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Title: Forty immortals of Worcester & its county. A brief account of those natives or residents who have accomplished something for their community or for the nation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Worcester Bank & Trust Company, Worcester, Mass Walton Advertising and Printing Company, Boston
Subjects: Worcester (Mass.) -- Biography Worcester County (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: (Boston, Mass. : Walton advertising & printing company)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Clara Barton; to the Rev. James A. Mullen, S. J., Vice-President of the College of
the Holy Cross, and to Mr. Timothy A. Shea, Registrar of the College, for their
courtesy and for the use of the portrait of Father Fitton; to Dr. George O. Ward of
Worcester Academy for assistance and for permission to use the portrait of Eli Thayer; to Dr.
Alonzo \. Bemis for the use of the portrait of Elias Howe; to Ex-Mayor James Logan for
permission to reproduce the portrait of Russell L. Hawes; to the Society of Antiq-
uity for the use of the portrait of Mrs. Abby Kelly Foster; to the Trustees of
the Rufus Putnam house in Rutland for permission to reproduce the portrait
of General Putnam; to the Schervee Studios for the use of the
portrait of George Frisbie Hoar; to Doubleday, Page & Company
for the use of the portrait of Andrew Haswell Green; and to
Mr. Henry P. Murray. Thanks are especially due Mr.
Benjamin Thomas Hill for aid in the preparation of
the list of the Forty Immortals and for the
use of several pictures in his fine collection.
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FORTY IMMORTALS
Of WORCESTER & ITS COUNTY
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DANIEL GOOKIN
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Founder of Worcester
1612-87

To ascribe to Major-General Daniel Gookin the title of Father
of Worcester would be conferring a compliment well deserved
and at the same time impart an honor to Worcester which she
need not feel ashamed of or reluctant to accept, says Ellery B.
Crane in his account of the early settlement of the town.
The father of Major-General Gookin, a well-to-do yeoman of England,
left Ireland, where his son, Daniel, Jr., was born in 1612, and came to
Virginia in 1621. He planted a Colony at Newport News, where some
authorities say that he employed as many as fifty servants. After the
great Indian Massacre, when three hundred and forty-seven whites were
slain, and Gookin, Sr., was left with thirty-five men to protect his prop-
erty, the planter returned to Ireland. His son, Daniel, Jr., remained
in Virginia. Here in 1634 the son received a grant of twenty-five
hundred acres of land, and serve

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