John Jay Whipple

THIS HAS BEEN RETURNED TO FAMILY

This Telegram was sent on 10 September 1884 by J. J. Whipple.

J. J. Whipple was John Jay Whipple.

John Jay Whipple, son of Ferdinand and Hannah (Sweet) Whipple, was born Dec. 31, 1847, in Worcester, Mass. He acquired his early education in the public schools of Hopkinton and furthered it at the Hopkinton Academy, from which he was graduated. He was for a year thereafter employed as a clerk in the store of former Gov. William Claflin of that town. For a similar period he was a clerk in the drug store of Dr. W. D. Burdett, in Marlboro, Mass., with whom he learned the details of the drug business. This was his training for that line, for in December, 1866, he purchased a drug store in North Bridgewater (now Brockton) of S. F. Dearborn, and, associated with his father, conducted such business for a quarter of a century, under the firm style of J. J. Whipple & Co. Their business was located at the corner of Main and Franklin streets, where they continued until January, 1892, when they disposed of it to Colonel Whipple’s nephew, Willis Gibson.