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 TITCOMB. TITCOMB. 603 1866. During his college course, he taught school each winter. Alter graduation he was one year in charge 01 Peacham Acad- emy, Vermont, a famous school in its da)'. He was subsequently principal of the St. Johnsbury high school, Vermont. In 1S69 he entered the law office of the late Richard H. Dana, Boston, under whose care he was fitted for the bar, being admit- ted in August, 1870. He immediately opened a law office in Boston, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. Mr. Tirrell was married in Natick, Feb- ruary 13, 1873, to Mary E., daughter of Elisha P. and Eliza A. Hollis. Of this union is one child : Arthur H. Tirrell. In 1S69 Mr. Tirrell was a candidate of the Republican party in Weymouth for representative to the Legislature, but the candidates of the party in that town failed of an election that year. In 1S71 he was again a candidate, and elected by an un- usual majority. In 1873 he removed to Natick, where he has since resided. He was a member of the state Senate from the 4th Middlesex district, 1881 anil '82. In 1872, his first year in the House, he served on the probate and insolvency committee, and in 1S81 on the senate com- mittees on public health, prisons, and bills in the third reading ; in 1882 on the com- mittees on public health and judiciary, and was chairman of the joint committee on the liquor law. Mr. Tirrell is one of the wardens of St. Paul's Episcopal church, Natick. While a resident of Weymouth, he served four years on the school board of that town. He received a large complimentary vote in the Republican congressional conven- tion, 9th district, in 1884, as its candidate for Congress, and in 1888 was the leading competitor for the same position of the Hon. John W. Candler, who was subse- quently nominated. He was elected presi- dential elector from this district the same year. Mr. Tirrell is especially active in tem- perance work, and is a prominent official in temperance societies. He has also been an active worker in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and other societies, and his services are in active demand in the various lines of work undertaken by them. TITCOMB, Albert Cushing, son of Francis and Sally D. (Dodd) Titcomb, was born in Newburyport, Essex county, July 16, 1S31. He is a lineal descendant of William Titcomb, who came from Newbury, England, on the ship "Hercules" in 1634, and became an original land-holder. He is a grandson of Hon. Enoch Titcomb, a member of the Constitutional Convention, representative and senator for a long time, and town treasurer for twenty-eight years in succession. Mr. Titcomb obtained the rudiments of a common school education in his native town. He began business life at the age of fourteen, in the dry-goods store of Jo- seph F. Toppan. He then clerked in Bos- ton two years, but being excited by the gold-fever in 1849, he sailed from Newbury- port for San Francisco in the brig "Char- lotte," arriving July 23d of that year, and, ALBERT C. TITCOMB. as was the usual case in those days, with- out money or friends He remained in California two years, mining and clerking, then sailed for Relejo, Central America, where he engaged in the hotel business, and also in purchasing coffee and shipping it to San Francisco. In 1852 he returned to Newburyport and entered the machine shop of the Bartlett Mills, to learn the trade of machinist. He subsequently ob- tained employment in a machine shop in Roxbury for one year, then in the shop of the Old Colony & Fall River Railroad, where he remained until 1855. He was next engaged as a traveling salesman for Robinson, Potter & Co., manufacturing