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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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ellion. Trouble had been brew-ing for two years and the first open opposition occurred late in Septemberat the Court House in Worcester. A body of armed men had enteredthe town, and made an attempt to stop the session of the Court presidedover by Chief Justice Ward. On being challenged by a soldier. JusticeWard ordered him to lower his musket. The man, who had formerlyserved under General Ward, awed at the command in his voice, did as hewas ordered. On the steps of the Court House were several men withfixed bayonets, and in front of them their commander with a drawn sword.Justice Ward ordered that the doors be opened. Bayonets were pressedagainst his breast. He is said to have turned to the armed company, andto have spoken in part:— I do not value your bayonets! You may plunge them into myheart! But while that heart beats, I will do my duty. When op-posed to it, my life is of little consequence. If you will take awayyour bayonets, and give me some position where I can be heard by 11
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FORTY IMMORTALS of WORCESTER & ITS COUNTY my fellow-citizens, and not by your leaders alone who have deceivedand deluded them, I will speak—but not otherwise! A place was made for the soldier-legislator, and from that hour may bedated the breaking of the backbone of Shays Rebellion. Indeed, menwho threatened General Ward with personal violence, and who had at-tempted the destruction of his home in Shrewsbury, afterwards acknowl-edged to him that they were in the wrong. Not long after these events General Ward retired to his home inShrewsbury, and there formed a picturesque figure in his old-time costume,with ruffles and shoe-buckles. In the fine old homestead that had shel-tered liim for many years occurred his death on October 27, 1800. RUFUS PUTNAM Founder and Father of Ohio1738-1834 If Ohio is the cradle of the West, as one has said, then the cradle ofOhio is certainly the heart of Worcester County. At what has beendesignated as the precise geographical centre of Massachusett

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