Dorchester Illustration 2649
James Jessup had a carriage shop on Bowdoin Street near Geneva Avenue. This photograph of his crew is from around 1870. Jessup was born in 1828 in England and died in Dorchester in 1901.
Jessup is identified in the Boston Directory as a carriage and sign painter. The Boston Directory was first published in 1789; it included a list of merchants, traders, doctors and public officials.