page 735 Mr. J.A.DENNY was also largely interested in the establishment of the Leicester Boot Company. He was a prominent director and valued advisor in the State Mutual Life and the Merchant's and Farmer's Mutual Fire Insurance Company in Worcester, from the date of their organization to the time of his death. He was a director and for a time the president of the Leicester Bank. He was assistant assessor in the Internal Revenue Department during and after the war. He served the Town as selectman and school committee and from March 1850, to the time of his death, in 1875, was town clerk. He was elected to the House of Representatives, in 1857, in the Legislature of the State. His services to the Academy, to whose interest he was earnestly devoted, were invaluable. He was a trustee from Aug. 20, 1834, and treasurer from May 11, 1853 tll his death in 1875. He gave to this institution his personal services and contributed liberally to its funds and it was through his influence that most of its prsent endowment was secured with many of the former pupils of this institution the thought of Leicester Academy and Joseph A. DENNY are inseparable. His portrait has a place with the founders and benefactors of the Academy in SMITH Hall. Mr. DENNY was a man of literary tastes, and spent much time in reading, thus familiarizing himself with history and the best literature.