History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ich, in Rhode Island, where he took a contractto construct portions of the Providence and StoningtonRailroad. In 1836 he went to Philadelphia, where aship canal was in process of construction ; upon thishe labored. Subsequently he was at New Worcester fora short time. During the year 1837 betook contractson the Eastern Railroad at Chelsea, Lynn, and was on the 18th of September this year that he wasmarried to Miss Olivia, the daughter of Reuben andChloe Cook. His next emplo
History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ich, in Rhode Island, where he took a contractto construct portions of the Providence and StoningtonRailroad. In 1836 he went to Philadelphia, where aship canal was in process of construction ; upon thishe labored. Subsequently he was at New Worcester fora short time. During the year 1837 betook contractson the Eastern Railroad at Chelsea, Lynn, and was on the 18th of September this year that he wasmarried to Miss Olivia, the daughter of Reuben andChloe Cook. His next employment was upon theBoston and Albany Railroad, in 1839. Here, inconnection with Carmichael, Fairbanks & Otis, hewas employed in excavating a most difficult passagethrough a solid rock, the sides of which, when com-plete, were sixty feet on the one hand and eighty onthe other. This work, now known as the SummitCut, was completed in 1841. But his health at thistime failed him, and he returned with his wife to hisnative town, and there remained for two or threeyears. It was during these years (Jan. 3, 1844).
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