The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . RiSIOEMCE OF WILLIAVI H. BURNS, 57 CEDAR STREET. Albert Conant Buttrick, a leading civil engineer of this city, was born inJaffrey, Xcw Hampshire, September 2, 1829. He is a descendant of WilliamButtrick, who came to this country from England and settled in Concord,Massachusetts, in 1634. His early education was obtained in the publicschools of Holden, and at the select school then having its sessions in theTown Hall, following that at the Leicester Academy. He then studied civil engineering with the late Honorable Phinehas
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . RiSIOEMCE OF WILLIAVI H. BURNS, 57 CEDAR STREET. Albert Conant Buttrick, a leading civil engineer of this city, was born inJaffrey, Xcw Hampshire, September 2, 1829. He is a descendant of WilliamButtrick, who came to this country from England and settled in Concord,Massachusetts, in 1634. His early education was obtained in the publicschools of Holden, and at the select school then having its sessions in theTown Hall, following that at the Leicester Academy. He then studied civil engineering with the late Honorable Phinehas Ballin 1850 and 1851, and since that date has been actively engaged in thepractice of his profession in Worcester, the New England States and NewYork state. Always having had his <iffice in Worcester he has been identi-fied with the engineering in connection with numerous large buildings inthis city. Among these may be mentioned the Y. M. C. A. building, that The Worcester of il •^77. ALBERT C. BUTTRICK. of the Y. W. C. A., the Arm<.)ry, countyjail, new County Court House grounds,hospital buildings, machine-shops throughGrove and Union streets, and variouschurches. He made the surveys forinaugurating a system of sewerage forthe city; this was under ^layor Blakesadministration in 1866. In March. 1S74, the dam at Lyndebrook reservoir broke away, and the con-sequence was the destruction of all thedams through Cherry Valley down toNew Worcester. Mr. Buttrick did theengineering and superintended the recon-struction of most of these clams. He hasmade preliminary and locating surveysfor railroads in this and adjoining states;and in 1854 he was associated with the late Gill Valentine in the laying out of Hope cemetery. ^Ir. H. is now associated with him, and they have a fine ofifice in the StateMutual building. At present they are engaged in laying out new streetsand developing new tracts of land in the northwest part of the city. Mr. Buttrick is one of the orig
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