The Story of Worcester Massachusetts

Little, Brown, 1910. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Little, Brown and Company, 1910. Hardcover, 159 pp. No other printings listed. Good+ / NO dust jacket. Cream cloth covered boards with black lettering on front and spine. Light bumping to edges and light to moderate overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. A cornerstone work on the history of Worcester. Thomas F. O'Flynn authored by a long-time teacher and principal in Worcester Public Schools. [Review from The Christian Register - 1910]Concisely presented, this Story of Worcester forms a convenient hand-book of information about the origin of the town, its early settlers, its Indian history and its later development.The early history is briefly summarized in half-a-dozen chapters, after which the churches, schools, parks, industries, and other subjects of interest are taken up in separate chapters, and biographies of famous Worcester men are given, including Charles Devens, George F Hoar, and others. Worcester furnished fivegovernors of the Commonwealth between 1808 and 1869; it was to Eli Thayer that the credit of colonizing Kansas with anti-slavery supporters was largely due; George Bancroft was its historian; and Isaiah Thomas, who established the Worcester Spy in 1770, opened the first printing office in any city in New England. The book is supplied with some eighteen illustrations.