Coolidge (Thomas Jefferson) is born in Boston.

The son of Joseph and Eleonora (Randolph) Coolidge Jr, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge graduates from Harvard College, goes to work as a clerk for Thomas Handasyd Perkins, and marries Mehitable Appleton, daughter of William Appleton. He builds a home at 148 Beacon Street in 1860. Coolidge works in the textile and banking industries, becomes president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad and then the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. He serves as Ambassador to France (1892-93), a Boston parks commissioner, and a generous philanthropist. But his brother-in-law William Appleton Jr. once said, “I never knew him to do an unkind thing and never heard him say a kind word.” Coolidge dies in 1920.