Progress Attributed to the Laboring Classes: A Poem, Delivered Before the Worcester County Mechanics' Association, March 3rd, 1853
First Edition. The author was an American politician who served as the 18th Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts from 1873 to 1874. He worked as a machinist for over 8 years, and then as an inventor, newspaper writer, and elected official. In the same year that this poem was read before the Worcester County Mechanics Association, he was elected president of the Young Men’s Rhetorical Society.
Clark Jillson, (1825-1894).
Progress Attributed To The Laboring Classes: A Poem, Delivered Before The Worcester County Mechanics' Association, March 3rd, 1853.
Worcester, 1853.
Lehigh University Catalog Record: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/10994535
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If you're interested in learning more about the historical events that inspired this novel, please refer to the links below:
"History [of Mechanics Hall]" from Mechanics Hall, referencing Margaret Erskine, 1977.