The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ptember 19, 1874, and has five children. Oneof his sons, John E., is a cadet in the United States Military Academy atWest Point, by appointment of Congressman Walker, as a result ofcompetitive examination, and a daughter, Lucy A., is a member of thejunior class at Smith College. James Atkinson Norcross. There is nothing to be told of an ancientname or of an ancestrally acquired fortune in this story of a plain manslife. Jesse Springer Norcross, the father of the two men who made thegreat building firm of Norcross Brothers,
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ptember 19, 1874, and has five children. Oneof his sons, John E., is a cadet in the United States Military Academy atWest Point, by appointment of Congressman Walker, as a result ofcompetitive examination, and a daughter, Lucy A., is a member of thejunior class at Smith College. James Atkinson Norcross. There is nothing to be told of an ancientname or of an ancestrally acquired fortune in this story of a plain manslife. Jesse Springer Norcross, the father of the two men who made thegreat building firm of Norcross Brothers, was simply one of those hardypioneers who were doing the rough hewing of American civilization in theprimeval forest early in this century. This eldest Norcross, after whomthe little town amid the woods was named, had his own quite wonderfulconstructive ability. There was nothing called for in that peaceful conquestof the wilderness, from the construction of a saw-mill in its every detail tothe making of a violin or pair of shoes, at which he did not show himself an. JAMES A. NORCROSS.
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