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 22 4 FOGG. FOOTE. FOGG, Ebenezer Thayer, son of Ebenezer Thayer and Betsey (Tower) Fogg, was born in Scituate, Plymouth county, October 30, 1826, and educated at the common schools. He began business as a mechanical ship- joiner, and subsequently for twenty-nine years was engaged in mercantile affairs. At present he is occupied as treasurer of the South Scituate Savings Bank. On the 5th day of October, 1859, Mr. Fogg was married to Helen Louise, daugh- ter of Benjamin and Margaret (Tilden) Smith. Their children are : Ebenezer Thayer, Helen Hambleton, and Horace Tower Fogg. He was appointed receiver of the Scitu- ate Savings Bank. Among other offices of trust and responsibility, he has held the position of postmaster for twenty-nine years, town clerk for thirty-one years, town treasurer twenty-eight years, and he was for four years upon the school committee. In 1880 and '81 he was elected senator to the state Legislature, and served upon such important committees as fisheries, roads and bridges, and woman suffrage. He was chairman of the committee on the liquor law in 1880. FOLSOM, John Sanborn, son of John Tilton and Hannah Morrill (Sanborn) Fol- som, was born October 12, 1840, in Man- chester, Hillsborough county, N. H. He is a lineal descendant in the seventh genera- tion from John Folsom, who set sail April 26, 1638, from the mouth of the Thames, England, in the ship " Diligent," of Ips- wich, and who on his arrival in America settled in Hingham. His father, Dr. John T. Folsom, was for many years a successful and widely known practitioner of dentistry in the city of Gloucester, and later in Bos- ton. Having spent his boyhood and youth in school, at the age of sixteen years he en- tered his father's office and devoted him- self to the study and practice of dentistry, under the careful instruction and experi- enced eye of his father, who designed to give his son the best advantages for this profession. After two or three years' train- ing he went to Baltimore and then to New York City, spending some two years in the offices of the most eminent dentists in the country at that period. Dr. Folsom, about 1S60, returned to his father's office in Gloucester, a well-read and skilled operator in dentistry. After some years he, with his father and uncle, X. T. Folsom, also a dentist, opened an office in Boston, where they had a large practice. Meanwhile his uncle became the inventor of what was known as the " Fol- som Dental Packing Ridge," patented January 1, 1867, which became so import- ant to dentistry everywhere, that they all were engaged for a time in introducing this new invention, which yielded a very handsome pecuniary return. Subsequently Dr. Folsom engaged some- what in other business, but still doing more or less in his profession. He himself made some valuable inventions in saddlery and hardware. After his father's death, for some years he was in company with his uncle, N. T. Folsom, in Boston, where he gave attention to the sale of goods manu- factured under their several patents, and devoted some time to his professional prac- tice in the place where he resided. He was a prominent citizen in Medway and a leader in politics as a Jackson Democrat, being on the Democratic town committee, where he was a faithful and energetic worker. As a business man, Dr. Folsom has had a good measure of executive ability, and has enjoyed the entire confidence of the community in which he has lived. He was a popular candidate in 1884 for representative to the General Court, receiv- ing a heavy vote of his townsmen without respect to party lines. In 1S85, upon the incorporation of the town of Millis, he was chosen a member of the first board of selectmen, and on the decease of Lansing Millis, Dr. Folsom became chairman of the board. He was a judicious, progressive and faithful town officer. Dr. Folsom married, July 6, 1865, Marion Augusta, daughter of Dr. James B. and Priscilla A. (Godfrey) Gould. She was born October 10, 1843, in New England Village, and died February 17, 1883. FOOTE, CALEB, the son of Caleb and Martha (West) Foote, was born in Salem, Essex county, February 28, 1803. His paternal grandfather served in the revolutionary war, under Washington at Cambridge, and afterward as a prize- master at sea, where he was captured by an English ship and confined in Forton prison till he made his escape. He was a descendant of Pasco Foote, who settled in Salem before 1637. His maternal grand- father, Samuel West, died in a trading voyage to Virginia. The father of the subject of this sketch lost his life at sea in 1 8 10. He was then left at the tender age of seven, fatherless, motherless and portionless