The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . s a dealer incommercial paper, stocks and bonds, which businessfinally became of such proportions as to occupy allhis attention. As a manufacturer, he employedat times 1,300 people
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . s a dealer incommercial paper, stocks and bonds, which businessfinally became of such proportions as to occupy allhis attention. As a manufacturer, he employedat times 1,300 people, all of whom were devoted tohis interests, and among whom there was never astrike or dissatisfaction, the kindliest relations at alltimes existing, owing to the honorable and just treat-ment always accorded them. It was his strongsense of right, and his sympathy with and for allmen, that enabled him to influence them, gainingand retaining their respect and friendship. It hasbeen the privilege of Mr. Hersey to help many ofthem to successful careers. Mr. Hersey has alwaysbeen a pronounced advocate for tariff reform, andin an argument before the committee of ways andmeans in 1883, to whom he was sent as president ofthe American straw-goods association, he convincedMr. Kelly and his committee, much against theirprevious opinions, that the tax on the raw materialused in the straw-goods manufacturing business was. burdensome and unjust, and the result of his exposi-tion was the placing of such raw material on the freelist of the house bill, and its immediate passage bythe committee, and afterward its adoption by thehouse. Mr. Hersey claims his experience at thistime as pointing to the needof practical business men onlegislative committees entrust-ed with great national inter-ests. In 1846 Mr. Hersey mar-ried Julia A. Kerr, of Fox-borough, Mass., who died in1848. He then married MarciaE. Pennell, daughter of S. Pennell, of Utica,N. Y. Miss Pennells motherwas Rebecca Mann
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