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��settled in Columbia. At the breaking- out of the Rebellion, he enUsted in Com- pany F, Second N. H. V., served three years and two months ; re-enlisted in First N. H. heavy artillery, Company I, promoted to second lieutenant, and served to June 25, 1865 ; forty-eight months in service. He was taken prisoner at the first battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1 86 1. Exchanged after Don- aldson. Six children, — Charles O., Julia E., Pearley C, Mary M., Alice, and Mabel ; all at home. Mr. Stevens

��is engaged in the lumber business, and owns five hundred acres of land in four farms.

Mr. Stevens' great-grandfather, Isaac from Connecticut, was a soldier in the Revolution, went to Canada with Gen. Arnold, and on his return took up land and settled in Stratford ; his grandfather Rich settled in Maidstone ; Orson, the father, moved to Columbia. Mason, and attends Baptist Church. Mr. Stevens was wounded four times.

��ROLAND WORTHINGTON.

Collector of the Port of Boston.

��Roland Worthington, Collector of the Port of Boston, and the principal proprietor and editor of the Boston Eve?ii?ig Traveler, is one of the veteran figures of New England, and, indeed, of American journalism. He was born in Agawam, Massachusetts, September 22, 181 7, and in the sixty-eighth year of his age is still in the full vigor of a well- preserved manhood, hale, hearty, and erect, and enters into the activities of business life with as much zest as ever.

His father was a sturdy, intelhgent farmer, who took a lively interest in public. affairs, and filled several of the town offices.

Collector Worthington received his education in the district schools of his native place, and after the manner of the farmers' sons of his boyhood days, graduated into the sterner school of work at the early age of twelve. From that time until he reached his twentieth year he was employed in various capac- ities, supporting and educating himself as he went along. In March, 1837, he went to Boston, and found employment in the counting-room of the Daily Ad- vertiser. For six years he had the valu- able experience of association with the

��business department of that paper, which, with Nathan Hale as its editor, was indisputably the leading daily of New England, both in point of enter- prise and influence. So close had been Mr. Worthington's application to busi- ness that, in 1843, his health was seri- ously impaired, and, under advice, he sought its restoration by a trip abroad. He crossed the Atlantic, and made a journey up the Mediterranean, touching at various points, and enlarging his knowledge of Europe by actual observ- ation. Returning to this country he then passed a winter at the South, where he acquired a practical insight into the po- litical and social conditions of that sec- tion, which proved valuable to him as the great questions which culminated in the civil war developed themselves.

In June, 1845, having returned to Boston with fully-renewed health, Mr. Worthington took charge of the Daily Evening Traveller, and its history and his own have ever since been one and inseparable.

The American Traveller was launched on January i, 1825, Royal L. Porter being its first editor. Later, the Stage Register, a journal which had for its

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