. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . commandedhis company at Get-tysburg, and bore abrave part in the ter-rific charges uponthe enemys the prac-tice of law, which hadbeen interrupted bythe war, he was ap-jjointed colonel onGovernor Dilli ng-hams staff, and forfour years was firstassistant clerk in theVermont House ofRepresentatives. In1870 he purchasedthe St. Albans DailyMessenger, and forten years he opposed,almost alone amongthe Vermont press,the power of the Ver-mont Central
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . commandedhis company at Get-tysburg, and bore abrave part in the ter-rific charges uponthe enemys the prac-tice of law, which hadbeen interrupted bythe war, he was ap-jjointed colonel onGovernor Dilli ng-hams staff, and forfour years was firstassistant clerk in theVermont House ofRepresentatives. In1870 he purchasedthe St. Albans DailyMessenger, and forten years he opposed,almost alone amongthe Vermont press,the power of the Ver-mont Central Rail-road in a severe con-test, in which the whole strength of the railroad manage-ment was arrayed against him, he was elected to theVermont Senate, which he found almost wholly againsthim on railroad questions ; but he made a speech in sup-port of his bill to limit the free-pass abuse, and in favorof the right of a State to control railroads, which has sincebeen of service in other States in promoting the reformthat failed there. He was State commissioner to builda house of correction at Rutland, a project which he. ALBERT CLARKE had done more than any other man to promote. Apaper which he read before the National Prison Asso-ciation, of which he was a director, led to his beingchosen an honorary member of La Societe des Prisonsin France. In 1880 he came to Boston, and engagedin railroad matters and journalism. He was presidentof the ^ermont & Canada Railroad when it was sold tothe Central Vermont. Being on the Daily Advertiserstaff when that paper bolted Mr. Blaines nomination in 1884, but not boltingpersonally, he r e -signed, and afterserving as assistantto the president ofthe Boston & LowellRailroad, he took theeditorial and busi-ness management ofthe Rutland (Vt.)Herald, and ren-dered conspicuousservice in bringingabout the re-electionof Senator 1889 he returnedto Boston, where hewas soon sought andelected secretary andexecutive ofilicer ofthe H
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