The Great Bore
A Souvenir Of The Hoosac Tunnel
Forfatter: J.L. Harrison
År: 1891
Forlag: Advance Job Print Works
Sted: North Adams
Sider: 74
UDK: 624.19
A History Of The Tunnel, With Sketches Of North Adams, Its Vicinity And Drives; Williams-Town And Mount Greylock
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England. Ilie religious opinions, creeds and beliefs
of its inhabitants are voiced from the pulpits of
eight churches, as follows: Congregational, Metho-
dist, Baptist, Episcopal, Universalist, Saint Francis,
(Roman Catholic); Notre Dame of the Sacred
Ileait, (Roman Catholic), and the Union church, at
Blackinton. A branch of the Young Men’s Chris-
tian Association occupies pleasant rooms in the
Adams national bank building, corner of Main and
Bank streets.
BRAIN AND BRAWN.
North Adams has and has had its share of brain
and brawn, but only the names of a few of those
who have helped to found its institutions and spread
its fame abroad, can be given. Hiram Sibley, until
his death the head of the great seed houses of Roch-
ester anti Chicago, was born here on February 6,
1807. Allen B. Wilson, the inventor of the Wheeler
and Wilson sewing machine, left here in the spring
of 1850, with a model of the machine in his valise,
to secure his patent. He returned in 1865 and with
part of the profits of his invention built The Wilson.
Senator Henry L. Dawes began his law practice and
laid the foundation of his great political future here.
For four years the Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden,