Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . h. Whether he be viewed from a social,religious, civic, or financial point of view, he alwaysshowed a full, well rounded character—a genuinetype of American citizenship. His personal mannerwas genial, courteous and obliging to a marked de-gree.^ His own interests were always gauged by thebest interests of his friends and neighbors. He wasa well-read gentleman, deeply versed in historicaland antiquarian lore, art and literature, in vifhich
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . h. Whether he be viewed from a social,religious, civic, or financial point of view, he alwaysshowed a full, well rounded character—a genuinetype of American citizenship. His personal mannerwas genial, courteous and obliging to a marked de-gree.^ His own interests were always gauged by thebest interests of his friends and neighbors. He wasa well-read gentleman, deeply versed in historicaland antiquarian lore, art and literature, in vifhich hetook great delight, with the added years of hisbusy, eventful life. During his latter years he accomplished muchfor the substantial improvement of the northern por-tion of his home city, aiding very materially inbuilding up a great manufacturing centre. He builtthe spacious business block on Lincoln Square, andin 1837 his residence on Highland street. Hisfathers ancient mansion in which he was born,presents at this writing about the same homelikeappearance that it did a century ago, when it wasoccupied by a trustworthy loyal
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