Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ; . 1. In1867 he was superintendent of the MiddlesexMechanics Association Exhibition, one ofthe largest and best of the kind ever seen inNew England. In politics Mr. Hosford wasan earnest and loyal Republican, but hisbusiness was so varied and taxed his time soheavily that he had to abandon political as-pirations in his later years; but he retained hisinterest and never lost his commanding influ-ence in the party and at the polls. He was in-terested especially in the welf
Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ; . 1. In1867 he was superintendent of the MiddlesexMechanics Association Exhibition, one ofthe largest and best of the kind ever seen inNew England. In politics Mr. Hosford wasan earnest and loyal Republican, but hisbusiness was so varied and taxed his time soheavily that he had to abandon political as-pirations in his later years; but he retained hisinterest and never lost his commanding influ-ence in the party and at the polls. He was in-terested especially in the welfare and develop-ment of the city of Lowell Avhere he built uphis own fortunes. He helped to improve thecity to the extent of his power. He built hishandsome residence on Central street; re-modeled and enlarged his store building;built in 1871 the Masonic Temple, at thattime the finest building in the business dis-trict. He had a taste for fine architecturaleffects. The iron-front building in which helocated his dry goods business was an admir-able structure also. He was a prominentFree Mason, a member of Kilwinning i
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