Excerpt from Charles Deane, LL. D: Vice-President Massachusetts Historical Society, a Memoir
Mr. Deane's business career was a successful one and when he left his mercantile connections, he did so with the satis faction Of having passed through his commercial experience with credit and an untarnished name. He privately printed in 1869 a brief memoir of his father-in-law, under whose eye he had made the advances in his business life. Reverting to the career of his senior partners, he said: In 1814 Messrs. Waterston Pray established themselves in Boston; and the firm, under that name and under the style of Waterston, Pray, Co., and subsequently under that of Waterston, Deane, Co., were for many years well known throughout the country, first as importers of dry-goods, and afterwards as commission merchants for the sale of domestic goods. Mr. Waterston, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1806, retired from active business in 1857, then in his eightieth year, leaving the bur den Of seniority in the house upon his son-in-law, till the latter's final retirement in 1864. Fortune and felicity in af fairs naturally pointed him out for fiduciary offices; and our late associate, the Hon. Samuel C. Cobb, who sat for many years with him at the directors' board of one of the oldest in surance companies in Boston, bore testimony, at the meeting Of this Society which was held to take notice Of Mr. Deane's death, to his great practical wisdom and keen discrimination in business questions, and to the unswerving integrity and un sullied character which were recognized by all who came in contact with him.
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