The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . corpo-rate interest. vSo new powers were asked and granted, and Worcesterbecame a city. On the 8th of November, 1847, in general meeting, it was voted tochoose a committee of ten to present to the Legislature a petition for acity charter, and also to draft an act in such form as they should deemmost for the interest of the town. The members of this committeewere Levi Lincoln, vStephen Salisbury, Ira M. Barton, Isaac Davis,Benjamin F. Thomas, Edward Earle, James Estabrook, Alfred D. Foster,Thomas Kinnicutt and Ebenezer L. Ba
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . corpo-rate interest. vSo new powers were asked and granted, and Worcesterbecame a city. On the 8th of November, 1847, in general meeting, it was voted tochoose a committee of ten to present to the Legislature a petition for acity charter, and also to draft an act in such form as they should deemmost for the interest of the town. The members of this committeewere Levi Lincoln, vStephen Salisbury, Ira M. Barton, Isaac Davis,Benjamin F. Thomas, Edward Earle, James Estabrook, Alfred D. Foster,Thomas Kinnicutt and Ebenezer L. Barnard. The efforts of thesecitizens were successful in the General Court, and on the 29th day ofFebruaiy, 1848, the act granting the powers and privileges desired wassigned by the governor, George N. Briggs. On the i8th of ilarchfollowing, the charter was accepted by the inhabitants by a vote of1,026 to 487 opposed. *The Boston railroad was opened 101835, the Western in 1S39, the Norwich in 1S40, theProvidence in 1847, the Nashua in 184S, and the Fitchburg in LEVI LINCOLN. The Worcester of 1S98- 19 The election of the first mayor and City Council was held April 8th,and to the srrrprise of many was closelv contested. Levi Lincoln, byreason of his long, varied and distinguished public services the firstcitizen of Worcester, had at the sacrifice of personal inclination andself-interest, but with characteristic public spirit, yielded to whatseemed to be practicallv the general desire of his fellow townsmen thathe should organize the City Government as its chief magistrate; butno sooner was his consent obtained than opposition manifested itself,and the Reverend Rodney A. Miller, a worthy divine, whilom pastorof the Old South Church, was put forward as the candidate of theradical temperance and other dissenting elements, and received 653votes, which, with 45 scattering, brought Lincolns majority down to138, with a vote of 836. vSeventy votes in a total of 1,534 would havechang
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