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From: (Marcia Payne)
Subject: [MAWORCES] Charles Nutt's biography; Part 1
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:44:29 -0500 (CDT)


History of Worcester and Its People by Charles Nutt; Volume 4

pages 568, 569


Journalist, genealogist, historian, was born in Natick, Mass., Sept.
26, 1868, and died Set. 26, 1918, at Wareham, Mass., the son of Colonel
William and Abigail (Puffer) Nutt.
His preparatory education was acquired i the schools of his native
place, he graduated from the Natick High School in 1886, president and
valedictorian of his class. He then entered Harvard University, took
second-year honors in physics in 1887, and was gradated in 1890 with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, both for general rank and
for honors in physics.
During his course in school and college, Mr. Nutt did newspaper work
fo the Natick "Bulletin" and Natick "Citizen" and the Boston "Evening
Record", this experience laying the foundation for his career in
journalism, he having been one of the best known men in that line
throughout his section of the State of Mass.
In 1890, the year of his graduation frm Harvard, he accepted a
position as reporter on the staff of the Worcester "Daily Spy", for many
years the leading paper in that thriving city, and in the following
year, having gained additional experience, he founded "The Paragraph",
in New Rochelle, New York, and later became the owner of newspaper and
printing plants at New Rochell and Mamaroneck, New York.
On Oct. 1, 1899, he purchased the Worcester "Daily Spy" and
conducted it until June 1, 1904, when it passed out of his hands and was
suspended. The plant was destroyed by fire, May 21, 1902, and the loss
was disastrous to the business. He disposed of the New Rochelle
"Paragraph", Nov. 1, 1900 and the Mamaroneck "Paragraph" to Charles F.
Rice.
With thorough training, true journalistic instinct, broad knowledge
of affairs, he reflected honor upon his profession, and in his conduct
of the various papers with which he was indentified. He made them the
exponent of the highest interests of the community, of the State and of
the Nation.
In addition to his journalistic work, Mr. Nutt devoted considerable
time to genealogical research, in which he was an expert, and from 1904
until his death was associated with the Lewis Publishing Company of New
York, and at the time of his death was watching through the press the
later pages of a monumental work which he had already completed -
"History of Worcester", which will be read with great interest by his
many friends and acquaintances in Worcester, his adopted city.
He completed a history of the First Mass. Heavy Artillery, which was
begun by the late Hon. Alfred S. Roe; wrote a history of the Crompton &
Knowles Loom Works, one of the largest enterprizes in Worcester, and was
author of several other books which received favorable comment from the
press and from the reading public.

END of PART 1



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