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~ ROCHESTER'S HISTORY ~
AN ILLUSTRATED TIMELINE .
Jonathan Child




Elected first Mayor by the Common Council, resigned during his second term. A strict believer in temperance, he did not want to issue liquor licenses. He was a merchant and miller. The first to bring coal to Rochester. He was an early backer of the telegraph. Married Sophia Rochester in 1818, daughter of the city's founder. 
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