ing needs of the city, the first of the great system of aqueducts now in use. An immediate result of this service was the election of Mr. Ball as mayor for the year 1865, an office which he did not seek, accepted with misgivings, and relinquished with relief and thankfulness, but the duties. of which he discharged with faithfulness and ability. The events of his administration are recounted in another part of this volume.

From 1863 to 1867 Mr. Ball was water commissioner, and from 1867 to 1872 city engineer, and these duties, with a previous term in the City Council, comprised his direct services to Worcester in its corporate capacity.

The present extensive sewerage system was instituted and considerably advanced under his official supervision.

The success of Mr. Ball and the experience acquired in the local works led to his selection toconstruct or to report upon similar undertakings in other places in the State and in New England, notably water works in Springfield, Amherst, Leominster, Marlborough, Lawrence, Brockton, Gloucester and Lynn, in Massachusetts; Portland, Maine; Nashua and Claremont, New Hampshire; New Haven and New Britain, Connecticut; and sewerage: systems for Keene, New Hampshire; Fall River, Massachusetts, and New Britain, Connecticut. He undertook the drainage of the Mystic valley, near Boston, at the request of the State Board of Health, which important task he was compelled by physical disability to relinquish.

In 1869 Mr. Ball became interested in the manufacture of water meters and appliances, some of which he had patented, and the Union Water Meter Company was formed, with which he maintained his connection as president until his death.

Mr. Ball was an active member of the Worcester County Mechanics Association, and served as clerk, treasurer, vice-president, and president. He was a member of the Worcester County Society of Engineers, the Boston Society of Engineers, and the American Water Works Association. He was also an active member of The Worcester Society of Antiquity, and gave to that institution the ancient compass which he had used in his first work of surveying. He was early interested in the temperance and antislavery movements, and in politics was first a Free-Soiler and then a Republican.

For thirty-one years he was deacon of the First Unitarian Church in Worcester, and was for seven years president of the Worcester County Conference of Unitarian Churches. He was for a time a trustee of the Worcester County Free Institution of Industrial Science, now the Polytechnic Institute, and always had a deep interest in that establishment for practical education.

Mr. Ball married, in 1848, Sarah Augusta Holyoke of Marlborough, who died in January, 1864. Of the two children by this marriage, a son died early, and a daughter, Miss Helen A. Ball, survives him. In November, 1865, while mayor, Mr. Ball married Mary Jane, daughter of Benjamin B. Otis, formerly a prominent resident of Worcester, and sister of John C. and Harrison G. Otis, and who survives her husband.

After a period of declining health, Mr. Ball died on the 19th of December, 1894, respected, and his death was regretted by all who knew him.

Lewis Barnard,* for many years the senior member of the large dry-goods firm of Barnard, Sumner & Company, was born in Worcester May 15, 1816. He was a son of Captain Lewis and Bathsheba (Lovell) Barnard. He received his education in the common schools, at the high school in Templeton, and at Leicester Academy. In 1839, at the age of twenty-three, he engaged in the dry-goods business in Springfield, where he remained until 1842. In 1847, having returned to Worcester, he became connected in business with Henry H. Chamberlin, and later with George Sumner and Otis E. Putnam, the firm being first Chamberlin, Barnard & Company, and then Barnard, Sumner & Company, until in 1890 the company was incorporated as the Barnard, Sumner & Putnam Company, with Mr. Barnard as president. Through all these years the business continually increased in volume, and the house was known throughout New England as the largest and most reliable dry-goods establishment in central Massachusetts.

Mr. Barnard was, during his fifty years' active life in Worcester, known as a public-spirited and enterprising citizen. He served five years in the Board of Aldermen, and was a representative in the General Court from 1870 to 1873, a member of the Committee on Railroads in 1872, and chairman of the Insurance Committee in 1873. He was a director of the City Bank from 1855, a director of the Bay State Fire and of the Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Companies, a trustee of the Mechanics Savings Bank, and a director of the Boston, Barre & Gardner Railroad.

As a relaxation from the exacting cares of business, Mr. Barnard passed two years in Europe with his family. For many years he resided in the fine estate on Lincoln street, which remains in the possession of his children.

Mr. Barnard married, September 2, 1839, Mary A., daughter of Roland and Annie (Clark) Parkhurst. One son, John Clark, and two daughters, Mary Flora and Helen Josephine, survive their parents.

Mr. Barnard died March 31, 1897.

Frank Roe Batchelder was born in Worcester July 24, 1869, the son of James Warren Roe and Susan Maria (Marshall) Batchelder, and has been a resident of the city from his birth. He attended the public schools, being graduated from the Worcester high school with the class of 1887.

Soon after leaving school, he engaged in newspaper work, at first as a reporter upon a daily paper, and later as one of the editors of Light, a weekly publication.

In 1890 he became the private secretary of Honorable J. H. Walker, representative in Congress from the 3d Massachusetts District, and has served in that capacity to the present time. He is also clerk of the Committee on Banking and Currency of the House of Representatives.

When thirteen years old, Mr. Batchelder began the publication of an amateur newspaper called the Go-Ahead, which he printed himself, and while in the high school conducted with a classmate the High School

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Argus, and later acted as chief editor of the Academe, the official organ of the school.

Mr. Batchelder's first writings for the professional press were in the form of humorous and satirical verses, some of the best of which were published in Life, the New York satirical weekly. He has since contributed verses, short stories and other matter to various weekly periodicals and magazines, and in some cases has illustrated his writings by means of photographs made by himself.

He is a Mason and a member of Worcester County Commandery of Knights Templars, and at the organization of the Young Men's Republican Club was elected its first president.

He married, in 1893, Mabel Caroline Streeter of Worcester, and they have one son, Roger Batchelder, born 1897.

Theodore Cornelius Bates, son of Elijah and Sarah (Fletcher) Bates, was born in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, June 4, 1843. He received his education in the schools of his native town, and at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, New Hampshire. He was a member of the first class graduated at the high school of his native town. He fitted for college at Pinkerton Academy. He was for several years employed in teaching in the Brookfields, and later engaged in business in Boston and other places until 1876, when he acquired an interest in the manufacturing plant of the Worcester Corset Company, and afterwards became sole proprietor.

He early took a prominent position in the Republican party in this State. In 1879 he was elected to the General Court from North Brookfield. In the House he was chairman of the Committee on Claims, and a member of the celebrated Retrenchment Committee of Governor Thomas Talbot's administration. He was elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 1883, and served as chairman of the Joint Committee on Railroads, was a member of the Committee on Prisons, and also on the State House Committee. He declined a unanimous renomination both to the House and Senate. He never missed a vote in either branch of the Legislature, and he gave to the Free Public Library and Reading-Room of his native town his salary while in the Legislature, both House and Senate.

He was for several years chairman of the Executive Committee of the Republican State Central Committee and also for many years chairman of the Executive Committee of the Worcester County Republican Committee, and of the Congressional District Committee. He was elected a delegate from the Worcester Congressional District to the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1884. He was elected by the Legislature a State director of the Boston & Albany Railroad Company in 1880,..