The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . judgment and perfecttrustworthiness have been of inestimable value. He served on the BuildingCommittee of the Young Mens Christian Association, and on that ofCentral Church. He is a member of the Worcester County MechanicsAssociation and The Worcester Society of Antiquity. Of kindly disposi-tion his manner carries with it that old-fashioned politeness which has nowbecome so rare. Mr. Mann resides in a fine house on Harvard street, atthe head of George street. This house he has greatly improved, and it isprobably the only bu
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . judgment and perfecttrustworthiness have been of inestimable value. He served on the BuildingCommittee of the Young Mens Christian Association, and on that ofCentral Church. He is a member of the Worcester County MechanicsAssociation and The Worcester Society of Antiquity. Of kindly disposi-tion his manner carries with it that old-fashioned politeness which has nowbecome so rare. Mr. Mann resides in a fine house on Harvard street, atthe head of George street. This house he has greatly improved, and it isprobably the only building in the city which has the floor of the cellarformed of stone slabs set in cement. Mr. Mann attributes his success in business largely to placing the materialin all his work where it would be in harmony with the natural laws ofconstruction for solidity and durability, not forgetting proportions, goodtaste and fine workmanship. Edwin Tyler Marble, son of Royal Tyler and Ann B. (Clement) Marble,was born in Sutton. Ma--achusetts, August iS. 1S27. He received such. EDWIN T. MARBLE. The Worcester of 1898. 685 education as the district schools afforded, and also attended several termsat the Worcester County Manual Training School, the name under whichthe Worcester Academy was known in its early days. In 1841 he came toWorcester with his fathers family, and at the age of eighteen entered theshop of Albert Curtis and served a three years apprenticeship as a this he worked in various shops in Worcester as journeyman, foreman,and superintendent, notably as foreman for some time Avith Thayer,Houghton & Co., manufacturers of machinists tools, and later as superin-tendent for E. C. Cleveland & Co., in the manufacture of woolen 1863 he formed a partnership with Albert Curtis, which connection wasmaintained until 1895, when Mr. Curtis retired, and the Curtis & MarbleMachine Co. was incorporated with ^Ir. Marble as president and treasurer. Mr. Marble has clos
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