Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . the city of Worcester, theDeclaration of Independence was firstread in Massachusetts. Here, too, wasthe home of General Artemas Ward,the trusted friend and chief lieutenantof the great Washington. In Worces-ter was set up, by Isaiah Thomas,the first printing press in an inlandtown in Massachusetts, and the jour-nal which was printed from it was onewhich was unparalleled in its influ-ence upon the minds of the commonpeople in their ready e
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . the city of Worcester, theDeclaration of Independence was firstread in Massachusetts. Here, too, wasthe home of General Artemas Ward,the trusted friend and chief lieutenantof the great Washington. In Worces-ter was set up, by Isaiah Thomas,the first printing press in an inlandtown in Massachusetts, and the jour-nal which was printed from it was onewhich was unparalleled in its influ-ence upon the minds of the commonpeople in their ready espousal of thecause of independence from British tyrannv. Here entered upon his illus- ^^.^^ ^^^ ^^_^^^^ Farnum in ITOe. and stands in the southerly part of the tiious career Levi Lincoln, one of the «« U^bdge. Giants in those davs—a great lawyer, jurist and statesman. Here lived and labored repre-Tentatives of the famous Prescott, Curtis, Allen, Washburn and Devous families and herewas born George Bancroft, the historian. Here, too, were heard, at various periods,Webster, Sumner, Lincoln, Henry Wilson and Henry Ward Beecher, and, in the yet later. Karnum House, Uxbridge
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