Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1892 — MR. REID’S SUCCESSOR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MR. REID’S SUCCESSOR.

He I| a Bostonian and HU Name 1* T. J, Coolldge. Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, who has been nominated Minister to France,

is a grandson of Thomas Jefferson. He was born in Boston, Aug. 20, 1831; was graduated from Harvard and went to ! Europe, where he continued his studies; returning to Boston, he en-

minister coolidge. tered the East India trade, embarking in business under the firm name of Gardner & Coolidge, his partner being the late Joseph Gardner. In 1858, attracted by the manufacturing business, he accepted the presidency of the Boott Manufacturing Company, with large cotton mills at Lowell. The com-

pany was then in a very weak financial condition, but before he left it, two or three years later, he had rebuilt the mills and established their trade on a sound footing. His public services include a representation of Massachustts at the Pan-American Congress, when his principal work was the bringing in of a minority report against the free coinage of silver, which was accepted. Mr. Coolidge has never taken a prominent public part in Massachusetts politics. He has always been classed as a Republican, although his partisan proclivities have never been of a pronounced type. He has amassed a considerable fortune, and is at the head of many charitable enterprises. He erected the Jefferson Physical Laboratory at Harvard at a cost of $116,000, and gave to the town of Manchester $40,000 for a publio library some time since.