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"Born in Roxbury, June 8, 1793; died April 25, 1847;
served during 1843-1844.
He carried out the financial
policies begun under his predecessor and gained a further reduction in the
city debt. His deep interest in public education was manifested by the
support he gave Horace Mann. He was also a student of prison
discipline and construction, and was the first to suggest the erection of a
new prison for the County of Suffolk to replace the old Leverett Street
Jail.
It fell to Mayor Brimmer to
apply to the General Court for the necessary authority to secure a better
water supply from ponds in Natick and Framingham, as had been recommended
some years earlier by the noted engineer, Colonel Baldwin."
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