The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . h theways of commerce. The life of the boy of whom we write was much likethat of others of his time, receiving such advantages as the commonschools of the city of his birth afforded, and being- early apprenticed to auseful calling, in his case that of a pilot on the numerous water-ways inand around Philadelphia. After a while, however, finding that the dutiesexacted of him were irksome, and the associations and surroundings notaccording to his liking, he made his way back to his home, and soonafter engaged in the vocation w
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . h theways of commerce. The life of the boy of whom we write was much likethat of others of his time, receiving such advantages as the commonschools of the city of his birth afforded, and being- early apprenticed to auseful calling, in his case that of a pilot on the numerous water-ways inand around Philadelphia. After a while, however, finding that the dutiesexacted of him were irksome, and the associations and surroundings notaccording to his liking, he made his way back to his home, and soonafter engaged in the vocation which he followed to the end of his life. Heentered the employ of the since well-known publishing house of Lippin-cott, and there was initiated into and thoroughly mastered the mysteriesand difficulties of the art of bookbinding. After the term for which he hadbeen engaged expired, he worked at his trade in Philadelphia, and thenmade his way to Boston, and was employed in the bindery of the famousBradleys, and while there an advertisement of the above-named Worcester. JOSEPH S. WESBY. The Worcester of 1898. 793 firm met his eye, and he came to this town about the beginninsj; of the year1843, and took a place in their establishment as a temporary supply. At that time John B. Gough, then just beginning his distinguishedcareer as a reformer and orator, was an employee of Hutchinson & his autobiography he states that being distrustful of his ability tomaintain himself by lecturing on temperance, he asked permission to leavehis work for two weeks, and return if not successful in his new was binding polyglot Bibles and had fifty of them in process of com-pletion, so he carefully wrapped his apron around them and went away,and never saw books or apron afterwards. There is evidence that finished those Bibles, for he took Mr. Goughs place in the bindery. Naturally industrious and enterprising, the young man did not longremain in the position of an employee,
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