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Francis Ball FAY, representative, was born in Southborough, MA, 12 June
1793.
He was a market man in Boston, 1812-17, and a merchant in Southborough,
1817-31. He served as postmaster and town treasurer of Southborough,
1817-21; was deputy sheriff of Worcester county, 1824-30; was a state
representative, 1830-31, 1834-36 and 1840, and a state senator, 1843-45 and
1868. In 1831 he removed to Chelsea, where he bought the first ferry boats
running between that place and Boston. In 1852 he was elected a Whig
representative in the 32d congress to fill a vacancy, serving till 3 March
1853. He was the first mayor of Chelsea in 1857, declining re-election. In
1851 he endowed the FAY free library at Southborough, MA, later was one of
the founders of the State industrial school for girls at Lancaster, MA, and
was connected with the latter institution as commissioner, trustee and
treasurer, 1854-64. In 1858 he removed to South Lancaster, MA, where he
died
6 October 1876.
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