Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ; . usetts, August 25, 1826. He was educatedin the common schools of his native town, andat an academy where for a time he was underthe instruction of Hon. Charles R. Train,later attorney general of Massachusetts. Atthe age of seventeen he left home, and sailingfrom Boston he went to Charleston, SouthCarolina, thence to London, England, andhome. Not liking the sea well enough to fol-low it as an occupation, he entered upon anapprenticeship to learn the trade of ship-joine
Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ; . usetts, August 25, 1826. He was educatedin the common schools of his native town, andat an academy where for a time he was underthe instruction of Hon. Charles R. Train,later attorney general of Massachusetts. Atthe age of seventeen he left home, and sailingfrom Boston he went to Charleston, SouthCarolina, thence to London, England, andhome. Not liking the sea well enough to fol-low it as an occupation, he entered upon anapprenticeship to learn the trade of ship-joinerat the age of eighteen and served three yearsat the trade in East Boston. He made hishome in Essex, Massachusetts, the principalbusiness of which at that time was ship-build-ing, and followed his trade. In the year 1857,on account of the financial panic, he sold hisEssex home, tools and business, and purchasedthe express route which was then establishedbetween North Reading, Reading and Boston,and settled in the town of Reading. Within ayear he sold the express business and becamea clerk in the ship chandlery and grocery. MIDDLESEX COUNTY. i5f9 store of Snow & Ryder, Boston. In 1864 thefirm became E. H. Ryder & Company, and hewas admitted to partnership. The businesswas continued until the fall of 1867, when thefirm dissolved. In the following spring heentered the employ of H. & G. W. Lord, Com-miercial street, Boston. With them he re-mained until his death, in September, 1906. On coming to Reading he joined the Uni-versalist Society, and with his wife and fourchildren became deeply interested in the Sun-day school and benevolent work of the was superintendent of the Sunday schoolfor several years. In all public and literaryentertainments of the society he always took aleading part, and was especially active in themovement resiulting in the erection of the pres-ent church edifice, Main street. During thecivil war he joined the Spear Guards, whodrilled under Lieutenan
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