Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . gational Church. Cen-tral Congregational Church, First Unitarian Churchand at the Church of the Unity. He is the only sur-viving member of the original Schumann Quartette,and he still sings first bass in the present SchumannQuartette. It has been Mr. Barbers custom to enter-tain during the week of the Worcester Festival thevisiting artists. At the festival of 1904, for in-stance, over a hundred and fifty lovers of musicgathered at his inv
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . gational Church. Cen-tral Congregational Church, First Unitarian Churchand at the Church of the Unity. He is the only sur-viving member of the original Schumann Quartette,and he still sings first bass in the present SchumannQuartette. It has been Mr. Barbers custom to enter-tain during the week of the Worcester Festival thevisiting artists. At the festival of 1904, for in-stance, over a hundred and fifty lovers of musicgathered at his invitation at his house to meet someof the Festival soloists. Mr. Barber is personallya charming man. He is popular in the social circlesof the city and has one of the largest lists ofacquaintances and friends. Mr. Barber has a beauti-ful home at 31 Germain street, Worcester. CHARLES ALBERT ALLEN. The name occupies a conspicuous place in the historyof Worcester county. Massachusetts. It is foundnot only in the industrial but in the professional lifeof the people who have stood for all that is noblestand best. Persons in the United States bearing. »^^c^^^ WORCESTER COUNTY 369 this surname find many lines to follow in reaching[the progenitor, for there are now at least twentypersons of the name of Allen who came to theseAmerican shores prior to 1640, But to James, whoIsettled in Dedhani and removed to Medfield, a con-siderable number can trace their ancestry, amongthem Charles Albert Allen, who was born in Wor-icester, son of Albert S. Allen. i He attended the schools of his native town, pass-ing up through the various grades, after wdiich hetook a full course in the Worcester Academy, ac-quiring the profession of a civil engineer. Forseveral years he found employment at his profession,in Worcester and vicinity, a considerable portion ofthe time being engaged in making important surveysfor the W. & N. R. R. During this period he de-Isigned and constructed the railroad viad
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