BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM AMORY of Manchester NH
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Manchester, A Brief Record of its Past and A Picture of Its Present, 
including an account of is settlement and its growth as town and city; 
a history of its schools, churches, societies, banks, post-offices, 
newspapers and manufactures; a description of its government, police 
and fire department, public buildings, library, water-works, 
cemeteries, streets, streams, railways and bridges; a complete list of 
the selectmen, moderators and clerks of the town and members of the 
councils, marshals and engineers of the city, with the state of the 
cote for mayor at each election; the story of its part in the war of 
the rebellion with a complete list of its soldiers who went ot the war; 
and sketches of its representative citizens; Manchester N.H.; John B. 
Clark; 1875
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WILLIAM AMORY
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William Amory was born in Boston, Mass., June 15, 1804 and is the son of
Thomas C. and Hannah R. (Linzee) Amory. He was one of a family of four
sons and four daughters, of whom three only, two sons and one daughter,
survive. His father, a merchant of Boston, died in 1812, and seven years
later his son, then but fifteen years of age, entered Harvard 
University. He spent four years there and soon after went to Europe to 
complete his education. He pursued in Germany the study of law and
of general literature, for a year and a half at the university in
Gottingen and for nine months at the university in Berlin. He occupied
the subsequent two years and a half in travel and returned to Boston
May 30, 1830, after an absence of five years. There he pursued his legal 
studies with Franklin Dexter and W.H. Gardiner and in 1831 was admitted
to the bar of Suffolk County [MA] without, however, any intention of
entering upon legal practice.
  In that year he was chosen the treasurer of the Jackson Manufacturing
Company at Nashua NH and began business as a manufacturer. Without
experience and yet with a mind which study had disciplined and knowledge
of the world had made keen, with remarkable energy and enterprise, he
was eminently successful and the Jackson Company paid large and sure
dividents for the eleven years he continued its treasurer.  In 1837 he
became the treasurer of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, an office 
which included at that time, when the plan of creating a city upon the
Merrimack was just to be carried out, the responsibility and wisdom of
a general manager of the Company's interests, as well as the usual 
financial duties of a treasurer. He has held that office from then till
the present time; has been treasurer of the Stark Mills, with the
exception of four years and a half, since its organization in 1839;
was a director of the Manchester Mills and its successor, the Manchester
Print-Works, from the start in 1839 till 1871, and has been a director
of the Langdon Mills from its beginning in 1860 and its president since
1871.
  Mr. Amory married in January 1833, Miss Anna P.G. Sears, daughter of
David Sears, an eminent merchant of Boston, by whom he has had six 
children, of whom four survive.
  Mr. Amory is a man of whom, more than with almost anyone else,
Manchester is closely identified and to whose accurate foresight and
comprehensive views a very large proportion of its beauty and success
is due. To him as the manager of the Company which gave it its first
impulses in life and has ever since assisted its growth, it owes in 
large measure its wide streets, its pleasant squares and its beautiful
cemetery.  He has pursued a liberal policy and deserves the city's
gratitude. As the treasurer of the Company he has met with eminent
success.  A man, of perfect honor and integrity, cautious and prudent,
he has looked upon the funds in his possession as his only in trust
to be managed with the utmost care.  Herein is to be found the secret
of his success. Few men stand better than he in the business world
of his native city or elsewhere.  A gentleman of culture, of the
utmost polish, with a very pleasing appearance, he enjoyes the affection
and respect of many personal friends.

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