Excerpt from Industrial Worcester

I wrote that part of the History of Worcester County, pub lished in 1889, that dealt with the Manufacturing Industries Of the City of Worcester. In order that it might be more available for reference, I have for a long time intended to republish it in book form with such additions as I might be able to make, and with an adequate index. A work Of this sort is never completed. It is like a painting which to the eye of the artist is never finished. But if we were unwilling to turn out any but a perfect product, little would be produced. I know that there is a lack Of proportion in what I have written, due in part to the fact that I have, as far as possible, adhered to the form in which the material was originally published and in part to the fact that all the information I desired was not accessible.

There must be many mistakes, omissions and inaccuracies in what I have written. I shall be very grateful to anyone who will call my attention to them to the end that at some future time an adequate history Of Industrial Worcester may be written.

There is nothing which adds so much to the stability Of a community as the presence of those who have contributed largely to its growth, whose lives have become a part of it, who have placed the stamp Of their originality upon it. This is particularly true where the life of the individual spans that of the community.

Such instances, unknown Of course in the Older countries and now in the earlier settled portions Of the United States, are the rule rather than the exception in many parts of the West. Within the past thirty years have died many men who could have told us the story of Worcester's industrial growth from their personal knowledge of events and the account books Of some Of them would afford a pretty accurate tracing of the progress of American manufactures.

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