The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . affairs would naturally claim a large part of his time, he has not shirkedpublic duty. He was a member of the Common Council three years, andthree years represented Worcester in the State Senate. He is president ofthe Worcester National Bank and of the Worcester County Institution forSavings, and is connected with numerous other financial institutions andbusiness enterprises. He is much interested in educational, literary andkindred matters; is president of the Trustees of the Worcester PolytechnicInstitute, a trustee of Cl
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . affairs would naturally claim a large part of his time, he has not shirkedpublic duty. He was a member of the Common Council three years, andthree years represented Worcester in the State Senate. He is president ofthe Worcester National Bank and of the Worcester County Institution forSavings, and is connected with numerous other financial institutions andbusiness enterprises. He is much interested in educational, literary andkindred matters; is president of the Trustees of the Worcester PolytechnicInstitute, a trustee of Clark University, president of the American Anti-quarian Society, and an active member of many other societies. Hehas aided archaeological and scientific investigation in Central America andelsewhere. His large gifts of land and money established the Art Museumin Worcester. Ezra Sawyer was born in Boylston, Massachusetts, July 27, 1815. At theage of ten years he removed with his parents to Holden, and soon after went * See portrait on page 366. The Worcester of li 741. EZRA SAWYER. to work in a cotton-mill in Unionville inthat town, where he learned the tradethoroughly, and was in charge of thelooms four years. On account of ill healthhe engaged in the wheelwright business inHolden, and continued in it until 1840,coming to Worcester the last day of thatyear to work for Benjamin Walker, black-smith and wheelwright, on Exchangestreet. He was afterwards employed atthe Bradley Car Works, and at the RedMill for Howe & Goddard, removing withthem to Union street, where he madesome of the patterns for Doctor R. famous envelope-machines. Heremained with the above firm elevenyears, having the contract for makingthe wooden parts of paper machinery; and was also eleven years with Johnson & Tainter, making the woodwork forspinning-jacks. He then, on account of his health, spent three years on afarm in Sterling. After his return to Worcester he engaged in pattern-making with the Union
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