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 556 SLEEPER. SLEEPER. Mr. Sleeper was an earnest temperance advocate, and was president of the Massa- chusetts Temperance Association. For over sixty years he was a power for good in city and state. Aside from all other qualities giving his name prominence, he stood throughout his life eminent among the most noble and generous philanthro- pists. JACOB SLEEPER. Mr. Sleeper was twice married ; first at Billerica, May 7, i.'-^j;, to Eliza, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Mann) Davis; and again April 7, 1835, to Maria Davis, her sis- ter. His children are: Mary Elizabeth, now Mrs. Geo. N. Davis, Boston ; Julia Maria, now Mrs. E. P. Dutton, New York ; Caro- line, now Mrs. I. V. Harper, New York ; and Major Jacob Henry Sleeper. SI I I THR, JOHNKlLBOURNECLOUGH, son of Amos and Phoebe (Clough) Sleeper, was born in Bridgewater, Grafton county, . II., February 7. [828. lie attended the public schools of his native town and of Concord, N. II., and the seminary at Newbury, Vt. In 1845, when seventeen years of age, he came to boston and began work in a wholesale millinery establishment, where he continued for eight years as boy, sales- man and book-keeper. In 1854 he re- moved to Cleveland, O., where he estab- lished a branch of the same business, under the firm name of C. S. Prescott & Co., later changing the name to Prescotts, Sleeper & Chase. In 1859 he returned to Boston, and in i860 established himself in the same business, which he now conducts under the name of J. K. C. Sleeper & Co. On the 3d of July, 185 1, Mr. Sleeper was married, in Boston, to Hannah Moore, daughter of Asa and Mary T. (Hill) Shaw. Their son, Charles Frederick, died in 1887. A daughter, Mary Emma, is their only living child. In 1S60 Mr. Sleeper took up his resi- dence in Maiden, and was mayor of that city in 1883, a representative in the Legis- lature in 1S74 and '77, a senator in 1887, re-elected in 1888, and has been a member of the school committee three years. He has also been vice-president of the Maiden Industrial Aid Society for eleven years, a trustee of the public library for four JOHN K. C SLEEPER years, and in religious circles has always been known as an earnest worker, holding the position of superintendent of the Sunday-school for nine years, and a mem- ber of the board of trustees of the Centre M. E. church, Maiden, for twenty years. Of this board he is now president. When twelve years old, Mr. Sleeper signed the pledge, and has been a strong