Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . he was connected officiallywith the New England Female Medical College,until it was transferred to the Boston is at present treasurer and trustee of the Mas-sachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, and holds posi-tions of responsibility as trustee and director ofother institutions. He is a member of the Art, Al-gonquin, and Merchants Clubs. On June 27, 1864,he was married to Miss Mary T. Cumston, daughterof the late William Cumston, founder
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . he was connected officiallywith the New England Female Medical College,until it was transferred to the Boston is at present treasurer and trustee of the Mas-sachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, and holds posi-tions of responsibility as trustee and director ofother institutions. He is a member of the Art, Al-gonquin, and Merchants Clubs. On June 27, 1864,he was married to Miss Mary T. Cumston, daughterof the late William Cumston, founder of the firm ofHallett & Cumston, pianoforte manufacturers : thev have three sons: William Cumston Richardson,, graduated in 1S91 from the Institute ofTechnology, Spencer Cumston Richardson, now atHarvard, and Amor Hollingsworth Richardson,now in Mr. Richardsons office. All attended thePrince School. Richardson, Willlam Hexrv, son of WilliamHolt and Abbie Burgess (Gore) Richardson, wasborn in Boston Aug. 8, 1852. His father was aprominent dry-goods merchant of the firms of Wil-son, Hamilton, &; Co. and A. Hamilton &: Co., oc-. RICHARDSON. cupying the entire block corner of Federal, Franklin,and Devonshire streets until the great fire of 1872 :and his mother was a daughter of John Gore, thelargest wholesale clothing-dealer in Boston in hisday, vice-president of the Five Cents Savings Bank,and one of the founders of the Tremont-streetMethodist Church. When he was born his parentswere living in Dix place, then a fashionable resi-dence quarter. He first attended Mrs. Finnsprivate school in Essex street, kept by the wife ofthe celebrated actor; then the Brimmer School,from which he graduated in 1866; and then theEnglish High School, graduating in 1869, just twoweeks before the sudden death of Master ThomasSherwin. This class of 1869 has become famousthrough the prominence of its members. He beganbusiness in the wholesale dry-goods house of A. BOSTON OF TO-DAY. .^71 Hamilton & Co
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