The following biography is found on page 30 of the book
MEMORIAL BIOGRAPHIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
TOWNE MEMORIAL FUND
Volume IX 1890 1897
BOSTON
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY
18 Somerset Street 1908
Joshua Huntington Wolcott of Boston Massachusetts a Life Member elected in 1847 was born in Litchfield Connecticut August 29 1804 and died in Boston January 4 1891. He was the son of Frederick Wolcott judge of probate and grandson of Oliver Wolcott one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. His first American ancestor settled in Milton in 1630. At an early age he removed to Boston and entered the employ of the mercantile house of A and A Lawrence and Company and while still a young man was made a partner in the firm. This house carried a leading part in the development of the great manufacturing and commercial enterprises of New England and he was thoroughly identified with its work. He was treasurer of the Boston Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. In 1851 he became a citizen of Milton. He married November 12 1844 Cornelia daughter of Samuel Frothingham of Boston. She died five years after her marriage and he subsequently married her sister Harriet Frothingham who survived him with one son Roger Wolcott later governor of Massachusetts. Another son Lieutenant Huntington F Wolcott served in the Civil War but at the age of nineteen died on the eve of Lee's surrender from the results of camp fever.
MEMORIAL BIOGRAPHIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
TOWNE MEMORIAL FUND
Volume IX 1890 1897
BOSTON
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY
18 Somerset Street 1908
Joshua Huntington Wolcott of Boston Massachusetts a Life Member elected in 1847 was born in Litchfield Connecticut August 29 1804 and died in Boston January 4 1891. He was the son of Frederick Wolcott judge of probate and grandson of Oliver Wolcott one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. His first American ancestor settled in Milton in 1630. At an early age he removed to Boston and entered the employ of the mercantile house of A and A Lawrence and Company and while still a young man was made a partner in the firm. This house carried a leading part in the development of the great manufacturing and commercial enterprises of New England and he was thoroughly identified with its work. He was treasurer of the Boston Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. In 1851 he became a citizen of Milton. He married November 12 1844 Cornelia daughter of Samuel Frothingham of Boston. She died five years after her marriage and he subsequently married her sister Harriet Frothingham who survived him with one son Roger Wolcott later governor of Massachusetts. Another son Lieutenant Huntington F Wolcott served in the Civil War but at the age of nineteen died on the eve of Lee's surrender from the results of camp fever.
The following biography is found on page 30 of the book
MEMORIAL BIOGRAPHIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
TOWNE MEMORIAL FUND
Volume IX 1890 1897
BOSTON
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY
18 Somerset Street 1908
Joshua Huntington Wolcott of Boston Massachusetts a Life Member elected in 1847 was born in Litchfield Connecticut August 29 1804 and died in Boston January 4 1891. He was the son of Frederick Wolcott judge of probate and grandson of Oliver Wolcott one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. His first American ancestor settled in Milton in 1630. At an early age he removed to Boston and entered the employ of the mercantile house of A and A Lawrence and Company and while still a young man was made a partner in the firm. This house carried a leading part in the development of the great manufacturing and commercial enterprises of New England and he was thoroughly identified with its work. He was treasurer of the Boston Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. In 1851 he became a citizen of Milton. He married November 12 1844 Cornelia daughter of Samuel Frothingham of Boston. She died five years after her marriage and he subsequently married her sister Harriet Frothingham who survived him with one son Roger Wolcott later governor of Massachusetts. Another son Lieutenant Huntington F Wolcott served in the Civil War but at the age of nineteen died on the eve of Lee's surrender from the results of camp fever.
MEMORIAL BIOGRAPHIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
TOWNE MEMORIAL FUND
Volume IX 1890 1897
BOSTON
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY
18 Somerset Street 1908
Joshua Huntington Wolcott of Boston Massachusetts a Life Member elected in 1847 was born in Litchfield Connecticut August 29 1804 and died in Boston January 4 1891. He was the son of Frederick Wolcott judge of probate and grandson of Oliver Wolcott one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. His first American ancestor settled in Milton in 1630. At an early age he removed to Boston and entered the employ of the mercantile house of A and A Lawrence and Company and while still a young man was made a partner in the firm. This house carried a leading part in the development of the great manufacturing and commercial enterprises of New England and he was thoroughly identified with its work. He was treasurer of the Boston Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. In 1851 he became a citizen of Milton. He married November 12 1844 Cornelia daughter of Samuel Frothingham of Boston. She died five years after her marriage and he subsequently married her sister Harriet Frothingham who survived him with one son Roger Wolcott later governor of Massachusetts. Another son Lieutenant Huntington F Wolcott served in the Civil War but at the age of nineteen died on the eve of Lee's surrender from the results of camp fever.
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