Albert Richards Howe was an American businessman,Civil War veteran and politician. He represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Mississippi House of Representatives for one term from 1873 to 1875.
Caleb Stetson was an American businessman and politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A Democrat,in 1852 he was elected to serve in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In the legislature he was the Chairman of the House Committee on Banking. He was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853. He was also an early promoter and president of the South Shore Railroad. He lost property in the Great fire of Boston.
Nathaniel Wales was an American businessman and politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Waldo Colburn was an American lawyer,jurist and politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Colburn was originally a member of the Whig party and after that party dissolved he became a Democrat. He was a descendant of Nathaniel Colburn,a selectman and signer of the Dedham Covenant.
Henry Kemble Oliver was an American who served as the 5th Mayor of Lawrence,Massachusetts,the 21st Mayor of Salem,Massachusetts as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives,the Adjutant General of Massachusetts,and as the 26th Treasurer of Massachusetts.
Samuel Atherton was a Massachusetts businessman who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Chauncey C. Churchill was treasurer of Norfolk County,Massachusetts for 34 years and an Overseer of the House of Corrections. He was born in West Fairlee,Vermont as the son of William L. and Eliza Lamphear Churchill. He moved to Sudbury,Massachusetts before relocating again to Dedham,where he took a job at the Merchant Woolen Company's mill on Mother Brook.
Rufus Corbin Wood was sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts from 1878 to 1885.
Thomas Adams was sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts,from 1848 to 1852,and from 1853 to January 1,1857.
John Baker II was sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts from 1834 to 1843.
William Brewer was a Massachusetts politician who served on the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Roxbury,Massachusetts,as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and from,1811 to 1812,as the sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts.
Benjamin Clarke Cutler was a Boston merchant,who also served as the sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts from 1798 to 1810.
Eliphalet Pond (1704-1795) represented Dedham,Massachusetts in the Great and General Court.
Isaac Bullard represented Dedham,Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. He was also town clerk for a total of three years,having first been elected in 1784. He was also elected five times as selectman,beginning in 1773. Bullard was the first treasurer of Norfolk County,serving from 1793 to 1808.
John Worthington Ames represented Dedham,Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. He was the son of Fisher Ames and the brother of Seth Ames. He never married and always lived with his mother.
William Bullard was an early resident and two term Selectman in Dedham,Massachusetts. He built the first bridge across the Charles River in Dedham at the site of the present day Ames Street Bridge. He also served in the trainband led by Eleazer Lusher.
The Norfolk County Jail was a wooden jail located on Highland Street in Dedham,Massachusetts. Following the creation of Norfolk County in 1792,Timothy Gay deeded land to the county for the creation of the jail in October 1794. Construction began that year but it was not complete until 1795. The donated land,next to Gay's tavern on Highland Street,was on the corner of Court Street next to the present day St. Paul's Church.
Seth Ames was a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1869 to 1881. He was appointed by Governor William Claflin.
The Dedham Bank was a bank in Dedham,Massachusetts. It was located on the corner of High and Pearl Streets.
