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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

EDWARD SPENCER JOSSELYN was born December 7, 1827, in the town of Duxbury,
Plymouth county, Massachusetts. He remained at the place of his birth, receiving
a common-school education, until the year 1842, when he entered upon a seafaring
life and sailed to the ports of the Atlantic and Indian oceans. He continued in
that trade until the year 1849, when he sailed from the port of Boston as second
officer of the ship Raritan, for San Francisco, via Cape Horn, and arrived at
his destination in the spring of 1850. Immediately he assumed command of the
vessel and sailed out of the San Francisco harbor for different ports on the
California coast, and in the year 1858 he made his first voyage to Tahiti, one
of the Society islands. In 1863 he sailed for Boston by way of Panama, and there
took charge of the ship Thomas Woodard, and sailed along the coast of South
America, doubling Cape Horn, visiting the port of Valparaiso, and again the
Society islands. He returned to San Francisco and made that his terminal point
for the succeeding two years. In 1865 he repeated the former trip to Boston, and
there he built and equipped the brig Percy Edward, and sailed as her master for
San Francisco, passing through the straits of Magellan on his outward voyage,
and arriving at his destination in 1866. In the next three years he sailed from
San Francisco to Japan and China in the tea trade, and to Java in the coffee
trade. In 1874 he permanently located in Monterey, California, and permanently
abandoned the sea. He has served one term in the State Legislature, and is a man
well known in this locality.

  Captain Josselyn was initiated as an Apprenticed Mason, and was made a Master
Mason in 1860, in Oceanic Lodge of F. & A. M., at Tahiti, under the jurisdiction
of the Grand Orient of France. He demitted therefrom, February 21, 1871, and
affiliated with the Occidental Lodge, No. 22, at San Francisco, California, May
6, 1872. He demitted from the latter lodge, February 7, 1876, and affiliated
with the Monterey Lodge, No. 217, at Monterey, April 8, 1876, of which he is
still a member. He was admitted through the various degrees of the order, and
wras knighted Red Cross, August 1,1885, and Templar and Knight of Malta, August
15 of the same year, in Watsonville, California, Commandery No. 22, of which he
is still a member. April 19, 1888, he was elected an active member of the
Masonic Veteran Association of the Pacific coast.

  The father of oar subject was the Rev. Aaron Josselyn, of Duxbury,
Massachusetts, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and by trade a
watchmaker. He was a native of Duxbury, born in 1804, and followed his
profession about forty years. He represented his town three times in the State
Legislature, and later was for two terms Chaplain of the Legislature. He died in
1887, at the age of eighty-three years. His wife was Miss Ann Binney, of Hull,
the daughter of Spencer Binney, who was one of the original owners of the Boston
town site. He had been the owner of 114 acres of Boston common, which he gave to
the city as a cow pasture only, and it served that purpose for many years. He
was a farmer, and Boston common was a part of his farm.

  Captain Josselyn of this notice is the second oldest of a family of seven
children, of whom one brother, Joseph, is still living in California. Three of
the others died in this State.

  Our subject was married August 2, 1863, to Miss Caroline Sears, a native of
Duxbury, Massachusetts, a descendant of the Wadsworths. She was a daughter of
Hannah Wadsworth, who was born in the old Miles Standish house, of Duxbury. Two
sons and one daughter of Captain Josselyn are living, and they are: Spencer
Binney, of Boston; Edward Lyman, a merchant of Monterey; and Caroline E.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.

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