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WhilinXs of Ded/zam. 285
The manufacturers' exchange, too, was his
project. Taking the hint from what he had
seen abroad, -- at Leeds, Bradford, Hudders-
field, Manchester and elsewhere,--he saw that
if Boston could embody the principle of a
clothall in a general manufacturers' exchange
for the exposition and sale of New England
goods, she would recover much of the business
she had let slip away from her, and establish a
position that would defy competition; and by
his own efforts he procured the statute of
1867, granting the square of an acre in the
centre of this territory, for this greatest of
business establishments. In many respects he
strongly resembled Mayor Quincy, the elder."*
Most of those who bear the name of Whi-
ting, originating in Dedham, Wrentham, Hing-
ham, Plymouth, &c., have descended from
Nathaniel Whiting of Dedham.
* Boston Daily Advertiser.