. Bicentenary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, January seventeen, nineteen hundred and six. By the Town of Franklin, Mass. 17 inanagenieiit and luunble l)eginningsin 1839, willioiTt capital orinfluence, they steadily in-creased in wealth and busi-ness enterprises until theirfame and influence extendedfar and wide. To FrancisB., James P. and Joseph G. Ray i> Liigel\ due the upbuildingand continued prosperity of Franklin. Tn this connectionshould be mentioned the late Hon. William F. Ray, whose sud-den death in 1898 was a severe blow to the town. Possessed ofremarkable energy and
. Bicentenary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, January seventeen, nineteen hundred and six. By the Town of Franklin, Mass. 17 inanagenieiit and luunble l)eginningsin 1839, willioiTt capital orinfluence, they steadily in-creased in wealth and busi-ness enterprises until theirfame and influence extendedfar and wide. To FrancisB., James P. and Joseph G. Ray i> Liigel\ due the upbuildingand continued prosperity of Franklin. Tn this connectionshould be mentioned the late Hon. William F. Ray, whose sud-den death in 1898 was a severe blow to the town. Possessed ofremarkable energy and capacity as a manufacturer, a suavity. ?If M^ I •^^m-,^^ II !?? ITT ^^^^^jjBtSS agWIBBgSi^Wi ?of manner which won him friends everywhere, a distinguishedfuture was certainly before him. A prominent factor for many years in the industrial life ofthe town was the Thayer family, Major and Davis Thayer, Jr.,and Emery Thayer, all of whom left their impress upon this• - town in a marked and help- ful degree, being pioneers inthe straw business, and mak-ing Franklin among the firstfew towns in this country toembark in an enterprise ofthis nature. Among other men nowpassed and gone whose
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