Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . AUGUSTUS LOTHROP. partnership with William Sayward, under the firmname of Sayward & Lothrop. Ihis firm was dis-solved in 1863, and he has since conducted thebusiness alone. Mr. Lothrop helped lay the foun-dation of the Custom House in 1838, and hasbuilt a great number of large and substantial build-ings, among them the Equitable, Advertiser, andMassachusetts Charitable Mechanic AssociationBuilding, which is six hundred and fifly feet longand three
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . AUGUSTUS LOTHROP. partnership with William Sayward, under the firmname of Sayward & Lothrop. Ihis firm was dis-solved in 1863, and he has since conducted thebusiness alone. Mr. Lothrop helped lay the foun-dation of the Custom House in 1838, and hasbuilt a great number of large and substantial build-ings, among them the Equitable, Advertiser, andMassachusetts Charitable Mechanic AssociationBuilding, which is six hundred and fifly feet longand three hundred feet wide, the Brattle-squareChurch on Commonwealth avenue, the First Church,and the Hotel Tudor. He also rebuilt the ALasonicTemple for R. H. Stearns & Co. He has been a. 7tU\f //f-OL.^-^ rr^ J BOSTON OF TO-DAY. 297 heavy contractor for all work in the building line,and many of the fine fire-proof structures erectedafter the great fire of 1872 in the wholesale dis-trict are monuments to his skill and thoroughnessas a builder. He is still active as a master builder,being of a nature which prefers employmentto leisure. He is one of the leading membersof the Master Builders Association, and hashis office in its building, at No. 164 Devonshirestreet. LiiiiiRnp, Daniel, son of Daniel and Sophia(Home) Lothrop, was born in Rochester, ,Aug. II, 1831 ; died in Boston March 18, was descended in a direct line from John Low-throppe, who in the thirty-seventh year of HenryVIII. (1545) was a gentleman of extensive landedestates, and from Mark Lothrop, his grandson, whosettled in Salem in 1644, and whose line joinedthat of Priscilla Mullins and John .\lden of the Mayflower. On the maternal side he was de-scended from William Home, of IlDrnrs Hill inDover,
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