Jonathan P. Folsom

Jonathan P. Folsom (October 9, 1820 – February 23, 1893) served as the twentieth Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts.

Business career
Folsom was, for many years, involved in the dry goods trade. Folsom had a dry goods store on Merrimack Street, in Lowell.

Folsom was a director of the Old Lowell National Bank, and a Trustee of the Central Savings Bank.

Public service career
Folsom was a member of the Lowell Common Council, Board of Aldermen, and was twice elected the mayor of Lowell. After he was mayor Folsom served two terms in the Massachusetts legislature as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.