The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . rticular,as their progress was rapid from the start. They built up an enormousbusiness from a small beginning, and after twelve years moved into theirlarge quarters in Jonas G. Clarks new block, specially built for them. In 1884 Mr. IMcKay died, and the business was bought and carried on byMr. Denholm, and still increased, ranking as the largest store of its kind inNew England outside of Boston and Providence. ]\Ir. Denholm was a man of unusual energy and ability, and his successexcited the admiration of all his contemporar
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . rticular,as their progress was rapid from the start. They built up an enormousbusiness from a small beginning, and after twelve years moved into theirlarge quarters in Jonas G. Clarks new block, specially built for them. In 1884 Mr. IMcKay died, and the business was bought and carried on byMr. Denholm, and still increased, ranking as the largest store of its kind inNew England outside of Boston and Providence. ]\Ir. Denholm was a man of unusual energy and ability, and his successexcited the admiration of all his contemporaries. In addition to hisbusiness Mr. Denholm engaged in many outside affairs. He was a directorof the First National Bank and of the Worcester Electric Light Company;a Mason, Odd Fellow and Continental; active in the cause of temperanceand in Y. M. C. A. work; a prominent member of the Old South Church,and an indefatigable student. !Mr. and Mrs. Denholm had a family of five children: Elizabeth, wife ofEdward L. Smith; Jessie C, wife of John (i. Howland of Bridgeport,. WILLIAM A. DENHOLM. The Worcester of 1898. 597 Connecticut; Grace P., wife of Harry A. Cook; William James, a graduateof Harvard, 97, who married Mabel E. Norcross; and John A., a memberof the class of 99, Harvard. Mr. Denholm died March 2, 1S91, at the age of 53 years, 10 months,his wife and children surviving him. Francis Henshaw Dewey,* son of the late Honorable Francis H. and SarahB. (Tufts) Dewey, was born in Worcester March 2^, 1856. His father wasfor twelve years a justice of the Superior Court of the vState, and his grand-father occupied for thirty years a seat on the Supreme Court bench. The subject of this sketch received his early education in private schools inWorcester, and then spent four years at St. Marks School in vSouthboroughpreparing for college. He entered Williams College in 1872, and was graduatedfour years later as one of the six highest in his class and a member of thePhi Beta Kappa Society
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