History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . whall was a , having associated himself with his olderbrother, Francis S., in the morocco trade and manu-facture, became a prominent merchant, the businessof the firm being one of the largest in the town,having its headquarters in Lynn and Boston, with abranch house for a short period in New York. In1850 ill health compelled him to retire from the firm,and it was several year;, partly occupied in travel athome and abroad, before he was sufficiently restoredto resume the r
History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . whall was a , having associated himself with his olderbrother, Francis S., in the morocco trade and manu-facture, became a prominent merchant, the businessof the firm being one of the largest in the town,having its headquarters in Lynn and Boston, with abranch house for a short period in New York. In1850 ill health compelled him to retire from the firm,and it was several year;, partly occupied in travel athome and abroad, before he was sufficiently restoredto resume the responsibilities of business. Upon thedeath of his brother Francis, president of the Laigh-ton (now Central National) Bank, in 1858, he waselected to the office and continued to hold it until hisretirement in 1876, at the advanced age of nearlyeighty years. Henry Newhall belonged to a family marked forintelligence and capacity, and inherited those sterlingqualities of mind and character that always commandthe respect and confidence of a community. His in-tegrity, his quiet but penetrating insight into human. (fbes~y /Z^^<J/i^^C{_y
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