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[Illustration: Revere Copper Co.]
[Illustration: S. T. Snow & signature]
I
A Personal Word by way of introduction. My first appearance in the
Revere Copper Company's office, then at No. 22 Union Street,[1] was on
Monday morning, March 23, 1840. Saturday night last, therefore,
completed the full period of fifty uninterrupted years of service.
In the nature of things it cannot be expected that this record will be
repeated by me, nor can any one else duplicate it for a long time to
come. There is no other stockholder whose certificate bears an earlier
date than 1881, and no one in the office has a retrospect of twenty
years even.[2]
The Company was incorporated and organized in the year 1828. In 1840,
all the original corporators, or associates, were living. Other
stockholders from their families were afterwards added, but they all,
the first associates and the others subsequently admitted, have passed
away. It follows that, at the present time, there is no other one living
who has been brought into daily business intercourse with the members of
this Company from its very beginning.
It would therefore seem to be a very proper and fitting thing for me, on
so interesting an occasion, to review somewhat the personnel of the
Company.