A Memorial Address On the Late Marshall Pinckney Wilder, President of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
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Wilder on his removal to this city entered up- on the wholesale dry-goods business, and in this, as dealer and importer, he continued, sometimes with, sometimes without, a partner, until he became a partner in a commission house for the sale of do- mestic fabrics, with offices both in Boston and in ^ew York. He lived to say on his eighty-fifth Digitized by Google MARSHALL P. WILDER. 17 birthday: — ^^I have been constantly in business for nearly threescore years in this city, and I beg to assure... you, my friends, that there is no title which I prize more highly than that of an upright, in- telligent and enterprising merchant of Boston." When we consider what sort of men they were who before his time had given to Boston merchants their world-wide fame for every trait that could make their profession what it ought to be, it indicates the most strong and estimable qualities of mind and heart for one to say this before the men who knew him best, and to have their unanimous suffrage for his merited place on that roll of honor, without a momentary shadow on his integrity and trustworth- iness.
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