[Illustration:  Gov.  Andrew’s birthplace]

Governor Andrew retired from office January 5, 1866, and, returning to private life, he again entered upon a large practice at the bar, which was lucrative as well.

On the 30th of October, 1867, he died suddenly of apoplexy, after tea, at his own home on Charles street, Boston.  The body was laid in Mount Auburn Cemetery, but was afterwards removed to the old burial-place in Hingham, where a fine statue has since been erected over his grave.

Governor Andrew was married Christmas evening, December, 1848, to Miss Eliza Jane, daughter of Charles Hersey, of Hingham.  They had four children living at the time of his death,—­John Forrester, born Nov. 26, 1850; Elizabeth Loring, born July 29, 1852; Edith, born April 5, 1854; Henry Hersey, born April 28, 1858.

Mr. Edwin P. Whipple, who was first chosen as the most competent person to write the biography of Governor Andrew, after examining the Governor’s private and official correspondence, affirmed that he could discover nothing in his most private notes which was not honorable.

[Illustration:  Burial-place and Monument, Hingham, mass.]

Says Mr. Peleg W. Chandler, in his “Memoir and Reminiscences of Governor Andrew,"[1] a most charming volume, from which largely this sketch has been prepared:—­

“He passed more than twenty years in an arduous profession, and never earned more than enough for the decent and comfortable support of his family.  He devoted his best years to the country, and lost his life in her service.  His highest ambition was to do his duty in simple faith and honest endeavor, of such a character the well-known lines of Sir Henry Watton are eminently applicable:—­

  “This man was free from servile bands
    Of hope to rise, or fear to fall;
  Lord of himself, though not of lands,
    And having nothing, yet had all.”

[Footnote 1:  Published by Roberts Brothers, Boston.]

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THE CITY OF WORCESTER—­THE HEART OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

By Fanny Bullock Workman.

The city of Worcester, forty-four miles west of Boston, lies in a valley surrounded on all sides by hills, and covers an area which may be roughly estimated as extending four miles in length by two in breadth, its long axis running north and south.  It is the second city in the State in point of population, while in enterprise it yields the palm to none of its size in the country, sending to all parts of the world its manufactured products, the excellence of which has established the reputation of the place in which they were produced.

[Illustration:  Union passenger station.]

Worcester was first settled in the spring of 1675, under the name of Quinsigamond.  The original order of the General Court, granted Oct. 11th, 1665, was as follows:—­