The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . three years, and then became a traveling salesman for the whole-sale grocery house of Babcock & Brigham of Providence, Rhode Island,his territory covering New England, and removed to Providence with hisfamily. Later Mr. Webster was in the employ of Cobb, Aldrich & Co. ofBoston, and of the importing house of the R. L. Rose Company of Provi-dence, and left the latter to enter into business for himself, organizing theWorcester Welting Company at Worcester in 1892. This concern did alarge business during Mr. Websters connection
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . three years, and then became a traveling salesman for the whole-sale grocery house of Babcock & Brigham of Providence, Rhode Island,his territory covering New England, and removed to Providence with hisfamily. Later Mr. Webster was in the employ of Cobb, Aldrich & Co. ofBoston, and of the importing house of the R. L. Rose Company of Provi-dence, and left the latter to enter into business for himself, organizing theWorcester Welting Company at Worcester in 1892. This concern did alarge business during Mr. Websters connection with it, exporting shoewelts to several European countries, besides supplying the domestic trade. From the time that he was a boy working in the mill, and during all theyears that he was engaged in business, Mr. Webster had given his sparetime to study, particularly of the law, and had always cherished an ambitionto enter that profession. He was, therefore, at the time he entered theoffice of P. T. Carroll, Esquire, to prepare for entrance to the bar, well.
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