Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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CHARLES A. LARLt A FTER graduation I started as bookkeeper with Chase Barstow, Stock Brokers, in Boston, where I continued about 18 months. In 1884 I secured a position as draftsman and timekeeper with Norcross Brothers, Builders, with whom I remained nearly 17 years. After six months in Worcester I put in a year at the quarries in Milford, Mass. From October, 1885, to July, 1887, I was located in Chicago, engaged in building the Marshall Field Wholesale Store Building, and from then until November, 1889, was in Kansas City on the New York Life Building. Returning to Worcester, I was engaged in securing and overseeing the carrying out of contracts until compelled to resign this position in January, 1901. I came to Middlebury, Vt., expecting that a year, free from care in this restful country, would restore my shattered nerves. This proving insufficient, I took up the reading of law in the hope of turning to good account this enforced idleness, and was admitted to the Bar in Montpelier, October, 1905, since when I have had a sign out. In 1904 had the good fortune to consult a Doctor of Oste¬ opathy, whose treatment restored me to health. Was married in 1885.