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were between fifty and sixty men on the pay roll of the 

 company, all good and reliable. 



To Potter was assigned the honor of driving Lafayette, 

 on his visit here in August, 1824, and on this occasion 

 had an open barouche and team of splendid horses, and 

 drove him through to Newburyport. When Henry Clay 

 made his visit in 1833, Page and his team of milk-whites 

 were in attendance and took him over the road from the 

 residence of Hon. Nathaniel Silsbee on Pleasant Street 

 to the Tremont House, Boston, in sixty minutes. Joseph 

 Smith, who had been in the livery business for many 

 years was employed by the Committee of Reception dur-" 

 ing Gen. Jackson's visit in 1833, and used on the occasion 

 an open barouche and had a team of four coal black 

 horses. 



Mr. Daniel C. Manning first entered the service of the 

 company in 1823 as an office boy and carried round the 

 letters and bundles on the arrival of the stages. For 

 the small packages a horse and gig was always ready on 

 the arrival, of each coach, and here began the first express 

 business of this county. 



From here Daniel went into the company's paint shop, 

 then in charge of Joseph D. Sadler, where he served a 

 regular apprenticeship and became a first-class carriage 

 painter, in which business he continued for some years, 

 combining with it the letting of a few horses. The paint 

 shop was then abandoned and he went very extensively 

 into the livery business with Mr. Joseph Smith. 



We see him driving, in that fearful storm on the 8th of 

 February, 1870, Prince Arthur to the Peabody funeral, 

 and for eight consecutive hours not leaving his box. 

 Like Mr. Peabody, he started a poor boy, but by his un- 



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tiring industry, and his natural resources, he is now rated 

 among the self made capitalists. He also had the honor 



