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 LEE. LEIGHTON. 37' Mr. I. each possesses the unqualified confidence of his fellow-citizens. For many years he has been chairman of the Republican town committee ; for thirty years a working member of Plymouth County Agricultural Society, one of the trustees and prominent in its management. He has long been a trustee of the sav- ings bank, and member of the investment •BJ> JAMES C. LEACH. committee, also a director in the Brockton National Bank since its organization. He was commissioned justice of the peace by Governor Rice in 1877. He has always encouraged ample appro- priations for public improvement, and par- ticularly that of education. He is a trustee of Bridgewater Academy. His church connections are with the Central Square church of Bridgewater, to which he has been one of its most liberal contributors. Mr. Leach is a lineal descendant of Giles Leach, who settled in Bridgewater before 1665, and of Rev. James Keith, the first minister in that section of the country. LEE, ANDREW, son of Andrew and Fanny Lee, was born in Manchester, Es- sex county, December 15, 1829, and received his early education in the public schools of his native town. His first venture in business was in a line not at all congenial to his tastes, and in 1855 he began the study of medicine under the tuition of Dr. George A. Priest. Three years later he entered the retail drug business in Manchester. As success crowned his efforts, he erected a larger building than the one occupied, increased his business and associated his two sons with him. Mr. Lee was married in Charlestown, November ri, 1847, to Jane E., daughter of Charles and Jane T. Bailey. Of this union are four children : Ada, Charles 0., Frank E., and Jennie T. Lee. Mr. Lee is treasurer of the Union Web Hammock Company, whose large factories are located in Gloucester. He is an active member of the I. O. O. F., and is one of the charter members of Magnolia Lodge 149. The first representatives of this family of Lee were John and Thomas Lee, who landed at Ipswich, in 1640 and 1642 respect- ively. They were descendants of the first Lord Lee, Earl of Lichfield, Viscount Quarendon of Oxford, England. The cre- ation dates back to June 5, 1674, under the regime of the Second Charles. The old Lee family has held a ground title in Man- chester and vicinity continuously for over two hundred years. LEIGHTON, John William, son of Jonathan and Sarah (Knight) Leighton, was born in Eliot, York county, Maine, February 26, 1825. His early education was confined to the public schools of his native village. He came to Boston in 1843, where he learned his trade, and in 1854 became connected in business as builder, which line he still follows. He is at present chairman of the state armory commissioners. Mr. Leighton was married in Eliot, Me., February 19, 1854, to Anaretta Tyler, daughter of James P. and Abigail F. (Varney) Frye. Of this union is one child: Fannie Leighton. Mr. Leighton served in the Boston com- mon council 186 1, '62, '63, '68 and '69 ; four years on the building committee, and on the committee on raising Church Street district. He was a member of the popular branch of the Legislature 1881 and '82, and was on the commission for re-modeling the state-house in 1880. He is one of the directors in the Central National Bank ; a trustee in the Home Sav- ings Bank, and a member of the invest- ment committee, also a director in the Gran- ite R. R. Company.