Association, a director of the Millbury NationalBank, was an original member of the Worcester Continentals, and servedon the staffs of Colonels Hopkins, Russell and Smith, and has been a memberof the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. Mr. Lancasterwas an original member of the Brigade Club, which was an acknowledgedpower in the politics of Worcester city and county for many FRANK E. LANCASTER. The Worcester of 1898. 677 John Edward Lancaster, the son of Frank E. and Susan C. Lancaster, wasborn in New York city December ist, 1863. Early in the following yearthe family removed to ^Vorcester. He was educated at the public grammarschools and at the Classical high school, and, after his course at the latter,entered immediately upon a business career. His tendencies early weretoward manufacturing, and he held a position with J. H. & G. M. Walkerin 1880 and 1881, when the firm was one of the largest boot manufacturersin the United States, and later a position with L. C. Chase & Co. of Boston,the largest plush manufacturers in the world. In 1888 he left the latterposition to associate himself with his father, who then owned and operated
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