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 JACKSON. JAMES. 335 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 I"". Slade, under the present firm name of Jackson & Slade. Mr. Jackson was married in Fall River, June 16, 18S2, to Caroline S., daughter of Eli Thurston, 1). 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., 1st regiment infantry, JMUIES F. JACKSON. 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 in 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. 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, 1S50, 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 1SS1, '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, 1S57, 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, 18S9, he was re-appointed post- master by Postmaster-General Wanamaker.