[Illustration: William W. Crapo]




THE BAY STATE MONTHLY.

_A Massachusetts Magazine._

VOL. III. OCTOBER, 1885. NO. V.

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HON. WILLIAM W. CRAPO.


By Edward P. Guild.


A citizen of Massachusetts, eminent in public and private life, and now
in the prime of manhood, is the Hon. William W. Crapo, of New
Bedford. He is the son of Henry Howland Crapo, a man of marked abilities
and with a distinguished career, whose father was a farmer in humble
circumstances in Dartmouth, the parent town of New Bedford, and able to
give but meagre opportunities for education to his son. Henry had,
however, a thirst for knowledge, and his determination in providing
himself with the means of study affords a parallel to the early life of