s the author of several statistical
pamphlets on the subject, some of which are recognized as authority, and
have a wide circulation.

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February 7.--Death, at Worcester, of Hon. Peter C. Bacon, of the law
firm of Bacon, Hopkins, & Bacon. He was born in Dudley, in 1804. He was
the son of Jeptha Bacon. He graduated from Brown University in 1827, and
later read law at the New Haven Law School, and in the office of Davis &
Allen, in Worcester. He was admitted to the bar in 1830, and commenced
to practise in his native place, but soon removed to Oxford, where he
went into partnership with Ira M. Barton, who subsequently became Judge
Barton. In 1845 Mr. Bacon came to Worcester, and had ever since been the
leading member of the bar. Since his admission to the bar, fifty-six
years ago, Mr. Bacon's office has been a training-school for the youth
of the profession, and among his old students are reckoned some of the
leading lawyers of the State. Nearly one-half the lawyers in Worcester
were formerly students under him, and there is scarcely a State in the
Union that has not some representatives from this great law-office.

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February 7.--Death, in Boston, of John G. Webster. He was born at
Portsmouth, N.H., on the 8th of April, 1811, and was, therefore, nearly
75 years of age. He was a distant kinsman of Daniel Webster. His
paternal grandmother was a kinsman of John Locke, the English
philosopher and metaphysician. His maternal ancestors, from whom he
received his middle name,--the Gerrisbes,--emigrated from England to
this country in 1640.

Mr. Webster's early education was in the schools of Portsmouth, N.H.,
and at a boarding-school of five hundred or six hundred boys, at South
Berwick, Me., which he was obliged to leave at the age of fourteen to
serve as clerk and book-keeper in a village store. In 1841 Mr. Webster
came to Boston and joined his brother, David Locke Webster, who had for
several years been engaged in the leather business, and they established
the firm of Webster & Co., with a joint capital of $12,000; the same
firm is still in existence, one of the oldest, if not the oldest in the
same line of business in the city of Boston. In 1845 the firm built a
tannery and leather manufactory in Malden, which covered about one acre
of ground. The same business now occupies an area of between twelve and
fifteen acres. Mr. Webster was in for