The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . became FredW. Wellington &- Co. He is the sole owner of the business at the presenttime, and has been twenty-one years. He is also president of the AmericanCar Sprinkler Company, for watering streets by electric power. Colonel Wellington joined the militia in 1882, and was commissioned onthe 22d of March second lieutenant in Battery B, Light Artillery, FirstBrigade, M. V. M. In January, 1883, he became first lieutenant, andby his great interest in the militia, evinced in various ways, cameto be considered a representative m
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . became FredW. Wellington &- Co. He is the sole owner of the business at the presenttime, and has been twenty-one years. He is also president of the AmericanCar Sprinkler Company, for watering streets by electric power. Colonel Wellington joined the militia in 1882, and was commissioned onthe 22d of March second lieutenant in Battery B, Light Artillery, FirstBrigade, M. V. M. In January, 1883, he became first lieutenant, andby his great interest in the militia, evinced in various ways, cameto be considered a representative military man, and was very popularwith his command. He became captain vSeptember 29, 1884. In January,1887, he was appointed assistant inspector-general on the staft of GovernorAmes, with the rank of colonel. This office he resigned in 1891, and enlistedin Battery B, his old command. He was reappointed to the same positionon the staff of Governor Greenhalge in 1894, by whom he was reappointed in1895; and again by Acting Governor Wolcott, who has continued Colonel. JEROME WHEELOCK. The Worcester of 1898. 789 Wellington in the same position by successive annual reappointments to thepresent time, making seventeen years continuous service in the Statemilitia, excepting a short interval during the administration of GovernorRussell. At the breaking out of the Spanish War of 1898, Colonel Wellingtonearnestly desired to enter the active service of his country, and received thestrongest endorsements as to his qualifications from Governor Wolcott,Senators Hoar and Lodge, and Congressman Walker; and his appointmentas inspector-general, with the rank of major, was nearly consummated, butSenator Hoar, after his return home from Washington, for some reason bestknown to himself, withdrew his support, without which the president wouldnot make the appointment, and the cherished ambition of Colonel Welling-tons life was defeated. The Wellington Rifles, attached to the Second Massachusetts Regimen
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