Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . for four years of his term, during which time theLowell jail was erected. In politics he was first a Whig, andafterwards a firm and consistent Republican ; in religiou, a Uni-tarian. He was a man of fine character and remarkable attain-ments, his death creating a vacancy in society not easily filled. ANCIENT MIDDLESEX. 93 We quote a couplet from his valedictory, giving advice to aneditor who was to succeed him on the Lowell Courier in 1841:— Do boldly what you do-, and le
Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . for four years of his term, during which time theLowell jail was erected. In politics he was first a Whig, andafterwards a firm and consistent Republican ; in religiou, a Uni-tarian. He was a man of fine character and remarkable attain-ments, his death creating a vacancy in society not easily filled. ANCIENT MIDDLESEX. 93 We quote a couplet from his valedictory, giving advice to aneditor who was to succeed him on the Lowell Courier in 1841:— Do boldly what you do-, and let your page Smile when it smiles, and when it rages, rage. In summing up his character, nothing better can be writtenthan to quote from Hon. Benjamin F. Butler, who said: He wasone of the few men I ever knew who apparently had no^ practice of the bar shows no more fragrant name than thatof Daniel S. Richardson. It is certain that no member of theBoard of County Commissioners, either living or dead, has ap-proached him in the wealth and power of his mind as applied tothe practice of his chosen ^B HON. LEONARD HUNTRESS, of Tewksbury,County Commissioner, 1850-1876. Chairman, 1853-1S55, 1856-1860 and 1862-1876. ANCIENT MIDDLESEX. 95 Hon, Leonard Huntress, Chaifman, September, J853, to January, 1855; Jantiaty, J856,to January, J860, and January, J863, to January, I876, Bom in Rochester, N. H., November 22, 1811, died inTewksbury July 19,1885, aged seventy four. Son of Joseph andSally (Chesley) Huntress. He came to Lowell in 1832, and ob-tained emplovuient on the Lowell Mercury, having; previouslycompleted his apprenticeship as a printer in Portsmouth, N. established the Low^ell Courier in 1835, and continued to pub-lish it until 1842, Avhen, on account of poor health, he retired toa farm in Tewksbur}^ and remained a resident there until the dateof his death, a period of forty-three years. During this extendedresidence, he was fifty-three times elected
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