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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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ted from Harvard at the age of twenty and admitted to thebar three years later. Shortly afterwards he and Christopher C. Baldwinbegan the publication of the Worcester Magazine, devoted to local his-tory, still consulted and valued. All phases of Worcester history claimedMr. Lincolns interest. When the National jEgis was first published, heedited it; he also edited the Journals of the Provincial Congress, Com-mittees of Safety and County Conventions (1774-75). In 1835 Mr.Lincoln represented Worcester at the General Court, and served as amember of the Judiciary Committee. In 1837 his history of Worcesterwas published. Mr. Lincolns death occurred October 5, 1843. Hewas profound and learned for his years, said Governor Emory Washburn,the diligent student with his ever-ready fancy and playful wit, thegenial companion, and the man of taste and letters. An interesting anecdote is told by a man who evidently knew Lincolnswoods although he might not have been aware of the owners care of the 39
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i. Dorothea Lynde Dixi. James Fitton 3. John S. C. Abbott FORTY IMMORTALS of WORCESTER & ITS COUNTY feathered folk who inhabited it. As a young man, he said, I wasone day out hunting in Paines Woods on Lincoln Street, and on myway home went into the grounds of Mr. Lincoln with the idea of shootingrobins that were very abundant about the cherry-trees there. Mr.Lincoln came out and in the blandest manner said, If you please, youngman, couldnt you just as well do your shooting somewhere else? Theyouthful huntsman departed, but afterwards asserted, I had a shot atthe robins, all the same. JAMES FITTON First Catholic Priest of Worcester, where he laid the foundations for theCollege of the Holy Cross 1803-81 Father James Fitton was for many years a New England missionaryand priest. When the Right Reverend Benedict Joseph Fenwick, secondBishop of Boston, founded the College of the Holy Cross, he had a sub-stantial foundation on which to build, for Father Fitton during his earlydays in Wo

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