Josiah Quincy, Jr.

Josiah Quincy, Jr. ( /ˈkwɪnzi/; January 17, 1802 – November 2, 1882)^[1] was mayor of Boston (December 11, 1845 - January 1, 1849), as was his father Josiah Quincy III (mayor 1823-1828) and grandson Josiah Quincy (mayor 1895-1899). He was the author of Figures in the Past (1882). As a member of the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1837, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Massachusetts Board of Education. He built the Josiah Quincy Mansion in 1848.^[2]

Family

His brother Edmund (1808–1877) was a prominent abolitionist, and author of the biography of his father and of a romance, Wensley (1854). His sister Eliza Susan (1798–1884) was her father's secretary and the biographer of her mother. Josiah Quincy (1802–1882) had two sons — Josiah Phillips (1829–1910), a lawyer, who wrote, besides some verse, The Protection of Majorities (1876) and Double Taxation in Massachusetts (1889); and Samuel Miller (1833–1887), who practised law, wrote on legal subjects, served in the Union army during the Civil War, and was breveted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1865. Josiah Quincy (1859-1919), a son of Josiah Phillips Quincy, was prominent in the Democratic party in Massachusetts, and was mayor of Boston in 1895-1899.

References

• William Guild, Description of the Boston and Worcester and Western Railroads: In which is Noted the Towns, Villages, Station, Bridges, Viaducts, Tunnels, Cuttings, Embankments, Gradients, &c., the Scenery and Its Natural History, and Other Objects Passed by this Line of Railway. With Numerous Illustrations, Boston?: Bradbury & Guild, 1847, p. 13.
•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Quincy, Josiah". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

External links

• Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z at Project Gutenberg, contains Quincy's speech of welcome to Boston for Charles Dickens.