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 RICHARDSON. RICHARDS! >N. 513 he was an active member of the school committee. He was superintendent of the Sunday-school of the First Congregational church for five years, and has been an officer of that church most of the time for twenty-five years. He was also moderator ington Street, Boston, also 505 Broadway, New York, as New York and New Eng- land agents for the Florence sewing ma- chine, also wholesale dealers in machine twist, cotton and linen thread, and sewing- machine findings. In 1871 they sold the business to the Florence Sewing Machine Company, and dissolved the co-partner- ship. On the death of his father, August 31, 1873, he succeeded to the business of " S. O. Richardson, Sherry Wine and Jaundice Bitters." He took charge of this business and has since continued in it. Mr. Richardson was married in Wake- field, October 2, 1862, to Abba Maria, daughter of Daniel D. and Susan (Patch) Foster. Of this union are two children : Solon O. Richardson, Jr., and Dana Fos- ter Richardson. Mr. Richardson was chairman of the Wakefield board of health. He was a rep- resentative to the General Court in 1881 and '82. He is now a selectman of Wake- field. CHARLES A. RICHARDSON. of the general association of the Congre- gational churches of Massachusetts at its meeting in New Bedford in 1886. He was married at Westfield, May 3, 1852, to Mary Jane, daughter of John and Mary Jane (Knapp) Phipps. They have had six children : of whom Harriet Phipps and Alice Maude are now living, the former being the wife of William F. Ray, of Franklin. Albert D. Richardson of the " New York Tribune," author of " Beyond the Mississippi," and several other popular volumes, was a brother of the sub j eel of this sketch. RICHARDSON, SOLON OSMOND, son of Solon O. and Susan ( Barnard ) Richardson, was born in South Reading (now Wakefield), Middlesex county, Sep- tember 9, 1 84 1. He derived his early education from the public schools of his native town and the Park Latin school, Boston. In 1867 he associated himself in busi- ness with Daniel D. Foster, under the firm name of Foster & Richardson, 141 Wash- SOLON O RICHARDSON. He was treasurer of the First Univer- salis! Society of Wakefield, and is now a trustee of the Beebe town library, presi- dent of the Wakefield Savings Bank, and a director of the Boston Wharf Com- pany.