History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, including Lynnfield ...

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Biographical Sketches. Sanderson. SJicpard. Silsbce. 207
of the rock that bears the good old settler's name. See Annals,
1635, and other early dates.
Sanderson, George P., the sixteenth Mayor of Lynn, was
inaugurated on the 6th of January, 1879. He was also elected
for a second term, and inaugurated on the 5th of January, 1880.
He was born in Gardiner, Me., on the 22d of November, 1836.
For most of his business life he has been engaged as operative,
agent, or manufa6lurer, in some department of the shoe trade,
chiefly in Lynn. He has all along been identified with the
workingmen's interests, and as a leader, received the confidence
and support of his party. He was a soldier in the civil war,
performed his duties faithfully, and was honorably discharged.
On the third of July, 1859, ^^ married Julia A., a daughter
of William H. Mills, and has four sons. A fac-simile of his
signature is appended.
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Shepard, Rev. Jeremiah, minister of the First Parish for
forty years. Shepard street takes its name from him ; also
Shepard school. He died on the third of June, 1720, aged 72.
See Annals, 1720. His signature is shown by this fac-simile:
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SiLSBEE, Henry. This individual appeared in Lynn at an
early period and was the founder of a family which, though not
remarkable for numbers, has always been in creditable standing.
Silsbee street commemorates the name. Dr. Emmerton in his
Gleanings from English Records says :
" The name Silsbee is
one of the rarest in the records accessible at London." ..." The
parish records of Olney, Bucks, dating from about 1666, gives
baptisms of a Samuel Slisby's daughters after 1670. Mr. James
Stowe, the affable parish clerk, told me, while I was studying