About Jonathan Philbrick Folsom
Lived 1820 – 1893 (aged 72). Jonathan Philbrick Folsom was an American politician.
Jonathan P. Folsom (October 9, 1820 – February 23, 1893) served as the twentieth Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts.
Business career Folsom was, for many years, involved in the dry goods trade. Folsom had a dry goods store on Merrimack Street, in Lowell.
Folsom was a director of the Old Lowell National Bank, and a Trustee of the Central Savings Bank.
Public service career Folsom was a member of the Lowell Common Council, Board of Aldermen, and was twice elected the mayor of Lowell.
After he was mayor Folsom served two terms in the Massachusetts legislature as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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American politician
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Jonathan Philbrick Folsom was born on 9 October 1820 in Tamworth.
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Jonathan Philbrick Folsom died on 23 February 1893.
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