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FRENCH. FRENCH. 233 Mr. French in 1869 organized the Cape Ann Granite Company, the quarries of which are located in Gloucester. He has furnished the granite for numerous public buildings and monuments — notably the Boston post-office and sub-treasury building, Baltimore post-office, the bases of the Scott monument, Washington, D. C, the spandel walls of the great Brooklyn bridge, and the new court-house in Boston. JONAS H. FRENCH. He was scarcely of age when he en- rolled himself in the City Guards, the favorite Boston company of those days. He was elected captain of the company, holding the position three years. He served two years on the staff of Governor Gardner. In 1861 he was commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Boston, and is to-day one of the oldest living commanders of that time-honored corps. In 1853, '55 and '56 he was a mem- ber of the common council of the city of Boston. In November, 1861, at Camp Chase, Lowell, he raised the regiment known as "The Eastern Bay State," afterwards designated as the 30th Massachusetts. In January following he sailed in com- mand of that regiment for Ship Island, attached to General Benjamin F. Butler's expedition against New Orleans. He was provost-marshal-general of Louisiana, and subsequently served under General N. P. Banks. Colonel French was a delegate to the national Democratic convention, at Cin- cinnati, in 1S80, and at St. Louis in 1888, and was a member of the state Senate, 1879 and '80, doing brilliant work on lead- ing committees, and was chairman of the Democratic state central committee for three years. He was three years president of the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis R. R., and ten years a director in the New York & New England R. R. He has been a director in the West End Land Company since 1887, and has been since 1873 a director of the Maverick National Bank, Boston. He is a prominent Mason, and one of the founders of St. Bernard En- campment, and Revere Lodge. FRENCH, William Wesley, son of William !'»., and Mary Ann (Torrey) French, was born in llrockton, Plymouth county, January 10, 1849. Receiving his preparatory education in the grammar and high schools of Brockton, he entered Dartmouth College in 1867, and was graduated in the class of 1872. After graduation he taught school for a short time in Sandwich and in Kingsland, N. J., and choosing the profession of law, pursued his legal studies in the office of Knapp & Bowman, Boston. He was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1S74, and immediately began the practice of his profession in Gloucester, where he has since resided. August 1, 1878, at Gloucester, Mr. French was married to I.elia Fenno, daughter of Moses II. and Ellen M. (Low) Shaw. Mr. French is a member of the Knights of Pythias, was secretary and chairman of the Republican city committee of Glouces- ter, having held the position several years, and is a special justice of the police court, and president of Unity Club. In 1S79 he was a member of the common council, city solicitor four years, i88o-'8i-'82-'83, and in 1888 was elected mayor by the city coun- cil, and re-elected for 1889, without oppo- sition. Mr. French, in his last inaugural address, indicated a laudable purpose to have an administration characterized by economi- cal and judicious expenditure of money, a non-partisan and paternal oversight of schools, and a careful attention to the minor details of municipal government, which went far to confirm the judgment