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 604 TOLMAN. TOLMAN. jewelers, Providence, where he remained two years. In 186S he established the firm of Titcomb & Williams, wholesale dealers in watches, diamonds, and jewelry in San Francisco. This firm carried on business for several years, when Mr. Titcomb as- sumed the proprietorship and carried it on alone for twelve years, the business in- creasing in volume until the annual sales reached two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Since 1849 Mr. Titcomb has traveled to California forty times, and visited nearly all the states of the Union. He is now retired from active business and resides in Newburyport. He was elected alderman from ward 4 of that city, and on the death of the mayor, Hon. William H. Huse, was unanimously chosen to fill the unexpired term. In De- cember, 1888, he was elected mayor, re- ceiving the largest vote of any mayor who had an opposition candidate, and now holds the office, his administration being espe- cially acceptable to his fellow-citizens. TOLMAN, John Broad, son of John and Lucy (Broad) Tolman, was born in Barre, Worcester county, December 30, 1806. He is a lineal descendant of Thomas Tolman, who was born in England, in i6cS or 1609, and came over in the " Mary and John " in 1630, becoming a settler of Dorchester. At an early period of his life his parents removed to Needham, it being the native place of his paternal grandfather, who was severely wounded at the battle of Lexing- ton, but on his recovery enlisted and served through the revolutionary war, ris- ing from the ranks to a field officer. In the latter town most of Mr. Tolman 's early life was passed, and his education was chiefly obtained at the public schools there. He had manual duties to perform about the farm, even at the tender age of eight years. At the usual age for apprentice- ship he was placed in the office of H. & W. H. Mann, of Dedham, to learn the print- ing business. He served his full time and then went to Boston to follow his trade, obtaining employment as a journeyman in the book office of Isaac R. Butts. In February, 1S30, he became a resident of Lynn, where he at once engaged as a printer of the "Lynn Record." After several years as manager and editor, he purchased the office, introduced the first cylinder press used in the city, and printed several papers at different tunes, besides building up a good business of job and commercial printing. By middle life he was enabled to sell out his printing materials and business, and occupy himself with less wearying pursuits. He then engaged in real estate and kin- dred operations, with good success. Mr. Tolman is a strict disciplinarian and an abstainer from both rum and tobacco. In 1 881, on the occasion of the celebra- tion of his golden wedding, he made a do- nation to the Lynn Hospital of twenty-five hundred dollars, devoted in part to the benefit of members of the printing frater- nity in Lynn. In 1884 he conveyed to the Young Men's Christian Association of Lynn an estate valued at thirty thousand dollars, in trust for the suppression of in- temperance and the use of intoxicating liquors in Lynn. One of the latest of his public donations was the sum of one thou- sand dollars to the Home for Aged Women. He has made extensive tours in the west- ern and southern states and California, and has likewise visited Europe. JOHN B. TOLMAN. In March, 183 1, Mr. Tolman was mar- ried to Lydia S., daughter of Herman and Sarah Ames (Haynes) Mann, by whom he has had two sons and a daughter, of whom the latter only is living, being the wife of Charles J. Pickford, of Lynn. At the death of his two sons he erected to their memory the first marble monument in Lynn.