. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, past and present . pt. 13, 1882, at the age of sixty-nine years. John Garfield came to Fitchburg in 1831. He was a na-tive of Langdon, N. H., where he was born April 10, 1815,and died in this city August 19, 1885, aged seventy years. William S. Wilder, after retiring from editorial labor,was for a time assistant postmaster of Fitchburg. He lefthere in 1846, and thenceforward was largely engaged inmission work in the city of New York. He died there, April18, 1887, at the age of eighty-two years. William J. Merriam, after disposing of the Sentinel, turnedhis attention
. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, past and present . pt. 13, 1882, at the age of sixty-nine years. John Garfield came to Fitchburg in 1831. He was a na-tive of Langdon, N. H., where he was born April 10, 1815,and died in this city August 19, 1885, aged seventy years. William S. Wilder, after retiring from editorial labor,was for a time assistant postmaster of Fitchburg. He lefthere in 1846, and thenceforward was largely engaged inmission work in the city of New York. He died there, April18, 1887, at the age of eighty-two years. William J. Merriam, after disposing of the Sentinel, turnedhis attention to the law ; but after a few years gave up thatprofession and engaged in the drug business, which he con-tinued till his death. He died in this city, October 7, 1887,at the age of seventy-two years. The facts and figures in the foregoing sketch are a mereoutline of journalism in Fitchburg. It remains for the histo-rian to clothe these bare details with a life and interest whichthe importance of the subject demands. CHAPTER XIY. N the history of Fitchburg for the last half-cen-tury there are those who have been identifiedwith the manufacturing and other business, whohave not been mentioned in the precedingpages. Some of this number have retired fromactive business, while others are not now have passed away during the presentyear. Colonel Ivers Phillips, now a resident of Boulder,Colorado, was for many years connected with the manufact-uring and other business interests of Fitchburg, as well asthe railroad interests of Worcester county. Both of hisparents were natives of Fitchburg, but about the time of theirmarriage moved to Ashburnham, where on the twenty-eighthday of July, 1805, their son Ivers was born. At the age ofseven years he came with his parents to Fitchburg, remain-ing until 1837, when he removed to Worcester, but returnedto Fitchburg in 1844. In i860 he once more made Worcester his home, givingup business there in 1873 and going to Colo
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