This partnership also later included Otis Norcross Howland; nephew of Otis Norcross, Jr.; son of is brother-in-law, Ichabod Howland, a business partner at the firm, who was married to his wife's sister, Mary (Maria) Wellington ; descendant of Mayflower (1621) passenger; John Howland. The company was sold upon Otis Norcross, Jr.' retirement in 1867 when he assumed his mayoral duties, upon which time his partner Jerome Jones (apprentice, Jun. 1853; "pr." 1861) and Mr. Otis Norcross Howland took over the company as Howland & Jones, Co.