Amos Franklin Breed
Amos Franklin Breed | |
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 1876 Massachusetts state House of Representatives photo | |
| Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1865–1866 | |
| In office 1876–1877 | |
| Member of the Massachusetts Senate from the Essex County first district | |
| In office 1877–1878 | |
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| Born | October 15, 1830 |
| Died | May 22, 1900 (aged 69) Lynn, Massachusetts |
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Amos Franklin Breed (October 15, 1830 – May 22, 1900) was a businessman and politician in Massachusetts. He was a bank and railway president and served in the state house and state senate in Massachusetts.
He was born in Lynn, Massachusetts to Amos Breed and Frances (Fanny) née Reed Breed.[3]
Breed lived in Lynn, and was president of the First National Bank of Lynn[1] from 1874 until his death in 1900.[2] He was manager of the Lynn and Boston Street Railway, then president of the North Shore Traction Company created through the absorption of the Lynn and Boston, and when North Shore was purchased and several railroads combined under a single company in 1899, he became president of the Massachusetts Electric Railway.[2][4]
A Republican, he served on the common council and board of aldermen. He served as a member of the Massachusetts state House of Representatives in 1865–6 and again in 1876,[2] and was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1877 and 1878 for the first district of Essex County.[5][6] He served on the Treasury committee in 1877.[5] In 1880 and 1896 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention.[2]
Breed married Mary Ann Lindsey on December 7, 1854.[2] He was survived by two sons including Amos Franklin Breed Jr. Jr. lived at 19 Union Street.[7]
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- 1 2 "The Commercial & Financial Chronicle ...: A Weekly Newspaper Representing the Industrial Interests of the United States". William B. Dana Company. April 14, 1900 – via Google Books.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cutter, William Richard (April 14, 1908). "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts". Lewis Historical Publishing Company. pp. 1732–3 – via Google Books.
- ↑ REED, Jacob Whittemore (April 14, 1861). "History of the Reed Family in Europe and America" – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Engineering News and American Railway Journal". Engineering News Publishing Company. April 14, 1900 – via Google Books.
- 1 2 Manual for the use of the General Court 1877. Boston: Albert J Wright, state printers. 1877. pp. 340–1, 381. Retrieved 2026-05-14.
- ↑ "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1878". State Library of Massachusetts. 1878. p. 6. Retrieved 2026-05-14.
- ↑ "Harvard University Directory". 1910.