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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 15: Worcester County. (search)
r they kept one of their number as a teacher in the South at a yearly salary of five hundred dollars. Leicester Incorporated Feb. 15, 1713. Population in 1860, 2,773; in 1865, 2,528. Valuation in 1860, $1,559,404; in 1865, $1,615,869. The selectmen in 1861 were John D. Cogswell, Jonathan H. Thurston, Theodore E. Woodcock; in 1862, Charles S. Knight, Jonathan H. Thurston, John N. Grout; in 1863, John N. Grout, Otis Whittimore, Silas Gleason; in 1864 and 1865, John D. Cogswell, Irving Sprague, Edward Sargent. The town-clerk during the years of the war was Joseph A. Denny, and the town-treasurer during the same period was David E. Merriam. 1861. A meeting was held May 4th to see what action the town would take in regard to arming and equipping and maintaining a military company, recently formed in the town. At this meeting John A. Denny presented a series of patriotic resolutions, which were read and unanimously adopted. These resolutions set forth: 1st, Painful regret