Joshua Huntington Wolcott (1804-1891)

Biography
The Huntington family in America says:
 * 1.3.3.4.1.3.1.3. Joshua Huntington Wolcott, born August 29, 1804, in Litchfield, Conn.; married, first, November 12, 1844, Cornelia, daughter of Samuel and Eliza (Atkins) Frothingham, of Boston, Mass. She was born December 11, 1824, and died June 1, 1850.


 * He married, second, November 12, 1851, Harriet Frothingham, sister of his first wife.


 * Mr. Wolcott came to Boston as a boy, and became an apprentice in the counting house of A. and A. Lawrence. He was made a partner at the age of twenty-six, and was the senior partner when the firm was dissolved in 1865.


 * He took a prominent part in the development of New England manufacturing, being president or director in many textile mills, and a director of the Boston and Providence Railroad. He was also a leader in charitable enterprises, and was State Treasurer of the Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. He was a charter member of the Union Club of Boston, and belonged to the Society of the Cincinnati in the right of his grandfather, Major General Oliver Wolcott.

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