The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . rcester. Urgel Jacques, a contractor and builder of Worcester, was born in Con-trecceur, Vercheres county. Province Quebec, April 28, 1S49. He attendedthe country schools, which were French, until he was twelve years old;worked on the farm with his father for three years, and at the age offifteen began to learn the carpenters trade in a neighboring township. Heworked in Montreal and places in the provinces until 1869, when he cameto Worcester. When in Montreal he commenced the study of English, and his coming toWorcester wa
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . rcester. Urgel Jacques, a contractor and builder of Worcester, was born in Con-trecceur, Vercheres county. Province Quebec, April 28, 1S49. He attendedthe country schools, which were French, until he was twelve years old;worked on the farm with his father for three years, and at the age offifteen began to learn the carpenters trade in a neighboring township. Heworked in Montreal and places in the provinces until 1869, when he cameto Worcester. When in Montreal he commenced the study of English, and his coming toWorcester was to study and become better acquainted with that spent a year, working here and there, and using the opportunities forimprovement that were offered free to young men in those days. Mr. Jacques entered the employ of Norcross Brothers in 1870, and wasfor two years one of their most efficient hands. He worked for Eddy, and, having studied architectural drawing in the free eveningschools for three winters, he became Mr. Eddys foreman. He was with. MARTIN V. B. JEFFERSON. The Worcester of if 663
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