The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . harac-teristic of those he rendered in any cause to which he gave himself. SaidEdward Winslow Lincoln in his brief eulogy before the members of thatsociety: Does Edwin Draper need a eulogy in this presence? Which of you isignorant with what untiring assiduity he applied himself to promote thegrowth of this association, and to develop the results of that growth? Howhe toiled, in season and out of season, to give form and substance to ourexhibitions? How, never sparing himself, he was willing to assume uponhis own overburdene
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . harac-teristic of those he rendered in any cause to which he gave himself. SaidEdward Winslow Lincoln in his brief eulogy before the members of thatsociety: Does Edwin Draper need a eulogy in this presence? Which of you isignorant with what untiring assiduity he applied himself to promote thegrowth of this association, and to develop the results of that growth? Howhe toiled, in season and out of season, to give form and substance to ourexhibitions? How, never sparing himself, he was willing to assume uponhis own overburdened shoulders the tasks of others too indolent or selfishto emulate an exemplar so active and disinterested? . . As chairmanof your Committee of Arrangements he was diligence and punctualityitself. All your exhibitions were timely planned and thoroughly was a place for everything and everything was in its whomsoever his place may be supplied in the future, he may well esteemhimself fortunate if he can rival, in ever so partial a measure, those. EDWIN DRAPER. The Worcester of 1898. 607 •excellent qualities of head and heart which so commended the late EdwinDraper to our judgment and aflfection. Mr. Draper was twice married, first in 1838 to Abigail Richardson, andsecond, in 1845, ^^ Harriette Porter Healy. Of six children the onlysurvivor is Eliza Draper, now the wife of Doctor J. H. Robinson of this city. James Draper, son of William A. and Calista (Watson) Draper, was bornin Worcester August 31, 1842. His father was one of the pioneers in themanufacture of boots and shoes in this county, and was afterwards forseveral years in the boot, shoe and leather business with the late SamuelHoughton, under the firm name of William A. Draper & Co. In 1854 heretired from business and removed to the estate at Blonmingdale which isnow occupied by his son, and where he died in 1855. James was educated in the public schools, and at the age of eighteen beganhis business
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