The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . SAMUEL R. HEYWOOD. The Worcester of li 373 seventy years of its existence: Samuel Jennison, to 1853; Cliarles , to November, 1879; and Charles A. Chase. The secretarieshave been: Isaac Goodwin, 1828; William Lincoln, 1833; Thomas Kin-nicutt, 1843; John C. B. Davis, 1848; Joseph Mason, 1850; JosephTrmnbuU, 1853; J. Henry Hill, 1854; Charles F. Aldrich, 1890. Thebank was at first opened on Wednesday afternoons only, between 2 and5 oclock. The first deposit was made by Honorable Abijah Bigelow inthe name of his daugh
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . SAMUEL R. HEYWOOD. The Worcester of li 373 seventy years of its existence: Samuel Jennison, to 1853; Cliarles , to November, 1879; and Charles A. Chase. The secretarieshave been: Isaac Goodwin, 1828; William Lincoln, 1833; Thomas Kin-nicutt, 1843; John C. B. Davis, 1848; Joseph Mason, 1850; JosephTrmnbuU, 1853; J. Henry Hill, 1854; Charles F. Aldrich, 1890. Thebank was at first opened on Wednesday afternoons only, between 2 and5 oclock. The first deposit was made by Honorable Abijah Bigelow inthe name of his daughter, Miss Hannah Bigelow. The amount was$15, and it was put in June 4, 1828. The present number of depositors. BANK BUILDING, FOSTER STREET. is 30,840, and the deposits amount to $14,685,681. The guaranty fundis $732,000. The Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank was incorporated April i,1854, at the time when the new idea of receiving deposits of less thanone dollar was coming in vogue, and has now a large number of suchaccounts upon its books. Its first president was Charles L. Putnam,who was succeeded by George W. Richardson in 1877, Clarendon Harrisin 1878, and Elijah B. Stoddard in 1884. Clarendon Harris, who was atthe same time secretary of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company,was treasurer of this bank for the first eighteen years, being succeededby George W. Wheeler (who had been city treasurer for many yearsprevious), and by J. Stewart Brown in 18S4. >
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