. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . he distinguishedfamilies of New Eng-land. T. JeffersonCoolidge was born inBoston in 1831, theson of a prosperousChina merchant. Hisearly education wasobtained in Franceand tiermany. Re-turning to this coun-try when about fif-teen years old, h eentered Harvard, andgraduated in the classof 1850. Mr. Cool-id ge s career hasbeen almost entirelyone of business. Upto the time of hisappointment as min-ister to France h ehad held but twopublic posts — parkcommissio
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . he distinguishedfamilies of New Eng-land. T. JeffersonCoolidge was born inBoston in 1831, theson of a prosperousChina merchant. Hisearly education wasobtained in Franceand tiermany. Re-turning to this coun-try when about fif-teen years old, h eentered Harvard, andgraduated in the classof 1850. Mr. Cool-id ge s career hasbeen almost entirelyone of business. Upto the time of hisappointment as min-ister to France h ehad held but twopublic posts — parkcommissioner ofBoston and delegateto the \mericanCongress. After graduation, he entered the East India trade, embarkingin business with the late Joseph Gardner. In 1858 heaccepted the presidency of the Boott ManufacturingCompany, with large cotton mills at Lowell. The com-pany was then in a weak financial condition, but beforehe left it, two years later, he had rebuilt the mill andestablished the business on a firm footing. He thenwent abroad, and after several years residence inFrance, returned to this country and took charge of the. THOMAS JEFFERSON COOLIDGE. Lawrence Manufacturing Company. In 1880 he gaveup most of his manufacturing interests and for a timewas president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa FeRailroad while the company was making a struggle forexistence. He tided it over its worst period and thenresigned and spent a year in Europe. On his return heaccepted the presidency of the Oregon Railway & Navi-gation Company, which he held temporarily. He hasbeen identified with the Amory and the Dwight Manu-facturing companies,and has been directorin the Boston &Lowell, the Chicago,Burlington & Quincy,and other railroads,and in many bankingenterprises. has been aRepublican for aboutten years, but he hasnever been promi-nent in politics. Hisson, T. J e ff e r s o nCoolidge, Jr., w a sone of the leadingspirits in the estab-lish m e n t of theYoung Mens Dem-ocratic
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