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BORDEN. BOTTOM. 65 capacity until September 6, 1882, when he resigned. The council voted not to accept his resignation, but Mr. Borden declined to further act. He was a member of the board of aldermen for iS64and '65, declin- ing to be a candidate for another year, as his other duties demanded his time. Mr. Borden was married October 1, 1838, in New Bedford, to Sarah Freeman, daugh- ter of Samuel and Betsey (Willcox) Bennett of Fall River. Of this union were eight children, of whom only three now survive : Thomas S., Philip I).,' Jr., and Frank Bor- den. His first wife died August 3, 1858. He was again married May 23, 1872, to PHILIP D. BORDEN. Caroline, daughter of Benjamin and Ruth Seabury of Westport. Mr. Borden was a director in the Meta- comet National Bank from its first forma- tion in 1853 until 1880, when he resigned on account of his not being qualified by the financial circumstances which he, with others, was called to pass through in Fall River. He was a director of the R. Bor- den Manufacturing Company from its first organization up to 1880. He had in pre- vious years been a director in the Fall River Iron Works Company, American Print Works, Annawan Manufacturing Company, and other corporations. He is now treasurer of the American Linen Com- pany, to which position he was elected in August, 1879, and is a director in the 1). M. C. Durfee Safe Deposit and Trust Com- pany. In 1S43 he was appointed by the pro- bate court as associate trustee of the estate of William Valentine, with Jefferson Bor- den (deceased), and is now acting as sur- viving trustee. This has been quite a large estate, and from its accumulation there have already been considerable amounts divided among the several wards as they have attained their majority. BOTTUM, John Bennett, son of Samuel Adams and Leonora (Porter) Bot- tum, was born in Northampton, Hampshire county, July 7, 1852. After an early educational training in the common schools of Northampton, and under private instruction, Mr. Bottum studied law with Allen & Bond, of North- ampton ; the former, now Judge William Allen of the supreme judicial court, the latter, district attorney for the northwest- ern district in this State. After a prepara- tory course in law, he entered Columbia College law school, New York City, from which he was graduated in the class of 1874 ; was admitted to practice in all the courts of the state of New York, in the spring of 1874, and in June of the same year was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. He began practice at once, in North- ampton. In 1875 he entered a partnership under the name of Bond Bros. & Bottum, which continued until the death of one of the members in 1882. Since that time he has practiced alone. He has frequently acted as district attor- ney pro tern, during the absence of the office incumbent. He was chairman of the Republican county and senatorial commit- tees in Hampshire county for several years, and is now chairman of the Republican city committee, Northampton ; was a member of the House of Representatives 18S6, '87, '88 and '89, serving on the fol- lowing committees : probate and insol- vency, bills in the third reading, judiciary, and rules, and in 1889 was House chairman of the committee on mercantile affairs. In r886 he was on the joint special committee to sit during the recess, to consider and report to the next General Court such recommendations and changes as it might deem advisable or necessary in the judicial system relating to the inferior courts of the Commonwealth. In 1887 he was a member of the House committee to the centennial of the adoption of the Constitu-