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school, at Barre, 1871-72 ; on the Amherst Record, 1872 ; in the 

 firm of Bowker & Sparrow, manufacturers of fertilizers, Boston, 

 1873-74 ; of Jackson & Bowker, Boston, 1875-76 ; of W. H. 

 Bowker & Co., manufacturers of the Stockbridge manures, etc., 

 1876-79 ; President of the Bowker Fertilizer Company, Boston, 

 since 1879 (present cap. $600,000, sales for 1884, 32,000 tons). 

 Vice-President of the New York Fertilizer and Chemical Exchange ; 

 Director ( former!} 7 president) in the Sturtevant Mill Co. and in 

 the Putnam Water Co. ; formerly a director in the Wheeler 

 Reflector Co. ; Trustee of the Mass. Agricultural College, since 

 1885 ; Vice-President for Suffolk of the Bay State Agr'l Society ; 

 Member of the Amer. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, and 

 of the Mass. Horticultural Society. Married, 7th September, 

 1875, at Barre, Charlotte J. Ryder. One son and two daughters. 

 Address, Bowker Fertilizer Co., 43 Chatham St., Boston. 



How Pure Milk may be supplied to Boston. (Pamphlet, Boston, 1880, re- 

 printed in the Boston and New York daily papers, and in most of the New Eng- 

 land agricultural journals.} 



LILLET BREWER CASWELL was born 29th March, 1848, at Fitch- 

 burg ; prepared for college at Fitchburg High School. . Civil 

 Engineer, Fitchburg, 1871-73, and at Athol since 1873; taught 

 school during the winter for several years at Princeton, Prescott, 

 S. Royalston, and Royalston Centre. Member, and for a time chair- 

 man, of the School Committee, Athol, since 1880 ; is a Justice of 

 the Peace and a Trial Justice for Worcester County. Married, 2d 

 January, 1877, at Athol, Mary Elizabeth Keyes. Address, Athol, 

 Mass. 



Compiled "The Miller's River District Directory". Our Forests. (Trans. 

 Worcester North Agr'l Soc., 1873; Rept. Mass. Board of Agric., 1872-3.) 

 Also written articles for the newspapers. 



HOMER LUCIAN COWLES was born 8th January, 1850, at Had- 

 ley ; prepared for college at Amherst High School. Engaged in 

 farming at Hadley, since 1871. Married, 28th December, 1880, 

 at Amherst, Maria N. Kingman. One son and a daughter. 

 Address, Amherst, Mass. 



EMORY ALEXANDER ELLSWORTH was born 3d August, 1852, at 

 Hardwick ; studied at Barre High School, 1864-67. Clerk, Francis 

 A. Fales, provision dealer, Troy, N. Y., 1871-72 ; in the employ 



