The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . Supply Company; and president of the Light, Heat & PowerCorporation, owners, lessees and operators of light, heat and power plants,Boston. He is a member of the Worcester and Commonwealth Clubs; ofthe Quinsigamond Boat Club, of which he was two years president; of theTatnuck Country Club; the Exchange Club, Boston; the Calumet Club, NewYork, and the Technology Club, Boston; of the Worcester Board of Tradeand the Home Market Club. Mr. Blake married, April 29. 1SS5, Miss Carrie Howard Turner, daughterof Job A. and Vesta (Howa
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . Supply Company; and president of the Light, Heat & PowerCorporation, owners, lessees and operators of light, heat and power plants,Boston. He is a member of the Worcester and Commonwealth Clubs; ofthe Quinsigamond Boat Club, of which he was two years president; of theTatnuck Country Club; the Exchange Club, Boston; the Calumet Club, NewYork, and the Technology Club, Boston; of the Worcester Board of Tradeand the Home Market Club. Mr. Blake married, April 29. 1SS5, Miss Carrie Howard Turner, daughterof Job A. and Vesta (Howard) Turner. They have two children born inWorcester: Fordyce, February lo, 1889, and Vesta Carolyn, ^larch 31. 1S96. Elbridge Boydea was born in Somerset, Vermont, July 4, iSio, and diedin Worcester ^March 25, 1898. His father was a Revolutionary soldier. Heearly developed mechanical talent, and was employed when a mere boy ina saw-mill, and soon received wages equal to the best mill-hands. Hisschool education was limited, but he possessed a strong common sense,. ELBRIuGc BJiDtN. The Worcester of 1898. 569 which served him through life as well as book knowledge. At the age ofsixteen he was apprenticed to a carpenter in the town of Athol, and thefirst year began to study architecture, and in drawing soon became profi-cient. He was engaged in building in Athol about twenty years, and cameto Worcester to follow that business in April, 1844. He had, previous tothis, given some indication of the genius which waited an opportunity fordevelopment. He came into competition in Worcester with several notedbuilders, some of whose specimens remain to-day in the mansions of thattime; but they soon passed away, and for many years he was the principaldesigner and architect of the city. In 1847 he formed a business connectionwith Phinehas Ball, civil engineer, under the name of Boyden & Ball, whichcontinued fourteen years, and during that time most of the engineering andarchitectural work in t
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