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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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rved as a delegate from the WorcesterDistrict to the Whig National Convention which met in Philadelphia inJune, 1848, after his memorable speech ending with Sir, Massachusettsspurns the bribe! Judge Allen gave his report in the City Hall atWorcester to the multitude that thronged there. As the assembly wasabout to disperse after hearing Judge Allens passionate attack on theWhig party, his brother, the Rev. George Allen, came to the platformand moved the memorable resolution which was passed and adopted bythe Free Soil party as a slogan in its campaign: Resolved, that Massa-chusetts wears no chains, and spurns all bribes. That she goes now andwill ever go for Free Soil and Free Men, for Free Lips and a Free Press,for a Free Land and a Free World. So was inaugurated the politicalparty which made the abolition of slavery its cardinal principle. Nordid Charles Allen flinch when he faced the most powerful antagonist thatnot alone Massachusetts but America ever produced—Daniel Webster. 31
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i. Charles Allen2. Ichabod Washburn 3. Emory Washburn FORTY IMMORTALS of WORCESTER & ITS COUNTY And his denunciation of the great orator is second only to the poemwritten by Whittier. He was the personification of the indomitablestrength of New England even during a great illness that occurred whenhe had served two terms in the Congress of the United States. Washing-ton climate did not agree with him, and he contracted there a prolongedlung fever. The attending physician, a friend of Judge Allen, said that itwas but a matter of a few hours before the patient would succumb tothe disease, but the judge in scarcely an audible whisper said, We willsee about that, and, to the chagrin of the physician, recovered. Hisdeath occurred in 1869, in the seventy-second year of his age. ICHABOD WASHBURN Founder of the Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Co., now consolidated with theAmerican Steel and Wire Company which is now a constituent company of theUnited States Steel corporation—the largest

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