. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . e-ing president of theBoston DruggistsAssociation and trus-tee of the Massachu-setts College of Phar-macy ; the last namedposition has beenheld by him for thepast three years. Hisbusiness house. West& Jenney, BroadStreet, corner ofFranklin, is young inyears, but it controlsthe greatest import-ing business of anyfirm in the New Eng-land trade. Mr. Westwas born in BostonApril 4, 1850. Afterstudying in the pub-lic grammar andEnglish High schoolshe went to work
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . e-ing president of theBoston DruggistsAssociation and trus-tee of the Massachu-setts College of Phar-macy ; the last namedposition has beenheld by him for thepast three years. Hisbusiness house. West& Jenney, BroadStreet, corner ofFranklin, is young inyears, but it controlsthe greatest import-ing business of anyfirm in the New Eng-land trade. Mr. Westwas born in BostonApril 4, 1850. Afterstudying in the pub-lic grammar andEnglish High schoolshe went to work asan oiifice boy in thewholesale drug house of Reed, Cutler & Co., now Cutler Bros. & Co., andgradually rose to i)ositions of trust and confidence. InJanuary, 1887, in company with a fellow-salesman, Jenney, Jr., he established the firm of which heis now the senior partner. Both members of the firmwere popular in the trade, and their new house immedi-ately sprang into astonishing favor. By skilful manage-ment these gentlemen acquired note as importers, andincidentally secured supremacy in the camphor business. CHARLES A. WEST. of New f^ngland. To-day, they own two camphorrefineries, a factory for subliming camphor, a phar-maceutical laboratory, and an immense are also among the principal holders of stock inthe Dana Sarsaparilla Company, which manufactures ajireparation having a permanent hold upon public are maintained in every large centre of com-merce in the world. Mr. West is devoted to the exact-ing duties of his large business, and he is pre-eminently one of that class ofmen who have abso-lutely no time for theduties of public , he hasnever permitted him-self to be led intopublic affairs, al-though often solici-ted by his friendsa n d neighbors, i nthe city of his resi-dence, Somerville,the pleasant suburbof Boston. Mr. Westis connected with allof the prominentassociations of histrade, among whichare the NationalWh
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