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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
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at this time were numerous, and among them was a sectional safetysteam boiler, an automatic boiler cleanser, and a hydraulic elevator.The latter proved so successful that Mr. Thayer was for some time en-gaged in the manufacture of elevators. It was Eli Thayer who, after securing private co-operation, proclaimedat City Hall in Worcester, March 11, 1854, that Kansas should be madean anti-slavery State. He foresaw the danger of Kansas going over tothe South, and hence he established in New England the Emigrant AidSociety, an organization which was given publicity by Edward EverettHale and Horace Greeley. In 1861 Kansas was admitted as a free State.Contemporary with this movement, Mr. Thayer furthered the friendlyinvasion of West Virginia with free State settlers. He founded therethe town of Ceredo, spending $118,000 in its development. In memoryof his part in the Kansas crusade there was placed some years ago a marblebust of Mr. Thayer in the State House at Topeka. Mr. Thayer visited 55
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I. Eli Thayer2. Charles Dcvens 3. Andrew Haswell Green FORTY IMMORTALS of WORCESTER & ITS COUNTY Kansas in 1877, where he was invited to address a meeting of old settlers.He was given a royal welcome during this his first and only visit to theState he had so vigorously fostered. I would rather, asserted CharlesSumner, accomplish what Eli Thayer has done than have won the battleof New Orleans. Mr. Thayers last days were spent in Worcester, where he died, April15, 1899. The services for him were conducted in the great stone castlehe had built more than thirty years before on Mount Oread. CHARLES DEVENS Soldier, Orator, Jurist l820-()I In a memoir of General Devens, Senator George Frisbie Hoar has said:To draw an adequate portraiture of Charles Devens would require thenoble touch of the old masters of painting or the lofty stroke of the dra-matists of Queen Elizabeths day. Senator Hoar probably had in mindwhen he uttered these words Devenss appeal to the citizens of Worcesteron the o

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