Excerpt from Memoir of Charles Henry Dalton Charles H. Dalton. By a long and active life of service and good citizenship he was to prove himself worthy of them. The first five years of Mr. Dalton's life were spent for the most part at Chelmsford, until his father's removal to Lowell in 1831. The only incident of this period of which there is any record is his first journey to Boston in 1827 at the age of one, made by the then famous Middlesex Canal, which was first open for traffic in 1803, only to be superseded, some thirty years later, by the Boston and Lowell Railroad. Mr. Dalton used to be fond of pointing out, as a unique illustration of the radical changes in the methods of transportation that have been witnessed in New England in the past seventy years, that this canal trip landed him in Haymarket Square on precisely the spot now occupied by one of the stations of the subway to whose construction he devoted so much care and labor in his later life. His boyhood and early youth were spent in Chelmsford and Lowell; he was a pupil at the common school at Chelmsford, and at the Lowell High School before the. Year 1844, after which he was sent to a boarding school at Med ford; but of college education he had none. It was a source of the deepest regret to him in later life that he never went to Harvard. An honest fear that he might not be able to equal the brilliant record there of his elder brother John, who graduated in 1844, was perhaps the chief reason why he decided not to go. Great and genuine modesty in regard to his intellectual attainments was ever one of his most prominent traits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.