. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . town locallynoted for its manu-facture of woollensand stockings, in1840. The firstfourteen years of hislife were spent onthe banks of theTiviot, receivingsuch education asthe vicinity and hisworldly condition al-lowed. He came toAmerica in 1854,and for thirteen yearsworked at the benchin the furniture 1867 he and hisbrother started afurniture manufactur-ing business in thiscity on a very smallscale. His practicalknowledge of thedetails, gained in h
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . town locallynoted for its manu-facture of woollensand stockings, in1840. The firstfourteen years of hislife were spent onthe banks of theTiviot, receivingsuch education asthe vicinity and hisworldly condition al-lowed. He came toAmerica in 1854,and for thirteen yearsworked at the benchin the furniture 1867 he and hisbrother started afurniture manufactur-ing business in thiscity on a very smallscale. His practicalknowledge of thedetails, gained in hislong apprenticeshipat the bench, servedhim in good stead, and under his guidance the firm steadily developed untilit has become one of the leading maniifactories of finefurniture in the country. In the social world is an Odd Fellow, a Mason of high standing,and a leader in the State of the British American citi-zens. For five consecuti\e years he was president of theScots Charitable Society, a position which is esteemedthe highest honor that can be bestowed upon a BostonScotchman by his fellow-countrvmen. He at one time. held the presidency of five organizations, — the BritishAmerican Association of the State of Massachusetts,Branch 37 of the British American Society, the ScotsCharitable Society, the Boston Curling Club, and theHawick Club. Mr. Wemysss part in the celebration ofthe Queens Jubilee in Boston, June 21, 1887, broughthim into considerable prominence. He was chairmanof the Committee of Arrangements, which consisted ofrepresentatives of the different societies throughout the State. Faneuil Hallwas selected as theplace in which tohold the aroused theantagonism of cer-tain persons whodid not think the Cradle of Liberty the proper place forsuch a banquet washeld, nevertheless,despite objectionsand e \ e n threats,and Mr. Wemysspresided in the faceof warnings that per-sonal violence wouldfollow his attempt todo so. The outcomeo
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