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Mr. Ingraham was married December 27, 1842, to Lorania, daughter of Atwater and Melinda Beach, at New Ashford. Of this union were two children : George F. and Julia Maria Ingraham.
He was again married, in Hoosick, N. Y., February 27, 1855, to Celestia A., daughter of Samuel and Betsey (Card) Pine. Of this union are two children : Ida Jane and Nathan P. Ingraham.
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Mr. Ingraham has been chairman of the board of selectmen of New Ashford thirty years, town clerk eighteen years, and jus- tice of the peace sixteen years. He is also chairman of the town committee.
Mr. Ingraham is connected with the M. E. church, of which he is a steward.
Jonathan Ingraham, grandfather of Mr. Ingraham, was a revolutionary patriot, fought with Arnold at Stillwater and Schuy- lerville; was sold by Arnold; was with Wash- ington at White Plains, Valley Forge, and at the crossing of the Delaware ; and was in the battle of Monmouth, the Cowpens, etc.
George F., eldest son of Mr. Ingraham, was three years in the 34th regiment, Mas- sachusetts volunteers. He fought under Sheridan, and at Winchester was very seri- ously wounded.
INGRAHAM, WILLIAM H., son of Paul Augustus and Thankful (Sears) Ingraham, was born in Peacham, Caledonia county, Vt., 1818.
He gleaned his knowledge of books from the Caledonia county grammar school, Peacham.
He began his business experience with his older brother in Framingham, dealer in general merchandise. He afterwards be- came a dry-goods dealer in Watertown, and later on in Boston as partner with March Brothers, Pierce & Co.
He was selectman in Framingham, also in Watertown. He has been town clerk in Watertown twenty-five years, and still holds the office. He is chairman of the board of assessors ; was a representative to the General Court two years (1879 and 'So); two years chairman of the Republican town committee ; clerk and treasurer of the first parish of Watertown ; is a member of the Watertown Historical Society and clerk of the Town Improvement Society.
'The time not given to public affairs is employed in general insurance business.
Mr. Ingraham was married in Framing- ham, January 17, 1843, to Caroline C., daughter of Col. Ephraim and Mary (Hub- bard) Brigham. He has three children : Ralph Waldo, Isabel Frances, and Alice Choate Ingraham.
JACKSON, JAMES FREDERIC, son of Elisha T. and Caroline (Fobes) Jackson, was born in Taunton, Bristol county, No- vember 13, 1851.
The private and public schools of Taun- ton gave him his early educational train-
ing. He entered Harvard College in 1869, and was graduated in 1873 ; studied law in Taunton in the office of Judge Ed- mund H. Bennett ; entered Boston Univer- sity law school 1874, and was graduated in 1875 ; opened a law office in Fall River,
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September, 1875, and formed a law co- partnership with John J. Archer, 1878. Mr. Archer dying in 1882, Mr. Jackson formed a new partnership with David F. Slade, under the present firm name of Jackson & Slade.
Mr. Jackson was married in Fall River, June 16, 1882, to Caroline S., daughter of Eli Thurston, D. D., and Julia A. (Ses- sions) Thurston. They have one child : Edith Jackson.
Mr. Jackson has been connected with the Massachusetts volunteer militia since 1879, when he was elected second lieuten- ant, company M., Ist regiment infantry,
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then appointed paymaster on staff of Col. A. C. Wellington ; then elected major, and subsequently lieutenant-colonel, which latter commission he now holds. He was city solicitor of Fall River in 1880, and elected every year thereafter until 1889. with the exception of 1886, when he was engaged as special counsel for the city. He was elected mayor on the Repub- lican ticket 1888. The same year he was also chosen president of the Y. M. C. A. and of the Associated Charities. He is corporation clerk and counsel for the People's Ice Company, and corpora- tion counsel and director of the Cornell Mills.
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JACOBS, JOSEPH, JR., son of Joseph and Esther C. (Jacob) Jacobs, was born in South Hingham, Plymouth county, Decem- ber 8, 1828. Until about fifteen years of age he attended the common schools of Hingham.
In 1850 he entered into partnership with his father for the manufacture of edge tools, under the firm name of Joseph Jacobs & Son. In 1878 he retired from the manufacturing business, and is now engaged in banking and investments.
Mr. Jacobs was married in South Hing- ham, October 27, 1850, to Clarissa A., daughter of Loring and Martha (Hersey) Cushing. They have two children : Clara A. and Fannie A. Jacobs.
He represented the towns of Hingham and Hull in the House of Representatives in 1881, '82 and '83 ; was for about twenty years a trustee of the Hingham Institution for Savings ; was chosen president of the Hingham National Bank in 1876, which place he still holds.
He is a lineal descendant of Nicholas Jacob, who was of an English family who came from Hingham in England, and set- tled in Hingham in 1633.
JAMES, LYMAN D., son of Enoch and Armanella (Dwight) James, was born in Williamsburg, Hampshire county, January 21, 1836.
His early education was begun in the common schools of Williamsburg, continued in Williston Seminary, Easthampton, and at the John A. Nash school for boys, Amherst.
He began his business life in a dry- goods store, Ann Arbor, Mich. He was subsequently employed by his brother, H. L. James, in his store, and finally was made a partner ; but for the past twenty- two years he has been in business for him- self. He is at present carrying on two stores, one in Williamsburg and one in Haydenville.
Mr. James was married in Conway, Sep- tember 10, 1857, to Helen E., daughter of John and Fidelia (Nash) Field. Of this union are four children : H. Dwight, J. Howard, Grace Fidelia, and P. Lyman James.
Mr. James has been for seven years, and is now, trustee of the Northampton Lunatic Hospital ; director in the First National Bank, Northampton, and was acting postmaster fifteen years in Wil- liamsburg, up to President Cleveland's ad- ministration.
May 3, 1889, he was re-appointed post- master by Postmaster-General Wanamaker.
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JAMESON, EPHRAIM ORCUTT, son of Daniel and Mary (Twiss) Jameson, was born January 23, 1832, in Dunbarton, Merrimack county, N. H.
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His preparatory education was received in the public schools of his native town, in a private school in Chester, and Gilmanton Academy, N. H. He was graduated in 1855 from Dartmouth College, and in 1858 from the Andover Theological Seminary.
He was ordained and installed as pastor of the East Congregational church, Con- cord, N. H., in 1859, where he remained until 1865, when he was called to the pas- torate of the evangelical Congregational church in Salisbury, where he remained until 1871. He then removed to East Medway (now Millis), where he was in- stalled as pastor of the Church of Christ, and still remains in active service.
Mr. Jameson was married in Gilmanton, N. H., September 20, 1858, to Mary Joanna, daughter of Rev. William Cogswell, D. D., and Joanna (Strong) Cogswell. Their children were : Arthur Orcutt, Katharine Strong, William Cogswell, Caroline Cogs- well, and Mary Jameson. William Cogs- well died in infancy. Arthur Orcutt grad- uated from Harvard College, the first scholar in the class of 1881, and died Sep- tember 30, 1881.
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Mr. Jameson was chairman of the school board in Concord, N. H., several years, su- perintendent of schools in Millis, and chap- lain of the Massachusetts State Grange.
He was the author of "An Historical Dis- course of the Church of Christ, Medway " (1876) ; "A Memorial of Rev. William Cogswell, D. D." (1880) ; "Historical Sketch of Medway " (1884) ; "The Cogs- wells in America" (1884) ; "The History of Medway " (1886) ; " Medway Biogra- phies " (1886) ; "The Military History of Medway " (1886), and is still engaged in literary work.
JENKINS, EDWARD J., son of John and Sabina E. (Donnellon) Jenkins, was born December 20, 1854, in London, Eng- land.
He was educated in the public and pri- vate schools of Boston ; studied law at Boston University, and was graduated therefrom in 1880. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar the same year, and is a member of the bar of the United States courts.
Mr. Jenkins was a member of the Bos- ton school committee in 1875 ; served as
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secretary of the Democratic city commit- tee in 1875 ; and was a member of the House of Representatives during the years of 1877, '78 and '79, being elected from
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ward 12 of the city of Boston. He re- signed his seat in 1879, declining to be a candidate for re-election ; was commis- sioner of insolvency during the years 1879, '80, '81, '82, '83, '84 and '85, declining to serve longer ; was elected a member of the common council from ward 12 during the years 1885 and '86, and was elected presi- dent of that body each year ; was a mem- ber of the state Senate in 1887, and was again elected as a member of the common council in the year 1889. In 1881 he was nominated by the Suffolk county Demo- cratic convention, by acclamation, as can- didate for clerk of the superior civil court.
JENKS, HENRY RAY, son of David and Clarissa (Ballou) Jenks, was born in Smith- field, R. I., December 25, 1831. His early education was obtained in the common schools of Wrentham, and of Pawtucket, R. I.
His first connection in business was as a merchant in Wrentham. From this place he removed to Norwood, and thence to Franklin, where he now resides, engaged in real estate and insurance business.
Mr. Jenks was married in Searsport, Maine, October 13, 1858, to Clara A., daughter of Benjamin Merithew. Of this union were six children : Melvina F., Clif- ton H., Charles L., Isaac C., Katie M., and Frank L. Jenks. His second marriage occurred in Franklin, February 27, 1878, to Mrs. Ella Titcomb, daughter of John Barry.
Mr. Jenks has been selectman of Frank- lin thirteen years, town treasurer 1887, '88 and '89. He represented the 8th Norfolk representative district in the General Court 1880 and '81.
JENKS, THOMAS LEIGHTON, son of David and Deborah (Leighton) Jenks, was born in Conway, Carroll county, N. H., in 1830.
His early educational training was re- ceived in the public schools. Choosing the profession of medicine, he prepared for the Harvard medical school, pursued the course, and was graduated in the class of 1854.
Previous to his professional career, he served as an apothecary in Boston, and from 1846 to '49 he was hospital steward in the navy during the Mexican war, on board the U. S. frigate " United States."
Dr. Jenks was a member of the Boston common council 1868, '69 and '72, and a member of the House of Representatives 1870 and '76 ; president of College of Pharmacy, trustee of the city hospital five
years, ferry director six years, during two of which he served as president of the board ; chairman of the board of police commissioners 1882 to '85 ; and is now chairman of the commissioners of public institutions.
He is president of the North End Sav- ings Bank, Boston.
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Dr. Jenks was married in Taunton, 1850, to Lydia M., daughter of David and Sarah M. (Cummings) Baker.
They have one child : Sarah E. Jenks.
JENNINGS, ANDREW JACKSON, son of Andrew M. and Olive B. (Chace) Jennings, was born in Fall River, Bristol county, August 2, 1849.
He passed through the various public schools of the city until the autumn of 1867, when he left the Fall River high school to enter Mowry & Goff's Classical school, Providence, R. I., where he gradu- ated in June, 1868. He then entered Brown University, from which he graduated with special honors in the class of 1872. When in the university he was prominent in all athletic sports, having been captain of the class and university nines.
After leaving the university, he taught the high school, Warren, R. I., two years, 1872 to '74. In July, 1874, he entered the office of the Hon. James M. Morton,
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Fall River, and began reading law ; en- tered Boston University law school Janu- ary, 1875, and was graduated with the degree of LL. B. in May, 1876; was immediately admitted to the bar in Bristol county, and formed a partnership with Mr. Morton, Fall River, June 1, 1876, under the firm' name of Morton & Jennings, which connection is still retained.
Mr. Jennings was married in Warren, R. I., December 25, 1879, to Marion G., only daughter of Captain Seth and Nancy I. (Bosworth) Saunders. Of this union are two children : Oliver Saunders and Marion Jennings.
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Mr. Jennings has served three years on the Fall River school board ; two years in the House of Representatives, 1878 and'79; one term in the Senate, 1882 ; was a mem- ber of the judiciary committee both years in the House, and also in the Senate, and was chairman of the joint special committee on the removal of Judge Day by address in 1882.
He has been for several years clerk of the Second Baptist society of Fall River, and is one of the trustees of Brown University.
Mr. Jennings was active in securing the passage of the civil damage law in the House, and introduced the school-house liquor law in the Senate.
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Mr. Jennings is a natural orator, of pleas- ing address and forcible delivery. He is courteous in debate, and is always a wel- come speaker on public occasions during campaigns. He was selected to deliver the memorial oration for the city of Fall River on the day of General Grant's funeral.
JEWETT, ALBERT G., son of Enoch and Lucy (Dewey) Jewett, was born in Northampton, Franklin county, May 24, 1825.
He obtained his educational training in the common schools.
His first connection in business was with Francis Loud, as builder, in 1852. In 1864 he opened a general country store. Four years later he went to Cleveland, O., and engaged in building. In 1885 he was a manufacturer in Iowa. His present occupation is building, town business, settling estates, negotiating loans, and in- surance. His residence is Westhampton.
Mr. Jewett was married in Westhampton, January 29, 1850, to Vileria A., daughter of Francis and Paulina (Parsons) Loud. They have six children : Frances A., Louisa E., Charles F., Emily B. (deceased in 1864), Albert D., and Julia L. Jewett.
Mr. Jewett is a deacon of the Congrega- tional church, clerk of the parish, justice of the peace ; has been selectman, assessor and overseer of the poor seventeen years (chairman of the board fifteen years), and was a representative in the Legislature in 1881.
JEWETT, FRANCIS, son of Isaac and Nancy. P. (Parker) Jewett, was born in Nelson, Cheshire county, N. H., September 19, 1820.
He passed through the common and high school at Nelson, and finished his educational training at the Baptist Semi- nary, Hancock, N. H.
He began his business career on a farm in his native town, but in 1852 he began the business of slaughtering cattle in Mid- dlesex Village, now a part of Lowell. He continued this business until 1877, when he formed a co-partnership with E. C. Swift, in the commission business, handling Chicago dressed-beef, continuing the busi- ness up to the present time.
Mr. Jewett was married in Stoddard, N. H., April 4, 1844, to Selina A., daughter of Rufus and Chloe (Dunn) Dodge. Of this union are two children : Abner A. and Frank E. Jewett.
Mr. Jewett was three years captain of the Nelson Rifles, Nelson, N. H., and selectman in 1848.
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He has been a director in the Wamesit National Bank, Lowell, since 1861 ; vice- president of the Merrimac River Savings Bank, and a member of the committee of investment.
He is a member of the I. O. O. F .; also of the grand lodge of Massachusetts ; was elected grand master, and was representa- tive of the sovereign grand lodge of the United States two years ; has been member of the Mutual Benefit Association, Lowell, since its organization ; member of William North Lodge of Masons, Lowell, many years ; member of the Chapter R. A. M. of Ahasuerus Council, and of Pilgrim Com- mandery, since 1870 ; was a member of the common council, Lowell, 1864-'65, alder- man 1868 and '69, and mayor of Lowell, 1873, '74 and '75.
He was a member of the state Senate 1877 and '79, and a member of the govern- or's council 1887, '88 and '89. His residence is Lowell.
JILLSON, CLARK, son of David and Waity (Williams) Jillson, was born at Whitingham, Windham county, Vt., April II, 1825.
He was educated in the common schools and in the academy of his native town. His father was a farmer and blacksmith.
During the year 1844 he was employed by John Russell & Co., at the Green River works, in Greenfield, Mass. In the fall of 1845 he went to Worcester, where he found work, first in a blacksmith shop, afterwards in a machine shop, where he remained till the spring of 1854, when he removed to Southbridge. He remained there about two years, during which time he was one of the editors and proprietors of the "South- bridge Press."
In 1853 he was elected president of the Young Men's Rhetorical Society of Wor- cester, and delivered the annual address before that society, December 26, 1853.
On the 11th day of April, 1855, he was married in Worcester, by Rev. Horace James, to Ruth Elizabeth Lilley, who was born in Oxford, April 29, 1825. She was the only child of Lewis and Hannah (Albee) Lilley. Their children are : Lewis Lilley, Franklin Campbell, and Mary Jillson. Lewis died of scarlet fever, January 21, 1870.
Mr. Jillson remained in Southbridge till November, 1855, when he disposed of his interest in the paper, and with his family returned to Worcester, where they now reside.
After Mr. Jillson's return from South- bridge to Worcester, he again turned his
attention to mechanics. He has obtained letters-patent for about twenty inventions, some of which have been extensively used.
In 1860 he was appointed by Governor Banks clerk of the police court of Worces- ter, and on the 10th of April was commis- sioned a justice of the peace, an office he now holds. The office of clerk having been made elective, he was elected to that office in 1861, and again in 1866. Jan- uary, 1871, he resigned the office of clerk and accepted that of chief justice of the Ist district court of southern Worcester, which position he now holds. In 1872 he was appointed trial justice of juvenile offenders, and re-appointed in 1875.
He was elected and served as mayor of Worcester, 1873, '75 and '76.
He was the first president of the Sons and Daughters of Vermont, and delivered before that society the first annual address, on the roth day of February, 1874. On
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the 21st day of June, 1878, he read a poem before the alumni and school of Nichols Academy, Dudley, he being president of the board of trustees. On the 10th of Oc- tober he delivered the annual address be- fore the North River Agricultural Society in his native town. July 15, 1879, he de- livered an address before the New Hamp- shire Antiquarian Society, upon "New
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Hampshire and Vermont ; their Unions, Secessions and Disunions." August 16, 1880, he delivered the centennial oration in his native town. On the 4th of July, 1888, he delivered the poem at the laying of the corner-stone of the town hall and high school building in Southbridge.
Mr. Jillson still resides in Worcester, and is now collecting material for a history of his native town.
JOHNSON, EDWARD FRANCIS, son of John and Julia A. (Bulfinch) Johnson, was born in Woburn, Middlesex county, Octo- ber 22, 1856.
He attended the public schools of his native town, and graduated at the high school as valedictorian of his class in 1874. He graduated from Harvard College in 1878, and after a year's rest, partially spent abroad, entered the Harvard law school and graduated in 1882, with the degree of LL.B. He was admitted a mem- ber of the Suffolk bar in 1881, and began practice after leaving the law school. He was appointed clerk of the 4th district court of eastern Middlesex at its estab- lishment in 1882, and held the position until he resigned in July, 1888.
September 26, 1882, at Woburn, Mr. Johnson was married to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Mary (Tidd) Simonds. Their children are: Harold Pendexter and Kenneth Simonds Johnson.
In April, 1887, Mr. Johnson was elected town treasurer of Woburn, and was re- elected the following year. In December, 1888, he was elected the first mayor of Woburn.
He is a direct descendant of Edward Johnson, who, having been the first town clerk and chairman of the first board of selectmen in Woburn, has been called " The Father of the Town." All of Mr. John- son's ancestors were natives of Woburn, and he was named after Edward Johnson and Francis Kendall, who was another of the early settlers of Woburn, and one whose descendants have intermarried with the Johnsons. With the exception of Hon. Elisha Bartlett, who was elected mayor of Lowell at the age of thirty-one, Mr. John- son is the youngest first mayor of any of the twenty-seven cities which have been incorporated in Massachusetts.
Mr. Johnson is a man fond of outdoor sports, and a champion tennis player. Being a Republican in politics, his election as mayor by a plurality of six hundred votes in a city strongly Democratic is a sufficient attestation of the popular esti- mation of his worth and ability.
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JOHNSON, GEORGE W., was born in Boston, December 28, 1827. He was edu- cated at the Latin and Chauncy Hall schools of his native city. He resides in Brookfield and is a practicing lawyer of Worcester county. He sat in the state Senate of 1870, and was a member of the House of Representatives in 1877 and '80. He was a delegate to the national Republican convention at Chicago in 1868, and is chairman of the board of trustees in the state primary and reform schools. He was elected to serve as a member of the executive council of Governor Ames in 1887, and has twice been re-elected to the same position.
JOHNSON, HENRY AUGUSTIN, son of John and Harriet Bates Johnson, was born in Fairhaven, Bristol county, February 17, 1825. His early education was at the Friends' Academy in New Bedford, and he prepared for college with Henry W. Torrey, then of New Bedford, but now of Cam- bridge. In August, 1840, he entered Har- vard College, and graduated in the class of 1844. Subsequently he became a student at the Harvard law school, was admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1848, and, after an absence of two years in Europe, began the practice of law in Boston in the autumn of 1852. In 1855 he formed a co-partner- ship with Robert Codman of Boston, which has continued ever since. Their business at present is principally in probate matters and trusts.
Mr. Johnson has never had any disposi- tion for political life, but attends closely to his professional duties in Boston, passing his leisure time on his farm in East Brain- tree. He served on the school committee for several years, and is one of the original trustees of the Thayer public library.
In January, 1859, he was married to Elizabeth Swift, daughter of the late Henry H. Hitch, of Pernambuco, Brazil, who died in 1882, leaving him with six children : Laurence H. H., Elizabeth, Lesly Augus- tin, Harriet Everard, Reginald Hathaway, and Erik St. John Johnson.
JOHNSON, HENRY HARRISON, son of Samuel and Mary (Emery) Johnson, was born in Haverhill, Essex county, March 24, 1840.
The common and high schools furnished the means of his early education. When fifteen years of age he entered a shoe- shop to learn the business ; remained until 1862, when he enlisted in the 50th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, and went to the front. He served in the Gulf department
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under General Banks. On his return from the war he again became employed in the shoe factories, and in 1868 formed a part- nership with George H. Carleton for the manufacture of shoes. This partnership continued for ten years, when the firm was dissolved, and Mr. Johnson continued in the same until 1886, when he retired from active business.
Mr. Johnson was married in Haverhill, March 14, 1866, to Mary F., daughter of W. P. and Harriet (Lambert) Hobson. Of this union are two children : William Henry and Carrie Lambert Johnson.
Mr. Johnson is a prominent member of the Masonic order, and is also an active member in the G. A. R. ; was a member of the common council of Haverhill 1873 and '74 - president the latter year ; for three years a member of the Republican state central committee, and a member of the House of Representatives in 1889, serving upon the committee on water supply.
JOHNSON, IVER, son of John Johnson, was born in Nordfjord, Norway, February 14, 1841.
He obtained his educational training in the parish schools of his native place.
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He served an apprenticeship at gun- making in Bergen, and finished his term of service in 1862 ; worked one year at his
trade in Christiana; then in 1863, at twenty- two years of age, emigrated to America and located in Worcester. In 1871, in com- pany with Martin Bye, he began in a small way the manufacture of pistols, under the firm name of Johnson, Bye & Co. From this small beginning grew the great busi- ness which has since, in busy times, em- ployed three hundred and fifty hands.
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