Forty immortals of Worcester and its county - A brief account of those natives or residents who have accomplished something for their community or for the nation (1920) (14577827049)

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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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alittle more than a month later—on March 31—at the age of fifty-one. Hisfriend Isaiah Thomas announced his death in the Massachusetts Spy byprinting a solitary line. Three memorials remain of this distinguished patriot: Montpelier, Ver-mont, which he founded and named; a mountain in Maine near the headof the Kennebec named for him because he had climbed it for purposesof exploration when he was with the army of Benedict Arnold; and theBigelow monument on Worcester Common, presented by his grandson,Colonel Timothy Bigelow Lawrence of Boston, and dedicated April 19,1861—more than three-quarters of a century after Timothy Bigelow hadmarched at the head of his little company of Minute Men to join theAmerican army at Cambridge. LEVI LINCOLN Attorney-General of the United States174Q-1820 Levi Lincoln began life humbly—at the anvil. On the day of hisdeath, a century ago, he was the acknowledged head of the WorcesterCounty Bar, a man who had served his State and Country in innumer- 15
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i. Aaron Bancroft2. Dwight Foster 3. Levi Lincoln, Jr. FORTY IMMORTALS of WORCESTER & ITS COUNTY able capacities, head of a distinguished family, and the father of sonsdestined to play an important part in the history of the Nation. Thesubject of this sketch was born in 1749 in Hingham, Massachusetts. Hewas the son of a prosperous farmer, but, as all boys worked in his day,young Lincoln was apprenticed to an ironsmith. His love of bookswas early exhibited, and every minute that could be spared from theanvil was devoted to study. After having mastered the rudiments ofLatin and Greek, Levi Lincoln through his own exertions entered Har-vard University, from which he was graduated with high honors in theclass of 1772. He had every intention of entering the ministry, but itchanced that on a visit to the courts he heard John Adams speak, and,inspired by the eloquence of the famous patriot, he abandoned his plansfor the pulpit and decided to study for the bar. While he was preparingfor h