Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 58

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 850

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William Fred9 Kimball was born July 18, 1857, in New Haven, Conn. After com- pleting his early education, he was engaged in the carriage business eight years, giving it up then to become treasurer of the Fayette Shaw Leather Company, which in 1900 was sold to the United States Leather Company. Mr.

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Kimball still acts as treasurer of the Fayette Shaw Leather Company, and is also treasurer of the American Heat, Light and Power Com- pany, of Boston. He married Sillinda Shaw, daughter of Fayette Shaw, and they have had three children, namely: Morton Shaw, born September 16, 1884; George Fayette, born March 16, 1893, (who died in infancy) ; and Katharine, born September 26, 1898.

ALTER SHAW, son of Joseph Har- rison and Catharine Elvira (San- born) Shaw, was born in Boston, June 30, 1857. He was educated in Boston schools, and went early into industrial life. His studies were continued for a long time in private, and for a number of years he was interested in athletics and was a member of many clubs and societies. From 1873 to 1883 he was in the wool business. Afterward he went to California, and also visited nearly every prominent mining section of the country, perfecting himself in engineering, etc.

Returning to Boston, he soon became inter- ested in various shoe machines, and entered into business relations with Gordon Mckay, the famous shoe machinery inventor.

Mr. Shaw's ancestry in the male line has been traced back through his father, Joseph Harrison, above named, his grandfather Will- iam, and his great-grandfather Samuel to an Abraham Shaw, of whom tradition says that he was a soldier in the Indian wars, m. Judith Witham, and settled at York, Me. As no records of the town of York previous to the year 1700 are now in existence, little is known of Samuel Shaw's father Abraham. Accord- ing to tradition he was a son of John, who settled in Weymouth, and is known to have had a son Abraham b. in that town. John Shaw went to Weymouth from Dedham. He m. Alice Phillips, daughter of Nicholas Phil- lips, of Weymouth. If Abraham Shaw of York was the son of John above mentioned, as seems probable, he was grandson of the im- migrant Abraham' Shaw, who came to Amer- ica in 1635, settled at Dedham, Mass., in 1636, and d. there in 1638. This early pro- genitor of the family m. Bridget Best, at Hali-

fax, Yorkshire, England, June 24, 1616. Samuel m. for his first wife Thankful Garey, she being the mother of all his children.

William Shaw, b. at York, Me., 1756, d. January 1, 1833. He resided on a farm in York, but subsequently removed to Old Ber- wick, and bought Blackberry Hill Farm. The old yellow house near Agamenticus station was built by him at Blackberry Hill, and moved to its present location by Weymouth Wilkinson with one hundred oxen. He served in the Revolutionary War with his brother Abraham. He is described as being six feet tall, with dark hair and eyes, and very strong. He was a Deacon in the church. His first wife was Alice Hutchins, of Kennebunk. He m. for his second wife, through whom the pres- ent line is descended, Betsey Brock Frost, a widow, b. May 6, 1780, who d. January 25, 1867.

Joseph Harrison Shaw, son of William and father of Walter Shaw, was b. at Blackberry Hill, Old Berwick, Me., February 5, 1824. When a youth he ran away from home, and was not heard from by his relatives for twenty years. He was a man of great activity and varied talents, and there was hardly any trade or calling in which he had not served. He was a fresco painter, carpenter, and contractor, and also carried on a real estate business. Possessing a fine tenor voice, he became inter- ested in church music, and led Tremont Temple choir for many years. He was a good temperance orator, and previous to the Civil War was a strong abolitionist. He served in the war in the Massachusetts Fourth Light Artillery, and came home with shattered health, his death, which occurred in South Boston, May 24, 1871, at the age of forty- seven years, being due to the hardships he had undergone while in the service of his country. He m. November 10, 1847, Catharine Elvira Sanborn, who was b. in Kensington, N. H., August 31, 1828. She was a woman of strong character, great executive ability, of a coura- geous and impulsive disposition, with a marked capacity for making and retaining friends. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Shaw had three children, namely : Lucy Helen, b. in Boston, April 1I, 1853, who d. at Berwick, Me., September 4

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of the same year; Walter, whose name begins this sketch; and Joseph Herbert, b. March 28, 1861, now residing at Dedham. Joseph Her- bert Shaw m. June 14, 1893, Harriet Mann Young, a native of Boston, daughter of Henry Francis Young. They have one son, Harold Herbert, b. July 29, 1894.

Mrs. Catherine E. Shaw's parents were Moses7 and Lydia (Sherburn) Sanborn, of Ken- sington, N. H. Her father was of the seventh generation, as shown above by the numeral over his name, of the family founded by John' San- born (Samborne, as formerly spelled), who in 1632, with his brothers William and Stephen and their maternal grandfather, the Rev. Ste- phen Bachiler, came to New England, and later settled at Hampton, N. H. The lineage was : John,' who m. Mary Tuck; John,2 b. about 1649, who m. in 1674 Judith Coffin, daughter of Tristram Coffin, of Newbury and Nantucket ; Enoch, 3 b. at Hampton, 1685, m. in 1709 Elizabeth Dennett, daughter of Alexander Dennett, of Portsmouth; Moses, 4 baptized at Hampton Falls in March, 1717, m. in 1742 Elizabeth Mitchell; James,5 b. 1748, m. in 1772 Abigail Weare; Moses,6 whose first wife, Mary Sherburne, was the mother of Moses,7 the father of Mrs. Shaw.

John Sanborne was a prominent citizen of Hampton, serving as Selectman and in other positions of trust, and holding the rank of Lieutenant in King William's War, 1689. Enoch3 Sanborn, by occupation a saddler, was in the expedition to Port Royal under Captain Chesly in 1709. Abigail, the wife of James5 Sanborn, was probably Abigail, b. in 1750, daughter of the Hon. Meshech and Mehitabel (Wainwright) Weare.

AMUEL HILLIARD FOLSOM, Register of Probate for Middlesex County, Massachusetts, appointed by Governor William E. Russell, July 27, 1892, is a native of Hopkinton, N. H., a graduate of Dartmouth College, and by pro- fession a lawyer. Born February 23, 1826, son of Samuel and Anna (Loveren) Folsom, he is of the seventh generation of the family

founded by John Foulsham, who settled at Hingham on the south shore of Massachusetts Bay in 1638. The line of descent is: John, ' baptized in 1615, at Hingham, England; Lieu- tenant Peter2, baptized April 8, 1649; John, 3 b. in Exeter about 1685; Joshua, 4 b. in 1719; Joshua, Jr.,5 b .. March 3, 1750, at Epping, N. H. ; Samuel,6 b. October 14, 1786; Samuel Hilliard ?.

John' Foulsham, with his wife, two servants, his wife's parents, Edward and Mary (Clark) Gilman, and their three sons, two daughters, and three servants, came to New England in the ship "Diligent." About the year 1655 he removed from Hingham to Exeter, N. H., being one of the followers of the Rev, John Wheelwright. Goodman Folsom was a Select- man of Exeter in 1659. He d. in 1681, or near that time. Lieutenant Peter2 Folsom m. in 1678 Susanna Cousins (or Coffin), of Wells, Me. His homestead was on the old Hampton road east of the village of Exeter. He was an active and successful business man. John3 Folsom lived in the north part of Exeter. His first wife was Hannah Gilman; his second wife is thought to have been Sarah Lyford. The "Mary " mentioned in his will was per- haps a third wife. Joshua, 4 son of John, 3 built many mills in the newer towns of New Hamp- shire in his day. After 1750 he settled at Epping on property that he inherited from his father. He d. in 1793. His wife, Abigail Mead, d. in 1796.

Joshua5 Folsom, the fourth in a family of nine children, left home at the age of twenty- one, and for fifteen months worked in a saw mill in Maine. Then, with a capital of seventy dollars, the sum of his earnings in money during that period, he went into the wilderness, six miles from any settlement, in what is now' Deering, N. H., and began a clearing, and in time became the possessor of a good farm and a herd of fine cattle, his prod- ucts finding a ready market at Exeter and Portsmouth. He m. in 1779 Mary Blacken- bury. Samuel6 Folsom, father of Samuel Hilliard7, was a lumber dealer. In 1830 he removed with his family from Hopkinton, N. H., to Lowell, Mass., where he d. Decem- ber 18, 1837. In religion he was a Free-

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will Baptist. His wife, Anna Loveren, whom he m. February 29, 1811, was b. Feb- ruary 8, 1788, and d. in August, 1863. They had seven children, namely : Maria, Betsey, Mary Ann, Lovilla, Catharine H., Benjamin F., and Samuel H., whose name stands at the head of this sketch.

Samuel Hilliard Folsom was fitted for col- lege at Pembroke Academy, Pembroke, N. H., and was graduated Bachelor of Arts at Dart- mouth in 1851. He studied law in Lowell, and in Boston in the office of Dean & Dins- more, the former at that time a member of Congress. Admitted to the bar in 1857, Mr. Folsom for some time was associated with Ezra Ripley, of Concord, whose office was in Boston and Cambridge, and afterward he was alone in practice. In the sixties he spent four years in California, and on his return he resumed the duties of his profession at East Cambridge. In June, 1870, he was appointed clerk pro tem of the courts of Middlesex County, which position he held until January, 1874, when he was made Assistant Register of Probate for Middlesex County. In 1892 he was appointed by Governor William E. Rus- sell, as before mentioned, to the office of Register. In politics he is a Republican. Since 1867 he has resided in Winchester. He

attends the Unitarian church. As a Mason he belongs to William Parkman Lodge, F. & A. M., of Winchester, and is also a R. A. Mason.

Mr. Folsom was married October 15, 1857, to Catharine Abbot Cram. She was born June 25, 1828, at Monmouth, Me., the daughter of Nehemiah Porter7 and Martha Thayer (Abbot) Cram. Her father was a descendant in the seventh generation of John Cram, who came over from England in 1635, and settled first at Muddy Brook, now Brookline, Mass. The line was: John'; Benjamin2; John, 3 b. 1665; Jonathan, 4 b. 1706; Nehemiah, 5 b. 1734; Jon- athan,6 b. 1762; Nehemiah Porter,7 b. 1799.

John1 Cram, the immigrant, was the young- est child of Burkhard Cram, of Wently, Dur- ham, England, and a lineal descendant of Hans von Cram, b. in Germany in 1504, who went to England in 1528. Hans was son of Burkhard von Cram, who belonged to an

ancient and noble German family that is still in existence, and still carrying down the title "Baron," dating from the year 1181. Hans von Cram was a soldier, and received in 1530 from the Bishop for his services, a grant of land in Felling, Durham. In 1608 this land was willed by Burkhard Cram to his sons. In 1639 John1 Cram went with the Rev. Mr. Wheelwright to Exeter, N. H., and for a num- ber of years was one of the leaders in that settlement, serving as a Selectman in 1648-49. In 1650 he removed to Hampton, N. H. The record of his death, March 5, 1681-2, desig- nates him as "Good old John Cram, one just in his generation."

Benjamin2 Cram m. Argentine Cromwell, daughter of Giles Cromwell, an early settler of Newbury, Mass. Jonathan4 Cram, son of John3 and Mary Cram, and grandson of Benja- min,2 m. Elizabeth Heath. Nehemiah5 Cram became a freeholder at Hampton Falls in 1769. He m. Hannah Philbrook. Jonathan6 Cram m. Rhoda Tilton. She d. in 1826, and he in 1841.

Nehemiah Porter7 Cram m. June 2, 1826, Martha Thayer Abbot, daughter of the Rev. Jacob and Catherine (Thayer) Abbot, of Hamp- ton Falls. Through her mother and maternal grandfather Mrs. Folsom is descended from George Abbot, one of the original settlers of Andover, Mass. The following is a brief record of the ancestral line: George' Abbot m. in 1646 Hannah Chandler. John2 Abbot, b. in 1648, was a Deacon of the South Parish Church. He m. Sarah Barker, of Andover. John, 3 b. in 1674, for thirty-four years Deacon of the church, m. Elizabeth Harnden. Cap- tain John4 Abbot, b. in 1704, who settled on the homestead at Andover, served in the French and Indian War. He m. Phebe Fisk, of Boxford. Major Abiels Abbot, b. in 1741, m. Dorcas, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Abbot) Abbot, of Andover. In 1764 he re- moved to Wilton, N. H. He was Town Clerk of Wilton eleven years and Selectman eleven years. He also served as Representative to the General Court. A Captain of the militia some years before the Revolution, he served as one of the muster masters of the Continental Army, and in June, 1777, marched at the head

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of two companies for the defence of Ticon- deroga. He had twelve children, two of whom d. in infancy or early childhood.

The Rev. Jacob6 Abbot, second son of Major Abiel, 5 was b. in 1768, and was graduated at Harvard College in 1792. At Billerica, where he taught school for a year, and after- ward at Cambridge, he studied theology. On August 15, 1798, he was ordained and settled as minister at Hampton Falls, N. H. In addi- tion to his salary of three hundred dollars, he had, yearly, sixteen cords of wood, with the use of the parsonage, and of twenty or more acres of land. Resigning his pastorate in April, 1826, he removed to Windham, N. H., where he bought a farm of two hundred acres. He did much for the improvement of agriculture and of the schools at Hampton Falls while settled there, and in Windham he was one of the school committee for five years. From 1812 to 1834 he was a trustee of Phillips Exe- ter Academy, of which his cousin Benjamin Abbot was principal fifty years. The Rev. Jacob Abbot was a Congregational minister of the liberal type, known in the early part of the nineteenth century as "Arminian," and later he became a Unitarian. After his removal to Windham he continued to preach occasionally in that vicinity. On Sunday, November 2, 1834, the boat in which he was crossing a pond with a neighbor, on his return from meeting, was upset, and both were drowned.

His wife, Catharine, was the youngest daughter of the Rev. Ebenezer and Martha (Cotton) Thayer, of Hampton, N.H. Her father was b. in Boston in 1734, son of Na- thaniels and Ruth (Eliot) Thayer. He was a lineal descendant of Richard™ Thayer, who came, it is said, with eight children, from Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England, to Bos- ton about 1640-I, and settled at Braintree. The Braintree records (printed) show that Richard Thayer and Dorothy Pray were m. (17) (1) 1651 by Mr. Thomas Flynt, of Concord; and that Nathaniel Thayer, the son of Richard and Dorothy, his wife, was b. November I, 1657. That Richard Thayer, husband of Dorothy and father of Nathaniel, was the son of Richard,' the immigrant, is evident from the further records: Richard Thayer, Sr., d. Au-

gust 27, 1695, and Richard Thayer d. Decem- ber 4, 1705. Dorothy Thayer d. December II, 1705. Nathaniel, above mentioned, thus shown to be of the third generation and there- fore to be designated as Nathaniel, 3 removed from Braintree to Boston, and lived as a neigh- bor to Chief Justice Samuel Sewall, who alludes · to him twice in his diary -- in 1700 and 1701. Nathaniel3 Thayer and two of his sons -- namely, Ebenezer, who was graduated at Har- vard in 1708, and was minister of the Second Church at Roxbury, 1712-33, and Cornelius4 - were subscribers to Prince's Chronology of New England. Cornelius,4 b. in Boston in 1684, son of Nathaniel3 and his wife Deborah, was a Deacon of the First Church of Boston. A copy of the sermon preached at his funeral, by the Rev. Charles Chauncy, is in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Bos- ton. Deacon Thayer m. Lydia, daughter of Samuel and Lydia (Stoddard) Turell, of Bos- ton.

Nathaniel5 Thayer, b. in Boston in 1710, son of Cornelius4 and Lydia, was a leather dresser. He belonged to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and was first Sergeant in 1742. He m. in 1733 Ruth, 4 daughter of Andrew3 and Ruth (Symonds) Eliot, of Boston. Ruth4 Eliot, it may be mentioned, was sister to the Rev. Dr. Andrew Eliot, third minister of the new North Church, Boston, ancestor of the Rev. Christopher R. Eliot of the Bulfinch Place Church; also sister to Samuel4 Eliot, ancestor of President Eliot of Harvard University. Ebenezer,6 son of Na- thaniels and Ruth (Eliot) Thayer, was b. in Boston in 1734 (Harvard College, 1753), was ordained and settled as minister at Hampton, N. H., September 11, 1766. He d. suddenly September 6, 1792. He m. October 6, 1766, Martha, daughter of the Rev. John and Mary (Gibbs) Cotton, of Newton, Mass. She d. in Boston in 1809, and her remains rest in the Granary Burial-ground. She is spoken of by Dr. Sprague in his "Pulpit Annals" as a woman of remarkable energy of character. She was the mother of six children, namely : Ebenezer, the eldest, b. in 1767, who m. and settled in Charleston, S.C .; the Rev. Nathan- iel, D. D., minister at Lancaster, 1793-1840,

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who m. Sarah Toppan, and was the father of the later Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston, mer- chant and philanthropist; Martha, who d. unmarried in 1847; John, who d. of yellow fever in the West Indies when a young man ; Catharine (Mrs. Abbot) ; and Andrew Eliot (Harvard College, 1803), preacher and after- ward editor of a paper at Nashua, N. H.

The children of the Rev. Jacob and Catha- rine (Thayer) Abbot were: Sarah White, b. in 1802, who m. Robert Moore, of Nashua, N. H., son of Hugh Moore, of Amherst, N. H., who fought at Bunker Hill; Ebenezer, a farmer at Windham, N. H., who m., first, Elizabeth Nesmith, and secondly, Betsy Dow; Martha Thayer, b. March 29, 1806, m. June 4, 1826, Nehemiah Porter Cram, and d. August 10, 1891; Catharine, b. in 1808, who m. in 1833 John W. P. Abbot, a lawyer of Westford (Harvard College, 1827), and d. in 1881 ; Elizabeth Dorcas, b. in 1810, who m. the Rev. Abiel Abbot Livermore (Harvard College, 1835), late president of Meadville Theological School (now deceased); George Jacob, b. in 1812 (Harvard College, 1835), for some years a professor at Meadville (also deceased) ; Abi- gail, b. 1814, who m. the Rev. Horatio Wood (Harvard College, 1827), Unitarian minister, now deceased, whom she survives; Phebe, who d. in infancy; Mary Ann Toppan, b. in 1817 (d. in 1858), who m. James Walker (Dart- mouth College, 1804), lawyer, of Peterboro, N.H .; Lucy Eliot (living), b. in 1820, who m. John Kebler, lawyer, of Cincinnati, a native of Germany (Harvard College, 1839) ; and Charles Eliot, who d. a few years since at Tuscarora, Nev., having survived his wife, Susan F. Osborne.

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Folsom have three children now living, namely : Anna Abbot, born October 29, 1861, who is teaching in a private school at Winchester; Martha Thayer, born March 31, 1870, a teacher in Boston, at 115 Beacon Street; and Catharine Elizabeth, born November 9, 1871, who has recently re- turned from Europe, where she pursued the study of painting in oils, pen drawing, and other branches of art in which she is interested. Sarah P., the second child of Mr. and Mrs. Folsom, born November 9, 1864, died Febru-

ary 13, 1869; and their third, Fritz Porter, born June 29, 1866, died August 10, 1867.

UFUS KIMBALL, a well-known resi- dent of Lynn, was born in Ipswich, Mass., March 13, 1829, a son of Josiah and Hannah (Ross) Kimball. He is of English ancestry, being a direct de- scendant in the eighth generation from Richard Kimball, who emigrated from England to America in 1634. The line of descent is: Richard,' Caleb,2 Caleb, 3 John, 4 Jeremiah, 5 Jeremiah, 6 Josiah, 7 Rufus8.

Richard Kimball came to Massachusetts in the ship "Elizabeth." He located first in Watertown, but, being urged to remove to Ipswich, where a wheelwright was needed, he decided to follow there his trade, and in Feb- ruary, 1637, was granted a house lot. While living in England, he m. Ursula, daughter of Henry Scott, of Rattlesden, county of Suffolk. She d. in Ipswich, and he m. in 1661 Mrs. Margaret Dow. He reared eleven children.

Caleb2 Kimball, the youngest of these, was born in Ipswich in 1639. He m. in 1660 Anna, daughter of Robert and Ann Hazeltine, and they also became the parents of eleven children. Caleb3 Kimball, b. in 1662, was four times m. His first wife, Lucy Edwards, the mother of his ten children, d. in 1714. John+ Kimball, the second child, was b. March 16, 1687-8. He was a tailor by trade. He served as Captain of a militia company. In 1715 he m. Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Lord. They had six children. Jeremiah5 Kimball, b. in 1717, was a Lieutenant in the militia. He m. Sarah Lord, a daughter of Jeremiah and Mary (Caldwell) Lord, and great-grand-daughter of Robert Lord, Clerk of Court of Essex County.

Jeremiah6 Kimball, b. in 1749, baptized in 1750, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, afterward drawing a pension for his services. He m. Lois Choate, who was b. in 1753, daughter of Jeremiah and Eunice (Giddings) Choate. He was a man of influence in the town, prominent in local and church affairs. For several years he was chorister in the South Street Congregational Church of Ipswich, he

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and ten of his twelve children singing in the choir at the same time. His wife, Lois Choate, was a descendant of John' Choate, who came to this country in 1643, then a young man of nineteen years. About 1660 he m. and settled on a farm in that part of Ipswich then called "Chebacco," now Essex. The line was continued through Thomas2 Choate and his wife, Mary Varney; Thomas3 Choate, who m. Elizabeth Burnham; to Jeremiah4 Choate, who m. Eunice Giddings, as above mentioned, and was father of Lois5.

Josiah7 Kimball, a lifelong resident of Ips- wich, was b. June 22, 1786, and d. December 5, 1868. A carpenter and ship builder by trade, he was employed in the shipyards at Essex for many years. He served as Select- man of Ipswich, and was a prominent member of the South Street Congregational Church. On November 30, 1815, he m. Hannah, daugh- ter of Thomas Ross, of Ipswich. Seven chil- dren were b. of their union, namely : Alfred; Josiah, d. in infancy; Josiah F .; Henry, who d. in his nineteenth year; Hannah Staniford; Rufus, the special subject of this sketch; and Sara Lois. Alfred Kimball, the eldest child, b. in 1820, d. in 1864. He was Town Clerk at Ipswich many years, a Representative to the General Court, and Clerk in the Probate office, both in Ipswich and in Salem. By his wife, Elizabeth Smith, of Ipswich, he had six chil- dren, one of whom, George A., is now a den- tist in Buenos Ayres, S.A. Josiah F. Kim- ball, b. April 1, 1821, d. May 29, 1872, leav- ing no children. For several years he was editor of the Lynn News. He represented Lynn at the General Court two years, and served for a time as Clerk in the Custom House at Boston. He m., first, Lucy Mary, daughter of William Foster Wade, of Ipswich, who for many years was County Treasurer of Essex County. He m., second, Theresa Vennard, of Portsmouth, N. H. Hannah Staniford, b. April 13, 1825, is the widow of John Milton Palmer, late of Georgetown, Mass. Sara Lois, who was b. June 5, 1831, m. John Warner, and d. in Chelsea, February 12, 1864.

Rufus8 Kimball was educated in the public schools of Ipswich, completing his studies at the high school. Coming to Lynn in 1844,

he learned the printer's trade with his brother Josiah, remaining with him until 1861. He subsequently worked a number of years in dif- erent newspaper offices, and then, in company with Messrs. Nichols and Courtis, established the Lynn Transcript. Selling out at the end of three years, he became city printer for two years, also conducting a job printing office. Since 1885 he has been on the editorial staff of the Lynn Daily Item. Mr. Kimball has been prominent in municipal affairs, serving as principal Assessor of Lynn twenty-four con- secutive years, as member of the Common Council five years, and on the Board of Alder- men five years. In 1866, 1867, 1889, and 1890 he served in the State Legislature, being a member of the Committee on Printing, Con- stitutional Amendments, and on Mercantile Affairs, and chairman of the first two of these committees. At the close of the session of 1866 he was appointed to revise salaries of all officials of the Commonwealth, with the excep- tion of a few minor offices. The report which he submitted was accepted by the House. He has been Civil Service Examiner since the commission was appointed, and in 1895, in connection with Judge John W. Berry and General C. C. Fry, he was appointed by Mayor Harwood to revise the City Ordinances, the revision being accepted by the city. He also served four years as Clerk of the Common Council, and has been for a long term of years a Commissioner to Qualify Court Officers. Mr. Kimball is Past Grand of Providence Lodge, No. 171, I. O. O. F .; vice-president of Old Essex Chapter, S. A. R. ; and a member of the Lynn Historical Society.

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 58

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910 Publication date: 1902 Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company Number of Pages: 850

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 850