Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . Son of Luther and Sally (Bowers) French. Born in Bil-lerica December 13, 1799, died in Lowell August 21, 1876, agedseventy-seven. At the age of twenty-four, he was appointedDeputy Sheriff of Middlesex County, Vvhich he held from 1823to 1830. Coroner of the town of Lowell, 1827; Collector ofTaxes, 1829; Assessor, 1833-3-1; Representative in 1836, andagain in 1862. Froin 1836 to 1842, a member of the CommonCouncil; in 1840 and 1841, Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart-ment ;
Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . Son of Luther and Sally (Bowers) French. Born in Bil-lerica December 13, 1799, died in Lowell August 21, 1876, agedseventy-seven. At the age of twenty-four, he was appointedDeputy Sheriff of Middlesex County, Vvhich he held from 1823to 1830. Coroner of the town of Lowell, 1827; Collector ofTaxes, 1829; Assessor, 1833-3-1; Representative in 1836, andagain in 1862. Froin 1836 to 1842, a member of the CommonCouncil; in 1840 and 1841, Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart-ment ; and in 1849 and 1850, Mayor of the city of Lowell. From1831 tO 1846 he conducted an extensive staging business, carry-ing the United States mail between Boston and Montreal. Themagnitude of the staging business of Lowell in 1835 can best beunderstood by stating the fact that from forty to forty-five stagesleft that city daily in different directions. In 1851 he w^as Presi-. HON. EBENEZER BARKER, of Charlestown,County Commissioner, 1846-1853. ? ANCIENT MIDDLESEX. 87 dent of the Northern raihoad, and had been a successful builderand contractor. He was energetic, sagacious, and enterprisingto a ver} remarkable degree, and while his educational facilitieswere limited to the rude benches of a district school, he had afine bearing, erect and commanding, and a personal magnetismwhich charmed and impressed all with whom he came in politics he was an old-fashioned Jacksonian Democrat, and inreligion a Unitarian. He was a County Commissioner from1844 to 1847. Hon. Ebene^er Barker. €^u/9
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