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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
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Publisher: (Boston, Mass., Walton advertising & printing company)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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gh money to at-tend Leicester Academy, he prepared for college, and at nineteen enteredYale University from which he was graduated in the class of 1812. Study-ing law in the office of Francis Blake at Worcester, he was admitted tothe bar in 1815, and for many years thereafter he was one of the leadersof the Worcester County Bar. Without solicitation on his part he waschosen on the Whig ticket in 1824 to represent his district in Congress.During this period he strenuously opposed the Clay compromise tariffbill. He was a splendid debater and an able legislator. In January,1834, he was elected Governor of Massachusetts, eventually resigningthat office to again take his seat in the Senate. He achieved some fameas an orator, and many of his speeches were published, a million copiesalone being printed of his speech delivered in 1840 in opposition to thesubtreasury. He was familiarly called Honest John Davis. Afterbeing in the public service for a quarter of a century, he retired to spend 27
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i. John Green, 3rd.2. John Davis 3. John Boynton FORTY IMMORTALS of WORCESTER & ITS COUNTY the closing years of his life in his Lincoln Street home at Worcester, read-ing the classics, especially Tacitus and Livy. Governor Davis was a contemporary of Clay, Calhoun, and Webster,whose deaths occurred within a short time of his own. He has beencompared with these three orators: If one reads for mere pleasure, hewill be more gratified with the glowing fervor and sparkling wit of Clay,the subtle metaphysics of Calhoun, or the concise and demonstrative logicof Webster. But if he reads to gain a detailed knowledge of the questionunder debate, he will find Mr. Davis more instructive perhaps thaneither, certainly more logical than Clay, more practical than Calhounand more minutely instructive than Webster. After spending a brief time with his loved classics, in gracious conver-sation with his friends, in the execution of the many public trusts con-cerning which his advice was sought, in wa

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