Bench and bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

BENCH AND BAR

OF THE

COMMONWEALTH

OF

MASSACHUSETTS

IN TWO VOLUMES

BY WILLIAM T. DAVIS

VOLUME I

1[llu3trate&-

THE BOSTON HISTORY COMPANY

1895

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The Bench and Bar.

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

rHIS chapter is intended to be chiefly introductory to the volume
containing a sketch of the Bench and Bar of Suffolk County. A
general history of the county will find no place in the narrative. It will
be proper, however, to present a statement of the origin and establish-
ment of the Massachusetts settlement as preliminary to the more re-
stricted examination of the judicial legislation and methods which
followed it.

In the early part of the seventeenth century the territory one hundred
miles wide along the coast of North America, extending from the
thirty-fourth to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude, was called Vir-
ginia, after Queen Elizabeth, the virgin queen. On the 20th of April,
1606, this territory was divided by James the First between two com-
panies which for a time were known as the Northern and Southern Vir-
ginia Companies. It extended approximately from Cape Fear to
Passamaquoddy Bay. To the Northern Virginia Company a patent
to lands between the thirty-eighth and forty-fifth degrees was granted,
and to the Southern Virginia Company a patent to lands between the
thirty-fourth and forty-first degrees. The first of these grants ex-
tended from Passamaquoddy Bay to the southeastern corner of Mary-
land, and the second from Cape Fear to a line running through Port
Chester, on Long Island Sound, and the easterly corner of New Jersey,
on the Hudson River. That portion lying between the thirty-eighth
and forty- first degrees, which was included in both patents, was to be
appropriated by that company which should first occupy it, and it was
provided that neither company should plant a colony within one hun-
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dred mil- >■ ttlement previously made by the other. The Northern

Virgink iy was composed of certain knights, gentlemen, mer-

chants • enturers of Bristol, Exeter and Plymouth, and the

Southern Virginia Company of persons of the same description, in
London.

On the 13th of November, 1620 (new style), a new charter was granted
by King James to the Northern Virginia Company. Sir Edwin Sandys,
the governor and treasurer of the Southern Virginia Company, having
incurred the royal displeasure, was forbidden a re-election, and the Earl
of Southampton, a no less obnoxious person, having been chosen in his
place, the king was inclined to show special favor to the Northern Vir-
ginia Company. Under the title of "The Council established at
Plymouth in the County of Devon for the planting, ordering, ruling
and governing of New England in America," it was empowered by its
new act of incorporation to hold territory extending from sea to sea,
and in breadth from the fortieth to the forty-eighth degree of north
latitude, to make laws, appoint governors and other officers necessary
for the establishment of the forms of government. This immense ter-
ritory included all the land between Central New Jersey and the Gulf
of St. Lawrence on the Atlantic coast, and the northern part of Cali-
fornia, Oregon and the larger part of Washington on the Pacific, with
a line running through Lake Superior for the northern boundary, and
a line running through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois for the
southern.

On the 30th of December, 1622, the Northern Virginia Company,
under its new title, granted to Robert Gorges all that part of the main-
land " commonly called or known by the name of the Messachusiack,"
which was described as situated " upon the northeast side of the bay
called or known by the name of the Messachusett." Robert Gorges
having received the grant, was appointed by the Virginia Company, in
1623, lieutenant general of New England, and arrived with " passengers
and families" in Massachusetts Bay in September of the same year. A
part of this grant is included within the limits of Suffolk County. The
claims under this grant were, however, quieted after a subsequent and
apparently conflicting grant had been made to the Massachusetts Com-
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Sir John Roswell, Sir John Young, Thomas Southcoat, John Humphrey,
John Endicott and Simon Whitcomb, including all the land extending
from three miles north of the Merrimac River to three miles south of the
Charles River, and covered a large part or nearly all of what is now
Suffolk County. A royal charter was issued in accordance with the
patent of the Virginia Company, which passed the seals on the 4th of
March, 1628-9, the text of which is as follows:

■' Charles By the Grace of God Kinge of England, Scotland and Ireland, Defender of
the Fayth etc., To all to whome these Presents shall come Greeting. Whereas our
most deare and royall father Kinge James, of blessed memory, by his Highness' letters
patents bearing date at Westminster the third day of November in the eighteenth yeare
of his raigne hath given and graunted unto the Councell established at Plymouth, in the
county of Devon for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of Newe England in
America, and to their successors and assignes for ever: All that part of America lyeing
and being in bredth from forty degrees of northerly latitude from the equinoctiall lyne
to forty-eight degrees of the saide northerly latitude inclusively, and in length of and
within all the breadth aforesaid throughout the maine landesfrom sea to sea, together
also with all the firme lands, soyles, groundes, havens, portes, rivers, waters, fisheries,
mynes and myneralls, precious stones, quarries, and all and singular other comodities,
jurisdiccons, royalties, priviledges, franchises, and prehemynences, both within the said
tract of lande upon the mayne and also within the islandes and seas adjoining ; Pro-
vided alwayes that the said islandes or any the premises by the said letters patents in-
tended and meant to be graunted were not then actuallie possessed or inhabited by any
other Christian Prince or state now within the bounds, lymitts or territories of the
Southern Colony then before graunted by our said deare father to be planted by divers
of his loving subjects in the south partes. To Have and to houlde, possess and enjoy all
and singular the aforesaid continent, landes, territories, islands, hereditaments and pre-
cincts, seas, waters, fisherys, with all and all manner their comodities, royalties, liberties
prehemynences and profitts that should from thenceforth arise from them, with all and
singular their appurtenances and every parte and parcell thereof unto the saide Coun-
cell and their successors and assignes forever. To the sole and proper use, benefitt and
behoof of them the said Councell and their successors and assignes forever- to be
houlden of our said most deare and royall father, his heirs and successors as of his man-
nor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent to free and comon socage, and not in
capite nor by Knights service, yeildinge and paying therefore to the said late Kinge, his
heirs and successors, the fifte parte of the oare of gould and silver which should from
tyme to tyme and at all tymes thereafter, happen to be found, gotten, had and obtayned
in, att or within any of the saide landes, lymitts, territories and precincts, or in or
within any parte or parcell thereof, for or in respect of al^and all manner of duties, de-
mands and services whatever to be don, maide or paide to our saide deare father, the
late Kinge, his heires and successors, as in and by the said letters patent (amongst
sundrie other claims, powers, priviledges and grauntes therein conteyned) more at large

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appeareth. And whereas the saide Councell established at Plymouth, in the County of
Devon, for the plan tinge, ruling, ordering and governing of Newe England in America
have by their deede indented under their comon seale bearing date the nyneteeth day
of March last part in the third year of our raigne, given, graunted, bargained, soulde,
enfeoffed, aliened and confirmed to Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Young, Knightes,
Thomas Southcott, John Humphrey, John Endecott, and Simon Whetcombe, their
heirs and associates forever, All that part of Newe England in America aforesaid which
lyes and extendes between a greate river there comonlie called Monomack alias Merrie-
mack and a certen other river there called Charles River, being in the bottome of a
certayne bay there commonly called Massachusetts alias Mattachusetts alias Massa-
tusetts bay, and also all and singular those landes and hereditaments whatsoever lying
within the space of three English miles on the south parte of the said Charles River, or
of any or everie parte thereof: And also all and singular the landes and hereditaments
whatsoever lyeing and being within the space of three English myles to the southwarde
of the southermost parte of the said bay called Massachusetts alias Mattachusetts alias
Massatusetts bay : and also all those landes and hereditaments whatsoever which lye
and be within the space of three English myles to the northward of the said river called
Monomack alias Merrymack, or to the northward of any and every parte thereof : And
all lands and hereditaments whatsoever lyeing within the lymitts aforesaide north and
south, in latitude and bredth, and in length and longitude, of and within all the bredth
aforesaide throughout the mayne landes there, from the Atlantick and westerne sea and
ocean on the east parte, to the south sea on the west parte, and all landes and groundes,
place and places, soyles, woodes and wood groundes, havens, portes, rivers, waters, fish-
ings and hereditaments whatsoever, lyeing within the said boundes and lymitts and
every parte and parcell thereof ; And also all islandes lyeing in America aforesaid in
said seas or either of them on the westerne or eastern coastes or partes of the saide tracts
of lande by the said indenture mentioned to be given, graunted, bargained, sould, en-
feoffed, aliened and confirmed or any of them: And also all mynes and myneralls as
well royall mynes of gould and silver as other mynes and myneralls whatsoever in the
saide landes and premises or any part thereof: And all jurisdiccons, rights, royalties,
liberties, freedomes, ymmunities, priviledges, franchises, preheminences, and comodities
whatsoever which they the said Councell established at Plymouth, in the County of
Devon, for the planting, ruleing, ordering and governing of Newe England in America,
then had or might use, exercise or enjoy in and within any parte or parcell thereof. To
have and to hould the saide part of Newe England in America, which lyes and extendes
and is abutted as aforesaide and every parte and parcell thereof ; And all the said islandes,
rivers, portes, havens, waters, fishings, mynes and myneralls, jurisdiccons, franchises,
royalties, liberties, priviledges, comodities, hereditaments, and premises whatsoever,
with the appurtenances unto the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Thomas
Southcott, John Humfrey, John Endecott and Simon Whetcombe, their heires and as-
signs and their associatts forevermore. To be houlden of us our heires and successors
as of our mannor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent, in free and common socage
and not in capite, nor by Knightes service, yeilding and paying therefore unto us our
heires and successors, the fifte part of the oare of gould and silver, which shall from

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tyme to tyme and all tymes hereafter happen to be found, gotten, had and obtayned in
any of the said landes within the said lymitts or in or within any part thereof, for and
in satisfacon of all manner duties, demands and services whatsoever to be donn, made
or paid to us, our heires or successors, as in and by the saide recited indenture more at
large ruaie appeare. Nowe knowe yee, that wee at the humble suite and peticon of the
said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, John
Endecott and Simon Whetcombe and of others whom they have associated unto them,
have for divers good causes and consideraconsusmoveing, graunted and confirmed, And
by these presents of our own especiall grace, certen knowledge and meere mocon, doe
graunt and confirme unto the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Thomas
Southcott, John Humfrey. John Endecott and Simon Whetcombe and to their as-
sociats hereafter named (videlicet) Sir Richard Saltonstall Knight, Isaack Johnson,
Samuell Aldersey, John Ven, Mathew Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Now ell,
Richard Perry, Richard Bellingham, Nathaniell Wright, Samuell Vassall, Theophilus
Eaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas Adams, John Browne, Samuell Browne, Thomas
Hutchins, William Vassall, William Pincheon, and George Foxcrofte, their heires and
assignes all the said parte of New England in America lyeing and extending between
the boundes and lymetts in the said recited indenture expressed, and all landes and
groundes, place and places, soyles, woodes and wood groundes, havens, portes, riveTs,
waters, mynes, myneralls, jurisdiccons^rights, royalties, liberties, freedomes, immuni-
ties, priviledges, franchises, preheminencies, hereditaments and comodities whatso-
ever to them the saide Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Thomns Southcott, John
Humfrey, John Endecott and Simon Whetcombe, their heires and to their associates by
the said recited indenture given, graunted, bargayned, sold, enfeoffed, aliened and con-
firmed or menconed or intended thereby to be given, graunted, bargayned, sold, en-
feoffed, aliened and confirmed. To have and to hould the saide parte of Newe Eng-
land in America and other the premises hereby menconed to be graunted and confirmed
and every parte and parcell thereof with the appurtenances to the said Sir Henry Rose-
well, Sir John Younge, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey,
John Endecott, Simon Whetcombe, Isaack Johnson, Samuel Aldersey, John Ven,
Mathew Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, Richard Perry, Richard Belling-
ham, Nathaniell Wright, Samuell Vassall, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas
Adams, John Browne, Samuell Browne, Thomas Hutchins, William Vassall, William
Pincheon and George Foxcrofte, their heires and assignes forever to their onhe proper
and absolute use and behoofe for evermore, To be holden of us our heires and success-
ors as of our mannor of East Greenwich aforesaid in free and comon socage and not in
capite nor by Knights service, and also yeilding and paying therefore to us our heires
and successors the fif te parte of all oare of gould and silver which from tyme to tyme
and att all tymes hereafter shalbe there gotten, had or obteyned for all services exacons
and demaunds whatsoever according to the tenure and reservacon in the said recited
indenture expressed. And further knowe yee That of our more especiall grace certen
knowledg and meere mocon Wee have given and graunted, And by theis presents doe
for us, our heires and successors give and graunt unto the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir
John Younge, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, John Ende-

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cott, Symon Whetcomb, Isaack Johnson, Samuell Aldersey, John Ven. Mathew Cradock,
George Harwood, Increase Nowell, Richard Perry, Richard Bellingham, Nathaniel,
Wright, Samuell Vassall, Theophelua Eaton, Thomas GofTe, Thomas Adams, John
Browne, Samuell Browne, Thomas Hutchins, William Vassall, William Pincheon and
George Foxcrofte, their heires and assignes, All that parte of Newe England in Amer-
ica which lyes and extendes betweene a great river there comonlie called Monomack
river alias Merrimack river, and a certen other river there called Charles river being
in the bottome of a certen bay there comonlie called Massachusetts alias Mattachusetts
alias Ma8satusetts bay : And also all those landes and hereditaments whatsoever which
lye and be within the space of three English myles to the northward of the said river
called Monomack alias Merrymack on to the northward of any and every parte thereof
and all landes and hereditaments whatsoever lyeing within the lymitts aforesaide north
and south in latitude and bredth and in length and longitude of and within all the
bredth aforesaide throughout the mayne landes there from the Atlantick and westerne
sea and ocean on the east parte to the south sea. on the west parte; And all landes and
groundes, place and places, soyles, woodes and wood groundes, havens, portes. rivers,
waters and hereditaments whatsoever lying within the said boundes and lymitts, and
every parte and parcell thereof, and also all islandes in America aforesaide in the saide
seas or either of them on the western or eastern coastes or partes of the said tracts of
landes hereby menconed to be given and graunted, or any of them, and all mynes and
myneralls whatsoever in the said landes and prernise&cvr any parte thereof, and free lib-
erie of fishing in or within any of the rivers or waters within the boundes and lymitts
aforesaid and the seas thereunto adjoining ; And all fishes, royal fishes, whales, balan,
sturgeons and other fishes of what kinde or nature soever that shall at any tyme here-
after be taken in or within the said seas or waters or any of them by the said Sir Henry
Rosewell, Sir John Young, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey.
John Endecott, Simon Whetcombe, Isaack Johnson, Samuell Aldersey, John Ven,
Miithewe Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, Richard Perry, Richard Belling-
ham, Nathaniell Wright, Samuell Vassall, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas
Adams, John Browne, Samuell Browne. Thomas Hutchins, William Vassall, William
Pincheon and George Foxcrofte, their heirs and assignes, or by any other person or per-
sons whatsoever there inhabiting by them or any of them to be appointed to fish there-
in ; Provided alwayes that if the said landes, islands, or any other the premises herein
before menconed and by these presents intended and meant to be graunted were at the
tyme of the graunting of the saide former letters patents dated the third day of Novem-
ber in the eighteenth year of our saide deare fathers raigne aforesaid actually possessed
or inhabited by any other Christain Prince or state or were within the boundes, lymitts
or territories of that southern colony then before graunted by our said late father to be
planted by divers of his loveing subjects in the south partes of America, That then this
present graunt shall not extend to any such partes or parcells thereof soe formerly in-
habited or lyeing within the boundes of the southern plantacon as aforesaide, but as to
those partes or parcells soe possessed or inhabited by such Christian Prince or state,
or being within the boundes aforesaid shalbe utterly voyd, these presents or anythinge
therein conteyned to the contrarie notwithstanding. To Have and to hould, possesse

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and enjoy the saide partes of Newe England in America which lye extend and are
abutted as aforesaide and every parte and parcell thereof ; And all the islandes, rivers,
portes, havens, waters, fishings, fishes, mynes, myneralls, jurisdiccons, franchises, royal-
ties, liberties, priviledges, comodities and premises whatsoever with the appurtenances
unto the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas
Southcott, John Humfrey, John Bndecott, Simon Whetcombe, Isaack Johnson, Samuell
Aldersey, John Ven, Mathewe Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, Richard
Perry, Richard Bellingham. Nathaniell Wright, Samuell Vassal!, Theophilus Eaton,
Thomas Goffe, Thomas Adams, John Browne, Samuell Browne, Thomas Hutchins,
William Vassall, William Pincheon and George Foxcrofte, their heires and assignes for-
ever to the onlie proper and absolute use and behoofe of the said Sir Henry Rosewell,
Sir John Younge, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, John En-
decott, Simon Whetcombe, Isaack Johnson, Samuell Aldersey, John Ven, Mathewe
Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, Richard Perry, Richard Bellingham,
Nathaniell Wright, Samuell Vassall, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas Adams,
John Browne, Samuell Browne, Thomas Hutchins, William Vassall, William Pincheon
and George Foxcrofte, their heirs and assigns forevermore. To be holden of us our
heires and successors as of our mannor of East Greenwich in our countie of Kent
within our realme of England in free and comon socage and not in capite nor by
Knights service, and also yeilding and paying therefore to us our heirs and succes-
sors the fifte part onlie of all oarc 01 gould and silver which from tyme to tyme and at
all tymes hereafter, shalbe gotten, had or obtayned for all services, exaccons and de-
maunds whatsoever, Provided alwaies and our expressewill and meanenge is that onlie
one fifte parte of the gould and silver oare above menconed in the whole and noe more
be reserved or payable unto us our heires and successors by collour or vertue of these
presents. The double reservacons or recitals aforesaid or anytbinge herein contayned
notwithstanding, And foreasmuch as the good and prosperous success of theplantacon of
the said partes of Newe England aforesaide intended by the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir
John Younge Sir Richard Saltonstall Thomas Southcott John Humfrey John Endecott
Simon Whetcombe Isaack Johnson Samuell Aldersey John Ven Mathewe Cradock
George Harwood Increase Nowell Richard Perry Richard Bellingham Nathaniell
Wright Samuell Vassall Theophilus Eaton Thomas Goffe Thomas Adams John Browne
Samuell Browne Thomas Hutchins,William Vassall William Pincheon and George Fox-
crofte to be speedily set upon cannot but chiefly depend next under the blessing of
Almightie God and the support of our royal authorise upon the good government of the
same, To the ende that the affaires buysinesses which from tyme to tyme shall happen
and arise concerning said landes and the plantacon of the same maie be the better man-
aged and ordered. Wee have further hereby of our especiall grace certen knowledge
and mere mocon given graunted and confirmedrAnd for us our heires and successors doe
give graunt and confirme unto the trustees and well beloved subjects Sir Henry Rose-
well Sir John Younge Sir Richard Saltonstall Thomas Southcott John Humfrey John
Endecott Simon Whetcombe Isaack Johnson Samuel Aldersey John Ven, Mathewe Crad-
ock George Harwood Increase Nowell Richard Perry Richard Bellingham Nathnniell
Wright Samuell Vassall Theophilus Eaton Thomas Goffe Thomas Adams John Browne

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Samuell Browne Thomas Hutching William Vassall William Pincheon and George Fox-
crofte; And for us our heires and successors wee will and ordeyne That the saide Sir
Henry Rosewell Sir John Younge Sir Richard Saltonstall Thqmas Southcott John
Humfrey John Endecott Simon Whetcombe Isaack Johnson Samuell Aldersey John
Ven Mathew Cradock George Harwood Increase Nowell Richard Perry Richard Bell-
ingham Nathaniell Wright Samuell Vassall Theophilus Eaton Thomas Goffe Thomas
Adams John Browne Samuell Browne Thomas Hutchins William Vassall William
Pincheon and George Foxcrofte and all such others as shall hereafter be admitted and
made free of the Company and Society hereafter menconed shall from tyme to tyme
and at all tymes for ever hereafter be by vertue of these presents one body corporate
and politque, in fact and name by the name of the Governor and Company of the Matta-
chusetts Bay in Newe England : And them by the name of the Governor and Com.
pany of the Mattachusetts Bay in Newe England, one bodie politique and corporate in
deede fact and name, We doe for us our heires and successors make ordeyne consti-
tute and confirme by these presents and that by that name they shall have perpetuall
succession, and that by the same name they and their successors shall and maie be ca-
peable and enabled as well to implead and to be impleaded and to prosecute demaund
and aunswere and be aunswered unto on all and singular suites causes quarrels and ac-
cons of what kind or nature soever, And also to have take possesse acquire and pur-
chase any landes tenements or hereditaments or any goods or chattells, and the same
to lease graunt demise alien bargaine sell and dispose of as other our liege people of
this our realme of England or any other corporacon or body politique of the same
maie lawfullie doe: And further that the said Governor and Companye and their suc-
cessors maie have forever one comon seale to be used in all causes and occasions of the
said Company and the same seale maie alter change breake and newe make from tyme
to tyme at their pleasures, And our will and pleasure is, And we do hereby for us our
heires and successors ordeyne and graunte That from henceforth for ever there shalbe one
Governor, one Deputy Governor and eighteen Assistants of the same Company to be
from tyme to tyme constituted elected and chosen out of the freemen of the saide Com-
pany for the tyme being in such manner and forme as hereafter in these presents is ex-
pressed. Which said officers shall applie themselves to take care for the best dispose-
ing and ordering of the generall buysines and affaires of for and concerning the saide
landes and premises hereby menconed to be graunted and the plantation thereof and
the government of the people there, And for the better execucon of our royal pleasure
and graunt in their behalf wee doe by these presents for us our heirs and successors
nominate ordeyne make and constitute our welbeloved the saide Mathewe Cradock to
be the first and present Governor of the saide Company and the said Thomas Goffe to
be Deputy Governor of the saide Company and the said Sir Richard SaltonBtall Isaack
Johnson, Samuell Aldersey John Ven John Humpfrey John Endecott Simon Whet-
combe Increase Nowell Richard Perry Nathaniell Wright Samuell Vassall Theophilus
Eaton Thomas Adams Thomas Hutchins John Browne George Foxcrofte William Vas-
sall and William Pincheon to be the present assistants of the saide Company to con-
tinue in the saide severall offices respectivelie for such tyme and in such manner as in
and by these presents is hereafter declared and appointed, And further we will and by

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these presents for us our heires and successors doe ordayne and graunt, That the Gov-
ernor of the said Company for the tyme being or in his absence by occasion of sickness
or otherwise the Deputie Governor for the tyme being 6hall have authoritie fiom lyme
to tyme and upon all occasions to give orders for the assembling of the saide Company
and calling them together to consult and advise of the businesses and affaires of the
saide company; And that the said Governor for the tyme being shall or maie once
every moneth or oftener at their pleasure assemble and houlde and keep a Courte or As-
semblie of themselves for the better ordering and directing of their affaires, And that
any seaven or more persons of the Assistants together with the Governor or Deputie
Governor soe assembled shalbe saide taken held and reputed to be and shalbe a full and
sufficient Courte or Assemblie of the saide Company for the handling ordering and dis-
patching of all such buysinesses and occurants as shall from tyme to tyme happen touch-
ing or concerning the said Company or plantacon and that there shall or maie beheld
and kept by the Governor or Deputie Governor of the said Company and seaven or
more of the said assistants for the tyme being upon every last Wednesday in Hillary
Easter, Trinity and Michas terms respectivelie for ever one greate generall and solembe
Assemblie which four Generall Assemblies shalbe stiled and called the Foure Greate and
Generall Courts of the saide Company : In all and every or any of -which said Greate
and Generall Courts soe assembled wee doe for us our heires and successors give and
graunte to the said Governor and Company and their successors, That the Governor or
in his absence the Deputie Governor of the saide Company for the tyme being and such
of the Assistants and freemen of the saide Company as shalbe present or the greater
number of them soe assembled whereof the Governor or Deputie Governor and six of the
Assistants at the least to be seaven shall have full power and authoritie to choose nome-
nate and appointe such and soe many others as they shall thinke fitt, and that shall be
willing to accept the same to be free of the said Company and Body and them into
the same to admitt and to elect and constitute such officers as they shall think fitt and
requisite for the ordering managing and dispatching of the affaires of the saide Gov-
ernor and Company and their successors, And to make lawes and ordinances for the
good and welfare of the saide Company, and for the government and ordering of the
said landes and plantacon and the people inhabiting and to inhabite the same as to them
from tyme to tyme shalbe thought meet, soe as such laws and ordinances be not con-
trarie or repugnant to the lawes and statuts of this our realme of England ; And our will
and pleasure is And we do hereby for us our heires and successors establish and ordeyne
that yearely once in the yeare for ever hereafter namely : the last Wednesday in Eas-
ter tearme yearely the Governor Deputy Governor and Assistants of the said Company
and all other officers of the saide Company shalbe in the Generall Court or Assembly to
be held for that day or tyme newly chosen for the yeare ensueing by such greater paite
of the said Company for the tyme being then and there present as is aforesaide ; And
yf it shall happen the present Governor Deputy Governor and Assistants by these pres-
ents appointed or such as shall hereafter be newly chosen into their roomes or any of
them or any other of the officers to be appointed for the said Company to dye or be re-
moved from his or their severall offices or places before the saide generall day of elecon
(whome we doe hereby declare for any misdemeanor or defect to beremoveable by the
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18 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Governor or Deputie Governor Assistants and Company or such greater parte of them
in any of the publique Courts to be assembled as aforesaid) That then and in every such
case it shall and maie be lawfull to and for the Governor Deputy Governor Assistants
and Company aforesaide or such greater parte of them soe to be assembled as is afore-
said in any of their assemblies to proceade to a new eleccon of one or more others of
their company in the roome or place, roomes or places of such officers soe dyeing or re-
moved according to their discrecons, And ymediately upon and after such eleccon and
eleccons made of such Governor Deputy Governor Assistant or Assistants or any other
officers of the saide Company in manner and forme aforesaid the authoritie office and
power aforesaid given to the former Governor Deputy Governor or other officer or
officers soe removed in whose steade and place newe shalbe soe chosen shall as to him
and them and everie of them cease and determine, Provided also — and our will and
pleasure is That as well such as are by these presents appointed to be the present Gov-
ernor Deputy Governor and Assistants of the said Company as them that shall succeed
them, and all other officers to be appointed and chosen as aforesaid — shall before they
undertake the execucon of their saide offices and places respectivelie take their corporall
oathes for the due and faithfull performance of their duties in their severall offices and
places before such person or persons as are by these presents hereunder appointed to take
and receive the same : That is to saie the said Mathewe Cradock — who is hereby nom-
enated and appointed the present Governor of the said Company — shall take the saide
oathes before one or more of the Masters of our Courts of Chauncery for the tyme be-
ing, unto which Master or Masters of the Chauncery Wee doe by these presents give
full power and authoritie to take and administer the said oathe to the said Governor
accordingly. And after the saide Governor shalbe soe sworne, then the said Deputy
Governor and Assistants before by these presents nominated and appointed shall take the
said severall oathes to their offices and places respectivelie belonging before the said
Mathewe Cradock the present Governor soe formerlie sworne as aforesaide. And every
such person as shalbe at the tyme of the annuall eleccon or otherwise upon death or re-
movall be appointed to be the newe Governor of the said Company shall take the oathes
to that place belonging before the Deputy Governor or two of the Assistants of the
said Company at the least for the tyme being, And the newe elected Deputy Governor
and Assistants and all other officers to be hereafter chosen as aforesaide, from tyme to
tyme to take the oathes to their places respectively belonging before the Governor of
the said Company for the tyme being, Unto which said Governor Deputy Governor
and Assistants Wee doe by these presents give full power and authoritie to give and
administer the said oathes respectively according to any true meaning herein before de-
clared without any omission or further warrant to be had and obteyned of us our heires
or successors in that behalf, And wee doe further of our especiall grace certen knowl-
edge and meere mocon for us our heires and successors give and graunt the said Gov-
ernor and Company and their successors forever by these presents That it shalbe law-
full and free from them and their assigns at all and every tyme and tymes hereafter out
of any ourrealmes or domynions whatsoever to take leade cary and transport for and
into their voyages and from and towards the said plantacon in New England
all Buch and soe many of our loving subjects or any other strangers that will becom

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our loveing subjects and live under our allegiance as shall willinglie accompanie
them in the same voyages and plantacon, and also shipping armour weapons orde-
nance municon powder shott corne victualls and all manner of clothing implements
furniture beastes cattle horses mares merchandizes and all other thinges necessarie
for the saide plantacon and for their use and defence, and for trade with the
people there and in passing and returning to and fro, any law or statute to
the conrtarie hereof in any wise notwithstanding and without payeing or yeild-
ing any custome, on subsedie either inward or outward to as our heires or successors
for the same by the space of seaven yeares from the day of the date of these presents,
Provided that none of the saide persons be such as shalbe hereafter by especiall
name restrayned by us our heires and successors, And for their further encourage-
ment of our especiall grace and favor wee doe by these presents for us our heires and
successors yield and graunt to the saide Governor and Company and their successors and
every of them their factors and assignes, That they and every of them shalbe free and
quitt from all taxes subsidies and customes in Newe England for the like space of seven
yeares and from all taxes and imposicons for the space of twenty and one yeares upon
all goodes and merchandises at any tyme or tymes hereafter, either upon importacon
thither or exportacon from thence into our realm of England or into any other our
domynions by the saide Governor and Company and their successors their deputies
factors and assignes or any of them except only the five pounds per centum due for
custome upon all such goodes and merchandises as after the saide seven yeares shalbe
expired shalbe brought or imported into our realme of England or any of our do-
mynions according to the ancient trade of merchants which five pounds per centum onlie
being paide it shall be thenceforth lawful and free for the said adventurers the same
goods and merchandises to export and carry out of our said domynions into forrane
parts without any custome, tax or other duties to be paid to us our heires or successors
or to any other officers or ministers of us our heires and successors, Provided that the
said goodes and merchandises be shipped out within thirteene moneths after their first
landing within any parte of the saide domynions, And wee doe for us our heires and
successors give and graunte unto the saide Governor and Company and their successors
That whensoever or soe often as any custome or subsidie shall growe due or payeable
unto us our heires or successors according to the lymittacon and appointment aforesaide
by reason of any goodes wares or merchandises to be shipped out or any returneto be
made of any goodes, wares or merchandises unto or from the said portes of Newe England
hereby menconed to be graunted as aforesaide or any the lands or territoreries afore-
saide, That then and soe often and in such case the farmers, customers and officers of our
customes of England and Ireland and everie of them for the tyme being upon request
made to them by the said Governor and Company or their successors factors or assignes
and upon convenient security to be given in that behalf shall give and allowe unto the
said Governor and Company and their successors and to all and everie person and per-
sons free of that Company as aforesaide sixmonethes tyme for the payment of the one
half of all such custome and subsidy as shalbe due and payeable unto us our heires and
successors for the same. For which these our letters patents or the duplicate in the
enrollment thereof shalbe unto our saide officers a sufficient warrant and discharge.

20 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Nevertheless our will and pleasure is That if any of the saide goods wares and mer-
chandise which be or shalbe at any tyme hereafter landed or exported out of any of
our realmes aforesaide and shalbe shipped with a purpose not to be carried to the portes
of Newe England aforesaide but to some other place, That then such payment duty
custom imposicon or forfyture shalbe paid or belonge to us our heires and successors
for the said goodes wares and merchandises soe fraudulently sought to be transported
as yf this our graunte had not been made nor graunted. And Wee doe further will'
And by these presents our heires and successors firmely enjoine and comaunde as well
the Treasurer Chauncellor and Barons of the Exchequer of us our heires and successors,
as also all and singular the customers farmers and collectors of the customes subsidies
and imports and the other officers and ministers of us our heires and successors what-
soever for the tyme being, That they and every of them upon the showing forth
unto them of these letters patents or the duplicate or exemplificacon of the same
without any other writt or warrant whatsoever from us our heires or successors to be
obteyned on said faith doe and shall make full whole entire and due allow-
ance and cleare discharge unto the saide Governor and Company and their suc-
cessors of all customes subsidies imposicons taxes and duties whatsoever that shall
or maie be claymed by us our heires and successors of or from the said Governor and
Company and their successors for or by reason of the said goodes chattells wares mer-
chandises and premises to be exported out of our saide domynions or any of them into
any parte of the saide landes or premises hereby menconed to be given graunted and
conferred on for or by reason of any of the saide goodes chattells wares or merchan-
dises to be imported from the saide landes and premises hereby menconed to be given
graunted or conferred into any of our saide domynions or any parte thereof as aforesaide
excepting onlie the saide five poundes per centum hereby reserved and payeable after
the expiracon of the saide terme of seaven yeares as aforesaide and not before. And
these our letters patents or the enrollment duplicate or exemplificacon of the same
shalbe forever hereafter from tyme to tyme as well to the Treasurer Chancellor and
Barons of the Exchequer of us our heires and successors as to all and singular the cus-
tomers farmer? and collectors of the customes subsidies and imports of us our heires and
successors and all searchers and others the officers and ministers whatsoever of us our
heires and successors for the tyme being a sufficient warrant and discharge in this be-
half. And further our will and pleasure is, and wee doe hereby for us our heires and
successors ordayne declare and graunt to the saide Governor and Company and their
successors That all and every of the subjects of us our heires or successors which shall
goe to and inhabite within the saide landes and premises hereby menconed to be graunted
and every of their children which shall happen to be born there on the seas in going
thither orretorneing from thence shall have and enjoy all liberties and immunities of
free and naturall subjects within any of the domynions of us our heires or successors to
all intents construccons and purposes whatsoever as if they and every of them were
born within the realme o£ England. And that the Governor and Deputy Governor of
the saide Company for the tyme being or either of them and any two or more of such
of the saide assistants as shalbe thereunto appointed by the said Governor and Company
at any of their courts or assemblies to be held as aforesaide shall and maie at all tymes

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and from tyme to tyme hereafter have full power and authoritie to minister and give
the oathe and oathes of supremacie and allegiance or either of them to all and everie
person and persons which shall at any tyme or tyrnes hereafter goe or passe to the
landes and premises hereby menconed to be graunted to inhabite the same. And
wee doe of our further grace certen knowledge and mere mocon give and graunt to the
saide Governor and Compare and their successors That it shall and maie be lawfull to
and for the Governor and Deputy Governor and such of the Assistants and Freemen of
the saide Company for the tyme being as shalbe assembled in any of theire General
Courts aforesaid or in any other Courts to be specially sumoned and assembled for that
purpose or the greater parte of them (whereof the Governor or Deputy Governor and
six of the Assistants to be alwaies seaven) from tyme to tyme to make ordaine and es-
tablish all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders lawes statutes andordenances di-
reccons and instruccons not contrarie to the laws of this our realme of England as well
for setling of the formes and ceremonies of government and magistracy fitt and necessary
for the said plantacon and the inhabitants there and for nameing and stiling of all sortes
of officers both superior and inferior which they shall find needfull for that government
and plantacon and the distinguishing and setting forth of the severall duties powers and
lymitts of evry such office and place and the formes of such oathes warrantable by the
lawes and statutes of this our realme of England as shalbe respectivelie ministered unto
them for the execucon of the saide severall offices and places as also for the disposeing
and ordering of the eleccons of such of the said officers as shalbe annuall and of such
others as shalbe to succede in case of death or removeall and ministering the saide oathes
to the newe elected officers and for imposicons of lawfull fynes, mulcts imprisonment or
other lawfull correccon according to the course of other corporacons in this our realme of
England and for the directing ruleing and disposeing of all other matters and thinges
whereby our saide people inhabitants there maie be so religiously peaceablie and civelly
governed as their good life and orderlie conversacon maie wynn and incite the natives
of the country to the knowledge and obedience of the onlie true God and Saviour of
mankinde.and the Christian fayth which in our royal intencion and the adventurers free
profession is the peacefull ende of this plantacon. Willing ccmmaunding and require-
ing and by these presents for us our heires or successors ordayning and appointing
That all such orders lawes statutes and ordinances instruccons and direccons as shalbe soe
made by the Governor and Deputie Governor of the saide Company and such of the As-
sistants and Freemen as aforesaide and published in writeing under their comon seale
shalbe carefullie and dulie observed kept pformed and putt in execucon according to the
true intent and meaning of the same, And these our letters patents or the duplicate or
exemplificacion thereof shalbe to all and every such officer superior and inferior from
tyme to tyme for the putting of the same orders lawes statutes and ordinances instruc-
cons and direccons in due execucon against us our heires and successors a sufficient war-
rant and discharge. And wee doe further for us our heires and successors give and
graunt to the saide Governor and Company and their successors by these presents
That all and everie such chiefe comaunders captaines governors and other officers and
ministers as by the saide orders lawes statutes ordinances instruccons or direccons of the
said Governor and Company for the tyme being shalbe from tyme to tyme hereafter

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i
ymployed either in the government of the said inhabitants and plantacon or on the waye
by sea thither or from thence according to the natures and lymittsof their ofh'ces and
places respectivelie shall from tyme to tyme hereafter forever within the precincts and
partes of Newe England hereby menconcd to be praunted and confermed or on the waie
by sea thither or from thence have full and absolute power and authoritie to correct
punishe pardon governe and rule all such the subjects of us our heires and successors as
shall from tyme to tyme adventur themselves in any voyage thither or from thence or
that shall at any tyme hereafter inhabite within the precincts and partes of Newe Eng-
land aforesaid according to the orders lawes ordinances instruccons and direceons afore-
said not being repugnant to the lawes and statutes of our reahne of England as aforesaid,
And wee doe further for us our heires and successors give and graunte to the said Gov-
ernor and Company and their successors by these presents, That it shall and maie be
lawfull to and for the chiefe comaunders governors and officers of said Company for the
time being who shalbe resident in the saide parte of Newe England in America by these
presents graunted and others there inhabiting by their appointment and direccon from
tyme to tyme and at all tymes hereafter for their special! defence and safety to in-
counter expulse repell and resist by force of armes as well by sea as by lande and by all
fitting waies and means whatsoever all such person and persons as shall at any tyme here-
after attempt or enterprise the destruccon invasion detriment or annoyaunce to the said
plantacon or inhabitants; and to take and surprise by all waies and meanes whatsoever
all and every such person and persons with their shipps armour municon and other goodes
as shall in hostile manner invade or attempt the defeating of the said plantacon or the
hurt of the said company and inhabitants. Nevertheles our will and pleasure is and wee
doe hereby declare to all Christian Kinges Princes and states that yf any person or per-
sons which shall hereafter be of the said company or plantacon or any other by lycense
or appointment of the said Governor and Company for the tyme beingshall at any tyme
or tymes hereafter robb or spoyle by sea or by land or doe any hurt violence or unlawfull
hostility to an}' of the subjects of us our heires or successors or any of the subjects of any
Prince or State being then in league and amytie with us our heires and successors and that
upon such injury don and upon just complaint of such Prince or State or their sub-
jects, Wee our heires or successors shall make upon proclamacon within any of the
partes within our realme of England comodious for that purpose, That the person
or persons haveingcomitted any such roberie or spoyle shall within the terme lymytted
by such a proclamacon make full restitucon or satisfacon of all such injuries don soe
as the said Princes or others soe complayning maie hould themselves fullie satisfied
and contented. And that yf the said person or persons liaveing cometted such rob-
berie or spoyle shall not make or cause to be made satisfacon accordingly within such
tyme so to be lymytted, That then it shall be lawfull for us our heires and successors
to put the said pson or psons out of our allegeance and protecon : And that it shalbe
lawfull and free for all Princes to prosecute with hostilitie the said offenders and every
of them, Their and every of their procurers ayders abettors and comforters in that
behalf. Provided also and our express will and pleasure is and wee doe by these
presents for us our heires and successors ordayne and appoint That these presents shall
not in any manner inure or be taken to abridge barr or hinder any of our loveing sub-

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jects whatsoever to use and exercise the trade of fishing: upon that coast of Newe
England in America by these presents menconed to be graunted : But that they and
every or any of them shall have full and free power and liberty to continue and use their
said trade of fishing upon the said coast in any the seas thereunto adjoyning or any
armes of the seas or saltwater rivers where they have byn wont to fish and to build and
sett up upon the landes by these presents graunted such wharfes stages and worke
houses as shalbe necessary for the salting drying keeping and tacking up of their fish to
be taken or gotten upon that coast ; and to cutt downe and take such trees and other
materialls there groweing or being as shalbe needfull for that purpose, and for all other
necessarie easements helpes and advantage concerning their said trade of fishing there in
such manner and form as they have byn heretofore at any tyme accustomed to doe
without making any wilful waste or spoyle any thing in these presents contayned to
the contrarie notwithstanding. And wee doe further for us our heires and successors
ordeyne and graunte to the said Governer and Company and their successors by these
presents, That these our letters patents shalbe firme good effectuall and availeable in all
thinges and to all intents and construccons of lawe according to our true meaning herein
before declared, and shalbe construed reputed and adjudged in all cases most favourable
on the behalf and for the benefitt and behoofe of the saide Governor and Company
and their successors although expresse mencon of the true yearely value or certenty of
the premisses or any of them or of any other giftes or grauntes by us or any of
our progenitors or predecessors to the aforesaid Governor or Company before this time
made in these presents or not made or ainy statute act ordinance provision proclamacon
or restrainte to the contrarie thereof heretofore had made published ordayned or pro-
vided or any other matter cause or thinge .whatsoever to the contrarie thereof in any
wise notwithstanding. In witness whereof wee have caused these our letters to be
made patent. Witness ourself at Westminster the fourth day of March in the fourth
yeare of our raigne.

Per Breve de Privato Sigilio

Wolseley.

Praedictus Matthaeus Cradocke Juratus est de Fide et obedientia Regi et Successori-

bus suis, et de Debita Executioni Officii Gubernatoris juxta Tenorem Praesentium, 18°

Martii 1628. Coram me Carolo Cassare Milite in Cancellaria Mro.

Char. Caesar.

The full text of the above charter is included in this narrative in or-
der that readers may have a clear understanding of the foundation on
which the judicial system of the Massachusetts colony rested and the
source from which authority was derived for its establishment. Doubts
have been entertained by some writers whether it was the royal intent
that the charter and the corporation authorized by it should ever be
transferred from England to America. A no less careful and discrim-
inating writer than Hutchinson says in his history, " It is evident from
the charter that the original design of it was to constitute a corporation

24 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

in England like to that of the East India and other great companies,
with powers to settle plantations within the limits of the territory, un-
der such form of government and magistracy as should be fit and neces-
sary. The first step in sending out Mr. Endicott, appointing him a
council, giving him commission, instructions, etc., was agreeable to this
construction of the charter."

It will perhaps be well in order that this reference to Mr. Endicott
may be understood, to follow for a time the steps taken by the Massa-
chusetts Company under the charter. One of the earliest movements
among the members of the company was the withdrawal of Sir Henry
Rosewell, Sir John Younge and Thomas Southcott, and the assignment
of their interest to John Winthrop, Isaac Johnson, Mathew Cradock,
Thomas Goffe and Sir Richard Saltonstall, and among the new mem-
bers of the company when reorganized were Thomas Dudley, Nicholas
West, Thomas Sharpe, William Browne and William Colbron. The
financial affairs of the company were at first managed in England, and
John Endicott was sent out to New England with a company in the sum-
mer of 1628, before the issue of the charter, which did not pass the seals
until the fourth of the following March. Endicott arrived at Salem in the
ship Abigail on the sixth of September, and for a time acted as a quasi
governor of the colony. The colony over which he had authority was
merely a band of emigrants sent over by what may be termed the Mas-
sachusetts Company, acting simply under the grant which they had re-
ceived from the Plymouth Council or Northern Virginia Company and
before the issue of the letters patent from the king. It will be seen there-
fore that the mission of Endicott throws no light on the intent of the
charter, as it was authorized before the charter was issued. After the
issue of the charter to the company of which Endicott was one and
to which his small Salem colony was subservient, he was permitted to
act as local governor until Winthrop arrived with his larger company
and with the charter from the king. After the issue of the charter, fa-
vorable letters having been received from Endicott, at a meeting of the
company held on the 28th of July, 1629, Mathew Cradock, the gover-
nor of the company named in the charter, " read certain propositions
conceived by himself," giving reasons for transferring the government to
Massachusetts. At the next meeting of the company held on the 28th

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25

of August in the same year the deputy governor put the question as
follows: "As many of you as desire to have the patent and the gov-
ernment of the plantation to be transferred to New England, so as it
may be done legally, hold up your hands, so many as will not, hold up
your hands." The decision of the question is thus entered on the rec-
ords of the company : " Where by erection of hands it appeared by the
general consent of the company that the government and patent should
be settled in New England, and accordingly an order to be drawn up."
Two days before the vote was taken, on the 26th of August, the fol-
lowing agreement was executed :

" Upon due consideration of the State of the Plantation now in hand for New Eng-
land, wherein we whose names are hereunto subscribed have engaged ourselves, and hav-
ing weighed the greatness of the work in regard of the consequence, God's glory and
the Church's good ; as also in regard of the difficulties and discouragements which in
all probabilities must be forecast upon the prosecution of this business; considering
withal that this whole adventure grows upon the joint confidence we have in each
other's fidelity and resolution herein, so as no man of us would have adventured it with-
out assurance of the rest; now for the better encouragement of ourselves and others
that shall join with us in this action, and to the end that every man may without
scruple dispose of his estate and affairs as may best fit his preparation for this voyage :
it is fully and faithfully agreed amongst us and every one of us doth hereby freely andl
sincerely promise and bind himself in the word of a Christian, and in the presence of
G-od, who is the searcher of all hearts, that we will so really endeavor the prosecution
of this work, as by God's assistance we will be ready in our persons, and with such of
of our several families as are to go Avith us, and such provision as we are able conven-
iently to furnish ourselves withal, to embark for the said Plantation by the first of March
next, at such port or ports of this land as shall be agreed upon by the Company, to- the
end to pass the seas (under God's protection) to inhabit and continue in New England ;
Provided always, that before the last of September next the whole government together
with the patent for the said Plantation, be first, by an order of Court legally transferred
and established to remain with us and others which shall inhabit upon the said Planta-
tion ; and provided also, that if any shall be hindered by such just and inevitable let or
other cause to be allowed by three parts of four of those whose names are hereunto sub
scribed, then such persons, for such times and during such lets, to be discharged of thi-
bond. And we do further promise, every one for himself, that shall fail to be readv
through his own default by the day appointed, to pay for every day's default the sum
of £3 to the use of the rest of the company who shall be ready by the same day and

time.

Richard Saltonstall Isaac Johnson John Winthrop

Thomas Dudley , John Humphrey William Pinchon

William Vassal! Thomas Sharpe Kellam Browne

Nicholas West Increase Nowell William Colbron.

26 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

On the 20th of October, 1629, at " a General! Court holden in Eng-
land at Mr. Goffe the Deputye's House," the records of the company
state, Governor Cradock having declared the object of the meeting to
be the election of a new governor, deputy governor and assistants on
account of the proposed transfer of the government to New England:

" And now proceeding to the election of a new Governor Deputy and Assistants,
which upon serious deliberation hath been and is conceived to be for the special good
and advancement of their affairs, and having received extraordinary great commenda-
tions of Mr. John Winthrop both for his integrity and sufficiency as being one eveiy
way well fitted and accomplished for the place of Governor, did put in nomination for
that place the said Mr. John Winthrop, Sir R. Saltonstall, Mr. Isaac Johnson and Mr.
John Humfrey ; and the said Mr. Winthrop was with a geneial vote and full consent of
this court by erection of hands chosen to be Governor for the ensuing year to begin on
this present day ; who was pleased to accept thereof and thereupon took the oath to
that place appertaining. In like manner and with like free and full consent Mr. John
Humfrey was chosen Deputy Governor and

Sir R. Saltonstall Mr. Thomas Sharpe

Mr. Isaac Johnson Mr. John Revell

Mr. Thomas Dudley Mr. Matt : Cradock

Mr. Jo : Endicott Mr. Thomas Goffe

Mr. Noell Mr. Aldersey

Mr. William Vassall Mr. John Venn

Mr. William Pinchon • Mr. Nath: Wright

Mr. Sam : Sharpe Mr. Theoph : Eaton

Mr. Edw : Rossiter Mr. Tho : Adams

were chosen to be Assistants : which said Deputy and the greatest part of the said As-
sistants being present took the oaths to their said places appurtaining respectively."

The departure of Winthrop for New England occurred on the 8th of
April, 1630, after detentions by unfavorable winds at Cowes and Yar-
mouth, and he arrived at Salem on the 12th of June. On his arrival of
course the administration of Endicott ceased, the colony of emigrants
was merged in the Massachusetts Company, of which it was only a fore-
runner and part, and henceforth the government of the Massachusetts
Colony was vested in a governor, deputy governor and assistants living
on the plantation, and with the royal charter in their possession, not
answerable to any company officers at home.

The question may now be resumed as to the power of the company
to transfer their patent and government to New England. The opinion
of Hutchinson has already been quoted, and his opinion, as stated by

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Mr. Charles Deane in his paper on the charter in the Memorial History
of Boston, has been concurred in " by such historians as Chalmers, Rob-
ertson, Grahame, Hildreth and Young and by the distinguished Judge
Storey." On the other hand Mr. Deane says that " Dr. Palfrey, the
eminent historian of New England, and the late Professor Joel Parker of
Cambridge are of the opinion that the charter was actually drawn with
a design on the part of the patentees to be used either in England or in
New England — there being an absence of any language locating the
corporation in England."

Mr. Deane in the paper referred to fails to express his own opinion
on the mooted question, and his failure is the more to be regretted be-
cause the almost unerring instinct which he exhibited in the investiga-
tion of historical points would have given his opinion the form of a ju-
dicial decision. With a natural hesitation to attempt to decide a ques-
tion on which leading antiquaries are divided, the writer ventures to
add a word in maintenance of the position of Professor Parker that the
transfer of the charter and company to New England were in accord-
ance with powers conferred by royal authority. Aside from the silent
acquiescence of King Charles in the transfer, which of itself affords an
argument not to be ignored, a careful reading of the text discloses at
least two provisions which look directly to the possible administration
of the government outside of England. With regard to the oaths to be
taken by the officers of the company the text of the charter reads as
follows : " That is to say, the said Mathew Cradock who is hereby nom-
inated and appointed the present Governor of the said Company shall
take the said oaths before one or more of the Masters of our Court of
Chancery for the tyme being, unto which Master or Masters we do by
these presents give full power and authority to take and administer the
said oaths to the said Governor accordingly. And after the said Gov-
ernor shall be sworne then the said Deputy Governor and Assistants,
before by these presents nominated, shall take the said several oaths to
their offices and places respectively belonging before the said Mathew
Cradock the present Governor so formerly sworn as aforesaid. And
every such person as shalbe at the time of the annual election or other-
wise upon death or removal, be appointed to be the new Governor of
the said Company shall take the oaths to that place belonging before

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the Deputy Governor or two of the Assistants of the said Company at
the least for the time being." It is fair to presume that the provision
for a different method of taking the oath by Governor Cradock before
a Master in Chancery, from that permitting the oaths of his successors
to be taken before the deputy governor or two of the assistants was in-
tended to meet the contingency of a removal of the company to New
England where no master in chancery would be accessible.

Again the charter provides " That it shall and may be lawful to and
for the chief commanders, governors and officers of said company for
the time being who shalbe resident in the said part of New England in
America by these presents granted and others there inhabiting by their
appointment and direction from time to time and at all times hereafter
for their special, defence and safety to encounter, expulse, repel and re-
sist by force of arms as well by sea as by land and by all fitting ways
and means whatsoever, all such person and persons as shall at any
time hereafter attempt or enterprise the destruction, invasion, detri-
ment or annoyance to the said plantation or inhabitants." This pro-
vision certainly contemplates the residence of the officers of the com-
pany in New England, and it is impossible to understand why, if the
officers were authorized to reside on the plantations of the company,
they could not by authority have in their possession there the charter
from which they derived all their powers. This provision is only one
of many to be found in the text manifestly indicating that the charter
contemplated the establishment of a company in New England with
duly chosen officers, and with all the necessary powers to make laws,
provide methods of punishment for their infraction, and organize to all
intents and purposes a government of their own.

It has also been doubted by some whether the charter contained any
authority " to erect judicatories or courts for the probate of wills or with
admiralty jurisdiction ; or to incorporate towns, colleges or schools, all
which powers were exercised, together with the power of inflicting cap-
ital punishment." How such a doubt can be seriously entertained it is
difficult to understand after reading the provision that the chief com-
manders, captains, governors and other officers and ministers shall from
time to time have full power and authority to correct, punish, pardon,
govern and rule according to laws established by the company. The

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power to punish carries with it the power to establish courts to try per-
sons accused, and the broad power to govern includes all the powers
necessary toestablish and maintain a peaceable and well organized com-
monwealth.

But though the Massachusetts Company had no hesitation in the trans-
fer of their patent and in the exercise of the powers conferred by it,
some years elapsed before they were left in undisturbed possession of
the patent and its privileges. Without entering upon a detailed history
of their annoyances, it is sufficient to say that repeated complaints were
made to the home government of what were called usurpations by the
company, and to state the final conclusion of the action of the govern-
ment which these complaints elicited. Though these complaints took
exception chiefly to the exercise of civil power, it is quite evident that
the theological attitude of the colony and its apparently changed rela-
tions to the established church excited more uneasiness at home than
any acts of the colony committed under the presumed authority of the
patent or charter. Repeated demands were made by the Privy Coun-
cil for the return of the charter to England, and at various times ships
ready to sail for New England were temporarily detained. The Massa-
chusetts Company turned a deaf ear, however, to these demands, and
finally the disorders of the mother country became so serious that the
colony in New England was overlooked and permitted to go on in its
career of development and manage its affairs in peace.

The closing incidents in the long- continued effort to secure the return
of the charter were a letter to John Winthrop from the Privy Council
and the response of the Massachusetts General Court, after which the
interference of the council in the affairs of the colony ceased under the
pressure of more serious matters at home. With the presentation of
this letter and response as parts of this narrative, this sketch of the
charter will close.

" At Whitehall, April 4, 1630.

" This day the Lords Commissioners for Foreign Plantations, taking into consideration
that the petitions and complaints of his Majesty's subjects, planters and traders in New
England grow more frequent than heretofore, for want of a settled and orderly govern-
ment in those parts, and calling to mind that they had formerly given orders about two
or three years since to Mr. Cradock, a member of that Plantation to cause the grant or
letters patent of that Plantation (alleged by him to be there remaining in the hands of

30 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Mr. Winthrop) to be sent over hither, and that notwithstanding the same, the said let-
ters patent were not as yet brought over : and their Lordships being now informed by
Mr. Attorney General that a quo warranto had been by him brought, according to
former orders, against the said patent, and the same was proceeded to judgment
against so many as had appeared, and that they which had not appeared were out-
lawed,—

''Their Lordships, well approving of Mr. Attorney's care and proceeding therein, did
now resolve and order that Mr. Mewtis, Clerk of the Council, attendant upon the said
Commissioners for Foreign Plantations, should in a letter from himself to Mr. Winthrop,
enclose and Convey this order unto him. And their Lordships hereby in his Majesty's
name, and according to his express will and pleasure, strictly require and enjoine the
said Winthrop, or any other in whose power and custody the said letters patent are,
that they fail not to transmit the said patent hither by the return of the ship in which
the order is conveyed to them; it being resolved that in case of any further neglect or
contempt by them shown therein, their Lordships will cause a strict course to be taken
against them, and will move his Majesty to reassume into his hands the whole planta-
tion."

The response was as follows :

" To the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners for Foreign Plantations :

" The humble petition of the Inhabitants of the Massachusetts in New England of
the General Court there assembled, the 6th day of September in the 14th year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord King Charles.

" Whereas it hath pleased your Lordships, by order of the 4th of April last, to require
our patent to be sent unto you, we do humbly and sincerely profess, that we are ready
to yield all due obedience to our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty, and to your Lord-
ships under him, and in this mind we left our native country, and according thereunto
hath been our practice ever since, so as we are much grieved that your Lordships
should call in our patent, there being no cause known to us, nor any delinquency or
fault of ours expressed in the order sent to us for that purpose, our government being
according to his Majesty's grant and we are not answerable for any defects in other
plantations.

" This is that which his Majesty's subjects here do believe and profess, and therefore
we are all humble suitors to your Lordships, that you will be pleased to take into further
consideration our condition, and to afford us the liberty of subjects, that we may know
what is laid to our charge; and have leave and time to answer for ourselves before we
are condemned as a people unworthy of his Majesty's favor or protection ; as for the quo
warranto mentioned in the said order, we do assure your Lordships we were never
called to answer it, and if we had, we doubt not but we have a sufficient plea against it.

" It is not unknown to your Lordships that we came into these remote parts with his
Majesty's license and encouragement, under his Great Seal of England, and in the con-
fidence we had of that assurance, we have transferred our families and estates, and
here have we built and planted to the great enlargement and securing of his Majesty's
dominions in these parts, so as if our patent should how be taken from us we shall be

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looked on as runnigados and outlawed, and shall be enforced either to remove to some
other place, or to return into our native country again; either of which will put us to
unsupportable extremities, and these evils (among others) will necessarily follow : (1)
Many thousand souls will be exposed to ruin, being laid open to the injuries of all men.
(2) If we are forced to desert this place, the rest of the plantation (being too weak to
subsist alone) will, for the most part, dissolve and go with us, and then will this whole
country fall into the hands of the French or Dutch, who would speedily embrace such
an opportunity. (3) If we should lose all our labor and costs, and be deprived of those
liberties which his Majesty hath granted us, and nothing laid to our charge, nor any
failing to be found in us in point of allegiance (which all our countrymen do take no-
tice of and will justify our faithfulness in this behalf) it will discourage all men here-
after from the like undertakings upon confidence of his Majestie's royal grant. Lastly,
if our patent be taken from us (whereby we suppose we may claim interest in his
Majesty's favor and protection) the common people here will conceive that his Maj-
esty hath cast them off, and that, hereby, they are freed from their allegiance and sub-
jection, and therefore will be ready to confederate themselves under a new govern-
ment, for their necessary safety and subsistence, which will be of dangerous example to
other plantations, and perilous to ourselves of incurring his Majesty's displeasure,
which we would by all means avoid.

"Upon these considerations we are bold to renew our humble supplications to your
Lordships, that we may be suffered to live here in this wilderness, and that this poor
plantation, which hath found more favor from God than many others, may not find less
favor from your Lordships; that our liberties should be restrained, when others are en-
larged; that the door should be kept shut unto us, while it stands open to all other
plantations ; that men of ability should be debarred from us, while they have encour-
agement to other colonies.

" We dare not question your Lordship's proceedings ; we only desire to open our
griefs where the remedy is to be expected. If in anything we have offended his Maj-
esty and your Lordships, we humbly prostrate ourselves at the footstool of supreme
authority ; let us be made the objects of his Majesty's clemency, and not cut off, in our
first appeal, from all hope of favor. Thus, with our earnest prayers to the King of
Kings for long life and prosperity to his sacred Majesty and his royal family, and for all
honor and welfare to your Lordships, we humbly take leave."

Thus an end came to the controversy, and Winthrop, in his history of
New England, says under date of 1639: "We were much afraid this
year of a stop in England by reason of the complaints which had been
sent against us, and the great displeasure which the archbishops and
others, the commissioners for plantations, had conceived and uttered
against us, both for these complaints, and also for our not sending home
our patent. But the Lord wrought for us beyond our expectations ;
for the petition, which we returned in answer of the order sent for our
patent, was read before the Lords and well accepted, as is before ex-

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pressed ; and ships came to us from England and divers others ports
with great store of people and provisions of all sorts." The patent
never was returned, and may be seen to-day well preserved in the office
of the secretary of the Commonwealth in the State House in Boston

It is not proposed to follow further the general history of the Massa-
chusetts colony It was provided in the charter that the officers of the
company or colony should consist of a governor, deputy governor, and
eighteen assistants to be chosen annually by a General Court, consist-
ing of said officers and all the freemen of the colony on the last Wednes-
day in Easter term. Besides the General Court there were to be
three others in each year on the last Wednesday in Hilary, Trinity and
" Michas." In addition to the above, monthly courts were to be held
by the governor, deputy governor and assistants " for the better order-
ing and directing of their affairs." At the first meeting of the General
Court held in Boston on the 19th of October, 1630, for "the establish-
inge of the Govm*, It was ppounded if it were not the best course that
the ffreemen should have the power of chuseing assistants when these
are to be chosen & the assistants from amongst themselves to chuse a
Govn1 & Deputy Govn1 whoe wth the assistants should have the power
of makeing lawes & chuseing officers to execute the same. This was
fully assented unto by the genall vote of the people & ereccon of
hands." This abrogation of a provision of the charter which made the
election of these officers a popular one to the extent that all the freemen
had a vote, looks at first like a surrender of popular rights and a trans-
formation of the pure democracy contemplated in the patent into a gov-
ernment possessing a taint of exclusiveness and of a disregard of the
people's will. It is probable that at this meeting the few who had been
admitted as freemen were outnumbered by the officers and really had
no voice in making the change. The limitation of the power of the free-
men did not continue long. At a General Court held on the 9th of May,
1632, after the representation of freemen was more numerous, "It^was
genally agreed upon by ereccon of hands, that the Govnr, Deputy Govn1'
& Assistants should be chosen by the whole Court of Govnr, Deputy
Govnr, Assistants & freemen, and that the Govn1' shall alwaies be
chosen out of the Assistants." At a General Court held on the 14th of
May, 1634, the records state, " further it is agreed that none but the

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Genall Court hath power to chuse and admit freemen. — That none but
the Genall Court hath power to make and establishe lawes, nor to elect
and appoynct officers as Govnr, Deputy Govn1, Assistants, Tresurer,
Secretary, Capt., Leiutents, Ensigns, or any of like moment, or to re-
move such upon misdemeanor, as also to sett out the dutyes and powers
of the said officers. — That none but the Genall Court hath power to
rayse monyes and taxes, and to dispose of lands, vis., to give and con-
firme pprietyes."

At the same court it was also ordered " that it shalbe lawfull for the
ffreemen of evy plantacon to chuse two or three of each towne before
evy Genall Court, to conferre of & ppare such publ busines as by them
shalbe thought fitt to consider of att the next Genall Court, & that such
psons as shalbe hereafter soe deputed by the freemen of [the] sevall
plantacons, to deale in their behalfe, in ye publique affayres of the com-
onwealth, shall have the full power & voyces of all the said ffreemen,
deryved to them for the makeing & establishing of lawes, graunting of
landes, &c, & to deale in all other affaires of the comon wealth wherein
the ffreemen have to doe, the matter of eleccon of magistrates & other
officers onely excepted, wherein evy freeman is to gyve his own voyce."
Thus a general court composed of deputies was authorized for all pur-
poses except the election of officers. For this election the votes of the
freemen were required. A method approaching to a general election
of freeman in their respective towns became desirable as towns increased
in number, and it became inconvenient to attend the General Court
for the purpose merely of casting a vote. At a General Court held on
the 3d of March, 1635-6, it was consequently ordered "that the
Genall Court to be holden in May nexte for eleccon of magistrates, &c,
shalbe holden att Boston & that the townes of Ipswch, Newebury, Salem,
Saugus, Waymothe & Hingham shall have libertie to stay soe many of
their ffreemen att home, for the safety of their towne as they judge
needfull, & that the saide ffreemen that are appoyncted by the towne to
stay at home shall have liberty for this Court to send their voices by
pxy."

This partial order seemed to open the way for the enactment of a
general election law which was passed on the 9th day of March 1636-7.
The record states that "This Court takeing into serious consideratiou
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the greate danger and damage that may accrue to the state by all the
freemens leaveing their plantations to come to the place of elections, have
therefore ordered it that it shalbe free and lawfull for all freemen to send
their votes for elections by proxie the next Generall Court in May & so
for hereafter wch shallbe done in this manner ; The deputies wch shallbee
chosen shall cause the freemen of their towns to bee assembled & then
to take such freemen's votes as please to send by pxie for every magis-
trate & seale them up, severally subscribing the magistrates name on
the backside & soe to bring them to the Courte sealed with an open roule
of the names of the freemen that so send by pxie." Thus a House of
Delegates was established by these several laws and orders, after which
the House of Representatives of our day is modeled, and a method of
conducting elections and making returns thereof was adopted less com-
plicated than our own, but perhaps as effective and exact.

As early as 1634 legislation was had concerning judicial proceedings.
Up to that time the General Court had taken cognizance of offences
against the laws and ordered the infliction of punishment. As early as the
autumn of 1630 in cases of capital crimes, juries were impaneled, and on
the 9th of November in that year at a Court of Assistants consisting of
the governor, deputy governor, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Mr. Ludlowe,
Capt. Endicott, Mr. Coddington, Mr. Pinchon and Mr. Bradstreet,
Walter Palmer, who had been indicted for manslaughter was tried before
a jury consisting of Mr. Edmond Lockwood, William Rockwell, Chris-
topher Conant, William Phelps, William Gallard, John Hoskins, Richard
Morris, William Balston, William Cheesborough, John Page, John
Balsh and Lawrence Leach and acquitted.

In 1634 it was enacted "that the General Court, consisting ofmagis-
tates and deputies, is the chief civil power of the Commonwealth ; which
only hath power to raise money and taxes upon the whole country and
dispose of lands viz., to give and confirm proprieties appertaining to and
immediately derived from the country; and may act in all affairs of this
Commonwealth according to such power, both in matters of counsel,
making the laws and matters of judicature, by impeaching and sentenc-
ing any person or persons according to law, and by serving and hear-
ing any complaints orderly presented against any person or court; and
it is agreed that this court will not proceed to judgment in any cause,

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civil or criminal, before the deputies have taken thisoath following : ' I do
swear by the most great and dreadful name of the ever living God, that
in all cases wherein I am to deliver my vote or sentence, against any
criminal offence or between parties in any civil case, I will deal up-
rightly and justly, according to my judgment and conscience; and I
will according to my skill and ability assist in all other publick affairs of
this court faithfully and truly according to the duty of my place, when
I shall be present to attend the service.' "

Without attempting to present a list of crimes and offences of which
the courts were required at various times in the history of the colony to
take cognizance, it may be interesting to learn what were punishable by
death. They were Idolatry in obedience to the passage of Scripture,.
Exodus 22:20, Deuteronomy 13:6, 10, and 17:2,6; Witchcraft,
Exodus 22:18, Leviticus 20:27, Deuteronomy 18:10, 11; Blasphemy,
Leviticus 24:15, 16; Murder, Exodus 21:12, 13, Numbers 35:31;
Man Slaughter, Leviticus 24:17, Numbers 35:20, 21; Poisoning,
Exodus 21:14; Bestiality, Leviticus 20:15, 16; Sodomy, Leviticus
20:13; Adultery, Leviticus 20:19 and 18:20, Deuteronomy 22:23,
27 ; Man Stealing, Exodus 21:16 ; False Witness, Deuteronomy 19:16
and 18:16; Rebellion, Numbers 16, Second Samuel 3, same i8„
same 20; Cursing and Smiting of Parents by children above sixteen
years of age, Exodus 21:17, Leviticus 20:9, Exodus 21:15; Stub
bornness of children above sixteen years, Deuteronomy 22:20, 21 -
Rape ; Arson.

jjOn the 3d of March, 1635-6, the jurisdiction of the General Court was
restricted by an enactment concerning inferior courts and courts of
assistants after which the General Court was chiefly if not solely a court
of appeal. This enactment provided : " That there shalbe ffoure Courts
kept evy quarter 1 att Ipswch, to which Newberry shall belonge: 2 att
Salem to wch Saugus shall belonge ; 3 att New Towne to wcb Charlton
[Charlestown], Concord, Meadford & Waterton shall belonge ; 4th att
Boston to wch Rocksbury Dorchester Weymothe & Hingham shall
belonge," and that "evy of theis Courts shalbe kept by such magis-
trates as shalbe dwelling in or neere the saide townes & by such other
psons of wourth as shall from tyme to tyme be appoynncted by the
Genall Court soe as noe Court shalbe kept without one magistrate

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att the least, & that none of the magistrates be excluded whoe can and
will attend the same : yet the Genall Court shall appoynct wcl1 of the
magistrates shall specially belonge to evy of the saide Courts. Such
.psons as shalbe joyned as assotiates to the magistrates in the said Court
shalbe chosen by the Genall Court, out of a greater number of such as
the sevall townes shall nominate to them, soe as there may be in evy of
the said Courts so many as (with the magistrates) may make fyve in all.
Theis Courts shall trie all civell causes whereof the debt or dam-
age shall not exceede ^10 & all criminall causes not concerneing life
member or banishm*. And if any pson shall finde himselfe greived
with the sentence of any of the said Courts, he may appeale to the nexte
greate quarter Court, pvided that hee putt in sufficient caucon to psent
his appeale with effect & to abide the sentence of the magistrates in the
said greate quarter Court, whoe shall see that all such that shall bringe
any appeale without just cause be exemplaryly punished."

These were called Inferior Courts and the first was to be held the last
Tuesday in June and the others on the last Tuesday in September,[De-
cember and March respectively.

The Great Quarter Courts referred to above were established at the

*

same time by an enactment that " there shalbe foure greate quarter Courts
kept yearely att Boston by the Govnr & the rest of the magistrates ; the
first, the first Tuesday in the 4th moneth called June; the second, the
first Tuesday in Septembr ; the third the first Tuesday in Decern1; the
fourthe the first Tuesday in the ith monethe called Marche."

It was further enacted that "all accons shalbe tryed att that Court
to wch ye Deft belongs " and that " all offenders which shalbe in the
prison att Boston att the tyme of any Court there holden, shalbe tryed
att that Court, except in the war* of his comitm* hee be reserved to the
greate quarter Court. And it shalbe lawfull for the Govn1 or Deputy
Govn1, or any two magistrates (upon speciall & urgent occacon) to
appoyncte Courts to be kept upon other dayes than in this order are ap-
poyncted." '

The judicial system of the colony for the time being was completed
by a further enactment at the same time as follows : " And whereas the
most waightie affaires of this body are nowe, by this present order &
others formerly made, brought into such a way & methode as there will

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not henceforthe be neede of soe many Genall Courts to be kept as
formerly it is therefore ordered that hereafter there shalbe onely two
Genall Courts kept in a yeare vis. that in the third moneth called May for
eleccons, and other affaires & the other the first Wednesday in October for
makeing lawes & other publique occacons of the comonwealthe pro-
vided that the Govri* may upon urgent occacon call a Genall Courte att
any other tyme besides the two Courts before menconed. And whereas
it may fall out that in some of theis Genall Courts to be holden by the
magistrates and deputies there may arise some difference of judgment
in doubtfull cases, it is therefore ordered, that noe lawe order or sen-
tence shall passe as an act of the Court without the consent of the great1
pte of the magistrates on the one pte and the great1 number of the
deputyes on the other pte; and fore want of such accorde the cause or
order shalbe suspended & if either ptee thinke it soe materiall, there
shall be forthwith a comitte chosen, the one halfe by the magistrates &
the other halfe by the Deputyes & the comittee soe chosen to elect an
umpire, whoe together shall have power to heare & determine the cause
in question."

The last provision concerning the requisite assent to any act of the
General Court of a majority of the magistrates, by which term was
meant the governor, deputy governor and assistants, was a step towards
an enactment passed in 1644, that the deputies or representatives should
form one branch of the General Court and the magistrates another,
each sitting apart and having a negative on the other. Under this
arrangement the governor presided over the assistants, and the office
01 speaker was established as the presiding officer in the House of Dep-
uties.

The judicial system of the colony remained as above described until
1639, with the following divisions : First, the General Court, composed
of the governor, deputy governor, assistants and deputies, sitting twice
in each year ; second, the Court of Assistants, or Great Quarter Courts,
composed of the governor, deputy governor and assistants, sitting af
Boston four times in the year ; and third, the Inferior Courts, kept
by magistrates, with associates appointed by the General Court,
with the right of appeal from Inferior Courts to the Courts of Assistants,
and last appeal to the General Court. The magistrates and associates

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appointed by the General Court to hold the Inferior Courts were as
follows: For Salem and Saugus, John Humphrey and John Endicott,
magistrates or assistants, with Captain Turner, Mr. Scruggs and Town-
send Bishopp, associates; for Ipswich and Newbury, Thomas Dudley,
Richard Dummer and Simon Bradstreet, magistrates, with Mr. Salton-
stall and Mr. Spencer, associates ; for Newtown, Charlestown, Medford
and Concord, John Haynes, Roger Harlakenden and Increase Nowell,
magistrates, with Mr. Beecher and Mr. Peakes, associates; for Boston,
Roxbury, Dorchester, Weymouth and Hingham, Richard Bellingham
and William Coddington, magistrates, with Israel Stoughton, William
Hutchinson and William Heath, associates.

In 1639 the law establishing the Courts of Assistants, or Great Quar-
ter Courts, was amended, and it was ordered "that there be two Courts
of Assistants yearly kept in Boston by the governor or deputy gov-
ernor and the rest of the magistrates, on the first Tuesday of the first
month and on the first Tuesday of the seventh month (March and Sep-
tember), to hear and determine all and only actions of appeal from
inferior courts, all causes of divorce, all capital and criminal causes
extending to life, member or banishment. And that justice be not
deferred, nor the country needlessly charged, it shall be lawful for the
governor, or In his absence the deputy governor (as they shall judge
necessary), to call a Court of Assistants for trial of any malefactor in
capital causes."

At the same time, what were called County Courts were established,
though no counties had at that time been incorporated or organized.
They were merely the old Inferior Courts with a new name and powers
more clearly defined. The law concerning them provided that "there
shall be County Courts held in the several counties by the magistrates
living in the respective counties, or any other magistrate that can attend
the same, or by such magistrates as the General Court shall appoint
from time to time, together with such persons of worth, where there
shall be need, as shall from time to time be appointed by the General-
Court (at the nomination of the freemen of the county), to be joined in
commission with the magistrates so that they may be five in all, three
whereof ma)' keep a court, provided there be one magistrate ; every of
which courts shall have full power to hear and determine all causes.

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civil and criminal, not extending to life, member or banishment (which,
with causes of divorce, are reserved to the Court of Assistants), and to
make and constitute clerks and otli^r needful officers, and to summon
juries of inquest and trials out of the towns of the county; provided
no jurors shall be warned from Salem to Ipswich, nor from Ipswich to
Salem."

It was at the same time ordered " that the governor or deputy gov-
ernor, with any two magistrates, or when the governor and deputy
governor cannot attend it, that any three magistrates shall have power
upon the request of any stranger, to call a special court to hear and
determine all causes, civil and criminal (triable in any County Court
according to the manner of proceeding in County Courts), which shall
arise between such strangers, or wherein any such stranger shall be
party ; and all records of such proceedings shall be transmitted to the
records of the Court of Assistants to be entered as trials in other courts,
which shall be at the charge of the party, or condemned, in the case."

With regard to the powers and jurisdiction of the County Courts it
was ordered by the General Court on the 13th of November, 1644, " yt
ye County Courts in ye jurisdiction shall take care yt ye Indians residg
in ye sevrall sheires shalbe civilized, & they shall have powr to take
ordr from time to time to have them instructed in ye knowledge of
God."

In addition to the courts already mentioned, a military commission,
or, as it has been called by Washburn in his judicial history, and others,
a Military Court was established by the General Court on the 4th of
March, 1634—5, Dv an order which provided " that the present governor
(Thomas Dudley), deputy governor (Roger Ludlow), John Winthrop,
John Humphrey, John Haynes, John Endicott, William Coddington,
William Pinchon, Increase Nowell, Richard Bellingham and Simon
Bradstreet, or the major part of them, who are deputed by this court to
dispose of all military affairs whatsoever, shall have full power and
authority to see all former laws concerneing all military men & muni-
cons executed, & also shall have full power to ordeyne or remove all
military officers, & to make and tender to them an oath suitable to their
places, to dispose of all companyes, to make orders for them & to make
and tender to them and to see that strickt dissipline and traineing be

4o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

observed, and to comand them forth upon any occacon they thinke
meete, to make either offensive or defensive warr as also to doe what-
soever may be further behoofefull, for the good oi this plantacon, in-
case of any warr that may befall us and also that the aforesaid comis-
sioners or the major pte of them shall have power to imprison or con-
fine any that they shall judge to be enemyes to the comonwealth &
such as will not come under comand or restrainte, as they shalbe re-
quired, & shalbe lawfull for the sd comissioners to putt such persons
to death. This order to continue till the end of the nexte Generall
Court."

It cannot be denied that the appointment of this commission or court
was an extraordinary one, and transcended the powers conferred by
the charter. That instrument gave the company the power to carry
on a defensive, but not an offensive war, and if this was one of the acts
reported to the home government as usurpations of power, no other
conclusion can be reached than that the accusation was well founded.
The commission or court was extended from time to time, but was
finally allowed to die.

Before taking up the organization of Suffolk county, to which what
has been thus far presented to the reader has been somewhat intro-
ductory, it will be well to furnish a list of those who at various times
occupied positions which may be considered judicial in their character,
in connection with the Court of Assistants, from the earliest period of
the colony to the erection of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in
1692.

The governors were John Endicott, 1629, 1644, 1649, 165 1 to 1653,
1655 to 1664; John Winthrop, 1630 to 1633, 163710 1639, 1642 to
1643, 1646 to 1648; Thomas Dudley, 1634, 1640, 1645, 1650; John
Haynes, 1635; Henry Vane, 1636; Richard Bellingham, 1641, 1654,
1665 to 1671 ; John Leverett, 1672 to 1678; Simon Bradstreet, 1679
to 1686, 1689 to 1692. From 1686 to 1689 Joseph Dudley and Ed-
mund Andros had jurisdiction over New England by royal appoint-
ment.

The deputy governors were: Thomas Dudley, 1629 to 1633, 1637
to 1639, I(H6 to 1649, 1 65 1, 1652; Roger Ludlow, 1634; Richard'
Bellingham, 1635, 1640, 1653, 1655 to 1664; John Winthrop, 1636,.

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1644, 1645; John Endicott, 1641 to 1643, 1650, 1654; Francis Wil-
loughby, 1665 to 1670; John Leverett, 1671, 1672; Samuel Symonds,
1673 to 1677 ; Simon Bradstreet, 1678 ; Thomas Danforth, 1679 to
1686, 1689 to 1692. During the administrations of Joseph Dudley and
Edmund Andros there was no deputy.

The assistants at various times were as follows: John Winthrop
1634; Thomas Dudley, 1635-36, 1641-42-43-44-45; Increase Now-
ell, 1630 to 1655 ; Simon Bradstreet, 1630 to 1675 ; William Pinchon,
1630 to 1636, 1646 to 1650; John Endicott, 1630 to 1634, 1636 to
1640, 1645 to 1648: William Coddington, 1630 to 1636; Roger Lud-
low, 1630 to 1633 ; Richard Saltonstall, 1630 to 1633 ; Isaac Johnson,
1630; Thomas Sharp, 1630; William Vassall, 1630 ; Edward Rossiter,
1630; John Winthrop, jr., 1632 to 1639, 1640 to 1649; J°hn Hum-
phrey, 1632 to 1639-40-41; John Haynes, 1634 to 1636; Richard
Bellingham, 1636 to 1639, 1642 to 1652; Richard Dummer, 1635-36;
Atherton Hough, 1635; Roger Harlakenden, 1636 to 1638; Israel
Stoughton, 1637 to 1643 ! Richard Saltonstall, jr., 1637 to ^49;
Thomas Flint, 1642 to 165 1, 1653 ; Samuel Symonds, 1643 to 1672;
William Hibbens, 1643 to 1654; William Pinchon, 1642 to 1650;
Herbert Pelham, 1645 to l^A9\ Robert Bridges, 1647 to ^56; Fran-
cis Willoughby, 1650-51; Edward Gibbons, 1650-51; Thomas Wig-
gin, 1650 to 1664; John Glover, 1652-53; Daniel Gookin, 1652 to
1675 ; Daniel Denison, 1653 to 1682 ; Simon Willard, 1654 to 1675 ;
Humphrey Atherton, 1654 to 1661 ; Richard Russell, 1659 to 1676;
Thomas Danforth, 1659 to 1678 ; William Hawthorne, 1662 to 1679;
Eleazer Lusher, 1662 to 1672; John Leverett, 1665 to 1670; John
Pinchon, 1665 to 1686; Edward Tyng, 1668 to 1680; William
Stoughton, 167 1 to 1686; Thomas Clarke, 1673 to 1677 ; Joseph Dud-
ley, 1676 to 1683. 1685; Peter Bulkley, 1677 to 1684; Nathaniel Sal-
tonstall, 1679 to 1686; Humphrey Davey, 1679 to 1686; James Rus-
sell, 1680 to 1686; Samuel Noweil, 1680 to 1686; Peter Tilton, 1680
to 1686; John Richards, 1680 to 1686; John Hall, 1680 to 1683;
Bartholomew Gedney, 1680 to 1683 : Thomas Savage, 1680-81 ; Will-
iam Browne, 1680 to 1683; Samuel Appleton, 1681 to 1686; Robert
Pike, 1682 to 1686; Daniel Fisher, 1684; John Woodbridge, 1683-84;
Elisha Cooke, 1684 to 1686; William Johnson, 1684 to 1686; John
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42 HISTORY OF THE BEACH AND BAR.

Hawthorne, 1684 to 1686; Elisha Hutchinson, 1684 to 1686; Sam-
uel Sewall, 1684 to 1686; Isaaif Addington, 1686; John Smith, 1686;
Oliver Purchase, chosen in 1685 and declined. The charter required
the annual election of eighteen assistants, but in violation of its provis-
ions the number varied from seven to twelve until, in consequence of a
letter from the king of July 24, 1678, the number prescribed in the
charter was thereafter chosen.

Under Joseph Dudley, who assumed by royal appointment in 1686
the office of president of New England, with William Stoughton as
deputy president, the office of assistant was suspended and the follow-
ing councillors were appointed, viz : Robert Mason, Fitz John Win-
throp, John Pinchon, Peter Bulkley, Edward Randolph, Wait Still Win
throp, Richard Wharton, John Usher, Bartholomew Gedney, Jonathan
Tyng, John Hinckes, Edward Tyng, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Simon Brad-
street, Dudley Bradstreet, and Francis Champenon. Under Edmund
Andros the above persons were reappointedtothecouncil, andthe follow-
ing additional persons : Thomas Hinckley, Barnabas Lathrop, William
Bradford, Daniel Smith, John Walley, Nathaniel Clarke, John Cogge-
shall, Walter Clark, Walter Newberry, John Sanford, John Greene,
Richard Arnold, John Albro, Francis Nicholson, Robert Treat, John
Allyn, Samuel Shrimpton, William Browne, Richard Smith, Simon
Lynde, Anthony Brockholst, Frederick Phillips, Jarvis Baxter, Stephen
Van Courtlandt, John Young, Nicholas Bayard, John Palmer, and John
Sprague. Of the above Nathaniel Saltonstall, Simon Bradstreet, Dud-
ley Bradstreet and Francis Champenon did not accept their appoint-
ments.

Thus far no reference has been made to enactments concerning the
courts and judiciary after the organization of Suffolk county in 1643
There only remains to complete the record of the earlier period some
account of lesser local courts, and of the legislation concerning wills
and the s-ettlement of estates of persons deceased. It was first provided
by an order of the General Court, passed on the 9th of September,
1639, " That there bee records kept of all wills, administrations & in-
ventories ; as also the dayes of every marriage, birth and death of every
pson within this jurisdiction." These records were evidently intended
to be kept by the clerks of the courts, as the preamble to the above

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order says, " Whereas, many judgments have been given in our Courts
whereof one hundred and ten records are kept of the evidence
and reasons whereupon the verdict and judgment did pass, the records
whereof being duly entered and kept, would be of good use for prece-
dent to posterity, and a relief to such as shall have just cause to have
their causes reheard and reviewed ; It is therefore by this Court ordered
and declared that henceforth every judgment with all the evidence be
recorded in a book to be kept to posterity." Immediately following
this preamble as an item is the provision concerning wills above quo-
ted. No further legislation was had before the incorporation of the
county.

With regard to the lesser local courts it was ordered at a General
Court held on the 6th of September, 1638, " that any magistrate [as-
sistant] in the towne where hee dwells may heare and determine by his
discretion all causes whearin the debt, or trespas, or damage, etc., doth
not exceede 20s ; & in such towne where no magistrate dwells the Gen-
erall Court shall from time to time nominate 3 men two whereof shall
have like power to heare & determine all such actions under 20 s ; &
if any of the pties shall find themselves greived with any such end or
sentence, they may appeale to the next quarter Courte or Courte of
Assistants, etc. And if any pson shall bring any such action to the
Court of Assistants before hee hath endeavored to have it ended at
home (as in this order is appointed) hee shall lose his action & pay the
defendant costs. If no appeale bee put in the day of the sentence upon
such small actions the magistrate or the said 2 chosen men shall grant
execution."

Such, then, was the judicial system at the time ef the incorporation
of Suffolk county in 1643. First, the General Court, with appellate ju-
risdiction from the Court of Assistants ; second, the Court of Assistants,
with appellate jurisdiction from the lower courts; third, the County
Courts, with the probate of wills included in their jurisdiction ; fourth,
Stranger's Court, and fifth, Magistrate's Court. After the incorporation
of the county laws were passed, during the colonial life of Massachu-
setts, concerning these courts and establishing others, to which reference
will be hereafter made.

44 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

At a meeting of the General Court held in Boston on the ioth of May,
1643, it was ordered "that the whole plantation within this jurisdiction
be divided into four sheires to wit:

Essex — Salem, Lynn, Enon (Wenham), Ipswich, Rowley, Newbury,
Gloucester and Chochicawick (Andover.)

Middlesex. — Charleston, Cambridge, Watcrtown, Sudbury, Concord,
Woburn, Medford, Linn Village (Reading).

Suffolk. — Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, Dedham, Braintree, Wey-
mouth, Hingham, Nantasket (Hull).

Norfolk. — Salisbury, Hampton, Haverhill, Exeter, Dover, Strawberry
Bank (Portsmouth).

These were the first counties incorporated in Massachusetts, and in
the order establishing them, were called "Sheires," or Shires. When
what were called the County Courts were established in 1639 the word
"County" bore a different meaning from that which afterwards and now
prevails. It meant merely, in the language of Worcester's dictionary,
"a civil division of a State for political or judicial purposes." In the
application of the word to courts, it merely denominated courts to be
held and to hold jurisdiction in limited and defined districts.

Of the towns included in Suffolk shire the incorporation (settlement)
of Boston is reckoned on the 7th of September, 1630 (old style). It was
incorporated as a city February 23, 1822. Roxbury was incorporated
as a town September 28, 1630; as a city, March 12, 1846, and annexed
to Boston June I, 1867; Dorchester as a town, September 7, 1630,
and annexed to Boston June 4, 1869 ; Dedham as a town, September 8,
1636 ; Braintree as a town, May 13, 1640 ; Weymouth as a town, Sep-
tember 2, 1635; Hingham as a town, September 2, 1635, and Nan-
tasket May 29, 1644, and its name changed to Hull on or before May 26,
1647.

It is proper to state that the Norfolk shire, or county, above men-
tioned, included some towns within the limits of New Hampshire when
that territory became a royal province, and that by an act of the Gen-
eral Court, passed February 4, 1679-80, the county was extinguished
and the Massachusetts towns within its bounds were annexed to Essex
county.

With regard to Suffolk county, it is not proposed to state the various
changes which have taken place in its territorial limits, as no detailed

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general history of the county would be properly within the scope of
this narrative. It is only necessary to say that it now includes Boston,
incorporated, or settled, as above stated, with its various additions and
losses of territory; Chelsea, set off from Boston and incorporated as a
town January 10, 1739, and as a city March 13, 1857 ! Revere, set off
from Chelsea and incorporated as North Chelsea March 10, 1846, and
its name changed to Revere March 24, 1871 ; and Winthrop, set off from
North Chelsea and incorporated as a town March 27, 1852.

When the present Norfolk county was incorporated on the 26th of
March, 1793, all the towns in Suffolk county, except Boston and Chelsea,
were placed in that county. Thus Hingham, and Hull, and Cohasset,
which last had been set off from Hingham and incorporated as a town
April 26, 1770, became parts of Norfolk county. Hingham and Hull
being dissatisfied with their new connection, were, at the same session
of the General Court, exempted from the act of incorporation, and were
finally annexed to Plymouth county. Such is the explanation of the
mystery, so puzzling to many, that Cohasset should be surrounded by
Plymouth county towns, and yet be a part of Norfolk county.

In 1647 anQl ^49, after the incorporation of Suffolk county, an act
was passed defining and enlarging the jurisdiction of the petty or magis-
trate's court, and providing that "any magistrate in the town where he
dwells may hear and determine by his discretion (not by jury), accord-
ing to the laws here established, all cases arising in that county wherein
the debt, trespass, or damage doth not exceed forty shillings, who may
send for parties and witnesses by summons or attachment directed to
the marshal or constable, who shall faithfully execute the same.

" And it is further ordered, that in such towns where no magistrate
dwells, the Court of Assistants, or County Courts, may, from time to
time, upon request of the said towns, signified under the hand of the
constable, appoint three of the freemen as commissioners in such cases,
any two whereof shall have like power to hear and determine all such
causes, wherein either party is an inhabitant of that town, who have
hereby power to send for parties and witnesses, by summons or attach-
ment directed to the constable, as also to adminster oaths to witnesses
and to give time to the defendant to answer if they see cause ; and if
the party summoned refuse to give in his bond or appearance, or

46 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

sentenced refuse to give satisfaction where no goods appear in the
same town where the party dwells, they may charge the consta-
ble with the party, to carry him before a magistrate, or Shire Court (if
then sitting), to be further proceeded with according to law; but the
said commissioners may not commit to prison in any case And where
the parties live in several towns, the defendant shall be liable to be sued
in either town, at the liberty of the plaintiff." It was also ordered " that
in all small causes as aforesaid, where only one magistrate dwells in the
town, and the cause concerns himself, as also in such towns where no
magistrate is, and the cause concerns any of the three commissioners,
that in such cases the selectmen of the town shall have power to hear
and determine the same, and also to grant execution for the levying and
gathering up such damages for the use of the person damnified, as one
magistrate or three commissioners may do. And no debt or action
proper to the cognizance of one magistrate, or the three commissioners
as aforesaid, shall be received into any County Court, but by appeal
from such magistrate or commissioners, except in cases of defamation
and battery."

In 165 i it was provided by law "that there be seven freemen resi-
dent in Boston annually chosen by the freemen of the said town and
presented to the Court of Assistants, who hereby have power to author-
ize the seven freemen to be commissioners of the said town, to act in
things committed to their trust, as is hereafter expressed ; who shall
from time to time be sworn before the said court, or the Governor,
Deputy Governor or any two magistrates And this court doth hereby
give and grant commission and authority unto the said seven men, or any
five of them, or any three of them with one magistrate, to hear and deter-
mine all civil actions which shall be brought before them not exceeding
the sum often pounds, arising within the neck of land on which the
town is situate, as also on Noddles Island, or betwixt any persons where
both parties shall be inhabitants or residents within the said Neck or
Noddles Island aforesaid, or where either party shall be an inhabitant
or resident aforesaid ; provided they keep a book of records for the en-
try of all causes, evidences, testimonies, sentences and judgments as the
law provides in like cases ; which said commissioners are authorized an-
nually to appoint a clerk of their court and to demand and receive of

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every plaintiff in all cases or actions not exceeding forty shillings the
sum of three shillings four pence ; and for all other actions the sum
often shillings; and for all other things the accustomed fees; and the
said commissioners shall from time to time publish their court days, as
the three commissioners in towns are bound to. And for the discov-
ery, prevention and punishment of misdemeanors in the town of Boston :
Power and authority is hereby given and granted to the said commis-
sioners, and every of them, by warrant under their or his hand, to con-
vent before them, or any of them, all such persons as shall be complained
of for such offences or otherwise brought to their cognizance, and to
hear and determine the same according to the laws here established, as
any magistrate may do, provided the fines imposed by them do not ex-
ceed forty shillings for one offence." It was further provided, in order
that breaches of the peace might be more effectually suppressed, that
all " marshals and constables, and other inhabitants should aid and as-
sist the commissioners" in the performance of their duty, and that none
should be appointed commissioner "but such whose conversation is in-
offensive and whose fidelity to the country is sufficiently known and ap-
proved of by the County Court of the shire." This court was created
for one year, and, as Hutchinson says, in consequence of a growing jeal-
ousy of Boston, was not renewed. The selectmen of towns were also
authorized to try offences against their own by-laws where the penalty
did not exceed twenty shillings, provided the offence was not a crimi-
nal one.

In May, 1685, a Court of Chancery was established by law. It was
provided as follows : " Whereas it is found by experience that in many
cases and controversies betwixt parties, wherein there is matter of ap-
parent equity, there hath been no way provided for relief against the
rigour of the common law, but by application to the General Court ;
where by reason of the weighty affairs of the country of more public
concernment, particular persons have been delayed to their no small
trouble and charge; and also great expense occasioned to the public by
the long attendance of so many persons as that court consists of, to
hear and determine personal causes brought before them. For ease and
redress whereof it is ordered and enacted by this court, that the magis-
trates of each County Court within this jurisdiction, being annually

48 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

chosen by the freemen, be and hereby are authorized and empowered
as a Court of Chancery, upon bill of complaint or information exhibited
to them, containing matter of apparent equity, to grant summons or pro-
cess as in other cases is usual, briefly specifying the matter of complaint,
to require the defendant's appearance at a day and place assigned by the
court to make answer thereunto; and also to grant summons for witnesses
in behalf of either party, to examine parties and witnesses by interro-
gations upon oath, proper to the case if the judges see cause to require it ;
and if any party being legally summoned shall refuse or neglect to make
his appearance and answer, the case shall proceed to hearing and issue
as is provided in cases at common law ; and upon a full hearing and
consideration of what shall be pleaded and presented as evidence in any
such case, the court to make their decree and determination according
to the rule of equity, secundum equum et bonum, and to grant execu-
tion thereon ; provided always that either party, plaintiff or defendant,
who shall find himself aggrieved at the determination of the said County
Court, shall have liberty to make his appeal to the magistrates of the
next Court of Assistants, giving in security for prosecution and the
reason of his appeal to the officers of the said County Court, as the law
provides in other cases ; where the judges of the former court may have
liberty to allege and show the grounds and reasons of their determina-
tion, but shall not vote nor judge in the said Court of Assistants ; and
the judgment or decree of the said Court of Assistants shall be a full
and final issue and determination of all such cases, without any after re-
view or appeal ; unless upon application made by either party to the
General Court, the said court shall see meet to order a second hearing
of the case at the County Court with liberty of appeal as aforesaid, or
in any arduous and difficult cases to admit a hearing and determination
by the General Court ; and that a suitable oath be drawn up and agreed
upon to be administered to those who shall be judges; and in all cases
of this nature brought to the County Court, the party complaining be-
fore his bill be filed and process granted shall give sufficient security to
the clerk of the court to defray the necessary charge and attendance of
the court."

Though juries were in use as early September, 1630, the first legis-
lation concerning them appears to have been in 1634, when it was

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ordered " that the secretary or clerk of every court shall in convenient
time before the sitting of the court send warrants to the constables of
the several towns of the jurisdiction of the court for jurymen propor-
tionable to the inhabitants of each town ; and the constable, on the
receipt of such warrant, shall give timely notice to the freemen of their
respective towns, to choose so many able, discreet men as the warrant
shall require, which men, so chosen, he shall warn to attend the court
whereto they are appointed, and shall make return of the warrant unto
the clerk aforesaid." Jurymen were allowed four shillings per day, andall
jurors serving at the Court of Assistants at Boston were to be summoned
out of the counties of Suffolk and Middlesex. On the 4th of March
1634-5, ^ was ordered that two grand juries be summoned annually, "the
one to informe the Courts in March, and the other to informe the court
in September yearely, of the breaches of any order or other misdemeanor
that they shall know or heare to be comitted by any person or persons
within this jurisdiction, or to doe any other service of the coraon-
wealth that they shalbe enjoy ned."

It was required by an order passed on the 10th of December, 1641,
that in every town a clerk of the writs should be chosen, approved by
County Courts, authorized " to grant summons and attachments in
civil actions and summons for witnesses, to grant replevins and to
take bonds with sufficient security to the party to prosecute the suit."
They were also required to record all births and deaths of persons in
their towns and for every birth and death they so record they shall be
allowed three pence; and they shall yearly deliver in to the recorder of
the court of the jurisdiction where they live a true transcript thereof, to-
gether with so many pence as there are births and deaths to be recorded.
It was required also that "every new married man shall likewise bring
a certificate under the hand of the magistrate who married him unto
the clerk of the writs, to be by him recorded, who shall be allowed three
pence for the same ; and the said clerk shall deliver as aforesaid unto
the recorder a certificate with a penny a name for recording the said
marriage."

So far as probate matters are concerned there was no change in the
jurisdiction of the County Court over them during the colonial period,
except during the presidency of Joseph Dudley and the administration
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56 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

of Andros. Dudley personally assumed probate jurisdiction, but dele-
gated it in some counties to probate judges of his own appointment.
Andros personally directed the settlement of estates exceeding fifty
pounds and delegated others to judges appointed by him. After the
deposition of Andrews the old probate methods were resumed and con-
tinued until the union of the colonies in 1692.

The executive officer of the court was at first called beadle and after-
wards during the colonial period marshal. Those who held the office
were James Penn, appointed by the court September 25, 1634 ; Edward
Michelson, who is mentioned in the records of the court May 27, 1660,
as having occupied the office many years; John Greene, chosen May
27, 1681, and Samuel Gookin, appointed in 1691.

In 1642 it was ordered "that all causes between party and party
shall first be tried in some inferior court; and that if the party against
whom the judgment shall pass shall have any new evidence, or other
new matter to plead, he may desire a new trial in the same court
upon a bill of review, and if justice shall not be done him upon that
trial, he may then come to the General Court for relief." In the pre-
vious year it was ordered that " in all actions of law it shall be the lib
erty of the plaintiff and defendant by mutual consent to choose whether
they will be tried by the bench, or by the bench and jury, unless it be
where the law upon just reason hath otherwise determined ; the like
liberty shall be granted to all persons in any criminal case. And it
shall be in the liberty of both plaintiff and defendant, and likewise of
every delinquent to be judged by a jury, to challenge any of the jurors,
and if the challenge be found just and reasonable by the bench or the
rest of the jury, as the challenger shall choose, it shall be allowed him,
and tales de circumstantibus empaneled in their room."

With regard to witnesses it was enacted in May, 1647, "that no man
shall be put to death without the testimony of two or three witnesses or
that which is equivalent thereto," and " that any one magistrate or com-
missioner authorized thereunto by the General Court may take the testi-
mony of any person of fourteen years of age, or above, of sound under-
standing and reputation, in any case, civil or criminal, and shall keep the
same in his own hands till the court, or deliver it to the recorder (clerk),
public notary or clerk of the writs, to be recorded, that so nothing may

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be altered in it. Provided that when any such witness shall have his
abode within ten miles of the court, and there living and not disen-
abled by sickness or other infirmity, the said testimony so taken out of
court shall not be received or made use of in the court, except the
witnesses be also present to be further examined upon it, and provided
also that in all capital cases all witnesses shall be present wheresoever
they dwell." And it was further ordered " that any person summoned
to appear as a witness in any civil court between party and party, shall
not be compelled to travel to any court or place where he is to give his
testimony, except he who shall so summon him shall lay down or give
him satisfaction for his travel and expenses outward and homeward ;
and for such time as he shall spend in attendance in such case, when
he is at such court or place, the court shall award due recompense.
And it is ordered that two shillings a day shall be accounted due satis-
faction to any witness for travel and expenses ; and that when the wit-
ness dwelleth within three miles, and is not at charge to pass over any
other ferry than betwixt Boston and Charlestown, then one shilling and
sixpence per diem shall be accounted sufficient; and if any witness, after
such payment or satisfaction, shall fail to appear to give his testimony
he shall be liable to pay the parties damages upon an action of the case.
And all witnesses in criminal cases shall have suitable satisfaction paid
by the treasurer, upon warrant from the court or judge before who"''
the case is tried. And the charges of witnesses in all cases shall be
borne by the parties delinquent and shall be added to the fines imposed,
that so the treasurer having, upon warrant from the court or other
judge, satisfied such witnesses, it may be repaid him with the fine, that
so the witness may be timely satisfied, and the country not damnified."
Washburn says that "verdicts were sometimes rendered that there
were strong grounds of suspicion, but not sufficient evidence to convict,
and upon such verdicts the court gave sentence for what appeared to
them, on the trial, the defendant had been guilty of, although neither
charged in the indictment nor found by the jury. This may have led
to the adoption of that part of the oath administered to jurors in crimi-
nal cases, that if they find the defendant not guilty, they are to say so
and no more."

It is unnecessary to go further in explaining the condition of judicial
affairs in the colony before the assumption of office by Joseph Dudley

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as president of Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Maine and the
Narragansett country or the King's Province. The colony charter was
vacated on the 1 8th of June, 1684, and Dudley received his commission
May 1 5, 1686. He was a member of the colony and an assistant at the
time of his appointment. William Stoughton, also an assistant, was
commissioned deputy president, and fifteen persons, whose names have
already been given in this narrative, were appointed councillors. The
Governor and Council were made a Court of Record for the trial of civil
and criminal matters, and had the authority to establish courts and ap-
point judges to preside over them. They set up a Superior Court,
composed of a majority of the councillors, to sit three times a year at
Boston and "Courts of Pleas and Sessions of the Peace" in the several
counties. William Stoughton was appointed to preside in the County
Courts of Suffolk, Middlesex and Essex, with John Richards and Simon
Lynde as assistants. These courts were established July 26, 1686, and
at the same time the admission of attorneys was regulated and a form
of oath prescribed to be taken by them. Benjamin Bullivant, a physi-
cian and apothecary, was appointed attorney-general and Giles Masters,
Anthony Checkley, Mr. John Watson, Capt. Nathanial Thomas and
Mr. Christopher Webb were admitted and sworn as attorneys. Bullivant
was also appointed, November 2, 1686, clerk of the Superior Court,
Daniel Allen and Thomas Dudley clerks of Suffolk, and John Winch-
comb and Nathaniel Page marshals.

The administration of Dudley was so brief that it is unnecessary to
say more of its judicial features. Edmund Andros was commissioned
governor of New England and arrived in Boston on the 19th of Decem-
ber, 1686. His commission embraced the whole of New England and
included, what the commission of Dudley did not, the Plymouth as
well as the Massachusetts Colony. He appointed thirty nine council-
lors, whose names have already been given, and delegated the powers
of making and executing the laws to the Governor and Council, subject
to the approval of the crown. He declared all public lands vested in
the king, and required grantees to prove their title. The Governor and
Council were made a Court of Record, and jurisdiction in cases concern-
ing lands and not involving a sum of forty shillings was given to justices
of the peace. He also established a " Quarterly Sessions Court," held

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by the several justices in their respective counties, and an " Inferior
Court of Common Pleas," to be held in each county by a judge assisted
by two or more justices of the county, with a limitation of jurisdiction
in Boston to twenty pounds, where the court was to sit once in two
months, and in other counties to ten pounds, where it was to sit an-
nually. In addition to these the "Superior Court of Judicature" was
established, with jurisdiction over all civil and criminal matters in the
colony and in which no action could be begun for the recovery of less
than ten pounds, unless a question of freehold was involved. This
court was to be held in Boston, Cambridge, Charlestown, Plymouth,
Bristol, Newport, Salem, Ipswich, Portsmouth, Falmouth (Portland),
Northampton and Springfield, and Joseph Dudley was appointed its
chief justice. Besides a Court of Chancery special courts of Oyer and
Terminer were appointed at various times. Under Andros marshals
became sheriffs. The Superior Court of Judicature had three judges,
and with Joseph Dudley, the chief justice, were associated William
Stoughton and Peter Bulkley, and afterwards at various times, Samuel
Shrimpton, Simon Lynde, Charles Lidget, John West and John Usher.
George Farwell was made attorney- general and clerk of the Supreme
Court, succeeding Benjamin Bullivant, the incumbent under Dudley, and
James Graham succeeded Farwell. James Sherlock was made sheriff.
When the news of the English revolution reached New England and
of the accession of William and Mary, Simon Bradstreet, the last gov-
ernor before the administration of Dudley, resumed his office on the
1 8th day of April, 1689, a new house of deputies was chosen and the
administration of affairs was conducted as before the revocation
of the charter. The Court of Assistants resumed its sessions in
December and the County Court in Suffolk in July, 1689. Anthony
Checkley was chosen attorney-general and John Greene marshal-
general of the colony. No further changes occurred under the colonial
charter. A new charter, embracing Massachusetts, Plymouth, Maine,
Nova Scotia, and the intervening territory in one government, by the
name of the "Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England,"
passed the seals on the 7th of March, 1691, and reached Boston May
14, 1692.

The new charter provided that the governor and lieutenant-gover-
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twenty- eight councillors should be chosen by the General Court, and a
House of Representatives should be chosen annually by the people.

Limited space forbids the recital of the full text of the charter, but
reference to some of its provisions will enable the reader to better un-
derstand subsequent legislation concerning the judicial affairs of the
province. Its opening paragraphs rehearse the charter issued by James
the First to the " Northern Virginia Company," or, as it was afterwards
called, " the council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon,"
on the 3d of November, 1606, and the grant or patent of said council
to the Massachusetts Company on the 19th of March, 1627-8; together
with the charter issued by Charles the First to said company on the 4th
of March, 1628-9, and the revocation and vacation of said charter in the
term of Holy Trinity in the thirty- sixth year of the reign of Charles the
Second. It then declares that in conformity with the wishes of the agents
of the Massachusetts Company, and for the purpose of bringing the
colony of New Plymouth under such a form of government as may put
them in a better condition for defence, the colony of "the Massachusetts
Bay, the colony of New Plymouth, the province of Maine, the territory
called Acadia, or Nova Scotia," and all the territory between Nova Scotia
and Maine, are incorporated into one province by the name of the " Prov-
ince of the Massachusetts Bay in New England." To the inhabitants of
the said province was given all that part of New England extending from
three miles north of the Merrimac River on the north part, to the Atlantic,
or Western sea, on the south part, and westward as far as the colonies
of Rhode Island, Connecticut, and the Narragansett country. "And,
also, all that part and portion of mainland beginning at the entrance of
Piscataway harbor, and so to pass up the same into the river of Newich-
wannock, and through the same into the furthest head thereof, and from
thence northwestward, till one hundred and twenty miles be finished,
and from Piscataway harbor mouth aforesaid northeastward, along the
sea coast to Sagadehock, and from the period of one hundred and twen-
ty miles aforesaid to cross overland to the one hundred and twenty
miles before reckoned up into the land of Piscataway harbor, through
Newichwannock river, and also the north half of the Isles of Shoals, to-
gether with the Isles of Capawock and Nantucket."

It was provided that all estates " which any person, or persons, or
body politic or corporate, towns, villages, colleges or schools," hold un-

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der grants from any General Court, shall continue to be enjoyed by
them under their grants.

So far as the government of the province was concerned, it declared
that there should be one governor, one lieutenant-governor, and one
secretary to be appointed by the crown, and twenty-eight assistants, or
councillors, to be chosen by the General Court annually. Isaac Ad-
dington was declared the first secretary, and a provisional board of
councillors was appointed, consisting of Simon Bradstreet, John Rich-
ards, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Wait Winthrop, John Phillips, James Bur-
rell, Samuel Sewall, Samuel Appleton, Bartholomew Gedney, John
Hathorne, Elisha Hutchinson, Robert Pike, Jonathan Corwin, John
Joliffe, Adam Winthrop, Richard Middlecot, John Foster, Peter Ser-
geant, John Lynde, Samuel Heyman, Stephen Mason, Thomas Hinck-
ley, William Bradford, John Walley, Barnabas Lathrop, Job Alcot,
Samuel Daniel and Sylvanus Davis.

It was provided that the governor, and at least seven of the coun-
cillors, should meet from time to time "for the ordering and directing
the affairs" of the province, and a General Assembly should be chosen
consisting of two representatives, and no more, from each town. To
the governor was given the power to adjourn, prorogue and dissolve
the General Assembly whenever he might judge it necessary. At least
eighteen of the councillors must be inhabitants of the territory of the
old Massachusetts colony, four of the New Plymouth colony, three of the
province of Maine, and one an inhabitant of the territory lying between
the Sagadehock River and Nova Scotia.

Authority was given to the governor, with the advice and consent of
of the council from time to time, to nominate and appoint, " Judges,
Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, Sheriffs, Provosts, Marshals, Jus-
tices of the Peace, and other officers, to our Council and Courts of Jus-
tice belonging."

It was also declared, " for the greater care and encouragement of our
loving subjects inhabiting our said province or territory of the Massa-
chusetts Bay, and of such as shall come to inhabit there, we do by these
presents, for us, our heirs and successors, grant, establish, and ordain,
that for ever hereafter there shall be a liberty of conscience allowed in
the worship of God to all Christians (except papists) inhabiting, or
which shall inhabit or be resident within our said province or territory."

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To the General Court was given the power to erect and establish
judicatories and courts of record, or other courts, for the hearing, try-
ing and determining "all manner of crimes, offences, pleas, processes,
plaints, actions, matters, causes and things whatsoever, arising or hap-
pening within the province," and to the Governor and Council "the
power to execute or perform all that is necessary for the probate of wills
and granting administrations."

An appeal could be had from the judgment or sentence of any court
to the Privy Council within fourteen days, provided the amount in-
volved exceeded three hundred pounds sterling. The General Court
was authorized to make all manner of reasonable laws, either with pen-
alties or without, both for the good order of the province and for its
support and defence, but the veto power in elections, as well as in the
enactment of laws, was conferred on the governor ; and it was further
provided, that all orders, laws, statutes, and ordinances, should be trans-
mitted to the crown for approval, and that in case any of them were
rejected by the Privy Council within three years, they should become
void. A further provision was added, that " the exercise of any Ad-
miral Court jurisdiction power or authority is reserved, to be from time
to time erected, granted and exercised by virtue of commissions under
the great seal of England, or under the seal of the high admiral, or the
commissioners for executing the office of high admiral of England."

The charter was dated October 7, 1691, and, as has been stated,
reached Boston May 14, 1692, when William Phipps, the first royal
governor, assumed the reins of power, with William Stoughton as lieu-
tenant-governor. An explanatory charter, chiefly relating to the elec-
tionof a speakerof the House of Assembly was granted by King George,
dated August 26, 1726, which contains no reference to the administra-
tion of justice. "On the 8th of June, 1692, the first General Court con-
vened, but such was the popular excitement concerning the witchcraft
delusion, that Governor Phipps, without any authority conferred by the
charter, issued commissions bearing date of June 2, 1692, to a Special
Court of Oyer and Terminer, consisting of William Stoughton, chief
justice, and Nathaniel Saltonstall, John Richards, Bartholomew Gedney,
Wait Winthrop, Samuel Sewall and Peter Sergeant, associate judges,
to take cognizance of crimes in Suffolk, Essex and Middlesex. Mr. Sal-

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tonstall declined the position, and Jonathan Corwin was appointed in
his place. Stephen Sewall was made clerk of the court; Thomas New-
ton, their majesties' attorney ; Anthony Checkley, attorney-general;
and George Corwin, sheriff. Washburn states that the commission to
Checkley informed him that he was to act in the court " assigned to
inquire of, hear and determine for this time, all and all manner of fel-
onies, witchcraft, crimes and offences how, or by whomsoever done,
committed or perpetrated within the several counties of Suffolk, Essex
and Middlesex." This court sat at various times between the 2d of June
and the 17th of September, and condemned nineteen persons to be
hung and one to be pressed to death. As the trials were outside of the
courts of Suffolk county, their history does not come within the scope
of this narrative. It is interesting, however, to note that no lawyer was
connected with the court. Stoughton and Sewall were clergymen, Win-
throp and Gedney were physicians, Sergeant a gentleman, probably
without a profession, and Richards, and Corwin, and Checkley, the at-
torney-general, were merchants. It may not, however, be improper to
interpose some defence of a court upon which so much obloquy has been
cast, as if they were specially infected by a delusion, which seems to
us in later times so unreasonable and abhorrent. The fact is, that a be-
lief in witchcraft was as universal as the belief that the Bible was the in-
spired word of God. Theologians, especially, were convinced of its
existence, and it is possible that to Stoughton and Sewall, the clergy-
men on the bench, the convictions and punishments were due. In the
1 8th verse of the 22d chapter of Exodus we find the command " Thou
shalt not suffer a witch to live." In the 27th verse of the 20th chapter
of Leviticus are these words: " A man also, or a woman, that hath a
familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death; they
shall stone him with stones ; their blood shall be upon them ;" and in
the 1 8th chapter of Deuteronomy, 10th, nth, and 12th verses, it is
written: " There shall not be found among you anyone that maketh
his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination,
or an observer of times, as an enchanter or a witch ; or a charmer, or a
consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer, for all
that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord ; and because of
these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before

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thee." It is not improbable that the victims of delusion were as firm in
their belief as any, and accepted their punishment with a conviction of
the righteousness of its infliction.

The first act relating to the courts was passed by the General Court
June 28, and published on the 2d of July. It was as follows :

" An act for the holding of Courts of Justice.

" Forasmuch as the orderly regulation and well establishment of Courts
of Justice is of great concernment, and the public occasions with
reference to the war, and otherwise being so pressing at this season that
this Court cannot now conveniently set longer to advise upon and fully
settle the same, but to the intent that justice be not obstructed or
delayed,

" Be it ordained and enacted, by the Governor, Council and Rep-
resentatives, convened in general assembly, and it is ordained by
authority of the same,

" Sec. 1. That on or before the last Tuesday of July next there be a
general sessions of the peace held and kept in each respective county
within this province, by the justices of the same county, or three of them
at least (the first justice of the quorum then present to preside), who
are hereby empowered to hear and determine all matters relating to the
conservation of the peace, and whatsoever is by them cognizable ac-
cording to law, and to grant licenses to such persons within the same
county, being first approved of by the selectmen of each town where
such persons dwell, whom they shall think fit to be employed as inn-
holders or retailers of wines or strong liquors, and that sessions of the
peace be successively held, and kept as aforesaid within the several coun-
ties at the same times and places as the County Courts or inferior
courts of common pleas are hereafter appointed to be kept.

" And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

"Sec. 2. That the County Courts, or inferior courts of common pleas,
and kept in each respective county by the justices of the same county,
or three of them at least (the first justice of the quorum then present to
preside), at the same times and places they have been formerly kept ac-
cording to law, for the hearing and determining of all civil actions
arising or happening within the same, triable at the common law accord-
ing to former usage; the justices for holding and keeping of the said

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Court within the county of Suffolk to be particularly appointed and
commissionated by the Governor, with the advice, and consent of the
Council. And that all writs or attachments shall issue out of the clerk's
office of the said several courts, signed by the clerk of such court,
directed unto the sheriff of the county, his under sheriff or deputy.
The jurors to serve at said courts to be chosen according to former
custom, by and of the freeholders and other inhabitants, qualified as is
directed in their majesties' royal charter. This act to continue until
other provision be made by the General Court or Assembly."

Prior to the passage of the above act it was ordered that all the local
laws made by the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, and
the government of New Plymouth, not repugnant to the laws of Eng-
land, " nor inconsistent with the present constitution and settlement by
their majesties' royal charter, do remain and continue in full force in the
respective places for which they were made and used, until the iothday
of November next, except in cases where other provision is or shall be
made by this Court or Assembly; and all persons are required to conform
themselves accordingly; and the several justices are hereby empowered
to the execution of said laws as the the magistrates formerly were."

The act for the holding of courts of justice was disallowed by the
Privy Council on the 22d of August, 1695, because a distinction was
made in the manner of appointing justices for the county of Suffolk
and other counties.

On the 25th of November, 1692, at the second session of the General
Court, an act was passed for the establishing of judicatories and courts
of justice within the province. It provided,

" Sec. 1. That all manner of debts, trespasses and other matters not
exceeding the value of forty shillings (wherein the title of land is not
concerned) shall and may be heard, tried, adjudged and determined by
any of their majesties' justices of the peace of this province, with-
in the respective counties where he resides ; who is hereby empow-
ered upon complaint made, to grant a warrant or summons against the
party complained of seven days before the day of trial or hearing,
thereby requiring him or them to appear and answer the said complaint,
and in case of non-appearance to issue out a warrant of contempt
directed to the constable or other officers, to bring the contemner before

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him, as well to answer the said contempt, as the plaintiff's action, and if
he sees cause, to fine the said contemner;

" Be it further enacted and ordained by the authority aforesaid,
" Sec. 4. That there shall be held and kept in each respective county
within the province, yearly, at the times and places hereafter named and
expressed, four courts or quarter sessions of the peace, by justices of
peace of the same county, who are hereby empowered to hear and de-
termine all matters relating to the conservation of the peace, and pun-
ishment of offenders, and whatsoever is by them cognizable according
to law ; that is to say, for the county of Suffolk at Boston on the first
Tuesdays in March, June, September and December; for the county of
Plymouth at Plymouth on the third Tuesdays in March, June, Septem-
ber and December; for the county of Essex, at Salem, on the last
Tuesdays in June and December; at Ipswich on the last Tuesday in
March, and at Newbury on the last Tuesday in September ; for the
county of Middlesex, at Charlestown on the second Tuesdays in March
and December, at Cambridge on the second Tuesday in September, and
at Concord on the second Tuesday of June; for the county of Barn-
stable, at Barnstable on the first Tuesdays in April, July, October and
January; at Bristol for the county of Bristol on the second Tuesdays
in April, July, October and January ; for the county of York on the
first Tuesday in April and July, and at Wells on the first Tuesdays in
October and January ; and for the county of Hampshire, at Northamp-
ton on the first Tuesdays in March and June ; at Springfield on the last
Tuesdays in September and December; and that there be a general ses-
sions of the peace held and kept at Edgartown upon the Island of Cap-
awack -alias Martha's Vineyard, and on the Island of Nantucket re-
spectively, upon the last Tuesday in March and on the first Tuesday of
October yearly from time to time.

" And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
" Sec. 5. That at the times and places before mentioned there shall be
held and kept in each respective county and islands before named within
the province, an inferior court of common pleas, by four of the justices
of and residing within the same county and islands respectively, to be
appointed and commissionated thereto, any three of whom to be a
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happening within the same, triable at the common law of what nature,
kind or quality soever.

" And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
" Sec. 6. That there shall be a Superior Court of Judicature over the
whole province, to be held and kept annually at the respective times
and places hereafter mentioned, by one chief justice and four other
justices, to be appointed and commissionated for the same, three of
whom to be a quorum, who shall have cognizance of all pleas, real, per-
sonal or mixt, as well in all pleas of the crown and in all matters relat-
ing to the conservation of the peace and punishment of offenders, as in
civil causes or actions between party and party, and between their
majesties and any of their subjects, whether the same do concern the
realty and relate to any right of freehold and inheritance, or whether
the same do concern the personalty, and relate to matter of debt, con-
tract, damage or personal injury, and also in all mixt actions which may
concern both realty and personalty ; and after deliberate hearing to
give judgment and award execution thereon. The said Superior
Court to be held and kept at the times and places within the respective
counties following; that is to say, within the county of Suffolk at Bos-
ton on the last Tuesdays of April and October; within the county of
Middlesex at Charlestown on the last Tuesdays of July and January ;
within the county of Essex at Salem on the second Tuesday of Novem-
ber, and at Ipswich on the second Tuesday of May ; within the counties
of Plymouth, Barnstable and Bristol at Plymouth on the last Tuesday
of February, and at Bristol on the last Tuesday of August.

" Sec. 7. That the trial of all civil causes by appeal or writ of error,
from any of the Inferior Courts within the respective counties of York or
Hampshire, the Islands of Capawock alias Martha's Vineyard and Nan-
tucket shall be in the Superior Court to be held at Boston or Charles-
town.

" And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
" Sec. 14. That there be a high Court of Chancery within the province,
who shall have power and authority to hear and determine all matters
of equity, of what nature, kind or quality soever, and all controversies,
disputes and differences arising betwixt co-executors, and other matters
proper and cognizable to said court, not relievableby common law ; the

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said court to be holden and kept by the governor, or such other as
he shall appoint to be chancellor, assisted with eight or more of the
council, who may appoint all necessary officers to the said court ; which
said court shall sit, and be held at such times and places as the gover-
nor or chancellor for the time being shall from time to time appoint ;
provided nevertheless, that the justices in any of the courts aforesaid,
where the forfeiture of any penal bond is found, shall be and hereby are
empowered to chancer the same unto the just debt and damages."

This act also was disallowed by the Privy Council on the 22d of Aug-
ust, 1695, because the provision of the act that either party not being
satisfied with the judgment of any of the courts in personal actions not
exceeding ^"300 may appeal to His Majesty in council, seemed to ex-
clude the right of appeal in real actions.

On the 9th of November, 1692, an act was passed providing
"whereas at the session of this court in June last, an act was passed
entitled ' an act for continuing the local laws, to stand in force till Nov-
ember the loth, 1692, it is ordained and enacted.' That the said act
and every part of it be and hereby is revived and continued in full force,
to all intents and purposes from and after the said tenth day of No-
vember, and shall so continue until the General Assembly shall take
further order."

On the 1 ith of December, 1693, an act was passed in addition to the
" Act for establishing of Judicatories and Courts of Justice within the
province, which, among other things pertaining to forms and rules of
courts changed the time for holding the court of quarter sessions, and the
Inferior Court of Common Pleas in Boston to the first Tuesdays in July,
October, January and April, and provided that there be a Court of Judi-
cature, Court of Assize and general gaol delivery held at Kittery in the
County of York, on Wednesday before the second Tuesday in May,
and at Springfield on the last Tuesday in June. This act was also dis-
allowed by the Privy Council on the 10th of December, 1696, because
the act to which it was in addition had been disallowed.

An act was also passed December 5, 1693, providing for a new estab-
lishment and regulation of the chancery, but as this act was mainly
amendatory of the act establishing judicatories, passed November 25,
1692, it was disallowed because that act had been.

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The next act passed concerning the courts was enacted February 15^
1693-4, and provided that the Superior Court should be held at differ-
ent times from those specified in the original act, but did not affect
Suffolk county, and another act of a similar character was passed March
2 in the same year.

Various other acts were passed at various times concerning modes of
proceeding in the courts, and on the 3d of October, 1696, an act was
passed, of which the following are the preamble and first section :
" Whereas, his majestie's pleasure hath been signified for the repealing
and making void an act made and passed by the Great and General
Court or assembly, anno one thousand six hundred ninety- two, in the
fourth year of the reign of his present majesty, and the late Queen
Mary, his royal consort of blessed memory, entitled 'An act for the es-
tablishing of judicatories and courts of justice within this province,' also
for the repealing and making void one other act, entitled ' An act for
the establishing of precedents and forms of writs and processes, with
the particular reasons of his majestie's disallowance of said acts, for the
information and direction of the General Assembly and the amendments
and considerations necessary for the supply thereof; and, whereas, it is
absolutely necessary that speedy provision be made, that his majestie's
subjects may not suffer for the want of due course of justice,

" Be it enacted, etc. :

" Sec. 1. That the before mentioned act, entitled 'An act for the estab-
lishing of judicatories and courts of justice within this province,' and all
and singular the paragraphs, articles, clauses and sentences thereof (ex-
cept the paragraph for constituting a Court of Chancery, and such other
articles, clauses and sentences in said act as have been heretofore re-
pealed, altered or otherwise provided for, in and by any other act or
acts of the General Assembly of this province, or which in and by the
present act shall be altered, otherwise provided for, or declared to be
null and void), be and hereby are revived and continued, to abide and
remain in full force and virtue until the end of the first session of the
General Assembly, to be begun and held upon the last Wednesday of the
month of May next, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred
ninety-seven, and no longer ; provided, nevertheless, that the words
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liberty of appeal unto his majesty or council, be and hereby are declared
void and of no effect."

This act was also disallowed by the Privy Council on the 24th of No-
vember, 1698, notwithstanding the objectionable part of the act, which
had been previously disallowed, was removed, and no other reason was
given for its disallowance, than the fact that the act which it revived had
been disallowed. It, however, answered a purpose. The Superior
Court of Judicature and the Inferior Court of Common Pleas had been
established under the law which had been disallowed or repealed by
order of the Privy Council, and judges of both courts had been ap-
pointed. As soon as the knowledge of the disallowance came to the
General Court the establishment of the courts and the commissions of
the judges would be invalid, and consequently the passage of this act
or some other was necessary to keep them alive. Before the disal-
lowance of this revival act, which did not take place until November 24,
1698, another act was passed on the 19th of June for the establishment
of courts very similar to the original act of 1692, with the name of the
Quarter Sessions of the Peace changed to a Court of General Sessions of
the Peace and the omission of the provision for the Chancery Court.
This act was also disallowed November 24, 1698, because the provision
" among other things that all matters and issues in fact shall be tried by
a jury of twelve men was contrary to the intention of an act of parlia-
ment entitled An act for preventing frauds and regulating abuses in
the plantation trade by which it was provided that all causes relating
to the breach of the acts of trade may, at the pleasure of the officer or
informer, be tried in the Court of Admiralty, to be held in any of his
Majesty's Plantations, respectively where such offence shall be com-
mitted ; because the method of trial in such courts of Admiralty is not
by juries of twelve men, as by the forementioned act for establishing of
of courts is directed."

Finally, at the session of the General Court, which began on the 31st
of May, 1699, three acts were passed establishing courts which were
approved by the Privy Council, and were published on the 27th of
June.

The first established a Court of General Sessions of the Peace, to be
held by the justices of the peace in each county with a jurisdiction over

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matters relating to the conservation of the peace and the punishment of
offenders. The court in Suffolk county was to be held in Boston on the
first Tuesdays in July, October, January and April. At a convenient
time before the sitting of the court the clerk of the peace in each county
was required to issue warrants to the constables of the several towns, ■
directing them to assemble the freemen to choose such a number of men
for jurors as the warrants might specify. An appeal from this court
might be taken to the Superior Court of Judicature.

The second act established an Inferior Court of Common Pleas to be
held in each county by four persons to be appointed as justices of the
court and who shall have cognizance of all civil actions within the
county triable at common law. The court for Suffolk was to be held in
Boston on the first Tuesdays in July, October, January and April. All
processes and writs for any suit were to issue out of the office of the
clerk of the court in his majesty's name, under the seal of the court
and directed to the sheriff, or in cases involving a sum less than ten
pounds to a constable, and the jurors were to be summoned under the
direction of the clerk of the court in the same manner as that described
for jurors of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace.

The third court established was a Superior Court of Judicature, Court
of Assize and General Gaol Delivery for the whole province, to be held
at specified times and places by one chief justice and four associate jus-
tices to be appointed for the same, any three of whom might be a
quorum, with cognizance of all pleas, real, personal or mixed, as well all
pleas of the crown and all matters relating to the conservation of the
peace and punishment of offenders, as civil causes or actions, and also
all mixed actions which concern both realty and personalty brought be-
fore them by appeal, review, writ of error or otherwise ; and generally
of all other matters as fully as the Court of King's Bench, Common Pleas
and Exchequer ought to have. The court for the county of Suffolk was
to be held at Boston on the first Tuesdays in November and May, and
the jurors were to be summoned under the direction of the clerk in the
manner already described.

An act was passed June 20, 1 701-2, providing that attorneys prac-
ticing in the courts shall be under oath administered by the clerk in
open court as follows :
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"You shall do no falsehood, nor consent to any to be done in the
court, and if you know of any to be done you shall give knowledge
thereof to the justices of the court, or some of them, that it may be re-
formed. You shall not wittingly and willingly promote, sue or procure
to be sued any false or unlawful suit, nor give aid or consent to the
same. You shall delay no man for lucre or malice, but you shall use
yourself in the office of an attorney within the court to the best of your
learning and discretion, and with all good fidelity as well to the courts
as to your clients." The same act provided that the fee to be allowed
for an attorney in the Superior Court of Judicature should be twelve
shillings, and in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas ten shillings.

The judges of the Superior Court of Judicature, which continued
during the whole of the provincial period and until February 20,
1 78 1 , were as follows:

Chief Justices. — William Stoughton, appointed 1692; Isaac Addington, appointed,
1703; Wait Winthrop, appointed 1708; Samuel Sewall, appointed 1718; Benjamin
Lynde, appointed 1728; Paul Dudley, appointed 1745; Stephen Sewall, appointed
1752; Thomas Hutchinson, appointed 1760; Benjamin Lynde jr., appointed 1771;
Peter Oliver, appointed 1772; John Adams, appointed 1776; William Cushing, ap-
pointed 1777.

Associate Justices. — Thomas Danforth. appointed 1692; Wait Winthrop, appointed
1692; John Richards, appointed 1692; Samuel Sewall, appointed 1692; Elisha Cooke,
appointed 1695; John Walley, appointed 1700; John Saffin, appointed 1701; Isaac
Addington, appointed 1702; John Hathorne, appointed 1702; John Leverett. appointed
1702; Jonathan Curwin, appointed 1708; Benjamin Lynde, appointed 1712; Nathaniel
Thomas, appointed 1712; Addington Davenport, appointed 1715; Edmund Quincy,
appointed 1718; Paul Dudley, appointed 1718; John Cushing, appointed 1728; Jona-
than Remington, appointed 1733; Richard Saltonstall, appointed 1736; Thomas Graves
appointed 1738; Stephen Sewall, appointed 1739; Nathaniel Hubbard, appointed 1745;
Benjamin Lynde, jr., appointed 1745; John Cushing, appointed 1747; Chambers Rus-
sel, appointed 1752; Peter Oliver, appointed 1756; Thomas Hutchinson, appointed
1760; Edmund Trowbridge, appointed 1767; Foster Hutchinson, appointed 1771;
Nathaniel Ropes, appointed 1772; William Brown, appointed 1774; William Cushing,
appointed 1775 ; Nathaniel P. Sargeant, appointed 1775; William Reed, appointed 1775 ;
James Warren, appointed 1776; Robert Treat Paine, appointed 1775; Jedediah Foster,
appointed 1776; James Sullivan, appointed 1776; David Sewall, appointed 1777.

Of these, Stoughton, Winthrop, Richards, Samuel Sewall, Cooke,
Saffin, Addington, Benjamin Lynde, Davenport, Quincy, Paul Dudley,
Benjamin Lynde, jr., Thomas Hutchinson, and Foster Hutchinson were

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Suffolk county men at the time of their appointment, and Peter Oliver
was a native of Boston, but at the time of his appointment a resident of
Middleboro. It is not proposed herein to make special allusion to these
or others of the bench and bar in this chapter, as all will have a place in
the biographical register contained in this volume. Of the above list of
judges John Adams and James Warren never took their seats.

The last session of the Superior Court under the charter was held in
September, 1774. The first session under the Revolutionary regime
was held in Essex county in June, 1776. While the British held Bos-
ton the General Court passed an act in February, 1776, providing that
Dedham should be the shire of Suffolk county, and that the courts for
that county should be held in Dedham and Braintree. The first Suffolk
county court under that act was held in Braintree in September, 1776,
and the first court in Boston after the siege was held in February, 1777.

Besides the standing justices of the Superior Court ot Judicature,
special justices were appointed to act when the standing justices were
parties in interest. The following list of special justices is presumed to
be full and correct :

Perm Townsend, appointed October 24, 1712; Nathaniel Norden, appointed October
24, 1712; John Burrill, appointed October 24, 1712; Addington Davenport, appointed
September 16, 1715; John Clark, appointed January 7, 1718; Thomas Fitch, appointed
January 7, 1718 ; John Clark, appointed June 27, 1719 ; Thomas Fitch, appointed June
27, 1719; Jonah Wolcott, appointed December 15, 1720; John Cushing, appointed
September 6, 1723; John Clark, September 6, 1723; Jonathan Remington, appointed
September 6, 1723; Thomas Fitch, appointed December 10, 1725; JobAlmy, appointed
September 1, 1726 ; Elisha Cooke, appointed February 23, 1726-7 ; Jonathan Remington,
appointed February 23, 1726-7; Isaac Winslow, appointed June 19, 1727; John Cush-
ing, appointed June 19, 1727; Nathaniel By field, appointed June 27, 1727; Thomas
Fitch, appointed June 27, 1727; Jonathan Remington, appointed June 27, 1727;
Nathaniel Byfield, appointed December 12, 1728 ; Thomas Fitch, appointed December
12, 1728; Thomas Fitch, appointed December 12, 1728; Theophilus Burrill, appointed
December 12, 1728 ; Jonathan Remington, appointed December 12, 1728 ; Nathaniel
Byfield, appointed December 19, 1728 ; Adam Winthrop, appointed December 19, 1728 ;
Nathaniel Byfield, appointed January 11, 1732-3 ; Adam Winthrop, appointed June 22,
1733; Thomas Cushing, appointed June 22, 1733; Ezekiel Lewis, appointed June 22,
1733 ; Theophilus Burrill, appointed April 19, 1735 ; Joseph Wilder, appointed April
19, 1735; Samuel Thaxter, appointed June 27, 1735; Thomas Berry, appointed June
27, 1735 ; Benjamin Prescott, appointed June 27, 1735 ; Thomas Greaves, appointed
February 10, 1736-7; Job Almy, appointed October 25, 1737; Thomas Greaves, ap-
pointed November 10, 1737 : Benjamin Prescott, appointed November 10, 1737 ; Seth.

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Williams, appointed August 12, 1738 ; Benjamin Marston, appointed August 12, 1738;
William Ward, appointed August 19, 1738;. Seth Williams, appointed March 2 1738-9 ;
William Ward, appointed March 2, 1738-9; Edwaid Hutchinson, appointed May 2,
1739; Joseph Wilder, appointed May 2, 1739; Stephen Sewall, appointed May 2, 1739;
Ebenezer Burrill, appointed June 15, 1839 ; Thomas Berry, appointed January 24,
1739-40; Benjamin Marston, appointed January 24, 1739-40; Edward Hutchinson,
appointed April 18, 1743 ; Nathaniel Hubbard, appointed April 18, 1 743 ; Edward Hutch-
inson, appointed November 3, 1743; Nathaniel Hubbard, appointed November 3, 1743
John dishing, appointed October 23, 1744 ; Sylvanus Bourne, appointed October 23, 1744
John Cushing, appointed August 19, 1747 ; Sylvanus Bourne, appointed August 19, 1747
Joseph Pynchon, appointed August 19, 1747 ; John Greenleaf, appointed April6, 1748
Ezekiel Cheever, appointed January 11, 1748-9: Charles Russell, appointed January
11, 1748-9; John Jeffries, appointed March 2,1748-9; William Brattle, appointed
March 2, 1748-9; Thomas Hubbard, appointed March 2, 1748-9; Joseph Sawyer, ap-
pointed June 19, 1749 ; Nathaniel Sparhawk, appointed June 19, 1749 ; Ezekiel
Cheever, appointed August 12, 1749 ; Joseph Richards, appointed August 12, 1749 ;
Charles Russell, appointed February 23, 1749-50; Simon Frost, appointed February 23,
1749-50 ; Samuel Danforth, appointed August 24, 1753; Ezekiel Cheever, appointed
August 24, 1753 ; Thomas Hutchinson, appointed September 20, 1754 ; Thomas Hutchin-
son, appointed February 21, 1755; William Brattle, appointed June 26, 1755; Andrew
Oliver, appointed February 13, 1756; William Brattle, appointed February 13, 1756;
John Chandler, appointed February 20, 1756; Andrew Oliver, appointed February 20,
1756; Benjamin Lincoln, appointed August 1, 1758; Samuel White, appointed August
1, 1758; Timothy Ruggles, appointed February 23, 1762; Samuel Danforth, appointed
Angust 19, 1762; Nathaniel Ropes, appointed September 7, 1762 ; Nathaniel Ropes,
appointed August 30, 1770; Jedediah Foster, appointed September 17, 1770; Timothy
Pain, appointed February 14, 1771; Joseph Lee, appointed February 17, 1773; Will-
iam Browne, appointed February 17, 1773; Joseph Lee, appointed March 4, 1773;
William Browne, appointed March 4, 1773.

There were also commissioners of Oyer and Terminer appointed by
the Governor and Council to try special cases in accordance with author-
ity given in the province charter as follows: " And we do further grant
and ordain that it shall and may be lawful for the said Governor with
the advice and consent of the Council or Assistants from time to time to
nominate and appoint Judges, Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer,
Sheriffs, Provosts, Marshals, Justices of the Peace and other officers to
our Council and Courts of Justice belonging."

It may be that Governor Phipps considered this authority sufficient
for his appointment of the witchcraft court in 1692 and that the judges
sitting in that court should be called Commissioners of Oyer and Term-
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different periods and the purpose for which they were appointed. The
witchcraft judges are included in the list:

William Stoughton, John Richards, Wait Winthrop, Bartholomew Gedney, Samuel
Sewall, Jonathan Curwin, Peter Sergeant; appointed June 2, 1892, to take cognizance
of all crimes in Suffolk, Essex and Middlesex (witchcraft).

Francis Hooke, Charles Frost, Samuel Wheelwright, Thomas Newton ; appointed
October 22, 1692, to try murderers in the county of York.

Thomas Danforth, Wait Winthrop, Elisha Cooke, Samuel Sewall; appointed Decem-
ber 22, 1698, to try Jacob Smith.

John Hathorne, William Browne, Jonathan Curwin, Benjamin Browne, John Higgin-
son ; appointed November 23, 1705, to try an Indian in Salem.

John Gardner, James Coffin, Thomas Mayhew, Benjamin Skiffe, William Gayer; ap-
pointed June 15, 1704, to try an Indian in Nantucket.

Joseph Hammond, Ichabod Plaisted, John Plaisted, William Pepperell, John Wheel-
wright, John Hill, Lewis Bane, or any four of them; appointed November 8, 1707, to
try Joseph Gunnison for murder.

Wait Winthrop, Samuel Sewall, John Hathorne, Jonathan Curwin, Elisha Hutchin-
son; appointed March 7, 1711.

Nathaniel Thomas, John Otis, James Warren, John Gorham ; appointed June 5, 1713,
to try two Indians for capital crimes.

Samuel Partridge, John Pynchon, John Parsons, John Stoddard; appointed Decem-
ber 3, 1718, to try at Northampton Ovid Ruchbrock for counterfeiting bills of credit of
the province.

John Cushing, Sylvanus Bourne, Zacheus Mayhew, Enoch Coffin, John Otis ; ap-
pointed June 23, 1743, to try an Indian at Nantucket.

John Cushing, Sylvanus Bourne, Zacheus Mayhew, Enoch Coffin, John Otis; ap-
pointed August 9, 1746, for a trial at Nantucket.

As the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts is practically a con-
tinuation of the Superior Court of Judicature of the province, it will be
proper to explain its origin and follow its career to the present day. It
has been stated that the last appointment to the Superior Court of Judi-
cature was made in 1777. In that year the Council and House of Rep-
resentatives met in convention and adopted a form of constitution "for
the State of Massachusetts Bay," which was submitted to the people and
rejected. On the 20th of February, 1779, the General Court passed a
resolve calling on the qualified voters to give in their votes on the ques-
tion : Whether they chose to have a new constitution made and whether
they will empower their representatives to vote for calling a State con-
vention for that purpose. Both of these questions having been carried
in the affirmative, a constitutional convention was held in Cambridge

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on the 1st of September, 1779, in accordance with a resolve of the Gen-
eneral Court passed on the 17th of June. This convention, of which
James Bowdoin was president, and Samuel Barrett secretary, adjourned
on the 1 ith of November to meet in Boston on the 5th of January, 1780.
On the 2d of March a resolution was passed to submit the constitution,
which had been framed, to the people, and the convention adjourned to
meet in the Brattle Street Church in Boston on the 7th of June. At
the adjourned meeting the votes were counted and on the 15th of June
the convention resolved " That the people of the State of Massachusetts
Bay have accepted the Constitution as it stands, in the printed form sub-
mitted to their revision."

Article 9th of the constitution provided that " To the end there may
be no failure of justice or danger arise to the Commonwealth from a
change of the form of Government, all officers, civil and military, hold-
ing commissions under the Government and people of Massachusetts
Bay in New England, and all other officers of the said Government and
people, at the time this constitution shall take effect, shall have, hold,
use, exercise and enjoy all the powers and authority, to them granted
or committed, until other persons shall be appointed in their stead ; and
all courts of law shall proceed in the execution of the business in their
respective departments ; and all the executive and legislative officers,
bodies and powers shall continue in full force, in the enjoyment and
exercise of all their trusts, employments and authority ; until the Gen-
eneral Court and the supreme and executive officers under this consti-
tution are designated and invested with their respective trusts, powers
and authority."

In other parts of the constitution the court is made to assume its new
name of Supreme Judicial Court, and thus the old court was perpetuated
with a new title, but with the same jurisdiction, officers and authority.
A confirmation of the continuance of the old court was declared in the
following act passed by the General Court on the 20th of February,
1781, entitled: "An act empowering the Supreme Judicial Court to
take cognizance of matters heretofore cognizable by the late Superior
Court. *

" Whereas by the laws heretofore made by the General Assembly of
the late province, colony and State of Massachusetts Bay, a Superior

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Court of Judicature, Court of Assize, and General Gaol Delivery was
constituted, and sundry powers and authorities are given to the same
court by particular laws; And whereas by the constitution and frame
of government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the style and
title of the same court is now the Supreme Judicial Court of the Com-
monwealth of Massachusetts ; And the constitution aforesaid having
provided that the laws heretofore made and adopted, should continue
and be in force until they shall be altered or repealed by the legislature ;
whence some doubts may arise whether the Supreme Judicial Court
shall have cognizance of those matters which by particular laws were
expressly made cognizable by the Superior Court of Judicature, Court
of Assize, and General Gaol Delivery :

"Sec. 1. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives in General Court assembled and by the authority of the same,
that the court which hath been, or shall be hereafter appointed and
commissioned according to the constitution as the Supreme Judicial
Court of the Commonwealth, shall have cognizance of all such matters,
as have heretofore happened, or that shall hereafter happen, as by par-
ticular laws were made cognizable by the late Superior Court of Judica-
ture, Court of Assize, and General Gaol Delivery, unless, where the
constitution and frame of government hath provided otherwise."

On the 3d of July, 1782, an act was passed by the General Court
entitled " An act establishing a Supreme Judicial Court within the
Commonwealth," which provided that there should be one chief justice
and four associates, the whole or any three of them to have cognizance
of " pleas real, personal or mixed, and of all civil actions between party
and party and between the Commonwealth and any of the subjects
thereof, whether the same do concern the realty, and relate to right of
freehold, inheritance or possession ; whether the same do concern the
personalty and relate to any matter of debt, contract, damages or per-
sonal injury; and also mixed actions which do concern the realty and
personalty brought legally before the same court by appeal, review, writ
of error or otherwise ; and shall take cognizance of all capital

and other offences and misdemeanors whatsoever of a public nature,
tending either to a breach of the peace, or the oppression of the subject,
or raising of faction, controversy or debate, to any manner of mis-

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government ; and of every crime whatsoever that is against the public
good."

The act further gave the court power to establish such rules respect-
ing the admission of attorneys and the creation of barristers-at-law as
it thought expedient, and appoint a clerk or clerks to record its proceed-
ings. A subsequent act, passed March 12, 1784, gave to the Supreme
Judicial Court appellate jurisprudence in all matters determined by
judges of probate in their respective counties, and an act passed March
16, 1786, conferred upon it jurisdiction in all questions of divorce and
alimony. On the 27th of February, 1790, the salary of the chief jus-
tice was fixed at £370 and that of the associates at £350, "without
the addition of any fee or perquisite whatever." The number of asso-
ciates was increased to six in the year 1800 and the State outside of
Suffolk county was divided into two circuits, the east including Essex
county and Maine, and the west including all the remainder. In 1805
the number of associates was reduced to four and so remained until
1852, when one wasadded.. In 1873 the number was increased to six
and has so remained up to the present time. ' The salaries, of the court
as fixed by chapter 104 of the laws of 1892 are $7,500 and $500 for
travel for the chief justice, and $6,500 and 500 for travel for each asso-
ciate.

The jurisdiction of the court has been changed at various times, the
most recent changes having been the transfer of jurisdiction " in mat-
ters of divorce to the Superior Court in 1887, the transfer of jurisdiction
in capital trials to the same court in 1891, and the gift of concurrent
jurisdiction to that court in 1891 in matters relating to telegraph and
telephone wires, relating to the abuse of towns of corporate powers, re-
lating to the construction, alteration, maintenance and use of buildings,
and relating to the control of street railways."

The following persons have occupied seats on the bench of the Su-
preme Judicial Court by appointment since the adoption of the State
constitution :

Chief Justices. — Nathaniel Peaselee Sargent, appointed 1790; died 1791. Francis
Dana, appointed 1791; resigned 1806. Theophilus Parsons, appointed 1806; died
1813. Samuel Sewall, appointed 1814; died 1814. Isaac Parker, appointed 1814;
died 1830. Lemuel Shaw, appointed 1830; resigned 1860. George Tyler Bigelow,
appointed 1860; resigned 1868. Reuben Atwater Chapman, appointed 1868; died

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1873. Horace Gray, appointed 1873; resigned 1882. Marcus Morton, appointed 1882;
resigned 1890. Walbridge Abner Field, appointed 1890.

Justices. — Increase Sumner, appointed 1782; resigned 1789. Francis Dana, appointed
1785; made chief 1791. Robert Treat Paine, appointed 1790; resigned 1804. Nathan
Cushing, appointed 1790; resigned 1800. Thomas Dawes, appointed 1792; resigned
1802. Theophilus Bradbury, appointed 1797; removed 1803. Samuel Sewall, ap-
pointed 1800; made chief 1814. Simeon Strong, appointed 1801; died 1805. George
Thacher, appointed 1801 ; resigned 1824. Theodore Sedgwick, appointed 1802; died
1813. Isaac Parker, appointed 1806; made chief 1814. Charles Jackson, appointed
1813; resigned 1823. Daniel Dewey, appointed 1814; died 1814. Samuel Putnam,
appointed 1814; resigned 1842. Samuel Sumner Wilde, appointed 1815; resigned
1850. Levi Lincoln, appointed 1824; resigned 1825. Marcus Morton, appointed 1825;
resigned 1840. Charles Augustus Dewey, appointed 1837 ; died 1866. Samuel Hub-
bard, appointed 1842-; died 1847. Charles Edward Forbes, appointed 1848; resigned
1848. Theron Metcalf, appointed 1848; resigned 1865. Richard Fletcher, appointed
1848; resigned 1853. George Tyler Bigelow, appointed 1850 ; made chief 1860. Caleb
Cushing, appointed 1852; resigned 1853. Benjamin Franklin Thomas, appointed 1853;
resigned 1859. Pliny Merrick, appointed 1853 ; resigned 1864. Ebenezer Rockwood
Hoar, appointed 1859; resigned 1869. Reuben Atwater Chapman, appointed 1860;
made chief 1868. Horace Gray, jr., appointed 1864; made chief 1873. James Deni-
son Colt, appointed 1865 ; resigned 1866. Dwight Foster, appointed 1866; resigned
1869. John Wells, appointed 1866; died 1875. James Denison Colt, appointed 1868;
died 1881. Seth Ames, appointed 1869; resigned 1881. Marcus Morton, appointed
1869; made chief 1882. William C. Endicott, appointed 1873; resigned 1882. Charles
Devens, jr., appointed 1873; resigned 1877. Otis Phillips Lord, appointed 1875 ; re-
signed 1882. Augustus Lord Soule, appointed 1877 ; resigned 1881. Walbridge Abner
Field, appointed 1881; made chief 1890. Charles Devens, jr., appointed 1881; died
1891. William Allen, appointed 1881; died 1891. Charles Allen, appointed 1882.
Waldo Colburn, appointed 1882; died 1885. Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr., appointed
1882. William Sewall Gardner, appointed 1885; resigned 1887. Marcus Perrini
Knowlton, appointed 1887. James Madison Morton, appointed 1890. John Lathrop,
appointed 1891. James Madison Barker, appointed 1891.

It has been stated above that the act establishing the Supreme Judicial
Court, passed July 3, 1782, gave the court authority to regulate the
admission of attorneys and the creation of barristers- at-law. The law
passed November 4, 1705, already quoted, prescribing the oath to be
taken by attorneys, appears until recent times to have furnished the
only necessary regulation. No definite term of study seems to have
been required as a qualification for admission to the bar. It is probable
that so far as barristers were concerned, something like the custom in
England prevailed. There, barristers before admission to plead at the
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bar must have resided three years in one of the inns of court, if a gradu-
ate at Cambridge or Oxford, and five years if not. These inns were
the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn.
In Massachusetts the rule seems to have required a practice at one
period of three, at another of four, and still another of seven years in
the inferior courts.

Before the act was passed establishing the Supreme Judicial Court
the following entry was made in the records of the Superior Court of
Judicature :

"Suffolk, ss. : Superior Court of Judicature at Boston, third Tuesday of February,
1781, present, William Cushing, Nathaniel P. Sargeant, David Sewall and James Sulli-
van ; and now at this term the following rule is made by the court and ordered to be
■entered, viz.: Whereas, learning and literary accomplishments are necessary as well to
promote the happiness as to preserve the freedom of the people, and the learning of the
law when duly encouraged and rightly directed being as well peculiarly subservient to
the great and good purpose aforesaid, as promotive of public and private justice; and
the court being at all times ready to bestow peculiar marks of approbation upon the
gentlemen of the bar, who, by a close application to the study of the science they pro-
fess, by a mode of conduct which gives a conviction of the rectitude of their minds, and
a fairness of practice that does honor to the profession of the law, shall distinguish
themselves as men of science, honor and integrity: Do order that no gentleman shall
be called to the degree of Barrister until he shall merit the same, by his conspicuous
bearing, ability and honesty; and that the Court will, of their own mere motion call to
the Bar such persons as shall render themselves worthy as aforesaid; and that the man-
ner of calling to the Bar shall be as follows: The gentleman who shall be a candidate
shall stand within the bar, the Chief Justice, or in his absence the senior Justice, shall,
in the name of the Court, repeat to him the qualifications necessary for a Barrister at
Law ; shall let him know that it is a conviction in the mind of the Court of his being
possessed of these qualifications that induces them to confer the honor upon him ; and
shall solemnly charge him so to conduct himself as to be of singular service to his coun-
try by exerting his abilities for the defence of her constitutional freedom ; and so to de-
mean himself as to do honor to the Court and Bar."

The Supreme Judicial Court made the following entry in its records :

"Suffolk, ss.: At the Supreme Judicial Court at Boston the last Tuesday of Au-
gust, 1783, present, William Cushing, Chief Justice, and Nathaniel P. Sargeant, David
Sewall and Increase Sumner, Justices, ordered that Barristers be called to the Bar by
special writ to be ordered by the Court, and to be in the following form :

'' Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

"To A B Esq., of , Greeting: We well knowing your ability, learning and in-
tegrity, command you that you appear before our Justices of our Supreme Judicial
Court, next to be holden at , in and for our county of , on the Tuesday of

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, then and there in our said Court to take upon you the state and degree of a Bar-
rister at Law. Hereof fail not. Witness , Esq., our Chief Justice at Boston, the

day of , in the year of our Independence, . By order of the Court.

, Clerk.

"Which writ shall be fairly engrossed on parchment and delivered twenty days be-
fore the session of the same Court by the Sheriff of the same county to the person to
whom directed, and being produced in Court by the Barrister and there read by the
Clerk, and proper certificate thereon made shall be redelivered and kept as a voucher of
his being legally called to the Bar; and the Barristers shall take rank according to the
date of their respective writs."(^ §ei^j. E^-i - £~

It is believed that no barristers were called after 1789, and in 1806
the Supreme Judicial Court adopted the following rule by which ap-
parently counsellors were substituted for barristers :

"Suffolk, ss. At the Supreme Judicial Court at Boston for the counties of Suffolk
and Nantucket the second Tuesday of March, 180C, present Francis Dana, Chief Jus-
tice; Theodore Sedgwick, George Thatcher and Isaac Parker, Justices, ordered: First,
no attorney shall do the business of a counsellor unless he shall have been made or ad-
mitted as such by the Court. Second, all attorneys of this Court who have been ad-
mitted three years before the sitting of this Court shall be and hereby are made
counsellors and are entitled to all the rights and privileges of such. Third, no attorney
or counsellor shall hereafter be admitted without a. previous examination."

In 1836 the distinction between counsellor and attorney was abolished.
It is difficult to say how early the barrister occupied a position in our
courts. It is known, however, that in 1768 there were twenty-five in
Massachusetts. Of these eleven were in Suffolk, Richard Dana, Benjamin
Kent, James Otis, jr., Samuel Fitch, William Read, Samuel Swift.Benjamin
Gridley, Samuel Quincy, Robert Auchmuty, and Andrew Cazneau, of
Boston, and Jonathan Adams, of Braintree ; five were in Essex, Daniel
Farnham and John Lowell, of Newburyport, William Pynchon, of Salem,
John Chipman, of Marblehead, and Nathaniel Peaselee Sargeant, of
Haverhill ; one was in Middlesex, Jonathan Sewall ; two in Worcester,.
James Putnam, of Worcester, and Abel Willard, of Lancaster;
three in Bristol, Samuel White and Robert Treat Paine, of Taunton, and
Daniel Leonard, of Norton ; two in Plymouth, James Hovey and Pelham
Winslovv, of Plymouth, and one in Hampshire, John Worthington of
Springfield. After that date the following barristers were called :
Joseph Hawley, of Northampton, David Sewall, of York, Moses Bliss,
of Springfield, Zephaniah Leonard, of Taunton, Theodore Bradbury, cf~

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Falmouth (Portland), David Weyer, of Falmouth, Mark Hopkins, of
Great Barrington, Simeon Strong, of Amherst, John Sullivan, of
Durham, Daniel Oliver, of Hardwick, Frances Dana, of Cambridge,
Sampson Salter Blowers, of Boston, Daniel Bliss, of Concord, Samuel
Porter, of Salem, Joshua Upham, of Brookfield, Shearjashub Bourne,
of Barnstable, James Sullivan, of Biddeford, Jeremiah D. Rogers, of
Littleton, Oaks Angier, of Bridgewater, John Sprague, of Lancaster,
Caleb Strong, of Northampton, Elisha Porter, of Hadley, Theodore
Sedgwick, of Sheffield, Benjamin Hichborn, of Boston, Theophilus
Parsons, of Newburyport,' Jonathan Bliss, of Springfield, William Tudor,
Perez Morton and William Wetmore of Boston, and Levi Lincoln,
of Worcester. No barristers were called after 1789 and the fifty-five
whose names are given above are believed by the writer to be all ever
called to the bar in Massachusetts.

The reports of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massa-
chusetts are contained in one hundred and fifty-four volumes. Ephraim
Williams as reporter edited one volume including decisions from the
September term, 1804, in Berkshire to the June term, 1805, m Lincoln.
Dudley Atkins Tyng, the next reporter, edited sixteen volumes, cover-
ing the period from the March term, 1806, in Suffolk to the Suffolk
March term, 1822. Octavius Pickering, who succeeded Tyng, edited
twenty-four volumes beginning with the Berkshire September term,
1822, and ending with decisions in Essex in 1839. Theron Metcalf, the
successor of Pickering, covered with twelve volumes the period
from the Suffolk and Nantucket March term in 1840 to the Hampden,
Hampshire and Franklin September term in 1847. Luther Stearns
Cushing reported twelve volumes from the Suffolk and Nantucket term
of 1848, to the Suffolk term of November, 1853. Horace Gray, jr., in
sixteen volumes covered the period from the Suffolk and Nantucket
term of 1854 to the Suffolk term of November, i860. Charles Allen
in fourteen volumes reported the decisions from January, 1861, to the
Suffolk term in January, 1867. Albert G. Browne reported in thirteen
volumes from the Berkshire September term of 1867 to the Suffolk
March term of 1872. Albert G. Browne, jr., and John C. Gray, jr.,
edited jointly two volumes with decisions from the Suffolk March
term in 1872 to the Suffolk March term of 1873. Albert G. Browne,

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jr., again, alone, reported three volumes from the Worcester September
term 1873, to the Norfolk January term 1874. John Lathrop edited
thirty volumes with decisions from the Berkshire September term 1874
to June, 1887. William V. Kellen followed with volumes containing
decisions ending with November, 1891.

The Inferior Court of Common Pleas, as has been stated, was finally
established by the act published June 27, 1699, to be held in each
county by four judges appointed for the same. The jurisdiction of this
court has been already described in the laws which were at various times
disallowed by the Privy Council, and need not be repeated. The
court went into operation after the original disallowed act was passed in
1692, and as the disallowance only acted as a repeal, the court was kept
alive by subsequent acts until the final approval of the act of 1699.

The judges of the court for Suffolk county at various times were as

follows :

Elisha Hutchinson, appointed December 7, 1692 ; John Foster, appointed December 7,
1692; Peter Sergeant, appointed December 7, 1692; Isaac Addington, appointed De-
cember 7, 1692; Jeremialj Dummer, appointed July 2, 1702; Penn Townsend, appoint-
ed August 14, 1702; Thomas Palmer, appointed June 11, 1711; Edward Lynde, ap-
pointed December 9, 1715 ; Adam Wiuthrop, appointed December 9, 1715; William
Dudley, appointed December 26, 1727; Nathaniel Byfield, appointed December 29,
1731; Eli>ha Cooke, appointed December 29, 1731; Anthony Stoddard, appointed
January 21, 1733; Edward Hutchinson, appointed October 27, 1740; Eliakim Hutch-
inson, appointed December 31, 1741; Edward Winslow, appointed October 20, 1743;
Samuel Watts, appointed April 6. 1748 ; Thomas Hutchinson, appointed April 3, 1752 ;
Samuel Welles, appointed January 8, 1755; Foster Hutchinson, appointed April 1,
1758; William Reed, appointed May 9, 1770; Nathaniel Hatch^ appointed January 10,
1771 ; Joseph Green, appointed July 3, 1772; Thomas Hutchinson, jr., appointed De-
cember 31, 1772; Benjamin Gridley, appointed May, 1775; Samuel Dexter, appointed
October 31, 1775; John Hill, appointed October 31, 1775 ; Samuel Niles, appointed Oc-
tober 31, 1775; Samuel Pemberton, appointed October 31, 1775; Thomas Cushmg, ap-
pointed February 8, 1776.

This completes the lists of judges who served prior to the law passed

July 3, 1782, establishing the Court of Common Pleas.

The special justices during the same period were :

Samuel Checkley, appointed December 18, 1725; Anthony Stoddard, appointed De-
cember 18, 1725 ; Francis Fulham, appointed February 3, 1731-2; Thomas Greaves, ap-
pointed February 3, 1731-2; Hugh Hall, appointed February 3, 1731-2; Josiah Quin-
sy, appointed December 31, 1734; Samuel Danforth, appointed February 21, 1734-5;

78 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Francis Foxcroft, appointed February 21, 1734-5; John Quincy, appointed April Gr
1748; James Minot, appointed April 6, 1748; Benjamin Lincoln, appointed January 24T
1770; Joseph Williams, appointed January 24, 1770; Thomas Cushinp, appointed Oc-
tober 31, 1775 ; Joseph Palmer, appointed October 31, 1775; Richard Cranih, appointed
1780 ; Joseph Gardner, appointed 1780; Edmund Quincy, appointed 1780.

The chief justices during the same period were : Elisha Hutchinson,
Penn Townsend, Thomas Palmer, Adam Winthrop, Edward Hutchin-
son, Nathaniel Byfield, Eliakim Hutchinson, Samuel Dexter and
Thomas Cushing.

The new law, passed July 3, 1782, after the adoption of the constitu-
tion, changed the name of the court to " Court of Common Pleas," and
provided that it should be kept in each county by four judges, appoint-
ed from within the county, who should have cognizance of all civil ac-
tions of the value of more than forty shillings, with the right of appeal
for all parties to the next Supreme Judicial Court held within the same
county. It bore the same relation to its predecessor, the Inferior Court
of Common Pleas, that the Supreme Judicial Court, when established,
bore to the Superior Court of Judicature.

The judges of the court, which continued until June 21, 181 1, were
the following :

Oliver Wendell, appointed February 6, 1783, standing justice; William Heath, ap-
pointed January 28, 1785, special justice; Suthell Hubbard, appointed January 28, 1785,
special justice; Samuel Barrett, appointed April 26, 1787, special justice ; Samuel Bar-
rett, appointed July 15, 1788, standing justice; Thomas Crafts, appointed August G,
1788, special justice; Thomas Crafts, appointed July 9, 1793, standing justice ; Wil-
liam Dennison, appointed 1798, [standing justice; George Richards Minot, ap-
pointed January 9, 1799, standing justice ; Samuel Cooper, appointed Januaiy 9, 1799,
special justice; William Sherburne, appointed January 9, 1799, special justice ; Shear-
jashub Bourne, appointed June 18, 1800, standing justice.

In the year 1800 the law provided that there should be one chief
justice and three justices, and the court so continued through the period
of its existence with the following appointments to its bench:

George R. Minot, appointed 1800, chief justice; Shearjashub Bourne, appointed
June 18, 1801, chief justice; Samuel Cooper, appointed January 7, 1802, special jus-
tice; William Wetmore, appointed February 17, 1806, special justice ; William Wet-
more, appointed May 26, 1806, chief justice ; Joseph Ward, appointed July 2, 1807, spe-
cial justice ; John Phillips, appointed August 29, 1809, special justice ; Robert Gardner
appointed March 15, 1811, special justice.

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On the 2 1st of June, 181 1, it was enacted that the Commonwealth,
except Nantucket and Dukes county, should be divided into six cir-
cuits as follows: the middle circuit composed of Suffolk, Essex and
Middlesex counties ; the western circuit composed of Worcester, Hamp-
shire and Berkshire counties; the southern circuit composed of Nor-
folk, Plymouth, Bristol and Barnstable counties; the first eastern cir-
cuit composed of York, Cumberland and Oxford counties; the second
eastern circuit composed of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset counties;
and the third eastern circuit composed of Hancock and Washington
counties.

It also provided that "There shall be held and kept in each county,
in the several circuits aforesaid, at such times and places as are now by
law appointed for holding the Courts of Common Pleas in the several
counties, a Circuit Court of Common Pleas, to consist of one chief jus-
tice and two associate justices, each of whom shall be an inhabitant of
the Commonwealth ; and any two of them shall be a court
with original jurisdiction of all civil actions . . (excepting only
such actions, wherein the Supreme Judicial Court or where justices
of the peace now have original jurisdiction) ; and shall also have ju-
risdiction of all such offences, crimes and misdemeanors, as before the
passage of this act were cognizable by the respective Courts of Com-
mon Pleas." They also had appellate jurisdiction in the case of sen-
tences or judgments of a justice of the peace. It was further pro-
vided " that all actions, suits, matters and things which may be pend-
ing in the several Courts of Common Pleas on the second of Decern-
ber (181 1), and all writs, executions, warrants, recognizances and proc-
esses returnable to " the Common Pleas Court shall be returnable to
the Circuit Court of Common Pleas.

The judges of this court appointed in the middle circuit of which
Suffolk county formed a part were :

Samuel Dana, chief justice, of G-roton ; William Wetmore, associate, of Boston ;
Stephen Minot, associate, of Haverhill.

Suffolk county, by an act passed February 26, 1 8 14, was taken
out of the circuit and was given a court of its own, which will be
mentioned hereafter.

The first session of the Circuit Court was held at Cambridge, on the
16th of December, 181 1, and its last session at Concord on the 1 ith of

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June, 182 1. On the 14th of February, 1821, an act was passed estab-
lishing the late Court of Common Pleas, as a substitute for the Circuit
Court of Common Pleas, to take effect from and after the first day of
August in that year. It provided for the appointment of four justices,
one of whom should be commissioned chief justice, with practically the
same jurisdiction which had been conferred on its predecessor, the In-
ferior Court of Common Pleas and Circuit Court of Common Pleas, ex-
cept that it was a court of the Commonwealth and not limited to any
county or circuit. The court continued in existence until abolished by
the act passed April 5, 1859, establishing the present Superior Court.
On the first of March the number of associate justices was increased to
four, on the 18th of March, 1845, to six, and on the 24th of May, 185 I,
to seven.

The judges of the court at various times were as follows:

Chief Justices. — Artemas Ward, appointed 1821 ; resigned 1839. John Mason Wil-
liams, appointed 1839; resigned 1844. Daniel Wells, appointed 1844; died ltt54.
Edward Mellen, appointed 1854; court abolished 1859.

Associate Justices. — Solomon Strong, appointed 1821 ; resigned 1842. John Mason
Williams, appointed 1821 ; chief justice 1839. Samuel Howe, appointed 1821; died 1828.
David Cummins, appointed 1828; resigned 1844. Charles Henry Warren, appointed
1839; resigned 1844. Charles Allen, appointed 1842; resigned 1844. Pliny Merrick,
appointed 1843 ; resigned 1848. Joshua Holyoke Ward, appointed 1844 ; died 1848.
Emory Washburn, appointed 1844; resigned 1S47. Luther Stearns Cushing, appointed
1844; resigned 1848. Harrison Gray Otis Colby, appointed 1845; resigned 1847;
Charles Edward Forbes, appointed 1847 ; Supreme Court 1848. Edward Mellen,
appointed 1847; chief justice 1854. George Tyler Bigelow, appointed 1848;
Supreme Court, 1850. Jonathan Coggswell Perkins, appointed 1848 ; court abolished
1859. Horatio Byington, appointed 1848; died 1856. Thomas Hopkinson, appointed
1848; resigned 1849. Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, appointed 1849; resigned 1853.
Pliny Merrick, appointed 1850 ; Supreme Court 1854. Henry Walker Bishop, appoint-
ed 1851 ; court abolished 1859. George Nixon Briggs, appointed 1853 ; court abolished
1859. George Partridge Sanger, appointed 1854 ; court abolished 1859. Henry Mor-
ris, appointed 1855; court abolished -1859. David Aiken, appointed 1856; court abol-
ished 1859.

The Superior Court was established April 5, 1859, as the successor
of the Court of Common Pleas and with practically the same jurisdic-
tion, with one chief justice and ten associate justices. The number of
associates was increased to eleven May 19, 1875, to thirteen Febru-
ary 27, 1888, and to fifteen May 6, 1892. The judges of this court
up to the present time, August, 1892, have been as follows:

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Chief Justices. — Charles Allen, appointed 1859; resigned 1867. Seth Ames, ap-
pointed 1867; Supreme Court 1869. Lincoln Flagg Brigham, appointed 1869; resigned
1890. Albert Mason, appointed 1890; incumbent.

Associate Justices. — Julius Rockwell, appointed 1859; resigned 1886. Otis Phillips
Lord, appointed 1859; Supreme Court 1875. Marcus Morton, jr., appointed 1859; Su-
preme Court 1869. Seth Ames, appointed 1859; chief justice 1867. Ezra Wilkinson,
appointed 1859 ; died 1882. Henry Vose, appointed 1859 ; died 1869. Thomas Rus-
sell, appointed 1859; resigned 1867. John Phelps Putnam, appointed 1859; died
1882. Lincoln Flagg Brigham, appointed 1859; chief justice 1869. Chester Isham
Reed, appointed 1867 ; resigned 1871. Charles Devens. jr., appointed 1867; Supreme
Court 1873. Henry Austin Scudder, appointed 1S69; resigned 1872. Fiancis Hen-
shaw Dewey, appointed 1869; resigned 1881. Robert Carter Pitman, appointed 1809;
died 1891. John William Bacon, appointed 1871; died 1888. William Allen, ap-
pointed 1872; Supreme Court 1881. Peleg Emory Aldrich, appointed 1873 ; incum-
bent. Waldo Colburn, appointed 1875 ; Supreme Court 1882. Wm. Sewall Gardner,
appointed 1875; Supreme Court 1885. Hamilton Barclay Staples, appointed 1881;
died 1891. Marcus Perrin Knowlton, appointed 1881; Supreme Court 1887. Caleb
Blodgett, appointed 1882; incumbent. Albert Mason, appointed 1882; chief justice
1890. James Madison Barker, appointed 18b2; Supreme Court 1891. Charles Pei kins
Thompson, appointed 1885; incumbent. John Wilkes Hammond, appointed 1886;
incumbent. Justin Dewey, appointed 1886 ; incumbent. Edgar Jay Sherman, ap-
pointed 1887 ; incumbent. John Lathrop, appointed 1888; Supreme Court 1891. James
Robert Dunbar, appointed 1888; incumbent. Robert Roberts Bishop, appointed 1888;
incumbent. Daniel Webster Bond, appointed 1890; incumbent. Henry King Brsiiey,.
appointed 1891 ; incumbent. John Hopkins, appointed 1891; incumbent. Ehsha Burr
Maynard, appointed 1891 ; incumbent. Franklin Goodiidge Fessenden, appointed 1891 ^
incumbent. John W. Corcoran, appointed 1891 ; incumbent. James B. Richardson,
1891 ; incumbent.

Among the most important changes in the jurisdiction of this court
have been the following recent ones: By chapter 332 of the laws of
1887 exclusive jurisdiction was given to it "in all cases of divorce and
nullity or validity of marriage." By chapter 379 of the laws of 1 89 1 it
was given jurisdiction in capital crimes, and by chapter 293 of the same
year, jurisdiction in matters relating to telegraph and telephone wires
given to the Supreme Court by chapter 27 of the public statutes, in
matters relating to the abuse by towns of corporate powers given to
the Supreme Court by the same chapter, relating to the construction,
alteration, maintenance and use of buildings, given to the Supreme
Court by chapter 104 of the public statutes and relating to the control
of street railroads, given to the same court by chapter 1 1 3. The salaries
of the chief justices of the Supreme Judicial Court and the Superior
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Court are $7,500 and $500 for travel for the former, and $6,500 and
$500 for travel for the latter; and for the associate justices, $7,000 and
$500 for travel for those of the former, and $6,000 and $500 for travel
for those of the latter.

The law establishing the Superior',Court abolished not only the Com-
mon Pleas Court, but also the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk
and the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, whose functions and
powers it assumed as well as those of the Court of Common Pleas. These
two courts will be referred to hereafter.

The Court of General Sessions of the Peace was the third court es-
tablished June 2J, 1699. The act establishing it provided that it should
be held in each county by the justices of the peace of the same county,
who were empowered to hear and determine all matters relating to the
conservation of the peace. The court for Suffolk was to be held on the
first Tuesdays in July, October, January and April. This court con-
tinued without material change until June 19, 1807, its powers having
been renewed after the adoption of the constitution by an act passed
July 3, 1782. By an act passed at the above date, June 19, 1807, it
was provided that this court should be held in the several counties by
one chief justice and four associates for Suffolk, six for Essex, six for
Middlesex, six for Hampshire, four for Berkshire, four for Norfolk, four
for Plymouth, four for Bristol, two for Barnstable, two for the county of
Dukes county, two for Nantucket, four for York, four for Cumberland,
four for Oxford, four for Lincoln, six for Kennebec, six for Hancock,
and two for Washington. These justices were to act as the General
Court of Sessions, instead of justices of the peace, and to have and per-
form all the duties of the old court. On the 19th of June, 1809, tne
jurisdiction of the General Court of Sessions of the Peace was trans-
ferred to the Court of Common Pleas. Up to that time the judges in
Suffolk county had been :

William Dennison, appointed September 28, 1807, chief justice ; David Tilden, ap-
pointed September 28, 1807, associate ; Russell Sturgis, appointed September 28, 1807,
•associate ; Samuel Clap, appointed September 28, 1807, associate/"

On the 25th of June, 181 1, an act was passed providing " that from,
and after the first day of September next, an act made and passed on
the nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight

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hundred and nine, entitled 'An act to transfer the powers and duties of
the Court of Sessions to the Courts of Common Pleas, and for other
purposes,' be and the same is hereby repealed," and that said General
Court of Sessions should be revived. After the revival, on the 30th of
August, 181 1, William Dennison was again appointed chief justice and
David Tilden and Russell Sturgis associates. Discretion was given to-
the governor to appoint one chief justice, and not more than four nor
less than two associates in any county.

On the 28th of February, 1814, still another act was passed repealing
the act of revival of the General Court of Sessions, except so far as Suf-
folk, Nantucket and the county of Dukes county were concerned, and
transferring their jurisdiction to the Circuit Court of Common Pleas,
which had been established on the 21st of June, 181 1. By this act the
governor was authorized to appoint two persons in each county to be
session justices of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in their respective
counties, and to sit with the justices of the Circuit Court in tne adminis-
tration of all matters within their county over which the Courts of Ses-
sions had jurisdiction. The administration of county affairs was con-
ducted by the Circuit Court of Common Pleas until February 20, 18 19,
when the act which transferred the powers of the Court of Sessions to
that court was repealed, and it was provided by law that the Court of
Sessions in each county should beheld by a chief justice and two asso-
ciates. The Court of Sessions for Suffolk county continued until Feb-
ruary 23, 1822, when it was abolished by an " act to regulate the ad-
ministration of justice within the county of Suffolk and for other pur-
poses." In addition to those already mentioned as judges at various-
times in the changing conditions of the court in Suffolk county, were
Josiah Batchelder, appointed July 2, 1808; Benjamin Homans, ap-
pointed May 18, 1812; William Little and Edward Jones, appointed-
May 25, 1812 ; William Smith, appointed January 20, 18 14, and Ben-
jamin Rand, appointed May 25, 1819.

The Courts of Justices of the Peace have been handed down from the
earliest days of the province and were first established by the act for
the establishing of judicatories and courts of justice within the province,
passed November 25, 1692, and disallowed by the Privy Council Au-
gust 22, 1695. They were again established by an act passed June i8_

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1697, and afterwards confirmed by repeated legislation. Their civil and
criminal powers were so similar to those of justices of the Common-
wealth, that it is not proposed to set them forth more fully than they
have already been in an earlier part of this narrative.

The Boston Court of Common Pleas was established by an act passed
February 26, 1 8 14. At that time Suffolk county was a part of the mid-
dle circuit. The act provided that after the 28th of March, 1 8 14, a
Court of Common Pleas should be held at Boston for the county of
Suffolk on the first Tuesdays of January, March, May, July, September
and November, to be called " the Boston Court of Common Pleas." It
was to have one judge with a jurisdiction over all causes of a civil nat-
ure which had been cognizable by the Circuit Court of Common Pleas.
It was also to have original and concurrent jurisdiction in all civil ac-
tions in the county of Suffolk under the sum of twenty dollars, and to
hold a court to be called the Town Court for the summary trial without
jury of all such actions on Wednesday of every week. The clerk of
said court was to be called " Recorder" and have power to hold the
court in case of the death or absence of the judge. This court continued,
until it was abolished by the act establishing a Common Pleas Court for
the Commonwealth February 14, 1821. The judges of this court at
various times were as follows :

Harrison Gray Otis, appointed March 16, 1814; William Minot, appointed March 2,
1818; William Prescott, appointed April 21, 1818; Artemas Ward, appointed May 11,
1819.

"An act to establish a Municipal Court in the Town of Boston" was
passed March 4, 1800. The following are some of its provisions : "That
there shall be holden within and for the Town of Boston, on the first
Monday of every month, by such learned, able and discreet person as
the governor shall appoint and commission pursuant to the constitu-
tion, a court of justice by the name of the Municipal Court for the Town
of Boston ; that said court shall have full power to adjourn from day to
day and shall have cognizance of all crimes and offences committed
within the town of Boston, which are now cognizable in the 'Court of
General Sessions of the Peace ; and cognizance of all crimes and of-
fences against the By-Laws of the said Town ; of frauds, deceits, mo-
nopolies, forestalling, regrating, thefts aud nuisances."

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The court was presided over by one judge until March I, 1843, when
it was provided by law that the judges of the Common Pleas Court
should be ex-officio the judges of the Municipal Court. When the Su-
perior Court of the county of Suffolk was established by an act passed
May 21, 1855, the powers of the judges of the Common Pleas Court in
relation to the Municipal Court were transferred to the new court, and
when the Superior Court was established, April 5, 1859, the Municipal
Court was finally abolished. The judges of this court at various times
were :

George Richards Minot appointed 1800; Thomas Dawes, jr., appointed 1802; Josiah
Quincy, appointed January 16, 1822; Peter 0. Thacher, appointed May 14, 1823.

On the 2istof May, 1855, an act was passed to establish the "Su-
perior Court of the County of Suffolk," which provided for the appoint-
ment of four justices, one of whom should be chief justice, with juris-
diction " in all cases, and in the same manner, and to the same extent,
in which the Court of Common Pleas now has jurisdiction in said county,
whether original and exclusive, concurrent or appellate; and they shall
also have exclusive jurisdiction in all cases in which the Court of Com-
mon Pleas now has concurrent jurisdiction with the Supreme Judicial
Court in said county, wherein the damages demanded or the property
claimed shall not exceed in amount or value the sum of fifteen hundred
dollars; and no action in which the said Superior Court may have juris-
diction under this act shall be brought in the Supreme Judicial Court in
the county of Suffolk, except the damages therein demanded, or the
property claimed, shall exceed in amount or value the sum of fifteen
hundred dollars, and when the plaintiff, or some one in his behalf, shall
before service of the writ, make oath or affirmation before some justice
of the peace, that the matter sought to be recovered actually exceeds in
amount or value the said sum."

The act provided for six terms per year in Boston, and at any term
to suit public convenience, two sessions might be held. The city of
Boston was to pay the expenses of the court, the justices were to be
ex-officio justices of the Municipal Court, the terms of the Common
Pleas Court in the county of Suffolk were abolished and "judges of
the said Superior Court and of the Court of Common Pleas might inter-
change services, and hold mutual consultations in matters of law and as

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to rules of practice." This court was also abolished by'the act estab-
lishing the present Superior Court passed April 5, 1859. The judges
of this court were as follows :

Albert H. Nelson, chief justice, appointed October 13, 1855, resigned 1858; Josiah
Q-. Abbot, appointed October 13, 1855, resigned 1858; Stephen G. Nash, appointed Oc-
tober 13, 1855. court abolished 1859; Charles P. Huntington, appointed October 13,
1855, court abolished 1859; Marcus Morton, jr., appointed March 14,1858, vice Abbot;
Charles Allen, chief justice, appointed March 19, 1858, court abolished 1859.

A Police Court was established in Boston by an act passed February
23, 1822, the most important provisions of which for the purposes of
this narrative were as follows: "That the town of Chelsea shall con-
tinue to be a part of the county of Suffolk, for all purposes relating to
the administration of justice, as though this act had not been passed,
excepting that the town of Chelsea shall not be liable to taxation for
any county purposes, until the legislature shall otherwise order; and
excepting also as hereinafter provided, concerning the jurisdiction of
justices of the peace. That the Court of Common Pleas in the county
of Suffolk shall have jurisdiction in all matters and things, which in re-
lation to the town of Chelsea, or the inhabitants thereof, were cogniz-
able by the Court of Sessions in the county ol Suffolk before the passing
of this act.

"That there shall be and hereby is established within and for the
city of Boston, a Police Court to consist of three learned, able and dis-
creet persons to be appointed and commissioned by the governor pur-
suant to the constitution, and the session justice shall preside in said
court; and a court shall be held daily at nine of the clock A. M. and at
three of the clock P. M., by some one or more of said justices, and at
any other terms when necessary to take cognizance of all crimes, of-
fences and misdemeanors,, whereof justices of the peace may take
cognizance by law, and of all offences which may be cognizable by one
or more of said justices, according to the by-laws, rules and regulations
which may be established by the proper authority of the city of
Boston.

"That a court shall be held by one or more of said justices on two
several days in each week, and as much oftener as maybe necessary, to-
be called and styled the Justice's Court for the county of Suffolk ; which

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court shall have original, exclusive jurisdiction and cognizance of all
civil suits and actions, which before, and until the passing of this act,
might by law be heard, tried and determined before any justice of the
peace within and for the county of Suffolk ; and an appeal shall be al-
lowed from all judgments in said justice's court in like manner as ap-
peals are now allowed by law, from judgments of justices of the peace
in civil actions in the said county of Suffolk."

The final provision of the act was "that it shall be of no force or
effect unless a certain act establishing the city of Boston," passed at
the present session, shall be accepted by the inhabitants of the town
of Boston pursuant to the provision therein made.

The Police Court and the Justice's Court described in the above act
remained distinct, one exercising criminal and the other civil jurisdiction,
with the same judges for both, until i860 when it was enacted in the
general statutes that "all cases and proceedings pending in or return-
able to the Justice's Court for the county of Suffolk, and the records
and jurisdiction of said court are transferred to the Police Court."
The judges who served at various times in this court were :

Benjamin Whitman, appointed June 10, 1822, senior justice ; William Simmons, ap-
pointed June 10, 1822; Henry Orne, appointed June 10, 1822; John G-. Rogers, ap-
pointed August 10, 1831 ; James C. Merrill, appointed February 19, 1834; Abel Cushing,
appointed June 30, 1843; Thomas Russell, appointed February 26, 1852; Sebeus C.
Maine, appointed November 3, 1858 ; George D. Wells, appointed May 31, 1859 ; Ed-
win Wright, appointed July 9, 1861 ; Mellen Chamberlain, appointed June 28, 1861,
special justice.

The Police Court was abolished by an act passed May 29, 1866, es-
tablishing the Present Municipal Court of the city of Boston. That
act provided that " there shall be established a court to be called the
Municipal Court of the city of Boston, which shall have the same
powers and jurisdiction in all actions and proceedings at law, whether
civil or criminal as the Police Court of the city of Boston now has, ex-
cept as hereinafter provided " — that " all cases pending at the time this
act shall take full effect, whether civil or criminal, in the Police Court of
the city of Boston, shall be transferred to and have day in the proper
day and term of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston ; and all
writs, processes, complaints, petitions and proceedings whatever which
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returnable to, entered and have day in the proper day and term of
said Municipal Court, that there shall be appointed, commissioned and
qualified, agreeably to the constitution, . . three suitable persons as
justices of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, one of whom
shall be appointed, commissioned and qualified as chief justice thereof,
one or more of whom shall hold a court for criminal business daily, ex-
cept Sundays or legal holidays, in the forenoon at nine o'clock, and in
the afternoon except on Saturday at three o'clock, or some hour there-
after, and a court for civil business weekly, each term of which shall
begin on Saturday.

By chapter 41 of the laws of 1882 the number of associate justices
was increased to three and by chapter 419 of the laws of 1888 to four.
The judges of the court have been the following:

John W. Bacon, appointed July 2, 18G6, chief justice; Francis W. Hurd, appointed
July 2, 18GG, associate; Mellen Chamberlain, appointed June 29, 18G6. associate ; Mellen
Chamberlain, appointed December 1, 1871, chief justice ; Joseph M. Churchill, appointed
March 3, 1871, associate; William E. Parmenter, appointed December 12, 1871, asso-
ciate; John Wilder May, appointed October 12. 1878, chief justice ; William E Par-
menter, appointed January 24, 1883, chief justice; W. J. Forsaith, appointed January
23, 1872, special; W. J. Forsaith, appointed March 8, 1882, associate; Matthew J.
McCafferty, appointed January 24, 1883, associate; George Z. Adams, appointed July
11, 1882, special ; John H. Hardy, appointed June 3, 1885, associate ; Benjamin R. Curtis,
appointed April 28, 188G, associate ; Frederick D. Ely, appointed October 10, 1888, asso-
ciate ; John H. Burke, appointed February 11, 1891, associate.

Within the present limits of Suffolk county there are the following
Municipal, Police and District Courts:

1. The Municipal Court of the city of Boston, the establishment of
which has been already stated with a jurisdiction including wards 6, 7,
8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, and the following judges: William E. Par-
menter, chief justice, William J. Forsaith, John H. Hardy, Frederick D.
Ely and John H. Burke, associate justices, and George Z. Adams, spe-
cial justice.

2. The Municipal Court of South Boston was established May 26,
1874, and now has a jurisdiction including wards 13, 14, 15, with the
following judges: Robert I. Burbank, justice, and Joseph D. Fallon
and Charles J. Noyes, special justices.

3. The Municipal Court of the Charlestown District was originally
established as the Police Court of the city of Charlestown, April 4, 1862,

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but assumed its present name pursuant to the act uniting Charlestown
with Boston passed May 14, 1873. It has jurisdiction over wards 3, 4,
5, with the following judges: Henry W. Bragg, justice, and Joseph H.
Cotton and Simon Davis, special justices.

4. The Municipal Court of the Highland District was established by
an act passed June I, 1867, uniting Roxbury with Boston, under the
name of the Municipal Court of the Southern District of the city ot
Boston, and acquired its present title pursuant to an act passed May 26,
1874. It has jurisdiction over wards 19, 20, 21, 22, and the following
judges: Solomon A. Bolstor, justice, and George R. Wheelock and
Walter S. Frost, special justices.

5. The Municipal Court of the Dorchester District was established
June 10, 1870. It has jurisdiction in ward 29 and the following
judges: Joseph R. Churchill, justice, and George M. Reed, and George
A. Fisher, special justices.

6. The Municipal Court of the Brighton District was established May
26, 1874. It has jurisdiction inward 25, and the following judges:
Henry Baldwin, justice, and James H. Rice and Charles A. Barnard.,
special justices.

7. The Municipal Court of the West Roxbury District was established'
May 26, 1874. It has jurisdiction in Ward 23, and the following judges:
James M. F. Howard, justice, and George R. Fowler and Henry Aus-
tin, special justices.

8. The Police Court of Chelsea was established February 27, 1855.
It originally included Chelsea, North Chelsea (Revere), and Winthrop
in its jurisdiction, but in 1886 Winthrop was added to the jurisdiction
of the District Court of East Boston. The judges of the court are-
Albert D. Bosson, justice, and William H. Hart and Frank E. Fitzr
special justices.

9. The East Boston District Court was established as the Municipal
Court of the East Boston District, May 26, 1874, and was re-established
under its present name by an act passed February 16, 1886. Its juris-
diction extends over Wards I and 2, and the town of Winthrop, which
until the organization of this court was included within the jurisdiction
of the police court of Chelsea. Its judges are William H. H. Emmons,
justice, and James L. Walsh and Albert E. Clary, special justices.

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9o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

It will be proper here to state that by an act passed May 3, 1850,
Chelsea, North Chelsea (Revere), and Winthrop, parts of Suffolk county,
were placed under the jurisdiction of the county commissioners of Mid-
dlesex. Suffolk county, of course, has no commisioners.

In the city of Boston the board of aldermen have all the powers and
duties of county commissioners, except in relation to trials by jury and
recovery of damages in such trials, in cases of laying out and discon-
tinuing highways, and appeals from assessors for abatement of taxes.

It has been stated in an earlier part of this narrative that under the
colonial charter matters relating to the probate of wills and the admin-
istration of estates of deceased persons were within the jurisdiction of
the county court. This jurisdiction was disturbed during the brief ad-
ministrations of Dudley and Andros, but after the overthrow of Andros
the old method was resumed and continued until the province charter
went into operation. By that charter probate affairs were placed in the
hands of the Governor and Council, who claimed and exercised the right
to appoint judges and registers of probate in the various counties. The
following is believed to be a correct list of persons holding these offices
in Suffolk county by appointment under the provincial charter, and
until the first law was passed relating to probate affairs after the adop-
tion of the constitution :

Judges of Probate. — William Stoughton, appointed June 18, 1692 ; Elisba Cooke, Aug-
gust 8, 1701 ; Isaac Addington, November 19, 1702 ; Samuel Sewall, December 9, 1715 ;
Joseph Willard, December 19, 1728; Joseph Willard, November 5, 1741; Edward
Hutchinson, February 12, 1745-6 ; Thomas Hutchinson, April 3, 1752; Thomas Hutch-
inson, November 5, 1761: Foster Hutchinson, August 3, 1769; Thomas Cushing, 1775;
Oliver Wendell, November 16, 1780.

Registers of Probate. — Isaac Addington, appointed June 18, 1692; Paul Dudley, No-
vember 19, 1702; Joseph Marion, December 19, 1715; JohnBoydell; Benjamin Rolf e,
October 19, 1722, (Boydell absent) ; John Boydell, December 19, 1728 ; John Boydell,
December 15, 1732; Andrew Belcher, December 21, 1739 ; Andrew Belcher, Novem-
ber 5, 1741; John Payne, July 14, 1749, (Belcher absent) ; John Shirley, January 25,
1754; John Payne, September 20, 1754, (Shirley absent) ; John Payne, January 11,
1755, (Shirley absent) ; John Payne, March 28, 1755 ; John Cotton, March 28, 1755 ;
William Cooper, 1759; John Cotton, 1759; William Cooper, 1761; John Cotton, 1761;
William Cooper, October 30, 1776.

On the 1 2th of March, 1784, an " Act for establishing Courts of Pro-
bate " was passed, providing that a court shall be held in the several

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counties, and that a judge and register shall be appointed in each
county; that the Supreme Judicial Court shall be the Supreme Court
of Probate with appellate jurisdiction of all matters determinable by the
probate judges.

Under this act and until 1838, when the offices of judges and regis-
ters of probate and insolvency were created, the following officers ad-
ministered the affairs of the court:

Judges of Probate. — Oliver Wendell, appointed November 16, 1780, (held over) ;
James Sullivan, May 27, 1788; Thomas Dawes, February 19, 1790 ; George Richards
Minot, February 1, 1792; Thomas Dawes, jr., January 26, 1802; Joseph Hall, Septem-
ber 6, 1825; John Heard, March 15, 1836; Willard Phillips, May 3, 1839; Edward
Greeley Loring December 17, 1847; John P. Putnam, March 27, 1858.

Registers of Probate. — William Cooper, appointed October 30, 1776, (held over);
Perkins Nichols, November 19, 1799; John Heard, May 26, 1806; David Everett,
October 22, 1811; John Heard, June 20, 1812; Oliver B. Peabody, March 15, 1836;
Horatio M. Willis, February 8, 1842; Thomas Gill, April 1, 1852; Horatio M. Willis,
July 1, 1853 ; William C. Browne, February 28, 1855.

An amendment to the constitution, ratified by the people on the 23d
of May, 1858, provided that at the annual election and in every fifth
year thereafter, the register of probate of each county should be chosen
by the people. Pursuant to this amendment William C. Browne, then
holding the office, was chosen register. In 1856 a Court of Insolvency
was established by law in each county, and Isaac Ames was appointed,
June 16, 1856, judge of insolvency for Suffolk county and Charles W.
Storey, register. In 1858 the offices of judge and register of probate
and those of judge and register of insolvency were abolished and the
offices of judge and register of probate and insolvency were created..
In the same year it was provided that the register of probate and in-
solvency should be chosen by the people in that year and every fifth
year thereafter. Isaac Ames was appointed judge of probate and in-
solvency May 11, 1858, and at the election in November William C.
Browne, the former register of probate, was chosen register. The suc-
cessor of Judge Ames was John W. McKim, the present incumbent,
who was appointed March 27, 1877. Mr. Browne was rechosen for five
years in 1863, and was succeeded by William S. King, who was chosen
in November, 1870. At the death of Col. King, Patrick R. Guiney suc-
ceeded to the office, and after his death, which occurred March 21,.

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1877, Elijah George, the present incumbent, was appointed register and
subsequently chosen by the people.

In the history of the office of judge of probate of Suffolk county an
event occurred, to which it may be interesting to refer. Edward Greeley
Loring, who held the office from 1847 to 1858, was removed upon the ad-
dress of the two Houses of the Legislature on the ground that holding
the office of judge of probate was incompatible with holding the office
of United States commissioner, both of which had been held by him
some years. As United States commissioner he had heard an appli-
cation for the rendition to his alleged master of Anthony Burns, a fugi-
tive slave, who was arrested May 26, 1854, and rendered judgment in
accordance with the application. This act aroused the indignation of the
people to such an extent that his removal from office was demanded.
His removal was attempted at various times by the Legislature on the
ground that he had violated the provisions of the 13th section of the
459th chapter of the laws of 1855, which declared " that no person who
holds any office under the laws of the United States which qualifies him
to issue any warrant or other process, or to grant any certificate under
the acts of Congress passed in 1 793 and 1850, or to serve the same, shall
at the same time hold any office of honor, trust or emolument under the
laws of the Commonwealth." Resolves in favor of his removal on this
ground had been several times reported by a special committee and had
failed either to pass the Legislature, or, if passed, to receive the approval
of the governor, and the chief argument against the resolves was the
claim that the law of 1855 was unconstitutional.

In 1858 a renewed attempt was made, and the writer of this narrative,
then a member of the Senate, was made chairman of the committee to
whom the petitions for removal were referred. The late Joseph M.
Churchill, of Dorchester, was chairman on the part of the House, in
which branch the petitions had been presented, and he was requested by
the committee to draft a report in favor of the passage of an address.
The writer, believing that a removal would never be accomplished on
the grounds that had been successfully attacked either by the Legisla-
ture or the executive, and also believing that the report of Mr. Churchill
would repeat those grounds and thus be defeated, determined to write a
report with reasons for removal which would not only avoid all questions

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of constitutionality, but would commend themselves also to the minds
of men whose anti-slavery sentiments were not especially strong.

At the next meeting of the committee, after the House chairman had
read his report, the writer asked permission to read his own, and after
its reading it was at once accepted by a majority of the committee. In
order that a record may be here made of the final controlling reasons
for a legislative act which has been misunderstood, the report is made a
part of this narrative as follows:

" House of Representatives, March 9, 1858.

" The joint special committee to whom were referred the several pe-
titions for the removal of Edward Greeley Loring from the office of
judge of probate for the county of Suffolk have considered the same and
report.

"The constitution provides that 'all judicial officers duly appointed,
commissioned and sworn shall hold their offices during good behavior
excepting such concerning whom there is a different provision made in
the constitution ; provided nevertheless the governor with the consent
of the council may remove them upon the address of both houses of the
Legislature.' The exercise of this right in the hands of the governor
and council and the branches of the Legislature is unrestricted. Any
reasons, unless they may be such as are based on misconduct and mal-
administration in office which may seem sufficient, will justify removal
by address.

" In the year 1840 Edward Greeley Loring was appointed commis-
sioner of the United States to take bail and affidavits pursuant to the
acts of Congress passed in 18 12 and 18 17. In 1846 he was appointed
judge of probate for the county of Suffolk. At that time under the
act of Congress of 1793 jurisdiction in all cases of the extradition of
fugitives from service or labor was vested in any magistrate of a county,
city or town corporate. The duties imposed on a commissioner in 1840,
though enlarged by acts of Congress subsequently, were of such a char-
acter that perhaps no valid reason existed why the offices of judge of
probate and commissioner of the United States should not be held,
and their separate functions discharged by one and the same person.

" But by the act of Congress passed in 1850 the jurisdiction in ques-
tion was transferred to the commissioners of the United States, and in

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the language of that act Edward Greeley Loring as one of the commis-
sioners was ' required to exercise and discharge all the powers and
duties conferred by this act.' This transfer increased the duties and
responsibility of the commissioners and so changed their character that
the holding of that office became in the opinion of your committee in-
compatible with the holding of the office of judge of probate ; that a
faithful discharge of the duties of the one became inconsistent with the
proper discharge in all cases of the duties of the other.

" A single illustration will suggest the conflict which might arise in
the exercise of the powers and duties imposed by the two offices. A
slave mother dies in Massachusetts and her children are brought before
the Court of Probate for the appointment of a guardian. The judge of
probate by the laws of Massachusetts is for the time their protector and
friend, and while the hearing is pending the same judge in the capacity
of commissioner is called upon to issue a warrant for their seizure as the
property of a southern slave owner.

"Again the constitution provides that 'the judges of probate of wills
and for granting letters of administration shall hold their courts at such
place or places or fixed days as the convenience of the people shall re-
quire, and the Legislature shall from time to time hereafter appoint such
times and places.' These times and places have been fixed by the Leg-
islature agreeable to the wants and convenience of the people.

" It must be apparent that the assumption or occupation by any judge
of probate of any office whose duties might interfere with the discharge
of his probate duties at the times and places thus constitutionally pre-
scribed is improper, and after due notice is a sufficient cause of removal.
It cannot be denied that a judicial officer under the laws of the United
States whose duties are compulsory upon the incumbent may be in-
compatible with a judicial office under the laws of Massachusetts whose
duties are no less compulsory. Now no limit is to be presumed to the
amount of duties which a commissioner maybe called upon to perform.
If the discharge of the duties of commissioners were voluntary under
the act of 1850, the mere occupation of the office might be unobjection-
able, but in the language of Judge Loring in his protest in 1855 'the
duty of commissioners of the Circuit Court of the United States under
the law of 1850, is imperative upon them,' and 'an application made

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pursuant to law to any one commissioner fixes that duty on him and
after such application he can neither decline it nor evade it.' It is clear
then that even if such applications were rare, they might be made at
the very time fixed by the law for the performance of his probate duties,
and if numerous they might prevent their performance altogether. The
fact that during the trial of Anthony Burns such a conflict existed as
compelled Judge Loring in the discharge of duties as commissioner to
adjourn the Court of Probate and postpone its business, sufficiently con-
firms the incompatibility in question.

" But the duties of commissioners in connection with the extradition
of fugitive slaves are not the only duties which might conflict with the
proper discharge of the duties of judge of probate. Pursuant to several
acts of Congress passed subsequently to the appointment of Judge Lor-
ing as commissioner in 1840, he is liable to be called to act in cases of
extradition of fugitives from foreign countries, and issue warrants and
hold preliminary examinations in cases of revolts, mutiny and affrays
on shipboard, and a great variety of crimes and offences committed on
sea and land within the jurisdiction of the United States. These duties
enlarging from year to year aid still further in constituting the office of
United States commissioner such an office as cannot with propriety be
held by a judicial officer under the laws of Massachusetts. When we
add to this interference of official duties their opposite and conflicting
natures the incompatibility is the more manifest.

" This incompatibility has been long since recognized by the laws of
the Commonwealth and by the members of successive legislatures. The
law of 1843, though applicable to magistrates of this Commonwealth in
the performance of the duties imposed upon them by the act of Con-
gress of 1793, was clearly indicative of the determination of the people
of Massachusetts that no magistrate in judicial office should participate
in the extradition of slaves The sentiment and spirit of that law are
as clearly violated whether that participation is had by a magistrate of
Massachusetts as such acting under the law of 1793, or by a commis-
sioner of the United States acting under the law of 1850, who is at the
same time a judicial officer under the laws of the Commonwealth. In con-
formity with the spirit of this law the Legislature declared by resolves in
1850 ' that the sentiments of the people of Massachusetts as expressed

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in their legal enactments in relation to the delivering up of fugitive slaves
remain unchanged' and 'that the people of Massachusetts in the main-
tenance of these their, well-known and invincible principles expect that
their officers and representatives will adhere to them at all times, on all
occasions, and under all circumstances.'

"The law of 1855 in a more positive manner recognizes the same
principle and applies it to the condition of things existing in conse-
quence of the law of Congress passed in 1850. In direct contraven-
tion of the terms and spirit of this law, Judge Loring now holds the two
offices of judge of probate and United States commissioner. Indeed,
the whole current of sentiment and law in Massachusetts during the last
fifteen years has enunciated the principle that no officers of this Com-
monwealth shall engage in the extradition of slaves, or occupy any of-
fice among whose dutie- such extradition may be counted. The same
doctrine has been endorsed and confirmed by the address of two Legis-
latures to the governor of the Commonwealth for the removal of the
judge who has disregarded and violated it.

" For these reasons, in the opinion of the committee, the Legislature
is called upon to address the governor to remove Edward Greeley Lor-
ing from the office of judge of probate for the county of Suffolk. They
do not feel obliged to base their grounds for his removal upon the law
of 1855, and, indeed, to establish the entire validity of these grounds,,
in their opinion it is not necessary to regard that law, except so far as it
is declaratory of the sentiment of the people. If that law is constitu-
tional, it is sufficient to say that its violation is a valid reason for the
address. If it is unconstitutional, they hold that the principle so long
acknowledged which dictated its enactment, is also abundant cause and
justification.

"Ample notice has been given to Judge Loring of the wishes of the
people as expressed through their representatives, and ample time af-
forded him to respect and yield to them. While judge of probate he
still holds the office of United States commissioner in defiance of the
sentimefitof the Commonwealth, and his removal by address is the only
remedy which the constitution recognizes or provides.

"Your committee therefore respectfully recommends that the accom-
panying address be sent to the governor, requesting him with the consent

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of the Council to remove Edward Greeley Loring from the office of
judge of probate for the county of Suffolk.

"And your committee further recommends that a joint committee
consisting of two on the part of the Senate and five on the part of the
House be appointed to present said address to the governor."

The address was adopted by the Legislature and presented by the
writer as chairman of the committee appointed for the purpose, to Na-
thaniel P. Banks, then governor, who with the advice and consent of the
Council promptly caused the removal.

The committee reporting the address to the Legislature consisted of
Wm. T. Davis and Joseph W. Cornell, on the part of the Senate, and
Joseph M. Churchill, Dexter F. Parker, George Stevens, W. F. Arnold,
and William Page, on the part of the House. Mr. Page made a minor-
ity report in opposition to the address, and Messrs. Churchill, Parker,
Arnold, and Cornell reported that while they concurred in the report
they favored the removal for the additional reason " that the said Ed-
ward Greeley Loring in violation of the provisions of the 13th section
of chapter 489 of the acts of 1855, holds the office of judge of probate
for the county of Suffolk, and also the office of United States commis
sioner with power to issue process and grant certificates under the act
of Congress approved September 18, A. D. 1850, known as the fugitive
slave act."

It is not proposed to include in this narrative sketches of the United
States courts sitting within the county of Suffolk, but some reference to
admiralty affairs before the adoption of the constitution may be appro-
priate. Under the colony charter the Court of Assistants held admi-
ralty jurisdiction, and under a law passed by the General Court in 1673,
were authorized to hear and try cases without a jury. Under the prov-
ince charter the crown reserved the power of establishing admiralty
courts and appointing their officers. The words of the charter are :
" Provided alwaies and it is hereby declared that nothing herein shall
extend or be taken to Erect or grant or allow the Exercise of any Ad-
mirall Court Jurisdiccon Power or Authority, but that the same shall be
and is hereby reserved to Us and Our Successors and shall from time to
time be Erected Granted and exercised by vertue of Commissions to be
yssued under the Great Seale of England or under the Seale of the High

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98 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Admirall or the Commissioners for executing the Office of High Ad-
mirall of England."

The admiralty judges under the province charter having jurisdiction
in Massachusetts were Adam Winthrop, appointed in 1699; William
Atwood, appointed in 1701 ; Roger Mompesson, appointed in 1703;
Nathaniel Byfield, appointed in 1703 ; John Menzies, appointed in 17 15 ;
Robert Auchmuty, appointed in 1728; Nathaniel Byfield, appointed in
1728; Robert Auchmuty, appointed in 1 73 1 ; Chambers Russell, ap-
pointed in 1747; Robert Auchmuty, jr., appointed in 1767, who held
office until the Revolution. At a later date during the Revolution there
appears to have been a Maritime Court, divided into three districts, of
which Timothy Pickering was judge of the Middle District, Nathan Cush-
ing of the Southern, and Timothy Langdon ©f the Northern. The wri-
ter has not been able to learn much concerning this court, nor does
he consider it necessary to investigate it for the purposes of this narra-
tive.

With some reference to the attorney-generals who have served the
province and State, to the sheriffs, and county attorneys of the county
of Suffolk, all of whom are intimately associated with the judicial sys-
tem and to the court-houses in use at various times, this sketch of the
courts will close ; and it will be only necessary before bringing this
chapter to an end to allude to the condition and character of the Suffolk
bar at different periods of its history.

The first attorney- general appears to have been Benjamin Bullivant,
who received a reappointment to that office in 1686, and was succeeded
by George Farwell, who served until June 20, 1688. During the re-
maining time of the administration of Andros, James Graham held the
office, and was succeeded by Anthony Checkley, June 14, 1689. Checkley
was reappointed under the province charter by Governor Phipps, Oc-
tober 28, 1692. Paul Dudley was appointed July 4, 1702, and in the
opinion of Judge Washburn, Thomas Newton succeeded Dudley in
1 7 18, and served until May 28, 1721. The successors of Newton un-
der the province charter were John Overing, 1722; John Read, 1723;
John Overing, 1728 ; John Read, 1733; William Brattle, 1736; John
Overing, 1739; Jeremiah Gridley, 1742; John Overing, 1743; James
Otis, 1748; Edmund Trowbridge, 1749; Jonathan Sewall, 1767, the
last attorney- general under the charter.

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The office of solicitor-general was created in 1767, and given to Jona-
than Sewall before his appointment as attorney- general, and when he
was appointed to that office in the same year, Samuel Quincy was ap-
pointed solicitor-general, who held the office until the Revolution.
When the office of solicitor- general was revived, Daniel Davis was ap-
pointed in 1808 and continued in office until June I, 1832, when the
office was abolished by an act passed March 14, 1832.

Since the adoption of the constitution the following persons have held
the office of attorney- general :

Robert Treat Paine, appointed during the Revolution and held over; James Sullivan,
February 12, 1790; Barnabas Bidwell, June 15, 1807; Perez Morton, September 7,
1810; James T. Austin, May 24, 1832 (office abolished in 1843); John Henry Clifford,
1849 (office revived); Rufus Clioate, January 22, 1853; John Henry Clifford, May 20,
1854; Stephen Henry Phillips, chosen 1858; Dwight Foster, 1861; Chester I. Reed,
18G4 (resigned); Charles Allen, 18U7; Charles R. Train, 1872; George Marston,
1879; Edgar J. Sherman, 1883 (resigned) ; Andrew J. Waterman, 1887; Albert E.
Pillsbury, 1891 (incumbent).

During the colonial period there was no officer bearing the title of
sheriff until the time of Andros, when James Sherlock acted in that ca-
pacity and officiated in the Superior Court of Judicature in 1688, over
which Joseph Dudley presided as chief justice, with William Stoughton
and Peter Bulkley as associates. The following persons have served as
sheriff of Suffolk county under the province charter and under the con-
stitution :

Samuel Gookin, appointed May 27, 1692; Giles Dyer, October 23, 1702; William
Dudley, August 27, 1713 ; William Payne, February 19, 1714-15 ; William Dudley,
March 2, 1714-15; William Payne, December 9, 1715 ; Edward Winslow, December
12, 1728; Benjamin Pollard, October 20, 1743; Stephen Greenleaf, January 3, 1757 ;
William Greenleaf, 1775; Joseph Henderson, December 14, 1780; Jeremiah Allen,
April 14, 1791; Samuel Bradford, June 16, 1809; Joseph Hall, October 13, 1818;
Charles Pinckney Sumner, September 6, 1825 (resigned) ; Joseph Eveleth, April 11,
1839; Henry Crocker, February 4, 1852 (resigned); Joseph Eveleth, May 21, 1853;
John M. Clark, February 28, 1855 ; John B. O'Brien, chosen 1883 (incumbent)

The office of county attorney, or as at various times it has been called,
attorney of the State, Commonwealth attorney, and district attorney,
was established in 1807, and that year James T. Austin was appointed
attorney of the State. In 181 1 he was reappointed as county attorney,
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Parker was appointed county attorney, and served until 1852. On the
4th of February in that year, John C. Park was appointed Common-
wealth attorney, and served until the 30th of September, 1853, when
George Partridge Sanger was appointed. George W. Cooley was ap-
pointed to succeed Mr. Sanger September 5, 1854, and served until the
26th of February, 1861, when Joseph H. Bradley was appointed dis-
trict attorney. Mr. Bradley declined, and George Partridge Sanger was
appointed March 21, 1861. John Wilder May succeeded May 18, 1869,
and Oliver Stevens, the present incumbent, in 1875.

A few words concerning the buildings in which the courts have been
held at various times in Boston will not be inappropriate. Thomas
Lechford, writing in 1640, said that the General Court and the Great
Quarter Courts were held in the Meeting House. At that time the
Meeting House stood on the site of Joy's building on Washington
street, in front of Young's Hotel. It had previously stood on the site
of Brazier's building on State street. Between these two sites Capt.
Robert Keayne lived, on the corner of Washington and State streets,
and the market place was on the site of the old State House. Captain
Keayne died in 1656, leaving to the town of Boston ^300 " for a town
house, a conduit and a market place, with some convenient room or
two for the courts to meet in both summer and winter, and so for the
townsmen and commissioners in the same building or the like and a
convenient room for a library and a gallery or some other handsome
room for the elders to meet in ; also a room for an armory." A wooden
building was consequently erected and finished in 1658 on the old market
place set on twenty-one pillars, leaving an open space on the ground
for a market place and room above for town purposes. The General
Court allowed to Boston one single country rate, provided the courts
could be held in this building In 1667 it was repaired at a cost of
^680, one-half of which was paid by the country, one- quarter by the
county, and one- quarter by the town.

In 171 1 it was burned, and a new building constructed of brick in
17 12-13, one- half of the cost being paid by the province and one- hall
by the county and town. In 1747 it was again partially burned, but
the walls of the present old State House are supposed to be the same
erected in 17 13. In 1773 a new court house was built of brick in

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Court street, on the site now occupied by the northerly end of the stone
building recently abandoned by the courts.

In 1810 a court house was built on School street on the site of the
present city hall and occupied until the stone building in Court square
was completed in December, 1836. The old Municipal Court continued
to be held in the brick building on Court street until June 20, 1822,
when it was removed to Leverett street, thence to the School street
building in 183 1, and to the Court street building in 1837. The Police
Court was held in Leverett street from the time of its establishment in
1822 to 1837, when it removed to the Court street building.

The United States Courts were held in the School street building
until rooms were furnished in- the Court square house, and later for
a term in Bowdoin square until the Masonic Temple was bought by
the United States and fitted for their use.

There was practically no bar in Suffolk county during the colonial
period. It is probable that John Winthrop, Richard Bellingham, John
Humphrey, Herbert Pelham, Simon Bradstreet and Thomas Lechford
had been educated as lawyers in England, but of these Pelham and
Lechford returned home after a few years' residence, and the others
were chiefly occupied as magistrates and not as attorneys. The skill
with which the colony laws were drafted shows these few men to have
been learned and able. Edward Randolph, the secretary of the Massa-
chusetts colony under President Dudley, wrote home to England in
January, 1687-8: " I have wrote you of the want we have of two or three
honest attorneys (if any such thing in nature), we have but two; one
is West's creature, came with him from New York and drives all before
him. He also takes extravagant fees, and for want of more the country
cannot avoid coming to him, so that we had better be quite without
them, than not to have more."

The Mr. West referred to in the letter of Randolph was John West,
who came from New York and was appointed deputy secretary under
Randolph, who was secretary under Andros. He was a practitioner in
the courts, but, probably, not an educated lawyer. He managed as
deputy secretary to deceive and financially prey upon his chief, and it
is quite possible that he is one of the attorneys referred to in the above
letter. He made himself so unpopular that when the Revolution of

io2 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

1688 came on he was arrested witli Andros and with him sent to Eng-
land. The other attorney was probably George Farwell, who also came
from New York and was made attorney- general by Andros. He also .
was arrested with Andros at the Revolution and sent to England in
February, 1689.

Another of the attorneys in the early colonial days was Thomas Mor-
ton, of Merry Mount, who came from England in 1625, and returned in
1628. He was probably an educated lawyer and styled himself " of
Clifford's Inn, Gentleman." He returned to Massachusetts in 1643, was
arrested for misconduct and after a year's imprisonment was released on
the ground of age and insanity.

The real practitioners in the courts, however, under the colonial char-
ter were not lawyers. Mr. Joseph Willard, the late clerk of the courts,
stated in an address before the Worcester bar in 1829, that among the
leading practitioners were John Coggan, a merchant ; Amos Richard-
son, a tailor; John Watson, a merchant; and Benjamin Bullivant, an
apothecary and perhaps physician Tn fact, the business of practicing
in the courts was looked upon as so objectionable that a law was passed
in 1662 excluding every one " who was a usual and common attorney
in an Inferior Court from a seat in the house of deputies."

It was largely the custom for parties to manage their own suits, and
litigation with its consequent burden upon the machinery of the courts
became so easy and trials so tedious that the General Court ordered in
1656 "that when any plaintiff or defendant shall plead by himself or his
attorney for a longer time than one hour, the part)' that is sentenced or
condemned shall pay twenty shillings for every hour so pleading more
than the common fees appointed by the court for the entrance of actions,
to be added to the execution for the use of the country."

Under Andros the courts were authorized to make rules for the reg-
ulation of court proceedings, and a table of court fees was established,
which is here copied from Washburn's Judicial History of Massachusetts,
as follows :

"For commissioners of small causes, attachments or summons, Is.

Subpoena for witnesses, 3 d.

Entry, 3s 411.

Filing papers, each paper, 2a.

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Judgment, 6d.

Confessing judgment, Is.

Execution, 2s.

Marshal's fees on every verdict, Is.

Each justice per diem paid out of the fines, 5 *.

In civil actions, entry, 5 s.

Jury on verdict not less than 6s 6d.

Entering and approving bonds, 2B.

Superior Court jury, verdict not less than 6s 6a.

Entry of action, 10s.

Confessing judgment, 2s.

Additional entry fee if over ^"20, 10 s.

Entry of judgment, 2 s.

Marshal's fee in every verdict, Is.

Governor and council, entry of appeals, 2 s 6'1.

Entry of actions, £ 1."

One of the earliest well educated lawyers in Massachusetts was Ben-
jamin Lynde, senior. He graduated at Harvard in 1686, and in 1692
went to London, where he became a student at law in the Middle Tem-
ple, and was called to the bar in 1697. As is stated elsewhere in this
narrative, he was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature
in 17 12, and was the first trained lawyer on the bench of that court.

In the early days of the province attorneys were recognized as offi-
cers of the court, and in 1701 the law was passed prescribing a form of
oath to be administered to them on, their admission to the bar. By a
law passed in 1708, parties were prohibited from employing more than
two attorneys, and no attorney was permitted to refuse his services pro-
vided he were tendered the legal fee.

Under the provincial charter the office of court practitioner became
more respected as the men holding it became more numerous and bet-
ter educated. The ministers, and merchants, and doctors on the bench
of the Superior Court, without business experience and with little states-
manlike skill, gradually gave place to more educated men and in many
instances to such as were trained in the law. The increasing volume of
mercantile transactions called for wiser counsel and a profounder knowl-
edge of law, to aid and advise and plead the cause of those who were

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engaged in them. It is interesting to observe the gradual evolution of
the profession of the law from a condition of obscurity and almost con-
tempt to a field in which the ablest men entered for the exercise and
•display of their powers. Coggan, and Richardson, and Watson, and
Bullivant, and Checkley, and their comrades in the courts had left the
legal arena, and such men as Newton, and Read, and Davenport, and
Gridley, took their places, and as the Revolution approached still abler
men appeared upon the scene.

Mr. George Dexter, in the course of some exceedingly interesting re-
marks made by him at the November meeting of the Massachusetts
Historical Society in 1881, concerning the bar in the earlier part
of the last century, says: "There seems to have been no regu-
lar time of study prescribed for admission to the bar. The earliest
reference I have found to this matter, is an entry in the diary of Judge
Lynde, under date of August 4, 171 8 ; ' My dear Benjamin went to his
uncle, Colo. S. Brown, for three years.' This was presumably for the
purpose of preparing for his profession, but the father, having himself
received a special legal education, may have required more than the
ordinary professional training for his son. John Adams, who was ad-
mitted an attorney November 2, 1758, had studied with Mr. Putnam,
of Worcester, very little more than two years, and had taught a school
there at the same time that he pursued his legal studies." Judge
Washburn expresses the opinion that the requirement of three years
study was adopted a short time before the Revolution, on the recom-
mendation of the Essex bar. This, however, can hardly be true, as the
order of barristers undoubtedly existed in the province as early as 1761,
and the three years study seems connected with the establishment of
that order. John Adams writes in his diary of 1761, that, "brother
Samuel Quincy and I were sworn before the Supreme Court," and Jo-
siah Quincy, jr., speaks of Adams and Quincy being called by the court
in 1 76 1, to be barristers at law. In order to become barristers, the re-
quirements were three years preliminary study, two years practice in
the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and two years subsequent practice
in the Superior Court.

It has been stated in an earlier part of this narrative that the term
barrister was abolished in 1806, and counsellors were for the first time

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recognized. At the March term of the Supreme Judicial Court for
Suffolk county in that year, the following rules were adopted and may
be found in the second volume of the Massachusetts Reports.

Regula Generalis.

Ordered by the court" that hereafter no motion for a new trial shall be sustained
where the part}' moving it shall be entitled to a review of right, unless the right of re-
view shall be relinquished on record, excepting when the verdict shall have been given
against the direction of the court in matters of law.

Regulae Genkrales.

1. No attorney shall do the business of counsellor, unless he shall have been made
or admitted as such by the court.

2. All attorneys of the court who have been admitted three years before the sitting
of the court, shall be and are hereby made counsellors, and are entitled to all the rights
and privileges of such.

3. No attorney or counsellor shall hereafter be admitted without a previous exam-
ination.

4. The court will from time to time appoint from the barristers and counsellors a
competent number of examiners, any two or more of whom shall examine all candi-
dates for admission to practice as counsellors or attorneys at their expense; and when-
ever a candidate shall upon examination be by them deemed duly qualified, they shall
give a certificate in the form following: * * *

5. If after an examination, the examiners shall refuse such a certificate as aforesaid,,
they shall be required to give a certificate of their refusal, and the candidate may ap-
peal from the decision of the examiners to a justice of the court, who will thereupon
examine him, and either confirm or reverse the decision of the examiners ; and in case
of reversal the candidate may apply to the court for admission.

6. 'If upon an examination such certificate shall be refused, it shall be conclusive, un-
less there be an appeal es aforesaid, so that no ether examiners shall thereafter be ap-
pealed to without the express permission and direction of the court.

7. No examiner shall undertake to examine any candidate who was in whole, or in
part instructed by him in his office.

8. The following described persons shall be candidates for examination and admis-
sion to the bar as attorneys, that is to say — firstly, all who have been heretofore admit-
ted as attorneys in any Court of Common Pleas in the Commonwealth, and who at
the time they shall apply for examination, s,hall be in regular practice therein ; and
second, all such as have, besides a good school education, devoted seven years at the
least to literary acquisition, and three years thereof at the least in the office, and under
the instruction of a barrister or counsellor practicing in the court.

9. Before the examiners shall proceed to examine any person for admission as an at-
torney who has not been admitted at a Court of Common Pleas, it shall be certified to-
them by a counsellor or barrister, or by counsellors or barristers, that the candidate has

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been in the office and under the instruction of a counsellor or barrister, for the term of
three years at the least.

10. The certificate, as well of barristers and counsellors, as to attorneys, or the certifi-
cate of the examiners as to attorneys and counsellors, shall be returned to the clerk and
by him recorded.

11. Any person who has been admitted as an attorney, and as such practiced two
years, may be a candidate for admission as a candidate and examined therefor.

12. Every counsellor may practice as an attorney.

13. Whenever an action shall hereafter be entered in court, the attorney or attor-
neys for the plaintiff or appellant shall become such of record, and within the first two
days the attorney or attorneys for the defendant or appellee shall cause themselves to
become such of record.

14. In all cases where parties do not appear in their proper persons, after the first
day there shall be an attorney or attorneys of record for the defendant or appellee, and
none for the plaintiff or appellant, the defendant or appellee on motion shall have
judgment as on a discontinuance ; and whenever after the first two days there shall be
an attorney or attorneys on record for the plaintiff or appellant, and none for the de-
fendant or appellee, the plaintiff or appellant shall on motion have judgment accord-
ing to the nature of the case.

15. Hereafter the court will not hear any argument agaiust on a question of law
arising on special pleadings, as special verdict, case stated, or motion in arrest of judg-
ment, unless the material papers shall have been copied and delivered to the judge
respectively at or before the commencement of the term.

16. All who are now attorneys of the court shall be allowed to advocate causes on
issue of fact for the term of three years from the time they were admitted as attorneys
respectively, although they were not counsellors."

The examiners appointed pursuant to the above order were The-
ophilus Parsons, Christopher Gore, Samuel Dexter, Harrison Gray
Otis, William Sullivan and Charles Jackson.

At the September term, 1806, in Berkshire, the court amended the
above rules by adding, " that any person who shall have received an
education comprising equal advantages with that expressed in the 8th
rule of the court, adopted at the March term, although varying in the
mode or circumstances, may be examined for admission as an attorney,
on obtaining a license therefor from the court or a judge; and if ap-
proved by two examiners shall receive a certificate from them conform-
able in substance to the 4th rule."

At the March term, 1807, in Suffolk, the rules were still further
amended by the order " that alL gentlemen proposed by the bar for
admission as attorneys of the court, before the establishment of the
rules regulating the admission of attorneys published in March, 1806,

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may be admitted as attorneys of the court in the same manner as they
might have been before the establishment of the said rules; and after
admission they shall be considered as attorneys of this court from the
time at which they were proposed for admission, and before the pub-
lication of the said rules, and this rule is to extend to all attorneys who
have been heretofore admitted attorneys of the court, having been pro-
posed for admission before the publication of the said rules."

At the March term in Suffolk, in 1810, the court repealed the Reg-
ulae Generales of 1806, with their amendments, and adopted the follow-
ing substitute :

1. That any person may be admitted an attorney of this court who shall have had
a liberal education and regular degree at some public college, and shall afterwards
have commenced and pursued the study of the law in the office, and under the instruc-
tion of some counsellor of the court for three years; and shall afterwards have been ad-
mitted an attorney of the Court of Common Pleas for the county in which such coun-
sellor with whom he has studied the law as aforesaid shall dwell ; having first been
recommended by the bar of the said county to the Common Pleas as having a good
moral character, and as suitably qualified for such admission; and shall afterwards have
practiced law with fidelity and ability in some Court of Common Pleas within the State
for the term of two years, and shall then be recommended by the bar for admission as
an attorney of this court, when holden for the county in which the person so rec-
ommended shall dwell.

2. Any person not having a liberal education and a regular degree as aforesaid, who
shall have commenced and pursued the study of the law in the office of some coun-
sellor as aforesaid for the term of five years, shall be considered as having a qualifica-
tion for admission equivalent to the having had a liberal education, and a regular de-
gree as aforesaid.

3. Any person having a liberal education and a regular degree as aforesaid, who
shall afterwards have commenced and pursued the study of the law in any other State,
in the office of an attorney of the highest judicial court of such State for one year at
the least, and afterwards shall pursue the study of the law in the office of some coun-
sellor of this court for the term of two years, shall be considered as having a qualifica-
tion for admission, equivalent to the having commenced and pursued the study of the-
law for three years in the office and under the instruction of some counsellor of this
court.

4. Any person not having had a liberal education and a regular degree as aforesaid,
who shall have commenced and pursued the study of the law in any other State, in the
office of an attorney of the highest judicial court of such State, for the term of two
years at the least, and shall afterwards have pursued the study of the law with some
counsellor of this court for the term of three years, shall be considered as having a qual-
ification for admission equivalent to the having had a liberal education and a regular-
degree as aforesaid, and to the having pursued the study of the law for three years in
the office of some counsellor of this court.

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5. The bar shall not recommend for admission as an attorney any person, either to
any Court of Common Pleas or to this court, unless he be qualified for such admission,
agreeably to the provisions of these rules. But the bar may recommend for admission
as an attorney to the Common Pleas any person now duly qualified by the rules here-
by repealed for examination and admission as an attorney of this court; and further the
bar may also recommend to the Court of Common Pleas, for admission as an attorney
thereof, any person who before the establishment of these rules had commenced, and
is now pursuing the stud)^ of the law with some counsellor of this court, when such
person would by virtue of the rules hereby repealed, be qualified for examination and
admission as an attorney of this court.

6. If the bar of any court shall unreasonably refuse to recommend either to this
court, or to any Court of Common Pleas, for admission as attorney, any person suit-
ably qualified for such admission ; or if after the recommendation of the bar, the Com-
mon Pleas shall unreasonably refuse to admit as an attorne}' the person so recommend-
ed, such person submitting to an examination by one of the justices of this court, pro-
ducing to him sufficient evidence of his good moral character, may be admitted as an
Attorney of this court on the certificate of such justice that he is duly qualified there-
£or, and has pursued the study of the law agreeably to the provisions of the rules.

7. Any person who shall have been admitted an attorney of the highest judicial
court of any other State in which he 6hall dwell, and afterwards shall become an in-
habitant of this State, may be admitted an attorney or counsellor of this court, subject
lo the discretion of the justice thereof, after due inquiry and information concerning
his moral character and professional qualification.

8. Any person who now is, or who shall be, an attorney of this court, having prac-
ticed law therein with fidelity and ability as an attorney thereof for two years, may
be admitted a counsellor of this court, when holden for the county in which such at-
torney shall dwell, on the recommendation of the bar of such county, or without such
recommendation, if it be unreasonably refused; unless such person was admitted an
attorney of this court because he had been unreasonably refused admission as an attor-
ney of the Court of Common Pleas; in which case he shall not be recommended nor
admitted as a counsellor of this court until he has practiced law as an attornej^ thereof
for the term of four years.

9. All issues in law and in fact, and all questions of law arising on writs of error,
certiorari and mandamus, or special verdicts, or motions for new trials and in arrest
of judgment, shall be argued only by the counsellors of this court. And the counsel-
lors of this court may also practice as attorneys."

In 1836 it was provided by law that any citizen of the Common-
wealth or any alien who had expressed his intention pursuant to law
to become a citizen, of twenty-one years of age, of good moral charac-
ter might become an attorney after three years study, and on the recom-
mendation of an attorney be examined for admission. In 1876 it was
provided that the same person could be admitted only on examination,

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109

and in 1891 a law was passed providing that "any person who has
been or shall hereafter be removed from practice as an attorney by the
Supreme Judicial, or Superior Court of the Commonwealth for deceit,
malpractice, or other gross misdemeanor, and who shall continue to
practice law or receive any fee for his services as attorney or counsel-
lor a^ law rendered after such removal, or who shall hold himself out
or/represent or advertise himself as an attorney or counsellor at law,
and every person not regularly admitted to practice as an attorney or
counsellor at law in accordance with chapter 159 of the Public Statutes,
who shall represent himself to be an attorney or counsellor at law or
legally qualified to practice in the courts of the Commonwealth by
means of a sign, business card, letter head or otherwise, shall be pun-
ished for each offence by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or
by imprisonment not exceeding six months, and upon a second or any
subsequent conviction by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by
imprisonment not exceeding one year."

During the existence of the old Bar Association which was formed
in 1770 the rules of the association regulated admissions to the bar.
The date of the formation and dissolution of the first Suffolk Bar Asso-
ciation is unknown. Indeed its existence is only inferred from a
vote passed at the first meeting of the association above referred to,
" that the secretary wait on Judge Auchmuty and request of him the
records of a former society of the bar in the county, and invite him to
meet with this society in the future if he sees fit." Judge Auchmuty
was attorney general from 1761 to 1767 and probably the first associa-
tion was dissolved between these dates,

The second association was formed on the evening of Wednesday,
January 3, 1770, at the Bunch of Grapes tavern on the corner of
State and Kilby streets, kept at that time by Mr. Ingersoll and after-
wards by John Marston. The gentlemen present were Benjamin Kent,
James Otis, Samuel Fitch, William Reed, Samuel Swift, Samuel Quincy,
John Adams, Andrew Casneau, and Daniel Leonard, all of whom were
barristers, and Francis Dana, Josiah Quincy and Sampson Salter Blow-
ers, attorneys, and it was voted " that the barristers and attorneys at the
Superior Court, belonging to this and the neighboring towns will form
themselves into a society or law club, to meet at Mr. Ingersoll's on the

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evening of the first Wednesday of every month for the year ensuing."
Benjamin Kent, as the oldest barrister, presided and John Adams was
chosen secretary. At the meeting on the first Wednesday in October,
1770, it was voted that " Francis Dana, Josiah Quincy and Sampson
Salter Blowers be recommended to the Superior Court to be admitted
as barristers, they having studied and practiced the usual time." On
the 21st of November it was voted that Samuel Sewall, who produced
a certificate from the clerk of the Inferior Court that he was admitted
as attorney in that court on the first Tuesday in January, 1767, be rec-
ommended for admission as attorney to the Superior Court.

At the meeting held on the 2d of January, 1771, it was voted " that
whenever the defendant's counsel shall point out to the plaintiff's any
defect in his writ or declaration, he shall have liberty to amend upon
payment of six shillings before plea pleaded. But if he will put the de-
fendant's counsel to plead and the writ or declaration is adjudged in-
sufficient, he shall then pay eighteen shillings for the amendment in
case the amendment is allowed him by the court, and the defendant
shall choose costs instead of an imparlance. This rule to extend only
to such defect in writs and declarations as shall be owing to mistake or
inadvertence, or other fault of the counsel who drew the writ, or his
clerk."

It was agreed at a meeting held February 6, 1 77 1, among other
matters, " that we will not take any young gentleman to study with us
without previously having the consent of the bar of this county ; that
we will not recommend any persons, to be admitted to the Superior
Court as attorneys who have hot studied with some barrister three
years at least, nor as attorneys in the Superior Court who have not
studied as aforesaid and been admitted at the Inferior Court two years
at least, nor recommend them as barristers till they have been through
the preceding degrees and been attorneys at the Superior Court two
years at least, except those gentlemen who are already admitted in this
county as attorneys at Superior and Inferior Courts, and that they
must be subject to the rule so far as is yet to come." To this agree-
ment it was added " that the consent of the bar shall not be taken but
at a general meeting of the bar for the county, and shall not be given
to any young gentleman who has not had an education at college, or a
liberal education equivalent in the judgment of the bar."

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At the July meeting, 1772, Benjamin Hichborn, William Tudor, and
Jonathan Williams Austin were recommended to be sworn as attor-
neys. One of the rules of the association was that no member should
receive a student in his office without the consent of the bar. Among
those entered in various offices according to the records of the associa-
tion were Thomas Edwards in the office of Josiah Quincy, 1772; Jon-
athan Williams in the office of John Adams, 1773; Edward Hill in the
office of Mr. Adams, 1773 ; John Trumbull in the office of Mr. Adams,
1774; Nathaniel Brattle in the office of Mr. Blowers, 1774; Nathan
Rice and John Thaxter in the office of Mr. Adams, 1774; Joshua
Thomas and Jonathan Mason in the office of Josiah Quincy, 1774;
Henry Goodwin in the office of William Tudor, 1778; Rufus Emory in
the office of John Lowell, 1778 ; Fisher Ames in the office of William
Tudor, 1778; George Richards Minot in the office of William Tudor,
1780; Peter Clarke in the office of Increase Sumner, 1780; William
Hunter Torrens in the office of John Lowell, 1781 ; Edward Sohier in
the office of John Lowell, 1781 ; Joseph Hall in the office of Benjamin
Hichborn, 1 78 1 ; Edward Wendell in the office of John Lowell, 1781 ;
David Leonard Barnes in the office of James Sullivan, 1782; Edward
Gray in the office of James Sullivan, 1783 ; John Brown Cotting in the
office of John Lowell, 1783 ; Samuel Quincy, jr., in the office of Chris-
topher Gore, 1783 ; Harrison Gray Otis in the office of John Lowell
l7%?>\ John Rowe in the office of Mr. Tudor, 1783; Richard Brook
Roberts in the office of Mr. Hichborn, 1783 ; Samuel Cooper Johon-
not in the office of Mr. Sullivan, 1784 ; William Hill in the office of Mr.
Gore; Fortesque Vernon in the office of Mr. Hichborn, 1784; John
Merrick in the office of Thomas Dawes, 1784; John Lowell, jr., and
S. Borland in the office of Mr. Lowell, 1786 ; James Sullivan, jr., in the
office of Mr. Sullivan, 1786 ; Thomas Russell in the office of Mr. Lowell,
1786; Isaac Parker in the office of Mr. Tudor, 1787 ; William Cranch in
the office of Thomas Dawes, 1787 ; Samuel Andrews in the office of Mr.
Hichborn, 1788; William Lyman in the office of Mr. Sullivan, 1788-
Nathaniel Higginson in the office of William Wetmore, 1788 ; Phineas
Bruce in the office of Mr. Hichborn, 1788; Bossenger Foster in the of-
fice of Mr.. Parsons, 1788 ; Edward Clarke in the office of Mr. Lowell,
1789 ; John Lathrop in the office of Mr. Lowell, 1789; Robert Paine in

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in the office of Mr. Paine, 1789; Josiah Quincy in the office of Mr. Tu-
dor, 1790; Nathaniel Fisher in the office of Mr. Robbins, 1790; Eben-
ezer Gay in the office of Mr. Gore, 1790; James Prescott, jr., in the of-
fice of James Sullivan, 1790; Samuel Haven in the office of Mr. Ames,
1790; William Sullivan in the office of James Sullivan, 1792; John
Williams in the office of Mr. Otis, 1792 ; John Ward Gurley in the of-
fice of Mr. Lowell, 1796, provided his literary qualifications are found
satisfactory on examination by Messrs. Minot, Otis and Quincy, he not
having received a college education ; Samuel A. Dorr in the office of
Judge Sullivan, 1797; John Heard and Benjamin Wood in the office of
John Davis ; Holder Slocum, jr., in the office of George Richards Minot ;
Nicholas Emery in the office of Samuel Livermore, 1798; Charles
Pinckney Sumner in the office of Judge Minot, 1798 ; Richard Sullivan
in the office of William Sullivan, 1798 ; Humphrey Devereux in the of-
fice of Mr. Lowell, 1798; Thomas Paine and Thomas O. Selfridge in
the office of Mr. Paine, 1799 ; Artemas Sawyer in the office of Mr. Gay,
1799; William Hyslop Sumner in the office of John Davis, 1799; Henry
Cabot in the office of Mr. Amory, 1800; Nathaniel Sparhawk in the
office of George Blake ; Charles Lowell in the office of Mr. Lowell, 1 800 ;
Luther Richardson in the office of Mr. Paine, 1801 ; David I. Greene
and Mr. Skinner in the office of William Sullivan, 1800; George Sulli-
van in the office of James Sullivan, 1800 ; Warren Dutton in the office
of Mr. Lowell, 1800; Alpheus Baker in the office of Mr. Lowell, 1801 ;
Samuel Mather Crocker in the office of Mr. Gray, 1801 ; Lemuel Shaw
in the office of Mr. (David) Everett, 1801 ; John Knapp and Thomas
Welsh in the office of John Davis, 1801 ; Arthur M. Walter, Benjamin
Wells and William Smith Shaw in the office of Mr. Otis, 1801 ; John
Codman and James Elliott in the office of Mr. Lowell, 1802 ; Timothy
Fuller in the office of Charles Paine, 1802; Timothy Boutelle in the of-
fice of Mr. Gay, 1802 ; David Bradley in the office of Mr. Heard, 1802 ;
Aaron Emmes in the office of Mr. Everett, 1802 ; James T. Austin in
the office of William Sullivan, 1802; William Minot in the office of Jo-
seph Hall, 1803.

In the case of Holder Slocum, jr., which was referred to Messrs. Ed-
wards, Davis and Gray, in order that he might be examined as to his
literary qualifications, he not having received a collegiate education, the

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committee reported "that they find Mr. Slocum has so far attended to
the Latin language that a moderate degree of attention and practice will
probably enable him to render it sufficiently familiar for the purposes of
his intended profession. He has paid no attention to the Greek, and
has not been sufficiently instructed, in the opinion of your committee, in
logic, metaphysics and mathematics. He has read some approved wri-
ters in history, and has attended considerably to the French language.

" It is the opinion of the committee that on his remaining in an office
three years from the present time, with an attention for part of the time,
under the direction of his instructors, to history and metaphysics, and oc-
casionally to the Latin language, it will be proper, at the expiration of
that period, if he continues the assiduity and attention which he has
hitherto manifested, to allow of his admission to the bat."

Others recommended to be sworn as attorneys besides those already
mentioned were Josiah Quincy, 1772; Nathaniel Coffin, 1773 ; Increase
Sumner, Benjamin Hichborn, William Tudor, Jonathan William Austin,
John Bulkley, Perez Morton, 1774; Christopher Gore, Samuel Dag-
get, 1778; Jonathan Mason, 1779; Royal Tyler, Thomas Dawes, James
Hughes, 1780; Benjamin Lincoln, Jonathan Fay, Fisher Ames, Rufus
Amory, George R. Minot, 1781 ; David Leonard Barnes, 1783 ; Thomas
Edwards, John Thaxter, Joseph Hall, Edward Sohier, Edward Walker,
1784; Edward Gray, 1785; Samuel Quincy, John Rowe, Harrison
Gray Otis, 1786; Fortescue Vernon, Thomas Williams, 1787; John
Merrick, Joseph Bartlett, Thomas Crafts, 1788; John Lowell, jr., Isaac
Parker, William L> man, Samuel Andrews, Joseph Blake, 1789; Phineas
Bruce, William Cranch, 1790; James Prescott, jr., 1791 ; George Blake,
Robert Paine, 1792; John Callender, Josiah Quincy, Francis Blake,
Joseph Rowe, 1793; William Sullivan, John Williams, 1795; Isaac
Story, 1796; William Thurston, 1797 ; Ezekiel Bacon, Samuel A. Dorr,
John Heard, Foster Waterman, 1798 ; Charles Davis, Charles Cushing,
Jotham Bender, John W. Gurley, 1799; Holder Slocum, jr., Richard
Sullivan, Humphrey Devereux, Nathaniel Sparhawk, Artemas Sawyer,
Thomas Paine, 1801 ; Arthur M. Walter, 1802 ; Warren Dutton, Aaron
H. Putnam, Israel Munroe, Benjamin Wells, John Knapp, 1803 ; Thomas
Welsh, jr., George Sullivan, 1804.

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ii4 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Among the votes passed by the association were the following :

" That in all cases when a gentleman shall be proposed as a student,
who has not had a college education, he shall always undergo an ex-
amination by a committee appointed by the bar previous to his admis-
sion as a student."

" That all students of colleges out of the State be not admissible to
the bar, until they shall have studied one year longer than those edu-
cated at Harvard University."

" That no student be recommended to the Court of Common Pleas
for admission without having studied within the county one year at least
of his time."

"That the sum to be paid by a student at law to his instructors shall
be one hundred pounds lawful money at least."

The above matter relating to the old Bar Association is taken from
the "Record Book" of the association in the possession of the Massa-
chusetts Historical Society, which readers may find more fully described
in the nineteenth volume of the proceedings of the society. The entries
close with 1805, but the writer has reason to believe that the associa-
tion continued until 1836, when the enactments in the revised statutes
seemed to render its existence no longer necessary.

After the dissolution of the old association, no other was formed in
Suffolk county until 1875. On the 20th of October in that year, Joseph
A. Willard, clerk of the Superior Court, was requested by Sidney Bart-
lett, William Gaston, Henry VV. Paine, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, Jo-
siah G. Abbott, Edward D. Sohier, and thirty-one others, to call a
meeting of the signers to consider the formation of a bar association.
A meeting was held in the first session Superior Court-room on the
20th of February, 1876, at which Sidney Bartlett presided, and Albert
E. Pillsbury acted as secretary. A committee consisting of the pres-
ident and secretary, together with Charles Theodore Russell, Walbridge
A. Field, Seth J. Thomas, and John D. Long, was chosen to report a
plan of organization. On the 27th of May a constitution was adopted,
and on the 10th of June the following officers were chosen: President,
Sidney Bartlett; vice-presidents, Henry W. Paine, William Gaston,
William G. Russell ; treasurer, Richard Olney ; secretary, Albert E.
Pillsbury ; executive committee, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, Horace

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C. Hutchins, Gustavus A. Somerby, Robert M. Morse, jr , Henry M.
Rogers; judicial committee, Richard H. Dana, jr., Charles R. Train,
Seth J. Thomas, George O. Shattuck, Walbridge A. Field, Robert D.
Smith, Thomas L. Livermore, J. Lewis Stackpole, Samuel A. B. Ab-
bott, Moses Williams, jr.

The constitution provided for a council, consisting of the president,
vice-president, treasurer, and secretary, ex-officio, and twenty- one others,
divided into classes of seven each, one of which was to be chosen an-
nually for a term of three years, who were to have the sole and entire
management of the association and of its income and property, and in
1885 the number of vice-presidents was reduced to one, and the execu-
tive committee and judicial committee were abolished. The present of-
ficers are: President, John Lowell; vice-president, Richard Olney ;
treasurer, C. P. Greenough ; secretary, Robert Grant; council, William
G. Russell, George O. Shattuck, Augustus Russ, Solomon Lincoln,
Causten Browne, Moses Williams, chosen in 1891 ; Henry W. Putnam,
Henry M. Rogers, A. Lawrence Lowell, Joseph B. Warner, Charles T.
Gallagher, Frederick Dodge, chosen in 1890; Lewis S. Dabney, Albeit
E. Pillsbury, John C. Ropes, Moorfield Storey, Samuel Hoar, Clement
K. Fay, Edward W. Hutchins, chosen in 1889.

With this slight reference to the present Bar Association, this intro-
ductory chapter must close. The writer is aware of the inadequacy of
his treatment of the subject to which it relates, but he trusts that the
limited space at his command will be considered at least a partial ex-
cuse.

Biographical Register

OF THE

BENCH AND BAR.

CHARLES L. ABBOTT, son of Levi and Harriet E. Abbott, was born in Boston,
October 6, 1856, and educated at its public scbools. He prosecuted his law stud-
ies with Josiah W. Hubbard, a member of the Suffolk Bar, and was admitted to the bar
in Boston in 1880. He married, January 15, 1891. Anna E. Pierce, and lives in Ar-
lington.

Thomas Coffin Amory was the son of Jonathan and Mehitable (Sullivan) Amory, of
Boston, and was born in that city October 16, 1812. His mother was a daughter of
Governor James Sullivan. He attended the Round Hill School at Northampton, and
was fitted for college in Boston by Charles Chauncey Emerson and Louis Stackpole.
He graduated at Harvard in 1830 and after studying law with his uncle, William Sul-
ivan, was admitted to the bar in Boston in January, 1834. He was a member of the
Boston Common Council from 1836 to 1841, an alderman at various times, and a rep-
resentative in 1859. He published a memoir of James Sullivan in 1858, "The Military
Services and Public Life of General John Sullivan " in 1868, and at various times " The
Transfer of Erin, or the Acquisition of Ireland by England," the " Life of Admiral
Coffin," the '' Siege of Newport," and numerous pamphlets and poems. He died in
Boston August 20, 1889.

Thomas Johnston Homer was born in Roxbury before it was annexed to Boston,
and is the son of Thomas Johnston and Mary Elizabeth (Fisher) Homer. He was fitted
for college at the Roxbury Latin School and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He
studied law at the Dane Law School in Cambridge, and in the office of Arthur Lincoln
and William S. Hall, in Boston, and was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county in Jan-
uary, 1883. He lives unmarried in Roxbury, and is one of the examining counsel of
the Conveyancer's Title Insurance Company.

Adin Ballou Underwood was born in Milford, Mass., May 19, 1828. His ancestors
came to this country before 1637 and lived in Hingham, from whence subsequently
they removed to Watertown. His father was Orison Underwood, who was brigadier-
general of the militia, and his mother was Miss Hannah Bond Cheney. He attended
the University Grammar School, Providence, R. I., and graduated from Brown Univer-
sity in 1849, standing with James B. Angel, now president of Ann Arbor University,

n8 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

at the head of his class. He studied law with Hon. Charles R. Train at Framingham,
and afterwards with Hon. Benjamin F. Thomas of Worcester, and subsequently at the
Law School of Harvard University, which he left to go abroad and study in the uni-
versities of Berlin and Heidelberg. He was admitted to the bar October 10, 1853, in
the Supreme Judicial Court at Worcester, Mass., and began the practice of law :n his
native town of Milford. Soon after this he took as his partner, H. B. Staples, after-
wards judge on the Superior Bench. In 1856 he left Milford and formed a partnership
at Boston with Charles R. Train with whom he practiced law until the breaking out of
the war. He was married June 5, 1856, at Newton, to Miss Jane L., daughter of
Joseph and Hannah T. Walker. On April 29, 1861, he aided in the enlistment of a
regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers and in the following month received a commis-
sion as captain in the Second Regiment then being raised by George H. Gordon at
Brook Farm. In July, 1862, he became major in the 33d Massachusetts Regiment and
in July of the same year was commissioned lieutenant-colonel. After the resignation
of Colonel Maggi, in April, 1863, he was commissioned as colonel of this regiment and
was in command at the battle of Gettysburg. Joining the army of the Cumberland
with his regiment, he took part in the battle of Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge,
October 28, 1863, and in a desperate charge up the mountain was badly wounded in
his right thigh. General Hooker, in his official report of this battle, says: "Colonel
Underwood was desperately wounded. If only in recognition of his meritorious serv-
ices, his many martial virtues and great personal worth, it would be a great satisfaction
to me to have this officer advanced to the grade of brigadier-general. " The recommend-
ation of General Hooker was immediately complied with and he was commissioned
as brigadier-general of volunteers, November 6, 1863. His wounds, which made him
a cripple for life, were slow in healing, but upon his recovery he again went into active
service and was present at the grand review in Washington when the army was dis-
banded. Upon his resignation from the army in 1865, he was breveted major-general
"for meritorious service during the war," and on his return to Boston, in 1866, was
appointed surveyor of that port, which position he held continuously until August,
1886. From 1856, when he began the practice of law in Boston, unt'l 1886, he was a
resident of Newton, but upon leaving the custom house, he removed his residence to
Boston and resumed the practice of law, associating with him his son, William Orison
Underwood. About a year and a half after this, upon January 14, 1888, he died at his
home in Boston, at the age of fifty-nine years and seven months, leaving a widow,
one son and two daughters. General Underwood spent a large part of his time in
literary pursuits, gave occasional addresses upon the war and was the author of the his-
tory of the 33d Massachusetts Regiment. He was a prominent Freemason, was de-
partment commander of the Grand Army of the State of Massachusetts in 1873.
During Governor William Claflin*s term of office he was chief of staff. While a resi-
dent of Newton he served in the town government as chairman of the School Com-
mittee, was a warden of Grace Church and was one. of the original trustees of the
Public Library.

John Lewis Bates, the son of Lewis B. and Louisa D. Bates, was born in North
Easton, Mass., September 18, 1859. He was educated at the Boston Latin School,

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Boston College, and the Boston University Law School. He graduated from the last
in 1885 and in September of that year v/as admitted to the bar in Boston. He has been
in 1891 and 1892 a member of the Boston Common Council and makes East Boston his
place of residence. He married at Jamestown, N. Y., July 12, 1887, Clara Elizabeth
Smith.

Charles Clarence Barton, son of Pliny L. and Mary A. Barton, was born in Salis-
bury, Conn., September 14, 1844. He was educated at the Amenia University,
Amenia, N. Y., Trinity College, and the Boston University Law School. He was
admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in April, 1873, and lives in Newton, in which
place he has been president of the Common Council and School Board. He married
Emma C. Drew in Boston, August 24, 1870.

Francis Bassett, son of William and Betsey (Howes) Bassett, was born in that part
of Yarmouth, Mass., which is now Dennis, September 9, 178G. He was fitted for col-
lege at the Sandwich Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He studied law
with Luther Lawrence and Timothy Bigelow and was admitted to the Common Pleas bar
September 28, 1813, and the Supreme Court bar March 6, 1816. He was a representative
from Boston in 1818, '19, '20, '24, '28, '29 and an overseer of Harvard College from 1853
to 1863. He was appointed in 1830 clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the
second circuit and of the United States District Court. In 1845 he resigned and trav-
eled in Europe. He married, December 8, 1858, Francis (Cutter) Langdon, widow of
Woodbury Langdon, of Portsmouth, N. H., and daughter of Jacob and Miriam (Cross)
Cutter, of that city. He died in Boston, May 25, 1875.

William Brigham, son of Charles and Susanna (Baylis) Brigham, was born in Graf-
ton, Mass., September 26, 1806. lie was fitted for college at Leicester Academy in a
single year, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. After graduation he read law in
Boston with George Morey, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1832, and
soon had a sufficient amount of professional employment. He was a representative
from Boston in 1834, 1835, 1836, 1841, 1849, and 1866. In 1856 he was a member of
the Republican Convention at Philadelphia, and on the 29th of April, 1835, he delivered
the centennial address at Grafton, which was published. In 1836 he was selected by
Governor Everett to compile and edit the laws of Plymouth Colony, published in the
same year. For many years before his death he lived in the summer season in the old
homestead at Grafton, and devoted himself with much zeal to agricultural pursuits.
Several of his addresses before agricultural societies have been published. He married,
June 11, 1840, Margaret Austin Brooks, daughter of Isaac and Mercy (Tufts) Brooks,
of Charlestown. His children are William Tufts, born May 24, 1841 (H. C. 1862) ;
Charles Brooks, born January 17, 1845 (H. C. 1866); Edward Austin, born February
23, 1846; Mary Brooks, born December 26, 1851 ; Arthur Austin, born June 8, 1857.
He died in Boston, July 9, 1869. In 1853 he was chosen a member of the Massa-
chusetts Historical Society, and was one of the most useful and valuable members of
that body. His knowledge of the early history of Massachusetts was accurate and
extensive, A lecture by him, delivered January 19, 1869, on the colony of New Ply-

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mouth and its relations to Massachusetts, — one of a course before the Lowell Institute,
by members of the Historical Society, and published in a volume called " Massachusetts
and its Early History," — is highly creditable both to his research and insight. Mr.
Brigham had a large practice, was a sound lawyer, a safe adviser, and enjoyed in a high
degree the confidence and attachment of his clients.

George Minot, son of Stephen and Rebecca (Trask) Minot, was born in Haverhill,
January 5, 1817. His father was judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, county
attorney of Essex, and died in 1861. He fitted for college at the Haverhill Academy
and the Phillips Academy, and graduated at Harvard in 183G. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and in the office of Rufus Choate and was admitted to the bar in
Boston, April 15, 1839. He was solicitor of the Boston and Maine Railroad Company,
the editor of a " Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachu-
setts," associate editor and editor of the United States Statutes at large, associate re-
porter of the decisions of Levi Woodbury in the first circuit of the United States Court,
and editor of nine volumes of English Admiralty Reports. He married first in 1844,
Emily P., widow of Dr. Richard Ogle, of Demerara, and daughter of Dr Gallup, formerly
of Woodstock, Conn. ; and second, November 21, 1853, Elizabeth, daughter of Judge
Thomas Dawes. He died in Reading, Mass., April 16, 1858.

William Henry Miller, son of William and Annie Miller, was born in York county,
Me., January 20, 1834. He was educated at Limerick Academy, in Maine, and
studied law with I. S. Kimball, at Sanford, Me. He was admitted to the bar of York
county about 1866, and in Middlesex county, Mass., about 1868. He married at San-
ford in 1868, Emily M. Kimball, and resides in Melrose.

John W. McKim was born in Boston, November 25, 1822. He graduated at Union
College, and after studying law in the office of Dent & Grammer in Washington, began
practice in that city. He was a member of the Washington City Council in 1850. He
afterwards moved to Ohio and was at one time district attorney of Defiance county in
that State. In the war he was captain and brevet-major, and for a time stationed in
Boston in the quartermaster's department. He was admitted to the bar in Boston
April 8, 1867, and in 1870 and 1871 was a representative. In 1874 he was appointed
by Governor Talbot judge of the Municipal Court in the West Roxbury district, and in
March, 1877, was appointed judge of Probate and Insolvency for Suffolk county, which
office he now holds.

Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Mass., May 4, 1796, and died in Yellow Springs,
0., August 2, 1859. He graduated at Brown University in 1819, and after studying
law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., was admitted to the bar in 1823, and in the
Suffolk county Supreme Judicial Court January 13, 1826. He began practice in Dedham,
and was a representative from that town from 1828 to 1833. In the latter year he
moved to Boston, and represented Suffolk county in the Senate from 1834 to 1837, the
last two years officiating as its president. From 1837 to 1848 he was secretary of the
Massachusetts Board of Education, In 1848 he was chosen representative to Congress

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as the successor of John Quincy Adams, and served until 1852, when he was chosen
president of Antioch College, which office he filled until his death.

Charles Russell Lowell, born October 30, 1807, was the eldest son of Rev. Dr.
Charles Lowell (H. C. 1800). His mother was Harriet Brackett Spence, daughter of
Keith Spence and Mary Waill, of Portsmouth, N. H. After graduating at Harvard in
1826, he studied law at the law school in Northampton, and in the office of Mr. Charles
G-. Loring in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar at the October term of 1829.
In about four years he abandoned the legal profession, and went into business. Prov-
ing unsuccessful in this, he found employment in the Boston Athenaeum, where he
passed the last eighteen years of his life, and where his services were greatly prized.
He died of apoplexy, while on a visit to Washington, D. O, June 23, 1870. He
married, April 18, 1832, Anna Cabot, daughter of the late Patrick T. Jackson, of
Boston. They had four children, viz., Charles Russell Lowell, jr. (H. C. 1854), dis-
tinguished as a acholar in college, and afterwards the renowned cavalry officer in the
war of the Rebellion ; James Jackson Lowell (H. C. 1858), and the first scholar in his
class, and an officer who died nobly in the service of his country; and two daughters.

Thornton Kirkland Lothrop, a descendant from Rev. John Lothrop, who came from
England in 1634, and settled first in Sc'tuate, and afterwards in Barnstable, is the
son of Samuel Kirkland Lothrop, LL.D., of Boston, and Mary Lyman (Buckminster)
Lothrop, was born in Dover, N. H., June 3. 1830. He was fitted for college at the
Boston Latin School and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He studied law at the Har-
vard Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 20, 1853. He was a
representative in 1859. and assistant United States district attorney from April, 1861,
to July, 1865, and was a member of the State Board of Health in 1886 and 1887. He
married, April 30, 1866, Anna M., daughter of Samuel and Ann (Sturgis) Hooper, and
resides in Boston.

Edward P. Loring, son of Ira and Betsey Loring, was born in Norridgewock,
Mass., March 2, 1837. After graduating at Bowdoin College, he studied law in the
office of Stephen D. Lindsey of Norridgewock and at the Albany Law School, and was
admitted to the bar in Somerset county, Me., in April, 1861, and in Suffolk county,
Mass., April 14, 1868. In Fitchburg, where he has his residence, he has been clerk and
special justice of the Police Court and was a representative from 1872 to 1874. He
was a member of the Senate in 1883 and 1884, and is now with an office in Boston
acting as controller of county accounts by appointment of the governor. He married
in Waterville, Me., July 15, 1868, Hannah M. Stark

Isaac Newton Lewis, son of William and Judith M. (Whittemore) Lewis, was born
in Walpole, Mass., December 25, 1848. There were then no free high schools, and in
his town no opportunities to obtain any thing beyond a common school education.
After teaching a year in a private high and classical school, he entered the Eliot High
School, in Boston, assisting the head master in the preparation of young men for col-
lege, and entered Harvard College in the class of 1873, and graduated with the degree
of A. B. On graduation he went abroad for further study and recreation, visiting
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122 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Great Britain, France and Germany, and returning taught in high school and academy,
till entering the Boston University Law School, he was graduated with an LL. B. in
1876. He had, on examination, been admitted to the Suffolk bar at Boston on January
31, preceding. Again he went abroad, and on his return, on examination, received
the degree of A.M. from the Boston University, the first person on whom this degree
was ever conferred by that institution. In 1876 he opened an office in Boston, and
has continued it to the present time. He was one of the original members of the Nor-
folk Bar Association, and besides contributing to magazines and the press, is the author
of several books from "In Memonam," while in Harvard, to "Pleasant Hours in Sun-
ny Lands," written after his return from a tour around the world in 1888.

John Laturop, son of John P. and Maria M. Lathrop, was born in Boston, February
8, 1835. He graduated at Burlington College, New Jersey, in 1853, and at the Har-
vard Law School in 1855. After further pursuing his studies in the office of Charles G.,
Francis G, and Caleb William Loring in Boston, he was admitted to the bar of Suf-
folk in 1856, and to the bar of the U. S. Supreme Court in 1872. In the war of 1861
he was captain in the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts regiment in 1862 and 1863, was reporter
of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1874 to 1888, associate justice of
Superior Court from 1888 to 1891, and was appointed associate justice of the Supreme
Judicial Court, January 28, 1891, which position he now holds. Besides his general
practice, he has been a lecturer at the Harvard and Boston Law Schools, and the ed-
itor of several law books, and a contributor to various legal periodicals. He married
in Boston, June 24, 1875, Eliza D., daughter of Richard G. Parker, and resides in
Boston.

William Bradbury Kingsbury, son of Aaron Kingsbury, was born in Roxbury,
December 14, 1806. He fitted for college at Mr. Greene's school, Jamaica Plain,
and graduated at Harvard in 1827. After a short time spent in reading law, he en-
tered into commercial life in Boston, in the firm of Kendall & Kingsbury, on Liver-
pool Wharf, and is thought by the editor to have never been admitted to the bar. In
1831 he married his cousin, Frances F. Fenner, of Providence, R. I. The firm of Ken-
dall & Kingsbury was unfortunate in business, and was dissolved in 1836. He was
afterwards employed in managing trusts, and became treasurer of the Roxbury Gas
Company, which office he retained till his death. He was also alderman of Roxbury
in 1846. He died at Roxbury, April 6, 1872.

Prescott Keyes, son of John S. and Martha L. (Prescott) Keyes, was born in Con-
cord, Mass., March 26, 1858. He fitted for college at the Concord High School and
with a private tutor, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law in the Har-
vard Law School and in the office of Charles R. Train, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in June, 1882. He has held the office of chairman of the Selectmen, and other
offices in Concord, where he lives, and was married July 6, 1881, to Alice Reynolds, of
Concord.

Albert H. Hopkins, son of Henry S. and Phcebe E. Hopkins, was born in Foster,
R. I., November 10, 1845, and educated at public and private schools. He was ad-

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mitted to the bar in Suffolk, January 30, 1875, and the Minnesota District Court, March
26, 1880, He was for a number of years a member of the Massachusetts Republican
State Committee and two years chairman of the Committee of Ward Fifteen, in Boston.
He married, August 8, 1879, Emily L. Randolph, of Providence, R. I., and resides in
the Allston district of Boston.

George M. Hobbs, son of William and Maria (Miller) Hobbs, was born in Waltham,
April 11, 1827, and after attending the public schools . entered Harvard and graduated
in 1850. After leaving college he was a private tutor in Upper Marlborough, Md.,
and taught school in Alexandria, Va. After a short period in the Harvard Law
School he was admitted to the bar in Suffolk, March 6, 1857, and became an associate
with Edward Avery, of Boston, in business. He was a representative in 1868, has
been a member of the School Boards of Roxbury and Boston twenty-three years, two
years the president of the Boston board and two years a member of the Board of Water
Commissioners. In connection with Mr. Avery, his partner, he has published a work
on " Bankruptcj'." He married, October 26, 1859, Annie M. Morrill.

David Blakely Hoar, son of John Emory and Ann Borodale (Blakely) Hoar, was
born in Pawlet. Vt., August 19, 1855, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied
law with Alfred Hemenway and James P. Farley and at the Harvard Law School, and
was admitted to the bar in Suffolk in May, 1879. His place of residence is Brookline.

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, son of Samuel and Sarah (Sherman) Hoar, was born in
Concord, Mass., February 21, 1816. He received his early education at the Concord
Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1835. He studied law with his father, with
Emory Washburn, of Worcester, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to
the bar in Worcester, September 3, 1839. He was a justice of the Court of Common
Pleas from 1849 to 1853, a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1859 to 1869,
attorney-general of the United States under President Grant, a member of the joint
high commission which made the treaty of Washington with Great Britain, and has
been State senator, representative in Congress, regent of the Smithsonian Institution,
fellow of Harvard College and member and president of the Board of Overseers.
Among the important cases in which he has been counsel has been the " Andover
case," in which he was of counsel for the " Visitors." He married at Concord, Novem-
ber 26, 1840, Caroline Downes Brooks, of that town, and he has always made Concord
his place of residence.

Calvin P. Hinds was born in Barre, September 1, 1817, and died in Boston, April
18, 1892. He studied law in the office of Fisher A. Kingsbury, of Weymouth, and was
admitted to the bar at Dedham in 1844. He was a .member of the Boston Common
Council in 1853 and 1854, and a representative in 1856.

William Allen Hayes, son of John Lord and Caroline Sarah (Ladd) Hayes, was
born in Portsmouth, N. H., and graduated at Harvard in 1866. He studied law with
George Partridge Sanger, at the Harvard Law School, from which he received the de-
gree of LL.B., and in the offices of Abbott & Jones and others, and was admitted

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to the bar in Boston, August 16, 1868. He was assistant United States district at-
torney under George P. Sanger. His residence is in Cambridge.

Charles Telham Greenough, son of William Whitwell and Catherine Scollay (Cur-
tis) Greenough, was born in Cambridge, Mass., July 29, 1844. He was fitted for col-
lege at the Boston Latin School and graduated at Harvard in 1864. He attended the
Harvard Law School and pursued his law studies further in the office of Ropes & Gray,
in Boston. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in December, 1869, and has been
secretary, treasurer and member of the council of the Suffolk Bar Association. He has
been counsel for the Boston Gas Light Company and other large corporations. He has
published an edition of " Story on Agency " and a '' Digest of Gas Cases." He married
in Boston, June 11, 1874, Mary, daughter of Judge Henry Vose and resides in Brook-
line.

Ebenezer Gay, son of Ebenezer and Mary Allyne (Otis) Gay, of Hingham, was born
in that town March 27, 1818. He received his education at the Derby Academy and
Willard School in Hingham, and studied law with his father, in the Harvard Law
School and in the office of William Bngham in Boston. He was admitted to the bar
in Boston, April 14, 1840, and was in the State Senate in 1862. He married in Worces-
ter, in 1852, Ellen Blake Blood, and lives in Boston.

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Thomas Flatley was born in Ireland and died in Boston February 25, 1892, at the
age of forty-one years. He was educated at a private classical school and the Queen's
University, and came to America a young man to engage in mercantile pursuits. He
entered, however, the university at Georgetown, D. C, from which he graduated, and
then taught for a time at Worcester College. After a visit to Europe he studied law in
Washington and served as private tutor in the families of General Erving, General
Vincent, and Senator Carpenter. He then came to Boston and entered the practice of
law, making Maiden his residence. He was appointed deputy collector under Mr.
Saltonstall, the collector of Boston.

John Minot Fiske, son of John Minot and Eliza Maria (Winn) Fiske, was born in
Boston, August 17, 1834. He fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy and grad-
uated at Yale in 1856. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of
Seth J. Thomas, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 23, 1858. He was a mem-
ber of the Boston Common Council in 1862-3. He was appointed deputy naval officer
under Amos Tuck in the Boston custom house. In November, 1863, he was appointed
deputy collector by John Z. Goodrich, collector, and on the 1st of June, 1864, married
at Stockbridge, Isabella Landon, a daughter of Mr. Goodrich. He is still deputy col-
lector and resides at Cambridge.

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Joseph James Feely, son of James and Catherine Feely, was born in Boston, May 7,
1862, and educated at the public schools of Walpole, Mass., and at the Boston Latin
School. He took a three years' course in the Boston University Law School and was
admitted to the bar in Boston in 1884. Living in Norwood, he is also a member of
the Norfolk Bar Association, He has been a member of the School Board of Norwood

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and is now assistant district attorney for the southeastern district of Massachusetts,
including Norfolk and Plymouth counties.

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Richard Sullivan Fay, son of Samuel Phillips Prescott and Harriet (Howard)

Fay, was born in Cambridge June 16, 1806. He was fitted for college by Rev. Mr. Put-
nam, of Andover, and graduated at Harvard in 1822. He studied law with his father and
at the law school at Northampton, and after his admission to the bar was associated
in practice at different times with Jonathan Chapman and Franklin Dexter. After a
visit to Europe in 1835, he abandoned law and devoted himself to the management
and care of manufacturing corporations, indulging himself in the recreation of agri-
culture. He married, May 30, 1832, Catherine, daughter of Dudlgy L. Pickman, of
Salem, and died in Liverpool, England, July 6, 1865.

Alexander Hill Everett, son of Rev. Oliver Everett, was born in Boston, March
19, 1790, and died in Canton, China, June 29, 1847. He was fitted for college at
Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1806. He studied law with
John Quincy Adams and was admitted to the bar in Boston in March, 1815. While
a law student he went in 1809 to St. Petersburg as attache under John Quincy Adams,
minister to Russia, and resided there three years. In 1811 he went to England, and in

1812 returned home. At the close of the war after his admission to the bar he spent a
year at the Netherlands as secretary of legation under William Eustis, of Massa-
chusetts, the American minister. He succeeded Mr. Eustis in 1818 with the rank of
charge d'affaires and remained at the Netherlands until 1824. In 1825 he was ap-
pointed minister to Spain and was accompanied by Washington Irving as his attache.
Returning from Spain in 1829 he was for a time proprietor and editor of the North
American Review, and from 1830 to 1835 was a member of the lower branch of the
Legislature. In 1840 he was sent on a confidential mission to Cuba, and in 1845 United
States commissioner to China, holding office until his death. Mr. Everett's literary
career was too prolific to trace. Besides contributing largely to magazines and peri-
odicals he published in 1821 " Europe, etc." ; in 1822 " New Ideas on Population, etc." ;
in 1827 " America, etc." ; in 1845 a volume of essays, and in the same year a volume of
poems and memories of Joseph Warren and Patrick Henry as contributions to Sparks's
American Biography.

George B. English, son of Thomas and Penelope (Bethune) English, was born in
Cambridge, March 7, 1787, and died in Washington, September 20, 1828. He graduated
at Harvard in 1807 and was admitted to the bar in Boston in May, 1811. He aban-
doned practice and devoted himself for a time to the study of theology, publishing in

1813 "The grounds of Christianity examined " and a response to his critics entitled
<; Five Smooth Stones out of the Brook." He was afterwards a newspaper editor,
lieutenant of marines in the United States service and an officer of artillery under
Ismail Pacha in Egypt. In 1827 he returned to Washington and remained there until
his death.

John Harvard Ellis, son of George E. and Elizabeth Bruce (Eager) Ellis, was born
in Charlestown, January 9, 1841, and graduated at Harvard in 1862. He studied law

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at the Harvard Law School and in <the office of Francis E. Parker, of Boston, and was
admitted to the bar in Boston, October 4, 1865. He contributed to the " Law Maga-
zine " articles on Lord Brougham and James Otis and others, and in 1867 edited a vol-
ume entitled ''The works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse," with notes and an
able introduction. He married, March 25, 1869, Grace Atkinson, daughter of James L.
Little, of Boston, and died May 3, 1870.

FREnKiucK D. Ely, son of Nathan and Amelia Maria (Partridge) Ely, was born in
Wrentham, Mass., September 24, 1838. He was fitted for college at Day's Academy in
Wrentham and graduated at Brown University in 1859. He studied law in the office of
Waldo Colburn, aj, Dedham, and was admitted to the bar in Dedham in October, 1862.
He has held the offices of grand marshal and deputy grand master of the Grand Lodge of
Masons in Massachusetts, trustee of the Dedham Institution for Savings, director in the
Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Company, warden of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in
Dedham, and chairmanship of the Dedham School Committee. He was in the Massa-
chusetts House of Representatives in 1873, in the Senate in 1878-79, and a member
of the Forty-ninth Congress. He was appointed associate justice of the "Municipal
Court of the City of Boston," October 10, 1888, and is now on the bench. He married
first in Boston, December 6, 1866, Eliza, daughter of Seth and Harriet E. (Rice) Whit-
tin, and second at Dedham, August 10, 1885, Anna, daughter of Lyman and Olive
Emerson. His residence is in Dedham.

Charles Ronello Elder, son of Charles L. and Roxanna Elder, was born in Sabatus,
Me., October 21, 1850, and was educated in the public schools and at the Hebron Acad-
emy. He studied law with Alvah Black, in Paris, Me., and at the Boston University
Law School, from which he graduated in 1S76. He was admitted to the bar in Paris
in 1875, and in Boston in June, 1876. He married first, June 15, 1881, at Bellows
Falls, Vt, Mary Gertrude Flint, and second at New Bedford, February 28, 1888, Marie
T. Wood. His residence is in Maiden.

Thomas Stetson Harlow, son of Bradford and Nancy (Stetson) Harlow, was born in
Castine, Me., November 15, 1812, and after the usual course of study at the public schools
and academy, graduated at Bowdoin College in 1836. He studied law in the office of
Kent & Cutting, of Bangor, and afterwards in Louisville, Ky., where he was admitted
to the bar in 1839. In 1842 he was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county and since
that time he has practiced in both Middlesex and Suffolk counties. He was associated
with John A. Bolles in the defence of James Hawkins indicted for murder, in which the
court reversed the ruling in the famous Peter York case. In the Peter York case the
court decided, Justice Wilde dissenting, that the homicide being proved, and nothing
further shown, the presumption of law is that it is malicious and an act of murder.
The burden of proof is on the accused to show excuse or extenuation. (See 9th of Met-
calf, page 93.) ' In the Hawkins case the court held that the murder charged must be
proved and that the burden is on the Commonwealth to prove the whole case. At the
time of this decision York was in prison under sentence of death and in consequence
of it his punishment was commuted by the governor to imprisonment for life. (See

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3d of Gray, page 464.) Mr. Harlow has been police justice in Paducah, Ky., special
justice of the first eastern Middlesex District Court, and ten years a member of the
School Committee of Medford. He married Lucy J. Hall, November 7, 1843, and
resides in Medford.

Nathan Hale, son of Nathan and Sarah Preston (Everett) Hale, was born in Boston,
November 18, 1818, and died in Boston, January 9, 1871. He was fitted for college at
the Boston Latin School and the English High School, and graduated at Harvard in
1838. After leaving college he was occupied for a time as assistant topographical en-
gineer on the State map of Massachusetts. He studied law at the Harvard Law School
and in the office of Charles Pelham Curtis, and was admitted to the bar in Boston,
July 14, 1841. For many years he was associated with his father, Nathan Hale, in
editing the Boston Daily Advertiser, and in 1868 was appointed profe-sor in Union
College, Schenectady, which position he held until the appointment of Dr. Alden as
president. At his death he left nearly ready for the press a " General Survey of the
History and Progress of English Literature from the Earliest Days."

George Francis Cheever, son of James W. and Lydia (Dean) Cheever, was born
in Salem, Mass., November 30, 1819, and fitted for college at the Salem Latin School.
He graduated at Harvard in 1836, and after a study of law in the Harvard Law School
was admitted to the bar in Salem, and also in Boston, September 2, 1843. With poor
health he moved to Natchez, and after a visit to the Azores, began practice in Salem.
He died in Pepperell, Mass., April 5, 1871.

Seth Edward Sprague, son of Peleg and Sarah (Deming) Sprague, was born in
Hallowell, Me., April 12, 1821, and died in Boston June 26, 1869. He was educated
partly at Hallowell and partly at the school of Stephen Minot Weld, at Jamaica Plain,
near Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1841, and at the Harvard Law School in
1844, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, September 3, 1844. While a student at
law he was appointed clerk of the United States District Court, which position he held
until a few months before his death. He married in Boston, September 11, 1848, Har-
riet Bordman, daughter of William and Susan Ruggles (Bordman) Lawrence.

Edward Morrell, was a son of Dr. Robert Morrell, who served with Andrew Jack-
son in Louisiana during the war of 1812, and of his wife Laurette (Toussard) Morrell,
daughter of General Toussard, an artillery officer of Napoleon's army, who emigrated
to this country and was employed on our coast fortifications. The subject of this
sketch lived on his father's plantation is San Marcos, Cuba, until about 1835, when he
was fitted for college by M. L. Hurlbut, and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He stud-
ied law in the Harvard Law School, in the office of George T. Davis, of Greenfield,
Mass., and in that of Sohier & Welch, in Boston. He was admitted to the bar in Bos-
ton in July, 1847, and practiced in Boston until 1852, when he moved to Philadelphia.
He married in 1860, Ida, daughter of John Hare Powell, of Philadelphia, and died at
Newport, September 3, 1871.

Edward Augustus Crowninshield, son of Benjamin William and Mary (Boardman)
Crowninshield, was born in Salem, February 25, 1817, and died in Boston February

128 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

20, 1859. He fitted for college at the Round Hill School and graduated at Harvard in
1S3G. lie studied law in the office of Franklin Dexter and William Howard Gardi-
ner, and after admission to the bar, devoted himself to bibliography. He married, Jan-
uary 15, 1840, Caroline Maria, daughter of Francis Welch, and resided in Boston.

Addington Davenport, son of Eleazer and Rebecca (Addington) Davenport, was
born August 3, 1670, and was graduated at Harvard in 1689. He was clerk of the first
House of Representatives under the charter of 1692, and in 1695 was appointed clerk of
the Superior Court of Judicature. He was afterwards appointed clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas for the county of Suffolk and register of deeds. In 1714 he was elected
a member of the Council, and was a Representative in 1711, '12, '13. In 1715 he was
appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature, and remained on the bench till
his death in 1736, at the age of sixty-six. He does not appear to have been a trained
lawyer, but as a member of the judiciary he is entitled to a place in this register. He
married, November 10, 1698, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Norton)
Wainwright, of Ipswich.

Francis Calley Gray, son of William Gray, was born in Salem, Mass., September 19,
1790, and died in Boston December 29, 1856. He graduated at Harvard in 1809, and
was admitted to the bar in the Court of Common Pleas, November 11, 1814, and in the
Supreme Judicial Court in December, 1816, after a course of study in the office of Will-
iam Prescott. Bis life was chiefly devoted to literary pursuits. He was the private
secretary of John Quincy Adams, American minister at Russia, a contributor to the
North American Review, and the orator of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in
1816. In 1840 he was the poet of the society. In 1818 he delivered an oration on the
4th of July before the authorities of the town of Boston. He was a member of the
Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, presi-
dent of the Athenaeum, trustee of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, fellow of
Harvard from 1826 to 1836, representative in 1822,'23,'26,'28,'29,'31,'43, a member of the
Council in 1839, vice-president of the Prison Discipline Society, chairman of the direc-
tors of the State Prison, and a recipient of a degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1841.
He resided in Boston and was unmarried.

Samuel Eliot Guild, son of Benjamin Guild, was born in Boston, October 8, 1819,
and died at Nahant, July 16, 1862. He fitted for college at the private school of Henry
Russell Cleveland, and graduated at Harvard in 1839. He studied law in the Harvard
Law School and in the office of William Gray and Theophilus Parsons, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in Boston, July 7, 1842. He married, February 9, 1847, Elizabeth,
daughter of Henry Gardner Rice, of Boston.

Robert Roberts Bishop, son of Jonathan Parker and Eliza Harding Bishop, was
born in Medfield, Mass., March 31, 1834, and received his early education at Phillips
Academy, Andover. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in the offices of
Peleg W. Chandler, and Brooks & Ball in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in
Boston November 24, 1857. He was a representative in 1874, and a member of the

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Senate from 1878 to 1882, the last three years of which period he was president. He
was of counsel in the reorganization of the New York and New England Railroad Com-
pany, and in the Andover case, and was the Republican candidate for governor of Mas-
sachusetts in 1882. He was appointed judge of the Superior Court March 7, 1888, and
is now on the bench. He married, December 24, 1857, at Holliston, Mass., Mary Helen
Bullard, and resides in Newton.

Everett Watson Burdett, son of Augustus P. and Marian (Newman) Burdett, was
born in Olive Branch, Miss., April 5, 1854, and was educated at private schools and at
Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. He studied law with Charles Allen, now justice
of the Supreme Judicial Court, and at the Boston University Law School, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in Boston in May, 1878. He was assistant U. S. attorney for Massa-
chusetts from 1878 to 1880, and since that time his practice has been specially connected
with the subject of electric lighting. He married, April 15, 1885, Maud Warren, of
Boston, where he now resides.

Selwyn Z. Bowman, son of Zadock and Rosetta (Cram,) Bowman, was born in
Charlestown, Mass., May 11, 1840. He fitted for college at the Charlestown High.
School and graduated at Harvard in 1860. He studied law with David H. Mason in
Boston and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in
1862. He has been three years State representative ; two years senator ; four years
in Congress, and seven years city solicitor in Somerville. He married in Lexingtonr
June 20, 1866, Martha E. Tufts, and lives in Somerville.

Chester Ward Clark, son of Amasa F. and Belinda Clark, was born in Glover, Vt.,
August 9, 1851, and was educated at Phillips Academy, Exeter, and in the Glover
Academy. He studied law with Barron C. Moultoo in Boston, where he was admitted
to the bar March 12, 1878. His practice is confined chiefly to commercial and probate
law in the counties of Suffolk and Middlesex.

David H. Coolidge, son of Charles and Elizabeth (Hill) Coolidge, was born in Boston,.
February 7, 1833, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard, where he gradu-
ated in 1854. He studied laAv in the office of Peleg W. Chandler and at the Harvard
Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston, September 15, 1857. He has been
commissioner of insolvency fifteen years, a trustee of the City Hospital, and was a
member of the Common Council in 1863-4 and a representative in 1865. He married
in Brookline, January 6, 1858, Isabella Shurtleff, and lives in Boston.

Charles Pelham Curtis, son of Thomas and Helen (Pelham) Curtis, was born in
Boston, June 22, 1792, and died in Boston, October 4, 1864. He fitted for Harvard at
the Boston Latin School and graduated in the class of 1811. He studied law^with
William Sullivan and was admitted to the bar in Boston in September, 1814, in the
Court of Common Pleas, and in December, 1816, in the Supreme Judicial Court. He was
a member of the Common Council in 1823, '24, '25, '26, and a representative in 1842.
He married first, March 5, 1816, Anna Whroe, daughter of Wm. Scollay, of Boston, and
second, November 12, 1846, Margaret McKean, daughter of Thomas Stevenson, o£
Boston, and widow of Dr. Joseph William McKean, of the same city.
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Cuarles Pelham Curtis, jr., son of Charles Pelham and Anna Whroe (Scollay)
Curtis, was born in Boston, Juiy 29, 1824, and graduated at Harvard in 1845. He
studied law in the office of Charles P. and Benjamin R. Curtis, and was admitted to
the bar in Boston, January 16, 1849. He has been United States commissioner. He
married in Boston, April 25, 1852, Caroline G. Cary, and lives in Swampscott, Mass.

James Dana, son of Samuel and Rebeeca (Barrett) Dana, was born in Charlestown,
Mass., November 8, 1811, and was educated at the Groton Acadmey and at Harvard,
where he graduated in 1830. He studied law with his father and with George F.
Farley in Groton, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex in December, 1833. He
practiced in Groton first and then Charlestown, of which city he was mayor in 1858-9-
60. He was colonel of the Fourth Regiment, First Brigade, Second Division of Massachu-
setts militia and afterwards brigadier-general of the Third Brigade. He moved to the
Dorchester district of Boston in 1S75, and there died, June 4, 1890. He married first,
June 1, 1837, Susan Harriet, daughter of Paul and Susan (Morrill) Moody, of Lowell ;
second, Margaret Lance, daughter of Levi Tower, of Newport, R. I., and third, Julia,
daughter of William and Mary (Parks) Hurd, of Charlestown.

William Whitton Dwyer, son of Henry Law and Jane (Wbitton) Dwyer, was born
in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at the Dublin High School. He was admitted to prac-
tice on certificate of qualification from the High Court of Chancery in Ireland, and the
Superior Courts of Common Pleas. After coming to Boston he was admitted to the
bar there in October, 1875, and has been an associate justice of the East Boston Munici-
pal Court. He married in 1870, in Dublin, Maud Christina Walsh, and now resides in
Somerville.

Mioah Dyer, jr., son of Micah and Sally Dyer, was born in Boston in 1829, and
studied law with Stephen G. Nash, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted
to the bar in Boston, May 13. 1850. He has been a representative two years. He mar-
ried in Manchester, N. H., Julia K. Dyer, and resides in Boston.

Benjamin Winslow Harris, son of William and Mary Winslow (Thomas) Harris, was
born in East Bridgewater, Mass., November 10, 1823, and was educated at the public
schools and at the Andover Phillips Academy. He prosecuted his law studies at the
Harvard Law School, and in the offices of Welcome Young, of East Bridgewater, and
John P. Putnam, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, April 12, 1850. He
was senator from Plymouth county in 1857, the last year of the old county senatorial
system, and a representative in 1858. He was district attorney for the southeastern dis-
trict of Massachusetts from 1858 to 1866, and collector of internal revenue from 1866 to
1872. He was a representative in Congress for the second Massachusetts district from
1873 to 1883, and as chairman of the committee on naval affairs rendered a valuable
service to the country. He was appointed September 7, 1887, judge of Probate and
Insolvency for Suffolk county. 'which office he still holds, while engaged in general prac-
tice in Suffolk and Plymouth counties. He married, June 3, 1850, Julia Anne Orr, atod
lives in East Bridgewater.

Thomas Greaves Cary, son of Samuel and Sarah (Gray) Cary, was born in Chelsea,
Mass., September 7, 1791, and died at Nahant, Mass. July 3, 1859. He graduated at

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Harvard in 1811, and after studying law with Peter Oxenbridge Thacher, was admitted
to the bar in Boston, in the Court of Common Pleas, July 26, 1814, and in the Supreme-
Judicial Court, July, 1816. He married, May 30, 1820, Mary Ann, daughter of Thomas-
H. Perkins, and moved to Brattleboro, Vt., where after one year's practice he moved to-
New York and engaged in the Canton trade as a partner in the house of T. G. & W. F.
Cary. In 1830 he returned to Boston and joined the house of J. & T. H. Perkins, and
after the dissolution of the firm was appointed treasurer of the Hamilton and Appleton
Manufacturing Companies. In 183S he became a special partner in the house of Fay &
Farwells, and so continued until the dissolution of the firm in 1851. He was a senator
from Suffolk in 1846, '47, '52, '53, director of the Hamilton Bank, trustee of the Institu-
tion for the Blind, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of
the Massachusetts Historical Society, and fourth of July orator in Boston in 1847.

Elijah George, son of William E. and Elizabeth (Deveau) George, was born in New
Rochelle, N. Y., September 6, 1850. The father was born in England, and the mother was
a descendant of one of the Huguenot families, who settled New Rochelle and named it.
from the French town. He was educated at the schools in New York and studied law
in the office of Uriel H. & George G. Crocker, of Boston, and in the Boston University
Law School. He was admitted to the bar in Boston November 28, 1874, and to prac-
tice in the United States Supreme Court in 1886. He was appointed assistant register
of Probate and Insolvency for Suffolk county by Judge Isaac Ames in 1875. On the
death of P. R. Guiney he was appointed, April 3, 1877, by Governor Rice register of
Probate and Insolvency, and has held that office by election to the present time. He
married at Washington, D. C, in 1876, Susan Virginia Howard, and lives in Boston.

Willard Howland, son of Jairus and Deborah L. (Fish) Howland, was born in Pem-
broke, Mass., December 3, 1852, and received his early education in the public schools
of Woburn and Kingston, and at the Boston University. He studied law in the office
of Josiah W. Hubbard, of Boston, and in the Boston University Law School, and was
admitted to the bar in Boston November 11, 1878. He was a member of the Massa-
chusetts House of Representatives, in which as a member of the judiciary committee
and chairman of the committee on street railways he rendered intelligent and impor-
tant service. He married. August 24, 1874, Lottie A. S. Barry, and resides in Chelsea..

Francis Willis Adams, son of William and Mary M. Adams, was born in Boston,
July 23, 1855, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard College. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of D. W. Gooch, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in Boston, January 31, 1882. He married in Boston, October 5, 1885,
M. Elizabeth Morse.

Curtis Abbott, son of Daniel and Sarah Abbott, was. born in Randolph, Vt., No-
vember 4, 1841, and was educated at East Bethel, Randolph, Royalston and South
Woodstock, Vt. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of E.
K. Burnham, Wayne county, N. Y., and James M. Keith, Boston, and was admitted to-
the bar in Boston in 1867. He was first lieutenant in Company H, Second U. S.
Sharpshooters, in the war, and wrote a sketch of the company for the report of the
adjutant-general of Vermont. He married, August 31, 1883, at Newton, Maria
Lorriaux.

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Walttr Irving Badger, son of Erastus B. and Fanny B. Badger, was born in Bos-
ton, January 15, 1859, and graduated at Yale in 1882. He studied law in the office of
Solomon Lincoln and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the
bar in Boston in September, 1885. His business has been chiefly connected with cases
in which the Boston and Maine Railroad was concerned. He married, at New Haven,
October 6, 1887, Elizabeth Hand Wilcox.

Andreas Blume, son of Joseph and Katharine Blume, was born in Weil, Grand
Duchy of Baden, Germany, December 8, 1837, and was educated at Miami University,
Oxford, 0. He studied law in the office of William S. Leland in Boston, and at the
Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, December 4, 1866. He
was a member of the Boston Common Council from 1883 to 1887, and in 1888-89 a
member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He married Sibyl T. Blume,
October 1, 1875.

Robert Tillinghast Babson, son of William and Mary Isabel Babson, was born in
Gloucester, Mass., February 3, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1882. He studied
law in the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the bar in Essex county
in October, 1885.

John King Berry, son of Nehemiah Chase and Hannah Howe (King) Berry,
was born in Randolph, Mass., November 8, 1854, and graduated at Harvard in 1876.
He studied law with his father and at the Boston Law School, and was admitted to the
bar in Boston in January, 1880. He married Ellen M. Brown in Providence, R. I.,
March 4, 1884.

H. Eugene Bolles, son of William and Cornelia C. (Palmer) Bolles, was born in
Waterford, Conn., January 6. 1853, and graduated at the Boston University Law
School in 1874. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 20, 1874. Prior to
1888 he was counsel for the New York and New England Railroad for several years.
He married Elizabeth C. Howe at Boston, September 9, 1882.

Elisha Bassett, son of Thomas and Fannie (Sears) Bassett, was born in Ashfield,
Mass., June 6, 1818, and was educated in the schools and academies of that town. He
studied law with Charles L. Woodbury, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, April
12, 1847. In 1840 he entered the office of Francis Bassett, clerk of the United States
District Court, as an assistant. During the incumbencies of Seth E. Sprague, Edward
Dexter and Clement Hugh Hill, successors of Francis Bassett, he continued in the office
as assistant, and on the resignation of Mr. Hill was appointed clerk. He resigned
March 19, 1890, and died October 4, 1891. He married, first, in 1842, Mary Ann Joy,
of Plainfield, and second, in 1860, in Boston, Mary Elizabeth Cox.

Benjamin Edward Bates, son of Benjamin E. and Sarah C. (Gilbert) Bates, was born
in Boston, December 27, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School and in the office of Warren &, Brandeis, and was admitted to
;the bar in Boston, February 2, 1887.

Warren Allds, son of Isaac N. and' Abigail Allds, was born in Antrim, Hillsboro
• county, N. H., and was educated in the public schools. He studied law with James H.
Bancroft and Jerome F. Manning in Worcester, and was admitted to the bar in Val-
paraiso, Ind., September 1, 1880, in 'Madison, Wis., to the State courts and the United

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States Court for the Western District of Wisconsin in November, 1881, and in Boston,
February 23, 1882. He married in Dover, N. H., October 6, 1884, Nellie K. Hoity.

Gerard Bement, son of Samuel and Sarah Emerson (Kent) Bement, was born in
Lowell, July 17, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He studied law at the Har-
vard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex in 1882. He married
Katherine B. Pfaff in Boston, January 12, 1887.

Samuel Walker MoCall, son of Henry and Mary Ann (Elliott) McCall, was born in
East Providence, Penn., February 28, 1851, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1874. He
studied law in the office of Staples & Golding, in Worcester, where he was admitted to
the bar. He came to Boston in 1876, and in 1888-89 was editor of the Boston Daily
Advertiser, and a member of the House of Representatives. He married Ella Esther,
daughter of Sumner S. Thompson, in Lyndonville, Vt., May 23, 1881, and lives in
Winchester.

Leonard Augustus Jones, son of Augustus Appleton and Mary Partridge Jones, was
born in Templeton, Mass., January 13, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1855, having
fitted at the Lawrence Academy in G-roton. He studied law with Caleb W. Loring in
Boston, and graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1858. He was admitted to
the bar in Boston, February 1, 1858. Previous to his study of the law he taught in the
High School in St. Louis one year. In his early practice in Boston he was a partner
of John Lathrop, new a judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and of Edwin Hale Ab-
bott. He has been a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, the North American Review,
the Christian Examiner, the Monthly Law Reporter, the Southern Law Revieiu, the Cen-
tral Law Journal and the American Law Review, of the last of which he has been one
of the editors. He has published the following legal works : Two volumes of '' Mort-
gages of Real Property," one volume of ''Mortgages of Personal Property," one vol-
ume of " Corporate Bonds and Mortgages," one volume of " Pledges, including Collat-
eral Securities," two volumes of "Liens, Common Law, Statutory, Equitable and Mar-
itime," one volume of "Forms in Conveyancing," and one volume of "Index to Legal
Periodical Literature," and has edited Volumes IX and XXI of " Myer's Federal De-
cisions." In 1891 he was appointed Commissioner for Massachusetts on uniform laws
between the States. He married Josephine, daughter of Artemas Lee, at Templeton,
December 14, 1867, and lives in Boston.

Roger Wolcott, son of J. Huntington Wolcott, was born in Boston, July 13, 1847,
and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He is a descendant of Roger Wolcott, who, in 1745,
commanded the New England forces in the capture of Louisburg, and who was one of
the signers of the Declaration of Independence. After his admission to the bar he served
in the Boston Common Council in 1877, '78, '79, and from 1882 to 1884 was a member of
the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and is an overseer of Harvard College.
At present he is the candidate of the Republican party of Massachusetts for lieutenant-
governor.

Joseph Lyman, son of Joseph and Anne Jean (Robbins) Lyman, was born in North-
hampton, Mass., August 17. 1812, and was fitted for college at the Round Hill School in
that town. He graduated at Harvard in 1830, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in
October, 1833. He gave up the law and after studying engineering was engaged in im-

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portant mining and railroad operations, which severe injuries, the result of an accident,
obliged him to abandon for literary pursuits. He married Susan Bulfinch, daughter of
Joseph Coolidge, of Boston, and died at Jamaica Plain, near Boston, August 14, 1871.

Samuel Parkman Shaw, son of Robert G. Shaw, was born in Boston, November 19,
1813, and graduated at Harvard in 1832. After completing his law studies he re-
moved to Parkman, Me., and subsequently to Waterville and Portland. In 1863 he
removed to Cambridge, and died in Paris, France, December 7, 1869. He married
Hannah Buck in 1841.

Charles Jackson, son of Charles and Fanny (Cabot) Jackson, was born in Boston,
March 4, 1815. He fitted for college at the schools of Daniel G-reenleaf Ingraham and
William Wells, and graduated at Harvard in 1833. He studied law with Charles G.
Loring in Boston and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1836. He however
abandoned the profession and after studying engineering turned his attention to the
manufacture of iron and called himself an iron master. He married Susan C, daugh-
ter of Dr. James Jackson, of Boston, February 16, 1842, and died in Boston July 30,
1871.

Isaac Chauncet Wyman, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Ingalls) Wyman, was born in
Marblehead, January 31, 1830, and graduated at Princeton College in 1848. He grad-
uated at the Harvard Law School in 1850 and concluded his law studies in the offices of
Benjamin F. Hallett and Charles Grandison Thomas in Boston and was admitted to
the bar in Boston, June 6, 1851. He has been many years president of the Marblehead
National Bank and Savings Bank, and lives in Salem, unmarried, with his law office in
Boston.

Henry Augustus Wyman, son of Henry A. and Fanny F. Wyman, was born in
Skowhegan, Me., February 3, 1861, and was educated in the schools of that town. He
studied law in the office of Edward H. Bennett, in Boston, and in the law school of the
Boston University, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1885. He has
been second assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts, first assistant United States
attorney, and lecturer on criminal law in the Boston University Law School. He mar-
ried Anne C. Southworth at West Stoughton, February 13, 1891, and resides in Bos-
ton.

Alphonzo Adelbert Wyman, son of Oliver C. and Caroline Mitchell (Chandler)
Wyman, was born in West A cton, Mass., January 29, 1862. He was fitted for college
at Phillips Exeter Academy, and graduated at Harvard in 1883. He studied law with
Henry W. Paine and W, W. Vaughan, in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Bos-
ton in July, 1885. He has been engaged on Gould & Tucker's Notes on the United
States Revised Statutes. He married Laura Aldrich in West Acton, July 28, 1886,
and resides in that town.

Thomas F. Nutter, son of Ichabod and Sarah (Copeland) Nutter, was born in Hallo-
well, Me., March 6, 1823, and was educated at the Hallowell High School. He studied
law with his brother, Charles C. Nutter, in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in
Boston, December 31, 1851. He married Adelaide Read at Portland, Me., February,.
18, 1862, and lives in Boston.

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Charles Coffin Pitts, son of Coffin and Louisa Pitts, was born in Boston, June 7,
1865, and was educated at the North Easton High School. He studied law at the Bos-
ton University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, August 2, 1887,
and to the Circuit Court of the United States, December 21, 1891. His residence is in
Boston.

George Baxter Upham, was born in Claremont, N. H., April 9, 1855, and graduated
-at Cornell University. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted
to the bar in Boston, February 8, 1877, and has made a specialty of corporation law.
His residence is in Boston.

William Orison Underwood, son of Adin Ballou and Jane L. (Walker) Underwood,
was born in Newton, Mass., May 5, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He
studied law in the office of Hyde, Dickinson & Howe, in the Boston University Law
School, and the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1886.
He has been a lecturer in Harvard College. He married Bessie Shoemaker in Phila-
delphia, November 18, 1886, and lives in Lynn.

Francis Henrt Underwood, was born in Enfield, January 12, 1825, and was educated
partly at Amherst. He taught school in Kentucky, studied law, and was admitted to
the bar. He returned to Massachusetts in 1850 and was closely indentified with the
anti-slavery movement. He was clerk of the Massachusetts Senate in 1852, and sub-
sequently, after eleven years' service as clerk of the Superior Court in Boston, he re-
signed to engage in literary pursuits. He was thirteen years a member of the School
Board, and in 1885 was appointed consul at Glasgow, from whose University he received
the degree of LL.D. in 1888.

Stephen H. Tyng. son of Dudley Atkins and Catherine M. (Stevens) Tyng, was
born in Hoboken, N. J., August 2, 1851, and was educated at Kenyon College and the
University of Michigan. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was
admitted to the bar in Middlesex, in September, 1875. Besides his active business in
the courts he has made frequent contributions to the press. He married Lizzie Wal-
worth in Boston, September 8, 1880, and lives in Lexington.

Charles L. B. Whitney was born in Springfield, Mass., October 21, 1850, and fitted
for college in the High School of that city. He graduated at Harvard in 1871 and after
a year's study at Leipsic, in Germany, studied law in the office of Jewell, Field k Shep-
ard, and at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1876 and was admitted
to the bar in Boston, May 11, 1877. Soon after his admission he became a partner of
William Gaston, and so continued until the condition of his health compelled him to
abandon legal work. He married, in 1882, Lottie J. Byam, daughter of E. G. Byam,
of Charlestown, and died at his residence in Brookline, September 14, 1892.

Lewis W. Howes, son of Samuel and Sarah (Abbot) Howes, was born in Sidney,
Me., where he spent his boyhood and youth attending the public schools and in occu-
pation on a farm, and finally at the University at Kent's Hill in Maine. He then went
to Belfast where he studied law with his uncles, Nehemiah and Howard B. Abbot, and
was admitted to the Waldo County Bar, and to a partnership with his uncle Nehemiah.

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He afterwards moved to Rockland and held the office of county attorney of Knox
county eight or nine years, until he moved to Boston, where he was admitted to the
Suffolk bar, May 25, 1867. He married, first, Clementine E., daughter of Rev. John
Allen, and second, in June, 1887, Delia A. Varney, of Boston, where he now lives.

William Todor was born in Boston, March 28, 1750, fitted for college at the public
schools, and under Master Lovell, graduating at Harvard in 1769. He studied law with
John Adams in Boston, and was admitted to practice in the Inferior Court of Common
Pleas, July 27, 1772. At a meeting of the Suffolk bar, on the 26th of July, 1774, it
was voted to recommend him for admission to the Superior Court. He served on the
staff of Washington as judge advocate, with the rank of colonel, served in both
branches of the Massachusetts General Court, and 1809-10 was secretary of the Com-
monwealth. Among the students in his office at various times were Henry Goodwin,
Fisher Ames, George Richards Minot and John Rowe. He married Delia Jarvis, March

5, 1778, and lived in Boston, where he died, July 8, 1819. A memoir of Mr. Tudor
may be found in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, of which he
was one of the founders.

Henry James Tudor, son of the above, was born in Boston, April 8, 1791, and died
in that city, Nov. 27, 1864. He was fitted for college by Rev. John S. J. Gardiner, of
Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He studied law with James Savage and
Charles Jackson and was admitted to practice in the Common Pleas Court in Boston,
in April, 1816. He married Fannie H, daughter of William Foster, of Boston, August

6, 1844.

George Julian Tufts, son of Henry and Clarissa H. Tufts, was born in Eden, Mt.
Desert Island, Me., and was educated at the Boston Latin School, and graduated at
Tuft's College in 1874. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was
admitted to the bar in Boston, December 27, 1875. He has been engaged as counsel
in many important cases, among which may be mentioned Westcott vs. N. Y. & N. E.
R. R., reported in 152 Massachusetts Reports; Commonwealth vs. Conners and others,
conductors of Met. Railroad Company, indicted for issuing counterfeit horse car tick-
ets, and Commonwealth vs. Abby A. Conner, christian scientist, charged with man-
slaughter. He married Isabella L. Parker in Medford, September 3, 1876, and lives in
the Roxbury district of Boston.

John Moore Tuohay was educated at the Boston University and admitted to the
bar in 1881, in Boston, where he now lives.

William Dall Turner, son of John B. and Ellen A. Turner, was born in Brookline,
Mass., November 15, 1S63. and was fitted for college at the Adams Academy at Quincy,
Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1884, and after studying law at the Harvard Law
School, was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1886. After admission he went to Pa-
latka, Florida, and practiced law there one year with Sumner C. Chandler, now of New
York, and then returned to Boston, where he has since lived and practiced. In March,
1890, he was appointed solicitor for the Metropolitan Sewage Commissioners in a case
involving the constitutionality of the statute under which they were appointed, reported

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in 153 Massachusetts Reports; and later he was counsel for heirs-at-law in Greece, in
the case of the will of Photius Fisk. He lives in Boston and has interested himself in
introducing the Torrens or Australian system of registration of titles to land.

William H. H. Tuttle graduated at Williams College and studied law at the Har-
vard Law School, and in the office of Chandler, Ware & Hudson. He was admitted to-
the bar in Middlesex in October, 1877, and was a member of the Massachusetts House
of Representatives in 1890-91. His home is in Arlington.

Charles Hitchcock Tvler, son of Joseph R. and Abbie L. Tyler, was born in Cam-
bridge, October 11, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 188G. He studied law at the
Boston University Law School and in the office'of Shattuck & Munroe, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in Boston, January 1, 1889. He lives in Winchester.

Royall Tyler was born in Boston, July 18. 1757, and died in Brattleboro, Vt.,.
August 16, 1826. He studied law with John Adams and was admitted to practice in
the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in 1780. He served with General Benjamin Lin-
coln in Shay's Rebellion and in 1790 settled in Guilford, Vt, where he became, in 1794^
a justice of the Supreme Court, and in 1800, chief justice. He was a voluminous writer
as well as lawyer and judge.

Dudley Atkins Tyng, son of Dudley Atkins, was born in that part of Newbury
which is now Newburyport, September 3, 1760, and died in Newburyport, August 1,
1829. He was educated at Dummer Academy under Master Moody and graduated at
Harvard in 1781, receiving a degree of LL. D. in 1823. In 1780, while in college, he-
was selected with John Davis, of Plymouth, to assist Dr. Williams in observing, on
Penobscot Bay, an eclipse of the sun. After leaving college he was private tutor in the
family of Mrs. Selden, in Virginia, and while there studied law with Judge Mercer
and wae admitted to the bar in Virginia. In 1784 he returned to Massachusetts and
was admitted to the bar in Essex and afterwards had an office in Boston. He changed
his name to Tyng, as the inheritor of the estate of James Tyng, of Tyngsboro, Mass.
He was collector of Newburyport for a time and in 1805 was appointed reporter of
the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. His reports are con-
tained in the volumes two to seventeen inclusive of the Massachusetts Reports and cover
the period from the March term in Suffolk in 1806 to the March term in Suffolk in 1822.
He was the father of Rev. Stephen Higginson Tyng, rector of St. George's Church in
New York more than thirty years.

David Wyer, a native of Charlestown, graduated at Harvard in 1758, studied law
with James Otis in Boston, where he was admitted to the bar in 1762. The maiden
name of his wife was Russell.

Edwin Wright, son of Jesse Wright, of Lebanon, Conn., was born March 7, 1821T
and graduated at Yale in 1844. After leaving college he came to Boston and was mas-
ter of the Eliot Grammar School from 1845 to 1848. He was admitted to the bar in
Boston, and in 1857 and 1867 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives. On the 9th of July, 1861, he was appointed special justice of the Boston
Police Court, and January 7, 1862, a justice of the same court. In 1877-9 he was
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Jecturer in the Boston University Law School, on medical jurisprudence, and married,
October 29, 1850, Helen Maria, daughter of Paul and Almira (James) Curtis, of Boston,
where he now resides.

Carroll Davidson Wrigut was born in Dunbarton, N. H., July 25, 1840, and
was educated at Washington, Alstead and Chester, Vt. He studied law with Will-
iam P. Wheeler, of Keene, N. H., and with Worthington & Willey in Boston. Early
in the war he enlisted in Company C, Fourteenth N. H. Regiment, of which he became
colonel in December, 1864. He resigned in 1865 and was admitted to the bar in New
Hampshire in the same year. He afterwards moved to Boston and was in the Massa-
chusetts Senate in 1871-2, and chief of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor from 1873 to
1888. In 1880 he was the Massachusetts supervisor of the United States census, and
in 1885 was appointed to investigate the public records of towns, parishes, counties and
■courts. In the same year he was made first commissioner of the Bureau of Labor in
the Department of the Interior at Washington. In 1876 he was presidential elector on
the Republican ticket and in 1875 and 1885 had charge of the Massachusetts State
census. He was a lecturer in the Lowell Institute in 1879 on labor questions, and in
1881 university lecturer at Harvard on the factory system. He received the degree of
A. M. from Tufts College in 1883.

Erastus Worthington was born in Belchertown, Mass., October 8, 1779, and died
at Dedham, June 27, 1842. He graduated at Williams College in 1804 and was ad-
mitted to the bar in Boston in October, 1807. He moved to Dedham, where he prac-
ticed law from 1809 to 1825, was a representative from that town in 1814-15, and
wrote the history of Dedham from its settlement in 1635 to May, 1827, the year of its
publication.

Albert Parker Worthen, son of Samuel K. and Sarah F. Worthen, was born in
Bridgewater, N. H., September 8, 1861, and was educated at the New Hampshire In-
'stitution. He studied law in the Boston University Law School and was admitted to
the bar in Boston in 1885. He lives unmarried in Weymouth, Mass.

Thomas Tyson Woodruff, son of Isaac O. and Arethusa H. Woodrouff, was born in
Quincy, 111., January 7, 1839,^and was educated at St. Paul's College at Palmyra, Mo.
He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston,
August 13, 1886. His home is in Boston, and he is unmarried.

E. H. Woodman was born in Gilmanton, N. H., July 6, 1847, and was educated at
tho Gilmanton Academy and at Boscawen. He graduated at the Boston University
Law School in 1873, and was admitted to the bar. He went to Concord, N. H., in
1878, and was the mayor of that city in 1882 and several succeeding years. He was a
member of the New Hampshire Legislature, treasurer of the Peterboro and Hillsboro,
and the Franklin and Tilton Railroads, clerk of the Concord and Claremont Railroad,
treasurer of the Concord Gas Light Company, and president of the Mechanics' National
Bank. He died at Concord, March 21, 1892.

Joshua Upham was born in Brookfield, November 14, 1741, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1763. He practiced law in New York and Boston, and moving to New Bruns-

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wick became judge of the Supreme Court Of that province. He was the father of the-
late Charles W. Upham, of Salem. He died in London in 1808.

Eugene Charles Upton, son of Charles and Anna C. Upton, was born in Gardner,
Mass., August 23, 1859. He was fitted for college at the Gardner High School, and
graduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law in Boston with Oren S. Knapp and<
Heman W. Chaplin, and was admitted to the bar there January 25, 1885. He married)
Alice M. Hyde at Gardner, September 3, 1884, and has his home in Maiden.

Edward Preston Usher, son of Roland Green and Caroline Mudge Usher, was
born in Lynn, Mass., November 19, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He
graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1880, and was admitted to the bar in
Essex county in 1879. He is, or has been president of the Grafton and Upton Rail-
road, of the Milford and Hopedale Street Railroad, and of the Hopedale Electric Car
Co., and is the author of a book on "Sales of Personal Property." He married Adela
L. Payson, and lives in Grafton, Mass.

Sherman Leland Whipple, son of Solomon Mason and Henrietta (Hersey) Whipple,,
was born in New London, N. H., March 4, 1862, and was educated at the Colby Acad-
emy, New London, and at Yale, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law at Con-
cord, N. H., and graduated from the Yale College Law School in 1884. He was
admitted to the bar in Connecticut in 1884, in New Hampshire in August, 1884, and in
Boston in 1885. He resides in Brookline.

Stephen Blake Wood, son of William T. and Sophia M. Wood, was born in West
Cambridge, Mass., April 5, 1854, and was educated at the Arlington High School and
Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1879. He studied law with Charles
Allen and Jabez Fox, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 22, 1882. He mar-
ried Amy Louise Blandy, June 27, 1885, and lives in Arlington.

John H. Ponce, son of Phillip and Margaret Ponce, was born in Cambridge, Novem-
ber 1, 1857, and was educated at the public schools of that city and at the College of
the Holy Cross, in Worcester. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and Bos-
ton University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex, March 18, 1881.
He has been a member of the Common Council in Cambridge, where he lives and
where he married Nellie L. Kelley, July 7, 1885. He has been attorney for nine years-
of the Cambridge Co-operative Bank.

Thomas Butler Pope, son of Lemuel and Sally Belknap (Russell) Pope, was born in
Boston, January 22, 1814, and died in Roxbury, January 15, 1862. His father was-
many years president of the Boston Insurance Company. He was fitted for college at
the Boston Latin School, and graduated at Harvard in 1833. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the
bar in Boston in 1836, and for a time was associated in business with Charles Henry
Parker. He married, June 3, 1846, Gertrude, daughter of John Binney, of Boston.

George Doane Porter, son of Jonathan and Catherine (Gray) Porter, was born ir>
Medford, Mass., June 21, 1831. He was fitted for college by his father, and graduated

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at Harvard in 1851. He studied law with William Brigham and was admitted to the
bar in Boston in June, 1854. He practiced in both Boston and Medford for a time and
afterwards in Medford alone. He married Lucretia A. Holland August 8, 1860.

Nahum MfTCHELL, son of Cushing and Jennet (Orr) Mitchell, was born in Bast Bridge-
water, February 12, 17G9, and died in Plymouth, August 1, 1853. He fitted for college
with Beza Hay ward, of Bridgewater, and graduated at Harvard in 1789. During his
•college course he taught school in Weston and afterwards in Bridgewater and Plymouth.
He studied law in Plymouth with Joshua Thomas, and was admitted to the bar in Bos-
ton. He practiced in East Bridgewater, and among his students were Ezekiel AVhit-
man, afterwards chief justice of the Supreme Court of Maine, and Elijah Hayward,
afterwards justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. He was representative from 1798 to
1803 and in 1809 and 1812, senator in 1813, member of the Council from 1814 to 1820,
State treasurer from 1822 to 1827, member of Congress from 1803 to 1805, one of the
commission in 1800 to establish the Massachusetts and Rhode Island line, and in 1823
to establish the Massachusetts and Connecticut line. From 1811 to 1821 he was judge
of the Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit and the last two years its chief
justice. He published in 1840 a history of Bridgewater, and was the author of the
Bridgewater Collection of Music, which has run through thirty editions. He married
in 1794, Nabby, daughter of Sylvanus Lazell, of Bridgewater.

William Howard Mitchell, son of Azor and Sarah Jane (Shaw) Mitchell, was born
in North Yarmouth, Me., August 14, 1861, and was educated at the Wesleyan Univer-
sity at Middletown. Conn., from which he graduated in 1885. He studied law writh Ed-
win L. Dyer, of Portland, Me., and at the Boston University Law School, graduating
in 1887, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in August, 1887. He married Har-
riet Louise Orcutt at Melrose, Mass., October 2, 1889, and makes Melrose his home.

Walter Samuel Pinkham, son of George F. and Ellen J. Pinkham, was born in Cam-
bridge, Mass., August 21, 1865, and fitted for college at the Adams Academy at Quincy,
Mass., for Harvard, where he graduated in 1887. He studied law at the Harvard Law
School and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1890. His home is in Wollas-
ton, a part of Quincy.

Christopher G. Plunkett wras born in Boston, August 29, 1859, and was educated
in the public schools of Medford, to which town his father moved with his family after
his return from the war. He studied law in the office of John F. Colby in Boston, and
in the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in Novem-
ber, 1881. He has been auditor of the town of Medford.

Rosewell Bigelow Lawrence, son of Daniel Warren and Mary Ellen (Wiley) Law-
rence, was born in Medford, Mass., January 31, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1878.
He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Stearns & Butler, in Bos-
ton, where he was admitted to the bar in February, 1882. He lives in Medford.

William Baxter Lawrence, son of Samuel Crocker and Carrie R. Lawrence, was
born in Charlestown, Mass., November 15, 1856, and fitted for college at the Boston Latin

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School and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law School
and after graduating, in 1882, traveled in Europe and was admitted to the bar in Boston
in 1883. He was a selectman of Medford in 1889-90, representative in the Legislature
1891-92, grand master of the Grand Council R. & S. Masters of Massachusetts 1891-92,
is past D. D. grand master of Grand Lodge, F. & A. Masons, of Massachusetts, past
master of Mt. Hermon Lodge, F. & A. Masons, past H. P. of Mystic R. A. Chapter,
and trustee of the Medford Savings Bank. He married Alice May, daughter of J.
Henry Sears, in Dorchester, October 2, 1883, and lives in Medford.

John Patrick Leahy, son of John and Mary E. Leahy, was born in Boston, March
13, 1861. He was educated under private instruction, in the public schools and in the
Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1884.
He married Josie C. Wilkinson at Boston, July 27, 1889, and lives in the Dorchester
district of Boston. He has been engaged to some extent in lecturing and in writing
for newspapers and magazines.

Joseph Lee, son of Henry and Elizabeth Perkins (Cabot) Lee, was born in Brook-
line, Mass., March 8, 1862. He graduated at Harvard in 1883, was a student in the
Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in December, 1887. Besides his law
practice he has engaged somewhat in literary pursuits in connection with newspapers
and magazines. His residence is in Brookline.

William H. Leonard, son of Hartford P. and Lucy A. Leonard, was born at Man-
hattan, Kans., Nov. 10, 1860, and after graduating at Amherst, studied law in the Bos-
ton University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1884. He
married Charlotte A. Richardson at Raynham, Mass., May 5, 1886, and lives in Brain-
tree, Mass.

George V. Leverett, son of Daniel and Charlotte Leverett, was born in Charlestown,
Mass., in 1846, and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He graduated also at the Harvard
Law School in 1869, and finished his law studies in the office of Chandler, Thayer &
Hudson, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, December 23, 1871. He is the official
attorney of the American Bell Telephone Company. He married Mary E. L. Tebbetts
at Cambridge in 1888, and now lives in that city.

John Woodbury, son of John P. and Sarah E. (Silsbee) Woodbury, was born in
Lynn, Mass., January 26, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School and in the office of Shattuck & Munroe of Boston, and was
admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1884. He married Jennie R. Churchill in Boston,
February 18, 1885, and lives in Lynn.

Levi Woodbury was born in Francestown, N. H., December 22, 1789, and died at
Portsmouth, N. H., September 4, 1851. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1809, and
studied law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the bar in
Francestown in 1812, where he practiced until 1816. In 1817 he became judge of the
Supreme Court of New Hampshire. In 1819 he moved to Portsmouth, and in 1823-4
was governor of his native State. He was speaker of the New Hampshire House of
Representatives in 1825, and chosen United States senator, serving from 1825 to 1831,

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when he was appointed by Andrew Jackson secretary of the navy. Under Van Buren
he served as secretary of the treasury, and was again chosen United States senator,
serving from 1841 to 1845, when he was appointed justice of the United States Supreme
Court, and remained on the bench until his death.

A. Nathan Williams, son of James G. and Sarah N. Williams, was born in Bowdoin-
ham, Me., October 26, 1857, and was educated in the Maine public schools and at St.
Charles College in Maryland. He studied law with Charles W. Larrabe in Bath, Me.,
and was admitted to the bar in Bath, August 23, 1883, to the bar of the United States
Supreme Court, January 10, 1889, and to the Suffolk bar, June 3, 1890. He lives in
Boston.

William Gordon Stearns, son of Asahel and Frances Wentworth Stearns, was born
in Chelmsford, Mass., November 22, 1804. He graduated at Harvard in 1824, and
studied law in the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1827. He was admitted to the
bar in Boston in March, 1830, and in 1834 became partner of Theophilus Parsons. In
1844 he was appointed steward of Harvard College and remained in office twenty-six
years. He died January 31, 1872.

John Glidden Stetson, son of Joseph and Margaret Stetson, was born in Newcastle,
Me., February 28, 1833, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1854. He graduated at the
Harvard Law School in 1860, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, January 31, 1860.
He practiced in Portland from June, 1860, to February, 1864. He was appointed clerk
of the United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts District, October 1, 1866, and has
been clerk of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit since its
organization, June 16, 1891. He has been also United States Commissioner for the
District of Massachusetts since October 15, 1872. He has heard nearly all the cases re-
ferred to a Master in Chancery by the United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts
District, from 1873 to 1883, and a large number since. His reports as Master have been
prepared with great care and many of them are in print. He married Delia H. Libby,
in Portland, Me., January 26, 1865, and lives in Boston.

Charles Godfrey Stevens, son of Godfrey and Hannah (Poole) Stevens, was born
in Claremont, N. H., September 16, 1821, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1840. He
was admitted to the bar in Boston, October 23, 1845, was a member of the Massachu-
setts Convention for the revision of the Constitution in 1853, a member of the Senate
in 1862, draft commissioner for Worcester in 1862-3, and made president of the First
National Bank of Clinton in 1864, and appointed in 1874 judge of the Second Wor-
cester District Court. He married Laura A., daughter of Eli and Hepzibah (Floyd)
Russell.

Hazard Stevens, son of Isaac I. and Margaret L. Stevens, was born in Newport, R.
I., June 9, 1842, and received his early education at Phillips Academy, Andover, and at
Chauncey Hall School, Boston. He graduated at Harvard. He studied law with
Edward Evans in Olympia, W. T., and was admitted to the bar in Olympia in 1872,.
and in Boston, March 13, 1875. He was, during the war, private, lieutenant and ad-
jutant of the 79th New York Volunteers, in September and October, 1861, and after-

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wards captain, major, assistant adjutant- general, brevet lieutenant-colonel, colonel and
brigadier-general. He was collector of internal revenue for Washington Territory from
1867 to 1871. After coming to Boston he was representative from the Dorchester
district in 1885-86. His residence is in Dorchester.

Oliver Stevens, son of Isaac and Hannah (Cummings) Stevens, was born in North
Andover, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1848. He studied law at the Harvard Law
School and in the office of H. H. Fuller in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in
1850, and is now district attorney of Suffolk county. He married Catherine Stevens
at North Andover in 1855, and lives in Boston.

Oliver Crocker Stevens, son of Calvin and Sophia Tappan (Crocker) Stevens, was
born in Boston, June 3, 1855, and was educated at the Dwight and Latin Schools in
Boston, and Bowdoin College, from which he graduated in 1876. He studied law with
Albert E. Pillsbury in Boston, and at the Boston University Law School, from which
he received the degree of LL. B. in 1879. He was admitted to the bar in Boston,
July 8, 1879, to the United States Circuit Court, July 26, 1880, and to the United
States Supreme Court, March 4, 1884. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of
Bowdoin College. He married Julia Burnett, daughter of John Gregory and Ann
Eliza (Brainard) Smith, of St. Albans, Vt., and lives in Boston.

William Burnham Stevens, son of William F. and Mary J. G. (Burnham) Stevens,
was born in Stoneham, Mass., March 23, 1843, and fitted at Phillips Academy, Ando-
ver, for Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1865. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and in the office of Sweetser & Gardner in Boston, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in Boston, July 3, 1867. He was district attorney for the Northern
District of Massachusetts from 1880 to 1890, and is president of the Stoneham Five
Cent Savings Bank. He has written a historical sketch of Stoneham, and lives in that
town. He married A. Josie Hill, October 20, 1868, and Mary W. Green, September
30, 1873.

Caleb Morton Stimson, son of Samuel and Susanna Stimson, was born in Newton,
Mass., April 13, 1804. He fitted at the Milton Academy for Harvard, where he grad-
uated in 1824. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Lemuel
Shaw in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, April 1, 1828. He lived in
Newton and died at Newton Lower Falls, July 6, 1860.

Frederick Jesup Stimson, son of Edward S. and Sarah Tufts (Richardson) Stimson
was born in Dedham, Mass., July 20, 1855, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He stud-
ied law with Robert M. Morse, jr., and was admitted to the bar in Boston in May, 1879,
to the New York Supreme Court in June, 1886, and later to the United States Circuit
Courts. He has been assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts, was appointed by
Mayor Grace of New Tork, in 1887, on a committee to revise the New York constitution,
and in 1891, by Governor Russell of Massachusetts, on the commission on the unification
of laws. He has published " American Statute Law '' and " Stimson's Law Glossary,"
etc. He lives in Dedham.

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William Mauran Stockbridge, son of John C. and Mary T. N. Stockbridge, was
born in Boston, July 9, 1856, and studied law at the Boston University Law School and
in the office o£ B. F. Brooks, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June,
1882. He is unmarried and lives in Boston.

James Alden Stockwell, son of Albert Samuel and Fannie E. (Bryant) Stockwell,
was born in Stoneham, September 16, 1860, and was educated at the Wilbraham Acad-
emy and Boston University, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1888.

Charles B. Stone, son of Bradley and Clarisa Hosmer Stone, was born in West Ac-
ton, Mass., July 17, 1848. He studied law in New York and Boston, and was admit-
ted to the bar in Boston in 1890. He has been a selectman and member of the School
Board in West Acton, where he resides. He married Marietta C. Wetherbee at Box-
boro, Mass., December 25, 1870, and Isabella D. Lewis at Stow, Mass., May 18, 1881,
and lives in West Acton.

Frederic Mather Stone, son of Joshua C. and Elizabeth (Hathaway) Stone, was

born in Brookline, Mass., October 19, 1861, and fitted at the Friends' Academy in New

Bedford for Harvard, where he graduated in 1882. He studied law at the Harvard

Law School and was admitted to the bar in Chicago in February, 1886, and in Boston

n 1887. He lives in Boston.

George Fisher Stone, son of Warren Fay and Mary (Williams) Stone, was born in
>G-roton, Mass., December 25, 1850, and studied law with George Stevens in Lowell,
and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in February, 1874. He practiced four years in
Hudson, had an office in Boston in 1876, moved to Bradford, Penn., and was superin-
tendent of schools there prior to]1888, after which he spent three years in Pittsburg and
Harrisburg and in North Carolina. In 1891 he moved to Olympia, Wash. He married
Emma Cecilia Branch, daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah (Hosmer) Aldrich, of Groton,
Mass. ' •

William Stoughton was born in Dorchester in 1631 or 1632, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1650. He was first a clergyman in 1671, a magistrate or assistant from 1671
to 1676, an agent of the Massachusetts colony to England in 1677, chief justice of the
Superior Court from 1692 to 1701, a member of the Council from 1693 to 1701, lieuten-
ant-governor from 1692 to 1701. He was at various times a selectman of Dorchester,
and died there July 7, 1701. He was never married.

Almon A. Strout, son of Elisha and Mar}r Strout, was born in Lemington, York
county, Me., and was educated in the public schools and at the Bridgton and Fryburg
Academies. He studied law with Joel Eastman, \ of New Hampshire, and with Howard
& Strout in Portland, and was admitted to the bar in Portland in April, 1859, and later
became a member of the Suffolk bar. Before moving to Boston he was a member of
the Maine Legislature. He married Mary R. Sumner at Grand Rapids, Mich., Decem-
ber 23, 1862, and lives in Boston.

Michal J. Sdghrue, son of John and Julia Sughrue, was born in Nashua, N. H.v
August 27, 1857, and was educated at the Boston public schools and the Boston Uni-

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versity. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to
the bar in Boston in 1888. He has been assistant district attorney for Suffolk, and lives
in the Dorchester district of Boston.

Cornelius P. Sullivan was born in Boston, April 22, 1861. He was educated at the
Quincy Grammar School, the English High and Latin School, and graduated from the
Harvard Law School in 1885, and the same year was admitted to the bar in Boston.

James Sullivan, son of John and Margery (Brown) Sullivan, was born in Berwick,
Me., April 22, 1744, and was educated chiefly by his father. He studied law with his
brother John at Durham, N. H., and before 1782 was a member of the Suffolk bar.
Before coming to Boston he practiced ten years in Biddeford. He was a member of
Provincial Congress from Biddeford in 1774-5, and a member of the General Court in
1775-6. On the 20th of March, 1776, he was appointed a justice in the Superior Court
of Judicature and resigned in 1782. In 1778 he moved from Biddeford to Groton, and
in 1779 was a delegate from Groton to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention.
In 1782 he was a delegate to Continental Congress, in 1787 a member of the Executive-
Council, in 1788 judge of probate, in 1790 attorney-general, in 1807 he was chosen gov-
ernor, and died while in office in Boston, December 10, 1808.

George Sullivan, son of James and Mehitable (Odiorne) Sullivan, was born inBostonr
February 22, 1783, and died at Pau, France, December 14, 1866. He attended the
Boston Latin School, studied law with his father and was admitted to the bar in Boston
in July, 1804. He was secretary of James Bowdoin, minister to Spain. He practiced
law in Boston and was a member of the State Senate. He moved to New York and
continued in practice there. He married, January 26, 1809, Sarah, daughter of Thomas
L. Winthrop and had two sons, George R. J. and James, both of whom took the name
of Bowdoin in accordance with the will of Sarah, daughter of William and niece of
James Bowdoin.

Jeremiah J. Sullivan, son of John and Mary (Donohue) Sullivan, was born in Water-
town, Mass., September 16, 1850, and fitted at the public schools for Harvard, where
he graduated in 1872. He studied law in the Harvard Law School and in the office of
George S. Hale, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 27, 1874. He
has been a selectman, member of the School Board and Board of Health in Watertow'n,
where he lives.

Richard Sullivan, son of James and Mehitable (Odiorne) Sullivan, was born in Gro-
ton, July 17, 1779, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard where he gradu-
ated in 1798. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the bar in Boston in
1801. He was senator from Suffolk in 1815 to '17, a member from Brookline of the
State Convention of 1820, a member of the Executive Council in 1820-21 and was the
candidate of the Federal party in 1823 for lieutenant-governor with Harrison Gray
Otis for governor, and was defeated. He was an overseer of Harvard from 1821 to
1852. He married Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Sever) Russell, of Boston,.
May 22, 1804, and died in Cambridge, December 11, 1861.
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Richard Sullivan, son of Jeremiah 0. and Joanna (Morrison) Sullivan, was born in
Durham, Conn., February 24, 1856, and came with his father, an infant, to Boston.
He attended the Comins Grammar School in Roxbury, the Boston College, and grad-
uated from the Boston University Law School in 1882. He was admitted to the bar
in 1883. He also studied at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles T.
.& Thomas H. Russell in Boston. He was a member of the Boston Common Council
in 1887, '88, '89, '90 and twice the Democratic candidate for the presidency of the
board. He is unmarried and lives in Boston.

Thomas Francis Strange, son of Pierce and Anne Strange, was born in Manchester,
N. H.f December 24, 1859. In his infancy his parents moved to Boston where he was
■educated in the public schools, and graduated at the Boston University Law School,
with the degree of LL. B., in 1883, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in the same
year. He began practice with the law firm of Gargan, Adams & Swasey, and in Octo-
ber, 1884, opened an office alone. He has been commissioner of insolvency by both ap-
pointment and election, a member of the Boston School Board and an active member of
the Democratic party in State and city politics. He resides in Boston.

Anthony C. Daly was born in Boston, October 4, 1853, and was educated in the pub-
lic schools. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in April, 1875, was a representative
in 1878, and moved to the west.

Richard Dana, son of Daniel, who was son of Richard, the ancestor who settled in
Cambridge in 1640, was born in Cambridge, July 7, 1699, and died in Cambridge, May
17, 1772. He graduated at Harvard in 1718 and began practice in Marblehead, con-
tinuing it in Charletsown and Boston. He married a sister of Judge Edmund Trow-
bridge.

Francis Dana, son of Richard, was born in Charlestown, June 13, 1743. He grad-
uated at Harvard in 1762, and after studying law with Edmund Trowbridge was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1767, and practiced in Boston. He was a delegate to the Provin-
cial Congress in 1774, and in 1776 a member of the Executive Council. In the same
year he was a delegate to the Continental Congress, and again in 1778. He was sec-
retary to John Adams, appointed in 1779 to negotiate peace, and in 1781 was ap-
pointed minister to St. Petersburg where he remained two years. In 1783 he returned
to Boston and was chosen, in 1784, a delegate to Congress. On the 18th of January,
1785, he was appointed by Governor Hancock judge of the Supreme Judicial Court,
and on the 29th of November, 1791, was appointed chief justice. He retired from the
Bench in 1806 and died in Cambridge, April 25, 1811.

Richard H. Dana, son of Francis Dana, was born in Cambridge, November 15, 1787,
and died in Boston, February 2, 1879. Entering Harvard College in the class of 1808,
he did not finish his course but received a degree fifty-eight years later, in 1866, and a
degree of LL. D. from Williams College, in 1867. He studied law in the office of his
cousin, Francis Dana Channing in Boston, and in the office of Robert Goodloe Harper,
of Baltimore, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in October, 1811. He practiced
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chiefly to literature. He was a frequent contributor to the North American Review
and published his first poem, "The Dying Raven," about 1825. His first volume of
poems was published in 1827, and in 1856 a revised edition of his poetical and prose
writings was issued. At an earlier date, in 1839-40, he delivered a course of lectures-
on Shakespeare, in Boston, New York and Philadelphia. He was the father of Richard
H. Dana, jr., and Edmund Trowbridge Dana.

Richard H. Dana, jr., son of Richard H. Dana, was born in Cambridge, August 17
1815, and graduated at Harvard in 1837. His "Two Years before the Mast" was pub-
lished in 1840, and had a very large circulation. He studied law with Joseph Story
and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1840. In 1841 he published "The Sea-
man's Friend," and later, " To Cuba and Back." His contributions to reviews and other
periodicals were numerous. In 1859-60 he went round the world, and in 1866 re-
ceived from Harvard the degree of LL. D. In 1866 he published a new edition of
Wheaton's "International Law," and about that time was a lecturer on international
law at the Harvard Law School. In 1876 he was nominated by President Grant min-
ister to England, but his nomination was not confirmed. He was at one time United
States district attorney for Massachusetts District. He went to Europe in 1878, and'
died in Rome, January 7, 1882.

Edmund Trowbridge Dana, son of Richard H. Dana, was born in Cambridge, August
29, 1818, and died in Cambridge, May 18, 1869. He graduated at the University of
Vermont in 1839. and at the Harvard Law School in 1841. He began practice with
his brother, Richard H. Dana, jr., went to Europe where he continued his studies, giving
special attention to Roman civil law. In 1854 he received a degree from the Univer-
sity of Heidleberg, and returned home in 1856 and continued in practice until his
death.

Richard H. Dana 3d, son of Richard H., jr., and Sarah (Watson) Dana, was born in
Cambridge, January 3, 1851, and received his early education in the public schools of
Cambridge, and at St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H. He graduated at Harvard in
1874, and at the Harvard Law School in 1877, and after a time spent in the office of
Brooks, Ball & Storey in Boston, was admitted to the bar there in November, 1877.
He has been interested in the purity of elections, and has contributed many articles to
magazines and newspapers, chiefly on the civil service, the Australian Ballot Law, and"
Election Expenses Law. He married Edith, daughter of Henry W. Longfellow the
poet, at Cambridge, January 10, 1878.

Samuel Dana, son of William and Mary (Green) Dana, was born in that part of Cam-
bridge which is now the Brighton District of Boston, January 14, 1738-9, and gradu-
ated at Harvard in 1755. He studied divinity, and June 3, 1761, was settled as the
minister of Groton. On account of his loyal sentiments on the approach of the Revo-
lution he was dismissed, and moved to Amherst, N. H., where he studied law with
Joshua Atherton, and was admitted to the bar of Hillsboro county in New Hampshire
in 1781 and at a later date in Suffolk county, Mass. In 1785 he was appointed register
of probate for Middlesex, afterwards judge of probate, and resigned December 21, 1792.

i48 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

In 1793 he was a member of the Senate. His name is on the roll of admission to the
"bar of Suffolk by the Supreme Court without date. He died at Amherst, April 2, 1798.

Edwin H. Darling, son of Timothy and Lucy Darling, was born in Calais, Me., Jan-
uary 28, 1838, and was educated in Nassau, N. P., and New York and at Williams Col-
lege. He studied law with George F. Shipley, of Portland, and with Doolittle, Davis
& Crittenden in New York, and was admitted to the bar in New York in April, 1861,
and in Boston, January, 5 1872. He is or has been a member of the Boston School
Board. He married Georgie A. Smith,- at New Market, N. H., February 7, 1882, and
lives in Boston.

George A. Dart, son of George L. and Rebekah G. Dary, was born in Taunton,
Mass., November 30, 1842, and was educated at the Taunton High School. He studied
law with Samuel E. Sewall in Boston, and was admitted to the bar there December 14,
1872. He married Susan Elizabeth, daughter of Erastus S. Tuttle, and lives in Boston.

William Nathaniel Davenport, son of William J. and Almira (Howard) Davenport,
was born in Boylston. Mass., November 3, 1856, and was early educated in the public
schools of that town. He studied law in the Law School of the University of Michigan
and in the office of James T. Joslin, of Hudson, Mass., and Edward F. Johnson, of Marl-
boro, Mass., and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex, June 30, 1883. He has been
clerk of the Police Court of Marlboro, was a representative in 1885-86, and senator in
1889-90. He married Lizzie M. Kendall at Boylston, January 1, 1887, and makes
Marlboro his home, with an office in Boston.

Charles Francis Davis, son of Francis W. and Anna Finney (Houlton) Davis, was
born in Boston, September 6, 1830, and died in Boston, October 16, 1867. In early life
he spent ten years in Antwerp, and studied law with Edward F. Hodges in Boston.
He was as one time alderman in Boston, and a member of the Executive Council.

Charles Thornton Davis, son of Charles A. and Mary (Thornton) Davis, was born in
Concord, N. H., January 12, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law
at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Hopkins & Bacon, of Worcester, and
was admitted to the bar in Worcester, December 31, 1886. He married Frances P. An-
derson at Portland, Me., September 12, 1888, and lives in Boston.

Hasbrouck Davis, son of John and Elizabeth (Bancroft) Davis, was born in Worces-
ter, April 19, 1827, and graduated at Williams College in 1845. He first studied divin-
ity and was settled in Watertown over the Unitarian parish in that town. He after-
wards studied law and was admitted to the bar in Boston, January 9, 1854, and went
to Chicago in 1855. During the war he passed through the several grades, and was
brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He was drowned at sea on his way to Europe in
the steamship Cambria, October 19, 1870.

Everett Allen Davis, son of Lewis W. and Sarah Nickerson Davis, was born in
Pawtucket, R. I., October 11, 1857, and was educated at Cqlumbia College, and studied
law in the law school connected with that institution, and in the office of Judge Daly,
of New York, and was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1878, and in Boston,

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"February 2, 1887. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
in 1884-85 and 1890. He married Georgiana Whiting in Tisbury, Mass., December 26,
1878, and lives in Boston.

James Clarke Davis, son of George T. and Harriet T. (Russell) Davis, was born in
Greenfield, Mass., January 19, 1838, and fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for Har-
vard, where he graduated in 1858. He studied law in Greenfield with Davis & Allen,
and in the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston January 16,
1861. He was assistant attorney -general under Charles Allen, and member of the
Boston School Board from 1882 to 1887. He married Alice W. Paine, at Worcester,
June 3, 1873, and resides at Jamaica Plain.

John Davis, son of Thomas and Mercy (Hedge) Davis, was born in Plymouth, Mass.,
January 25, 1761, and died in Boston, January 14, 1847. He graduated at Harvard in
1781, and in 1788 was the youngest member of the convention which adopted the con-
stitution. He was a member of both House and Senate in Massachusetts, and in 1795
was appointed by Washington comptroller of the currency. He was afterwards United
States attorney, and in 1801 was appointed by John Adams judge of the United States
District Court, which position he held forty years. In 1802 he received the degree of
LL. D. from Dartmouth, and in 1842 the same degree from Harvard. He was presi-
dent of the Massachusetts Historical Society from 1818 to 1835, and many years a
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosoph-
ical Society. He was the author of many published works, of which his edition of
Morton's New England Memorial, with elaborate notes, and the Pilgrim ode, " Sons of
Renowned Sires," are the best known. He married in 1786 Ellen, daughter of William
Watson, of Plymouth.

Simon Davis, son of Silas and Mercy E. Davis, was born in Charlestown, Mass., Sep-
tember 25, 1854, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied law in the Harvard
Law School and in the office of George V. Leverett, of Boston, and was admitted to
the bar in Boston in May, 1880. He is a member of the Boston School Board and
special justice of the Municipal Court in the Charlestown District of Boston. He mar-
ried Helen M. Goldthwait at Boston, November 12, 1884, and lives in Boston.

Stanton Day, son of J. S. and E. P. (Young) Day, was born in Downeville, Cal.,
^nd was educated in Chauncey Hall School, Boston, and at Harvard, where he gradu-
ated in 1883. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Edward
W. Cate, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1885. He lives in Brook-
line, Mass.

Thomas Kemper Davis, son of Isaac P. and Susan (Jackson) Davis, was born in Bos-
ton. June 20, 1808, and graduated at Harvard in 1827. He studied law with Daniel
Webster and was admitted to the bar in Boston in January, 1830. He was a man of
superior scholastic attainments, and entered the profession with the promise of a bril-
liant career. An unfortunate accident, however, inflicted injuries on his brain which
precluded further advancement. After a number of 'years in retirement he died in
Boston, October 13, 1853.

ISO HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

William Davis, son of Nathaniel Morton and Harriet Lazell (Mitchell) Davis, was
born in Plymouth, Mass., May 12, 1818. He fitted at the Boston Latin School for Har-
vard, from which he graduated in 1837. He studied law with his father in Plymouth
and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, January 18,
1841. He settled in Plymouth where he became active as a Whig politician, and chair-
man of the Board of Selectmen. He was also at one time president of the Pilgrim So-
ciety. He married Helen, daughter of John and Deborah (Spooner) Russell in Plymouth
in 1850, and died in Boston, February 19, 1853.

William Nye Davis, son of John Watson and Susan Holden (Tallman) Davis, was
born in Boston, December 2, 1830, and fitted at the Latin School for Harvard, where he
graduated in 1851. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of
Shattuck Hartwell and Wm. H. Gardiner, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in
March, 1855. He married Mary C, daughter of William Howard Gardiner in Boston,
March 24, 1856, and died in Nice, February 24, 1863.

George Thomas Davis, at one time a member of the Suffolk bar, but more especially
associated with Greenfield and the Franklin county bar, the son of Wendell and Caro-
line (Smith) Davis, was born in Sandwich, Mass., January 12, 1810, and graduated at
Harvard in 1829. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Dan-
iel Wells and James C. Alvord in Greenfield. Benjamin R. Curtis and David Aiken were
students at the same time in the office. After his admission 10 the bar he began prac-
tice in Taunton in 1832, but in 1833 removed to Greenfield, where he became associated
in business with his former instructors with a firm name of Wells, Alvord & Davis.
Mr. Wells was appointed to the Common Pleas bench, and Mr. Alvord died in 1839, and
Mr. Davis afterwards, until his retirement from business in 1865, had various associates.
Among these were Charles Devens, late judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, Charles
Allen, a judge at present on the same bench, Wendell Thornton Davis, a brother, James
C. Davis, his son, David Aikin, and Samuel 0. Lamb. Mr. Davis rose rapidly to a lead-
ership of the bar in the river counties of Massachusetts. He was distinguished not
alone for his legal abilities, but also for his remarkable conversational powers. Thack-
eray on his visit to America, meeting him for the first time at a private dinner, laid
down his knife and fork and paid tribute in exclamations of wonder at the brilliancy of
his conversation. He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1839-40, in 1861
a representative and represented the Franklin district in Congress from 1851 to 1853.
He married Harriet T., daughter of Nathaniel P. Russell, of Boston, October 16. 1834,
and Mrs. Abba I. Little, of Portland, and daughter of Daniel Chamberlain, of Boston,
April 26, 1865. He died in Portland, June 17, 1877.

William Thomas Davis, son of William and Joanna (White)Davis, was born in Plym-
outh, Mass., March 3, 1822, and was fitted by Isaac N. Stoddard, teacher of the Plym-
outh High School, for Harvard, where he graduated in 1842. After studying medi-
cine for a time he studied law in the office of his brother, Charles G. Davis in Boston,
and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, November 9,
1849. He retained an office and lived in Boston until 1853, when he returned to Plym-
outh and became largely associated with its interests. He has served six years on the

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School Board of Plymouth, been chosen seventeen times as selectman, declining twice, and
serving as chairman eleven years, and has presided as moderator at more than seventy
•meetings of the town. In 1858 and 1859 he was State senator, has been president of
the Plymouth Bank, Plymouth Gas Company, Old Colony Insurance Company, direc-
tor of the Duxbury and Cohasset Railroad Company, and president of the Pilgrim So-
ciety. He was presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1872, and a delegate to
the Republican National Convention at Cincinnati in 1876. He is the author of "Ancient
Landmarks of Plymouth," of a ''History of Plymouth," the editor of two volumes of
the Plymouth town records with notes, and has contributed to county histories, histor-
ies of Newburyport, Newbury, Marshfield, Plympton, and many other towns, as well
as sketches of the bench and bar of Ptymouth, Essex and Middlesex counties. He mar-
ried Abby Burr, daughter of Thomas and Lydia Coffin (Goodwin) Hedge in Plymouth,
Novomber 19, 1849, and makes Plymouth his home.

Andrew Cunningham Davison, son of Henry and Mary Davison, was born in Boston,
June 5, 1789, and graduated at Harvard in 1815. He studied law with George Blake
and was admitted to the bar in Boston. From 1818 to 1828 he was assistant teache
in the Adams School in Boston. He died in Lexington, January 27, 1856.

Delavan Calvin Delano, son of Eber Carpenter and Betsy Delano, was born in
Hanover, N. H., February 1, 1869, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1884. He
studied law in the office of William H. Colton at Lebanon, N. H., and Wilbur H. Pow-
ers, of Boston, and graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1887, in which
year in June he was admitted to the bar in Boston. He lives unmarried in West
.Somerville.

Louis Emil Denfield, son of Frank and Margaret Denfield, was born in Westboro,
Mass., September 26, 1854, and graduated at Amherst in 1878. He studied law with
A. G. Biscoe in Westboro, Mass., and was admitted to the Worcester county bar in
April, 1881. He was town clerk of Webster, Mass., two years, assessor in Westboro
three years, and member of the School Board in the same town six years. He married
Etta May Kelly in Westboro, where he now lives, October 26, 1887, and practices in
Boston.

William Willis, son of Benjamin and Mary (McKinstry) Willis, was born in Haver-
hill, Mass., August 31, 1794, and graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law with
Peter O. Thacher in Boston, and was admitted in Boston to the Common Pleas, January
8, 1817, and to the Supreme Court, January, 1819. He practiced in Boston until April,
1819, when he moved to Portland and continued there alone in business until 1835,
when he formed a partnership with William Pitt Fessenden which continued twenty
years. In 1855 he was in the Maine Senate, in 1859 Mayor of Portland, in 1860 presi-
dential elector, and in 1867 received the degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin. He devoted
much time to historical pursuits, and was the author of a history of Portland and many
other publications. He married Julia, daughter of Ezekiel Whiteman, of Portland, Sep-
tember 1, 1823, and died in Portland, February 17, 1870.

Arnold A. Rand, son of Edward Sprague and Elizabeth Arnold Rand, was born in
Boston, March 25, 1837, and was educated at the school of Epes S. Dixwell in Boston,

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in Vevay and in Paris. He studied law in the office of his father and at the Boston Uni-
versity Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, October 6, 1874. He was
commissioned, October 30, 1861, second lieutenant of the First Massachusetts Cavalry,
and was afterwards captain and assistant adjutant-general, lieutenant-colonel of the
Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry, and in 1864, colonel. In 1885, with N. J. Bradlee, he
formed the Massachusetts Title Insurance Co. of which he is vice-president and mana-
ger. He married, in 1877, Annie Eliza Brownell of New Bedford, and lives in Boston.

Henry Harrison Sprague, son of George and Nancy (Knight) Sprague, was born in
Athol, Mass., August 1, 1841, and received his early education at the Athol High School
and at the Chauncey Hall School in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1864 and
went to Champlain, N. "¥"., as a private tutor. In 1865 he entered the Harvard Law
School and was at the same time a proctor of the college. In 1890 he was chosen a
member of the Board of Overseers of the college. In the fall of 1866 he entered the
law office of Henry W. Paine, and Robert D. Smith in Boston, and February 25, 1868,
was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was chosen in 1873 to the Common Council of Bos-
ton and served in 1874, 1875 and 1876, and in 1875 and 1876 was one of the trustees of
the City Hospital on the part of the Council. In 1878 he was chosen one of the trustees at
large and continued as such until the incorporation of the City Hospital in 1880, when
he was appointed a trustee by the mayor. He has since held this position by successive
reappointments, and since 1878 has »also acted as secretary of the board. He was a
member of the House of Representatives from Boston in 1881, 1882 and 1883. He
was elected a member of the Massachusetts Senate for the Fifth Suffolk District for
the year 1888, and drafted and introduced the new ballot act. He was elected again
in 1889 and in 1890, and in 1890 was elected president of the Senate. He was again
elected to that body for the year 1891, and was a second time its presiding officer. In
1884 he was a member of the executive committee of the Municipal Reform Associa-
tion, and senior counsel of the association for the purpose of securing the passage by
the Legislature of 1885 of the amendments to the charter of the city of Boston, by
which the executive authority of the city was vested in the mayor. In 1867, in con-
nection with a few others, he brought about a return to new and active operations of
the Boston Young Men's Christian Union, and has since continued as a member of the
Board of Government, acting as secretary from 1867 to 1879, and since 1879 as vice-
president of the society. In 1880 he engaged with others in the organization of the
Boston Civil Service Reform Association, and served on the executive committee of
that body until the year 1889, when he was elected president of the association, which
office he still holds. He was for many years a manager of the Temporary Home for
the Destitute, or Gwynne Home, and was one of the '• Committee of Fifty " on the
Museum of Fine Arts. He has been since 1879 one of the trustees of the Boston.
Lying-in Hospital, and recently has served upon the executive committee of the board.
He has been since 1883 secretary of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society, is a
member of the Massachusetts Historic Genealogical Society, the Bostonian Society,
the Bar Association and the Harvard Law School Association, and a member of the
general committee of the Citizens' Association of Boston. He is also one of the trustees-
appointed to hold the buildings recently purchased and improved for the Women's Ed-

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ucational and Industrial Union, and acts as treasurer of the trustees. In 1884 he pub-
lished a treatise entitled, "Women Under the Law of Massachusetts; their Rights,
Privileges and Disabilities," and in 1890 he published a pamphlet entitled, "City Gov-
ernment in Boston ; Its Rise and Development." He resides in Boston.

Joseph Fernald Wiggin, son of Joshua and Dorothy Wiggin, was born in Exeter, N.
H., March 30, 1838, and was educated in the public schools and at Phillips Exeter Acad-
emy. He studied law with W. W. Stickney, of Exeter, and at the Harvard Law
School, and was admitted to the bar of Rockingham county, N. H., in October, 1862,
and to (he Suffolk bar November 4, 1891. He was judge of probate for Rockingham
county from 1871 to 1876 ; one of the commissioners in 1877 to revise the general laws
of New Hampshire; moved to Maiden, Mass., in 1880, where he was a member of the
School Board from 1885 to 1887, mayor from 1888 to 1891, and city solicitor in 1892.
He married Ruth H. Hollis, at Milton, Mass., July 6, 1888. and lives in Maiden.

Edwakd Wigglesworth was born in Boston, January 14, 1804, and died there Octo-
ber 14, 1876. He graduated at Harvard in 1822, and studied law with William Pres-
cott, and at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1825, and was ad-
mitted to the Common Pleas Court in Boston in October, 1825, and to the Supreme
Judicial Court, January 10, 1828. After practicing a short time he entered his father's
counting room, and devoted himself to business, relieved by an active interest in lit-
erary and charitable pursuits. He was a descendant of Michael Wigglesworth, who
was born in England in 1631, and died in Maiden, Mass., in 1705.

Samuel Sumner Wilde was born in Taunton, February 5, 1771. and died in Boston,
June 22, 1855, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1789. He studied law in Taunton with
Judge Paddleford, and was admitted to the bar in 1792, probably in Boston, as his
name is on the roll of admissions by the Supreme Court in Suffolk before 1807. He
began practice in Waldoboro, Me., but moved in 1794 to Warren, Me., and in 1799 to
Hallowell. In 1815 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and in
1820, when Maine was set off as a State, he moved to Newburyport, and in 1831 to
Boston, where the remainder of his life was spent. He was a member of the Hartford
Convention, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, twice a presidential
elector, and in 1844 a member of the Executive Council. He received the degree of
LL.D. from Bowdoin in 1817, Harvard in 1841, and Dartmouth in 1849. He resigned
his seat on the bench in 1850 at the age of seventy- nine. He married Eunice, daughter
of David Cobb, of Taunton.

Joseph Willard, son of Rev. Joseph and Mary (Sheafe) Willard, was born in Cam-
bridge, March 14, 1798, and died in Boston, May 12, 1865. He fitted for college at
Phillips Exeter Academy under Mark Newman, and at Wm. Jennison's private classical
and mercantile school, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. He studied law with Charles
Humphrey Atherton in Amherst, N. H., and was admitted to the bar in 1819. Prac-
ticing first in Walthnm and Lancaster, he moved to Boston in 1829. In 1839 he was
appointed joint clerk with George C. Wilde of the Supreme Judicial and Common Pleas
courts, and in 1856 clerk of the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk. Upon the
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organization of the Superior Court for the Commonwealth, he was appointed clerk and
so continued until his death. He was the author of a history of Lancaster and the Life
of Simon Willard. He married Susanna Hicklin, daughter of Capt. Isaiah Lewis, Feb-
ruary 24, 1830.

James Thomas Joslin, son of Elias and Elizabeth (Stearns) Joslin, was born in
Leominster, Mass., June 23, 1834, and was educated at the Leominster public schools
and the Lawrence Academy at Groton. He read law with Charles H. Merriam in
Leominster and Nathaniel Wood and Goldsmith F. Bailey in Fitchburg, and was ad-
mitted to the bar at Fitchburg in June, 1859. He was in the Leominster School Board
in 1856-7. He began the practice of law in North Marlboro', near Hudson, in August,
1860, and was postmaster in that town in 1863-4; he was grand master I. 0. 0. F.,
in Massachusetts, in 1880, and in 1866 council for petitioners for the incorporation of
the town of Hudson. He married, at Leominster, October 14, 1861, Annie Catherine
Burrage, and lives in Hudson.

Paul Willard, son of Paul and Martha (Haskell) Willard, was born in Lancaster,
Mass., and died in Charlest^wn, March 18, 1856. He fitted for College at Westford
Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1817. He studied law in Worcester with Cal-
vin Willard and was admitted to the bar in 1821. He began practice in Charlestown
and in September, 1822, was appointed postmaster of that town, and in 1823 wa3 cho-
sen clerk of the Massachusetts Senate and was the incumbent of that office until 1829.
He is believed to have had at one time an office in Boston and for that reason is in-
cluded in this register.

Aaron Hobart Latham, son of Eliab and Susan Adams Latham, was born in East
Bridgewater, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He studied law at the Harvard Law
School and in the office of Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe, of Boston, and was admitted
to the bar of Plymouth county March 4, 1879. He has been a member of the School
Board in Brookline, where he lives. He married Minnie G. Bearce at North Livermore,
Me., September 20, 1882.

Thomas E. Grover, son of Thomas and Roana Grover, was born in Mansfield, Mass.,
February 9, 1847, and was educated at private schools. He studied law with Ellis
Ames, of Canton, and was admitted to the bar in Taunton, September 7, 1889. He
has been engaged in editorial newspaper work, and was trial justice for several years.
He married Frances L. Williams at Canton, Mass., September 17, 1871, and while prac-
ticing in Boston resides in Canton.

Loren Erskine Griswold, son of Daniel C. and Adelaide E. (Griswold) Griswold,
was born in Boston, January 3, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1886.

James Russell Reed, son of James and Mary J. (Magee) Reed, was born in Boston,
January 4, 1851. He was educated at the Phillips School, Latin School and at Harvard
College, from which he graduated in 1871. He studied law in the Harvard Law
School and in the offices in Boston of Edmund H. Bennett and T. L. Livermore and

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was admitted to the bar in Boston, July 5. 1876. He has been chairman of the School
Committee of Lexington, and assistant district attorney. He married Eleanor, Frances
Prescott at Boston, February 16, 1892, and has a house in Boston and one in Burling-
ton, Mass.

Samuel Willard Reed, son of Samuel and Caroline Reed, was born in Weymouth,
Mass., December 31, 1849, and was educated in the public schools of that town. He
studied law with Charles A. Reed, of Taunton, and was admitted to the bar in Taunton,
September 29, 1873. He has been on the School Board of Weymouth, and secretary of
the Weymouth Historical Society.

William Gardner Reed, son of Isaac and Lydia E. (McDonald) Reed, was born in
Waidoboro, Me., May 4, 1858, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1882. He studied law in
the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in January,
1885. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1888, and of the Board of
Aldermen in 1889-90. He married Mary Lorine Hagar at Richmond, Me., October 18,
1882, and lives in the Roxbury District of Boston.

Fletcher Ladd, son of William Spencer and Mira Barnes Fletcher Ladd, was born in
Lancaster, N. H., December 21, 1862, and fitted at Phillips Academy, Andover, for Dart-
mouth College, from which he graduated in 1884, and also studied at the Heidelberg
University in Germany. He studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law
School, from which he graduated in 1890, and was admitted to the bar in Concord, N.
H, in March, 1889. He lives in Cambridge.

Nathaniel Watson Ladd, son of Daniel and Lucy Ann Ladd. was born in Derry,
N. H., January 7, 1848, and was educated at the Pinkerton Academy and in the Dart-
mouth College class of 1873. He studied law in Boston in the office of Abbott, Jones
& McFarlane, and at the Boston University Law School in the class of 1875, and was
admitted to the bar in Boston, November 8, 1875. He was a member of the Boston
Common Council in 1886-87, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Represent-
atives in 1890-91. His residence is in Boston.

Elias Merwin, son of Rev. Samuel and Sarah (Clark) Merwin, was born at New
Haven, Conn., April 25, 1825. He received his early education at a boarding school in
White Plains, N. Y., and at thirteen entered Wesleyan University, and graduated in
1841. He studied law in Lenox in the office of Henry Walker Bishop, and at the
Harvard Law School. After leaving the law school he went to Pittsfield and was ad-
mitted to the Berkshire bar in 1843. In 1851 he came to Boston and was associated
with Benjamin R. Curtis until the appointment of Mr. Curtis to the United States Su-
preme Bench. The business of Mr. Merwin was chiefly in the Supreme and Circuit
Courts, in both of which he was counsel in many important cases. Among these may
be mentioned the suit of Abbott vs. the Essex Company, which he argued before the
United States Supreme Court at the age of thirty. In 1854 he was appointed Profes-
sor of Equity in the Boston University Law School. He married Anne, daughter of
Dr. H. H. Childs, of Pittsfield, December 23, 1847, and died in Boston, March 27, 1891.

156 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Ninian C. Betton, son of Samuel and Ann (Ramsay) Betton, was born in New
Boston, N. II., January 10, 1787, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1814. He studied
law with Daniel Webster in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston October
7, 1817, and to the Middlesex bar in November, 1819. He was at one time State
representative and member of the Boston Common Council. He married Wealthy
Johnson, daughter of Silas and Mary (Thornton) Betton, in January, 1821. His wife
was his cousin and granddaughter of Dr. Matthias Thornton, a signer of the Declar-
ation, chief justice of the Common Pleas Court and justice of the Supreme Court of
New Hampshire. Mr. Betton died in Boston November 19, 1856.

George E. Betton, son of Ninian C. and Wealthy Johnson (Betton) Betton, was
born in Hanover, N. H., November 28, 1821, and was educated at Dartmouth. He
studied law in Boston with his father, and was admitted to the bar in Boston October
6, 1846. He is chiefly engaged in patent cases. He is unmarried and lives in
Boston.

James L. English, son of Thomas and Penelope (Bethune) English, was born in
that part of Cambridge which is now Brighton, November 6, 1806. He was educated
at the school of George Ripley in Waltham, and at Harvard, where he graduated in
1827. After leaving college he was for a time private secretary of William H. Pres-
cott, the historian, and studied law with Judge William Prescott. He was admitted
to the bar in Suffolk in 1830, and in Middlesex in October, 1833, and was many years
a partner of William Howard Gardiner. After admission to the bar he lived in Boston
till 1863, then in Cambridge till 1868, and then at Jamaica Plain, where he died
February 9, 1883. He married, September 13, 1841, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of
David Steele of Goft'stown, N..H.

James 'S. English, son of James L. and Elizabeth (Steele) English, was born in
Boston March 6, 1844, and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He studied law with his
father, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, where he now lives, September 11,
1870.

Patrick H. Cooney, son of Lawrence and Catherine Cooney, was born in Stock-
bridge, Mass., December 20, 1845, and was educated at the Natick High School and
the West Newton English and Classical School. He studied law with John W. Bacon,
of Natick, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, November 24, 1868. He lives un-
married in Natick.

Francis O. Dorr was born in Boston September 21, 1805, and fitted at the Boston
Latin School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1825. After graduation he taught
a private school in Plymouth two years, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in
April, 1830. He began practice in Boston, soon moved to Pittsfield, thence in 1833
to Troy, and finally to New York, where he continued in practice until 1856, when
he moved to Fort Madison, O. In 1871 he returned to Troy and continued in practice
until 1886. He died at Lansingburg, N. Y., in March, 1892.

Josiah W. Hubbard was born in Springfield, Vt., and studied law at the Harvard
Law School and in the offices of Governor Colby of Newport, N. H. , and O. P. Chan-
dler of Woodstock, Vt. He. was admitted to the bar in Boston in December, 1850,
and for a time was associated in business with Isaac Story. He continued in prac-
tice in Boston until his vacation in the summer of 1892, when he died in his native
town on the 16th of September, in that year.

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Frederick Augustus Farley was born in Boston June 25, 1800, and graduated at
Harvard in 1818. He studied law and was admitted in Boston to the Common Pleas
Court October 19, 1821, and to the Supreme Court in 1824. After practicing law a
year or two in Boston he entered the Harvard Theological School, from which he
graduated in 1818. In 1818 he was settled over one of the Unitarian churches in Provi-
dence, R. I., immediatelv after leaving the Divinity school, and in 1841 was installed over
the Church of Our Saviour in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he remained twenty-two years.
After his retirement from clerical service he engaged in literary work and was the
author of " Unitarianism in the United States," " Unitarianism Defined" and a
" Histor)^ of the Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair of 1864." He married
Jane Sigourney in Boston in 1830.

Samuel W. Clifford, son of Samuel W. and Mary A. Clifford, was born in Boston
July 29, 1845. He received his early education at the Boston Latin School and from
Dr. E. R. Humphreys as a private tutor, and graduated at Trinity College, Hart-
ford, Conn., in 1868. He studied law with Robert S. Hart, Mount Kisco, N. Y., and
was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn, N. Y., in December, 1869, in Boston in October,
1870, to the United States Supreme Court May 3, 1878, and to the United States
Circuit Court, Mass. Dist. , December 2, 1878. Among the important cases in which
he has been counsel may be mentioned the Commonwealth vs. Thomas R. Smith for
murder in 1886. He married Myra A. Fiske, of Cleveland, O., August 10, 1889, and
lives in Boston.

Samuel Adams Dorr, son of EbenezerDorr, was born in Medfield, July 1, 1775, and
graduated at Harvard in 1795. He studied law with James Sullivan, and at a meet-
ing of the Suffolk bar July 9, 1798, on motion of William Sullivan, it was voted to
recommend him for admission to the Court of Common Pleas, and he was admitted
accordingly. He abandoned the law and engaged in business, and died in Boston
February 25, 1855.

William Henry Clifford, son of Nathan and Hannah (Aj^er) Clifford, was born in
Newfield, Me., in 1839, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1858. He studied law
with George F. Shepley in Portland, and with Benjamin R. Curtis in Boston, and
was admitted to the bar in Portland and Boston. He has been^United States com-
missioner in the Maine district, and is the author of four volumes of Clifford's Reports
for the First United States. Circuit. He married Ellen E. Brown at Portland in 1866,
and practices in Portland where he resides, and also in Boston.

William Choate, son of Frederick W. Choate, was born in Beverly and graduated
at Harvard in 1881. He read law with his father, and was admitted to the bar in
Boston in 1885. In 1888 he became associated with William F. Dana in Boston un-
der the firm name of Choate & Dana. He was several years a member of the
Beverly School Board, and the founder of the Beverly Co-operative Bank. While on
his way to the Bermudas he was taken sick in New York and died at St. Luke's
Hospital, in that city, in the early part of February, 1892.

Asaph Churchill, a descendant of John Churchill, who settled in Plymouth in
1643, and a son of Zebidee and Sarah (Cushman) Churchill, was born in Middleboro,
Mass., May 5, 1765, and graduated at Harvard in 1789. He studied law in Boston
with John Davis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793. He was a member of

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the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1810 to 1812. He married Mary,
daughter of Dr. Edward and Mehitable (Blodgett) Gardner, of Charlestown, and died
in Milton June 30, 1841.

Asaph Churchill, son of the above, was born in Milton April 20, 1814, and grad"
uated at Harvard in 1831. He studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law
School, and was admitted to the bar in Norfolk county in 1834. He was a member
of the Senate from Norfolk county in 1857. He married first Mary Buckminster,
daughter of Darius and Harriet (Buckminster) Brewer in Dorchester, May 1, 1838,
and second, June 2, 1862, Mary Anne Ware, of Milton. He died in Milton, November
29, 1892.

Joseph Green Cogswell, son of Francis and Anstiss (Manning) Cogswell, was born
in Ipswich, Mass., September 27, 1786. He was fitted for college at the Atkinson
Academy, N. H., and at Exeter, N. H., and graduated at Harvard in 1806. He
studied law in Dedham and Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in Jan-
uary, 1812. He removed to Belfast, Me., and in 1813 was appointed Latin tutor at
Harvard, where he remained two years. From 1821 to 1823 he was instructor in
mineralogy at Harvard, and librarian, and from 1823 to 1834 was associated with
George Bancroft in the management of the Round Hill School at Northampton.
From 1834 to 1836 he was principal of a Seminary in Raleigh, N. C, and in 1854 was
appointed librarian of the Astor Library in New York, which position he held until
1863, when he removed to Cambridge, and there died November 26, 1871. He mar-
ried Mary, daughter of Governor John T. Gilman, of New Hampshire, April 17, 1812.

Francis Augustus Brooks, son of Aaron and Abby Bradshaw (Morgan) Brooks,
was born in Petersham, Mass., May 23, 1824. He fitted for college at the Leicester
Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1842, the youngest member of his class. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of his father in Petersham,
and of Aylwin & Paine in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Worcester
county in 1845. He remained in Petersham until 1848, when he removed to Boston
and soon entered upon an active and lucrative practice. He has been president of
the Vermont and Canada and the Nashua and Lowell Railroads, and has been of
counsel in important railroad suits, among which are those with the Vermont
Central Railroad in' Vermont, and the Boston and Lowell Railroad, which, after
ten years' litigation in the Massachusetts and United States Courts, are still
unfinished. Together with his legal pursuits he studies and investigates the
various questions which from time to time occupy the public mind, and has
found time to elaborate and publish his views. In 1890 he published a pam-
phlet, entitled "Political and Financial Errors of our Recent Monetary Legis-
lation," and in 1891 another in criticism of the Legal Tender decisions of the Su-
preme Court. His contributions to the daily journals have been numerous, and. those
especially on the Force Bill have attracted attention. As a lawyer he is keen, skill-
ful and persistent, and as a writer, clear, forcible and convincing. He married at
Groton, Mass., September 14, 1847, Frances, daughter of Caleb and Clarissa (Var-
num) Butler. Aaron Brooks, the father of Mr. Brooks, was a graduate of Brown
University in 1817, a leading lawyer of Worcester county, and a representative to
the General Court in 1834-35. Mr. Butler, the father of Mrs. Brooks, was a gradu-
ate at Dartmouth in 1800, a lawyer by profession, principal of the Groton Academy
eleven years, postmaster thirteen years, and the author of a history of Groton.

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Albert D. Bosson, son of George C. and Mary Jane (Hood) Bosson, was born in
Chelsea, November 8, 1853. He was fitted for college at the Chelsea High School
and at Phillips Exeter Academy, and graduated at Brown University in 1875. He
studied law in Boston in the office of Brooks, Ball & Storey and at the Boston Uni-
versity Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 18, 1878. He was
special justice of the Chelsea Police Court from 1882 until he was appointed justice in
September, 1892. He was mayor of Chelsea in 1891 and has been, or is now, presi-
dent of the County Savings Bank of Chelsea, vice-president of the Winnisimmet Na-
tional Bank, and treasurer of the Gloucester Street Railway Company. He married
at Chelsea, where he lives, Alice Lavinia, daughter of C. A. Campbell, May 18, 1887.

John McLean Bethune was born in Boston September 12, 1815, and graduated at
Harvard in 1832. He was admitted to the bar in October, 1835, and died in Boston
in February, 1873.

Josiah Henry Benton, jr., son of Josiah Henry and Martha Ellen (Danforth) Ben-
ton, was born in Addison, Vt. , August 4, 1843. He was educated at the academy in
Bradford, Vt., and at the Literary and Scientific Institution of New London, N. H.
During the war of 1861 he served in the Twelfth Vermont Regiment of Volunteers.
He studied law with Roswell Farnham, of Bradford, Vt. , and at the Albany Law
School, from which he graduated in 1866. He was admitted to the bar in Albany,
May 5, 1866, and afterwards in Massachusetts. He was assistant clerk and clerk of
the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1868 to 1871, and has been di-
rector of the Northern Railroad in New Hampshire from 1878 to the present time. He
has been general counsel of the Old Colony Railroad since 1878 and connected with
all the important railroad litigation in New Hampshire for the past ten years; also
counsel for the Western Union Telegraph Company in its suits against the Bell Tele-
phone Company, and engaged in other important corporation suits. He has made
constitutional arguments before the Supreme Court of New Hampshire on the char-
acter and limitations of the Executive Veto Power, and before the governor of
Massachusetts on the question of what constitutes a fugitive from justice under the
extradition clause of the United States Constitution. During the last six years he
has lectured in the Boston University Law School on ' ' Corporation and Railroad
Law," and is the author of pamphlets on " Inequality of Tax Valuation in Massa-
chusetts," the "British Post-office," " Points in Vermont History," and "The Veto
Power — What is it?" He married Mary Elizabeth Abbot at Concord, N. H., Sep-
tember 3, 1875, and lives in Boston.

Arthur James McLeod, son of James B. and Ann (Smith) McLeod, was born in
Brookfield, Queen's county, Nova Scotia, and was educated atGoreham College. He
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was admitted to the bar in Bos-
ton in May of that year. He has been commissioner of the Supreme Court of Nova
Scotia and is engaged in Boston, where he lives, in general practice. He married in
Nova Scotia, Eunice Waterman.

Arthur F. Means, son of John W. and Sophia Romney (Wells) Means, was born
in Boston September 17, 1857, and studied law at the Boston University Law School
and in the office of Charles T. Gallagher. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in
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1882-3, and is president of the Alumni of the Boston University Law School. He is
engaged in equity, insolvency and general practice. He married Katie A. Snow,
April 13, 1881, in Boston, where he resides.

John McKinstry Merriam, son of Adolphus and Caroline (McKinstry) Merriam,
was born in Southbridge, Mass., September 20, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in
1886. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of George F.
Hoar, of Worcester, and in that of Shattuck & Munroe, of Boston, and was admit-
ted to the bar in Boston in July, 1890. He has been clerk of the committee of the
United States Senate on Privileges and Elections. He married Annie Chapman
Davenport, February 4, 1888, and has his home in South Frarmngham.

Pliny Merrick, son of Pliny and Ruth (Cutter) Merrick, was born in Brookfield,
August 2, 1794. He fitted for college at Leicester andMonson academies and gradu-
ated at Harvard in 1814. He studied law with Levi Lincoln in Worcester, and was
admitted to the Worcester county bar in September, 1817. He practiced in Swan-
sea and in Taunton, where he was a partner of Marcus Morton, senior, and in 1824
went to Worcester and was district attorney there until 1843. He was appointed in
1850 judge on the bench of the Common Pleas Court, and in 1853 an associate justice
on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court. While on the bench he removed to
Boston, and in 1864 resigned his seat. In 1853 he received the degree of LL.D.
from Harvard and was an overseer of that college from 1852 to 1856. He was senior
counsel, with Edward D. Sohier his junior, for John W. Webster, in his trial for
murder. He married Mary Rebecca, daughter of Isaiah Thomas, and died in Boston
February 1, 1867.

James Cushing Merrill, son of Rev. Giles and Lucy (Cushing) Merrill, was born
in Haverhill, Mass., September 27, 1784, and fitted for college with his" father and at
Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated at Harvard in 1807, and studied law with
John Varnum, of Haverhill, and was admitted to the bar of Essex county, at Salem,
in September, 1812, and to the Suffolk county bar in March, 1815. He occupied a
prominent position many years as a lawyer in Boston and was appointed, February
19, 1834, justice of the Boston Police Court, a position which he resigned in 1852. He
was a member of the Senate and House of Representatives at various times, a mem-
ber of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and a Greek scholar of high attainments.
He married November 28, 1820, Anna, daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall, of
Haverhill, and died in Boston, October 4, 1853.

Moody Merrill, son of Winthrop and Martha (Noyes) Merrill, was born in Camp-
ton, N. H., June 27, 1836, and was educated at the public schools and at the Thet-
ford, Vt. , Academy. He studied law with William Minot in Boston, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 7, 1863. He was a member of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives from 1869 to 1871, a senator in 1873-4, a member of the
Boston school board from 1868 to 1874, and president of the Highland Street Railway
from 1872 to 1887, when it was consolidated with the West End Railway. He was
counsel for John Moran, indicted for murder in 1867. He married Martha M. Bur-
gess in Boston in 1869, and lives in the Highland District of Boston.

Nehemiah Thomas Merritt, Jr., son of Nehemiah Thomas and Mary E. Merritt,
was born August 21, 1859, and was educated at the Boston Latin School. He studied

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law in the office of his brother, William F. Merritt of Boston, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar June 13, 1881. He has been clerk of the Municipal Court of the Dor-
chester District of Boston, where he lives unmarried, since May 1, 1885.

William Frederick Merritt, son of Nehemiah Thomas and Mary E. Merritt, was
born in Belfast, Me., January 10, 1853. He was educated in the public schools of
Boston and Belfast and at the University of Vermont. He studied law in Boston with
Horace G. Hutchins, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1874. He is un-
married and lives in the Dorchester District of Boston.

Henry Clifford Meserve, son of Joseph M. and Martha C. Meserve, was born in
Augusta, Me. , April 6, 1858, and was educated at Tufts College, from which he grad-
uated in 1881. He studied law in the Boston University Law School and in Boston
with Henry W. Paine, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1884. He is,
or has been, assistant clerk of the Supreme Court in Suffolk county, and lives unmar-
ried in the Roxbury District of Boston.

Joshua Howard Millett, son of Rev. Joshua and Sophronia (Howard) Millett, was
born in Cherryfleld, Me., March 17, 1842, and was educated at Waterville College,
now Colby University, Me. He studied law with Isaac F. Redford and William A.
Herrick in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk county bar December 15, 1870.
He became a member of the firm of Redfield, Herrick & Millett, and so continued
until the death of Judge Redfield in 1876. In Maiden, where he resides, he has
been a member of the School Board, trustee of the Public Library, representative to
the General Court in 1884-85, and president, since 1875, of the Crosby Steam Gauge
and Valve Company in Boston. He married in 1867 at Dorchester, Rosina Maria
Tredick.

Arthur N. Milliken, son of Ebenezer C. and Charlotte J. Milliken, was born in
Boston February 8, 1858, and fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, graduat-
ing at Amherst in 1880. He studied law in the Boston University Law School in the
class of 1883, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April of that year. He married
Mabel M. Marsh June 9, 1888, in Boston, where he now lives.

Thomas Letchford, with the exception of Thomas Morton, was the first trained
lawyer in Massachusetts. He came from England in 1637, and after four years' res-
idence returned in 1641, and became a member of Clements Inn. On his return he
published a book called " Plain Dealing, or News from New England," which con-
tains much interesting matter concerning the condition of the colony at the time of
his visit. It is now a rare work only found on the shelves of a few libraries and bibli-
ographers.

Thomas Morton came to New England in 1625, but was sent back by the few col-
onists then here in 1628. He returned in 1643, but owing to his misconduct he was
obliged to retire beyond the limits of the Massachusetts colony, and finally died at
Acomenticus, old and partially insane.

John Winthrop was born at Groton, England, January 22, 1588, and was the son
of Adam and Anne (Browne) Winthrop. He spent two years at Trinity College, and
married April 26, 1605, Mary, daughter of John Forth, of Great Stambridge, who,
after the birth of six children and eleven years of married life, left him a widower.
A second wife died a year and a half after marriage, and in 1618 he married for a
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third wife Margaret, daughter of Sir John Tyndal, of Great Maplested. He was
many years in the profession of law, and in 1682 was admitted to the Inner Tem-
ple. It is unnecessary to trace the career of a man of whom so much has been said
and written. It is sufficient to say that his place in this register is due to the fact that
from 1630 to 1633, and in the years 1637, '38, '39, '42, '43, '46, '47, '48 he was the
governor of the Massachusetts Colony, in 1636, '44, '45 deputy governor, and that in
1634, '35, '40, '41 he was one of the assistants, and thus connected with the judiciary
of the colony. He died in Boston March 26, 1649.

John Winthrop, jr., son of the above, was born in Groton Manor, on February 12,
1606. He was educated at Bury St. Edmund's School and Trinity College, Dublin
and entered the Inner Temple in 1628. He came to Massachusetts in 1631 and was
one of the assistants of the Colony from 1632 to 1649 inclusive. In 1650 he moved to
Connecticut and in 1657 was made governor of that Colony, holding the office con-
tinuously, excepting one year, until his death, which occurred in Boston while there
on public business, April 5, 1676. He married Martha, daughter of Thomas Fones,
of London, in 1631, and in 1635, Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Reade, of Wickford,
England.

Wait Still Winthrop, son of John Winthrop, the governor of Connecticut and
grandson of John the governor of Massachusetts, was born in Boston February 27,
1642, and went with his father to Connecticut in 1650, returning in 1687, and was ap-
pointed judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature December 23, 1692, and chief jus-
tice in 1701, resigning the same year to become an agent of the province. In 1708 he
was again appointed chief justice, and died in Boston November 7, 1717.

Robert Charles Winthrop, son of Thomas Lindall and Elizabeth Bowdoin (Tem-
ple) Winthrop, was born in Boston, May 12, 1809, and graduated at Harvard in 1828.
He studied law with Daniel Webster and was admitted to the bar in Boston in Octo-
ber, 1831. He was in his early career a member of the Massachusetts House of Rep-
resentatives six years, three of which he was speaker, and ten years a member of
the United States House of Representatives, two of which he was speaker. In 1850
he was United States Senator by appointment to fill a vacancy. Until his recent
resignation he was many years president of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He
is one of the counsellors of the George Peabody benefaction, and since his retirement
from active political life has enhanced a reputation, already brilliantly won, by ora-
tions and addresses, which on various public occasions he has been called on to de-
liver. Among them the most notable have been his Pilgrim Anniversary oration at
Plymouth, December 21, 1870, the Boston Centennial oration, July 4, 1876, the Corn-
wallis oration at Yorktown in 1881, and his oration at the dedication of the Washing-
ton Monument in Washington. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in
1855 and from Bowdoin in 1849, and from Cambridge, England, in 1874. He mar-
ried first March 12, 1832, Eliza Cabot Blanchard, second, November 6, 1849, Laura
(Derby) Wells, daughter of John Derby and widow of Arnold Wells, and third Adele

(Granger) Thayer, daughter of Francis Granger, of Canandaigua, N. Y., and widow

of John E. Thayer of Boston.

Adam Winthrop, son of Adam and great-grandson of Gov. John Winthrop, was
born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1694. He was a delegate from Boston
in the General Court and was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas
December 29, 1715, holding the office until 1741. He died October 2, 1743.

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Thomas Dudley was born in Northampton, England, in 1576, and came to New-
England in 1630 as deputy governor of the Colony, and continued in that office until

1634, when he was governor, and held that position also in 1640-1645 and 1650. In
1637, '38, '39, '46, '47, '48, '51, '52 he was again deputy governor, and assistant in

1635, '36, '41, '42, '43, '44, and died July 31, 1653.

John Haynes was born in Essex, England, and settled in Cambridge in 1633. In

1634 and 1636 he was an assistant and in 1635 governor. In 1636 he removed to
Connecticut and was repeatedly chosen governor of that Colony. He died at Hart-
ford, Conn., March 1, 1654.

Henry Vane, son of Sir Henry Vane, was born in Hadlow, England, in 1612. In

1635 he came to Massachusetts. In 1636 he was governor of the Colony and in 1637
returned to England, where he was a member of Parliament in 1640. After the
death of Cromwell he was again a member, and on the restoration was tried for
treason and beheaded June 14, 1662.

Richard Bellingham, a lawyer by profession, was born in England in 1592, and
came to Massachusetts in 1634. He was deputy governor in 1635, 1640, 1653 and 1655
to 1664, and governor in 1641, 1654, and 1665 to 1672, and assistant in 1636-39, 1642-
52. He died December 7, 1672.

John Endtcott was born in Dorchester, England, in 1590. He came to Salem in
1628 as local governor and surrendered his position and authority to Winthrop on his
arrival with the charter of the Colony in 1630. He was governor in 1629, 1644, 1649,
1651, 1655; deputy governor in 1641-43, 1650 and 1654,' and assistant in 1630-34,
1636^0, 1645-48, and died March 15, 1655.

John Leverett, son of Thomas Leverett, was born in England in 1616, and came
to Boston in 1633. . He was employed in a military capacity for a time, was speaker
of the House of Deputies and major general of the Colony. He was governor of the
Colony from 1673 to 1678; deputy governor in 1671-72, and assistant in 1665-70. He
died March 16, 1679.

Simon Bradstreet was born in Horbling, England, in 1603, and received a part of
his education at Emanuel College, Cambridge. He came to Massachusetts in 1630.
He married in England a daughter of Governor Dudley, and for a second wife a
daughter of Emanuel Downing. He lived in Ipswich, Andover, Boston, and finally
Salem, where he died in 1697. He was governor from 1679 to 1692, exclusive of the
period covered by the administration of Dudley and Andros, secretary in 1630, and
assistant from 1630 to 1678.

Alfred Hemenway, son of Fisher and Elizabeth J. Hemenway, was born in Hop-
kinton, Mass., and graduated at Yale College in 1861. He studied law at the Harvard
Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 13, 1863. He has been offered
a seat on the Supreme Bench by both Governor Ames and Governor Brackett, but
he declined it. He is associated in business with ex-Governor John D. Long. He
married at Detroit, Mich., October 14, 1871, Myra L. McLanathan, and lives in
Boston.

John Herbert, son of Samuel and L. Maria (Darling) Herbert, was born in Went-
worth, N. H., November 2, 1849. He was fitted for college at the English High
School in Boston and graduated at Dartmouth in 1871. He studied law in Rumney,

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X. ! I., with his father, and was admitted to the bar in Plymouth, N. H., in 1875, and
in 1879 or 1880 to the Suffolk, bar. He is, or has been, president of the Appleton
Academy Association, secretary and first vice-president of the Mystic Valley Club,
treasurer and director of the Citizen Publishing Company, president of the E. F.
Cowdrey Company, director of the Merchants Co-operative Bank and of the Globe
Investment Company. He has been the editor of The Dartmouth and a frequent
contributor to the daily journals. He married Alice C. GU3' at Peacham, Vt., August
1, 1872, and lives at Somerville.

Robert F. Herrick, son of Frederick C. and Josephine C. Herrick, was born in
Medford, Mass., August 8, 1866, and graduated at Harvard in 1890. He studied law
in the Boston University Law School and in the offices of J. B. Richardson and
George L. Huntress, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. His
residence is in Boston.

Henry Edson Hersey, son of Stephen and Maria (Lincoln) Hersey, was born in
Hingham, May 28, 1830, and fitted at the Derby Academy for Harvard, where he
graduated in 1850. He studied law in Oharlestown, N. H., with Edmund Lambert
Cushing and in Boston with Peleg W. Chandler and John P. Putnam, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 15, 1854. He practiced in Boston and Hingham.
He married, March 20, 1856, Catharine, daughter of Colonel H. H. Sylvester, of
Charlestown, N. H., arid died in Hingham, February 24, 1863.

Ira Charles Hersey, son of David and Eliza Fitz Hersey, was born in Foxboro',
Mass., March 17, 1859. He was educated at the public schools and graduated at
Brown University. He studied law in the office of Frederick D. Ely and at the Bos-
ton University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in October, 1886.
His home is in Foxboro'.

Francis Snow Hesseltine, son of Peter Hale and Sarah Snow Hesseltine, was born
in Bangor, Me., December 10, 1833, and educated at Waterville Academy and at
Waterville College, now Colby University. He studied law with Judge Fox in Port-
land, Me., and was admitted to the bar in Augusta in October, 1865. After admis-
sion he moved to Savannah, Ga. , where he practiced law and was register in
bankruptcy until 1870, when he was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts, and
opened an office in Boston. He was married in Waterville, Me., in 1861, and lives
in Melrose.

John Joseph Higgins, son of Michael and Sabina (Patten) Higgins, was born in
Boston May 17, 1865, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law
with Gilman Marston and E. G. Eastman, of Exeter, N. H., and graduated at the
Harvard Law School in 1890. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 18, 1890,
and lives in Somerville.

Richard Hildreth, son of Rev. Hosea and Sarah (McLeod) Hildreth, was born in
Deerfield, Mass., June 28, 1807, and was fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for Har-
vard, where he graduated in 1826. He studied law with Theophilus Parsons, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1830. He began practice in Newbury-
port and moved to Boston, where from July, 1832, to October, 1834, he was the editor
of the Boston Atlas, and its correspondent from May, 1836, to November, 1839. In
1840 he went to Demerara, and in 1849 and the three succeeding years his history of

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the United States was issued from the press. He was afterwards connected with the
New York Tribune, and in 1861 was appointed consul at Trieste, a position which
he held until his death, which occurred in Florence, Italy, July 11, 1865. He married
Caroline Neagus, of Deerfield, June 7, 1844. .

David Armstrong Hincks, son of E. Franklin and Martha J. Hincks, was born in
Mansfield, Mass., June 8, 1857, and was educated at the public schools. He read
law in the office of E. F. Johnson, of Marlboro', Mass., and at the Boston University
Law School, from which he graduated in 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1885. He is unmarried and lives in Somerville.

George Clarendon Hodges, son of Edward Fuller and Anne Frances (Hammatt)
Hodges, was born in Boston October 14, 1857, and fitted at the Boston Latin School
for Harvard, where he graduated in 1879. He studied law in New York with Evarts,
Southmayd & Choate and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in February, 1883. His residence is in Lincoln.

George Foster Hodges, son of Almon Danforth and Martha (Comstock) Hodges,
was born in Providence R. I., January 12, 1837, and graduated at Harvard in 1855.
He studied law with Peleg W. Chandler and at the Harvard Law School. He en-
listed for three months in the Charlestown City Guards at the opening of the war of
1861, and was afterwards adjutant of the Eighteenth (three years) Massachusetts
Regiment. He died unmarried at Hall's Hill, near Washington, January 30, 1862.

Moses Holbrook, son of Oren and Willebe Holbrook, was born at Stratford, N.
H., November 17, 1844, and was educated at the Lancaster, N. H., Academy. He
read law with Henry W. Bragg in Charlestown, Mass., and at the Law School of the
University of Michigan, and was admitted to the Middlesex county bar in June, 1871.
He married at Boston in 1874 Emma C. Talpy, and lives in Maiden.

Frank G. Holcombe, son of Franklin and Mary (Gibbons) Holcombe, was born in
Southwick, Mass., December 26, 1852, and was educated at the public schools, at
Wilbraham Academy and Wesleyan University. He studied law in the office of
Whitney & Dunbar, of Westfield, Mass., and at the Boston University Law School,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1879. He married Inez Ma)mard
December 25, 1879, at Northboro', Mass., and lives in Winchester.

Willie Perkins Holcombe, son of Walter C. and Abigail J. (Perkins) Holcombe,
was born in Sunderland, Vt., August 19, 1861, and was fitted at the Westfield High
School for Amherst, where he graduated in 1883. He studied law with Leonard &
Wells in Springfield, Mass., and in the Boston University Law School, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1886; he lives in Boston.

Henry Ware Holland, son of Frederic May and Harriet (Newcomb) Holland, was
born in Rochester, N. Y., March 20, 1844. He was educated by a tutor and at a pri-
vate school, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices
of George S. Hale, Albert G. Browne and William E. Parmenter, and was admitted
to the bar m Boston February 12, 1869. Mr. Holland has been on the editorial
staff of the Boston Daily Advertiser, the Boston Transcript and Outing, one of
the editors of "Bennett's and Holland's Digest," contributor to the New York
Nation, and was the author of "William Dawes." He is unmarried, and lives in
Boston.

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Elmer Parker Howe, son of Archelaus and M. H. Janette (Brigham) Howe, was
born in Westboro November 1, 1851, and was educated in the Worcester Polytechnic
School, class of 1871, and at Yale College, class of 1876. He read law with Hillard,
Hyde & Dickinson in Boston and at the Boston University Law School, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1878; he was associated with the firm of
Hyde, Dickinson & Howe until 1849. He makes patent law a specialty.

William Everett Hutchins, son of William and Mary Stearns Hutchins, was born
in Cambridge, Mass., January 13, 1858, and fitted at the public schools for Harvard,
where he graduated in 1879. He read law in Boston with William Gaston and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1882. He has been a member of the Cambridge
city government, was married in 1882 and lives in North Cambridge.

Freedom Hutchinson, son of Edwin F. and Elizabeth Ann (Flint) Hutchinson, was
born in Milan, N. H., August 6, 1847, and was educated at the Nichols Latin School
and Bates College, Lewiston, Me. He read law with Hutchinson & Savage in Lewis-
ton and was admitted to the bar in Auburn, Me., in April, 1870, and in Boston, May
9, 1876. He married Abbie Laighton Butler in Boston, February 15, 1886, and lives
in Boston.

Fred Jotham Hutchinson, son of Jotham P. and A. Elizabeth Hutchinson, was
born November 27, 1856, and fitted at the Nashua High School for Dartmouth, where
he graduated in 1876. He studied law with N. B. Bryant and C. W. Bartlett in Boston,
and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June
28, 1882. He has taken an active interest in military affairs and is an officer in the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He married E. Gertrude Denison in Bos-
ton, June 28, 1884, and lives in Hyde Park.

Eben Hutchinson, son of Eben and Lois W. (Williams) Hutchinson, was born in
Athens, Me., August 2, 1841, and was educated at the academies in Somerset, Bloom-
field and Waterville, Me. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the
bar in Maine in 1862. He enlisted as private in the Twenty-fourth Maine Volunteers
in the civil war and was promoted through the several grades to the rank of lieutenant-
colonel. In 1866 he moved to Boston, where he was admitted to the bar on the 9th
of October of that year, and afterwards settled in Chelsea. In 1874 he was appointed
special justice of the Chelsea Police Court, and November 6, 1880, standing justice,
which position he resigned in 1892. In 1875 and four succeeding years he was city
solicitor, representative in 1878, and senator in 1879-80. He married in Skowhegan,
Me., November 11, 1863, Rachel W., daughter of Edward C. and Mary R. (Hum-
phrey) Lane, who died in February, 1880. He married second, August 20, 1882, Abbie
A.' Lane.

John Sylvester Holmes, son of Rev. Sylvester and Esther (Holmes) Holmes, was
born in New Bedford in 1822. He studied theology at Andover in 1846, and after-
wards law, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1848. He abandoned prac-
tice in the last years of his life on account of failing health and died in Boston, May
13, 1892.

Nathaniel Holmes, son of Samuel and Mary Annan Holmes, was born in Peter-
boro, N. H., July 2, 1814, and graduated at Harvard in 1837. He was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in September, 1839, and moved to St. Louis. He was judge of the Su-

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preme Court of Missouri from 1865 to 1868, and professor of law in the Harvard Law-
School from 1868 to 1872. His literary career has been chiefly marked by his elab-
orate argument in denial of the reputed authorship of what are known as Shake-
speare's works. After resigning his professorship at Cambridge he returned to St.
Louis for a time and now resides in Cambridge.

Edward Otis Howard, son of Cyrus and Cornelia A. (Bassett) Howard, was born
in Winslow, Me., March 11, 1852, and was educated at Colby University and at Bow-
doin College, where he graduated in 1874. He studied law with S. S. Brown in Wa-
terville and Fairfield, Me., and was admitted to the bar in Augusta, Me., in August,
1876, and to the Suffolk bar January 17, 1881. He married Dorcas S. Hall at Wins-
low, Me., September 25, 1878, and lives in the Roxbury District.

Archibald Murray Howe, son of James Murray and Harriet Butler (Clarke) Howe,
was born in Northampton, Mass., May 20, 1848, and fitted at the public schools in
Brookline, Mass., for Harvard, where he graduated in 1869. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and in the office of George S. Hillard, of Boston, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk- bar in June, 1872. He was a member of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives in 1891. He married Annie S., daughter of Epes S. Dix-
well, and lives in Cambridge. -

Charles Franklin Howe, son of James and Sarah B. Howe, was born in Strafford,
Vt., April 13, 1836, and was educated at the public and private schools in Lowell,
Mass. He studied law with Brown & Alger in Lowell and was admitted to the Mid-
dlesex- bar in April, 1859. He was register in bankruptcy under the United States
bankrupt law, and in 1879 an alderman in Lowell. He has been twice married, at
Lowell, April 3, 1862, and again at Lowell, January 15, 1873. He resides in Boston.

Isaac Redington Howe, son of David and Elizabeth (Redingtou) Howe, was born
in Haverhill, March 13, 1791, and fitted at Phillips Academy for Harvard, where he
graduated in 1810. He studied law with George Bliss, of Springfield, and William
Prescott, of Boston, and was admitted to the Essex county bar in 1821. He married
Sarah, daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall, of Haverhill, June 16, 1816, and died
in Haverhill, January 15, 1860.

Thoiwas Hutchinson, son of Thomas, who was a councillor from 1715 to 1739, ex-
cepting the years 1724 and 1727, was born in Boston September 9, 1711, and gradu-
ated at Harvard in 1727. He was selectman and representative, lieutenant governor
and governor of the Province, and from 1761 to 1769 was chief justice of the Supreme
Court of Judicature. He published a history of Massachusetts up to 1750. In 1774 he
went to England and died in Brompton, June 3, 1780. He married Margaret San-
ford, May 16, 1734.

Increase Nowell was born in England and came to Massachusetts in 1630. He was
an assistant from the time of his appointment in England in 1629 to 1655, secretary
of the Colony from 1639 to 1649, and at one time ruling elder of the church in
Charlestown. He died in Boston, November 1, 1655.

Samuel Nowell, son of the above, was born in Boston November 12, 1634, and
graduated at Harvard in 1653. He was an assistant from 1680 to 1686, treasurer of
Harvard from 1682 to 1686, and went to England as an agent of the Colony in
1688, and died in London in September of that year.

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William Pynchon was born in Springfield, England, in 1590, and was one of the
assistants appointed by the crown. He- continued in office until 1636, and served
again from 1642 to 1630. In 1652 he went to England and died in Wraysbury, October
29, 1662.

Charles Eustis Hubbard, son of Samuel and Mary Ann (Coit) Hubbard, was born
in Boston, August 7, 1842, and fitted at the .Boston Latin School for Yale College,
where he graduated in 1862. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the
offices of Dwight Foster and Henry W. Paine in Boston, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar January 27, 1866. He married Caroline D. Tracy in Boston in 1872, and
lives in Cambridge.

James HUMPHREY, son of Lemuel and Elizabeth (Jones) Humphrey, was born in
Weymouth, Mass., January 20, 1819, and was educated at the Derby Academy, at
Hingham and Phillips Andover Academy. He studied law in Boston with D. W.
Gooch, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1855. He was a representative in 1852
and 1869, senator in 1872, county commissioner from 1875 to 1882, and has been jus-
tice since 1882 of the East Norfolk District Court. He married at Hingham, Decern"
ber 23, 1860, Susan Humphrey Cushing, and has his residence in Weymouth.

Charles Phelps Huntington, son of Rev. Dana and Elizabeth W. (Phelps) Hunt-
ington, was born in Litchfield, Conn., May 24, 1802, and was fitted at the Hopkins
Academy in Hadley for Harvard, where he graduated in 1822. He studied law at the
law school in Northampton, and was admitted to the bar in Hampshire county ; he
began practice in Northampton, but removed to Boston and was appointed in 1855 a
justice of the Superior Court of Suffolk county, which office he held until the court
was abolished in 1859. He married first Helen Sophia Mills, who died March 3,
1844, and second, January 2, 1847, Ellen, daughter of David Greenough.

Winfield Scott Hutchinson, son of Stephen D. and Mary (Atkinson) Hutchinson,
was born in Buckfield, Me., May 27, 1845, and graduated at Bowdoin College in
1867. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Peleg W.
Chandler, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 10, 1873. He mar-
ried Adelaide S. Berry, of Brunswick, Me., January 1, 1870, and lives in Newton.

Henry Dwight Hyde, son of Benjamin D. and Eveline (Wright) Hyde, was born
in Southbridge, Mass., April 27, 1838, and graduated at Amherst in 1861. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of George S. Hillard, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 4, 1864. He married Luran Charles at Brimfield,
October 9, 1866, and lives in Boston.

Louis Fiske Hyde, son of Alvin and Josephine (Manning) Hyde, was born in War-
ren, Mass., June 20, 1866, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and in the office of H. D. Hyde, of Boston, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in 1890. He lives in Boston.

George West Jackson, son of William F. and Abby C. (West) Jackson, was born in
Roxbury, Mass. , January 8, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law
at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He
lives in the Roxbury District of Boston.

Charles Walter Janes, son of Walter and Catherine C. (Guild) Janes, was born in
Medfield, Mass., April 2, 1858, and was educated in the English High and other

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schools in Boston. He read law with Augustus Russ and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar January 17, 1888. He makes mercantile law a specialty. His residence is in Boston.

Harry James Jaquith, son of Benjamin F. and Harriet A. Jaquith, was born in
Boston, April 14, 1855, and was educated at the Institute of Technology in Boston.
He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1890. He married Mary A. H. Taylor at Greenfield Hill, Conn., in 1882, and
resides at Wellesley.

Eugene M. Johnson, son of George L. and Sarah (Osgood) Johnson, was born in
Boston, June 4, 1845, and was educated in the Lynn public schools for Harvard, where
he graduated in 1869/ He studied law at the Albany Law School and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar April 11, 1871. He married Miss Nora J. Brown.

Henry Augustus Johnson, son of John and Harriet Johnson, was born in Fair-
haven, Mass., February 17, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He studied law
at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1849 or 1850. He
has held various offices of trust, and contributed frequently to magazines and daily
journals. He married Elizabeth S. Hitch and lives in Braintree.

Moses G. Howe, son of Moses and Frances D. Howe, was born in Portsmouth, N.
H., August .13, 1826, and was educated at the Phillips Andover Academy. He read
law with IthamerH. Beard in Lowell and was admitted to the bar there July 18, 1851.
He has been an alderman in Cambridge, where he lives, and married in 1857, at
Lowell, Lydia W. Varnum.

William Russell Howland, son of William and Caroline G. (Russell) Howland, was
born in Lynn, Mass., February 19, 1863, and attended the Lynn High School. He
entered Harvard, but left college on account of sickness and did not graduate. He
graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1885, and read law also in the office of
Morse & Allen in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1886. He
has been two years a member of the Common Council in Cambridge, where he lives,
and is now a member of the School Board.

Edward F. Haynes was born in Boston, February 14, 1858, and attended the pub-
lic schools and Boston College. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and Bos-
ton University Law School, graduating from the last in 1882. He was a representa-
tive in 1884.

Henry Blatchford Hubbard, son of Samuel and Mary Ann (Coit) Hubbard, was
born in Boston, January 8, 1833, and fitted at the Latin School for Harvard, where
he graduated in 1854. He read law with his brother, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, and
at the Harvard Law School, but may not have been admitted to the bar. He was
clerk, engineer and treasurer of the Cambridge Water Works until 1859, when he was
attached to the coast survey as magnetic and astronomic assistant. While visiting
his brother in Chicago he died there February 13, 1862.

Samuel Hubbard, born in Boston, June 2, 1785, graduated at Yale in 1802. He first
practiced in Biddeford, Me., but came to Boston in 181Q, and was associated in busi-
ness with Charles Jackson. In 1842 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial
Court, and continued on the bench until his death in Boston, December 24, 1847.

Nathaniel Dean Hubbard, son of Henry and Sally (Dean) Hubbard, was born in
Charlestown, N. H., January 14, 1821, and fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Acad-
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emy and Leicester Academy. He graduated at Harvard in 1840, and after a course
of study in the Harvard Law School, was admitted to the bar May 10, 1844. In 1852
he abandoned the law and joined his brother, Aaron D. Hubbard, in the banking
business in Boston, with the firm name of Hubbard Brothers. He married, April 23,
1863, Anne B., daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, D. D., and died
in Boston, October 7, 1865.

Woodward Hudson, son of Frederic and Eliza Woodward Hudson, was born in
New York city, January 25, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 22, 1882.
He married Bessie Van Mater Keyes at Concord, Mass., August 31, 1880, and lives
in Concord.

George Lewis Huntress, son of James Lewis and Harriet Paige Huntress, was
born in Lowell, Mass., April 4, 1848, and was educated at Phillips Andover
Academy and Yale College, from which he graduated in 1870. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School. and in the office of Ives & Lincoln in Boston, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1872. He was a member of the Boston Common
Council in 1881 and 1882. He married Julia A. Poole at Metuchen, N. J., Sep-
tember 30, 1875, and lives in Winchester.

Frederick Ellsworth Hurd, son of George A. and Laura A. Hurd, was born in
Wolfboro', N. H., February 25, 1861, and was educated at the Boston Latin School
and the Boston University. He read law in Boston with John Hardjr and Samuel
J. Elder, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1884. He is assistant district
attorney for Suffolk, and lives in Boston.

Edward J. Jenkins, son of John and Sabina Jenkins, was born in London, Eng-
land, December 20, 1854, and coming to America an infant was educated in the Bos-
ton public schools. He studied law in the Boston University Law School, from which
he graduated in 1880, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 30, 1881, and
to bar of the United States Court December 23, 1881. He has been a member of the
Boston School Board and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representa-
tives in 1877-79 ; he was a commissioner of insolvency from 1879 to 1885, and in 1881
was the Democratic candidate for clerk of the Superior Civil Court. In 1885-6, '88,
he was a member of the Boston Common Council, and was its president during the
whole period of his membership. In 1885 he was trustee of the Public Library and
in 1887 a member of the Massachusetts Senate. While in the Legislature he was a
consistent and earnest friend of labor and the laboring man, and supported by speech
and vote every' measure calculated to promote in the highest degree the welfare of
the Commonwealth. The abolition of the poll tax as a prerequisite for voting, the
abandonment of the contract system of labor, the regulation of the liabilities of em-
ployers for compensation for personal injuries of employees, the operation of the
East Boston ferries by the city, the regulation of the observance of the Lord's day to
conform to present social conditions, the establishment of Labor Day as a legal holi-
day, the regulation of the hours of labor, the prevention of fraud at primary meet-
ings and elections, the creation of a Board of Public Works for the city of Boston,
the liberal construction of public parks, the preference of discharged soldiers and
sailors in appointments to office, and generous appropriations for charitable purposes,
all enlisted his sympathy and secured his support and vote. Mr. Jenkins is in the
vigor of manhood with a promise of professional and political advancement.

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William Whittem Jenness, son of Joseph and Hannah Whittem, was born in Ports-
mouth, N. H., August 25, 1861, and was educated at the Pittsfield, N. H., Academy,
Bates College, Lewiston, Me, and the Boston University Law School. He con-
tinued his law studies with Thomas Cogswell at Gilmanton, N. H., and was ad-
mitted to the bar in Concord, N. H., July 19, 1888, and in Boston July 17, 1888. He
lives in Quincy, Mass.

Charles Francis Jenney, son of Charles E. and Elvira F. (Clark) Jenney, was
born in Middelboro', Mass., September 16, 1860, and was educated at the public
schools and at the Boston University Law School. He further continued his law
studies in the office of James E. Cotter at Hyde Park, and was admitted to the Nor-
folk county bar October 4, 1882. He has been representative, trustee of the Public
Library in Hyde Park, where he lives, and where he married Mary E. Bruce, October
12, 1886.

'Byron B. Johnson, son of Charles and Maria W. Johnson, was born in Needham,
Mass., November 30, 1833, and was educated in the Weston public schools, the Law-
rence Academy at Groton and the Boston Law School, being the oldest member of
the first class of that school. Subsequently, Avhile pursuing his law studies, he was
employed for nearly six years as an agent of the State, in caring for all cases of
juvenile offenders in the courts, and was admitted to the bar in Cambridge, June 25,
1873. From 1861 to '63 he was United States mail agent, and from 1863 to '66 chief
examiner of returns in the Ordnance Bureau, United States War Department, assist-
ant State visiting agent from 1869 to '74, town auditor of Waltham, Mass., two years,
chief deputy United States marshal from 1879 to '83, first mayor of Waltham in 1885,
member of the Waltham School Board from 1888 to '92, and rechosen in 1892 for three
years. He is also a trustee of the Waltham Public Library. He married Louisa H.
Cutter at Weston, Mass., May 4, 1856, and lives in Waltham.

Edward F. Johnson, son of Noah and Letitia Margaret (Claggett) Johnson, was
born in Hollis, N. H., October 21, 1842, and was fitted by David Crosby for Dart-
mouth, where he graduated in 1864. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and
was admitted to the bar in Boston, May 11, 1866. He is judge of the Police Court of
Marlboro'. He married Belle G. Carleton at Lynn, Mass., June 1, 1870, and lives in
Marlboro'.

Ralph Edgar Joslin, son of James Thomas and Annie C. (Burrage) Joslin, was
born in Marlboro', Mass., August 26, 1864. He fitted at the High and other schools
of Hudson for Tufts College, from which he graduated in 1886. He read law in the
office of James T. Joslin in Hudson and graduated at the Boston University Law
School in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1888. He has been a mem-
ber of the Hudson School Board since 1890, and practices in Boston and Hudson, a
member of the firm of J. T. & R. E. Joslin. He is the author of a historical sketch of
Hudson and other sketches. He married at Hudson, where he lives, February 8,
1892, Fanny Melissa, daughter of George W. and Melissa A. (Metcalf) Davis.

Fred Joy, son of Albion K. P. and Clara A. Joy, was born in Winchester, Mass. ,
July 8, 1859, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law with Henry W.
Paine in Boston and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar July 8, 1884. He resides in Winchester.

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Frank Warton Kaan, son of George and Maria Warton Kaan, was born inMedford,
September 11, 1861, and was educated in the Somerville public schools and at Har-
vard in the class of 1883. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1888, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1887. He lives in Somerville.

Patrick M. Keating was born in Springfield, Mass., March 15, 1860, and was edu-
cated at the Houghton Grammar School and at Springfield High School, and at Har-
vard in the class of 1883. He read law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of
Thomas J. Gargan in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885.

Frank Merriam Keezer, son of David and Henrietta Keezer, was born in Jamaica
Plain, Mass., April 10, 1868, and was educated at the Boston public schools and the
Boston University. He read law with Wilbur H. Powers in Boston and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in January, 1890. He has been assistant clerk of the West Roxbury
Municipal Court and a contributor of legal articles to magazines and the daily jour-
nals. He married in West Roxbury, April 29, 1891, Martha M. Whittemore and lives
in Dorchester.

Edward Francis Johnson, sou of John Johnson, was born in Woburn, October
22, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He studied law at the Harvard Law
School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November 1881. He was the first mayor
of Woburn and is justice of the Fourth Eastern Middlesex District Court. He has pub-
lished a record of Woburn births, deaths and marriages from 1640 to 1872. He mar-
ried, September 26, 1882, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Mary (Tidd)
Simonds, and lives in Woburn.

George Tyler Bigeeow, son of Tyler and Clara, daughter of Colonel Timothy
Bigelow, of Boston, was born in Watertown, October 6, 1810, and was fitted at the
Boston Latin School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1829. After leaving college
he was nearly a year a private tutor in the family of Henry Vernon Somerville at
Bloomsbury, Md. , and then returned to Watertown, where he read law with
his father, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in December, 1833, after a short
further period of study in the office of Charles G. Loring, of Boston. He began prac-
tice in Watertown with his father, and remained there eighteen months, moving to
Boston in June, 1835. In Boston he acquired a fondness for military life, and in May,
1837, became ensign of the New England Guards, and afterwards captain and col-
onel in the Volunteer Militia, which last position he occupied three years. In 1843
he associated himself in business with Manlius S. Clarke, and in 1844 defended Abner
Rogers, indicted for the murder of the warden of the State Prison, and secured his
acquittal on the ground of insanity. He was a member of the Massachusetts House
of Representatives five years and senator in 1847-8. In 1848 he was appointed by
Governor George N. Briggs judge of the Common Pleas Court, and in 1850 judge of
the Supreme Judicial Court. In 1860, on the resignation of Lemuel Shaw, he was
made chief justice by Governor Nathaniel P. Banks, and occupied that position until
his resignation in 1868. After his resignation he was chosen actuary of the Massa-
' chusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, and remained in that office until his
death, April 12, 1878. He married, November 5, 1839, Anna, daughter of Edward
Miller, of Quincy. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1853.

John Chifman Gray, son of William and Elizabeth (Chipman) Gray, was born in
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of LL.D. from his alma mater in 1856. He was admitted in Boston to the Common
Pleas Court July 6, 1815, and to the Supreme Judicial Court in December, 1818. He
was the Phi Beta orator in 1821, the Fourth of July orator in Boston in 1822, a mem-
ber of the Common Council from 1824 to 1828, representative in 1828-30, '34, '38-41,
43-44, '48, '52, a member of the Executive Council in 1832, a member of the Senate in
1835-36, 1845-46, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and an overseer
of Harvard College from 1847 to 1854. He married Elizabeth Pickering, daughter
of Samuel P. and Rebecca Russell (Lowell) Gardner, of Boston, and died in Boston
March 3, 1881.

Henry Morris, son of Oliver Bliss Morris, was born in Springfield, Mass., in 1814,
and graduated at Amherst College in 1832. He was admitted to the bar in 1835, and
after studying with his father settled in Springfield. In 1855 he was appointed
judge of the Common Pleas Court and remained on the bench until the court was
abolished in 1859. He married Mary Wariner May 16, 1837, and died at his 'home in
Springfield June 4, 1888.

Francis Edward Parker, son of Rev. Dr. Nathan Parker, was born in Portsmouth,
N. H. , July 23, 1821, and fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated
at Harvard in 1841 and became usher in Boston Latin School. In 1845 he graduated
at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 13, 1846,
and associated himself with J. Eliot Cabot. He was a member of the Senate in 1865.
He died January. 18, 1886.

Lucius Manlius Sargent, son of Daniel Sargent, was born in Boston June 25,
1786. He fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy and entered Harvard in 1804. He
did not graduate with his class, but received in 1842 the honorary degree of Master of
Arts. He studied law with Samuel Dexter, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
March 14, 1815. He published a volume of verse in 1813, and was the author of a
very interesting series of articles in the Boston Transcript entitled " Dealings with
the dead, by a sexton of the old school." He married, April 3, 1816, Mary, daughter
of Barnabas Binney, of Philadelphia, and for a second wife in 1825 Sarah Cutter,
daughter of Samuel Dunn, of Boston. He died in West Roxbury June 6, 1867.

Henry Winthrop Sargent, son of Henry Sargent, was born in Boston November
26, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He studied law in Boston and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1833. He moved to New York and entered the
banking business, retiring in 1839 to his estates on the Hudson, and dying in Fish-
kill-on-the-Hudson November 10, 1882.

George Dexter, son of Edmund and Mary Ann (Dellinger) Dexter, of Fulton, O.,
was born in Fulton July 18, 1838, and graduated at Harvard in 1858. He graduated
also from the Harvard Law School in 1860, and became a resident graduate at Cam-
bridge. It is not known with certainty whether he became a member of the bar. In
May, 1864, he enlisted as a private in the Twelfth Unattached Regiment, in 1869 Avas
appointed tutor of modern languages at Harvard, and in- 1870 steward of the college,
resigning the next year. He married, September 17, 1868, Lucy Water ston, daughter
of Charles Deane, of Cambridge, and died at Santa Barbara, December 18, 1883.

George Stillman Hillard, son of John and Sarah (Stillman) Hillard, was born in
Machias, Me., September 22, 1808, and received his early education at the Derby Acad-
emy in Hingham, Mass., and the Boston Latin School. He graduated at Harvard in

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1828, and studied law at Northampton and in the Harvard Law School and in the
office of Charles P. Curtis, of Boston. He was admitted to the Common Pleas Court
in April, 1833, and to the Supreme Judicial Court April 3, 1835. He became early in
his career editor of the Christian Register and of the Jurist. In 1835 he was repre-
sentative, in the Common Council in 1845-47, and the last two years its president; a
member of the Senate in 1850, of the Constitutional Convention in 1853 and in that
year appointed city solicitor, which office he held two years; in 1868 he was appointed
United States attorney and served till 1871, when he became the senior member of
the firm of Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson. He was a trustee of the Boston Public Library
from April 11, 1872, to November 23, 1876; the Boston Fourth of July orator in 1835,
and the Phi Beta orator in 1843. He received the degree of LL.D from Trinity Col-
lege in 1857. He married Susan Tracey, daughter of Judge Samuel Howe, of North-
ampton, and died in Brookline January 21, 1879.

James Warren, son of James and Penelope (Winslow) Warren, was born in Plym-
outh September 28,1726. He succeeded Dr. Joseph Warren as president of Provincial
Congress, and was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature in 1776, but
never took his seat. He married in 1754 Mercy, daughter of James Otis, of Barn-
stable, and sister of James Otis the orator. He died in Plymouth November 27, 1808.

Charles Henry Warren, son of Henry and Mary (Winslow) Warren, was born in
Plymouth, September 29, 1798, and fitted for college at the Sandwich Academy, and
graduated at Harvard in 1817. He studied law with Joshua Thomas in Plymouth
and Levi Lincoln, of Worcester, and was admitted to the Plymouth bar. He began
practice in New Bedford with Lemuel Williams, continuing with Thomas Dawes
Elliot, and from 1832 to 1839 was district attorney for the five southern counties of
Massachusetts. In October, 1839, he was appointed judge of the Common Pleas
Court and resigned in 1844, when he moved to Boston and associated himself in the
practice of law with Augustus H. Fiske and Benjamin Rand. He remained in practice
only two years, being engaged during that time in a successful defense of Rev. Joy
. H. Fairchild, indicted and tried for adultery. In 1846 he was chosen president of the
Boston and Providence Railroad, and resigned in 1867. He was a member of the
Senate and its president in 1851, and president of the Pilgrim Society from 1845 to
1852. He married December 27, 1825, Abby, daughter of Barnabas and Eunice
Dennie (Burr) Hedge, of Plymouth, and died in Plymouth, to which place he moved
in July, 1871, on the 29th of June, 1874. The writer of this sketch was informed by
Judge Warren that as a judge he took no notes, and as a lawyer never had a brief,
and that as district attorney he never lost an indictment, and only in two instances
failed to convict. His wonderfully retentive memory enabled him to recall with
verbal accuracy the testimony of witnesses, and to build on it his argument or charge,
with a readiness which repeated references to notes would have only served to check.

John Albion Andrew, son of Jonathan and Nancy Green (Pierce) Andrew, was
born in Windham, Me., May 31, 1818. He received his early education at the Gor-
ham Academy, under Rev. Reuben Nason, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1837: He
studied law in the office of Henry H. Fuller, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar October 26, 1840. He held no office until 1859, when he represented Boston
in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Up to that time he had been devoted
to his business, taking occasional interest in pelitics and closely identified with the

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anti-slavery movement. In 1860 he was chosen governor of Massachusetts, being in-
augurated January 5, 1861, and continuing in office until January 5, 1866, on which
day he delivered a valedictory address to the Legislature. It would be superfluous
to narrate the career of Governor Andrew through the war, as indelibly stamped as
it is on the pages of our history. The magnitude of his labors may be approximately
measured by the fact that, during his administration, he was the author of letters,
which, public and private, fill thirty-five thousand pages. After his retirement from
the State House he was offered the presidency of Antioch College, which he declined.
He married December 25, 1848, Eliza Jane, daughter of Charles Hersey, of Hingham,
and died in Boston, October 30, 1867. His body was deposited in the cemetery in
Hingham.

Nathan Hale, son of Rev. Enoch Hale, a native of Coventry, Conn., and Octavia
Throop, daughter of Benjamin Throop, was born in Westhampton, Mass., August
16, 1784, and was a nephew of Nathan Hale, one of the Revolutionary martyrs. He
was fitted for college by his father and graduated at Williams College in 1804. He
studied law in Troy, N. Y. , and in Boston in the office of Peter Oxenbridge Thacher,
and was admitted in Boston to the Common Pleas Court in July, 1810, and to the Su-
preme Judicial Court in March, 1813. While studying law he was instructor in math-
ematics in Phillips Exeter Academy, from 1805 to 1810. In the early days of his
practice in Boston he was assistant editor of the Weekly Messenger, and in 1814 be-
came the proprietor and editor of the Boston Dozily Adve?-tiser, which was at that
time the only daily paper in Boston. In 1825 he published a map of New England,
in 1828 a pamphlet on the Protection policy, in 1820 was a member of the Constitu-
tional Convention, was the first president of the Western Railroad from Worcester to
Albany, a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Massachusetts His-
tory Society, representative from 1819 to 1822, a senator from 1828 to 1830, and re-
ceived the degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1853. He married, September 16, 1816,
Sarah Prescott, daughter of Rev. Oliver Everett and sister of Alexander Hill, and
Edward Everett. He died in Boston, February 9, 1863.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis, son of Benjamin and Lois (Robbins) Curtis, was born in
Watertown, Mass., November 4, 1809, and attended the school of Samuel Worcester
at Newton, and Mr. Angier's school at Medford, graduating at Harvard in 1829. He
graduated at the Harvard Law School and read law in the offices of John Nevers at
Northfield, and Wells & Alvord at Greenfield, and was admitted to the Franklin county/
bar in 1832. He first settled in Northfield, but moved to Boston in 1834. In 1846 he
was made a Fellow of Harvard, was a representative in 1851, and in the same year was
appointed a judge of the United States Supreme Court, resigning in 1857. In 1871,
with William M. Evarts and Caleb Cushing, he was appointed counsel for the United
States before the Board of Arbitration at Geneva and declined, and in 1873 one of five
commissioners to revise the city charter. In 1868 he was one of the counsel for An-
drew Johnson in his impeachment trial. He received the degree of LL. D. from
Harvard in 1852, and from Brown University in 1857. He married. May 8, 1833,
Eliza M. Woodward, of Hanover, N. H., who died in 1844, and January 5, 1846, Anna
Wroe, daughter of Charles Pelham Curtis, of Boston, and August 29, 1861, Maria
daughter of Jonathan Allen, of Pittsfield. He died September 15, 1874.

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George Bemis, son of Seth and Sarah (Wheeler) Bemis, was born in Watertown,
Mass., October 13, 1816, and fitted for Harvard with Mrs. Samuel Ripley, in Walt-
ham, graduating at Harvard in 1835. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in
1839, and was admitted, to the Suffolk bar in September, 1839. He was associated
with George T. Bigelow in the defense of Abner Rogers, and with Attorney-General
John H. Clifford, for the government, in the trial of John W. Webster. He was the
author of the following pamphlets: " Precedents of American Neutrality," "Hasty
Recognition of Rebel Belligerency and Our Right to Complain of It," "American
Neutrality, its Honorable Past, its Expedient Future," "Mr. Reverdy Johnson,
the Alabama Negotiations and Their Just Repudiation by the Senate of the United
States." He died in Nice, January 5, 1878, and bequeathed $50,000 to Harvard for
the establishment of a professorship of public and international law.

James Savage, son of Habijah Savage and Elizabeth, daughter of John Tudor, was
born in Boston, Jul}' 13, 1784, and fitted for college at Washington Academy, Machias,
Me., and at Derby Academy, Hingham, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1803,
and received a degree of LL. D. from his alma mater in 1841. He studied law in
the office of Isaac Parker in Portland, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in Jan-
uary, 1807, after further study in the offices of Samuel Dexter and William Sullivan
in Boston. He delivered the Boston Fourth of July oration in 1811, the Phi Betaora-
tion in 1812, was a representative in 1812 and 1821, a member of the Constitutional
Convention in 1820, a member of the Massachusetts Senate, and Executive Council,
of the Boston Common Council and Board of Aldermen. He revised the volume of
charters and general laws of the Massachusetts Colony and the Province of Massachu-
setts Bay, was overseer of Harvard from 1838 to 1853, librarian of the Massachusetts
Historical Society from 1814 to 1818, its treasurer from 1820 to 1839, its president from
1841 to 1855, the founder of the Provident Institution for Savings in the town of Bos-
ton in 1817, and its secretary, treasurer, vice-president and president through a period
of forty-five years. He married in April, 1823, Elizabeth Otis, daughter of George
Stillman, of Machias, Me., and widow of James Otis Lincoln, of Hingham, and died
March 8, 1873.

John Lothrop Motley, son of Thomas Motley and Anna, daughter of Rev. John
Lothrop, was born in Dorchester, Mass., April 15, 1814, and attended the Boston
Latin School, Green's School at Jamaica Plain, and the Round Hill School at North-
hampton. He graduated at Harvard in 1831, and afterwards studied at the Univer-
sities of Berlin and Gottingen. In 1839 he published " Morton's Hope;" in 1841 he
was secretary of legation with Mr. Todd, minister to Russia ; in 1845-7-9 he wrote
articles for the North American Review on Russia, on Balzac and on the polity of
the Puritans, and in 1849 published "Merry Mount." The " History of the Rise of
the Dutch Republic" followed, then the "History of the United Netherlands," and
later the "Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland, with a View of
the Primary Causes and Movements of the Thirty Years' War." He was appointed
by President Lincoln minister to Austria in 1861, and in 1869 by President Grant
minister to England. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1860, and
honorary degrees from Cambridge and Oxford and other universities. He married
March 2, 1837, Mary Elizabeth Benjamin, and died near Dorchester, England, May
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Park Benjamin was born in Demerara, August 14, 1809. He entered Harvard,
where he remained two years, and then entered Trinity College, where he graduated
in 1829. He studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1834. In 1837
he removed to New York and devoted his time to literary pursuits. He was at vari-
ous times associated editorially with the New England Magazine, the American
Monthly Magazine, the New Yorker, the Brother Jonathan, the New World,
the Western Continent , and the American Mail. He died in New York, Septem-
ber 12, 1864.

Joel Parker was born in Jaffrey, N. H., January 25, 1795, and graduated at Dart-
mouth in 1811. He was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire in 1815 , and in 1833
was appointed judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire. From 1838 to 1848
he was chief justice, and at a later date was appointed professor in the Harvard Law
School. He resigned in 1868, and died August 17, 1875. He was representative two
years in New Hampshire, and in both that State and Massachusetts was on a com-
mission to revise the statutes. He was professor of medical jurisprudence at Dart-
mouth from 1845 to 1857, and occupied the same position in the Columbia Law School
in Washington. He received the degree of LL.D. from Dartmouth and Harvard
in 1848. He married Mary M. Parker.

Theron Metcalf, son of Hanan and Mary (Allen) Metcalf, was born in Franklin,
Mass., October 16, 1784. He was educated at the public schools and at Brown Uni-
versity, from which he graduated in 1805. He studied law with Mr. Bacon in Can-
terbury, Conn., and at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., then the only law school
in the United States, and established by Tappan Reeve, chief justice of the Supreme
Court of Connecticut. He was admitted to the bar in Connecticut, and after a year's
further study with Seth Hastings, of Mendon, he was admitted to the Norfolk bar in
Dedham by the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in September, 1808, and by the Su-
preme Judicial Court in 1811. After a year's practice in Franklin, Mass., he moved
to Dedham in October, 1809, and on the 5th of November in that year married Julia,
daughter of Uriah Tracey, late United States senator from Connecticut. In April,
1817, he was made county attorney for Norfolk, and held the office twelve years. He
was representative in 1831, '33-4, and senator in 1835. He at one time edited the
Dedham Gazette, and in October, 1828, opened a law school in Dedham, and among
his students were John H. Clifford and Seth Ames. In December, 1839, he was ap-
pointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court, and moved to Bos-
ton. His reports fill thirteen volumes and cover a period from the Suffolk March
term, 1840, to the Essex November term, 1847. He was appointed judge of the Su-
preme Judicial Court, February 25, 1848, and served until 1865, when he resigned.
He received the degree of LL.D. from Brown in 1844, and from Harvard in 1848.
He died in Boston, November 13, 1875.

Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Ingersoll) Bowditch,
was born in Salem, June 17, 1805, and graduated at Harvard in 1822. He read law
in the office of Benjamin R. Nichols, of Salem, and was admitted in Boston to the
Common Pleas Court in 1825, and to the Supreme Judicial Court January 12, 1828,
after a further course of study in the office of William Prescott. After admission he
was for a time associated with Franklin Dexter, but finally made conveyancing a
specialty, and in that department won a notable reputation. He published Suffolk
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Surnames in 1857. He married, in 1835, Elizabeth, daughter of Ebenezer Francis,
and died April 16, 1861.

William Smith Shaw, son of Rev. John and Elizabeth (Smith) Shaw, was born in
Haverhill, August 12, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1798. After leaving col-
lege he was private secretary of John Adams, and afterwards studied law in the office
of William Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1804. He was the
editor of The Monthly Atithology, which was issued from 1803 to 1811. In 1806 he
was appointed clerk of the United States District Court for Massachusetts, and held
the office twelve yeais. He died in Boston unmarried, April 25, 1826.

Bordman Hall, son of Joseph F. and Mary M. Hall, was born in Bangor, Me.,
April 18, 1856, and was educated at Colby University and the Boston University Law
School. He continued his law studies with William H. McLellan, attorney general
of Maine, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 15, 1880. He has been
assistant United States\ attorney, and a member of the Boston School Board.
He has been entrusted with the defense in many important criminal cases and has
always conducted it with ' skill and almost unvaried success. Among these cases
were the United States vs. Edward J. Reed, Commonwealth vs. Bostwick, Common-
wealth vs. Nelson, Commonwealth vs. Wilson, which won for him a substantial repu-
tation. He. lives in East Boston.

Charles F. Hall, son of William M. and Ann Elizabeth Hall, was born in Sebago,
Me., and was educated at Colby University, Waterville, Me. He studied law at the
Boston University Law School and in the office of William Gaston in Boston, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879. He married Ellen C. Burgess
August 12, 1884, and lives in Dorchester.

James Milton Hall, son of James Bartlett and Elvira (Clement) Hall, was born in
Harverhill, Mass., December 29, 1861, and was educated at the public schools and at
Harvard College, where he graduated in 1883. He studied law in the Harvard Law
School and in the office of Prince & Peabody in Boston, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in July, 1886. He lives in Boston.

Abraham S. Cohen, son of Mendell and Pauline Cohen, was born in Liverpool,
England, March 25, 1863, and after attending the Boston University studied law in
the offices of J. W. Pickering, John Herbert and John E. Wetherbee in Boston, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He married Minnie Levi in Boston.

Walter Channing Burbank, son of Robert I. and Elizabeth W. Burbank, was born
in Boston June 9, 1865, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard
College, graduating in 1887. He studied law in the Boston University Law School,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1889. He makes a specialty in his
practice of real estate and probate cases. He married Louise V. Roche in New York
October 23, 1890. ' '

Edward Fuller Hodges, son of Harry and Anne Fuller Hodges, of Clarendon,
Vt., was born January 3, 1816, and graduated at Middlebury College in 1835. He
studied law with Judge Bennett in Vermont and afterwards in Maine, where he was
admitted to the bar. He returned to Vermont in 1845 and practiced laAV in Rutland
until 1846, when he moved to Boston and was there admitted to the Suffolk bar
October 13, 1846. He remained in Boston until 1863, when he opened an office in New

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York city, retaining also his office in Boston. In November, 1866/ he resumed his
Boston practice and was council in many important cases connected with revolver,
telegraph, sewing machine and Goodyear rubber patents, and with the Sudbury
River flowage. He married at Bangor, Me., July 7, 1845, Anne Frances, daughter
of William Hammatt, and died in Boston February 28, 1883.

Henry M. Ayers, son of Charles W. and Amelia B. Ayers, was born in Philadel-
phia April 3, 1864, and graduated at Harvard in 1886. He studied law at the Har-
vard Law School and in Boston in the office of Robert M. Morse, jr. , and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in July, 1888. He has been conspicuously connected with the oppo-
sition to legislation against oleomargarine. He married Mary C. Warren, daughter
of William F. Warren, president of Boston University, September 3, 1890, and lives
at Wilbraham.

Frank Brewster, a descendant of Elder William Brewster and son of Benjamin and
Annie W. Brewster, was born in Montreal, Canada, November 28, 1857, and was edu-
cated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard College, where he graduated in
1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of
William C. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the summer of 1883. He
is an instructor at the Harvard Law School on the peculiarities of Massachusetts Law
and Practice.

Alfred Stevens Hall, son of Edward and Frances A. (Tuttle) Hall, was born in
West Westminster. Vt., April 14, 1850, and -was educated at the Kimball Union
Academy and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1873. He studied law
at the Boston University Law School and in the offices of Cross & Burnham in Man-
chester, N. H., and of T. L. Livermore and Nehemiah C. Berry in Boston, and at
the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 20, 1875.
He has held town offices in Winchester, where he resides, and has been connected
with the Vermont Central Railroad litigation. He married Annette M. Hitchcock
at Putney, Vt., October 18, 1876, who died September 26, 1887.

Edwin B. Hale, son of Aaron and Mary Hale, was born in Orford, N. H., June 16,
1839, and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N. H., and at
Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1865. He attended the Harvard Law *
School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 15, 1875. He was a member
of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1878-9, and was, for a few years,
superintendent of public schools in Cambridge, where he resides. He is not married.

Benjamin A. Lockhart, son of Ephraim and Lucy Lockhart, was born in Horton,
Nova Scotia, and was educated at Acadia College and Dalhousie College, Nova Scotia,
and at the Boston University Law School. He also studied in Boston in the office of
Bennett & Burbank, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1890. He married
Leonora M. Martin, widow of William H. Martin, at Cambridgeport, February 8,
1892, and makes Cambridgeport his home.

William Coddington was born in England in 1601 and came to Massachusetts with
Winthrop in 1630. He was an assistant from 1629 to 1636, and in 1638 went to Rhode
Island, where, in 1640, he was chosen governor. After the incorporation of the
Providence Plantations he was made president in 1648, but did not enter upon his
duties. In 1649 he went to England and secured a commission to govern the islands

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of Rhode Island and Conanicut. He finally united with the Colony and died No-
vember 1, 1678.

Roger Ludlow was born in England. lie was deputy governor in 1634, and as-
sistant from 1629 to 1633. He was a lawyer and in 1635 removed to Connecticut. In
1654 he moved to Virginia and died there not many years after.

Sir Richard Saltonstall, son of Samuel and Anne Ramsden Saltonstall, was bap-
tized at Halifax, England, April 4, 1586, and was lord of the manor at Ledsham.
He married three wives: Grace, daughter of Robert Kaye, of Woodsome; second,
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas West, and third, Martha Wilford. He was one of
the original patentees of the Massachusetts Colony and after his first wife died he
came to New England with Winthrop in 1630, bringing his children. He was an as-
sistant from 1629 to 1633. He began the settlement of Watertown, returned to Eng-
land in 1631 and died about 1658 or 1659, giving in his will a legacy to Harvard
College.

Richard Saltonstall, son of Sir Richard by his first wife, was born at Woodsome,
county of York, England, in 1610, and came to New England with his father in 1630
and returned with him to England in 1631. He married in England about 1633 Mu-
riel, daughter of Brampton and Muriel (Sedley) Gurdon, of Assington, Suffolk, and
again came to New England in 1635 and settled in Ipswich. * He was an assistant
from 1637 to 1649 and again in 1664. He died on a visit to England at Hulme, April
29, 1694.

Nathaniel Saltonstall, son of Richard and Muriel Saltonstall, was born in Ips-
wich in 1639. He was an assistant from 1679 to 1686. He was appointed by Gov-
ernor William Phipps one of the judges of the Oyer and Terminer Court organized
in 1692 to try the witches and reftised to serve. He was named in the Provincial
Charter as one of the Council and continued a member until 1694. He grad-
uated at Harvard in 1659 and settled in Haverhill. In 1702 he was appointed judge
of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Essex county and remained on the bench
until his death, which occurred May 21, 1707. He married Elizabeth, daughter of
Rev. John -Ward, of Haverhill.

Richard Saltonstall, son of Richard and Mehitable (Wainwright) Saltonstall, was
born in Haverhill, June 24, 1703, and graduated at Harvard in 1722. He was a mem-
ber of the Council from 1743 to 1745, and was a judge of the Superior Court of Judica-
ture from December 29, 1736, till his death, October 20, 1756. He had three wives,
the last of whom was Mary, daughter of Elisha Cooke.

Leverett Saltonstall, son of Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall and Anna, his wife, who
was the daughter of Samuel White, of Haverhill, was born in Haverhill, June 13,
1783. He was fitted at Phillips Academy for Harvard, where he graduated in 1802,
receiving from his Alma Mater a degree of LL. D. in 1838, a degree of A. B. from
Yale in 1802, and of A. M. from Bowdoin in 1806. He studied law with Ichabod
Tucker in Haverhill and with William Prescott, and was admitted to the Essex bar
in 1806 and to the Suffolk bar in the same year. He was a member of the Massachu-
setts Senate and its president in 1831, and also a member of the House of Represent-
atives. He was the first Mayor of Salem and in 1838 was chosen member of Congress,
serving until 1843. He was president of the Bible Society, of the Essex Agricultural

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Society, of the Essex Bar Association, a member of the Massachusetts Historical Soci-
ety, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Harvard Board of Over-
seers. He married, March 7, 1811, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Sanders, of
Salem, and died in Salem, May 8, 1845.

Leverett Saltonstall, son of Leverett and Mary Elizabeth (Sanders) Saltonstall,
was born in Salem, March 16, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. In 1847 he
graduated at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, October
28, 1850. In 1854 he was on the staff of Governor Emory Washburn. In 1862 he re-
tired from the law, but continued conspicuous in public affairs. From 1876 to 1889 he
was a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and a portion of the time its presi-
dent. In 1876 he was appointed a commissioner of Massachusetts to the Centennial
Exposition in Philadelphia, and from December, 1885, to February, 1890, he was col-
lector of the port of Boston. He is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society
and has been president of the Unitarian Club. He married in Salem, October 19,
1854, Rose S., datighter of John Clarke and Harriet (Rose) Lee, and has his residence
at Chestnut Hill near Boston.

Richard Middlecott Saltonstall, son of Leverett and Rose (Lee) Saltonstall,
was born at Chestnut Hill near Boston, October 28, 1859. Among his distinguished
ancestors was Elisha Cooke, whose wife, Jane Middlecott, was a great-grand-
daughter of Governor Edward Winslow. She was also great-grand-daughter
of Governor John Leverett. Thus it will be seen from whom his father and
grandfather took their names and from whom he took his middle name. He
graduated at Harvard in 1880 and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the
office of William Caleb Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 23, 1884.
He married at Medford, October 17, 1891, Eleanor, daughter of Peter C. Brooks, and
lives at Chestnut Hill.

Ezra Weston Sampson, son of Sylvanus and Sylvia (Church) Sampson, was born in
Duxbury, December 1, 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. He was admitted to
the Suffolk bar January 29, 1836, and began practice in Braintree. On the death of
Jairus Ware he was appointed clerk of the courts in Norfolk county and served till
his death at Dedham, January 15, 1867. He married, October 8, 1820, Selina Wads-
worth, of Duxbury.

John Henry Take, son of Thomas and Mary F. (Burke) Taff, was born in Boston
August 20, 1857, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard Col-
lege. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles F.
Donnelly in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. He married Sarah
J. Welch in Boston August 20, 1884, and lives in Boston.

Eugene Tappan, son of Daniel Dana and Abigail (Marsh) Tappan, was born in
Marshfield, Mass., July 4, 1840, and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy in
Meriden, N. H., and at Williams College. He read, law with Bacon & Aldrich in
Worcester, and was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1871. He married, Alice R.
Crosby, at Centreville, in Barnstable, Mass. , December 24, 1872, and lives in Win-
chester.

John Henry Taylor, son of Hugh and Mary J. Taylor, was born in Boston
October 13, 1853, and was educated in the public schools. He read law with Causten

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Browne and Jabez S. Holmes in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 6,
1875. He has been commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company,
and examiner in equity for the United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts District.
He married, Annie B. Middleby in Boston, September 1, 1874, and lives in Chelsea.
John Oscar Teele, son of Samuel and Ellen Chase Teele, was born in Wilmot,
N. H., July 18, 1839, and was educated at the New Hampton and New London
Academies, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1878, receiving a degree later in conse-
quence of his being in New Orleans when the war broke out. He studied law with
George W. Nesmith, Austin F. Pike and Daniel Barnard in Franklin, N. H., and in
New Orleans in 1861-2. He was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire in 1863, and
in Massachusetts in the same year, and was a member of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives in 1886-7. He married, February 28, 1868, atWaltham, Mass., Mary
P. Smith, and lives in Boston.

George Thacher, son of Peter, was born in Yarmouth, Mass., April 12, 1754, and
graduated at Harvard in 1776. He studied law with Shearjastmb Bourne in Barn-
stable, was admitted to the bar in 1778, and began practice in York, Me. In 1782 he
moved to Biddeford. He was a member of Congress from 1788 to 1801, and a district
judge in Maine. He was appointed in 1801 judge of the Supreme Judicial Court and
continued on the bench until January, 1824, when he resigned. He was a member of
the convention in 1819 which framed the constitution of Maine. He married
Mary, daughter of Samuel Phillips Savage, of Weston, Mass., and died in Biddeford
Me., April 6, 1824.

Joseph Stevens Buckminster Thacher, son of Peter Oxenbridge and ^Charlotte I.
(McDonough) Thacher, was born in Boston May 11, 1812, and graduated at Harvard
in 1832. He attended the Harvard Law School and began practice in Boston. In
1830 he moved to Natchez and became judge of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, hold-
ing the office until his death at Natchez November 30, 1867,

Oxenbridge Thacher, son of Oxenbridge Thacher, was born in Milton in 1720, and
graduated in Harvard in 1738. He first studied divinity and afterwards law, and
became a leading lawyer of his town. He was a representative from 1763 to his
death, which took place in Boston July 8, 1765.

Sylvanus M. Thomas, son of Sylvanus and Agnes Jackson Thomas, was born in
New Bedford, March 23, 1850, and graduated at Brown University, 1871. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Jewell, Gaston & Field in Boston,
and was admitted to the bar in Taunton in January, 1874, where he has been city
solicitor three years. He married at Taunton, where he lives, Emily Hayman,
November 18, 1891.

Samuel Thatcher was born in Boston July 1, 1776, and graduated at Harvard in
1793. He was admitted to the bar before the close of the last century, and Avas a
member of Congress from 1803 to 1805. He was many years a representative and
overseer at Harvard. He died in Boston July 18, 1872.

Benjamin Bussey Thatcher, son of Samuel, was born in Warren, Me., October 8,
1809, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1826. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831,
but devoted himself chiefly to literature. He published, besides fugitive poems and
articles in the magazines, a " Biography of North American Indians," "Memoirs of

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Phillis Wheatley," "Memoir of S. Osgood Wright," "Tales of the American Revolu-
tion," etc. He died in Boston July 14. 1840.

Charles Sedgwick Rackekman, son of Frederick W. and Elizabeth D. Rackerman,
was born in Lenox, Mass., June 21, 1857, and was educated at the Lenox High
School, the Cambridge High School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He studied law with Francis V. Balch in Boston, at the Harvard Law School and
the Boston Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1881. He is a vice-
president of the Conveyancer's Title Insurance Company and a director in the Water
Company of Milton, where he lives. Mr. Rackerman is grandson of Charles Sedg-
wick, the clerk of the courts in Berkshire county for thirty years, and great-grandson
of Theodore Sedgwick, a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court and speaker of the
National House of Representatives.

Felix Rackerman, son of Frederick W. and Elizabeth D. Rackerman, was born in
Lenox, Mass., June 17, 1861, and was educated at Cornell University in the class of
1882. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Robert T.
Lincoln in Chicago and Francis V. Balch in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in
Chicago in 1885 and in Boston in 1886. He married Julia, daughter of Dr. Francis
Minot, of Boston, in 1886, and lives in Milton.

Thomas F. Reddy, son of Thomas and Catherine Reddy, was born in Boston Feb-
ruary 22, 1865, and was educated at the Boston University. He read law in Boston
in the office of F. V. Balch and at the Boston University Law School, from which he
graduated in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1887. In prac-
tice he makes a specialty of probate cases and conveyancing. He has been a writer
for the American Law Review, and some of his articles have, by their thorough-
ness and comprehensiveness, commended themselves to the profession. He lives in
Boston.

Charles Montgomery Reed, son of Charles and Sophia Williams Reed, was born

•in Brookline, Mass., March 11, 1846, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1867. He read

law with Latham & Kingman in Bridge water and at the Harvard Law School, from

which he graduated in 1870. He was admitted to the bar at Plymouth in October,

1869. He married Maria Ames Carlisle, July 3, 1878, at Boston, where he lives.

George Hammon Reed, son of Hammon and Sylvia J. Reed, was born in Lexing-
ton, Mass., January 81, 1858, and was educated in the public schools. He studied law
in the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles Robinson in Boston, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1880. He has served on the School Committee
in Lexington, where he lives. He married S. Augusta Adams at Lexington, Novem-
ber 5, 1884.

John P. J. Ward was born in Boston, August 5, 1857, and educated at the May-
hew and English High School. He studied law at the Boston University Law School
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1878. He was a member of the Boston
Common Council in 1879.

J. Otis Wardwell, son of Zenas C. and Adriana S. (Pillsbury) Wardwell, was
born in Lowell, March 14, 1857, and was educated at the Georgetown High School,
New London Institution, and the Boston University. He studied law with J. P. and
B. B. Jones in Haverhill, and with Samuel J. Elder in Boston, and was admitted to

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the Essex bar in September, 1879. He has been a member of the Haverhill Council
and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1887 to '91 inclu-
sive. He was married in Bristol, Vt., December 24, 1887, and lives in Haverhill.

Henry Wardwei.l, son of Moses and Amy Swasey (Farley) Wardwell, was born in
Ipswich, Mass., April 28, 1840, and was educated at the Peabody public schools and
at Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 18G6. He studied law in Boston
with Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
August 1, 1870. He has been in the Salem Council and Board of Aldermen, and was
a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1879 and '81. <He mar-
ried Sarah Osborne Fitch at Peabody, October 6, 1875, and lives in Salem.

George Langdon Shorey, son of John L. and Sarah B. Shorey, was born in Lynn,
Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He studied law in Boston with Augustine
Jones, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June 1875. He married Mary F.
Alley, June 15, 1875, and lives in Lynn. He was counsel in the somewhat notable
case of Chester Snow, of Harwich, vs. John B. Alley, in which there were six trials
— two disagreements, three verdicts for about one hundred thousand dollars each,
and a final verdict for $58,000. There were in the case one reversal by the Su-
preme Court and two settings aside by the judge of the Superior Court. In the first
three trials Mr. Shorey was alone, and in the last three junior with Colonel Ingersoll
as senior counsel.

Frank Howard Shorey, son of John and Cornelia (Guild) Shorey, was born in
Boston, November 2, 1837, and fitted at the High School in Dedham for Dartmouth
College, where he remained two years, and finally graduated at Harvard in 1858. He
studied law in Boston with Thomas Lafayette Wakefield, and was admitted to the
bar in Boston, June 20, 1859. He died at Dedham, January 24, 1862.

Roscoe Henry Thompson, son of Oakes and Livinia (Banks) Thompson, was born
in Hartford, Me., May 1, 1836, and was educated at the Hebron Academy and the
Wesleyan Seminary. He studied law with Elbridge G. Harlow, of Canton, Me., and
A. P. Gould, of Thomaston, Me., and was admitted to the bar of Paris, Me., and to
the Suffolk bar, December 9, 1871. He was postmaster of Canton, Me., under the
the administration of Buchanan, town clerk and treasurer three years, and first
special justice of the Municipal Court of the East Boston District ten years. He mar-
ried Helen Crafts at Craftsmont Farm, Jay, Me., June 27, 1872. He has a residence
in New York city and in Jay, Me.

Samuel Lothrop Thorndike, son of Albert and Joanna (Batchelder) Thorndike,
was born in Beverly, Mass., December 28, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1852.
He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Sidney
Bartlett, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 11, 1855, and to the United
States Supreme Court in 1867. He was register of bankruptcy under the law of
1867, and is a director in various railroad and manufacturing companies. He mar-
ried Anna Lamb, daughter of Judge Daniel Wells, and lives in Cambridge.

Charles Copeland Nutter, son of Ichabod and Sarah (Copeland) Nutter, was
born in Hallowell, Me., January 12, 1820, and fitted at the Hallowell Academy for
Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1839, at the head of his class. He studied
law at Hallowell in the office of Henry W. Paine, and in Boston in the offices of

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Sprague & Gray and of Sidney Bartlett, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July,
1841. He .practiced some years as partner with William Hilliard, under the firm
name of Hilliard & Nutter, and subsequently, from 1848 to 1871, with his brother,
Thomas P. Nutter, under the style of C. C. & T. F. Nutter. He was commissioned
as master in chancery by Governor John H. Clifford, and held a commission by re-
newals until he retired from practice on account of ill health in 1871. He died in
Boston in 1884.

Daniel J. Shea was born in Boston, March 31, 1857. He was educated at the
Brimmer School, the English High School, the Latin School and the Harvard Law
School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and died September 3, 1888.

R. W. Shea was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 14, 1851, and came with his
parents an infant to Boston, where he was educated in the public schools. He gradu-
ated at the Boston University Law School in 1877, and was admitted to the Norfolk
bar in 1880. He was subsequently admitted to the bar in Chicago.

Joseph Gilbert Thorp, son of Joseph Gilbert and Susan A. Thorp, was born in
Oxford, Chenango county, N. Y., August 17, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1879.
He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Shattuck & Munroe in
Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1882. He married Annie A.
Longfellow, at Cambridge, October 14, 1885, and lives in Cambridge.

Charles Gideon Davis, son of "William and Joanna (White) Davis, was born in
Plymouth, May 30, 1820. He was educated in his youth in the public schools of Plym-
outh, at the private school of Samuel Willard, in Hingham, and under the direction
of John A. Shaw of Bridgewater. He graduated at Harvard in 1840, and studied law
at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Jacob H. Loud in Plymouth, and Hub-
bard & Watts in Boston, and was admitted to the bar at Plymouth in August, 1843.
He opened an office in Boston and practiced alone until January 1844, when he be-
came associated with William H. Whitman, late clerk of the courts of Plymouth
county, and later with Seth Webb and George P. Sanger. In 1846 he identified him-
self with the anti-slavery movement and aided in the election of Charles Sumner to
Congress, and in the campaign of 1848 against the election of General Taylor to the
presidency and in favor of Van Buren and Adams, whose nomination for president
and vice-president he assisted as a delegate to the Buffalo convention in securing. In
1851 he was tried before Benjamin F. Hallet, United States commissioner, for assist-
ing in the rescue of Shadrack, a fugitive slave, from the hands of the officers in the
court-house in Boston. He v'as acquitted of the charge, but never denied that he
rendered the assistance for which he was arrested. He was one of the organizers of
the Free Soil party and later of the Republican party, and was a delegate to the na-
tional convention in Philadelphia in 1856 which put John C. Fremont in nomination.
During the Know-Nothing years 1854-5 he was chairman of the Republican State com-
mittee. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1853 from Plymouth,
to which place he moved in 1852, and in 1862 a member of the Massachusetts House
of Representatives from that town, a trustee of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col-
lege many years, president of the Plymouth County Agricultural Society, and assessor
of internal revenue from 1862 to 1869. In 1872, having abandoned the Republi-
can party, he was a delegate to the Cincinnati convention, which nominated Horace
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Greeley for the presidency, and has been a Democratic candidate for Congress. In
1874 he was appointed by Governor Talbot judge of the Third District Court of
of Plymouth county, and still holds that position. He married in Plymouth, where
he now resides, November 19, 1845, Hannah Stevenson, daughter of John B. and
Mary (Howland) Thomas.

Daniel Davis, son of Daniel, was born in Barnstable, May 8, 1762. He studied law
in Barnstable with Shearjashub Bourne, and was admitted to the bar in 1782. Im-
mediately after admission he settled in Falmouth, now Portland, and was one of the
five lawyers at that time practicing in the whole District of Maine. The other four
were George Thacher, Roland Cushing, Timothy Langdon, and William Lithgow.
He was six years in the House, six years in the Senate. From 1796 to 1801 he was
United States attorney for Maine, and in 1800 was appointed by Governor Strong
solicitor general, and held that office until 1832, when the office was abolished. In
1804 he removed to Boston, and after his retirement he became a resident in Cam-
bridge, where he died October 27, 1835. He married in 1786 Louisa, daughter of Rev.
James Freeman, D.D., of King's Chapel, Boston. He received an honorary degree of
Master of Arts from Harvard in 1797, and was for a time president of the Board of
Overseers of Bowdoin College.

Josiah S. Dean, son of Benjamin and Mary A. Dean, was born in Boston, May 11,
1860, and was educated in the public schools. He studied law at the Boston Uni-
versity Law School, the Harvard Law School, and in the offices of his father, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1885. He was a member of the Boston Com-
mon Council in 1891-2, and he was associated with L. S. Dabney as attorney for the
South Boston Railroad, and with the late Judge Abbott in the overissued stock cases
of the same road. He married at Bradford, England, August 2, 1888, May Lilian,
daughter of Prof. Walter Smith, and lives in Boston.

Alexander Fairfield Wadsworth, son of Alexander and Mary E. H. Wadsworth,
was born in Boston, January 28, 1840, and graduated at Harvard in 1860. He studied
law in the offices of John J. Clarke, Lemuel Shaw, jr., and William I. Bowditch in
Boston, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863. He was admitted to the
Suffolk bar November 21, 1863, and was a common councilman in 1875. He married
Lucy Goodwin in 1876 in Boston, where he lives.

William Cushing Wait, son of Elijah Smith and Eliza Ann (Hadley) Wait, was
born in Charlestown, Mass., December 18, 1860, and fitted at the Medford High School
for Harvard, where he graduated in 1882. He graduated at the Harvard Law School
in 1885, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1885, and to the United States
Circuit Court May 15, 1888. He has contributed to the Encyclopedia of Law articles
on "Representations as to Character, etc.," "Statute of Frauds," "Jettison," and
" Marine Insurance." He married Edith Foote Wright, January 1, 1889, at Medford,
where he lives.

John F. Wakefield, son of John H. and Minerva M. Wakefield, was born in Tay-
lorsville, Penn., May 9, 1852, and was educated at the New London Institution in
New Hampshire, the Franklin Academy, and the Maiden High School. He studied
law at the Boston University Law School, and in Boston in the office of John C.
Crowley, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 5, 1875. He has made a specialty

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of marriage and divorce laws in Massachusetts. He married Laura A. Seaward in
Chelsea December 14, 1876, and lives in Boston.

Jonathan Fay Barrett, son of Joseph and Sophia (Fay) Barrett, was born in Con-
cord, Mass., January 28, 1817. He entered Harvard in 1834, and leaving college in
the autumn of 1835, began to study law in the office of Jonathan Chapman and Rich-
ard Sullivan Fay in Boston, and finished his studies at the Harvard Law School. He
was admitted to the bar in July, 1838, and practiced in Boston until his death, which
occurred suddenly while in his office January 23, 1885. He married Lydia Ann Lor-
ing, April 27, 1848, and he always retained his residence in Concord.

Lewis S. Dabnev, son of Frederick and Roxana (Stackpole) Dabney, was born in
Fayal, December 21, 1840, and graduated at Harvard in 1861. His father was vice-
consul at Fayal and died there in 1857. He studied law with Horace Gray and Chas.
F. Blake, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 10, 1863. He served in the
war of 1861 in the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, from November 1862 to January
1865, and was mustered out as captain. Beginning practice in 1865 he was Assistant
district attorney with Richard H. Dana, jr., in -1866, He married, April 22, 1867,
Clara, daughter of George T. Bigelow.

Timothy J. Dacey was born in Boston, October 11, 1849, and was educated at the
Eliot Grammar School, the English High School, and at the College of the Holy
Cross in Worcester. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted
to the bar in Boston, June 28, 1871. He was a member of the Boston Common Coun-
cil in 1872-3, representative in 1874, a senator in 1875-6, a member of the Board of
Trustees of the City Hospital, a delegate to the national Democratic convention at
St. Louis in 1876, a member of the Boston School Board in 1880-1-3-5-6-7, and
three years president of the Board. In Januarj', 1877, he was appointed assistant
district attorney for Suffolk. He died December 15, 1887.

. Frank Elliot Dickerman, son of Quincy E. and Rebecca M. Dickermau, was born
in Charlestown, Mass., January 9, 1864, and graduated at Harvard in 1886. He
studied law in the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Richardson &
Hale, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. In Somerville, where he lives, he
has been president of the Common Council, and a member of the School Board. He
married- Minnie L. Despeaux at Somerville November 11, 1891.

Albert Dickerman, son of Wyat and Lois Dickerman, was born in Stoughton,
Mass., February 21, 1831, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Brown
University. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office
of Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1854. He has
been a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He married Mary
Aborn Smith, May 31, 1864, in Boston, where he lives.

Henry Sweetser Dewey, son of Israel Otis and Susan Augusta (Sweetser) Dewey,
was born in Hanover, N. H., November 9, 1856, and graduated at Dartmouth College
in 1878. He studied law in the Boston University Law School, from which he grad-
uated in 1882, and in Boston in the office of Ambrose A. Ranney, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in June, 1882. He was a member of the Boston Common Council
from 1885 to 1887, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1889
to 1891, member of the First Corps of Cadets from 1880 to 1889, and was commis-

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sioned judge advocate on the staff of the First Massachusetts Brigade with the rank
of captain, February 26, 1889. He lives in the Roxbury District of Boston.

John James Deverkux, son of James and Sarah (Crowninshield) Devereux, was born
in Salem, June 12, 179G. His father was a native of Waterford, Ireland, where he
was born in May, 1766, and coming to New England married, September 12, 1792,
Sarah, daughter of John and Mary (Ives) Crowninshield. John James was educated
at the private school of Robert Rogers in Salem and at the Branch School established
by an association of gentlemen under the direction of Benjamin Tappan. He grad-
uated at Harvard in 1816 and engaged in commercial pursuits until 1829, when he
studied law with David Cummins, of Salem, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
October, 1831. After a few years practice in Boston he moved to New York and after
three years residence there moved to Philadelphia, where he lived until his death,
which occurred in Salem, March 16, 1856.

Henry Gardner Denny, son of Daniel and Harriet Joanna (Gardner) Denny, was
born in Boston, June 12, 1833, and was educated at the Chauncy Hall School and at
Harvard College, where he graduated in 1852. He studied law at the Harvard Law
School and in Boston in the offices of Francis O. Watts and Owen G. Peabody, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 4, 1856. He has been a useful and trusted citizen
in many ways, having served as treasurer of the Ph. B. K. Society (Alpha of Massa-
chusetts) twenty-three years, treasurer of the Society for Promoting Theological Ed-
ucation thirteen years, treasui-er of the Home for Aged Women eleven years, chair-
man of the Dorchester School Board, auditor of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, member and cabinet-keeper of the Massachusetts Historical Society, mem-
ber of the committee to examine the Harvard College Library thirty j^ears, member
of the committee on rhetoric, logic and grammar at Harvard ten years, trustee of
the Dorchester Atheneum, treasurer of the Harvard Musical Association and director
of other institutions and societies. He lives in Boston unmarried.

Sidney Bartlett, son of Dr. Zaccheus and Hannah (Jackson) Bartlett, was born in
Plymouth, Mass., February 13, 1799. He was descended from Robert Bartlett, who
came to Plymouth in the ship Ann in 1623 and who manried in 1628, Mary, daughter
of Richard Warren, one of the Mayflower passengers. He was educated at the pub-
lic schools in Plymouth and graduated at Harvard in 1818. After leaving college he
taught school in Scituate a short time and spent a year in Plymouth reading law in
the office of Nathaniel Morton Davis. During that year he was a private in the
Standish Guards, a military company organized in 1818. In 1820 he entered the office
of Lemuel Shaw, late chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and was admitted
in Boston, October 2, 1821, to practice in the Common Pleas Court, and in March,
1824, to practice in the Supreme Court. He was associated as partner with Mr. Shaw,
his instructor, until the appointment of Mr. Shaw to the Supreme Bench in 1830. He
advanced steadily, but surely, in his profession until he was recognized as the leader of
the Massachusetts bar. He was never a ready and eloquent pleader before a jury, but
the sphere in which he excelled was that of a shrewd, wise legal adviser, the results of
whose study no man would dare to question and whose arguments before the courts
were instructive to even the judges to whom they were addressed. His reputation
was by no means confined within the limits of his own State, and in the judgment of
the United States Supreme Court, it has been said, that no abler or more thorough

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or convincing presentation of legal principles and their application to the cases at bar
has been made in his time than by him. He never sought nor would he accept office
whose duties would call him from the profession to which he was wedded. Though
importuned to accept appointments to the bench he always refused them, and it is not
too much to say that for many years the highest judicial positions in the land were
within his reach. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
in 1851 and a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1853, but with these ex-
ceptions he scrupulously avoided what maybe called public life. He married in Bos-
ton, October 8, 1828, Caroline, daughter of John and Mary (Tewksbury) Pratt, and
from the time of his admission to the bar always lived in Boston, where he died
March 6, 1889.

Joseph Bartlett, son of Sylvanus and Martha (Wait) Bartlett, was born in Plym-
outh, Mass., in 1761, and graduated at Harvard in 1782. He studied law in Salem
and was a member of the Suffolk bar. He went to England and appeared on the
stage in Edinburgh as "Maitland," returned to America and became a merchant in
Boston and was a captain in Shays's Rebellion. He afterwards practiced in Woburn,
and in 1799 delivered a poem before the Phi Beta called "Physiognomy." He pub-
lished a book of Aphorisms in 1823, and in the same year he delivered the Fourth of
July oration in Boston. Shortly after he published a poem entitled, "The New Vicar
of Bray." He went to Maine, where he was a representative and edited at Saco the
Freeman s Friend. He also delivered a Fourth of July oration in Biddeford and
practiced law in Portsmouth among other places. He married in Plymouth, Anna
May, daughter of Thomas and Ann (May) Wetherell, and died in Boston, October
20, 1827.

Grafton St. Loe Abbott, son of Josiah G. and Caroline (Livermore) Abbott, was
born in Lowell, Mass., November 14, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He
studied law with his father in Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1879.
He married Mary Adams at Quincy, Mass., September 29, 1890, and now resides at
Lewiston, Me.

Franklin Pierce Abbott, son of Josiah G. and Caroline (Livermore) Abbott, was
born in Lowell, Mass., May. 6, 1852, and was educated at St. Mark's School. He
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1876 and was admitted to the bar in New
York in 1878 and in Boston in 1885. Aside from his practice he is engaged in literary
pursuits. He lives at Wellesley Hills, Mass.

Charles Allen, son of Sylvester and Harriet (Ripley) Allen, was born in Green-
field, Mass. , April 27, 1827, and graduated at Harvard in 1847. He read law in Green-
field in the office of George T. Davis and Charles Devens and at the Harvard Law
School, and was admitted to the bar at Northampton, September 30, 1850. He re-
mained in Greenfield in the practice of law until 1862, when, having been appointed
reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court, he moved to Boston. He
held the office of reporter until 1867, and his reports are contained in fourteen volumes,
covering a period from the Suffolk January term of 1861 to the Suffolk January term
of 1867. From 1867 to 1872 he was attorney-general of the Commonwealth. In 1880
he was appointed one of the commissioners to revise the statutes of the Common-
wealth, and in 1882 was appointed by Governor Long judge of the Supreme Judicial
Court, which position he still holds. His residence is in Boston.

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Charles Allen, son of Joseph Allen, was born in Worcester, August 9, 1797. He
entered Yale College in 1811, after a course of study at Leicester Academy, and re-
mained one year. He then entered the office of Samuel M. Burnside and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1818. He practiced in New Braintree six years and in
1829 he returned to Worcester and became a partner with John Davis. He was a
member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1829-34-36-40, and in the
Senate in 1835-38-39, and in 1842 he was a member of the Northeastern Boundary
Commission. In 1842 he was appointed judge of the Common Pleas Court and re-
signed in 1844, and was a member of Congress from 1844 to 1853. In 1858, on the
resignation of Chief Justice Nelson of the Superior Court of Suffolk county, he was
appointed in his place. The court was abolished in 1859 by the Act establishing
the Superior Court and he was appointed in that year chief justice of the new court.
He resigned his seat in 1867 and died in Worcester, August 6, 1869.

George B. Bigelow, son of Samuel and Anna J. (Brooks) Bigelow, was born in
Boston, April 25, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and in Charlestown in the office of James Dana and Moses Gill
Cobb and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, December 31, 1859.

John Prescott Bigelow, son of Timothy and Lucy (Prescott) Bigelow, was born
in Groton, Mass., August 25, 1797, and was fitted at the Lawrence Academy in Gro-
ton for Harvard, where he graduated in 1815. He studied law with Luther Lawrence and
his father in Groton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1818. He was a mem-
ber of the Boston Common Council from 1827 to '32, and two years its president, and
in 1829-33, '35, a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. In 1836
he was chosen secretary of State, and served eight years, and was a member of the
Executive Council from 1845 to '49. In 1848-50 he was chosen mayor of Boston, and
made the first gift in money to the Boston Public Library, of which he was a trustee.
While mayor he exhibited great efficiency and heroism during the cholera season of
1849. He married, March 8, 1824, Louisa Anne, daughter of David L. Brown, an
English gentleman, and died in Boston, July 4, 1872.

Melville Madison Bigelow, son of Rev. William E. and Daphne F. Bigelow, was
born near Eaton Rapids, Mich., August 2, 1846, and wras educated at the University
of Michigan. He studied law in Michigan and Tennessee, and was admitted to the
bar at Memphis in March, 1868, and later in Massachusetts. He has published several
works on legal subjects, among which are "Law of Estoppel," "Law of Torts,"
" Law of Fraud," etc. He married in Cambridge two wives, one in 1869 and one
in 1881, and lives in that city.

Timothy Bigelow, son of Timothy and Anna (Andrews) Bigelow, was born in
Worcester, April 30, 1767, and fitted for college under Benjamin Lincoln and Samuel
Dexter. He graduated at Harvard in 1786, and studied law with Levi Lincoln.
After admission to the bar he began practice in Groton and moved to Medford. He
was a representative thirteen years from Groton and twelve years from- Medford,
and speaker of the House thirteen years. He was a delegate to the Hartford con-
vention in 1814, a member of the Executive Council, and delivered the Phi Beta ora-
tion in 1796. He married, September 3, 1791, Lucy, daughter of Doctor Oliver and
Lydia (Baldwin) Prescott, and died May 18, 1821.

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Tyler Bigelow, son of David and Deborah (Heywood) Bigelow, was born in Wor-
cester, August 13, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1801. He studied law with
Timothy Bigelow in Groton, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1804.
He began practice in Leominster, but removed to Watertown in 1805. He married,
November 26, 1806, Clara, daughter of Timothy Bigelow, of Worcester, who died
March 13, 1846. He married second, December 15, 1847, Harriet L. Whitney,
daughter of Abraham Lincoln, of Worcester, who died June 20, 1853. He died at
Watertown, May 23, 1865, leaving a legacy of $10,000 to Harvard College for the
benefit of indigent and meritorious students.

Wilmon W. Blackmar, son of Joseph and Eliza J. (Phi]brick) Blackmar, was born
in Bristol, Penn., July 25, 1841, and was preparing for college at Exeter, N. H.,
when he enlisted in the army. He had previously attended the Brimmer School in
Boston and the Bridgewater Normal School. He enlisted as private in the Fifteenth
' Pennsylvania Cavalry and became orderly sergeant and lieutenant, and was trans-
ferred to the First West Virginia Veteran Cavalry. He then became captain,
was detailed as adjutant-general of his brigade, and fought at Antietam, Stone
River, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga. He served through the whole war. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July,
1867. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1872 and was judge ad-
vocate general of Massachusetts twelve years. He married in Boston, November 17,
1880, Helen R. Brewer, and lives in Boston.

Stephen G. Nash, son of John and Abigail Ladd (Gordon) Nash, was born in New
Hampton, N. H., April 4, 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1842. He
studied law with George W. Nesmith in Franklin, N. H., and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar April 16, 1846. He has been a representative from Boston, and from 1855
to 1859 was a judge on the bench of the Superior Court of Suffolk county. He mar-
ried Mary Upton at Wakefield in 1866, and lives in Lynnfield.

HeN|RY F. Naphen, son of John and Jane (Henry) Naphen, was born in Ireland,
August 14, 1852 and came an infant with his parents to Lowell. He was educated
at the public schools and took a course at Harvard as resident bachelor. He studied
law at the Harvard and Boston University Law Schools, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in November, 1879, after a further course of study in the office of Bur-
bank & Lund in Boston. He has been a member of the State Senate and the Boston
School Committee, and a member of the Democratic State Committee. He married
Margaret A. Drummey, daughter of Patrick Drummey, and lives in South Boston.

John Breed Newhall, son of Charles and Hester C. (Moulton) Newhall, was born
in Lynn, Mass., October 1, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He studied law
at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Simmons & Pratt in Abington, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He has been president of the Common
Council of Lynn, where he resides, and secretary of the Lynn Board of Trade.

Henry Newman, son of Henry and Deborah (Cushing) Newman, was born in Bos-
ton, May 16, 1783. His father was a merchant and his mother a daughter of Lieu-
tenant-Governor Thomas Cushing. He studied law with Thomas Dawes and Will-
iam Prescott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1810. He gave up practice and
moved to Washington, but died in Boston, July 28, 1861,

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Frank N. Nay was born in Boston April 30, 1866, and fitted at the Roxbury Latin
School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1887. He studied law at the Boston
University Law School and in the office of E. H. Bennett in Boston, and was admit-
ted to the Suffolk bar in 1890. He lives in Boston.

William Hilliard, son of William and Sarah Lovering Hilliard, was born in Cam-
bridge, Mass., October 15, 1803, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in 1824 and practiced in Boston. He married Elizabeth Newhall
of Boston, and died there September 8, 1869.

Thomas Leverett Nelson, son of John and Lois B. (Leverett) Nelson, was born in
Haverhill, Mass., March 4, 1827. He was educated at Dartmouth College and at the
University of Vermont. He studied law with Charles E. Thompson, of Haverhill,
and Francis H. Dewey, of Worcester, and was admitted to the bar in Worcester in
1855. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1869,
and in 1879 was appointed judge of the United States Court for Massachusetts District.
He was city solicitor of Worcester from 1870 to 1874. He married, October 29, 1857,
Anna H. Hayward at Mendon, Mass., and March 23, 1865, Louisa A. Small at Mill-
bury, Mass. His home is in Worcester.

Albert Hobart Nelson, son of Dr. John and Lucinda (Parkhurst) Nelson, was
born in Milford, Mass., March 12, 1812. He fitted for college at the Concord Acad-
emy and graduated at Harvard in 1832. He studied law with Samuel Hoar, of Con-
cord, and at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1837. He began
practice in Concord, but in 1842 moved to Woburn and opened an office in Boston.
In 1846 he was appointed district attorney for the Middlesex and Essex District, and
in 1855 he was a member of the Executive Council. He was in the Senate in 1848-9.
In 1855 he was appointed chief justice of the Superior Court of the county of Suffolk,
which was established in that year, and resigned on account of ill health in 1858. He
married, in September, 1840, Elizabeth B. , daughter of Elias Phinney, of Lexington,
Mass., and died at the McLean Asylum June 27, 1858.

Isaac Johnson was born in Clipsham, England, and came to Massachusetts with
Winthrop in 1630. He was an assistant in 1630, and died in Boston September 30
in that year. He married, Arbella, daughter of Thomas, Fourteenth Earl of Lincoln,
who came with her husband, and died in Salem, Mass., August 30, 1630.

Thomas Sharp came over in 1630, and was an assistant in that year.

William Vassel was an assistant in 1630.

Edward Rossiter was an assistant in 1630.

John Humphrey was born in Dorchester, England, and was one of the original
associates of the Massachusetts Company. He was chosen the first deputy governor
in England in 1629, and was an assistant from 1632 to 1641. He married Susan,
daughter of the Earl of Lincoln, and returning with his wife to England died there
October 21, 1641.

Richard Dummer was an assistant in 1635 to 1636.

Atherton Hough was an assistant in 1635.

Roger Harlakenden, was an assistant from 1635 to 1638.

Israel Stoughton was an early settler in Dorchester, and a member of the General
Court from 1635 to 1637, He was captain of the Artillery Company in 1642, and an

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assistant from 1637 to 1643. He died at Lincoln, England, in 1645, giving three
hundred acres of land to Harvard College.

Thomas Flint was an assistant from 1642 to 1651, and again in 1653.
Samuel Symonds was an assistant from 1643 to 1673.
William Hibbens was an assistant from 1643 to 1654.

Herbert Pelham was a grandson of Edward Pelham, of Hastings, England, who
was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer of Ireland, and who died in 1606. Herbert,
of Michelham Priory, son of Edward, was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1588. Herbert,
the son of Herbert, and the subject of this sketch, was born in 1601, and graduated
at Oxford in 1619. He came to Massachusetts in 1638, and was the first treasurer of
Harvard College. He was an assistant from 1645 to 1649, when he returned to
England and died in 1673. His widow, Elizabeth, who had been his second wife, was
the widow of Roger Harlakenden, already referred to.

Francis Willoughby was deputy governor from 1665 to 1670, and an assistant in
1650-51 and 1664.

Edward Gibbons came very earl)'- to Massachusetts, and was a representative from
1638 to 1647, an assistant in 1650-51, and captain of the Artillery Company. He
died in Boston December 9, 1654.

Thomas Wiggin was an assistant from 1650 to 1664.
John Glover was an assistant in 1650 and 1653.

Daniel Gookin came to Massachusetts in 1644, having lived many years in Virginia.
He settled in Cambridge, and was a representative from that town in the House of
Deputies, of which he was speaker in 1651. He was an assistant from 1652 to 1686,
and in 1681 he was made major-general of the colony. He died in Cambridge March
19, 1687.

Daniel Denison, son of Willam, was born in England in 1613, and came to Massa-
chusetts about 1631, and in 1635 moved to Ipswich from Cambridge, where he first
settled. He was major-general of the colony, speaker of the House of Deputies,
justice of the Quarterly Court, commissioner of the United Colonies, and an assistant
from 1653 to 1682. He died at Ipswich September 20, 1682.

wSimond Willard came to Massachusetts in 1634, and was born about 1605 in
England. He settled in Concord, and afterwards lived in Lancaster, Groton and
Salem. He was an assistant from 1654 to 1675, and died in Charlestown April 24,
1676.

Humphrey Atherton came to Massachusetts about 1636 and settled in Dorchester.
He afterwards moved to Springfield, and from both Dorchester and Springfield he
was a member of the House of Deputies, of which he was speaker in 1653. He was
major-general of the colony, and an assistant from 1654 to 1661, and died in Boston
September 17, 1661.

Richard Russell came to Massachusetts from Herefordshire, England, in 1640, and
settled in Charlestown. He was speaker of the House of Deputies in 1647-8-54-56-
58, and an assistant from 1659 to 1676. He died at Charlestown, May 14, 1676.

James Russell, son of Richard, was born in Charlestown, October 1, 1640. He was
a Representative in 1679, and an assistant from 1680 to '86, and a member of the
Counsel of Andros. He died April 28, 1709.
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Thomas Danfokth, son of Nicholas, was born in England in 1622. He was an as-
sistant from 1659 to 1678, deputy governor from 1679 to 1686. He was appointed, in
1692, judge of the Superior Court of Judicature, and served until his death, Novem-
ber 5, 1699.

Eugene Bigelow Hagak, son of Josiah B. and Mary Ann (Davis) Hagar, was born
in Cambridge, Mass., September 23, 1850, and was educated at the Chauncy Hall
School, and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1871. He studied law in the
Harvard Law School, and in the office of Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson in Boston, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1874. He was a member of the Boston Common
Council in 1880-81, assistant solicitor in Boston from 1881 to 1884. He lives in Boston.

Henry L. Hallett, son of Benjamin F. and Laura Earned Hallett, was born in
Providence, R. I., in 1826, and graduated at Harvard in 1847. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 1850. In 1853 he
was appointed by his father assistant United States attorney, and in 1857 was ap-
pointed United States Commissioner by the Circuit Court. In 1879 he was appointed
supervisor of elections for the district of Massachusetts. Previous to 1862 all busi-
ness before the United States commissioners, of whom there were several in Boston,
was taken to the nearest commissioner, but in that year Richard H. Dana, then United
States attorney, made an arrangement with Mr. Hallett, by which the latter estab-
lished a Commissioner's Court, at which all business of a criminal character has since
been transacted. He married, February 17, 1858, Cora, daughter of George Lovell,
of Barnstable, and died in Boston in 1892.

Robert Sprague Hall, son of Gustavus Vasa and Susan Frances (Frothingham)
Hall, was born in Charlestown, Mass., December 14, 1850, and was educated at the
Chauncy Hall School and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1872. After
studying law he was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 2, 1887. He has published
poems, stories, translations, and magazine articles. He is unmarried and lives in
Charlestown.

Thomas Bartlett Hall, son of Joseph, jr. , and Maria, daughter of Thomas Bart-
lett, of Boston, was born in Springfield, Mass., July 26, 1824. His grandfather, Jo-
seph Hall, was judge of probate for Suffolk county from 1825 to 1836. He was edu-
cated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1843.
He studied law at the Harvard Law .School and in the office of Hubbard & Watts in
Boston, and was admitted on examination to the Suffolk bar in March, 1847. He was
one of the Back Bay commissioners appointed by Governor Gardener, and for many
years chairman of the Board of Assessors of Brookline. He has since 1860 engaged
only to a small extent in the practice of law, and for the last thirteen years has been
chiefly occupied as examiner of accounts. The most noted case in which he was coun-
sel was that of the Commonwealth vs. Roxbury, to try the title to Back Bay Flats.
He published in 1863 a work, entitled " Three Articles on Modern Spiritualism by a
Bible Spiritualist," and in 1883 another, entitled "Modern Spiritualism or the Open-
ing Way." He married in Boston, May 29, 1851, Emily L., daughter of George M.
Dexter, and for forty-one years has lived in Longwood, a part of Brookline.

Artemas Ward Lamson, son of Alvan and Frances Fidelia (Ward) Lamson, was
born in Dedham, Mass., March 24, 1830, and graduated at Harvard College in 1849,

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He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of John J. & Manlius S.
Clarke, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 10, 1854. He married at Dedham,
where he resides, Rebecca L. Prince, January 27, 1891.

James M. Lane was born in South Boston, December 1, 1870, and was educated at
the Lawrence School and at Boston College. He studied law with William H. Sulli-
van, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, January 25, 1-891.

John C. Lane, son of Jonathan A. and Sarah D. (Clarke) Lane, was born in Boston.
November 8, 1852, and was educated at the Dwight School, the Boston Latin School,
and graduated at Harvard College in 1875. He studied law at the Boston University
Law School and in the offices of Lyman Mason and George W. Morse in Boston, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1878. He married Harriet B. Winslow, September
11, 1883, and lives at Norwood, Mass.

James H. Lange, son of John and Martha E. Lange, was born in Washington, D.
C, January 18, 1857, and was educated at the public schools of Washington and Phila-
delphia. He studied law at the Columbian University, Washington, and was admitted
to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, June 23, 1880, and to the Suffolk
bar April 5, 1887. He makes a specialty of patent causes. He married at Stanstead,
Canada, October 6, 1886, Edith A. Miller, and lives in Boston.

Rurus Bigelow Lawrence, son of Luther and Lucy (Bigelow) Lawrence, was born
in Groton, Mass., July 13, 1814, and attended the Lawrence Academy at Groton, the
Stow Academy and a private school. He graduated at Harvard in 1834, and after
studying law with his father was admitted to the Middlesex bar in December, 1837.
In 1839 he opened an office in Boston, and shortly after, while on a visit to Europe,
died at Pau, France, January 13, 1841.

Samuel Parker Lewis, son of James and Harriet (Parker) Lewis, was born in Pep-
perell, Mass., November 16, 1824, and was educated at the Lawrence Academy at
Groton and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1844. He studied law at the Harvard
Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 12, 1849. He began practice
in Boston, but returned to Pepperell in 1852, In 1874 he opened an office in Ayer,
and in 1875 moved to Groton, returning again to Pepperell in 1880. He married,
October 4, 1870, Catharine, daughter of Jonas Haskins, and Catharine (Marshall) Ti-
tus, a native of Detroit, Mich. , and died in Pepperell, November 26, 1882.

Phillip J. Libby was born in Boston, February 22, 1861, and was educated at the
Boston public schools and at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, from which
he graduated in 1881. He studied law in the office of Crowley & Maxwell and in the
Boston University Law School, from which he graduated in 1886, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in 1885.

Charles Franklin Light, son of James and Ellen E. Light, was born in Dorches-
ter, and was educated in the public schools of Dorchester and Boston. He attended
the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, February
2, 1887. He married Jessie G. Cochran, at Natick, Mass., November 2, 1889, and
lives in Hyde Park.

Wilfred B. Rich, son of Ransom and P. Laurette Rich, was born in Jackson, Me.,
April 21, 1855, and was educated at the Westbrook, Maine, Seminary, and the Maine
Central Institute, Pittsfield, Me. He studied law with Albert W. Paine, of Bangor,

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and George E. Johnson, of Belfast, and was admitted to the bar in Bangor, January
5, 1880, and in Boston, September 15, 1885. He was for a time postmaster of Cam-
den, Me., and for two years was assistant editor of the Camden Herald. He lives in
Somerville.

Thomas Rice was born in Wiscasset, Me., March 80, 1768, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1791. He studied law with Timothy Bigelow, and was a member of the Suf-
folk bar. He went to Winslow, Me., was a member of Congress from 1817 to 1810,
and died in Winslow, August 24, 1854.

George Edward Rice, son of Henry and Maria (Burroughs) Rice, was born in Bos-
ton, July 10, 1822, and received his early education at the Boston Latin School and at
the school of Edmund Lambert Cushing. He graduated at Harvard in 1822, and
studied law with Charles G. Loring and William Dehon, and was admitted to the bar
in Boston, October 27, 1845. He contribtited to the North American Review, and
was the author of some attractive poems. He married, December 28, 1857, Tirzah
Maria, daughter of George W. Crockett, of Boston, and died in Roxbuiy, August 10,
1861.

Conrad Reno, son of Jesse L. and Mary C. Reno, was born at Mount Vernon Ar-
senal, Ala., December 28, 1859, and was educated at Shortlidge's Media Academy,
Media, Penn., and the Lehigh University. He studied law at the Boston University
Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. The most noted cases in
which he has been counsel were Eliot vs. McCormick, 144 Mass., 10, and Eustis vs.
Bolles, 146 Mass. He has been a contributor to the American Law Review, and the
American Lazv Register, and is now publishing a work on " Non-residents and For-
eign Corporations." He married at Springfield, Mass., April 13, 1887, Susan M.,
daughter of Rev. Dr. William T. Eustis, and lives in Boston.

Frederick J. Ranlett, son of Charles E. and A. M. Ranlett, was born in Thomas-
ton, Me., November 17, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Robert Dickson Smith, and
was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1884. He has been a member of the Com-
mon Council in Newton, where he resides, a representative to the General Court in
1890, and a member of the Newton Republican Ward and City Committee.

George H. Richards, son of Francis and Anne H. (Gardiner) Richards, was born
in Gardiner, Me., and was educated at Rugby, England, and at Trinity College,
Cambridge, England. He studied law with Horace Gray, and Chandler & Shattuck
in Boston, and at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar De-
cember 4, 1865, and lives in Boston.

William Reuben Richards, son of William Boardman and Cornelia Wells (Walters)
Richards, was born m Dedham, Mass., July 3, 1853, and was educated at the Boston
Latin School, Dr. Krause's Institute, Dresden, Germany, and at Harvard College,
where he graduated in 1874. He studied law with Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe
and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 11,
1878. He was a member of the Boston Common Council from 1886 to '88, and is now
one of the trustees of the Boston Library. He is unmarried and lives in Boston.

Ivory W. Richardson, son of Nathaniel and Mary Richardson, was born in Wes-
ton, Vt., February 5, 1812, and was educated at the public schools. He studied

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law at Chester, Vt; with Aikin & Richardson, and was admitted to the bar in
Woodstock, Vt., in June, 1842. After practicing six years in Vermont he
moved to Boston, where -he was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 10, 1848. He
married, at Andover, Vt., in 1832, Abigail Greeley, and at Keene, N. H., in
1851, Anne B. Dodge. He lives in Chelsea.

James Bailey Richardson, son of Joel Richardson, was born in Oxford, N. H.,
December 9, 1832, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1857. He studied law with
Hutchins & Wheeler, and was admitted to the bar in Boston February 27, 1859. He
was early offered seats on the benches of the Boston Municipal Court and the Su-
perior Court, but he declined both. In 1889 he was appointed by Mayor Hart cor-
poration counsel of Boston, succeeding Edward P. Nettleton. He was appointed by
Mayor Matthews a member of the Rapid Transit Commission. As corporation coun-
sel he gave an important opinion concerning the respective rights of the State Legis-
lature and Congress in the navigable waters of Charles River. In 1884 he was ap-
pointed with ex-Mayor Cobb and James M. Bugbee to revise the city charter. He
has been, if he is not now, president of the Alumni of Dartmouth College in Boston
and vicinity, and is a trustee of the college. He was sixteen years master in chan-
cery, and was a referee in the important case of the Tremont and Suffolk Mills of
Lowell against the city of Lowell. He has been appointed during the present year
(1892) judge of the Superior Court and now occupies a seat on the bench. He mar-
ried in 1865 Lucy Cushing, daughter of A. A. Gould, M. D.

William Richardson, son of Asa and Elizabeth (Bird) Richardson, was born in
Boston, December 2, 1813, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Har-
vard, where he graduated in 1832. After leaving college he was for a year usher in
the Mayhew School, and in 1833 attended the Divinity School six- months. In 1834
he entered the office of Jeremiah Mason to study law and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1837. He practiced in Boston until his death, which took place in Dorchester,
June 6, 1856. He married in Walpole, Mass., June 30, 1836, Almira, daughter of
Daniel Kingsbury.

William Minard Richardson, son of Roswell Minard and Ann (Hapgood) Rich-
ardson, was born in Portland, Me., December 10, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in
1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1882. He married Sara J. Hanks at Cambridge, June 27, 1888, and lives in
Cambridge.

Elmer Ellsworth Rideout, son of Albert and Harriet S. Rideout, was born in
Cumberland, Me., June 18, 1864, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1886. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, July
29, 1890. He is unmarried and lives in Boston.

Horace Binney Sargent, jr., son of Horace Binney and Elizabeth Little (Swett)
Sargent, was born in Boston, April 2, 1847, and was educated at the public schools,
at schools in Europe, and at the Harvard Scientific School. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and in the office of Henry W. Paine in Boston, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 24, 1872, and to the United States Supreme
Court, April 10, 1883. He was assistant city solicitor of Boston from 1879 to 1881,
and has been active and prominent among the commissioned officers of the Massa-
chusetts Volunteer Militia. He is unmarried and lives in Boston..

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HISTORY OF THE BENCH A NT) BAR.

William McKinley Osborne, son of Abner and Abigail (Allison) Osborne, was
born in Girard, Ohio, April 26, 1842. He was educated at the Poland, Ohio,
Academy and at Alleghany College in Meadville, Penn. He enlisted in the Twenty-
third Ohio Regiment in the war of 1861 and was discharged on account of injuries
received in the service. He studied law in the office of Sutliff, Tuttle & Stutt in
Warren, Ohio, and in the law school in Ann Arbor, Mich., and was admitted to the
bar in 1864. He began practice at Youngstown, Ohio, and was mayor of that city
in 1874 and 1875. He removed to Boston in 1880 and was there admitted to the bar.
He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1884-5, and was appointed a
member of the Metropolitan Board of Police and still holds that position. He mar-
ried in Boston, April 24, 1878, Frances Clara, adopted daughter of Walter Hastings,
of Boston.

Robert Carter Pitman, son of Benjamin and Mary Ann (Carter) Pitman, was born
in Newport, R. I., March 16, 1825. He was educated at the public schools of New
Bedford, at the Friends' Academy, and at the Wesleyan University, Middletown,
Conn., where he graduated in 1845, receiving the degree of LL.D. in 1869. He
studied law and was admitted to the bar in New Bedford in 1848, where he practiced
until 1869, associated at different times as a partner with Thomas D. Eliot and Alan-
son Borden. In 1869 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court and remained on
the bench until his death. He was a representative in 1858 and a senator in 1864-5,
'68-9, and the last year was the president of the Senate. He married, in New Bed-
ford, August 15, 1855, Frances R., daughter of Rev. M. G. Thomas, and died at New-
ton, March 5, 1891.

Frederick Octavius Prince, son of Thomas and Caroline Prince, was born in Bos-
ton, January 18, 1818, and was fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard, where
he graduated in 1836 as class poet and secretary. He studied law in the office of
Franklin Dexter and William Howard Gardiner, and was admitted to the bar in Bos-
ton in January, 1840. He early took up his residence in Winchester and was a rep-
resentative from that town from 1851 to '53, and in 1853 was a member of the Con-
stitutional Convention. In 1855 he was a member of the Senate, and in 1860, having
joined the Democratic party on the dissolution of the Whig party, was a delegate to
the National Democratic Convention at South Carolina. He was secretary of the
National Democratic Committee from that time until 1888. In 1876 he was chosen
mayor of Boston and re-elected in 1878-81. He was the Democratic candidate for
governor in 1885, and in 1888 was appointed a member of the board to erect a build-
ing for the Boston Public Library. He married, in 18,48, Helen, daughter of Bar-
nard Henry, of Philadelphia, and November 27, 1889, he married for a second wife,
at Cambridge, Kate H. Blanc. To him a full share of credit is due for the erection
of the most notable structure in Boston, in spite of the cavils and criticisms of those
who would measure the merit of public buildings by either the profusion of orna-
mentation on the one hand, or the small amount of money expended in their con-
struction on the other. Boston has been fortunate in having a Board of Trustees of
the Public Library with good taste and artistic judgment and sufficient backbone to
fearlessly exercise them.

Edgar Sidney Taft, son of Bezaleel and Lucy M. (Bragg) Taft, was born in
Keene, N. H., June 30, 1853, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law

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with Albert R. Hatch, of Portsmouth, N. H., and was admitted to the bar in New
Hampshire, September 1, 1882, and to the bar in Massachusetts, October 30, 1882.
He practiced law in Boston two years, and after a short time .in the employ of the
Pullman Car Company opened an office in Gloucester, Mass., in 1885.

Charles P. Thompson, son of Frederick M. and Susannah (Cheeseman) Thompson,
was born in Braintree, Mass., July 30, 1827, and was educated in the public schools
and in the Hollis Institute of Braintree. He studied law in the office of Benjamin F.
Hallett in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1854. In 1857 he removed
to Gloucester from Boston, where he had practiced in association with Mr. Hallett, and
has since that time made Gloucester his residence. In 1885 he was appointed judge
of the Superior Court, and is now on the bench. He was a representative in 1871-2,
and from 1874 to 1876 was a member of Congress. In 1880 and 1881 he was the Demo-
cratic candidate for governor, and in 1877 received the honorary degree of Master of
Arts from Amherst College. He married in 1861 Abbie Hemck, of Gloucester.

Levi Clifford Wade, son of Levi and Abbie A. (Rogers) Wade, was born in
Allegheny City, Penn., January 16, 1843, and received his early education in the pub-
lic schools, in the Lewisburg Institute, and with private tutors. He graduated at
Yale in 1866, and was admitted to the bar in 1873. During his practice in Boston he
was for three years a partner with J. Q. A. Brackett. He married in Bath, Me.,
November 16, 1869, Margaret, daughter of William and Lydia H. (Elliott) Rogers.
He was a representative from Newton from 1876 to 1879, and in the last year was
speaker. He died March 21, 1891.

Henry Walker, son of Ezra and Maria A. Walker, was born in Boston, and re-
ceived his early education in the public schools and the Boston Latin School. He
graduated at Harvard in 1855, and studied law with Hutchins & Wheeler in Boston,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1858. At the beginning of the war he
enlisted in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment and served three months as adjutant.
In the autumn of 1861 he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth Regiment,
and* in 1862 as colonel. He was discharged by reason of expiration of service in 1865,
and resumed the practice of law. In 1877 he was appointed license commissioner,
and served as police commissioner from 1879 to 1882. He was commander of the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1887-88, and visited England to join in
the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Honorable Artillery Company of
London, and during his visit reflected credit, not only on the company under his
command, but our country, of which he was to a certain extent, a representative.

Charles Tilton Duncklee, son of Joseph and Betsey P. (Woodbury) Duncklee,
was born in Brighton, Mass., August 29, 1841, and graduated at Harvard College in
1861. He studied law in the Harvard Law School and in the office of David H.
Mason in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1863. He married Sarah J.
Brown in Boston, December 26, 1866, and lives in Brookline.

R. Augustus Duggan, son of William Brazier and Eunice B. (Glover) Duggan, was
born in Quincy, Mass. , September 22, 1845, and was educated at the Middleboro' ■
Academy and at Harvard. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and
was admitted to the bar in that year at Dedham. He is unmarried, and lives in
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Reuben Litch Roberts, son of Reuben and Jane L. Roberts, was born in Boston
February 16, 1847, and was educated at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
He studied law in Boston with George L. Roberts, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in the autumn of 1871. He makes the management of patent law cases his spe-
cialty. His home is in Brookline.

Gf.orge Litch Roberts, son of Reuben and Jane (Litch) Roberts, was born in Bos-
ton December 30, 1836, and graduated at the Wesleyan University, Middletown,
Conn., in 1859. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the
office of Benjamin R. Curtis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 7, 1864. He
has been counsel in many important patent cases, among which were the " Pebbling
machine cases," affecting largely the interests of the leather trade; Woodman vs.
Stimpson, 3 Fisher's Patent Cases 88; Stimpson vs. Woodward, 10 Wall, 117; Wood-
man Pebbling Machine Company vs. Guild, 4 Clifford 185, and the " Spindle Cases" —
Peari vs. The Appleton Company, 3 Fed. Rep., 153, and various telephone suits. He
married in Middletown, Conn., December 1, 1865, Hinda Barnes, and lives in Boston.

Odin Barnes Roberts, son of the above, was born in Boston January 22, 1867, and
was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard College,
where he graduated in 1886, and at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to
the bar in Boston in January, 1891, and lives in Boston.

George Augustus Sanderson, son of George W. and Charlotte E. Sanderson, was
born in Littleton, Mass., July 1, 1863, and received his early education at the Law-
rence Acadenw, Groton, Mass. He graduated at Yale College in 1885 and at the
Boston University in 1887, and was admitted in 1887 to the Suffolk bar. He has been
chairman and member of the School Committee of Littleton, where he resides, since
1888, and served repeatedly as moderator of meetings in that town. He is a trustee
of the Lawrence Academy.

Sanford Harrison Dudley, son of Harrison and Elizabeth (Prentiss) Dudley, was
born in China, Me., January 14, 1842. His parents removed in 1857 to New Bedford
and in 1870 to Cambridge. He graduated at Harvard in 1867, and then taught the
New Bedford High School three years. He studied law in New Bedford in the office
of Eliot & Stetson and at the Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1871. He
was admitted to the Suffolk bar J ly 21, 1871. He has in various ways been con-
nected with the city government of Cambridge, where he resides, and is president of
the Universalist Club and vice-president of the Universalist Sunday School Union.
He married Laura Nye, daughter of John M. Howland, at Fairhaven, Mass., April 2,
1869.

William H. Drury, son of William E. and Martha K. Drury, was born in Worces-
ter, Mass., January 12, 1842, and graduated at Yale College in 1865. He studied law
at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar at Cambridge, June 3, 1872.
He married Mary Peters at Ellsworth, Me., September, 29, 1875, and lives in Walt-
ham.

Walter Hill Roberts, son of Jacob W. and Sophronia P. Roberts, was born in
Charlestown, Mass., and graduated at Harvard College in 1877. He studied law in
the offices of Levi C. Wade and J. Q. A. Brackett and at the Harvard Law School,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. He married Alice S. Daniels, of Bos-
ton, October 25, 1883, and lives in Melrose,

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James Walker Austin, son of William and Lucy (Jones) Austin, was born in Charles-
town, Mass., January 8, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 7, 1851. He
has been justice of the Supreme Court of the Hawaiian Islands and member and
speaker of the Hawaiian Parliament. He married, July 18, 1857, Ariana E., daughter
of John Sherburne Sleeper, of Roxbury, and now lives in Boston.

Ambrose Eastman, son of Philip and Mary (Ambrose) Eastman, was born in North
Yarmouth, Me., April 18,1834,and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1854. He stud-
ied law with Philip Eastman in Saco, Me., and -was admitted to the York county bar
in Maine in 1858 and afterwards in Boston. He married Charlotte S. Haines in Bid-
deford, Me., September 15, 1864, and lives in Boston.

George Warren Copeland, son of Daniel and Eliza (Coburn) Copeland, was born
in Boston, April 4, 1833, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and received
an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Amherst College in 1859. He studied law
at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 29, 1858.
He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1863 to 1865,
and was president for some years of the Boston Butler Club. In law he has been con-
nected with an important suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and in
literature he has been a lecturer of note. He married in Melrose, May 8, 1860, Sarah
A. Shelton, and in Boston in July, 1875, Annie Loring Harmon, and died in Maiden,
Mass., May 27, 1892.

William Faxon, Jr., son of William and Henrietta B. (Cross) Faxon, was born in
Cambridge, Mass., September 26, 1860, and graduated at Harvardin 1883. He stud-
ied law in the Boston University Law School and in the office of A. A. Ranney
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1886. His home is in Boston.

George Zaccheus Adams, son of Charles and Nancy (Robbins) Adams, was born in
Chelmsford, Mass., April 23, 1833, and received his early education in the public
schools, at the Westford Academy and Phillips Andover Academy. He graduated at
Harvard in 1856 and studied law in the office of Oliver Stevens in Boston and at the
Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 26, 1858. He is
special justice of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston. He married, September
16, 1861, Joanna F., daughter of Charles and Joan P. (Hagar) Davenport, and lives
in Boston.

Samuel Nelson Aldrich, son of Sylvanus Bucklin and Lucy Jane (Stoddard) Al-
drich, was born in Upton, Mass., February 3, 1838, and was educated at the Worcester
Academy, the academy at Southington, Conn., and Brown University. He taught
school in Worcester, Upton and Holliston. He studied law in the office of Isaac Da-
vis in Worcester and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Worcester
county bar in 1863. He at once began business in Marlboro, opening an office in Bos-
ton in 1874. He has been many years a member of the School Board of Marlboro, a
member of the Board of Selectmen and its chairman, president of the Marlboro Board
of Trade, president of the Framingham and Lowell Railroad and of the Central Mas-
sachusetts Railroad. In 1879-80 he was a member of the Senate, in 1881 a Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress and in 1883 a member of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives. In 1887 he was appointed United States assistant treasurer in Bos-
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ton and on his retirement from that position in 1889 he was chosen president of the
State National Bank in Boston, which position he still holds. He married at Upton
in 1865, Mary J., daughter of J. T. and Eliza A. (Colburn) Macfarland, and lives in
Boston.

Henry King Braley, son of Samuel T. and Mary A. Braley, was born in Roches-
ter, Mass., March 17, 1850, and was educated in the Rochester Academy and the
Pierce Academy, Middleboro, Mass. He studied law in Bridgewater in the office of
Hosea Kingman and was admitted to the bar at Plymouth in October, 1873. He al-
ways practiced in Fall River until in 1891 he was appointed judge of the Superior
Court. He was city solicitor of Fall River in 1874 and mayor in 1882-83. He mar-
ried in Bridgewater, April 29, 1875, Caroline W., daughter of Philander and Sarah T.
Leach, and still lives in Fail River.

Philip Edward Brady, son of Philip and Rose (Goodwin) Brady, was born in Attle-
boro, Mass., August 16, 1859, and was educated in the public schools. He graduated
at the Harvard Law School in 1882 and after studying in Attleboro in the office of Geo.
A. Adams, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. In 1885 he opened an office in
North Attleboro and was appointed by President Cleveland postmaster of Attleboro.

Heman Merrick Burr, son of Isaac Tucker and Ann Frances (Hardon) Burr, was
born in Newton, Mass. , July 28, 1856, and received his early education in the public
schools. He graduated at Harvard in 1877 and studied law at the Harvard Law
School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1884, and entered upon practice
in Boston. He was a member of the Common Council of Newton in 1887 and 1888,
and in 1889 mayor of the city. He married in Boston, November 29, 1881, Mary Fran-
ces, daughter of Samuel T. and Mary Hartwell (Barr) Ames.

Napoleon Bonaparte Bryant, son of Jeremy Y. and Mercy P. Bryant, was born in
Andover, N. H., February 25, 1825, and attended at various times the High School
at Franklin, N. H., and the Boscawen, Concord, Claremont, Gilmanton, New
London and New Hampton academies and Waterville College. At the age of
twenty -two he began the study of law in Franklin in the office of Nesmith & Pike and
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848. He was admitted to the bar at Plym-
outh, N. H., in 1849 and opened an office in Bristol, where he remained until 1853,
when he removed to Plymouth. He was county commissioner for Grafton county
three j^ears and afterwards county prosecuting attorney. In 1855 he removed to Con-
cord, N. H., and became associated with Lyman T. Flint. He was city solicitor for
Concord three years, member of the Legislature and two years speaker of the House
of Representatives, and a delegate to the National Republican Convention which
nominated Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860. In 1860 he moved to Boston and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 17 in that year. Besides a practice in the
courts he has engaged in literary pursuits involving much general and special study,
and has been called upon to deliver lectures in the Lyceum and historical addresses at
centennial anniversaries of his native town and of Brandon, Vt. He married in May,
1849, Susan M., daughter of Abram Brown, of Northfield, N. H., and while living
partly in Boston has his legal residence in Andover, N. H.

Francis Brooks, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Boot) Brooks, Avas born in Medford,
Mass., November 1, 1824, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846. His

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name will be found in the Harvard Catalogue as Francis Boott Brooks, the name he
bore until 1854, when he dropped his middle name. He was admitted to the bar Jan-
uary 1, 1848. He married, first, May 6, 1850, Mary Jones, daughter of Ebenezer Chad-
wick, of Boston, and second, November 29, 1854, Louise, daughter of Henry andMary
Ann (Davis) Winsor, of Boston. He died at Medford, October 27, 1891.

Lincoln Flagg Brigham, son of Lincoln and Lucy (Forbes) Brigham, was born in Cam-
bridge, October 4, 1819, and fitted at the public schools for Dartmouth College, where he
graduated in 1842. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in New Bedford
in the offices of John H. Clifford and Harrison G. O. Colby, and was admitted to the
Bristol county bar in 1845. After his admission he associated himself with John H.
Clifford, and the partnership continued until Mr. Clifford was inaugurated governor
of the Commonwealth in January, 1853. He was appointed district attorney for the
Southern District, and continued in office six years. In 1859 he was appointed asso-
ciate justice of the Superior Court, established in that year, and in 1869, on the pro-
motion of Seth Ames to the Superior Judicial Court, he was made chief justice. In
1890 he resigned and no man ever left the bench of a Massachusetts court more re-
spected and beloved. He married, at New Bedford, October 20, 1847, Eliza Endicott,
daughter of Thomas and Sylvia (Perry) Swain, and has many years lived in Salem.

James Madison Barker, son of John V. and Sarah (Apthorp) Barker, was born in
Pittsfield, Mass., October 23, 1839, and was fitted at various schools and academies
for Williams College, where he graduated in 1860. He studied law at the Harvard
Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 13, 1863. He at once opened
an office in Pittsfield and continued in practice there, associated at different times
with Charles N. Emerson and Thomas P. Pengree until 1882, when he was appointed
j-udge on the bench of the Superior Court. In 1891 he was promoted to a seat on the
bench of the Supreme Judicial Court, which he still occupies. He was a member of
the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1872-73, and a commissioner on the
revision of the statutes in 1881. He married in Bath, N. Y., September 21, 1864.
Helena, daughter of Levi Carter and Pamelia Nelson (Woods) Whiting.

Caleb Blodgett, son of Caleb and Charlotte (Piper) Blodgett, was born in Dorches-
ter, N. H., June 3, 1832, and received his early education at the Canaan, N. H., Acad-
emy, and the Kimball Union Academy. Meriden, N. H. He graduated at Dartmouth
College in 1856 and afterwards taught for two years the Leominster, Mass., High
School. He studied law in the office of Bacon & Aldrich in Worcester, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in Worcester in February, 1860. He opened an office in Hopkin-
ton, but afterwards removed to Boston,* where he was associated in business with
Halsey J. Boardman until 1882, when he was appointed judge of the Superior Court.
In 1882 he received from Dartmouth the degree of LL. D. He married, December 14,
1865, at Canaan, N. H., Roxie B., daughter of Jesse and Emily A. (Green) Martin.

Chester W. Eaton, son of Lilley and Eliza (Nichols) Eaton, was born in Wakefield,
Mass., January 13, 1839, and was educated in the public schools and at Dartmouth
College. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar January 16, 1864. He began to practice in South Reading, now Wakefield, and
in 1868 opened an office in Boston, continuing to practice in both places. He served
during the war as a private in the Fiftieth Massachusetts Regiment and has held in

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Wakefield the positions of town clerk, collector, and treasurer of the Wakefield Sav-
ings Bank, and many others indicative of the confidence reposed in him by the citi-
zens of his native town. He married Emma G., daughter of Rev. Giles and Eliza-
beth (Thompson) Leach in Rye, N. H., May 14, 1868.

Justin Dewey, son of Justin and Melinda(Kelsey) Dewey, was born in Alford, Mass.,
June 12, 1836, and fitted in Alford and Great Barrington for Williams College, where
he graduated in 1858. He studied law in Great Barrington in the office of Increase
Sumner and was admitted to the Berkshire bar in November, 1860. He was a mem-
ber of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1862 and 1877, and a member
of the Senate in 1879. In 1886 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court and is
still on the bench. He married Jane, daughter of George and Clara (Wadhams) Stan-
ley in Great Barrington, February 8, 1865.

James Robert Dunbar, son of Henry W. and Elizabeth (Richards) Dunbar, was
born in Pittsfield, Mass. , December 23, 1847, and graduated at Williams College in
1871. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Westfield in the office of Henry
M. Whitney, with whom he formed a partnership in 1874. He was in the Senate in
1885 and 1886, and his service and deportment there gave him a reputation which led
to his appointment in 1888 to a seat on the bench of the Superior Court. He married,
May 15, 1875, at Westfield, Harriet P., daughter of George A. and Electa N. (Lin-
coln) Walton, and he now resides in Newton.

John Wilkes Hammond, son of John Wilkes and Maria Louisa (Southworth) Ham-
mond, was born in Mattapoisett (then Rochester), December 16, 1837, and fitted at
the public schools of his native town for Tufts College, where he graduated in 1861.
After leaving college he taught school in Tisbury, Stoughton, Wakefield and Melrose,
serving, during an interval, nine months in the Third Massachusetts Regiment. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Sweetser &
Gardner, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 1861. He practiced in
Cambridge and was representative in 1872 and '73, city solicitor three years, and was
appointed in 1886 to the seat he continues to occupy on the bench of the Superior
Court. He married in Taunton, August 15, 1866, Clara Ellen, daughter of Benjamin
F. and Clara (Foster) Tweed, and lives in Cambridge.

William H. Hart, son of William and Elizabeth (Bruce) Hart, was born in Lynn,
Mass. , December 22, 1836, and was educated in the public schools. He entered the
army in 1862 as a private in the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery and was after-
wards sergeant and second lieutenant in that regiment. In 1864 he joined the
Thirty-sixth Regiment of United States Colored troops as captain and was promoted
to lieutenant-colonel, and was for a time assistant adjutant-general and assistant in-
spector-general in the Twenty-fifth Corps. He studied law in the Harvard Law
School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, June 20, 1874. He is a special justice of
the Chelsea Police Court and resides in Chelsea. He married Susan J. , daughter of
Samuel and Susan (Waterman) Harris, in Springfield, February 1, 1866.

Marcus P. Knowlton, son of Merrick and Fatima (Perrin) Knowlton, was born in
Wilbraham, Mass. , February 3, 1839, and received his early education at the public
schools and at Monson Academy. He graduated at Yale in 1866,. and after leaving
college served a year as teacher of the Union School in Norwalk, Conn. He studied
law in the office of James G. Allen, of Palmer, Mass., and in the office of John Wells

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and Augustus L. Soule, in Springfield, and was admitted to the bar in 1862, in
•Springfield, where he has since always lived. In 1881 he was appointed judge of the
Superior Court and in 1887 was promoted to the seat on the bench of the Supreme
Judicial Court which he still occupies. He married Sophia, daughter of William and
Saba A. (Cushman) Ritchie at Springfield, July 18, 1867.

Henry Cabot Lodge, son of John Ellerton and Anna (Cabot) Lodge, was born in
Boston, May 12, 1850. He attended the schools of Thomas Russell Sullivan and
Epes Sargent Dixwell, and after visiting Europe in 1866 he entered Harvard and
graduated in 1871. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1874, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1875. He entered at once on a literary rather
than a legal career, and at various times before 1881 edited the North American
Review, the International Review, and was employed at Harvard as a lecturer on
American History. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representa-
tives in 1880 and '81, and since that time, though engaged at intervals on literary
work, has trod the paths of politics. He has published " Lives of Alexander Hamil-
ton and George Washington and Daniel Webster" in the "American Statesmen
Series," and edited the " Public Life and Letters qf George Cabot," and the " Works
of Alexander Hamilton." In 1886 he was chosen member of Congress from the dis-
trict which includes Nahant, the place of his residence, and has been chosen by the
Legislature of 1893 United States senator for six years. In 1878 he was chosen a
member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1879 a trustee of the Boston Athene-
um, in 1880 an honorary member of the Cobden Club, in 1879 delivered the Fourth
of July oration in Boston, and in 1880 delivered a course of lectures before the Lowell
Institute on the English Colonies in America. He mai-ried in Cambridge, June 29,
1871, Anna Cabot Mills, daughter of Rear-Admiral Charles H. Davis.

Albert Mason, son of Albert T. and Arlina (Orcutt) Mason, was born in Middle-
boro', Mass., November 7, 1836, and was educated in the public schools and in the
Pierce Academy in Middleboro'. After engaging for a time in the manufacturing
business in Plymouth, he studied law in that town in the office of Edward L. Sher-
man, and was admitted to the Plymouth bar Februarj'- 15, 1860. Soon after begin-
ning practice in Plymouth he enlisted as a private in one of two companies raised by
William T. Davis at the request of Governor Andrew, for the Thirty-eighth Regi-
ment of Massachusetts Volunteers, and was recommended by Mr. Davis for a com-
mission as second lieutenant in Company F of that regiment. He received the com-
mission and served until 1865 as second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain and assis-
tant quartermaster. On his return from the army he resumed his practice in Plymouth
and later opened also an office in Boston and was associated in business in either
Plymouth or Boston, or both, with Arthur Lord and Benjamin R. Curtis. He was a
member and the chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Plymouth from 1866 to 1873
inclusive, and a representative from Plymouth in 1873 and '74. In. 1874 he was ap-
pointed a member of the Board of Harbor Commissioners and in that year moved
from Plymouth to Brookline, where he still resides. In 1882 he was appointed judge
of the Superior Court and in 1890 was appointed to succeed Lincoln Flagg Brigham as
chief justice of that Court. He married LydiaF., daughter of Nathan and Experi-
ence (Finney) Whiting at Plymouth, November 25, 1857.

Elisha Burr Maynard, son of Walter and Hannah (Burr) Maynard, was born in
Wilbraham, Mass., November 21, 1842, and received his early education at the pub-

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lie schools. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1867, and studying law in Spring-
field, Mass., in the office of George M. Stearns and Marcus P. Knowlton, was ad-
mitted to the Hampden county bar in 1868. He always practiced in Springfield un-
til 1891, when he was appointed judge of the Superior Court. In 1879 he was a mem-
ber of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and in 1887 and '88 was mayor
of Springfield, where he still lives. He married Kate C, daughter of Calvin and
Sarah (Townshend) Doty, of Springfield, Penn., August 25, 1870.

Bushrod Morse, son of Willard and Eliza (Glover) Morse, was born in Sharon,
Mass., August 24, 1837, and received his early education in the public schools, the
Providence Conference Seminary, and the Pierce Academy in Middleboro', Mass.
He took part of a course at Amherst College in the class of 1860, leaving college on
account of his health. He studied law in North Easton and Boston, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in Boston November 5, 1864. He has been a member of the School
Committee of Sharon, where, though practicing in Boston, he still resides, was a
representative in 1870, '83 and '84, presidential elector in 1884, and Democratic candi-
date for Congress in 1886 and 1890. He is now one of the special justices of the
Southern Norfolk District Court. He married Gertie S. , daughter of James and
Sarah A. (Loomer) Gertridge, in Windsor, Nova Scotia, September 29, 1871.

John Torrey Morse, son of John Torrey and Lucy Cabot (Jackson) Morse, was
born in Boston, January 9, 1840, and received his early education at private schools
in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1860, and after reading law in the office of
John Lowell in Boston was admitted to the Suffolk bar, August 4, 1862. After prac-
ticing about eighteen years, during which his tastes were leading him into a literary
career, he abandoned the law and has since that time devoted himself to more con-
genial work in the field of literature. He has published many works, among which'
maybe mentioned " The Law of Banks and Banking," " The Law of Arbitration
and Award," the " Life of Alexander Hamilton," and biographies of Thomas Jeffer-
son, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Benjamin Franklin, published in the
Statesmen Series. He has been also a frequent and valuable contributor to the pages
of law and other magazines and to the columns of the daily press. He married
Fanny, daughter of George O. Hovey, of Boston, in 1865, and resides in Boston.

Marcus Morton, a descendant of George Morton, one of the early Plymouth colo-
nists and son of Nathaniel and Mary (Cary) Morton, was born in Freetown, Mass.,
February 19, 1784, and graduated at Brown University in 1804. He studied law at
the Law School in Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the Norfolk county bar
about 1807, and settled in Taunton, Mass. He was clerk of the Massachusetts-Senate
in 1811, member of Congress from 1817 to 1821, member of the Executive Council in
1823, and lieutenant-governor in 1824. In 1825 he was appointed by Governor Levi
Lincoln judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and resigned in 1840 to take his seat as
governor of the Commonwealth, a position which he again held in 1843. In 1845 he
was appointed by President Polk collector of the port of Boston, and continued in office
until 1848. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and a member
of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1858. He received the degree of
LL.D. from Harvard in 1840. He married in 1807, Charlotte, daughter of James
Hodges, of Taunton, and died in Taunton February 6, 1864.

Marcus Morton, jr., son of Marcus and Charlotte (Hodges) Morton, was born in
Taunton April 8, 1819, and graduated at Brown University in 1838. He graduated

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also at the Harvard Law School in 1840, and after further pursuing his studies in Bos-
ton in the office of Peleg Sprague and William Gray, was admitted to the Suffolk bar
July 12, 1841. In 1850 he removed to Andover and represented that town in the
Constitutional Convention of 1853, and in the Legislature of 1858. In the latter
year he was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Suffolk county to succeed
Josiah G. Abbott, who had resigned, and remained on the bench until the abolition
of that court in 1859. In the organization of the Superior Court for the Common-
wealth he was appointed one of the justices, and there he remained until 1869, when
he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Judicial Court. In 1882 he was made chief
justice to succeed Horace Gra}', who had been appointed an associate judge of the
United States Supreme Court, and served until 1890, when he resigned. He married
Abby B., daughter of Henry and Amy (Harris) Hoppin at Providence, R. I.,
October 19, 1843, and died at Andover February 10, 1891.

Marcus Morton 3d, son of Marcus and Abby B. (Hoppin) Morton, was born in
Andover, Mass. , April 27, 1862, and was fitted at Phillips Andover Academy for Yale
University, where he graduated in 1883. He studied law at the Harvard Law School
and in Boston in the office of Robert M. Morse, jr. , and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar January 26, 1886. His residence is in Andover.

Nathaniel Foster Safford, son of Nathaniel Foster and Hannah (Woodbury) Saf-
ford, was born in Salem, Mass., September 19, 1815, and graduated at Dartmouth in
1835. He studied law in Salem in the office of Asahel Huntington, and was ad-
mitted to the Essex bar in 1838. He practiced law in Dorchester and Milton many
years, but for thirty years before his death his office was in Boston. He was a rep-
resentative from Dorchester in 1850-51, and was chairman of the Norfolk Board of
County Commissioners twenty-one years. He married Josephine Eugenia, daughter
of Joseph and Mary (Wheeler) Morton at. Milton, February 10, 1845, and died at Mil-
ton, April 22, 1891.

Robert Alexander South worth, son of Alexander and Helen Southworth, was
born in Medford, Mass., May 6, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in .1874. He studied
law in the office of Charles T. & Thomas H. Russell in Boston, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar May 25, 1876. He was assistant clerk of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives four years, and a member of the Senate in 1888. He married Mary
Eliza, daughter of William H. and Sarah A. B. Finney, and lives in Boston.

Hamilton Barclay Staples, son of Welcome and Susan Staples, was born in Men-
don, Mass., February 14, 1829, and graduated at Brown University in 1851. He
studied law in Providence, R. I., and in Worcester, Mass., and was admitted to the
Worcester bar in 1854. He practiced in Milford until 1869, associated at different
times with Adin Ballou Underwood, and John C. Scammell, and Charles A. Dewey,
and William F. Slocum, and in that year moved to Worcester, where he was associ-
ated with Francis P. Goulding until 1881, when he was appointed judge on the bench
of the Superior Court. For eight years he was district attorney of the Middle District.
In 1884 he received the degree of LL.D. from his alma mater. He married Elizabeth
A. Godfrey in Mendon in 1858, and October 8, 1868, at Northampton, Mary Clinton,
daughter of Charles A. Dewey. He died in 1891.

Thomas M. Stetson, son of Rev. Caleb and Julia Ann (Meriam) Stetson, was born
in Medford, Mass. , June 15, 1830, and graduated at Harvard in 1849, He studied

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law at the Harvard Law School, and w*as admitted to the Suffolk bar April 10, 1854.
He settled in New Bedford, where he has always continued to practice, associated at
various times with Thomas D. Eliot, Robert C. Pitman, and later with his son, Eliot
D. Stetson. He married Caroline Dawes, daughter of Thomas Dawes and Frances
L. (Brock) Eliot, of New Bedford, where he still resides.

Homer Bemis Stevens, son of Washington and Ruth Simons (Bemis) Stevens, was
born in Norwich, now Huntington, Mass., September 9, 1885, and graduated at Will-
iams College in 1857. He studied law in Westfield and after admission to the bar
settled in Boston but finally connected himself in business with E. B. Gillett in West-
field, where he is now standing justice of the Western Hampden District Court. He
married Mariette, daughter of Moses and Juvenelia (Curtis) Hannum, of Huntington
(formerly Norwich.)

Charles Warren Sumner, son of Charles C. and Clarissa (Lane) Sumner,' was
born in Foxboro', Mass., December 3, 1848, and graduated at Tufts College in 1869.
He studied law in Boston in the office of Moorfield Storey, and was admitted to the
Norfolk bar in April, 1872. He remained one year in Boston, and in August, 1873,
removed to Brockton, where he continued in practice until his death, associated until
1881 with Jonathan White. In 1874 he was appointed a special justice of the First
Plymouth District Court, and in 1885 he was appointed justice of the Brockton
Police Court, which position he held until he was appointed district attorney for the
Southeastern District, to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Hosea Kingman.
In November, 1889, he was chosen to fill out the unexpired term of his predecessor,
and died in January, 1890. He married Clara G. , daughter of Ellis and Abby (Heard)
Packard in Brockton September 1, 1874.

William Hawthorne, or Hathorne, was born in England in 1608, and settled in
Dorchester, Mass., from whence he removed to Salem in 1636. He was a deputy to
the General Court, and speaker from May 29, 1644, to October 2, 1645, and an assistant
from 1662 to 1679. He died in Salem in 1681.

Eleazer Lusher was an assistant from 1662 to 1672.

John Pynchon was born in England in 1625, -and came to Massachusetts in 1648
and settled in Springfield. He was the son of William Pynchon already referred to.
He was a depiity to the General Court in 1659-62-63, and an assistant from 1665 to
1686. He was one of the founders of Northampton, and died January 17, 1703.

Edward Tyng was an assistant from 1668 to 1680.
Thomas Clarke was an assistant from 1673 to 1677.

Peter Bulkley, son of Rev. Peter Bulkley, was born in Concord, Mass., August
12, 1643, and graduated at Harvard in 1660. He was representative many years and
speaker of the House of Deputies from May 19, 1669, to May 31, 1671, and again from
May 15, 1672, to May 7, 1673. He was an assistant from 1667 to 1684, and died at
Concord in May, 1688.

Humphrey Davy was an assistant from 1679 to 1686.
Peter Tilton was an assistant from 1680 to 1686.

John Richards, son of Thomas, was born in England, and came to Massachusetts
with his father in 1630. He was treasurer of Harvard College from 1669 to 1682, and
again from 1686 to 1693. He was a deputy from Newbury from 1671 to 1673, and

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afterwards from Hadley in 1(575, and from Boston in 1679-80, and speaker of the
House in the last two years. He was an assistant from 1680 to 1686, and a judge of
the Superior Court of Judicature from 1692 to 1694. He died April 2, 1694.

John Hull was an assistant from 1680 to 1683.

Bartholomew Gedney was a physician and lived in Salem. He was born in 1640,
and was an assistant from 1680 to 1683, and a member of the Councils of Dudley and
Andros. He was one of the judges appointed in 1692 to try the witches, and in the
same year was appointed judge of probate for Essex county, and one of the judges of
the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for that county. He died February 28, 1698-9.

Thomas Savage was an assistant in 1680 and 1681.

William Brown was born in Salem in 1639, and was the son of William. He was
an assistant from 1680 to 1683, and died February 14, 1716.

Samuel Appleton was an assistant from 1681 to 1686.

Robert Pike was an assistant from 1682 to 1686.

Samuel Fisher was an assistant in 1683. s

John Woodbridge was an assistant in 1683 and 1684.

William Johnson was an assistant from 1684 to 1686.

John Hawthorne, or Hathorne, son of William, was born in Salem about 1641, was
assistant from 1684 to 1686, and judge of the Superior Court of Judicature from
August 14, 1702, to June, 1712, and died in Boston May 10, 1717.

Elisha Hutchinson, son of Edward, was born in Boston in 1640 and was an assist-
ant from 1684 to 1686. Though a merchant he Avas appointed, March 3, 1693, chief
justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county and remained on
the bench until his death, December 10, 1717.

Samuel Sew all, son of Henry, came from England in 1661 at the age of nine years
and graduated at Harvard in 1671. He studied divinity and occasional^ preached,
but probably had no settlement. He was an assistant from 1684 to 1686, and again
after the deposition of Andros until 1692. Under the provincial government he was
a member of the Council until 1725. In 1692 he was appointed one of the judges to
try the witches, and on the organization of the Superior Court of Judicature he was
made one of the associate justices. In 1718 he was appointed to succeed Wait Win-
throp as chief justice, and served until 1728, when he resigned both that position and
the office of judge of probate for Suffolk count)', which he had held since 1715. He
died in January, 1730.

Isaac Addington, son of Isaac, was born in Boston January 22, 1645, and was edu-
cated as a surgeon. He was a member of the House of Deputies and speaker in
1685. In 1686 he was an assistant, and after the deposition of Andros was made
secretary of the colony, an office he continued to hold under the provincial charter
until his death. He was judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk
county from March 3, 1693, to 1702, when he was appointed chief justice of the Su-
perior Court of Judicature, and remained in office one year. He died March 19,
1715.

John Smith was an assistant in 1686.

Oliver Purchase was chosen an assistant in 1685 and declined.

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Otis Madison Shaw, son of Charles A. and Sophia L. Shaw, was born in Biddeford,
Me., December 7, 1857, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1881. He studied law
at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Allen, Long & Hemenway
in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He makes patent law a
specialty. His residence is in Boston.

Edward Hosmer Savary, son of Rev. William H. and Anna (Hosmer) Savary,
was born in Buffalo, N. Y. , July 22, 1864, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for
Harvard, where he graduated in 1888. He studied law at the Harvard Law School
and in Boston in the offices of Brooks & Nichols and Melville M. Weston, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and to the Circuit Court of the United
States January 23, 1892. He was the law editor of the Boston Real Estate Record
from February to May, 1891. He resides in South Boston.

Sumner Robinson, son of Charles and Rebecca T. (Ames) Robinson, was born in
Charlestown, Mass., October 26, 1866, and graduated at Tufts College in 1888. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January
21, 1891. He is a trustee of Tufts College and lives in Newton.

William Everett Rogers, son of Edward and Charlotte A. (Barron) Rogers, was
born in Webster, Mass., Jul)' 16, 1854, and was educated at the Hartford, Conn.,
High School and Trinity College, from which he graduated in 1877. He graduated
also at the Boston University Law School in 1880, and continued his law studies in
Franklin, N. H., in the office of Daniel Barnard, and in Boston in the office of J. H.
Benton. He was admitted , to the bar at Concord, N. H., in August, 1880, and at
Boston in November of the same year. He has been a member of the School Board
in Wakefield, Mass., where he resides, since 1887, and the treasurer of the Beebe
Town Library in that town since 1886. He married, July 6, 1881, at Tilton, N. H.,
Ellen S. Cate, of Franklin, N. H.

John Paul Robinson, son of Paul and Nancy (Gage) Robinson, was born in Dover,
N. H., March 16, 1800, and after fitting at the Exeter Academy entered Harvard in
1819. He failed to finish his course, but in 1845 received a degree of Master of Arts.
In August, 1823, he entered the office of Daniel Webster in Boston as a student, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 9, 1827. He established himself in Lowell and
continued in business there, serving as a representative in 1829-31, 1833, '39, and as
senator in 1835. He was an eminent Greek scholar and a man of high attainments
in other fields of literature. He married, October 2, 1837, Nancy, daughter of Ezra
and Mary (Lang) Worthen, of Lowell, and died at the Insane Asylum, Somerville,
October 19, 1864.

John Gerry Robinson, son of Joseph H. and Eliza H. Robinson, was born in
Marblehead, Mass., November 24, 1860, and was educated chiefly by private tutors.
He studied law at the Georgetown Law School, in the office of Merrick & Morris in
Washington, D. C. , at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Hyde,
Dickinson & Howe, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1886. His
residence is in Melrose.

John Jones Clarke, son of Rev. Pitt Clarke, of Norton, Mass., and Rebecca
(Jones) Clarke, of Hopkinton, Mass., was born in Norton, Mass., February 24, 1803.
He was educated at the Norton, Frafningham and Andover Academies, and entered

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Harvard in 1819. In consequence of the rebellion, which occurred during his senior
years, he with a large majority of his class failed to receive a degree, but in 1841 the
degree of Master of Arts was conferred on him. He studied law in the offices of
Laban Wheaton, of Norton, and James Richardson, of Dedham, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar June, 20, 1828. He had previously been admitted in either Norfolk
or Bristol counties to the Court of Common Pleas in 1826. He established himself in
Roxbury, and made that place his residence during the remainder of life. In 1848 he
associated himself in business with his brother, Manlius Stimson Clarke in Boston,
retaining, however, his office in Roxbury for some years. On the death of his brother
in 1853 he was associated for a time with Elias Merwin, and in 1854 with Lemuel
Shaw, jr., with whom he remained until 1863, soon after which time he retired from
business. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from
Roxbury -in 1836 and 1837, a senator in 1853, and when Roxbury was made a city in
1846 he was chosen its mayor, declining to serve more than one year. He married
in 1830 Rebecca Cordis Haswell, and died in the Roxbury District of Boston Novem-
ber 5, 1887.

Manlius Stimson Clarke, son of Rev. Pitt and Rebecca (Jones) Clarke, of Norton,
Mass., was born in Norton, October 17, 1816, and graduated at Harvard in 1837. He
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in January of the same year, and was associated in business with George Tyler
Bigelow until Mr. Bigelow was in 1848 appointed judge of the Court of Common
Pleas. He then became associated with his brother, John Jones Clarke, who had
previously practiced in Roxbury, and this partnership continued until his death,
which occurred in Boston, April 28, 1853. He married, December 1, 1841, Frances
Cordis Lemist, of Roxbury.

Edward Sohier was the -son of Edward Sohier, who came to America in 1750
from St,. Martins in the Island of Jersey. The father was born December 27,
1724, and married in Boston, March 13, 1760, Susannah Brimmer. He died in Maine,
May 23, 1794. The son, Edward, was born in Boston in September, 1762, and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1781. He studied law in the office of John Lowell, and at a
meeting of the Suffolk bar held on the 7th of July, 1784, it was voted, on motion of
Mr. Lowell, ' ' that Mr. Edward Sohier be recommended by the bar to the Court of
Common Pleas this term for the oath of an attorney of that court." He married in
1786, Mary Davies, and died October 28, 1793.

William Davies Sohier, son of Edward and Mary (Davies) Sohier, was born in Bos-
ton, March 14, 1787, and received his early education under Master Pemberton in
Billerica, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1805, and after studying law with
Christopher Gore, was admitted to the bar of the Common Pleas Court in July, 1808,
and to that of the Supreme Judicial Court in March, 1810. He married, June 20, 1809,
Elizabeth Amory Dexter, and died at Cohasset, June 11, 1868.

Edward Dexter Sohier, son of William Davies and Elizabeth Amory (Dexter)
Sohier, was born in Boston, April 24, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. He
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, '1832, and in 1838 formed a partnership
with Charles A. Welch, which continued till his death. Mr. Sohier was in many re-
spects a remarkable man. He was a profound lawyer, full of resources, forcible in
argument, sharp in repartee, conscientious in his management of cases, and withal

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as has been said " as witty as Sydney Smith and more agreeable." At a meeting
of the Suffolk bar to pay due tribute to his memory, the presiding officer, Edward
Bangs, said, "Asa lawyer he stood among the first; as a man, his courtesy, his
honesty, his untarnished honor, the severe strictness of his integrity, made him re-
markable, even among associates abounding in such virtues." He married, February
16, 1836, Hannah Louis Amory, and died November 23, 1888.

William Sohier, son of William Davies and Elizabeth Amory (Dexter) Sohier, was
born in Boston, March 24, 1822, and graduated at Harvard in 1840. He studied law
with Edward D. Sohier in Boston and with Samuel Fessenden and Thomas A. De
Blois in Portland, Me., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 9, 1843. He
married Susan Cabot, daughter of John Amory Lowell, of Roxbury, Mass. , October
11, 1846, and lives in Beverly, Mass.

William Davies Sohier, son- of William and Susan Cabot (Lowell) Sohier, was born
in Boston, October 22, 1858, and was educated at private schools and at the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in
the offices of Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in June, 1881, and later to the United States Circuit Court. He, was a member
of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1888 to 1891 from Beverly and
was remarkably effective in his opposition to the division of that town. He married
Edith F. Alden, December 13, 1880, and lives in Beverly.

Augustus E. Scott, son of Rila and Sarah S. Scott, was born in Franklin, Mass.,
August 18, 1838, and graduated at Tufts College in 1858. He studied law at the Law
School in Albany, N. Y., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 12, 1866,
having been previously admitted to the bar in New York. He was a member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1879 and 1880, and a member of the Sen-
ate in 1885 and 1886. He married Cecilia F. Gustine in New Orleans, January 20, 1891,
and lives in Lexington.

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Robert Hermann Otto Schuz, son of Carl H. A. and Caroline (Weckell) Schuz,
was born in Boston, April 7, 1866, and was educated at the Dedham public schools
and the Boston University. He studied law in Boston with W. E. L. Dilloway, and
in Dedham with Austin Mackintosh, and in the Boston University Law School. He
was admitted to the Norfolk county bar at Dedham, May 22, 1888. He was counsel
for the defendant in the Commonwealth vs. Philip Hoffman, arrested for the murder
of Mary Emerson, of Dedham, in June, 1891, in which Hoffman was released from
imprisonment by the Supreme Court in habeas corpus proceedings. He lives in
Dedham.

Andrew Ritchie, son of Andrew and Isabella (Montgomery) Ritchie, was born in
Boston, July 18, 1782, and graduated at Harvard in 1802. He studied law with Rufus
Greene Amory in Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1805. In 1808
he was the Fourth of July orator in Boston. He married, March 27, 1807, Maria Cor-
nelia, daughter of Cornelius Durant, a West India planter, and December 2, 1823,
Sophia Harrison, daughter of Harrison Gray Otis. He died at Newport, R. I., Au-
gust 7, 1862.

Charles Robertson Saunders, son of Charles Hicks and Mary Brooks (Ball)
Saunders, was born in Cambridge, Mass., November 22, 1862, and fitted at the Cam-
bridge High School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1884. He graduated also at

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the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 17, 1888.
He was in college president of the Harvard Union, and has been since president of
the Cambridge Lyceum. He lives in Cambridge.

Daniel Saunders, son of Daniel and Phcebe F. (Abbott) Saunders, was born in
Andover, Mass., and was educated at Phillips Andover Academy. He studied law
at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Josiah G. Abbott and Samuel A.
Brown in Lowell, and was admitted to the bar in Cambridge, January 1, 1845. He
has been a member of both houses of the Massachusetts Legislature and mayor of
Lawrence, where he resides. He married at Lowell, October 7, 1846, Mary J. , daughter
of Judge Edward St. Loe Livermore.

Louis Carver Southard, son of William L. and Lydia Carver Dennis Southard,
was born in Portland, Me., April 1, 1854, and was educated at the Portland public
schools, the Dorchester High School and the Maine State College. He studied law
with W. W. Thomas and Clarence Hale in Portland and at the Boston University
Law School. He was admitted to the bar in Portland in October, 1877, and later to
the bar in Massachusetts. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre.
sentatives from the Second Bristol District in 1887. He has been an active Republi-
can, serving as the president of the Republican Club of Easton, and member of the
Republican State Committee. He has been counsel in important cases, among which
were the Robert Treat Paine will case and others equally well known. He married
Nellie Copeland, daughter of Joseph and Lucy A. Copeland, of Easton. . He has been
engaged largely in newspaper work and was from 1877 to 1880 editor of the Easton
Journal. His residence is at North Easton.

William Channing Appleton was born in Boston, October 25, 1812, and graduated
at Harvard in 1832. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1836, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in August in that year. He died in the Roxbury District
of Boston, August 8, 1892.

Thomas Andrews Watson was born in Boston, December 19, 1823, and graduated at
Harvard in 1845. He graduated also from the Harvard Law School in 1848, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar April 10, 1849. In 1852 he left Boston and moved to New
York, where he became one of the leading real estate lawyers of the city, holding for
fifteen )^ears prior to his death a place of responsibility in the real estate department
of the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company. He died in New York city, May
15, 1892.

James Ancrum Winslow was born in Roxbury, Mass., April 29, 1839, and graduated
at Harvard in 1859. In 1865 he appears in the roll of members of the Suffolk bar. He
died at Binghamton, N. Y., June 27, 1892.

Frederick Dabney was born at Fayal, Azores, August 9, 1846, and graduated at
Harvard in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 13, 1869. He died
at Boston July 24, 1892.

Arthur Lincoln Allen was born in West Cambridge, Mass., September 28, 1863,
and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School
in 1888, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in that year. He died at Arlington,
May 16, 1892.

Edward Mellen was born in Westboro', Mass., in 1802, and graduated at Brown
University in 1823. He was admitted to the bar in 1828 and settled in Wayland. In

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1847 he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1854 succeeded
Daniel Wells as chief justice of that court. He remained on the bench until the
Common Pleas Court was abolished in 1859, when he settled in Worcester, and died
in 1875.

Mathew James McCafferty was born in Ireland in 1829. He studied law in Low-
ell, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 1857. He practiced in Worces-
ter after leaving Lowell, and was appointed judge of the Boston Municipal Court
January 24, 1883, and died in Boston May 5, 1885.

Benjamin Lynde was born in Salem, September 22, 1666, and graduated at Harvard
in 1686. In 1692 he went to England and studied law in the Middle Temple, London'.
In 1697 he returned to Massachusetts with a commission as advocate general of the
Court of Admiralty for Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. In 1699 he re-
moved from Boston- to Salem and continued his residence there until his death. He
was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1712, and in 1729 was
made chief justice. He married a daughter of William Browne, of Salem, and died
January 28, 1749. ,

Benjamin Lynde, jr., son of Benjamin Lynde above mentioned, was born in Salem,'
October 5, 1700, and graduated at Harvard in 1718. He was appointed in 1739 judge
of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Essex county, and in 1845, the year of his
father's resignation as chief justice of the Superior Court of Judicature, he was made
a justice of that court. In 1769 he was made chief justice and resigned in 1771. After
leaving the bench he was appointed judge of probate for Essex county, and held that
position until his death, which occurred October 9, 1781.

Stephen Sewall, son of Stephen Sewall, of Newbury, and nephew of Chief Justice
Samuel Sewall, was born in Salem, December 18, 1704, and graduated at Harvard in
1721. After leaving college he taught school in Marblehead and served as tutor at
Harvard College from 1728 to 1739. He was appointed judge of the Superior Court of
Judicature in 1739, and in 1752 was made chief justice to succeed Paul Dudley. He
died unmarried, September 10, 1760.

Peter Oliver, son of Daniel, was born in Boston, March 26, 1713,, and graduated at
Harvard in 1730. He early established himself in Middleboro', Mass., and occupied
a seat on the bench of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Plymouth county
from 1747 to 1756. On the 14th of September, 1756, he was appointed judge of the
Superior Court/ of Judicature, and in 1771 was made chief justice to- succeed Benjamin
Lynde, jr., who had resigned. In 1774, by a modification of the charter, the salaries
of the judges were made payable by the crown and the salary of the chief justice
was increased to £400. All the judges except Oliver, yielding to popular clamor, re-
fused to receive their salaries from the crown, and notwithstanding the expressed
wishes of the Legislature, he continued his refusal to decline accepting any grant
except from the General Court. In 1775 he left the bench and went to England when
the British troops evacuated Boston in 1776, and died at Birmingham, England,
October 13, 1791. During his residence in England he received the degree of LL.D.
from the University of Oxford.

Peter Oliver, son of Dr. Daniel Oliver, was born in Hanover, N* H., in 1821, and
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar
May 7, 1844, and died in 1855, while on a voyage which he had undertaken for his

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health. He left the manuscript of "The Puritan Commonwealth," which was pub-
lished in 1856 by his brother, F. E. Oliver.

John Walley, son of Rev. Thomas Walley, was born in Barnstable in 1644, and
was an assistant in the Plymouth colony from 1684 to 1686. He was one of the
founders of the town of Bristol, and was appointed in 1700 a judge of the Superior
Court of Judicature, remaining on the bench until his death, which occurred in Bos-
ton January 11, 1712.

John Saffin was born in England, and coming to New England about 1650 settled
in Scituate. He afterwards removed to Boston, and was speaker of the House of
Deputies in 1686. In 1688, or about that time, he removed to Bristol, and was ap-
pointed judge of probate for Bristol county, after the accession of William and Mary,
holding the office until 1702. In 1701 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court
of Judicature and held the office one year. He married three wives — first in 1668,
Martha, daughter of Thomas Willet; second in 1680, after he removed to Boston,
Elizabeth, widow of Peter Lidget, and third Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Lee, of
Bristol. He died at Bristol July 29, 1710. '

Jonathan Curwin was born in Salem in November, 1640, and always had his resi-
dence there. He was appointed in 1692 one of the judges of the court to try the
witches in the place of Nathaniel Saltonstall who had declined. In the same year he
was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Essex county, and
held that office until 1708, when he was appointed one of the judges of the Superior
Court of Judicature. In 1715 he resigned, and died in June, 1718.

Nathaniel Thomas, son of Nathaniel and Deborah (Jacob) Thomas, of Marshfield,
was born in Marshfield about 1665. He was the great-grandson of William Thomas,
one of the merchants of London who assisted the Pilgrims in their enterprise and who
came to New England and settled in Marshfield in 1630. He was evidently bred as a
lawyer, and in 1686 took the oath as an attorney of the Superior Court. He was a
judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Plymouth county from 1702 to 1712,
when he was appointed to a seat on the bench of the Superior Court of Judicature,
which he resigned in 1718. Judge Washburn in his Judicial History of Massachusetts
errs in stating that Gen. John Thomas of the Revolution was a descendant of Na-
thaniel. The general belonged to an entirely distinct Thomas family and was de-
scended not from William, the ancestor of Nathaniel, but from John, who came an
orphan in the ship Hopewell from London in 1635 and also settled in Marshfield.
The only connection between the descendants in the present generation of the two
ancestors William and John, arises from the marriage of Gen. John Thomas with
Hannah Thomas, a granddaughter of Judge Thomas, the subject of this sketch.
Judge Thomas, the subject of this sketch, died in 1718, the year he left the bench.
He married in 1694, Mary, daughter of John Appleton, of Ipswich.

Edmund Quincy, son of Edmund Quincy, of Braintree, was born in Braintree, Oc-
tober 24, 1681. He graduated at Harvard in 1699. In 1713 he was commissioned
colonel of the Suffolk regiment, was many years a representative, and in 1715 was
chosen a member of the Council. In 1718 he was appointed a judge of the Superior
Court of Judicature, and held that seat until his death. He was appointed in 1737 an
agent of Massachusetts, and went to England in the performance of his duties touch-

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ing the boundary line between the provinces of Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
He was inoculated for the small-pox in London, and died of the disease February 23,
1737.

John Cushing was born in Scituate in 1662. In 1702 he was appointed chief justice
of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Plymouth county, and held his seat until
1728, when he was appointed to a seat on the Superior Court bench, which he occu-
died until 1733. He died at Scituate in 1737.

Jonathan Remington was born in Cambridge about 1677, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1696. He was appointed chief justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas
for Middlesex county in 1715 to succeed John Phillips, and in 1731 was made judge of
probate for that county. In 1733 he was made judge of the Superior Court of Judi-
cature and remained on the bench until his death, which took place September 20,
1745. ,

Thomas Greaves was born in Charlestown in 1684, and graduated at Harvard in
1703. He was a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex county
from 1733 to 1738 and from 1739 to 1747. During, the year 1738 he occupied a seat on
the Superior Court bench. He died June 19, 1747.

Nathaniel Hubbard graduated at Harvard in 1698, and for many years resided in
Bristol. He was a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Bristol county
from 1728 to 1745, and in the latter year was promoted to the bench of the Superior
Court. In 1729 he was appointed by Nathaniel Byfield deputy judge of admiralty
for Bristol county in Massachusetts, and the colony of Rhode Island and the Narra-
ganset country. He died in 1747, while occupying his seat on the Superior bench.

John Cushing, son of Judge John Cushing, previously mentioned, was born in Scit-
uate in 1695, and always made that town his place of residence. From 1746 to 1763
he was a member of the Council, and from 1738 to 1746 judge of probate for Plymouth
county. From 1738 to 1747 he was one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas
for Plymouth county, and in the latter year was made a judge of the Superior Court
of Judicature. He resigned his seat in 1771, and died in 1778.

Chambers Russell, son of Daniel Russell, was born in Charlestown in 1713, and
graduated at Harvard in 1731. From 1747 to 1752 he was one of the judges of the
Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex county, and a member of the Council in 1759
and 1760. He was also appointed in 1747 judge of vice-admiralty over New Hamp-
shire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He early in life established himself in Con-
cord and represented that town in the General Court. He was appointed judge of the
Superior Court in 1752 and remained on the bench until his death, which occurred in
Guilford, England, November 24, 1766. Judge Russell was one of the few judges up
to his time educated in the law.

Edmund Trowbridge was born in Newton in 1709, and graduated at Harvard in
1727. He was trained as a lawyer and in 1749 was appointed attorney-general of the
Province. In 1764 and 1765 he was a member of the Council, and in 1767 was ap-
pointed a judge of the Superior Court of Judicature. He resigned in 1775 and died
at Cambridge, April 2, 1793.

Foster Hutchinson, a brother of Governor Thomas Hutchinson and son of
Thomas, a merchant of Boston, was born in Boston about 1702 and graduated at

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Harvard in 17S1. Though a merchant he was appointed judge of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk in 1758, and remained in that court until 1771,
when he was promoted to the Superior Bench. In 1769 he was appointed judge of
probate for Suffolk county, and retained this office together with his seat on the
bench until the Revolution when he went to England with other loyalists and there
died.

Nathaniel Ropes was born in Salem, May 20, 1726, and graduated at Harvard in
1745. He was a member of the Council from 1762 to 1769, and in 1761 was appointed
judge of probate for Essex county and chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas for
that county. He was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1772,
and remained on the bench until his death, March 18, 1774.

William Cushing, son of John Cushing already mentioned, was born in Scituate,
March 1, 1732, and graduated at Harvard in 1751. He studied law with Jeremiah
Gridley in Boston, and settled in Pownalboro, Me., in 1755. In 1760 he was appointed
judge of probate for Lincoln county, and in 1772 was appointed judge of the Superior
Court, retaining his seat through the Revolution and being appointed in 1777 chief
justice, a position which he continued to hold in the Supreme Judicial Court after its
establishment in 1782. In 1789 he was appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court
of the United States. In 1796, on the resignation of Chief Justice Jay, he was ap-
pointed as his successor, but declined, remaining however on the bench as associate
justice until his death, which occurred at Scituate, September 13, 1810.

William Browne was born in Salem, February 27, 1737, and graduated at Harvard
in 1755. He was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Essex county from 1770
to 1774 and many years a representative from Salem. He was appointed judge of
the Superior Court of Judicature in 1774 and at an earlier date he had been collector
of the port of Salem. He remained on the bench until the Revolution, when he left
the country and was made governor of Bermuda. He died in England, February
13, 1802.

Charles Devens, son of Charles and Mary (Lithgow) Devens, was born in Charles-
town, April 4, 1820, and graduated at Harvard in 1838. He studied law at the Har-
vard Law School, where he graduated in 1840, and in the office of George T. Davis
in Greenfield, and was admitted to the Franklin county bar in 1841. After his ad-
mission to the bar he was associated with Mr. Davis in business until 1849, represent-
ing Franklin county in the Senate in 1848. From 1849 to 1853 he held the posi-
tion of United States marshal for Massachusetts, and in 1854 resumed the practice of
law in partnership with George F. Hoar in Worcester. While he was marshal it
became his duty to execute the process remanding to his alleged owner Thomas
Sims, a fugitive slave, and until the war came on he made unavailing efforts to
purchase the freedom of the man he had officially aided in returning to slavery.
After the emancipation proclamation had freed Sims, Mr. Devens assisted him, and
when attorn ey-general of the United States, during the administration of President
Hayes, gave him a place in his department. In April, 1861, he took command of a
rifle battalion for three months' service and was posted at Fort McHenry in Balti-
more harbor. On his return home he was commissioned colonel of the Fifteenth
Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, raised for three years' service, and was en-
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gaged in the battle of Balls Bluff, where after the death of Colonel Baker he was left
in command. He was made brigadier -general of volunteers April 15, 1862, and was
engaged in the battles of Williamsburg, Fairoaks, South Mountain and Antietam.
At the battle of Chancellorsville he commanded a division of the Eleventh Corps,
and in 1864-5 he was attached to the Eighteenth Corps. In December, 1864, he was
in command of the Twenty-fourth Corps, and in April, 1865, was brevetted major
general. He remained in the service until June, 1866, when he was mustered out.
In 1867 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court and remained on the bench of
that court until 1873, when he was made judge of the Supreme Judicial Court. In
1877 he left the bench to take the office of attorney-general of the United States, and
was reappointed to the bench in 1881, after his retirement from the cabinet. On the
17th of June, 1875, he delivered an oration at the celebration of the two hundredth
anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill, which gave him a leading position as an
orator. In 1877 he received from Harvard the degree of LL.D. He died in Boston
January 7, 1891.

Seth Ames, son of Fisher Ames, was born in Dedham, Mass., April 19, 1805. His
mother was Frances, a daughter of Colonel John Worthington, of Springfield, Mass.
He graduated at Harvard in 1825. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and
in Springfield in the office of George Bliss, and in Boston in the office of Lemuel
Shaw. He was admitted to the Common Pleas Court in Dedham in 1828 and to the
Supreme Court in Cambridge in October, 1830, and began to practice in Lowell,
where for a time he was associated with Thomas Hopkinson. He was a member of
the Lowell Board of Aldermen in 1836-37, '40, a representative in 1832 and a senator
in 1841. He was also city solicitor from 1842 to 1849. In 1849 he was appointed
clerk of the courts for Middlesex county and removed to Cambridge. When the Su-
perior Court was established in 1859 he was appointed an associate judge, and in 1867
succeeded Charles Allen as chief justice. In 1869 he was promoted to the bench of
the Supreme Judicial Court and removed to Brookline. He resigned his seat Jan-
uary 15, 1881, and died in Brookline, August 15, in the same year. He married in
1830 Margaret, daughter of Gamaliel Bradford, of Boston, and in 1849 Abigail Fisher,
daughter of Rev. Samuel Dana, of Marblehead.

William Sewall Gardner was born in Hallowell, Me., October 1, 1827, and gradu-
ated at Bowdoin College in 1850. He studied law in Lowell and was admitted to
the Middlesex bar in October, 1852. He began practice in Lowell, associated with
Theodore H. Sweetser, and remained there until 1861, when he removed his office
to Boston. In 1875 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court, and in 1885 he
was promoted to the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court. He resigned on the 7th
of September, 1887, and died at his home in Newton, April 4, 1888.

Abraham Moore was born in Bolton, Mass., January 5, 1785, and graduated at
Harvard in 1806. He studied law with Timothy Bigelow in Groton, Mass., and after
admission to the bar began to practice in that town. He was postmaster of Groton
from 1812 to 1815, when he removed to Boston, where he remained until his death,
January 3, 1854. He married first Mary (Mills), a double widow of a Mr. Barnard
and a Mr. Woodham. She had been ah actress, and in consequence of her husband's
financial troubles, returned to the stage and appeared in Boston as Lady Teazle.
Two of Mr. Moore's daughters by this wife married John Cockran Park, a distin-

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guished member of the Suffolk bar, and Grenville Mears, a well known merchant of
Boston. Mr. Moore married second in 1819, Eliza, daughter of Isaac Durell.

Theodore Harrison Sweetser was born in Wardsboro', Vt., in 1821, and entered
Amherst College, but did not finish his college course. He studied law with Tappan
Wentworth in Lowell and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1843.
He began to practice in Lowell, and continued there, associated at different times
with Benjamin Poole and William Sewall Gardner until 1879, when he removed to
Boston. He was a member of tlie Common Council of Lowell in 1851, city solicitor in
1853-54, '59-60 and 61, a member of the House of Representatives in 1870, and at
one time the Democratic candidate for governor. He died in Boston, May 8, 1882.

George Merrick Brooks, son of Nathan and Mary (Merrick) Brooks, was born in
Concord, Mass., in 1824, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He studied law with
Hopkinson & Ames in Lowell and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1847.
He has always lived in Concord, where he has been a selectman five years, and was
in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1858 and in the Senate in 1859.
From 1869 to 1872 he was a member of Congress, and in the latter year was appointed
judge of probate for Middlesex county, which position he still holds. He married in
1851 Abba Prescott, and in 1869 Mary A. Dillingham, of Lowell.

Arthur P. Cushing, son of Thomas and Elizabeth A. (Baldwin) Cushing, was
born in Scituate, Mass., August 16, 1856, and received his early education at the
Chauncy Hall School in Boston, and in Germany and Switzerland. He graduated at
at Harvard in 1878 and prosecuted his law studies at the Harvard Law School. He
was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county in 1882. He has been the Mexican consul
in Boston since 1887.

Clement Kelsey Fay, son of Harrison and Sarah P. Fay, was born in Brookline,
Mass., November 17, 1845, and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He studied law with
Ropes & Gray in Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1869. He was a
member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Brookline in 1885 and
1886 ; prison commissioner in 1886 and 1887, and has been, or is now, a trustee of the
Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge ; one of the Board of Managers of the
Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary; trustee of the Brookline Public
Library, and president of the Law Enforcement Association. His residence is in
Brookline.

John Cochran Park was born in Boston, June 10, 1804, and graduated at Harvard
in 1824. He was admitted to the bar in 1827. In 1851 he was appointed district
attorney for the Suffolk district, and remained in office two years. In 1860 he re-
moved his residence to Newton, continuing, however, his office in Boston. In 1881
he was appointed justice of the Newton Police Court, and held that office until his
death. In early life he was an active member of the volunteer militia and at differ-
ent periods commanded the City Guards, the Boston Light Infantry, and the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Company. During the last three years of the Whig party
he was one of its most prominent and efficient members, ready at all times with his
rare oratorical powers to advocate its principles and promote its success. He mar-
ried twice, his first wife being the daughter of Abraham Moore already mentioned.
He died at Newton, April 21, 1889.

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Charles John McIntire was born in Cambridge, March 26, 1842. He studied law
at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1865. During the
period of his law study he served nine months in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts
Regiment. He has been a member of the Common Council of Cambridge, a member
of the Board of Aldermen, and was a member of the House of Representatives in
1869 and 1870. He has also been assistant district attorney for Middlesex and city
solicitor of Cambridge, where he resides. He married in 1865 Maria Terese, daugh-
ter of George B. Linegan, of Charlestown.

George Henry Gordon was born in Charlestown, July 19, 1825, and graduated at
West Point in 1846. He served in the Mounted Rifles under General Scott in the
Mexican War and was brevetted first lieutenant April 18, 1847, for gallant conduct in
the field. He was made first lieutenant August 30, 1853, and resigned October 31,
1854. He then studied law at the Harvard Law School and after admission to the
bar began practice in Boston. In 1861 he was commissioned colonel of the Second
Massachusetts Regiment and was made brigadier general of volunteers June 9, 1862.
He was engaged in the second battle of Bull Run and Antietam, and in the opera-
tions about Charleston harbor and against Mobile in 1863 and 1864. He was bre-
vetted major general of volunteers April 9, 1865, and mustered out August 20, 1865.
After his discharge from the service he practiced law in Boston until his death, which
took place at Framingham, August 30, 1866.

George Herbert Harding, son of George W. and Harriet M. Harding, was born
in Burlington, Vt. , April 30, 1854. He attended Phillips Exeter and Andover acad-
emies and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied law at the Harvard Law School
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1881. He is chiefly engaged in trust
business. He married Helen B. Hall at Bristol, R. I., May 25, 1887.

Otis L. Bonney was born in Hanson, Mass., December 2, 1838, and attended the
public schools of that town until 1852, when his parents removed to Boston. He there
attended the Phillips Grammar School, receiving the Franklin medal, and the Eng-
lish High School. After attending Comer's Commercial College he engaged as a
book-keeper in a business house until the autumn of 1861, when he enlisted for three
years' service in Company E, Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment. After his re-
turn from the war he taught school for five years in Halifax, Hanson, Weymouth and
Charlestown, and studied law in Boston in the office of Ropes & Gray. He was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar on examination in March, 1874, and began practice in Bos-
ton. In 1880, while holding as he still does his residence in Hanson, he opened an
office in Whitman, Mass., and is now a practicing lawyer in that town. He married,
November 26, 1867, Grace, daughter of Theodore Cobb, of Hanson.

Jonathan Dorr, son of Ralph Smith and Nancy (Williams) Dorr, was born in Louis-
ville, Ky., January 1, 1842, and after attending the Roxbury, Mass., Latin School,
entered Harvard and graduated in 1864. He studied law at the Boston University
Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1874. His business is
chiefly connected with trusts and corporation affairs. He married Anne Isabella
Kennedy in Roxbury, September 17, 1867, and lives in the Dorchester District of
Boston.

Edward Warren Cate, son of Hiram S. and Caroline P. Cate, was born in New-
ton (Lower Falls), March 18, 1852, and fitted at the public schools for Harvard, where

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he graduated in 1874. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted
to the Middlesex bar July 8, 1878. He has been councilman, alderman, and president
of the Water Board in Newton. He married Mary Louise Doty at Keene, N. H,
October 25, 1883, and lives in Boston.

John Melville Gould, son of John B. and Caroline E. Gould, was born in Marsh-
field, Mass., July 4, 1848, and graduated at Brown University in 1871. He studied
law in England and at the Harvard and Boston University Law Schools, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 12, 1874. He is the author of " The Law of Wa-
ters " and associate author of Gould & Tucker's "Notes on United States Revised
Statutes," and editor of the 9th and 10th volumes of Story's Equity Pleadings. His
residence is in Newton.

Nelson M. Graffam was an attorney in Boston in 1890, and died in December,
1891.

Ambrose Wellington, son of Benjamin Oliver and Mary (Hastings) Wellington,
was born in Lexington, Mass., April 11, 1819, and attended the Lexington public
schools, the academy at Stow under the charge of Leonard Bliss, and the Fairmount
Seminary in Watertown, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1841 and after teach-
ing several years, a part of the time as master of the Smith School in Boston, he
studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1857, confining his
practice chiefly to conveyancing and real estate matters. He married Lucy Jane,
daughter of William Kent, of Concord, N. H, May 27, 1845. With impaired health
he retired some years since from practice and now lives with a daughter in the city
of New York.

Charles Frederick Simmons, son of Judge William and Lucia (Hammatt) Simmons,
was born in Boston, January 27, 1821. After receiving a common school education
he was fitted for college in the Boston Latin School and under the direction of his
brother, Rev. George Frederick Simmons, and entered Harvard in 1837. In his sen-
ior year he was expelled from college as an alleged leader in a rebellion in which his
entire class was involved, but received his degree in 1855. He studied law with Da-
vid A. Simmons and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 13, 1845. Early in
the war he was commissioned adjutant of the Fourteenth Massachusetts Regiment,
but ill health compelled him to resign. For expected benefits from a warm climate
he sailed from Boston for Santiago, Cuba, February 25, 1862, in the brig Gypsy, of
which no tidings were ever heard.

Christopher Gore Ripley, son of Rev. Samuel and Sarah Alden (Bradford) Ripley,
was born in Waltham, Mass., September 6, 1822, and was educated for college by his
father and mother, both of whom were accomplished educators. He entered the
sophomore class at Harvard in 1838 and graduated in 1841. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and in the offices of Franklin Dexter and William H. Gardiner,
and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1844. In 1855 he removed to
Brownsville, Minn., and in 1856 to Chatfield in the same State, and in 1870 was ap-
pointed chief justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota. He resigned in 1874 and
returned to Concord, Mass., where he remained in poor health until his death, which
occurred October 15, 1881. He married, December 14, 1863, Mrs. Fanny Gage, a
daughter of Gideon Horton, of New Orleans.

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Samuel Foster McCleary, son of Samuel Foster and Maria Lynde (Walter) Mc-
Cleary, was born in Boston, July 14, 1822, and received his early education at the
public schools of Boston and the Boston Latin School, receiving the Franklin medal.
He graduated at Harvard in 1841 and at the Harvard Law School in 1843, complet-
ing his studies in Boston in the office of John A. Andrew, and being admitted to the
Suffolk bar October 9, 1844. He succeeded his father as city clerk of Boston and
held the office thirty-one years, his father having held it thirty years. In 1883, fail-
ing a re-election, he was appointed manager of the Equitable Life Assurance Society
of Boston, but resigned in 1888. He has been trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank,
secretary of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, and is now treasurer of the
Franklin Fund for the benefit of young mechanics. He married, February 1, 1855,
Emily Thurston, daughter of Captain James Henry and Eliza Lawrence (Farris)
Barnard, of Nantucket, Mass., and lives in Brookline.

Abraham Jackson, son of Abraham and Harriet Otis (Goddard) Jackson, was born
in Plymouth, Mass., January 31, 1821. He was fitted for college at the High School
in Plymouth, and graduated at Harvard in 1841. He studied law in Baltimore and
at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 7, 1845.
He died unmarried in Boston January 21, 1889.

Wickham Hoffman, son of Murray and Frances Amelia (Burrall) Hoffman, was
born in the city of New York, April 6, 1821, and was fitted for college at private
schools. He graduated at Harvard in 1841, and after studying law was admitted to
the Suffolk bar May 23, 1848, having previously spent a year or two in the business
office of his uncle, L. M. Hoffman, in New York. During the war he held commis-
sions as captain and major, and was appointed in February, 1862, on the staff of
Brigadier-General Thomas Williams and in that capacity he served in the Hatteras
campaign. He participated in the capture of New Orleans, in the battle of Baton
Rouge and in the siege of Port Hudson. On returning to Washington with the
brevet of colonel he was appointed in October, 1866, assistant secretary of legation at
Paris under General John A. Dix, and in January, 1867, full secretary. He remained
in Paris attached to the legation until January, 1875, when he was appointed secre-
tary of legation to the court of St. James. Remaining in London two years he was
transferred in May, 1877, as secretary of legation to St. Petersburg and remained
there six years. In March, 1883, he was appoiuted Minister to Denmark, which post
he held until 1885. ,He published in 1877 a volume entitled "Camp, Court and
Siege: a narative of personal adventure during the wars, 1861-65 and 1870-71," and
in 1883 "Leisure Hours in Russia." He married, May 14, 1844, Elizabeth Baylies,
of Taunton, and resides in New York.

George Whiting Hay, son of Joseph and Bathsheba (Whiting) Hay, was born in
Boston, June 29, 1820, and fitted for college at private schools. He graduated at
Harvard in 1841, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of
Sidney Bartlett, and was admitted to the bar. He removed early to Ashburnham,
Mass. , and there lived until his death, August 24, 1879..

Franklin Hall, son of Jesse and Sarah D. (Wiswall) Hall, was born in East Cam-
bridge, Mass., August 8, 1822, and attended the Cambridge public schools and the
Framingham Academy. He graduated at Harvard in 1841, and graduated at the Har-
vard Law School in 1844, and after a short time in the office of John C. Dodge in Bos-

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ton, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 6, 1845. He was a member of the Mas-
sachusetts House of Representatives in 1854 and 1856, and a member of the Cam-
bridge School Board in 1859 and 1860. He married Jane W. Morse, daughter of Sam-
uel F. Morse, of Boston, October 15, 1863, and died in Dorchester August 6, 1868.

James Trecothick Austin, son of Jonathan Loring and Hannah (I vers) Austin, was
born in Boston January 10, 1784, and was educated before entering college at the
private school of Caleb Bingham, in the Boston Latin School and at Andover. He
graduated in 1802 at Harvard, studied law with William Sullivan, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in July, 1805. In 1807 he was appointed by Governor Sullivan
attorney of the State for Suffolk county, and in 1809 town advocate. In 1811
he was reappointed attorney of the State, or county attorney. In 1816 he was
appointed by President Madison to manage the business under the 41st article
of the treaty of Ghent, and in 1820 he was a member of the Massachusetts
Constitutional Convention. He continued to act as county attorney until 1832,
and in 1825-26 and 1831 he was a member of the State Senate. When the office
of solicitor-general was abolished and the office of attorney-general created in
1832 he was appointed by Governor Lincoln to that office and held it until it was
abolished in 1843. In 1831 he delivered the annual Phi Beta oration, and in 1835 re-
ceived the degree of LL.D. from Harvard. He published the life of his father-in-
law, Elbridge Gerry, two Fourth of July orations, one at Lexington in 1815 and one
in Boston in 1829, and was a frequent contributor to the Christian Exami?ier, and the
Law Reporter, and other magazines. He married, October 2, 1806, Catharine,
daughter of Elbridge Gerry, of Boston, and died in Boston, Avhere he had always re-
sided, May 8, 1870.

Ivers James Austin, son of James Trecothick and Catharine (Gerry) Austin, was
born in Boston, February 14, 1808, and graduated at West Point in 1828. He was
brevetted second lieutenant of artillery, July 1, 1828, and resigned November 8, 1828.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the Common Pleas Court April 11, 1831, and in
the Supreme Judicial Court April 3, 1833, having studied law in the office of his father.
His military tastes led him into the volunteer, militia and he passed through the sev-
eral grades from adjutant to lieutenant-colonel. He was a member of the Massa-
chusetts House of Representatives in 1838, a visitor at West Point in 1842, and he re-
ceived from Harvard in 1852 the degree of Master of Arts. He published a memoir
of Prof. Wm. W. Mather in 1883, and died at Newport, June 11, 1889.

Elbridge Gerry Austin, son of James Trecothick and Catharine (Gerry) Austin,
was born in Boston, October 10, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. He was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1832 in the Common Pleas Court, and to the Middlesex
bar in the Supreme Court in October, 1834. He practiced in Boston until 1850, when
he removed to San Francisco. While on a visit to Massachusetts he died at Nahant,
July 23, 1854.

John Downes Austin, son of William and Hepzibah (Downes) Austin, was born in
Boston, February 10, 1827, and after living in Boston, Roxbury, Lowell, Dedham,
Ravenwood, La., and Columbia, Tenn. , he fitted for Harvard at the school of Stephen
Minot Weld at Jamaica Plain, near Boston, and graduated in 1846. He studied law in
the Harvard Law School, receiving the degree of LL.B. in 1848, and in Boston in the

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office of Bradford Sumner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. In 1850 he removed
to Taunton and was associated a short time in practice with Horatio Pratt. In 1853
he removed to New York, but returned to Boston in 1854 and continued in practice
there until his death. On the 25th of February, 1861, he visited New York, and on
the night of the 28th disappeared. On the 1st of March his hat was found in Bronx
river, near Williamsbridge, and his shirt on the bank. On the 11th of April his body
was found in a pond at White Plains. It may be inferred that his death occurred Feb-
ruary 28, 1861.

George Howard Fall, son of George H. and Rebecca G. (Howard) Fall, was born
in Maiden, Mass., October 19, 1858. He attended the Maiden High School and the
Boston University, and studied law at the Boston University Law School. He was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1887, and is, or has been, a lecturer in the Col-
lege of Liberal Arts and in the Boston University Law School. He married, Septem-
ber 17, 1884, Anna Christy, and lives in Maiden.

Anna Christy Fall, daughter of William and Margaret Christy, was born in Chel-
sea, Mass., April 23, 1855, and was educated at the Chelsea High School and the Bos-
ton University. She graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1891, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891. She married George Howard Fall,
September 17, 1884, and lives in Maiden, where she is now serving a three years term
on the School Board.

Charles Gersham Fall, son of Gersham Lord and Rowena Powers Moody Fall, was
born in Maiden, Mass., June 22, 1845, and was fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for
Harvard, where he graduated in 1868. He studied law at the Harvard Law School
and in Boston in the office of W. A. Richardson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1869. He has been interested in the establishment of an arbitration board and the
Employer's Liability Act, and has been engaged in various important suits for dam-
ages against railroad companies. He has published two books of poems and " Fall on
Employer's Liability." His residence is in Boston.

Rufus G. Fairbanks, son of William and Mary P. (Hayward) Fairbanks, was born
in Bellingham, Mass., July 11, 1859, and was educated at the Medway High School
and the Wesleyan Academy. He studied law in the office of Thurston, Ripley &
Company, of Providence, R. I., and graduated at the Boston University Law School
in 1884. He was admitted to the Norfolk county bar at Dedham in 1891, and prac-
tices in Boston and West Medway. His residence is at Caryville.

James Henry Flint, son of James and Almira Flint, was born in Middleton,
Mass., June 25, 1852, and was fitted' at Phillips Academy, Andover, for Harvard,
where he graduated in 1876. He studied law in New York city with Stanley, Clark
& Smith, and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in June, 1882. He taught the High School in Marblehead, Mass., from 1876 to
1880, has been a member of the School Board of Weymouth, where he lives, and is
a special justice of the East Norfolk District Court. He has published "Flint on
Trusts and Trustees," and is engaged in preparing other works for the press. He
married Abbie A. Pratt at Weymouth, November 19, 1889.

William Franklin Griffin, son of James S. and Sarah E. Griffin, was born in
Windsor, Me., June 13, 1838, and while attending school in Illinois he entered the
army and served through the war. After his discharge he studied law at Bellows

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Falls, Vt., in the office of J. D. Bridgman and at the Harvard Law School, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1869. He married Abbie W. Spiller at Haver-
hill, Mass., in 1872, and his home is in the West Roxbury District of Boston.

John C. Dodge was born in Newcastle, Me., in 1810, and graduated at Bowdoin
College in 1834. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1842, and made a
specialty of maritime law. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Rep-
resentatives and a member of the Senate. He was president of the Board of Over-
seers of Bowdoin and received from that college in 1875 a degree of LL.D. He
married Lucy Sherman, of Edgecomb, Me., in 1843, and died at Cambridge, July

17, 1890.

Edward St. Loe Livermore, son of Samuel and Jane (Browne) Livermore, was
born in Portsmouth, N. H., April 5, 1762. His father was chief justice of the Su-
perior Court of New Hampshire. He was educated at Londonderry and Holder-
ness, N. H., and studied law in Newburyport in the office of Theophilus Parsons.
He began to practice in Concord, N. H., and afterwards removed to Portsmouth
and was appointed United States district attorney and chief justice of the Superior
Court. In 1802 he removed to Newburyport and was a member of Congress. In
1811 he removed to Boston, and in 1815 to Zanesville, Ohio, but returned to Boston
and finally settled in Tewksbury, where he died September 15, 1832. He married
in 1799 Sarah Crease, daughter of William Stackpole, of Boston.

Edward Brooks, son of Peter C. Brooks, was born in Boston in 1793, and gradu-
ated at Harvard in 1812. He studied law in Boston in the office of his uncle, Ben-
jamin Gorham, and was admitted to the Common Pleas Court in Boston in 1815
and to the Supreme Judicial Court December 23, 1818. He was a representative
from Boston in 1834, '37, '42, and finally removed to Medford, where he died in
1878.

Gorham Brooks, son of Peter C. Brooks, was born in Medford, February 18,
1 795, and fitted at Phillips Academy for Harvard, where he graduated in 1814. He
studied law in Northampton with Joseph Lyman, but the editor is not certain that
he was ever admitted to the bar. He died in Medford, September 10, 1855. He
married a daughter of R. D. Shepherd, of Shepherdstown, Va.

William Austin was born in Charlestown, Mass., March 2, 1778, and graduated
at Harvard in' 1798. He practiced in Suffolk county, but was probably admitted to
the Middlesex bar. In 1805 he was wounded in a duel with James H. Elliott. He
died in Charlestown, June 27, 1841.

Jonathan Williams Austin, son of Benjamin Austin, was born in Boston, April

18, 1751, and graduated at Harvard in 1769. He studied law with John Adams, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 27, 1772. In 1773 he began practice in Chelms-
ford. He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, passing through the grades of
captain, major and colonel, and died during a southern campaign in 1778.

Christopher Gore, son of John Gore, was born in Boston, September 21, 1758, and
graduated at Harvard in 1776. He studied law with John Lowell, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in July, 1778. In 1789 he was appointed United States district at-
torney and in 1796 was appointed one of the commissioners to settle American claims
against England under Jay's treaty. In 1809 he was governor of Massachusetts,
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and from 1813 to 1816 United States senator. He died in Waltham, Mass., March 1,
1827.

Asher Ware was born in Sherburne, Mass., February 10, 1782, and graduated at
Harvard in 1804. He was Greek tutor at Harvard from 1807 to 1811, and Greek pro-
fessor from 1811 to 1815. He practiced one year in Boston, and in 1817 removed to
Portland. In 1820 he was made secretary of state in Maine, and from 1822 to 1866
was judge of the United States District Court. He died in Portland.

Benjamin Gorham, son of Nathaniel Gorham, was born in Charlestown, Mass., Feb-
ruary 13, 1775, and graduated at Harvard in 1795. He practiced in Middlesex and
Suffolk counties, and from 1820 to 1823 and from 1827 to 1835 was a member of Con-
gress. His residence during his professional life was in Boston, where he died Sep-
tember 27. 1856.

George Washington Warren, son of Isaac and Abigail (Fiske) Warren, was born in
Charlestown, Mass. , October 1, 1813, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He was admit-
ted to the Suffolk bar April 5, 1837, and settled in Charlestown. He was a representa-
tive in 1838 and senator in 1853-4. After Charlestown was made a city by an act
accepted March 10, 1847, he was chosen ma}''or three successive years. He was sec-
retary of the Bunker Hill Monument Association ten years, and from 1847 to 1875 its
president. In 1861 he was appointed judge of the Charlestown District Municipal
Court, and continued in office until his death in Boston, where in his latter years he
lived, May 13, 1883. He married first in 1835 Lucy Rogers, daughter of Jonathan
Newell, of Stow, and second, Georgianna, daughter of Jonathan and Susan Pratt
Thompson, of Charlestown.

William Whiting, son of Col. William and Hannah (Conant) Whiting, was born
in Concord, Mass., March 3, 1818. He was descended from Rev. Samuel Whit-
ing, a non-conformist minister, who came in 1636 from Skirbeck, near Boston, Eng-
land, and arrived in Massachusetts on the 26th of May in that year. This ancestor
was born in Boston, England, November 20, 1597, became the minister of the
church in Lynn, and remained there until his death, which occurred December 11,
1679. He married in Boston, England, on the 6th of August, 1629, Elizabeth St.
John, daughter of Sir Oliver St. John, of Cashoe, England. A first wife died in
England, by whom he had two sons and one daughter. The sons died in England
and the daughter married Thomas, son of Rev. Thomas Welde, of Roxbury, Mass.
Joseph Whiting, a son of the second wife, was born in Lynn, Mass., April 6, 1641,
and graduated at Harvard in 1661. He was settled as a minister in Southampton,
Long Island, in 1682, and remained in the pastorate until his death, April 7, 1723.
He married first Sarah, daughter of Thomas Danforth, of Cambridge, who was the
mother of his children, and second, November 11, 1646, Rebecca Prescott. John
Whiting, son of Joseph, was born at Southampton, January 20, 1681, and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1700. He was ordained at Concord, Mass., May 14, 1712.
He continued his connection with the church until 1738, and after that time preached
to a congregation of seceders until his death, May 4, 1752. His wife Mary was a
daughter of Rev. John Cotton, of Hampton, N. H., and great-granddaughter of
Rev. John Cotton, of Boston. Thomas Whiting, son of John, was born in Con-
cord, June 25, 1717, and married Mary Lake. His son William, born at Concord,
September 30, 1760, died at Lancaster in 1832. He married in June, 1783, Rebecca,

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daughter of Rev. Josiah Brown, of Sterling. Col. William Whiting, son of William
and Rebecca, was born in Sterling, Mass., October 20, 1788, and was the father of
the subject of this sketch. He died in Concord, September 29, 1862. Mr. Whiting
pursued his preparatory studies at the Concord Academy, and graduated at Harvard
in 1833. After leaving college, while pursuing a course of law studies, he taught a
private school in Plymouth, and perhaps other places, and graduated at the Harvard
Law School in 1838. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1838, and es-
tablished himself in Boston, where by his tact, industry and perseverance combined
with intellectual power and legal proficiency he gained almost at a single leap an ex-
tensive and lucrative practice. He entered the profession with a determination to
succeed, making success the goal at which he aimed and on which he kept a single
eye. The old Common Pleas Court was the first arena in which he exercised his
powers and the records of that court attest the brilliant opening of his legal career.
His transition from the lower to the higher courts was an easy one. Retaining his
old clients he added to their lists those against whom he had secured verdicts, and
from continued triumphs before a jury still further triumphs were evolved. It was
not long before suits involving the largest interests were confided to him, and among
them those arising under the patent laws more especially commanded his attention.
It has been truly said of him that in ' ' undertaking suits of this nature he studied not
only the legal questions on which it was supposed they would turn, but he explored
to their most minute mechanical details the application and operation of the patents
he was defending or contesting, until he was able to instruct his clients upon practi-
cal defects in their inventions, as well as upon the law." There were others as pro-
found in the law and as persuasive and eloquent, but the distinction between him
and them, and the secret of his success lay in the absolute thoroughness with which
his cases were always prepared and the expert knowledge acquired and displayed in
his examination of witnesses and in his argument to the jury. At the outbreak of
the war, with the same determination to grasp and solve the many intricate legal ques-
tions of the hour which had characterized him at the bar, he published a pamphlet
on "The War Powers of the President and the Legislative Powers of Congress in
Relation to Rebellion, Treason and Slavery," which attracted so much attention that
he was invited at once by the president to act as solicitor of the war department.
Another pamphlet published in 1863 on " Military Arrests in Time of War," aided still
further in relieving the administration from doubts on embarrassing questions, and be-
came the guide of the officers of law in all future prosecutions during the war. He
served gratutiously as solicitor until his resignation in April, 1865. Mr. Whitney was
a presidential elector in 1868, and in 1872 was chosen representative to Congress, but
died before he took his seat at Roxbury, June 29, 1873. He married, October 28, 1840,
Lydia Cushing, daughter of Thomas Russell, of Plymouth, Mass. The following are
the published works of Mr. Whiting: Argument, Boston Gas-Light Co. vs. William
Gault, Boston 1848; Argument, Elias Johnson et al., vs. Peter Lowetal., Boston
1848; Report of the Committee in Favor of the Union of Boston and Roxbury, Bos-
ton 1851 ; Speech before a Legislative Committee on the Destruction of Boston Har-
bor, Boston 1851 ; Argument in Supreme Court of the United States, Brooks vs. Fiske
et al. , (Woodworth Planing Machine Patent), 1852; Argument in Circuit Court of
the United States for Northern District of New York, Ross Winans vs. Orasmus
Eaton etal., on the Eight-wheeled Car Patent, 1853; Address before the Historic

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Gen. Society, 1853; Memoir of Rev. Joseph Harrington, Boston 1854; Argument
before a Legislative Committee against the Erection of a Bridge across Chelsea Creek,
1854; Argument in case of Volute Spring Steam Guage, 1858; Twenty Years' War
against the Railroads. 1860; Argument in Supreme Court of the United States in
Ross Winans vs. New York and Erie Railroad, 1860; The War Powers of the Presi-
dent, etc., 1862; The Return of the Rebellious States, 1863; Military Arrests in
Time of War, 1863; Slavery and Reconstruction, 1864; Military Government of
Hostile Territory, 1864; Argument in the Circuit Court of United States, Union
Sugar Refinery vs. Continental Sugar Refinery, 1867 ; Address before Roxbury Grant
Club, 1868; Constitutionality of the Reconstruction Laws, 1868; Argument, Crowell
vs. Sim et al., 1869; Argument, Rumford Chemical Works vs. John E. Lauer, 1869;
Argument, City of Chicago vs. George T. Bigelow, Administrator, 1869 ; Argument,
Union Sugar Refinery vs. Francis O. Matthiersson, 1869; Argument before Commis-
sioner of Patents, 1870 ; Letter on Pacific Railroad, 1870 ; Argument, James S.
Carew et al. vs. Boston Elastic Fabric Co., 1871; Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting,
1872; Argument, Union Paper Collar Co. vs. Ward, 1872; Argument, Rumford
Chemical Works vs. Hecker et al. , 1872 ; Address before Roxbury Grant and Wilson
Club, 1872 ; Address before Societies of Colby University, 1872. Mr. Whiting was
president of the New England Historic Genealogical Society from 1853 to 1858, presi-
dent of the Pilgrim Society in 1864, corresponding member of the New York Histori-
cal Society, and honorary member of the historical societies of Pennsylvania, Wis-
consin, and Florida.

Alice Parker, daughter of Dr. Hiram and Annie G. (Trafton) Parker, was born in
Lowell, Mass., April 21, 1863, and was educated in Lowell and Boston. She studied
law in the office of J. M. Lesser of San Francisco, and was admitted to the California
bar in 1888. Coming to Massachusetts she was admitted to the bar in Cambridge in
1890. Her business is confined chiefly to probate affairs and office consultations.
She has been a contributor to the Illustrated American, the Bos toil Home Journal ,
and the Boston Herald. Her residence is in Lowell.

George Winter Parke was born in Salem, O., October 20, 1840, and was educated
at Western College, Cleveland. He resided in Michigan, and began the study of law
with Charles S. May in that State, but entered the army in April, 1861, as an officer
of Michigan volunteers, and resigned in consequence of wounds received in one of
the early engagements in Virginia. He resumed the study of law with John P. Rob-
inson of Lowell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 25, 1863. He took
up his residence in Cambridge, and was alderman there in 1869 and 1870, and repre-
sentative in 1879 and 1880. His practice has been confined to property causes in the
civil courts, among which may be mentioned Nichols vs. Boston, 98 Mass. , 39 ; Felch
vs. Hooper, 119 Mass., 52; Cook vs. Gray, 133 Mass., 106 and 135 Mass., 189; and
Cole vs. Eastham, 133 Mass., 65.

William Foster Otis, son of Harrison Gray and Sally (Foster) Otis, was born in
Boston, December 1, 1801, and fitted at the Latin School for Harvard, where he grad-
uated in 1821. He studied law with his brother, Harrison Gray Otis, jr., and with
Augustus Peabody, and was admitted to the Common Pleas Court in Boston, Octo-
ber 8, 1824, and to the Supreme Judicial Court in March, 1827. He was a represent-
ative in 1830-31-32, and in 1831 delivered a Fourth of July oration before the young

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men of Boston. He took great interest in the temperance cause and was president
of the Young Men's Temperance Society. He also took an interest in military af-
fairs, and was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, an offi-
cer in the New England Guards, and major of the Boston Regiment. He married,
May 18, 1831, Emily, daughter of Josiah Marshall, of Boston, who died August 17,
1839, at the age of thirty-nine. He died at Versailles, France, May 29, 1858.

Edmund M. Parker, son of Joel and Mary M. Parker, was born in Cambridge,
August 15, 1856, and was fitted at the Cambridge High School for Harvard, where he
graduated in 1877. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1882, and in that
year was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He married Alice Gray, April 8, 1891.

Philip Glendower Peabody, son of Charles A. and Julia (Livingston) Peabody, was
born in New York city, February 22, 1857, and was educated at Columbia College.
He studied law in New York city, and was admitted to the bar in Poughkeepsie, N.
Y. , May 13, 1880, and to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He married in New York, July 30,
1879, and lives in Boston.

Henry Bromfield Pearson, son of Eliphalet and Sarah (Bromfield) Pearson, was
born in Cambridge, March 29, 1795, and after attending Phillips Academy, Andover,
and spending two years at Yale College he entered the senior class at Harvard, and
graduated in 1816. He went to Philadelphia, and after preparing himself for the bar,
practiced law until he became partially blind, when he returned to Massachusetts and
settled on the Bromfield estate at Harvard. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Wil-
liam McFarland, of Waterville, Me., in December, 1840, and died in Boston, June 29,
1867.

Francis Peabody, jr., was born in Salem, September 1, 1854, and removed to Lon-
don with his father in 1871. He attended Cheltenham College two years, and enter-
ing Trinity College, Cambridge, took the degree of B.L. in 1876. He then spent one
year in the office of a leading barrister of Lincoln's Inn and Middle Temple, and re-
turning to America entered the office of Morse, Stone & Greenough, of Boston, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879, after a year's further study at the
Harvard Law School. He was associated with Charles A. Prince five years, and
since that time has practiced alone. He is at present on the staff of Governor Russell.

Henry Melville Parker, son of Isaac and Sarah (Ainsworth) Parker, was born in
Boston, August 7, 1820, and fitted at the Latin School for Harvard, where he grad-
uated in 1839. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1841, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar November 29, 1842. He married Fanny Cushing, daughter of Dr.
A. F. Stone, of Greenfield, April 30, 1851, and died at Cambridge, October 17, 1863.

Samuel Parsons, son of Samuel and Mary Brown (Allen) Parsons, was born in Bos-
ton, May 2, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He studied law in Boston with
C. B. Goodrich and William Brigham, and was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1852,
having been admitted to the bar at Cambridge in 1851. He practiced in Boston until
his health failed, when he removed to Philadelphia, where he died October 28, 1859.

Edward Payson Payson, son of Edward and Penelope Ann (Martin) Payson, was
born in Westbrook, now Deering, Me., July 16, 1849, and graduated at Bowdoin Col-
lege in 1869. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and with Symonds & Libby,
of Portland, and was admitted to the Maine bar in April, 1875. He was admitted to

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the Suffolk bar in Boston, November 20, 1883, and to the United States Supreme
Court March 20, 1891. He has been a contributor to the American Law Review.
His residence is in Boston.

John Sidney Patton, son of Robert and Elizabeth Emeline (Warlick) Patton, was
born in McDowell county, N. C, and fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for Harvard,
where he graduated in 1874. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was
admitted to the Arkansas bar at Little Rock in June, 1878, and to the Texas bar at
Dallas in July, 1878, and to the Massachusetts bar at Cambridge in July, 1880. He
married at Cambridge, April 15, 1885, Anna Kelley, of Boston, and lives in Allston, a
district of Boston.

Salem Darius Charles, son of Abraham and Esther L. (Wallis) Charles, was born
in Brimfield, Mass. , March 19, 1850, and graduated at Amherst College in 1874. He
studied law with Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson and at the Boston University Law School,
and was admitted to the bar in Springfield, Mass., in 1878. He was a representative
from Boston in 1891 and 1892. He is unmarried and lives in Jamacia Plain (Boston).

Parker Cleaveland Chandler, son of Peleg Whitman and Martha (Cleaveland)
Chandler, was born in Boston, December 7, 1848, and was fitted at the Boston Latin
School for Williams College, where he graduated in 1872. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Chandler, Shattuck & Thayer,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, October 2, 1875. He has been managing counsel
for the defendant in the suit of the American Bell Telephone Company vs. the Drau-
bough Telephone Company. He resides in Boston.

Orrin Henry Carpenter, son of Henry B. and Lucy A. (Reed) Carpenter, was
born in Grafton, Vt., January 17, 1861, and was educated at the Bellows Falls High
School and Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law at the Boston University Law
School and at Bellows Falls in the office of C. B. Eddy and in Boston in the office of
Gaston & Whitney, and was admitted to the Vermont bar in September, 1883, and to
the Suffolk bar in September, 1884. He has been for six years chairman of the
Board of Assessors in Maiden, where he resides, and has taught in the Boston Even-
ing High School three years. He married Mary L. Dow at Bellows Falls, Vt. , in
1883.

John Ray Campbell, son of Tristram and Annie (Meehan) Campbell, was born in
Roxbury, Mass., November 29, 1860, and was educated in the Dwight Grammar
School in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 17, 1888. Since January,
1887, he has been assistant clerk of the Superior Court, criminal side. He married
Margaret Frances Doherty in Boston, July 17, 1888, and lives in Brookline.

Joseph Aloysius Campbell, son of Francis and Rose Ann Campbell, was born in
Boston, October 16, 1863, and was educated at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmits-
burg, Md. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the
bar at Cambridge, January 29, 1891. He married Louise De Lamater in New York,
October 22, 1891, and lives in Boston.

Charles Stark Newell, son of Samuel Newell and Elizabeth, daughter of Major
Caleb Stark and granddaughter of General John Stark, was born in Boston, August
19, 1814, and graduated at Harvard in 1834, and was a member of the Suffolk bar in
1848. He was a member of the House of Representatives in 1851 and 1852, and in

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the Civil War was on the staff of General A. Von Steinwehr. He married, July 19,
1843, Alice Jane, daughter of William and Mary (Todd) Crabb, and died in New
York, December 7, 1876.

Harry Huestis Newton, son of Adin H. and S. Angenette Newton, was born in
Truro, Mass., December 2, 1860, and was educated at the Boston University. He
studied law in Wellfleet, Mass. , with Judge H. P. Harriman, and was admitted to
the bar at Barnstable, Mass., April 11, 1889. He was principal of the West Newbury
High School one year and of the Wellfleet High School five years. His residence is
in Everett, Mass.

Benjamin Ropes Nichols, son of Ichabod and Lydia (Ropes) Nichols, was born in
Portsmouth, N. H., May 18, 1786, and graduated at Harvard in 1804. After admis-
sion to the Essex bar in 1807 he practiced in Salem until 1824, when he removed to
Boston. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, clerk for a num-
ber of years of the Boston and Providence and Boston and Lowell Railroad corporations,
and before leaving Salem the clerk of that town. He married, April 12, 1813, Mary,
daughter of Colonel Timothy and Rebecca (White) Pickering, of Salem, and died in
Boston, April 3, 1848.

Benjamin White Nichols, son of Benjamin Ropes and Mary (Pickering) Ropes, was
born in Salem, Mass., April 7, 1823, and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He gradu-
ated also at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and after reading law one year in
Boston in the office of Sidney Bartlett, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October,
1846. He is unmarried and lives in Boston.

Charles Corbett Nichols, son of Joseph E. and Lucena C. (Corbett) Nichols, was
born in that part of Maiden which is now Everett, October 31, 1859, and was edu-
cated at the Maiden and Everett schools, the Chelsea High School and at Harvard
College, where he graduated in 1883. He studied law at the Harvard Law School
and in the office of Charles Robinson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October,
1886. He has been auditor, and is now a member of the Board of Selectmen of
Everett, where he resides. He married in Lisbon, Me., October 8, 1888, Hattie
Frances Corbett.

John Noble, son of Mark and Mary (Copp) Noble, was born in Dover, N. H., April
14, 1829, and fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for Harvard, where he graduated in
1850. He was usher and master in the Boston Latin School from 1850 to 1856, when
he entered the Harvard Law School and graduated in 1858. He also read law in the
office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 26, 1858.
He practiced in Boston until 1875, when he was appointed clerk of the Supreme
Judicial Court to fill out an unexpired term and has held the office by successive
elections to the present time. He married Katharine W. Sheldon at Deerfield, Mass. ,
June 11, 1873, and resides in Boston.

Albert Boyd Otis, son oT Samuel and Eliza M. Otis, was born in Belfast, Me.,
and graduated at Tufts College in 1863. He studied law at the Harvard Law School
and in Belfast with Nehemiah Abbott, and in Boston with Jewell, Gaston & Field,
and was admitted to the bar at Belfast in October, 1864, and at Boston, February 16,
1867. His home is in Boston.

Isaac Peabody Osgood, son of Dr. Kendall and Louis (Peabody) Osgood, was
born in Peterboro', N. H., February 22, 1793, and graduated at Harvard in 1814.

232 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

He studied law with S. P. P. Fay, and after admission to the bar began to practice
in Boston, where he continued in business through life. He married, August 2, 1841,
Mary Ann (Price) Valentine, widow of Lawson Valentine, of Boston, and died in
Roxbury, January 12, 18G7.

■ William Byron Orcutt, son of Franklin W. and Abigail (Davis) Orcutt, was born
in Georgia, Vt. , February 26, 1845, and after attending the New Hampton Institute,
Fairfax, Vt., he entered Dartmouth College and graduated in 1871. He studied law
with Bainbridge Wadleigh in Milford, N. H. , and in Boston with Col. T. L. Liver-
more, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 11, 1873. He has been chair-
man of the School Board of Milford, N. H. He married Katie E. Wheeler at Mil-
ford, December 22, 1874, and lives at Wollaston (Quincy).

Jonathan Porter, son of Jonathan and Phebe (Abbot) Porter, was born in Med-
ford, Mass., November 13, 1791, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He studied law
with Luther Lawrence at Groton and Asahel Stearns at Chelmsford, and was ad-
mitted to the Middlesex bar in November, 1819, and practiced in Boston. He de-
livered the Phi Beta oration in 1828. He married, July 22, 1823, Catharine, daughter
of Samuel and Anna (Orne) Gray, of Medford, and died at Medford June, 11, 1859.

Edward Henry Pierce, son of Samuel and Wilhelmina (Zimmerman) Pierce, was
born at Stony Brook, Long Island, N. Y. , and was educated at the Rochester Uni-
versity, N. Y. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston with Smith
& Bates, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 30, 1865. He was a member of
the House of Representatives in 1868 and was counsel for the plaintiff in the well-
known case of Chase vs. Nantucket, in which a verdict for $15,000 in consequence of
a defect in the highway was the means in 1877 of altering the law applicable to such
cases. He married at Rochester, N. Y., May 5, 1869, Emily Williston, daughter of
Charles J. Hill, of Rochester, and his residence is now at Newtonville (Newton).

John Tyler Hassam is descended from William Hassam, or Horsham, who came
to New England in or about 1684, and settled in Manchester, Mass. This ancestor
married in Marblehead, December 4, 1684, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Allen, of
Manchester, and died in Manchester about 1735. Jonathan Hassam, son of the
ancestor William, was born in Manchester, August 17, 1702, where he married, August
10, 1727, Mary Bennett, and where he died February 21, 1754. William Hassam, son
of Jonathan, was born in Manchester, August 11, 1752, married there Elizabeth,
daughter of Ambrose Allen, May 15, 1780, and there died April 9, 1833. Jonathan,
son of the last William, born in Manchester, May 23, 1784, married there October
22, 1808, .Sally, daughter of John Cheever, and in 1849, Mary, widow of Thomas
Smith, and died in Manchester, January 14, 1859. John Hassam, son of Jonathan,
born in Manchester, September 4, 1809, married May 15, 1836, Abby, daughter of
Amos Hilton, of Manchester, and died in Boston, August 3, 1885. John Tyler Has-
sam, the subject of this sketch, was the son of John Hassam, and was born in Boston,
September 20, 1841. He fitted for college at the Boston Latin School and graduated
at Harvard in 1863. In December, 1863, he entered the army as first lieutenant of the
Seventy-fifth United States Colored Infantry, and remained in the service from
December 8, 1863, to August 1, 1864, having taken part in the Red River expedition.
He studied law in the office of Ranny & Morse in Boston and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar December 13, 1867. Beginning as a lawyer in general practice he has

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of late years devoted himself chiefly to conveyancing. Having early imbibed anti-
quarian tastes, he has mingled with his professional occupations historic researches
and is a member of both the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the
Massachusetts Historical Society. Of the former of these he was six years chairman
of the Library Committee and was one of the earliest promoters of those exhaustive
researches in England, which have been carried on so successfully under its direction.
To the Monthly Register of the Society he has been a frequent contributor. Among
his contributions have been "The Hassam Family," 1870; " Some of the Descend-
ants of William Hilton," 1877; " Ezekiel Cheever and some of his Descendants,"
1879; "Boston Taverns," 1880; " Early Suffolk Deeds," 1881, and " The Dover Set-
tlement and the Hiltons," 1882. He has been especially interested in the care and
preservation of records, and was appointed April 5, 1884, by the Superior Court for
the county of Suffolk, one of the commissioners under whose authority the indices in
the registry of that county are made. The arrangement now going on of the original
files of Suffolk County Courts, including the Superior Court of Judicature under the
provincial charter, is largely due to his efforts. Indeed, in every possible way that
a deep antiquarian interest could suggest, he has labored successfully for the safety
and preservation of not only the records of Boston, but those also of the Common-
wealth. He married in Salem, February 14, 1878, Nelly Alden, daughter of Dr. John
Henry and Jane Reed (Smith) Batchelder, of Salem, and his residence is in
Boston.

John Andrew Noonan, son of Daniel A. and Ellen Noonan, was born in Boston,
August 25, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law at the Boston
University Law School and in the office of Burbank & Bennett of Boston, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1886. He lives in South Boston.

T. Frank Noonan, son of Edward and B. Jane Noonan, was born in Boston, and
educated in the public schools. He studied law in Boston with Russell Gray and with
Henry W. Swift, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884.

William Mark Noble, son of William T. and Rebecca W. Noble, was born in
Springfield, Mass., February 27, 1865, and studied law at the Boston University Law
School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. His residence is at Newton.

Joseph D. Fallon, son of Daniel and Julia Fallon, was born in Galway county,
Ireland, December 25, 1837, and was educated in private and national schools in Ire-
land, at the Petit Seminaire in Montreal, and at the College of the Holy Cross in
Worcester. He studied law with Jonathan Coggswell Perkins in Salem, and with
George W. Searle in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 11, 1865.
He has served nineteen years and eleven months on the Boston School Board, and
since 1874 has been a special justice of the Municipal Court for the South Boston Dis-
trict. He married in Boston, in 1872, Sarah E. Daly, and lives in South Boston.

Henry E. Fales, son pf Silas and Roxa (Perrigo) Fales, was born in Walpole, Mass. ,
November 6, 1837. He was educated at the Walpole and Medway High Schools, and
studied law with Todd & Pond in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May
4, 1864, and has been assistant district attorney for Worcester county, and member of
the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He has been engaged in seven capital
cases and in a general civil and criminal practice. He married at Milford, Mass.,
November 5, 1867, Clara A. Hayward, and lives in Milford.

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234 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Benjamin Mark Farley, son of Benjamin and Lucy (Fletcher) Farley, was born in
llollis, N. H., April 8, 1783, and fitting for college at the New Ipswich Academy, N.
H., graduated at Harvard in 1804. He studied law with Abijah Bigelow, of Leom-
inster, and after admission to the bar began practice in Hollis, and remained there
and at Groton, Mass., until 1855, when he removed to Boston. He was a representa-
tive in New Hampshire from 1814 to 1829 with the exception of five years. He mar-
ried first, September 26, 1805, Lucretia Gardner, who died April 30, 1809, and second,
in September, 1828, Mrs. Lucretia (Bullard) Parker, daughter of Rev. John Billiard,
of Pepperell. He died at Lunenburg, Mass., while passing the summer there Sep-
tember 16, 1865.

Edwin Hale Abbot, son of Joseph Hale and Fanny (Larcom) Abbot, of Boston,
was born in Beverly, Mass., January 26, 1834, and graduated at Harvard in 1855.
He was a tutor at Harvard from 1857 to 1862, meanwhile studying law at the Har-
vard Law School, from which he graduated in 1861. He was admitted to the Suffolk
bar November 11, 1862, and practiced in Boston until 1875 when he went to Mil-
waukee and afterwards to New York. He married, September 19, 1866, Martha
Trask, daughter of Eben Steele, of Portland, Me.

John Edward Abbott, son of John S.'and Elizabeth T. (Allen) Abbott, was born in
Norridgewock, Me. , November 30, 1845, and graduated at Wesleyan University, Mid-
dletown, Conn., in 1869. He studied law in Boston in the office of John S. Abbott,
and was admitted to the bar in Boston, March 8, 1872. He was admitted as an at-
torney of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1885. He has been connected
with important patent cases in the United States Circuit and Supreme Courts. He
married at Compton, Province of Quebec, Canada, June 12, 1878, Alice G., daughter
of Hon. M. H. Cochrane, and has his residence in Watertown, Mass.

Henry Austin, son of William and Ellen Austin, was born in Charlestown, Mass.,
December 21, 1856, and graduated at Harvard Law School in 1879. He continued
the study of law in the offices of Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith in Boston,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. He is a special justice of the West Rox-
bury Municipal Court and commissioner of insolvency for Suffolk county. He is the
author of " American Farm and Game Laws," " The Liquor Law in the New Eng-
land States," and "American Fish and Game Laws." His home is at West Rox-
bury.

George W. Norris, son of True worthy and Mary J. Norris, was born in Pittsfield,
N. H., March 13, 1840, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law in
the offices of Arthur F. L. Norris, of Lowell, and Joseph Nickerson, of Boston, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 7, 1861. He has been president of the
School Board of Woburn, where he lives, chairman of the Board of Water Commis-
sioners of that city, and by appointment under President Cleveland agent for the Nez
Perce tribe of Indians in Idaho. He married Sarah E. Williams at Chelsea, Mass. ,
in 1863.

Frederick Lewis Norton, son of Lewis R. and Harriet F. Norton, was born in
Westfield, Mass., November 24, 1865. He graduated at Amherst College in 1886, and
attended Johns Hopkins University, and studied law at the Boston University Law
School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1889, and lives in Boston.

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Linus Child, son of Rensselaer and Priscilla (Corbin) Child, was born in Woodstock,
Conn. , February 27, 1803, and passed his early years in the public schools and on his
father's farm. He was finally placed under the charge of Rev. Samuel Backus, of
East Woodstock, and later at the Bacon Academy in Colchester, Conn., where he
was fitted for college. He entered Yale College in 1820 and graduated in 1824. After
leaving college he studied law at the Law School in New Haven and in the offices of
S. P. Staples and Judge Daggett in that city and continued his studies in the office
of Ebenezer Stoddard in his native town. He was admitted to the bar in Connecti-
cut, but preliminary to his admission to the bar in Massachusetts he studied a short
time in the office of George A. Tafts, of Dudley, Mass. It is stated in the history of
Worcester county that he was admitted to the bar there in 1826, which must be too
early a date to admit of the prolonged periods of study in Connecticut and Massa-
chusetts described by his biographers. He was admitted, however, to the bar in
Massachusetts soon after the completion of his studies and established himself at
Southbridge, Mass., where, on the 27th of October, 1827, he married Berenthia,
daughter of Oliver Mason of that town. He remained in Southbridge eighteen years
and during that time won for himself not only repute as a sound and sagacious law-
yer, but as a political speaker, who by his logical and pursuasive appeals to the intel-
ligence of the people, was a potential worker in the ranks of the Whig party to which
he belonged. The writer well remembers the political gatherings in the Clay cam-
paign of 1844, where his large and well proportioned figure, his massive head, his hand-
some, expressive face and above all the convincing quality of his speech made him
everywhere conspicuous and popular. During his residence in Southbridge he rep-
resented Worcester county six years in the State Senate. In 1845 he was selected to
take the agency of one or more of the large manufacturing corporations in Lowell
and moved to that city. In Lowell, as in Southbridge, though having little time to
devote to politics without impairing his usefulness in the responsible position he held,
he did not fail to exert his powerful influence in those fields of usefulness in which it
is the duty of every citizen to labor. In the welfare of his city and his church, in the
good government of the one and the highest usefulness of the other, he took a deep
interest, and gave to them freely his thoughts, his time and his means. In 1862 he
removed to Boston and resumed there his professional business, associated with
his son, who before that time had been admitted to the Suffolk bar and was then
in practice in Boston. He died in Hingham, Mass., August 26, 1870.

Linus Mason Child, son of Linus and Berenthia (Mason) Child, was born in South-
bridge, Mass., March 13, 1835, and graduated at Yale College in 1855. He studied
law in the office of his father in Southbridge and at the Harvard Law School, where
he graduated in 1858. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, October 16, 1858, and estab-
lished himself in business in that city. He remained alone in practice until 1862, when
his father, who, temporarily abandoning the laAv, had been since 1845 an agent of one or
more of the mill corporations in Lowell, and had now removed to Boston, became as-
sociated with him. Resembling his father, both in bod)' and the quality of his mind, he
was not long in attracting to himself a clientage, whose interests he faithfully served
and whose fullest confidence he enjoyed. He was the trusted counsel of the Middlesex
Street Railway Company, as long as it had a distinct existence, and of the Old South
Church corporation in its various conflicts under the law. He has been largely en-

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gaged before committees of the Legislature, and his arguments in support of petitions
for a charter of an elevated railway in Boston and in favor of or opposed to other
railway schemes have added to a reputation already established. He married, Octo-
ber 16, 1862, Helen, 'a daughter of James Barnes, of Hmgham, and July 20, 1889,
Ada M., daughter of J. R. Cummings, of Chelsea. He resides in Boston.

Edward Belcher Callender, son of Henry and Adeline Jones (Stoddard) Callen-
der, was born in Dorchester, Mass., February 23, 1851, and was fitted in the public
schools for Harvard, where he graduated in 1872. He studied law at the Harvard
Law School and in Boston in the office of Robert M. Morse, jr., and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar April 24, 1875. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives in 1879. He has published " Thaddeus Stevens, Commoner," and
various articles in the Amei-ican Law Review and the Southej'n Law Review. He
lives in Boston.

Henry B. Callender, son of Henry and Adeline Jones (Stoddard) Callender, was
born in Dorchester, Mass., January 17, 1864, and was educated at the Boston public
schools and the Roxbury Latin School. He studied law at the Boston University
Law School and in the office of Lewis S. Dabney in Boston, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar February 2, 1887. His residence is in the Dorchester District of Boston.

George Hylands Campbell, son of Charles H. and Ann Rebecca (Tucker) Camp-
bell, was born in Amherst, N. H. . September 22, 1850, and was educated at Phillips
Academy, Andover. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in
the office of Jewell, Gaston & Field, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 28,
1874. He was private secretary of Governor Gaston, Governor Rice and Governor
Ames during their respective administrations.

Herbert Allen Chapin, son or Horace and Susan F. Chapin.was born in Chelsea,
June 6, 1851, fitted at Chauncy Hall School and graduated at Harvard in 1871. He
studied law with Charles S. Lincoln, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26,
1879. He is clerk of the Somerville Police Court. He married in Boston in 1881,
Mary M. Granger, and lives in Somerville.

Herman White Chaplin, son of Rev. Dr. Jeremiah and Jane Dunbar Chaplin, was
born in Providence, R. I., April 9, 1847, and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He
studied law in the office of Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar June 21, 1869. He was assistant district attorney from 1875 to
1877, member of the Prison Commission in 1887, and lecturer in the Harvard Law
School in 1888-9, 1889-90 and 1890-91. He has published "Five Hundred Dollars
and other Stories," and "Cases on Criminal Law," both issues, with the imprint of
Little, Brown & Company. He married Martha Louise Crowell, of Yarmouth, Mass.,
June 26, 1890, and lives in Boston.

B. Marvin Fernald, son of Benjamin and Caroline E. Fernald, was born in Great
Falls, N. H., February 14, 1847, and fitting for college at Phillips Exeter Academy
graduated at Harvard in 1870. He studied law with Joseph F. Wiggin, of Exeter,
N. H., and was admitted to the Rockingham bar in 1873, and afterwards to the
Suffolk bar. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
in 1881 and 1882, and a Senator in 1891 and 1892. He is now chairman of the Legis-
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has delivered many political and other addresses, among the latter being Decoration
Day addresses at Melrose and Saugus. He married Grace, daughter of Richard F.
Fuller, of Cambridge, November 1, 1874, and lives at Melrose.

Frank A. Appleton, son of Melville C. and Roxanna T. Appleton, and born in
Vassalboro', Me., April 18, 1860, was educated at Boston University, and studied law
at Boston University Daw School. He was admitted to the bar at Dedham, Decem-
ber, 3, 1890.

David Sew all, son of Samue , and born in York, Me., October 7, 1735, graduated at
Harvard in 1755, and studied law with Judge William Parker, of Portsmouth, N. H.,
whose daughter he married. He established himself in York, was appointed register
of probate in 1766, and judge of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1777, and judge of
United States Court for the district of Maine in 1789. He sat on the bench till 1818,
and died at York, October 12, 1825.

Francis Bernard, born in Nettleham, England, in 1714, educated at Oxford, a
solicitor of Doctors Commons, was governor of Massachusetts from 1760 to 1769. He
was made a baronet in 1769, and died in England, June 16, 1779.

Robert Auchmuty was born in Scotland, whence his father removed to Ireland in
1699. He was educated in Dublin, studied law in the Temple, and emigrating to
America was admitted to practice in Boston in 1720. He was judge of the Court of
Admiralty from 1733 to 1747. The high tone of the Massachusetts bar may be said
to have been established by him. He died in Boston in April, 1750.

Robert Auchmuty, jr., son of the above, was born in Boston, was a distinguished
lawyer, and with Adams & Quincy defended Captain Preston and others connected
with the Boston massacre. He was judge of admiralty from 1767 to 1776, was a
loyalist, went to England, and there died in December, 1788.

Thomas Aspinwall, son of Dr. William, was born in Brookline, Mass., August 23,
1784, and graduated at Harvard in 1804. He studied law with William Sullivan and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1807. In the war of 1812 he was major of the
Ninth United States Infantry, distinguished himself in various battles, lost an arm
at Lake Erie, and was made brevet lieutenant-colonel May 29, 1813, and brevet col-
onel September 17, 1814. He was United States consul at London from 1816 to 1854,
and died in Boston, August 11, 1876.

Joseph Kinnicut Angell, born in Providence, R. I., April 30, 1794, graduated at
Brown University in 1813, and was admitted to the bar in 1816. He was editor of
the Law Intelligencer and Review several years and was some years reporter to
the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. His legal works were " Law of Carriers,"
" Law of Fire and Life Insurance," " Law of Highways," " Law of Water Courses,"
" Law of Tide Waters," and " Limitations of Actions at Law in Equity and Admi-
ralty." He died in Boston, May 1, 1857.

Fisher Ames, son of Dr. Nathamiel, was born in Dedham, April 9, 1758, and gradu-
ated at Harvard in 1774. He studied law with William Tudor, and the records of the
Suffolk bar state that it was voted on the 3d of December, 1779, that he be considered
a law student from the first day of January, 1779, and that at the expiration of three
years from that day, he be recommended to be sworn on examination particularly in
the practical business of the profession. But at a meeting of the bar on the 9th of

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October, 1781 , it was voted " that notwithstanding the vote of December 3, 1779, re-
specting Mr. Fisher Ames, he be recommended to the Court of Common Pleas for
the oath of an attorney of that court, in consideration of his having studied for four
years and upwards, and his present state of health requiring a relaxation from all
study, and in consideration of his cheerfully offering himself to an examination, and
his moral, political and literary character standing in the fairest point of view." He
established himself in Dedham, but as the roll of Suffolk lawyers in 1793 contains
his name, it is probable that he had an office in Boston also. In 1788 he was a rep-
resentative, and member of the Constitutional Convention, and was a member of
Congress from 1789 to 1797. He was chosen president of Harvard College in 1804
and declined. He died at Dedham, July 4, 1808.

Benjamin Ames, son of Benjamin and Phoebe (Chandler) Ames, was born in An-
dover, Mass, October 30, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1803. He studied law
with Samuel Dana at Groton, Mass., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Octo-
ber, 1806. He established himself in Bath, Me., in 1807 was attorney of Lincoln
county, in 1811 was judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, and in 1820-23
was speaker of the Maine House of Representatives. In 1824 he was president of
the Senate, and in 1827 was again a member of the House. From 1827 to '29 he
practiced in Cincinnati, and died in Houlton, Me., September 28, 1835. He married
first at Andover, Mary, daughter of Abel and Polly (Abbott) Boynton, of Westford,
Mass., who died at Bath, November 3, 1810, and second, May 11, 1812, at Bath,
Sally, sister of his first wife.

Nathan Ames, son of Daniel and Laura (Newcomb) Ames, was born in Roxbury,
N. H., November 17, 1826, and fitting for college at Phillips Andover Academy,
graduated at Harvard in 1848. He studied law with Franklin Dexter, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1853. He died in Saugus, August 17, 1865.

Sampson Salter Blowers was born in Boston, March 22, 1742, and graduated at
Harvard in 1763. He studied law with Thomas Hutchinson and was associated
with Adams & Quincy in the defense of Captain Preston in 1770. A loyalist, he
went to England in 1774, and returning in 1778 he found his name in the Prescrip-
tion Act, and after a short imprisonment retired to Halifax, N. S., where in 1785
he was appointed attorney-general, and in 1797 chief justice of the Supreme Court.
He died at Halifax, October 25, 1842.

William Brattle, son of Rev. William, was born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1702,
and graduatedxat Harvard in 1722. He studied theology and preached for a time,
practiced medicine and finally became a lawyer. He was chosen attorney-general
and served in 1736 and 1737. He was also a representative, and was a member of
Council from 1755 to 1768. He was a loyalist, and retiring to Halifax died there in
October, 1776.

Nathaniel Byfield, son of Richard, was born in Long Ditten, England, in 1653,
and came to Boston in 1674. About 1680 he removed to Bristol, then in Massachu-
setts, and there practiced law, being promoted to the position of chief justice of the
Court of Common Pleas for Bristol county. While living in Bristol he was also for a
time judge of the Admiralty Court and judge of probate. He returned to Boston in
1724, and was speaker of the House of Representatives, chief justice of the Common
Pleas for Suffolk, and judge of admiralty. He died in Boston, June 6, 1733.

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George Ticknok Curtis, brother of Benjamin Robbins Curtis already mentioned,
was born in Watertown, Mass., November 28, 1812, and graduated at Harvard in
1832. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1836, and practiced many years
in Boston. He has published many legal works and a life of Daniel Webster. Among
his works are "Rights and Duties of Merchant Seamen," "Equity Precedents,"
"Treatise on the Law of Patents." " Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Com-
mon Law and Admiralty," "Cases in the American and English Courts of Admi-
ralty," " American Conveyancer," " Commentaries on the Jurisprudence, Practice, and
Peculiar Jurisdiction of the Courts of the United States," and " History of the Origin,
Formation and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States." He is now liv-
ing in New York.

George Storer Bulfinch, son of Charles Bulfinch, the distinguished architect -who
drew the plans for the Boston State House and the Capitol at Washington, was born
in Boston, January 23, 1799, and graduated at Harvard in 1817. He was admitted
to the Common Pleas Court in Suffolk in 1825, and to the Supreme Judicial Court in
March, 1826. He was many years librarian of the Boston Library, over the arch in
Franklin street. He died in Boston in 1853.

Elias Hasket Derby, great-grandson of Richard, grandson of Elias H., and son of
Elias H., all of Salem, was born in Salem, September 24, 1803, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1824. He studied law with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Com-
mon Pleas Court in Suffolk in October, 1827, and to the Supreme Judicial Court in
October, 1829. He was a broad, progressive man, became a railroad lawyer, and
was at one time president of the Old Colony Railroad. He died in Boston, March 30,
1880.

William Elliott was born in Marblehead, August 17, 1803, and graduated at Dart-
mouth in 1826. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar and practiced law at Marblehead
and Boston and at Lewiston, 111. He died in 1872.

Abraham Eustis was born in Boston, March 28, 1786, and graduated at Harvard in
1804. He studied law with Isaac Parker, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July,
1807. He began practice in Boston. He distinguished himself in the war of 1812 as
an officer in the United States army, and in 1834 was brevetted brigadier-general, and
made colonel of First Artillery November 17, 1834. He died at Portland, June 27,
1843.

Richard Fletcher was born in Cavendish, Vt., January 8, 1788, and graduated at
Dartmouth in 1806. He studied law with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the
New Hampshire bar. In 1820 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar and remained in
Boston until his death, June 21, 1869. He was a member of Congress from 1837 to
1839, and judge of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1848 to 1853. He received a de-
gree of LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1846, and bequeathed to that college $100,000.

Richard Frederic Fuller, son of Timothy, was born in Cambridge, May 15, 1821,
and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, December
22, 1846, and died at Wayland, Mass., May 30, 1869.

John Gardiner, son of Dr. Sylvester Gardiner, was born in Boston in 1731, and
studied law at the Inner Temple, London, and in June, 1761, was admitted to prac-
tice as barrister in Westminster Hall. After a short practice in England he was ap-

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pointed attorney-general at the Island of St. Christopher and removed there. After
the Revolution he came to Boston, where he was recognized as a citizen by a special
law passed February 13, 1784, and was a barrister in 1785. He afterwards removed
to Pownalboro', in Maine, and was drowned off Cape Ann, October 15, 1793. He re-
ceived a degree of Master of Arts from the University of Glasgow in 1755, and from
Harvard in 1791. He married Margaret Harris, of Haverford, Wales.

Francis Hilliard, son of William, was born in Cambridge, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1823. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, 1830. He was judge of
the Roxbury Police Court, judge of insolvency for Norfolk county, and the author of
" Digest of Pickering's Reports," " Sales of Personal Property," " American Law of
Real Property," "American Jurisprudence," "Law of Vendors and Purchasers,"
" Treatise on Torts," " Remedy for Torts," "New Trials," " Law of Injunctions,"
and " Hilliard on Mortgages." He died in 1878.

Levi Lincoln, son of Levi, was born in Worcester, October 25, 1782, and graduated
at Harvard in 1802. He was admitted to the Worcester bar after studying with his
father, and established himself in his native town. He was senator in 1812, speaker
of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1822, lieutenant governor in 1823,
judge of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1824, governor from 1825 to 1834, member of
Congress from 1835 to 1841, collector of the port of Boston from 1841 to 1843, State
senator again in 1844, and president of the Senate in 1845. He died in Worcester,
May 29, 1868.

George W. Searle, son of Joseph and Mary Searle, was born in Salem, Mass.,
January 22, 1826, and was educated at the Boston schools and at Phillips Andover
Academy. He studied law with Fuller & Andrew and with Richard Fletcher, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 11, 1847. He has written treatises with the
following titles: " Of the Habeas Corpus," " Extraordinary Remedies, — Error, Cer-
tiorari, Prohibition, Mandamus, Quo Warranto," "Legal Principles, their Exceptions
and Limitations," " Patents," and " Hints on the Art of Advocacy." He has been a
frequent contributor to the daily press as law critic and to the law reviews. He has
been associated as counsel with Franklin Pierce and B. F. Butler in important crimi-
nal trials. He married in December, 1849, Sarah F. Ball. He died in Boston, Octo-
ber 18, 1892.

Albert Lamb Lincoln, jr., son of Albert Lamb and Ann Eliza (Stoddard) Lincoln,
was born in Boston, April 29, 1850, and after attending the public schools of Brook-
line, graduated at Harvard in 1872. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and
in the office of Robert M. Morse, jr., and was 'admitted to the Suffolk bar October 15,
1875. He has been a member of the Board of Selectmen since 1886 and its chairman
since 1848, and was a special justice of the Brookline Police Court from 1882 until his
resignation in 1889. He married Edith, daughter of Moses Williams, of Brookline,
October 9, 1879, and still lives in Brookline.

Arthur Lincoln, son of Solomon and Mehitable (Lincoln) Lincoln, was born in
Hingham, Mass., February 16, 1842, and was fitted for college at private and public
schools in Hingham, and graduated at Harvard in 1863. He graduated at the Har-
vard Law School in 1865, and finishing his law studies in the office of Lathrop &
Bishop, was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 16, 1865, He was a representative in

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1879-1880. He married Serafina, daughter of Joseph G. Loring, at Boston, Decem-
ber 17, 1883, and has his residence in Hingham.

Charles Sprague Lincoln, son of Christopher and Elizabeth Lincoln, was born in
Walpole, N. H., April 20, 1826, and graduated at Harvard in 1850. lAe studied law
at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1854. He has been selectman, overseer of
the poor, member of the School Committee, trustee of the Public Library, and repre-
sentative from Somerville, where he still lives, and married there Louise E. Plimp-
ton, October 8, 1856.

Charles Plimpton Lincoln, son of Charles Sprague and Louise E. (Plimpton) Lin-
coln, was born in Somerville, Mass., May 7, 1859, and was educated at the Somerville
High School. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of
his father and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1889. He has been a
member of the Common Council in Somerville, where he now lives. He married
Mary Foote Lowe at Somerville, June 25, 1889.

George Taylor Lincoln, son of George C. and Anna M. Lincoln, was born at
Westboro, Mass., June 8, 1858, and was educated at the North Brookfield high and
common schools. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in May, 1884. He is the Massachusetts editor of the Northeastern
Reporter, and has been engaged on the " Complete Digest." He married Hattie E.
Wilson at West Newton, in June, 1886, and lives in WestNewton (Newton).

Theodore Lyman was born in Boston, February 19, 1792, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1810. He studied law, but the editor is not certain as to his admission to the
bar. He was mayor of Boston from 1832 to 1835, and died July 17, 1849.

William Powell Mason, son of Jonathan and Susannah (Powell) Mason, was born
in Boston, December 9, 1791, and graduated at Harvard in 1811. He was admitted
to the Common Pleas Court! in Boston in September, 1814, and to the Supreme Judi-
cial Court in December, 1816. He married Hannah, daughter of Daniel Dennison
Rogers, October 24, 1831, and died in Boston, December 4, 1867.

John Wingate Thornton was born in Saco, Me., August 12, 1818, and graduated
at the Harvard Law School in 1840. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 13,
1840, and lived and practiced in Boston until his death, June 6, 1878. He was a dis-
tinguished antiquary, one of the founders of the N. E. Historic Genealogical So-
ciety, a vice-president of the American Statistical Society, and of the Prince Publica-
tion Society. His historical papers and reviews and essays were too numerous to
mention.

John Osborne Sargent was born in Gloucester in 1810, and graduated at Harvard
in 1830. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1834, and remained in Bos-
ton until 1837, when he went to New York and became associate editor of the New
York Courier and Enquirer. During his residence in Boston he was connected
with the Boston Atlas, and in 1835 and 1836 was representative. Subsequently he
edited the Republic newspaper in Washington, and practiced law in Washington and
New York until his death in 1891.

Thomas Oliver Selfridge, born probably in Boston about 1777, graduated at
Harvard in 1797 and died in 1816. He studied law in Boston with Robert Treat
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Paine, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1800. In 1806, as the result of a polit-
ical quarrel, he shot Charles Austin in State street, Boston, and was tried for mur-
der and acquitted. Samuel Dexter defended him and made one of those powerful
and eloquent appeals to the jury for which he was distinguished. He was the father
of Rear Admiral Thomas Oliver Selfridge of the United States navy.

Matthew Hale Smith, son of Rev. Elias Smith, and well known to the last genera-
tion as a correspondent of the Boston Journal under the name of " Burleigh," studied
divinity and was successively a Universalist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Bap-
tist. He was the author of many theological and other works, and finally studied
law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1850.

Frederick William Sawyer was born at Saco, Me., April 22, 1810, and in 1838 re-
moved to Boston, where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1840, and prac-
ticed law until his death, September 6, 1875. He published "The Merchant's and
Shipmaster's Guide," " Plea for Amusements," and was a frequent contributor to the
daily press.

Jonathan Sewall, son of Jonathan, was born in Boston, August 24, 1728, and
graduated at Harvard in 1748. He was appointed attorney-general of Massachusetts
in 1767, and in the next year was made judge of the Nova Scotia Admiralty Court.
In 1775 as a loyalist he went to England, and in 1788 settled in St. John, N. B.,
where he held the position of admiralty judge until his death in that place, Septem-
ber 26, 1796.

Benjamin Pratt was born in Cohasset, Mass., March 13, 1710, and graduated at
Harvard in 1737. He studied law with Robert Auchmuty and married his daughter.
He was a representative from Boston from 1757 to 1759 and was one of the few
eminent lawyers in Boston of that day. He was appointed in 1761 chief justice of
New York, and died January 5, 1763.

George D. Noyes, son of Rev. George R. and Eliza (Buttrick) Noyes, was born in
Brookfield, Mass., June 3, 1831, and graduated at Harvard in 1851. He studied law
at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 17,
1855. He married Susan P., daughter of John Wright, of Lowell, June 19, 1872,
and lives in Brookline.

Patrick O'Loughlin, son of Patrick and Catherine O'Loughlin, was born in En-
nistymore, County Clare, Ireland, July 16, 1849, and was educated in Ireland in the
Christian Brothers' Schools. He came to Boston June 5, 1864, and finished his edu-
cation in the Boston public schools. He studied law at the Boston University Law
School and in the office of Sumner Albee, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, May
20, 1878. He is now preparing a work on the Law of Fraternal, Social and Literary
Societies. He married Catherine F. Kearns at Boston, June 5, 1884, and lives in
Brookline.

James Monroe Olmstead, son of John W. and Mary (Livingston) Olmstead, was
born in Framingham, Mass., February 6, 1852, and fitting for college at the Roxbury
Latin School graduated at Harvard in 1873. He afterwards attended the University
of Berlin and the University of Heidelberg. He graduated at the Boston University
Law School in 1877, and finishing his law studies with Jewell, Field & Shepard, was
admitted to the Suffolk bar December 7, 1877. He was a representative from Ward

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Eleven in Boston in 1891 and 1892. The special cases in which he has been engaged
are Schmauz vs. Goos, 132 Mass., 141, Batchelder vs. Batchelder, 139 Mass., 1, and
Fogg vs. Millis, 188 Mass., 443. He was instrumental in the introduction of the
Australian ballot into the caucus system in Boston. He married Annie M. Batchel-
der in Boston, May 29, 1879, and lives in Boston.

George Read Nutter, son of Thomas F. and Adelaide R. Nutter, was born in
Boston, August 9, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. He resides in
Boston.

John Adams, son of John and Susanna (Boylston) Adams, was born in Braintree,
Mass., October 31, 1735, and graduated at Harvard in 1755. He studied law in Wor-
cester and began practice in Boston in 1758, while retaining a residence in Braintree.
He moved to Boston in 1768 and was soon after made a barrister. In 1770 he was
one of the counsel defending Captain Preston and others for the Boston massacre,
and in the same year was chosen representative. He was a delegate to the Congress
of 1774 and 1775, and a member of the Provincial Congress. He was president of
the Board of War in 1776-77, and in 1777 was appointed commissioner to France.
He was appointed by Congress minister to treat with Great Britain for peace in 1779
and in 1780 was sent to Holland to negotiate a loan. With Franklin and Jay he
negotiated a treaty of commerce with Great Britain and in 1785 was sent minister to
the Court of St. James. In 1788 he was chosen vice-president of the United States
and in 1796 president. In 1820 he was a delegate to the State Convention, and died
at Quincy, Mass., July 4, 1826. He married in 1764 Abigail Smith, of Weymouth.

John Quincy Adams, son of John and Abigail (Smith) Adams, was born in Brain-
tree, Mass., July 11, 1767. At eleven years of age (in 1778) he went with his father
to France and returned in 1779, having attended school in France during his absence.
He returned to France in 1779 and continued his studies there and at Amsterdam
and in the Leyden University. In 1781 at the age of fourteen he went with Francis
Dana, minister to Russia, as his secretary, and after several years at St. Petersburg
and Stockholm, Copenhagen and Hamburg, returned to America in 1785. He
studied law with Theophilus Parsons, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1791.
In 1794 he was appointed minister to Holland, and in 1796 minister to Portugal. In
1797 he was appointed minister to Prussia, but was recalled on the election of Jeffer-
son and resumed practice in Boston. In 1802 he was chosen a member of the State
Senate, and in 1803 United States senator. In 1806 he was appointed professor of
rhetoric and belles-lettres at Harvard, and in 1809 he was appointed minister to Rus-
sia. In 1815 he was appointed minister to England, and under President Monroe
made secretary of state. In 1824 he was chosen president and served one term. In
1831 he was chosen by the anti-Masonic party member of Congress and he remained
in Congress until his death, which occurred in the Capitol at Washington February
23, 1848. He married, July 27, 1797, Louisa, daughter of Joshua Johnson, of Mary-
land, American consul at London.

Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant, son of Rev. Christopher Sargeant, was born in
Methuen, November 2, 1731, and graduated at Harvard in 1750. He practiced law
in Haverhill, was a delegate to Provincial Congress in 1775, and in 1775 was appointed
judge of the Superior Court of Judicature, being promoted in 1790 to chief justice,
and dying in October, 1791, at Haverhill.

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Theophilus Parsons, son of Rev. Moses Parsons, was born in Newbury, Mass.,
February 24, 1750, and graduated at Harvard in 1769. He was admitted to the bar
in Portland in 1774, and after a practice of a year or two established himself in New-
buryport in 1777. He removed to Boston in 1800 and was made chief justice of the
Supreme Judicial Court in 1806, holding his seat until his death at Boston, October
30, 1813. He married a daughter of Benjamin Greenleaf.

Theophilus Parsons, jr., son of Theophilus, was born in Newburyport, May 17,
1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1815. He studied law with William Prescott, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 16, 1819, beginning practice in Taunton
but soon settling in Boston. He was largely engaged in literary work, including
contributions to reviews and the press and several law books, among which are "Law
of Contracts," " Elements of Mercantile Law," " Laws of Business for Business Men,'*
" Maritime Law," " Notes and Bills of Exchange," " Law of Partnership," "Marine
Insurance and General Average," and " Shipping and Admiralty." He was also the
author of a memoir of his father and several volumes of essays. He was appointed
in 1847 Dane professor of law in the Harvard Law School, a position which he held
until his death, which occurred in Cambridge, January 26; 1882.

Samuel Sewall was born in Boston, December 11, 1757, and graduated at Harvard
in 1776. He settled in Marblehead, was at one time representative, was a member
of Congress from 1797 to 1800, and made judge of the Supreme Judicial Court in
1800. He was made chief justice in 1813 and served until his death at Wiscasset, Me.,
June 8, 1814.

Isaac Parker was descended from John, who came from Biddeford, England, to
Saco, Me., and in 1650 bought the island in the Kennebec River, called Parker's
Island, and there died in 1661. He was born in Boston, June 17, 1768, and graduated
at Harvard in 1786. He studied law in Boston with William Tudor, and was admit-
ted to the Suffolk bar in 1789. He settled in Castine, Me., was representative in
1791-93-94-95, member of Congress from 1797 to 1799, and United States marshal
from 1797 to 1801. He removed to Portland, was appointed judge of the Supreme
Judicial Court of Massachusetts in January, 1806, and made chief justice in 1814, serv-
ing until his death, May 26, 1830. He was eleven years trustee of Bowdoin College,
twenty years an overseer of Harvard, and Royal professor of law at the Harvard
Law School from 1816 to 1827. He received a degree of LL.D. from Harvard in
1814. He married Rebecca, daughter of Joseph Hall, of Medford.

James W. O'Brien was born in Charlestown, Mass., May 1, 1846, and was admitted
to the Middlesex bar in 1867. He was a member of the Charlestown City Council -in
1870-71, and trustee of the Public Library. He practiced in Charlestown until its an-
nexation to Boston in 1874, when he removed to Boston proper.

Lemuel Shaw, son of Oakes and Susannah (Hayward) Shaw, was born in Barn-
stable, Mass., January 9, 1781. His father, born in Bridgewater, Mass., June 10,
1736, was ordained over the First Church in Barnstable, October 1, 1760, and died
February 11, 1807, and his mother was a native of Braintree. He was fitted for col-
lege by his father and by Rev. Wm. Salisbury, of Braintree, and graduated at Har.
vard in 1800. After leaving college he was usher in the Franklin (Brimmer) School
under Dr. Asa Bullard, principal, and assistant editor of the Boston Gazette. In
1801 he entered the law office of David Everett in Boston, and after a regular course

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of study in Boston and Amherst, N. H., was admitted to the bar in Hopkinton, N.
H., in September, 1804. He was afterwards admitted to the Massachusetts bar at
Plymouth in November, 1804, and established himself at Boston. He was a repre-
sentative in 1811-12-13-14-15, a member of the Convention of 1820, a Senator in
1821-22 and 1828-29, and wrote the act incorporating the city of Boston with the ex-
ception of the section relating to public theatres and exhibitions, and the section
establishing the Police Court of the city of Boston, which were drafted by William
Sullivan. He was a member of the Boston Library Society, the Humane Society,
the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
among the Indians in North America, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences, a mem-
ber of the Board of Overseers of Harvard twelve years, and one of the corporation of
Harvard twenty-seven years. On the 23d of August, 1830, he was appointed chief
justice of the Supreme Judicial Court and resigned August 31, 1860. He received
the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1831 and from Brown in 1850, and died in Bos-
ton, March 30, 1861. He married first Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Knapp, of
Boston, January 6, 1818, and second Hope, daughter of Dr. Samuel Savage, of Barn-
stable, in August, 1827.

Reuben Atwater Chapman was the son of a farmer and born in Russell, Mass. ,
September 20, 1801. At first clerk in a store in Blanford, he studied law there and
after admission to the bar practiced successively in Westfield, Monson, Ware, and
Springfield, being in the last place a partner with George Ashmun. He was ap-
pointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1860, and chief justice in 1868, hold-
ing his seat until his death, which occurred in Fluellen, Switzerland, June 28, 1873.
He received the degree of Master of Arts from Williams in 1836, and Amherst in 1841,
and the degree of LL.D. from Amherst in 1861, and Harvard in 1864.

Horace Gray, son of Horace, was born in Boston in 1828, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1845, and from the Harvard Law School in 1849. He was admitted to the
Suffolk bar February 14, 1851. In 1854 he was appointed reporter of the decisions of
the Supreme Judicial Court, and his reports are contained in sixteen volumes, cover-
ing the period from the Suffolk and Nantucket term of 1854 to the Suffolk term of
November, 1860. In 1864 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court and
in 1873 chief justice. In 1882 he was made associate justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States and is still on the bench.

Thomas Green Fessenden was born in Walpole, N. H., April 22, 1771, and grad-
uated at Dartmouth in 1796. He studied law, and after admission to the bar wrote a
poem, entitled " Jonathan's Courtship," which attracted some attention. In London,
in 1803, he published another poem "Terrible Tractoration," and in Boston, in 1806,
published "Democracy Unveiled." In 1812 he practiced law at Bellows Falls, and
in 1815 in Brattleboro, where he edited the Intelligencer. In 1822 he came to Bos-
ton and published the New England Farmer until his death, November 11, 1837.

William Reed was a Boston man, and was deputy judge of admiralty in 1766.
He was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county in
1770, and held' that office until the Revolution. He was a barrister in 1768. In 1775
he was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature and was superseded in
1776. He died in 1780.

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Jedediah Foster was born in Andover, October 10, 1726, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1744. He settled in Brookfield, and was a delegate to the Provincial Con-
gress in 1774-5. He was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature and
served till his death, October 17, 1779.

Increase Sumner, son of Increase, a farmer in Roxbury, was born in that town No-
vember 27, 1746, and graduated at Harvard in 1767. After graduation he taught
school, and after studying law m Boston with Samuel Quincy was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1770, and settled in Roxbury. He was representative from 1776 to
1780, senator from 1780 to 1782, and in 1782 was appointed judge of the Supreme Ju-
dicial Court, holding the seat until he was chosen governor in 1797, and died in office,
June 7, 1799. He married, September 30, 1779, a daughter of William Hyslop, of
Brookline, Mass.

Nathan Cushing was born in Scituate, September 24, 1742, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1763. He was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1790 and
resigned in 1800. He died at Scituate, November 2, 1812.

Thomas Dawes, son of Col. Thomas, was born in Boston, July 8, 1758, and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1777. He studied law in the office of John Lowell in Boston,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1780. He was appointed in 1790 judge of
probate for Suffolk count)r and in 1792 judge of the Supreme Judicial Court. He re-
mained on the bench till his resignation in 1802, when he was again appointed judge
of probate and held the office until his death, July 22, 1825. He was also appointed
in 1802 judge of the Municipal Court in the town of Boston to succeed George Rich-
ards Minot, who was appointed on the establishment of the court in 1800. He held
this office until he was succeeded on his resignation by Josiah Quincy, who was ap-
pointed January 16, 1822.

Theophilus Bradbury was born in Newbury, Mass., November 13, 1739, and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1757. He taught school in Falmouth, now Portland, and after
studying law established himself in Falmouth, where he remained until 1779, when
he removed to Newbury. He was a representative and senator, and also a member
of Congress from 1795 to 1797, and judge of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1797 to
1803. He died at Newbury, September 6, 1803.

Simeon Strong was born in Northampton, March 6, 1736, and graduated at Yale
College in 1756. He was admitted to the bar in 1761. He was representative from
1767 to 1769, senator in 1793, and in 1801 was appointed judge of the Supreme Ju-
dicial Court, remaining on the bench until his death at Amherst, December 14, 1805.

Theodore Sedgwick, son of Benjamin, was born in Hartford, Conn., in May, 1746,
and graduated at Yale in 1765. In April, 1766, he was admitted to the bar and prac-
ticed in Great Barrington and Sheffield. In the Revolution he was on the staff of
Gen. John Thomas in the expedition to Canada. He was a representative from Shef-
field, delegate to the Continental Congress, and in 1788 to 1797 a member of Con-
gress. He was speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1788-9,
United States senator from 1796 to 1799, and in 1802 he was appointed judge of the
Supreme Judicial Court, serving until his death, which occurred in Boston, June 24,
1813.

Daniel Dewey was born in Sheffield, Mass., January 29, 1766. He studied law
with Theodore Sedgwick, and settled in Williamstown in 1787 ; was a member of the

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Executive Council, member of Congress in 1813-14, and appointed judge of the Su-
preme Judicial Court in 1814, serving till his death, May 26, 1815.

Samuel Putnam was born in Danvers, Mass., April 13, 1768, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1787. After admission to the bar he began practice in Salem in 1790. He
was State senator in 1808-9-13-14, representative in 1812, and a judge of the Supreme
Judicial Court from 1814 to 1842. He died at Somerville, July 3, 1853.

Leon Martin Abbott, son of Joseph B. and Lydia C. Abbott, born in Richmond,
N. H., August 28, 1867, was educated at the High School in Keene, N. H., and grad-
uated at Harvard. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891. Residence at Keene, N. H.

Samuel Appleton Browne Abbott, son of Josiah Gardner and Caroline (Livermore)
Abbott, was born in Lowell, March 6, 1846. He graduated at Harvard in 1866, and
studied law with his father. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1868, and to the
United States Supreme Court in 1875. He married at Providence, R. I., October 15,
1873, Abby Frances Woods. Residence in Boston.

Roscius Harlow Back, son of Roscius and Harriet C, born in Union, Conn., May
28, 1865, educated at common schools of Union and High School of Brimrield, Mass.,
studied law at Boston University Law School, admitted to the bar at Boston, 1889.
Married Katharine E. Hart at Boston, December 1, 1888, residence in Boston.

Dudley P. Bailey, son of Rev. Dudley Perkins and Hannah Barrows (Cushman),
born in Cornville, Me., October 24, 1843, graduated at Colby University 1867, studied
law with William L. Putnam, of Portland, admitted to Maine bar April 28, 1870, to
Suffolk bar April 15, 1873, representative 1886-7. Residence at Everett, Mass. , un-
married.

Andrew Jackson Bailey, son of Barker and Alice, born in Charlestown, Mass.,
July 18, 1840, graduated at Harvard 1863, was second lieutenant in the war, studied
law with John W. Pettingill and Hutchins & Wheeler, admitted to bar 1867, repre-
sentative 1871-72-73, senator 1874, city solicitor of Boston 1881. . Married in January.
1869, Abby V., daughter of John and Hannah Getchell, of Charlestown.

Thomas Cogswell Bachelder, son of Dr. Samuel Fogg and Martha (Badger) Bach-
elder, born at Gilmanton Iron Works, N. H., November 6, 1860, graduated at Har-
vard 1883, studied law at Harvard Law School, and admitted to Suffolk bar January
26, 1886, residence Dorchester District of Boston.

Eugene Pendleton Carver, son of Nathan P. and Frances A. (Pendleton) Carver,
born in Searsport, Me. , September 5, 1860, educated at Boston University, studied
law at Boston University Law School, admitted to Suffolk bar in June, 1882. Mar-
ried Clara P. Porter, August 11, 1886, residence Arlington.

John H. Casey, son of Jeremiah and Margaret, born in Somerville, Mass., Decem-
ber 9, 1860, educated at public schools, studied law with Stearns & Butler and at Bos-
ton University Law School, admitted to Suffolk bar January, 1885, residence Dor-
chester District of Boston.

James Cooney, jr. , son of James and Jane (Fields) Cooney, born in Ellington, Conn. ,
January 3, 1851, educated at public and private schools, studied law at Yale Law
School and in office of Judge De Forest, of Bridgeport, admitted to bar in New Haven,
June 27, 1883, in Boston, January 20, 1885, residence Boston.

248 HIS10RY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Edward O. Cooke, son of Russell and Mary V. (Otis) Cooke, born in Boston, Sep-
tember 5, 1839, educated at public schools, studied law with John F. Colby in Boston,
admitted to bar in Boston, November, 1879. Married daughter of Charles W. Morse,
of Boston, residence Scituate.

Francis Dana, son of Col. George H. and Frances Anne Matson Burke Dana,
born in Singapore, educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., studied law at
Harvard Law School and in the office of Joseph Willard, Boston, admitted to Suffolk
bar in December, 1888, residence Boston.

Richard Ela, son of Richard and Lucia (King) Ela, born in Washington, D. C, No-
vember 80, 1850, graduated at Harvard 1871, studied law with Jewell, Gaston & Field
and at Harvard Law School, admitted to bar in Boston, June, 1873, residence Cam-
bridge.

Michael F. Farrell, born in Kilkenny, Ireland, September 13, 1848, educated at
Boston College, studied law with Edwin S. Hovey, admitted to Middlesex bar June,
1871. Married Elizabeth M. Treanor at Somerville in 1874, residence Somerville.

William Aspinwall, son of Col. Thomas and Louisa Elizabeth (Poignand) Aspin-
wall, United States consul in London from 1815 to 1853, was born in London, February
16, 1819, educated at a private school in Hammersmith, England, and graduated at
Harvard in 1838. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840, finished his law
studies in the office of Franklin Dexter and George W. Phillips, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in 1841. In 1847 he became a resident in Brookline, was town clerk
from 1850 to 1852, representative in 1851 and 1852, member of the Constitutional Con-
vention of 1853, senator in 1854, and assessor, selectman, and water commissioner.
He married in January, 1848, Arixene Southgate, daughter of Richard King Porter,
of Portland, and died at Brookline, October 25, 1892.

Charles Sumner Hamlin, son of Edward Sumner and Anna Gertrude Hamlin, was
born in Boston, August 30, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1883. He graduated
also at the Harvard LaAv School in 1886, and finished his law studies in the office of
Robert M. Morse. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He is an ardent
Democratic politician, deeply interested in civil service and tariff reform and an
ffective speaker on the political platform. In April, 1893, he was appointed by
President Cleveland assistant secretary of the treasury. Residence Brookline.

Henry A. Scudder, son of Josiah and Hannah (Lovell) Scudder, born in Barn-
stable November 25, 1819, studied law with his brother Zeno at Barnstable and in
Boston with George T. Bigelow, admitted to Suffolk bar October 25, 1844, appointed
in February, 1869, judge of the Superior Court, resigned 1872. Married, June 30, 1857,
Mrs. Nanie B. Jackson, daughter of Captain Charles B. Tobey, of Nantucket,
died at Washington, January 26, 1892.

Asa Wellington, son of John, born in West Boylston, December 14, 1817, studied
law with Ezra Wilkinson at Dedham, admitted to the Norfolk bar in 1850, practiced
in Weymouth first, afterwards Boston. Married, November 9, 1850, Cornelia A.
Thayer, of Weymouth, died in Boston, May 9, 1892.

George W. Ware, jr., born in Boston, October 3, 1837, graduated at Amherst 1859,
Harvard Law School 1861. Married, December 14, 1865, Alice S., daughter of
Edward S. Tobey, of Boston, died in Boston, February 12, 1890.

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George Greenleaf Pratt, son of Rev. Enoch, born in Brewster in 1842, graduated
at Harvard 1866, studied law with Richard H. Dana, jr., admitted to the Suffolk bar
June 24, 1873, died at Waverly, May 4, 1890.

Edward F. Head graduated at the Harvard Law School 1842, admitted to the
Middlesex bar October, 1843, was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1848, removed to
California and became judge of the Superior Court of San Mateo county, and died in
San Francisco in April, 1890.

John F. Colby, born in Bennington, N. H. , March 3, 1834, graduated at Dartmouth,
1859, admitted to the Suffolk bar December 14, 1865, councilman in Boston 1878-79,
representative 1886-87, died at Hillsboro', N. H., June 7, 1890.

Gilman Marston, born at Orford, N. H., August 20, 1811, graduated at Dartmouth,
1837, studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Hubbard & Watts,
of Boston, admitted to Suffolk bar April 22, 1841, practiced in Exeter, N. H., repre-
sentative in New Hampshire eighteen years, member of Congress 1859 to 1863, and
1865 to 1867, colonel and brigadier-general in the war, died at Exeter, N. H., July 3,
1890.

Edward Darley Boit, son of John, who was chief officer of the ship Colunibia,
which gave the name to Columbia River, born in Boston 1815, graduated at Harvard
1834, and at Harvard Law School 1844, admitted to the Suffolk bar January 29, 1847,
associated with Charles P. & B. R. Curtis, representative 1852-53. Married, June 13,
1839, Jane P., daughter of John Hubbard, of Boston, abandoned law to become
treasurer of several mill corporations, died at Cotuit, Mass., October 15, 1890.

Edward P. Nettleton, born in Chicopee, Mass., November 7, 1834, graduated at
Yale, 1856, captain in Thirty-first Massachusetts L\egiment, made colonel June 7,
1865, studied law at Springfield and Harvard Law Schools, admitted to Suffolk bar
1867, appointed assistant United States attorney 1869, fourth assistant city solicitor
1876, second assistant 1878, first assistant 1879, city solicitor 1881, corporation counsel
of Boston 1882, judge advocate general on staff of Governor Robinson 1883. Married
December 15, 1869, Mary E., daughter of Rev. Dr. J. T. Tucker, died at Boston,
April 17, 1889.

Peleg Whitman Chandler, son of Peleg, was born in New Gloucester, Me., April
3, 1816, and graduated at the Bangor Theological Seminary in 1834 and at Bowdoin
College in 1837. He studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law School
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was a city councilman 1843-45, president
of the council the two last years, representative 1845-7, city solicitor 1845 to 1853,
Fourth of July city orator in 1844, trustee of Bowdoin College, and received the de-
gree of LL.D. from Bowdoin in 1867. He published two volumes of noted criminal
trials and was connected for some time with the editorial management of the Boston
Daily Advertiser. He married a daughter of Professor Parker Cleaveland and
died in Boston, May 28, 1889.

Francis Brinley, born in Boston, November 10, 1800, graduated at Harvard 1818,
studied law with William Sullivan and admitted to Suffolk bar November, 1821,
president of Common Council of Boston 1850-51, representative 1832, '50, '54, and
senator 1852-53, '63. In 1857 removed to Tyngsboro', and then to Newport, R. I.
Died at Newport, June 14, 1889.
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250 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Henry Weld Fuller, son of Henry W. Fuller and Esther, daughter of Captain
Benjamin Gould, of Newburyport, born in Augusta, Me., January 16, 1810, gradu-
ated at Bowdoin 1828, studied law with his father and at Harvard Law School, be-
gan practice in Augusta, removed to Boston 1841, admitted to Suffolk bar October
30, 1841, and became a partner with E. Hasket Derby, afterwards appointed clerk of
United States Circuit Court. Married in 1835 Mary Storer, daughter of Nathaniel
Goddard, of Boston, and died in Boston, August 14, 1889.

Francis Fiske Heard, born in Wayland, January 17, 1825, graduated at Harvard
1848. He practiced in Framingham from 1851 to 1856, and was afterwards, while in
Boston, associated with E. H. Bennett in the Digest. He married two wives, the
first of whom was Harriet, daughter of Dr. Israel Hildreth, of Dracut, and he died
in Boston, September 29, 1889.

Benjamin Pond, born in Salem, February 6, 1822, educated at Latin School,
studied law with William Whiting, Boston, councilman 1857-8, judge of Municipal
Court of East Boston District, resigned in 1887, died November 21, 1889.

Francis AVinthrop Palfrey, son of Rev. Dr. John G. Palfrey, born in Boston,
April 11, 1831, graduated at Harvard 1851 and at Harvard Law School 1853, ad-
mitted to Suffolk bar September 21, 1854, lieutenant-colonel, colonel of Twentieth
Massachusetts Regiment, and brevet major-general, wounded at Antietam, author
of "Antietam and Fredericksburg," register of bankruptcy. Married Louisa, daugh-
ter of Sidney Bartlett, of Boston, and died at Cannes, France, December 5, 1889.

Horatio E. Swasey, son of Horatio J., born in Standish, Me., educated at Gor-
ham Academy, studied with his father and in Boston with Henry W. Paine, after
admission associated with Thomas J. Gargan till 1882, then with his brother, Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in 1888, died in Boston, December 24, 1889.

John H. Krey, born in Boston 1859, studied at the Boston Law School, admitted
to Suffolk bar 1884, died in Boston, December 26, 1889.

Joseph McKean Churchill, son of Asaph and Mary (Gardner) Churchill, born in
Milton, April 29, 1821, graduated at Harvard 1840, and at Harvard Law School 1845,
admitted to Suffolk bar 1845, overseer of Harvard 1856-58, representative 1858-59,
member of the Executive Council 1859-60, of the Constitutional Convention 1853,
captain Company B Forty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment in the war, special justice
of the Boston Municipal Court 1867, associate justice 1871, married Augusta Phillips
Gardner, and died at Milton, March 23, 1886.

George L. Ruffin, born of free parents in Richmond, Va. , December 16, 1834,
came with his parents to Boston 1853, attended Chapman Hall School, opened a bar-
ber's shop, studied law with Jewell & Gaston, graduated at Harvard Law School
1869, admitted to Suffolk bar September 18, 1869, representative 1870-71, councilman
1876-77, appointed judge of Municipal Court of Charlestown District in November,
1883, by Governor B. F. Butler, and died November 19, 1886.

Isaac Hull Wright, born in Boston in 1816, went into business with his father,
afterwards connected with the press, appointed navy agent at Boston in 1846, lieu-
tenant-colonel and colonel of Massachusetts Volunteers in the Mexican war, studied
law with Theophilus Parsons, admitted to Suffolk bar January 22, 1863, died in Dor-
chester, December 22. 1886.

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Benjamin F. Brooks, born in Sturbridge, October 26, 1818, admitted to Suffolk
bar October 7, 1840, many years a partner with Joshua D. Ball, died at Newton, Jan-
uary 4, 1887.

Charles Atwood, born in Haverhill, May 15, 1803, graduated at Yale 1821, died
February 13, 1887.

Henry Bromfield Rogers, born in Boston, April 4, 1802, graduated at Harvard
1822, admitted to the Suffolk bar October 27, 1825, alderman in Boston in 1844-48-49-
50-51, senator 1857, died in Boston, March 30, 1857.

Henry Lunt, son of Rev. Dr. William Parsons Lunt and Ellen Hobart, daughter of
Barnabus Hedge, of Plymouth, born in Quincy, Mass., March 28, 1842, graduated
at Harvard 1863, studied law with Brooks, Ball & Storey, admitted to the Suffolk bar
September 17, 1866, died at Quincy, April 7, 1887.

Jonathan Palmer Rogers, son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Palmer) Rogers, born in
Shapleigh, now Acton, October 10, 1802, went with his father at the age of twelve to
Augusta, Me., studied law with Ruel Williams, admitted to the Penobscot bar 1826,
settled in Bangor, attorney-general of Maine 1832, senator 1834, and removed to Bos-
ton 1840, and admitted to Suffolk bar. He married Lucretia, daughter of Henry
Page, of Hallowell, Me., and died in Boston, November 26, 1846.

Justin Allen Jacobs, born in Cranston, R. I., February 3, 1818, graduated at Har-
vard 1839, admitted to Middlesex bar June, 1850, died at Cambridge, January 3,
1887.

William Davis Bliss, son of Alexander Bliss and Elizabeth, daughter of William
Davis, of Plymouth, born in Plymouth, May 1, 1826, graduated at Harvard 1846, ad-
mitted to Suffolk bar January 22, 1851, removed to Petaluma, Cal., and there died,
November 1, 1886.

Charles Folsom Walcott, born in Hopkinton, Mass., December 22, 1836, gradu-
ated at Harvard 1857, at Harvard Law School 1860, died at Salem, June 11, 1887.

Francis Bartlett Patten, son of J. Bartlett and Lucy P. Patten, born in Boston,
January 11, 1858, graduated at Harvard 1879, studied law at the Boston University
Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1883, residence Boston.

William Page, son of Thomas and Sarah (Cogswell) Page, born in Boston, August
24, 1795, graduated at Harvard 1815, studied law with James T. Austin, and was
admitted before 1822 to Suffolk bar, and died in Boston, April 11, 1867.

George Sumner Forbush, son of James E. and Elizabeth W. Forbush, born in Ash.
land, Mass., April 17, 1853, studied law at Boston University Law School and with
Judge Mellen Chamberlain in Boston, admitted to the Suffolk bar December 12, 1874,
and married Grace Shipley Etheridge in Boston, June 25, 1877, residence Brookline.

Joseph R. Churchill, son of Asaph and Mary Churchill, born in Dorchester, July
29, 1845, graduated at Harvard 1867, at Harvard Law School 1869, admitted to the
Norfolk county bar 1869, is judge of the Municipal Court of the Dorchester District
of Boston. He married, February 21, 1871, at Dorchester, Mary, daughter of Dr.
Benjamin Cushing, of Dorchester, residence in Dorchester.

Edward James Flynn, son of Maurice and Mary Flynn, born in Boston, June 16,
1859, graduated at Boston College in 1861. He studied law at Harvard and Boston

252 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

University Law Schools, and was admitted to Suffolk bar in January, 1884, repre-
sentative in 1885-86-88, member of the Executive Council 1889-90-91, director of
East Boston ferries 1887-88-89, president of Boston College Alumni Association, res-
idence Boston.

Eliot L. Packard, son of Nelson and Martha P. Packard, born in Brockton, Mass.,
June 4, 1854, graduated at the Bridgewater Normal School in 1872, studied law at
the Boston University Law School and with Jonas R. Perkins and W. W. Wilkins at
Brockton, admitted to Plymouth county bar in 1877, councilman in Brockton 1885,
married at Hopkinton, Mass., December 25, 1884, Cora Lethbridge, residence in
Woburn since 1886. i

Frank M. Forbush, son of James E. and Elizabeth W. (Goddard) Forbush, born in
Natick, Mass., September 20, 1858, studied law at the Boston University Law School
and in the offices of George S. Forbush and Patrick H. Cooney, and admitted to the
bar in Lowell, September 13, 1882. He married at Natick, November 1, 1882, Annie
Louise Mead, and lives in Natick.

Jeremiah G. Foley, son of Michael J. and Catherine Foley, born in North Leomin-
ster, Mass. , October 2, 1863, educated at Boston College, studied law with Charles
A. Prince in Boston and at Boston University Law School, and admitted to Suffolk
bar August 4, 1891, residence Boston.

Edward Tyrrel Channing, son of William, was born in Newport, R. I., Decem-
ber 12, 1791, and entered Harvard but did not graduate, receiving, however, the de-
gree of Master of Arts in 1819 and of LL.D. in 1847. He was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in January, 1812, and began practice in Boston. , He was a frequent and
able contributor to the North American Review, and in 1819 its co-editor with
Richard H. Dana. He delivered the Boston Fourth of July oration in 1817, and in
1819 was appointed Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, holding
the place until 1851 and performing work probably more useful than that of any
professor since the college_was organized.- He died at Cambridge, February 8, 1856.

William H. Baker, son of James E. and Eliza A. Baker, was born in Cornville,
Me., July 22, 1865, and was educated at the Norridgewock Eaton School. He studied
law at the Boston University Law School and with Charles Robinson and Blackmar
& Sheldon in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1887, and the
Maine bar in Skowhegan in September, 1887, residence in Boston.

Joseph Whitman Bailey, son of Loring Wourt and Laura A. (Avray) Bailey, was
born in Fredericton, N. B., May 9, 1865, and was educated at the Collegiate School
and Universit)'- of New Brunswick at Fredericton. He studied law with Wetmore &
Winslow, barristers at Fredericton, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admit-
ted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1889, residence in Boston.

Horace G. Allen, son of Stephen M. and Ann M. Allen, was born in Jamaica
Plain, July 27, 1855, and educated at the Boston public schools. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 5, 1877. He
has been councilman, and in 1891 was candidate for mayor of Boston. He married
in 1881 Grace D. Chamberlain, of Brunswick, Me. , residence in Roxbury.

Hollis Russell Bailey, son of Otis and Lucinda Alden (Loring) Bailey, was born
February 24, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He graduated at the Harvard

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Law School in 1878, and after a course of study in the office of Hyde, Dickinson &
Howe in Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1880. He married
Mary Persis, daughter of Governor Charles H. Bell, of New Hampshire, February
12, 1884, and lives in Cambridge.

Edward I. Baker, son of J. Alonzo and Maria M. Baker, was born in Eddington,
Me., February 25, 1866, and studied law in the Boston University Law School and in
the office of Albert W. Paine, of' Bangor, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
October, 1887, residence in Boston.

William B. DeLasCasas, son of Francisco Beltran and Elizabeth Cardes (Pedrick)
de las Casas, was born in Maiden, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. His father
was a political exile from Spain in 1820, who had favored a constitutional govern-
ment. He studied law in the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of
Robert D. Smith, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He lives in Maiden,
and for some years he has been an active and efficient promoter of civil service and
tariff reform.

Ebenezer Gay, son of Martin and Mary (Pinckney) Gay, was born in Boston, Feb-
ruary 24, 1771, and graduated at Harvard in 1789. He studied law with Christopher
Gore, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793. He began practice in Boston,
occupying an office in Schollay's building, and secured almost at once a lucrative
practice. He changed his residence to Hingham in 1805, but continued his business
in Boston till 1809, after which date he enjoyed a large practice at the Plymouth county
bar. He married Mary Allyne, daughter of Joseph Otis, of Barnstable, July 31, 1800,
and died at Hingham, February 11, 1842.

William H. Osborne, son of Ebenezer and Mary (Woodman) Osborne, born in Scit-
uate, September 16, 1840, was educated at the East Bridgewater Academy and the
State Normal School in Bridgewater, graduating at the last institution in 1860. He
enlisted in 1861 as private in Company C, Twenty-ninth Massachusetts Regiment, was
severely wounded near Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862, made prisoner, released on parole
July 18, sent to hospital, and discharged in January, 1863. He studied law with Ben-
jamin W. Harris in East Bridgewater, and was admitted to the Plymouth county bar
June 15, 1864. He was representative from East Bridgewater in 1871 and 1883,
published a history of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, and is now United States pension
agent at Boston, having his residence in East Bridgewater.

William Payne Blake, son of Edward and Mary M. J. (Dehon) Blake, was born in
Dorchester, July 23, 1846, and graduated at Harvard in 1866. He studied law at the
'Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 14, 1869. He resides unmarried in Boston.

George Andrew Blaney, son of George Arnold and Hannah M. C. Blaney, was
born in Roxbury, April 16, 1853, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He studied law
at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Charles Robinson, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar May 13, 1878. He married Ella A. Fowle at Woburn,
June 2, 1880, and lives at West Newton.

-Elisha Hunt Allen, son of Samuel C. Allen, was born in New Salem, Mass., Jan-
uary 28, 1804, and was a descendant from Edward Allen, who left England at the
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ceived an early acadamical education and began life as a clerk in a store, but find-
ing business distasteful he fitted for college, and graduated at Williams in 1823. He
studied law in his father's office, and after admission to the bar began practice in
Brattleboro, Vt., where he remained two years. In 1828 he removed to Bangor,
which at that time was the centre of a new country, as attractive to enterprising
young men in other parts of New England as the West has been in later days. He
there associated himself in business with John Appleton, afterwards chief justice
of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, the partnership continuing until the election
of Mr. Allen to Congress in 1840. His election to the State Legislature in 1836 marked
his entry into a political life, which continued unbroken except by his death. Though
he had determined to devote himself to professional labors, a power beyond himself
controlled his career and he remained in the Legislature five years, serving a part of
the time as speaker of the House of Representatives. The period of his legislative
service was a marked one in the history of Maine. Comparatively a new State, a
vast number of important questions touching its establishment were to be settled,
and added to these the question of the northeastern boundary became a perplexing
and disturbing one. In the discussion of all these questions Mr. Allen took a promi-
nent part, and a resolution introduced and advocated by him favoring the presence
of a military force to prevent depredations on public lands and the removal of lum-
ber beyond the limits of the State, did much towards securing that action of our gov-
ernment which ended in the Ashburton treaty. In 1840 he was elected member of
Congress as a Whig in opposition to Hannibal Hamlin the Democratic candidate,
and thus the political field into which he had once resolved never to enter was en-
larged instead of being abandoned. In 1846 he removed to Boston and became a
member of the Suffolk bar. In 1849 he was a representative from Boston, and in
that year was appointed consul to the Hawaiian Islands. During his residence in
Boston the writer's acquaintance with him began which ripened into a friendship
strengthening with years. A more cordial, warm-hearted, unselfish friend it has
never been his fortune to find, and he is now glad of an opportunity to pay a tribute
to his memory. His life in the Sandwich Islands was an agreeable one, and his pub-
lic service was exceedingly creditable to himself and valuable to the government he
for a time represented. The American element in Honolulu was by no means in-
considerable and its influence with the Hawaiian government was a salutary one.
Charles Coffin Harris, of Portsmouth, N. H., Stephen H. Phillips, of Salem, Edward
P. Bond, of Boston, and many others occupied prominent official positions, and their
presence went far towards not only making Mr. Allen's residence agreeable, but mak-
ing also the performance of his official duties less irksome and difficult. After four
years' service as consul he was appointed minister of finance of the Hawaiian govern,
ment, and in 1857 chancellor of the kingdom and chief justice of the Supreme Court,
holding the last mentioned office twenty years. During his official life he made re-
peated visits to Washington in efforts to secure the adoption of treaties which he be-
lieved would be advantageous both to the government he represented and to the
United States. The treaty of 1875 was wholly his work in both inception and con-
summation, and the admission of sugar and rice into the United States free of duty
reciprocal with a like admission of the products of our own country into the Hawaiian
Islands has accomplished all he expected and more than he promised. In 1876 he re-

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signed both the positions of chancellor and chief justice and became resident minis-
ter at Washington, occupying that position until his death, and at the last as dean of
the Diplomatic Corps. He was married twice, first in early life at Brattleboro, Vt.,
to Miss Fessenden, of that town, and second, in 1857, to Mary Harrod, daughter of
Frederick Hobbs, of Bangor. He died suddenly while attending a diplomatic recep-
tion at the president's house in Washington, January 1, 1883.

Henry William Paine, son of Lemuel and Jane Thompson (Warren) Paine, was
born in Winslow, Me., August 30, 1810, and graduated at Waterville College in 1830.
He studied law in the office of Samuel S. Warren, of China, Me., and at the Harvard
Law School, and was admitted to the bar of Kennebec county in 1834. He opened
an office in Hallowell and continued there in the active and successful practice of
law until 1854, when he became a member of the Suffolk bar and a resident of Cam-
bridge, which is still his home. He was a representative from Hallowell in the
Maine Legislature in 1835-37, '53, and county attorney five years. Since his arrival
in Boston he has enjoyed a large practice and won a reputation for skill, wisdom and
profound knowledge of law, which places him in the front rank of his profession. A
seat on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court might have been his both in Maine
and Massachusetts, but its attendant honors have failed to draw him away from his
chosen career. He received the degree of LL. D. from Waterville College, or Colby
University, as it is now called, in 1852. He married Lucy E. Coffin, of Newbury-
port, Mass., Mayl, 1837.

Elbridge Gerry, son of Elbridge and Ann (Thompson) Gerry, was born in Cam-
bridge, Mass., June 12, 1793, and graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law
with his brother-in law, James T. Austin, in Boston. He was appointed surveyor in
the Boston Custom House by President John Quincy Adams, and removed by Jack-
son in 1830, and was a representative from 1831 to 1835. He died at New York, May
18, 1867.

Harvey Deming Hadlock is descended in the seventh generation from Nathaniel,
who came from England in 1638 and settled in Charlestown. In 1653 Nathaniel was
one of the founders of Lancaster. His son, Nathaniel, born in Charlestown, July 16,
1643, settled near the Ipswich line, and married Remember Jones, of Gloucester.
Though not a Quaker, his sympathies were excited in their behalf, and he was pun-
ished for declaring " that he could receive no profit from Mr. Higginson's preaching,
and that in persecuting the Quakers the government was guilty of innocent blood."
Samuel Hadlock, son of the second Nathaniel, was born April 27, 1687, and married
Jane Gorton in 1708. Samuel Hadlock, son of Samuel, married Hannah Tappan,
January 25, 1737, and had a son, Samuel, born August 16, 1746, who married Mary
Andrews, of Ipswich. November 10, 1768. Samuel and Mary had a son, Samuel,
born July 6, 1771, who married Sarah Manchester. Edwin Hadlock, son of Samuel
and Sarah, born January 17, 1814, married Mary Ann, daughter of John and Mary
(Gilley) Stanwood, and was the father of Harvey Deming Hadlock, the subject of this
sketch. Samuel Hadlock, the grandfather of Harvey, removed from Massachusetts
to Maine in the early part of this century and established himself on Little Cranberry
Island, most of which he had purchased, and there carried on the shipping business
so successfully as to amass what for those days was a fortune. There he died in No-

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vember, 1854. His son Edwin who had been a seafaring man retired from the sea
on the death of his father and succeeded to his business, and died at Cranberry Isles>
September 15, 1875.

At Cranberry Isles, Harvey Deming Hadlock was born, October 7, 1843. His
education was received from his mother, a woman of strong intellect and more than
ordinary culture, and in the schools of his native town. At the age of thirteen his
parents removed to Bucksport, Me., and there he became a student in the East
Maine Conference Seminary, where he pursued an advance course of classical study,
enjoying also the benefits of private instructors. Subsequently at the Maine State
Seminary, now Bates College, and at Dartmouth, he pursued a course of scientific
study, and thus became fully equipped for a start in the professional career which he
had determined to pursue. On the 7th of September, 1863, by the advice and with
the influence of Governor Edward Kent, he entered the law office of Samuel F.
Humphrey, of Bangor, and on the 6th of January, 1865, at the age of twenty-one
years he was admitted after examination to the Maine bar and established himself in
Bucksport. Soon after his admission, business having led him to New Orleans, he
there pursued the study of civil and maritime law under Christian Roselius, return-
ing to Bucksport in the spring of 1866. In 1868 he visited the West and at Omaha
was admitted to practice in the courts of Nebraska. In the autumn of the same year
he was admitted to the Suffolk bar and opened an office in Boston. In the spring of
1869 he was called to New York on a case pending in the Federal Courts, and there
he was admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts. In the autumn he re-
turned to Boston, remaining until the spring of 1871 when, believing that the com-
pletion of projected railroads would largely promote the prosperity and growth of
Bucksport, his adopted home, he returned there and resumed practice. He remained
in Bucksport until 1881, enhancing his reputation and widening his legal field, and
in that year removed to Portland. From 1881 to 1887 he remained in Portland,
maintaining as a member of the Cumberland bar the leading position he had held
at Bucksport, practicing in both State and Federal Courts and managing important
cases in which civil, criminal and maritime law were involved. In 1887 he again
established himself in Boston, and after five years in full practice there contributed
by a clientage in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York, it may be
confidently stated that the Suffolk bar will be the central point of his future profes-
sional life. The many important cases in which he has acted and is acting as coun-
sel afford abundant evidence of his skill and success. Among the criminal cases may
be mentioned the defence of Azro B. Bartholomew at Boston in March, 1872, indicted
for murder, and the defence of Edward M. Smith at Ellsworth in April, 1877, charged
with the murder of the Trim family at Bucksport in 1876. Among the cases in
maritime law may be mentioned Sawyer vs. Oakman, argued in New York in 1870
and reported in Blatchford's Reports, 'and Gould vs. Staples, tried in 1881 in the
United States Circuit Court in Maine, reported in the. ninth volume of the Federal
Reporter. Among railroad cases there are Spofford, petitioner for certiorari, vs.
Bucksport and Bangor Railroad Company, reported in Maine Reports 66, 26, Bucks-
port and Bangor Railroad Company vs. Inhabitants of Brewer, in Maine Reports 67,
295, and Deasy, admisistrator, vs. Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada.
Among those cases now pending are that of the Jenness will case, entitled Patten vs.

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Cilley, on a writ of error from the United States Circuit Court in New Hampshire to
the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and that of Campbell
vs. Haverhill and eleven other cities on writ of error from the United States Circuit
Court for Massachusetts to the Supreme Court of the United States, and Campbell
vs. Mayor and Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, involving sev-
eral millions of dollars in their decision, and now pending on an accounting in the
United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Hadlock
married, January 26, 1865, Alexene L., daughter of Captain Daniel S. Goodell, of
Searsport, Me.

John Henry Hardy, son of John Henry and Hannah (Farley) Hardy, was born in
Hollis, N. H., February 2, 1847, and graduated at Dartmouth, 1870. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Edward F. Johnson, of Marl-
boro' and Robert M. Morse, jr., of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, Jan-
uary 22, 1872. He was a representative in 1884, and appointed June 3, 1885, asso-
ciate justice of the Municipal Court of Boston, a position he still holds. He married
at Littleton, Mass., August 31, 1871, Anna I. Conant, and lives in Arlington.

Josiah Gardner Abbott was descended from George Abbott, who came from
Yorkshire, England, and settled in Andover in 1643. Caleb Abbott, the fifth in de-
scent from George, was a merchant in Chelmsford, Mass. , and married Mercy, daugh-
ter of Josiah Fletcher. His children were Mercy Maria, born January 24, 1808, died
August 21, 1825; Lucy Ann Lovejoy, born September 16, 1809; Caleb Fletcher, born
September 8, 1811; Josiah Gardner, the subject of this sketch, born at Chelmsford,
November 1, 1815, and Evelina Maria Antoinette, b:>rn September 14, 1817. Josiah
Gardner received his early education at the Chelmsford Academy under the instruc-
tion of Ralph Waldo Emerson, its principal, and he never forgot the lessons learned
from that eminent philosopher. He entered Harvard at the end of his twelfth year
and graduated in 1832. He studied law in Lowell with Nathaniel Wright and Amos
Spaulding and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Decem-
ber, 1835. After admission to the bar he was associated as partner two years with
Mr. Spaulding, one of his instructors, and in 1840 formed a partnership in Lowell
with Samuel Appleton Brown. By this time he had fairly entered on a professional
career which was destined to be a brilliant one. With great natural gifts and a
foundation of legal knowledge and methods firmly laid, he found himself in an arena,
that of the Middlesex bar, where hard knocks were to be received and where alone
hard knocks in return could prevail; No other bar in the State presented so many
obstacles to the advancement of a superficial, timid and unskillful man, and none
presented greater attractions to one conscious of his power and eager to measure
swords with its well trained professional gladiators. To such an arena was Mr. Ab-
bott, introduced, and in his frequent contests with such men as Butler, Farley,
Sweetser and Wentworth, he not only fought an equal fight, but sharpened his lance
for future contests. In 1855 the sessions of the old Common Pleas Court in Suffolk
county were abolished by law and the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk was
established. The judges of this court were Albert H. Nelson, chief justice, and
Josiah G. Abbott, Stephen G. Nash, and Charles P. Huntington, associates, all ap-
pointed October 13, 1855. Judge Abbott resigned in 1858, and Marcus Morton, jr.,
was appointed to succeed him. Under the law establishing this court its judges were
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ex officio judges of the Municipal Court, as the judges of the Common Pleas Court
had been before them since 1843. After leaving the bench Judge Abbott opened an
office in Boston, abandoning Lowell except as a place of residence, which he retained
there until 1861, when Boston became his permanent home. In 1860 a seat on the
bench of the Supreme Judicial Court was offered to him but declined. In 1837 he
was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and in 1842 and 1843
a member of the Senate. In 1840-41 he was a member of the staff of Governor Mor-
ton, in 1853 a member of the Constitutional Convention, and in 1875 and 187G a mem-
ber of Congress. Several times the Democratic candidate for governor and for
United States senator, many times a delegate to Democratic National Conventions, he
was always a trusted leader of the party, in whose principles he was a firm believer
and to whose interests he was always devoted. Judge Abbott married, July 18, 1838,
Caroline, daughter of Edward St. Loe Livermore, chief justice of the Supreme Court
of New Hampshire. Few men at the north laid heavier sacrifices during the war on
the altar of his country. Of seven sons four enlisted for service, Edward Gard-
ner, born September 29, 1840, and a graduate of Harvard in 1860, as brevet major,
was killed at the battle of Cedar Mountain. Henry Livermore, born January 21,
1842, a graduate also of Harvard in 1860, as brevet brigadier-general, was killed in
the Wilderness. Fletcher Morton, born February 18, 1843, served on the staff of
General William Dwight. Samuel Appleton Browne, born March 6, 1846, and a
graduate of Harvard in 1866^ and now an efficient trustee of the Boston Public
Library, enlisted at the age of sixteen, but was not called into service. He is a mem-
ber of the Suffolk bar and mentioned elsewhere in this register. Franklin Pierce
Abbott, another son, is also a member of the Suffolk bar, as well as Grafton St. Loe,
the sixth son, and Holker Welch Abbott is an artist. Judge Abbott received a
degree of LL. D. from Williams College in 1862. He died in Boston, June 6, 1891.

William Allen, son of William, was born in Brunswick, Me., March 31, 1822, and
graduated at Amherst in 1842. He studied law at the Yale Law School and at North-
ampton, where he was admitted to the bar in 1845. In 1881 he was appointed judge
of the Supreme Judicial Court, holding his seat until his death in 1891.

John Forrester Andrew, son of John A. and Eliza Jane (Hersey) Andrew, was
born in Hingham, Mass., November 26, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1872. He
graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1875, and studied in the office of Brooks,
Ball & Storey in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1875. He was a
representative from Boston in 1880-81-82, and a senator in 1884 and 1885, chosen for
the first of these years as a Republican and the second as a Democrat. In 1886 he
was the Democratic candidate for governor, and in 1888 and 1890 was elected to Con-
gress from the Third Massachusetts District on the Democratic ticket. He married
in Boston, October 11, 1883, Harriet, daughter of the late Nathaniel and Cornelia
(Van Rensselaer) Thayer, and his residence is in Boston.

Montressor Tyler Allen, son of George W. and Mary L. (Tyler) Allen, was born
in Woburn, Mass., May 20, 1844, and served a short time in the Civil War in Com-
pany G, Fifth Massachusetts Regiment. He was educated at the Warren Academy
and at the Boston University, and graduated from the Boston University Law School
in 1878. Previous to studying law he was engaged several years in mercantile pur-
suits. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1879, and has since that time practiced

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in Boston, while retaining his residence in Woburn. He was a member of the House
of Representatives in 1888-89, and married in Boston in June, 1865, Julia Frances,
daughter of John and Ruth (Magoun) Peasley.

Edward C. Carrigan, born in England, March 15, 185*0, came to New England in
1857. He enlisted as a drummer boy in the First Vermont Regiment at the age of
thirteen, and after leaving the army attended Dean Academy, the Boston Evening
High School, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1877. He studied law in the office of
Benjamin F. Butler in Boston, and at the Boston University Law School, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar. Having received his earliest education at the Evening
High School he felt a deep interest in that institution, and having received from the
Boston School Board a teacher's certificate of the highest grade, he was placed in 1881
at the head of that school. In 1883 he was appointed a member of the State Board of
Education and educational interests shared with his professional occupations his time
and labors. The free text book act, the illiterate minor bill, and the evening school
law, were largely due to his persistent efforts. He was unmarried, and died sud-
denly while traveling through Colorado, November 7, 1888.

Wallridge Abner Field, son of Abner and Louisa Griswold Field, was born in
Springfield, Vt., April 26, 1833, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1855. After grad-
uating he remained at Dartmouth as a tutor in 1856 and 1857, and filled the same
place again in 1859. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in
the office of Harvey Jewell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 12, 1860. In
1865 he was appointed assistant United States attorney and served until 1869, when
he was appointed assistant attorney-general of the United States. He resigned his
office in Washington in 1870, and resumed practice in Boston with Harvey Jewell
and Wm. Gaston under the firm name of Jewell, Gaston & Field. In 1881 he was
appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and on the resignation of Marcus
Morton in 1890, was made chief justice. Judge Field was a member of the Boston
School. Board in 1863-64, a common councilman in 1865-66-67, and a member of the
Forty-sixth Congress. He married first in 1869 Eliza E. McLoon, and second in 1882
Frances E., daughter of Nathan A. Farwell, of Rockland, Me.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr., son of Oliver Wendell and Amelia Lee (Jackson)
Holmes, was born in Boston, March 8, 1841, and graduated at Harvard in 1861. He
was commissioned first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment, after-
wards lieutenant-colonel and brevet colonel, having been wounded at Ball's Bluff,
Antietam and Fredericksburg. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866,
and after further pursuing his law studies in the offices of Robert M. Morse, jr., and
George O. Shattuck in Boston, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, 1867.
His lectures at the Lowell Institute upon the common law established his reputation,
and in 1882 he was appointed professor in the Harvard Law School. In the same
year he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court and is still on the bench.
In 1886 he received the degree of LL.D. from Yale. He married, June 17, 1872,
Fanny Bowditch (Dixwell), and lives in Boston.

William Saxton Morton, son of Joseph and Mary (Wheeler) Morton, was born in
Roxbury, September 22, 1809, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He received his
earlier education at the Milton Academy, at Greene's School at Jamaica Plain, and

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at Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law in the offices of Perez Morton, who had
been attorney-general, and Sidney Bartlett in Boston, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar February 10, 1835. For a short time he practiced law in Amherst, N. H.,
and moved to Quincy in 1840, where he held his residence until his death. He was a
delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1853, president of the Bank and Insur-
ance Company in Quincy, chairman of the School Board, and trial justice for Norfolk
county. He married, October 3, 1839, at Boston, Mary Jane Woodbury, daughter of
Thomas and Martha (Woodbury) Grimes, and died at Quincy, September 21, 1871.

John Foster, born in England, came to New England before 1682. He was named
councillor in the charter of 1692 and continued in office until his death, February
9, 1711. He was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk
county March 3, 1693, and served until January, 1710.

Jeremiah Dummer, son of Richard, was born in Newbury, September 14, 1645. He
was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county in
1702, and sat on the bench until 1715. He died May 24, 1718.

Thomas Palmer was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in
1711, and after the death of Judge Townsend in 1727 was made chief justice, serving
until his death, October 8, 1740.

Edward Lyde was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suf-
folk county December 29, 1715, and served until 1723, when he probably died.

Adam Winthrop, fourth in descent from Governor John Winthrop, and the third
bearing the same name, graduated at Harvard in 1694. He was a representative
from Boston in 1714, and a member of the Council. He was appointed judge of the
Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county December 29, 1715, and after the
death of Judge Palmer in 1740 was made chief justice, resigning in 1741, and dying
October 2, 1743.

Edward Hutchinson, son of Judge Elisha Hutchinson, Was born in 1678. He was
a representative from Boston in 1717 and 1718, and was appointed judge of the In-
ferior Court for Suffolk county in 1723, serving until 1731, when he was removed by
Governor Belcher. In 1740 he was reappointed, and on the resignation of Judge
Winthrop in 1741 was made chief justice, serving until his death, March 16, 1752.
He was also judge of probate.

John P. Healey, son of Joseph, was born in Washington, N. H., in 1810, and grad-
uated at Dartmouth in 1835. He studied law in the office of Daniel Webster in Bos-
ton, and was afterwards associated with him in business until the death of Mr. Web-
ster in October, 1852. He was not in the fullest sense a partner, as a large amount
of Mr. Webster's business was his own, in which Mr. Healey had no interest. But
for many years even these cases were largely prepared by him, and to that extent
of course he received his share of the fees. After the death of Mr. Webster he was
in full practice alone until 1856, when he was chosen by the City Council city solic-
itor, the sixth incumbent of that office. The first was Charles Pelham Curtis, holding
office from from 1827 to 1829; the second, John Pickering, from 1829 to 1846; the
third, Peleg Whitman Chandler, from 1846 to 1853; the fourth, George Stillman Hil-
lard, from 1853 to 1855; the fifth, Ambrose A. Ranney, from 1855 to 1856; John P.
Healey, 1856 to 1881. In 1881 the office of corporation counsel was established and

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Mr. Healey was appointed and held the office until his death, January 4, 1882. Ed-
ward P. Nettleton was chosen city solicitor July 4, 1881, as the successor of Mr. Hea-
ley, and in January, 1882, after Mr. Healey's death, he was appointed corporation
counsel. Mr. Nettleton resigned December 24, 1888, and James B. Richardson was
appointed.in his place January 1, 1889, and held the office until May 1, 1891, when
Thomas M. Babson, the present incumbent, was appointed. Andrew Jackson Bailey
was appointed city soliciter in November, 1881, to succeed Mr. Nettleton and is still
in office. Mr. Healy was at various times both senator and representative, and was
at one time offered the appointment of judge of the United States Court for the
Northern District of California, but declined. His wife was a Miss Barker, of
Boston.

William Amory, son of Thomas Coffin and Hannah Rowe (Linzee) Amory, was
born in Boston, June 15, 1804. He fitted for college with Jacob Newman Knapp at
Brighton and Jamaica Plain, and entered Harvard in 1819. On account of the Re-
bellion, in which his class took part, he with many others was expelled, but received
the degree of Master of Arts in 1845. In 1823 he entered the law office of Luther
Lawrence in Groton, where he remained five months, then going to Europe and re-
maining five years. On his return he studied in the offices of Franklin Dexter and
William H. Gardiner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1830. He
abandoned law and became one of the most eminent and respected merchants of Bos-
ton. He married, January 17, 1833, Anna Powell Grant, daughter of David and
Miriam Clark (Mason) Sears, of Boston, and died in Boston, December 8, 1888.

Francis Inman Amory, son of William and Anna Powell Grant (Sears) Amory, was
born in Boston, June 5, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1871. He graduated at
the Harvard Law School in 1875, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 23, 1875.
He married at Boston, May 12, 1886, Grace J., daughter of Charles Minot, and re-
sides in Boston.

Omen Southworth Keith graduated at Harvard in 1826, was admitted to the Mid-
dlesex bar in December, 1832, and settled in Wayland, where he practiced until 1838,
when he removed to Boston. He died in 1847.

Henry Baldwin, son of Life and Susannah D. Baldwin, was born in Brighton,
Mass. , January 7, 1834, and graduated at Yale in 1854. He studied law at the Har-
vard Law School and in Worcester in the office of Peter C. Bacon, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1857. He was a representative in 1861, and is judge of
the Municipal Court of the Brighton District of Boston. He married at Brighton in
November, 1861, Harriet A. Hollis, and lives in the Allston District.

William Amos Bancroft, son of Charles and Lydia Emeline (Spaulding) Bancroft,
was born in Groton, Mass., April 26, 1855, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of William B. Stevens, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 2, 1881. He was a councilman in Cam-
bridge, where he resides, in 1882, representative in 1883-84-85, president of the Cam-
bridge Board of Alderman 1891-1892, and since February 7, 1882, has been colonel of
the Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. He was chosen mayor of Cam-
bridge in 1892. He married in January, 1879, Mary Shaw.

Charles Edwin Beale, son of Ambrose and Caroline A. (Andrews) Beale, was born
in Bowdoin, Me., August 10, 1845, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1870. He

262 HISTORY OE THE BENCH AND BAR.

studied law with A. P. Gould at Thomaston, Me., and graduated at the National
University Law School in Washington, D. C. He was admitted to the Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia in 1872, and to the Suffolk bar January 19, 1877. He was
in the United States Treasury Department from 1864 to 1867, and special agent of the
Interior Department from 1870 to 1876. He edited Gatcley's Universal Educator
and Gateley's World's Progress. His residence is in Dorchester.

Joseph H. Beale, jr., son of Joseph H. and Frances E. Beale, was born in Dor-
chester, October 12, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1882. He graduated at the
Harvard Law School in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1886. Since
1890 he has been a lecturer in the Harvard Law School. He married Elizabeth C.
Day at Barnstable, Mass., December 23, 1891, and lives in Dorchester. He was a
joint editor of the eighth edition of "Sedgwick on Damages."

George F. Bean, son of Stephen S. and Nancy E. (Colby) Bean, was born in
Bradford, N. H., March 24, 1862, and was educated at Colby Academy, New London,
N. H., and at Brown University, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law with
S. C. Eastman at Concord, N. H., and in the office of Ropes, Gray & Lonng, Boston,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He was in 1891 mayor of Woburn,
where he resides, and where he married E. Maria Blodgett, of Watertown, in Sep-
tember, 1886.

William Dudley is said by Washburn to have been the first educated lawyer on
the Common Pleas bench. He was the son of Governor Joseph Dudley, and was
born in Roxbury in 1686. He graduated at Harvard in 1704. He was a representa-
tive many years and speaker from 1724 to 1728. ,,He was chosen to the Council in
1729, and continued a member until 1740. He was a judge of the Inferior Court of
Common Pleas for Suffolk county from 1728 to 1731, and from 1733 to his death, Au-
gust 10, 1743. He married a daughter of Addington Davenport.

Anthony Stoddard, son of Simeon, was born in 1678, and died March 11, 1748.
He was a representative and member of the Council from 1735 to 1742. He gradu-
ated at Harvard in 1697, and was judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for
Suffolk county from 1733 till his death.

Eliakim Hutchinson was a member of the Council from 1744 to 1746, and was
made judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 1741. He
succeeded Edward Hutchinson as chief justice in 1752, and remained until the Revo-
lution.

Edward Winslow, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Winslow, and grand-
son of John, of Boston, who came to Plymouth in the Fortune in 1621, and married
Mary Chilton, one of the Mayflower passengers, wras born in Boston in 1669. He was
treasurer of Suffolk county at the time of his death and had served as sheriff from
December 12, 1728, to October 20, 1743, when he was made judge of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county, and continued on the bench until his
death in December, 1753.

Samuel Watts was a Suffolk county man who was a member of the Council from
1742 to 1763. He was made a judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 1748,
and continued on the bench until 1770, in which year on the 12th of March he died.

BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 263

Samuel Welles was a member of the Council in 1747 and 1748 and many years a
member of the House of Representatives from Boston. He was made judge of the
Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 1755, and remained on the bench until his death,
May 20, 1770. He was a very prominent man in the province and was appointed a
member of various commissions looking after its welfare.

Nathaniel Hatch was born in Dorchester, and graduated at Harvard in 1742. He
was made a judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 1771, and at the Revo-
lution, being a loyalist, left the country. He died in 1780.

Joseph Greene was appointed judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county July
3, 1772, and left the bench December 31st in the same year. He was a loyalist, and
left the country at the Revolution.

Thomas Hutchinson, jr., son of Governor Thomas Hutchinson, graduated at Har-
vard in 1758, and was appointed judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county
December 31, 1772, and being a loyalist left the country at the Revolution, and died in
England in 1811.

Benjamin Gridley was a barrister, and graduated at Cambridge in 1751. He was
appointed judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county in May, 1775, and his was
the last appointment made by a royal governor. He went to Halifax in 1776, and in
1778 was proscribed. He probably died in England.

Richard Nichols was one of the commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, appointed
by the government in England in 1664 to visit the colonies and hear and determine
all matters of complaint. He was the first English governor of New York after its
conquest by the United Colonies in 1664. He left New York in 1667 and returned to
England.

Sir Robert Carr was one of the commissioners of Oyer and Terminer mentioned
above. He returned to England and died in 1667.

George Cartwright was another of the commissioners mentioned above. He re-
turned to England in 1665, and on his voyage was captured by the Dutch.

Samuel Maverick, another of the commissioners mentioned above, was the son of
Rev. John Maverick, of Dorchester. He was born in England about 1602, and died
at New York, where he resided after 1665.

John Coggan was a merchant who acted as an attorney in the courts of Boston
under the colonial charter. \

Amos Richardson was a tailor who acted as an attorney during the life of the
Massachusetts Colony.

John Watson was a merchant who acted as attorney in the days of the Colony.

Benjamin Bullivant was the first attorney-general and was appointed about 1686.
He was a physician and apothecary and acted as ,an attorney in the courts.

Anthony Checkley was a merchant who acted as an attorney in the colonial
courts. He was appointed attorney-general June 14, 1689, and reappointed under
the province charter October 28, 1692.

Simon Lynde was appointed associate judge of the Pleas and Sessions July 27,
1686, by Joseph Dudley during his short administration.

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Edward Randolph was appointed associate judge of the Pleas and Sessions July
27, 1686, by President Dudley.

Richard Wharton was appointed associate judge of the Pleas and Sessions July

27, 1686, by President Dudley.

John Usher, son of Hezekiah and born'in Boston in April, 1648, was appointed
associate judge of the Pleas and Sessions July 27, 1686, by President Dudley. He
was a bookseller.

Giles Masters was sworn in as an attorney in 1686, and died in 1688.

Christopher Webb was sworn in as an attorney in 1686.

Samuel Shrimpton was a appointed by Andros in 1687 judge of the Superior
Court.

Charles Lidget was one of the associate judges of the Superior Court appointed
by Andros in 1687.

George Farwell succeeded Benjamin Bullivant as attorney-general and continued
in office until June 20, 1688. He came from New York and was sent to England with
Andros in February, 1689.

James Graham succeeded George Farwell as attorney-general June 20, 1688, and
with Andros and Farwell was sent to England in February, 1689.

Thomas Newton was sworn as an attorney June 8, 1688, and was appointed attor-
ney-general in 1718, holding that office until May 28, 1721. He was born in Eng-
land, June 10, 1660, and was educated there. He was a deputy judge of the Court
of Admiralty and comptroller of the customs for the port of Boston. He died May

28, 1721.

King was an attorney in the days of Andros.

Samuel Hayman was an attorney during the close of the seventeenth century, and
from 1692 to 1702 was a judge of the Common Pleas Court for Middlesex county.

John West came from New York and was an attorney about the time of the union
of the colonies in 1692.

John Palmer superseded Joseph Dudley as chief justice of the Superior Court in
1688. He was sent to England with Andros in Februar)', 1689.

Robert Mason acted as a judge under Andros. He lived in Portsmouth and died
in 1686.

John Hinks belonged to Portsmouth and was a member of the Council in 1697 and
its president. He came from England about 1670 and married at an unknown date
Elizabeth; daughter of Nathaniel and Christian Fryen. He was living at Newcastle,
N. H., in 1722, and died before April 25, 1734. His descendants have spelled their
names in various ways. General Edward Winslow Hincks, of Cambridge, is among
the number. ,

Samuel Thaxter, of Hingham, was appointed in 1735 special justice of the Su-
perior Court to act in a case in which the city of Boston was interested.

Thomas Berry, of Ipswich, a physician, was appointed special justice of the Su-
perior Court in 1735 to act in a case in which the city of Boston was interested.

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Benjamin Prescott, of Groton, was appointed in 1735 special justice of the Su-
perior Court in a case involving the interests of the city of Boston. He was born in
1696, and died in August, 1738.

Sylvanus Bourne, son of Meltiah, of Sandwich, was appointed in 1747 special jus-
tice of the Superior Court, and June 2, 1758, was appointed judge of the Court of
Common Pleas for Barnstable county. At his death, September 18, 1763, he was
chief justice, and also judge of probate.

Joseph Pynchon, of Hampshire, was appointed special justice of the Superior
Court in 1747.

John Jeffries was appointed in 1748 special justice of the Superior Court.

Thomas Hubbard, of Boston, a representative, speaker of the House, and member
of the Council, was appointed in 1748 special justice of the Superior Court.

Josiah Quincy, son of Josiah, of Braintree, and great-grandson of Edmund
Quincy, who was born in Wigsthorpe, England, in 1602, was born in Boston, Febru-
ary 23, 1744, and graduated at Harvard in 1763. He studied law with Oxenbridge
Thacher and became a leading lawyer and orator. He was one of the counsel for
Captain Preston and others engaged in the Boston massacre. He stood side by side
with the prominent patriots of his time and while he saw that conflict with the
mother country was inevitable, he was not deterred from taking the boldest stand
against the usurpations which wef e threatening it. In the old South Church, when
the band of men disguised as Indians passed it on their way to the tea ships in the
harbor, he exclaimed: "I see the clouds which now rise thick and fast on our hori-
zon, the thunders roll, and the lightnings play, and to that God who rides on the
whirlwind and directs the storm, I commit my country." In September, 1774, he
sailed for England to consult with friends of the patriots there, but the seeds of pul-
monary disease which had begun to germinate in his system were destined to pre-
vent his return. On his way home, almost within sight of the shores of Massachu-
setts Bay, he died April 26, 1775. He married in 1769 Abigail Phillips.

Josiah Quincy, son of Josiah and Abigail (Phillips) Quincy, was born in Boston,
February 4, 1772. He was fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1790. From April 18, 1859, to his death he was the oldest living
graduate. He studied law with William Tudor, and at a meeting of the Suffolk
bar held July 9, 1793, it was voted that he "be recommended to the Court of Com-
mon Pleas for the oath of an attorney of that court." In 1800, at the age of twenty-
eight, he was nominated candidate for Congress by the Federal party and defeated.
In 1804 he was chosen member of the State Senate and also member of Congress,
taking his seat at Washington in 1805, and holding it until 1813, when he declined a
re-election. While in Congress he opposed the embargo and moderately the war
with England. In a speech delivered January 4, 1811, in opposition to the admission
of Louisiana as a State, he announced for the first time the doctrine of secession.
He said: "I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that if this bill
passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ; that the States which com-
pose it are free from their moral obligations; and that as it will be the right of all, so
it will be the duty of some to prepare definitely for a departure, amicably if they can,
violently if they must." In 1814 he was again a member of the State Senate, re-
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maining until 1821. In 1821-2 he was speaker of the House of Representatives, re-
signing, when on the 16th of January, 1822, he was appointed judge of the Municipal
Court of Boston. While a member of the Senate he was chosen a delegate also to
the Constitutional Conventicn of 1820. In 1823 he resigned the office of judge and
on the 14th of May Peter O. Thatcher was appointed to succeed him. While on the
bench in the trial of Joseph Tinker Buckingham for libel against Rev. John N. Maf-
fit, he announced the rule that the publication of the truth with good intentions was
not libel. From 1823 to 1828 he was mayor of Boston, and on the 15th of January,
1829, he was chosen president of Harvard College and held that position until 1845.
Among his literary works may be mentioned, orations on the Fourth of July in Bos-
ton in 1798 and 1826, orations at the second centennial of Boston, September, 1830,
and of Harvard in 1836, a History of Harvard University, History of the Boston
Atheneum, Municipal History of Boston, Memoir of Josiah Quincy, jr., his father, and
a Memoir of John Quincy Adams. He married, June 6, 1797, Eliza Susan, daughter of
John Morton, of New York, a descendant of George Morton, who was the father of
Nathaniel Morton, the secretary of Plymouth Colony, and who came to Plymouth in
the Ann in 1623. He died at Quincy, July 1, 1864. He received the degree of Mas-
ter of Arts from Yale in 1792, and LL.D. from Harvard in 1824.

Josiah Quincy, son of Josiah and Eliza Susan (Morton) Quincy, was born in Bos-
ton, January 17, 1802, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He was admitted to the
Suffolk bar October 5, 1824, but after a few years became engaged in business pur-
suits. He was a councilman from 1833 to 1837, the last five years president of the
Council, and in 1842 was president of the State Senate. From 1845 to 1849 he was
mayor of Boston and was many years treasurer of the Western Railroad, as the road
was called extending from Worcester to Albany, and treasurer of the Boston
Atheneum. He married Mary Jane, daughter of Samuel R. Miller. He died at
Quincy, November 2, 1882.

Josiah Phillips Quincy, son of Josiah and Mary Jane (Miller) Quincy, was born
in Boston, November 28, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1850. He was admitted
to the Suffolk county bar hi 1856. He is the author of several dramas and political
essays. He married, December 23, 1858, Helen Fannjr, daughter of Judge Hunt-
jngton.

Samuel Miller Quincy, son of Josiah and Mary Jane (Miller) Quincy, was born in
Boston, June 13, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1852. He was admitted to the
Suffolk bar January 23, 1856, and became editor of the Monthly Law Reporter.
He entered the army during the war as captain in the Second Massachusetts Regi-
ment, May 24, 1861, was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Seventy-second
United States Colored Regiment, October 20, 1863, colonel May 24, 1864, and brevet
brigadier-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865. He died unmarried in Keene, N.
H., April 24, 1887.

Edmund Quincy, son of Josiah and Eliza Susan (Morton) Quincy, was born in Bos-
ton, February 1, 1808, and graduated at Harvard in 1827. He was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in October, 1830, but devoted himself chiefly to literary labors and to anti-
slavery efforts. He published an excellent memoir of his father, and " Wensley, a
story without a moral." He married Priscilla, daughter of Daniel P. Parker, of Bos-
ton, and died in Dedham, May 17, 1877.

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Josiah Quincy, son of Josiah Phillips and Helen Fanny (Huntington) Quincy, was
born> in Boston, October 15, 1859, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, was representative from Quincy in 1887-88-89-90-
91, secretary of the Civil Service Reform League in 1881, of the Tariff Reform League
in 1883, of the Democratic State Executive Committee in 1890, chairman in 1891, and
secretary of the National Democratic Committee in 1892. In March, 1893, he was
appointed assistant secretary of state by President Cleveland. He is unmarried.

Josiah H. Quincy, son of Samuel H. and Sarah A. Quincy, was born in Rumney,
N. H., March 8, 1860, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1884. He studied law at the
Boston University Law School and in the office of John W. Corcoran, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. His residence is in Boston.

Melville P. Beckett, son of Joseph and Marcia P. Beckett, was born in Peabody,
Mass., October 30, 1860, and studied law at the Boston University Law School, and
was admitted to the bar at Salem January 28, 1883, His residence is at Peabody.

Abijah Bigelow, son of Elisha and Sarah (Goodrich) Bigelow, was born in West-
minster, Mass., December 5, 1775, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1795. He studied
law with Samuel Dana at Groton, and Samuel Dexter in Boston, and his name is on
the roll of admissions to the Suffolk bar by the Supreme Court prior to 1807. He prac-
ticed in Leominster nineteen years, during which time he was town clerk five years,
representative in 1807-8-9, and member of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses.
In 1817 he removed to Worcester, and till 1834 was clerk of the courts for Worcester
county. He married, April 8, 1804, Hannah, daughter of Rev. Francis and Sarah
(Gibson) Gardner, of Leominster, and died August 21, 1857.

Edward Bicknell, son of William E. and Rebecca J. (Richmond) Bicknell, was
born in Boston, October 22, 1855, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Proctor, Warren & Brig-
ham, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 15, 1879. He is now trial jus-
tice for Franklin county with a legal residence in Orange. He married at Boston,
June 20, 1887, Elizabeth R. Healy, of Weymouth, Mass.

James Benjamin, son of Ashur, was born in Boston, April 23, 1811, and graduated
at Harvard in 1830. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1835, and prac-
ticed in Boston,

Jonathan- Belcher, son of Jonathan, governor of Massachusetts, was born in Bos-
ton, July 28, 1710, and graduated at Harvard in 1728. He studied law, went to Lon-
don, entered the Temple, and practiced law in England. He was one of the first
settlers of Halifax, was lieutenant-governor of the Province, and in 1761 was made
chief justice. He died in Halifax, March 29, 1776.

John Richards Bullard, son of William and Mary R. Bullard, was born in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., March 3, 1846, and attended the Dedham High School and Phillips An-
dover Academy, and graduated at Harvard Law School in 1866. He continued his
law studies with Jewell, Gaston & Field in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar November 4, 1867. He was representative in 1868-70-71, and lives in Dedham.
He married Mary A. Richards at Irvington, N. Y., in 1871.

Eugene Lucian Buffinton, son of Jonathan and Mary Ann (Churchill) Buffinton,
was born in Roxbury, Mass., January 1, 1847, and was educated at the public schools

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and with private tutors. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 20, 1880. He married Georgianna, daughter of
George Dove, of Boston, January 1, 1868, and resides in Boston.

William Colvard Parker, son of Samuel T. and Margaret Parker, was born m
Wakefield, Mass., April 12, 1858, and attended Boston University and Massachusetts
Agricultural College. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890. He is president of the Agricultural College
Alumni Club and of the Boston Common Council. He resides in Boston.

Horatio G. Parker, son of Elijah and Sally (Hall) Parker, was born in Keene, N.
H., April 26, 1823, and graduated at Dartmouth. He studied law in New York
in the office of William Curtis Noyes and in Boston in the office of Henry M.
Parker, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1847, and to the Massachusetts bar
in Middlesex county in 1848. He was a representative in 1854. He married in 1863
at Greenfield, Mass., Harriet Newton, and in 1874, at Greenfield, Lucy S. Newton.
His residence is at Cambridge.

Henry Baylies, son of Frederick and Velina Worth Baylies, was born at Edgar-
ton, Mass., September 9, 1822, and was educated at Wesleyan University in Con-
necticut. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and with Edward H. Bennett
and George S. Hale in Boston, and was admitted to the bar at Taunton, September,
1870. He was a clergyman in the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1846 to 1870,
but abandoned the ministry on account of ill health. His residence is at Maiden.

Francis Lowell Batchelder, son of Samuel and Mary (Montgomery) Batchelder,
was born in Chelmsford, Mass. , April 2, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1844.
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar November 20, 1848. He was a councilman in Cambridge, where he resided, in
1853-54, and practiced in Boston. He married Susan Cabot Foster, of Cambridge,
December 2, 1851, and died at Hibernia, Fleming's Island, Fla., February 9, 1858.

James Boutineau was an attorney in Boston and mandamus counsellor in 1774.
He was included in the conspiracy act of 1779 and his estate was confiscated. It was
his son-in-law, John Robinson, who made the assault on James Otis in 1769, which
probably produced his alienation of mind. His wife was a sister of Peter Faneuil.
Mr. Boutineau went to England and there died.

Andrew Cazneau was an attorney and barrister in Boston before the Revolution,
and was proscribed in the act of 1778. He went to England in 1775, and finally to
Bermuda, where he held office under the crown. He returned to Boston in 1788 and
died in Roxbury in 1792. He married in 1769 Hannah, daughter of John Hammock,
a merchant of Boston.

Thomas Danforth, son of Samuel, graduated at Harvard in 1762, and was the
only attorney in Charlestown. He went to Halifax in 1776, and died in London in
1825.

David Gorham graduated at Harvard in 1733, and was one of the addressers to
Hutchinson in 1774. He died in 1786.

Benjamin Kent was born in Charlestown, and graduated at Harvard in 1727. He
studied divinity and in 1733 was settled over a church in Marlboro', where he re-
mained two years. He next studied law and became a barrister in Boston. As a
loyalist he went to Halifax and there died in 1788.

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Samuel Quincy, son of Josiah and brother of Josiah the patriot and orator, was
born in Braintree in 1735, and graduated at Harvard in 1754. He studied law, and
was appointed solicitor-general of the Province in 1767 to succeed Jonathan Sewall,
who had been appointed attorney-general. At the Revolution he adhered to the
crown. On the 25th of May, 1775, he sailed for England, and in 1776 was a member
of the Loyalist Association in London. He was proscribed and banished by the act
of 1778, and in 1779 was appointed " Comptroller of the Customs at the port of Par-
ham in Antigua." In 1789, on his passage from Antigua to England, he died at sea,
as did his brother Josiah fourteen years before. He was married twice, to a Miss
Hill, of Boston, who died in 1782, and to a lady in Antigua, who not long survived
him.

Samuel Fitch was a barrister in Boston and an addresser of Hutchinson in 1774.
He was advocate-general of the Court of Admiralty and solicitor to the Board of
Commissioners. He went to Halifax in 1776, and in 1778 was proscribed and ban-
ished. He went to England and was a loyalist addresser of the king in 1779. He
probably died in England in 1784. He graduated at Yale in 1742 and received an
honorary degree from Harvard in 1766.

Ezekiel Cheever, Seth Williams, William Ward, Andrew Oliver, Samuel Danforth,
Thomas Hutchinson, the father of the governor, Joseph Richards, John Chandler,
Benjamin Lincoln, Samuel White, Joseph Lee, Francis Hooke, Charles Frost, Samuel
Wheelwright, Benjamin Browne, John Higginson, John Gardner, James Coffin,
Thomas Mayhew, Benjamin Skiffe, William Gayer, Joseph Hammond, Ichabod
Plaisted, William Pepperell, John Wheelwright, John Hill, Lewis Bane, John Otis,
John Gorham, Samuel Partridge, John Parsons, John Stoddard, Zacheus Mayhew,
and Enoch Coffin, belonging in different parts of the province, were appointed be-
tween 1692 and 1746 special justices of the Superior Court of Jtidicature to sit in spe-
cial cases and as quasi judges of a court which included Suffolk county within its
jurisdiction, they are placed on this register.

William Atwood was appointed judge of admiralty October 28, 1701, having Mas-
sachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and the Jerseys
within his jurisdiction.

Roger Mompesson was appointed judge of admiralty in April, 1703.

John Menzies was appointed judge of admiralty in 1715. He was born in Scotland
in 1650 and settled in Roxbury, and died in Boston, September 20, 1728.

Chambers Russell, son of Daniel, was a judge on the bench of the Superior Court
from 1752 to 1766. He was born in Charlestown in 1713, and graduated at Harvard
in 1731. He was appointed a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Mid-
dlesex county in 1747 and held that position until he was promoted to the Superior
Court. In 1747 he was appointed judge of the Admiralty Court and held the office
until his death, which occurred at Guilford, England, November 24, 1767.

George Cradock was deputy judge of admiralty, resigning in 1766, and died July
1, 1771.

William Reed was appointed judge of admiralty in July, 1766. He was also ap-
pointed in 1770 judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county, and in 1775
judge of the Superior Court of Judicature.

270 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

William Bollan was born in England, and studied law in Massachusetts with Rob-
ert Auchmuty. He was advocate-general of the Court of Admiralty. He married
a daughter of Governor Shirley,' and died in England in 1776.

John Valentine was an attorney in Boston, and held the office of advocate-general
of admiralty at the time of his death in 1724.

William Shirley was born in Preston, England, in 1693, and was educated to the
law. He came to Boston in 1734 and practiced his profession until 1741, when he
was appointed governor of the Province, a position which he held until 1756. He was
commander-in-chief of the British forces in America and planned the expedition
against Cape Breton in 1745. In 1759 he was made lieutenant-general. He was trans-
ferred from the government of Massachusetts to that of one of the Bahama Islands,
but returned to Massachusetts and settled in Roxbury, where he died March 24, 1771.
He was during the earl}' part of his residence in Boston advocate-general of admi-
ralty.

Andrew Lane, a Boston attorney, died April 13, 1747.

James Otis, jr., son of Col. James and Mary Allyne Otis, was born in Barnstable,
Mass., February 5, 1725, and graduated at Harvard in 1743. He studied law in Bos-
ton with Jeremiah Gridley and finished his studies in Plymouth, where he was ad-
mitted to the bar, and practiced until 1750, when he removed to Boston. His sister
Mercy married James Warren, of Plymouth. Not long after his arrival in Boston he
was appointed advocate-general of admiralty, an office which he resigned in 1761, in
which year he made his memorable speech against writs of assistance. In the same
year he was chosen representative from Boston, and in 1766 speaker of the House.
In 1769 he was assaulted by John Robinson, one of the commissioners of customs,
whom he had denounced in an article in the Gazette, and so seriously injured that
not long after his mind became deranged and he retired from public life to Andover.
where he was killed by lightning May 29, 1783. He married in 1755 Ruth Cunning-
ham.

Samuel Swift, an attorney of Boston, graduated at Harvard in 1735, and was a
barrister in 1768.

John Overing was a successful Boston attorney, who was chosen by the House of
Representatives attorney-general in 1722, and again in 1728. He held office until
1733, and was again chosen in 1739-40-41-43, and annually afterwards until his death,
November 24, 1748.

John Read, born about 1677, graduated at Harvard in 1697, and studied divinity.
After preaching acceptably for a time he studied law, and was admitted to the bar
about 1720. He was chosen attorney-general in 1723-33-34-35, and was chosen to
the General Court in 1738 and several succeeding years, the first lawyer chosen to
that body. He was also several years a member of the Council, and was one of the
legal counsel for the Province in its contest with Rhode Island concerning the
boundary line. He was probably the ablest lawyer in Massachusetts before the Rev-
olution. He died February 7, 1749.

Jeremiah Gridley was born about 1705, and graduated at Harvard in 1725. He
was chosen attorney-general in 1742, and was appointed in 1761 to the same office by
the governor and Council. Before entering the profession he studied divinity and

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taught a Boston school. His residence was in Brookline, from which town he was a
representative some years. In 1761 he acted as king's attorney in defending the
writs of assistance, with his former pupil James Otis against him. He held the office
of attorney-general until his death, which occurred September 7, 1767.

James Otis, sr., son of John and Mercy (Bacon) Otis, was born in Barnstable, Mass,,
in 1702, and became an eminent lawyer. In 1748 he was appointed attorney-general
and held the office one year, and in 1760-61 he was speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives. In 1764 he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas and judge
of probate for Barnstable county. He married Mary, daughter of Joseph Allyne, of
Wethersfield, and James Otis, the patriot, was his son. He died in November, 1778.

Joseph Hearne, a Boston attorney, died in Boston, December 26, 1728, aged nearly
seventy years.

Weldon, a Boston attorney, committed suicide in London in 1734.

Joseph St. Lawrence, an attorney from Ireland, was admitted to the Superior
Court in 1737, and opened an office in Boston.

John Lowell, son of Rev. John Lowell, was born in Newbury, Mass., June 17,
1743, and graduated at Harvard in 1760. He studied law with Oxenbridge Thacher,
and was admitted to the bar in 1762. He began practice in Newburyport, but in 1777
removed to Boston. In 1776 he was a representative from Newburyport and in 1778*
from Boston. He was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1780,
member of Congress in 1783, judge of the Court of Appeals from 1783 to 1789, judge
of the United States District Court for Massachusetts 1789-1801, chief justice of the
Circuit Court for Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island in 1801,
until the law creating the court was repealed in 1802. He died in Roxbury, May 6»
1802. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1792.

John Lowell, son of the above, was born in Newburyport, October 6, 1769, and
graduated at Harvard in 1786. He studied law in Boston with his father, and at a
meeting of the Suffolk bar July 21, 1789, it was voted that he be " recommended to
the Court of Common Pleas the present term for the oath of an attorney of that
court." He went to Europe in 1803 and after his return he devoted himself chiefly to
literary pursuits. He was one of the founders of the Massachusetts General Hospital,
of the Boston Atheneum, the Provident Institution for Savings, and the Hospital Life
Insurance Company. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1814, and
died March 12, 1840.

Abel Willaru was born in Lancaster, Mass. , in January, 1732, and graduated at
Harvard in 1752. He studied law in Boston with Benjamin Pratt, and was admitted
to the bar in 1755. He practiced in Lancaster until the Revolution, when he removed
to Boston. In 1776 he went to Halifax, and in 1778 was proscribed and banished.
He died in England in 1781. He married Eliza, daughter of Rev. Daniel Rogers,
who died in Boston in 1815.

James Putnam was born in Danvers, Mass., in 1725, and graduated at Harvard in
1746. He studied law with Edmund Trowbridge, and after admission to the bar set-
tled in Worcester in 1749, practicing also in Suffolk county. He went to England in
1776 and in 1778 was proscribed and banished. In 1784 he was appointed judge of
the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, and died at St. Johns in 1789.

272 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

John A. Boi.i.es, son of Rev. Matthew Bolles, was born in Ashford, Conn., April
17, 1809, and graduated at Brown University in 1829. He was admitted to the bar
in Boston in April, 1833, and practiced there. In 1843 he was secretary of the Com-
monwealth, in 1852 a member of the Harbor and Back Bay Commission. He enlisted
in July, 1861, and from 1862 to 1865 was judge advocate on the staff of his brother-in-
law, General John A. Dix. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers in
1865 and naval solicitor. He died at Washington, D. C, May 11, 1878. He married,
November 11, 1834, Catherine Hartwell, daugher of Colonel Timothy Dix.

Charles H. Blood, son of Hiram A. and Mary M. (Person) Blood, was born in
Fitchburg, Mass. , December 10, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied
law in New Bedford in the office of Marston & Cobb, and at the Boston University
Law School, and was admitted to the Bristol county bar in August, 1882. He is
special justice of the Police Court of Fitchburg, where he has his residence.

George Richard Blinn, son of John F. and Susan L. Blinn, was born in Charles-
town, Mass., July 11, 1859, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He studied law in
Boston with George Z. Adams, and was admitted to the Suffolk county bar February
2, 1887. He married Clara A. Pollard at South Newmarket, N. H., June 6, 1886,
and resides in Bedford, Mass.

William P. Blake, son of Edward and Mary J. (Dehon) Blake, was born in Dor-
chester, July 23, 1846, and graduated at Harvard in 1866. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1869. He was associated in the practice of
law with his father until his father's death in 1873.

Charles Francis Adams, son of John Quincy and Louisa (Johnson) Adams, was
born in Boston, August 18, 1807, and graduated at Harvard in 1825. While a youth
he was with his father, then minister at St. Petersburg, and in 1815 accompanied
him to England in his mission to the Court of St. James. He returned home in 1817
and fitted for college. After graduating he studied law in the office of Daniel Web-
ster in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1829. He was rep-
resentative from 1831 to 1834 and senator from 1835 to 1837. He was nominated at
Buffalo in 1848 by the Free Soil Party for the vice-presidency, on a ticket with Mar-
tin Van Buren for president, and from 1859 to 1861 was a member of Congress. From
March, 1861, to February, 1868, he was minister to England, and by his wise and
skillful diplomacy rendered his country an inestimable service. He married in 1829
a daughter of Peter Chardon Brooks, of Boston, and' died in Boston, November 21,
1886. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1864.

John Quincy Adams, son of the above, was born in Boston, September 22, 1833,
and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He was admitted [to the Suffolk bar July 7,
1856. He was representative from Quincy in 1866, 1869 and 1870, and in 1867 and
1871 was the Democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts. He is at present
a member of the corporation of Harvard, to which position he was chosen in 1877.

Charles Francis Adams, jr., brother of the above, was born in Boston, May 27,
1835, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May
17, 1858, and served through the war, being mustered out in July, 1865, as brevet
brigadier-general of volunteers. In 1869 he was appointed a member of the Board

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of Railroad Commissioners of Massachusetts, and in that position exhibited suhc
marked ability as led to his election in 1884 as president of the Union Pacific Rail-
road. Since his retirement from that office one of his most marked efforts is the ad-
dress delivered on the Fourth of July, 1892, in commemoration of the one hundredth
anniversary of the town of Quincy.

Brooks Adams, brother of the above, was born in Quincy, Mass., June 24, 1848,
and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 10,
1873, and is the author of the "Emancipation of Massachusetts."

George Everett Adams was born in Keene, N. H., in 1840, and when a child went
to Chicago. He fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated at Har-
vard in 1860. He graduated at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar August 19, 1865. He settled in Chicago and has been a member of the
Illinois Senate, and was a member of Congress from the Fourth Congressional Dis-
trict of Illinois from 1883 to 1891. He is president of the Chicago Harvard Club and
the Union League Club, and was at the last election chosen an overseer of Harvard.

Charles Day Adams, son of George and Angelina (Day) Adams, was born in Wor-
cester, July 28, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He studied law with Oren
S. Knapp in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 27, 1875. He was
associated in business with Mr. Knapp until Mr. Knapp' s death, and now, while prac-
ticing in Boston, resides in Woburn, where he is a special justice of the Fourth East-
ern Middlesex District Court.

Charles Frederick Adams, son of Charles Frederick and Caroline Hesselrigge
(Walter) Adams, was born in Boston, February 3, 1824, and graduated at Harvard in
1843. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of
Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 24, 1846. In 1849, on
account of ill health, he made a voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands and China,
returning after thirteen months' absence and resuming the practice of law. He died
of consumption at Boston, December 30, 1856.

Nathaniel Prentiss Banks was born in Waltham, Mass., January 30, 1816. In his
youth he worked in the mill of which his father was superintendent and learned the
machinist's trade, so mingling study with his labor as enabled him to secure a posi-
tion as editor first of a paper in Waltham and then in Lowell. He then studied law
and after his admission to the bar he was sent to the Legislature from Waltham in
1849, and in 1851 and 1852 was speaker of the House of Representatives. The writer
has a distinct recollection of the bearing and methods of twenty-four speakers of the
House as far back and including Thomas Kinnicut in 1843, and he has no hesitation
in expressing the opinion that not one of them all equaled Mr. Banks in readiness to
grasp situations, in coolness, promptness in decision and general parliamentary skill.
He was an ideal speaker and not a few presiding officers have remembered with
profit lessons learned from him while in the speaker's chair. In 1853 he was a mem-
ber and the president of the State Constitutional Convention, and then member of
Congress from 1853 to 1857. In 1855 he was chosen speaker of the National House
of Representatives on the 133d ballot, after a contest during which his bearing was
remarkable for its sagacity and wisdom. In 1857 he was chosen by the Republican
party governor of Massachusetts, and twice re-elected, serving until January, 1861.
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274 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

After leaving the executive chair he was chosen president of the Illinois Central Rail-
road, but he had' hardly entered his new office before the war broke out, when he of-
fered his services to the government and was commissioned major-general May 16,
1861. So much may be found elsewhere concerning his career, it will be unnecessary
to follow it in this register. He resigned his commission in 1864, and in that year
was again chosen to Congress, continuing in service, with the exception of one Con-
gress, until 1877. On his retirement from Congress he was appointed United States
marshal for Massachusetts, and not receiving a reappointment to that office from
President Cleveland, was again chosen to Congress, and finally retired from public
life in 1890. He still resides in Waltham.

Anson Burlingame, son of a farmer, was born in New Berlin, N. Y., November 14,
1820, and when three years old removed with his parents to a farm in Seneca county,
Ohio, where he lived ten years. In 1833 he removed to Detroit and after two years
to a farm at Branch, Mich. In 1837 he entered the University of Michigan, and in
1843 entered the Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1846, and was admitted
to the bar in Middlesex county in September, 1846. During the presidential cam-
paign of 1844 at a meeting of the Young Men's Whig Club, of which Charles Francis
Adams was president, held in a small hall in Schollay's building, which stood in the
center of Schollay Square, Mr. Burlingame made his first speech. The writer was
present and remembers well the favorable impression which his somewhat florid
oratory made on the audience. After that at political meetings he was often called
out and his speeches were frequent. He began practice in Boston, but his business
soon yielded to the demand of politics and he entered almost at once on a public
career. In the campaign of 1848 he was an active worker and speaker in the Free
Soil party, and again the writer was with him in organizing meetings in Faneuil Hall
and other places. In 1849 he went to Eui-ope, and in 1850 was a member of the State
Senate. In 1853 he was chosen a delegate from Northboro' to the State Constitutional
Convention, though living in Cambridge, and in 1854 was chosen member of Con-
gress by the Know-Nothing party. He was re-elected in 1856 and 1858, and in 1861
was appointed minister to Austria. The Austrian government refused to receive him
on account of his advocacy of Hungarian independence and of the recognition of
Sardinia as a first class power. He was then sent minister to China, returning home
in 1867, and again resuming his official duties after a short vacation. In 1867, when
retiring from the Chinese embassy, he was appointed by the Chinese government a
special envoy to the United States and the European powers for the purpose of ne-
gotiating treaties. Having accomplished his mission in the United States he pro-
ceeded in 1868 to England, and afterwards to France, Denmark, Sweden, Holland
and Prussia, where, with the exception of France, his duties were successfully per-
formed, finally reaching St. Petersburg in 1870, where he died on the 23d of February,
1871. He married a daughter of Isaac Livermore, of Cambridge.

William Cranch, son of Richard and Mary (Smith) Cranch, was born in Wey-
mouth, Mass., July 17, 1769, and graduated at Harvard in 1787, receiving in 1829 the
the degree of LL.D. He studied law with Thomas Dawes, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in July, 1790. He removed to Washington, D. C, in 1794 and in 1801
President John Adams appointed him assistant judge of the Circuit Court of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, of which court he became chief justice in 1805, serving until his

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death September 1, 1855. He published nine volumes of reports of the United States
Supreme Court, and six volumes of reports of the Circuit Court of the District of Co-
lumbia.

Luther Stearns Cushing was born in Lunenburg, Mass. , June 22, 1803, and grad-
uated at the Harvard Law School in 1826. He was admitted to the bar in Middlesex
county in March, 1827. He was several years editor of The Jurist a.7id Law Maga-
zine, from 1832 to 1834 was clerk of the House of Representatives, and represent-
ative in 1844. From 1844 to 1848 he was judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and
from 1848 to 1853 reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, editing during that
period twelve volumes, beginning with the Suffolk and Nantucket term of 1848 and
ending with the Suffolk term in November, 1853. He is more popularly known as
the author of "A Manual of Parliamentary Practice," the " Elements of the Law and
Practice of Legislative Assemblies," and " Rules of Proceeding and Debates in De-
liberate Assemblies."

Thomas Cushing, son of Thomas, was born in Boston, March 24, 1725, and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1744, receiving the degree of LL.D. in 1785. He was represent-
ative, speaker of the House, member of the Provincial Congress, and judge of the
Common Pleas and Probate for the county of Suffolk. He was lieutenant-governor
of Massachusetts from 1779 to his death, which occurred February 28, 1788.

Benjamin F. Hallett, son of Benjamin, was born in Barnstable, December 2, 1797,
and graduated at Brown University in 1816. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar and
practiced in Boston. He was a prominent Democrat after the decline of the Anti-
Masonic party to which he belonged, He was appointed district attorney for Massa-
chusetts by President Pierce in 1853. He died in Boston, September 30, 1862.

Samuel Hubbard was born in Boston, June 2, 1785, and graduated at Yale in 1802.
He studied law in Boston with Charles Jackson and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in April, 1806. He practiced in Biddeford, Me., until 1810, when he returned to
Boston and became associated with Mr. Jackson, his former teacher. He was judge
of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1842 to 1847, and received in 1842 the degree of
LL.D. from Harvard. He died in Boston, December 24, 1847.

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp was born in Newburyport, January 19, 1783, and gradu-
ated at Dartmouth in 1804. He was admitted to the bar in Essex county in 1807.
He was a representative, commander of a regiment of militia during the war of 1812,
editor in Boston of various newspapers and magazines between 1824 and 1827, re-
sumed the practice of law in New York, and died at Hopkinton, Mass., July 8, 1838.
He was the author of " Lives of Eminent Lawyers, Statesmen, and Men of Letters,"
and was a profuse writer on other subjects.

John Lathrop, son of Rev. John, was born in Boston, January 13, 1772, and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1789. He studied law with John Lowell and Christopher Gore
in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. After practicing in Dedham a short
time he returned to Boston, and after an unsuccessful career at the bar went to
India in 1799, returning in 1809. He then taught school, delivered lectures, con-
tributed to the newspapers and pronounced several orations. He finally secured a
place in the Post-office Department in Washington, and died at Georgetown, D. C,
January 30, 1820. He married in 1793 a daughter of Joseph Pierce of Boston.

276 HIS10RY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

John Leverett, grandson of the governor, was born in Boston, August 25, 1662,
and graduated at Harvard in 1680. He was an educated lawyer, speaker of the
Provincial Legislature in 1700, judge of the Superior Court of Judicature from 1702
to 1708, judge of probate, and the successor of Samuel Willard as president of Har-
vard College in 1707. He died May 3, 1724.

Edward St. Loe Livermore was an attorney in Boston in 1812. He was born in
Portsmouth, N. H., April 5, 1762, was United States attorney, member of Congress
from 1806 to 1812, and a judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire from 1797 to
to 1799. After taking up his residence in Boston he delivered the Fourth of July
oration there in 1813, and died at Lowell, September 22, 1832.

Grenville Mellen, son of Chief Justice Prentiss Mellen, was born in Biddeford,
Me., and graduated at Harvard in 1818. He practiced law ia Portland and North
Yarmouth, Me. , but moved to Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February
1, 1834. He devoted himself more to literature than to law and published a number
of poems. He died in New York, September 5, 1841.

David Hall Rice was born in Penn Yan, N. Y. , May 6, 1841, and graduated at
Syracuse University. After admission to the bar he went south and practiced until
1868. In 1869 he opened an office in Lowell, Mass., and- subsequently in Boston.
At the recent election, November 8, 1892, he was chosen a member of the Executive
Council. His residence is in Brookline.

Artemas Ward, son of General Artemas, was born in Shrewsbury, Mass. , January
9, 1762, and graduated at Harvard in 1783. He practiced in Shrewsbury until 1809,
when he removed to Boston. He was a representative, member of the Executive
Council and member of Congress from 1813 to 1817. May 11, 1819, he was appointed
judge of the Boston Court of Common Pleas, and when that court was abolished,
February 14, 1821, he was appointed chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas for
the Commonwealth, established at the same date, and served until he resigned in
1839. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1842, and died in Boston,
October 7, 1847.

Royall Tyler was born in Boston, July 18, 1757, and graduated at Harvard in
1776. He studied law with John Adams and was recommended by the Suffolk bar,
July 18, 1780, for admission to practice in the Court of Common Pleas. In 1790 he
removed to Guilford, Vt. , and in 1794 was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of
Vermont, being promoted to chief justice in 1800. Previous to his appointment as
chief justice he indulged in the recreation of writing dramas, among which may be
mentioned "Contrast," a comedy, the first American play ever acted on a regular
stage; "May Day, or New York in an Uproar;" "The Georgia Spec, or Land in the
Moon," and the " Algerine Captive." In 1809 he published two volumes of "Reports
of Cases in the Supreme Court of Vermont." He died at Brattleboro' , Vt., August
16, 1826.

Leverett Saltonstall Tuckerman, son of John Francis and Lucy (Saltonstall)
Tuckerman, was born in Washington, D. C, April 19, 1848, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1868. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and finishing his
law studies in Salem in the office of Perry & Endicott, was admitted to the bar in
Salem in 1872. He is unmarried and resides in Boston.

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Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, son of Edward and Sophia (May) Tuckerman,
was born in Boston, February 4, 1821, and was educated at the Boston Latin School.
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar September 16, 1844. He married, June 17, 1847, Hannah L. B., daughter of
David Smith Jones, of Weston, and Hannah Lucinda Whitman, of Lincoln, and died
at Greenfield, May 9, 1873.

George Ticknor, son of Elisha, was born in Boston, August 1, 1791, and gradu-
ated at Dartmouth in 1807. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813, and prac-
ticed, if at all, only two years. In 1815 he went to Europe, spending two years at
Gottingen and returning home in 1819. During his absence he was appointed pro-
fessor of modern languages at Harvard and served fifteen years. In 1835 he again
went to Europe, returning in 1840, when he began writing a History of Spanish
Literature, which he published in 1849. His lesser works were a Life of Lafayette,
a Memoir of William Hickling Prescott, and contributions to the Arortk American
Review and other ptiblications. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in
1850, and died in Boston, January 26, 1871.

Peter Oxenbridge Thacher, son of Rev. Peter Thacher, was born in Maiden,
December 22, 1776, and graduated at Harvard in 1796. He was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in 1801, and May 14, 1823, was appointed the judge of the "Municipal Court
in the Town of Boston," serving until his death at Boston, February 22, 1843. On
the first of March following the Legislature, believing it best that a judge should not
be exclusively devoted to the trial of criminal cases, provided by law that the judges
of the Common Pleas Court should be ex officio judges of the Municipal Court.

Walter H. Thorpe, son of Walter and Eliza J. (Ellery) Thorpe, was born in Athol,
Mass., October 7, 1867, and was educated at the Athol High School. He studied law
at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex
county, June 27, 1890. His residence is in Newton.

John Weldon Threshie, son of Charles and Henrietta C. Threshie, was born in
New Orleans, La., August 22, 1863, and was educated at the Pierce Academy in Mid-
dleboro', Mass. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the
office of J. Frank Paul, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August,
1877. He was an assistant of John Lathrop, reporter of the decisions of the Supreme
Court. He resides in Newton.

James L. Walsh was born in East Boston, March 28, 1843, and was educated at
the Lyman Grammar School in Boston and at the College of the Holy Cross in Wor-
cester. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar March 12, 1872. He was representative in 1877-78, and is a special justice of the
East Boston District Court.

Clarence Stuart Ward, son of Andrew Henshaw and Anna H. W. (Field) Ward,
was born in Newton, 'December 5, 1852, and graduated at the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology in 1872. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in
1876, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 19, 1875. He was a commissioner
of the United States at the Paris Exposition in 1889. He makes patent cases and
corporation law specialties, and is the author of ' ' Wit, Wisdom and Beauties of
Shakespeare," published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company in 1887. He lives unmar-
ried in the Allston district of Boston.

278 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Edward Garrison Walker, son of David and Eliza Walker, was born in Boston
in 1835, and was educated in Charlestown. He studied law in Boston in the office of
Charles A. Tweed, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1861. He was a
representative in 1867, and lives in Boston.

Joseph Walker, son of Joseph H. and Hannah M. Walker, was born in Worcester,
Mass., July 13, 1865, and studied law at the Harvard' Law School and in Boston in
the office of Chaplin & Carret, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December,
1889. He married at Providence, R. I., June 30, 1890, and resides in Brookline.

Nathaniel Upham Walker, son of Joseph B. and Elizabeth L. Walker, was born
in Concord, N. H., January 14, 1855, and graduated at Yale in 1877. He studied law
at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Jewell, Field & Shepard,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 14, 1881. He married in Boston, June
6, 1888, Helen F. Dunklee, and resides in Boston.

Charles Pinckney Sumner was born in Milton, Mass., January 20, 1776, and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1796. He studied law in Boston with George Richards Minot,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1800. He was high sheriff of Suffolk county
from 1825 to 1839, and died in Boston, April 2, 1839.

Charles Sumner, son of Charles Pinekney Sumner, was born in Boston, January 6,
1811, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He graduated at the Harvard Law School
in 1834, and was admitted to the bar in that year. Soon after his admission he was
appointed reporter of the Circuit Court, and in 1835-36-37-43 he was a lecturer in the
Harvard Law School, and in 1851 succeeded Daniel Webster as United States sena-
tor. In 1848 he allied himself with the Free Soil party and advocated the election of
Van Buren and Adams in the presidential campaign of that year. His election by
the Legislature to the Senate in 1851 was the result of a coalition of the Free Soil men
with the Democrats, who received their share by the election of George S. Boutwell
for governor, the election of that officer coming to the Legislature in consequence of
a failure to elect by the people. His career in the Senate was marked by a constant
and effective attack on the strongholds of slavery, and, perhaps, next to Garrison
no man did more to bring about that condition of affairs which resulted in the eman-
cipation of the slave. He continued in the Senate until his death. In the line of his
profession in 1831 he became editor of the American Jurist, in 1836 he edited " Dun-
lap on Admiralty," from 1828 to 1839 he published three volumes of Circuit Court Re-
ports, and jointly with Jonathan C. Perkins edited " Vesey's Chancery Reports" in
twenty volumes. His most noted speeches were " The Crime against Kansas,"
"Freedom is National, Slavery Sectional," and the "Barbarism of Slavery," deliv-
ered in the Senate, and " The True Grandeur of Nations," " The Scholar, the Jurist,
the Artist, the Philanthropist," " Fame and Glory," " White Slavery in the Barbary
States," " Law of Human Progress," " Finger-Point from Plymouth Rock," " Land-
mark of Freedom," "The Anti-Slavery Enterprise," "Position and Duties of the
Merchant," "Our Foreign Relations," " The Case of Florida," " Eulogy of Abra-
ham Lincoln," " Our Claims on England," on various occasions, a collection of which
was published in two volumes in 1850 and 1856. He married Alice, widow of Stur-
gis Hooper, of Boston, and daughter of Jonathan Mason, of Boston, and died in
Washington, March 11, 1874.

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Robert Rantoul, son of Robert, was born in Beverly, Mass., August 13, 1805, and
graduated at Harvard in 1826. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1831, and
after a short season of practice in South Reading established himself in Gloucester in
1833, and in 1838 removed to Boston. He was representative from Gloucester from
1833 to 1837, and collector of the port of Boston from 1843 to 1845. He was appointed
United States district attorney for Massachusetts in 1845, holding the office until
1849, and United States senator for the unexpired term of Mr. Webster in 1851, and
member of Congress from 1851 to his death, which occurred at Washington, August
7, 1852.

William Prescott, son of Col. Wm. Prescott, was born in Pepperell, Mass., Au-
gust 19, 1762, and graduated at Harvard in 1783. After teaching school a short time
at Brooklyn, Conn., and Beverly, Mass., he studied law with Nathan Dane, of Bev-
erly, and was admitted to the bar in 1787, establishing himself in Beverly for three
years and then removing to Salem. He was a representative from Salem and sena-
tor from Essex county. In 1808 he removed to Boston. In 1814 the Boston Court of
Common Pleas was established, of which Harrison Gray Otis was the first judge, ap-
pointed on the 16th of March in that year, succeeded by William Minot, appointed
March 2, 1818, who was followed by Mr. Prescott, appointed April 21, 1818. He
served until May 11, 1819, when he was succeeded by Artimas Ward, the last judge
of that court. In 1814 he was a delegate to the Hartford Convention, and in 1820 a
member of the State Constitutional Convention. He received the degree of LL.D.
from Harvard in 1824, and died in Boston, December 8, 1844.

Edw^vrd Goldsborough Prescott, son of Judge William, was born in Salem, Jan-,
uary 2, 1804, and graduated at Harvard in 1825. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar
July 14, 1828, but after practicing a few years studied divinity, and in 1837 was
settled as an Episcopal clergyman in New Jersey. He died April 4, 1844.

John Pickering, son of Col. Timothy Pickering, was born in Salem, February 17,
1777, and graduated at Harvard in 1796. He studied law with Edward Tilghman in
Philadelphia and in Salem, and was admitted to the bar of Essex county in 1806.
While pursuing his studies he was in 1797 secretary of legation to William Smith,
United States minister at Portugal, and in 1799 private secretary of Rufus King,
United States minister to England. He practiced in Salem until 1827, when he re-
moved to Boston, where he was city solicitor from 1829 until his death, which occurred
in Boston, May 5, 1846. He was a representative from Salem, and a senator from both
Essex and Suffolk counties. He was also a member of the Executive Council. Dis-
tinguished as he was in the profession of law, he was quite as distinguished as a
philologist, and was the author of " Vocabulary of Americanisms," " The Uniform
Orthography of the Indian Language," " Indian Languages of America," of articles
on the Chinese language, the Cochin Chinese language, and other languages, and of
a Greek and English Lexicon. He was familiar with French, Portuguese, Italian,
Spanish, German, Romaic, Greek and Latin, and more or less so with Dutch, Swed-
ish, Danish and Hebrew. He had also studied Arabic, Turkish, Syriac, Persian,
Coptic, Sanscrit, Chinese, Malay, and the Indian languages of America. In 1806 he
was appointed professor of Hebrew at Harvard, and received the degree of LL.D.
from Bowdoin in 1822 and Harvard in 1835. He died in Boston, May 5, 1846.

280 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Octavius Pickering, son of Col. Timothy Pickering, was born in Wyoming, Penn..
September 2, 1792, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He studied law with his
brother John in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1816. He
practiced in Boston, and in 1822 was appointed reporter of the decisions of the .Su-
preme Judicial Court, his reports comprising twenty-four volumes, beginning with
the Berkshire term in September, 1822, and ending with the Essex term in 1839. He
died in Boston, October 29, 1868.

James Winthrop Pickering, son of James Farrington and Sarah (Pike) Pickering,
was born in Boston, March 26, 1848, and was educated at the Boston public schools.
He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston with his father, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1869. He married Alice Aurelia, daugh-
ter of Oliver Lawrence and Mary (Whitney) Wheeler in 1880, and resides in Boston.

John Phillips, son of William and Margaret (Wendell) Phillips, was born in Bos-
ton, November 26, 1770, and graduated at Harvard in 1788, and was admitted to the
bar in 1791 or 1792, as in the latter year his name is found in the list of Suffolk law-
yers. On the 29th of August, 1809, he was appointed one of the justices of the Court
of Common Pleas, and from 1803 to 1823 he was a member of the Senate, serving as
its president the last ten years. He was the first mayor of Boston, serving in 1822
and 1823. He died in Boston, May 29, 1823. He married Sally, daughter of Thomas
and Sarah (Hurd) Walley.

Wendell Phillips, son of John and Sally (Walley) Phillips, was born in Boston,
November 29, 1811, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He was admitted to the bar
in Middlesex county in September, 1834. The current of anti-slavery sentiment then
developing in Massachusetts swept him away from his profession, and soon after his
admission he abandoned the law and devoted his time and talents to the anti-slavery
cause. His maiden oratorical effort was in support of resolutions at a meeting in
Faneuil Hall in 1837, condemning the murder of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy, of Alton,
111. It is unnecessary to recount in this register the incidents in the life of a man so
well known and whose career has been so thoroughly published to the world. Un-
like Mr. Garrison, who considered his life work done when the cause of emancipation
was triumphant, he lent his energies to other reforms and continued until his death
the advocate of temperance, labor reform, and woman suffrage. He died in Boston,
February 2, 1884. He married Anne Terry Greene.

Thomas Walley Phillips, son of John and Sally (Walley) Phillips, and brother of
Wendell, was born in Boston, January 16, 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1814.
He studied law with Lemuel Shaw in Boston, and Avas admitted to the bar in Mid-
dlesex county in November, 1819. He was a councilman in Boston in 1827, a repre-
sentative from 1834 to 1837, and was appointed by Judge Peter Oxenbridge Thacher
in 1830 clerk of the Boston Municipal Court, serving in that capacity until his death,
which occurred at Nahant, September 8, 1859. He married in Boston, March 18,
1824, Anna Jones, daughter of Samuel Dunn, of Boston.

Grenville Tudor Phillips, son of John and Sally (Walley) Phillips, was born in
Boston, August 14, 1816, and graduated at Harvard in 1836. He studied law in Bos-
ton in the offices of Peleg Sprague and William Gray, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in October, 1839. He devoted but little of his time to his profession, and
after 1845 spent most of his time in Europe. He died in Saugus, May 25, 1863.

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Willard Phillips was born in Bridgewater, Mass., December 19, 1784, and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1810, where he was tutor after his graduation until 1815. He
then studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in October, 1818.
He was for a time an assistant editor of the North American Review, and in 1825-
26 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. On the 3d of May,
1839, he was appointed judge of probate for Suffolk county and continued in office
until 1847, when on the 17th of December he was succeeded by Edward Greeley Lor-
ing. He was then made president of the, New England Mutual Life Insurance Com-
pany in Boston and continued in that office until his death, which occurred at Cam-
bridge, September 9, 1873. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1853.

John Phillips, was born in Charlestown in 1631. He was judge of admiralty, treas-
urer of the Province, and judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex
county from 1692 to 1715. He died at Charlestown, March 20, 1726.

Stephen Henry Phillips, son of Stephen C. and Jane (Appleton) Phillips, was borri
in Salem, August 16, 1823, and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He graduated at the
Harvard Law School in 1844, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 6, 1846.
He was for a time editor of the Law Reporter, district attorney of Essex from 1851
to 1853, and attorney-general by election from 1858 to 1861. In 1866 he went to
Honolulu and was attorney-general of the Hawaiian Islands from 1866 to 1873, and
minister of foreign affairs. On his return to the United States he practiced law for
a time in San Francisco, and has been since engaged in his profession with offices in
Salem and Boston. He married, October 3, 1871, Margaret, daughter of James H.
and Mary (Willis) Duncan, of Haverhill, Mass.

Jonathan Cogswell Perkins, was born in Ipswich, Mass., November 21, 1809, and
graduated at Amherst in 1832. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was
admitted to the bar in Essex county in 1835. He was State senator in 1847, and in
1848 was appointed judge of the Common Pleas Court, remaining on the bench until
the dissolution of the court in 1859. He edited several volumes of Pickering's Re-
ports with Notes, Chitty's Criminal Law, Chitty on Contracts, Jarman on Wills, Ab-
bot on Shipping, Daniell's Chancery Practice, Collyer on Partnership, and was the
author of a treatise on Arbitrations and Awards. He died in Salem, December 12,
1877.

Edward Griffin Parker, was born in Boston, November 16, 1825. He studied law
with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1849. In 1859
he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. He was chairman of the committee
to whom was referred that part of the message of Governor Banks relating to the
purchase of the Hancock house for an executive residence, and the writer who was
with him at the Senate Board and aided him in his efforts, bears willing testimony to
the energy and eloquence displayed by him in advocating the purchase. During the
war he was a volunteer aid on the staff of General B. F. Butler, and afterwards as-
sistant adjutant-general on the staff of General Martindale. He was the author of
" Golden Age of Oratory," aiid an exceedingly interesting book entitled " Reminis-
cences of Rufus Choate." He died in New York city, March 30, 1868.

Samuel Allyne Otis, son of Col. James Otis, was born in Barnstable, Mass., No-
vember 24, 1740, and graduated at Harvard in 1759. He studied law, but relin-
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282 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

quished it and became a Boston merchant. The writer is not certain that he was
ever admitted to the bar. He was a representative in 1776, and in 1784 speaker of
the House. He was a member of Congress in 1788, and afterwards secretary of the
United States Senate. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Harrison Gray, of Boston,
and was the father of Harrison Gray Otis. He died at Washington, D. C, April 22,
1814.

George Arthur Perkins, son of Levi and Elizabeth (Sands) Perkins, was born in
Cambridge, September 4, 1856, and graduated at the Boston University Law School
in 1876. He was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in May 1876, and to the
United States Circuit Court April 3, 1882. He was a representative from Cambridge
in 1886-87-89, and his residence is still in that city.

Henry Grover Perkins, son of Francis W. and Laura (Simon ds) Perkins, was born
in Fitzwilliam, N. H., July 16, 1865, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied
Taw at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Jan-
uary 15, 1890. He lives in the Dorchester district of Boston.

Daniel Leonard, a graduate of Harvard in 1760, is spoken of in 1770 as a barris-
ter at the Suffolk bar. He belonged to Taunton. He was at the meeting of the
Suffolk bar held January 3, 1770, at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern on the corner of
State and Kelly streets, to form a Bar Association. He died in 1829.

Benjamin Highborn graduated at Harvard in 1768 and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1772. He died in 1817.

Elisha Thayer, son of Ebenezer Thayer, of Braintree, graduated at Harvard in
1767, and studied law with John Adams. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
1774, and died in the same year.

John Bulkley graduated at Harvard in 1769, and after studying law with Josiah
Quincy was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1772, and died in 1774.

Edward Walker studied law with Samuel Quincy and was probably admitted to
the Suffolk bar in 1775.

Thomas Edwards graduated at Harvard in 1771, and studied law with Josiah
Quincy.. He was admitted to the Supreme Court in 1784 and to the Common Pleas
at an earlier date. He died in 1806.

Nathaniel Coffin, after practicing two years in the Inferior Court of Common
Pleas, was admitted to the Superior Court in Suffolk in 1773.

Jonathan Williams, son of Inspector General John Williams, graduated at Har-
vard in 1772, and studied law with John Adams. He was admitted in 1775, and
died in 1780.

Edward Hill, son of Alexander, of Boston, graduated at Harvard in 1772, and
studied law with John Adams. He was admitted in 1775, and died the same year.

John Trumbull, probably the painter, graduated at Harvard in' 1773, and entered
the office of John Adams in 1774. He died in 1843.

Nathaniel Battelle graduated at Harvard in 1765, and entered the office of
Sampson Salter Blowers in 1774. He died in 1816.

Perez Morton, son of Joseph and Amiah (Bullock) Morton, was born about 1751,
and graduated at Harvard in 1771 . He studied law with Josiah Quincy, and was

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admitted to the Common Pleas Court in Suffolk in July, 1774. He was appointed
attorney-general September 7, 1810, and was succeeded by James T. Austin, May 24,
1832. He died in 1837.

Joshua Thomas, son of William and Mercy Logan (Bridgham) Thomas, was born
in Plymouth in 1751, and graduated at Harvard in 1772. He studied law in the
office of Josiah Quincy, and was probably admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was on
the staff of General John Thomas early in the Revolution, but finally settled in his
native town, where he became judge of probate, a member of the Committee on Cor-
respondence, and the first president of the Pilgrim Society. He married Isabella
Stevenson, of Boston, and died at Plymouth in 1821.

Daniel Newcomb graduated at Harvard in 1768, and after studying law with John
Lowell was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1778. He became judge of the Supreme
Court of New Hampshire, and died in 1818.

Samuel Doggett graduated at Harvard in 1775, and studied law with Perez Mor-
ton. He was admitted to the bar in 1780, and died in 1817.

Henry Goodwin graduated at Harvard in 1778, and studied law in Boston with
William Tudor, and died in 1789.

Rufus Greene Amory graduated at Harvard in 1778, and studied law with John
Lowell, and was admitted to the bar in 1781. He died in 1833.

James Hughes graduated at Harvard in 1780. He studied law with Benjamin
Hichborn, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1780. He died in 1799.

Israel Keith graduated at Harvard in 1771, and was an attorney at the Suffolk bar
in 1780. He died in 1819.

Peter Clarke graduated at Harvard in 1777, and studied law with Increase Sum-
ner. He died in 1792.

Benjamin Lincoln graduated at Harvard in 1777, and studied law in Worcester
with Levi Lincoln, and in Boston with John Lowell, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1781. He died in 1788.

William Hunter Torrens, of Charleston, S. C, studied law in the office of John
Lowell in 1781, and was probably admitted to the Suffolk bar.

William Hunt graduated at Harvard in 1768, and was a member of the Suffolk /
bar in 1780. He died in 1804.

Jonathan Fay graduated at Harvard in 1778, and studied law with Benjamin
Hichborn. He was admitted to the bar in 1781, and died in 1811.

William Wetmore was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1781, and was a barrister
in 1787. In 1811 the Circuit Courts of Common Pleas were established and in the
Middle Circuit, of which Suffolk county formed a part, Mr. Wetmore, of Boston, was
appointed associate justice.

Joseph Hall graduated at Harvard in 1781, and studied law with Benjamin Hich-
born. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1784. He was appointed judge of pro-
bate for Suffolk county September 6, 1825, and was succeeded by John Heard, March
15, 1836. He died in 1848.

Edward Wendell graduated at Harvard in 1781, and studied law with John
Lowell. He died in 1841.

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David Leonard Barnes graduated at Harvard in 1780, and studied law with James
Sullivan and Daniel Leonard. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1783. He be-
came judge of the United States District Court, and died in 1812.

Edward Gray graduated at Harvard in 1782, and studied law with James Sulli-
van, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1785. He died in 1810.

John Brown Cotting studied law in the office of John Lowell in 1783, and was
probably admitted to the bar in 1785.

Samuel Quincy, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1782, and read law in the office of
Christopher Gore. He was admitted to the bar in 1786, and died in 1816.

Harrison Gray Otis, son of Samuel Allyne Otis, was born in Boston, October 8,
1765, and graduated at Harvard in 1783. He studied law with John Lowell, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1786. He was a representative m 1796, member
of Congress form 1797 to 1801, United States district attorney in 1801, representative
again and speaker from 1803 to 1805, president of the State Senate from 1805 to 1811.
He was appointed March 16, 1814, judge of the Boston Court of Common Pleas, and
was succeeded by William Prescott, April 21, 1818. He was United States senator
from 1817 to 1822, and mayor of Boston from 1829 to 1832. In 1814 he was a mem-
ber of the Hartford Convention. He married in Boston Sally, daughter of William
and Grace (Spear) Foster, and died in Boston, October 28, 1848.

John Rowe graduated at Harvard in 1783, and studied law with William Tudor.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1786. He died in 1812.

John Tucker graduated from Harvard in 1774, and is referred to as a member of
the Suffolk bar in 1783. He died in 1825.

Richard Brook Roberts studied law in Carolina and in Boston with Benjamin
Hichborn, whose office he entered in October, 1783.

Samuel Cooper Johonnot graduated at Harvard in 1783, and studied law with
James Sullivan. He died in 1806.

John Thaxter graduated at Harvard in 1774, and in 1784 was admitted to the Su-
preme Court, having already been admitted to the Common Pleas. He died in 1791.

Bradish, probably either Ebenezer, who graduated at Harvard in 1769, or

Isaac, who graduated in 1773, is referred to as a Suffolk attorney in 1784.

John Gardiner, jr., son of John, read law with his father, entering his ofhce in

1784.

William Hill, from North Carolina, studied law with Christopher Gore.

Fortescue Vernon graduated at Harvard in 1780, and studied law with Benjamin
Hichborn. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1787, and died in 1790.

John Merrick graduated at Harvard in 1784, and studied law in the office of
Thomas Dawes. He was admitted to the bar in 1788, and died in 1797.

Samuel Borland graduated at Harvard in 1786, and studied law with John Lowell,
and died in 1840.

James Sullivan, jr., son of James, graduated at Harvard in 1786, and studied law
with his father, and died in 1787 before admission. \

Thomas Russell, son of Thomas, of Boston, studied law with John Lowell in 1786.

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Thomas Williams graduated at Harvard in 1784, and after studying law with
John Lowell was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1787. He died in 1823.

George Warren studied law with Perez Morton, and was admitted toithe Suffolk
bar in 1788.

Thomas Crafts graduated at Harvard in 1785, and studied law with Christopher
Gore. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1788, and died in 1798.

Samuel Andrews graduated at Harvard in 1786, and studied law with Benjamin
Hichborn. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1789, and died in 1841.

William Lyman studied law with James Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1789.

Nathaniel Higginson studied law with William Wetmore in 1788.

Phineas Bruce entered the office of Benjamin Hichborn in 1788, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in 1790.

Bossenger Foster graduated at Harvard in 1787, and studied law with Theophilus
Parsons. He died in 1816.

Edward Clarke graduated at Harvard in 1788, and studied law with John Lowell.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1791, and died in the same year.

Joseph Blake graduated at Harvard in 1786, and studied law with John Lowell.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1789, and died in 1802.

Robert Paine, son of Robert Treat Paine, graduated at Harvard in 1789, and
studied law with his father. He was admitted to the bar in 1792, and died in 1798.

Thomas Hammond, who had been admitted to the bar in New Hampshire, was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1790. He graduated at Harvard in 1787, and died in
1803.

Nathaniel Fisher graduated at Harvard in 1789, and studied law with Edward
H. Robbins. He was admitted to the bar in 1791, and died in 1802.

Samuel Haven graduated at Harvard in 1789, and studied law with Fisher Ames.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793, and died in 1847.

John Callender graduated at Harvard in 1790, and studied law with Christopher
Gore. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793, and died in 1833.

Alexander Townsend was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court in Suffolk
county before 1807.

Horatio Townsend was admitted in Suffolk county to practice in the Supreme
Court before 1807.

William Sullivan, son of General John Sullivan of the Revolution, was born in
Saco, Me., November 30, 1774, and graduated at Harvard in 1792. He studied law
in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1795. He soon became one of the
leaders of the bar and entered somewhat into politics. He was a representative and
member of the Executive Council and of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, and
devoted himself also to literary pursuits. He published "Familiar Letters on the
Public Men of the Revolution," "Sea Life," "Political Class-book," " Moral Class-
book," "Historical Class-book," and delivered several orations, the most noted of
which was his oration at Plymouth on the 22d of December, 1829. He died in Bos-
ton, September 3, 1839.

286 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

John Turner Sargent Sullivan, son of William, was born in Boston in 1813, and
was educated in Germany. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1835,
and practiced first in St. Louis and afterwards in Philadelphia. He was a superior
linguist, a fine musician, an inimitable story teller and excellent conversationalist.
The writer knew him well and can say with truth that he has never encountered a
man with such varied talents. He died in Boston, December 30, 1848.

Benjamin Beale graduated at Harvard in 1787, and is referred to as a member of
the Suffolk bar in 1792. He died in 1826.

John Williams graduated at Harvard in 1792, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1795. He studied with Harrison Gray Otis. He died in 1845.

Francis Blake graduated at Harvard in 1789, and studied law in Worcester. He
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793, and died in 1817.

Joseph Rowe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793. He had been educated in
Canada and had studied law two years in the office of the attorney-general of Can-
ada. He afterwards spent two years in the office of William Tudor, and was twenty-
two years old at the time of his admission.

James Allen, jr., studied law in AVorcester with Levi Lincoln, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in 1795.

Charles Porter Phelps graduated at Harvard in 1791, and is referred to as a
member of the Suffolk bar in 1796. He died in 1857.

Shearjashub Bourne graduated at Harvard in 1764, and died in 1806. He began
practice in Barnstable, but the writer finds his name enrolled as a member of the
Suffolk bar, May 17, 1796, and he was appointed chief justice of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas for Suffolk county in 1801.

Charles Paine graduated at Harvard in 1793, and he is referred to as a member
of the Suffolk bar in 1796. He died in 1810.

William Thurston signed a roll of members of the Suffolk bar in 1797.

Edward Jackson graduated at Harvard in 1794, and was a member of the Suffolk
bar in 1796. He died in 1819.

Ezekiel Bacon, son of Rev. John Bacon, was born in Boston, September 1, 1776,
and graduated at Yale in 1794. In 1796 he was a member of the Suffolk bar. He
moved from Boston to Stockbridge, Mass. , was a representative in 1805-6, chief jus-
tice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in 1813, first comptroller of the Treasury
from 1813 to 1815, member of Congress from 1807 to 1813. He moved in 1816 to
Utica, N. Y. , and there died October 18, 1870.

John Heard was enrolled as a member of the Suffolk bar in 1796. He was ap-
pointed judge of probate of Suffolk county March 15, 1836, and was succeeded by
Willard Phillips, May 3, 1839.

David Everett is referred to as a member of the Suffolk bar in 1796.

Henry Maurice Lisle, a member of the Suffolk bar in 1796.

Isaac Story graduated at Harvard in 1793, and studied law in Essex county. He
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1796, and died in 1803.

John Ward Gurley studied law with John Lowell, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in 1799.

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Charles Davis graduated at Harvard in 1796, and studied law with James Sullivan.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1799, and died in 1821.

Charles Cushing graduated at Harvard in 1796, and studied law with James Sul-
livan. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1799, and died in 1849.

Benjamin Wood graduated at Harvard in 1797, and in the same year entered the
office of John Davis, but died in 1798, before admission.

Holden Slocum, jr., studied law with George R. Minot, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1801.

Foster Waterman was a schoolmaster in Boston, and studied law with John M.
Forbes, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1798.

John Murray Forbes graduated at Harvard in 1787, and died in 1831. He was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1791.

Kilborn Whitman, son of Zechariah and Abigail (Kilborn) Whitman, was born in
Bridgewater, August 17, 1765, and graduated at Harvard in 1785. He prepared for
the ministry under the instruction of William Shaw, D.D., of Marshfield, and was
settled over the parish in Pembroke, where he continued to live until his death. After
ten years' service in the ministry he studied law in the office of his brother, Benjamin
Whitman, of Hanover, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1791. He settled in
Pembroke, and was appointed county attorney in 1811, continuing in office until
1832. He was also for many years overseer of the Mashpee and Herring Pond
Indians. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Winslow, of Marshfield, and died
in Pembroke December 11, 1835.

Humphrey Devereux graduated at Harvard in 1798, and studied law with John
Lowell. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1801, and died in 1867.

Artemas Sawyer graduated at Harvard in 1798, and studied law with George R.
Minot. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1801, and died in 1815.

Thomas Paine studied law in 1799 in the office of Robert Treat Paine, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1801.

Jotham Bender graduated at Harvard in 1796, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
1799, and died in 1800.

Luther Richardson graduated at Harvard in 1799, and studied law with Thomas
Williams. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1802, and died in 1811.

Henry Cabot, son of George and Elizabeth (Higgmson) Cabot, was born in Boston
in 1783, and took a partial course at Harvard. He studied law with Rufus G.
Amory, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1804. He married Anna Sophia,
daughter of John Welland and Abigail (Jones) Blake, of Brattleboro', Vt. , and died at
Nahant, August 18, 1864.

Nathaniel Sparhawk was born in 1781, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1798. He
studied law with George Blake, and w^s admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1801, and died
in 1802.

Aaron Hall Putnam graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with John
Lowell. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 1803, and died in 1809.

Henry Edes graduated at Harvard in 1799, and studied law with James Sullivan.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1802, and died in 1851.

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Gideon Latimer Thayer graduated at Harvard in 1798, and studied law with
James Sullivan. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar probably in 1804, and died in
1829.

David Ireland Greene graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with Wil-
liam Sullivan. He died in 1826.

Warren Dutton studied law with John Lowell, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in July, 1803.

Samuel Parker studied law with Rufus G. Amory in Boston in 1801.

Alpheus Baker studied law with John Lowell in 1801.

Samuel Mather Crocker graduated- at Harvard in 1801. He studied law with
Edward Gray, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1804. He died in 1852.

John Knapp graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with John Davis. He
was admitted to the bar in July, 1803, and died in 1849.

Thomas Welsh graduated at Harvard in 1798, and studied law with John Davis.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1804, and died in 1831.

Arthur M. Walter studied law with Harrison Gray Otis, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1802.

William Smith Shaw graduated at Harvard in 1798, and studied law with Harrison
Gray Otis. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1804, and died in 1826.

John Codman, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1802, and studied law with John
Lowell. He died in 1847.

James Henderson Elliott graduated at Harvard in 1802, and studied law with
John Lowell. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1806, and died in 1808.

Timothy Fuller, son of Rev. Timothy, was born in Chilmark, Mass., July 11,
1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1801. He studied law in Worcester with Levi
Lincoln, and in Boston with Charles Paine, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
October, 1804. He was senator from 1813 to 1816, member of Congress from 1817
to 1825, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1825, and member
of the Executive Council in 1828. He died at Groton, October 1, 1835.

Timothy Boutelle graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with Ebenezer
Gay. He died in 1855.

David Bradley studied law in the office of John Heard in 1802.

Aaron Emmes studied law with David Everett in 1802.

Israel Munroe graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with John Phillips.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1803, and died in 1834.

Benjamin Welles graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with Harrison
Gray Otis. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1803, and died in 1860.

Benjamin Marston Watson graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with
Theophilus Parsons. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1804, and died in 1851.

Adam Winthrop graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with George
Blake. He was admitted to the bar in 1803, and died in 1846.

Robert Fields applied for admission to the bar in 1805, but the writer is not cer-
tain that he was ever admitted.

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Homer Albers, son of Claus and Rebecca Albers, was born in Warsaw, 111.,
February 28, 1863, and was educated at the Central Wesleyan College, at Warrenton,
Mo. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1885. He is or has been a professor at the Boston University Law
School. He married, at Fredonia, N. Y., June 26, 1889, Minnie B. Martin, and
resides at Winchester.

Clift Rogers Clait, son of Howard and Frances A. (Rogers) Clapp, was born in
Boston, February 10, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices of George S. Hale and Ropes,
Gray & Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He resides in the Rox-
bury District of Boston.

Samuel M. Child, son of Nahum A. and Ellen (Sargent) Child, was born in Tem-
ple, N. H., September 10, 1802, and studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1890. He was a member of the Constitutional
Convention of New Hampshire in 1889. He is corresponding secretary of the Young
Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts, and lives in Boston.

James R. Dockray, son of James R. and Mary A. Dockray, was born in Portland,
Me., February 11, 1834, and studied law in Worcester with Henry Chapin, and was
admitted to the bar in Worcester. He removed his business to Boston, where he
now lives, and married Elizabeth S. Hardon at Cambridge in 1877.

Charles Sidney Ensign, son of Sidney Ariel and Julia Maria (Hull)(Brockway) En-
sign, was born in Hartford, Conn., July 26, 1842. He studied law with Thomas C.
and Charles E. Perkins, of Hartford, and graduated at -the Harvard Law School in
1863. He was admitted to the bar in Cambridge, and settled in Hartford, where he
was admitted July 19, 1864, and became a councilman in 1865. He afterwards prac-
ticed for a time in New York and Brooklyn, having been admitted to the bar in New
York April 9, 1868, and in 1886 removed his business to Boston, taking up his resi-
dence in Watertown, from which place he was a representative in 1891. He married,
December, 1868, Angie Faxon, daughter of Hiram and Hepseybeth (Adams) (Faxon)
Barker, of Brighton. He was representative from Watertown in 1891, and has been
trustee of the Free Public Library in that town, and chairman of the School Com-
mittee.

George A. O. Ernst, son of Andrew H. and Sarah Otis Ernst, was born in Cincin-
nati, O., November 8, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1871. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices of Ropes & Gray and J. B. Rich-
ardson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1875. He' was a represent-
ative in 1883-84. He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 9, 1879, Jeanie C.
Bynner. He is a frequent contributor to the law journals. Residence, Boston.

George W. Estabrook, son of Joseph E. and Mary A. (Porter) Estabrook, was born
in Montgomery, Ala., March 81, 1840, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1861. He
studied law with Ira Perley at Concord, N. H. , at the Harvard Law School and in
Boston with James Schouler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1865. He mar-
ried Laura S. Perkins at Fitzwilliam, N. H. , in July, 1876, and resides in Boston.

George Eustis, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Gray) Eustis, was born in Boston, Oc-
tober 20, 1796, and graduated at Harvard in 1815. He was secretary of his uncle,
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William Eustis, while minister to the Hague, where he began his law studies. He
was admitted to the bar in 1822 and settled in New Orleans, becoming representa-
tive, secretary of state, attorney-general, and judge and chief justice of the Supreme
Court of Louisiana. The writer is doubtful where he was admitted to the bar. He
married in 1825 Clarissa Allair, of Louisiana. He received the degree of LL.D. from
Harvard in 1849, and died in New Orleans, December 23, 1858.

Benjamin Guild graduated at Harvard in 1804, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1807. He died in Boston, March 30, 1858, at the age of seventy-three.

William Henry Rovve, son of Samuel and LydiaAnn (Fletcher) Rowe, was born in
Boston, October 6, 1830, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He studied law and
settled in Davenport, la. , but the writer is not certain where he was first admitted to
the bar. He was admitted in Davenport in March, 1856, and became a successful
lawyer. He died in Boston, July 22, 1858.

Mathew Hale Carpenter was born in Moretown, Vt., December 22, 1824, and en-
tered West Point in 1843, where he remained two years, and then returned to Ver-
mont to study law with Paul Dillingham. In November, 1847, he was admitted to
the Vermont bar, but at once went to Boston and continued his legal studies in the
office of Rufus Choate. The writer is not informed whether he was ever admitted to
the Suffolk bar. In 1848 he settled in Beloit, Wis., and about 1857 removed to Mil-
waukee. He was during the war judge advocate-general of Wisconsin. In 1869 he
Avas chosen United States senator and served one term of six years. In 1879 he was
again chosen to the Senate and served until his death, which took place in Washing-
ton, February 24, 1881. He was at the age of fifty-six cut off in the very height of a
splendid career. It is unnecessary to rehearse here his many triumphs both at the
bar and in the Senate. It is sufficient to say that after the death of Webster he was
called by many the best constitutional lawyer in the United States. He married a
daughter of Paul Dillingham, of Vermont, his instructor in law.

John Henry Clifford was born in Providence, R. I., January 16, 1809, and grad-
uated at Brown in 1827. He studied law in Dedham with Theron Metcalf, and after
his admission to the bar settled in New Bedford, and, as was the custom in that day,
attended the courts of Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstable and Nantucket, and the courts
of Dukes county, and soon won a leading place among the lawyers of Southeastern
Massachusetts. In 1835 he was a representative, and in 1849 was appointed to the
office of attorney-general, which had been abolished in 1843 and revived in that year.
In 1852 he was chosen governor and served one year, and Rufus Choate accepted the ap-
pointment of attorney-general. In 1854 he was again appointed attorney-general and
served until 1858, when the office became elective and Stephen Henry Phillips was
chosen. In 1859 he was appointed in the place of Ellis Ames counsel for the Com-
monwealth to act with Mr. Phillips, the attorne}r-general, in the proceedings in
equity, which had been begun in the matter of the Rhode Island boundary. The
counsel for Rhode Island were Charles S. Bradley and Thomas A. Jenks, and in 1861
the vexed boundary question, which had been a disputed one for nearly two hundred
years, was finally and satisfactorily settled. In 1862 Mr. Clifford was president of
the Senate, and for several years he was president of the Overseers of Harvard Col-
lege. He received the degree of LL.D. from Brown University in 1849, and from
Amherst and Harvard in 1853. In 1850, while attorney-general, he conducted the

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trial of Prof. John W. Webster for the murder of Dr. George Parkman, assisted by
George Bemis. In 1867 he succeeded Charles Henry Warren as president of the
Boston and Providence Railroad Company, and retired from professional labors. He
married a daughter of William H. Allen, of New Bedford, and died in that city Jan-
uary 2, 1876.

Ei.ishaCooke, sr., a physician, was born in Boston September 16, 1637, and died May
31, 1715. He graduated at Harvard in 1657, and was an assistant from 1684 to 1686.

Caleb Cushing, son of Capt. John N. and Lydia (Dow) Cushing, was born in Salis-
bury, Mass., January 17, 1790, and when two years of age his parents removed to
Newburyport. He was educated while young chiefly by Michael Walsh, a noted
teacher of that day, and graduated at Harvard in 1817. Though probably the
youngest member of his class, he was selected to make the address to President Mon-
roe when he visited Cambridge during his senior year. After graduating he re-
mained in the college two years as tutor in mathematics and natural philosophy, and
then entered the office of Ebenezer Moseley, of Newburyport, to prepare himself for
the bar. He was also one of the earliest students at the Harvard Law School, that
institution having graduated its first class in 1820. He was admitted to the Essex
bar in 1822 and established himself in his adopted town. He married in 1823 Caro-
line, daughter of Samuel Sumner Wilde, afterwards an associate justice of the Su-
preme Judicial Court, who removed from Hallo well, Me., to Newburyport in 1820, and
remained there until 1831. After his marriage he spent two years in Europe and in
1825 was a representative from Newburyport to the General Court, and again in 1833
and 1834, and again in 1845, 1850 and 1859. In 1834 he was chosen member of Con-
gress from Essex North District, and it is stated that Mr. Webster said " that he had
not been six weeks in Congress before he was acknowledged to be the highest author-
ity on what had been the legislation of Congress on any given subject." When the
War with Mexico was delared, in opposition to the popular sentiment of his State, he
assisted in raising a regiment of volunteers, which he led as colonel until appointed
brigadier-general. In 1843 he was appointed by President Tyler minister to China,
returning in a little over a year with a treaty which was readily ratified by the Senate.
In 1852 he was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachu-
setts, leaving the bench in 1853 to assume the position of attorney-general in the
cabinet of President Pierce. During the War of the Rebellion he spent much time in
Washington, where his services by advice and council were considered indispensable
in the various departments of the government. He was appointed by President Lin-
coln a commissioner to adjust claims pending with Mexico, and by President Grant
minister to Spain, and of counsel for the United States at Geneva. As he advanced
in age instead of abandoning work he seemed rather to realize that the fewer the
years left to him the more diligent and industrious he must be. A passion for learn-
ing actuated him to the last, and in philology and other branches of learning he
seemed to be zealously fitting himself for their use in some other sphere of existence.
He died at Newburyport, January 2, 1879.

Charles Augustus Dewey, son of Daniel, was born in Williamstown, Mass., March
13, 1793, and graduated at Williams College in 1811. He studied law with Theodore
Sedgwick and settled in Williamstown, where he remained until 1826, when he re-
moved to Northampton. He was district attorney from 1830 to 1837, when he was

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appointed associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. He remained on the bench
until his death, which occurred at Northampton, August 22, 1866.

Thomas Hastings Russell, son of Charles and Persis (Hastings) Russell, was born
in Princeton, Mass., October 12, 1820, and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of his brother, Charles
Theodore Russell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1845. He was a rep-
resentative in 1853-54-57-59. He has always been associated with his brother in a
large and general practice. He married Maria Louisa Wiswell in Boston, October
12, 1847, and lives in Boston.

Thomas Russell, son of William Goodwin and Mary Ellen (Hedge) Russell, was
born in Boston, June 17, 1858, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard,
where he graduated in 1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the
office of his father in Boston, and was one j^ear secretary of Justice Horace Gray of
the Supreme Court at Washington. He was admitted to the bar in 1883, and in
1892 was chosen representative to the General Court. Residence, Boston.

James Dutton Russell, whose original name was James Russell Dutton, was the
son of Warren and Elizabeth Cabot (Lowell) Dutton, and born in Boston, January
7, 1810. His named was changed by a special act passed February 21, 1820. He
graduated at Harvard in 1829, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in
Boston in the office of Franklin Dexter. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
October, 1832. In 1833 he went to Europe and gave up practice. He died in
Brighton, June 10, 1861.

John Codman Ropes, son of William and Mary Anne (Codman) Ropes, was born in
St. Petersburg, Russia, April 28, 1836. He was fitted for college at the Chauncy Hall
School, and with Professor William Watson Goodwin and graduated at Harvard in
1857. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and finishing his law studies in
the office of Peleg Whitman Chandler and George O. Shattuck, was admitted to the
Suffolk bar November 28, 1861. He was an overseer of Harvard College from 1867
to 1876. He has devoted much time to the study of military campaigns in both
America and Europe, and is doubtless better informed on these subjects than at least
any other American. He is the author of "The Army under Pope " in the Scribner
series of Campaigns of the Civil War, ' ' The First Napoleon," published by Houghton,
Mifflin & Company, and numerous other papers'in military campaigns. Residence,
Boston.

Charles Theodore Russell, son of Charles and Persis (Hastings) Russell, was born
in Princeton, Mass. , November 20, 1815. He is descended from William Russell, of
Cambridge, in 1645. He received his early education at Princeton Academy under
Warren Goddard, and graduated at Harvard in 1837. He studied law at the Har-
vard Law School and in Boston in the office of Henry H. Fuller, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in July, 1839. After his admission he was associated two years with
Mr. Fuller and then practiced alone until his brother Thomas was admitted to the
bar in 1845. He lived in Boston until 1855, when he removed to Cambridge. While
a resident in Boston he was a representative in 1844^45-50 and a senator in 1851 and
1852. He was also the Boston Fourth of July orator in 1852. During his residence
in Cambridge he has been mayor in 1861-62 and senator in 1877-78. He has been
professor in the Boston University Law School, is, or has been, a member of the

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Board of Visitors of the Andover Theological School, and a corporate member of the
American Board for Foreign Missions. He is the author of a History of Princeton,
and in 1859 delivered the centennial address in that town, and in 1886 presided over
the centennial celebration of the First Church in Cambridge. He married, June 1,
1840, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Ballister, of Boston.

Charles Theodore Russell, jr., son of Charles Theodore and Sarah Elizabeth
(Ballister) Russell, was born in Boston, April 20, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in
1873. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of his
father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 15, 1875. He has been a member of
the State Civil Service Commission since 1884, and is the editor of Massachusetts
Election Cases. His specialty is admiralty practice. Residence, Cambridge.

Arthur Hastings Russell, son of Thomas Hastings and Maria Louisa (Wiswell)
Russell, was born in Boston, December 1, 1859, and graduated at Amherst in 1881.
He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in Boston in the office of
his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1884. He married Fan-
nie E. Hunt at Boston, February 17, 1885, and lives in Winchester.

Rufus Dawes, son of Judge Thomas Dawes, was born in Boston, January 26, 1803,
and entered Harvard in 1820, but did not graduate. He studied law with William
Sullivan and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1826, but never practiced.
He was a poet of considerable merit and published in 1830 " The Valley of the Nash-
away, and Other Poems," in 1839 "Geraldine, Athenia of Damascus, and Miscel-
laneous Poems," and a romance entitled "Nix's Mate." In the latter part of his
life he held a position in one of the departments in Washington, and died in Wash-
ington November 30, 1859.

Samuel Fales Dunlap, son of Andrew, was born in Boston in 1825 and graduated
at Harvard in 1845. It is thought by the writer that he was admitted to the Suffolk
bar and afterwards removed to New York. He was the author of " The Origin of
Ancient Names" and "Vestiges of the Spirit History of Man," and edited with
notes his father's " Dunlap' s Admiralty Practice." He was living in 1890.

Jeremiah Evarts was born in Sunderland, Vt. , February 3, 1781, and graduated at
Yale in 1802 and was admitted to the bar in 1806, probably in New Haven, where he
practiced law about four years. He soon afterwards removed to Boston, but whether
he practiced law there or not the writer is uncertain. He edited the " Panoplist," a
religious monthly magazine, in Boston, from 1810 to 1820, and was at various times
the treasurer and secretary 'of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions. He died in Charleston, S. C, May 10, 1831.

William Maxwell Evarts, son of Jeremiah, was born in Boston, February 6, 1818,
and graduated at Yale in 1837. He studied law partly at the Harvard Law School,
where he was a student in 1841. The writer, at that time a junior at Harvard, was
drawn on a jury to serve in a moot court case in the law school in which Mr. Evarts
was the senior counsel on one side, and William Davis, of Plymouth, on the other,
and he remembers well the eloquence displayed by both of these gentlemen on that
occasion. The style of Mr. Evarts, with which he began his career, was concise,
fluent and eloquent, and in these respects wholly different from that which in later
years has marked his efforts. He was admitted to the bar at Cambridge in Septem-

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ber, 1841, but it is doubtful if he ever began practice in Suffolk. He soon after en-
tered the law office of Daniel Lord in New York, and after a period of further study
was admitted to the New York bar. From 1849 to 1853 he was assistant district
attorney in New York. His career is too well known to narrate here. Having re-
tired from the United States Senate in March, 1891, where he served one term of six
years, he is in active practice at the head of a firm of which Joseph H. Choate is a
member.

Joseph Hodges Choate, son of Dr. George and Margaret (Hodges) Choate, was
born in Salem, Mass., January 24, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1852. He
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1854 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
September, 1855. In 1856 he removed to New York, where he has won a high repu-
tation, not only as a lawyer but as an orator on occasions of public interest. He
has been president of the Union League Club. He is associated m business with
William Maxwell Evarts.

Charles Francis Choate, son of Dr. George and Margaret (Hodges) Choate, was
born in Salem, May 16, 1828, and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He is descended
from John Choate, who was in Ipswich in 1640. His father died in Cambridge June
4, 1880. After leaving college he was tutor in mathematics for a time and graduated
at the Harvard Law School in 1853. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 13,
1855, and soon devoted himself to railroad law. He was counsel for the Boston and
Maine Railroad for a time, and in 1865 became counsel of the Old Colony Railroad,
of which in 1872 he became a director, and in 1877 he was chosen president, a posi-
tion he still holds. He was also chosen in 1877 president of the Old Colony Steam-
boat Company. He married, November 7, 1855, Elizabeth W. Carlile, of Providence,
R. I.

Charles Francis Choate, jr., son of the above, was born in Cambridge, Mass.,
October 23, 1866, and graduated at Harvard in 1888. He studied law at the Harvard
Law School, and in Boston in the office of Josiah H. Benton, jr., and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in June, 1890. Residence, Boston.

Francis Brown Hayes, son of William Allen Hayes, of South Berwick, Me., was
a descendant from John Hayes, who settled in Dover, N. H., in 1640. William
Allen, the father, graduated at Dartmouth in 1805 and married a daughter of John
Lord, and was judge of probate. Francis Brown, the son, graduated at Harvard in
1839, after having attended the Berwick and Exeter Academies. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School, and with his father, and in Boston in the office of Charles
Greeley Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 1842. He devoted him-
self to railroad law, and in 1850 was made chairman of a committee to investigate
the management and affairs of the Old Colony Railroad. He was man)^ years a di-
rector of the Old Colony road, president four years of the Atlantic and Pacific Rail-
road Company, and counsel for various other roads. He was a representative in
1873 and senator in 1874, and died in 1884. He married in 1860 Margaret M. Wilson,
of Baltimore, daughter of Gen. Wm. H. Marriott.

Thomas Gold Appleton, son of Nathan, was born in Boston, March 31, 1812, and
graduated at Harvard in 1831. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in
Boston in the office of Franklin Dexter, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Oc-

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tober, 1838. He never practiced but devoted himself to literature and art, being not
only a liberal patron of authors and artists, but an author and artist himself. He
died in New York April 17, 1884.

George Anson Bruce is the son of Nathaniel and Lucy (Butterfield) Bruce, and is
descended from George Bruce, who settled in Woburn in 1659. He was born in Mt.
Vernon, N. H., November 19, 1839, and his father, who was a prominent man in the
community in which he lived, having been town clerk, selectman, representative,
and county treasurer, afforded him all available facilities for procuring a good edu-
cation. He fitted for college at the McCollom Institute in Mt. Vernon, and gradu-
ated at Dartmouth in 1861. Soon after his graduation he entered the law office of
Daniel S. & George F. Richardson in Lowell, where he remained until August, 1862,
when he entered the service of his country as first lieutenant in the Thirteenth New
Hampshire Regiment. In January, 1863, he was made assistant adjutant-general
of the Third Brigade, Third Division, Ninth Army Corps, and later assistant adju-
tant general and judge advocate of the First Division, Twenty-fourth Corps, under
General Devens. His various promotions were to captain, 1864; major, 1864; lieu-
tenant-colonel, 1865, and he was mustered out July 3, 1865, bearing an excellent
record and the scars of honorable wounds. After his discharge he resumed the study
of law in Lowell and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in April, 1866. In January,
1867, he began business in Boston and met with unusual success at a bar already
seemingly crowded disproportionately to its available business. In 1874 he removed
his residence to Somerville and there secured at once the confidence of the people.
In 1875 he was chosen alderman, and appointed associate justice of the Police Court ;
in 1878-79-80 he was chosen mayor, and in 1882-83-84 he was a member of the Sen-
ate, being its president the last year of his service. Since his retirement from the
Senate his general practice has been largely supplemented by the management of
cases before committees of the Legislature, to which has been accorded unusual suc-
cess. He married in Groton, January 26, 1870, Clara M., daughter of Joseph F. and
Sarah (Longley) Hall, and resides in Somerville.

Charles Mansfield Bruce, son of Charles E. and Eliza A. Bruce, was born in
Ashtabula, O., November 28, 1863, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin School.
He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Henry W.
Bragg, and was admitted to the Suffolk county bar August 2, 1887. He has been an
extensive newspaper correspondent and resides in Maiden.

Thomas Tolman was born in Stoughton, Mass., February 20, 1791, and graduated
at Brown University in 1811. He was settled in Canton, Mass., until 1837, when he
moved to Boston. He was representative in 1828, and 1836 a member of the Execu-
tive Council, and died in Boston January 20, 1869.

Owen A. Galvin, son of Patrick and Mary (Hughes) Galvin, was born in Boston
June 21, 1852, and studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office
of Charles Francis Donnelly. He was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county Febru- '
ary 29, 1876, and in 1881 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representa-
tives. In 1882-83-84 he was chosen to the Senate, and was the Democratic candidate
for president of that body. In July, 1886, he was appointed assistant United States
district attorney for Massachusetts, under George M. Stearns, and in September,
1887, on the resignation of Mr. Stearns, was appointed to succeed him. He has been

296 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

once the Democratic candidate for mayor of Boston, and is prominently mentioned
as the successor of Mayor Mathews, when he shall retire from the mayoralty. He
married in Boston, July 3, 1879, Jennie T., daughter of Timothy K. and Ellen (O'Dris-
coll) Sullivan.

John PI. McDonough, son of Michael and Margaret (Hanlon) McDonough, was
born in Portland, Me., March 29, 1857, and was educated in the public schools. He
began at an early age to learn the tailoring trade, but in 1872 began to learn the trade
of watchmaking, which he followed fourteen years in Portland, Auburndale and
Roxbury. In 1887 he began the study of law in the office of Charles J. Noyes, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1892. He was a representative from
Boston in 1886-9, and won an enviable record, both as a member of important com-
mittees and as a debater in the House. He died March 17, 1893.

Samuel Baker Wolcott was born in Bolton, Mass., March 7, 1795, and graduated
at Harvard in 1819. His original name, Jesse, was changed to Samuel Baker in
1821. After graduating he was a tutor in Greek at Harvard. He studied law with
Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1824. He began
practice in Boston, but removed to Salem and finally to Hopkinton. He was repre-
sentative and senator. He died in Boston, at the Massachusetts General Hospital,
December 4, 1854.

ErAstus Worthington, jr., son of Erastus and Sally (Ellis) Worthington, was born
in Dedham, November 25, 1828, and graduated at Brown University in 1850. He
studied law in Milwaukee in the office of his brother, Ellis Worthington, and at the
Harvard Law School, and in Dedham in the office of Ezra Wilkinson, receiving the
degree of LL.B. at the Harvard Law School in 1853. He was admitted to the bar in
Dedham in February, 1854, and began practice in Boston, forming a partnership
after a short time with David A. Simmons, of Roxbury. In 1856 he was chosen
register of insolvency of Norfolk county, and remained in office until the Probate
and Insolvency Courts were consolidated in 1857. He then practiced law in Ded-
ham, holding the office of trial justice eight years, until in 1866 he was chosen clerk
of the courts. He married' November 25, 1861, Elizabeth Foster, daughter of Robert
Briggs, of Boston.

Moses Williams, son of Moses Blake and Mary Jane (Penniman) Williams, was
born in Roxbury, Mass. , December 4, 1846, and graduated at Harvard in 1868. He
studied law in Boston with Sohier & Welch, George White and William A. Richard-
son, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county December 22, 1868. He prac-
ticed in Boston until made president of the Third National Bank in that city, a posi-
tion he still holds, having filled at various times the office of selectman of Brookline
and of representative to the General Court. He married Martha C. Fininley at
Brookline, September 10, 1868. Residence, Brookline.

Charles W. Whitcomb, son of Benjamin D. and Mary (Mclntire) Whitcomb, was
born in Boston, July 31, 1855, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1876. He also at-
tended lectures after graduation at the University of Gottingen, remaining abroad
until 1878. He studied law in Boston in the office of Josiah H. Benton and in the
Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February,
1880. He has since that time practiced in Boston, serving as common councilman

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in 1883-84, and as fire marshal of Boston, under an appointment from Governor
Robinson in 1886. He married Marie M., daughter of James and Dora (Rowell)
Woodsum, June 26, 1884, and resides in Boston.

William Fisher Wharton, son of William Craig and Nancy Willing (Spring)
Wharton, was born at Jamaica Plain, Mass., June 28, 1847, and fitting for college at
the school of Epes Sargent Dixwell, graduated at Harvard in 1870. He studied law
for a year in the office of John Codman Ropes and John C. Gray, and after gradu-
ating at the Harvard Law School in 1873, was admitted to the Suffolk bar September
22, 1873. He spent two years in Europe and began practice in Boston in 1875.
From 1880 to 1884 he was a member of the Common Council, a representative in
1885, and in 1888 was appointed assistant secretary of state of the United States, a
position which he still holds with credit to himself and the country. He married
Fanny, daughter of William Dudley and Caroline (Silsbee) Pickman, in Boston, Oc-
tober 31, 1877, and resides in Washington.

Andrew J. Waterman, son of William and Sarah (Bucklin) Waterman, was born
in North Adams, Mass., June 23, 1825, and was educated at the public schools and
various institutions of learning. He studied law in the offices of Keyes Danforth and
Daniel N. Dewey in Williamstown, and was admitted to the bar of Berkshire county
March 18, 1854. Associating himself with Mr. Danforth in Williamstown, he was ap-
pointed in 1855 register of probate, and in 1858, after the Courts of Probate and In-
solvency were consolidated, he was chosen register of probate and insolvency, which
office he resigned in 1881. In 1880 he was appointed district attorney for the Western
District to fill a vacancy, and chosen for the three succeeding terms, resigning in
1887, when nominated by the Republican party for attorney-general, to which office
he was chosen in 1887-88-89. He married Ellen Douglas, daughter of Henry H. and
Nancy (Comstock) Cooke, at East Boston, January 7, 1858, and resides in Pittsfield.

Thomas Leverett Nelson, son of John and Lois Burnham (Leverett) Nelson, was
born in Haverhill, N. H., March 4, 1827, and graduated at the University of Vermont
in 1846, receiving from that institution the degree of LL.D. in 1879. He studied law
in Worcester, where he was admitted to the bar in 1855. He was a representative
in 1869, and in 1879 was appointed judge of the United States District Court for
Massachusetts, which position he still holds. He married first Anna H., daughter of
Caleb and Mary Moore (Hastings) Hayward, in Mendon, October 29, 1857, and sec-
ond, Laura A., daughter of Samuel E. and Hannah A. (Matterson) Slocum, of Mill-
bury, March 23, 1865. As a judge, holding his court in Suffolk county, he deserves
a place in this register.

William Henry Niles, son of Samuel W. and Eunice C. (Newell) Niles, was born
in Orford, N. H., December 22, 1840, and was educated at the public schools and at
the Providence Conference Seminary of East Greenwich, R. I. He studied law
with Caleb Blodgett in Boston, and was admitted to the bar at Lowell in 1870.
In that year his name appears on the roll of lawyers in Boston, but he removed to
Lynn, and has since practiced successfully in that city. He married Harriet A. Day,
in Bristol, N. H., September 12, 1865/ and lives in Lynn.

William N. Osgood, son of George Newton and Minerva (Hayward) Osgood, was
born in Lowell, June 11, 1855, and graduated at Amherst in 1878. He studied law
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at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex
county in March, 1880. He practiced in Lowell until 1885, when he transferred his
business to Boston. He married Harriet Leslie, daughter of Henry C. and Augusta
(Jaques) Palmer, in Tewksbury, January 1, 1884.

Henry Parkman, son of Samuel and Mary Eliot (Dwight) Parkman, was born in
Boston, May 23, 1850. His father, a physician in Boston of great promise, died at
what appeared to be the beginning of a brilliant career. The son was fitted for col-
lege at private schools, and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He graduated at the
Harvard Law School in 1873, and further pursuing his studies in Boston in the office
of Russell & Putnam, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1874. He was a
common councilman from 1879 to 1884, a representative from 1886 to 1888, and a sen-
ator in 1892 and 1893. He married Mary Frances Parker at Perth Amboy, N. J.,
August 23, 1890, and lives in Boston.

Edward Lillie Pierce, son of Jesse and Eliza S. (Lillie) Pierce, was born in
Stoughton, Mass., May 29, 1829, and graduated at Brown University in 1850. He
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1852, and was admitted to the bar at Ded-
ham in 1853. He afterwards spent a year or less in the office of Salmon P. Chase at
Cincinnati, O. He continued to practice until the war began, when he enlisted
in Company I, Third Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, for three months' ser-
vice, after which he was employed by the government in a service of inquiry into the
condition of the negroes at Sea Islands, to which intelligence and skill were essential,
and his report was. an able and exhaustive one. In 1863 he was appointed collector
of internal revenue for the Third Massachusetts District, and in 1866 he was ap-
pointed district atorney of the Norfolk and Plymouth District, holding the office
afterwards by election until 1869. In 1869 he was appointed secretary of the Board
of State Charities, and served until his resignation in 1874. He was a representative
from Milton in 1875 and 1876, and in 1878 was appointed to, but declined, the office
of assistant treasurer of the United States. Aside from his professional pursuits, he
has engaged in literary labors, among which are "American Railroad Law," pub-
lished in 1857, "The Law of Railroads," 1881, and a memoir of Charles Sumner.
He married Elizabeth H., daughter of John Kingsbury, of Providence, R. I., April
19, 1865, and for a second wife, Laura, daughter of Edward B. Woodhead, of Hud-
dersfield, England. Residence, Milton.

Chari.es Greenwood Pope, son of Rufus Spurr and Sarah (Brown) Pope, was born
in Hardwick, Mass., November 18, 1840, and graduated at Tufts College in 1861.
After teaching several years in Hyannis, Somerville and Charlestown, he studied law
in the offices of Sweetser & Gardner in Boston, and John W. Hammond in Cam-
bridge, and was admitted to the bar in December, 1874. He was associated with
John W. Hammond in business in Cambridge, until that gentleman was appointed
judge of the Superior Court in 1886. In 1878 Mr. Pope Avas appointed a special
justice of the police court in Somerville, where he had taken up his residence and
became a member and president of the Common Council. In 1876-7 he was a rep-
resentative, and has served one or more terms as mayor since 1888. He married
Josephine H., daughter of Erastus E. and Harriet N. Cole in Somerville, December
27, 1866. Residence, Somerville.

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John Phelps Putnam was born in Hartford, Conn., March 21, 1817, and graduated
at Yale in 1837, and at the Harvard Law School in 1839. He was admitted to the
Suffolk bar October 12, 1840, and practiced in Boston. He was a representative in
1851-2, and in 1859 was appointed judge of the Superior Court. He published in
1852 fifteen volumes of the "Annual Digest" of the decisions of the United States
Courts. He served on the bench until his death in 1882.

Robert Samuel Rantoul, son of Robert and Jane Elizabeth (Woodbury) Rantoul,
was born in Beverly, Mass. , June 2, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1853, and at
the Harvard Law School in 1856. He was a representative from Beverly in 1858,
and from Salem in 1884-5, and collector of the port of Salem under President Lin-
coln. He married Harriet C. , daughter of David A. and Harriet C. (Price) Neal, of
Salem, May 13, 1858, and has his residence in Salem. He is an officer of the Essex
Institute, and has contributed extensively to historical literature.

Charles Robinson, son of Charles and Mary (Davis) Robinson, was born in Lex-
ington, Mass., November 6, 1829, and was educated at the public schools and the
Lawrence and Lexington Academies. He studied law with Dana & Cobb in
Charlestown, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in June, 1852. He
practiced in Charlestown until 1868, and since that time has occupied a prominent
place in the roll of Boston lawyers. He was mayor of Charlestown in 1865 and 1866,
and in 1874 and 1875 was city solicitor of Somerville though not residing in that city.
In 1874 he was a representative, and also in 1880. He married Rebecca T. , daughter
of Philander and Rebecca (Gibbs) Ames in Charlestown, July 4, 1858. He is a
brother of Governor George D. Robinson.

William Eustis Russell, son of Charles Theodore and Sarah (Ballister) Russell,
was born in Cambridge, Mass., January 7, 1857, and received his early education at
the primary, grammar and high school grades of the public schools of that city.
He graduated at Harvard in 1877, and at the Boston University Law School in 1879,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1880. He became at once a member of
the firm of C. T. & T. H. Russell, of Boston, and has so continued until the present
time. He was first introduced into public life by an election as member of the Com-
mon Council of Cambridge in 1882, and since that time his career has been one of un-
surpassed progress and success. In 1883 and 1884 he was a member of the Board of
Aldermen, and in 1885-86-87-88 mayor of the city. In 1888 and 1889 he was the
Democratic candidate for governor, and his defeat in those years was followed by his
election in 1890, and his re-election in 1891 and 1892. The feat performed by him dur-
ing the campaign of 1892, of making the tour of Cape Cod and making sixteen speeches
at the various towns between Provincetown and Boston on the day before elec-
tion, and adding to these six more speeches in Boston and its vicinity during the
evening, will become a prominent feature in the political history of Massachusetts.
He received the degree of LL.D. from Williams College m 1891. He married Mar-
garet Manning, daughter of Joshua A. and Sarah (Hodges) Swan at Cambridge, June
3, 1885, and his residence is still in Cambridge.

Alpheus Sanford, son of Joseph B. and Mary C. (Tripp) Sanford, was born in
North Attleboro', Mass., July 5, 1856, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1876. He
studied law in Boston with Joseph Nickerson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
October, 1879. He has been a member of the Boston Common Council and of the

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House of Representatives. He married Mary C. V., daughter of William H. and
Charlotte E. (Read) Gardiner in Acushnet, September 20, 1883.

Chester F. Sanger, son of Warren and Lucy J. (Allen) Sanger, was born in Somer.
ville, Mass., December 22, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He studied
law in Boston with Morse & Allen, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. In
1888 and 1889 he was a representative from Cambridge, and in 1889 was appointed
justice of the Third Eastern Middlesex District Court He married Gertrude F.,
daughter of Horace P. and Lydia L, (Flint) Blackman in Cambridge, June 25, 1884,
and died in October, 1891.

Edward Olcott Shepard, son of Rev. John W. and Eliza (Burns) Shepard, was
born in Hampton, N. H., November' 25, 1835, and graduated at Amherst in 1860.
After serving two years as principal of the High School in Concord, Mass. , he was in
1862 commissioned first lieutenant of Company G, Thirty-second Regiment of Massa-
chusetts Volunteers, and served until 1865. During his service he was present at the
battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness,
and Petersburg, was wounded and taken prisoner, February 5, 1865, and confined in
Libby Prison until released on parole, February 22, 1865. He was promoted to cap-
tain, major and brevet lieutenant-colonel. After his discharge he studied law with
Jewell, Gaston & Field, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 19, 1867. In 1871
he became a partner with Messrs. Jewell, Gaston & Field, and since the death of Mr.
Jewell and the appointment of Mr. Field to the Supreme Bench, he has had no part-
ner. He was president of the Boston Common Council in 1873 and 1874, and general
counsel of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company until it was merged in the West
End Company. He was judge advocate general on the staff of Governor Ames, and
continued on the staff of Governor Brackett. He married Mary C, daughter of
Micajah and Mary (Johnson) Lunt, of Newburyport, June 18, 1874.

Edgar Jay Sherman, son of David and Fanny (Kendall) Sherman, was born in
Weathersfield, Vt. , November 28, 1834, and was educated at the public schools of
Weathersfield, the Wesleyan Seminary in Springfied, Vt. , and under private instruc-
tors in Lawrence, Mass., which had become the home of his parents. He was admit-
ted to the bar in Essex county in 1858 and became associated with Daniel Saunders
in Lawrence, and at various other times with John K. Tarbox and Charles U. Bell.
He was appointed clerk of the Lawrence Police Court in 1859 and served until 1861.
In 1862 he enlisted and became captain in the Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment
and was brevetted major after the attack on Port Hudson,. June 14, 1863. In 1865
and 1866 he was representative, and in 1868 was chosen district attorney for the
Eastern Massachusetts District. In 1882 he was chosen attorney-general and served
until 1887, when he was appointed to the seat on the bench of the Superior Court
which he still holds. He married Abbie Louise, daughter of Stephen P. and Fanny
B. Simmons, of Lawrence, November 24, 1858.

Charles Quincy Tirrell, son of Dr. Norton Q. and Susan J. Tirrell, was born in
Sharon, Mass., December 10, 1844, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1866. After
serving three years as principal of the Peacham Academy and of the St. Johnsbury
High School, he studied law in Boston with Richard H. Dana, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in August, 1870, and has since practiced in Boston. He was a repre-
sentative from Weymouth in 1872, and in 1873 removed from Weymouth, where he

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had for a time resided, to Natick. In 1881 and 1882 he was a senator for the Fourth
Middlesex District, and in 1888 was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket.
He married Mary E., daughter of Elisha P. and Eliza A. Hollis in Natick, February
13, 1873, and now resides in Natick.

George Clark Travis, son of George Clark and Rachel Parker (Currier) Travis,
was born in Holliston, Mass., August 19, 1847, and graduated at Harvard in 1869.
From 1869 to 1872 he studied law in Medford with B. F. Hayes and Daniel A. Glea-
son, at the same time teaching Latin and Greek in the Medford High School. He
was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in February, 1872, and practiced in
Holliston until 1874, when he removed to South Framingham. In 1886 he removed
to Newton, where he still resides, with an office in Boston. He has been since March,
1891, first assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts and is a member of the School
Board of Newton. He married Harriet March, daughter of Austin G. and Mary
Charlotte (March) Fitch, m Holliston, April 5, 1871.

Walter Lincoln Boiive, son of Thomas T. and Emily G. (Lincoln) Bouve, was
born in Boston, October 28, 1849, and was educated at the public schools of Boston
and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied law at the Harvard
Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 13, 1880, and to the
United States Circuit Court January 14, 1885. In 1890 he was assistant district attor-
ney in the Southeastern District, and since 1885 has been special justice of the Sec-
ond Plymouth District Court. He married Charlotte B. Harden, September 26,
1885, and lives in Hingham.

Harvey Lincoln Boutwell, son of Eli A. and Harriet W. (Weeks) Boutwell, was
born in Meredosia, 111., April 5, 1860, and was educated at the New Hampshire Col-
lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. He studied law in Concord, N. H., with
John Y. Mugridge, and at the Boston University Law School, and in the office of
W. H. Powers in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1886. He
married Nellie C. Booth at Natick, December 28, 1886, and lives in Maiden.

John Pearse Treadwell, son of Daniel Hearl and Ann Langdon Treadwell, was
born in Portsmouth, N. H., February 26, 1839, and graduated at Harvard in 1858.
He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
June 3, 1860. He married Emily Marshall Harmon at New York, July 3, 1882, and
lives in Newton.

Winthrop H. Wade, son of Reuben S. and Almira Howland Wade, was born
in Boston, February 20, 1860, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law at
the -Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Shattuck & Munroe, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 23, 1884. Residence, Boston.

Francis Wales Vaughan, son of Charles and Mary Susan (Abbot) Vaughan, was
born in Hallowell, Me., June 5, 1833, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Vose & Norton in Springfield,
and George M. Brown in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 13,
1856. He has been librarian of the Social Law Library since 1870. Residence,
Cambridge.

Payson Eliot Tucker, son of Eliot Payson and Charlotte Whitman (Todd) Tucker,
was born in Dorchester, Mass., May 16, 1834, and graduated at Harvard in 1854. He

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studied law in New York in the office of Bangs & Ketchum and at the Harvard Law
School, and was admitted to the bar in New York city about 1856 and to the Suffolk
bar April 15, 1859. He was many years associated in business with Benjamin Wins-
low Harris, now judge of probate of Plymouth county, and was a member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1878 and 1879. He married Adelaide^
Thorp Hermann, of St. Louis, Mo., June 12, 1889, and lives in Brookline. He was
commissioned second lieutenant in the Sixteenth Massachusetts Regiment, August 1,
1861, and resigned on account of disability, September 21, 1862.

Peleg Emory Aldrich, born in New Salem, Mass., received his early education at
the Shelburne Falls Academy, and after teaching school at the South he attended
the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Richmond, Va., in 1845.
In 1846 he was admitted to the Worcester county bar, after further pursuing his
studies in the office of Chapman, Ashmun & Norton in Springfield. He settled in
Barre, Mass., where he remained seven years. In 1853 he was appointed district at-
torney for the Middle District and served until 1866. He moved from Barre to Wor-
cester in 1854 and became associated with P. C. Bacon. In 1862 he was chosen mayor
of Worcester, and representative in 1865 and 1866. In 1873 he was appointed to the
office he still holds of judge of the Superior Court. He married Sarah, daughter of
Harding P. Wood, of Barre, in 1850, and lives in Worcester.

Alpheus Brown Alger, son of Edwin A. and Amanda M. (Buswell) Alger, was born
in Lowell, October 8, 1854, and his early education was received at the common
schools and High School of Lowell. He is descended from Thomas Alger, who
came from England about 1665 and settled in Taunton. The name of the ancestor
was "Augur," or if "Alger," it was pronounced "Augur" in accordance with the
custom of ancient times to pronounce the letter L in the middle of a word as if it were
U. Mr. Alger graduated at Harvard in 1875, and pursued the study of law at the
Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Josiah G. Abbott. He was ad-
mitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1877, and was at once associated in business
with the firm of Brown & Alger, of which his father was a member, in Boston. In
1884 he was chosen alderman of Cambridge, and in 1886 and 1887 he was a member
of the State Senate. He has always taken an active part in politics, and was in 1886-
87-88-89 the secretary of the Democratic State Committee. In 1890 he succeeded
William Eustis Russell as mayor-elect of Cambridge, was re-chosen in 1891, and re-
nominated in 1892, but defeated by William Amos Bancroft.

Edwin Alden Alger, son of David and Sarah W. (Morse) Alger, was born in Corn-
ish, N. H., June 22, 1820, and after receiving a common school and academic educa-
tion taught school in Canton, Mass. Leaving Canton he entered a shipping-house in
Boston as clerk, and afterwards Burnhams' Antiquarian Bookstore in Cornhill, where
his access to books gave him a taste which could only be gratified by securing a more
thorough education. In 1841 he went to Lowell and entered the Dracut Academy,
and in 1842 entered the law office of Alpheus R. Brown as a student. He was ad-
mitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1845, and became a partner with Mr.
Brown. In 1864 the firm of Brown & Alger removed to Boston and has since con-
tinued in business there. In 1858-62-63 Mr. Brown was an alderman in Lowell. He
married Amanda M. Buswell, of Hartland, Vt., September 15, 1843, and resides in
Cambridge.

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Edwin Augustus Alger, son of the above, was born in Lowell, October 19, 1846,
and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated at the Harvard Law
School in 1869, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1868.

George Thorndike Angell, son of Rev. George and Rebekah Angell, was born in
Southbridge, Mass., June 5, 1823, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1846. He taught
school in Boston, and studied law in the offices of Richard Fletcher and Charles G.
Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 15, 1851. He soon became
associated in business with Samuel E. Sewall and afterwards with Samuel Jennison.
In 1868 he founded the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-
mals, and has been largely devoted to its interests. In 1874 he became a member of
the American Social Science Association, and in 1889 he founded " The American
Humane Education Society." He has made it the prime purpose of his life to kindle
a feeling of tenderness for our dumb animals in the hearts of our people, and his
efforts have received their reward. He married Mrs. Eliza A. Martin, daughter of
Warren and Lucy A. Mattoon, of Northfield, November 7, 1872.

Halsey J. Boardman, son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Hunt) Boardman, was born in
Norwich, Vt., May 19, 1834, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1858. .He studied law
with Norcross & Snow in Fitchburg, and in Boston in the office of Phillip H. Sears,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 15, 1860. He was associated in business
with Caleb Blodgett, and subsequently with Stephen H. Tyng and J. Frank Paul.
From 1862 to 1864 he was United States commissioner of the Board of Enrollment,
in 1875 president of the Common Council, and in the same year the Republican can-
didate for mayor of Boston. He was representative from 1883 to 1885 and senator
in 1887 and 1888 ; being president of the Senate both years. He married Georgia M.,
daughter of George and Maria C. (Moseley) Hinman. Residence, Boston.

George Sewall Boutwell, son of Sewall and Rebecca (Marshall) Boutwell, was
born in Brookline, Mass., in what is now a part of the country club house, January
28, 1818. He is descended from James Boutwell, who came to New England and
settled in Lynn about 1638. Mr. Boutwell attended in his early years a public
school in Lunenburg, Mass., and at the age of thirteen became a clerk in one of the
stores in that town. At a later time he taught school in Shirley, and the few years
succeeding his manhood were spent in preparing himself for what has proved a bril-
liant public career. He studied the classics, he thumbed law books, he delivered
lectures, made political speeches, and was engaged in business in Grbton which he
continued until 1855. In 1839 he was chosen a member of the School Committee of
Groton, and in 1840 he was an active Democrat, advocating the re-election of Martin
Van Buren to the presidency. In 1841 he was chosen representative from Groton,
and re-chosen in 1842-43-46-47-48-49. Up to this time he had been also railway com-
missioner, bank commissioner, and a member of various other important com-
missions. In 1851 he became governor of Massachusetts by a fusion of the Demo-
cratic and Free Soil members of the Legislature, and was chosen by the people as
governor for 1852. After leaving the executive chair he was appointed a member of
the Board of Education, and served five years as its secretary. From 1851 to 1860
he was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard, and in January, 1860, was
admitted to the Suffolk bar, having studied at various times with Bradford Russell
in Groton, and with Joel Giles in Boston. In 1853 he was a member of the Consti-

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tutional Convention. In 1856 he was made a member of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, and in 1861 a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard.
In 1861 he was a member of the Peace Congress, and appointed by President Lin-
coln the first commissioner of Internal Revenue. He was a member of Congress
from 1863 to 1869, and in 1869 was appointed secretary of the treasury by President
Grant. In 1873 he was chosen United States senator from Massachusetts to succeed
Henry Wilson, who had been chosen vice-president, and served until 1877 when he
was appointed commissioner to revise the statutes of the United States. In 1880
he was appointed counsel for the United States before the International Commission,
appointed to try claims of citizens of France against the United States, and of citizens
of the United States against France, under the treaty of 1880 with France. He tried
seven hundred and forty-six cases, involving $35,000,000. He is the author of " Ed-
ucational Topics and Institutions," "Tax Acts," "The Lawyer, Statesman and
Soldier," and one or more volumes of orations and speeches. He married Sarah
Adelia, daughter of Nathan Thayer, of Hollis, N. H., July 8, 1841, and has his resi-
dence in Groton, with offices in Boston and Washington.

Francis Marion Boutwell, son of the above, was born in Groton, Mass., February
26, 1847, and was educated at the Leicester and Lawrence Academies. In 1866 he
entered the house of Burrage Brothers & Company in Boston, and in 1870 entered
the house of John V. Farwell in Chicago. In 1871 he returned to Boston and entered
the store of Norman C. Munson. In 1874 he studied law with his father, and is now
a member of the Suffolk bar, acting chiefty as a solicitor of patents.

Benjamin Franklin Brickett, son of Franklin and Mehitabel Dow (Bradley)
Brickett, was born in Haverhill, Mass., April 10, 1846, and graduated at Dartmouth
in 1867. He graduated at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar April 19, 1869. He taught school in Ohio, and returning to Haverhill in 1872,
began to practice his profession. He was city solicitor of Haverhill from 1883 to 1885,
a member of the School Board from 1876 to 1882. He married E. Jennie, daughter
of George and Eliza (Ricker) Guptill, and lives in Haverhill.

Causten Browne, son of William and Sarah Justice (Mclntire) Browne, was born in
Washington, D. C, October 9, 1828, and was a student two years in Columbian
College, Washington. He then entered the coast survey, and finally at the
age of twenty-one began the study of law with Charles M. Keller, and after-
wards with William Curtis Noyes, and was admitted to the bar in New York in
June, 1852. A few months after his admission he removed to Boston, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 30, 1852, and has continued to practice there.
He is the author of a treatise on the Statute of Frauds, published in 1857, and has
been president of the Boston Bar Association. He married Katharine Eveleth,
daughter of General William and Sarah (Eveleth) Maynadier, and lives in Boston.

George Partridge Sanger, jr., son of George Partridge and Elizabeth Sherburne
(Thompson) Sanger, was born in Charlestown, Mass., September 6, 1852, and received
his early education at the Dwight Primary, the Dwight Grammar and Latin Schools
in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1874, and studied law in Boston in the office
of the United States district attorney, being admitted to the Suffolk bar June 2, 1876.
He was assistant United States attorney from 1878 to 1882, and has been also com-
missioner of the United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts District, and commis-

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sioner of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, and commissioner of the
Court of Claims. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1886 and
1887, and representative in 1889 and 1890. He married Susan Emily, daughter of
Harvey Jewell, June 14, 1883, at Boston.

Elmer Hewitt Capen, son of Samuel and Almira (Paul) Capen, was born in
Stoughton, Mass., April 5, 1838, and graduated at Tufts College in 1860. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Thomas S. Harlow,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1863. After practicing a year he
studied divinity and was ordained, October 5, 1865, over an independent church in
Gloucester. At the end of four years he went to St. Paul, Minn. , and after a year
there he was settled over the First Universalist church in Providence, R. I. On the
3d of June, 1873, he was inaugurated president of Tufts College and now occupies
that position. He was chosen representative in 1860 and is now a member of the
Board of Education. He married first Letltia H. Mussey, of New London, Conn.,
and second Mary L. , daughter of Oliver Edwards, of Brookline.

Mellen Chamberlain, son of Moses and Mary (Foster) Chamberlain, was born in
Pembroke, N. H., June 4, 1821, and received his early education at the district school
and Pembroke Academy. After the removal of his parents to Concord, N. H., in
1836, he fitted for college and graduated at Dartmouth in 1844. After teaching school
two years or more in Brattleboro, Vt., he entered the Harvard Law School and grad-
uated in 1849. He began practice in Boston, and in 1858 and 1859 was a member of
the House of Representatives. In 1863 and 1864 he was in the State Senate, in the
latter year serving as chairman of the Judiciary Committee. . On the 20th of May,
1866, the Police Court of Boston was abolished and the Municipal Court of the City
of Boston was established, consisting of one chief justice and two associate judges.
On the 2d of July, 1866, John W. Bacon was commissioned chief justice ; on the same
day Francis W. Hurd was commissioned associate, and on the 29th of June in the
same year Mr. Chamberlain was commissioned the other associate. In 1871 Judge
Bacon was promoted to the Superior Court bench, and on the 1st of December in
that year Judge Chamberlain was promoted to his place. In October, 1878, he was
appointed librarian of the Boston Library and resigned his seat on the bench. He
remained in the library until 1891 when, on account of ill health, he resigned the
office which he had filled with so much credit to himself and the city. During the
whole of his career he has been an indefatigable student of history, and his efforts
in this direction have been marked by thoroughness, correctness and fidelity. He is
a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and corresponding member of
the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen. He is now engaged in
the preparation of a history of Chelsea, the early publication of which is to be hoped
for. His contributions to historical literature are too numerous to mention in detail.
The most noted are "The History of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh and Pullin
Point," "The Authentication of the Declaration of Independence," "Address at
the Dedication of Wilson Hall of Dartmouth College," "Address at the Dedication
of the Brooks Library Building at Brattleboro, Vt.," and "The Constitutional Rela-
tions of the American Colonies to the English Government at the Commencement of
the Revolution." Notwithstanding the time expended on his official duties, and his
literary efforts, the labor which has extended through his whole life has been ex-
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pended in a collection of autographs which for completeness and methodical arrange-
ment cannot be surpassed. He married Martha Ann, daughter of Colonel Jesse and
Elizabeth (Merriam) Putnam, of Danvers, Mass. , June 6, 1849. His residence is in
Chelsea.

Henry Austin. Clapp, son of John Pierce and Mary Ann (Bragg) Clapp, was born
in Dorchester July 17, 1841, and graduated at Harvard in 1860. He graduated at
the Harvard LaAv School in 1864, and finished his preparation for the bar in the of-
fices of David H. Mason and Hutchins & Wheeler, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar July 1, 1865. In 1875 he was appointed assistant clerk of the Supreme Judicial
Court in Suffolk county, and in 1888 was appointed clerk of the Supreme Judicial
Court for the Commonwealth. In the War of the Rebellion he served nine months
as a private in Company F, Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment. Aside from his
professional and official labors he has devoted much time to the study of Shakespeare
and the drama, and his lectures on those subjects have given him a wide and de-
served reputation. He married Florence, daughter of Edwin W. and Charlotte (Am-
bler) Clarke, in Oswego, N. Y., June 23, 1869.

Isaiah Raymond Clark, son of Ripley and Mary Ann (Raymond) Clark, was born
in Felchville, Vt., January 1, 1853, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1873. He studied
law in Boston in the office of Ranney & Morse, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in February, 1876. He married Katherine, daughter of Charles and Jane (Rowley)
Cummings, in Windsor, Vt., November 14, 1878, and lives in Boston.

Charles Russell Codman, son of Charles Russell and Anne (Macmaster) Codman,
was born in Paris, France, October 28, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He
studied law in Boston in the office of Charles G. Loring and at the Harvard Law
School, from which he graduated in 1852. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Sep-
tember 29, 1852. He was a representative from Boston from 1873 to 1875, and sena-
tor in 1864 and 1865. In the War of the Rebellion he commanded the Forty-fifth Mas-
sachusetts Regiment during its nine months' service in North Carolina. He has been
twice chosen overseer of Harvard College, and for several years was president of the
board. He married Lucy Lyman Paine, daughter of Russell Sturgis, at Walton on
Thames, England, February 28, 1856, and his residence has been for some years at
Cotuit (Barnstable).

Patrick Andrew Collins, son of Bartholomew and Mary Collins, was born in Fer-
moy, Cork county, Ireland, March 12, 1844, and when four years old came with his
mother to Massachusetts, receiving his education at the public schools in Chelsea.
First an office boy, he was afterwards engaged in the upholstery business for a num-
ber of years, at the same time devoting his leisure time to study. He entered the
Harvard Law School in 1868, graduating in 1871 with the degree of LL.B., and fin-
ished his preparatory professional studies in Boston in the office of James M. Keith.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 15, 1871. While pursuing his studies he
was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1868 and 1869, and
in 1870 and 1871 senator. He was judge advocate-general of Massachusetts in 1875,
member of Congress in the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, dele-
gate at large to the Democratic National Conventions of 1876-80-88-92, and president
of the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis in 1888. He is a man of great
natural powers, possessing an eloquent tongue and broad views, and, though foreign

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born, a thorough American. With life and health he has a brilliant career before
him. He married Mary E. Carey in Boston, July 1, 1873, and resides in Dor-
chester.

John W. Corcoran, son of James and Catharine Corcoran, was born in Batavia,
N. Y. , June 14, 1853, and his parents moved to Clinton, Mass. , when he was less than a
year old. He was educated at the public schools in Clinton and at St. John's Univer-
sity, New York, and at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. He graduated at
the Boston University Law School in 1875, and was admitted to the Worcester county
bar June 17, 1875, beginning his practice in Clinton, and afterwards opening an office in
Boston. He was water commissioner in Clinton ten years, member of the School
Board fifteen years, and has been judge advocate-general of Massachusetts, and chair-
man of the Massachusetts Board of Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition.
His fidelity and skill were exemplified in his management of the Lancaster Bank, of
which as receiver he paid the creditors including interest one hundred and nine per
cent. In 1890 and 1891 he was the Democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor of
Massachusetts, and in 1892 was appointed judge of the Superior Court. He married
Margaret J., daughter of Patrick and Mary McDonald, in Boston, April 28, 1881, and
his residence is at Clinton.

Charles Cowley, son of Aaron and Hannah (Price) Cowley, was born in Easting-
ton, England, January 9, 1832, and came -with his father to Lowell when a boy. He
was educated in the public schools of Lowell, and at an early age entered the office
of Josiah G. Abbott in Lowell as a student of law. He was admitted to the Middle-
sex bar in April, 1856, and has practiced since in Lowell and Boston. In the War of
the Rebellion he served as paymaster in the navy and on the staff of Admiral Dahl-
gren as judge advocate and provost judge in the South Atlantic Squadron. He has
published a " History of Lowell," " Famous Divorces of all Ages," " Our Divorce
Courts," and several other valuable contributions to legal and general literature. In
1885 he received from the University of Vermont the degree of LL.D.

George Glover Crocker, son of Uriel and Sarah Kidder (Haskell) Crocker, was
born in Boston, December 15, 1843, and graduated at Harvard in 1864. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1866, and in the offices of George W.
Tuxbury and Uriel H. Crocker, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 3, 1867.
He was representative in 1873 and 1874, and senator in 1880-1881-1882-1883, the last
year serving as president. He was chairman of the Board of Railroad Commissioners
from February, 1887, to February, 1892. He is the author of a work published in
1889 entitled "Principles of Procedure in Deliberative Assemblies." He married
Annie Bliss, daughter of Dr. Nathan Cooley and Susan Prentiss (Haskell) Keep, in
Boston, June 19, 1875, and resides in Boston.

Uriel Haskell Crocker, son of Uriel and Sarah Kidder (Haskell) Crocker, was
born in Boston December 24, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He gradu-
ated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and after further study in the office of Sid-
ney Bartlett in Boston was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1856. He married
Clara G. , daughter of Joseph Ballard, of Boston, and lives in Boston.

George Uriel Crocker, son of the above, was born in Boston, January 9, 1863,
and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and

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the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1886.
He is or has been treasurer of the Northern Railroad of New Hampshire, and his
business is confined largely to probate cases. He married Emma L. Aylsworth in
Providence, in 1887, and lives in Boston.

Cornelius F. Cronin, son of John and Margaret (McCarthy) Cronin, was born in
Cork, Ireland, July 25, 1851, and came with his parents, an infant, to Boston. He
received his education at the Boston public schools and went into business. He af-
terwards studied law at the Boston University Law School, and in the office of Gar-
gan, Swasey & Adams, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1878. He was
a representative from Boston in 1881-82-83 and senator in 1884. His residence is in
Boston.

Edwin Upton Curtis, son of George and Martha Ann (Upton) Curtis, was born in
Roxbury, Mass., March 26, 1861, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1882. He
studied law with William Gaston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He
was associated in business with William G. Reed, and in 1889 was chosen city clerk
of Boston. Residence, Boston.

Henry Charles Davis, son of Benjamin and Cordelia (Buffington) Davis, was born
in Palmer, Mass., October 23, 1843, and was educated at the Wilbraham Academy
and Williston Seminary. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868 and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 23, in that year. Not long after he began prac-
tice in Ware, Mass. , where he has been many years a member of the School Commit-
tee, and in 1873 was chosen representative. He married Jennie A., daughter of Lo-
renzo and Jane (Marlen) Demond, in Ware, May 4, 1876.

Philip J. Doherty, son of Philip and Ellen (Munnegle) Doherty, was born in
Charlestown, Mass., January 27, 1856, and was educated at the Harvard Grammar
and Charlestown High School. He graduated at the Boston University Law School
in 1876, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 4, 1877. He was a representative
in 1884-85-86, an alderman of Boston in 1888, and a member of the Boston Water
Board from 1889 to 1891. In 1888 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Con-
vention at St. Louis. He married Catherine A., daughter of John and Catherine
(Doyle) Butler, in Charlestown, August 16, 1878, and lives in Charlestown.

Charles Francis Donnelly, son of Hugh and Margaret (Conway) Donnelly, was
born in Athlone, Roscommon county, Ireland, October 14, 1836, and in his infancy
came with his parents to Canada, whence they removed to Rhode Island in 1848. In
1856 he entered the office of Ranney & Morse, in Boston, as a student of law, and in
1859 graduated at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
September, 1858. In 1875 he was appointed a member of the Board of State Chari-
ties and for four years he was chairman, and his services were exceedingly valuable
to the State. He has received the degree of LL.D. from St. Mary's College of
Maryland, the oldest Catholic educational institution in the country.

Levi Edwin Dudley, son of John Gilman and Mary Clark (Townsend) Dudley,
was born in North Troy, Vt., October 18, 1842, and was educated in the public
schools. After some preparatory experience, he occupied for a time a position in a
drug store in Boston, and at the beginning of the war entered the service and re-
mained until hostilities had ceased. He became hospital steward in the regular

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army, and at one time was commissary steward of Lincoln Hospital in Washington.
After the Avar he was a clerk in the internal revenue department, and in 1866 actively
sustained President Johnson in his contest with Congress. He then became con-
nected with the Great Republic newspaper in Washington and was earnest in his
efforts to organize grand army associations. While engaged in the work of recon-
struction in Virginia, and serving as military secretary of the governor, he was ad-
mitted to the bar in Richmond, and afterwards, in 1869, to the Supreme Court of
the United States. In 1872 he was appointed superintendent of Indian affairs for
New Mexico, and afterwards a clerk in the Post-office Department. In 1877 he re-
turned to Boston, where he has been for some years active as secretary of the Law
and Order League. As a member of the bar resident in Boston, though perhaps
not a member of the Suffolk bar, he is entitled to a place in this register.

Samuel James Elder, son of James and Deborah Dunbar (Keene) Elder, was
born in Hope, R. I., January 4, 1850, and graduated at Yale in 1873. He studied
law in Boston with George W. Morse and John H. Hardy, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in June, 1875. He was a representative in 1885, is president of the Yale
Alumni Association, and has acted in behalf of the International Copyright League
before the United States Senate. He married Lilla, daughter of Cornelius W. and
Margaret J. (Wyckoff) Thomas, at Hastings on the Hudson, May 10, 1876, and lives
in Winchester.

William Crowninshield Endicott, son of William Putnam and Mary (Crownin-
shield) Endicott, was born in Salem, November 26, 1826, and graduated at Harvard
in 1847. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Salem in the office of
Nathaniel J. Lord, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1850. He began to prac-
tice in Salem and in 1852 was a member of the Common Council and its president. In
1853 he associated himself in business with J. W. Perry, and from 1857 to 1864 was
city solicitor of Salem. In 1870 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress, and
in 1871-72-73 the Democratic candidate for attorney-general. In 1873 he was appointed
judge of the Supreme Judicial Court to take the place of Horace Gray, who in that
year succeeded Reuben Atwater Chapman as chief justice. In 1884 he was the
Democratic candidate for governor, having resigned his seat on the bench in 1882,
and in 1885 he was appointed by President Cleveland to a seat in his cabinet as sec-
retary of war. In 1889, after leaving the cabinet, he resumed law practice and
opened an office in Boston, still holding his residence in Salem. He married Ellen,
daughter of George Peabody, of Salem, December 13, 1859.

Morton Davis Andrews, son of Henry G. and Elizabeth Bliss (Davis) Andrews,
was born in Plymouth, May 5, 1855, and was educated at the public schools and
under private instruction. He studied law in Boston in the office of Elias Hasket
Derby, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He married, October 7, 1885,
Mary Davis, daughter of Timothy Davis and Frances (Judkins) Bond, and died while
traveling for his health in Detroit, Mich., August 11, 1892. ,

William Wisner Doherty, son of Ross and Sarah Doherty, was born in Boston,
August 16, 1836, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Cumberland
University, Tennesee. He studied law at the above university and in Boston in the
office of C. T. & T. H. Russell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1859.
He has been assistant district attorney for Suffolk county and is now United States

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marshal. He was senior counsel for Joseph Donato and David Mooney, two capi-
tal cases tried in Boston. He married Catherine L. Chamberlain, nee Thompson,
in Boston, August 17, 1880, and lives in Boston.

Augustus Henry Fiske, son of Isaac and Susan (Hobbs) Fiske, was born in Wes-
ton, Mass., September 19, 1805. He fitted for college at the Framingham Academy
and graduated at Harvard in 1825. He studied law at the Harvard Law School
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 11, 1830. He was for a time associated
with his father in Boston, and afterwards for many years with Benjamin Rand, the
partnership being Fiske & Rand. Their business was largely office and collection
business, but in 1844, when Charles Henry Warren resigned his seat on the bench
of the Common Pleas Court, he removed from New Bedford to Boston, and became
the court and jury partner of the firm. The first case tried by the new firm was that
of the Commonwealth against Rev. Joy H. Fairchild, in which Judge Warren ap-
peared for the defence and secured, by skillful management and a masterly argu-
ment, an acquittal of the defendant. Mr. Fiske married Hannah Rogers, daughter
of Captain Gamaliel and Elizabeth (Hickling) Bradford, of Boston, in Concord in
May, 1830, and died in Boston, March 22, 1865.

Charles Henry Fiske, son of the above, was born in Boston, October 26, 1840,
and graduated at Harvard in 1860. He studied law in Boston in his father's office
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 6, 1864. He was a representative in
1868, and 1872 from the representative district including the towns of Concord,
Lincoln and Weston. He married Cornelia Frothingham, daughter of Rev. Dr.
Chandler Robbins, of Boston, June 4, 1868, and has his residence in Weston, with
an office in Boston.

Andrew Fiske, brother of the above, was born in Weston, Mass., June 4, 1854, and
graduated at Harvard in 1875. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1878,
and after further study in Boston in the office of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar February 11, 1880. He resides in Weston, with an office in
Boston.

Frederick A. P. Fiske, son of Benjamin M. and Elizabeth A. Fiske, was born in
Chelmsford, Mass., October 4, 1859, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston at the office of Hardy, Elder &
Proctor, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1885. He. married Harriet
Lydia Locke at Winchester, Mass. , July 2, 1890, and has a residence in Somerville,
with an office in Boston.

Jerome H. Fiske, son of Moses and Susan (Hurd) Fiske, was born in Dover, N. H.,
April 7, 1844, and was educated at the public schools, and at the Chicopee, Mass. ,
High School, under the direction of George D. Robinson afterwards governor of
Massachusetts. He studied law in Salem in the office of George Wheatland, and
was admitted at Salem to the Essex bar October 8, 1875. He was in the Boston
Custom House six years under Thomas Russell, collector and city solicitor of Mai-
den, where he resides from 1883 to 1887. He was married at Chicopee. In 1884 he
delivered an oration on the Fourth of July.

John Fiske, son of Edmund Brewster and Mary Fiske (Bound) Green, was born in
Hartford, Conn., March 30, 1842. His original name was Edmund Fiske Green,

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but in 1855 he received the name of John Fiske after his mother's grandfather. He
received his early education at the public schools, at Stamford, Conn., Academy and
under private instruction, and graduated at Harvard in 1863. He graduated at the
Harvard Law School in 1865, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 11, 1864. He
began practice in Boston in 1865, but soon abandoned it for the study of and exposi-
tion of history. He was a lecturer at Harvard on philosophy from 1869 to 1871, in-
structor in history there in 1870, assistant librarian from 1872 to 1879, and overseer of
Harvard from 1879 to 1891. In 1885 he was made professor of American history at
Washington University, and is a member of various historical and antiquarian asso-
ciations. His contributions to historical literature have been numerous and valuable,
and his pen is still keeping the press busy with his publications. He married Abby
Morgan Brooks, of Petersham, Mass., at Cambridge, September 6, 1864.

James Augustus Fox, son of George Howe and Emily (Wyatt) Fox, was born in
Boston, August 11, 1827. He was educated in the public schools, and studied law at
the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of John C. Park. He was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 24, 1854, and continued his practice in Boston
until 1861, when he entered the service as captain in the Thirteenth Massachusetts Regi-
ment. In 1864 and 1865 he commanded the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com-
pany, and in 1867 and 1868 was a representative from Boston, and in 1870 and 1871
senator. He removed to Cambridge in 1872, and has served there as alderman two
years and mayor four years. In 1890 he was the Republican candidate for Congress
against Sherman Hoar, the Democratic candidate, who was chosen. He married
Julia Elizabeth, daughter of Col. James and Julia (Sterry) Valentine, of Provi-
dence, R. I.

Jabez Fox, son of Henry Hodges and Sarah Ann (Burt) Fox, was born in Taunton,
Mass., April 10, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1871. He graduated at the
Harvard Law School in 1875, and, after further study in the office of Hillard, Hyde &
Dickinson in Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1876. He married
Susan Elizabeth Thayer at Cambridge, in June, 1879, and resides in Cambridge, with
an office in Boston.

James W. Fox was born in Boston, August 15, 1849, and was educated at the pub-
lic schools. He studied law in Boston in the office of Henry W. Paine, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar March 17, 1874.

William Wesley French, son of William B. and Mary Ann (Torrey) French, was
born in Brockton, Mass., January 10, 1849, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1872. He
studied law in Boston in the office of Knapp & Bowman, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in August, 1874. Heremoved to Gloucester, where he was a member of the
Common Council from 1879 to 1883 and mayor in 1888 and 1889. He married Lelia
Fenno, daughter of Moses H. and Ellen N. (Low) Shaw at Gloucester, August 1, 1878.

Arthur Philip French, son of William R. and Marcia French, was born in Turner,
Me. , May 19, 1854, and fitting for college at the Brunswick High School, graduated
at Tufts College in 1876. He was admitted to the bar in Bristol county at New Bed-
ford June 24, 1878, but practices in Boston. He married Addie R. Jacobs, of Boston,
October 30, 1884.

Daniel Angell Gleason, son of John Fiske and Maria (Tourtellotte) Gleason, was
born in Worcester, Mass. , May 9, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He

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studied law in Meadville, Perm., where he taught school, and was there admitted to
the bar in 1859. Returning to Massachusetts he graduated at the Harvard Law
School in 1860, and after further pursuing his studies in Boston in the office of
Chandler & Shattuck, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 7, 1860, and began
practice in Boston. In Medford, where he lives, he has been a member of the School
Board, and water commissioner, and has held the State offices of tax commissioner,
commissioner of corporations, and treasurer and receiver general. He has edited
" Bouvier's Law Dictionary," " Bouvier's Institutes," an edition of " Phillips's Insur:
ance," and assisted Emory Washburn in his work on "Easements." He married
Annie Louisa, daughter of Richard and Mary A. (Henry) Hall in Roxbury, Jan-
uary 7, 1863, and lives in Medford.

Daniel Wheelwright Gooch, son of John and Olive (Winn) Gooch, was born in
Wells, Me., January 8, 1820, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1843. He studied law
in South Berwick, Me., and in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November
18, 1847. He practiced law in Boston with success, but was drawn either by am-
bition or the force of circumstances into a public career. He was a representative in
1852, member of the Constitutional Convention in 1853, and a member of the 35th,
36th, 37th and 38th Congresses. He was chosen to the 39th Congress, but resigned to
take the position of naval officer in the Boston Custom House. He resumed the
practice of law after holding office a year, and was chosen a member of the 43d Con-
gress. In 1875 he was appointed pension agent at Boston and held the office until
1886. He married Hannah H., daughter of John S. and Theodore L. Pope, of Wells,
Me., and died November 1, 1891.

Jesse Morse Gove, son of Dana B. and Susan (Morse) Gove, was born in Weare,
N. H., December 11, 1852. He was educated at the LoAvell schools, and after study-
ing law in Boston with his father, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1875, and
has practiced in Boston. He was a member of the Common Council of Boston m
1881, a representative from 1883 to 1885, and has been a member of the Board of
Aldermen. He was a delegate to the National Republican Conventions of 1884 and
1888. He married Agnes E., daughter of James and Jane Ballantyne at Lowell,
August 17, 1882. He resides in Boston.

Robert Grant, son of Patrick and Charlotte Bordman (Rice) Grant, was born in
Boston, January 24, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He graduated at the
Harvard Law School m 1879, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in that year. He
has been chairman of the Boston Board of Water Commissioners since May, 1889, and
a member since May, 1888. He delivered the poem before the Phi Beta Kappa Asocia-
tion at Cambridge in June, 1883, and was the poet of the Latin School Alumni on the
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of that institution, April 23, 1885. In other
ways he has devoted himself to literature and has published various volumes, in
which as a writer of fiction he has excelled. He married Amy Gordon, daughter of
Sir Alexander T. Gait and Amy Gordon (Torrance) Gait in Montreal, July 3, 1883.
His residence is in Boston.

John Henry Hardy, son of John and Hannah (Farley) Hardy, was born in Hollis,
N. H., February 2, 1847, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1870. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Robert M. Morse, jr., and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1872. He associated himself in business

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with George W. Morse, and afterwards with Samuel J. Elder and Thomas W. Proc-
tor. On the 3d of June, 1885, he was appointed an associate judge of the Municipal
Court of Boston, and is still on the bench. He served in the War of the Rebellion
in the Fifteenth New Hampshire Regiment, being fifteen years of age at the time of
his ea-listment. He was a representative in 1883, then a resident in Arlington. He
married Anna J. Conant, daughter of Levi and Anna (Whitney) (Mead) Conant in
Littleton, August 30, 1871.

Frank Ephraim Herbert Gary, son of Ephraim and Sarah A. Gary, was born in
Montpelier, Vt. , October 8, 1858, and graduated at the Vermont Methodist Seminary
in 1879. He studied law with Heath & Carleton in Montpelier, and was admitted to
the Vermont bar in 1882. He afterwards graduated at the Boston University Law
School in 1884 and began practice in Montpelier. In 1888 he removed to Boston,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. He was acting assistant dean and an
instructor in the Boston University Law School from 1888 to 1890. His residence is
in Boston.

Robert Hallowell Gardiner, son of John W. Tudor and Annie Elizabeth Hays
Gardiner, was born at Fort Tejon, Cal., September 9, 1855, and graduated at
Harvard in 1876. He took the name of his grandfather "Gardiner." He studied
law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the offices of Charles P. Greenough
& Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. He
married Alice, daughter of Edward Bangs, of Boston, June 23, 1881, and lives at
Newton.

John Edward Galvin, son of David and Mary A. (Dwyer) Galvin, was born in Bos-
ton, November 8, 1857, and was educated at the English and Latin schools of that
city. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar of
Middlesex county at Cambridge, October 6, 1879. His residence is in the Dorchester
District of Boston.

Charles Theodore Gallagher, son of William and Emily C. Gallagher, was born
in Boston, May 21, 1851, and was educated at the Boston public schools and the Bos-
ton University. He studied law at the Boston Law School and in the office of Ran-
ney & Morse, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 29, 1875. He was a
member of the State Senate from Boston in 1882, and has been twelve years a mem-
ber of the Boston School Board, serving the last three years as its president. He en-
listed in 1864 at the age of thirteen as a drummer boy in the First Unattached Regi-
ment. He married Nellie W. Allen at Scituate, February 19, 1880, and resides in
Boston.

—Robert Stetson Gorham, son of Daniel D. and Hannah M. (Stetson) Gorham,
was born in Champlain, N. Y., June 28, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He
studied law in 1885-86 in Northampton in the office of John C. Hammond, and from
1886 to 1888 at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Jan-
uary, 1889. He married Alvine J. Thomas in Duxbury, Mass., June 27, 1890, and
lives in Newton with an office in Boston.

David Ellsworth Gould, son of David and Lucy (Withington) Gould, was born in
Chatham, Mass. , April 14, 1863, and was educated at the public schools and at the
Boston University. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was
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admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1887. He was a representative in 1890 and
1891 from the Twenty-sixth Representative District of Suffolk county. His residence
is in Chelsea.

Edward Jenkins Jones, son of Jacob and Mary (Covell) Jones, was born in Boston,
October 15, 1822, and was educated at the public schools and at Hampden Academy.
He was appointed deputy sheriff in Boston in 1845 by Sheriff Eveleth, but after serv-
ing some years in that capacity he studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in October, 1873. During the War of the Rebellion he was captain of the Eleventh
Massachusetts Battery, and was brevetted major for gallantry at the battle of Fort
Stedman in Virginia. He was chief of the State Police from 1866 to 1872, a repre.
sentative in 1873 and 1874, and trial justice for juvenile offenders three years. He
married Emily D., daughter of James and Fanny B. Campbell, of Milton, in Boston,
April 26, 1847. He has compiled Massachusetts criminal laws up to 1868, and the
decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts up to 1868 on the liquor laws. He
lives in Boston.

John Davis Long, son of Zadoc and Julia Temple (Davis) Long, was born in Buck-
field, Me., October 27, 1838, and receiving his early education at the public schools,
graduated at Harvard in 1857. He is descended from old Pilgrim stock, William
Clark, who came to Plymouth in the Ann in 1623, and John Churchill, who came to
Plymouth in 1643, being among his ancestors. He fitted for college at the Hebron
Academy in Maine, and graduated at Harvard in 1857. After leaving college he held
for two years the position of principal of the academy in Westford, Mass., and then
entered the Harvard Law School, which he left to enter as a student the office of
Sidney Bartlett and complete his preparatory studies. He was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in 1861, and opened an office in Buckfield, his native town, where, it may
be readily seen, the field of professional work was too narrow for his expanding tal-
ents and energies. In the autumn of 1862 he returned to Boston, and after remain-
ing for a time in the offices of Peleg W. Chandler and of Woodbury & Andros he be-
came a partner with Stillman B. Allen and Thomas Savage in the law firm of Allen,
Long & Savage, remaining in the firm enjoying a constantly increasing and respon-
sible business until 1880. His interest in politics began in the Lincoln campaign of
1860, when he made his maiden speech in Buckfield for the Republican candidates.
In 1861, immediately after his settlement as a lawyer in Buckfield, he was nominated
and defeated as the Republican candidate for the Legislature. After his return to
Boston he took no further part in political affairs until 1871 and 1872, when as an ad-
vocate of the election of Horace Greeley, the Democratic candidate for president, he
was nominated for representative from Hingham, where in 1869 he had taken up his
residence. In 1874 he was chosen representative by the Republicans of the Second
Representative District of Plymouth county, consisting of the towns of Hingham and
Hull. In 1875-76-77 he was rechosen, and in all those years was the speaker of the
House. In the chair more than on the floor Mr. Long had the opportunity of display-
ing those peculiar traits of intellect, temper and deportment, which have given him
an unfailing popularity with the people of the Commonwealth. In 1877 and in 1878
he was a candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, but in the conven-
tion of the former year he was defeated by Alexander H. Rice, who had served two
years, while in that of the latter he withdrew his name and was nominated for lieu-

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tenant-governor with Thomas Talbot at the head of the ticket. In 1879 he was cho-
sen governor and rechosen in 1880 and 1881, retiring in accordance with custom after
three years' service. In 1879 there were four candidates in the field, the democracy
having two candidates, Benjamin F. Butler and John Quincy Adams, and the pro-
hibitory temperance candidate being Rev. D. C. Eddy. Mr. Long received 122,751
votes, Mr. Butler 109,149, Mr. Adams 9,989, and Mr. Eddy 1,645, with 108 scattering.
In 1880 and 1881 the opposing candidate was Charles P. Thompson, Democrat, and
in the former year Mr. Long had a plurality of 68,317, and in the latter 56,824. After
leaving the executive chair he served in the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth
Congresses as the representative of the Second Congressional District. After his
retirement from Congress he resumed the practice of law in Boston, associating him-
self with Stillman B. Allen, his former partner, and Alfred Hemenway, with the firm
name of Allen, Long & Hemenway. His literary work has been chiefly confined to
speeches and a translation of the .^Eneid, which has received the approbation of
critics. In 1880 he received from Harvard as governor of the State the degree of
LL.D., and since May, 1887, has been president of the Pilgrim Society. He married
first Mary W., daughter of George S. Glover, of Hingham, September 13, 1870, and
second, Agnes, daughter of Rev. Joseph D. Peirce, May 22, 1886, and his residence is
still at Hingham.

Samuel H. Longley, son of Samuel and Ellen H. Longley, was born in Groton,
Mass., January 11, 1861. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. His residence is at Shirley, Mass., and his office
in Boston.

James Russell Lowell, son of Rev. Dr. Charles and Harriet (Spence) Lowell, was
born in Cambridge, Mass., February 22, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1838.
Perhaps no family in Masachusetts has been distinguished in so many generations as
that to which he belonged. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840, and
was admitted to the bar in that year. He began practice in Boston but was soon led
away from professional efforts into the paths of literature, in which he became so
distinguished. In 1841 he published a volume of poems entitled "A Year's Life,"
and in 1843, associated with Robert Carter, he published "The Pioneer," a liter-
ary and criticalmagazine. In 1844 he published a second volume of poems, and in
1845 a volume of prose entitled "Conversations on Some of the Old Poets." In 1848
he published a third volume of poems, and in the same year "The Vision of Sir
Launfal" and " The Biglow Papers." He also published in that year "A Fable for
Critics," and soon after visited Europe. In 1854-5 he delivered a course of lectures
before the Lowell Institute on the British Poets and immediately afterwards went to
Dresden for study preliminary to his accession to the chair of Modern Languages and
Belles-lettres at Harvard. From 1857 to 1862 he edited the Atlantic Monthly, and
in 1864 published "Fireside Travels," and a new series of the "Biglow Papers." In
1863, associated with Charles E. Norton, he edited for a time the North American
Review, and in 1869 published "The Cathedral," apoem, and "Underthe Willows"
and other poems. In 1870 he published "Among my Books" and my " Study Win-
dows." In 1876 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in Cincin-
nati and presidential elector. In 1877 he was appointed minister to Spain, and in
1880 was transferred to the Court of St. James, where he remained until his recall in

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1885. His career in England was a remarkable one. The United States had before
him exhibited in the various ministers to the English Court a high order of states-
manship, but never before had the literary culture of America been so brilliantly
illustrated. His speeches on various occasions, scholarly and refined as they were,
won the admiration of English scholars and reflected honor on his country as well as
on himself. The degree of J. C. D. was conferred on him by the University of Ox-
ford in 1873, and that of LL.D. by the Universities of Cambridge, England, St.
Andrews and Edinburgh in 1874, and Bologna, 1888. He received also the degree
of LL.D. from Plarvard in 1884. He married first in 1844, Maria, daughter of Abi-
jah and Anna Maria (Howard) White, who died in Cambridge, October 27, 1853, and
second Frances Dunlap, who died in England in February, 1885. Mr. Lowell died
at Cambridge, August 12, 1891.

William Minot, son of George Richards Minot, was born in Boston, September 17,
1783, and graduated at Harvard in 1802. He studied law in Boston in the office of
Joseph Hall, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1805. The son of an able law-
yer, he inherited those sterling traits without which no professional man can suc-
ceed, integrity, method, industry and fidelity to his employers. Confining himself
to his office and the manifold duties there awaiting performance, he not only never
sought public notice, but was never induced to accept any public position except that
of a member of the Executive Council during the administration of Governor Everett
between 1836 and 1840. He was particularly devoted to the law of wills and trusts,
and his services were eagerly sought as executor or trustee where large amounts and
intricate questions were involved. It was said of him after his death, by one who
knew him well, that he was "a man of the purest life, of the highest principles, of
the most scrupulous and transparent integrity ; his counsel was eagerly sought dur-
ing a long term of years by those who had estates to bequeath, or trusts to be ar-
ranged and executed, and no one en joyed a greater share than he did, in these and in
all other relations, of the esteem and confidence of the community in which he lived.
Among other funds committed to his care was that bequeathed to the town of his
birth by Benjamin Franklin, with a primary view of encouraging young and merit-
orious mechanics. This fund was placed in his hands by the authorities of Boston in
1804, and was gratuitously administered by him for the long period of sixty years,
when it had increased from four thousand to one hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars." In 1814 a court called the Boston Court of Common Pleas was established
and remained in existence until the Court of Common Pleas for the Commonwealth
was established in 1821. In 1814 Harrison Gray Otis was appointed judge of this
court, and Mr. Minot was appointed to succeed him March 2, 1818. He either de-
clined or resigned after a month's service, as William Prescott was appointed judge
April 21 of the same year. He married Louisa, daughter of Daniel Davis, at that
time solicitor-general of the Commonwealth, and died in his house in Beacon street,
Boston, which he had occupied for sixty years, June 2, 1873.

John E. Hanly, son of Michael F. and Almeda S. Hanly, was born in Appleton,
Maine, August 5, 1851, and was educated at the Waterville, Me., Classical Insti-
tute. He studied law in Appleton'with M. F. Hanly, and in Augusta, Me., with
William P. Whitehouse, and was admitted to the bar at Augusta in October, 1872.
He was afterwards admitted to the bar in California in June, 1875, and in Suffolk

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county in May, 1890. He married Clara A. Hawkes in Appleton, Me., in Decem-
ber, 1872. He lives in the Roxbury District of Boston.

Charles Stedman Hanks, son of Stedman W. and Sarah W. Hanks, was born in
Lowell, Mass., April 10, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law at
the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1881. He
Avas married in Minnesota, May 17, 1888, to Clarissa B. Shumway, and lives in Man-
chester, Mass. He has published a treatise on the Law of Tort.

George R. Jones, son of John R. and Mary S. Jones, was born in Lebanon, Me.,
February 8, 1862, and was educated at the Boston University College of Liberal Arts.
He studied law in Boston, in the office of Allen, Long & Hemenway, and at the Bos-
ton University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 12, 1888. He
married Helen Blanch Jeffery at Melrose, September 10, 1890, and lives in Melrose.

James Edward Kelley, son of Benjamin F. and Louisa P. (Adams) Kelley, was
born in Unity, Me., February 2, 1858, and was educated at the Eastern State Normal
School. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar January 17, 1888. He married Fannie E. Banks, of Belfast, Me., at
Somerville, Mass., December 25, 1887, and his home is in Somerville.

Charles Franklin Kittredge, son of Franklin Otis and Mary Ann Kittredge, was
born in Mt. Vernon, N. H., February 24, 1841, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1863.
He studied law in Boston with John P. Healy, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in October, 1867. He has been a member of the House of Representatives from Bos-
ton, and was assistant city solicitor from 1868 to 1879. He has devoted himself
chiefly to municipal and corporation law. He married Adelaide L. Lee at Groton,
Mass., September 24, 1872, and lives in Boston.

William A. Knowlton, son of William W. and Martha E. Knowlton, was born in
Nashville, Tenn., June 24, 1855, and attended Phillips Andover Academy. He
studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Middlesex
bar at Cambridge in June, 1881. He married Elizabeth J. Burks at Natick, Mass.,
June 27, 1883, and he resides in Natick, with an office in Boston.

Edward Avery, son of General Samuel and Mary A. W. (Candler) Avery, was
born in Marblehead, Mass., March 12, 1828. His father was a native of Vermont,
and served as an officer in the War of 1812. After removing to Marblehead he com-
manded a brigade of militia fifteen years. He was descended from Samuel Avery,
a civil engineer, who had a grant of land in Vermont. In Marblehead he was a man
of note, serving as selectman and representative in days when the office sought the
man, and showed the esteem in which he was held by the community in which he
lived rather than a greed for place and power and a manipulating skill necessary to
secure them. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Mar-
blehead, and in the Brooks Classical School in Boston. He studied law at the Har-
vard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Frederick W. Choate, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in Worcester county in 1849. He established himself in Barre,
Mass., where he remained about two years, and then removed to Boston, where he
became associated in business with George M. Hobbs, and has secured a place among
the leaders of the Suffolk bar. As a jury lawyer he has been signally successful.
His arguments at the bar are clear, incisive, logical and strong. He avoids the too

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common practice of endeavoring to explain and strengthen the weak points in his
case, but gives his attention only to the strong ones, so fortifying them and increas-
ing their strength that the weaker ones are left out of sight and his victory is won.
His devotion to the cause of the Democratic party led him early to take an interest
in pontics, and he has both rendered efficient service to his party and received honors
at their hands. Few campaigns during the last twenty-five years have passed with-
out the sound of his voice on the platform and stump, and few conventions, national,
State or local, have failed to receive his aid or counsel. He was one of the eight
Democrats in the House of Representatives in 1867 and in 1868, having been chosen
to both the Senate and House, and taken his seat in the former. He has also been
chairman of the Democratic State Committee, and the candidate of the Democratic
party for attorney-general and member of Congress. He married, first, in 1852, Su-
san Caroline, daughter of Caleb Stetson, of Braintree, and second in Boston, August
14, 1883, Margaret, daughter of David Greene.

John Edward Avery, son of John and Ann Maria Avery, was born in Whitefield,
Me., November 11, 1848, and was educated at the public schools and at the Maine
Wesleyan Seminary. He studied law at Augusta, Me. , in the office of William P.
Whitehouse and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Cam-
bridge in June, 1872. He is unmarried and lives in Boston.

George David Ayers, son of David and Martha Elizabeth (Huckins) Ayers, was
born in Boston, August 26, 1857, and received his early education at the common
schools and the High School of Maiden. He graduated at Harvard in 1879, attended
the Harvard Law School from 1879 to 1882, and after further study in the office of
Gaston & Whitney, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1883. He married
Charlotte E. Carder at Maiden, January 7, 1888, and lives in Maiden.

James Francis Aylward, son of James and Johanna T. (Maher) Aylward, was born
in East Cambridge, August 4, 1862, and was educated in Cambridge at the Putnam
Grammar School and at Boston College. He studied law at the Harvard Law School
and in Boston in the office of Gaston & Whitney, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar August 2, 1887. He was a member of the Common Council of Cambridge, where
he resides, in 1888, and of the Board of Aldermen in 1889-90-91-92.

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, son of Rev. Jacob Abbott, Avasborn in Boston, June 4,
1830, and graduated at the New York University in 1850. He was admitted to the
bar in 1851, but the writer is not certain where and inserts his name in the register
as a native of Boston and possible member of the Suffolk bar. He devoted himself
largely to compilations and digests with his brother Austin. He was appointed
in 1870 to revise the Statutes of the United States, and aftewards prepared a United
States Digest and a Digest of Decisions on Corporations, a Treatise on the Courts of the
United States and their Practice, a Dictionary of Terms in American and English
Jurisprudence, a National Digest of all Important Acts of Congress and Decisions of the
United States Supreme Court, Circuit and District Courts, and Court of Claims, and
the Fourth American edition of Addison on Contracts, and other works pertaining to
law and practice.

Zabdiel Boylston Adams, was admitted to the Supreme Court of Suffolk county
before 1807, and was practicing in Lunenburg about 1813.

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John H. P. Aherin was born in Boston, April 11, 1858, and graduated at St. Mary's
Parochial School in 1872. He was afterwards clerk in the Suffolk Registry of Deeds
until 1877. He then studied law with F. W. Kittredge, and acted as the conveyancer of
Crowley & Maxwell until 1885. He then entered the Boston University L aw School,
graduating in 1886, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June of that year.

Sumner Albee, son of Christopher C. and Phebe Albee, was born in Langdon, N.
H., March 23, 1825, and graduated at Midlebury College in Middlebury, Vt. He
studied law in Boston with Ranney & Morse, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
January 2, 1854. He has been a member of the Board of Aldermen in Cambridge,
where he lives, also of the School Board and the Board of Overseers of the Poor. He
was a representative from Cambridge in 1881 and 1882. He married Lucy Ann,
daughter of Rev. Andrew Rankin, of Chester, Vt. , August 28, 1855, and died in Cam-
bridge, January 12, 1893.

Rufus Bradford Allyn, son of Rev. John Allyn, was born in Duxbury, March 27,
1792, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He studied law in Boston with "William
Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1815. He removed from Boston
the year of his admission to the bar and established himself in Belfast, Me. He
married Rebecca P. , daughter of Samuel Upton.

Elbridge Roberts Anderson, son of Galucha and Mary E. Anderson, was born in
St. Louis, Mo. , and educated at the University of Chicago. He studied law in Chi-
cago in the office of Barnum, Rubens & Ames, and was admittted to the bar in
Massachusetts in 1885 at Salem, practicing in Chicago two years before his removal
to Boston. He married Lizzie Dodge Harris at Salem, Mass., May 15, 1889, and
lives in the Dorchester District of Boston.

George Weston Anderson, son of David C. and Martha L. Anderson, was born
in New Hampshire September 1, 1861, and graduated at Williams College in 1886.
He studied law in Lowell with William H. Anderson, and in the Boston University
Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1890. He lives in Boston.

Augustus Andrews, son of William A. and Maria B. (Brown) Andrews, was born
in Freedom, N. H., June 19, 1852, and was educated at the Boston public schools,
and studied law at the Boston University Law School. H^ was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in 1873, and was a member of the Boston School Board in 1875. He mar-
ried in 1878.

William H. H. Andrews, son of Charles and Dolly (Bradstreet) Andrews, was
born at Pleasant Ridge, Me., May 10, 1839, and received his early education at the
Hampden Academy, the Maine State Seminary. He entered Bowdoin College in
1861, but in 1862 left college and enlisted as a private in the Eleventh Maine Regi-
ment. He was commissioned first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster March
1, 1864, and captain October 30, 1865. He removed to Boston in 1867 and studied law in
the office of Charles Levi Woodbury, and that of Melville E. Ingalls, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar April 20, 1868. He remained with Mr. Woodbury until
1890. He has served on the School Board of Hyde Park, and was the manager of
the Boston Post in 1885 and 1886. He married Elizabeth Wood, of Philadelphia,
October 22, 1873, and died in Philadelphia April 20, 1892.

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Francis Henry Appleton, son of William Appleton, was born in Boston Septem-
ber 11, 1823, and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1846, and died in Somerville, Mass., May 28, 1854.

John Henry Appleton, son of Charles T. P. and Sarah Jane (Merrill) Appleton,
was born in Somerville, Mass. , and received his early education at the Mayhew Gram-
mar School and the English High School, in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in
1875. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1877, and was admitted to the
bar in Middlesex county in June, 1878. He married Dora E. Shearer in Cambridge,
March 30, 1880, and lives in Cambridge.

Thomas Henry Armstrong, son of Elias Benjamin and Abigail (Parkhurst) Arm-
strong, was born in Watertown, Mass., July 24, 1847, and was educated at the Walt-
ham High School and Tufts College, graduating from the latter in 1869. He
studied law in Boston in the office of Thomas L. Wakefield, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar March 8, 1872. He has been a trustee of Tufts College since 1877, and
treasurer of the corporation, and was city solicitor of Waltham from 1885 to 1889.
He married Ellen F. Wellington at Waltham, June 5, 1876, and lives in Waltham.

Stillman Boyd Allen, son of Horace O. and Elizabeth Allen, was born in San-
ford, York county, Me., September 8, 1830, and received his early education at the
Kennebunk Academy, the Alfred Academy, and at an educational institution in Yar-
mouth, Me. At the age of eighteen he shipped as a sailor, and on his return voy-
age was wrecked on Cape Cod and washed ashore with little of life remaining.
Abandoning the sea he lived at Kittery, Me., for a time, holding a position in the
navy yard, teaching school, and devoting some of his time to the study of law. He
afterwards entered the office of Daniel Goodnow, of Alfred, as a student, and com-
pleted his law studies with W. H. Y. Hackett, of Portsmouth, N. H. He was ad-
mitted to the bar in his native county in September, 1853, and began practice in Kit-
tery. In May, 1861, he removed to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar on
the 17th of the following June. In 1863 he became associated in business with John
D. Long, and in 1876 and 1877 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives. His arrival in Boston marked the beginning of a career which, from ex-
tent of business and its lucrative results, has been rarely surpassed at the New Eng-
land bar. The firm of which he was the head was at first Allen, Long & Savage, but
after Mr. Savage left it, and Alfred Hemenway entered, it became Allen, Long &
Hemenway. Notwithstanding the large amount of professional work in which he
was engaged, he felt a deep interest in other matters connec£ed with the welfare of
the community and gave liberally of his means to develop and maintain them. Both
religious and secular education he had always at heart, and the church and the school
were his constant beneficiaries. The writer has been told that for many years he
kept constantly at Harvard some poor and deserving young man, educating and sup-
porting him at his own expense. During almost his entire residence in Boston he
was a member of the School Board, and during the same period he was a prominent
and active member of the Berkeley Street Church, devoting much time to the work
of the Sunday School. It has been said by a member of this church "that the ag-
gregate of his contributions to the church would be a handsome fortune ; yet this
was less than his private charities, which flowed in a constant stream." He married
at Kittery, September 7, 1854, Harriet S. , daughter of Joseph and Mary Seaward,
and died in Boston June 9, 1891.

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Stephen Merrill Allen was born in Burton, now Albany, N. H., April 15, 1819.
At four years of age he removed to Tamworth, N. H., at eight to Dover, N. H., and
at twelve to Corinna, Me. At seventeen he came to Boston and attended the Boston
Latin School. At the age of fifty he removed to Duxbury, and is now again a resi-
dent of Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 9, 1850, but never
practiced. He married first, April 15, 1841, Ann Maria, daughter of William Grid-
ley, and second, Ann Maria, daughter of Eli Jones, of Woburn. Horace G. Allen,
a recent candidate for mayor of Boston, nominated by the Republicans, is his son.

Frederick Allen, son of Jonathan, was born in Chilmark, Mass., December 22,
1780, and studied law with Homes Allen, of Barnstable, and in Pembroke with Kil-
born Whitman, and in Boston with Benjamin Whitman, and after admission to the
Suffolk bar in 1805 removed to Waldoboro, Me., and in 1809 to Gardiner, Me. He
married Hannah Bowen, daughter of Oliver and Abigail (Gardner) Whipple.

John Hooker Ashmun, son of Eli P. Ashmun, was born in Blandford, Me., July 3,
1800, and graduated at Harvard in 1818. In 1828 Nathan Dane, who in founding the
law school at Cambridge had reserved to himself appointments to its professorships,
appointed Joseph Story Dane professor of law and Mr. Ashmun Royall professor of
law, and he took up his residence in Cambridge. He had previously been associated
with Judge Howe and Elijah J. Mills in establishing and conducting a law school in
Northampton. It is thought by the writer that after coming to Cambridge he had
an office in Boston. He died in Cambridge April 1, 1833.

Eli Porter Ashmun was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807. He received the
degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1809, and was United States Senator from 1816 to
1818. He died in 1819.

Edwin Wright, son of Jesse and Philura (Fuller) Wright, was born in North
Coventry, Conn., March 7, 1821. He is descended from the Wright family of Kel-
veden Hall at Wrightsbridge, Essex, England, which flourished in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. His father, educated for a physician, was during the larger
part of his life an inland trader, and his mother was the daughter of a respectable
artisan. At four years of age he removed to Lebanon, Conn., and in his youth was
left for long periods of time in the sole charge of his father's store and accounts. In
the discharge of the duties imposed on him he exhibited a mature and discriminating
judgment. He was educated in his youth at the public schools, and while pursuing
his studies he was for two seasons the assistant of the State surveyor for New London
county, not only helping in the practical work of the survey, but making duplicate
and often the sole calculations and plans. His later education was received at Bacon
Academy in Colchester, Conn. , and there he fitted for Yale College, where he gradu-
ated in 1844 with the valedictory, the highest honor of the class. After leaving col-
lege he was temporarily employed as assistant principal in the Boston English School
and afterwards was appointed principal of the Medford High School, whence he was
promoted to the position of grammar master in one of the Boston public schools. In
these positions his methods of instruction, though somewhat at variance from the
ordinary formulas, were highly effective in their results and received the most
emphatic commendation. Having absolved the pecuniary obligations incurred dur-
ing the period of his education, he entered the Harvard Law School and after a sea-
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son of study in that institution entered as a student the office of Benjamin P. Brooks,
in Boston, where he soon had charge of the preparation of contracts and other legal
documents and all matters connected with the titles and transfer of real estate. He
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1850, and a year later began practice on
his own account. Though securing rapidly a general practice of considerable volume
he gradually became more especially a real estate lawyer and as such acquired an
eminence in his profession. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Rep-
resentatives from East Boston in 1857 and 1867, and for several years was a member
of the Boston School Board. He has delivered several courses of lectures on com-
mercial law and has been several years by appointment a lecturer on medical juris-
prudence in the medical department of the Boston University, as well as a lecturer
through several seasons before the whole school. On the 9th of July, 1861, he was
appointed a justice of the Boston Police Court to succeed George D. Wells, and
served until the court was abolished in 1866. The business of this court was large
and onerous, consisting of the disposition annually of 15,000 criminal and 3,000 civil
cases, the inspection of prisons, the pardoning of criminals confined for non-payment
of fines and the jurisdiction of insane cases, and owing to the age of Mr. Wright's
associates, much more than his share of labor fell on his hands. The accuracy of his
judgments while on the bench is attested by the fact that no decision of the court
during the term of his service was ever overruled or abridged. On his retirement
from the bench, Mr. Wright resumed practice with a gratifying accumulation of busi-
ness for many years. His recreation has been found in the study of the various
questions of the day, social, religious and ethical, and in their solution to apply the
principles of law. On these questions he has written and lectured and always to the
edification of his readers and hearers. He is a prominent Mason, having received the
highest grade recognized by the fraternity in the United States. He married, Oc-
tober 29, 1850, Helen M., daughter of Paul Curtis, of Boston, and his residence is in
Boston.

Hosea Kingman, son of Philip D. and Betsey B. (Washburn) Kingman, was born
in Bridgewater, Mass., April 11, 1843. His early education was received at the
Bridgewater Academy in Bridgewater and the Appleton Academy in New Ipswich,
N. H. He entered Dartmouth College in 1860, but left college in 1862 and enlisted
on the 22dof September in that year for nine months' service in Company K, Third
Massachusetts Regiment. He went with his regiment to Newberne, N. C, and in
December was detailed on signal service and went to Port Royal, S. C. , and thence
to Folly Island in Charleston Harbor, and was discharged at expiration of service,
June 22, 1863. He then returned to Dartmouth and joined his class, making up for
absent time and graduating in due order in 1864. He studied law with Williams
Latham in Bridgewater and was admitted to the bar in Plymouth in 1866, associating
himself at once in business with his instructor, Mr. Latham, under the firm name of
Latham & Kingman, Mr. Latham retired in 1871, and since that time Mr. Kingman
has practiced alone, constantly strengthening himself in the law, accumulating busi-
ness and securing the confidence of the community. In 1874, and for many years
after, he was chosen commissioner of insolvency; November 12, 1878, he was ap-
pointed special justice of the First District Court of Plymouth county ; in 1886 he was
chosen district attorney for the Southeastern District of Massachusetts, which posi-

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tion he resigned to assume the duties of a member of the Metropolitan Sewage
Commission, under an appointment by the governor, of which commission he is chair-
man. He is trustee of the Pilgrim Society, of the Bridgewater Savings Bank and
Bridgewater Academy, and in the Masonic fraternity, is charter member of Bridge-
water Lodge, No. 1,039 of Knights of Honor, of which he is past dictator. In at-
tempting to describe the traits which characterize him as a lawyer, it is perhaps suf-
ficient to say that he has all the qualifications essential for a good judge, and it is
not too much to say that his future appointment to a seat on the bench will depend
chiefly on his willingness to accept it. He married Carrie, daughter of Hezekiah and
Deborah (Freeman) Cole, of Carver, Mass., June 21, 1866. He lives in Bridgewater,
with an office in that town and one in Boston.

Jonathan White, son of Jonathan and Abigail (Holbrook) White, was born in East
Randolph, Mass., August 22, 1819, and fitted for college at Phillips Academy, An-
dover. He graduated at Yale in 1844. He studied law at the Harvard Law School,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1847. He removed to North Bridge-
water, now Brockton, in 1849, and established there a residence and business which
he has continued to the present time. He was a representative in 1865, and a mem-
ber of the Senate in 1869-1877-1878. He is a man possessing a clear, logical mind,
sharp, concise and earnest in its expression, and thoroughly trusted in every position
in which he has been called to serve. He married Nancy Mehitabel, daughter of
John Adams, of Holbrook, Mass.

Ellis Wesley Morton, son of Ellis J. and Abby S. (Anthony) Morton, was born in
North Bridgewater, now Brockton, October 8, 1848. He was educated at the Adel-
phian Academy, the North Bridgewater Academy and the Classical High School of
Providence, R. I. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar on the 8th of October in that year. Practicing in Boston, he
was appointed assistant United States attorney for Massachusetts November 1, 1861,
and was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court in March, 1864. He
Avas a l-epresentative and senator from Boston, and died in September, 1874, at what
appeared to be the threshold of a brilliant career.

Bradford Kingman, son of Josiah Washburn and Mary (Packard) Kingman, was
born in North Bridgewater, now Brockton, January 5, 1831. During his youth he
attended the common schools, the Adelphian Academy and the Williston Seminary in
Easthampton, Mass. He studied law with Lyman Mason in Boston and at the Har-
vard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 21, 1863, making Boston
his place of business and Brookline his place of residence. His taste for literary and
historical pursuits led him early away from the paths of law, and in 1866 he published
an elaborate history of his native town. He married Susan, daughter of Thomas and
Susanna (Bradford) Ellis, of Plympton, Mass., and lives in Brookline.

Jacob B. Harris was born in Winchester, Mass., and settled in Abington, Mass.,
in the practice of law. Where he studied law and where he was admitted to the bar
the writer has not been able to learn. His name is not on the admission roles of
either Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex, Worcester or Plymouth counties, biit he was a mem-
ber of the Suffolk bar in 1873. He was a representative from Abington in 1861 and
1862, and was appointed judge of the District Court of the Second Plymouth County
District on the establishment of that court in 1874. He was selected by the Supreme

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Court to defend Sturtevant, the Halifax murderer, and his efforts in behalf of the
criminal elicited the highest praise. He died in January, 1875.

Benjamin Whitman, son of Zechariah and Abigail (Kilborn) Whitman, was born in
Bridgewater in 1768, and graduated at Brown University in 1788. He established
himself in Hanover, Mass., in 1792, and was the first lawyer in that town. He was
admitted to the Suffolk bar before going to Hanover, and returned to Boston in 1805.
"^Yhile in Hanover he was postmaster, and at the establishment of the Boston Police
Court in 1822 he was appointed chief justice. He was a representative from Boston,
and died about 1834.

William H. Wood, son of Wilkes and Betsey W. (Thompson) Wood, was born in
Middleboro', Mass., October 24, 1811, and was descended from Henry Wood, Avho
came to Plymouth from England in 1643, and purchased land in Middleboro' in 1667.
He was educated at Peirce Academy in Middleboro' and Brown University, gradu-
ting in 1834. After leaving college he was for a year the principal of Coffin Academy
in Nantucket, and then studied law in his father's office, completing his education in
Boston in the office of Horace Mann and at the Harvard Law School. He was ad-
mitted to the bar at Plymouth in 1842, and associated himself in business with John
S. Eldridge in Boston. Not long after, owing to delicate health, he retired to
Middleboro', where he resided and practiced until his death. An original member of
the Free Soil party he was chosen to the State Senate in 1848. In 1849 he was de-
feated by the Whigs on account of his anti-slavery sentiments, but was rechosen in
1850. In 1853 he was a member of the Constitutional Convention, in 1857 was a rep-
resentative, and in 1858 a member of the Executive Council. On the 19th of Septem-
ber, 1858, Aaron Hobart, judge of probate for Plymouth county, died, and Mr. Wood
was at once appointed as his successor. He remained in office until his death.

Bartholomew Brown, son of John and Guiger (Hutchinson) Brown, was born in
Danvers, Mass., September 8, 1772, and graduated at Harvard in 1799. He was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807 and established himself in East Bridgewater.
He was through life devoted to music, and was at one time president of the Boston
Handel and Haydn Society. He was a composer of a large number of pieces of
sacred and secular music, and was one of the most popular soloists of the society.
The last few years of his life were spent in Boston. He married in East Bridgewater,
November 26, 1801, Betsey, daughter of General Sylvanus Lazell, of Bridgewater,
and died in Boston, April 14, 1814.

Seth Miller was born in Middleboro', Mass., January 10, 1801, and graduated at
Brown University in 1823. He studied law in Middleboro' with Wilkes Wood and in
Boston with Thompson Miller, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October,
1826. Not long after he established himself in Wareham, and remained there in
constant practice during life. He was a trial justice in Wareham many years, a mem-
ber of the Constitutional Convention in 1853, and president of the Plymouth County
Bar Association from the date of its organization in 1867 until his death. He died at
Wareham, unmarried, August 22, 1876.

William Baylies, son of Dr. William and Bathsheba (White) Baylies, was born in
Dighton, Mass., September 15, 1776, and received his early education in one of the
public schools of that town under the instruction of John Barrows, a graduate of Har-
vard in 1776. He graduated at Brown University in 1795, and studied law with

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Seth Padelford in Taunton. He was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county before
1807, and established himself in Dighton. He was a representative from 1808 to
1820 and in 1831, and a senator in 1825. In 1812 he was chosen member of Congress
and rechosen in 1814, and also in 1830 and 1832. In 1831 he received the degree of
LL.D. from Harvard. For many years during the latter part of his professional life
he made his home in West Bridgewater, and confined his business to that which
sought him there. Since the introduction of railroads clients have more and more
sought counsel in Boston, and as a necessary consequence cotm try lawyers have been
compelled to open offices in Boston to intercept them. But in the days of Mr. Bay-
lies many of the ablest lawyers in the State had their offices in small towns and
smaller hamlets and there lived and flourished and won enviable reputations. In
Plymouth county there were Mr. Baylies in West Bridgewater, Ebenezer Gay in
Hingham, Kilborn Whitman in Pembroke, Thomas Prince Beal in Kingston, Nahum
Mitchell in East Bridgewater, Abraham Holmes in Rochester and Zechariah Eddy in
Middleboro', all following the county circuits, but never finding any inducement to
leave their native town for wider fields of effort in the cities of the State. The writer
of these sketches says of him, in the History of Plymouth Count}'- recently published,
that " his last appearance in court was in January, 1849, in Alden B. Weston and
others against Alfred Sampson and others, when he appeared for defendants. On the
question at issue this was a leading case, the decision of which involved extended
interests along the seaboard of the Old Colony. It was an action of trespass, quare
clausum fregit, originally brought before a justice of the peace and submitted to the
Court of Common Pleas and finally brought by appeal to the Supreme Court on the
following agreed statement of facts : It was admitted that the plaintiffs were the
proprietors of a tract of upland described in the writ, with the flats adjoining, at
Powder Point (so called in Duxbury) bordering on the bay. The defendants, inhab-
itants of Duxbury, went in their boat on said flats, and there, at low water, dug five
bushels of clams and carried them away in their boat. The place where the clams
were dug was between high and low water mark and within one hundred rods of the
shore of the plaintiff's upland. If the court shall be of the opinion that the defendants
had a right so to dig and carry away said clams, the plaintiffs are to become non-
suited, otherwise the case is to be sent to a jury. The court decided that fishing was
a common law right as well fishing for shell-fish, as for those swimming in the
water, and unless there was some colonial, provincial or State law, which controlled
or limited that right, the inhabitants had a right to go in boats to flats between high
and low water mark, and there take shell or other fish. The plaintiffs relied on a law
of Massachusetts Colony passed in 1641, giving the owner of uplands the propriety so
far as the tide ebbs and flows, when it does not ebb more than one hundred rods ; but
thecourt held that, notwithstanding the union of the Massachusetts and Plymouth Colo-
nies in 1692, the absence of any Plymouth Colony law or provincial law after 1692, or
State law after the adoption of the constitution, keeps the old common law right
alive, and justifies the defendants in their acts." Mr. Baylies died unmarried in
Taunton, September 27, 1865, and was buried in Dighton, his native town.

Wilkes Wood, son of Ebenezer and Sally (Bennett) Wood, was born in Middleboro,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807. He established himself in his
native town, and was many years judge of probate. He married first Betsey Tink-
ham, and second Betsey W. Thompson.

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William Josiah Forsaith, son of Josiah and Maria (Southworth) Forsaith, was
born in Newport, N. H., April 19, 1836, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1857.
He studied law with Burke & Wait in Newport, and in Boston in the offices of Benja-
min F. Hallett.and Ranney & Morse, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1860.
He was appointed special justice of the Boston Municipal Court, January 23, 1872,
and promoted to associate March 8, 1882, and is still on the bench. He married
Annie Maria Veazie at Bangor, Me., October 31, 1865, and lives in Boston.

George R. Fowler, son of Asa and Mary C. K. Fowler, was born in Concord, N.
H, April 25, 1844, and was educated at the common schools and the High School of
that city. He spent a short time at Dartmouth College, and received an honorary
degree of Master of Arts from that institution in 1868. He studied law in Concord,
with his father, at the Harvard Law School and the Albany Law School, receiving
the degree of LL. D. from the latter, and was admitted to the bar in Concord in April,
1867, and in Boston October 8, 1869. He was assistant clerk and clerk of the New
Hampshire State Senate from 1865 to 1868, has been a member of the Boston city
government, and is a special justice of the West Roxbury District Municipal Court.
He married Isabel Minot at Concord, N. H., April 24, 1873, and lives in Boston.

Stephen Austin Foster, son of Austin T. and Sarah H. Foster, was born in Derby
Line, Vt. , December 23, 1866, and was educated at the Goddard Seminary and Tufts
College, He studied at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of John
C. Coombs, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1892. He lives in Boston.

Stephen Gilman, son of Samuel and Sarah (Goodhue) Oilman, was born in Meredith
Village, N. H., September 28, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He studied
law in New York cit)r, with Man & Parsons, and was admitted to the New York bar
November 24, 1871, and to the Suffolk bar in April, 1879. He married first Lucy
A. Davis in New York city, March 12, 1870, and second Esther W. Mansfield, of
Lynnfield, Mass., August 7, 1881, and his residence is in Lynnfield.

Emery Reuben Gibbs, son of Phineas Stearns and Mary Catherine (Meserve) Gibbs,
was born in Byron, Me., October 23, 1862, and was educated at the Coburn Classical
Institute in the class of 1884, and at Colby University in the class of 1888. He stud-
ied law in Boston in the office of Joseph Willard, and graduated at the Boston Uni-
versity Law School in 1891, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891.
He married Jennie Barbour at Yarmouth, Me., January 13, 1892, and lives in
Brookline.

Louis Girardin, son of Louis and Sophia Girardin, was born in Philadelphia, May
1, 1837, and was educated at the Boston Grammar and High Schools, the academy
at Litchfield, Me., and Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law in Boston in the
office of Charles J. Noyes, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 8, 1872. He
married Rachel A. Smith in New York city, April 20, 1862, and lives in Boston.

Herbert Lee Harding, son of Samuel Lee and Catherine Bond Harding, was born
in Lancaster, Mass., May 10, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Morse, Stone &
Greenough, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1877. He has been a
member of the Boston Common Council. He married Lucy Austin in Charlestown,
Mass. , October 13, 1886, and lives at Jamaica Plain.

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John Le Grand Harvey, son of John and Susanna Harvey, was born in North
Fairfield, O., December 5, 1857, and was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan University
and Boston University. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and
in Boston in the office of B. B. Johnson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July,
1888. He has been water commissioner in Waltham, where he resides. He married
Fanny C. Johnson at Haverhill, October 15, 1889. He has written treatises on "Law
as a Factor of Civilization," and on "The Torrens System of Land Transfer."

Albert Augustus Gi.eason, son of Zelotes and Sarah Adelaide (Scott) Gleason, was
born October 10, 1863, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard
College, graduating from the latter in 1886. He graduated at the Harvard Law
School in 1889 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1890. He is the author
of several historical papers. Residence, Boston.

William Alanson Abbe, was born in Litchfield, Conn., in 1835, and fitted for col-
lege at Phillips Academy, Andover. He graduated at Amherst in 1857 and studied
law in Boston, being admitted to the Suffolk bar November 1, 1862. Shortly after
his admission he went to Colorado in the interest of a mining company, and there
became associated with Professor Hill, of Brown University, afterwards United
States Senator from Colorado, in the Boston and Colorado Smelting Company. He
remained in Colorado ten years, and was at one time mayor of Black Hawk in that
State. He finally established himself in New Bedford, where he resided the last ten
years of his life, a director in several of the large mills in that city and in Fall River.
He died in New Bedford November 25, 1892.

Augustus Oliver Allen, son of Frederic and Hannah Bowen (Whipple) Allen, was
born in Gardiner, Me., December 21, 1826, and graduated at Bowdoin College in
1848. He studied law in the office of his father at Gardiner and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar October 14, 1850. He was a representative in 1865 and 1866 from Boston,
and later a senator. He married Sarah Ann, daughter of Franklin Haven, of Bos-
ton, in 1869, and died in the same year.

Charles Edward Allen, son of Frederick and Hannah Bowen (Whipple) Allen ,
was born in Gardiner, Me., November 20, 1816, and graduated at Bowdoin College
in 1835. He studied law in Gardiner in the office of his father, and in Bangor in the
office of Judge Appleton, and was admitted to the bar in Augusta, Me., in 1835, and
to the Suffolk bar in 1846. He is unmarried and lives in Boston.

Frederic Wright Bliss, son of Cyrus W. and Hannah T. (Munroe) Bliss, was born
in Rehoboth, Mass., October 14, 1852, and studied law in Providence, R. I., with
James Tillinghast, and graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1881. He
was admitted to the bar in New Bedford in June, 1881. He was a representative in
1891 and 1892 and has been chosen for 1893. He lives in Boston.

Henry J. Wells was born in Charlestown, Mass., November 16, 1823, and from
1840 to 1848 was engaged in mercantile pursuits. He then went to New Orleans, and
in 1849 to California. He found employment in San Francisco first as assistant clerk
and afterwards full clerk of the courts, which position he held until 1853. He then
studied law and practiced until 1863, when he was appointed judge of the Municipal
Court of San Francisco. He was also a member of the Board of Education, police
commissioner, president of the Board of Aldermen, and president of the Young

328 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Men's Christian Association. In 1856 he returned to Massachusetts and married
Maria A. Goodnow, of Boston. After his marriage he went back to California, where
he remained until 1866, when he again returned to Massachusetts and became a resi-
dent of Arlington. On the 30th of May, 1871, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar
and has continued in business in Boston, with a residence in Cambridge since 1877,
where he removed from Arlington. He was a representative in 1880 and 1881, and
afterwards two )rears a senator.

George Dexter Robinson was born in Lexington, Mass., January 10, 1834, and re-
ceived his early education at the Lexington Academy and the Hopkins Classical
School in Cambridge. He graduated at Harvard in 1856, and afterwards taught for
nine years the High School in Chicopee, Mass. In 1865 he began the study of law
and was admitted to the bar in 1866, establishing himself in Chicopee, where he has
since remained. He was a representative in 1874 and a senator in 1876. He was
chosen member of Congress in 1876-78-80-82, and in 1883 was chosen governor. He
was rechosen in 1884 and 1885, and has since his retirement resumed his business in
Chicopee, with a considerable practice in Boston.

George A. Flagg was born in Millbury, Mass., May 2, 1845, and was educated at
Phillips Exeter Academy and at Harvard, grad ating from the latter in 1866. He
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and was admitted to the Worcester
county bar. He represented the Fifteenth Worcester Representative District in the
House of Representatives in 1877, and was a delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1884. He was on the staff of Governor Robinson, and since 1885 has
had an office in Boston.

William Henry Whitman, son of Kilborn and Elizabeth (Winslow) Whitman, was
born in Pembroke, Mass., January 26, 1817. On his father's side he was descended
from John Whitman, who settled in Weymouth in 1638, and on his mother's side from
Edward Winslow, one of the Mayflower Pilgrims and governor of the Plymouth
Colony. He was educated at the public schools, and studied law with Thomas Prince
Beal in Kingston, Mass. He practiced law in Bath, Me., a short time, and then came
to Boston about 1844, and was associated in business with Charles G. Davis. In 1851
he was appointed clerk of the courts of Plymouth county, and removed his residence
to that town. After the office of clerk was made elective he was chosen and rechosen
until his death, which occurred at Plymouth, August 13, 1889. He married first in
1846 Ann Sever, daughter of William and Sally W. (Sever) Thomas, of Plymouth, and
second, Helen, daughter of John and Deborah (Spooner) Russell, of Plymouth, and
widow of William Davis of that town.

John W. Mahar was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1860. He was a major in
the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment in the War of the Rebellion, and died in Wash-
ington, D. C, in 1886.

James A. McGeough, son of Patrick and Mary McGeough, was born in county Ca-
van, Ireland, June 15, 1853, and came in 1859, when a child, to Massachusetts. He
was educated at Boston College, and graduated at the Boston University Law School
in 1874. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 20, 1874, was a member of the
Common Council in 1878, a representative from Boston in 1878-80-81, and a senator
in 1883. He was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis
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John H. Sherburne, was born in Charlestown, Mass., December 7, 1845, and grad-
uated at the Harvard Law School in 1879. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Oc-
tober 15, 1873. He was a lieutenant in the navy in the War of the Rebellion, and a
representative in 1879-80.

Michael J. Creed was born in South Boston, August 28, 1856. He attended the
Bigelow Grammar School and the English High School, and graduated at the Boston
University Law School in 1879. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November,
1879, and was a representative in 1884-85-86.

Eben F. Stone was born in Newburyport, Mass., August 3, 1822, and was edu-
cated at the academ)'- at North Andover and at Harvard College, graduating from
the latter in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1847, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1847. He established himself in his native town, where
he has continued to practice up to the present time, except during his absence
in the army, and his residence in Washington in 1865, associated in business with
Caleb Cushing. In 1851 he was president of the Common Council of Newbury-
port, in 1867 mayor, in 1857-58-61 a senator, in 1867-77-78-80 representative,
and a member of the Forty-seventh Congress. In 1862 he enlisted as a private and
was chosen captain of a company recruited by him, and commanded for a time a re-
cruiting camp at Wenham. He was afterwards colonel of the Forty-eighth Massa-
chusetts Regiment. His home is still in Newburyport.

Horace E. Ware, son of Jonathan and Mary Ann Ware, was born in Milton, Mass.,
August 27, 1847, and attended the public schools of Dorchester. He graduated at
Harvard in 1867, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of
William S. Leland in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 15,
1869. In 1877 he was in Europe, and in 1879-80 was in the Massachusetts House of
Representatives, where he served on the Judiciary Committee both years.

Abraham Burbank Coffin, son of Warren and Hannah Coffin, was born in Gilead,
Me. , March 31, 1831 , and at two years of age removed with his parents to Londonderry,
N. H. He attended Phillips Andover Academy, and graduated at Dartmouth in
1856. While in college he taught school in Boxford and Andover, Mass., and the
High School in Stoneham. After graduating he taught in Fluvanna county, Va. ,
and there studied law, being admitted to the bar in Richmond, January 13, 1858.
Returning to Boston he studied a short time in Boston in the office of John P. Healy,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 18, 1858. Taking up his residence in
Winchester, he was a representative in 1876, a senator in 1877-78, and has been a mem-
ber of the Executive Council. He married Mary E. Stevens at Boston, August 14,
1889, and still lives in Winchester.

William Cogswell was on the roll of Boston lawyers in "1885. He was born in
Bradford, Mass., August 23, 1838, and received his early education at Phillips An-
dover Academy, and the Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H. He entered
Dartmouth College in 1855, but leaving college shipped before the mast, and in
1856-7 made a voyage around the world. He graduated at the Harvard Law School
in 1860, and in that year was admitted to the Essex bar. In 1861 he raised a com-
pany of volunteers and was commissioned captain of Company C, Second Massachusetts
Regiment for three years' service. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, October
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23, 1862, to colonel, June 6, 1863, and brevetted major-general, January 17, 1865. He
was wounded twice during the war, and has been commander of the Grand Army of
the Republic. He was representative in 1870-71-81-83, senator in 1885-86, mayor of
Salem from 1867 to 1873 inclusive, and has now, in 1892, been chosen for the third or
fourth time member of Congress.

Edward D. Hayden was born in Cambridge, December 27, 1833, and was educated
at Lawrence Academy in Groton and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1854. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Springfield in the office of Chief Jus-
tice Chapman, and in Boston in the office of Ezra Ripley. He opened an office in
Woburn, Mass., in February, 1858, and his name is found on the list of Boston law-
yers in 1860. In 1862 he was appointed paymaster in the navy. In 1866 he became
connected in business with the firm of J. B. Winn & Co., having abandoned the law,
and continued the connection until 1875. In 1874 he was chosen president of the
First National Bank of Woburn, was in the Massachusetts Senate in 1880-81, and
afterwards a member of Congress.

George C. Bent was born in Ludlow, Vt., in 1848, and attended Dean Academy
in Franklin, Mass. He taught the High School in Machias, Me., and then studying
law in Boston in the office of H. W. Chaplin, was admitted to the Suffolk bar March
20, 1876. His residence is in Cambridge, where he has been four years in the Com-
mon Council, and representative in 1884-85.

John A. Collins, son of John and Catherine Collins, was born in Boston, February
29, 1860, and received his early education at the public schools, and the Latin School
in Boston. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1882, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. He. was a representative 1885-86, and senator
in 1888-89. His residence is in Boston.

Ezra Wilkinson was born in Attleboro', Mass., February 14, 1805, and receiving
his early education at Day's Academy, graduated at Brown University in 1824.
After leaving college he was the principal of Monmouth Academy in Maine, and
studied law with Peter Pratt in Providence and Josiah J. Fiske in Wrentham. He
was admitted to the bar at Dedham in September, 1828, and after practicing a
short time in Freetown and Seekonk, he removed to Dedham in 1835, where he
resided until his death. He was one of the judges appointed to the bench of the
Superior Court at its establishment in 1859, and continued on the bench until his
death in 1882. Previous to his going on the bench he served twelve years, from
1843 to 1855, as district attorney. The office of attorney-general was abolished in
1843 and renewed in 1849, and during the interval Mr. Wilkinson conducted ten capi-
tal trials. He was a representative in 1841-51-56, and a member of the Constitutional
Convention in 1853. He was not only an able lawyer, but an accomplished scholar.

Henry W. Fuller was born in Hooksett, N. H., June 30, 1840, and removed when
young to Concord, N. H. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1857, and at the Harvard
Law School in 1859. In 1860 he began practice in Concord, and in 1861 enlisted as a
private in the First New Hampshire Regiment for three months' service. He was
afterwards appointed first lieutenant and adjutant of the Fourth New Hampshire
Regiment for three years' service, and in December, 1863, was made major. He
was afterward made lieutenant-colonel of the Sixteenth New Hampshire Regiment,
and finally colonel of the Seventy-fifth United States Regiment of colored troops.

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He was in the service from April, 1861, to January, 1866, and was discharged with
the brevet rank of brigadier-general. After his discharge he came to Boston, where
he was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 9, 1868, and resumed practice. He was a
member of the Boston Common Council in 1874, representative in 1875-76-77-79, and
senator in 1880-81. He married a sister of ex-Governor William Gaston.

Julius Rockwell, was born in Colebrook, Conn., April 26, 1805, and was educated
in his youth at the academy in Lenox, Mass., and under the private instruction of
Rev. Ralph Emerson, of Norfolk, Conn. , and of Rev. Timothy M. Cooley, of Gran-
ville, Mass. He graduated at Yale in 1826, and studied law at the Yale Law School
and with Swan & Sedgwick, at Sharon, Conn. He was admitted to the bar in
Litchfield, Conn., in 1829, and in 1830 established himself in Pittsfield, Mass., where
he practiced alone until 1842. He then associated himself with James Dennison
Colt. He was a representative from Pittsfield in 1834-35-36-37, and the last three
years was speaker. He was bank commissioner from 1839 to 1841, and from 1844 to
1852 was a member of Congress. In 1854 he was appointed United States senator
for the unexpired term of Edward Everett, who had resigned. In 1855 he was the
Republican candidate for governor against Henry J. Gardner, the Know Nothing
candidate, and was defeated. In 1858 he was again .a representative and again
chosen speaker. He was one of the judges appointed to the bench of the Superior
Court at its establishment in 1859, and continued in office until his resignation in
1886. In 1865 he removed from Pittsfield to Lenox, and at the centennial of that
town, July 4, 1876, delivered the address. He has been president of the Pittsfield
Bank, the Berkshire County Insurance Company, the Pittsfield Savings Bank, and
the Berkshire Bible Society.

James Dennison Colt was born in Pittsfield, Mass., October 8, 1819, and was edu-
cated in his youth at the public schools. He graduated at Williams College in 1838,
and became a private tutor in a family in Natchez, Miss. He began the study of
law at Natchez with General Gaines, United States district attorney, and returned
to Pittsfield in 1840, where he studied in the office of Julius Rockwell. After further
study at the Harvard Law Schol, he was admitted to the Berkshire bar in 1841, and
became associated with his old instructor, Mr. Rockwell, remaining with him until
Mr. Rockwell was appointed to the Superior Court bench. He then became a part-
ner with his brother-in-law, Thomas P. Pingree, and in 1865 was appointed judge of
the Supreme Judicial Court. On account of ill health he resigned in 1866. In 1868,
after his return from a European trip, he was again appointed to the Supreme
bench, and continued in office until his death in 1881. He was a representative in
1853-54, and received the degree of LL.D. from Williams College in 1870. ■

Augustus Lord Soule, son of Gideon L. Soule, principal of Phillips Exeter
Academy, was born in Exeter, N. H., April 19, 1827, and graduated at Harvard in
1846. He studied law in New Hampshire, and graduating at the Harvard Law
School, was admitted to the bar in 1849. He established himself in Chicopee, where
he remained two years, when he removed to Springfield. In 1877 he was appointed
judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and in 1880 changed his residence to Boston.
He was a representative from Springfield in 1873. He resigned his seat on the
bench in 1881, and died in 1887.

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George Marston, son of Charles and Nancy C. (Goodspeed) Marston, was born in
that part of Barnstable, Mass., known as Marston's Mills, October 15, 1821, and in
his youth attended the public schools. At a later period he taught school during the
winter and was employed on his father's farm during the summer. He belonged to
a sturdy family, firm and vigorous both in body and mind. His progenitor on Cape
Cod was Benjamin Marston, who moved to Barnstable from Salem. No less than
three Benjamin Marstons belonging to this family had graduated from Harvard in
1749, and it was probably the one graduating in 1715 who received from the town of
Barnstable in 1738 a grant of the mill privileges around which has grown the hamlet
called Marston's Mills. The father of the subject of this sketch was representative,
senator, executive councillor, and sheriff. Nymphas Marston, his uncle, graduated
at Harvard in 1807, and died in 1864, having served as senator and judge of probate.
At about twenty years of age George Marston entered the ship-chandlery store of
Howland & Hinckley, as clerk, but at the end of six months abandoned the idea of
becoming a business man, and entered his uncle's office in Barnstable as a student at
law. He also attended the Harvard Law School, paying the expenses of his edu-
cation by teaching school during the winter. He was admitted to the bar in Barn-
stable in September, 1845, and establishing himself there, remained in his native
town until 1869. In 1853 he was appointed register of probate, and in 1854 judge of
probate, holding the office until 1858. In 1859 he was chosen district attorney, and
remained in office until 1878, when he was chosen attorney-general. While district
attorney in 1860 he was the Bell-Everett candidate for lieutenant-governor, and in
in 1869 became a resident of New Bedford, and a partner of William W. Crapo.
He remained in office as attorney-general until 1883, when he was succeeded by
Edgar J. Sherman. He married Elizabeth Weston, daughter of Oliver C. Swift, of
Falmouth, Mass. , and died in 1883.

Matthew Dolan was born in Boston, October 7, 1856, and graduated at the Boston
University Law School in 1877. He was a representative in 1875 and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in November, 1878.

William J. Dolan, son of Patrick and Maria E. Dolan, was born in Boston, No-
vember 4, 1864, and was educated at the Roxbury High School. He graduated at
the Harvard Law School in 1889 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January,
1889. He was a representative in 1892 from Boston, where he has his residence.

Woodward Emery, son of James Woodward and Martha E. (Bell) Emery, was
born in Portsmouth, N. H., September 5, 1842, and graduated at Harvard in 1864.
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and after a year's study in Boston
in the offices of Henry W. Paine and Hutchins & Wheeler, was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in July, 1867. He was appointed in June, 1872, a special justice of the Police
Court in Cambridge, where he has his residence, holding that office until his resigna-
tion in 1878, was a member of the Common Council in 1877 and representative in
1885. He married Anne Parry Jones in Portsmouth, N. H., December 5, 1878.

James E. Fitzgerald was born in Boston, April 25, 1855, and was educated at the
Lyman Grammar School and the English High School. He studied law at the Bos-
ton University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He was
engaged in mercantile pursuits before he studied law, and was a member of the Com-
mon Council from 1882 to 1884 and a representative in 1886-87.

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Arthur Lord, son/ of Rev. William H. and Persis (Kendall) Lord, was born at
Port Washington, Wis., September 2, 1850. His father was a nephew of Rev. Nathan
Lord, who was president of Dartmouth College from 1828 to 1863, and brother of
Rev. John Lord, the distinguished historical lecturer. His mother was a daughter
of Rev. James Kendall, the venerable pastor of the First Church in Plymouth, Mass.,
who died in 1860, after sixty years of service, and his second wife, Sally, daughter of
Paul Kendall. The subject of this sketch was educated in Plymouth, and fitting for
college at the High School in that town, graduated at Harvard in 1872. He studied
law in Boston in the office of Lathrop, Abbot & Jones, and was admitted to the bar
in Plymouth in May, 1874. After admission he associated himself in business with
Albert Mason with an office in Plymouth, where he has continued to reside up to the
present time. For some years, however, he has had an office in Boston, where his
steadily enlarging business has occupied the larger part of his time. Since Mr.
Mason was drawn away from general practice by his judicial and other appointments
he has practiced alone. In 1885 and 1886 he was a representative from Plymouth and
had he not been defeated for a third term by the Democratic candidate, he would
have been a leading aspirant for the speaker's chair. In 1883 he was chosen a mem-
ber of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and is now a trustee of the Pilgrim So-
ciety and the Plymouth Savings Bank, and a member of the State Civil Service Com-
mission. He married, October 2, 1878, Sarah, daughter of Rev. Rush R. and Zoe R.
Shippen, now of Washington, D. C.

Charles Albert Prince, son of Frederick Octavius and Helen (Henry) Prince,
was born in Boston, August 26, 1852, and fitting for college at the Boston Latin
School graduated at Harvard in 1873. He studied law with Henry W. Paine and
Robert D. Smith in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1876. He
married Helen Choate, daughter of Edward Ellerton Pratt, and granddaughter of
Rufus Choate.

Edward A. McLaughlin was born in Boston, September 25, 1853, and was edu-
cated at Boston College and at Loyola College, Baltimore, from which he graduated
in 1871. He afterwards received the degrees of A. M. and LL.D. from Boston Col-
lege. He was a professor at Loyola College three years and at Seton Hall College,
New Jersey, two years. He entered the office of William Gaston in 1876 for the study
of law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 20, 1877. In 1878 he was ap-
pointed assistant clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, serving in
that capacity until 1883, when he was chosen clerk, as he has been each year since.

Luther J. Drake, son of Luther and Abigail Drake, was born in the town pi
Union, Me., October 27, 1847, and studied law in Rockland, Me., and was admitted
to the Massachusetts bar at New Bedford January 12, 1874. He was first lieu-
tenant in the War of the Rebellion from February, 1865, to March, 1866. Residence,
Boston.

Henry Hill Downes, son of Commodore John and Maria Gertrude (Hoffman)
Downes, was born in Boston, November 24, 1830, and was educated at the Chauncy
Hall School and under the care of George Partridge Sanger, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1852. He studied law in Boston in the office of Charles B. Goodrich, and was
admitted to the bar in 1855. He began practice in Boston, but removed first to De-
troit, then to Grand Rapids, and finally in 1860 to Davenport, la. , where he served as

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clerk of the Common Pleas Court until he removed to Quincy, 111. , where he enlisted
as private August 11, 1862, in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois Regi-
ment. He died in the United States Hospital at Vicksburg of intermittent fever
September 26, 1864.

William Henry Harrison Emmons, son of James B. and Jane M. Emmons, was
born in Cleveland, O., August 29, 1841, and was educated in his youth at the public
schools of Cleveland, and at Union School, Lockport, N. Y. After fitting for college
he entered the army and served four years. He then studied law in New York city
in the office of Oliver Dyer and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar April 24, 1875. During the war he was second lieutenant, first lieutenant
and adjutant in the One Hundred and Thirtieth New York Regiment of Infantry,
afterwards made the First New York Dragoons, captain and assistant adjutant-gen-
eral of the Cavalry Reserve of the Army of the Potomac, also assistant adjutant-gen-
eral of the district of West Tennessee and of Mississippi. He was a member of the
Boston Common Council in 1884 and 1885, and has been judge of the East Boston
District Court since March, 1886. He married Sarah T. Butler in Boston, Septem-
ber 18, 1866, and lives in Boston.

Charles A. Drew graduated at Harvard in 1870, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in June, 1872, and lives in Boston.

Freeman Emmons, son of Dimon and Mary Ann (Currier) Emmons, was born in
Lyman, Me., March 1, 1845, and was educated at the common schools in Lyman and
at the High School in Alfred, Me. He studied law in Boston in the office of Daniel W.
Gooch, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1880. He was clerk and treas-
urer of the. Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company previous to its sale to the State
of Massachusetts in 1884. He is largely engaged in the pension business, and has
had at one time as many as four thousand claims in his hands. He married Maria
Richardson at Waterville, Me., September 2, 1869, and lives in Wakefield, Mass.

Henry Butler Emmons, son of William H. H. and Sarah Tilton (Butler) Emmons,
was born in Boston, July 29, 1867, and attended the public schools. He studied law
with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 23, 1889. His residence is
in Boston.

John Henry Colby, son of John F. and Ruthey E. (Cloutman) Colby, was born in
Randolph, Mass., January 13, 1862, and fitting for college at the Boston public schools,
graduated at Dartmouth in 1885. He studied law with John F. Colby and at the
Boston University Law School, where he graduated in 1889, and in June of that year
was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He married Annie Evarts Cornelius in Boston, Oc-
tober 8, 1891, and lives in Boston.

Mark C. Collins, was born in Boston, September 24, 1849, and was educated at
the public schools. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1879 and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880.

Freeman Turner Crommett, son of James R. and Betsey (Turner) Crommett, was
born in Sebec, Me., October 2, 1850, and was educated at Foxcroft Academy and at
Bates College, where he graduated in 1874. He studied law in South Paris, Me.,
with George A. Wilson, and graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1879.
He was admitted to the bar at Oxford, Me. , in April, 1877, and to the Suffolk bar in

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December, 1879. He was a member of the School Board in South Paris from 1875 to
1877, and taught school in that town from 1874 to 1877. He married Annie C, daugh-
ter of Orrin W. and Mary Bent, in Paris, Me., October 20, 1880, and lives in
Chelsea.

John F. Cronan was born in Boston April 9, 1856, and was educated at the com-
mon schools and the Boston English High School. He studied law at the Boston
University Law School, and in the office of F. A. Perry, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in May, 1879, at the age of twenty-three. He was a campaign speaker
in 1876, advocating the election of Samuel J. Tilden to the presidency.

Guy Cunningham, son of Sylvester, was born in Gloucester, Mass., April 19, 1867,
and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He attended the Harvard Law School and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891. His residence is at Gloucester.

Francis P. Curran, son of Patrick and Ellen Curran, was born in Woburn, Mass.,
August 31, 1862, and was educated at the Woburn High School. He studied law at
the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the bar of Middlesex county
in July, 1885. He has been selectman, city solicitor, water commissioner, and chair-
man of the Board of Assessors in Woburn, where he has his residence. He married
Ida M. Gilman (Colby). He is editor of the Woburn City Press, with his law office
in Boston.

Nathan Currier, son of Albert and Hannah Currier, was born June 22, 1858, and
was educated at the Goddard Seminary and at Tufts College, where he graduated in
1883. He was admitted to the bar of York county, Me., January 8, 1880, and to the
Suffolk bar in June, 1890. He married Clara May Smith in Enfield, N. H. , July 14,
1886, and lives in the Roxbury District of Boston.

Charles H. Crosby, son of Watson and Desire Crosby, was born in Brattleboro,
Vt. , and was educated at the Brattleboro Academy. He studied law with Luther
Adams in Chester, Vt. , and was admitted to the Vermont bar in Woodstock, Febru-
ary 2, 1848, and to the Suffolk bar November 7, 1878. He is the author of "Letters
from Abroad." He married Mary L. Hart, at Guilford, Vt., November 8, 1849, and
lives in the Roxbury District of Boston.

J. Porter Crosby, son of Asa Stone and Eliza Barker (Snow) Crosby, was born in
Boston, May 23, 1870, and was educated at the Boston public schools. He studied
law at the Boston University Law School, and in the office of Arthur F. Means, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1891. He lives in Boston.

Simon Greenleaf Croswell, son of Andrew and Caroline Augusta (Greenleaf)
Croswell, was born in Newton, Mass., August 3, 1854, and was educated at the Cam-
bridge High School and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1875. He stud-
ied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Albert Mason, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1879. He is the author of " Croswell on
Executors," and a "Collection of Patent Cases." He has also edited "Greenleaf
on Evidence," "Washburn on Easements," and jointly with J. Willard, "Wash-
burn on Real Property." He lives in Cambridge.

James T. Cummings, son of John and Mary R. Cummings, was born in Providence,
R. I., July 20, 1865, and graduated at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester.
He studied law with John W. Cummings, and graduated at the Boston University
Law School, being admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1891.

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Michael Joseph Canavan was born in Somerville, Mass., and was educated at the
Somerville High School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1871. Immediately
after leaving college he spent two years in Gottingen, Germany, and entering the
Harvard Law School graduated in 1876. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Febru-
uarv 12, 1877. He is a trustee of the Somerville Public Library and lives in that
town.

Ira Oshorn Carter, son of Lewis and Sarah (Sawyer) Cai'ter, was born in Berlin,
Mass., November 18, 1832, and graduated at Paducah College, Kentucky, in 1853, and
was afterwards for a time one of its professors. He studied law at the Harvard Law
School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 11, 1864. He married March 6,
1860, Susan French, daughter of Walter and Roxana (Fletcher) Shattuck, of Groton,
Mass., and died at Arlington, Mass., February 13, 1885.

William E. Cassidy was born in Boston in 1856 and was educated at the Lawrence
Grammar School in that city. He studied law at the Boston University Law School
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He was commissioner of insolvency in
1884-85-86.

Thomas Henderson Chandler was born in Boston, July 4, 1827, and fitting for
college at the Boston Latin School, graduated at Harvard in 1848. He graduated at
the Harvard Law School in 1853. He taught in the Latin School three years and a
private school three years. In 1857 he began the study of dentistry, and has been
for a number of years dean of the dental department of Harvard, and professor of
mechanical dentistry. He is in the practice of dentistry in Boston.

Salmon Chase was born in Cornish, N. H., in 1761, and graduated at Dartmouth
in 1785. He studied law with Judge Sherburne, and his name is on the roll of ad-
missions to the Suffolk bar by the Supreme Court before 1807. He practiced in
Portland, and died in 1806.

Edward Vernon Childe, son of David Weld and Abigail (Dorr) Child, was born
in Boston, March 13, 1804. His original name, Ebenezer Dorr Child, was changed
by act of the Legislature February 8, 1823. He fitted for college at the Boston Latin
School, and graduated at Harvard in 1823. He studied law in Boston in the office of
Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar by the Common Pleas Court in
October, 1826, and by the Supreme Judicial Court in October, 1829. He soon aban-
doned the law and became a resident of Paris, France, where he devoted himself to
literary pursuits. He was the Paris correspondent of the London Times from Novem-
ber 3, 1845, to June 7, 1856, and of the New York Courier and Enquirer from October
17, 1846, to December 4, 1856. His letters to both journals were published in a
volume for private circulation. He married in 1831 Mildred, daughter of General
Henry Lee, of Virginia, and died in Paris, January 23, 1861.

Walter Lenoir Church, son of Samuel S. and Julia (Lenoir) Church, was born in
Lexington, Ky. , October 17, 1849, and was educated at the Kentucky University, the
Missouri University, and Washington University. He studied law in St. Louis, Mo.,
with Thomas A. Russell, and at the Washington University Law School. He was
admitted to the bar in Missouri in 1872, in Colorado in 1880, in Kentucky in 1887,
and in Massachusetts in 1890. He has devoted himself to literary pursuits, aside
from his law practice, and has published essays, poems and stories. He married

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Sue Alexine Campbell in St. Louis, December 28, 1876, and lives in the Brighton
District of Boston.

John Maitland Brewer Churchill, son of Asaph and Mary (Brewer) Churchill,
was born in Dorchester, Mass., January 18, 1858, and was educated at the Boston
Latin School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1879. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He is unmarried,
and lives in Boston.

George Kuhn Clarke, son of Samuel Greeley and Martha (Kuhn) Clarke, was born
in Cambridge. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1883, and
became a member of the Suffolk bar. He married Ellen M., daughter of Harrison
Dudley, of Cambridge.

Albe Cady Clark, son of Satchwell W. and Ruth (Folsom) Clark, was born in
Franklin, N. H., August 31, 1826, and was educated at the Gilmanton Academy and
at Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law in Lowell in the office of John P.
Robinson, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
October, 1852. He has been a member of the Dorchester School Board, and was a
representative in 1873-74. He married at Lowell, October 1, 1855, Josephine Varn'ey,
and lives in the Dorchester district of Boston.

Albert E. Clary, son of John and Sybel H. Clary, was born in Troy, Me., March
15, 1848, and was educated at the public schools and at Wilbraham Academy in Wil-
braham, Mass. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1875 and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in the same year. While living in Troy he was town
clerk and chairman of the School Board and is now special justice of the East Boston
District Court, appointed in 1886. Prior to 1875 he taught school a number of years
in Maine. He married at Saco, Me., April 14, 1881, Rosalia L. Dunn, and lives in
East Boston.

Andrew Jackson Clough, son of Winthrop and Susan (Bryant) Clough, was born
in Montpelier, Vt. , August 3, 1831. He studied law in New Ipswich with John Pres-
ton and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 5,
1857. He practiced at Groton Junction and lived in Shirley, and was appointed trial
justice September 28, 1858. He served in the war as captain of Company D, Fifty-
third Massachusetts Regiment, and was discharged January 22, 1863. He married,
March 6, 1860, Mary Jane, daughter of Lewis and Almira Woods (Hartwell) Blood,
of Shirley, and died at Shirley, June 14, 1868.

Moses Gill Cobb, son of Elias Hull and Rebecca Buttrick (Gill) Cobb, was born in
Princeton, Mass., November 24, 1820, and removed with his parents to Groton in
1834. He was educated at the Lawrence Academy in Groton and at Harvard, where
he graduated in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 26 in that year. He was associated in prac-
tice with James Dana in Charlestown, where he was a member of the Common Council
in 1847 and 1848, and an alderman in 1853. In 1855 he removed to Dorchester and
was a member of the Executive Council in 1856. He married, October. 14, 1846,
Sophia, daughter of Edmund and Sophia (Sewall) Munroe, of Boston, and is now in
the practice of his profession in California.

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John Stoker Cobb, son of John Saxelby and Harriett W. Cobb, was born in Eng-
land, January 7, 1842, and was educated in the higher schools of England. He
studied law at the Columbia College Law School in New York, and was admitted to
to the New York bar in 1875, and to the Suffolk bar in 1884. His residence is in
Boston.

Amoky Eliot, son of William Prescott and Eleanor (Chapin) Eliot, was born May
26, 1856, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Harvard, where he
graduated in 1877. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the
offices of M. & C. A. Williams and James C. Davis, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in May, 1880. He married Mary Clark in Boston, December 7, 1881.

Thomas Jefferson Emery, son of Hiram and Margaret (Young) Emery, was born
in Poland, Me., December 26, 1845, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1868. He
studied law in Boston in the office of D. C. Linscott and at the Boston University Law
School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 15, 1877. He was a member of
the Boston Common Council in 1881-82-83, and of the Boston School Board in 1889-
90-91. He lives in Boston.

Abraham Edwards, son of Abraham and Martha Edwards, was born in Boston,
September 7, 1796, and was fitted for college under the care of Charles Folsom. He
graduated at Harvard in 1819, and after studying law with Judge Fay was admitted
to the bar in Middlesex county in September, 1822. He began to practice in Brigh-
ton< now a part of Boston, and continued there until 1832, when he removed to Cam-
bridge, of which city he was mayor in 1848. He married Anne, daughter of Josiah
and Nancy Moore, and died in Cambridge, February 5, 1870.

Charles H. Edson, son of Henry and Mary M. Edson, was born in East Bridge-
water, Mass. , September 3, 1848, and was educated at the East Bridgewater High
School, and the Bridgewater Academy. He studied law at the Columbian Law
School at Washington, D. C, and in East Bridgewater in the office of William H.
Osborne, and was admitted to the bar in Washington in October, 1879, and to the
Massachusetts bar in Plymouth in February, 1880. He married at East Bridgewater,
December 24, 1879, Mary M., daughter of Benjamin Winslow Harris, and lives in
Whitman, Mass., with his office in Boston.

George Alfred Paul Codwise, son of George W. and L. C. Beatrice Codwise, was
born in York, Penn., September 5, 1859, and was educated at Union College, Sche-
nectady, N. Y. He, studied law at the Boston University Law School, and in the
office of George Z. Adams, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1884. He
married Annie M. Pope at Waltham, Mass., June 9, 1891, and lives at Wellesley
Hills, near Boston.

John W. Converse, son of Nelson and Sally M. Converse, was born in Marlboro',
N. H., July 3, 1848, and was educated at the Marlboro' public schools, the academy
at Newbury, Vt. , the academy at Westbrook, Me. , and the academy at New Ipswich,
N. H. He studied law in Keene, N. H., with Wheeler & Faulkner, and in Spring-
field, Mass., with Soule & Lathrop, and was admitted to the bar October 29, 1872.
He has been an alderman in Somerville, where he has his residence. He married at
Laconia, N. H., Mrs. Georgiana E. Huckins, March 3, 1880.

Michael B. Coogan was born in New Bedford, March 21, 1858, and was educated
at the public schools in Providence, R. I. , and at the Phillips Grammar School in

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Boston. He studied law in Boston in the offices of Joseph Bennett and Owen A.
Galvin, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1888. He was a clerk in the
office of the United States marshal under Nathaniel P. Banks and Henrjr B. Lover-
ing, and also special operative of the United States secret service of the Treasury De-
partment in 1888 and 1889, but is now in active practice. He married, November 29,
1883, in Boston, Mary E. Connell, and has his residence in Cambridgeport.

Horace Hopkins Coolidge, son of Amos and Louisa (Hopkins) Coolidge, was born
in Boston, February 11, 1832, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at
Harvard, where he graduated in 1852. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in
1856, and after further study, in Boston in the office of Brooks & Ball was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in June, 1857. He has been commissioner of insolvency and master
in chancery, was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1865-
66-67, and a member of the Senate in 1869-70-71-72, serving the last three years as
its president. He married in Boston, October 27, 1857, Eunice Maria Weeks, and has
his residence in Boston.

William Henry Coolidge, son of William Leander and Sarah Isabella (Washburn)
Coolidge, was born in Natick, Mass., February 23, 1859, and graduated at Harvard
in 1881. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of
Hyde, Dickinson & Howe, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1885.
He is assistant attorney of the Boston and Lowell and Boston and Maine Railroads, and
lives at Newton, with an office in Boston occupied by the firm of Strout & Coolidge,
of which he is a member. He married May Humphreys, of St. Louis, October 3,
1887, at Bergen Point, N. J.

John Colby Coombs, son of Josiah C. and Abigail E. Coombs, was born in Bow-
doinham, Me., March 9, 1845, and graduated atBowdoin College in 1869. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Jewell, Gaston & Field,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 8, 1872. He lives in Boston.

Clarence H. Cooper, son of Elias H. and Ruth E. Cooper, was born in New
Haven, Conn., March 18, 1853, and was educated at the common and high schools
of that city. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston with John
Lathrop, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 18, 1878. He is at. present
assistant clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk county, and lives in Boston.

Frank M. Copeland, son of Almon and Elizabeth A. Copeland, was born in Mans-
field, Mass., April 19, 1854, and was educated at Marietta College, Marietta, O.
He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in Boston in the office of
Ely & Gates, and was admitted t6 the Suffolk bar in 1883. He lives in Newton.

William A. Copeland, son of Almon and Elizabeth A. Copeland, was born in Mans-
field, Mass., October 23, 1855, and graduated at Amherst College in 1877. He studied
law at the Boston University Law School and in Boston in the offices of Richard H.
Dana and of J. E. Maynadier, and was admitted to the bar of Bristol county in 1880.
He has held many town offices in Mansfield, where he has his residence, and was a
member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the First Bristol Dis-
trict in 1883.

Joseph J. Corbett, son of James and Hannah Corbett, was born in Charlestown,
Mass., December 24, 1863, and was educated at the Charlestown High School. He

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graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1885, and in December of that
year was admitted to the Suffolk bar. His residence is in the Charlestown District of
Boston.

Josiah Parsons Cooke, son of Noah and Mary Rockwood Cooke, was born in New
Ipswich, N. H., February 15, 1787. He was descended from Major Aaron Cooke,
who probably came from Earls Colne in Essex county, England, with the first set-
tlers of Dorchester, Mass., in 1630. The ancestor Aaron removed to Windsor, Conn.,
and in 1661 settled in Northampton, where he died in 1690. His son Aaron lived in
Hadley, and there Noah Cooke, the fourth in descent from him, was born. Noah
Cooke graduated at Harvard in 1769 and served as chaplain in the Revolutionary
War. He practiced law in New Ipswich, and married Mary Rockwood, of Winchester,
N. H. The subject of this sketch, at four years of age, in 1791 removed with his
parents to Keene, N. H., where he attended the public schools and the Chesterfield
Academy, and entering Dartmouth College graduated in 1807. He studied law with
his father in Keene and was admitted to the Common Pleas bar of Suffolk county in
1810 and to the Supreme Judicial bar in 1813. He began practice in an office in the
old State House in State street, Boston, and from the tower of that building saw the
battle between the Chesapeake and Shannon. Mr. Cooke at his death was the
oldest member of the Suffolk bar and had held a commission of justice of the peace
and of the quorum sixty-four years, his first commission having been signed by Gov-
ernor Strong in 1816 and his last by Governor Rice in 1878. It has been said by one
who knew him well and revered his memory, "that he had so long outlived his gen-
eration that he was not known to many of the recent active members of his profes-
sion ; but the records of the courts and the fruits of his industry furnish abundant
evidence that during his active life few legal advisers were more trusted than this
quiet and unostentatious attorney." Mr. Cooke was the confidential counsellor and
friend of the saintly Bishop Cheverus, who from his subsequent great elevation wrote
to his Boston lawyer: "The little Bishop of Boston enjoyed more real peace and
happiness than the Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux and Peer of France." Mr.
Cooke married in 1826, Mary, daughter of John Pratt, a Boston merchant, who died
five years after marriage at Santa Cruz. Josiah Parsons Cooke, Erving professor of
chemistry and mineralogy in Harvard College, is his son, and his only daughter
married Professor H. B. Nash of the same institution. Mr. Cooke died in Boston,
February 29, 1880, at the age of ninety -three years.

John Spaulding, son of John and Eleanor (Bennett) Spaulding, was born in Town-
send, Mass., August 8, 1817. He is descended from Edward Spaulding, who came
to New England about 1630, and settled in Braintree, Mass., and his father, John
Spaulding, the father of the subject of this sketch, was the sixth in descent from the
ancestor. He was educated in the public schoo s of Townsend, and at Phillips Acad-
emy, and entered Yale College in 1842. At various times before entering college he
was employed on his father's farm and in teaching school, all the while gaining all
the knowledge he could from observation and study preparatory to the career he had
marked out for himself. He was obliged on account of ill health to leave college in
his senior year, but though failing to graduate with his class, he received at a later
period the degree of Master of Arts. In 1850 he graduated at the Harvard Law
School, and after further pursuing his law studies in Groton, in the office of George

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Frederick Farley, was admitted to the bar in 1851. He began practice in Groton
and after remaining there, in the central village and at Groton Junction, about twenty
years, removed to Boston, where he has continued in business to the present time.
At the time of the establishment of the First Northern Middlesex District Court he
was appointed special justice, and still holds that office. He married Charlotte A.,
daughter of Alpheus Bigelow, of Weston, who died June 24, 1889. He lives in the
Roxbury District of Boston.

George Francis Richardson, son of Daniel and Hannah (Adams) Richardson, was
born in Tyngsboro, Mass. , December 6, 1829. He was educated at Phillips Exeter
Academy and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1850. He graduated at the Har-
vard Law School in 1853 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 25 of that year.
After practicing in Boston a few years he became in 1858 a partner of his brother,
Daniel S. Richardson, in Lowell, as the successor of his brother, William A. Rich-
ardson, who had been appointed judge of probate and insolvency for Middlesex
county. In 1862 and 1863 he was a member of the Common Council of Lowell, and
president of the Board. In 1864 he was alderman, and in 1867 and 1868 was mayor
of the city. In 1871 and 1872 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. He
has also been a member of the School Board, trustee of the City Library, presi-
dent of the Middlesex Mechanic Association, director of the Prescott National Bank,
president of the Lowell Manufacturing Company, and either trustee, director, or
president of other institutions. ;

Charles Russell Train, son of Rev. Charles and Hepsibah (Harrington) Train,
was born in Framingham, Mass., October 18, 1817. He was educated at the Fra-
mingham public schools, the Framingham Academy, and at Brown University, where
he gradtiated in 1837. He read law in Cambridge and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in July, 1841. He settled in Framingham, and was a representative in 1847 and
member of the Constitutional Convention in 1853. He was district attorney from
1848 to 1855, a member of the Executive Council in 1857-58, and member of Congress
from 1859 to 1863. Not long after his retirement from Congress he removed to Bos-
ton and in 1871 was a representative from that city, and held by election the office of
attorney-general of the Commonwealth from 1872 to 1879. He published in 1855,
jointly with Franklin F. Head, "Precedents of Indictments, Special Pleas, etc.,
Adapted to American Practice." He died at North Conway, N. H., July 29, 1885.
He was a volunteer aide on the staff of his friend, General George H. Gordon, and
took part in the battle of Antietam. He was an excellent lawyer, a man of fine
social qualities, and was universally beloved.

William Wetmore Story, son of Judge Joseph Story, was born in Salem, Mass.,
February 12, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1838. He graduated at the Harvard
Law School in 1840, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1841. He soon
abandoned the law for the profession of sculpture, in which he has become dis-
tinguished. Among his best works are the bust of his father and the statues of Ed-
ward Everett and Chief Justice Marshall, one in the Boston Public Garden and the
other in Washington at the west front of the Capitol. He is now in Italy.

Daniel Samuel Richardson, son of Daniel and Hannah (Adams) Richardson, was
descended from Ezekiel Richardson, who came to Massachusetts with Winthrop in
1630. Daniel, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a lawyer in Tyngsboro,

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Mass., who at various times was senator and representative, and had three children,
Daniel Samuel, the oldest, William Adams, late secretary of the treasury, and now
chief justice of the United States Court of Claims, and George Francis, already
mentioned in this register. Daniel Samuel fitted for college at the Derry Academy,
New Hampshire, and graduated at Harvard in 1836. He graduated at Harvard
Law School in 1839 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 9 of that year. He set-
tled in Lowell, and it is said that during his long practice he argued more than three
hundred cases, which are included in the Massachusetts Reports. In 1842-43-47 he
was a representative, and in 1862 a Senator. In 1845 and 1846 he was a member
and president of the Lowell Common Council, and in 1848 a member of the Board
of Aldermen, and an officer of corporations and other institutions too numerous to
mention. He died in Lowell, March 21, 1890.

Joel Giles was born in Townsend, Mass., in 1804, and graduated at Harvard in
1829, and was for a time after graduating a tutor in the college. He was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in April, 1837. He delivered the Fourth of July oration in Boston m
1848, was a representative and senator, and a member of the Constitutional Conven-
tion in 1853. He died in Boston in 1882.

John Giles, brother of the above, was born in Townsend in 1806, and graduated at
Harvard in 1831. He read law with Parsons & Stearns in Boston, and died in June,
1838.

Alfred Brewster Ely, son of Rev. Alfred Ely, was born in Monson, Mass., Jan-
uary 13, 1817. He was educated at the Monson Academy and at Amherst College,
where he graduated in 1836. After leaving college he taught the Donaldson Academy
at Fayetteville, N. C, and the High School in Brattleboro, Vt. He studied law in
Springfield, Mass., with Chapman & Ashmun and in Boston with Sidney Bartlett, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 22, 1844. He established himself in Boston with
a residence in Newton, and became an early and active " Native American." He in-
troduced into Massachusetts in 1846 the " Order of United Americans." He was at
one time State director of the Western Railroad and commissioner of Back Bay Lands.
In 1861 he was quartermaster of the Thirteenth Connecticut Regiment, and in 1862 as-
sistant adjutant-general of the Northern Division of the Department of the South. He
married first a daughter of Charles J. Cooley, of Norwich, Conn., and second, Har-
riet Elizabeth, daughter of Freeman Allen, of Boston, and died in Newton, Julv 30,
1872.

Henry H. Fuller, son of Rev. Timothy Fuller, was born in Princeton, Mass., in
1790, and graduated at Harvard in 1811. He read law in Litchfield, Vt., with Chief
Justice Reeves and Judge Gould, and also in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in the Common Pleas Court September 19, 1815, and in the Supreme Judicial
Court December 26, 1817. He died in Concord, Mass., September 15, 1853. He was
not only a sound lawyer, but a man of pungent humor and keen sarcasm. His pres-
ence as counsel in court was always sure to attract a general attendance of the
younger members of the bar. If his opponent had any strong point in his favor,
whether of the law, or oratory, or personal character, he would inevitably weaken it
by some sally of wit, which often gave not only the laugh but the verdict to his side.
He was, for instance, once trying a case with Samuel Hoar, of Concord, on the other
side. Mr. Hoar was a man universally respected for his dignity, conscientiousness

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and integrity, and his almost prayerful seriousness rarely failed to impress the jury
with the justice of his cause. After one of his impressive appeals, Mr. Fuller arose
and said, ' ' Now, gentlemen of the jury, let us close the exercises of this solemn occa-
sion, etc." From that moment Mr. Hoar's appeal was dead. Its recall only excited
a smile and the effect which his solemnity usually inspired was lost.

George Morey was born in Walpole, Mass., June 12, 1789, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1811. He read law with Luther Lawrence in Groton, Mass., and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar March 16, 1818. He was an active member of the Whig
party, and was a member of both branches of the Massachusetts Legislature, and of
the Executive Council. He died in 1866.

James Temple, son of Benjamin, was born in Concord, Mass., September 20, 1766,
and graduated at Dartmouth in 1794. He taught school in Concord in 1795 and 1796,
and read law with Jonathan Fay of that town. His name is on the roll of admissions
to the Suffolk bar by the Supreme Court before 1807. He settled in Cambridge, and
died March 10, 1802.

Silas Lee, son of Joseph Lee, was born in Concord, Mass., July 3, 1760, and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1784. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and settled in what
is now Wiscasset, Me. He was a representative in 1800 and 1801, and a member
of the Sixth Congress. In January, 1802, he was appointed United States district at-
torney for Maine, and in 1807 judge of probate of Lincoln county. He died March 1,
1814.

Peter Clark, son of Benjamin, was born in Concord, Mass., in 1756, and gradu-
ated at Harvard in 1777. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and settled in South-
boro', where he died in July, 1792.

Daniel Bliss Ripley, son of Rev. Ezra Ripley, was born in Concord in 1788, and
graduated at Harvard in 1808. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar and died at St.
Stephens, Ala., April 30, 1825.

Stephen Scales, born in Boston, graduated at Harvard 1763. He was admitted to
the bar, and in 1772 removed from Boston to Chelmsford, where he died on the 5th
of November in that year.

John Wesley Titus, son of Asher S. and Betsey N. (Ellsworth) Titus, was born in
Salem, Mass., and was educated at the public schools. He studied law at the Har-
vard Law School and in Boston in the office of Josiah W. Hubbard, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar April 25, 1859. He is unmarried and lives in Dedham.

Charles E. Todd, son of Charles A. and Mary A. Todd, was born in Newbury-
port, Mass., August 21, 1856, and was educated at the Lyme High School and under
private instruction. He graduated at the Boston University Law School, and was
admitted to the bar in Salem, Mass., May 1, 1880. He lives in Melrose.

William Nelson Titus, son of William Nelson and Martha J. Titus, was born in
Alna, Lincoln county, Me., January 12, 1855, and received his early education at the
common schools, afterwards attending the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, and Waterville
Classical Institute, and Maine State College. He studied law with William H. Hilton in
Damariscotta, Me., and with Almore Kennedy in Waldoboro', Me., and was admitted
to the Maine bar in Lincoln county in April, 1879. He was on the bench in the Rhode
Island District Court from 1882 to 1885, and was admitted to the Kansas bar in 1885.

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Removing to Massachusetts he was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in Feb-
ury, 1886. He has been a frequent contributor of financial and other articles to the
Kennebec Journal and Boston Daily Advertiser. He married Frances Gracia at
Waldoboro', Me., December 27, 1881, and has his residence in Medford.

George Arnold Torrey, son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Arnold) Torrey, was born in
Fitchburg, Mass., May 14, 1838, and was educated at Leicester Academy and at Har-
vard' College, where he graduated in 1859. He studied law at the Harvard Law
School, and was admitted to the Worcester bar at Fitchburg in June, 1861. He was
senator from the Fifth Worcester District in 1872 and 1873, and has been general
counsel for the Fitchburg Railroad Company since 1887. He married Ellen M. Shir-
ley at Boston in June, 1861, and lives in Boston.

George Makepeace Towle was born in Washington, D. C, August 27, 1841, and
graduated at Yale in 1861. He attended the Harvard Law School, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar November 14, 1862. He was United States consul at Nantes from
1866 to 1868, and then consul at Bradford, England, till 1870. He was a delegate to
the National Republican Convention in 1888, manufacturing editor of the Com-
mercial Bulletin in 1870-71, and foreign editor of the Boston Post from 1871 to
1876.

Willliam Warren Towle, son of Dr. William C. and Annie E. Towle, was born in
Fryeburg, Me., August 21, 1860, and was educated at the Fryeburg Academy and at
Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1881. He graduated at the Boston Univer-
sity Law School in 1884, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 23, 1884. He
was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1889 and 1890, and lives in Boston.

William Ropes Trask, son of Charles Hooper and Martha (Reed) Trask, was born
in New York city, Jannary 9, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He attended
the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. He is un-
married and lives in Boston.

Bentley Wirt Warren, son of William Wirt and Mary (Adams) Warren, was born
in Brighton, Mass., April 20, 1864, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and
at Williams College, where he graduated in 1885. He studied law at the Boston
University Law School and in the office of Thomas P. Proctor, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. He was a representative in 1891-92. He lives, in
the Brighton District of Boston.

George Hill Mullin, son of Arthur and Mary Mullin, was born in the county of
Londonderry, Ireland, November 17, 1834, and coming to America, was educated at
the Madras and grammar schools of New Brunswick. He studied law with Judge
Duff, late of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, and at the Harvard Law School,
from which he graduated in 1868. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme
Court of New Brunswick October 21, 1869, and as barrister in 1870. He was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar June 10, 1871.
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Sherman Leland was born in Grafton, Mass., March 29, 1783, and was educated

at the common schools. He began to study law in October, 1805, and was admitted
to the bar in Worcester in December, 1809. He began practice at Eastport, Me., in
January, 1810, and October 11, 1811, he was appointed attorney for Washington county.
He was a representative in 1812, and from December, 1812, to April, 1813, he served

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as first lieutenant on the frontier. He was then made captain in the Thirty-fourth
United States Regiment, and served until January 5, 1814, when he removed to
Roxbury and soon after opened an office in Boston. He was a representative from
Roxbury in 1818-19-21-22-25, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, a
senator from Norfolk county in 1823-24-28-29, and president of the Senate in the last
year. He was appointed judge of probate for Norfolk county January 26, 1830, and
served until his death, which occurred November 19, 1853. He received the degree
of Master of Arts from Harvard in 1826.

William Sherman Leland, son of the above, was born in Roxbury, October 12,
1824, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law with his father and
was a member of the Suffolk county bar in 1852. He succeeded his father as judge
of probate for Norfolk county and remained in office until 1858, when the office was
abolished and that of judge of probate and insolvency was established. He died
July 26, 1869.

" Samuel Haven, son of Rev. Jason Haven, was born in Dedham, April 5, 1771, and
graduated at Harvard in 1789. His mother was a daughter of Rev. Samuel Dexter,
of Dedham, and Samuel Dexter, the distinguished lawyer, was his cousin. He
studied law in Dedham with Fisher Ames, and in Boston with his cousin,, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar. When the county of Norfolk was established in
1793 he was appointed register of probate and register of deeds. In 1802 he was
appointed a special justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Norfolk county, and in
1804 chief justice, serving until the court was abolished in 1811. He held the office
of register of deeds until 1833, when he removed to Roxbury where he died September
4, 1847.

Thomas Greenleaf was born in Boston May 15, 1767, and graduated at Harvard
in 1784. He was admitted to the bar in Suffolk county in October, 1809, and early
in the century removed to Quincy- He was a representative from Quincy from 1808
to 1820, a member of the Executive Council from 1820 to 1822, and in 1806 was ap-
pointed a special justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He died January 5, 1854.

Ebenezer F. Thayer was born in Braintree June 12, 1784, and studied law with
Henry Maurice Lisle in Milton, and with James Sullivan in Boston. He was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1811, and practiced in Boston six or eight years
associated with Samuel K. Williams, when he removed to Braintree, where he died
February 15, 1824.

John B. Derby was admitted to the bar in 1821, and practiced in Boston and
Dedham.

David Allen Simmons was born in Boston, November 7, 1785, and was educated at
the Chesterfield Academy in New Hampshire. He studied law with Thomas Will-
iams in Roxbury, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 28, 1816. He practiced
law in Boston, associated at various times with George Gay, James M. Keith and
Harvey Jewell. He received the degree of LL.B. from Dartmouth, and died in
Roxbury, November 20, 1859.

Percy Gardner Bolster, son of Solomon A. and Sarah (Jordan) Bolster, was born
in Roxbury, August 20, 1865, and graduated at Harvard in 1886. He studied law at
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the Harvard Law School, in the office of Hamlin & Holland, of Chicago, and with
William Gaston in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1891.

Isaac F. Paul was born in Dedham, November 26, 1856, and was educated in the
public schools of that town, and at Dartmouth, where he graduated in 1878. He was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, but has up to the present time devoted himself
largely to teaching. For the last twelve years he has been an instructor in the even-
ing schools of Boston, and for the last six years the headmaster of the Boston Even-
ing High School. Since November 8, 1892, he has resumed the practice of
law, having resigned the position which he held in the schools. He was for several
years editor of the United States Digest. His residence is in Boston.

William F. Murray was born in 1859, and studied law at the Boston University
Law School. For a time he was a teacher in the Evening High School in Boston, but
since about 1880 has been connected with the Boston Herald and other journals.
He is the secretary of the Boston Press Club, and resides in the Charlestown Dis-
trict. The editor is not sure that he was ever admitted to the bar.

Timothy F. McDonough, son of Michael and Margaret McDonough, was born in
Portland, Me. , November 2, 1858, and was educated at the Portland public schools
and at Holy Cross College in Worcester, where he graduated in 1880. He studied
law with William L. Putnam in Portland, and was admitted to the bar in Portland in
October, 1882, and to the Suffolk bar February 5, 1883. He married June 14, 1887,
at Woonsocket, R. I., Mary F. Feely, and lives in Boston. •

Theophilus Parsons Chandler was a descendant from Edmund Chandler, who
came to New England and settled in Duxbury, Mass., in 1633. His ancestors lived
in Duxbury through four generations until 1762, when Peleg, the great -great-grand-
son of Edmund, removed to New Gloucester in Maine, where he acquired a large
tract of land at what afterwards became the Lower Corner village, and where he
lived to a great age. He was a prominent man in the district in which he lived,
serving as coroner by appointment of Governor Hutchinson, and in 1784 as repre-
sentative to the General Court of Massachusetts Bay, of which Maine was a part.
His son Peleg Chandler, jr., was born in New Gloucester, September 9, 1773, gradu-
ated at Brown University in 1795, and studied and practiced law in his native town
until 1826, when he removed to Bangor, where he continued until his death January
18, 1847. He married Esther, daughter of Col. Isaac Parsons, of New Gloucester, a
Revolutionary soldier, a representative in 1783 and 1785, and the first cousin of Chief
Justice Theophilus Parsons. She died in Brookline, Mass., in her ninety -first year,
February 10, 1865. Peleg Chandler, jr. , and his wife Esther Parsons were the parents
of ten children of whom the three sons living to maturity were Charles Parsons
Chandler, a lawyer of Foxcroft, Me., who was a State senator in 1857 and died in
that year, Theophilus Parsons Chandler, the subject of this sketch, and Peleg Whit-
man Chandler, who died in Boston, May 28, 1889. Theophilus Parsons Chandler
was born in New Gloucester, Me., October 13, 1807, and was educated at the public
and private schools of his native town, receiving however in 1837 the honorary de-
gree of Master of Arts from Bowdoin College. He studied law with his father and
in the office of Frederick Allen, of Gardiner, Me., and was admitted to practice in
Kennebec county, August 13, 1829. He opened an office in Bangor, Me., October 8,
1829, removed to Gardiner November 19 in the same year, returned to Bangor

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November 4, 1831, where he remained in full practice until the summer of 1836, when
he removed his office to Boston, where it continued more than forty years. For more
than fifteen years he occupied the same offices at No. 4 Court street with John A.
Andrew, with whom at one time he was in partnership, and with whom a warm
friendship was of lifelong duration. Among others with whom he was connected by
a strong attachment and by relations of a most confidential character were William
Pitt Fessenden, Charles Sumner and Salmon P. Chase, all of whom often sought by
an interchange of views to guide and fortify their political courses by the aid of his
counsel and advice. The unhesitating and heroic integrity of Fessenden, the fearless
expressions of anti-slavery sentiments of Sumner, and the masterly ability of Chase
as a financial minister received from him unstinted words of praise and an incentive
to still higher and better efforts. At one time Mr. Sumner says to him, "My dear
Chandler, cheerfully and often I read all that you write. If I do not acknowledge it
at once, it is because I am absorbed in other things. Pray write me always. You
always go right to the point and I understand you." At another he says, "My dear
Chandler: You are in favor of free banking. Will you put the argument on paper?
You always state a case clearly and strongly. Let me have the benefit of your way
of stating the case." Nor did Mr. Chase, full of resources as he was, hesitate to ask
for suggestions from Mr. Chandler which might aid him in formulating that system
of finance including national banks, which made the suppression of the Rebellion
possible. The preference of Mr. Chandler was for equity principles and practice,
and he was actively engaged in important cases chiefly on the equity side of the court
until 1849, when he was called by his clients to take the presidency of the Northern
Railroad of New York, known also as the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Rail-
road, an enterprise of great concern to Boston, which office he held for four years.
William A. Wheeler, of Malone, N. Y. , late vice-president of the United States, with
whom Mr. Chandler became associated at that time, attributed his success in life to
Mr. Chandler's early recognition and aid. Under a resolve of the Massachusetts
Legislature, passed February 5, 1861, Mr. Chandler was appointed one of seven com-
missioners to attend the peace convention in Washington, and in June, 1863, he was
appointed United States assistant treasurer for Boston, holding the office until 1868.
From 1836 to 1848 he was a resident of Boston, and in May, 1848, moved to Brookline,
where he .remained until his death, always taking a deep interest in the welfare of
the town. His efforts were largely the means of establishing the Brookline Public
Library in 1857, and he was one of the trustees until 1866. He organized the
Brookline Land Co., and was a trustee until his death. In politics he was a Free
Soiler and Republican, in theology he was first a Calvinist, but the larger part of his
life a follower of Emanuel Swedenborg, and was a leading spirit in the erection of
the Brookline Swedenborgian church. He married September 20, 1837, Elizabeth J.,
daughter of William Schlatter, a merchant of Philadelphia, and one of the founders
of the Swedenborgian church in that city. Mr. Schlatter was a grandson of Rev.
Michael Schlatter, of St. Gall, Switzerland, whose travels and labors in America pro-
moted by the Christian Synod of the Netherlands lasted from 1746 to 1790, and who
served as chaplain in the French and Indian wars and in the War of the Revolution,
when in 1777 he was imprisoned and his house in Philadelphia sacked by the British
on account of his loyalty to the colonists. Mr. Chandler died at his home in Brook-
line, December 21, 1886. He was the father of seven children, four sons and three

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daughters, all of whom together with his wife survive him, except his oldest son,
Charles Lyon Chandler, lieutenant-colonel of the Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Regi-
ment, who fell in battle near Hanover Court House, Va. , May 24, 1864.

Francis Wayland, son of Rev. Francis Wayland, D.D., and Lucy Lane (Lincoln)
Wayland, was born in Boston in 1826, and was educated at Phillips Academy,
Andover, and at Brown University, where he graduated in 1846. He studied law in
Providence, Springfield, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in July, 1850. He practiced in Worcester about eight years and then
moved to New Haven, Conn., where in 1864 he was chosen judge of probate for the
District of New Haven and served two years. In 1869 he was chosen lieutenant-
governor of Connecticut, and in 1872 was appointed professor in the law department
of Yale University.

Oliver P. C. Billings was born in Woodstock, Vt., September 21, 1836, and was
educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, and at the University of Vermont, where
he graduated in 1857. He studied law in Woodstock and at the Harvard Law School
where he graduated in 1860, and after studying a short time in Boston in the office
of Edward F. Hodges, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 26, 1860. In 1861,
after a trip to Europe, he began practice in Boston, but in 1864 moved to New York,
associating himself in business with Coles Morris. Some years later Michael H.
Cardozo became a member of the firm under the title of Morris, Billings & Cardozo,
and subsequently Billings & Cardozo. In 1872 he was chosen alderman at large for
the city of New York and served four years. He is still in New York city in active
business.

John Shirley Williams was born in Roxbury, May 3, 1772, and graduated at
Harvard in 1797. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807 and practiced
chiefly in Roxbury and Dedham. He was appointed clerk of the courts of Norfolk
county in 1811 and was also at one time county attorney. He died while traveling,
at Ware, Mass. , in May, 1843.

Enos Thompson LucE,rson of Jonathan F. and Sally Luce, was born in Wilton, Me.,
Januury 27, 1832, and was educated at Kent's Hill Seminary, Readfield, Me., Norway
Academy at Norway, Me. , Farmington Academy at Farmington, Me. , and at Bow-
doin College where he graduated in 1856. He studied law with Nathan Clifford in
Portland, and with Charles W. Walton, in Auburn, Me., and was admitted to the bar
at Auburn January 27, 1859. He practiced in Auburn until 1874, when he moved his
residence to Somerville, Mass., and opened an office in Boston, where he was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar June 16, 1875. In Auburn he was a member of the School
Board and of the City Council, judge of the Lewiston Municipal Court, judge of pro-
bate for Androscoggin county, and United States assessor of internal revenue. In
Somerville he was a member of the School Board, and since his removal to Waltham,
where he now resides, he has been judge of the Second Eastern Middlesex District
Court, an office he still holds, and president of the Waltham Savings Bank. He is
the author of " Maine Probate Practice." He married first at Niagara Falls, N. Y. ,
July 22, 1860, Mrs. Phebe L. Adams, and second at Somerville, Mass., September 9,
1879, Sarah J. Mills. He was lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-third Maine Regiment
in the War of 1861.

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Charles Mandeville Ludden, son of John M. and Eleveni J. Ludden, was born at
Canton Point, Me., and graduated at Tufts College in 1886. He graduated at the
Harvard Law School in 1889 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 15, 1889.
He has been city solicitor of Waltham, where he resides, since January 4, 1891,
and was associate editor of the Harvard Law Review in 1888-89. ' He married in
Medford, Mass., November 24, 1891, Kathleen Hobart Hayes.

Rodney Lund was born in Corinth, Vt. , and educated at the Corinth and Bradford
Academies in Vermont. He studied law with Judge Spencer of Corinth, and Robert
McK. Ormsby, of Bradford, and was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1852. He was
deputy secretary of state in Vermont in 1865 and 1866, and in 1867 removed to Bos-
ton where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 24 in that year. He married
at Walcott, Vt., in 1854 Elmyra J. Chubb, and lives in Boston.

Arthur Lyman, son of Arthur T. and Ella (Lowell) Lyman, was born in Waltham,
Mass., in 1861, and was educated at a private school and at Harvard, where he grad-
uated in 1883. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the
office of Gaston & Whitney, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1885. He
married Susan C. Cabot in Brookline in October, 1888, and lives in Waltham.

George Hinckley Lyman, son of Dr. George H. and Maria C. R. (Austin) Lyman,
was born in Boston, December 13, 1850, and was educated at the Boston Latin
School, St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H., and at Harvard, where he graduated in
1873. He studied law in Boston in the office of John C. Gray, at the Harvard Law
School, and in Boston in the office of Lathrop, Bishop & Lincoln, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in May, 1878. He married Caroline Amory, April 26, 1881, and
lives in Boston.

Alonzo V. Lynde, son of Daniel and Prudence A. V. Lynde, was born in Stone-
ham, Mass. , December 28, 1823, and was educated at Gates Academy in Marlboro'
and the Stoneham High School. He studied law in Woburn with Albert H. Nelson,
and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June,
1847. He was register of probate for Middlesex county in 1851-52-53, representative
from Stoneham in 1854, and member of the School Board in that town. He married
in Stoneham in 1846, A. Julia Sweetser, and lives in Melrose.

Forrest C. Manchester, son of Albert B. and Elizabeth M. (Sessions) Manchester,
was born in Randolph, Vt. , September 11, 1859, and was educated at the Randolph
Vermont State Normal School. He studied law at the Boston University Law
School, from which he graduated in 1884, in the office of Perrin & McWain, of Ran-
dolph, and with William Gaston in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July
21, 1885. He was counsel of the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange against the
Pennsylvania Railroad before the Inter-State Commerce Commission, where a prec-
edent of national importance was established and a saving secured of $50,000
annually in rates of freight. This was the first case decided by the commission in
favor of Boston. He married at Pepperell, Mass. , October 22, 1885, Minnie L. Beard,
and lives in Winchester.

Waldo Colburn, son of Thatcher and Hattie Cleveland Colburn, was born in Ded-
ham, Mass., November 13, 1824. He was descended from Nathaniel Colburn, who
came from England in 1637 and received a grant of land in Dedham. He was edu-
cated at the public schools and at Phillips Andover Academy, and May 13,

35© HISTORY OF TBE BENCH AN£> BAR.

1847, entered the office of Ira Cleveland in Dedham as a student of law. He was ad-
mitted to the Norfolk county bar May 3, 1850, after spending a short time at the
Harvard Law School, and settled in Dedham, where he continued in practice till May
27, 1875, when he was appointed by Governor Gaston a judge of the Superior Court.
In 1882 he was appointed by Governor Long to a seat on the bench of the Supreme
Judicial Court, where he remained until his death. He was a representative from
Dedham in 1853-54, and a senator in 1870, and for several years the Democratic can-
didate for attorney-general. He was at various times chairman of the Board of
Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor in Dedham, president of the Dedham
Instution for Savings, and director of the Dedham National Bank. He married first,
November 21, 1852, Mary Ellis, daughter of Bunker Gay, of Dedham, and second,
August 5, 1861, Elizabeth C, daughter of Ezra W. Sampson, of Dedham, and died,
September 26, 1885.

Loammi Baldwin, son of Loammi and Mary (Fowle) Baldwin, was born in
Woburn, May 16, 1780, and fitting for college at Westford Academy, graduated at
Harvard in 1800. He studied law with Timothy Bigelow, and was admitted to the
Middlesex bar in September, 1803. After a short practice in Boston and Cambridge
he abandoned the law and became a civil engineer. He was a member of the Execu-
tive Council in 1835, and presidential elector in 1836. The dry dock in the Charles-
town navy yard was built under his direction. He married first, May 19, 1816, in
Boston, Ann, daughter of George and Lydia (Pickering) Williams, and second, June
22, 1828, in Charlestown, Mrs. Catharine (Williams) Beckford, daughter of Samuel
Williams, the distinguished banker. He died June 30, 1838.

Joshua Dorsey Ball, son of Walter and Mary Ball, was" born in Baltimore, Md. ,
July 11, 1828, and was educated in the schools of his native city. He studied law in
Boston*in the office of Theophilus Parsons Chandler and John A. Andrew, associated
under the firm of Chandler & Andrew, and also in the office of Peleg Whitman Chand-
ler. During a portion of the period of his study he was an assistant clerk in the Cir-
cuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar November 13, 1849. From 1852 to July 1, 1881, he was associated as
partner with the late Benjamin F. Brooks under the firm name of Brooks & Ball.
He has been associated also with Moorfield Storey, and from April, 1887, to his death
he was associated with Benjamin L. M. Tower under the firm name of Ball & Tower.
Mr. Ball, though an ardent Democrat, never mingled his business with politics, but
pursued unremittingly the paths of his profession. In 1861-62 he was a member of
the Boston Common Council and in the latter year president of that body. In the
early part of his career he was an assistant to Peleg Whitman Chandler, city solicitor.
He continued until his death in an active practice covering a wide range of cases in
both the State and United States Courts. He married, July 10, 1856, in Boston,
Emily A. Cole and died in Boston, Sunday, December 18, 1892.

Charles M. Barnes, son of Dr. William A. and Eleanor Barnes, was born in Deca-
tur, Macon county, 111. , October 12, 1854, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy
and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1877. He studied law at the Harvard Law
School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 22, 1880, and in 1882-83 was
an instructor in the Law School. He was associated two years in business with
Nathan Matthews, jr. , and afterwards was a member of the law firm of Barnes, Bond

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& Morison, and has edited the thirteenth edition of Kent's Commentaries. He mar-
ried, October 31, 1882, in Philadelphia, Lillian J. Young, and died in Boston in
March, 1893.

James P. Barlow was born in North Easton, Mass., February 22, 1863, and was
educated at the public schools, graduating from the North Easton High School June
28, 1879. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar July 20, 1886, and is now in practice in Boston.

Edward A. Bangs, son of Edward and Anne Outram Bangs, was born in Water-
town, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in January, 1887, and lives in Boston.

Harry Hudson Barrett, son of Henry and Lucy T. G. (Stearns) Barrett, was born
in Maiden, Mass., March 10, 1851, and was educated at Phillips Andover Academy,
Phillips Exeter Academy and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1874. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices of E. R. & Samuel Hoar,
Charles G. Fall and Stearns & Butler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June,
1882. He represented the Ninth Middlesex District in the House of Representatives
in 1891, and lives unmarried in Maiden.

William Barrett, son of Zimri and Persis (Batchelder) Barrett, was born in Wil-
ton, N. H., Jnly 2, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in 1859. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 8, 1861. He settled
in Wilton, was a representative in 1861, and in 1871 was on the staff of Governor
Weston, of New Hampshire. He married, September 24, 1861, Sarah Ellen, daugh-
ter of Christopher and Maria (Leslie) Paige.

Thomas J. Barry was born in South Boston, January 1, 1857, and attended at vari-
ous times the Lawrence Grammar School, the English High School, the Latin School,
the Chauncy Hall School, Comer's Commercial College, and the College of the Holy
Cross in Worcester. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1881, and after a
term of study in the office of J. M. Baker was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January,
1882. He has been prominent in the ranks of the Democratic party, and taken an
active interest in the public schools of Boston.

Charles W. Bartlett was born in Boston, August 12, 1845, and graduated at
Dartmouth College in 1869. He studied law in the Albany Law School, and was ad-
mitted to the New York bar in Albany in 1871. He practiced in Dover, N. H., two
years, when he moved to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December,
1873. He served in the war of 1861, and has been commander of the John A. An-
drew Post of the Grand Army.

Nehemiah Chase Berry, son of Joshua and Patience (Chase) Berry, was born in
Pittsfield, N. H., November 28, 1811, a twin with a mate, Joshua C. Berry, now liv-
ing in Elvaston, 111. He was educated at the common schools, the Pittsfield Acad-
emy, the Kimball Union Academy, and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated
in 1839. He studied law in Randolph, Mass. , with Aaron Prescott, and was admit-
ted to the bar in Dedham in 1847. In 1850 he opened an office in Boston, where he
continued to practice until December, 1891. He was the author of a work entitled
"Answers and Pleadings in Actions at Law." He married first, January 1, 1840,
Elizabeth W. Berry, and second Hannah H. King, and was killed at the Harvard

352 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

street crossing in Dorchester, where he lived, by a New York and New England
train March 19, 1892.

Joseph Irving Bennett, son of Joseph and Elizabeth R. Bennett, was born in Rox-
bury, Mass., January 26, 1867, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at
Harvard, where he graduated in 1888. He studied law at the Boston University Law
School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1890. He was a member of the
House of Representatives in 1891, and his residence is in the Brighton District of
Boston.

Francis Bernard was born in Nettleham, England, in 1714, and graduated at Ox-
ford in 1736. He studied law and became a bencher of the Middle Temple, and af-
terwards steward and recorder of the city of Lincoln. In 1758 he was appointed
governor of New Jersey, and after two years was transferred to Massachusetts,
where he served until 1769, in which year he was raised to a baronetcy. He died at
Aylesbury, England, June 16, 1779.

Samuel C. Bennett, son of Edward Hatch and Sally (Crocker) Bennett, was born
in Taunton, Mass., April 19, 1858, and was educated at St. Mark's School in South-
boro, Adams Academy, Quincy, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1879. He
studied law with his father, and at the Boston University Law School, where he
graduated in 1882, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1884. He has
held the position of assistant dean and professor in the Boston University Law
School. He married in Brookline, Mass., September 9, 1885, Amy Reeder, daughter
of Edward I. Thomas, and his home is in Weston, Mass.

John A. Bennett, son of Alvin W. and Mary Holman Bennett, was born in Wil-
braham, Mass., October 23, 1848, and was educated at Monson Academy and at Am-
herst College, where he graduated in 1873. He studied law in the Boston University
Law School and in the office of George S. Hillard, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in June, 1876. He has been public administrator for Suffolk county since 1889.
He married Julia R. Smith, of South Hadley, Mass., December 25, 1877, who died
January 4, 1886. His residence is in Boston.

Josiah Kendall Bennett, son of Josiah K. and Lucinda (Nutting) Bennett, was
born in Groton, Mass., February 4, 1831, and was educated at the Lawrence Acad-
emy in Groton, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1853. He was for a time
master of the Hopkins Classical School in Cambridge, and afterwards graduating at
the Harvard Law School in 1855, was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 22, 1856.
He practiced in Boston three years and then removed to Groton, where, May 15,
1872, he was appointed standing justice of the First North Middlesex District Court.
He married June 29, 1865, Abby Ann, daughter of Reuben Lewis and Lucinda (Hill)
Torrey, of Groton. He died January 23, 1874, at Ayer, to which place he had moved
the previous year.

Mark A. Blaisdell, son of David L. and Mary J. Blaisdell, was born in Boston
January 21, 1842, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 28, 1868. At his graduation from the Harvard Law
School in 1867, he received the first prize for an essay on ' ' The Sources and Limita-
tions of the American Common Law." He married Ellen S. Pearsall June 13, 1887,
and lives in Boston.

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Lafayette Gilbert Blair, son of David Gilbert and Mary Jane Pierpont, was born
in Cumberland, Md. , May 8, 1849, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and
at Harvard. He studied law in Boston with George S. Hale, and at the Boston Law
School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1881. He married, June BO, 1887,
at Cambridge, Emma Augusta Coon, and lives in Watertown.

Francis Whitney Bigeluw, son of Tyler Bigelow, was born in Watertown, Mass.,
June 4, 1824, and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He was admitted to the Suffolk
bar October 6, 1846, and died in San Francisco, July 11, 1853.

Edwin Moses Bigelow, son of Levi and Nancy (Ames) Bigelow, was born in
Marlboro', Mass., March 26, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1846. He studied
law in Boston in the office of Edward Blake, and was admitted to the bar in Spring-
field in October, 1847. He married in Boston, where he lives, in 1854, Maria Craw-
ford.

Frank Bolles, son of John A. Bolles, was born in Winchester, Mass., October 31,
1856, and studied law in New York at the Columbia Law School and in Cambridge at
the Harvard Law School. He was at one time assistant editor of the Boston Daily
Advertiser and was probably a member of the Suffolk bar. He married Elizabeth
Swan, of Cambridge.

Lawrence Bond, son of Edward P. and Sarah (Wight) Bond, was born in Nawili-
wili Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Benjamin F. Brooks, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He has been a member of the Board of Alder-
men, president of the Common Council, and one of the School Board in Newton,
where he lives.

John D. Bradley, son of Richard and. Sarah Ann (Williams) Bradley, was born in
Boston, February 9, 1864, and was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., a
private school in Boston and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1886. He was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and lives in Boston.

Henry W. Bragg, son of Willard and Mary E. (Claflin) .Bragg, was born in Hol-
liston, Mass., December 11, 1841, and was educated at the University of the City of
New York and at Tufts College, where he graduated in 1861. He studied law in Nat-
ick, Mass., with John W. Bacon and George L. Sawin, and was admitted to the
Middlesex bar in October, 1864. He was city solicitor of Charlestown from 1867 to
1869 inclusive, and has been justice of the Municipal Court of the Charlestown Dis-
trict of Boston since 1886. He married in Milford, Mass., January 11, 1866, Ellen F.
Haven, and lives in Boston.

William F. Courtney was born in Lowell, Mass., December 10, 1855, and was edu-
cated at the public schools. He studied law at- the Harvard Law School and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar July 8, 1878. In 1886 he became associated in Boston with
Isaac S. Morse. In 1887 he was city solicitor in Lowell.

James Denison Colt, jr., son of Judge James Denison Colt and Elizabeth (Gilbert)
Colt, his wife, was born in Pittsfield, Mass., November 8, 1862, and graduated at
Williams College in 1884. He studied law in Worcester with Bacon, Hopkins &
Bacon, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Worcester in
February, 1887. He lives in Boston.
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Albert F. Converse, sou of Sherman and Elizabeth C. Converse, was born in
Woburn, Mass., April 5, 1862, and studied law at the Boston University Law School.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and lives in Woburn.

John Shepard Keyes, of Concord, had an office in Boston in 1860, and his name
appears on the roll of lawyers in Boston in that year. The son of John and Ann
(Shepard) Keyes, he was born in Concord, Mass., September 19, 1821, and graduated
at Harvard in 1841. He studied law with his father in Concord, with Edward Mellen
in Wayland, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Middlesex
bar in March, 1844. He practiced in Concord until 1853, when he was appointed
sheriff of Middlesex county, serving hy appointment and election until 1860. In 1860
he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago, which nominated
Abraham Lincoln for the presidency, and in April, 1861, he was appointed by Mr.
Lincoln United States marshal for Massachusetts. In 1866 he resigned and returned
to Concord, where he has always been active in every movement to promote the wel-
fare of his native town. He has held various town offices, and in 1879 was appointed
justice of the Central Middlesex District Court, an office which he still holds. In
1876 he delivered in Concord an oration on the Fourth of July, and in 1885 presided
at the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the town. In 1849
he was a State senator from Middlesex county. He married, September 19, 1844,
Martha Lawrence Prescott, of Concord, and still resides in his native town.

Charles Edward Powers, son of Charles and Sarah (Brooks) Powers, was born in
Townsend, May 9, 1834, and was the seventh in descent from Walter Power, who
was born in England in 1639, and came to Salem in 1654. Walter, the American an-
cestor, bought of the Indians a tract of land in what is now Littleton, Mass., and set-
tled there. In the second generation the name of the family became changed to Pow-
ers, and has since remained in that form. Charles Powers, the father of the subject
of this sketch, first a farmer in Pepperell, where he was born, September 6, 1809, re-
moved to Townsend and, associated with Noah Adams, carried on an extensive mill busi-
ness, was at one time sheriff .gradually became a capitalist of considerable importance
in the community in which he lived. Charles Edward attended the public schools, the
Classical Institution of New Hampton, N. H., and graduated at Harvard in 1856.
After leaving college he entered the Harvard Medical School, but after a suspension of
his studies caused by his father's death he abandoned the plan of a medical career
and entered the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1858. He studied
also for a time in Boston in the office of Ebenezer Rock wood Hoar, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in June, 1858. In 1859 he became associated in the law with Linus
Child and his son, Linus M. Child. He was many years president of the Middlesex
Street Railway Company, and after that company was merged into the West End
Company he performed considerable service for the latter corporation in an advisory
capacity. In the early days of street railroads, having confidence in their success, he
made their affairs a matter of special study and became probably the best authority
in New England on all questions affecting their interests. He was a member of the
Boston City Council in 1873-74, and a member of the Water Board prior to the estab-
lishment of the Water Commissioners. As a Free Mason he was active and promi-
nent, deeply interested in the order and one of its most trusted members. He was at
various times master of a lodge, eminent commander of Boston Commandery of

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Knights Templar, and grand master of the Select and Royal Masons of Massachu-
setts. He married in 1858 H. E., daughter of Walter Fessenden, of Townsend, and
died at his residence in Boston, September 11, 1892.

Samuel King Hamilton, son of Benjamin R. and Sarah (Carl) Hamilton, was born
in Waterboro, Maine, July 27, 1837. He is descended from a Scotch ancestor who
settled in Berwick, Me., about 1666. The youngest of six sons, he attended first the
public schools, and afterwards Limerick Academy and the Saco High School, and in
February, 1856, at the age of nineteen, began to teach a district school in his native
town. In September of that year he entered the Chandler Scientific Department of
Dartmouth College and graduated in 1859. His education was secured by means
obtained by teaching school in the winter months, and other employment, and with
a view to the legal profession he entered as a student the office of Ira T. Drew, of
Alfred, Me. , where he remained several years, still pursuing at times the occupation
of a teacher in Wakefield, Mass., and in the Alfred Academy, to enable him to com-
plete his preparatory legal education. He was admitted to the bar in Alfred in June,
1862, and became associated in practice with his instructor, Mr. Drew, with whom he
remained as a partner until 1867. He then removed to Biddeford, Me., where he had
his home and office until December, 1872. While in Biddeford he represented the
town in the Maine Legislature, and was chosen a member of the Board of Alder-
men. He removed to Wakefield, Mass., on leaving Biddeford, and until 1878 was
associated with Chester W. Eaton, with law offices in Wakefield and Boston, having
been admitted to the Middlesex bar in December, 1872. Since 1878 he has managed
alone a business chiefly confined to Boston. Since he became a resident of Wake-
field he has served nine years as chairman of the School Board, two years as chair-
man of the Board of Selectmen, and several years as chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the Beebe Town Library. His interest in the welfare of the schools of
Wakefield has been so conspicuous that the town has recently named a new
school house the "Hamilton School Building." Since his removal to Wakefield
from Maine his business has been steadily increasing, and though his office is now in
Boston his clientage throughout Middlesex county is constantly enlarging. The
most important cases in which he has been employed as counsel, with the exception
of the Wakefield water cases in which he was engaged, have been criminal trials, in-
cluding a murder trial in Maine in 1867, another in Middlesex county in 1875, a trial
for defrauding insurance companies, and the trial of a United States medical exam-
iner in Boston. He married in Newfield, Me., February 13, 1867, Annie E., daugh-
ter of Joseph B. and Harriet N. Davis, and his residence is still in Wakefield.

Marcellus Coggan, son of Leonard C. and Betsey M. Coggan, was born in Bristol,
Lincoln county, Me. , September 6, 1847, and was educated in his youth at the public
schools and at Lincoln Academy, Newcastle, Me. Before entering the academy he
followed the sea for a time in the coasting trade to southern ports and the West
Indies. After leaving the academy he entered Bowdoin College and graduated in
1872. After leaving college he was appointed principal of the Nichols Academy in
Dudley, Mass., where he remained until 1879, serving four years also as a member
of the School Board. In 1879 he removed to Maiden and entered as a law student
the office of Child & Powers in Boston, being admitted to the Suffolk bar in Novem-
ber, 1880. Practicing alone until 1886 with assured success, he then became associ-

356 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

ated with his present partner, William Schofield, at that time an instructor in the
Harvard Law. School, with offices in both Maiden and Boston. In 1880 he was
chosen a member of the School Committee of Maiden and served three years. In
1885 he was chosen Mayor as an independent candidate, and rechosen in 1886 by a
nearly unanimous vote. Refusing a nomination for a third term, he has since given
his undivided attention to the practice of his profession. He has recently been
brought into wider notice by his able though unsuccessful efforts in behalf of
Trefethen, indicted for murder and tried in Middlesex county. He married in 1872
Luella B. , daughter of C. C. and Lucinda Robbins, of Bristol, Me.

Isaac O. Barnes was in the practice of law in Lowell from 1832 to 1835. In 1833
he was associated with Francis E. Bond, and in 1835 with Tappan Wentworth. He
removed to Boston about 1836, and was United States marshal for Massachusetts
under President Polk.

Henry Vose, son of Elijah and Rebecca Gorham (Bartlett) Vose, was born in
Charlestown, Mass., May 21, 1817, and was educated at the Concord Academy and
at Harvard, where he graduated in 1837. After leaving college he was private tutor
in a family in Western New York, and afterwards studied law in Greenfield, Mass.,
with George T. Davis, and in Springfield with Chapman. & Ashmun. He was ad-
mitted to the bar in Springfield and was a member of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives from that town in 1858. In 1859 he was appointed one of the judges
of the Superior Court on its establishment in that year, and removed to Boston. He
married October 19, 1842, Martha Barnett Ripley, of Concord, and died in Boston
January 17, 1869.

William Plumer Fowler, son of Asa and Mary C. K. Fowler, was born in Con-
cord, N. H., October 3, 1850, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1872. He studied law
at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Sumner Albee, of Boston,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1875. He is now chairman of the
Overseers of the Poor of the city of Boston, where he resides.

Frank E. Fitz, son of Eustace C. and Sarah J. (Blanchard) Fitz, was born in Cam-
bridge November 14, 1857, and graduated at Brown University in 1880. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School, and graduated at the Boston University Law School
in 1883, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1883. He was associated in
business with J. Converse Gray from 1884 to 1889, and in the latter year was chosen
city solicitor of Chelsea, which office he still holds. He married in Chelsea, where he
resides, Adeline F. Slade of that city.

David Simmons Fisher, son of Warren and Nancy D. (Simmons) Fisher, was born
in Boston October 2, 1835, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin School and at
Harvard, where he graduated in 1856. He studied law in Boston with George Sils-
bee Hale and was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1861. He died in Roxbury Sep-
tember 3, 1865.

Eugene Fellner, son of Albert and Harriet Fellner, was born in Savannah, Ga.,
November 23, 1867, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at the Paris
Lycee, France. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1889. Aside from the practice of law he
has been engaged in play-writing and journalism. He married a Miss Allen m New
York city and lives in Brookline.

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Hayes Lougee, son of Sylvester T. and Ruhama Lougee, was born in Effingham,
N. H., September 19, 1848, and was educated at the public schools and the North
Parsonsfield Seminary. He studied law in Laconia, N. H., with Colonel Thomas J.
Whipple, and was admitted to the Belknap county, N. H., bar in March, 1872, and
to the Suffolk bar May 29, 1876. He has been a member of the Chelsea City Council.
He was one of the counsel in the noted Buswell and Abbott and Cone trials. He
married in Moultonboro', N. H., January 18, 1874, Nettie E. Lee, and lives in
Newton.

Victor Joseph Loring, son of Hollis and Laura W. (Hitchcock) Loring, was born
in Marlboro', Mass., January 11, 1859, and was educated at the Boston Latin School
and the Boston University. He studied law at the Boston University Law School
and in the office of Charles Francis Loring, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar June 13, 1881, and to the bar of the United States Supreme Court March 24,
1885. He married, December 9, 1891, Emilie Baker, and lives in Boston.

John Winslow, son of Eleazer Robbins and Ann Corbett Winslow, was born in
Newton, Mass, October 24, 1825, and received his early education at the school of M.
S. Rice in Newton Centre, and with Gardner Rice of Holliston Seminary. He after-
wards spent two years at Phillips Academy, Andover, and two years at Brown Uni-
versity. He afterwards graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1852, receiving a
prize for an essay on ' ' The Responsibility of ■ a Principal for the Acts and Repre-
sentations of his Agent." He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, but shortly after
removed to Brooklyn, N. Y. , where he was admitted to the bar and began practice
associated with his brother, D. C. Winslow. In 1853 he was assistant district attorney
under General Harmanus B. Duryea, and in 1855 was appointed corporation attorney.
In 1859 he was chosen district attorney of Kings county and held the office three
years. In 1866 he became a partner with Joshua M. Van Cott in New York city and
continued with him seventeen years. On the 22d of March, 1869, he was admitted
to practice in the United States Supreme Court. On the 9th of May, 1874, he was
appointed district attorney by Governor Dix, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the
death of Thomas M. Rodman. In 1873 he was the Republican candidate for judge
of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial District. He is a director and the cor-
responding secretary of the Long Island Historical Society, is president of the
Brooklyn Harvard Club, and is ex-president of the Brooklyn New England Society.
He married first, December 23, 1855, Sarah M., daughter of John J. Baker, of Bay
Ridge, N. Y., and second at Milton, Mass., January 5, 1888, Grace Eliza, daughter
of Edward B. Woodhead, of Huddersfield, England. He lives at Bay Ridge.

George Frederick Farley was the grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Farley, one of
the settlers of New Ipswich, N. H. This grandfather married, October, 1744, Han-
nah Brown, and had Ebenezer October 9, 1745, Samuel March 14, 1747, Hannah
January 27, 1749, Benjamin March 11, 1756, and Anna February 19, 1768. Of these
children Benjamin married Lucy Fletcher, June 18, 1780, and had Sarah and Betsey
twins June 3, 1781, Benjamin Mark August 8, 1783, Lucy December 26, 1784, Luther
December 25, 1786, Charles October 13, 1788, George Frederick April 5, 1793, Percy
September 12, 1798, and Clarissa November 12, 1801. One of the children, George
Frederick Farley, is the subject of this sketch, and was born in Dunstable, Mass.,
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ford Academy, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. He studied law in the office of
his brother, Benjamin Mark Farley, in Groton, Mass., and was admitted to the Mid-
dlesex bar in June, 1820. He established himself in New Ipswich, the home of his
parents, where he remained until 1832, devoting himself unremittingly to the prac-
tice of his profession, yielding but once to the attractions of political life, when in
1831 he occupied a seat in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. During his
ten years' life in New Ipswich he developed and began to display those peculiar and
striking mental traits which were destined to make him one of the ablest and most
successful lawyers which New England has produced. In 1832 he removed to Groton,
Mass., and as at the New Hampshire bar he measured lances with its ablest and
most experienced members, so at the Middlesex bar he found legal warriors worthy of
his steel. With these he feared no encounter, and in contests with them all his vic-
tories were more numerous than his defeats. As a lawyer his legal instincts were
unerring, and his use of precedents was rather to confirm, and fortify than to frame
and construct an opinion. Sound in his law, clearly comprehending always the
points of his case, forcible and clear in his presentation of facts to the jury, adroit in
the examination of witnesses, keen in his ridicule of either witness or opposing coun-
sel, his arguments were well nigh irresistible. The physical weakness of a trembling
hand added impressiveness often to his speech, and thus a gift of oratory was con-
ferred on him by nature which many a fervent speaker has sought to imitate in vain.
The writer, whose acquaintance with him began while attending the Free Soil Con-
vention in Buffalo in 1848, remembers well the only time it was his good fortune to
see him in court, when during a protracted trial his opposing counsel was Tolman
Willey, of Boston. Probably no man at the Suffolk or any other bar possessed lips
from which words flowed so smoothly and rapidly as from those of Mr. Wille}^.
Fluency was his marked characteristic, and though a skillful lawyer, this character-
istic always made a more striking impression on his audience than his logic. It was
a matter of constant wonder to his hearers including the jury how it was possible for
the brain and mouth to do their work so rapidly. The question would come up
whether the brain would fail first in its supply of thoughts or the mouth in giving
them expression. Thus the fluency of Mr. Willey became a weakness, and after
hearing him a listener was as oblivious of the merits of his efforts as the young lady
to the speech of Webster, whose only memory was of his form and face. The pur-
pose of Mr. Farley was to call the attention of the jury to this characteristic of Mr.
Willey, knowing that with that in their mind they would give little thought to his
address. He began his peroration by describing Demosthenes and Cicero, and after
a brilliant eulogy of these orators of ancient times he concluded by sa3dng, " but, gen-
tlemen of the jury, an orator greater than these will follow me, for I believe that tra-
dition says that even Demosthenes and Cicero had sometimes a slight hesitation in
speech." In 1852 Mr. Farley opened an office in Boston, and while retaining his
residence in Groton made Boston his business headquarters until his death. He
married in Ashby, Mass., November 25, 1823, Lucy, daughter of John and Lucy
Rice, and died in Groton, November 8, 1855, leaving as surviving members of his
family a son, George Frederick Farley, a Boston merchant, since deceased, a daugh-
ter, Sarah E. Farley, and another daughter Mary P., wife of Edward A. Kelly, a
member of the Suffolk bar.

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John Quincy Adams Brackett, son of Ambrose S. and Nancy (Brown) Brackett,
was born in Bradford, N. H., June 8, 1842, and in his youth attended the public
schools of Bradford and Colby Academy in New London, N. H. He graduated at
Harvard in 1865, and at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar February 12, 1868. He established himself at once in Boston, making
that city also his residence, and for several years was associated in practice with Levi
C. Wade. Notwithstanding a successful entrance upon a professional career, his
qualifications for public life were so manifest that he was early called to positions of
prominence and responsibility. Soon after his admission to the bar he was made
president of the Mercantile Library Association, an institution to which he with many
other public men is indebted for much of that training and discipline which has made
his career a successful one. The Republican party, to which he early attached him-
self, found in him a popular and available candidate for office, and while making him
often a means of its own success at the polls, enabled him to satisfy an ambition
which in most men proves a hopeless one. From 1873 to 1876 he was a member of
the Boston Common Council, and in the last year of his service president of that
body. From 1877 to 1881 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives from Boston, and aided largely in legislation which resulted in the estab-
lishment of co-operative banks. In 1883 he changed his residence to Arlington, and
from 1884 to 1886, inclusive, was a representative from that town, serving as speaker
the last two years. In 1887-88-89 he was lieutenant-governor of the Commonwealth,
acting during the larger part of 1889 as .governor in consequence of the illness of
Governor Ames. In November, 1889, he was chosen governor and served during
1890, being renominated in November, 1890, but defeated by William E. Russell.
After his defeat, though by no means looked upon as retired from public life, he re-
sumed the practice of law and enjoys a large and increasing practice, with Walter
H. Roberts as his partner, with whom he has been associated since 1880. He de-
livered the address at the centennial celebration of Bradford, September 17, 1887.
He married Angeline M. , daughter of Abel G. Peck, at Arlington, where he now re-
sides, June 20, 1878.

Thomas Heber Wakefield, son of Thomas L. and Jane (Perry) Wakefield, was
born in Chelsea, Mass., August 28, 1850, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1870. He
studied law in Boston with his father" and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September
9, 1873. He has been trial justice in Norfolk county. He married at Arlington,
Mass., September. 16, 1875, Amelia B. Conaut, and lives in Dedham.

John Lathrop Wakefield, son of Thomas Lafayette and Frances (Lathrop) Wake-
field, was born in Dedham, Mass., July 3, 1859, and was educated at the public
schools and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1880. He studied law at the Har-
vard Law School and in Boston with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in January, 1884. He has been for five years manager's assistant of the Massachu-
setts Title Insurance Company, and lives in Dedham.

Alfeed Clarence Vinton, son of John Adams and Laurinda (Richardson) Vinton,
was born in Stoneham, Mass., July 16, 1844, and was graduated at Harvard in 1866.
He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Edward
S. Rand, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 21, 1871. He is a trustee of
the town library in Winchester where he resides. He married Emma Frances Mills
in Boston, October 11, 1872.

360 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Stephen W. Trowbridge, son of Stephen W. and Sarah E. Trowbridge, was
born in Newton, Mass., October 5, 1834, and was educated at the Newton public
schools. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in July, 1879. He has been trial justice in Middlesex county. He
married in Cambridge in August, 1856, Mary R. Baird, and lives in the Brighton
District of Boston.

Darwin Erastus Ware, son of Erastus and Clarissa Dillaway Wardwell Ware,
was born in Salem, Mass., February 11, 1831, and was educated at the Salem Gram-
mar, High and Latin Schools, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1852. He
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and after a further study in Boston
in the office of C. T. & T. H. Russell was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 16,
1856. He was a representative from Boston in 1863, a senator in 1864—65, and mem-
ber of the Massachusetts Harbor Commission from 1866 to 1874, when he resigned.
In 1866 he was commissioned by the secretary of the treasury to aid in the codifica-
tion of United States Customs Revenue and Shipping Laws. From 1884 to 1889 he
was president of the Boston Civil Service Reform Association, was fourteen years a
member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard, and has been director and treasurer
of the Associated Charities Association since its organization. He married in Wash-
ington, D. C. , May 26, 1868, Adelaide Frances Dickey, and lives in Boston.

Charles Hosmer Walcott, son of Joel W. and Martha P. (Hosmer) Walcott, was
born in Concord, Mass. , November 9, 1848, and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the offices of E. R. Hoar
and Peleg W. Chandler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1872. Since
the establishment of the State Board of Arbitration in 1886 he has been a member,
and the last three years its chairman. He is the author jointly with H. F. Buswell
of a work on "Practice and Pleadings in Personal Actions in the Courts of Massa-
chusetts," and also the author of a history of Concord, Mass., from 1639 to 1889. He
married first Florence Keyes at Concord, September 22, 1875, and second Jessie Mc-
Dermott at Washington, D. C, July 21, 1891, and lives in Concord, with offices in
Concord and Boston.

Henry Warren, son of Dr. John and Abigail (Collins) Warren, was born in Bos-
ton, May 13, 1795. His father was the first professor of anatomy and surgery in Har-
vard College, and his mother was a daughter of John Collins, of Newport, governor
of Rhode Island. He was a brother of the late eminent surgeon of Boston, Dr.
John Collins Warren, who was also professor of anatomy and surgery at Harvard.
He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School and at a private school kept by
Rev. Dr. Gardiner, and graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law in Boston
with William Sullivan and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1816, opening
an office in Boston. Socially and in a literary way he was the friend and associate of
Wm. H. Prescott, John G. Palfrey, Jared Sparks, and Theophilus Parsons. At an
early period he became engaged in various speculations in lands and coal mines in
various parts of the country, which, occupying so much of his time and attention, pre-
cluded him from pursuing continuously the practice of his profession. In June, 1869,
he came to Boston to attend the musical jubilee, and upon his return to New York,
where he then resided, he was attacked by a disease of the lungs and died unmar-
ried July 6 in that year,

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Samuel Dennis Warren, son of Samuel Dennis and Susan Cornelia (Clarke) War
ren, was born in Boston, January 25, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1875. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in the office of Shattuck, Holmes &
Munroe, in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1879. Asso-
ciated with Louis D. Brandeis, he was the author of " Watuppa Pond Cases," " The
Law of Ponds," and "The Right to Privacy," and has edited the Harvard Law
Review for December, 1888, April, 1889, and December, 1890. He married in Wash-
ington, D. C, January 25, 1883, Mabel Bayard, of Wilmington, Del.

'Andrew H. Briggs, son of Rev. Otis and Ann • (Williams) Briggs, was born in
Hampden, Me., October 23, 1820, and graduated at Waterville College, now Colby
University, in 1839. He studied law with Hamlin (ex-vice-president) & Hill, and was
admitted to the Penobscot bar in 1842, and the Suffolk bar in 1865. He married, De-
cember 4, 1841, Caroline P. Hopkins at Hampden, Me., and lives at Wyoming with
an office in Boston.

Percy A. Bridgham, son of Albert and Martha C. (Maddocks) Bridgham, was born
in East Eddington, Me., November 5, 1850, and attended the public schools of
Bangor, Me. He studied law in the office of Chief Justice Peters in Maine and in
Boston in the office of A. J. Robinson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November
8, 1875. He was clerk of the Common Council of Bangor from 1870 to 1872, assistant
register of deeds of Penobscot county from 1869 to 1872, and after his removal to Mas-
sachusetts, was a member of the Common Council of Somerville in 1879. He was coun-
sel for the receivers of the Mercantile Savings Institution in Boston in 1878-79-80, and
attended to the foreclosure of more than six hundred mortgages. He has edited a
legal column in the Boston Daily Globe since 1887, and published in December, 1890,
" One Thousand Legal Questions Answered by the People' s Lawyer " of that journal.
He married in Bangor, September 12, 1870, Lydia M. Wentworth, and now resides in
Cambridge.

James Bridge graduated at Harvard in 1787, studied law with Theophilus Parsons,
was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, practiced in Augusta, Me., and died
in 1834.

Edward W. Brewer was born in West Roxbury, October 19, 1858, and graduated
at Harvard in 1881. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1884.

Daniel Chauncey Brewer, son of Daniel Chauncey and Mary Ada(Turpin) Brewer,
was born in Boston, September 14, 1861, and was educated at Williston Seminary, at
Williams College and at Princeton. He studied law at the Boston University Law
School and in the office of Allen, Long & Hemenway, of Boston, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. He is the author of " Madeleine," published by
the Putnams of New York. He married, October 18, 1888, at Chicago, Genevieve,
daughter of Rev. John L. Withrow, D.D., of Boston, and lives in Boston.

Joseph Bell was born in Bedford, N. H, in 1787, and was the son of Joseph and
Mary (Houston) Bell. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1807, and received the degree of
LL. D from his alma mater in 1837. After leaving college he taught the academy in
Haverhill, N. H., as principal and afterwards studied law with Samuel Bell, of Am-
herst, N. H., with Samuel Dana, of Boston, and Jeremiah Smith, of Exeter, N. H.
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362 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

He established himself in practice in Haverhill where he remained until 1842, when
he removed to Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. In the early part of his
career he was for a time the cashier of the Grafton Bank and later its president. He
was solicitor for Grafton county, State representative, and in 1835 candidate for Con-
gress. For many years he stood at the head of the Grafton county bar, where he met
as equals such men as George Sullivan, Ezekiel Webster, Ichabod Bartlett,-Joel Park-
er, Levi Woodbury and his old instructor, Jeremiah Smith. It was said by one who
knew him that " as a lawyer he was clear-headed, keen, discriminating, logical and
thoroughly read. His influence with the court and with the jury was very marked,
and his services were always in demand." His success was largely due to the pos-
session of that spirit which his advice to his son manifested, " Your standing at the bar
depends entirely upon your industry, assiduity and diligence in your profession."
When he came to Boston he bought and occupied a house in Summer street below
Winthrop Place, and the writer remembers him well as he appeared walking to and
from his home, illustrating in his figure and bearing many of those physical traits which
distinguished many of the New Hampshire lawyers of the last generation. On his ar.
rival in Boston he entered into partnership with Henry F. Durant and continued with
him until his death. He was representative and senator from Boston and president
of the Massachusetts Senate in 1849. He married Catherine, daughter of Mills Olcott,
of Hanover, N. H., a sister of the wife of Rufus Choate, and died suddenly at Sara-
toga, N. Y., in the summer of 1851.

Joseph Mills Bell, son of the above, was born in Haverhill, N. H., and graduated
at Dartmouth in 1844. He studied law in Boston with his father and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar August 19, 1847. He became associated in practice with his uncle,
Rufus Choate, and about 1853 married his daughter, Helen Olcott Choate. In the
War of 1861 he entered the service and while on the staff of General Butler as judge
of the Recorder's Court in New Orleans rendered valuable service. A severe injury
received while in the service resulted in mental disturbance, and he died at the asy-
lum in Somerville, Mass., in 1867.

H. G. O. Colby, son of Rev. Philip and Harriet (Sewall) Colby, was born in Hal-
lowell, Me., in 1807. His father was born in Sanbornton, N. H., July 30, 1779, and
moved to Portland in 1800, and afterwards to Plallowell, being engaged in both places
in business. He finally removed to Salem, Mass. , where he studied divinity with Rev.
Dr. Worcester perparatory to his settlement as pastor in North Middleboro', Mass.,
where he remained from 1817 to the date of his death, February 27, 1851. The sub-
ject of this sketch was educated in his youth by his uncle, Dr. Sewall, in Washington,
D. C, and graduated at Brown University in 1827. He was admitted to the bar in
Bristol County and settled in Taunton, removing later to New Bedford, where he
married a daughter of John Avery Parker. In 1845 he was appointed judge of the
Court of Common Pleas and resigned his seat in 1847. He died February 22, 1853.

Joshua C. Stone, son of Henry B. and Elizabeth (Clapp) Stone, was born in Boston,
August 25, 1825, and fitting for college at the Leicester Academy, graduated at Har-
vard in 1844. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in New Bedford in the
office of John Ham W. Paige, and was admitted to the Bristol county bar. He was
associated with Mr. Paige until 1853 when he removed t'o Boston, continuing his busi-
ness there until 1862, when he returned to New Bedford, forming a partnership with

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Wm. W. Crapo, which lasted until his death. He was judge of insolvency for a time
and representative in 1866 and 1867. He married, September 17, 1850, Elizabeth,
daughter of Nathaniel and Anna Hathaway, and died at New Bedford in 1869.

John Mason Williams, son of Gen. James Williams, was born in New Bedford, Mass.,
June 24, 1780, and graduated at Brown University in 1801. He was admitted to the
Bristol county bar in 1803, and beginning practice in New Bedford afterwards removed
to Taunton. In July, 1821, he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas
and in 1839 chief justice to succeed Artemas Ward. He resigned in 1844 and was ap-
pointed commissioner of insolvency. He received the degree of LL.D. from Brown
in 1843 and from Harvard in 1845. He married Elizabeth Otis, daughter of Lemuel
Williams, and died in New Bedford December 26, 1868.

Joseph Otis Williams, son of the above, was born in Taunton in 1820, and gradu-
ated at Harvard in 1840. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and was
admitted to the bar in Bristol county, but was in 1853 a member of the Suffolk bar.
He served as captain in the War of 1861 and was severely wounded at the battle of
Antietam. He married Emily, daughter of Dr. Keenan, of Springfield, Mass., and
died in 1875.

Chester Isham Reed, son of William and Elizabeth Dean (Dennis) Reed, was born
in Taunton November 23, 1823, and received his early education at the Taunton High
School and the Bristol Academy. He entered Brown University, but left college
before graduating, receiving later an honorary degree. He studied law with
Anselm Bassett, and in 1863 was chosen attorney-general, holding office from 1864 to
1867, when he resigned and was appointed judge of the Superior Court. He resigned
his seat on the bench in 1871. In 1859 he was a member of the Senate. He married
at New Bedford, February 24, 1851, Elizabeth Y. Allyn, of New Bedford, and died at
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. , September 2, 1873. Judge Reed, who was well
known- to the writer, was a man universally esteemed for his straightforward honesty
of judgment and purpose, for his thorough independence, and for his freedom from
all those influences which so often disturb the moral sight and antagonize the dic-
tates of conscience. He was a sound lawyer, a "most social companion, and a de-
voted friend.

Oscar A. Marden, son of Stephen P. and Julia (Avery) Marden, was born in
Palermo, Me., August 20, 1853, and was educated at the Westbrook Seminary in
Deering, Me. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office
of Samuel K. Hamilton, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8,
1876. He lives in Stoughton, with an office in Boston. He is judge of the Southern-
Norfolk District Court.

James Hewins was born in Medfield, Mass., April 27, 1846, and was educated at
the high schools of Medfield and Walpole, and studied law at the Harvard Law
School and in the office of Robert R. Bishop, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
February 26, 1868. He was a representative in 1884 and has his home in Medfield.

George Winslow Wiggin was born in Sandwich, N. H., March 10, 1841.' He was
educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and studied law with Samuel Warren, of
Wrentham. He began practice in Franklin in 1872, having been admitted to the
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and has been chairman of the board. For the last three or four years he has prac-
ticed in Boston.

James E. Cotter, son of James and Margaret (Callaban) Cotter, was born in Ire-
land, County of Cork, in 1848, and came a boy to Marlboro', Mass. He was edu-
cated at the public schools of that town and at the Bridgewater Normal School, and
studied law at Marlboro' with William B. Gale. He was admitted to the Middlesex
bar January 2, 1874, and settled in Hyde Park. He was a member of the School
Board in Hyde Park five years, in 1877 was the Democratic candidate for district at-
torney, and in 1888 was a candidate for presidential elector on the Democratic
ticket.

James M. Marden, son of Nathan and Sarah J. Marden, was born in Chichester, N.
H., December 12, 1860, and was educated at the public schools, the School of Prac-
tice at Penacook, N. H., and in Olivet, Mich. He studied law in the office of Charles
Allen Taber, of Boston, but the editor is not sure that he has been admitted to the
bar. His residence is in Boston.

Andrew Wiggin, son of Zebulon and Mary (Odell) Wiggin, was born in Stratham,
N. H., October 9, 18<27, and was educated at New Hampshire academies. He studied
law with Judge William W. Stickney, of Exeter, N. H., and was admitted to the
New Hampshire bar at Exeter in April, 1861, to the Suffolk bar in March, 1870, and
to the bar of the United States Supreme Court in 1881. He married in Boston)
March 6, 1886, Elvira L. Hamlin, and lives in Boston.

William Howard White, son of Francis A. and Caroline (Barnett) White, was
born in Brookline, Mass., September 4, 1858, and was educated at the public schools
and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1880. He studied law at the Harvard Law
School and in the office of Robert D. Smith, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in July, 1884. He is secretary of the Brookline Civil Service Reform Asso-
ciation and clerk of the Boston Children's Aid Society. He lives in Brookline.

George Warner White, son of George Warner and Harriet Randall (Farrar)
White, was born in Charlestown, Mass., May 3, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in
1874. He studied law in the office "of Charles J. Noyes and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in May, 1878. He married, January 28, 1882, in Boston, Emma Louise,
daughter of William T. Adams, who died May 25, 1884. He lives in Melrose.

EveretT C. Bumpus, son of C. C. Bumpus, was born in Plympton, Mass., Novem-
ber 28, 1844. He attended the High School in Braintree, to which town his parents
had moved, and in 1861 entered the army, serving under various enlistments as
officer and private during a larger part of the war. At the close of the war he
studied law in the office of Edward Avery in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar May 10, 1867. He was a trial justice in Weymouth from 1868 to 1872, when he
was appointed judge of the East Norfolk District Court, resigning October 1, 1882,
and succeeding Asa French by election in the office of district attorney for the South-
eastern District. He lives in Quincy, but his law business, which, since his resigna-
tion as district attorney has been a rapidly increasing one, is conducted in Boston.

John Loring Eldridge was born in Provincetown, Mass., December 25, 1842, and
fitting for college at the Boston Latin School, graduated at Harvard in 1864. He
graduated at the Harvard Law School and after further study in the office of Joseph
Nickerson, of Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1867.

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James E. Tirrell was born in Weymouth, March 28, 1833, and was educated in
the public schools of his native town. He studied law with Fisher A. Kingsbury and
Elijah F. Hall in Weymouth, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 1856.

Moses Draper, son of Philip and Mehitable (Kingsbury) Draper, was born in
Dedham, Mass., January 5, 1791, and graduated at Harvard in 1808. After leaving
college he taught school a year in-Marblehead and then entered on the study of law
in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813 and continued practice in
Boston until his death, with a home in Dorchester. He married, in 1841, Sabrina
(Waill) Draper, the widow of his brother Jeremiah. He died November 5, 1870.

Edward Haven Mason, son of David H. and Sarah W. (White) Mason, was born
in Newton, Mass., June 8, 1849, and was educated at the Newton public schools and
at Harvard, where he graduated in 1869. He studied law with his father and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1872. He was a member of the Newton Common
Council from 1882 to 1884 inclusive, and of the Board of Aldermen in 1885 and 1886.
He married at Newton, February 1, 1877, Lelia S. , daughter of Thomas and Sylvina
Nickerson, and lives in Boston.

John Murray Marshall, son of Benjamin De Forest and Catharine Russell
Marshall, was born in Lockport, N. Y., June 11, 1859, and studied law at the Har-
vard Law School, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar in October, 1885. He has
been assistant United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts since 1890.
He married Margaret Rowland Clapp at Pawtucket, R. I., November 4, 1886, and
lives in Winchester.

John Alden Loring, son of Bailey and Sally Pickman (Osgood) Loring, was born
in Andover, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He studied law at the Har-
vard Law School and in the offices of William Stevens, of Andover, and William
Brigham, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 16, 1847. He
lives at North Andover, with his office in Boston.

John White Browne, son of James and Lydia (Vincent) Browne, was born in
Salem, March 29, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and in the offices of Rufus Choate and Leverett Saltonstall, and
was admitted to the Essex county bar. He practiced in Lynn until about 1848, when
he removed to Boston and continued there his business as a conveyancer. He was
a representative from Lynn in 1837. He married -in 1842, Martha Ann Gibbs, daugh-
ter of Captain Barnabas Lincoln, of Hingham, and was killed by falling off a rail-
road car, May 1, 1860.

Louis D. Brandeis, son of Adolf and Fredericka (Dembitz) Brandeis, was born in
Louisville, Ky. , November 13, 1856, and was educated at the Louisville High School
and at the Anneureal Schule in Dresden, Saxony. He studied law at the Harvard
Law School and was admitted to the Missouri bar at St. Louis, Mo., in December,
1878, and to the Suffolk bar in July, 1879. He married Alice Goldmark, March 23,
1891, and lives in Boston.

James Albert Brackett, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Small) Brackett, was born
September 28, 1867, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin School and the Boston
University. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and graduated
from that institution with the degree of LL.B. After further study in the office of

366 MISORY OF THE BENCH ANb BAR.

Edmund H. Bennet in Boston, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, IS:
His residence is at Jamaica Plain.

Robert H. Bowman, son of Robert and Annable (Guthrie) Bowman, was born in
Yonkers, N. Y., September 26, 1855, and was educated at the High School in Rock-
ville, Conn., and in Germany. He studied law at the Boston University Law School
and in the office of Bordman & Blodgett in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in July, 1883. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1887-88, and
a representative in 1889-90. In 1887 he assisted in editing a list of city council con-
tested election cases from 1827 to that date. He lives in Boston.

John Locke, son of Jonathan and Mary (Haven) Locke, was born in Hopkinton,
Mass., February 14, 1764, and with his parents moved to Framingham in 1769, to
Fitzwilliam, N. H., in 1770, and to Ashley, Mass., in 1772. He spent one year at
Dartmouth, and graduated at Harvard in 1792. In 1793 he entered the office of
Timothy Bigelow, of Groton, as a student of law, and was admitted to the Middlesex
bar in 1796. He settled in Ashley, Mass. ; was a representative in 1804-05, '13, '23,
a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, a member of Congress from the
Worcester North District from 1823 to 1829, State senator in 1830, and member of
the Executive Council in 1831. In 1837 he moved to Lowell, and in 1849 to Boston,
where he died March 29, 1855. He married Hannah, daughter of General Nathaniel
aud Molly (Jackson) Goodwin, of Plymouth, Mass.

James Brown Lord, son of Aaron P. and Sarah (Sawyer) Lord, was born in
Ipswich, Mass., June 6, 1835, and graduated at Amherst College in 1855. He studied
law with Otis P. Lord in Salem, and at the Harvard Law School, where he gradu-
ated in 1860, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 1860. He married at
Methuen, Mass., April 11, 1866, a daughter of Darius Hibbard, and lives in Boston. ^

Augustus Peabody Loring, son of Caleb William and Elizabeth S. Loring, was
born in Boston, December 7, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He gradu-
ated at the Harvard Law School in 1881, and after further study in the office of
Benjamin F. Brooks in Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1881.
He married Ellen Gardner, June 3, 1884, at Boston, and has his home at Beverly
Farms.

Frank P. Magee was born in Boston, January 27, 1859, and was educated at the
public schools. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar February 23, 1882. He was commissioner of insolvency
three years from January 1, 1887.

Charles Francis Loring, son of Hollis and Laura W. (Hitchcock) Loring, was
born in Marlboro', Mass., February 25, 1853, and was educated at Phillips Andover
Academy. He studied law with E. D. Loring, of East Boston, and Barron C.
Moulton, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1873. He was a member
of the Executive Council in 1892, and a member of the School Board in Melrose six
years. He married at Woonsocket, R. I., Caroline P. Thatcher, May 28, 1885, and
died at Melrose, January 26, 1892.

Benjamin Rand was born in Weston, Mass., April 18, 1785, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1808, receiving a degree of LL.D. from that institution in 1846. He was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813 and was many years associated in the practice of

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law in Boston with Augustus H. Fiske, also a native of Weston. He was considered
one of the best read lawyers at the bar. He died in Boston, April 26, 1852.

John P. Reynolds was born in Charlestown.Mass., May 30, 1859, and was edu-
cated at the public schools and at Boston College. He graduated at the Boston
University Law School in 1886 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in that year.

Ezra Ripley, son of Rev. Samuel Ripley, of Waltham, was born August 10, 1826,
and graduated at Harvard in 1846 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 1,
1850. He settled in East Cambridge, where he married, May 14, 1853, Harriet M.
Hayden. He served as first lieutenant in Company B, Twenty-ninth Massachusetts
Regiment, in the War of 1861, and died near Vicksburg, July 28, 1863.

George H. Russ, son of Capt. James A. and Laura Abbie (Weymouth) Russ was
born in Belfast, Me., March 17, 1863, and was educated at the Boston University,
where he studied law, as also in the office of EdAvin C. Gilman, of Boston. He was
admitted to the Suffolk bar August 31, 1886, and married in Boston, December 15,
1882, Lilla E. Houghton. Residence in Somerville.

Hiram McKnight Burton, son of Smith P." and Elizabeth Burton, was born in East
Greenbush, N. Y. , and was educated at the Boston University. He studied law with
W. E. L. Dillaway, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1880.
His residence is in Boston.

William W. Burrage, son of Josiah and Abigail (Studley) Burrage, was born in
Cambridge, Mass., February 7, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 25,
1857. He lives in Cambridge.

John H. Burke, son of John and Mary Burke, was born in Chelsea, Mass., Septem-
ber 6, 1856. While an infant his parents moved to Ohio, and two years afterwards
to South Boston. He attended the Boston public schools and in 1872 entered Boston
College. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1877, and after
further study in the office of Patrick A. Collins, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
October, 1878. In 1886 he became associated in practice with Mr. Collins. In 1888
he was president of the Charitable Irish Society, and February 11, 1891, was appointed
associate judge of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston. He married Mary E.
Ford, of Boston, and lives in the Dorchester District of that city.

Francis Burke, son of James and Catherine Burke, was born in the Brighton Dis-
trict of Boston, March 8, 1861, and was educated at the Bbston public schools and
under the private instruction of Dr. Humphrey, an Oxford, England, scholar. He
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1882, and after further study in the office of
Jewell, Field & Shepard, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1883. He has
been an instructor in Greek and Latin and is the author of a sketch of the Life and
Works of Thomas Carlyle. He lives in the Brighton District. '

_ William Augustus Crafts, son of Ebenezer and Sarah H. (Spooner) Crafts, was
born in Roxbury, Mass., October 28, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1840. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School aud in Boston in the office of Willard Phillips
and Richard Robins, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1844. He was a mem-
ber of the City Council of Roxbury, and its president several j^ears, a member of the
School Board, and at one time the editor of the Norfolk County Journal. He has

368 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

been almost continuously the clerk of the Board of Railroad Commissioners since its
establishment, and much of the ability displayed in the reports of that board has been
due to his experience and skill. He married November 2, 1842, Emily, daughter of
Samuel Doggett.

John Duncan Bryant, son of John and Mary A. (Duncan) Bryant, was born in
Meriden, N. H., October 21, 1829, and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy,
the Boston Latin School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1853. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of William Dehon, and
was admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1857. He has been a director in various
railroad corporations, and has been largely engaged as counsel for fire and marine
insurance companies. He married in Boston, October 18, 1864, Ellen M. Reynolds,
of Boston, and lives in Boston.

Walter Darling Buck, son of John A. and Charlotte M. Buck was born in Orland,
MA. , June 8, 1865, and was educated at the East Maine Conference Seminary at Bucks-
port, Me. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1891, and was admitted to the
Maine bar in Portland, in October, 1890, and to the Suffolk bar October 20, 1891. He
lives in Boston.

Augustus Russ, son of Daniel and Sarah (Bateman) Russ, was born in Hawkins
street, Boston, February 6, 1827. His father was a shoemaker, and his mother was
a native of Castine, Me. He attended the old Boylston School on Fort Hill, and the
public school in East street, but on account of a trouble with his eyes abandoned
school before he was twelve years of age. He then entered the hardware store of
Oliphant Bros., in Pearl street, and in 1851 went to California, where he was' associ-
ated in business with Moses Ellis. A little later he went to the Sandwich Islands
with a general cargo, and remained there about two years engaged in a general trad-
ing business. On returning to San Francisco he pame to Boston to purchase goods
for the firm of which he and Mr. Ellis were the members, and on reaching that city
was induced by friends to abandon business and prepare himself for a legal career.
He studied law in the office of John C. Park, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
January 29, 1855. At various times since his admission he has been associated in
practice with John C. Danforth, Melville O. Adams, R. W. Nason, John W. McKim,
M. F. Howard and W. G. A. Pattee. He was, as the above meagre record shows, a
self-made man, and like all such men, his life was one of continuous study, without a
collegiate education, which is so often thought by those whose privilege it is to enjoy
it, the be all and end all of mental instruction and discipline. His practice was of an
unusually diverse character, now engaging his attention as counsel for the Faneuil
Hall or Maverick National Bank, now for the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Rail-
road, now for the American Express Company, and again for the Globe or Hollis or
Howard Theatres, and all the while in real estate work, questions of title and the
management of important trusts. Nor did he confine his interest to the limits of his
profession. He was president of the Boston Old School Boys' Association, one of the
founders and promoters of the Boston Yacht Club, trustee of the Warren Street Chapel,
and though watching with a sharp eye the movements of the political current, bound
himself with no permanent shackles to any administration or party. He died un-
married at the Hotel Bellevue, Beacon street, Boston, Tuesday, June 7, 1892, and his
funeral service was held at Warren Street Chapel on the following Thursday.

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Ambrose Arnold Ranney, son of Waitstil R. and Phebe (Atwood) Ranney, was
born in Townshend, Vt., April 16, 1821, and graduated at Dartmouth College in
1844. He taught school two years in Chester, Vt. , and studied law with Tracy &
Converse, of Woodstock, Vt. , where he was admitted to the Vermont bar, December
2, 1847. He soon after moved to Boston where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar
July 15, 1848. With a mind thoroughly disciplined by education and with unerring
legal instincts he was not long in securing by the aid of mental and physical capacity
for unremitting work, an extensive and lucrative practice. He was solicitor for the
city of Boston in 1855 and 1856, a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives in 1857-58 and '63, and member of Congress from 1881 to 1887. In the
National House of Representatives his legal attainments were early recognized, and
few members were accorded a more general and attentive hearing in the discussion
of questions requiring legal study to unravel and expound. For many years he has
been associated in practice with Nathan Morse, and no firm title in the profession is
a more familiar one than that of Ranney & Morse. He married Maria D. Fletcher,
of Cavendish, Vt., and has his home in Boston.

Isaac Homer Sweetser, son of Isaac and Elizabeth S. Sweetser, was born in
Charlestown, Mass., September 3, 1846, and fitting for college at the Charlestown
High School, graduated at Harvard in 1868. He studied law at the Harvard Law
School, and in Boston in the office of Dehon, Bryant & Goodwin, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in September, 1871.

Robert P. Clapp was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and practices in Boston.

Samuel Bradley Noyes, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Morrill) Noyes, was born in
Dedham, April 9, 1817, and received his early education at a private school in Ded-
ham kept by Francis W. Bird, now living in Walpole, Mass., and at Phillips Andover
Academy. He graduated at Harvard in 1844, and studied law in Worcester with
Isaac Davis, in Dedham with Ezra Wilkinson, and in Canton with Ellis Ames. He
was admitted to the Norfolk bar in April, 1847, and settled in Canton, where he has
always lived, with the exception of two years which he spent in Florida, and where
he has carried on his law business in connection with an office in Boston. He was
appointed trial justice in 1850, commissioner of insolvency, 1853; chosen special
county commissioner in 1856, was a member of the Canton School Board from 1849
to 1871, superintendent of public schools in 1857-58-61-64 and 1867 to 1871. In 1864
he was appointed by the secretary of the treasury a special agent and acting collector
of the customs at Fernandina, Fla., and remained there two years. On his return
he was appointed in 1867 a register in bankruptcy for the Second Congressional Dis-
trict in Massachusetts, which office he still holds. His partial retirement from
business has been necessitated by a somewhat serious impairment of his sight. He
married, in January, 1850, Georgiana, daughter of James and Abigail (Gookin)
Beaumont, and still resides in Canton.

Abel Cushing graduated at Brown University in 1810 and studied law with Eben-
ezer Gay in Hingham. He was admitted to the Plymouth county bar and settled in
Dorchester, where he continued to practice until June 30, 1843, when he was ap-
pointed one of the justices of the old Police Court of Boston, which office he held
until shortly before his death, which occurred in 1866.
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370 HISTORY OF 7 HE BENCH AND BAR.

Abner L. Cushing, son of the above, was born in Dorchester and graduated at
Harvard in 1838. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar, April 15, 1841. He began practice in Boston, but soon removed to Randolph
and practiced extensively in Norfolk and Plymouth counties. In 1863 he removed
to New York, where he is believed by the editor to be still living.

George C. Wilde, son of Judge Samuel S. Wilde, was admitted to the Norfolk
county bar in October, 1826. He practiced in Wrentham until 1835, when he was
appointed clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court in the county of Suffolk, and died in
1875.

Frank L. Washburn, son of George and Abby M. (Cheney) Washburn, was born in
Peterboro', N. H., May 1, 1849, and was educated at New Hampton, N. H., and at
Bates College. He studied law in Boston with Horace R. Cheney, his cousin, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879. He has been associated with
General Butler about fourteen years. He married in Candia, N. H., June 14, 1877,
Annabella E. Philbrick, and lives in Melrose.

Alexander Calvin Washburn, son of Calvin and Lydia Washburn, was born in
Raynham, Mass., November 6, 1819, and fitting for college at the Boston Latin School,
graduated at Harvard in 1839. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in
Boston in the offices of Charles B. Goodrich and Edward S. Rand, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1845. His home is at Norwood.

Joseph Bangs Warner was born in Boston in 1848, and graduated at Harvard in
1869. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1873, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1874.

Charles Everett Washburn, son of Charles Henry and Elizabeth Ann (Gifford)
Washburn, was born in Minot, Me., and graduated at Cornell University in 1876. He
studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Hyde, Dickin-
son & Howe in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. He married in
Bradford, Mass., in 1889, Helen Chadwick Webster, a graduate of Bradford Acad-
emy, and lives in Wellesly.

Emory Washburn, son of Joseph Washburn, was born in Leicester, Mass., Feb-
ruary 14, 1800, and was descended from John Washburn, who lived in the Plymouth
Colony in its early days. He spent two years at Dartmouth College, and graduated
at Williams College in 1817, receiving a degree of LL. D. from both Williams and
Harvard, in 1854. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to
the Berkshire bar in Lenox in 1821. He settled in his native town and practiced
there until 1828, when he removed to Worcester and became the partner of John Da-
vis. He was a representative from Worcester in 1826-27 and 1838, and a member of
the Senate in 1841-42. He was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas and
resigned in 1847, and was governor of Massachusetts in 1854. , In 1856 he was ap-
pointed Buzzy professor of law at the Dane Law School in Cambridge and resigned
in 1876. He then opened an office in Cambridge, and was a representative from Cam-
bridge at the time of his death, March 18, 1877. He was the author of ' ' Judicial
History of Massachusetts," " History of Leicester," a "Treatise on the American
Law of Real Property," and a "Treatise on the American Law of Easements and
Servitudes,"

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Solomon Lincoln is the son of Solomon Lincoln, of Hingham, and was born in that
town August 14, 1838. His father was a man of prominence and possessed various
accomplishments, having been a noted lawyer at the Plymouth county bar, a pains-
taking and accurate historian, a conservative and sagacious bank commissioner by
executive appointment, and during the last years of his life the chief manager of the
affairs of the Webster Bank in Boston. The subject of this sketch graduated at Har-
vard in 1857 and at the Harvard Law School in 1864, having served for a time as
tutor in the college. He pursued his law studies further in the office of Stephen B.
Ives in Salem, and was admitted to the Essex county bar at Lawrence in October,
1864. He established himself in Boston, where he enjoys a large and increasing
practice, the result of the possession of large intellectual gifts, a thorough prepara-
tion for a legal career, and assiduity and faithfulness in the pursuit of his profession.
One of the most noted cases with which he has been connected was that of the (Hop-
kins) Searle will, involving the division of an estate of many millions of dollars.
Colonel Lincoln derives his title from the occupancy of a position on the staff of Gov-
ernor Thomas Talbot in 1879. He married, February 15, 1865, at Haydenville (Wil-
liamsburg) Ellen B., daughter of Lieutenant-Governor Joel Hayden, and lives in
Boston.

Daniel Clark Linscott, son of Jonathan and Hannah Linscott, was born in Jef-
ferson, Me., March 17, 1828, and was educated at the Lincoln and Yarmouth Acade-
mies in Maine, and at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1854. He studied
law in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 3, 1860. He was a member
of the City Council of Chelsea in 1864, and has been president of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society of Bowdoin College. He married at Topsham, Me., July 29, 1855, Annie
Barron, and lives in Boston.

Frederick E. Litchfield, son of George A. and Sarah M. (Gurney) Litchfield,
was born in Winchester, Mass., September 2, 1866, and studied law at the Harvard
Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1890. He is a member
of the city council of Quincy, where he has his home, with an office in Boston.

George Sherman Littlefield, son of George Thomas and Ann (Thorpe) Little-
field, was born in Watertown, Mass., April 27, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in
1870. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices of E.
R. Hoar, O. S. Knapp, and Selwyn Z. Bowman, and was admitted to the Middlesex
bar at Cambridge in October, 1872. He was a member of the School Board of Win-
chester thirteen years, trial justice of Middlesex county seventeen years, and special
justice of the Fourth District Court of Eastern Middlesex ten years. He married in
Somerville, June 29, 1874, Georgiana Stevens, and makes Winchester his home.

Caleb William Loring, son of Charles Greeley Loring, an eminent lawyer of Bos-
ton, whose sketch may be found elsewhere in this register, was born in Boston, July
3-1, 1819. The maiden name of his mother was Anna Pierce Brace. He graduated
at Harvard in 1839 and at the Harvard Law School in 1841, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar July 6, 1842, becoming associated in business with his father and William
Dehon. He has been largely interested in various real estate and manufacturing
companies, among which may be mentioned the Fifty Associates and the Plymouth
Cordage Company, of the latter of which he is president. He married in 1847, Eliza-
beth Smith, daughter of Augustus Peabody, of Salem, and has his residence at Bev-
erly Farms (Beverly). ,

372 HISTORY OE THE BENCH AND BAR.

William Caleb Loring, son of the above, was born in Beverly, August 24, 1851,
and graduated at Harvard in 1872. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in
1874, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June of that year. From December,
1876, to July, 1878, he was assistant attorney-general of the Commonwealth. He
married Susan Mason Lawrence in 1883, and lives in Boston.

H. Seldon Loring, son of Hollis and Laura W. (Hitchcock) Loring, was born in
Marlboro', Mass., and was educated at Andover. He studied law at the Boston Uni-
versity Law School and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge July 1,
1885. He was seven years in the United States consular service and three years as
a commissioned officer in the War of 1861. He married at Marlboro', October 19,
1864, Sarah Howard Allen, and lives at Allston, a district of Boston.

Peter S. Maher was born in South Boston, December 21, 1847, and after attend-
ing the public schools entered the employ of James M. Beebe & Company, with whom
he remained five years. He was then clerk in the banking house of William Chad-
born and afterwards studied law in Worcester with George F. Very, and was ad-
mitted to the Worcester bar in 1882. He came from Worcester to Boston in 1885,
and became associated with Charles J. Noyes.

John P. Manning was born in Boston, June 17, 1851, and was educated at the
public schools. He studied law in the office of John W. Mahan and was admitted to
the Suffolk county bar January 1, 1874. In September, 1868, he entered the office of
the clerk of the Superior Criminal Court as copyist, and in May, 1874, he was ap-
pointed assistant clerk. On the death of the clerk, Henry Homer, John C. Park
was appointed to fill the vacancy, but at the next election Mr. Manning was chosen
clerk, and still holds the office.

Frank Atlee Mason, son of David Haven and Sarah (White) Mason, was born in
Newton, Mass., April 12, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law
at the Harvard Law School and the Boston University Law School, and with William
H. Orcutt, Albert T. Sinclair, and Edward H. Mason, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in the autumn of 1888. He is unmarried and lives in Newton.

Harry White Mason, son of David Haven and Sarah (White) Mason, was born in
Newton, May 20, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He married Ida
P. Dawes at Boston, June 30, 1884, and lives in Newton.

Edmund Hatch Bennett, son of Milo Lyman and Adeline (Hatch) Bennett, was
born in Manchester, Vt., April 6, 1824. His father, a jurist of note, was born in
Sharon, Conn., in 1790, and graduated at Yale in 1811. He studied law at the Law
School in Litchfield, Conn., and establishing himself in practice in Burlington, Vt.,
became in 1839 an associate justice of the Supreme Court in Vermont, and died in
Taunton, Mass., July 7, 1868. The subject of this sketch was educated at Vermont
University in Burlington, where he graduated in 1843, and where he received the
degree of LL.D. in 1872. He studied law with his father and was admitted to prac-
tice in Vermont in September, 1847. He soon after came to Boston and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar July 3, 1848. Not long after his admission to the bar he
removed to Taunton, where he has continued to reside, with for many years an
office in Boston. A thorough student of law, faithful and assiduous in the perform-

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ance of every duty, he soon became a marked and trusted man at both the Bristol
and Suffolk bars. At the time the offices of judge of probate and judge of insolvency
in the several counties were merged and the office of judge of probate and insolvency
was created by law in 1858, he was appointed to that office for Bristol county, and
held it until his resignation in 1883. He was mayor of Taunton from 1865 to 1867
inclusive, lecturer at the Harvard Law School from 1869 to 1871, and is now dean
and professor in the Boston University Law School. In 1889 he delivered the his-
torical address on the occasion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
settlement of Taunton, a production illustrating the thoroughness and exactness of
research and statement which characterize all his efforts. His labors in the literature
of the law have been constant and valuable. He has edited all of the law works of
Judge Story, Brigham on Infancy, Blackwell on Tax Titles, Cushing's Massachusetts
Reports, volumes 9 to 12 inclusive, Digest of Decisions, Goddard on Easements,
Greenleaf's Reports, 8 volumes, English Law and Equity Reports, 30 volumes, Ben-
jamin on Sales, Poperoy's Constitutional Law, Leading Criminal Cases, 2 volumes,
Indermauer's Principles of Common Law, Fire Insurance Cases, 5 volumes, has been
co-editor of the American Law Register several years, and contributor to the Al-
bany Law Journal and the Boston Law Reporter. He married, June 23, 1853, at
Taunton, where he still has his residence, Sally, daughter of Samuel L. Crocker, of
that city.

Charles Brooks Brown, son of Major Wallace and Mary (Brooks) Brown, wasbo'rn
in Cambridge, Mass., September 29, 1835, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He
studied law in the office of Griffin & Boardman in Charlestown, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar January 28, 1858. He first practiced in Springfield, then in Charles-
town, and finally in Boston. He delivered an oration, November 14, 1860, before
the Cambridge High School Association. In the War of 1861 he was a private in
Company C, Third Massachusetts Regiment, during a three months' service, and a
private in Company G, Nineteenth Massachusetts three years' Regiment, and was
killed in the Wilderness, May 13, 1864.

Edward Everett Blodgett, son of Warren K. and Minnie P. Blodgett, was born
in Boston, January 22, 1865, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Gaston & Whitney, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1889. He married, November 17, 1891,
Mabel L. Fuller, and lives in Brookline.

Joseph Cummings, son of Joseph and Susan T. (Howland) Cummings, was born in
Taunton, Mass., October 21, 1856, and was educated at the Taunton High School
and at Tufts College, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law at the Boston
University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1883. He was
a member of the Common Council of Somerville in 1888-89. He is unmarried, and
lives in Somerville.

Samuel W. Creech was born in Boston, November 7, 1839, and was educated at
the public schools. He was admitted to the .Suffolk bar in 1862, and was associated
for a time with Wm. J. Hubbard.

Jay Boyd Crawford, son of Nathaniel B. and Lucretia R. Crawford, was born in
Trumbull county, O., February 1, 1850, and was educated in Michigan. He studied
law in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1875. He is engaged

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wholly in civil business. He is the author of a History of the Credit Mobilier. He
married in Baltimore, Md., November 4, 1880, Eva J. Hunter, and lives in the Rox-
bury District of Boston.

Hiram Burr Crandall, son of Hiram T. and Elberia (Jenks) Crandall, was born
in Adams, Mass., October 21, 1834, and was educated at the Adams High School,
the Fort Edward Institute, and at Williams College, where he graduated in 1859. He
studied law with Jarvis N. Dunhamy, of Adams, and John Albion Andrew, of Bos-
ton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 8, 1861. He was appointed commis-
sioner of insolvency for Suffolk county, June 15, 1861 ; inspector of Rainsford Island
hospital, October 13, 1865; public administrator for Suffolk county October 15, 1872;
member of the Common Council of Boston in 1867, and adjutant of the Sixty-first
Massachusetts Regiment November 30, 1864. He lives in Boston.

Frederic Cunningham, son of Frederic and Sarah M. (Parker) Cunningham, was
born in Cohasset, Mass., and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Har-
vard, where he graduated in 1874. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in
1877, and after further study with Lewis S. Dabney in Boston, was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in November, 1878. His business is confined chiefly to marine cases.
He married in Brookline, December 11, 1877, Hetty S. Lawrence, and lives in
Brookline.

Thomas Florian Currier, son of Thomas Sargent and Betsey Currier, was born in
Newbury, Mass., about 1835, and attended public and private schools. He studied
law with A. L. Cushing in Randolph, Mass.., and was admitted to the Norfolk county
bar at Dedham in 1862. He lives in Boston, where he has his office.

John Henry Butler, son of William and Hannah (Paine) Butler, was born in
Thomaston, Me., October 11, 1819, and fitting for college at Sandwich, N. H., and
Fryeburg, Me. , graduated at Dartmouth in 1846. After leaving college he was usher
in the Brimmer School in Boston three years and master three years. He studied
law in Boston with Lyman Mason and with Ranney & Morse, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in the winter of 1852-3, and was associated for a time with Aaron
Kingsbury. He married in 1849, Charlotte P. Libbey, of Portland.

William Henry Brown, son of Daniel H. and Anna Maria (Abbot) Brown, was
born in Ashland, Ky., and was educated at the Bridgewater Normal School. He
studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in June, 1886. He is unmarried and lives in the Dorchester District of Boston.

Charles Browne, son of Moses and Mary Browne, was born in Beverly, Mass.,
May 24, 1793, and studied law in Beverly with Nathan Dane. After his admission
to the bar he came to Boston and became a partner in the book firm of Hilliard, Gray
& Co., and was a director in the New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. He
married, December 14, 1825, Elizabeth Isabella, daughter of Bryant P. Tilden, and
died in Boston, July 21, 1856.

Edward Ingersoll Browne, son of the above, was born in Boston, February 11,
1833, and was educated at the English High and Latin Schools in Boston, and at
Harvard, where he graduated in 1855. He studied law at the Harvard Law School,
where he graduated in 1857, and in Boston in the office of Edward D. Sohier and
Charles A. Welch, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 21, 1858. He is un-
married and lives in Boston.

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Warren Preston Dudley, son of Harrison and Elizabeth (Prentiss) Dudley, was
born in Auburn, Me., June 25, 1852, and was educated at the public schools in New
Bedford. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in
1877, and in Boston in the office of Sanford Harrison Dudley, and was admitted to
the Middlesex bar October 31, 1877. He has been secretary of the Massachusetts
Civil Service Commission since its inauguration August 15, 1884. He is unmarried,
and lives in Cambridge.

George Addison Brown, son of James S. and Polly Frazier Brown, was born in
Plymouth, Vt., November 24, 1854, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1877. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and at Bellows Falls in the office of J. D. Bridgeman,
and was admitted to the Windham county bar in Vermont, and to the Suffolk bar
March 3, 1891. He married Flora E. Pierce in Springfield, Vt., July 18, 1877, and
lives in Everett.

Howard Kinmonth Brown, son of George Bruce and Marrianne E. (Sprague)
Brown, was born in Boston, September 25, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1879.
He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of George V.
Leverett, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1883.

John F. Brown was born in Douglas, March 20, 1848, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in Juty, 1874. He was a representative in 1887-88.

George Erastus Curry, son of James C. and Minnie (Young) Curry, was born in
Cleveland, Tenn., February 13, 1854, and was educated at the Boston Latin School
and Boston University. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He married Clara A. Neal in Dorchester,
July 16, 1880, and lives in the Dorchester District of Boston.

Henry Otis Cushman, son of George F. and Luella M. Cushman, was born in Lis-
bon, N. H, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1887. He studied law with H. C. Ide
and W. P. Stafford, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., and at the Boston University Law School,
and was admitted to the Vermont bar at Montpelier, and to the Suffolk bar October
20, 1891. He was a lecturer on commercial law at the Howard University Law
School in Washington, D. C, in 1890. He married in Boston Isabel Poland Rankin,
and lives in Boston.

Francis Lowell Dutton, son of Warren and Elizabeth Cabot (Lowell) Dutton, was
born in Boston, June 21, 1812, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He graduated at
the Harvard Law School in 1834, and was a member of the Suffolk bar. He died in
Brookline, December 15, 1854.

Richard Sylvester Dow was born in Davenport, la., May 2, 1863, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1891, and lives in Boston.

Marquis Fayette Dickinson, son of Marquis F. and Hannah S. (Williams) Dickin-
son, was born in Amherst, Mass., January 16, 1840. He received his early education
at the public schools, at the Amherst and Monson Academies, and atWilliston Semi-
nary in Easthampton, from which he graduated in 1858. He then entered Amherst
College, and after graduating in 1862 he was a teacher in the Williston Seminary un-
til 1865, after which he studied law in Springfield in the office of Wells & Soule, in
Boston in the office of George S. Hillard and at the Harvard Law School. He was
admitted to the bar in Boston in 1867, and was assistant United States attornev from

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1869 to 1871. He then became associated in practice with George S. Hillard and
Henry D. Hyde, as a member of the firm of Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson, and after
the death of Mr. Hillard the firm was changed to Hyde, Dickinson & Howe, it now
being Hyde & Dickinson. The business of the firm was early established, and
through its various changes has maintained a leading position at the Suffolk bar. It
has been specially prominent in the management of a large number of important
cases for the West End Street Railway Company: The process of merging a number
of companies in that corporation, the changes from horse to electric power, the ac-
quirement of new rights and privileges from the Legislature, from the city govern-
ment, and the authorities of towns contiguous to Boston, together with the numer-
ous questions and claims necessarily attending the life and maintenance of a com-
pany on whose methods and acts the rapid transit of suburban travel depends, have
imposed on this firm constant and increasing responsibilities, which have been met
and discharged with fidelity and skill. Mr. Dickinson has been a member of the
Boston School Board, trustee of the Boston Public Library, trustee of the Williston
Seminar)', overseer of the Charity Fund of Amherst College, was a member of the
Boston Common Council in 1871 and 1872, and during the latter year the president of
the board. He delivered the centennial address in Amherst in 1876. He married at
Easthampton, Mass., November 23, 1864, Cecilia R., an adopted daughter of Samuel
Williston, and has his legal residence at Cohasset, with a winter residence in Brook-
line.

Thomas Amory Dexter was born in Boston May 16, 1790, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1810. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813, and died in Boston, March
9, 1873.

Arthur Lithgow Devens, son of Charles and Mary (Lithgow)Devens, and brother
of General Charles Devens, was born in Charlestown, Mass., April 27, 1821. He fitted
for college under the instruction of Joseph Lovering and Abiel Abbot Livermore, and
graduated at Harvard in 1840. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843,
and after admission to the bar began practice in Walpole, N. H., moving afterwards
to Northfield and Ware, Mass., and remaining in the latter place until 1850. In 1848
he was a representative from Ware. In 1850 he was appointed agent of the Otis Man-
ufacturing Company, and continued' in that position until 1859, when he became a
partner in the firm of James. W. Paige & Co., of Boston. In 1862 he was appointed
treasurer of the Appleton and Hamilton Manufacturing Companies, and so continued
until his death. He married Agnes H., daughter of Abijah White, of Water town,
and died at Nahant July 22, 1867.

Isaac Jones Cutter, son of Daniel and Sally Cutter, was born in Jaffrey, N. H.,
May 21, 1830, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1852. He studied law with Edward S.
Cutter in Peterboro', N. H., and with John Q. A. Griffin in Charlestown, Mass., and
was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge in 1855. He married at Boston in
1858, Margaret F. Wood, and lives in Boston.

Louis Thomas Cushing, son of Thomas and Elizabeth A. (Baldwin) Cushing, was
born in Boston May 31, 1849, and was educated at the Chauncy Hall School and at
Harvard, where he graduated in 1870. He studied law in Boston in the office of Ly-
man Mason and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in June, 1875. He was a representative in 1883, and has been chairman of the

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School Committee and trustee of the Cohasset Public Library a number of years. He
married at Cohasset February 14, 1871, Mary Rebecca Johnson, and lives in Cohasset.

Henry Codman, was born in Portland October 1, 1789, and graduated at Harvard
in 1808. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1811, and practiced in Bos-
ton. He died in Roxbury May 4, 1853.

Robert Orne Burnham, son of John and Sarah (Choate) Burnham, was born in
Essex, Mass., October 28, 1849, and was educated at Colby Academy, New London,
N. H., and at Brown University, where he graduated in 1875. He studied law in
Salem with George F. Choate and William D. Northend, and in Boston with Edgar
Jay Sherman and E. B. Hagar, and was admitted, to the Suffolk bar July 8, 1884.
Soon after leaving college he was attacked by a disease of the eyes, which, until re-
lieved by an operation about two years since, threw a serious obstacle in the way of
his preparation for the bar, and subsequently in the way of his entrance upon his pro-
fession. The relief so fortunately secured has enabled him to advance rapidly towards
success in his career.

James W. McDonald, son of Michael and Jane McDonald, was born in Marlboro",
Mass., May 15, 1853, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law in Marl-
boro' with William B. Gale, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge 111
Jul)r, 1876. He has been a member of the School Committee in Marlboro' twelve
years, special justice of the Marlboro' Police Court, city solicitor, representative in
1880, and senator in 1891-92. He lives in Marlboro'.

Samuel W. McDaniel, son of Joseph A. and Hannah McDaniel, was born in Phila-
delphia, November 18, 1833. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1878, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 12, 1878. He was a representative in 1873, a
member of the Cambridge School Board from 1874 to 1877, a councilman in Cambridge
in 1882-83, alderman in 1884, has been trustee of the Cambridge Public Library, spe-
cial justice of the Third District Court of Cambridge, and trustee of the State Reform
School, which office he now holds, for five years from July, 1890. He lives in Cam-
bridge.

James E. Maynadier, son of General William Maynadier, was born in Baltimore,
November 23, 1839, and was educated in Maryland and Washington. He came to
Boston in 1856, and entered as a student the office of Causten Browne, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar November 28, 1859, at the age of twenty years. He served
one year in Company K, Forty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, in the War of 1861. His
practice is chiefly connected with patents.

James Audley Maxwell, son of Joseph Edward and Sarah Holmes Maxwell, was
born in Sunbury, Ga., and was educated at Franklin College, LTniversity of Georgia
and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He studied law with Chief
Justice Lumpkin, of Georgia, and T. R. R. Cobb, author of the " Digest of the Law
of Georgia," and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1874. He is the author of a work
on the " Causes and Consequences of the Civil War." He married Kathleen Came-
ron, of Ridgewood, N. J., February 24, 1870, and lives in the Roxbury District of
Boston.

Gerard Curtis Tobey, son of Joshua B. and Susanna K. (Pratt) Tobey, was born
in Wareham, Mass., October 16, 1836, and was educated at the public schools in Ware-
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ham, the Bridgewatcr Academy, the Pierce Academy in Middleboro", at Paul Wing's
private school in Sandwich, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1858. He grad-
uated at the Harvard Law School in 1800, and after further study in the office of
Brooks & Ball in Boston, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 4, 1803. He be-
came associated with Brooks & Ball as partner and continued with them in active
practice until 1872. Since that time he has been extensively engaged in a business
combining the departments of banking, manufacturing, and shipping. He is un-
married and lives in Wareham.

Henry Childs Mf.kwin, son of Elias and Anne (Childs) Merwin, was born in Pitts-
field, Mass., August 5, 1853, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School and with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
May, 1877. He is associate justice of the Central Middlesex District Court, and lect-
urer in the Boston University Law School. He is the author of a work on the " Pat-
entability of Inventions," and a book entitled " Road, Track and Stable." He mar-
ried Anne Amory Andrew in Boston, April 22, 1884, and has his residence in Con-
cord, with an office in Boston.

Benjamin Lowell Merrill Tower, son of Dr. George and Adelane (Lane) Tower,
was born in Boston, June 17, 1848, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and
at Harvard, where he graduated in 1869. He studied law at the Harvard Law School
and in Boston with Brooks & Ball, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December,
1871. In 1874 he became a partner in the firm of Brooks, Ball & Storey, and in 1887,
after the death of Mr. Brooks and the departure of Mr. Storey from the firm, the
firm name has been Ball & Tower.

Thomas French Temple was born in Canton, Mass., May 2, 1838, and was educated
at the public schools of Dorchester. He was clerk and treasurer of the town of Dor-
chester before its annexation to Boston in 1869, when he was appointed judge of the
Municipal Court of the Dorchester District of Boston. Since 1871 he has been regis-
ter of deeds of Suffolk county.

Benjamin Frank Watson was born in Warner, N. H., April 30, 1826, and was
educated chiefly in the public schools of Lowell, where he lived from 1835 to 1848.
He studied law in Lowell, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1849. He settled in
Lawrence, was the editor and proprietor of the Lawrence Sentinel, postmaster under
Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln, and as major and lieutenant-colonel served with the
Sixth Massachusetts Regiment three months at the beginning of the war. He was in
command of the detachment of the Sixth Regiment which was attacked in its passage
through Baltimore in April, 1861. In 1867 he removed to New York.

Paul Barron Watson, son of Dr. Barron C. and Julia (Willis) Watson, was born
in Morristown, N. J., March 25, 1861, and was educated at the St. Mark's School in
Southboro', Mass., and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School and in Worcester in the office of Frank P. Goulding, and
was admitted to the Worcester county bar in March, 1885. He is the author of
" Bibliography of the Pre-Columbian Discoveries of America," "Marcus Aurelius
Antoninus" and the "Swedish Revolution under Gustavus Vasa." He married
Katharine H., daughter of Henry M. Clarke, and lives in Boston.

Francis Osborn Watts, son of Francis and Mehitable (Lord) Watts, was born in
Kennebunk, Me., August 9, 1803, and attended Thornton Academy in Saco from 1815

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to 1818, when his family removed to Boston. He fitted for college at the Chauncy
Hall School and graduated at Harvard in 1822. Pie studied law at the Northampton
Law School and with Augustus Peabody in Boston, and after his admission to the
Suffolk bar, October 8, 1825, was for six years associated with Mr. Peabody in busi-
ness. In 1831 he formed a partnership with William J. Hubbard, which was only
terminated by death. He was a senator in 1846. He married, Mayl, 1826, Caroline,
daughter of Thacher and Lucy Goddard, and died in Roxbury, September 28, 1860.

John M. Way, son of Lorin and Lettice C. Way, was born in Rochester, Vt., and
was educated at the Brandon Seminary. He studied law in Boston with Edward
Avery, and was admitted to the Norfolk county bar in 1858. He married in Boston
in 1859 Fannie D. Thomas, and lives in the Roxbury District of Boston.

Tolman Wii.ley, son of Isaac and Susan (Ryan) Willey, was born in Campton, N.
H., May 25, 1809. His family was among the oldest in the town and associated with
its settlement. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and studied law in
Lowell with .Samuel H. Mann, and" was admitted to the Middlesex bar. He began
practice in Lowell, but removed in 1837 to Charlestown, and in 1844 to Boston.
After establishing himself in Boston he was associated for a time with Horace G.
Hutchins, but during the larger part of his career was alone. He married, Septem-
ber 7, 1844, Phebe L., daughter of Captain William and Hettie (Langdon) Lithgow.
About the year 1875 he was compelled to retire from business by a mental disease
from which he never recovered. After a short residence at the Insane Asylum in
Somerville he was removed to the asylum in South Boston, where he died, July 4,
1883. At the centenial celebration of the town of Campton, September 12, 1867, he
was selected as its most distinguished living son for president of the day.

Nathan Clifford was born in Rumney, N. H., August 18, 1803, and was educated
at the Haverhill, N. H., Academy and the Hampton, N. H., Academy. He was ad-
mitted to the bar in York county, Me., and began practice there at the age of twenty-
four. He Avas a representative from 1830 to 1834, and speaker of the House two
years. From 1834 to 1838 he was attorney-general of Maine, and in the latter year
was chosen member of Congress, serving four years. In 1846 he entered the cabinet
of President Polk as attorney-general, and at the close of the Mexican War was sent
to Mexico to negotiate a treaty. In 1858 he was appointed \>y President Buchanan
associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. After the presidential cam-
paign of 1876, owing to conflicting certificates of election from the States of Florida,
Louisiana, Oregon and South Carolina, an act of Congress was passed, January 29,
1877, establishing an electoral commission consisting of five senators chosen by the
Senate, five members of the House chosen by that body, four justices of the Supreme
Court designated in the act, and a fifth selected by the four. To this commission the
conflicting certificates were to be referred and its decision was to be final. Its mem-
bers were Justices Clifford, Strong, Miller, Field and Bradley; Senators Edmunds,
Morton, Frelinghuysen, Thurman and Bayard, and Representatives Payne, Hunton,
Abbott, Garfield and Hoar. Justice Clifford presided and the commission decided
eight to seven in such a way as gave Mr. Hayes a majority of one over Mr. Tilden
in the electoral college. Justice Clifford died at Cornish, Mass., July 25, 1881.

Leslie C. Wead, son of Samuel C. and Mary E. (Kasson) Wead was born in Malone,
N. Y., February 17, 1852 and was educated at the Franklin Academy in Malone and

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at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1872 from the C. S. Department. He
studied law at the Albany Law School, and was admitted to the New York bar
at Albany in 1873, and to the Suffolk bar February 3, 1891. He was president of the
Wead Paper Company from 1880 to 1886, vice-president of the National Bank of
Malone from 1877 to 1885 — president after 1885 — and represented the principal legatees
in the contest of the will of Willam A. Wheeler, late vice-president of the United
States. He is now a member of the firm of Whitcomb, Wead & Company, real estate
and investment brokers in Boston. He married Kate H. Whitcomb in Boston, Octo-
ber 4, 1877, and his residence is in Brookline.

Seth Webb, son of Seth and Eliza (Dunbar) Webb, was born in Scituate, Mass.,
February 14, 1823, and was educated at a private school in Hingham, Bridgewater
Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1843.
He studied law with George T. Bigelow and Manlius S. Clarke, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar July 2, 1845. He began business associated with Ozias Goodwin
Chapman, with whom he remained until 1848, when he opened an office alone in
Brighton. In 1851 he became a partner in Boston with Charles G. Davis, and con-
tinued with him until the removal of Mr. Davis to Plymouth. In 1858 he went to
New York, where he spent one year in practice, and returned home to Scituate in
poor health. In July, 1861, he was appointed commercial agent at Port Au Prince,
but did not remain there long. He married, November 18, 1852, Helen, daughter of
George M. and Mary D. (Billings) Gibbons, and died at Scituate, August 31, 1862.

Daniel Fletcher Webster, son of Daniel and Grace (Fletcher) Webster, was born
in Portsmouth, N. H., July 23,' 1813, and fitted for college at the Boston Latin
School, graduating at Harvard in 1833. He studied law with his father in Boston
and with Samuel B. Walcott in Hopkinton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Oc
tober 5, 1836. He went to Detroit in 1837 and then to La Salle, 111., where he re-
mained until 1840. While his father was secretary of state under Harrison and Tyler,
he was private secretary and assistant secretary of state! In 1843 Caleb Cushing
was sent United States commissioner to China and Mr. Webster was his secretary of
legation, returning in January, 1845. In 1845 he was a representative from Boston,
and in 1850 was appointed surveyor of the port, holding the office until 1861. In
1846 he delivered the Fourth of July oration in Boston. In June, 1861, he raised the
Twelfth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, for three years' service, in three
days, and was commissioned colonel June 21. The regiment consisted of five com-
panies from Boston, one from North Bridgewater, now Brockton, one from Wey-
mouth, one from Stoughton, one from Abington, and one from Gloucester. He mar-
ried Caroline Story, daughter of Stephen White, of Salem, and was killed at the sec-
ond battle of Bull Run, August 30, 1862.

Prentiss Webster, son of William P. and Susan H. Webster, was born in Lowell,
Mass., in 1851. His father was for thirty years an active attorney-at-law in Middle-
sex county, and died in 1877 at Frankfort on the Main, where he went in 1869 as con-
sul-general of the United States. He was educated at the schools of Lowell and at
the Universities of Heidelburg and Strassburg in Germany, where he also pursued
the study of law with Professor Bluntschli, of Heidelburg. On his return home he
studied with Henry W. Paine, of Boston, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in
1880. Since his admission he has been in active practice in Suffolk county associated

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with Benjamin F. Butler. In 1873 he was appointed consular agent of the United
States to Mayence in the Grand Duchy of Hessen Darmstadt, Germany, and held
that position until 1877. He is the author of "The Law of Citizenship," published in
Albany in 1891, and "Acquisition of Citizenship in the United States," published in
the American Law Reporter. He married Sarah Maria Burlingame in Providence,
R. I., in 1881, and has his residence in Lowell, with his office in Boston.

Alonzo Rogers Weed, son of Alonzo S. and Esther A. (Marston) Weed, was born
in Bangor, Me., January 22, 1867, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied
law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July
29, 1890. His residence is in Newton.

George Marston Weed, brother of the above, was born in Bangor, Me., Septem-
ber 14, 1864, and was educated at the High School in Newton, Mass., and at Har-
vard, where he graduated in 1886. . He studied law at the Boston University Law
School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 23, 1889. He was a member in
1891-92 of the city government of Newton, where he has his residence.

George Leverett Weil, son of Louis and Anna M. (Tuttle) Weil, was born in
North Andover, Mass., November 5, 1857, and was educated at Phillips Andover
Academy and at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1880. He studied law in
Lawrence with Edgar J. Sherman and W. Fiske Gill, and was admitted to the Essex
bar in Salem in November, 1882. He was selectman in North Andover, where he
lives, in 1890-91-92, and has been trial justice. He married Emma A. Brown at
Concord, Mass., June 24, 1885.

Charles H. Welch, son of Charles F. and Kate H. Welch, was born in that part
of Marlboro* now Hudson, Mass., September 6, 1861, and was educated at the com-
mon and high schools of Hudson. He studied law at the Boston University Law
School and in the office of Burbank & Lund, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar January 13, 1884. His residence is at Lynn, with his office in Boston.

Benjamin L. Weld was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1811. He
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1814, and died in 1828.

Benjamin Welles, son of Samuel and Isabella (Pratt) Welles, was born in Boston,
August 13, 1781, and graduated at Harvard in 1800, after fitting at the Boston Latin
School and under the instruction of Rev. Thomas Prentiss, of Medfield, Mass. He
studied law in Worcester with Levi Lincoln and in Boston with Harrison Gray Otis
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1803. After admission he went to Eng-
land and continued his professional studies there, returning to Boston in 1804. In
1807, associated with Stephen Higginson, William Parsons, and Thomas H. Perkins,
he engaged in iron mining in Vergennes, Vt., and in 1812 was appointed agent of
the company and moved to Vergennes. In 1816 he became a partner with John
Welles in the corresponding Boston house of Welles & Company, Paris, France, and
continued the business twenty-eight years. He married first, August 1, 1815,
Mehitable Stoddard, daughter of Governor Increase Sumner, and second, Susan,
daughter of William Codman, and died in Boston, July 21, 1860.

Arthur Holbrook Wellman, son of Joshua W. and Ellen M. Wellman, was born
in East Randolph, now Holbrook, Mass., October 30, 1855, and was educated at the
High School in Newton, Mass. , and at Amherst College, where he graduated in 1878.

382 HISTORY OF THE bench and bar.

He studied law at the Harvard and the Boston University Law Schools, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He was a member of the council of Maiden,
where he lives, in 1885, was city solicitor in 1889-1891, and representative in 1892.
He is now a professor in the Boston University Law School. He married Jennie L.
Faulkner at Maiden, October 11, 1887.

Alonzo Bond Wentworth, son of Amasa and Susan W. (Nowell) Wentworth, was
born in Somersworth, N. H., March 28, 1840, and was educated at Phillips Exeter
Academy. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Jordan &
Rollins, Great Falls, N. H., and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge in
November, 1862. He was a representative from Cambridge in 1870, and in 1884 from
Dedham, where he has his residence. He was a trial justice from 1885 to 1891, and
district attorney for the Southeastern District in 1890, and has edited several law
books. He married Isabel Sewall Goodwin, November 1, 1866, at Berwick, Me.

George Littlefield Wentworth, son of Stacy H. and Rebecca L. Wentworth,
was born in Ellsworth, Me., May 24, 1852, and was educated at the common schools
and under private instruction. He studied law at the Boston University Law School
and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge in October, 1881. He has been
a member of the School Committee of Weymouth, where he has his residence, three
years, and special commissioner of Norfolk county. He married Annette Small in
December, 1881.

Samuel Hidden Wentworth, son of Paul and Lydia (Cogswell) Wentworth, was
born in Sandwich, N. H., and was educated at New Ipswich, N. H., Appleton Acad-
emy, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1858. His father was a brother of
Hon. John Wentworth, late of Chicago, 111. He studied law with John H. George,
at Concord, N. H., and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1861. He has been a representative from Boston two
years, and a member of the School Board. He received an honorary degree of Master
of Arts from Dartmouth in 1879. His residence is in Boston.

Clarence Percival Weston was born in Skowhegan, Me., and graduated at Colby
University in 1873. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and was a member
of the Common Council of Boston, where he resides, in 1891-92.

John T. Wheelwright, son of George W. Wheelwright, was born in Roxbury,
Mass., February 26, 1826, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin School and at
Harvard, where he graduated in 1876. He studied law at the Harvard Law School
and in Boston in the office of Brooks, Ball & Storey, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in May, 1879. He has been during the last two years on the staff of Governor
Russell as assistant quartermaster-general, with the rank of colonel.

Thomas Wetmore, son of William and Sarah (Waldo) Wetmore, was born in Bos-
ton, August 31, 1795, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He was admitted to the
Suffolk bar October 21, 1817, and practiced in Boston. He was a member of the
Common Council from 1829 to 1832, and alderman in 1833-34-35-37-38-39-41-42-43-
44-47. He died unmarried in Boston, March 30, 1860.

William B. F. Whall, son of William J. and Anne Whall, was born in Boston,
March 10, 1856, and was educated at Boston College and at College of Holy Cross,
where he graduated in 1874. Pie studied law at the University of Maryland and at

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the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Maryland bar at Balti-
more in July, 1876, and to the Suffolk bar in November, 1877. He was commissioner
of insolvency for Suffolk county from 1888 to 1889, and a member of the Boston Com-
mon Council in 1886-87. He married, in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 18, 1888, Helena
Angela L. Blanc, and lives in East Boston.

William Abijah White, son of Abijah and Anne Maria (Howard) White, was born
in Watertown, Mass., September 2, 1818, and fitting for college at the school of Rev.
Samuel Ripley in Waltham, graduated at Harvard in 1838. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Charles P. and Benjamin R. Cur-
tis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 17, 1841. He lived on his father's farm
in Watertown until his father's death in 1845, and took an active interest in the anti-
slavery cause. In 1853 he moved to Madison, Wis., and on the 7th of October, 1856,
went to Milwaukee to attend the State Fairr on the 8th to Chicago by steamboat, and
returned to Milwaukee on the 9th. On the 10th he left the hotel and was never seen
until his body was found May 1, 1857, near the lake shore above North Point in Mil-
waukee. He married, May 7, 1846, Harriet T. , daughter of Nathaniel R. Sturgis, of
Boston, and May 15, 1855, Ada, daughter of Justin Littlefield, of Chicago.

Edmund Allen Whitman, son of Edmund Burke and Lucretia (Clapp) Whitman,
was born in Lawrence, Kan., June 11, 1860, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Jan-
uary, 1886. He is the author of the titles " Estates," "Infants," "Parent," " Child,"
" Novation," and "Seduction" in the American and English Encyclopedia of Law.
His residence is in Cambridge.

Charles Wheeler, son of Daniel Prescott and Mary Ann Wheeler, was born in Or-
ford, N. H., February 8, 1839, and was educated at Orford and Kimball Union Acad-
emies and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1860. He studied law in
Worcester with Charles Devens and George F. Hoar, at the Harvard Law School, and
in Boston in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
October 11, 1863. He was a member of the Boston Common Council from 1878 to
1881, and representative from Boston in 1882-83. His residence is in Boston.

Charles H. Whittemore, son of Benjamin B. and Martha E. Whittemore, was born
in Cambridge, Mass., January 24, 1864, and was educated at the Cambridge High
School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1885. He studied law at the Harvard
Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. He married, De-
cember 11, 1888, Evelyn C. Bullard, of Cambridge, where he resides.

Francis Alfred Fabens was born in Salem, Mass., July 10, 1814, and graduated at
Harvard in 1835. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1838, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year. He died at Sauceleto, Cal. , June 10,
1873.

Lewis Grieve Farmer, son of Thomas and Henrietta C. Farmer, was born in Rox-
bury, Mass., November 5, 1849, and was educated at the Boston public schools, the
Roxbury Latin School and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1872. He
studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Ambrose A.
Ranney in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1875. He was a
member of the Boston Common Council in 1884, and an alderman in 1891. He mar-
ried, May 28, 1879, Marian S. Foss, and lives in Boston.

384 HISORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Michael F. Farrell was born in Kilkenney, Ireland, September 13, 1848, and came
to New York in 1862, and to Boston in 1804. He was educated in this country in the
public schools of New York and at Boston College. He was admitted to the Middle-
sex bar in June, 1871. He was a member of the School Board of Somerville from
1874 to 1879.

Herbert Melancthon Federhen, jr., son of Herbert M. and Georgiana P. Feder-
hen, was born in Boston, May 1, 1867. He studied law at the Boston University Law-
School and in the office of John B. Goodrich, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in June, 1890. He was a member of the City Council of Quincy, where he
had his residence in 1891-92. He is unmarried.

Andrew Fiske was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 11, 1880, and is a partner
with George S. Hale, under the firm name of Hale & Fiske.

Francis C. Foster, son of Leonard and Lydia Geaubert Foster, was born in Bos-
ton, March 17, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1850. He was admitted to the
Suffolk bar December 13, 1860. He has never practiced. He married in November,
1857, Marion, daughter of Edward Padelford, of Savannah, Ga.

Asa Palmer French, son of Asa and Sophia B. (Palmer) French, was born in Brain-
tree, Mass., January 29, 1860, and was educated at the English High School and at
Yale, where he graduated in 1882. He studied law at the Boston University Law
School and in the offices of his father and George Fred Williams in Boston, and was
admitted to the Norfolk bar in 1884. He was clerk to the judges of the Court of
Commissioners of Alabama Claims at Washington from 1884 to 1886. He married,
December 13, 1887, at Randolph, Mass., Elizabeth A. Wales, and has his residence
in Randolph.

Lewis Pierce Frost, son of Varnum and Sarah R. (Pierce) Frost, was born in Bel-
mont, Mass., January 1, 1866, and gradtiated at Harvard in 1886. He graduated at
the Harvard Law School in 1889, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1,
1889. He lives in Belmont.

Robert W. Frost, son of William S. and Ann Elizabeth Frost, was born in Craw-
ley, Sussex county, England, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at
Harvai-d, where he graduated in 1887. He studied law at the Harvard Law School,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1890. He lives in the Brighton
District of Boston.

Walter Sprague Frost, son of George and Elizabeth A. Frost, was born in Rox-
bury, Mass., August 7, 1855, and was educated at the Boston public schools and at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied law with Bolster & Dexter in
Boston and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar February 16, 1880. He has been a special justice of the Municipal Court of the
Roxbury District of Boston since April 29, 1885. He married in Indianapolis, Ind.,
May 23, 1883, Salome A. Waite, and lives in Boston.

Charles Fry, son of Joseph Reese and Cornelia (Nevins) Fry, was born in Phila-
delphia, Penn., December 6, 1850, and was educated at the University of Pennsyl-
vania. He studied law with John J. Ridgway, of Philadelphia, and was admitted
to the bar in that city April 29, 1876, and to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He married in
Boston, April 15, 1885, Maria D, Burnham, and has his home in Manchester, Mass.

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George Pope Furber, son of George E. and Maria L. Furber, was born in Boston,
August 16, 1864, and was educated at the Dwight Grammar School and the Roxbury
Latin School. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar July 29, 1890. He lives in Boston.

William Gaston, son of Alexander and Kesia (Arnold) Gaston, was born in Kill-
ingly.Conn., October 3, 1820. He is descended from Jean Gaston, who left France in the
early part of the seventeenth century and settled in Scotland, and whose sons moved
over to the North of Ireland about 1675. John Gaston, the American ancestor, came
to America about 1730 and settled in Connecticut. Dr. Alexander Gaston, of North
Carolina, an ardent Whig, who was shot by the loyalists August 20, 1781, and his son,
William Gaston, of Newbern, N. C, a member of Congress and judge of the Supreme
Court, were members of the same family. The father of the subject of this sketch
was a merchant of repute, and gave his son a liberal education at academic schools
and at Brown University, where he graduated in 1840, receiving later a degree of
LL.D. from his alma mater and the same degree from Harvard in 1875. He studied
law in Roxbury with Judge Francis Hilliard and in Boston with Charles P. and
Benjamin R. Curtis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 16, 1844. In
1846 he opened a law office in Roxbury and soon secured a position in the front
rank of lawyers at the Norfolk county bar. In 1865 he associated himself in Boston
with Harvey Jewell and Walbridge A. Field with a firm name of Jewell, Gaston &
Field, the partnership continuing until 1874. He was city solictor of Roxbury five
years, and in 1861 and 1862 its mayor. The annexation of Roxbury to Boston
took place in 1867, and in 1871 and 1872 he was mayor of Boston. He was a repre-
sentative from Roxbury in 1853-54-56, and senator from Boston in 1868. In Novem-
ber, 1874, he was chosen governor of the Commonwealth, and served in 1875, the first
Democratic governor since George S. Boutwell in 1852, with a Republican lieutenant-
governor, Horatio G. Knight, of Easthampton. As both mayor and governor,
though chosen by Democratic votes in opposition to Republican candidates, his ad-
ministrations were marked by no extreme partisanship, and won almost universal
approval. In 1879 he took as a partner Charles L. B. Whitney, and in 1883 his son,
William Alexander Gaston, who was in that year admitted to the bar. He married,
May 27, 1852, Louisa Augusta, daughter of Laban S. Beecher, and resides in
Boston.

James Gerrish, son of George and Elizabeth Thompson (Furbush) Gerrish, was
born in Lebanon, Me., May 3, 1813, and studied law at South Berwick, Me., at Great
Falls, N. H. , and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Middlesex
bar in Lowell. He practiced in Lowell and Boston until about 1848, when he re-
moved his residence to Shirley village and opened an office at Groton Junction. He
married first, Anna R. Foster, of Bristol, Me., who died at Shirley, March 5, 1859,
and second, Mrs. Sarah (Brooks) Powers, daughter of Benjamin and Betsey (Wallace)
Powers, and died at Shirley, July 30, 1890.

John B. Goodrich, son of John and Mary Ann (Blake) Goodrich, was born in
Fitchburg, Mass., January 7, 1836, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1857. He studied
law with Norcross & Snow of Fitchburg, and was admitted to the Worcester bar at
Worcester in February, 1859. He represented Newton, where he lives, in the Legis-
latures of 1860 and 1861, and was district attorney for Middlesex county from 1872 to
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1875. He was the senior counsel of Sarah J. Robinson, convicted of murder in
Somerville in 1886. He married at Newton, April 25, 1865, Anna L. Woodward, of
that city.

Allen Crocker Spooner, son of Nathaniel and Lucy (Willard) Spooner, was born
in Plymouth, Mass., March 9, 1814, and graduated at Harvard in 1835. He was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 3, 1839. He married in 1840, Susan Leach,
daughter of John and Anna (Burgess) Harlow, of Plymouth, and died in Boston June
28, 1853.

Evelyn Bonn Goodsell was born under the British flag at sea, between Ham-
burg and England, his father being of Roman descent and his mother a German.
He came to America at the age of twelve to live with Renfield B. Goodsell, then pub-
lisher and proprietor of the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette, who subsequently
adopted him and gave him his family name. He was educated at the English High
and Latin Schools in Boston, at the Adams Academy in Quincy, under private instruc-
tion and in Europe. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and the Boston
University Law School, and in the offices of Ambrose A. Ranney and J. B. Richard-
son in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1879. He was the first petitioner
to the Legislature for a change in the law relating to employers' liabilities, which re-
sulted in the statute of 1887, was of counsel for the plaintiff in the action of Page
Richardson against the Fall River, Warren and Providence Railroad, involving aliabil-
ity of more than $20,000, and which on its decision for the plaintiff, after twenty
years' litigation, resulted in five other suits. He was sole counsel for the plaintiff in
the suit of Collamore against Collamore, involving a question of title under a will in
which as much as $200,000 was at stake. He is unmarried and lives in Boston.

John Mark Gourgas, son of John Mark and Margaret (Sampson) Gourgas, was born
in Milton, Mass., March 25, 1804, and graduatad at Harvard in 1824. He studied law
with Lemuel Shaw and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1828. He settled in
Quincy, Mass., and died in Roxbury unmarried, June 28, 1862.

John Chipman Gray, son of Horace and Sarah Russell (Gardner) Gray, was born in
Brighton, Mass., July 14, 1839, and graduated at Harvard in 1859. He studied law
at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the -Suffolk bar September 18,
1862. He married Anna S. L. Mason, and lives in Boston.

J. Converse Gray, son of Joseph H. and Maria L. D. Gray, was born in Boston
June 3, 1855, and was educated at the Chauncy Hall School, Noble's School, and at
Amherst College, where he graduated in 1877. He studied law at the Boston Univer-
sity and in the office of Hyde, Dickinson •& Howe, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar November 21, 1881. He married in Rochester, N. Y., October 22, 1885, Helen
Hart Brewster, and lives in Boston.

Morris Gray, son of Dr. Francis H. and H. Regina Gray, was born in Boston,
March 7, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He studied law at the Harvard
Law School and in the office of Bryant & Sweetser, of Boston, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in 1880. He is the author of a treatise on the law of communication
by telegraph. He married at Nahant, Mass., in September, 1883, Flora, daughter of
Patrick Grant. His home is in Boston.

Orin T. Gray, son of Robert D. and Lurana D. Gray, was born in Norridgewock,
Me., June 2, 1839, and was educated at Maine academies and under private instruc-

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tion. He studied law at Waterville, Me., with J. H. Drummond, and was admitted
to the bar in Augusta, Me., in 1860, and to the Suffolk bar in 1863. He has been
chairman of the School Board of Hyde Park where he has his residence. He married
Louise B. Holmes at Waterville, Me., in 1860.

Eugene Fuller, son of Timothy and Margaret (Crane) Fuller, was born in Cam-
bridge May 14, 1815, and graduated at Harvard in 1834. He studied law with George
F. Farley in Groton, to which place his father had moved in 1833, and was admitted
to the Middlesex bar in June, 1839. He practiced two years in Charlestown, now
Boston, and then went to New Orleans. He married, May 31, 1845, at NewOrleans,
Mrs. Anna Eliza Rotta, and was drowned on the passage to New York from New
Orleans, January 21, 1859.

Arthur E. Gage, son of Arthur A. and Mary F. Gage, was born in Stratham, N.
H., December 2, 1858, and graduated at Brown University. He studied law with
Ropes, Gray & Loring in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 2, 1887.
He married Marilla M. Sanborn in Tilton, N. H., December 8, 1883, and lives in
Woburn.

George Lunt was born in Newburyport, December 31, 1803, and graduated at
Harvard in 1824. He was admitted to the Essex county bar in 1833, having pre-
viously held the position of principal in the Newburyport High School. He practiced
' law in his native town until 1848, when he moved both his residence and business
to Boston. From 1849 to 1853 he was United States attorney for Massachusetts, and
at a later period he was the editor of the Boston Courier. He published a book of
poems in 1839, another in 1843, and at various later times occasional poems of much
merit. He died May 17, 1885, in Boston, where in the latter part of his life he spent
his winters, residing in summer at Scituate, Mass.

Nathan Matthews, jr., son of Nathan, born in Boston, March 28, 1854, was edu-
cated at public and private schools and at Harvard, where he graduated with mathe-
matical honors in 1875. After leaving college he spent two years in Leipsic studying
political economy and jurisprudence, and on his return entered the Harvard Law
School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1880. He associated him-
self in business with Charles M. Barnes, devoting himself chiefly to equity cases, and
acting for a time as law editor of the American Architect. In 1888 he was a dele-
gate to the national convention of Democratic clubs held in Baltimore, and the same
year was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket. He presided at the Demo-
cratic State Convention in 1889, was chairman of the Executive Committee of the
Democratic State Committee in 1890, and was chosen mayor of Boston in December
of 1890, 1891 and 1892. He married in 1884 Ellen B., daughter of Colonel Manlius
Sargent.

Edwin Guthrie McInnes, son of John and Elizabeth Jane (Morrow) Mclnnes, was
born in Washington, Penn., July 14, 1862, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin
School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1883. . He attended the Harvard Law
School, also studying in the offices of Charles S. Lincoln and Samuel N. Aldrich, and
wras admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1886. He married Mabel Hook Folsom in
Boston, June 5, 1888, and lives in Boston.

Richard J. McKelleget, son of Patrick and Hannah (O'Connell) McKelleget, was
born in Cambridge, Mass., April 10, 1853, and was educated in the Cambridge schools.

388 'HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles J. Mclntire,
and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in Cambridge June 20, 1877. He was a mem-
ber of the School Board in Cambridge, where he lived in 1888-89-90. He was a part-
ner of Isaac S. Morse from 1877 to 1881. He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 20,
1881, Emma L. Hanlon.

John D. McLaughlin, was born in Boston, December 3, 1864, and graduated at
Georgetown College in 1883. He studied law at the Boston University, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886.

• Henry Slade Milton, son of George Bruce and Lucy Kidder (Slade) Milton, was
born in Boston, September 28, 1855, and was educated at the Boston Latin School
and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1875. He studied law at the Boston Uni-
versity and in the office of Proctor, Warren & Brigham, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar October 31, 1876. He has been a member of the School Board of Waltham,
where he resides, was a representative in 1889-90, and has been a special justice of
the Second Eastern Middlesex Court since its establishment. He married in Wes-
ton, Mass., November 7, 1877, Lilias Constance Haynes.

William Minot, jr., son of William and Katharine (Sedgwick) Minot, was born in
West Roxbury, Mass., now a part of Boston, May 7, 1849. He graduated at the Har-
vard Law School in 1869, and after further study with Minot & Balch was admitted
to the Suffolk bar May 9, 1870. He has been a member of the Boston Common Coun-
cil, and is the author of "Taxation in Massachusetts," 1877, " Local Taxation and
Municipal Extravagance" and other treatises. He married Elizabeth Veredenburgh
Van Pelt at Trumansburg, N. Y., June 24, 1882, and lives in Boston.

William Ingalls Monroe, son of George Harris and Alice Maria (Ingalls) Monroe,
was born in Boston, August 1, 1854, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied
in the office of Jewell, Gaston & Field in Boston, of Josiah W. Hubbard, of Boston,
of Josiah H. Benton, jr., of Boston, and at the Boston University Law School, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He lives in the Roxbury District of Boston.

George Barrell Moody, son of Joseph and Maria (Barrell) Moody, was born in
Kennebunk, Me., July 17, 1802, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He studied law
in Boston with James Sullivan, and after his admission to the bar, practiced in
Kennebunk, Gardiner, Brewer, Oldtown, and Bangor. He married Mary, daughter
of John Barker, of Bangor, and died in Bangor, July 6, 1856.

Eugene H. Moore, son of Hobart and Ellen R. Moore, was born in Boston, Feb-
ruary 17, 1864, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law at the
Boston University and in the office of Solomon A. Bolster, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar, July 21, 1885. He lives unmarried in Boston.

George W. Moore, whose name appears on the roll of lawyers in Bosto'n for 1892,
is engaged in newspaper work. He was admitted to the bar in Nebraska.

Howard Dudley Moore was born at Moore's Mills, in New Brunswick, November
21, 1854, and was educated at the High School in Lewiston, Me. He studied law at
the Boston University and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1887. He
married Maud E. Roberts at Worcester, May 27, 1891, and has his home in Somer-
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Michael J. Moore was born in South Boston, May 20, 1864, and was educated at
the public schools. He studied law at the Boston University and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in 1888.

Charles Carroll Morgan, son of Charles and Sarah Ann (Robinson) Morgan, was
born in Meredith Bridge, now a part of Laconia, N. H., July 25, 1832, and was edu-
cated at the public schools, at Guilford Academy, N. H., and at Brown University.
He studied law in Nashua, N. H., Saco, Me., New York city, and Indianapolis, Ind.,
and was admitted to the bar in Marion county, Ind., February 17, 1880, and to the
Suffolk bar in 1885. He has been the editor of revised editions of Colton & Fitch's
Introductory Geography and Modern School Geography; editor of Lloyd's Battle
History of the Rebellion; editor and author of revised and enlai-ged editions of
Fitch's Physical Geography and Descriptive List, of Colton's Parlor and Library
Atlas; author of American School Geography, and of various other works. He
married, at Toledo, O., October 12, 1859, Marianna Robinson Gove, and has his home
in Nashua, N. H., with an office in Boston.

William Moir Morgan, son of Edwin and Harriet (Tyler) Morgan, was born in
Griswold, Conn. , May 13, 1862, and was educated at the Milford High School, Mass.
He studied law at the Boston University, and with Frederick D. Ely and Charles G.
Keyes in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1887. He lives in
Waltham, with an office in Boston.

John Holmes Morison, son of Nathaniel H. and Sidney (Brown) Morison, was born
in Baltimore, Md., January 21, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and with George Hawkins Williams, of Baltimore,
and was admitted to the Baltimore bar in 1881 and to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He
married Emily Marshall, daughter of Samuel Eliot, of Boston, where he has his
home.

Albert Gordon Morse, son of Albert and Ellen R. (Webster) Morse, was born in
Boston, August 29, 1855, and was educated at the Dorchester High School and Rox-
bury Latin School. He studied law at the Boston University and in the office of
Robert M. Morse, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1880.
He lives in the Dorchester District of Boston.

Isaac S. Morse, son of Rev. Bryant and Susannah (Stevens) Morse, was born in
Haverhill, N. H., December 27, 1817, and was educated at the public schools, re-
ceiving an honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth College in 1857. He studied
law with Elisha Fuller in Lowell, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted
to the Middlesex bar at Lowell, September 25, 1840. He was seventeen years district
attorney in Middlesex county, his term expiring in 1871, when he declined further
service. In 1849, while residing in Lowell, he was a member of the City Council, and
for a time was city solicitor. He married, at Lowell, September 25, 1844, Eloise
La Barte, of Groton, daughter of John J. and Mary La Barte, of South Carolina.
He now resides in Cambridge, with an office in Boston.

Ellis Loring Motte, son of Mellish Irving and Marianne (Alger) Motte, was born
in Boston June 30, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in 1859. He studied law in the
office of Ellis Gray Loring and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar December 9, 1862. He married, January 20, 1863, Annie L. Lobdell, and
lives in Boston.

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Oscar Brownell Mowry, son of Warren B. and Hannah A. (Brownell) Mowry was
born in Woonsocket, R. I,, and graduated at Brown University in 1863. He studied
law at Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of C. T. & T. H. Russell, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 17, 1866. He has served three years in the
Boston Common Council. He married Georgianna J. Goodwin at Boston in 1879,
and has his home in Brookline, Mass.

Henry Coolidge Mulligan, son of Simon and Almaria (Coolidge) Mulligan, was
born in Naiick, Mass., March 6, 1854, and was educated at Adams Academy, Quincy,
and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law
School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 14, 1883. He married at Wor-
cester December 22, 1886, Minna Rawson, and has his home in Natick.

William Adams Munroe, son of William Watson and Hannah Foster (Adams) Mun-
roe, was bora in Cambridge November 9, 1843, and graduated at Harvard in 1864. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Chandler, Shat-
tuck & Thayer, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 25, 1868. He began to
practice in 1869, and in 1870 became associated as partner with Shattuck & Holmes.
He was several years a member of the School Committee of Cambridge, where he
resides, was one of the commissioners to revise the Cambridge charter in 1890, presi-
dent of the Boston Baptist Social Union in 1882, and president of the Cambridge Club
in 1890. He married, November 22, 1871, at Plymouth. Mass., Sarah D. Whitney, a
native of Salem.

Thomas Russell, son of Thomas and Mary Ann (Goodwin) Russell, was born in
Plymouth, Mass., September 26, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1845. He studied
law in Boston with Whiting & Russell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Novem-
ber 12, 1849. He was appointed justice of the Police Court of Boston February 26,
1852, and on the establishment of the Superior Court in 1859, was appointed one of
its judges. He sat on the bench until his resignation in 1867, and after the accession
of General Grant to the presidency, was appointed- collector of the port of Boston.
While collector he was one of the trustees of the Massachusetts Nautical School by
appointment from the governor. During General Grant's second term as president
he resigned the collectorship and was appointed minister to Venezuela, where he re-
mained until the domestic troubles of that country caused his return. In 1879 he was
chosen president of the Pilgrim Society, and continued such until his death. He
married Nellie, daughter of Rev. Edward T. Taylor, many years the preacher at
the Seamen's Bethel in Boston, and died in Boston, February 9, 1887. ...

John W. Mason, son of Judge Albert and Lydia F. (Whiting) Mason, was born in
Plymouth August 18, 1861, and was educated at the schools of Plymouth and Brook-
line. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885.

Charles Henry Drew, son of Abijah and Sally (Faunce) Drew, was born in Plym-
outh, Mass., November 4, 1838, and was educated at the Plymouth schools. He
studied law in Plymouth and was admitted to the Plymouth bar in 1860. In August,

1861, he was commissioned as first lieutenant in Company H, Eighteenth Massachusetts
Regiment for three years' service. At the battle of Fredericksburg he was severely
wounded. When the Thirty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment was recruited in July,

1862, he was designated as captain of Company D, then first lieutenant in Company
H, Eighteenth Regiment, but the War Department refused to muster him out to enable

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him to receive his commission. He was, however, afterwards promoted to a captaincy
in his own regiment. After the war he settled in Boston, where he has continued
to the present time with a constantly increasing practice. He lives in Brookline,
where he is the justice of the Brookline Police Court. He married Mary A. , daugh-
ter of Samuel Bradford, of Plymouth.

Charles Tracy Murdoch, son of John, was born in Havana, January 5, 1804, and
graduated at Harvard in 1828. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1832,
and practiced there. He died in Cambridge, November 25, 1853.

James J. Myers, son of Robert and Sabra (Stevens) Myers, was born in Frewsburg,
N. Y., November 20, 1842, and graduated at Harvard in 1869. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1873. He lives,
unmarrried, in Cambridge.

Bradley Webster Palmer, son of Henry Wilbur and Ellen (Webster) Palmer, was
born in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., June 28, 1866, and was educated at Phillips Exeter
Academy and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1888. He studied law at the Har-
vard Law School and was admitted to the bar at Wilkes-Barre in March, 1890, and
to the Suffolk bar in July, 1892. He lives, unmarried, in Boston.

Grant M. Palmer, son of Calvin G. and Elizabeth H. Palmer, was born in Repub-
lic, O., September 21, 1861, and was educated at the High School in Lynn, Mass.
He studied law at the Boston University and in the office of W. H. Anderson in
Lowell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in .1885. He married, October 29, 1891,
Marion K. Breed, of Lynn, and has his home in Weston, Mass.

Bowdoin Strong Parker,- son of Alonzo and Caroline G. Parker, was born in Con-
way, Mass., August 10, 1841, and was educated at the common schools, the Green-
field High School, and at Boston University. He studied law in Greenfield with
Wendell Thornton Davis and in Boston with Thomas William Clarke, and gradu-
ated at the Boston University Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar
December 20, 1875. He served during the war in the Fifty-second Regiment of
Massachusetts Volunteers, was representative in 1891, and has been three years a
member of the Boston Common Council. He married in New York city, June 25,
1867, Kate H. Eager, and lives in Boston.

William Ellison Parmenter, son of William and Mary (Parker) Parmenter, was
born in Boston, March 12, 1816, and was educated at Framingham Academy, at the
Angier School in Medford, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1836. He studied
law with John Mills, United States district attorney at Boston, and at the Harvard
Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 1, 1842. He has lived in
Arlington many years, and has been a member of the School Board in that town
nearly a quarter of a century. He was appointed special justice of the Municipal
Court of the city of Boston in March, 1871, associate justice December 12, 1871, and
chief justice January 24, 1883, which position he still holds. He married Helen
James at South Scituate, now Norwell, June 30, 1853.

James Parker Parmenter, son of William Ellison and Helen (James) Parmenter,
was born in West Cambridge, now Arlington, Mass., November 29, 1859, and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1885. He lives in Arlington.

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Frank Parsons, son of Edward P. and Alice B. (Rhees) Parsons, was born in
Mount Holly, N. J., November 14, 1855, and was educated at Aaron's Academy at
Mount Holly, and at Cornell University. He studied law in Southbridge, Mass.,
with A. J. Bartholomew and at Worcester with F. P. Goulding, and was admitted to
the bar at Worcester in 1881. He has rewritten "Morse on Banks and Banking,"
edited enlarged editions of "May on Insurance," " Perry on Trusts," and " Black-
well on Tax Titles." He has now in press " Herbert Spencer and Nationalism," and
" Our Country's Need, or the Development of a Scientific Industrial System." He is
also a lecturer in Boston University on insurance law. He is also the author of
" The World's Best Books, or a Key to the Treasures of the Great Literatures." He
lives, unmarried, in Boston.

Joseph Nicholas Pastene, son of Louis and Clara Catherine (Moltedo) Pastene,
was born in Boston, October 3, 1863, and was educated at public schools and under
private instruction of Professor J. B. Torricelli. He studied law at the Boston Uni-
versity, graduating in 1888, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 17, 1888. He
was appointed April 29, 1891, a public administrator for Suffolk county. He married
Pauline M. Ceppi at Boston, April 21, 1889, and lives in the Roxbmy District of Bos-
ton.

Charles H. Pattee, son of Asa D. and Laura B. Pattee, was born in Charles-
town, Mass., October 8, 1843, and was educated at the Boston Latin School. He
studied law in Boston with George E. Betton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
January 7, 1865. He is the author of " Recollections of Old Play Bills." He lives,
unmarried, at Winthrop.

William Greenleaf Appleton Pattee, son of Dr. William S. and Mary E. (Apple-
ton) Pattee, was born in Quincy, Mass., August 28, 1854, and was educated at the
Chauncy Hall School in Boston. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and
in the office of Augustus Russ, of Boston, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar at
Dedham May 14, 1879. He was a representative in 1 883-84 from Quincy and was
city solicitor during the first two years of its city government. He married at New-
ton, February 16, 1887, Laura Saltonstall, and has his home in Quincy, with an office
in Boston.

F. Alaric Pelton, son of Florentine W. and Mary (Reed) Pelton, was born in
Newton, Mass., January 2, 1864, and attended Williams College two years and Bos-
ton University two years. He studied law at the Boston University and in the office
of Edmund H. Bennett in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August,
1890. He married in Boston, October 17, 1891, Mabel S. Clarke, and lives in Boston.

Sidney Perley, son of Humphrey and Eunice (Peabody) Perley, was born in Box-
ford, Mass., March 6, 1858, and after studying law at the Boston University, was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He is the author of a History of Boxford.

George Hough Perry, son of Baxter E. and Charlotte (Hough) Perry, was born in
Medford, Mass., July 25, 1866, and was educated at the public schools. He studied
law in Boston with his father and at the Boston University, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in August, 1888. He lives unmarried at Medford.

Lemuel Ward Peters, son of Lemuel E. D. and Maria (Wescott) Peters, was born
at Blue Hill, 'Me., July 29, 1860, and was educated at the Wesley an University in

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Middletown, Conn. He studied law at the Boston University, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in June, 1887. His home is in Boston.

Gilkert A. A. Pevey, son of Abiel and Louisa (Stone) Pevey, was born in Lowell,
August 22, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He studied law in Boston with
Sweetser & Gardner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875. He has been
for two years assistant district attorney for Middlesex, and is a director in the Cam-
bridge Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He married at Lowell, November 28, 1876,
and lives in Cambridge, with an office in Boston,

Edwin Alexander Phelps, son of Alexander Steele and Laura (Waterman) Phelps,
was born in Waitesfield, Vt., October 29, 1841, and was educated at Kimball Union
Academy in Meriden, N. H. , and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1870.
He studied law in Boston with Charles G. Keyes, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
July 5, 1876. He married in Boston, January 10, 1877, Laura E. A. Smith, and has
his home in Cambridge.

Cassius Clay Powers, son of Arba and Naomi (Mathews) Powers, was born in
Pittsfield, Me., January 23, 1846, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1869. He studied law
in Augusta, Me., with Artemas Libby, and was admitted to the Maine bar in 1871,
and to the Suffolk bar May 15, 1872. He was a member of the Boston Common
Council from 1886 to 1888, and makes a specialty of commercial law and patent cases.
He married, October 24, 1876, Annie M. , daughter of Rev. John Orr, and lives in the
Roxbury District of Boston.

Edmund W. Powers, son of Richard K. and Clarissa A. Powers, was born in Ster-
ling, Mass. , September 18, 1856, and was educated at Lancaster Academy and at
Tufts College, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law at the Boston University
and in the office of Samuel C. Darling, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
1883. He was admitted also to the New York bar in 1888. He was attorney for the
plaintiff in Duff vs. Hutchinson et al., involving $3,000,000, with Joseph H. Choate on
the other side. His home is in New York city, with offices there and in Boston.

Samuel Leland Powers, son of Larned and Ruby (Barton) Powers, was born in
Cornish, N. H. , October 26, 1848, and was educated at Kimball Union Academy in
Meriden, N. H., and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1874. He studied
law in the University of New York, with Jordan, Stiles & Thompson, of New York,
and with Very & Gaskill, of Worcester, Mass. , and was admitted to the Massachu-
setts bar in Worcester November 17, 1875. At Newton, where he has his home, he
has been a member of the City Council three years, and an alderman one year. Since
1887 he has made a specialty of electrical matters, and been "connected as counsel
with the American Bell Telephone and New England Telephone Companies. He
married at East Dennis, Mass., June 21, 1878, Eva Crowell.

Erastus Barton Powers, brother of the above, was born in Cornish, N. H., Jan-
uary 31, 1841, and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N. H.,
and at Dartmouth, where he graduated in 1865. He studied law at the Harvard Law
School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 19, 1867. He married at Wor-
cester, Mass., in 1871, Emma Frances Besse, and has his home in Maiden.

James Loren Powers, son of Loren O. and Jane (Oakes) Powers, was born in
Athens, Vt., and was educated at Chester Academy, Vermont. He studied law at
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394 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Bellows Falls, Vt., with Winslow S. Myers and in Boston with Burbank & Lund, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 13, 1875. He married, February 9, 1879, at
Boston, Mar}' E. Davis, and has his home in Maiden.

James C. Whitney, son of John A. and Sarah E. Whitney, was born in Natick,
Mass., September 5, 1863, and was educated at the Natick High School. He studied
law in Boston with John D. Bryant, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 14,
1890. He married at St. John, N. B., September 18, 1890, Louise M. Horton, and has
his home at Needham, Mass.

Ebenezer Stowell Whittemoke was born in Rindge, N. H., September 4, 1828.
While a child his parents with their family moved to Illinois, traveling by team the
whole distance. He received his early education at Elgin and Kalamazoo, and grad-
uated at the LTniversity of Michigan. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School
in 1855, and after studying two years in Boston in the office of Charles Grandison
Thomas, was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 6, 1857. After his admission he
taught school in Barnstable and Provincetown, and July 19, 1858, opened an office in
Sandwich, Mass., where he afterwards, until his death, had his home, with an office
for fifteen years in Boston. He was a commissioner of Barnstable county nine years,
trial justice thirty-one years, and special justice of the First Barnstable District Court
from its establishment in 1890 until his death. He was for a time chairman of the
School Board of Sandwich, and employed his leisure hours in the investigation of his-
torical matters. He died at Sandwich, Mass., February 27, 1892.

George Whittemore,! son of George and Anna (Mansfield) Whittemore, was born
in Boston, December 19, 1836, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at
Harvard, where he graduated in 1857. He studied law with John J. Clarke and
Lemuel Shaw, jr., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 3, 1861, on the
morning of his departure for the war as a private in the First Unattached Company
of Massachusetts Sharpshooters. He was promoted to corporal and sergeant, and
killed at Antietam, Md., September 17, 1862.

Henry L. Whittlesey, son of C. M. and Maria L. (Ayer) Whittlesey, was born in
Chelsea, Mass. , November 30, 1862, studied law at the Boston University, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1886. He is clerk of the Police Court of Newton,
where he has his home, with an office in Boston.

Benjamin Whitwell was born in Boston about 1770, and graduated at Harvard in
1790. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793, and settled in Augusta, Me. He
returned to Boston in 1820, and, in a year unknown to the writer, delivered a poem
before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, entitled " Folly as it Flies." He
died in 1825.

George Wigglesworth, son of Edward and Henrietta May (Goddard) Wiggles-
worth, was born in Boston, February 3, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He
was admitted to the bar in July, 1879.

Sidney Willard, son of Joseph and Susanna Hickling (Lewis) Willard, was born in
Lancaster, Mass., February 3, 1831, and was educated at the Boston Latin School
and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1852. He studied law at the Harvard Law
School and in the offices of Edmund Cushing, of Charlestown, N. H., and Charles G.
Loring, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 19, 1856. After his ad-

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mission he went to St. Paul with the view of settling there, but returned to Boston
and began practice. He entered the service as captain in the Thirty-fifth Massachu-
setts Regiment, August 13, 1862, and married, August 21, the day before his depart-
ure for the war, Sarah R., daughter of Augustus H. Fiske, of the Suffolk bar. He
was promoted to major August 27, 1862, and died December 14, 1862, of wounds re-
ceived the day before in the battle of Fredericksburg, Va.

Benjamin Payson Williams, son of Benjamin and Margaret (Childs) Williams, was
born in Roxbury, February 6, 1827, and graduated at Harvard in 1850. He was
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 13, 1853, and died in West Roxbury, May 17,
1856.

Frederick' Homer Williams, son of Virgil Homer and Nancy R. (Briggs) Williams,
was born in Foxboro', Mass., January 7, 1857. and graduated at Brown University
in 1877. He studied law in Taunton with W. H. Fox, and at the Boston University,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 18, 1882. He was a representative
from Foxboro' in 1883-84. He married J. Annette Blake at Whitman, Mass., July
19, 1881, and has his home in Brookline.

George Frederick Williams, son of George W. and Henrietta (Rice) Williams,
was born in Dedham, Mass., July 10, 1852, and graduated at Dartmouth College in
1872, and afterwards attended the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg. He
studied law in Boston with Thomas L. Wakefield, and at the Boston University, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1875. He was a member of the Massa-
chusetts House of Representatives in 1890, and a member of Congress from 1891 to
1893, He taught school in Brewster, Mass., in 1872-73; was a reporter for the
Boston Globe in 1873. He delivered the Fourth of July oration in Boston in 1886,
and in 1889 an address before the faculty and students of Dartmouth College. He
is the author of "Williams' Massachusetts Citations," and the editor of United
States Digest, volumes ten to seventeen inclusive. His home is at Dedham, with an
office in Boston.

Gorham D. Williams, son of George A. and Sarah (Deane) Williams, was born in
East Bridgewater, Mass., January 10, 1842, and was educated at Phillips Exeter
Academy and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1865. He studied law in Green-
field, Mass., with Charles Mattoon, and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar at
Greenfield in March, 1868. He was trial justice in Franklin county from 1876 to
1890; has been one of the trustees of Deerfield Academy since 1871, and president of
the Board since 1888. He is the author of " The Penal Statutes of Massachusetts,"
and of the " Massachusetts Peace Officer." He married at Greenfield, January 17,
1871, Ella C. Taylor, and has his home in Arlington, with an office in Boston.

Henry Webb Williams, son of Benjamin W. and Clarissa R. Williams, was born
in Taunton, Mass., June 6, 1847, and was educated at the Boston public schools and
the Boston Latin School. He studied law with Arthur H. Wellman in Boston, and
was admitted to the Norfolk bar at Dedham in 1886. His specialty is patent practice.
He married at Jamaica Plain, Mass., 1869, Emma R. Robinson, and has his resi-
dence in Milton, with an office in Boston.

William J. Williams, son of James Munroe and Maria Williams, was born in
Toronto, Canada, December 25, 1863, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy.

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He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
1889. His residence is in Chelsea.

Samuel Williston, son of Lyman Richards and Anne (Gale) Williston, was born
in Cambridge, September 24, 1861, and was educated at the Cambridge High School
and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1882. He graduated at the Harvard Law
School in 1888, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. In 1888-89 he
was law clerk of Justice Horace Gray of the United States Supreme Court, and in
September, 1890, was appointed assistant professor of law in the Harvard Law
School. He has written articles in the Harvard Law Review and American Law
Reporter, and has been connected in the courts with Goodwin vs. Trust Company,
152 Massachusetts, 189; Corlin vs. West End Railway, 154 Massachusetts; Kneeland
vs. Trust Company, 136 United States, 89 ; and Batcheller vs. Bank of Republic,
argued in November, 1891. He married at Roxbury, September 12, 1889, Mary
Fairlie Wellman.

Butler Roland Wilson, son of John R. and Mary Jane Wilson, was born in
Greensboro', Ga., July 22, 1860, and was educated at Atlanta University, Atlanta,
Ga. He studied law at the Boston University, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1884. His residence is in Boston.

William Power Wilson, son of James Hamilton and Margaret McKim (Marriott)
Wilson, was born in Baltimore, Md., November 15, 1852, and was educated at Phillips
Andover Academy. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and wTas admitted
to the Suffolk bar October 16, 1877. He was a member of the Boston Common
Council in 1886-87 ; an alderman in 1888-89-90, being chairman in 1890, and was a
representative in 1891. He received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from
Dartmouth College in 1880. He married in Boston, where he lives, April 30, 1884,
Louise Keith Kimball.

John Winthrop, jr. , son of Governor John Winthrop, was born at Groton Manor,
in England, February 12, 1606, and was educated at Bury St. Edmund's and at
Trinity College, Dublin. He entered Inner Temple and became connected with the
naval service. In 1631 he came to New England and was chosen assistant
eighteen years while living in the Massachusetts Colony. In 1640 he received a grant
of Fisher's Island in Long Island Sound, and in 1641 went to England, returning in
1643 with men and machinery for iron works in Lynn and Braintree. In 1646 he
began the New London plantation and moved to Connecticut in 1650. In 1657 he
was chosen governor of Connecticut, and with the exception of one year continued
in office until his death. From 1661 to 1663 he was in London and obtained the
charter of Connecticut and New Haven. He married first in 1631, his cousin Mar-
tha, daughter of Thomas Fones, of London, and second, in 1635, Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Edmund Reede, of Wickford, Essex. He died in Boston, April 5, 1676, while
attending a meeting of the commissioners of the United Colonies, Plymouth, Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut, and New Haven.

Herbert L. Baker, son of Gideon H. and Olive E. Baker, was born in Falmouth,
Mass., August 9, 1859, and was educated at the public schools, at Bryant & Strat-
ton's Business College, and at Boston University. He studied law at the Boston Uni-
versity and was admitted to the bar in Barnstable, Mass., in June, 1885. He is a

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senator the present year, 1893, from Boston, where he now resides and practices law.
He married in Wareham, Mass., October 22, 1886, Mary Alice Handy.

Thomas Weston, jr., son of Thomas and Thalia (Eddy) Weston, of Middleboro',
Mass., was born in that town, June 14, 1834. His father was many years a select-
man and representative. He is descended from Edmund Weston, who came from
England to Boston in the Elizabeth and Ann in 1635, and settled in Duxbury. His
father and grandfather were extensively engaged in the iron manufactory in Middle-
boro' many years, and both occupied prominent positions in that town. He was
educated at the Pierce Academy in Middleboro, and in 1864 received the honorary
degree of A. M. from Amherst College. Before entering on his professional career
he was some years engaged in teaching and was two years the principal of the
Plympton Academy. He studied law in Middleboro' in the office of William H,
Wood and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May,
1859. He first opened an office in Fall River, Mass., where he soon secured ah ex-
tensive practice. In 1865 he removed to Boston, and has there largely added to both
his business and reputation. In addition to his labors at the bar he has made a
specialty of historical studies and matters relating to the history of the Congrega-
tional Church and Polity. He is the author of a small volume entitled "A Sketch of
Peter Oliver, the Last Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature in the Prov-
ince of Massachusetts Bay," "A Genealogy of the Descendants of Edmund Wes"
ton," and many short articles in various papers and magazines. His residence is in
Newton, from which place he was sent representative to the General Court in 1883
and 1884, and he has been president of the Congregational Club of Boston. He is
a member of various historical associations, a lover of books, the owner of a good
library, and finds relief from his professional work in antiquarian study.

Charles Grandison Thomas was born in Denmark, N. Y., the son of poor parents,
and was brought up as a charcoal burner. The history of the Massachusetts bar can
show among its members no career more picturesque than his. After reaching man-
hood he determined to gratify a passion for learning which had been growing
stronger with his years, and in some mysterious way succeeded in reaching the sea-
board and securing an humble position as an assistant and man of all work under
the keeper of the East Chop Light on Martha's Vineyard. Here he found his way to
books of various kinds, and as he studied their contents a still higher ambition was
excited to obtain a collegiate education. In entire ignorance of the necessa^ quali-
fications for admission to Harvard, he groped along, from reading to geography,
from geography to mathematics, from mathematics to Latin, from Latin to Greek,
and when he thought himself equipped for a trial, he went on foot to Cambridge and
presented himself for examination. Being probably favored by the faculty, to whom
the peculiar circumstances of his case were made known, he was admitted, and pass-
ing through his collegiate course, always known under the sobriquet of Light-
house Thomas, he graduated creditably in 1838. He then entered the Law School
at Cambridge, graduating in 1841, and the writer remembers him well, often seeing
him walking into Boston studying a law book on the way. Precisely by what means
he was enabled to pass through the various stages of his education the writer has
never been informed. It is probable, however, that he was a beneficiary of one or
another college fund and received also aid from some one of the many benevolent

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persons in Boston and Cambridge, who are always ready to assist those seeking a
better position in life. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 28, 1841, and un-
til his death practiced in Boston, with a residence in Cambridge. He married a very
worthy attendant at a restaurant in Tremont Row, where for many years he was an
habitue, and outlived his wife a number of years. The writer is under the impres-
sion that he died in Cambridge about 1872.

Daniel Wells was born in Greenfield, Mass., in 1792, and graduated at Dart-
mouth College in 1810. In 1837 he was appointed district attorney, and in 1844 was
appointed to succeed John Mason Williams as chief justice of the Court of Common
Pleas. He continued on the bench until his death. In 1849 he removed to Cam-
bridge, where he died, June 23, 1854.

Horatio Byington was the son of Isaiah Byington, a farmer in Stockbridge, Mass.
He studied law in Stockbridge and with Judge Howe in Worthington, and was ad-
mitted to the Berkshire bar in 1820. He began practice in Plainfield, but returned to
Stockbridge and continued in_ practice there until he was appointed in 1846 a judge
of the Common Pleas Court. He continued on the bench until his death, which
occurred at Stockbridge, February 5, 1856. He lived at one time in Lenox.

Junius Hall, son of Hon. John Hall, of Ellington, Conn., graduated at Yale in 1831,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 26, 1846. He settled first in Alton, 111., but
returned to Boston and died there, August 2, 1851.

George Gorham Williams, son of Samuel K. and Eliza Winslow (Whitman) Will-
iams, was born in Boston in 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Peleg W. Chandler, and died in
Boston the year of his admission to the bar, June 25, 1851.

Joshua Holyoke Ward was born in Salem in 1809, and graduated at Harvard in
1829. He studied law with Leverett Saltonstall, and was admitted to the Essex bar
in 1832. He was appointed a judge of the Common Pleas Court in 1844, and contin-
ued on the bench until his death, which occurred at Salem, June 5, 1848.

Charles Worthington was born in Lenox in 1822, and graduated at Williams
College in 1840. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the
office of Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 19, 1844.
He died in Stockbridge, Mass., May 28, 1848.

Edward Cruft, jr., was born in Boston about 1811, and graduated at Harvard in
1831. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1834, and after praticing a short time
in Boston went to St. Louis, and there died, April 22, 1847.

Samuel Gay, a brother of Ebenezer Gay, sr., already referred to in this register,
graduated at Harvard in 1775. He studied law and after admission, being a loyal-
ist, retired to New Brunswick, where he became chief justice of the Court of Common
Pleas. He died at Fort Cumberland, N. B., January 21, 1847, at the age of ninety-
three.

Fisher Ames Harding was born in Dover, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in
1833. He studied law with Daniel Webster in Boston, and after admission to the
bar removed to Detroit, Mich, where he died in 1846. At the time of his death he
was assistant editor of the Detroit Daily Advertiser.

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George Gay, son of Willard Gay, was born in Dedham, and graduated at Harvard
in 1810. He was admitted to the bar as early as 1817, as his name appears on the
roll of Boston lawyers in that year. He died in Andover, November 9, 1843. His
residence and office were in Boston, and the writer, who remembers his death, is un-
der the impression that he died suddenly in the cars.

William Simmons was born, the writer thinks, in Hanover or Scituate, Mass., about
1782. He graduated at Harvard in 1804. His name appears on the roll of Boston
lawyers in 1811. He was appointed, June 10, 1822, one of the justices of the Police
Court of Boston, which was established in that year. His associates were Benjamin
Whitman, senior justice, and Henry Orne. He died June 17, 1843, in Boston, and
Abel Cushing was appointed to succeed him. He married in 1810, Lucia, daughter of
Abraham Hammatt, of Plymouth.

Peter Oliver Alden was born in Middleboro', Mass., August 20, 1772, and
graduated at Brown University in 1792. He studied law with Seth Padelford, of
Taunton, and was admitted to the bar in 1797. His name appears on the roll of ad-
missions to the Suffolk bar by the Supreme Court. He removed to Maine and died
in Brunswick, February 14, 1842.

Albert Baker was born in Bow, N. H., in 1810, and graduated at Dartmouth in
1834. He studied law with Franklin Pierce in Hillsboro', N. H., and with Richard
Fletcher in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1837. He settled
in Hillsboro', N. H., was a representative in 1839-40-41, and died in that town Octo-
ber 17, 1841.

Robert Wormsted Trevett was born in 1788, and graduated at Harvard in 1808.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1811, and died in Lynn, January 13,
1841.

Daniel Parkman was born in Boston in 1794, and graduated at Harvard in 1813.
He studied law with William Prescott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October
i, 1816. He soon abandoned the law for mercantile pursuits. At a later period he
was a deputy sheriff and city marshal of Boston. He died at Cambridge, February
25, 1840.

Henry C. Simonds was born in 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1835, and died in Boston, April 3, 1840.

Caleb Alexander Buckingham, son of Joseph Tinker Buckingham, for many years
editor of the Boston Courier, was born in Cambridge, and graduated at Harvard in
1834. He studied law, and after admission to the Suffolk bar removed to Geneva, N.
Y. He died in Chicago, January, 13, 1840.

Ezekiel Hersey Derby was born, perhaps, in Hingham in 1799, and graduated at
Harvard in 1818. He was a member of the Suffolk bar, and died in Boston, Novem-
ber 14, 1839.

Edward Preble, son of William Pitt and Sarah A. Preble, was born in Portland,
Me., April 1, 1855, and was educated at Hanover, Germany, at Phillips Andover
Academy and the Pennsylvania Military Academy. He studied law in Boston in the
office of L. C. Southard, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1890. He
was in Paris during the siege of 1870-71, and was the author of interesting articles in
the magazines describing its incidents. His home is in Boston.

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William Henry Preble, son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth M. (Freeman) Preble, was
born in Charlestown, Mass., August 12, 1856, and was educated at the public schools.
He studied law with F. Hutchinson and George E. Smith in Boston, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1880. He was a representative in 1888 and
1889. He married, December 8, 1880, Amy Bertha Nash, and lives in the Charles-
town District of Boston.

Albert Jerome Pratt, son of C. T. and Mary (Post) Pratt, was born in Saybrook,
Conn., January 31, 1857, and was educated at Wibraham Academy and at Boston
University. He studied law at the Boston University, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in June, 1881. His home is in Boston.

Charles Edward Pratt, son of Rev. Joseph H. and Martha E. Pratt, was born in
Vassalboro', Me., March 13, 1845, and graduated at Haverford dollege, Penn., in
1870. He studied law in Boston with Leonard A. Jones and Albert B. Otis, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1871. He was a member of the Boston Common
Council in 1877-79-80-81-82, and president of the board the last two years. He
makes a specialty of patent causes, and has been the attorney of the Pope Manufact-
uring Company and connected corporations since May, 1881. He is the author of
"The American Bicycler," he founded and edited The Bicycling World, edited
Outing two years, and for a number of years has been a writer of pamphlets, essays,
stories and poems for magazines and newspapers. He married at Worcester in 1872
Georgiana E. Folie, and lives in Boston.

Nathan H. Pratt, son of Nathan and Sarah E. Pratt, was born in Norwich, Conn.,
August 31, 1848, and was educated at the public schools of Weymouth, Mass., the na-
tive town of his father, who returned to it from Norwich. He studied law with
Everett C. Bumpus, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar in Dedham, January 1,
1880. He was of counsel for the mill owner's in their suits against the town of Wey-
mouth to recover damages for taking water from Weymouth Great Pond, in which
$30,000 or more was recovered. He lives unmarried in East Weymouth, with an of-
fice in Boston.

Samuel Jackson Prescott, son of Dr. Oliver and Lydia (Baldwin) Prescott, was
born in Groton, March 15, 1773, and graduated at Harvard in 1795. He studied law
with William Prescott, but left the profession not long after admission on account of
deafness, and went into business with Aaron P. Cleveland. He was subsequently a
notary public in Boston for thirty years. He married, November 13, 1804, Margaret,
daughter of Joseph Hillier, of Salem, and died in Brookline, February 4, 1857.

William Morton Prest, son of William and Rebecca (Morton) Prest, was born in
Blackburn, Lancashire county, England, February 22, 1862, and graduated at Am-
herst in 1888. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1891, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in August of that year. He married at Uxbridge, Mass.,
in 1880, Emma A. Day, and his home is in Hudson, Mass., with an office in Boston.

John Preston, son of Dr. John and Elizabeth (Champney) Preston, was born in
New Ipswich, N. H., April 12, 1802, and graduated at Harvard in 1823. He studied
law with George F. Farley in New Ipswich, and with Samuel Hubbard in Boston, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1827. He settled in New Ipswich and
and there and at Townsend passed his life. He was a representative seven years,

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and senator in 1848-49. He married in Townsend, October 27, 1828, Elizabeth S. ,
daughter of Abram and Elizabeth (Kidder) French, of Billerica, and died at New
Ipswich, March 5, 1867.

George Henry Preston, son of Marshall and Maria (Parker) Preston, was born in
Billerica, Mass., June 6, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1846. He studied law
in Boston with Peleg W. Chandler, and was admitted to the Suffolk barand practiced
in Boston until his death. He married, January 1, 1850, in Billerica, Catherine
Rogers, daughter of James K. Faulkner, and died in Boston, May 29, 1868.

Winfield Forrest Prime, son of Oliver and Emma F. Prime, was born in Charles-
town, Mass., November 22, 1860, and was educated at the Boston public schools and
at Boston University. He studied law at Boston University and in the office of
Joseph H. & H. W. B. Cotton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 20, 1886.
He was a representative in 1890. He married Mary A. Fontaine, May 12, 1891, at
Boston, and lives in the Charlestown District of Boston.

James Perrott Prince, son of James P. and Eliza T. (Burns) Prince, was born in
Rockport, Mass., June 7, 1861, and graduated as Bachelor of Science at Amherst
College in 1881. He studied law in Boston with Wm. F. Slocum andWm. A. Herrick,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 2, 1883. He married in Chelsea, Septem-
ber 20, 1885, Carrie E. Hodgdon, and has his home in Lexington.

Joseph Hardy Prince, son of Henry and Sarah (Millet) Prince, was born in Salem,
June 7, 1801, and graduated at Harvard in 1819. He studied law in Salem with John
Pickering, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1824. He settled in Salem and was
a representative in 1825. In 1834 he was an inspector in the Boston Custom House,
and in 1835 was private secretary of Commodore Eliot on board the Constitution on
a voyage to France to bring home the American Minister, Edward Livingston. In
1848 he was appointed to an office in the surveyor's department in the Boston Custom
House, and on leaving that position resumed the practice of law in Boston. He
married Mary Hunt, of Salem, and died in Boston November 18, 1861.

Thomas William Proctor, son of Thomas and Susan R. (Pool) Proctor, was born
in Hollis, N. H. , November 20, 1858, and receiving his early education at the public
schools and at Groton Academy, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1879. He studied
law at the Boston University and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1883.
He was first a member of the firm of Hardy, Elder & Proctor, and later of the firm of
Elder & Proctor. He was first appointed second assistant district attorney for Suffolk
county, then first assistant, and in May, 1891, he was appointed city solicitor, which
office he still holds.

George Putnam, son. of Rev. Dr. George and Elizabeth Ann (Ware) Putnam, was
born in Roxbury, Mass., October 28, 1834, and fitting for college at the Roxbury
Latin School, graduated at Harvard in 1854. He graduated at the Harvard Law
School in 1858, and after further study in the office of Chandler & Shattuck, of Boston,
was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 18, 1858, and is now associated in business
with William G. Russell. He married in Cambridge, where he has his home, June
9, 1860, Harriet Lowell.

Henry Ware Putnam, brother of the above, was born in Roxbury, April 29, 1847,
and fitting for college at the Roxbury Latin School, graduated at Harvard in 1869.
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He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in October, 1872. He has been overseer of Harvard College. He married Flor-
ence Haven Thwing, in October, 1873, and Mary Nelson Williams, in August, 1882,
and lives in the Highland District of Boston.

William Lowell Putnam, son of George and Harriet (Lowell) Putnam, was born
in Roxbury, November 22, 1861, and fitting for college at the Cambridge High
School, graduated at Harvard in 1882. He studied law at the Harvard Law School
and in Boston in the office of Ropes, Gray & Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar January 26, 1886. He married Elizabeth Lowell, June 9, 1888, and has his home
in Boston.

Henry Orne was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1816. He was ap-
pointed an associate justice of the Boston Police Court, June 10, 1822, at the time of
the establishment of the court.

John Winslow Whitman, son of Kilborn and Betsey (Winslow) Whitman, was born
in Pembroke, Mass., in 1798. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1830.
He married in 1828 Sarah Helen Power, of Providence, R. I., a lady well known in
her day as a poet. He died in Boston in 1833.

John Gallison, a nephew of Chief Justice Sewall, was born in Marblehead in
October, 1788, and graduated at Harvard in 1807. He was admitted to the Essex
bar in 1810, and after practicing a short time in his native town, removed to Boston,
and had an extensive practice. He died December 25, 1820.

Christopher Charles List came to Boston from Philadelphia, and studied law
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1847. He married, in 1848, Harriet
Winslow, a native of Portland, the author of the " Stanzas to the Unsatisfied," be-
ginning with the lines:

" Why thus longing, thus forever sighing.
For the far off unattained and dim,
While the beautiful, all around thee lying.
Offers up its low, perpetual hymn ! "
He died in Boston not many years after his marriage.

Philip Sidney Rust, son of Dr. William Appleton and Sarah J. (Goodenow) Rust,
was born in South Paris, Me. , and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied law
at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1890.
He lives in Boston.

George Holton Ryther, son of William E. and Delia P. Ryther, was born in
Brattleboro', Vt., April 20, 1852, and was educated at Powers Institute, Bernards-
town, Mass., and at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. He graduated at the
Harvard Law School in 1880, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November of
that year. He has been a member of the Cambridge Common Council. He married
in Cambridge, in 1883, Martha R. Dickinson, and has his home in Cohasset, with an
office in Boston.

George Abbott Saltmarsh, son of Gilman and Harriet E. Saltmarsh, was born in
Bow, N. H., October 18, 1858, and having received his early education at the public
schools of Concord, N. H., at the Tilton, N. H., Seminary, and under private in-
struction, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1884. He studied law in Concord,
N. H., with Chase & Streeter, and at the Boston University, and was admitted to

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the Suffolk bar in February, 1889. He married Nellie Gertrude Soule at Everett,
Mass., June 6, 1890, and has his home in Everett.

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, was born in Hampton Falls, December 15, 1831, and
was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Harvard, where he graduated in
1855. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and after admission, practiced
for a time in Boston. He began, however, to devote himself to social science and
sanitary and reformatory ethics, and was appointed secretary of the the State Board
of Health and Charities in 1863, and from 1874 to 1876 was its chairman. He was
appointed, July 1, 1879, inspector of charities, and served some years in that capacity,
bringing to the performance of his duties a wisdom and judgment of great value to
the State. He has been secretary of the American Social Science Association and was
president of the National Conference of Charities from 1888 to 1891. He is now in
Athens, Greece, and is the writer of " The Breakfast Table," in the Boston Daily
Advertiser, a series of interesting papers on topics of special interest to people of
taste and culture, which he has not permitted his departure and temporary absence
from home to interrupt. He married Louisa Leavitt.

M. Lendsley Sanborn, son of Ephraim and Sarah Sanborn, was born in Baldwin,
Me., September 30, 1859, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1882. He studied
law in Portland, Me., with Mattock, Coombs & Neal, and was admitted to the Maine
bar at Portland, May 20, 1886, and to the Suffolk bar July 20, 1886. He lives, un-
married, in Boston.

Caleb Saunders, son of Daniel and Phebe T. Saunders, was born in Andover,
Mass., September 4, 1838, and was educated at the High School in Lawrence, Mass.,
and at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1859. He studied law with Daniel
Saunders, of Lawrence, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1863. He has been
alderman and mayor of Lawrence, each three years. He married, February 8, 1865,
Carrie F. Stickney, and has his domicile in Lawrence.

Charles Gurley Saunders, son of Daniel and Mary J. (Livermore) Saunders, was
born in Lawrence, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Essex bar in Salem in 1870. He lives
in Lawrence.

Thomas Savage, son of Rev. Thomas and Sarah Webster Savage, was born in Bed-
ford, N. H., January 20, 1852, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1873. He
studied law in Manchester, N. H., with David Cross, and was admitted to the Florida
bar at Key West in January, 1874, and to the Suffolk bar in October of the same year.
He has been United States district attorney for the Southern District of Florida, city
solicitor of Key West, and city solicitor of Maiden, Mass., where he has his residence.
He married, August 20, 1891, Lucy Burkhalter Curtiss.

William Schofield, son of John and Margaret (Thompson) Schofield, was born in
Dudley, Mass., February 14, 1857, and was educated at the public schools, at Nichols
Academy, Dudley, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1879. He graduated at
the Harvard Law School in 1883, and after serving two years 1884-85 as private sec-
retary of Justice Horace Gray in Washington, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June,
1885. He has been instructor in torts in the Harvard Law School and in Roman law
in Harvard College, and a contributor to the Harvard Law Review. He married
Ednah May Green at Rutland in December, 1890, and has his residence in Maiden.

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James Schooler, son of William and Francis E. (Warren) Schouler, was born in
Arlington, formerly West Cambridge, and graduated at Harvard in 1859. He studied
law in Boston in the office of George D. Guild, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in the Supreme Court January 28, 1862, and to practice in the Supreme Court of the
United States December 10, 1867. In the War of the Rebellion he enlisted as a pri-
vate in the Forty-third Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment August 4, 1862, was pro-
moted to second lieutenant September 6, 1862, and assigned to the Signal Corps, and
mustered out July 30, 1863. Mr. Schouler has been a prolific writer in the fields of
both legal and historic literature. He is the author of a " History of the United
States under the Constitution," which has been pronounced by a no less competent
authority than the New York Nation to be " the most real history of the United
States yet produced for 'the period which it covers." It comprises in five volumes
the period from 1783 to 1861. In the field of law he is the author of "Schouler on
Domestic Relations," of which four editions have been published, " Schouler on Per-
sonal Property," "Schouler on Bailments, including Carriers, etc.," "Schouler on
Executors and Administrators," ' ' and ' ' Schouler on Wills. " Concerning these works
the Albany Law Journal says that " to Mr. Schouler must be given the praise of
being the best law writer of our day in point of style." Mr. Schouler has mingled
with his labors as a writer the occupation of lecturer on American Political History
at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and on various law topics at the Na-
tional University in Washington, and the law school of the Boston University in
Boston. He married at Boston, December 14, 1870, Emily F. Cochran, and has his
residence in Boston. An impaired hearing, perhaps fortunately, prevents the inter-
ference of general practice with his occupation as a writer, and he is still at work
with his pen with the promise of further enriching the shelves of both the lawyer and
historian.

Charles P. Searle, son of Richard and Emily Searle, was born in New Marlboro',
Mass., and graduated at Amherst College in 1876. He studied law in Boston with
Henry F. Buswell, and at the National Law School in Washington, D. C, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He married Cora A. W. Hogg in 1885, and lives
in Boston.

Norman Seaver, son of Heman and Elizabeth (Week) Seaver, was born in Groton,
Mass., April 7, 1802. He spent one year at Middlebury College, and graduated at
Harvard in 1822. He studied law with Luther Lawrence in Groton, and was admitted
to the Middlesex bar in October, 1827. He settled in Boston, was a member of the
Boston Common Council in 1828, and in 1834 abandoned the profession. He was
later a member of the mercantile firm of Stone, Seaver & Bush. He married, Decem-
ber 1, 1829, Anna Maria, daughter of Luther and Lucy (Bigelow) Lawrence, of Gro-
ton, and died at St. Louis, May 12, 1838.

George Henry Parsons Shaw, son of Parsons and Mary (Kearsley) Shaw, was born
in Manchester, England, January 31, 1869, and was educated at Owens College, Vic-
toria University in Manchester. He graduated at the law school of the Columbian
University, Washington, D. C, and was admitted to the bar of South Dakota at
Sioux Falls March 2, 1890, and to the Massachusetts bar at Cambridge January 29,
1891. His domicile is in Somerville.

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John Oakes Shaw, son of John 0. and grandson of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw,
was born in Milton, Mass., in August, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He
studied law with his uncle, Lemuel Shaw, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May
23, 1876.

John F. Shea was born in Boston, June 2, 1859, and was educated at the public
schools. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, was a representative in 1886,
and a senator in 1887-88.

Joseph W. Sheeran, son of Thomas W. and Annie M., was born in East Boston,
Mass. , February 6, 1876, and was educated at the Boston public schools. He studied
law with William C. Williamson and at Boston University, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar August 4, 1891. He lives in Boston.

John Goddard Jackson, son of Abraham and Harriet Otis (Goddard) Jackson, was
born in Plymouth, Mass., March 8, 1823. He was descended on his father's side from
Abraham Jackson, who married at Plymouth in 1657 Remember, daughter of Na-
thaniel Morton, the secretary of Plymouth Colony, and on the mother's side from
John Otis, who was born in 1581, and came from Barnstable in England and settled
in Hingham in 1635, and also from Benjamin Goddard, an early emigrant from
England. He fitted for college at the Plymouth High School, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 19, 1846, and practiced in
Boston many years. About 1880 he removed to Aiken, S. C, and there died unmar-
ried in 1884.

William Hedge, son of Thomas and Lydia Coffin (Goodwin) Hedge, was born in
Plymouth, Mass., February 26, 1840, and was fitted for college at the Boston Latin
School. He graduated at Harvard in 1862. He enlisted September 12, 1862, as cor-
poral in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment for nine months' service in the
War of 1861, was made sergeant October 1, 1862, first lieutenant January 15, 1863,
and was mustered out June 18, 1863. He then studied law in Boston in the office of
Whiting & Russell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 27, 1866. He is
in active practice as a conveyancer with a business extending from Suffolk into Plym-
outh, Bristol. Norfolk, Middlesex and Essex counties. He married at Plymouth, Oc-
tober 11, 1871, Catherine Elliott, daughter of Nathaniel and Catherine (Elliott) Rus-
sell. He lives in Plymouth, with an office in Boston.

Edwin Day Sibley, son of Edwin and Hannah Elizabeth (Day) Sibley, was born in
Boston, April 18, 1857, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in
the office of George V. Leverett, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 22, 1882.
He married in Boston, October 28, 1886, Ellen M. Ayers, and has his domicile in
Somerville.

Henry R. Skinner, son of Hiram D. and Eliza A. Skinner, was born in Foxboro',
Mass., and studied law in Boston with George S. Littlefield, Frank T. Benner and
Montressor T. Allen, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar July 3, 1890. His resi-
dence is in Watertown.

William F. Slocum, son of Oliver E. and Polly Mills Slocum, was born in Tolland,
Mass., January 31, 1822, and was educated at the public schools and at the academy
in Winsted, Conn. He studied law in Sheffield, Mass., in the office of Billings Palmer,
and was admitted to the Berkshire bar at Lenox, then the shire town of the county,

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in October, 1846. He has been a representative, selectman and member of trie
School Committee in Grafton, but now he has his residence in Newton. He married
Margaret Tinker at Tolland, Mass., April 21, 1847.

Winfield S. Slocum, son of the above, was born in Grafton, Mass., May 1, 1848,
and graduated at Amherst College in 1869. He studied law in Boston in the office
of Slocum & Staples, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1871. He has been a
member of the School Committee of Newton, where he has his residence, city solicitor
and representative in 1888-89. He married at Newtonville in 1873, Annie A.
Pulsifer.

George Edwin Smith, son of David H. and Esther (Perkins) Smith, was born in
New Hampton, N. H., April 5, 1849, and was educated at Bates College, Lewiston,
Me. He studied law in Lewiston in the office of Frye, Cotton & White, and of
Horace R. Cheney in Boston, and at Boston University, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar April 30, 1875. He was a representative in 1883-84, and is trustee of the
Public Library, and a member of the School Committee in Everett, Mass., where he
resides. He married Sarah F. Weld at Buxton, Me., October 31, 1876.

Henry Barney Smith, son of Barney and Ann (Otis) Smith, was born in Boston,
October 26, 1789, and after fitting for college under the instruction of Rev. Nathaniel
Thayer, of Lancaster, graduated at Harvard in 1809. He studied law at the Litch-
field, Conn., Law School, and in Boston with William Sullivan, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar November 19, 1812. In 1822 he delivered an oration on the Fourth of
July in Dorchester at a democratic celebration of the day, another in Boston in 1824,
and in 1830 another before the Washington Society. He died unmarried in Boston,
April 1, 1861.

Henry Hyde Smith, son of Greenleaf and Nancy (Churchill) Smith, was born in
Cornish, Me., February 2, 1832, and was educated at the Parsonsfield Seminary, the
Bridgeton Academy, the Standish Academy and at Bowdoin College, where he grad-
uated in 1854. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and after further
study in Portland in the office of Fessenden & Butler, he was admitted to the Cum-
berland bar at Portland February 2, 1860. He came to Boston m 1867, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar July 18 of that year, and has since practiced at that bar.
He married, December 24, 1861, at Portland, Mary Sherburne, daughter of John
Winchester and Eliza Ann (Osgood) Dana. His domicile is at Hyde Park.

Joseph R. Smith, son of Joseph E. and Charlotte (Richardson) Smith, was born in
Hollis, N. H., August 18, 1856, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1879. He studied
law at the Boston University and in Nashua, N. H., with General H. F. Stevens
and in Boston with John O. Teele, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1883.
He has been an instructor since 1886 in the Boston University Law School. He
married at Epsom, N. H., May 26, 1881, Annie E. Towle, and has his residence in
Boston.

Chauncey Smith, son of Ithamar and Ruth (Barnard) Smith, was born in Waites-
field, Vt., January 11, 1819, and was educated at the Waitesfield public schools, at
Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, Gouverneur, N. Y. , at the University of Vermont
in Burlington, and in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 1849,
and has since that time been engaged in active practice in Boston. In later years he

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has been connected as counsel with telephone and other patent cases. He married
at Cambridge, where he has his residence, December 10, 1856, Caroline E. Marshall.

Clarence Cheney Smith, son of David H. and Esther S. (Perkins) Smith, was
born in New Hampton, N. H., March 1, 1865, and educated at the Edward Little
High School and at Bates College in Lewiston, Me. He studied law at the Boston
University Law School and with George E. Smith in Boston, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in July, 1890. He has been principal of the York, Me., High School,
and is now principal of the Evening School in Everett, where he has his residence.

Edward Irving Smith, son of Cyrus G. and Emily M. Smith, was born in Lincoln,
Mass., October 20, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He studied at the Har-
vard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1889. He married
Lucia G. Campbell, and has his domicile in Waltham.

Robert Dickson Smith, son of Dr. John De Wolfe and Judith Wells (Smith) Smith,
was born in Brandon, Miss., April 23, 1838. His parents removed in his youth to
Hallowell, Me. , where he passed his boyhood, and he graduated at Harvard in 1857. He
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and began practice in Boston with
Henry W. Paine. In 1882 he became associated with his brother-in-law, Melville
M. Weston. He was a representative in 1876, and declined a nomination for Congress
as well as appointments to the benches of the Superior and Supreme Courts. He de-
livered the Fourth of July oration in Boston in 1880, and was an overseer of Harvard
College from 1878 until his death. He married Paulina Cony Weston, daughter of
George Melville Weston, of Washington, D. C, and cousin of Chief Justice Fuller of
the United States Supreme Court. He died in Boston, May 30, 1888.

Herbert Milton Sylvester, son of Ezekiel J. and Miriam T. Sylvester, was born
in Lowell, Mass., February 20, 1849, and was educated at the Bridgeton Academy in
Maine. He studied law in Portland with William Pitt Fessenden, and was admitted
to the Cumberland bar in April, 1872. In 1886 he removed to Boston and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar February 24 in that year. Aside from his professional
work he has done much in the field of literature. He is the author of "Prose Pas-
torals" and "Homestead Highways," and has at the present time in press two
novels, a book of boys' adventure and a series of articles from the New England
Magazine. He married at Portland, August 5, 1872, Clara M. Elder, and has his
home in Boston.

Freeerick Crosby Swift, son of Charles F. and Sarah A. Swift, was born in Yar-
mouth, Mass., December 18, 1856, and was educated at the public schools and under
private instruction. He studied law in Barnstable with Joseph M. Day and at the
Boston University, and was admitted to the Barnstable bar at Barnstable in October,
1880. He was for two years the editor of the Yarmouth Register. He married in
Brookline, Mass., June 2, 1890, Stella Nichols Hobbs, and lives in Boston.

Erdix Tenny Swift, son of Phineas and Deborah Swift, was born in Corinth, Vt.,
and educated at the public schools. He studied law in Boston with Nathaniel Rich-
ardson, and was admitted to the bar at Cambridge in 1859. He was a member of the
Common Council four years and chief of police five years of Charlestown before its
annexation to Boston, but has now his office in Boston, and his domicile at Reading,
Mass. He married at Foster, R. I., March 17, 1836, Waty A. Rounds.

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Samuel Swett, son of Dr. John Barnard and Charlotte (Bourne) Swett, was born
in Newburyport, June 9, 1782, and graduated at Harvard in 1800. He studied law
with Jeremiah Smith in Exeter and with Charles Jackson and Edward Livermore.
He began to practice in Salem in 1803, and in 1810 removed to Boston. He was a
member of the Boston Common Council in 1828, representative three years, and
soon after coming to Boston abandoned the law and became a partner in the house
of William B. Swett & Company. He married at Salem, August 25, 1807, Lucia,
daughter of William Gray, and died in Boston, October 28, 1866.

Francis Kittridge Sweetser, son of Francis K. and Myra A. Sweetser, was born
in Stoneham, Mass., January 21, 1865, and graduated at Tufts College in 1886. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles Robinson, jr.,
and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1889. He married, October
21, 1891, at Saco, Me., Jennie M. Clement, and lives in Stoneham, with an office in
Boston.

James F. Sweeney, son of Michael and Johanna Sweeney, was born in Stow, now
Maynard, Mass., and was educated at Boston College. He was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar January 18, 1888. He lives in Maynard, with his office in Boston.

George R. Swasey, son of Horatio J. and Harriet M. (Higgins) Swasey, was born in
Standish, Me., and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1875. He studied law with his
father in Standish and at the Boston University, and was admitted to the Maine bar
in 1879 and to the Suffolk bar February 24, 1879. He lives, unmarried, in Boston.

Hales Wallace Suter, son of John and Sarah (Wallace) Suter, was born in Bos-
ton, December 30, 1828, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Har-
vard, where he graduated in 1850. He studied law with William J. Hubbard and
Francis O. Watts in Boston, at the Harvard Law School, and in the office of John J.
& Manlius S. Clarke in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1852. He
has been a member of the Boston Common Council and president of the Massachu-
setts Title Insurance Company.

Joseph Lewis Stackpole, son of Joseph Lewis and Susan Margaret (Benjamin)
Stackpole, was born in Boston, March 20, 1838, and graduated at Harvard in 1857.(
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1859 and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar September 3, 1860. He was first assistant city solicitor of Boston from 1870 to
1876, and United States general appraiser from August to December, 1891. In the
War of the Rebellion he was commissioned captain in the Twenty-fourth Massachu-
setts Regiment September 2, 1861, captain and C. S. of United States Volunteers
August 30, 1862, major and judge advocate July 10, 1863, brevet lieutenant-colonel
March 13, 1865, and resigned April 20, 1865. He has appeared in the North Ameri-
can Review for November, 1865, as the author of "Military Law," and in the
Atnerican Law Review as the author of " Rogers vs. Attorney-General," October,
1866; "Law and Romance," April, 1867; "Book about Lawyers," October, 1867:
"Lord Plunket," April, 1868; "Campbell's Lives of Lyndhurst and Brougham,'1
January, 1870; " Howland Will Case," July, 1870, and "Early Days of Charles Sum-
ner," April, 1879. He married, March 3, 1863, at Cambridge, Martha Watson Par-
sons, and has his domicile at Mattapoisett, with his office in Boston.

Arthur Langdon Spring, son of John Langdon and Ellen M. Spring, was born in
Salmon Falls, N, H,, February 25, 1857, and was • educated at Kimball Union Acad-

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eray and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1880. He studied law at
Boston University and with John L. Spring at Lebanon, N. H., and was admitted to
the New Hampshire bar in August, 1883, and to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He has
been a member of the Common Council three years in Boston, where he has his
residence.

Charles H. Sprague, son of Homer B. and A. E. Sprague, was born in New
Haven, Conn., July 21, 1856, and studied law at the Boston University Law School.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 26, 1879, and was a member of the Common
Council of Newton, where he has his domicile, in 1891, and an alderman in 1892.
He married Jennie Starbuck, of Cincinnati, O., August 11, 1877.

Charles Franklin Sprague, son of Seth Edward and Harriet B. (Lawrence)
Sprague, was born in Boston, June 10, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School and at Boston University, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in 1889. He was a member of the Common Council of Boston,
where he lives, in 1889-90, and a representative in 1891-92. He married in Boston,
in November, 1891, Mary B. Pratt.

William Jones Spooner, son of William and Mary Phillips Spooner, was born in
Boston, April 15,. 1794, and graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law at Litch-
field, Conn., and with Peter O. Thacher in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in October, 1816. He died in Boston, October 17, 1824.

William Edward Spear, son of Archibald G. and Angelica Spear, was born in
Rockland, Me., January 2, 1848, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1870. He
studied law with A. P. Gould, of Thomaston, Me. , and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1878. He was of counsel for the United States in the Alabama Court of
Claims, and is at present counsel for the United States in the French Spoliation
Claims. He married in 1878 in Boston, Marie Josephine Graux, and lives in Boston.

Samuel Snow, son of Caleb Hopkins and Sarah (Drew) Snow, was born in Dux-
bury, Mass. , November 18, 1832. His father was the author of a history of Boston, a
physician of note, who died in 1835. He graduated at Brown in 1856, and after at-
tending the Harvard Law School and studying in the office of Caleb William
Loring, of Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1858. Before entering Brown
he went to California, one of the first at the breaking out of the gold fever, sailing
in the ship Niantic, July 5, 1849. He has been a member of the Common Council of
Cambridge, where he resides. He married in Cambridge, August 20, 1861, Ophelia
A. Smith. iDic-& ft*<|«,K60- - Sfe ueHG-kl^ V-i'i~ if a,'

Charles Armstrong Snow, son of Franklin and Anna E. (Armstrong) Snow, was
born in Boston, September 23, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1882. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, since
which time he has been associated in business with E. W. Burdett, and makes a
specialty of corporation law. He is unmarried and lives in Boston.

William Christopher Smith, son of Christopher and Sally T. Smith, was born m
Chatham, Mass., September 16, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He at-
tended the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He
married in Chelsea, October 31, 1889, Florence Ilsley, and has his residence in Mel-
rose, with his office in Boston,
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Theophilus Gilman Smith, son of Theophilus Staniell.s and Mary Burley (Oilman)
Smith, was born in Stratham, N. H., December 29, 1848, and graduated at Harvard
in 1871. He studied law with E. Rockwood Hoar in Boston, and at Boston Uni-
versity, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 13, 1874. In 1887 he moved to
Groton. He married, May 11, 1875, at Somerville, Julia Warton, daughter of George
and Marie (Warton) Kaan, of New York.

Seth P. Smith, son of Samuel and Ruth T. Smith, was born in Hollis, Me., Janu-
ary 4, 1857, and was educated at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and at Dartmouth
College, where he graduated in 1882. He studied law at the Boston University and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1885. He has served two years in
the Common Council of Boston, where he lives.

Samuel Herbert Smith, son of Samuel Abbott and Maria E. (Edes) Smith, was
born in Arlington, Mass., April 5, 1864, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
December, 1888. His residence is in Arlington.

Samuel Emerson Smith, son of Manasseh and Hannah (Emerson) Smith, was born
in Hollis, N. H., March 12, 1788, and hitting for college at Wiscasset, Me., and at
Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass. , graduated at Harvard in 1808. He studied
law with Samuel Dana, of Groton, and with his brothers Manasseh and Joseph Em-
erson, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 25, 1812. He re-
moved from Boston to Wiscasset, and represented that town in the Legislature of
Massachusetts in 1819, before the incorporation of Maine, and in the Legislature of
Maine in 1820. He was chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Maine from
1822 to 1830; governor from 1831 to 1833; reappointed justice of the Common Pleas
Court in 1835, and resigned in 1837. In 1837 he was appointed one of the commis-
sioners to revise the laws of Maine. When chosen governor he removed to Augusta,
but in 1836 returned to Wiscasset. He married, September 12, 1832, Louisa Sophia,
daughter of Henry Weld Fuller, of Augusta, and died in Wiscasset, March 3, 1860.

Samuel Savage Shaw, son of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, was born in Boston
and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in
1855 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1856.

John L. Swift, was born in Falmouth, Mass., May 28, 1828. He came to Boston
in 1843 and entered a store as clerk. He was an active member of the Mercantile
Library Association from 1848 to 1852. He studied law at the Harvard Law School,
was a representative in 1855-57, was appointed pilot commissioner in 1858, and United
States storekeeper in June, 1861. He enlisted in August, 1862, in the Thirty-fifth
Massachusetts Regiment, and was made sergeant, lieutenant, and then captain in the
Forty-first Regiment. He was provost judge at Baton Rouge, captain and judge ad-
vocate on the staff of General Grover, and adjutant-general of Lousiana in 1863. In
1866 he was appointed naval officer of the port of Boston, and in 1867 deputy collector,
holding that office till 1869, when he went into business in New York. Afterwards
returning to Boston he was reappointed in 1874 deputy collector, and remained in
office till 1885. From 1886 to 1887 he was editor of the State, a weekly journal, and
from 1887 to 1890 was with the Evening Traveller. In March, 1890, he was reap-
pointed deputy collector, and is still in office.

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Elisha Greenwood was born in Dedham, Mass., July 15, 1863, and was educated
at the public schools. He studied law at the Boston University and in the office of
Henry W. Bragg, of Boston, and was admitted to the St. Louis bar February 1, 1884,
and to the Suffolk bar January 18, 1885. He has been a representative from Ded-
ham, where he lives. He has been counsel in many important cases to be found in
the reports of the Supreme Court, was editor of the Central Law Journal in 1883-84,
and is the author of " Public Policy in the Law of Contracts," and two volumes on
" Constitutional Law " for " Federal Decisions."

William Cahoone Greene, son of Samuel D. and Susan (Gibbs) Greene, was born
in Batavia, N. Y., October 8, 1828, and was educated at the Monson, Westfield and
Easthampton Academies in Massachusetts and at Amherst College and Brown Uni-
versity.. He studied law with Bates, Beach & Gillett in Westfield, Mass., and with
Beach & Bond, and Henry Morris in Springfield, and was admitted to the bar in
Springfield in October, 1852. He married first, Virginia Croll, of Philadelphia, and
second, 'Maria H., daughter of Noah Lincoln, of Boston. He lives in Boston.

Reginald Gray, son of Francis Henry and Hedwiga Regina (Shober) Gray, was
born in Boston, March 19, 1853, and graduated at Harvard in 1875. He studied law
at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to^ the Suffolk bar in July, 1879. He
lives in Boston.

Samuel Jackson Gardner, son of Caleb Gardner, was born in Brookline, July 9,
1788, and graduated at Harvard in 1807. After his admission he practiced law in
Roxbury, now Boston, and in 1838 moved to Newark, N. J., where in 1850 he became
editor of the Newark Daily Advertiser. He died at the White Mountains, N. H.,
July 14, 1864.

William Parkinson Greene, son of Gardner and Elizabeth (Hubbard) Greene, was
born in Boston, September 7, 1795, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He studied
law in Boston with Samuel Hubbard, who married his sister, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar March 14, 1820. He became a partner with Mr. Hubbard and con-
tinued in practice in Boston seven years. In 1824 he moved to Norwich, Conn. He
married, July 14, 1819, Augusta Elizabeth, daughter of Leonard Vassall Borland, and
died in Norwich, June 18, 1864.

William B. Gale, son of John Gale, was born in Southampton, N. H., August 8,
1829, and after fitting for college under private instruction, spent two years at Har-
vard. He studied law with Franklin Pierce at Concord, N. H., and Asa Fowler at
the same place, and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1853, and to the
Middlesex bar in Massachusetts in June, 1860. He has practiced in Boston many
years, coming to that city from Marlboro, where he had previously practiced.

John P. Gale, son of the above, and born in Marlboro' in 1856, was a member of
the Suffolk bar as early as 1885, but moved to Seattle, Wash, and died at Redlands,
Cal., May 11, 1892.

Robert Dickson Weston-Smith, son of Robert Dickson and Paulina Cony (Weston)
Smith, was born in Newton, Mass., May 8, 1864, and was educated at the Boston
Latin School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1886. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of his father, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. In 1890 he was associate counsel of the New York

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and New England Railroad Company. He married in Cambridge, October 4, 1888,
Anstiss Walcott, and lives in Cambridge.

George A. Griffin, son of George A. and Eliza T. Griffin, was born in Lowell,
August 28, 1842, and graduated at Tufts College in 1864. He studied law in Lowell
and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in Cambridge in February, 1866. He married
in Maiden, August 28, 1873, Victoria W. Hutchings, and has his residence in Mel-
rose.

James Wilson Grimes, son of James Forsaith and Sarah (Jones) Grimes, was born
in Hillsboro', N. H., November 21, 1865, and was educated at Phillips Andover Acad-
emy. He studied law at the Boston University and with John F. Colby, of Boston,
and was admitted to the bar at Des Moines, la., October 8, 1890, and to the Suffolk
bar in January, 1892, His residence is in Boston.

Charles Edward Grinnell, son of Charles Andrews and Anna (Almy) Grinnell,
was born in Baltimore, Md., May 7, 1841, and graduated at Harvard in 1860. He
studied divinity at the Yale Divinity School and the Divinity School in Cambridge,
and also pursued a course of study at the university of Gottingen, Germany. After
preaching for a time he studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the
office of Chandler, Ware & Hudson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November
28, 1876. He has been master in chancery in Suffolk county since 1878, and was edi-
tor of the American Law Review in 1881-82. He has written editorials in the above
Review in 1880-81-82, a book entitled "A Study of the Poor Debtor Law of Massa-
chusetts," another entitled " The Law of Deceit," and a third entitled "Points in
Pleading and Practice under the Massachusetts Practice," an article in the Ameri-
can Law Review on " Cross Bills by Assignees," and one in the Harvard Law
Review on " Subsequent Payments under Resulting Trusts." He married in Boston
July 11, 1865, Elizabeth Tucker Washburn, and lives in Boston.

William Penn Harding, son of Isaac and Abigail (Young) Harding, was born in
Duxbury, Mass., February 15, 1831, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He studied
law in Boston with Richard F. Fuller and at the. Harvard Law School, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar October 1, 1856. He married, December 25, 1861, in Can-
ton, Mass., Abby Anceline Morse, and lives in Cambridge.

Charles Nathan Harris, son of John L. and Sarah E. Harris, was born at Port
Byron, 111., October 6, 1860, and was educated at the Boston Latin School. He
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1884 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
June 22, 1882. He was appointed second assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts
January 21, 1891. He has been engaged in the preparation of portions of "Gould
and Tucker's Notes on the Revised Statutes of the United States," of the second edi-
tion of Keller's "Index Digest," and portions of the ninth American edition of
"Smith's Leading Cases." He married at Cambridge, September 30, 1890, Sarah
W. Bird of that city, and has his residence in Cambridge.

David Greene Haskins, jr., son of Rev. David Greene and Mary Cogswell
(Daveis) Haskins, was born in Roxbury, Mass. , March 5, 1845, and was educated at
the Roxbury Latin School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1866. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Henry W. Paine, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1870. He has been secretary of the Massa-

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chusetts Society of the Cincinnati, and recording secretary of the New England His-
toric Genealogical Society. He is unmarried and lives in Cambridge.

Simon W. Hatheway, son of Thomas G. and Harriet E. (Bates) Hatheway, was
born in St. John, N. B., September 10, 1837, and graduated at Amherst College in
1857. He studied law in Worcester with D wight Foster and George W. Baldwin,
and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in Cambridge in October, 1866. He has his
domicile in Dedham.

Gustavus Hay, jr., was born in Boston in 1866, and graduated at Harvard in 1888.
He studied law at Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Janu-
ary 20, 1891. He lives in Boston.

Charles William Storey, son of Charles William and Elizabeth (Burnham)
Storey, of Newburyport, was born in Claremont, N. H., July 18, 1816, and was
educated at the Newburyport Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy and at Har-
vard, where he graduated in 1835. He studied law at the Harvard Law School
and in Boston with C. P. & B. R. Curtis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June
15, 1840. He was clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1844
to 1850, has been register of insolvency for Suffolk county, and clerk of the Superior
Criminal Court. He married in Newburyport, Elizabeth Eaton Moorfield, and lives
in Brookline.

Moorfield Storey, son of the above, was born in Roxbury, Mass., March 19,
1845, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard, where he grad-
uated in 1866. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Washington
with Charles Sumner, and in Boston with Benjamin F. Brooks and Joshua D. Ball,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 28, 1869. He has been assistant dis-
trict attorney of Suffolk county and an overseer of Harvard College. He married in
Washington, D. C, January 6, 1870, Anna Gertrude Cutts, and lives in Brookline.

David Thaxter, son of Joseph B. and Sally (Gill) Thaxter, was born in Hingham,
Mass., March 24, 1824, and was educated in his native town. He studied law in
Boston with Sidney Bartlett and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 21, 1848.
He practiced in Boston, and died in Hingham, June 10, 1878.

Edward Ellerton Pratt, son of George and Abigail H. (Lodge) Pratt, was born
in Boston, December 24, 1830, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at
Harvard, where he graduated in 1852. He studied law at the Harvard Law School
and in Boston with John J. Clarke, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He mar-
ried in 1856, Miriam Foster, daughter of Rufus Choate.

William Bates, a native of Wareham, Mass., was a soldier in the War of 1812, and
distinguished himself in the battle of Bladensburg. He practiced law and taught
school in Wareham, and in 1850 opened an office in Boston. He became conspicuous
in the early days of the Free Soil party, and was at one time its candidate for secre-
tary of state.

Thomas Lafayette Wakefield, son of Thomas and Submit (Ross) Wakefield, was
born in Londonderry, Vt., June 15, 1817, and graduated at Darmouth College in
1843. He studied law with Horace E. Smith in Broadalbin, N. Y., and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar April 27, 1849, and became a partner of Mr. Smith, his instructor,
who had removed to Boston. Before coming to Boston he was admitted to the bar

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in New York and was the first district attorney chosen under the law making the
office elective. On coming to Massachusetts he resided first in Chelsea, then in
Dedham, then in Chelsea again, and finally in Dedham in 1854, where he lived un-
til his death. He married first at Fayetteville, Vt., about 1845, Jane, daughter of
D. Perry, and second at Dedham, Frances A. L., daughter of Rev. John Lathrop.
He made a specialty in the latter part of his career of patent cases. He was an
associate of the winter on a commission appointed by the Supreme Court under an
act of the Legislature to widen the draws of the Charlestown bridges, and was also
on a commission to construct the State Prison, now the Reformatory, at Concord.
He died at Dedham, June 21, 1888.

Francis S. Fiske was born in Keene, N. H., in 1825, and graduated at Dartmouth
College in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was admit-
ted to the New Hampshire bar and settled in Keene. He was commissioned lieu-
tenant-colonel of the Second New Hampshire Regiment in 1861, and afterwards
while in command of a Pennsylvania regiment, he contracted the army fever and
resigned in 1862. He resumed practice in Keene, but came to Boston in 1865, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May of that year. He has been auditor and clerk
of the United States Bankruptcy Court, and is now, as commissioner of the United
State, conducting the business of Henry L. Hallett, recently deceased.

A. W. Gates Fairbanks was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 23, 1874, and is now
in Boston. He was previously admitted to the Connecticut bar in New Haven and
to the New York bar in New York city. In these places he was admitted as A. W.
Gates.

George Silsbee Hale, son of Salma and Sarah Kellogg (King) Hale, was born in
Keene, N. H., September 24, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1850, and is now in active practice in Boston.
He married, November 25, 1868, Ellen, daughter of Colonel John and Ann (Dana)
Sever, of Kingston, Mass., and widow of Rev. Theodore Tibbetts.

George Dwight Guild, son of Moses and Juliette (Ellis) Guild, was born in Ded-
ham, Mass., March 17, 1825, and fitting for college at the Wrentham Academy, grad-
uated at Harvard in 1845. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in
Boston in the office of Charles M. Ellis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August
9, 1848. He married in 1860, Mary M., daughter of William Thomas, of Boston, and
died in Brookline, Mass., May 5, 1862.

John Edward Hannigan, so>n of William and Anne Hannigan, was born in Brigh-
ton, Mass., September 24, 1868, and was educated at the Brighton High and Boston
Latin Schools. He studid law at the Boston University, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in August, 1890. He married Annie M. Judson, May 21, 1891, in Bos.
ton, and lives in the Brighton District of that city.

Albert Fearing Hayden, son of Edward B. and Anna (Goodspeed) Hayden, was
born in Plymouth, Mass., May 5, 1865, and was educated at the Plymouth High
School. He studied law at Boston University and in the office of Gaston & Whitney,
with which firm he is still connected, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 17,
1888. He married in Boston, December 23, 1891, Lucy Seaver Parker, and lives in
the Roxbury District of Boston.

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Andrew Wayland Hayes, son of Andrew and Caroline (Gowell) Hayes, was born
in Lebanon, Me., August 9, 1857, and was educated at the East Lebanon Academy
and at Boston University. He studied law at Boston University and in Quincy,
Mass., in the office of Judge E. Granville Pratt, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar
at Dedham in May, 1879, He married in Quincy in September, 1879, Hattie Louise
Lincoln, and has his domicile in Revere.

George Edward Head, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Frazier) Head, was born in
Boston, February 25, 1793, and after studying at Phillips Academy, at the Boston
Latin School and with Rev. S. J. Gardiner, D. D., of Boston, graduated at Har-
vard in 1812. He studied law at Litchfield, Conn., with Judges Reeve and Gould,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1815. He was a representative
from Boston in 1836-37^47^8, alderman in 1846-47-48, and permanent assessor from
1848 to 1855. He married, February 26, 1815, Hannah, daughter of Grove Catlin, of
Litchfield, Conn., and died in Boston, July 5, 1861.

Charles Edward Hellier, son of Walter S. and Eunice (Bixby) Hellier, was born
in Bangor, Me., July 8, 1864, and was educated at the Bangor High School and at
Yale, where he graduated in 1886. He attended law lectures at the University of
Berlin, and after completing his studies with Robert M. Morse, was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in January, 1889. He married in New Haven, Conn., July 8, 1886,
Mary L. Harmon, and lives in Boston.

Samuel A. Fuller, jr., son of Samuel A. and Susan E. Fuller, was born in Dres-
den, Me., February 22, 1859, and was educated at the Pinkerton Seminary, N. H.,
and the Berlin University. He studied law in Salem with Otis P. Lord and Stephen
B. Ives, jr., and was admitted to the Essex bar in Salem in May, 1883.

Henry Day was born December 25, 1820, in South Hadley, Mass., and graduated
at Yale in 1845. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to
the bar in 1848. He soon after went to New York and became a partner of Daniel
Lord, whose daughter he married. He was a member of the Presbyterian Assem-
bly of St. Louis in 1867, and of Albany in 1868. In 1865 he became a director in the
Princeton Theological Seminary, and a trustee of the Union Seminary in New York.
He was the author of " The Lawyer Abroad, or Observations on the Social and Po-
litical Condition of Various Countries," and "From the Pyrenees to the Pillars of
Hercules." He died in New York city, January 9, 1893.

Horace Green Hutchins, was born in Bath, N. H., July 20, 1811, and graduated at
Dartmouth in 1835. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1839, and prac-
ticed in Boston, associated at different times with Theodore Otis and Tolman Willey.
He died in the Roxbury District of Boston, April 7, 1877.

Cyrus Woodman, son of Joseph, was born in Buxton, Me., in 1814, and graduated
at Bowdoin in 1836. He studied law in Boston with Samuel Hubbard and Hubbard &
Watts, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1839. He went west as the agent
of the Boston and Western Land Company, and became a partner of C. C. Washburn
at Mineral Point, Wis. , remaining with him eleven years. He returned to Cambridge
in 1863, and was for a time an overseer of Bowdoin College. He married in 1842
Charlotte, daughter of Ephraim Flint, of Baldwin, Me., and died in Cambridge,
March 30, 1889.

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William Bolton was an attorney in Boston in the last century. He married Fran-
ces, daughter of Governor William Shirley, and was sent to England in 17G0 by the
Province of Massachusetts Bajf to obtain reimbursements for expenses in the capture
of Louisburg. He was also with Franklin in London in 1774-5.

Samuel Ui'ham, a native of Worcester county, graduated at Dartmouth in 1801, was
admitted to the bar in Worcester county, and settled in Bangor in 1804. In 1806 he
came to Boston and soon abandoned the law and entered the counting-room of the
firm of Gassett & Upham.

Job Nelson was born in Middleboro in 1766, and graduated at Brown University in
1790. He settled in Castine, Me., in 1793, was a representative from 1801 to 1803,
and judge of probate from 1804 to 1836. In the latter year he came to Boston, where
he practiced two years, and returned to Castine in 1838. In 1845 he moved to Or-
land, Me., and there died July 2, 1850.

Henry C. Hubbard was born in Boston, and graduated at the Boston University.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 19, 1873, and is in active practice in Bos-
ton.

Arthur E. Jones, son of L. S. and Sophia E. (Gould) Jones, was born in Green-
field, Mass., August 7, 1846, and attended the Boston Latin School, and graduated at
Harvard in 1867. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and after
further study with Henry W. Paine, of Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar Oc-
tober 18, 1870. He was a member of the Common Council in Cambridge in 1881-83.
He married, February 14, 1879, Elizabeth B. Almy.

John Charles Kennedy was born in Bedford, N. H., July 7, 1854, and was edu-
cated at Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law at the Boston University and in
the office of George W. Morse, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in No-
vember, 1880. He was a member of the city government of Newton, where he lives,
five years, and was appointed June 12, 1889, justice of the Newton Police Court,
which office he still holds, with his law office in Boston.

Fred H. Kidder, son of Francis H. and Julia T. Kidder, was born in Medford,
Mass., May 5, 1853, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied law at the Bos-
ton University and in the office of Thomas L. Wakefield, of Boston, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879. He married in Medford, February 9, 1881.
Carrie Edith Farnsworth, and has his residence in Medford.

Patrick Bernard Kiernan, son of Peter and Ann Jane Kiernan, was born in Bos-
ton, March 2, 1851, and was educated at the Boston public schools and at a private
school in South Reading. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He married
Catherine Kiernan, of Maiden, and has his home in Chelsea. •

Benjamin Kimball, son of Otis and Lucy (Savill) Kimball, was born in Boston, No-
vember 18, 1849, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law at the Har-
vard Law School and in the office of Peleg W. Chandler, of Boston, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar October 31, 1874. He married in 1880 Helen M. Simmons, and
lives in Boston.

D. Frank Kimball, son of Charles and Mary Sibley Kimball, was born in Boston,
December 4, 1846, and was educated in the schools of Chelsea and under private in-
struction. He studied law in the office of Ambrose A. Ranney, of Boston, and at

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the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 22, 1872. He
has been a member of the Common Council of Chelsea two years, representative two
years, and senator two years. He has been connected as counsel in several impor-
tant cases, among which may be mentioned that of Captain Mosher, charged with
larceny of the bark Western Sea, and that of the failure of Charles W. Copeland
& Company. His home is in Chelsea.

Edgar L. Kimball, son of Daniel B. and Charlotte C. (Tenny) Kimball, was born
in Bradford, Mass. , December 6, 1844, and was educated at Phillips Andover Acad-
emy. He studied law with Alfred Kittredge in Haverhill and Lyman Mason in Bos-
ton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 29, 1868. He is unmarried, and
has his domicile in Bradford.

Edmund Kimball was born in Ipswich, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He
studied law with Asahel Stearns, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October,
1817. He died in 1873.

W. Frederick Kimball son of Charles and Mary F. Kimball, was born in Chelsea,
Mass., July 18, 1851, and was educated at the Chelsea High School and at Harvard
College. He studied law at the Boston University and with Alfred Hemenway, of
Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 18, 1878. He has been a coun-
cilman and alderman in Chelsea, where he resides. He married Hattie T. Nealley,
of Cambridge, September 6, 1879.

George H. Kingsbury, son of Henry and Julia Bowene Kingsbury, was born in
Kennebunk, Me., March 4, 1827, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1845. He
studied law in Kennebunk in the office of Judge Bowene and in Boston in the office of
Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. He has been deputy collector
of the port at Boston, and collector of internal revenue. He married Marion Win-
chester, in Boston, December 30, 1859, and lives in Boston.

Marshall Kittredge Abbott, son of Thomas S. Abbott, of Portland, was born in
Conway; N. H. , October 6, 1820, and studied law at the Harvard Law School, and
settled in Boston, from which place he was a representative. He married Hannah
Kittredge, of Andover, and died in Boston January 11, 1859.

Charles Swift Knowles, son of James and Caroline Munroe Knowles was born in
Yarmouth, Mass. , and was educated at the Yarmouth and Cambridge High Schools
and at Harvard. He studied law at the Boston University and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1886. He married at Yarmouth, September 25, 1890, Kate Sears, and
lives in Boston.

Warren Ozro Kyle, son of Amos M. and Sarah G. (Bacheller) Kyle, was born in
Lowell, October 30, 1855, and graduated at Amherst College in 1877. He studied law
at the Boston University and in the office of William Gaston, of Boston, and J. M.
Marshall, of Lowell, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge, in Decem-
ber, 1879. He married Ellen J. Parsons at Northampton, Mass., October 24, 1883,
and has his residence in Brookline.

James Harris Wolff, son of Abraham and Eliza Wolff, was born August 4, 1849,
and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy and College of Agriculture and
the Mechanic Arts of New Hampshire. He studied law in the office of Daniel Wheel-
right Gooch in Boston, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the
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Suffolk bar June 26, 1875. He married in Boston, January 21, 1880, Mercy A. Bir-
mingham, and lives in the Brighton District of Boston.

Ezra Weston, son of Ezra Weston, was born in Duxbury, Mass., December 23,
1809, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. He graduated at the Harvard Law School
in 1832, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October of that year. He was at one
time city marshal of Boston. He died in Duxbury unmarried, September 6, 1852.

Charles Mayo, son of John and Lydia (Laha) Mayo, was born in Brewster, Mass.,
February 10, 1809. In 1812 his parents removed to Andover, and he was educated
in the common schools of that town. At the age of eighteen he began teaching
school, and taught in Natick and other places. At twenty he went on a fishing voy-
age to the coast of Labrador, and then studied medicine one summer. In 1831 he
went on a whaling voyage into the South Atlantic from Fairhaven in the ship Cohtm-
bus, Gustavus A. Bailies, master, sailing June 1, 1831, and returning to New Bedford
in March, 1833, Avith thirty-five right and three sperm whales, making twenty-two
hundred barrels of whale oil and two hundred and sixty barrels of sperm oil, and
twenty thousand pounds of bone. After settling up his voyage he learned and worked
at the trade of carriage painting in Chatham, Charlestown and Newton, and then,
concluding to study law, he entered the office of J. P. Bishop, in Medfield, October 1,
1839. He remained there until April 1, 1840, and then entered the office of Peter S.
Wheelock, in Roxbury, and afterwards the Harvard Law School, July 26, 1841. He
was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 1842, and settled in Boston. In 1851
he was appointed by Governor Boutwell inspector-general of fish, and was a mem-
ber of the Common Council of Boston in 1854-55. From January 1, 1851, to January
1, 1856, he was recording secretary of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
On the 22d of December, 1856, he left Boston with the expressed intention of going
West. After reaching New York he sailed for Nicaragua, and for a time followed
Walker, the filibuster, in his expeditions. Afterwards coming North he stopped in
Kansas during the unsettled affairs of that State, and was appointed school superin-
tendent in Olathe, and judge of probate, and died at Olathe January 2, 1859. He
married first at Newton, August 21, 1834, Lucinda Ware, and second, July 6, 1844,
Lydia Lyncoln Ball, of Northboro'.

Frederick Hobbs, son of Isaac and Mary (Baldwin) Hobbs, was born in Weston,
Mass., February 28, 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1817. He studied law with
Isaac Fiske in Weston, and Daniel Webster in Boston, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar October 31, 1820. In 1821 he went to Maine to assume at Eastport the
business of Francis E. Putnam, who was coming to Boston. On his way he was ad-
mitted to the Maine bar at Portland in July, 1821. In 1836 he removed from East-
port to Bangor, where he died October 10, 1854. He married at Bangor, Jul}' 10,
1823, Mary Jane, daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Harrod) Coombs.

Francis E. Putnam is thought by the writer to have come to Boston from East-
port, Me., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, April 13, 1819.

Stevhen Fales, son of Stephen and Hannah (Smith) Fales, was born in Boston,
May 3, 1789, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He was tutor two years at Bowdoin
College, and the writer is not certain that he ever practiced at the Suffolk bar. He
studied law with Jeremiah Mason; went to Cincinnati in 1819, to Dayton in 1821, and
in 1831 back to Cincinnati, where he died September 3, 1854.

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George Alexander Otis, son of George Alexander Otis, was born in Boston in
1804, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
May, 1826. He married Anna M. Pickman, and died in 1831. He was a scholar of
repute and the translator of Botta's History.

Edmund Burke Otis, brother of the above, was born in Boston, March 18, 1822,
and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 13,
1847, and died in Boston in 1884.

George Nixon Briggs, son of Allen and Mary (Brown) Briggs, was born in Adams,
Mass., April 12, 1796. After learning the hatter's trade, he studied law at Adams and
was admitted to the Berkshire bar in October, 1818. He practiced in Adams, Lanes-
boro' and Pittsfield; was register of deeds from 1824 to 1831; member of Congress
from 1831 to 1843, and governor of Massachusetts from 1844 to 1850 inclusive, and
judge of the Common Pleas Court from 1854 to 1859, when the court was abolished.
He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard, Williams and Amherst. His death,
which occurred at Pittsfield, September 12, 1861, was occasioned by the accidental
discharge of a gun.

William Croswell Tarbell, son of John P. Tarbell, graduated at Harvard in 1879
and was an attorney in Boston in 1885, associated in business with Freeman Hunt.
He died in Boston, December 6, 1886.

George W. Adams was a native of Cambridge. He studied law with Timothy Fuller,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 22, 1828. He was a good classical
scholar, and as remembered by the writer in 1850, devoted much of his time to the
study of Shakespeare and other poets. He has been dead many years.

Thompson Miller, son of Seth Miller, of Middleboro', was an attorney at the Suf-
folk bar in 1809, and was living in Boston in 1849. He died unmarried.

Amos B. Merrill was born in Lyman, N. H., March 6, 1815, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in February, 1841. He married a daughter of Rev. John Goldsbury,
of Hardwick, Mass., and died in Boston, August 30, 1872. t

Annis Merrill, brother of the above, was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 8,
1844. He was associated with Rufus Choate in the defence of Albert J. Tifrell,
charged with murder. The ground taken by the counsel, that the homicide was
committed while the defendant was in a state of somnambulism, makes the record of
the trial a remarkable and interesting one. Mr. Merrill went from Boston to Cali-
fornia.

Alfred Dupont Chandler, son of Theophilus and Elizabeth Julia (Schlatter)
Chandler, was born in Boston, May 18, 1847. William Schlatter, the father of his
mother, was an eminent merchant in Philadelphia in the early part of the century,
while on his father's side he is descended in the eighth generation from Edmund
Chandler, who settled in Duxbury in 1633. When a year old his parents removed to
Brookline, where he now resides, and he received his early education in the public
schools of that town. He graduated at Harvard in 1868, and studied law in the
offices of his father and of Abbot & Jones and of Richard H. Dana in Boston, and
of Porter, Lowrey & Soren in New York city. He was admitted to the Middlesex
bar at Cambridge, December 13, 1869, on examination after about eighteen months'
preparation, and to the Supreme Court of the United States April 17, 1877. In pur-

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suing his profession his preference has been for chamber practice, and his attention
has been given chiefly to corporation law, though at times directed to admiralty,
tariff, will and patent cases. He has aided in perfecting inventions and exploiting
patents for patentees, and in arguing corporation receivership questions in the
United States Courts. He drafted the bill for the creation of national savings banks,
offered by Mr. Windom in the United States Senate in 1880, and his arguments be-
fore the Senate Finance Committee on the subject of these banks have been published.
He advocated, in 1882, before a committee of the Massachusetts General Court,
the creation of a tribunal to decide that the necessity for a railroad exists before
property can be taken for its construction, and to his efforts the act of 1882 on that
subject is largely due. As a resident of Brookline he has been one of its most active
and progressive citizens. The construction of the Riverdale Park, between Brook-
line and Boston, is due mainly to his skill and energy in surmounting legal and
practical difficulties. The financial methods of the town, now perfected, were
modeled and established in accordance with plans suggested and urged by him. He
was chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Surveyors of Highways, Board of Health,
and Overseers of the Poor in 1884—85-86, and was a trustee of the Public Library in
1874-75-76. It may be further mentioned that he was one of the first to import and
encourage the use of bicycles in America, and was sustained by the United States
Court, June 28, 1877, in his appeal to have bicycles subject to the duty on carriages,
and to all laws relating to the same. He is the author of a " Bicycle Tour in Eng-
land and Wales," published in Boston and London in 1881. Though holding no
political office outside of his own town, he has been prominent in social organizations,
having served during the last year as president of the Brookline Republican Club,
composed of business and professional men of that town. He married in Brookline,
December 27, 1882, Mary Merrill, daughter of Henry V. and Mary W. (Pierce) Poor,
and is the father of four children.

Stephen Bradshaw Ives, son of Stephen B. Ives, was born in Salem, March 9,
1827, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He taught school in Newbury one season
and afterwards had charge as principal of one of the Salem Grammar Schools. He
studied law in the office of Northend & Choate in Salem, and was admitted to the
Essex bar in March, 1851. For a year or two he was clerk of the Salem Police Court,
and in 1853 began practice. After some years' practice in Salem, his enlarging busi-
ness demanded a wider field, and as early as 1867 his name appears on the roll of
Boston lawyers. He died at Salem, February 8, 1884.

Otis Phillips Lord, son of Nathaniel and Eunice (Kimball) Lord was born in Ips-
wich, July 11, 1812, and was educated at Dummer Academy and at Amherst College,
where he graduated in 1832. He studied law with Oliver B. Morris, judge of pro-
bate in Hampden county, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1836. He was
admitted to the Essex bar in Salem in December, 1835, and settled in Ipswich, his native
town. In 1844 he removed to Salem, where he continued until death. He was a
representative in 1847-48-52-53-54, and in the last year he was speaker. In 1849 he
was a State .senator, and in 1853 a member of the Constitutional Convention. In 1859,
upon the organization of the Superior Court, he was appointed one of the judges and
held that position until December 21, 1875, when he was appointed an associate jusr
tice of the Supreme Judicial Court. He resigned his seat on the bench, December 8.
1882, and died in Salem, March 13, 1884.

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David Cummins, son of David and Mehitabel (Cave) Cummins, was born in Tops-
field, August 14, 1785, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1806. He studied law with
Samuel Putnam in Salem, aud was admitted to the Essex bar at Salem in September,
1809. He began practice in Salem, but afterwards removed to Springfield and
finally to Dorchester. He was appointed justice of the Court of Common Pleas in
1828 and resigned in 1844. He married first, August 13, 1812, Sally, daughter of
Daniel and Sarah (Peabody) Porter, of Topsfield, and second, Catherine, daughter of
Thomas Kittredge, of Andover, and died in Dorchester, March 30, 1855.

William C. Endicott, jr., son of William Crowninshield and Ellen (Peabody)
Endicott, was born in Salem, and graduated at Harvard in 1883. He was admitted
to the Essex bar in Salem in 1886, and has an office in Boston.

Stephen Hooper, son of Stephen, a merchant of Newburyport, was born in that
town in 1785, and graduated at Harvard in 1808. He was admitted to the Essex bar
in 1810, and began practice in his native town. He was a representative in 1810,
and a senator in 1816. In 1818 he removed to Boston, where he practiced his
profession, and was for several years an alderman, and died in Boston in 1825!

John William Bacon was born in Natick, Mass., in 1818, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1843. • After leaving college he taught for a time in the Boston High School,
and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1846. H practiced law in Natick fourteen
years, and from 1859 to 1862 was a member of the State Senate. Upon the establish-
ment of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston in 1866, he was appointed July 2
of that year its chief justice, and in 1871 was appointed an associate justice of the
Superior Court. He died while holding court at Taunton, March 21, 1888.

Samuel Dexter Ward, son of Chief Justice Artemas and Maria (Dexter) Ward,
was born in Weston, Mass., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 6, 1813.
He continued in practice in Boston until his death.

Franklin Goodridge Fessenden was born in Fitchburg, Mass. , in 1849, and studied
law in Greenfield, Mass., and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1872, in
which year he was admitted to the bar in Worcester county. He was appointed in
1891 an associate justice of the Superior Court, and is now on the bench.

John Hopkins was born in Gloucester, England, in 1840, and graduated at Dart-
mouth College in 1862. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1864, and practiced
in Worcester and Millbury until his appointment in 1891 to the Superior Court
bench.

Daniel Webster Bond was practicing law in Northampton, Mass. , when he was
appointed in 1890 an associate judge of the Superior Court. He is now on the bench.

Francis Henshaw Dewey was born in Williamstown, Mass., in 1821, and grad-
uated at Williams College in 1840. He was admitted to the Worcester bar and
practiced in Worcester until 1869, when he was appointed associate justice of the
Superior Court. He resigned in 1881, and died, in 1887.

David Aiken was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1856, and re-
mained on the bench until the court was abolished in 1859. He is now in practice in
.Greenfield.

Henry Walker Bishop, of Berkshire county, was appointed associate justice of the
Court of Common Pleas in 1851, and remained on the bench until the court was abol-
ished in 1859. He died in 1871.

422 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND bar.

Samuel Howe was appointed an associate justice of the Court of Common Pleas in
1821, and died in 1828 while on the bench.

Solomon Strong, son of Judge Simeon Strong, was born in Amherst in 1180, and
graduated at Williams College. He was admitted to the bar in 1800 and practiced
in Royalston, Athol, Westminster, and Leominster. He was a State representative
and served two terms in Congress. He was appointed judge of the Circuit Court of
Common Pleas in 1818 and in 1821 a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He re-
signed in 1842, and died in Leominster in 1850.

James Madison Morton was practicing law in Fall River when he was appointed in
1890 a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. He is now on the bench.

DwlGHT Foster was born in Worcester in 1828, and graduated at Yale College in
1848. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1849, and practiced in Worcester and
Boston. He was attorney-general of the State from 1861 to 1864, and judge of the
Supreme Court from 1866 until his resignation in 1869. He died in 1884.

Benjamin Franklin Thomas was born in Boston, February 12, 1813, and graduated
at Brown University in 1830. He was a grandson of Isaiah Thomas, well known
among the printers of Massachusetts. He studied law in Worcester, and was ad-
mitted to the Worcester bar in 1834. He was a representative from Worcester in
1842, and judge of probate for Worcester county from 1844 to 1848. In 1853 he was
appointed associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, remaining on the bench
until his resignation in 1859. He then removed to Boston and there resumed the
practice of his profession. He was in Congress from 1861 to 1863, and in 1868 was
nominated by the governor to the position of chief justice of the Supreme Court, but
failed to be confirmed by the Council. He received the degree of LL. D. from Brown
University in 1853, and from Harvard in 1854. He died September 27, 1878.

Nathaniel Wood was born in Holden, Mass., in 1797, and graduated at Harvard
in 1821, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 12, 1827. He settled in Fitch-
burg, and died in 1876.

Francis William Sprague, son of Caleb H. and Isabel A. Sprague, was born in,
Barnstable, Mass., October 14, 1862, and was educated at the Boston English High
School. He studied law at the Boston University, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar July 21, 1885. He was a member of the Common Council of Boston, his place
of residence, in 1888-89. He married in Augusta, Me., June 29, 1887, Sarah W.
Chick.

Philip Howes Sears, son of John and Mercy (Howes) Sears, was born in Brewster,
Mass., December 30, 1822, and is descended from Richard Sears, one of the founders
of the town of Yarmouth in 1639. He traces his indirect descent also from William
Brewster and John Howland, of the Mayflower, from Thomas Prince, governor of
Plymouth Colony; Constant Southworth, treasurer of that colony; Rev. John Mayo,
first minister of Yarmouth and minister of the second church in Boston ; and Thomas
Howes, one of the original grantees of the township of Yarmouth. The original
homestead and land grant of Richard Sears, situated in East Dennis and West Brews-
ter, formerly part of Yarmouth, have come to him by inheritance, and are now in his
possession. Mr. Sears fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy, and gradu-
ated at Harvard in 1844. He graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1849, and

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was admitted to the bar in Cambridge in October of that year. While in the law school
he was tutor of Mathematics in the University. After a visit to Europe he began
practice in Boston in 1851, as a partner of Henry A. Scudder, and continued with him
until the appointment of Mr. Scudder to the bench of the Superior Court in 1869. He
was for a number of years solicitor of the Old Colony Railroad Company, and en-
joyed a large general practice. He was a representative from Boston in 1861 and
aided efficiently in the measure for sending delegates to the peace convention in Wash-
ington, and in that for arming and equipping the State militia for immediate service.
In 1880 he retired from active practice, having some years previously suffered from
an injury to his eyes, which rendered that step necessary. Since his retirement he
has devoted his time chiefly to literary pursuits and foreign travel. In five visits to
Eui'ope he has visited every European country except Portugal, and the winter of
1891-92 he passed in Egypt. He delivered the historical address at the dedication of
the new academic hall of Phillips Andover Academy in 1867, and the quarter mil-
lenial address at the celebration of the settlement of Yarmouth, September 3, 1889.
He was a member of the Common Council of Boston, and of the Board of Trustees of
the Public Library in 1859, a representative in 1860-61, and an overseer of Harvard
University from 1860 to 1866. He is a member of the American Archasological In-
stitute, and takes a deep interest in the aims and purposes of that organization. He
married, April 23, 1861, Sarah Pratt, a daughter of George W. Lyman, of Boston, and
has his winter residence in that city, with a summer residence in Waltham.

John Jackson Russell, son of John and Deborah (Spooner) Russell, was born in
Plymouth, Mass. , July 27, 1823, and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He studied law
in Plymouth in the office of Jacob H. Loud and in Boston in the office of Allen Crocker
Spooner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1848. While studying law
he taught school in Barnstable for a time, and made a visit to Europe. He began
practice in Boston, but in 1850 removed to Plymouth, and continued practice in that
town until his occupation as assistant treasurer of the Plymouth Savings Bank com-
pelled him to retire from the profession. In 1872, on the death of Allen Danforth,
the treasurer of that institution, he was appointed to succeed him, and he still holds
that office. He married, November 14, 1855, Mary A., daughter of Allen Danforth
above mentioned.

Hugh Montgomery was born in Middleboro', Mass., in that part of the town now
within the limits of Lakeville, and graduated at Brown University m 1825. He was
admitted to the bar in 1830 and settled in Boston. He was a trustee with Alpheus
Hardy and Horatio Harris of the estate of Joshua Sears for the benefit of J. Mont-
gomery Sears, now living in Boston, until he came of age. He died in Boston since
1880.

Edward Pickering was born in Salem, and graduated at Harvard in 1824. He
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1828. He died in 1876.

Edward Blake was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1824. He studied
law with Lemuel Shaw, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1827. He was presi.
dent of the Boston Common Council in 1843. He died in 1873.

Jonathan Chapman was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1825. He
studied law at the law school in Northampton and in the office of Lemuel Shaw, of
Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1828. He was mayor of Boston in
1840-41^12, and died in 1848.

424 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Ellis Gray Loring was born in Boston in 1800, and after studying at the Harvard
Law School, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1827. He was intimately connected
with the anti-slavery movement, and died in Boston, May 24, 1852.

Washington P. Gregg was born in Boston in 1802, and admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1829. In 1830 he was chosen a member of the Boston Common Council and served
two years. In 1843 he was chosen clerk of the council, and continued in office until
his resignation in 1885. He was the third clerk of the council since the incorporation
of the city in 1822, having been preceded by Thomas Clark and Richard G. Waitt.
He died in Milton, March 7, 1892.

Richard Robins, son of Jonathan and Frances (Crafts) Robins, was born in Boston
in March, 1807, and graduated at Harvard in 1826. He studied law at the North-
ampton Law School and in the office of Lemuel Shaw in Boston, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in 1829. He was associated for a time with Willard Phillips. He
married Susan Parkman, daughter of Edward Blake, of Boston, and died on a voy-
age from Fayal, July 11, 1852.

H. Gardiner Gorham was born in Boston and studied law with Willard Phillips.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1829.

Samuel H. Walley, son of Samuel H. Walley, was born in Boston and graduated
at Harvard in 1826. He studied law in Boston with Samuel Hubbard, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831. He was speaker of the House of Representatives
of Massachusetts in 1844-45-46, and served one or more terms in Congress. He died
in 1877.

George H. Whitman was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1827. He
studied law with Benjamin Whitman and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831.
He died in 1890.

John Codman was born in New York, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1827,
studied law with Benjamin Merrill and Leverett Saltonstall, and was admitted to
the Essex bar in 1830. He practiced in Boston, and died in 1879.

Grenville T. Winthrop was born in Boston and graduated at Columbia College
in 1827. He studied law with Joseph Heard and William C. Aylwin, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831.

Arnold Francis Welles was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1827.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1830, and died in 1844.

Francis Caleb Loring was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1828. He
studied law with Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831.
He died in 1874.

Samuel King Williams, son of George Williams, was born in Raynham, Mass.,
November 17, 1785, and graduated at Brown University in 1804. He was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in 1807. He married Eliza Winslow, daughter of Kilborn and
Betsey (Winslow) Whitman, in Pembroke, Mass., October 27, 1817, and died in
Boston, November 20, 1874.

Henry J. Sargent was born in Boston, and after admission to the bar became a
merchant.

Thomas Power graduated at Brown in 1808 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1812. He was many years the clerk of the Boston Police Court, and died in 1868.

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Horatio Bigelow was born in Cambridge, and graduated at Harvard in 1809.
He studied law with Loammi Baldwin and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813.
He died in 1824.

William Little, jr., son of William Little, was born in Boston and graduated at
Harvard in 1809. He studied law with Timothy Bigelow, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1814. He died in 1833.

William Gale was born in Waltham, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He
studied law with George Blake, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1814. He
died in 1839.

Phineas Blair studied law wTith E. P. Ashmun, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1810.

David Stoddard Greenough was born in Roxbury, and graduated at Harvard in

1833. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1836. He died in 1877.

William Dehon was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1833. He
studied law with Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July,
1836. He died in 1875.

Eben Smith, jr., son of Eben Smith, was born in Boston and graduated at Brown
University in 1830. He studied law with Richard Fletcher and Rufus Choate, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1829. He died in 1856.

George Sparhawk was born in Brighton and graduated at the Harvard Law
School in 1836. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1836, and died in 1879.

Francis Josiah Humphrey was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1832.
He graduated at the Harvard Law School m 1836 and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in August of that year. He died in 1883.

George Edward Winthrop was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1825.
He studied law with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1829.
He died in 1875.

O. W. Withington was born in Boston and graduated at the University of Ver-
mont in 1829. He studied law with Willard Phillips and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1835. He died in 1853.

George Barstow was bOrn in Haverhill, N. H., and studied law with William J.
Hubbard and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1838.

Hiram Wellington was born in Lexington, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in

1834. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1838 and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in July of that year. He died in 1890.

Charles Henry Parker, son of Samuel Dunn and Eliza (Mason) Parker, was born
in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1835. He studied law with his father, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1838. He is now treasurer of the Suffolk
Savings Bank.

Harrison Gray Otis, jr., son of Harrison Gray Otis, was born in Boston, August
7, 1792, and graduated at Harvard in 1811. He studied law with his father, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1814. He married Eliza Henderson, daughter of Will-
iam H. Boardman, of Boston, and died in Springfield, January ,3, 1827.
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John Richardson Adan graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law with Will-
iam Prescott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1816. He died in 1849.

John Gray Rogers was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He
studied law with William Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October,
1817. He was appointed, August 10, 1831, an associate judge of the Boston Police
Court, and remained on the bench until the court was abolished by an act passed May
29, 1866. He died in 1875.

William Hickling Prescott, son of Judge William and Catharine (Greene) Pres-
cott, was born in Salem, May 4, 1796, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He studied
law with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1818. His contributions
to American literature are too well known to be related here. They may be consid-
ered due to an injury to his eyes while in college, which prevented his pursuit of the
legal profession, in which he would have acquired lesser honors, and his country
lost at least a part of its reputation for a high standard of education and culture. He
received a degree of LL.D. from Columbia College in 1840, from Harvard in 1843, and
from Oxford, England, in 1850. He married in May, 1820, Susan Amory, and died in
1859.

William H. Eliot was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1815.
He studied law with William Prescott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August
31, 1818. He married Margaret, daughter of Alden and Margaret (Stevenson) Brad-
ford, and died in 1831.

John Brazer Davis was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1815, and
was a tutor in the college after his graduation. He studied law with William Pres-
cott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1821. He died in 1832.

William Augustus Warner was born in Hardwick, Mass., and graduated at Har-
vard in 1815. He studied law with Peter O. Thacher, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar October 26, 1818. He died in 1830.

John T. Winthrop was born in Boston, and studied law with William Prescott.
He was admitted to the bar September 9, 1818.

William Joseph Hubbard was born in New. York, and graduated at Yale in 1820.
He studied law with Samuel Hubbard, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October
20, 1823. He was many years associated with Francis O. Watts. He died in 1864.

William Howard Gardiner was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1816.
He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Oc-
tober 11, 1819. He married a daughter of Col. Thomas Handasyd Perkins, of Bos-
ton, and died in 1882.

Horatio Shipley was born in Pepperell, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1828.
He studied law with Richard Fletcher, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Oc-
tober, 1831. He died in 1872.

Aurelius D. Parker was born in Princeton, Mass., and graduated at Yale in 1826.
He studied law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., and with Samuel Hubbard in
Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1829. He died in 1875.

Joseph Lewis Stackpole was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1824.
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1828, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in January, 1830. He died in 1847.

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Charles Lowell Hancock was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1829.
He studied law with Franklin Dexter, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October
20, 1832. He died in 1890.

Horace Gleason was born in Petersham, Mass. , in 1802, and graduated at Williams
College in 1828. He studied law with Bradford Sumner, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in April, 1832. He died in 1877.

Benjamin Halsey Andrews was .born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1830.
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1833, and was admitted to the Middle-
sex bar in the same year.

George William Phillips, son of John Phillips, the first mayor of Boston, and the
the brother of Wendell Phillips, was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in
1829. He studied law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., and in the office of
Samuel Hubbard in Boston, and was admitted to the bar at Cambridge in October,
1834.

Thomas Dwight was born in Springfield, and graduated at Harvard in 1827. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Cambridge
in December, 1832. He died in 1867.

Patrick Rilev was born in Boston, and studied law with Andrew Dunlap. He
was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 2, 1836.

Joseph Jenkins, jr., son of Joseph Jenkins, was born in Boston, and graduated at
Yale in 1828. He studied law with Samuel Hubbard, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in April, 1833. He died in 1843.

John Pickering, jr., son of John Pickering, was born in Salem, and graduated at
Harvard in 1830.. He studied law with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1834. He died in 1882.

William John Alden Bradford, son of Alden and Margaret (Stevenson) Bradford,
was born in Wiscasset, Me., in 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. He studied
law with James Savage, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1820.

Oliver William Bourn Peabody was born in Exeter, N. H., July 9, 1799, and
graduated at Harvard in 1816. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1822,
and was admitted to the bar in the same year. He settled in Exeter, and removed
to Boston in 1830. From 1836 to 1842 he was register of probate in Suffolk county,
and in 1842 became professor of English literature in Jefferson College, Lotiisiana.
He returned to Boston in 1845, and was licensed to preach by the Unitarian Associ-
ation. He was settled as minister in Burlington, Vt., and there died July 5, 1848.

William Rounsville Pierce Washburn was born in Middleboro', Mass., and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1816. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1820, and
was admitted to the bar in the same year. He died in 1870.

Samuel Edmund Sew all was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1817.
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1820, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar March 5, 1823. He died in 1888.

Henry Hugle Huggeford was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1817.
He studied law with Lemuel Shaw and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1820. He
died in 1841.

428 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

John Everett was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1818. He studied
law with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1825. He
died in 1826.

George Henry Snelling was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1819.
He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
May 12, 1825. He was living in 1890.

William Bradley Dorr was born in Roxbury, and graduated at Harvard in 1821.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1824, and died in 1875.

Edward Greely Loring was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1821.
He studied law with Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
October, 1824. He was appointed, December 17, 1847, judge of probate for Suffolk
county, and in 1858 was removed by address, as is explained in the introductory
chapter of this volume. He was afterwards appointed chief justice of the United
States Court of Claims. He died at Winthrop, Mass., June 19, 1890.

Edward Jackson Lowell was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1822.
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1825 and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in October of that year. He died in 1830.

Frederick Smith was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 9, 1838.

Theodore Otis was born in Cambridge, and graduated at Union College in 1834.
He studied law with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1838.
He resided in Roxbury, of which city he was mayor in 1859-60. He was associated
in business for a time in Boston with Horace G. Hutchins.

George F. Homer was born in Boston and graduated at Amherst in 1836. He
studied law with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 11, 1839.
He died in 1876.

Elijah Dwight Williams graduated at Harvard in 1835, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar February 7, 1839. He died in 1842.

Charles Mason graduated at Harvard in 1834 and at the Harvard Law School in

1839. He also studied with Hubbard & Watts in Boston, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in September, 1839. While studying law he was tutor in Latin at Har-
vard. He settled in Fitchburg, and was living in 1890.

William Porter Jarvis was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1833.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 7, 1840, and died in 1880.

George Cabot, son of Henry and Anna Sophia (Blake) Cabot, was born in Boston
and graduated at Harvard in 1835. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 7, 1840,
and died in 1850.

George Griggs was born in Brookline, and graduated at Brown University in 1837
and at the Harvard Law School in 1839. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 29,

1840, and died in 1888.

I. S. Putnam was born in Hartford, and graduted at Yale in 1837. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1840.

Edward Sprague Rand was born in Newburyport, and graduated -at Harvard in
1828 and at the Harvard Law School in 1831. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
October, 1831, and settled in Boston, where he practiced chiefly as a conveyancer.

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He was lost on the steamer City of Columbus, wrecked in Vineyard Sound in Janu-
ary, 1884.

Edward Sprague Rand, jr., son of the above, was born in Boston, October 20,
1834, and graduated a? Harvard in 1855. He graduated from the Harvard Law
School in 1857, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar on the 4th of May in that year.
He is the author of "Life Memories and other Poems," " Flowers from the Parlor and
Garden," " Garden Flowers — How to Cultivate Them," and a volume on greenhouse
plants and orchids.

Peter S. Wheelock was born in Vermont, and was admitted to the bar and prac-
ticed there until 1838, when he came to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
June 16 in that year.

Edward Hutchinson Robbins, born in Milton, Mass., February 19, 1758, graduated
at Harvard in 1775. He studied law in Bridgewater with Oakes Ames, and is men-
tioned as a member of the Suffolk bar in 1780. He was speaker of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives from 1793 to 1802, lieutenant-governor for 1802 to 1806,
and judge of probate in Norfolk county from 1814 until his death, December 29, 1829.
The town of Robbinston in Maine received its name from him. He owned large
tracts of land in Maine, and the columns in front of the State House in Boston and
in its Doric Hall were made from trees cut on his land for the purpose. The trees
were cut by Thomas Vose, of Robbinston, near West Maguerrawock Lake, in town-
ship No. 5, now Calais.

George Alexander Otis was born August 29, 1781, and married Lucinda, daugh-
ter of Barney Smith. He was the translator of Botta's History of the American War
of Independence.

Barney Otis, son of the above, was born in Boston in 1808, and was a member of
the Suffolk bar. He died in 1834.

Samuel Dunn Parker, son of Bishop Samuel and Anne (Cutler) Parker, was born
in Boston in 1780, and graduated at Harvard in 1799. He studied law with Rufus
G. Amory, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1803. He was a member
of the Senate two years, and on the 5th of July, 1830, was appointed county attorney
for Suffolk count}', holding that office until his resignation in February, 1852. He
married Eliza, daughter of Jonathan Mason, and died in Boston, July 3, 1873.

James Cushing Merrill, jr., son of Judge James Cushing Merrill, was born in Bos-
ton, and graduated at Harvard m 1842. He graduated at the Harvard Law School,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 6, 1848. He died in 1869.

John Goldsbury, son of Rev. John Goldsbury, was born in Hardwick, and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 16, 1846,
and practiced as a conveyancer. He died in 1878.

James Egan was born in Ireland, and came to America when a boy and lived in
Lowell. By his own efforts he secured an education and studied law. He was
admitted to the bar m 1847, and settled in Boston. He was the first Irish born law-
yer at the Suffolk bar, and was a man of ability and scholarship. He died unmar-
ried in 1872.

Edward Young was born in Boston of poor Irish parents, but obtained a good
education at the public schools. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 19,

430 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

1845, and aside from his position at the bar won an enviable rank among men of
learning and culture. The writer knew both him and Mr. Egan, and can attest the
enthusiasm with wdiich they explored the fountains of knowledge. He died in 1859.

Alexander Strong Wheeler, son of Asa and Emily (Strong) Wheeler, was born
in Wayland, Mass., August 7, 1820, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1840.
He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of John G. Britton, of
Troy, N. Y., and Sidney Bartlett, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
January 1, 1844. Since that date he has been associated in business with his college
classmate, Henry Clinton Hutchins. He has been many years a director and the at-
torney of the Second National Bank of Boston, is director of the Dwelling House
Insurance Company, and of several manufacturing companies, president of the Mas-
sachusetts Congregational Society, president of the Boston Farm School, member
of the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of
other charitable and educational associations. He married in Charlestown, January
6, 1848, Augusta Hurd, and lives in Boston.

Charles T. Perkins, son of Charles Anderson Simeon and Ann Eliza (Brown)
Perkins, was born in Plymouth, Mass., May 6, 1855, and was educated in the public
schools. He studied law in the Boston University Law School and in the office of
Albert Mason, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1877. He
is a special justice of the Police Court in Brookline, where he has his residence. He
married Cynthia L. Hopkinson, of Boston, at Brookline, May 28, 1879.

George W. Morse was born in Lodi, Athens county, O., August 24, 1845. His
father, Peter Morse, born in 1800, at Chester, N. H., and for nearly forty years a
follower of the sea, was the captain for a long time of a Mediterranean trading ves-
sel, and later of an East Indiaman owned by Robert G. Shaw, of Boston. Captain
Morse was noted as a man of great firmness and decision. On one of his trips from
the East Indies, while he was acting as chief mate, the ship took aboard at the Cape
of Good Hope a young missionary who afterwards became the celebrated President
Finney of Oberlin College. The vessel, soon after leaving the Cape, encountered a
cyclone, and the captain, while in a drunken condition, gave orders that if carried
out would probably have resulted in the loss of the ship. Mr. Morse directed the
sailors not to obey the orders, and an altercation between himself and the captain
resulted in his placing the captain in irons and bringing him to Boston. A complaint
was about to be made against him on his arrival in port for mutiny on the high seas.
The young missionary, Mr. Finney, interfered, however, with the result that the
captain was relieved of his command and Mr. Morse was promoted to his place. Mr.
Finney, who was about to enter an educational career, stated to Captain Morse that
he felt that he owed his life to him, and requested that if he ever had a son while, he
was in a position to receive him, he would send him to his school or college, and as
will be seen hereafter in this narrative, this request was acceded to. Mr. Morse is
descended from Anthony Morse. who came from Marlboro', England, and settled in
Newbury, Mass., about 1635. The site of the original Morse mansion is still called
the " Morse Field," adjacent to the farm of Michael Little. Rev. Jedediah Morse,
the geographer, and his son Professor Samuel Finlay B. Morse, the inventor of the
electric telegraph, were cousins respectively in the second and third generation of
Captain Peter Morse. The mother of Mr. Morse was Mary E. Randall, who was

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born in Dorchester, Mass. Her mother was Sarah Page, a descendant of Nathaniel
Page, who settled in Bedford, Mass., in 1638, and whose original residence, known
as the " Page Place," is still owned by the family. Ensign Page of this family
carried the colors at the battles of Lexington and Concord, and Captain Page com-
manded a company at Bunker Hill. Mrs. Ruhamah Lane, the great-aunt of Mr.
Morse, and the mother of Jonathan A. Lane, of Boston, who died some years since
at the age of ninety-five, used to tell the story of her mother's recollection of the
sharp rap made upon her father's door in the early morning of April 19, 1775, by
Paul Revere on his famous midnight ride. An old flag dating back of the Revolu-
tion which was carried in the earlier wars, called " The Flag of the Three Counties,"
is now in the possession of the Bedford Public Library. It contains a mailed arm
and hand with a sword, and is the coat of arms of the present Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, except that the hand is set sidewise on the banner instead of perpen-
dicularly. This banner was in the Page house for a century, and had originally a
gilt fringe, which Ruhamah Page took when a young lady for the trimming of a
dress. Mrs. Morse was a college graduate and the recipient of a degree from a
medical university. The parents of Mr. Morse emigrated in 1838 to the, Ohio Valley,
where he was born, and for nine years his father was the postmaster of Lodi. Twice
each week the mail was carried to Pomeroy, a distance of seventeen miles over rough
country roads, and transportation was done in the saddle. It was the habit of young
Morse to start at three o'clock in the morning, on horseback with the mail for Pom-
eroy, and bring the return mail, attending school at nine o'clock, after riding thirty-
four miles in the saddle. In 1855, at the age of ten, he was placed under the charge
of President Finney, at the preparatory school of Oberlin College, but at the end of
two years he came to Massachusetts with his parents and attended school at Haver-
hill and Andover, and entered Chester Academy in New Hampshire, where he
remained until the spring of 1861. On the 11th of May in that year, in his six-
teenth year, he enlisted as a .private in the Second Massachusetts Regiment of In-
fantry, the first regiment from Massachusetts in the field, for three years' service.
At the end of his term he re-enlisted in the field for the war, serving continuously in
this regiment from May, 1861, to July, 1865, and of the original thousand men who
left Massachusetts in 1861, he was one of less than one hundred who returned with
the regiment in 1865. The regiment during the war received seventeen hundred
recruits, making in all twenty-seven hundred men on its list, and of this number only
about four hundred returned with it at the end of the war. The Second Regiment
covered the retreat of the army of General Banks in the Shenandoah campaign of
1862, and those who remained alive of the rear guard on skirmish line in this retrea^
were captured, including Mr. Morse. After confinement four months at Belle Isle
and in other prisons, he was exchanged and returned immediately to service. With
the exception of the campaign carried on during his absence as a prisoner, he was in
every campaign and battle participated in by his regiment during the war. He was
promoted to sergeant and first sergeant, and at the close of the war was first lieu-
tenant commanding Company I, at the age of nineteen years. This company,
commanded at first by Adin Ballou Underwood, afterwards General Underwood,
distinguished itself in defence of a bridge against Jackson's army in the Banks
retreat. Mr. Morse was the only original member of Company H of the Second
Regiment who ever received a commission, although the youngest in the regiment

432 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

by two years. The regiment served in all the important campaigns of the Army of
the Potomac until September, 1863. At Cedar Mountain a third of the regiment fell
together with more than half of its officers; at Antietam and Chancellorsville it
suffered severely, and at Gettysburg half of the regiment fell in less than ten minutes
of contest in carrying the Confederate works at the base of Culp's Hill, on the right
near Spangler's Spring, over which the regiment charged. The officers of this
regiment erected the first regimental monument on the battlefield of Gettysburg, and
when the monument was proposed it was suggested that a boulder, if one could be
found between the lines, would be an appropriate base for a monument in the form
of a section of a parapet cut from granite. Mr. Morse remembered such a boulder,
and although he saw it but for a moment, he could almost describe its angles, for as
the regiment advanced to assault -the Confederate works, part of his company went
on one side and part the other, and as he looked across at his comrades on the other
side of the rock, he saw them cut down almost to a man by a volley. On an exam-
ination of the field the rock was found, and the monument was set on it as suggested,
In September, 1863, the Second Regiment was sent south to join General Hooker,
and participated in the battle of Lookout Mountain. At the fall of Atlanta it was
the first to enter the city and act as the provost guard during the occupation. The
regiment had charge of the destruction of the public buildings of Atlanta previous to
the evacuation, and was the last to leave the city on the " March to the Sea." In
recent years Mr. Morse has been counsel for the Thomson-Houston Company, and
in his repeated visits to Atlanta in that capacity he has been welcomed as one of
those who have given that city an opportunity to expand and flourish as it could
never have done under the old regime. At the close of the war, Mr. Morse attended
Phillips Andover Academy, and in 1866 entered the C. S. D. Dartmouth College, in
the junior year, where he remained two years. In his senior year, feeling unable to
spend time and money in finishing his course, he left college and studied law first
with Charles G. Stevens, of Clinton, Mass., and afterwards with Chandler, Shattuck
& Thayer, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1869. Dartmouth
College has since conferred upon him the degrees of Master of Science and Master
of Arts. He opened offices in Boston and Ashland, in which latter place he fixed
temporarily his residence. He established a weekly paper in Ashland called the
Ashland Advertiser, and in connection with it a printing office carried on by him-
self and William Walker, under the firm name of Morse & Walker, which, when it
became well grounded and profitable, he sold out to devote his whole time to his in-
creasing professional business, with a residence in Hyde Park. For the first few
years the most remunerative part of his practice was connected with bankruptcy
cases. He took up the Boston, Hartford & Erie litigation ; later was counsel for N.
C. Munson, the railroad contractor, whose failure involved millions of dollars,, and
afterwards had charge of the affairs of F. Shaw & Bros., which, in connection with
the affairs of other houses which followed them into bankruptcy, involved ten mill-
ions of dollars. In 1887, with health somewhat impaired by the labors attending
these matters, he went with his family to Europe, visiting before his return Palestine,
Syria, Asia Minor, and attending lectures at the School of Law in Paris. With re-
stored health he resumed practice, and has been largely engaged in corporation
work. He has organized, among other things, the several street railways now oper-
ating in Newton, Waltham and Watertown, of which he was the president ^during

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their legal stages. He is also one of the special counsel of the Thomson-Houston
Electric Company, which has brought him into contact with electric railway matters
of the country and especially in the South. He married Clara R. Boit, of Newton,
where he now has his residence.

Henry Tallman Davis, son of John Watson and Susan Hayden (Tallman) Davis,
was born in Boston in 1823, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He was admitted to
the Suffolk bar November 29, 1847, and settled in Boston. He was commissioned
second lieutenant in the First Massachusetts Cavalry, October 31, 1861 ; first lieuten-
ant, May 1, 1862; captain in the Tenth United States Cavalry, and brevet major in
1866. He died in New York, April 10, 1869.

Edwin Morton, son of Edward and Betsey T. (Harlow) Morton, was born in Plym-
outh, Mass., in 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1855. He was admitted to the
Suffolk bar June 27, 1867. He has been living some years in Europe.

Micah Dyer, jr., son of Micah Dyer, was born in Boston, September 27, 1829, and
was educated at the Eliot School in Boston, where he received the Franklin Medal,
at the Wilbraham Academy and the Tilton Seminary. He graduated at the Harvard
Law School in 1850, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar on the 13th of May in that
year. He established himself in Boston, and his entire devotion to his profession,
together with the personal interest he took in the cause of his clients, advanced him
rapidly in his professional career. He was chosen a member of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives in 1855 and served two years — the youngest member of the
House. In one of these sessions he plead successfully the cause of aged citizens of
Boston, to postpone the stoppage of burials in the city grave yards until such a time
as might permit them to be laid by the side of the partners of their lives. He became a
member of the Mercantile Library Association in 1849, is a life member of the Ameri-
can Bible Society, and secretary of the Massachusetts Temperance Alliance and of
the New England Conference Missionary Society. He was for several years chair-
man of the committee of the Eliot School District, and during that time it became
his duty to pursue a bold and determined course in the suppression of a rebellion
against the rules of the school. Four hundred Catholic boys refused to obey the rule
which required the recitation of the Lord's prayer and the decalogue. He at once,
when called on to aid the masters, declared that the rules of the school must be obeyed
as long as they existed, and if they were wrong the responsibility rested on those who
made them, and not on the teachers, whose only duty was to enforce them. The ex-
pulsion of the whole number of four hundred, by his direction, was a proceeding
which excited a feeling of bitterness against him for a time, but was finally acknowl-
edged to have been wholly justifiable, and the only method of restoring a spirit of
obedience in the school. The scholars all returned with the promise of themselves
and their parents of no further disturbance. Mr. Dyer was the first president of the
Female Medical College, at a time when " women doctors," as they were called, were
almost universally frowned upon by the medical faculty. In the early days of the
college the diplomas of the graduates bore the title of LL.B., instead of M.D., in
consequence of the determined opposition to the institution. He was admitted to
practice in the Supreme Court of the United States in 1861. As executor or trus-
tee he has had the management of many large estates, and the promptness and
fidelity of his administrations have secured the entire confidence of interested parties.
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434 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

He is a. member of the Bostonian Society, taking great interest in their proceedings,
and is an associate member of Post 58 of the Grand Army and participates enthu-
siastically in their camp fires. He is also an honorary member of the Ladies' Aid
Association, of the Massachusetts Soldiers' Home, and of the Boston Woman's Char-
ity Club, being a member of the Advisory Board of the latter in the care of the
Gifford Fund donation- to its hospital. Being also high in the rank of Free Masonry,
and president of the Eliot School Association and of the Old School Boys' Association,
it will be seen that he has abundant opportunities for relief from the routine of pro-
fessional work. He married in May, 1851, Julia Knowlton, of Manchester, N. H., a
lad}' well known in Boston as an active and able organizer of charities, which the well
remunerated labors of her husband in his profession enable both husband and wife
to generously dispense.

George W. Cooley came to Boston from Bangor, Me. He was admitted to the
Maine bar in 1835, and to the Suffolk bar April 13, 1843. He was appointed attorney
for Suffolk county as the successor of George P. Sanger, September 5, 1854, and
served until February 26, 1861, when Joseph H. Bradley was appointed. Mr. Brad-
ley, however, declined, and on the 21st of March Mr. Sanger was again appointed.

Daniel Sargent Curtis, son of Thomas B. Curtis, was born in Boston, and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1846. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 1, 1849.

John Clark Adams was born in New York State, and graduated at Harvard in
1839. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar September 20, 1844. While studying law he was a tutor in rhetoric and
elocution at Harvard. He died in New York in 1873.

Wilson Jarvis Welch graduated at Harvard in 1839, and at the Harvard Law
School in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1842. He died in
1885.

John Davis Washburn, son of John Marshall and Harriet Webster (Kimball) Wash-
burn, was born in Boston, March 27, 1823. When five years old his parents removed
to Lancaster, Mass., where he received his early education. He graduated at Har-
vard in 1853, and at the Harvard Law School in 1856, having previously studied in
the offices of Emory Washburn and George F. Hoar in Worcester. He was admitted
to the Suffolk bar May 27, 1856, and established himself in Worcester in partnership
with H. C. Rice. In 1866 he succeeded Alexander H. Bullock, on his accession to the
governor's chair, as general agent and attorney of insurance companies, and also
served on Governor Bullock's staff from that year until 1869. He was a represent-
ative from 1876 to 1879, and senator in 1884, and has represented the United States
as minister to Switzerland. He married in 1860 Mary F. , daughter of Charles L.
Putnam.

Winslow Warren, son of Dr. Winslow and Margaret (Bartlett) Warren, was born
in Plymouth, Mass., March 20, 1838, and graduated at Harvard in 1858. He is de-
scended from Richard Warren, of the Mayflower, and is a great-grandson of James
Warren, the successor of Dr. Joseph Warren as president of the Provincial Congress.
He studied law with his uncle, Sidney Bartlett, in Boston, and at the Harvard Law
School, where he graduated in 1861, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 12

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in that year. He married, January 3, 1867, Mary Lincoln, daughter of Spencer and
Sarah (Lincoln) Tinkham, of Boston, and lives in Dedham, with his office in Boston.
As attorney of the Boston and Providence Railroad Company he had charge of the
settlement of the claims arising from the Buzzey bridge accident, and out of a million
dollars paid, only fifty thousand dollars was paid on suits brought against the com-
pany. ,

Ira D. Van Duzee was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1857. He married Jane
Sturtevant, daughter of Atwood Lewis and Jane (Harlow) Drew, of Plymouth, and is
in active practice in Boston.

Francis Tukey graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar March 6, 1844. He was at one time city marshal of Boston.

Alanson Tucker was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1832. He was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1835, but abandoned the law for business
pursuits. He died in 1881.

Nathaniel Russell Sturgis, son of Nathaniel Sturgis, was born in Boston and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1827.

Charles F. Shimmin, son of William Shimmin, was born in Boston in 1822, and
graduated at Harvard in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar and died July 5,
1891. He married Mary Harriot, daughter of Daniel Parkman, of Boston.

Benjamin Bussey, son of Benjamin Bussey, was born in Boston about 1783, and
graduated at Harvard in 1803. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1807,
and died in 1808. His father, who died in 1842, leaving a widow, one grandchild,
and several great-grandchildren, provided by his will that on the death of the last
survivor his estate, estimated at $350,000, should pass to Harvard University, one-
half to endow a farm school, and the other half to be devoted to the support of the
law and divinity schools.

Robert I. Burbank was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1846. He has been
many years justice of the Municipal Court for the South Boston District.

John Holmes, son of Rev. Dr. Abiel and Sarah (Wendell) Holmes, was born in
Cambridge, and graduated at Harvard in 1832. He graduated at the Harvard Law
School in 1839. He has been prevented by illness from continuous work in his pro-
fession, but his name is found in the list of Boston lawyers in 1853. With a humor
quite equal to that of his brother, the autocrat of the Breakfast Table, he has kept it
rather for home consumption than public display, and only his friends, among whom-
James Russell Lowell was one of his most devoted, have had the privilege of its. en-
joyment.

William Burley Howes was born in Salem, and graduated at Harvard in 1838.
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar December 27, 1841. He died in 1878.

Bernard Rolker was born in Germany, and graduated at the Harvard Law School
in 1833. He was many years tutor in German in Harvard, but was admitted to the
Suffolk bar April 19, 1841, and not long after established himself in practice in New
York. He received the degree of Master of Arts at Harvard in 1848.

William Sigourney Otis, son of William Church and Margaret (Sigourney) Otis,
was born at Nahant, Mass., July 3, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He

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studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Ropes, Grey &
Loring and others, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He married Pauline,
daughter of James E. and Adelaide Root, of Boston. He died April 20, 1893.

Frank T. Morton, son of Edwin and Betsey T. (Harlow) Morton, was born in
Plymouth, and was admitted to the bar in Plymouth, June 19, 1861. He established
himself in Boston, and is there in active practice.

Samuel Foster McCleary was born in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in July, 1807, and was many years clerk of the city of Boston. He married Maria
Lynde Walter.

William Kapsur, a German by birth, was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 15, 1846.
He married Sally Gorham, daughter of Salisbury and Sally (Goodwin) Jackson, of
Plymouth, and has been dead many years.

Bela Farwell Jacobs, brother of Justin Allen Jacobs, mentioned in this register,
graduated at Harvard in 1839, and at the Harvard Law School in 1844, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar November 23, 1846.

Alfred Rodman, son of Alfred and Anna (Preble) Rodman, and grandson of Will-
iam R. Rodman, of New Bedford, graduated at Harvard in 1870. He was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879, and is now the actuary of the Bay State Trust
Company in Boston.

Edward William Hooper, son of Dr. Robert William and Ellen (Sturgis) Hooper,
was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1859, and at the Harvard Law
School in 1861. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 30, 1868, and has been
some years treasurer of Harvard College.

George Blake was born in Hardwick, Mass., in 1769, and graduated at Harvard in
1789. He studied law with William Caldwell, of Rutland, Mass., and James Sulli-
van, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1792. He began practice in
Newburyport in partnership with Dudley Atkins Tyng. After remaining in New-
buryport one year he removed to Boston, and in 1801 was appointed United States
attorney, holding office until 1829. He was a representative in 1801-1829-30-31-32-
35-36-37-38, and senator in 1833-34 '39. He died in Boston, October 6, 1841.

Freeman Hunt, the son of Elizabeth and Thompson (Parmenter) Hunt, was born
in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 4, 1855. His father, well known in connection with
Hnnt's Merchants' Magazine, was born in Quincy, Mass., March 21, 1804, and
was the son of Nathan and Mary (Turner) Hunt. He was descended from Enoch
Hunt, who emigrated to America from Berks county, England, and died in
Weymouth, Mass., about 1652. Until he was twelve years of age Freeman Hunt,
the father of the subject of this sketch, attended the public schools, and never
after that time enjoyed the advantages of any other education than that secured
by his own efforts. At that age he entered as a boy the office of the Boston
Evening Gazette, and was soon after apprenticed to the trade of a printer. Having
secured his trade he went to Springfield, where he was employed for a time as com-
positor, and then returned to Boston, where he obtained a position in the same
capacity in the office of the Boston Traveller. While in this office he was the
anonymous author of articles which the editor of that paper accepted and published.
In 1828, at the age of twenty-four, he formed a partnership with John Putnam, un-

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der the firm name of Putnam & Hunt, printers and publishers, having a place of busi-
ness where the Globe Theatre now stands. Previous to the formation of this part-
nership he published the Juvenile Miscellany, edited by Lydia Maria Child, which
readers, as old as the writer, will remember as one of the joys of their childhood, the
first number of which was issued in September, 1826. In January, 1828, the new
firm began to publish the Ladies' Magazine, edited by Sarah J. Hale, and soon
after the early tales of Samuel G. Goodrich. In 1831, having removed to New York,
he there started a paper called the Traveller, but again returned to Boston and be-
came the managing director of the "Boston Bewick Company," an association of
artists, printers and bookbinders. In September, 1834, he projected the American
Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, and in 1835 engaged in New
York in the publication of " A Comprehensive Atlas," edited by Thomas Gamaliel
Bradford. In 1837 he projected the Merchants' Magazine, with which his name has
been so prominently associated, and the first number appeared in July, 1839. In
1852 he received the degree of Master of Arts from Harvard. He married first, May
6, 1829, Lucia Weld Blake, of Boston; second, January 2, 1831, Laura Phinney, of
Boston, and third in 1853, Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of . Hon. William Parmen-
ter, of East Cambridge, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 2, 1858. After the
death of his father in 1858, the subject of this sketch was carried by his mother to her
father's home in Cambridge, and he received his early education at the public schools
in that town. He graduated at Harvard in 1877, and in. 1881 received the degree of
LL.B. from the Harvard Law School. He further pursued his law studies in the
offices of George S. Hale and William E, Parmenter, of Boston, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in January, 1882. He was first associated in practice with H.
Eugene Bolles, and afterwards with William C. Tarbell, who died December 6, 1886.
He is at present associated with Charles J. Mclntire, city solicitor of Cambridge, and
has acted for that city in matters connected with the new Harvard Bridge. He is
engaged in general practice with a success commensurate with his earnest efforts to
establish himself honorably and prominently in his profession. In Cambridge, where
he has his home, he has served four years on the School Committee, and one year in
the Common Council, and in 1890 was a member of the State Senate. He married,
June 8, 1887, Abby Brooks, daughter of Sumner J. and Jane (Bullard) Brooks, of
Cambridge.

Edward Bangs was born in Hardwick, Mass., in 1756, and graduated at Harvard
in 1777. His name appears on the roll of the Supreme Court admissions in Suffolk
county before 1807. It is probable that he was admitted in 1780. He settled in Wor-
cester. He died in 1818.

Benjamin Adams was born in Mendon in 1764, and graduated at Brown University
in 1788. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, and settled in Uxbridge.
He died in 1837.

Joseph Allen was born in Lancaster in 1773, and graduated at Harvard in 1792.
He was admitted to the bar in 1795, and praticed in Worcester county.

Francis Linus Childs was born in Millbury in 1849, and graduated at Brown Uni-
versity in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1873, and settled
in Worcester.

438 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Henry J. Clarke was born in Southbridge, Mass., and graduated at the Boston
University in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875, and settled in
Webster, Mass.

Leon F. Chomecin was born in Philadelphia in 1861, and was admitted to the bar
in 1882. He practiced in Boston and Templeton, and died before 1889.

John Adams Dana was born in Princeton, Mass., in 1823, "and graduated at Yale in
1844. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1848, and practiced in Wor-
cester.

James J. Dowd, was born in Worcester, and graduated at St. Michael's College in
1880. He was admitted to the bar in 1882, and has practiced in Worcester, Brook-
line and Boston.

J. W. Draper was admitted to the bar in Worcester county in 1851, and was in
practice in Boston in 1853.

John Danforth Dunbar, son of Elijah and Sarah (Hunt) Dunbar, was born in
Worcester county in 1771, and graduated at Harvard in 1789. He was admitted to
the Suffolk bar, and before 1794 established himself in Plymouth, Mass. He married
in 1794 Nancy, daughter of William Crombie, of Plymouth, and died in Plymouth in
1810.

Far well F. Fay was born in Athol in 1835, and was admitted to the bar in 1859.
He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1885, but died before 1889.

Waldo Flint was born in Leicester in 1794, and graduated at Harvard in 1814.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 1, 1821, and died in 1879.

George Folsom was born in Kennebunk, Me., in 1802, and graduated at Harvard
in 1822. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 21, 1834. He received the de-
gree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1860, and died in 1869.

Henry Clinton Hutchins, son of Samuel and Rosanna (Child) Hutchins, was born
in Bath, N. H-> August 7, 1820, and fitted for college at the academy at Haverhill, N.
H., and other academies. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1840, and studied law first
in the office of Joseph Bell, of Haverhill, N. H., second at the Harvard Law School,
and third m the office of Hubbard & Watts, of Boston. He was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar November 14, 1843, and has been associated in business since January 1,
1844, with his college classmate, Alexander Strong Wheeler, under the firm name of
Hutchins & Wheeler. He married, October 9, 1845, at Bellows Falls, Vt. , Louise
Grout, and lives in Boston. He was chosen in 1869 an honorary member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society, and in 1887-88 was president of the Boston Bar Association.

John W. Low came to Boston from the British Provinces and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1883. He is in active practice in Boston.

William J. Gaynor was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 13, 1872, and is
enjoying a lucrative practice in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Charles C. Beaman, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1861 and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar November 23, 1865. He is in extensive practice in New York city.

Almon W. Griswold was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1847, and secured a
large business in suits against the government to recover duties illegally paid. He
removed to New York city, and there died about 1890, leaving a son, a member of
the New York bar.

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Erasmus Babbitt was born in Sturbridge in 1765, and graduated at Harvard in
1790. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar about 1795, and practiced in Charlton,
Grafton, Oxford, Sturbridge and Westboro'. He died in 1816.

George W. Baldwin was born in New Haven, Conn., and graduated at Yale in
1853. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1858, and practiced in Worcester
until his removal to Boston about 1864, in which year his name appears among the
Boston lawyers.

Andrew J. Bartholomew was born in Hardwick, Mass., in 1833, and graduated
at Yale in 1856. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 1, 1858, and settled
in Southbridge, where he now practices.

Nelson Bartholomew was born in Hardwick in 1834, and graduated at Yale in
1856. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 22, 1858, and settled in Oxford.
He died in 1861.

Liberty Bates graduated at Brown in 1797 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
before 1807. He practiced in Grafton, and died in 1853.

Arthur G. Biscoe was born in Grafton, Mass., in 1842, and graduated at Amherst
College in 1862. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1884, and was a member
of the Suffolk bar in 1878. He practiced in Westboro'. He died in 1879.

J. Foster Biscoe was born in Grafton, Mass., and graduated at Amherst College
in 1874. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1877, and was later a member of
the Suffolk bar, at which he is now practicing.

Lewis H. Boutelle was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 1848, and settled
in Westboro'.

Albert C. Burrage was born in Ashburnham, Mass., in 1859, and graduated at
Harvard in 1883, and was admitted to the bar in 1884, and is now practicing in
Boston.

Stillman Cady was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1849, and practiced in
Templeton. He died before 1889.

William Caldwell graduated at Harvard in 1773, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar. He died in 1805.

Jerome F. Manning was born in Merrimack, N. H., in 1838, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar May 25, 1863. He practiced formerly in Worcester, but is now prac-
ticing in Boston.

Luther Perry was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, and settled in Barre.
He died many years since.

John B. Ratigan was born in Worcester in 1859, and graduated at Holy Cross
College in Worcester in 1879. He was admitted to the bar in 1883, and settled in
Worcester.

William Sever, son of William and Sarah (Warren) Sever, was born in Kingston,
Mass., in 1755, and graduated at Harvard in 1778. He was admitted to the Suffolk
county bar, and established himself in Rutland, Mass., and afterwards in Worcester.
He married about 1780 Mary Chandler, and his daughter, Penelope Winslow Sever,
married Levi Lincoln. He died in 1798.

440 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Bradford Sumner was born in Taunton, Mass., and graduated at Brown University
in 1808. He studied law with James Richardson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1813. He. practiced in Worcester county, and afterwards, until his death, in Bos-
ton. In 1843 he was appointed master in chancery, and in 1852 commissioner of in-
solvency. He died in 1855.

Marvin M. Taylor was born in Jefferson county, N. Y., in 1860, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and settled in Worcester.

John Todd graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar November -18, 1845. He practiced in Westminster and Fitchburg.

Earnest H. Vaughan was born in Greenwich in 1858, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in 1884. He settled in Worcester.

Richard George was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, and practiced in West
Brookfield, where he probably died.

John S. Gould was born in Webster, Mass., in 1856, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in 1884. He settled in Webster.

Henry F. Harris was born in West Boylston, Mass., in 1849, and graduated at
Tufts College in 1871. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1873, and settled in
Worcester.

Seth Hastings was born in Cambridge in 1762, and graduated at Harvard in 1782.
He was admitted to the bar in 1786, and settled in Mendon. He was at one time a
member of Congress, and died in 1831.

Henry E. Hill was born in Worcester in 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1872.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1875, and settled in Worcester.

Samuel Hinckley graduated at Yale in 1781, and received the degree of A. M. from
Harvard in 1785. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, practiced in Brookfield, and
died in 1840.

William S. B. Hopkins was born in Charleston, S. C, in 1836, and graduated at
Williams College in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 10, 1858, and
has practiced in Ware and Greenfield and Worcester, Mass., and in New Orleans.
He is now in Worcester.

George W. Johnson was born in Boston in 1827, and admitted to the Suffolk bar
April 10, 1863. He settled in Brookfield.

Francis L. King was born in Boston in 1827, and admitted to the Suffolk bar April
10. 1863. He settled in Brookfield.

Henry W. King was born in North Brookfield in 1856, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in February, 1880. He practiced in North Brookfield and Worcester.

William Pratt was born in Shrewsbury, Mass., in 1806, and graduated at Brown
University in 1825. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1827, and prac-
ticed in Shrewsbury and Worcester. He died in 1839.

Edward Rogers was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1845, and finally set-
tled in Chicago.

Arthur P. Rugg was born in Sterling \n 1862, and graduated at Amherst College
in 1883. He was admitted to the bar in 1886, and settled in Worcester,

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Nathan Tyler graduated at Harvard in 1779, and settled in Uxbridge. He died
in 1792.

John L. Utley was born in Brimfield, Mass., in 1837, and was a member of the
Suffolk bar in 1890.

Jacob Willard graduated at Brown University in 1805, and was an attorney in
Boston in 1817. He died in 1818.

G. R. M. Withington was born in Boston, and graduated at the University of
Vermont in 1825. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1828, and practiced
in Boston and Lancaster.

Edward Webster Hutchins, son of Henry Clinton and Louise (Grout) Hutchins,
graduated at Harvard in 1872. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1875.
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1877. He is associated in business with
the firm of Hutchins & Wheeler, of which his father is a member.

Henry Wheeler, son of Alexander Strong and Augusta (Hurd) Wheeler, grad-
uated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He is asso-
ciated in business with the firm of Hutchins & Wheeler, of which his father is a mem-
ber.

Joseph Warren Warren, son of George Washington and Georgiana Whitney
(Thompson) Warren, was born in Charlestown, Mass., June 5, 1851, and entered
Harvard in 1870. After remaining in college a year he entered a banking house as
clerk, visited Europe, and finally studied law with his father and at the Boston Uni-
versity Law School. The writer is in doubt whether he was ever admitted to the
bar. In 1880 he was appointed Liberian consul at Boston, and died, August 24, 1885,
unmarried in a hospital in New South Wales.

Henry Ware, son of Rev. Dr. Henry Ware, jr., was born in Cambridge, and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1846. He died in 1885.

Thornton Kirkland Ware, son of Rev. Dr. Henry Ware, sr., was born in Cam-
bridge, and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He graduated at the Harvard Law
School in 1844, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, 1846. He settled in
Fitchburg, Mass., and was many years justice of the Police Court. He died in 1892.

Solomon Jones Gordon, son of Dr. Timothy and Jane Binney (Jones) Gordon, was
born in Weymouth, Mass., September 24, 1826. He was descended from Alexander
Gordon, a young Scotchman, who, in 1650, during the English and Scotch wars, was
released from prison in the camp at Tuthill Fields in London, on condition of his
emigration to New England. This American ancestor crossed the ocean in 1651, and
finally settled in New Hampshire. Timothy Gordon, the father of Solomon, was
born in Newbury, Mass. , March 10, 1795, and after studying medicine at Bowdoin
College and with his brother in Hingham, Mass. , settled in Weymouth. In 1837 he
removed to Plymouth, where the remainder of his life was spent. The subject of
this sketch was fitted for college at the high school in Plymouth, and graduated at
Harvard in 1847. He studied law in the office of Jacob H. Loud in Plymouth and at
the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 18, 1850. In
1853 he became associated in business with Orlando B. Potter, and took charge tem-
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porarily of his practice in Boston after he removed to New York to give his attention
more exclusively to the affairs of the sewing machine company with which he was
connected. Mr. Gordon not long after followed Mr. Potter to New York, and,
abandoning general practice, became intimately connected with the legal affairs of
the sewing machine enterprises. He married Rebecca, daughter of David Ames, of
Springfield, and after leaving Boston he made Springfield his home, with his office in
New York. He died in 1890.

William Sohier Dexter,, son of George M. Dexter, was born in Boston, and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1846. He graduated at the Harvard Law School m 1848, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 15, 1849. He married a daughter of George
Ticknor, the author, and lives in Boston. -2""' ^^•''•! <'•■'""-' ^-'< i', i'i ■"?

Wendell Davis, son of Thomas and Mercy (Hedge) Davis, was born in Plymouth,
Mass. , in 1776, and graduated at Harvard in 1796. He was admitted to the Suffolk
bar about 1800, and settled in Sandwich. He was many years high sheriff of Barn-
stable county, and was clerk of the Massachusetts Senate from 1803 to 1805. He
married in 1802, Caroline Williams, daughter of Dr. Thomas Smith, and was the
father of George T. and Wendell T. Davis, of Greenfield. He died in Sandwich in
1830.

William Cogswell, son of Dr. George and Abigail (Parker) Cogswell, was born in
Bradford, Mass., August 23, 1838, and received his early education at Phillips An-
dover Academy and at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N. H. After entering
Dartmouth College he left and went to sea. On his return he studied law at the
Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1860, in which year he was ad-
mitted to the Essex county bar. In 1861 he enlisted as captain in the War of the
Rebellion and was afterwards colonel of the Second Massachusetts Regiment and
brevetted brigadier-general December 15, 1864. In 1885 he was a member of the
Suffolk bar. He has been State Senator, and is now serving his third term in Con-
gress. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth in 1878.

Sigourney Butler, son of Peter Butler, graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1880.

Martin Brimmer, son of Martin Brimmer, was born in Boston, and graduated at
Harvard in 1849. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 3, 1855, but is not in
practice. He is one of the Fellows of Harvard.

Eugene Batchelder graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 1848. He died in 1878.

Sidney Bartlett, jr., son of Sidney Bartlett who is mentioned in this register, was
born in Boston, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1851. He was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar October 4, 1851, and died in 1871.

Francis Bartlett, brother of the above, was born in Boston, and graduated at
Harvard in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 16, 1860, but is
not in practice.

Sherman Hoar, son of Judge Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, was born in Concord,
Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1882. He was admitted to the bar in Middlesex
county in November, 1885, and has an office in Boston. He was chosen a member
of Congress in 1890 for the term ending March 4, 1893.'

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Samuel Hoar, brother of the above, was born in Concord, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 29, 1870, and is in practice
with his father in Boston.

William Turell Andrews was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1812.
He was admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1815. He was treasurer of Harvard
College from 1853 to 1857, and died in 1879.

Charles Greely Loring, son of Caleb Loring, an eminent Boston merchant, was
born in Boston, May 2, 1794. His mother was Anne Greely, daughter of Captain
John Greely, who was killed while defending his ship, a letter-of-marque, against an
English frigate near Marblehead, in the War of the Revolution. He was descended
from Thomas Loring, who came from Axminster, England, in 1635, and settled in
Hingham. Caleb Loring, a grandson of Thomas, married Lydia, daughter of Ed-
ward Gray, a merchant of Plymouth, whose gravestone, bearing the date of 1681, is
the oldest on Burial Hill in Plymouth. Caleb Loring settled in that part of Plymouth
which in 1707 was set off from Plymouth and incorporated as the town of Plympton.
At a town meeting held on the 1st of March, 1707-8, he was chosen one of the first
Board of Selectmen of that town. From him Caleb Loring, of Boston, the father of
the subject of this sketch, derived his name. Mr. Loring attended the Boston Latin
School, leaving it as a medal scholar, and entering Harvard as a sophomore in 1809,
graduated in 1812, with the Latin salutatory oration as his part in the ceremonies of
graduation. At that time the only law school in the country was that at Litchfield,
Conn. , and there he began his study of law immediately after leaving college with
Peleg Sprague, who had been his classmate, for a companion. He finished his
studies in the office of Charles Jackson, at that time an associate justice of the
Supreme Judicial Court, and was admitted to practice in the Common Pleas Court
in September, 1815, and in the Supreme Court in December, 1817. Samuel Hubbard,
who became in 1842 a justice of the Supreme Court, came to Boston from Maine in
1810 and associated himself with Mr. Jackson, and on the appointment of the latter
to the bench in 1813, continued the business of the office and was in charge while
Mr. Loring was a student. During a temporary abandonment of business by Mr.
Hubbard, occasioned by sickness, his young student conducted the affairs of the
office, and with the consent of clients, appeared before the Supreme Court and
argued their cases. In 1816 Mr. Loring formed a partnership with Franklin Dexter,
who had been also a classmate in college, which continued until 1819. Until the
year 1825 he advanced steadily in the estimation of the business community, at which
date he may be said to have been in full practice, or in other words, to have secured
all the business which it was possible for a man conscientiously devoted to the in-
terests of his clients to thoroughly comprehend and manage. From that time until
1855, it has been said by Professor Theophilus Parsons that " the published reports
of decisions will show that, taking this whole period of thirty years together, no
other man had so large a number of cases in court, and of the cases of no other was
the proportion so large of those which by the novelty of the questions they raise, or
of the peculiar circumstances to which they require the application of acknowledged
principles, may be considered as establishing new law, or giving new scope and
meaning to recognized law." To every case entrusted to him he gave unremitting
attention, and in its preparation for trial no pains were spared to make its present-

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ation both as to fact and law thorough and complete. The writer remembers him
well as he appeared in court and was always impressed with his serious earnestness,
his apparent entire belief in the justice of his cause, and his elaborate, well con-
structed, compact and logical addresses to the jury. In these addresses he read
largely from full and carefully prepared briefs, sifted and analyzed the whole testi-
mony, not only dwelling upon and enforcing the strong points but recognizing and
explaining the weak ones, and all the while impressed his hearers, including the jury,
with the conviction that his claim for the plaintiff or his denial for the defence was
valid and just. During nearly all the years of his professional life he was subject to
attacks of sickness, incapacitating him for a time, from which he seemed to recover
with a power of labor, like Artaeus after touching the earth, seemingly increased
rather than diminished by an interval of weakness and pain. At a later period he
suffered from a disease in his eyes, and from 1832 to 1840, while at the height
of his professional career, he was obliged to carry on his work by the aid of the
eyes and the pen of others. In 1854 he had abandoned much of his lesser busi-
ness, and was offered the position of actuary of the Massachusetts Hospital Life In-
surance Company. , Though he accepted this position he continued in charge of his
old law cases, and argued them both in the courts of Massachusetts and in the
Supreme Court at Washington. He held this office until his death, bringing to the
performance of his duties not only the prudence and wisdom of a man of affairs, but
that familiarity with law so essential to the proper administration of the concerns
of such an institution. The life of Mr. Loring was crowned with appropriate honors
in the several stages of its progress. At the age of thirty he was the commander of
the New England Guards, and in accepting that post he was only following the cus-
tom among rising lawyers which prevailed nearly up to the time of the War of 1861.
Chief Justice Bigelow of the Supreme Court, and Chief Justice Brigham of the
Superior Court, were both militia captains, one in Boston and the other in New
Bedford, and many other leading lawyers might be named in proof of the preva-
lence of the custom. In 1849, when Mr. Webster resigned his seat in the United
States Senate, Mr,: Loring was asked by Governor Briggs to permit his appoint-
ment to fill the vacancy, and in 1853, when Mr. Everett resigned his senatorial
chair, he was again invited by Governor Washburn to accept an appointment. In
1862 he was a member of the State Senate, and a seat on the bench of the Supreme
Judicial Court was many times within his reach had he chosen to accept it. In 1835
he was appointed a Fellow of Harvard College, and retained that office until 1857,
and in 1865 he was chosen to preside at the reception given by the college to her sons
on their return from the war. In 1850 he received the degree of LL.D. from his alma
mater, and he was a member of the American Antiquarian and the Massachusetts
Historical Society. In 1853 he visited Europe, and from the members of the legal
profession in England he received marked attention. Absorbed as he was in his
professional pursuits, he yet found time to make important contributions to the press
on leading subjects of the day, and to take an active interest in the affairs of his
church and in the various charitable and reformatory movements agitating from time
to time the popular mind. A strong opponent of slavery, though not a member of
the anti-slavery party, in 1851 when the trial of Sims, an escaped slave, took place
before the United States Commission, he appeared as his counsel and made the closing

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argument. Among his literary productions the last was a pamphlet published in
1866 bearing the title of " Reconstruction — Claims of the Inhabitants of the States
engaged in the Rebellion to Restoration of Political Rights and Privileges under the
Constitution," in which he declared in its concluding paragraphs " that none can be
more profoundly impressed than he believes himself to be with the essential im-
portance and inviolability of the rights intended to be secured to the several States
under the Constitution. He accounts their individual independence and sovereignty
over the domestic relations and municipal law and the internal governments of their
respective inhabitants as the very foundation stones of the national government. The
preservation of this sovereignty and independence to the fullest extent warranted
\>y the constitution, he considers to be the chief among the fundamental principles of
American statesmanship ; as the only means possible of maintaining a free and ener-
getic government over territories of extent so vast as those already comprised within
our national boundaries ; as the safest barrier against attempts at executive usurp-
ation ; as the main bulwark against the natural tendency of the general government,
as of all others, to consolidation and centralization of its authority, and which, not
thus controlled, attaining at first to the exercise of arbitrary power by the many,
would, as all history prophesies, eventually terminate in practical despotism." In
1818 Mr. Loring married Anna Pierce Brace, of Litchfield, Conn., who died in 1836.
In 1840 he married Mary Ann, daughter of Judge Samuel Putnam, who died in 1845.
In 1850 he married Mrs. Cornelia Goddard, widow of George A. Goddard, and
daughter of Francis Amory, of Boston. He had a winter home in Boston, and after
1844 a summer home on the shore of Beverly. At the summer home he died October
8, 1867, leaving a widow and two sons and two daughters. The sons are Caleb
William Loring, mentioned in this register, and Charles Greely Loring, a graduate
of Harvard in 1848, who was mustered out in July, 1865, after three years' service in
the war, with the rank of brevet major-general.

John Singleton Copley, as a native of Boston, and considered a Bostonian while
preparing in England for the bar, may with no impropriety be included in this regis-
ter. Richard Copley married in Limerick, Ireland, a Miss Singleton about 1730, and
emigrated to America. After his death his widow kept a small store on Long "Wharf
in Boston, where she sold tobacco and other small articles. In 1748 she married Peter
Pelham, who was one of the founders of the Charitable Irish Society about the year
1737. John Sullivan and Thomas Amory were cotemporaries of Pelham, and came
tp America from Limerick, the first settling as a schoolmaster in Berwick, Me., and
the last settling in South Carolina, but both afterwards coming to Boston. Peter
Pelham was a painter and engraver, probably the son of Peter Pelham, an English
engraver, who was born about 1864. After his marriage with Mrs. Copley he com-
bined with his profession as a painter and engraver the occupation of teaching school,
while his wife continued to carry on her store. John Singleton Copley, the son of
Richard Copley, was born in Boston, July 3, 1737, and undoubtedly received instruc-
tion in painting from his stepfather, Peter Pelham, who died in 1751. In 1769 he
married Susanna, daughter of Richard Clark, a descendant from Mary Chilton, one
of the Plymouth Mayflower passengers in 1620. His son, John Singleton Copley,
the subject of this sketch, afterwards Lord Lyndhurst, was born in Boston, May 21,
1772. In 1774, when two years of age, his father was induced to visit Europe, and

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after he had concluded to remain in London he was joined by his wife and infant
son, taking a house in George street, Hanover Square, which he occupied until his
death in 1814, and which his son, Lord Lyndhurst, continued to occupy until his death
in 1863. It was at first the intention of the father to educate his son as an artist, and
with that view he at one time attended a course of lectures. His education in other
respects was received at a private school in the Manor House, at Chiswick, under Dr.
Home, the father of Sir William Home, the attorney-general. At the age of eighteen,
an artist's career having been abandoned, he was sent to Trinity College, Cambridge,
with the following entry of matriculation: "July 8, 1790. — Admissus est Pensonarius
Johannis Singleton Copley, Alius Johannis Singleton Copley, de Boston in America
e schole apud Chiswick in Middlesexta sub praesides Doctoris Home, annos natus 18.
Magistro Jones Tutore." In 1794 he came out second wrangler and Smith's prize-
man, and on the 17th of May entered as a student Lincoln's Inn. Returning to Cam-
bridge he was appointed in 1795 one of the " Traveling Bachelors " of the univer-
sity. He visited America with Volney, the author, and was required by the terms of
his appointment to observe everything of importance, and address letters in Latin to
the vice-chancellor. His first letter described Washington, Georgetown, and Alex-
andria; his second, the president and Mt. Vernon; and his third, general incidents of
travel and the Indians. Returning to England in 1798 he was called to the bar of
Lincoln's Inn in Trinity term 1804, and joined the Midland Circuit, of which he soon
became the leader. He was raised to the dignity of the coif in 1813, and rung out
of Lincoln's Inn, in accordance with the custom of ringing the chapel bell when a
member of the Inn was made sergeant at law, and of presenting him with a purse of
money as a retaining fee for any future service in behalf of the society. At that time
he was in politics an advanced liberal or radical, and after a noted trial in which his
ability was recognized by the Duke of Wellington and Lord Liverpool, he was made
a member of Parliament for the pocket borough of Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight.
He took his seat in March, 1818, and by his first address in favor of the extension of
the duration of the Alien bill won from his opponents the name of turn-coat. After
his membership for Yarmouth he was returned to Parliament for Ashburton in
Devonshire, and in 1826 for the University of Cambridge with Palmerston. In 1819
he was appointed solicitor-general and knighted, and in 1824 attorney-general as the
successor of Sir Robert Gifford. In 1827 he became chancellor and was raised to the
peerage as Baron Lyndhurst, of Lyndhurst. In 1830 Lord Grey was made premier
and he resigned the seals and was appointed chief baron of the Court of Exchequer,
holding the office four years. In 1834 he became again lord chancellor, resigning
the position of chief baron, and remained in office one year. In 1834 he received
from Cambridge the degree of D.C.L. In 1840 he was appointed lord high steward
of the University of Cambridge, and in 1841, under the premiership of Sir Robert
Peel, was again made lord chancellor. He remained in office until his resignation
with his party in 1846. The writer remembers him as he appeared in the latter year,
when he had an opportunity of hearing from his lips one of those touches of sarcasm
for which he was distinguished. In replying to Lord George Bentinck, an able
statesman, but a somewhat ardent lover of horses and the race course, he indulged in
the satirical compliment of alluding to him as the man of a stable mind. In 1819 he
married Sarah, widow of Colonel Thomas, one of the heroes of Waterloo, and in

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August, 1837, Georgiana, daughter of Louis Goldsmith, and died at Tunbridge Wells,
October 12, 1863, and was buried in the cemetery at Highgate.

Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay, son of Jonathan and Lucy (Prescott) Fay, was born
in Concord, Mass., January 10, lv778, and graduated at Harvard in 1798. He was
admitted to the Middlesex bar as attorney in May, 1802, and as counselor by the
Supreme Court in Suffolk county before 1807. He served as captain during Shays's
Rebellion, and in 1809 was on the staff of Governor Gore. He began practice in
Cambridgeport, and in 1818-19 was a member of the Executive Council. In 1820 he
was a member of the State Constitutional Convention, and May 1, 1821, was ap-
pointed judge of probate of Middlesex county, which office he resigned in March,
1856. Judge Fay was from 1824 to 1852 a member of the Board of Overseers of Har-
vard College, and was at one time grand master of the Grand Lodge of the Masonic
Order. For many years before his death, which occurred at his home, May 18, 1856,
his residence was in Old Cambridge, near the Washington Elm. During the period
of twenty-five years in which he administered the probate affairs of Middlesex
county, he exhibited to a marked degree those qualities of mind and heart which are so
essential in the intimate relations of that office to the private and often confidential
concerns of the people. He was universally respected and beloved. He married
Harriet, daughter of Samuel Howard, of Boston, one of the famous " tea party" of
pre-revolutionary days, who died July 28, 1847, and after eight years, on the 18th of
May, 1856, he followed her to the grave. Richard Sullivan Fay, one of his sons, a
member of the Suffolk bar and included in this register, died in Liverpool, England,
July 6, 1865, and Joseph S. Fay, another son, who for many years was a partner in
the commercial house of Padelford & Fay, of Savannah, Ga., is now living, retired
from business, at his home in Wood's Hole in Barnstable county, with a winter resi-
dence on Mt. Vernon street, Boston.

Sew all Allen Faunce, son of Charles Cook and Amelia (Washburn) Faunce, was
born in Kingston, Mass., in 1841. He is descended from John Faunce, who came to
Plymouth in the ship Ann in 1623, and married Patience, daughter of George Mor-
ton and sister of Nathaniel Morton, the noted secretary of the Plymouth Colony.
He married, in 1868, Ann Eliza, daughter of Edward Holmes, of Kingston, and is in
practice in Boston, where he was admitted to the bar in 1889.

Joseph Alexander Holmes, son of Alexander and Eliza Ann (Holmes) Holmes, was
born in Kingston, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1854. He graduated at the
Harvard Law School in 1856, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 10,
1856. He has abandoned practice, and lives unmarried in Kingston.

Abraham Holmes was born in Rochester, Mass., June 9, 1754, and was admitted to
the bar in Plymouth in 1800, when forty-six years of age. He had been previously
president of the Court of Sessions, and though not regularly educated for the profes-
sion, the members of the Plymouth bar voted for his admission in consideration of
" his respectable official elevation, learning and abilities, on condition that he study
three months in some attorney's office." He was subsequently before 1807 admitted
as counsellor by the Supreme Court in Suffolk county, and he continued to practice in
Rochester until August, 1835, when he retired. He was a member of the State Con-
stitutional Convention in 1820. and of the Executive Council from 1821 to 1823. He
died at Rochester, September 7, 1839.

448 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

William Kneeland Hedge graduated at Harvard in 1820, at the Harvard Law
School in 1823, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 5, 1828. He died in 1833.

Edward A. Dana graduated at Bowdoin College in 1838, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar January 13, 1845. He is now living in Boston.

William Barron Calhoun was born in Boston, December 29, 1796, and graduated
at Yale in 1814. It is not certain that he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, but as a
native of Boston he is included in this register. He finally settled in Springfield, and
from 1825 to 1834 was a member of the House of Representatives and the last seven
years its speaker. He was a member of Congress from 1835 to 1843, president of the
State Senate in 1846-47, secretary of state from 1848 to 1851, state bank commissioner
from 1853 to 1855, and mayor of Springfield in 1859. He was again a representative
in 1861. In 1858 he received the degree of LL.D. from Amherst College, and died
in Springfield, November 8, 1865.

Sanford Ballard Dole, son of Daniel Dole, a native of Maine, and a graduate of
Bowdoin College and of the Bangor Theological School, was born iu Honolulu in
1844, where his father had gone as a missionary in 1840. The mother of the subject
of this sketch was a Miss Ballard, of Bath, Me. He was educated partly at Penahou
College in the Sandwich Islands and partly at Williams College, where he spent a
year. He then studied law in the office of William Brigham, of Boston, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 17, 1868. He returned to the Islands, where he
practiced law until 1887, when he was elevated to the Hawaiian Supreme Bench. He
was a representative at the Islands in 1884 and 1886, and took an active part in the
revolution of 1887. At the date of this sketch, January 29, 1893, news of a new revo-
lution in the Islands has been received, the result of which has been the deposition
of the queen and the establishment of a provisional government, with Mr. Dole as
president, favoring the annexation to the United States.

Charles Mayo Ellis, son of Charles and Maria (Mayo) Ellis, was born in Roxbury,
December 23, 1818, and graduated at Harvard in 1839. He was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar February 10, 1842. He was a leading abolitionist and the author of a his-
tory of Roxbury. He died in Brookline in 1878.

William Thaddeus Harris, son of Thaddeus William Harris, the entomologist and
librarian at Harvard, was born in Milton, Mass., January 25, 1826, and graduated at
Harvard in 1846. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 1, 1853. He died in 1854.

Benjamin Flint King, son of Daniel Putnam King, was born in Danvers, Mass..
October 12, 1830. and graduated at Harvard in 1852. He was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar November 26, 1856. He enlisted as a private in the Forty-fourth Massachu-
setts Regiment in October, 1862, was made first lieutenant Eighteenth Regiment
Corps d'Afrique in December, 1863, and mustered out in August, 1864. He prac-
ticed law in Boston, and died in Boston, January 24, 1868.

John Palmer Wvman graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in November, 1880, and lives in Cambridge. He is the son of John Palmer
Wyman, of the Harvard class of 1842.

Seth J. Thomas, son of Bourne and Sarah (Dingley) Thomas, was born in Marsh-
field, Mass., November 29, 1807, With an ordinary common school education he

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went to Boston in 1823, and after engaging in business many years studied law and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 7, 1849. He married in 1832 Ann Maria
Stoddard, and is now at the age of eighty-five in active practice in Boston.

James Bourne Freeman Thomas, son of the above, was born in Boston in 1839, and
graduated at Harvard in 1860. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 26,
1863, and is in practice in Boston.

Joshua P. Converse was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1847, and in 1852
was a member of the Suffolk bar. He is now dead.

Robert H. Buck was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 1, 1857, and moved
to Colorado.

John W. May was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 1, 1851, and is now dead.

Benjamin G. Gray probably came to Boston from the British Provinces. He was
admitted to the Suffolk bar February 11, 1859, but is not now in practice in Boston.

William Rogers was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 16, 1844, and was for a
time associated in business with Peleg Whitman Chandler. He was also during the
war one of the auxiliary staff of Governor Andrew. He is now dead.

Charles Frederick Blake graduated at Harvard in 1853 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 15, 1857.

Seth Tobey was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 6, 1850, and was many years
clerk of the Boston Police Court, having been appointed May 7, 1852.

Henry Ware Muzzey, son of Rev. Artemas Bowers Muzzey, graduated at the
Harvard Law School in 1855, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 8 in that
year.

John Williams Hudson graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar June 5, 1862. He died in 1872.

Jeremiah L. Newton was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 16, 1860, and is be-
lieved to be dead.

Andrew Otis Evans graduated at Harvard in 1870, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in July, 1873. He died in 1879.

George Strong Derby graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar November 12 in that year. He died in 1873.

Joseph Nickerson was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 19, 1853, and is now
dead.

George Sennott was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1853. He went to
Virginia and offered his services in the defense of John Brown. He is now dead.

Phineas Ayer was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 28, 1855. He is now dead.

Charles Houghton was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1856, and is now
dead.

Samuel Eldridge was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1847, and is now dead.

Silas B. Hahn was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 6, 1850, and is believed
to have moved to Colorado.

Joseph Meyer was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 14, 1849, and removed tp
New York.
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450 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

John Seabury Eldridge graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was an
attorney at the Suffolk bar many years. He received the degree of Master of Arts
from Dartmouth in 1864. He died in 1876.

John S. Abbott was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 16, 1862, and is now dead.

William A. Abbott was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 13, 1862, and removed
to New York.

John T. Paine was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1854, and is now dead.

Nicholas St. John Green graduated at Harvard in 1851, and at the Harvard Law
School in 1853. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1858, and at one time a lect-
urer at the Harvard Law School. He died in 1876.

John Gallison King graduated at Harvard in 1838, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar July 26, 1840. He died in 1888.

Thomas Carleton was admitted to the Suffolk bar Jannary 20, 1869, and is now
dead.

Arthur Williams Austin graduated at Harvard in 1825, and was admitted to the
Middlesex bar in 1828. He settled in practice in Boston in 1829, and died in 1884.

Samuel Haskell Randall graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1859, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 11, 1860. He is believed to have moved to New
York.

Samuel Edward Ireson graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar October 7, 1854. He died in 1875.

James Jackson French graduated at Harvard in 1842, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar October 22, 1845. He removed to Toledo, O., and died since 1890.

Horace L. Hazelton was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26, 1847, and died in
Boston.

Milton Andros was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1852, and went to California.

William Knapp was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 29, 1850. He was an
assistant clerk of the old Boston Police Court, and is now dead.

Eliphalet Pearson was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 20, 1850, and removed to
New Orleans.

Thomas Riley, son of Thomas and Rose (Smith) Riley, was born in the county of
Cavan, Ireland, in December, 1846. The family of O'Reilly is among the most noted
in Irish history. Its ancestor, Duach Galach, king of Connaught, was converted to
Christianity in the fifth century by Saint Patrick, who baptized him on the banks of
Loch Scola. For more than a thousand years the annals of Ireland trace it through
a long line of powerful chieftains of East Breifay (county Cavan). The military and
civil achievements of its members include brilliant service in Austria, France and
Spain during the last two centuries. The subject of this sketch came to Boston with
his mother when four years of age, and received his education at the Boston public
schools, including at the last the Quincy Grammar School. He began his career in
the office of the Boston Post, where he remained several years and acquired that
taste for learning which finally led him into a professional life. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Benjamin F. Butler, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1867 at the age of twenty-one. He was admitted also

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to the United States Supreme Court in 1885. Few men at the bar have been admitted
so young, and with the limited advantages enjoyed by him for academic study, his
early admission sufficiently attests the industry and perseverance which have always
characterized him. Since his admission he has always been in business alone, and,
relying wholly on his own resources, with no patron to advise or aid him, he has
achieved a success of which more favored children of fortune might be justly proud.
It may be mentioned as an unusual circumstance that during his whole career he has
never been assisted by senior counsel, and thus in the management of his suits in
court as in the moulding of his professional life his own skill and energy have been
relied on, and have proved sufficient for his work. His business has been largely in
the criminal line, and during the last four years of the life of Joseph H. Bradley, at
that time the leading criminal lawyer at the Suffolk bar, most of his defenses were
assumed and conducted by Mr. Riley. The remarkable verdict of acquittal wrested
by him from a jury, before whom in the trial of Joseph Fowle in 1889 the prisoner
was identified as the operator in perhaps the most singular series of frauds ever per-
petrated in an intelligent community, served to confirm a reputation for ingenuity
and legal skill already well established. In his speech he is pungent, witty, and at
times eloquent, and has always had the respect and confidence of the judges, without
which success is difficult, if not impossible, to obtain. He has devoted himself al-
most exclusively to professional pursuits, seeking no political office, and looking for
recreation in his home and among his books, of which he has a choice and abundant
collection, where he finds food for the further growth of his literary tastes, and of his
already well stored mind. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conven-
tion in 1872, and has been president of the Charitable Irish Society, and occasionally
indulges himself in writing essays and editorials, and in delivering lectures. He
married in Charlestown, Margaret, daughter of the late Lawrence McCormick, an
accomplished architect in- the county of Longford, Ireland, and resides in Beacon
street, Boston.

Horatio Woodman, brother of Cyrus Woodman, mentioned in this register, was
born in Buxton, Me., March, 1821, and studied law in Boston with William J. Hub-
bard and Francis O. Watts. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 1, 1845, and
was lost overboard from the Fall River steamboat, which left New York January 1,
1879.

Fletcher Ranney, son of Ambrose A. Ranney, was born in Boston, and graduated
at Harvard in 1883, and at the Boston University Law School in 1886. He was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is associated in business with his father.

Alfred Ellingwood Giles graduated at Brown University in 1844 and at the Har-
vard Law School in 1846. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 3, 1847, and
is still in practice in Boston.

Silas Fisher Plimpton graduated at Yale in 1837, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar May 1, 1841. He practiced in Boston, and died in 1867. He graduated from
the Harvard Law School in 1839.

Benjamin Gridley Bridge graduated from the Harvard Law School, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in August of that year. He died in 1839.

William Cushing Aylwin was admitted as an attorney of the Common Pleas
Court in Suffolk county in July, 1807, and of the Supreme Court in March, 1808.

452 HISTORY OP THE BENCH AND BAR.

March 7, 1825, he was appointed clerk of the Supreme Court for Suffolk, and July 5,
1825, for Nantucket. He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Har-
vard in 1831, and died in 1851.

Charles Chauncy Emerson graduated at Harvard in 1828, and at the Harvard
Law School in 1832. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1832, and died
in 1836.

Simon Forrester Barstow was born in Salem, an,d graduated at the Harvard Law
School in 1841, and was admitted to the bar in Salem in 1840, and settled in Boston.
He was on the staff of General Meade in the War of the Rebellion, and died in 1882.

Henry Tuke Parker, son of Daniel P. Parker, was born in Boston in 1822, and
graduated at Harvard in 1842. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 14, 1846. Not long after he took up his
residence in London, England, where he remained until his death, which occurred
since 1890.

Nathaniel Austin Parks graduated at Harvard in 1839, and became an attorney
at the Suffolk bar, and died in 1875.

George Francis Parkman, son of Dr. George Parkman, was born in Boston in
1824, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He graduated at the Harvard Law School
in 1846, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1847. He lives in Boston.

Nathaniel Morton, son of Marcus and Charlotte (Hodges) Morton, was born in
Taunton, and graduated at Brown University in 1840. He graduated at the Har-
vard Law School in 1843, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 22, 1844. He
married Harriet, daughter of Francis Baylies, of Taunton, and died in 1856.

George Washington Minns was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1836.
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar July 13, 1841.

Horace Binney Sargent, son of Lucius Manlius Sargent, was born in Boston,
and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in
1845, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1846. He entered service in
the War of the Rebellion, October 12, 1861, as lieutenant-colonel of the First Massa-
chusetts Cavalry, promoted to colonel October 30, 1862, to brevet major-general of
United States Volunteers March 21, 1864, and discharged for disability Septem-
ber 29, 1864. He is now living in the West.

James Elliot Cabot was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1840. He
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
January 13, 1847.

William Gardiner Prescott, son of William Hickling Prescott, was born in Bos-
ton, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He graduated at the Harvard Law School
in 1847, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 27, 1848.

George Duncan Wells was born in Greenfield, and graduated at Williams College
in 1846 and at the Harvard Law School in 1848. He was an attorney in Boston in
1850, and May 31, 1859, was appointed associate justice of the Boston Police Court.
He resigned his seat on the bench in the early part of the war and entered the serv-
ice, and died in 1864.

BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 453

James H. Whitman, son of Kilborn and Elizabeth (Winslow) Whitman, was born
in Pembroke, Mass., and studied law with his father. He was admitted to the Plym-
outh county bar in 1833, and in 1834 settled in Boston. He subsequently returned
to Pembroke, where he died a few years ago.

Charles Peleg Chandler graduated at Bowdoin College in 1854 and from the
Harvard Law School in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 16, 1857, and
died in 1862.

James Brown Kendall, son of Rev. James Augustus Kendall, graduated at Har-
vard in 1854 and from the Harvard Law School in 1858. He was admitted to the
Suffolk bar February 19, 1859, and died the same year.

Jonathan Mason Parker, son of Samuel Dunn Parker, was born in Boston, and
graduated at Harvard in 1846. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 28, 1849. He removed to New York
and died in 1875.

Hamilton Alphonso Hill graduated at Harvard in 1853 and was an attorney at
the Suffolk bar in 1859. He lives in Boston but is not in practice.

Robert Orr Harris, son of Benjamin Winslow Harris, was born in East Bridge-
water, Mass. , and studied law with his father after graduating at Harvard in 1877.
He was admitted to the Plymouth county bar in February, 1879, and lives in East
Bridgewater, with offices there and in Boston. He was chosen in November, 1892,
district attorney for the Southeastern District.

Franklin Hall graduated at Harvard in 1841 and at the Harvard Law School in
1844. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 6, 1845, and settled in Worcester
county, where he died in 1868.

Warren Tilton was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1844, and at
the Harvard Law School in 1847. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1847.

James Parker Treadwell graduated at Harvard in 1844 and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar April 24, 1850, and is now practicing in Boston.

George Henry Timmins graduated at Harvard in 1847 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1849. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 16, 1850, and died in 1875.

John Todhunter graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in August, 1870.

Loren Henry Edson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1875, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in March of that year. He died in 1876.

Olaus Caecilius Moulton graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was
an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1871. He died in 1875.

John Frederick Dodge graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1872. He died in 1878.

John Albert Nickerson graduated at Brown University in 1867, and at the Har-
vard Law School in 1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1870, and
died in 1874.

Henry Bartlett Stevens graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868 and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar June 11, 1870. He died in 1872.

454 HISTORY OP THE BENCH ANt> BAR.

Horace Hamilton Currier graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar February 1 in that year. He died in 1879.

Charles Damon Rice graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar March 17 in that year. He died in 1876.

Horace Rundlett Cheney graduated at Bowdoin in 1863 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1868. He was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1875, and died in 1876.

Arthur Edwin Adams graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar November 28 in that year. He died in 1878.

Francis Smith Gerard graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1869. He died in 1874.

Edward Weston Glover graduated at Amherst College in 1864 and at the Harvard
Law School in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 16, 1866, and died
in 1874.

Edward Eli Ensign gradiiated at Harvard m 1862 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1865. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 17, 1865, and died in 1872.

Almarind Ferdinand Badger graduated at Bowdoin College in 1858, and at the
Harvard Law School in 1864. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 13, 1863, and
died in 1867.

Edward Sanderson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar March 9 in that year. He died in 1875.

Charles Lewis Swan graduated at Harvard in 1859 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1862. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 21, 1862, and died in
1865.

William Edward Perkins graduated at Harvard in 1860 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1862. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 1867, and died in
1879.

William Gardner Colburn graduated at Harvard in 1860 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1862. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 11, 1862, and died in
1875.

George Browne Perry graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 20, 1863. He died in 1867.

Thomas Albert Henderson graduated at Bowdoin College in 1855 and at the Har-
vard Law School in 1861. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 12, 1861, and
died in 1864. . ,

William Arad Thompson graduated at Yale in 1857 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1860. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1860, and died in 1876.

George Lane Sawin graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860. He was an
attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1863, and died in 1867.

Charles Francis Dana graduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1860. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 21, 1856, and died in 1867.

Henry Coit Welles graduated at Harvard in 1857 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1859, and died in 1869.

John Wilder graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar December 22, 1857. He died in 1870.

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455

James Baker Moore graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 12, 1857. He died in 1872.

Henry Saford Gansevoort graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 30, 1857. He died in 1871.

Peleg Tallman graduated at Bowdoin in 1855 and at the Harvard Law School in
1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 15, 1857, and died in 1863.

Charles Augustus Kimball graduated at Amherst in 1854 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1856. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1856, and died
in 1869.

Jeremiah French graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1856, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in May of that year. He died in 1868.

George Albert Gerrish graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar March 15, 1856. He died in 1866.

William Paisley Field graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 1856, and died in 1859.

Augustus Goodwin Greenwood graduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Har-
vard Law School in 1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 28, 1855, and
died in 1874.

Horace Deane Hutchinson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1853, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 10, 1854. He died in 1861.

Robert Wheaton graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1849, and was an at-
torney at the Suffolk bar in 1851. He died in 1851.

Walter Herbert Judson graduated at Brown University in 1847 and at the Har-
vard Law School in 1849. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1850, and
died in 1863.

Nehemiah Brown was born in Salem, and entered Harvard in the class of 1841.
Leaving college before graduation, he studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in January, 1842. He has been many years an efficient clerk in the office of the
secretary of the Commonwealth.

Frederick Lockwood Washburn graduated at Bowdoin in 1844 and at the Har-
vard Law School in 1847. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 3, 1847, and
died in 1860.

Robert Farris Fisk graduated at Yale in 1844 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1846. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 11, 1848, and died in 1863.

Luther Blodgett Guernsey graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1846. He died in 1856.

Robert Hartley Dunlap graduated at Bowdoin in 1842 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1845. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 29, 1847, and died in
the same year.

John Gage Marvin graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1844v and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar August 30, 1845. He died in 1855.

George Farrar graduated at Amherst in 1839 and at the Harvard Law School in
1844. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 11, 1844, and died in 1851.

456 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Francis William Worthington graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 30, 1844. He died in 1850.

James Alexander Abbott, son of Thomas S. and Betsey (Lovejoy) Abbott, was
born in Conway, N. H., in 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1840. He studied
law in Portland with William Pitt Fessenden, and graduated at the Harvard Law
School in 1843. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 1, 1843, and died in
1859. He married Hannah Kittredge, of Dover, N. H.

Peter Oliver graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar May 7, 1844. He died in 1855.

Charles Ingersoll graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1841, after graduating
at Columbia College in 1839. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 9, 1843,
and died in 1875.

Henry David Austin graduated at Harvard in 1839 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1841. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1843, and died in 1879.

Frederick Wright graduated at Harvard in 1831 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1834. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 1, 1834, and died in 1846.

Charles Amburger Andrew graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1832, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 5, 1839. He died in 1843.

Charles Frank Day was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875, and is now the
conveyancer for the city of Boston.

W. N. Mason was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1864, but is now dead.

Abraham A. Dame was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1818, and is now
dead.

Isaac Fletcher Redfield was born in Wethersneld, Vt., April 10, 1804, and grad-
uated at Dartmouth in 1825. He was admitted to the bar in Vermont, and practiced
in Derby in that State. He was State attorney for Orleans county from 1832 to 1835>
and in the latter year he was appointed judge of the Vermont Supreme Court. In
1852 he was appointed chief justice and resigned in 1860. In 1861 he removed to Bos-
ton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 16 in that year. He remained in
Boston until his death. He received the degree of LL.D. from Trinity College in
1849, and from Dartmouth in 1855. He is the author of " A Practical Treatise on the
Law of Railways," "The Law of Wills," " A Practical Treatise on Civil Pleading
and Practice with Forms," " The Law of Carriers and Bailments," " Leading Amer-
ican Railway Cases," and he also edited Story's " Equity Pleadings," and " Conflict
of Laws," and " Greenleaf on Evidence." He married first Mary Ward, daughter
of Ichabod Smith, of Stanstead, Conn., September 28, 1836, and second, Catherine
Blanchard, daughter of Luther Clark, May 4, 1842. He died in Charlestown, Mass.,
March 23, 1876.

Charles Demond was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 27, 1848, and is now
dead.

Everett Colby Banfield graduated at Harvard in 1850, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar August 8, 1850. He removed to Washington, and died in 1887.

Luther C. Redfield graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in June, 1875. He is not now practicing in Boston,

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Bushrod F. Rice was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 8, 1861, and is thought to
have moved to New York.

Elihu C. Baker was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 17, 1854, and in 1856 was
president of the State Senate. He removed to South Carolina, and died in Darling-
ton in that State, December 6, 1887.

Charles Joseph Brooks graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1871. He died in 1889.

Austin S. Cushman was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1853, and finally
settled in New Bedford.

Thomas Denny graduated at Harvard in 1823, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in October, 1827. He died in 1874.

Horace Edward Deming graduated at Harvard in 1871, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in June, 1876.

Frank Ralph Delano graduated at Trinity College in 1865 and from the Harvard
Law School in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 3, 1868.

James Warren Marcy, son of Charles and Charlotte (Warren) Marcy, was born in
Plymouth, Mass., in 1818, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in De-
cember, 1842. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1846.

John Rogers Mason graduated at Harvard in 1869 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1872. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 31, 1873.

Henry Holmes Mather graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1868. He is still in practice.

Louis Kossuth Mather graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1872, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in December of that year.

John George McKean graduated at Harvard in 1831, and was a member of the
Suffolk bar in 1835. He died in 1851.

Irvine Greene McLarren graduated at Brown in 1872 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1874, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875.

Edwin Hale Abbot graduated at Harvard in 1855 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1861. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar.

Charles Louis Ackerman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 9 in that year.

C. B. F. Adams was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1852, and for many years was
a notary public in active business.

George Everett Adams graduated at Harvard in 1860 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1865, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 19 in that year. He en-
listed as a private in the First Artillery Regiment of Illinois, April 19, 1861, and was
mustered out in August of the same year, after three months' service.

Sherman Wolcott Adams graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was
a member of the Suffolk bar in that year.

Thomas Boylston Adams, graduated at Harvard in 1790, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1795. He died in 1832.
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458 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Francis Edward Alfred graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1876, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1875.

Talbot Jones Albert graduated at Harvard in 1868 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 20, 1870.

Thomas Allen graduated at Harvard in 1789, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar.
He died in 1806.

Willis Boyd Allen graduated at Harvard in 1878 and at the Boston University in
1881, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1881.

Charles Almy graduated at Harvard in 1872 and at the Harvard Law School in
1876. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1877, and is still in practice.

Fisher Ames, son of Judge Seth Ames, graduated at Harvard in 1858 and at the
Harvard Law School in 1860. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1861,
and is now in practice.

James Barr Ames graduated at Harvard in 1868 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1872. He was instructor in history at Harvard in 1872, and in 1877 was appointed
Buzzey Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in 1873.

Samuel Ames graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1875, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar.

Rufus Greene Amory graduated at Harvard in 1778, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1782. He died in 1833.

Thomas Coffin Amory, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1841, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar October 28, 1844. He died in 1848.

George Kirkland Amory graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1869, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 14, 1873. He died in 1886.

William Amory, sen., graduated at Harvard in 1784, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1787. He died in 1792.

Asa Andrews graduated at Harvard in 1783, and was a member of the Suffolk bar.
He died in 1856.

James Winthrop Andrews, son of James Andrews, graduated at Harvard in 1824,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1828. He died in 1842.

Samuel Andrews graduated at Harvard in 1786, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1790. He died in 1841.

William Foster Apthorp graduated at Harvard in 1818, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1824. He died in 1826.

Robert East Apthrop, son of John Trecothick and Mary (Foster) Apthorp, grad-
uated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Oc-
tober 1, 1844. He died in 1882. He married Eliza Hunt, of Northampton.

George Edward Apsley graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was
an attorney in Boston in 1869.

Howard Payson Arnold graduated at Harvard in 1852, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1856.

Henry Martyn Atkinson graduated from Harvard in 1861, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar November 16, 1864. He died in 1887.

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Percy Austin graduated at Harvard 111 1871, and was an attorney at the Suffolk
bar in 1875. He died in 1877.

Frederick Fanning Ayer graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was an attorney at
the Suffolk bar in 1878.

Francis Eaton Babcock graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in May, 1878.

Lemeul Hollingsworth Babcock graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875.

John Appleton Bailey graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 20, 1858.

James Murray Baker graduated at Tufts College in 1865, and at the Harvard Law
School in 1867, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 30 in that year.

John Freeman Baker graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar March 5 in that year.

Francis Vergnies Balch graduated at Harvard in 1859 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1861. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 9, 1861, and is now in
practice.

James Morton Ballard graduated at Harvard in 1836, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar July 25, 1840. He is still in practice.

Solon Bancroft, son of Emory and Harriet (Batchelder) Bancroft, was born in
Reading, Mass., July 22, 1839, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1864. He was admit-
ted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1866, and is still in practice.

Charles A. Barnard was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 23, 1865, and is now in
practice.

George Marshall Barry graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1872.

Thomas Edward Barry graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1874, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar May 2 in that year.

Charles Henry Barrows graduated at Harvard in 1876 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1878. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1882.

John Barrett graduated at Harvard in 1780, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar.
He died in 1816.

Edward L. Barney, a leading member of the Bristol county bar practicing in New
Bedford, was practicing also at the Suffolk bar in 1885.

Stephen S. Bartlett was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now in prac-
tice.

Samuel Batchelder graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1854.

Hamlet Bates is on the roll of Suffolk county attorneys in 1857, practicing in Chel-
sea. He was appointed, May 6, 1855, justice of the Chelsea Police Court.

James Edward Bates graduated at Harvard in 1864, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar September 13, 1865.

460 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Samuel W. Bates was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 6, 1852, and died some
years since. He was for some years a teacher in the Boston public schools.

Waldron Bates graduated at Harvard in 1879, and is now practicing at the Suf-
folk bar.

Joseph Nickerson Baxter graduated at Harvard in 1875, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar June 2, 1876.

Morgan William Beach graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1878, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar November 15 in that year.

Ithamar Warren Beard was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September 1844.
He was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1856.

John Gregg Beckett graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar April 27, 1885.

Ebenezer Hunt Beckford graduated at Harvard in 1805, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in March 1808. He died in 1869.

Josiah G. Bellows graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar February 19, 1867.

Charles Bemis graduated at Harvard in 1808, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1810. He died in 1874.

William Frederick Bennett graduated from Harvard in 1868, and at the Harvard
Law School in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 14, 1871.

Samuel Arthur Bent graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 11 in that year.

Francis Hermoness Berick graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1863.

Edward Detraz Bettens graduated at Harvard in 1873, and at the Harvard Law
School in 1876. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1876.

Emory O. Bicknell was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1869, and is now in
practice.

Alpheus Bigelow graduated at Harvard in 1810, and was an attorney at the Suf-
folk bar in 1820. He died in 1863.

Horatio Bigelow graduated at Harvard in 1832, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in January, 1838. He died in 1888.

Timothy Bigelow graduated at Harvard in 1845, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar February 19, 1849.

Elias Aaron Blackshere graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in June of that year.

George Blagden graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1859. He enlisted as second lieutenant of First Massachusetts Cavalry, De-
cember 26, 1861, was promoted to first lieutenant July 27, 1862, to captain of Second
Massachusetts Cavalry, January 13, 1863, to major March 1, 1864, and resigned June
2, 1865.

William Cushing Binney graduated at Harvard in 1843, and at the Harvard Law
School in 1845. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 25, 1846. He died in
1882.

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Francis Blanchard graduated at Harvard in 1802, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1805. He died in 1813.

John H.' Blanchard was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now in prac-
tice.

Warren Kendall Blodgett graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was a member of
the Suffolk bar in 1890, as he still is.

Alphonso Warren Boardman graduated at Harvard in 1850, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in December, 1853. He is still in practice.

Simeon Borden graduated at Harvard in 1850 and at the Harvard Law School in
1852. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 18, 1853.

John Franklin Botume graduated at Harvard in 1876, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar June 13, 1881.

Benjamin Bourne graduated at Harvard in 1775, and received the degree of LL.D.
from Brown University in 1801. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and became
judge of the United States Circuit Court, and a member of Congress. He died in

1808.

James Bowdoin, probably James Bowdoin Winthrop, who dropped the name of
Winthrop, was the son of Thomas Lindall Winthrop, and older brother of Robert
Charles Winthrop, now living in Boston. Thomas Lindall Winthrop married Eliza-
beth Bowdoin Temple, a granddaughter of Gov. James Bowdoin, and daughter of
Sir John Temple, British consul-general in the United States. The subject of this
sketch was born in 1795, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1814. He was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1817, and died in 1833.

Rowland W. Boyden was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is still in prac-
tice.

William Ingersoll Bowditch, son of Nathaniel Bowditch, graduated at Harvard
in 1838 and at the Haiward Law School in 1841. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar
October 5, 1841, and is now a leading conveyancer in Boston.

John Oliver Bowman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar October 17 in that year.

George Washington Boyle graduated at Harvard in 1806, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in 1809. He died in 1834.

Orrin L. Bosworth, an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1871, is still in practice.

George Bradbury graduated at Harvard in 1789, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar. He died in 1823.

Daniel Neil Bradford graduated at Harvard in 1815, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar July 6, 1819. He died in 1821.

George Hillard Bradford graduated at Harvard in 1876, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in May, 1880.

James Monroe Bradford graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1844, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar March 25, 1845.

Russell Bradford was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar.

Grenville Davies Braman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1885 and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar.

462 HISTORY OF THE BENCH ANT) BAR.

Joseph Balch Braman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1869.

Andrew Coyle Bradley graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 26 in that year.

Michael W. Brick was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

George Patrick Briggs graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 14 in that year.

Clifford Brigham, son of Judge Lincoln Flagg Brigham, graduated at Harvard
in 1880, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the bar.

Joseph Brigham graduated at Harvard in 1788, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar. He died in 1821.

John Ambourlain Brimmer graduated at Harvard in 1802, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in July, 1806. He died in 1807.

Franklin E. Brooks was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the
bar.

James Willson Brooks graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858 and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1860.

Alexander P. Brown was admitted to the Stiffolk bar October 27, 1876, and is now
at the bar.

Edward Everett Brown was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at
the bar.

Edward Payson Brown graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar March 24 in that year.

George M. Browne was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1841, and is living in
Boston. He was at one time president of the Eastern Railroad.

Henry Brown graduated at Harvard in 1804, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1807. He died in 1810.

John P. Brown was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 10, 1869, and is now at the
bar.

Albert Gallatin Browne graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar December 8, 1856. He was the private secretary of Governor Andrew
during the war, and in 1867 was appointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme
Judicial Court. He reported in thirteen volumes from the Berkshire September term
in 1867 to the Suffolk March term in 1872. He edited jointly with John C. Gray, jr.,
two volumes from' the Suffolk March term in 1872 to the Suffolk March term in 1873,
and again alone, three volumes from the Worcester September term in 1873 to the
Norfolk January term in 1874. He died in 1891.

Alexander Porter Browne graduated at Harvard in 1874 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1876. He is in active practice in Boston.

J. Merrill Browne was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 16, 1871, and is now in
practice.

William Albert Brownlow graduated at Harvard in 1876 and at the Harvard
Law School in 1878. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879.

BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 463

Henry Hall Buck graduated at Harvard in 1875 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1877. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 17, 1879, and is now at
the bar.

Walter N. Buffum was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the bar.
Rufus Augustus Bullock graduated at Harvard in 1871, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in December, 1877. He is now at the bar.

Edward Phillips Burgess graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1854, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1855.

William Burnett graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar December 9, 1857. He died before 1880.

Albert Foster Burnham graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar August 1 in that year.

Charles Henry Burns graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar May 5 in that year.

David Augustus Burr graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar July 3, 1861.

Hemann Merrick Burr graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1885.

George D. Burrage was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar.

William Lathrop Burt graduated at Harvard in 1850, and at the Harvard Law
School in 1853. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1853. He died in 1882.

Henry Foster Buswell graduated at Harvard in 1866, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar December 14, 1870. He is now at the bar.

Franklin Jenness Butler graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 17, 1851.

George Brown Butler graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar April 30 in that year. He died in 1864.

John E. Butler was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1875, and is now at
the bar.

A. F. Butterworth was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 9, 1862, and is now at
the bar.

Albert Clark Buzell graduated at Harvard in 1865 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1868. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 27, 1868.

Edwin Lasseter Bynner graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and is
now practicing at the Suffolk bar.

Jonathan Ware Butterfield graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1864.

Francis Carnes graduated at Harvard in 1805, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in January, 1809. He died in 1860.

Harrison Osborne Cassell graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 19 in that year.

Charles Frederic Chamberlayne graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He practices in Boston and Sandwich,

464 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Francis Dana Channing graduated at Harvard in 1794, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1797. He died in 1810.

Edward Myers Clymer graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 2 in that year.

Edward Twisleton Cabot graduated at Harvard in 1883, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now in practice.

Henry Bromfield Cabot graduated at Harvard in 1883, and at the Harvard Law
School in 1887. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now in practice.

James P. Campbell was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 1870, and is now
practicing in Boston.

William Francis Canavan graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1872, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar November 11 in that year.

James Russell Carret graduated at Harvard in 1867, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in July, 1871. He is now in practice.

William Ward Carruth graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar December 17, 1868.

John Bernard Carson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1876, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in February of that year.

Leonard T. Carvell was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 21, 1881, and is
now in practice.

Albert William Casey graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1878, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1879.

Leander J. Cavanagh was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now m prac-
tice.

William G. Chadbourne was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 13, 1875, and is now
in practice.

Lendall Pitts Cazeaux graduated at Harvard in 1842, and is a member of the Suf-
folk bar, though not in practice.

Horace D wight Chapin graduated at Harvard in 1871, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in November, 1875. He is now in practice.

Horace Rundlett Cheney graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in March of that year. He is now in practice.

Charles G. Chick was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1871, and is now
in practice.

James Morse Chase graduated at Harvard in 1850 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July,' 1855.

Rufus Choate, jr., son of Rufus Choate, was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 1,
1858, and has been dead some years.

Charles Marshall Spring Churchill graduated at Harvard in 1845, and at the
Harvard Law School in 1848. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 1850.

J. P. S. Churchill was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now in practice.

Arthur Blake Clapp graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in May, 1879.

BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 465

Greenleaf Clark graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1857, and was admit-
ted to the Suffolk bar June 25 in that year.

Louis M. Clark was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now in practice.
George L. Clarke was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now in practice.
Samuel Greeley Clarke graduated at Harvard in 1851, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in October, 1853.

Timothy W. Coakley was admittted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now in prac-
tice.

George Oliver George Coale graduated at. Harvard in 1874, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar January 8, 1878. He is now in practice as a patent lawyer.

Charles Kane Cobb graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was admitted to the Suffolk

bar May 24, 1879. He is now in practice.

Ira M. Cobe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now in practice.

James Macmaster Codman, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1884, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now in practice.

Lewis Larned Coburn graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in January of that year.

Robert Codman graduated at Harvard in 1844 and at the Harvard Law School in
1846. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 2, 1848, and is now in practice.

Robert Codman, jr. , graduated at Harvard in 1882 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar.

John Augustus Coffey graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 11 in that year.

Abraham B. Coffin was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 18, 1858, and is now
at the bar.

C. P. Coffin was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the bar.

Walter C. Cogswell was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1878, and is now at
the bar.

Charles Shepherd Colburn graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 13 in that year.

Edward Card Conant graduated at the Harvard Law School m 1865, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar November 19, 1864.

Albert F. Converse was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1844, and is now at the bar.

John Conlan graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was an attorney at the Suffolk
bar before 1883.

Frank Gaylord Cook was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the
bar.

William H. Cook was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 19, 1864, and is now at
the bar.

Joseph Randolph Coolidge graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1854, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 16, 1856.
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466 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Thomas Bulfinch Coolidge graduated at Harvard in 1819, and was admitted to
\he Suffolk bar April 22, 1823. He died in 1850.

John Henry Copenhagen graduated at Harvard in 1866, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in May, 1875.

Declan D. Corcoran was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the
bar.

Henry Ward Beecher Cotton graduated at Harvard in 1877, and became a mem-
ber of the Boston bar.

Alonzo Cowan was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the bar.

Rufus Billings Cowing graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863, and admit-
ted to the bar March 7 in that year.

David F. Crane was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 29, 1857, and is now at
the bar.

Frederick E. Crawford was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at
the bar.

Frank L. Cressy was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar.
Samuel Leonard Crocker graduated at Brown University in 1856 and at the Har-
vard Law School in 1859. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 29, 1859.

Ariel Ivers Cummings graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar June 29, 1857.

Henry V. Cunningham was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the
bar.

Charles P. Curtis 3d graduated at Harvard and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1887. He is now at the bar.

Charles W. Cushing was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1876, and is now at
the bar.

Joseph Cushman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in 1856. He died in 1875.

Arthur H. Dakin was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar.

Tucker Daland graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in May, 1878. He is now at the bar.

William Augustus Dame graduated at Harvard in 1838, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar, and died in 1849.

Charles Ross Darling graduated at Amherst in 1874 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1877. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1878, and is now at
the bar.

Edwin Davenport graduated at Harvard in 1848, and was a member of the Suffolk
bar before 1854.

William E. Davidson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875, and is now at
the bar.

Augustus Brigham Davis graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar.

blOGRAPfftCAL REGISTER. 467

Bancroft Gherardi Davis graduated at Harvard in 1885 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the bar.
Frank M. Davis was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar.

James Day graduated at Harvard in 1806, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
October, 1810. He died in 1853.

Joseph M. Day was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 3, 1846, and after prac-
ticing for a time in Boston removed to Barnstable, where he was for some years
judge of probate of Barnstable county. He is now in practice in Brockton.

Thomas Dean was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 30, 1860, and is now at the bar.

George Wheaton Deans graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar May 24, 1848.

Josiah Stevens Dean, son of Benjamin and Mary A. (French) Dean, was admitted
to the Stiffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar.

A. E. Denison was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 12, 1875, and is now at the
bar.

Arthur Dexter graduated at Harvard in 1851, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in October, 1855.

Everett K. Dexter was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1869, and is now at the bar.

Edward Robhins Dexter graduated at Harvard in 1845, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in August, 1848.

William Austin Dickinson graduated at Amherst in 1850 and at thp Harvard Law
School in 1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1854.

George Wales Dillaway graduated at Harvard in 1865 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1868. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April 1868.

Frank E. Dimick was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 1, 1876, and is now at the
bar.

Epes Sargent Dixwell graduated at Harvard in 1827, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in October, 1833.

Edward Sherman Dodge graduated at Harvard in 1873 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1877. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 3, 1877, and is now
at the bar.

Frederic Dodge graduated at Harvard in 1867 and at the Harvard Law School in
1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1869, and is now at the bar.

John H. P. Dodge was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1880, and is now at
the bar.

William W. Dodge was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1874, and is now at
the bar.

Samuel Doggett graduated at Harvard in 1775, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar before 1784. He died in 1817.

Edward F. Dole was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1875, and is now
at the bar.

Joseph Donnison graduated at Harvard in 1807, and was an attorney in Boston in
1811. He died in 1825.

468 HISTORY OB THE BENCH AND BAR.

William Donnison, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1805, and was an attorney in Bos-
ton in 1811. He died in 1823.

Dudley A. Dorr was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1871, and is now
at the bar.

Ebenezer Ritchie Dorr graduated at Harvard in 1818, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in October, 1821. He died in 1873.

Fredeick C. Dowd was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1890, and is now at the
bar.

Albert Douglas graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1874, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in June of that year.

Ira T. Drew was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 11, 1871, and is now at
the bar.

Lorenzo Griswold Dubois graduated at Harvard in 1876 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1878. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1879, and is now at the
bar.

William Frederic Duff graduated at Harvard in 1876 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1878. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1880.

Harrison Dunham was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.
Ormond Horace Dutton graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in July, 1856. He died in 1868.

Jonathan Dwight graduated at Harvard in 1793, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar before 1807. He died in 1840.

Richard Joseph Dwyer graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was admitted to the
Middlesex bar in January, 1888. He is now in practice at the Suffolk bar.

C. G. Dyer was admitted to the Essex bar in 1879, and is now in practice at the
Suffolk bar.

Francis Benson Dyer graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar June 9, 1868. He died in 1881.

William Bullard Durant graduated at Harvard in 1865, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar June 10, 1869. He is now at the bar.

Francis Lowell Dutton graduated at Harvard in 1831 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1834. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1834, and died in
1854.

Josephus Eastman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1850, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar October 9 in that year.

Lucien Eaton graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1857, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar December 4 in that year.

Henderson Josiah Edwards graduated at Harvard in 1863, and is now practicing
at the Suffolk bar.

Arthur Blake Ellis graduated at Harvard in 1875 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1877. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1879.

Charles James Ellis graduated at Harvard in 1865, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar October 20, 1868.

BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 469

Edward Thomas Elliott graduated at Yale in 1858 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1861. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 27, 1860. '

Edward Bliss Emerson graduated at Harvard in 1824, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in October, 1829. He died in 1834.

John Winslow Emerson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1849, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 9 in that year.

Arthur Brewster Emmons graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1877, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 14, 1879.

William Francis Englev graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was
a member of the Suffolk bar in 1872. He died in 1884.

William Abbot Everett graduated at Harvard in 1849 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1851. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1853.

Glendower Evans graduated at Harvard in 1879, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1882.

William Fabens graduated at Harvard in 1832, and was admitted to the Essex bar
bar in 1835. He settled in Marblehead, and there died in 1883. He was a member
of the Suffolk bar in 1852.

John Fairbanks graduated at Harvard in 1802, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in July, 1808. He died in 1814.

Henry Fales graduated at Harvard in 1803, and was admittedv to the Suffolk bar
in 1807. He died in 1812.

William Augustus Fales graduated at Harvard in 1806, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in October, 1809. He died in 1824.

James Francis Farley graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar July 12, 1867. He is now at the bar.

Frank A. Farnham was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Horace Putnam Farnham graduated at Harvard in 1843, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar March 15, 1847.

John E. Farnham was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar.

Frederic R. Felch was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

H. Parker Fellows was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1872, and is now at
the bar.

Max Fischacher graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was a mem-
ber of the Suffolk bar in 1869. He is now at the bar.

Frederick Perry Fish graduated at Harvard in 1875, and was admitted to the Suf-
'folk bar in May, 1878. He is now at the bar.

George Albert Fisher graduated at Harvard in 1865 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 13, 1867, and is now
at the bar.

Samuel Fisher graduated at Harvard in 1810, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in September, 1813. He died in 1826.

Edward Fiske graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
April 22, 1855. He died in 1870.

470 HISTOkY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Isaac Fiske graduated at Harvard in 1798, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar be-
fore 1807. He settled in Weston, Mass., and died in 1861.

John Minot Fiske graduated at Harvard in 1815. He was an attorney at the Suf-
folk bar in 1818, and died in 1841.

Daniel Francis Fitz graduated at Harvard in 1859, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar September 13, 1862.

P. J. Flatley was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 10, 1870, and is now at the
bar.

William L. Follan was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Andrew Foster graduated at Harvard in 1833, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1837. He died in 1879.

Charles Amos Foster graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1853, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar April 10, 1855.

James Foster graduated at Harvard in 1806, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in January, 1815. He died in 1817.

Ralph W. Foster was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar.
Reginald Foster was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar.

Nathaniel A. Francis was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the
bar. He lives in Brookline, where he has been an assessor of the town.

Nathaniel Freeman graduated at Harvard in 1787, and was a member of the Suf-
folk bar in 1793. He died in 1800.

George B. French was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1876, and is now at
the bar.

Lyman P. French was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and died in January,
1892.

Henry Walker Frost graduated at Harvard in 1858, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar September 11, 1861. He is now at the bar.

John Frothingham graduated at Harvard in 1771, and was a member of the Suf-
folk bar. He died in 1826.

Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham graduated at Harvard in 1875, and was admit-
ted to the Suffolk bar in 1880.

Horace W. Fuller was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1857, and is now
at the bar.

George Washington Frank graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1876, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January of that year.

John Henry French graduated at Brown in 1855 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 3, 1857. He died in 1887.

Charles Edward Fulton graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in April of that year. He died in 1871.

Rufus Greene Amory Freeman graduated at the Harvard 'Law School in 1847, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 4, 1849.

William B. French was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 6, 1873, and is now
at the bar.

BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 47i

John Cutter Gage graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar September 1, 1858.

George Gordon Gammans graduated at Harvard in 1875 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1877. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1878.

Fairbanks A. W. Gates was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the
bar.

Isaac Gates graduated at Harvard in 1802, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
April, 1806. He died in 1852.

Amory Thompson Gibbs graduated at Harvard in 1854, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar February 24, 1857.

George Alphonso Gibson graduated at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in February, 1877.

David Gilbert graduated at Harvard in 1797, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
before 1807. He died in 1842.

Frederick C. Gilpatrick was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the
bar.

C. I. Giddings was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Frank Eliot Glover was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the
bar.

Horatio N. Glover, jr., was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the
bar.

George Augustus Goddard graduated at Harvard in 1865 and at the Harvard
Law School in 1874. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1877, and is
now at the bar.

Maurice Goddard graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 11, 1867. He died in 1884.

Jacob Goldsmith was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1876, and is now at
the bar.

W. W. Gooch, son of Daniel Wheelwright Gooch, graduated at Harvard in 1880,
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the bar.

Frank Goodwin graduated at Harvard in 1863, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar June 22, 1865. He is now at the bar.

Charles Percival Gorely graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar January 12, 1870. He is now at the bar.

Ozias Goodwin graduated at Harvard in 1858, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
October 10, 1862. He died in 1878.

Wade Hampton Gardiner was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 12, 1862.

Richard Goodman graduated at Amherst in 1869 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1871. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1874.

Dana B. Gove was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 1870, and is now at
the Suffolk bar.

Horace D. Gove was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1875, and is now at the
bar.

472 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

William Henry Gove graduated at Harvard in 1876 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1877. He was admitted to the Essex bar in 1872, and in 1883 was at the
Suffolk bar.

John Henry Gray graduated at Harvard in 1824, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in October, 1830. He died in 1850.

Levi Gray graduated at Harvard in 1852, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
October 31, 1854.

John Clinton Gray graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and was ad.
mitted to the Suffolk bar July 17 in that year.

Russell Gray graduated at Harvard in 1869, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in December, 1872. He is now at the bar.

Charles Augustus Gregory graduated at Harvard in 1855, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar March 18, 1857.

Archibald Henry Grimke graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1874, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1875.

Jonathan Grout graduated at Harvard in 1790, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar. He died in 1835.

Emery Grover was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 1869, and is now at the
bar.

Horace Graves graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law School in
1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 28, 1867.

Benjamin Daniel Greene graduated at Harvard in 1812, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in September, 1815. He died in 1862.

Lucian Bisbee Thompson, second son of Oakes and Livonia (Banks) Thompson,
was born in Hartford, Oxford count}', Me., January 29, 1838. He is a direct de-
scendant from John Thompson, who came to Plymouth, Mass., on or before 1623,
and married Mary, daughter of Francis Cooke, one of the Mayflower passengers.
He was educated at Hebron Academy and at Tufts College, where he graduated
in 1863, taking high rank in his class, though absent a part of the course engaged
in teaching. He assisted in raising a company in the War of 1861, and in 1864 was
commissioned for the recruiting service in Georgia and South Carolina, with head
quarters at Hilton Head. He was at Savannah and Charleston with Sherman's
army, and assisted General Anderson in raising the old flag at Fort Sumter, April
14, 1865. On his return' north at the close of the war, he studied law for a year in
the office of his brother, Roscoe H. Thompson, of Canton, Me., and was admitted to
the Oxford county bar in 1866. He then entered the Harvard Law School, where
he graduated in 1867, and after a further study in the office of Lothrop & Bishop, of
Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1868. In 1867 he was appointed
bankruptcy clerk in the clerk's office of the United States District Court, where he
remained seven years, and where he had an opportunity which he improved of be-
coming familiar with the decisions of the United States courts. On the resignation
in 1869 of Charles M. Ellis, the register in bankruptcy, Mr. Thompson's name was
favorably presented to Chief Justice Chase for the vacancy by a large number of
the leading members of the Suffolk bar, but the appointment was given to General

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F. W. Palfry, whose military service, and wounds, from which he was still suffering,
entitled him to prior consideration. Mr. Thompson retired from the office in 1874
and entered on the practice of law, establishing in a short time a large and success-
ful business, the greater part of which was connected with the United States
courts. He was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court in 1881.
An interesting case, in which Mr. Thompson acted as counsel, was that of Helen J.
Ward, who in 1879 was charged with the murder of her mother at their rooms in
Hamilton Place, Boston. Mrs. Ward was shot in the head with a bullet from a pis-
tol which had some time before been given to the daughter by a clerk at the Parker
House whom she was engaged to marry. , A wound was also inflicted on the temple
by some implement not discovered by the government, which fractured the skull
from ear to ear. Mr. Thompson prosecuted the defence with untiring energy and
skill, and against strong circumstantial evidence secured the discharge of the accused
on the plea of somnambulism, although no other instance of a like hallucination had
appeared in the girl's history. A successful defence on such aground was the more
remarkable because the defence and verdict in the case of Albert J. Tirrell, the only
other case in Massachusetts in which, in a capital case, such a plea had been suc-
cessfully made, had provoked -almost universal condemnation. In 1886, and again
in 1889, with health impaired by professional work, Mr. Thompson traveled exten-
sively in Europe, and since his last return has devoted himself chiefly to office prac-
tice in the department of mercantile law. An independent in politics, he has never
sought nor held political office. He has never married, but for several years has
maintained for himself and his sisters a home in the Dorchester District of Boston.

Thomas Parker Proctor, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Parker) Proctor, was born
in Chelmsford, Mass., June 27, 1831. His mother, Elizabeth Parker, was a native of
New Boston, N. H., while on his father's side, the Proctor family during seven gen-
erations had lived on the same homestead in South Chelmsford. His great-grand-
father was an officer in the War of the Revolution, and his father was an officer in
the War of 1812. Mr. Proctor attended school in Chelmsford under the instruction
of Emerson C. Whitney, a good teacher and a valued friend, and after fitting for
college at Phillips Andover Academy, entered Yale College in 1850. While pursuing
his college course his old teacher and friend, then living in Middleton, N- Y., m
charge of the classical department of the State Academy, was stricken with his last
sickness, and he left college to look after the comfort of his latter days. On the
death of Mr. Whitney his position was offered to Mr. Proctor, and its duties were
performed by him for a single year. In the mean time he kept up his college studies,
and in 1853 entered the junior class at Harvard, and graduated with a part at com-
mencement in 1854. In the year of his graduation he entered the law office of Charles
Tracey in New York city, and was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn on examination
in the latter part of 1854. In 1855 he entered the Harvard Law School, engaged a
part of the time while there in assisting Professor Parsons in the preparation of notes
to his law books, and graduated in 1856. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May
6, 1856, and soon after became associated with Harvey Jewell, with whom he re-
mained two years. He then practiced alone until 1862, when he formed a connection
with William Wirt Warren, which continued until the death of Mr. Warren in 1880.
From 1880 to 1884 he was the senior member of the law firm of Proctor, Brigham &
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Tappan, and after again practicing alone four years became the senior member of
the firm of Proctor, Tappan & Warren, which still continues. Mr. Warren is the son
of his earlier partner. Mr. Proctor has always devoted himself assiduously to his
professional duties, and with the exception of the office of trial justice at Jamaica
Plain for one year, has never accepted a public position. He has, however, always
felt a deep interest in social progress and political reform, and devoted to their cause
such time and effort as could be spared from his professional pursuits. The practice
of Mr. Proctor covers a considerable range of legal causes, including cases in bank-
ruptcy, admiralty, patents, questions on the construction of wills and statutes, and
actions relating to real estate. He is a trustee of many estates, some of which are
large, and has been largely employed as counsel in commercial and corporation
matters. His preparation of cases is marked by thoroughness, and their management
in court by ingenuity and skill. His reputation is that of a conscientious lawyer,
devoted to the cause of his client whose interests he seeks, not necessarily by a trial,
but by a settlement if possible on fair and equitable terms. He married, May 27,
1857, Lucena Sarah, daughter of Amos and Mary Spalding, of Billerica, Mass., who
died May 1, 1868, leaving three children, George B., Sarah L. and Mary Bessie; the
oldest, George B., dying March 3, 1869. He married again, April 28, 1870, Sarah
(Miller) Street, of Boston, who died December 16, 1879; and a third time, June 7,
1883, Abby, daughter of Southworth and Abby Shurtleff Shaw, of Boston. His
residence is at Jamaica Plain.

Baxter E. Perry, son of Rev. Baxter and Lydia (Gray) Perry, was born in Lyme,
Grafton county, N. H., April 26, 1826. He fitted for college at Thetford, Vt., and
graduated at Middlebury College. He studied law with Ranney & Morse, of Boston,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 19, 1855. He married at Hanover, N. H.,
August 26, 1851, Charlotte S., daughter of John and Nancy (Stickney) Hough. Mr.
Perry is descended on his father's side from a family which settled at an early date
in Watertown, Mass., and moved to Worcester in 1751. On his mother's side he is
descended from a family of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, forming a part of the immi-
gration of those people into Massachusetts in 1718. For some years before entering
the profession of law he was engaged in teaching as principal of the Chester Acad-
emy in Vermont. His business is a general one and its pursuit, which he has made
the main work of his life, has been successful. With the exception of the office of
trustee of Middlebury College, and a membership at one time of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives, he has permitted no offers of place or power to lure him
from the paths of professional life. A few collegiate and other public addresses
which he has been induced to deliver, display a literary taste and culture which bear
proof that his studies and thought are not, however, confined within the limits of the
field of law.

Daniel Webster, son of Ebenezer and Abigail (Eastman) Webster, was born in
Salisbury, now Franklin, N. H., January 18, 1782, and received his early education
at Phillips Exeter Academy and under the tuition of Rev. Samuel Wood, of Bos-
cawen, N. H. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1801, and studied law in the office of
Thomas W. Thompson, of Salisbury, and in that of Christopher Gore in Boston, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1805. He began practice in Boscowen,
but in 1807 removed to Portsmouth, where he remained until June, 1816, when he es-

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tablished himself in Boston. He married in June, 1808, Grace Fletcher, of Hopkin-
ton, N. H., who died January 21, 1828. In December, 1829, he married Caroline
Le Roy, of New York, and died in Marshfield, October 24, 1852.

The above meagre sketch of his life is sufficient for this record. A memoir of a man
of Avhom so much has been written by other hands would be superfluous here, and such
a one as the limits of this work would permit would be unsatisfactory. It is the design
of the writer to speak of him as a private citizen, not a statesman, as a neighbor, not a
lawyer, as a friend irrespective of his position in the nation, as the grandest example of
human development which the institutions of America have produced. For this pur-
pose he is permitted to use the sketch prepared by him for the pages of the Plymouth
County History. The life of Mr. Webster is yet to be written. Exact justice has
never yet been awarded him. Those who worshipped him as their idol have pre-
sented one side of his character, forgetful or neglectful of the other, while those who
have inherited the prejudices of his contemporary opponents have dwelt on his faults
and overlooked those grand traits in his character, which in the nature of man must
necessarily be balanced by those which are less commendable and attractive. His
character was like his native State, showing on its surface the mountain peaks and the
lower lands of the valley. The mountain cannot exist without the intervale, nor can
extraordinary intellectual powers be found in man without corresponding frailties to
preserve the equipoise of a general level-
In 1825 Mr. Webster was a member of the Nineteenth Congress, having taken
his seat for the first, time the year before. He had already won a national repu-
tation. He had then delivered at Plymouth the anniversary oration on the 22d
of December, 1820; he had made his great argument in Gibbon against Ogden,
in which, in accordance with his views, the court decided that the grant by the
State of New York to the assignees of Robert Fulton of the the right to navigate
by steam the rivers, harbors and bays of the State was unconstitutional ; and he
had delivered his memorable oration at the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker
Hill monument. In the summer of that year, as had been his custom for several
years, he went with his wife and son, Fletcher, to Sandwich, Mass., to enjoy a
season of fishing for trout. Before leaving Boston, in a conversation with Mr.
Samuel K. Williams, Mr. Williams asked him why he did not go to Marshfield in-
stead of Sandwich. The description of Marshfield impressed him favorably, and he
determined to visit it on his return. After he had taken all the fish he wanted, he
bade his old friend, Johnny Trout, the fisherman and guide at Scusset, good-bye, and
he and his wife in an old fashioned chaise, with a trunk lashed to the axle, and his
son, Fletcher, mounted on a pony, started for home, with the determination to stop
at Marshfield on the way. Mr. Williams had given Mr. Webster directions to see
Capt. John Thomas, a respectable and intelligent Marshfield farmer, who would
doubtless be glad to entertain him, and give him all the information he might need
about that part of the country. Captain Thomas was then the owner and occupant
of a comfortable home and a farm of about one hundred and sixty acres. This farm
was all that was left of his ancestral estate, the remainder, while in possession of his
father, Nathaniel Ray Thomas, a conspicuous loyalist, having been confiscated when
he left New England in 1776, and went with the British army, after the evacuation
of Boston, to Nova Scotia. This portion was saved to his wife as her right in the

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estate of her husband. Captain Thomas was the only child who did not accompany
his father, and consequently the farm came finally into his hands. Up to the time
of the confiscation the estate had remained intact, from the time of the original grant
by the Plymouth Colony to the ancestor, William Thomas, on the 7th of January,
1(540-41. William Thomas was one of the merchants of London who furnished the
Pilgrims with capital and vessels for their emigration to New England, and were
partners in the enterprise. He was one of several of the merchants who finally cast
their fortunes with the Pilgrims, and he came in the Mar ye and Ann from Yarmouth,
England, in 1637, and settled in Marshfield. Adjoining the lands of Mr. Thomas
were those of Edward Winslow, bounded out to him by the Colony Court on the 4th
of December, 1637. These two estates, including about twenty-seven hundred acres,
had at the time of Mr. Webster's visit nearly passed out of the Thomas and Winslow
families, except the acres held by Capt. John Thomas, a lineal descendant from the
ancestor, William Thomas, and to the farm-house standing on these acres, on a fine
autumn day, Mr. Webster wended his way. After leaving Duxbury Mr. Webster
took the wrong road, and instead of approaching the farm from the south, he made
a detour and fortunately approached it from the north. From the various points of
view on. this northerly road, the farm with its sunny meadows and placid lake and
comfortable dwelling, nestling as if for protection under the spreading branches of
the since famous elm, showed to the best advantage, and Mrs. Webster, with a woman's
eye for beauty, was enthusiastic in her admiration of its attractive charms. As the
chaise with its hanging trunk, followed by the pony with Fletcher on its back, was
driven down the avenue,' Captain Thomas with his son, Charles Henry, now living in
Boston, was sitting on the piazza. The hospitable farmer stepped out to meet his
visitor, whoever he might be, as he alighted from his chaise, and it is not difficult to
imagine the feelings with which this modest, hard-working, home-loving Marshfield
man received the outstretched hand of his guest. " This is Captain Thomas?" said
Mr. Webster. " Yes," said the farmer. " I am Mr. Webster," continued the visitor.
"I thought so," said the captain, and this was the introduction to a friendship
which continued to strengthen until broken by death, and which was as full of
devotion and reverence and love as ever a friendship between man and man could
boast. It is no feeble answer to the cavils of the critic, to the censures of ex-
ploring biographers, who scratch and scrape the burnished gold in search of a
baser metal beneath, to the unjust and unjudicial strictures on the character of
Mr. Webster, that he inspired the affection and esteem of an honest, clear-headed,
intelligent, pure-minded man like Captain Thomas, who for years had measured and
weighed and sounded the man, the very fibres of whose heart he had touched, and
whose innermost life had been spread out daily before him. The result of the inter-
view was an invitation to stay over the night, and for two or three days Mr. Webster
with his wife and son remained as welcome guests at the farm. During those two or
three days he became acquainted with Seth Peterson and Porter Wright, the two men
who were afterwards his right and left hand in his Marshfield life. He shot birds on
the marshes, he fished for cod in the bay, he was satisfied that at last he had found
the right place for his vacation, recreation and rest. From that time forth until he
finally bought the estate, the recurrence of dog days found him annually a guest at
the Marshfield farm. The interest which he felt in Captain Thomas and his wife ex-

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tended to his sons, Charles Henry and Nathaniel Ray. Charles was the elder son
and his father's helpmate on the farm. Nathaniel Ray, or Ray, as he was always
called, was the younger son, and still attending school under the care of Rev. George
Putnam, then a teacher in one of the public schools in Duxbury. The attractive de-
portment of Ray, whose future course of life was not yet marked out, especially inter-
ested him, and it was not long before he drew him to himself and directed his career.
When Mr. Webster was about to start for Boston at the close of his visit, Ray hap-
pened to be holding by the halter a handsome horse belonging to his father which
attracted Mr. Webster's attention. " Captain Thomas," said he, " I like that halter,
I would like to buy it." The request was no sooner made than acceded to, and the
boy was told to take the halter off and place it in the chaise. " Oh, but I want the
halter with the head in it," said Mr. Webster. And thus the horse was bought, and
the purchaser started for Boston with it tied behind the chaise, forming, with Fletcher
and the pony in the rear, a procession which the statesmen of to-day would hesitate
to exhibit on the highway and in the streets of the city. On his return from a subse-
quent visit, he said to Ray, "Get into my chaise and go to Boston." The father
was willing, and the son went with a glad heart, going to Mr. Webster's house in
Summer street and remaining there during his stay in Boston. On the next day he
was told to take Mr. Webster's satchel and accompany him to the Supreme Court,
where he was to argue an important flowage case, in which parties in Lowell were
the plaintiffs and defendants. For the first time in a great city, this country lad was
launched at once from the quiet shades of a farm, not to the novel sights and sounds
of the streets of Boston, as many a country lad has been before and since, but into
the great arena in which the foremost men of the day, Webster and Mason, were the
contestants. Through the livelong day, this boy of sixteen, with brown hands and
tanned face, sat within the bar, listening and wondering if this were the world out-
side of which he had been born, and for the duties of which the schools whose irk-
some requirements he had been compelled to meet, were the means of preparation.
From that time Ray Thomas was practically the ward of Mr. Webster, and Mr. Web-
ster was his guardian. He was placed at first in the store of Trott & Bumstead,
wholesale grocers in South Market street, and after the Stephen White murder trial
in Salem, in which Mr. Webster acted as an assistant to the government attorney,
in the counting-room of Stephen White, the nephew of the murdered man and the
father of the lady who afterwards became the wife of Mr. Fletcher Webster. But he
remained in neither of these places long; Mr. Webster wanted him nearer to himself,
and in the end he became his confidential secretary, the manager of his western
lands, and his other self in everything outside of his professional duties, except his
affairs at Marshfield, which were mainly conducted under the faithful and assiduous
care of Mr. Charles Henry Thomas, the elder son of Captain Thomas. The early
death of Ray Thomas was a sad affliction to Mr. Webster, and one from which he
did not easily rally. Though his business manager left behind him a trunk filled
with important papers, an early examination of which was essential to the successful
issue of enterprises in which Mr. Webster was engaged, six months elapsed before
he could so far compose himself as to be able to examine its contents, surrounded as
they were with associations of his loved young friend. This was one of the illustra-
tions of that carelessness in money affairs of which the thrifty critic complains. But
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thrift, as a tender, generous heart is nobler than one whose grief by the bedside of a
dying parent is assuaged by the thought of a coming legacy. After the annual visits
of Mr. Webster to Marshfield for several years, Captain Thomas became somewhat
embarrassed pecuniarily, and made a proposition to him to buy his farm. Mr. Web-
ster objected at first on the ground of poverty, but at last consented to buy with the
express understanding, suggested and demanded by himself, that Captain Thomas
and his wife should live in the house and occupy the farm, and as long as they lived
treat both as their own. That higher regard for money, which would have com-
mended him to the approval of meaner natures, or in other words, a sordid spirit and
a harder heart, would have driven a closer bargain than this. He never believed,
however, that man, more especially such a man as he knew himself to be,
with transcendent and ever outreaching powers, was made to count gold and
cut coupons and accumulate money. Judged by such a standard, the Indian
with his wigwam filled with wampum was deserving of as much respect and
honor as the millionaire with his trunks packed with what we only in a higher
state of barbarism are pleased "to call wealth. Money to him was the means,
not the end of life. The goal to be reached was the highest development of man's
powers, the richest and rankest growth of affections, the supremacy of man over the
accidental and incidental circumstances which attach themselves to his worldly and
bodily existence and comfort. This was the spirit which animated Mr. Webster in
the arrangement made with Captain Thomas, and during five or six years the cap-
tain and his wife remained occupants of their old homstead, and after that the widow
divided her time between the Marshfield farm and the residence of her son, Charles,
in Duxbury. At this residence Mr. Webster would also occasionally stay during
short visits to the Old Colony while his own house was undergoing repairs. It was
situated on a commanding eminence overlooking Plymouth Bay, the Gurnet Light,
Barnstable Bay, and the north shore as far as Minot's Ledge. The view from the
chamber which he there occupied he said was the most beautiful he had ever seen,
and there at half -past three on a summer morning he might have been seen sitting
in an arm chair by the window, waiting for what he considered the most impressive
spectacle in life, the break of day. He wondered that so many persons in the world
should neglect the opportunity of witnessing that daily but sublime exhibition.

The earliest recorded deed of Marshfield land to Mr. Webster was from Peleg
Thomas Ford of thirty-seven acres, for a consideration of $825, and dated September 7,
1831, though the agreement for the purchase of the Thomas farm was made before that
date. The deed of the latter was for one hundred and sixty and one-half acres for a
consideration of $3,650, and dated April 23, 1832. This deed included the house and
outbuildings, and tillage, pasturing, mowing and wood-land and fresh and salt
meadows on both sides of the main road. This deed was followed by others from
Charles Henr3' Thomas of two and three-quarters acres and five rods for $130, July
6, 1832; from the same of one hundred and sixteen and one-quarter acres and thirty
rods for $2,200, April 16, 1833; from Benjamin Lewis of four and three-quarters acres
and twenty rods for $60.40, December 30, 1833 ; from Ebenezer Taylor of one acre and
nine rods for $42.25, March 3, 1834; from Charles P. Wright of two acres and thirty-
two rods for $110. 62, March 3, 1834; from Asa Hewitt of seven acres and twenty-one
rods for $300, May 17, 1834; from Henry Soule of eighty-five and one-half acres for
$500, October 20, 1834; from Charles Henry Thomas of three hundred and seventy-

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three acres for $10,000, August 16, 1836; from Elizabeth Whitman of eleven acres for
$319, August 16, 1836; from Charles P. Wright two deeds of twelve and a quarter
acres for $652.31, August 20 and 22, 1836; from Asa Hewitt of eighty-six rods for
$80.62, August 22, 1836; from Charles Henry Thomas of eight and three-quarters
acres for $300, December 26, 1838; from Eleazer Harlow of seventy acres for $1,800,
November 1, 1838; from Charles Henry Thomas of eighty-seven acres for $4,000,
March 19, 1840; from Eleazer Harlow of seventy-two acres for $2,600. April 1, 1840;
from Charles Baker of seventeen acres and seventy-six rods for $350, July 8, 1844 ;
from Ebenezer Taylor of twenty-seven and three-quarters acres and thirty-two rods
for $1,084, July 8, 1844; from Elizabeth Whitman of one acre for $40, September 2,
1845; from Gershom B. Weston of sixty-four acres and fifty-three rods for $1,600,
April 9, 1851 ; from the Duxbury Manufacturing Company of factory privilege, dam,
etc., for $3,000, April. 12, 1851, and from Joseph P. Cushman of fifty-two and a quar-
ter acres for $1,000, September 30, 1852. All of these purchases covered about twelve
hundred acres, costing the sum of $34,644.20 as the original outlay. It is estimated
by those who had an opportunity to know, that above the annual receipts from the
farm the annual expenditure for at least fifteen years was $3,500, making the farm at
Mr. Webster's death represent a cost, without interest, including the purchase money,
of $87,144.20. It had been the ambition of Mr. Webster to gather into his hands the
entire tract of twenty-seven hundred acres granted by the Colony Court to William
Thomas and Edward Winslow, and it is probable that if he had lived a few years
longer he would have approximately accomplished his object.

Of the life of Mr. Webster in Marshfield with his family, among his friends and
neighbors, away from the shallowness and deceptions and insincerities of politicians
and society members, the world knows little. Whatever he may have been thought
elsewhere to be, there he was a true, simple, transparent, affectionate, tender-hearted
man. No man ever lived in Marshfield who could say that Mr. Webster ever deceived
him by word or deed, ever withheld the wisest and always gratuitous advice, ever tried
to get the advantage in trade, ever indulged in or countenanced evil reports, ever as-
sumed or recognized any superiority in himself or inferiority in others, ever indulged
in condescension in the treatment of the most humble, ever failed to treat every man
in every station of life as an equal. In this latter respect perhaps no man of mark was
ever more distinguished. There have been great men who were called many-sided,
who had a different point of contact for all, child's talk for the child, philosophical
reflections for the learned, forced simplicity for the illiterate, strained effort for the
scholar, something for every man, but all distinct and separate, having no relation
to each other, but nothing stamping the individuality of the man. Mr. Webster was
the same to all, to Lord Ashburton and Seth Peterson, to Henry Clay and John Tay-
lor, to Tom Benton and Uncle Branch Pierce, dignified but simple, profound but
clear, friendly but not familiar, easy but never vulgar, and in the room with all these
different men together would have presented the same phase to all, as the statue or
painting is the same under the eye of the scholar or artisan, and is equally under-
stood and admired by both. His speeches illustrate his character in this respect. No
child needs a dictionary while reading them. He never descends to a low level of
language and thought that he may be the better understood. He knows that if the
subject is clear to his own mind he can present it in the same language to all. It was
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treated a brother senator or a president, and the senator and president might with
truth have said that he treated them as if they had been his neighbors.

His humor and considerateness are illustrated by the following incident. On one
occasion, after returning from Washington, a man presented to him a bill for payment.
"Why, Mr. N.," said Mr. Webster, "it seems to me I have paid that bill." Mr. N.
protested that it had not been paid, and Mr. Webster told him that if he would call on a
certain day he would settle with him. After he had gone Mr. Webster asked his son
Fletcher to look over a mass of loose bills and receipts and see if he could find a receipt-
ed bill. To the surprise of both not only one but two receipts were found, and the bill
had already been paid twice. " We will put those bills there," said Mr. Webster, plac-
ing them in a pigeon hole in his desk, " and when Mr. N. calls again we will have some
fun with him." In due time Mr. N. called, just at the dinner hour, and Mr. Webster
said. " Come, Mr. N., let us go in and have some dinner first and then we will talk
business." To dinner they went, and a good one it was, and Mr. N. relished it
keenly. After dinner they went out under the old elm, and Fletcher with them, and
Mr. Webster soon began. "Mr. N.," said he, "do you keep bopks?" "No," said
Mr. N. "I thought so," said Mr. Webster. " Now I advise you to keep books. If
you had kept books you would have known that I had this receipted bill," (showing
him one). Mr. N. was much surprised and considerably mortified to have been
caught in such a mistake. " It is always a good plan to keep books," repeated Mr.
Webster, showing him the second receipt. ' ' Now, Mr. N. , I will pay this bill
just once more, but I promise you that I will not pay it the fourth time." Mr. Web-
ster insisted on his taking the money, knowing him to be an honest man, intimating
that perhaps receipted bills had been presented and left really unpaid, and offering
him a glass of wine, pleasantly bade him good afternoon.

Of the avocations of hunting and fishing, no man was more fond, and he was never
happier than with Messrs. Isaac L. and Thomas Hedge in the Plymouth woods, on a
deer stand by some lonely road, or on the shore of one of Plymouth's countless ponds.
He was not skillful with either rod or gun, but was such an admirer of nature that with
one or the other in his hand he constructed many of those brilliant passages of oratory
which wreathe and lend grace to his orations and speeches. Too often for an ac-
complished sportsman, his reveries permitted the game of the forest to escape him
unobserved, or the fish of the sea to nibble away his bait until some sentence or
metaphor was complete in all its grandeur and beauty. On a maple tree standing
by the shore of Billington Sea, the writer has seen the initials of his name rudely
cut, the thoughtless work of one of those reveries in which no notice was taken of
the coming deer until it leaped from the bank and ran knee-deep in water along the
pebbly beach. On this occasion, however, his game was at a disadvantage, remain-
ing long enough within range for him to raise his gun and secure the single trophy
of his hunter's life. On one occasion within the knowledge of the writer of this
sketch, on a November afternoon, at sunset, after an unsuccessful hunt with the
Messrs. Hedge and George Churchill and Uncle Branch Pierce, nine miles from
Plymouth and twenty miles from home, before mounting his wagon he stuck his
knife into a tree and said, "At this tree, gentlemen, we meet at eight o'clock to-
morrow morning." After forty miles of travel and a part of a night's sleep, he was
on the spot at the appointed hour with his companions of the day before. The day,
however, coming on chilly and wet, Mr. Webster, having something of a cold, thought

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it prudent to give up the hunt and await at the house of Mr. Pierce the issue of the
sport. On the return of the party late in the forenoon, bearing a noble buck, they
found him pacing the kitchen of Mrs. Pierce, repeating from memory some of the
grand old lyric poems of Watts, while the old lady, with her breakfast dishes still
unwashed, was listening in reverential silence. On another occasion, after his return
to Marshfield from an unsuccessful hunt in the Plymouth woods, he told his son
Fletcher to sit down and he would tell him about the hunt. " We reached Long
Pond," said he, "at sunrise, and Uncle Branch was ready for us with his two hounds.
He fastened them to a tree and went in search of a track. He soon returned and
said that he had found a noble fresh track. ' Now, Mr. Webster,' said Uncle Branch,
' I 'm going to put you on the best stand in these 'ere woods; " and Long Pond Hill
was where he put me. ' Now,' said he, ' Mr. Webster, you jest keep your eyes peeled
and your ears skun and don't you let no deer get past you without a shot. Don't
you mind whether you hear the dogs or not, for the old fellow may come even when
the dogs are out of hearth.' I was put on my stand; it was a still morning, not a
twig stirred, and I obeyed orders. Soon nine o'clock came, and then ten, and I
ventured to walk a few steps and back, and soon it was eleven. I saw nothing and
heard nothing, and twelve o'clock came. I repeated poetry and made speeches, and
got hungry and ate a cracker, and one o'clock came, and no deer and no Uncle
Branch. Two o'clock came, and three o'clock, and just then a song-sparrow perched
on a tree near me and I took off my hat and made a bow and said ' Madam, accept
my profoundest regards; you are the first living thing I have seen to-day.' Soon
Uncle Branch came and said the hunt was up, that ' the dogs went out of hearth at
nine o'clock and hadn't heard 'em since, by golly;' and here I am, Fletcher, as
hungry as a cooper's cow."

Mr. Webster was a man of deep religious feeling. If there was anything with
which he was more familiar than with the constitution of his country, it was
the Bible. Few men studied it more carefully or could repeat more of its pas-
sages with precision. It taught him to believe with all his heart in the existence
of God and in a future life. He had formulated no creed, and he subscribed to
none formulated by others.* During the larger part of his mature life he attended
the Unitarian church, and the Unitarian belief was undoubtedly more than any
other in accord with his feelings and sentiments. For Dr. George Putnam and
Dr. Samuel K. Lothrop, the latter of whom was for many years his pastor, he enter-
tained the sincerest affection and respect. His second wife was a member of the
Episcopal church, and though in Washington it was his custom to accompany her to
her place of worship, he did not believe that the doctrine of the trinity could be sus-
tained by the Scriptures. At home in Marshfield he invariably attended the orthodox
church once on the Sabbath, and whoever or how many might be his guests, his
carriage was at the door each Sabbath morning to carry himself and such others as
might wish to accompany him to the neighboring place of worship. In the early
morning, too, of the Sabbath day, his household, including guests, were summoned
to his library, and there he spoke to them of the responsibilities and duties of life.
One of the many portraits of him which have been engraved, represents him thus,
sitting in profile, with his left hand hidden under his waistcoat, and his face wearing
a more serious expression than that of his every-day life. On the 1st of April, 1852,
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while on his way to Plymouth to join the Messrs. Hedge on a fishing excursion to the
trout brooks in the Avoods, with Seth Peterson as his companion and driver, on de-
scending the hill near Smelt Brook, in that part of Kingston called Rocky Nook, the
linchpin of his carriage broke, and he was thrown to the ground. He was carried
into the house of Captain Melzar Whitten near, by, and in the course of the day was
removed to his home. The fall proved his death-blow. Though he partially re-
covered, his elasticity and spirit had departed, and gradually failing health brought
him by successive steps to his death-bed on the 24th of October, 1852. The last
scene of his life was impressive and solemn. He had often during his sickness
spoken of a future existence as a continuation of the present, and he was impressed
with the possibility that on its threshold the departing spirit, while within the con-
fines of earth, might look into the regions of the other world. As death came nearer
to him, and he watched its approach, in a moment of apparent doubt whether he had
reached or not the dividing line between time and eternity, and anxious to learn
its precise indication, he opened his eyes and said, " I still live— tell me the point."
Dr. Jeffries, standing by the bed, not understanding the remark, repeated the words
of the Psalm, "Yea, though I walk through the shadow of death I will not fear."
" No, doctor," said Mr. Webster, in a voice still strong and clear, "tell me the point;
tell me the point." These were the last words he uttered. On that beautiful Indian
summer day he died, and on another- as beautiful, his body, dressed in his favorite
blue and buff, lay in its coffin under the noble elm which had so often sheltered him
in life, and loving neighbors and distant friends bore him to his final rest.

William Goodwin Russell, son of Thomas and Mary Ann (Goodwin) Russell, was
born in Plymouth, Mass. November 18, 1821. His early education was received in
the public schools of Plymouth, and fitting for college under the tuition of Hon. John
Angier Shaw, of Bridgewater, he graduated at nearly the head of' his class at Har-
vard in 1840. After leaving college he taught for a time a young ladies' private school
in Plymouth, and for a year the academy at Dracut, in which he was the successor
of General B. F. Butler. Entering the law office of his brother-in-law, William
Whiting, of Boston, he completed his law studies at the Harvard Law School, where
he graduated in 1845, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar on the 25th of July in that
year. After his admission he became at once associated with Mr. Whiting, and un-
til the death of Mr. Whiting in 1878, the firm of Whiting & Russell occupied a lead-
ing position at the Suffolk bar. In 1862, when Mr. Whiting was appointed solicitor
of the War Department, the labors and responsibilities of the office were imposed on
Mr. Russell, and during the three years of Mr. Whiting's service he bore them with
untiring industry and brilliant success. On the death of Mr. Whiting he had so far
advanced in his profession as to be one of its recognized leaders. At that time
Charles Greeley Loring had retired from the bar, in 1857, and died in 1867 ; George
Tyler Bigelow had resigned his seat as chief justice on the bench of the Supreme Ju-
dicial Court, and retired from the profession by accepting the position of actuary of
the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company ; George Stillman Hillard had
measurably withdrawn from practice by his occupancy from 1866 to 1870 of the office
of United States district attorney; the career as a practitioner of Ebenezer Rock-
wood Hoar had been repeatedly interrupted by his judicial labors on the bench of the
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from 1859 to 1869, as attorney-general of the United States in 1869-70, as a member
of the Joint High Commission, which framed the treaty of Washington with Great
Britain in 1871, and later as a member of Congress. Sidney Bartlett and Benjamin
Robbins Curtis alone remained, having precedence of Mr. Russell in the legal ranks.
Mr. Curtis died in 1874, and the advancing age of Mr. Bartlett entitled Mr. Russell
to the claim of leadership, which .the death of Mr. Bartlett in 1890 served only to con-
firm. After the death of Mr. Whiting, Mr. Russell associated with himself George
Putnam, son of the late Rev. Dr. George Putnam, of Roxbury, and since that time
the firm of Russell & Putnam has been as well known as the former one of Whiting
& Russell. It is worthy of note that the place of Mr. Bartlett, a Plymouth man, at
the Suffolk bar should have been taken by Mr^^-Russell, also a native of that ancient
town. This circumstance is relieved, howeverYof its singularity by the fact that Mr.
Russell's father and Mr. Bartlett were first cousins, and that both Mr. Bartlett and
Mr. Russell inherited from a common ancestor those mental traits, which, developed
by education, go to make up a thorough lawyer. The writer remembers to have
heard those of an earlier generation, who knew Samuel Jackson, of Plymouth, the
grandfather of Mr. Bartlett, and the great-grandfather of Mr. Russell, speak of his cool
discriminating judgment, and his judicial mind, which with less limited educational
privileges would have given him high intellectual rank. To these traits, mingled
with others coming down to him from Miles Standish, John Alden, and Richard War-
ren, whose Pilgrim blood flows in his veins, there were added those of his sturdy
Scotch great-grandfather, John Russell, a Greenock merchant, who came to New Eng-
land about 1745, and settled in Plymouth. When Mr. Russell chose the profession of
law for his life work, he determined to pursue its paths with faithful steps, and to
resist every temptation to leave them for the alluring honors of public life. It is in-
deed doubtful whether there has been at any time an elective office in the gift of
the people which he would not have unhesitatingly refused to accept, and even judicial
preferment, which may be considered the crowning glory of professional life, he has
more than once refused, even when associated with the highest position in the gift of
our State executive. Other positions, more nearly related to the duties of the private
citizen, he has not felt at liberty to reject. As president of the Bar Association, the
Social Law Library, and the Union Club ; as overseer of Harvard College, and director
of the Mount Vernon Bank, and the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company;
as vice-president of the Pilgrim Society ; and as either executor or trustee of various
important estates, he has not wandered far a' field from the legitimate legal sphere
to which he early dedicated -himself . But, devoted as Mr. Russell was to the law, he
has not permitted himself to be unobservant of affairs beyond the horizon of his pro-
fession. As, in the observation of the writer, when in social life apparently absorbed
in some special work or game, he has always kept an eye and an ear open for the
conversation going on about him, so in his larger work and game of law, he has al-
ways kept himself in touch with the world and familiar with the latest steps of its
progress, whether in science, theology, ethics, literature or art. Now would it be
doing justice to him to close even this meagre sketch, without some allusion to his
lifelong love for the rod and line, and his skill in their use ? Beginning in his early
boyhood to learn the habits and caprices of the fish, which abound in the sea and
ponds adjacent to his native town, there are few holidays of the year, including his
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tautog or cod, or on one of the many ponds of Plymouth taking bass or trout. Mr.
Russell married, October 6, 1847, Mary Ellen, daughter of Thomas and Lydia Coffin
Hedge, of Plymouth, and having his legal residence in Boston, spends his summers
in Plymouth. His only son, Thomas Russell, a member of the Suffolk bar, and re-
ferred to elsewhere in this register, is a member from Ward 11 of Boston of the Leg-
islature of 1893. Mr. Russell received from Harvard the degree of LL.D. in 1878.

Peter Thacher, son of Stephen and Harriet (Preble) Thacher, was born in Kenne-
bunk, Me., October 14, 1810, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1831. He studied
law with William Pitt Preble and with Fessenden & De Blois in Portland, Me. , and
was admitted to the bar in Portland in April, 1836. He was appointed by Ashur
Ware judge of the United States District Court for the Maine District, commissioner
of bankruptcy under the act of 1842, and by Benjamin R. Curtis, judge of the United
States Circuit Court, commissioner of the Circuit Court for the Maine District, and in
1867, on the nomination of Chief Justice Chase of the United States Supreme Court,
he was appointed by Judge Edward Fox, of the District Court of Maine, register in
bankruptcy for the Fifth Congressional District, which office he held until his resig-
nation on his removal in 1871 to Newton, Mass., where he has since resided, having
an office in Boston in connection with his son, under the firm name of Peter &
Stephen Thacher. In 1876 he was chosen city solicitor of Newton and served until
1883. He was an overseer of Bowdoin College for many years, until his resignation
in 1891. He married, April 26, 1841, Margaret Louisa, daughter of Barrett Potter,
of Portland.

Stephan Thacher, son of the above, was born in Machias, Me. , November 14, 1846.
He studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar July 7, 1871. He is in business with his father in Boston/and resides
at Newton.

James Monroe Keith, son of Bethuel and Mary (Pearson) Keith, was born in Ran-
dolph, Vt. , April 15, 1819. He received his early education at the Randolph and
Royalston Academies, and graduated at Brown University in 1845. He studied law
with David A. Simmons, of Roxbury, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 3,
1848. He was a representative from Roxbury in 1851, president of the Roxbury Com-
mon Council in 1854, and a member of the Boston Common Council in 1868-69. He
was appointed district attorney for the district composed of Norfolk and Plymouth
counties in 1855, and in 1856, after that office was made elective, he was chosen for a
term of three years, but resigned in 1858. He is practicing in Boston, associated
with his son, John W. Keith. He married in 1849 Adeline Wetherbee, of Boston ; in
1856 Mary C. Richardson, of Boston; and in 1863 Louisa J. Dyer, of Providence.

John W. Keith, son of the above, was born in Roxbury, September 5, 1850, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1874.

Alexander Bliss was descended from Thomas Bliss, who was born in Balstone
parish, Devonshire, England, about 1580, and coming to New England settled with
his wife Margaret first in Braintree and afterwards in Hartford, Conn. Samuel, son of
Thomas, born in England in 1624, married, November 10, 1644-5, Mary, daughter of
John and Sarah (Heath) Leonard, of Springfield, Mass. Ebenezer, son of Samuel,
born July 29, 1683, married in January, 1707, Mary, daughter of John and Mary Clark
Gaylord. Jedediah, son of Ebenezer, born February 7, 1709, married July 2, 1753,

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Rachel, daughter of Joseph and Mary Sheldon, of Suffield, Conn., and second, August
19, 1748, Meriam, daughter of John and Abigail Hitchcock. Alexander, son of Jede-
diah, born October 11, 1753, married, November 18, 1784, Margaret Warner, of Spring-
field, and in 1790 Abigail Williams, of Roxbury. Alexander, the subject of this
sketch, son of Alexander and Abigail, was born in Springfield, August 16, 1792, and
graduated at Yale in 1812. He married, June 6, 1825, Elizabeth, daughter of Will-
iam and Rebecca (Morton) Davis, of Plymouth, and died at Plymouth, July 15, 1827.
His widow married in 1838 George Bancroft, the historian. Mr. Bliss studied law
with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 7, 1816. He became
at once a partner of Mr. Webster, and during Mr. Webster's prolonged absences in
Washington managed his business.

Joseph A. Willard, son of Sidney and Elizabeth Anne Andrews Willard, was
born in Cambridge, Mass., September 29, 1816. His father was librarian at Harvard
from 1800 to 1805, and professor of Hebrew from 1807 to 1831. His grandfather,
Joseph Willard, was president of Harvard from December 19, 1781, until his death,
which occurred September 25, 1804, and a more remote ancestor was Simon Willard,
of Salem, who was born in the county of Kent, England, and died in Charlestown,
Mass., while holding court, April 24, 1676. His mother was a daughter of Asa
Andrews, a lawyer of Ipswich, and a descendant from Anne Dudley, the wife of
Governor Simon Bradstreet. Mr. Willard was educated at Westford Academy and
under the private instruction at various times of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry S.
McKean, Barzillai Frost and James Freeman Clarke. In the autumn of 1830, when
nearly fitted for college, he went to sea before the mast and followed the. sea in
merchant vessels and men of war until 1838. After leaving the sea he resumed his
studies with his father, who had then resigned his professorship and been into polit-
ical life, serving at various times as representative, councillor, senator and mayor of
Cambridge. In 1846 he entered the office of the clerk of the Common Pleas Court in
Boston as an assistant, and in 1848 was appointed by Joseph Eveleth, the high sheriff
of Suffolk county, one of his deputies. In 1855 he was appointed assistant clerk of
the Superior Court of the county of Suffolk. While performing his duties in the
clerk's office he pursued the study of law under the instruction of James A. Abbott
and Marshall S. Chase, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 15, 1854. In 1859,
when the present Superior Court superseded the old Common Pleas Court and the
Superior Court of the County of Suffolk, he was appointed assistant clerk of the new
court in Suffolk, and held that position until the death of Joseph Willard, the clerk in
1865. He was then appointed clerk to hold office until the next election, and by re-
peated elections has continued in office to the present time, meeting with opposition
at only two elections. The term for which he was last chosen will expire on the first
Wednesday of January, 1897, at which date, if he lives, he will have served as clerk
and assistant clerk more than fifty years. His continuance in office for so long a
period with the approval of the votes of the people is sufficient evidence of his indus-
try, intelligence and fidelity in the performance of his duties. He married in 1841,
Penelope Cochran, daughter of Captain Peter and Penelope (Mitchell) Cochran, and
great-granddaughter of Mary Faneuil, sister of Peter Fanueil, of Boston. His resi-
dence is in Boston.

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Wilfred Bolster, son of Solomon A. and Sarah J. Bolster, was born in Roxbury,
Mass., September 13, 1867, and graduated at Harvard in 1888. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891.

Tristram Dalton, son of Michael Dalton, was born in Newburyport, May 28,
1738, and graduated at Harvard in 1755. He studied law in Salem and settled in
Newburport. He was a representative of that town and speaker of the House of Rep-
resentatives from 1783 to 1785, a member of the State Senate and a. United States
senator from 1789 to 1791. He removed to Washington, and finally to Boston, where
he was appointed, in 1815, surveyor of the ports of Boston and Charlestown. He
married a daughter of Robert Hooper, of Marblehead, and died in Boston, May 30,
1817.

Patrick R. Guiney was born in Parkstown, Tipperary, Ireland, January 15, 1835,
and came to Portland, Me. , in 1842. He was educated in the Portland public schools
and at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, and came to Boston in 1855,
where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1856. In April, 1861, he en-
listed as private ; was made captain June 11, 1861 ; major October 24, 1861 ; lieutenant-
colonel July 28, 1862; colonel July 26, 1863, and in 1864 commanded the Second
Brigade, First Division, Fifth Corps. He was severely wounded May 5, 1864, and
brevetted brigadier-general March 13, 1865. He was assistant district attorney for
Suffolk county from 1866 to 1870, and register of probate and insolvency from 1869
to his death, which occurred in Boston, March 21, 1877.

John E. Fitzgerald was born in Dingle, Kerry county, Ireland, November 17,
1844, and attended the school of the Christian Brothers at Dublin. At the age of
nineteen he came to America in the steamer Bohemia, which was lost with one
hundred lives at Cape Elizabeth near Portland. He landed in a boat February 24,
1864, one of three surviving passengers. He taught school in Salem eighteen
months, and studied law with William D. Northend, of that city. In January, 1866,
he came to Boston and studied in the office of George W. Searle, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1868. He was a member of the Common Council from
1872 to 1875; a representative in 1870-71-73-74; master in chancery from 1873 to
1878; a member of the School Committee from 1873 to 1876; an alderman in 1877,
and fire commissioner from 1879 to 1886. In 1886 he was appointed collector of in-
ternal revenue, and in 1887 delivered the Boston Fourth of July oration.

Cyrus Cobb, twin brother of Darius Cobb, the well-known painter, is the son of
Rev. Sylvanus Cobb and Eunice Hale(Waite) Cobb, and was born in Maiden, August
6, 1834. He was educated at the public schools, one of which was the Lyman School
in East Boston. While his brother adopted the profession of a painter, Cyrus pre-
pared himself for the law, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1873. He
had previously devoted himself to art and finally resumed the profession which was
more congenial to him than law, and is now a sculptor whose works are well known
and much admired. His colossal head of "The Celtic Bard," his bas-relief of "Prospero
and Miranda," and his bust of General Butler, have placed him in the front ranks of
his profession. His design for the soldier's monument in Cambridge was selected
from forty or more submitted to the late N. J. Bradlee, the noted architect, as in-
comparably the best. He married Emma Lillie, while his twin brother, Darius,
married her sister, Laura M. Lillie.

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Josiah Wili.ard, son of Samuel Willard, the president of Harvard College from
1701 to 1707, was born in Boston, May 1, 1681, and graduated at Harvard in 1698.
He was secretary of Massachusetts from 1717 to his death, which occurred in Boston,
December 6, 1756. He succeeded Samuel Sewall as judge of probate of Suffolk
county December 19, 1728, and was followed by Edward Hutchinson, February 12,
1745-6. In 1734 he was a member of the Council.

Thomas Greaves, or Graves, was born in Charleston in 1638, and graduated at
Harvard in 1656, acting for a time as tutor after graduation. He was a deputy from
1676 to 1678, and judge of the Inferior Court when Andros was deposed. He mar-
ried first, May 16, 1677, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Hagborne, of Roxbury, and
widow of Dr. John Chickering, and second, May 15, 1682, Sarah, daughter of John
Stedman, of Cambridge, and widow of Dr. John Alcock. He was the father of
Thomas Greaves, judge of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1737. He died in
1697.

Simon Greenleaf, though perhaps not strictly belonging to the Suffolk bar, was
so closely associated with it as to deserve a place in this register. He was descended
from Edward Greenleaf, who settled in Newbury, Mass. , in 1635, and was the son of
Moses Greenleaf, and his wife, Lydia, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Parsons, of New-
buryport. He was born in Newburyport, December 5, 1783, and attended the schools
of that town, including the noted school taught by Michael Walsh. At the age of
eighteen years he removed with his father to New Gloucester, Me. , and there entered
the law office of Ezekiel Whitman, where he remained three years in the study of
law. He was admitted to the bar in Cumberland county, and began practice in 1806
in the town of Standish. Remaining there a short time, he moved to the town of
Gray, where he practiced until 1818, when he removed to Portland. In 1820 he was
appointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Maine, and his reports
are contained in nine volumes. In 1832 he resigned as reporter, and in 1833 was
appointed Royall professor of law at the Harvard Law School, to succeed John Hooker
Ashmun, who died in that year. After the death of Joseph Story, which occurred
in 1845, he was appointed his successor as Dane professor of law at the same institu-
tion, but resigned after two years' service, continuing, however, as professor emer-
itus until his death, which occurred October 6, 1853. In 1821 he published "A Full
Collection of Cases Overruled, Denied, Doubted or Limited in their Application
taken from American and English Reports;" and in 1842 a "Treatise on Law of
Evidence." At a later date he published an " Examination of the Testimony of the
Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence Admitted in Courts of Law," and an
edition of " Cruse's Digest." In 1806 he married Hannah, daughter of Captain Ezra
Kingman, of East Bridgewater, and had fifteen children, eleven of whom died in
infancy. He received the degree of A.M. from Bowdoin in 1817, and that of LL.D.
from Harvard in 1834, from Amherst in 1845, and Alabama College in 1852.

Bently W. Warren, son of William Wirt Warren, was born in Boston in 1864,
and was educated at the public schools, including the Boston Latin School, from
which he graduated in 1885. He studied law at the Boston University Law School,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He was a representative in 1891 and
1892, and one of the leaders among the Democrats of the Legislature. He is asso-
ciated in business with Thomas P. Proctor and Eugene Tappan, under the firm name
of Proctor, Tappan & Warren.

48S HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Jqseph Story, as a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, holding court
in Boston, should be included in this register, though never a member of the Suf-
folk bar. He was born in Marblehead, September 18, 1779, and was the son of Dr.
Elisha Story, a native of Boston, and a surgeon in the Revolution. He graduated at
Harvard in 1798. and received the degree of LL.D. from Brown in 1815, from Har-
vard in 1821, and from Dartmouth in 1824. He studied law with Samuel Sewall,
afterwards chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and with Samuel Putnam,
afterwards an associate justice of the same court, and was admitted to the Essex bar
in July, 1801. He began practice in Salem and was a representative from that town
in 1805-06-07-09-12, serving the last year as speaker of the House. He was a mem-
ber of Congress in 1808, and on the 18th of November, 1811, he was appointed by
Madison associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to fill the va-
cancy caused by the death of William Cushing, of Scituate. In 1820 he was a dele-
gate to the Constitutional Convention, and in 1828 Nathan Dane, who in founding
the Law School at Cambridge had reserved the right to appoint its professors, ap-
pointed him Dane professor of law and associated with him John Hooker Ashmun
as Royall professor of law. In 1829 he removed from Salem to Cambridge, where
he continued to reside until his death, which occurred at Cambridge, September 10,
1845. He was as distinguished for his industry as for his legal learning, and it is diffi-
cult to realize that with the labors of the court and the law school pressing upon
him, he could have found time and vigor sufficient for his accomplishments in the
literature of law. A list of his publications may be interesting to the reader. His
first work was a poem entitled the " Power of Solitude," published in Salem in 1804.
In 1805, a " Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions with Annotations," issued from
the press; in 1828, the "Public and General Statutes," passed by Congress from 1789
to 1827, and in 1836 and 1845 supplements to these dates edited by him ; in 1832,
" Commentaries on the Law of bailments with Illustrations from the Civil and For-
eign Law;" in 1833, "Commentaries on the Constitution;" in 1834, "Commentaries
on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic, in Regard to Contracts, Rights and
Remedies, and especially in regard to Marriages, Divorces, Wills, Successions and
Judgments;" in 1835 and 1836, "Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence as admin-
istered in England and America;" in 1838, "Commentaries on Equity Pleadings
and the Incidents Thereto, according to the Practice of the Courts of Equity in Eng-
land and America;" in 1839, "Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of
Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence, with occasional illustrations from the
Civil and Foreign Law;" in 1843, "Commentaries on the Law of Partnership as a
Branch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence, with occasional illustrations from
the Civil and Foreign Law;" in 1843, "Commentaries on the Law of Bills of Ex-
change, Foreign and Inland, as Administered in England and America, with occa-
sional illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe ;"
in 1845, "Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes." His decisions in the
First Circuit from 1812 to 1815 are in "Gallison's Reports;" from 1816 to 1830, in
"Mason's Reports;" from 1830 to 1839 in "Sumner's Reports," and from 1839 to
1845 in "Story's Reports." Among his other publications were a " Eulogy on Wash-
ington," 1800; a "Eulogy on Captain James Lawrence and Lieutenant Ludlow,"
1813; a "Sketch of Samuel Dexter," 1816; "Charges to Grand Juries in Boston and
Providence," 1819; "Charge to the Grand Jury at Portland," 1820; "Address before

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the Suffolk Bar," 1821; " Discourse before the Phi Beta Society," 1826; "Discourse
before the Essex Historical Society," 1828; "Address at his own Inauguration as Pro-
fessor," 1829; "Address at the Dedication of Mt. Auburn," 1831; "Address at the
Funeral Services of John Hooker Ashmun," 1833 ; " Eulogy on John Marshall," 1835 ;
" Lectures on the Science of Law," 1838; "Address before the Harvard Alumni,'-
1842; and his " Charge to the Grand Jury of Rhode Island on Treason," 1845. Be-
sides the above, his essays and articles in reviews and magazines were too numerous
to mention, and he left at his death three unprinted manuscript volumes entitled
" Digest of Law Supplementary to Comyn's," which are deposited in the Harvard
College Library.

Arthur Porter Peterson, son of Daniel Porter and Jerusha M. (Clark) Peterson,
was born in New Bedford in 1858. His father, born in Plymouth, was descended
from Joseph Peterson, of Duxbury, who settled in that town about 1660. His mother
was descended directly from Thomas Clark, who came to Plymouth in the ship Ann
in 1623, and indirectly from Rev. John Lothrop, who settled in Scituate in 1634. He
attended the public schools of New Bedford until he was twelve years of age when he
went with his father to the Sandwich Islands. After remaining there seven years
he returned to the United States and entered Ann Arbor College. After leaving col-
lege he spent a year in Hawaii, and coming to Plymouth, Mass., studied law in the
office of Arthur Lord in that town. He was admitted to the Plymouth bar November
14, 1881, and moving to Boston became a member of the Suffolk bar. In 1884 he
returned to Hawaii, where his father and two brothers and a sister were living, and
was not long after appointed attorney-general of the kingdom. After leaving that
office he devoted himself to the practice of law, and was again appointed attorney-
general a short time before the recent deposition of the queen, and was in office at
the time of the revolution. He married, November 21, 1883, Nettie, daughter of
James and Sarah Jane Mitchell Brown, of Weymouth, Mass.

Alexander Young, son of Rev. Dr. Alexander Young, was born in Boston May 19,
1836, and was educated in the Boston schools. He graduated at the Harvard Law
School in 1862, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, October 14, of that year. He
was an associate editor of the Boston Globe for a time soon after the establishment
of that journal in 1872. At a later time he was connected with the editorial depart-
ment of the Boston Post. In 1884 he published a " History of the Netherlands,"
which was republished in England in 1886. He died in Boston in 1891.

William Winter was born in Gloucester, Mass., July 15, 1836, and graduated at
the Harvard Law School in 1857, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 28,
1858. He moved to New York where he has won distinction as a journalist and lit-
erary and dramatic critic. He has been connected with the New York Tribune
since 1865, and has written and delivered numerous occasional poems.

Eugar O. Achorn was admitted to the Plymouth bar, June 16, 1884, and has prac-
ticed in Boston.

Frederick Hunt Allen, son of Samuel C. Allen, was born in New Salem, Mass.,

and graduated at the University of Vermont in 1823. After studying for the bar he

was admitted to the bar, and after a short practice in Athol, settled in Bangor and

acquired distinction among the lawyers of Maine. In 1849 he removed to Boston

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and was made professor at the Harvard Law School, holding the position one year.
He was a member of the Suffolk bar as late as 1853, and has been dead many years.

Constantine C. Esty was born in Newton, Mass., in 1824, and graduated at Yale
in 1845. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1847, and has been a
member of the Suffolk bar. He is now settled in Framingham.

Thomas B. Frothingham, son of Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, was
born in Boston and appears in the roll of Boston attorneys in 1860. He married
Anna, daughter of Rev. William Parsons Lunt, of Quincy, and has been dead some
years.

James Graham was one of the very few educated lawyers in Boston during the
period of the Massachusetts Colony. He came to Massachusetts from New York and
was appointed by Andros attorney-general, June 20, 1688. He was imprisoned with
Andros after the news of the accession of William and Mary reached Boston and was
sent with him to England in February, 1689. Nothing is known of his subsequent
career.

George Washburn Smalley was born in Franklin, Mass., June 2, 1833, and grad-
uated at Yale in 1853. He studied law in the office of George F. Hoar, of Worcester,
and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September,
1856. He practiced law in Boston until 1861 when he became connected with the
New York Tribune as a war correspondent. He was with the Union Army at
Antietam and distinguished himself by the early and brilliant account of that engage-
ment which was published in the Tribune. In 1863 he was made associate editor of
that journal and in 1866 was its correspondent during the Prussian and Austrian
War. In 1866 he organized in London a bureau for the Tribune which, owing to
his efforts, has been maintained with success. During the French and German War,
in 1870, he again made his mark as the agent of a plan of news-gathering which
astonished the slower journalistic managers of England. He is now in London super-
intending the affairs of his bureau and corresponding regularly with the Tribune.

Lysander Spooner was born in Athol, Mass., January 19, 1808, and studied law in
Worcester. Where he was admitted to the bar is unknown to the writer, but his
name appears on the roll of Suffolk attorneys in 1861. He was chiefly distinguished
for his successful efforts to have the rates of postage reduced. In 1844 the rate of
letter postage was graduated by the distance a letter was carried. For instance, the
postage from Boston to New York was twelve and a half cents and from Boston to
Washington twenty-five cents. Contrary to law he established an independent
service between Boston and New York at the uniform rate of five cents. He was
compelled to abandon the business by the prosecutions which the government heaped
upon him, but he demonstrated the possibility of supporting the post-office department
with a lower rate of interest, and in consequence of his efforts a reduction in rates
began which has been kept up to the present time. He died in Boston May 14, 1887.

Penn Townsend, son of William Townsend, was born in Boston in 1651, and was
a judge on the bench of the Suffolk Inferior Court of Common Pleas from 1702 to 1715
and chief justice from 1718 to 1727. He was a representative in 1686 and at the time
of the Revolution in 1688 he was one of the Committee of Safety in whose hands the
government was temporarily entrusted. He was again a representative from 1689

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to 1698, and speaker of the House in 1690 and 1697. He was also one of the com-
mittee in 1690 authorized to issue, in behalf of the colony, bills of credit. He died
August 21, 1727.

Samuel Ripley Townsend graduated at Harvard in 1829, and the next year became
the teacher of the High School in Plymouth, where he remained two or three years.
After leaving Plymouth he engaged some years in business in Boston and finally
studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1850. He afterwards
practiced law in Taunton, and was for a time treasurer of Bristol county. He has
been dead a few years.

Patrick Henry Byrne was born in Lavagh, county of Roscommon, Ireland, Feb-
ruary 5, 1844, and came to Boston when five years of age. He was educated at the
New York public schools and at the University of New York. He was first a marble
worker, and later a traveling salesman of a Boston woolen house. He studied law,
and was for a time a member of a collection agency in Boston and afterwards in
New York. He died at Jamaica, L. I., July 31, 1881.

Richard Olney, son of Wilson Olney, was born in Oxford, Mass., and graduated at
Brown University in 1856. His mother was a sister of Peter Butler, of Boston. He
studied law with Judge Benjamin F. Thomas, and graduated at the Harvard Law
School in 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26, 1859, and became asso-
ciated in business with Judge Thomas, who had that year resigned his seat on the
bench of the Supreme Judicial Court, and whose daughter he married. His business
was largely connected with railroads, and he was counsel for the Boston and Maine
the Atchison and Topeka, and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy corporations.
While this volume is in press in March, 1893, he is the recently appointed attorney-
general of the United States, in the cabinet of President Cleveland.

Peter Sargeant was a Boston man, and one of the committee who assumed the
reins of government at the deposition of Andros in 1689. He was one of the Council
under the provincial charter and chosen annually until 1703, when his election was
negatived by Governor Dudley. He was appointed judge of the Suffolk Inferior
Court of Common Pleas, March 3, 1693, and held office until 1702, when he was re-
moved hy Governor Dudley on account of the active part taken by him in the
revolution of 1688. He was also one of the seven judges appointed by Governor
Phipps in 1692 to try the witches. He married the widow of Governor Phipps.

Charles Sedgwick, a Berkshire man, was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 25,
1821, and was many years clerk of the courts in Berkshire county.

A. H. Skilton was admitted to the Middlesex bar in January, 1876, and was a
member of the Suffolk bar as late as 1890.

Jacob C. Patten was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1887, and was a
member of the Suffolk bar as late as 1890.

John Franklin Simmons, son of Hon. Perez and Adeline (Jones) Simmons, was born
in Hanover, Mass., June 26, 1851. He is a lineal descendant from Moses Simmons,
or Symondson, as he was called, who came to Plymouth in the ship Fortune in 1621,
and settled at quite an early date in Duxbury. His grandmother, the wife of Eben-
ezer Simmons, was Sophia, daughter of Dr. Benjamin Richmond, of Little Compton,
R. L, and a direct descendant from Col. Benjamin Church, who won distinction in

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the early Indian wars. Perez Simmons, the father of John Franklin Simmons, grad-
uated at Brown University in 1833, and settled as a lawyer in Providence. He took
a leading part in the movement for extension of suffrage in Rhode Island, and was
one of the leaders in the convention which formed the People's Constitution. The
constitution was adopted by a majority of the male citizens and freeholders of the
State, and it fell to him to call to order the first Legislature organized under it, of
which he was a member from the Fourth Ward of Providence. The Legislature held
under the old constitution passed an act providing that whoever assumed to act un-
der the new constitution should be held guilty of treason, and he was the first person
against whom a warrant was issued. To avoid arrest he moved to the State of Maine,
where he remained until a change of administration in Massachusetts rendered it
certain that he would not be surrendered to the Rhode Island authorities, when he
returned to his native town, and continued there to practice law with ability and suc-
cess until his death. John Franklin Simmons, the subject of this sketch, received his
early education at the Assanippi Institute and at Phillips Exeter Academy, and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1873, having the honor of being selected as the class-day orator
of his class. He studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law School, and
was admitted to the Plymouth county bar at the February term of the Superior Court
in 1875. For some years he retained his residence in Hanover, where he served fif-
teen years as a member of the School Committee. For several years he has been as-
sociated in business with Harvey H. Pratt, with offices in Abington and Boston, at
which latter place he has his residence. He was the receiver of the Abington Na-
tional Bank at the time of its failure, and is now one of its directors as well as presi-
dent of the South Scituate Savings Bank. Brought up under the Democratic influences
of his father, he is an active and energetic supporter of Democratic principles, and
while lending his efficient aid on the platform to the political promotion of others, he
has never sought office for himself. He devotes himself unremittingly to his profes-
sion, and both in Suffolk and Plymouth counties the firm of Simmons & Pratt occu-
pies a prominent position. He married at Hanover, his native town, January 10,
1877, Fanny Florence Allen. Aside from the labors of his profession he indulges
himself at leisure hours in literary pursuits, and among the productions of his pen is
the history of Hanover, contributed to the Plymouth County History.

Benjamin Franklin Butler was the son of John Butler, of Deerfield, New Hamp-
shire, a captain of dragoons in the War of 1812. After the war the father engaged in
trade with the West Indies and died of yellow fever in March, 1819, leaving his
widow with two young children, Andrew Jackson and Benjamin Franklin, with
scanty means of support. The latter was born in Deerfield, November 5, 1818, and
was consequently only four months old when his father died. He attended the pub-
lic schools of his native town until he was ten years of age, when, in 1828, his mother
removed to Lowell, Mass., then a town in the second year of its municipal life. She
there maintained herself and family by taking a few boarders, and such was her suc-
cess in the rapidly growing community in which she established herself, that she was
able not only to live comfortably but to furnish her children with a liberal education.
Benjamin was sent to Phillips Exeter Academy, and in 1834, at the age of sixteen,
entered Waterville College in Maine. He graduated in 1838 burdened with a debt in-
curred to secure his education and in feeble health, and with the view of relieving

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himself from both he went with an uncle on a fishing voyage to the coast of Labra-
dor, and to use his own language, " Hove a line, ate the flesh and drank the oil of
the cod, came back after a four months' cruise in perfect health, and had not another
sick day in twenty years." On his return from fishing he studied law in Lowell in
the office of William Smith, and was admitted to 'the Middlesex bar in 1841. On
his examination for admission by Judge Charles Henry Warren of the Common Pleas
Court an incident occurred which the writer takes the liberty of describing in the words
used by him in a sketch of General Butler furnished by him for a history of the bench
and bar of Middlesex county : "It happened that on the day of the examination a case
was on trial in which the question of admitting certain evidence had somewhat
puzzled the judge. The case was Robert Reed against Jenness Batchelder, which
was finally carried to the Supreme Court on exceptions, and is reported in the first
of Metcalf, page 529. It was an action of assumpsit on a promissory note given by
the defendant when a minor to Reed & Dudley, July 26, 1835, and payable to them
as bearer. The defence, of course, was infancy. But in July, 1839, while the note
was in the hands of the promisees, and after the defendant had come of age, he
verbally renewed his promise to pay to Henry Reed, one of the firm of Reed & Dud-
ley, and the note was subsequently endorsed to Robert Reed, the plaintiff. The
plaintiff's offer to put the renewal of the promise in evidence was objected to by the
defendant's counsel, and on the day of the examination above referred to, Judge
AVarren had sustained the objection. Mr. Butler had been present during the trial,
and the general question was asked him by the judge, what effect such a renewal of
promise would have, and what he thought of his ruling. The student replied that he
thought the ruling wrong and the note good; that the note was not void, but only
voidable, and when the verbal promise was made the note became at once negotiable.
The judge was sufficiently impressed with the correctness of the answer that he re-
versed his ruling the next day. Exception was taken and the case was carried up.
Judge Shaw, in the opinion of the Supreme Court, overruled the exception and de-
cided that though the renewal of promise was made verbally to Henry Reed, one of
the firm of Reed & Dudley, it at once became negotiable, and in the hands of Robert
Reed, to whom it passed, was good." The writer has given this incident as he re-
ceived it from the lips of General Butler himself several years before the publication
of " Butler's Book."

So much has been written and so much is generally known concerning the vari-
ous steps by which General Butler rose to eminence in his profession, that it is
unnecessary to narrate them in this register. Born among the common people,
all his instincts led him to feel an interest in their welfare and to protect their
rights. Thus by birth, by education and all the influences surrounding him he
was an earnest and consistent Democrat. Coming on the stage when in Massa-
chusetts especially, the aristocratic element which entered so largely into the com-
position of the old Whig party, looked upon a Democrat as a vulgar and danger-
ous member of the body politic, the treatment he received at the hands of his
political opponents, who could see nothing in an advocacy of the rights of the laborer
and mechanic but the dishonest trick of the demagogue, was the means of begetting
much of that spirit of bitterness which he at times displayed in his acts and speech.
In 1853 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and in
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in the revision of the statutes. In that year the act establishing the Superior Court
was passed and was drafted and efficiently supported by him. In that year also the
writer was with him in the Senate, and to quote again from the sketch written by him
and already referred to, " had abundant opportunities to observe and measure the vari-
ous qualities of his head and heart. Though opposed to him in politics he was not suffi-
ciently blind to fail to discern those traits of character which have attracted to him
the circle of friends whom, like satellites, he has always carried with him in his
social and political orbit. He disclosed two sides — a sharp bitterness of antagonism
and the warmest of hearts; a harshness of deportment at one time, and at another a
polish of manner and conversation not easily excelled ; now inspiring those about him
with fear, and again as gentle as a child, as affectionate as a brother, as loving as the
dearest friend. His character seemed to consist of extremes ; like the extremes of
the magnet, one attracted, the other repelled, and no one looked on him with entire
indifference. So in his treatment of men, while he could be implacable in his enmity,
he could never forget a friend or be faithless to his interests.

General Butler became early interested in the military system of the Commonwealth
and attaching himself to its service was, in 1860, in command of one of the brigades of
the State militia. In that year he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conven-
tion held in Charleston. He had attended every convention of a similar character since
the nomination of James K. Polk in 1844. . The committee on the platform at the
Charleston convention, of which the general was a member, was divided into three
parts each of which made a report. The majority demanded a slave code for the ter-
ritories and the protection of the slave trade. One of the minority reports referred all
questions concerning the rights of property in States or Territories to the Supreme
Court and the other, signed by General Butler alone, re-affirmed the Democratic prin-
ciples laid down at the Democratic National Convention at Cincinnati in 1856. The
report of General Butler was adopted, but the convention adjourned to meet in Balti-
more on the 18th of June without making nominations. At Baltimore the convention
divided and one section nominated Stephen Arnold Douglas, of Illinois, for president,
and Herschell Johnson, of Georgia, for vice-president, and the other nominated John
Cabell Breckenridge, for president and Joseph Lane, of Oregon, for vice-president.
The Douglas platform said : ' ' We do not know whether slavery can exist in a Territory'
or not. There is a difference of opinion among us on the subject. The Supreme
Court must decide and the decision shall be final and binding." The Breckenridge
platform said : ' ' Slavery lawfully exists in a Territory the moment a slaveholder enters
it with his slaves. The United States is bound to maintain his right to hold slaves
there. But when the people of a Territory frame a State constitution they are to decide
whether to enter the Union as a slave or free State. If as a slave State they are to
be admitted without question. If as a free State the slave owner must retire or
emancipate his slaves." General Butler gave in his adherence to the Breckenridge
platform, and .in that year was made the Bieckenridge candidate for governor of
Massachusetts, receiving only six thousand out of one hundred and seventy thousand
votes.

But notwithstanding his attitude during the campaign of 1860, no man exhib-
ited more indignation at the disunion movement which succeeded it, or more
patriotism in resisting and crushing the rebellion. On the 15th day of April, 1861,
Fort Sumter had fallen and the president's proclamation calling for troops was issued.

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The brigade called for from Massachusetts, consisting of the Third, Fourth, Sixth,
and Eighth Regiments of militia, was placed under the command of General Butler,
the Third and Fourth Regiments going by water to Fort Monroe and the Sixth and
Eighth by land to Washington. The arrival of General Butler at Annapolis, Mary-
land, with the Eighth Regiment, his reconstruction of the railroad to Annapolis Junc-
tion, and his possession of Baltimore need not be described here. The incidents
connected with his possession of Baltimore are interesting. The War Department
knew little concerning the condition of that city, and General Scott, in the belief that
extensive military movements were on foot there among the rebel sympathizers, was
planning a descent upon the city with an armed force of great completeness and
strength. But General Butler, much to his mortification, with his militia regiment
anticipated him and was quietly encamped on Federal Hill before General Scott had
ordered or knew of his movement. To make his descent on the city successful and
safe it was important that he should first learn the feeling of the people and ascer-
tain, if possible, whether any military organization had been formed in the city with
a hostile purpose. To ascertain this General Butler resorted to one of those ingenious
devices which his fruitful brain was always devising in emergencies, and which have
made his professional life so successful. While at the Relay House he discovered an
organ-grinder plodding along on his way to Baltimore. He at once bought the organ
and clothes of the man for fifty dollars and a new suit, with the stipulation that the
musician should remain a few days in camp. Captain Peter Haggerty, a member of
the General's staff donned the Italian's clothes and started for Baltimore with the
organ on his back, with instructions to see everything, hear all the talk in public
places, and especially to ascertain whether there were any organized forces in the
cily preparing to move on any expedition. Three days passed and no word having
been heard from the captain, General Butler became fearful that he had been identi-
fied and captured. At the end of the third day, after the general had retired for the
night, he was awaked by an organ-grinder outside of his tent, and Captain Haggerty
appeared with his pockets loaded with coins which he had collected in the streets of
Baltimore, and with the news that the city was in a harmless condition and that an
attempt at its occupation would be safe. The occupation was made, but was not
approved by General Scott, who sent him the following dispatch: "Sir, your haz-
ardous occupation of Baltimore was made without my knowledge, and of course with-
out my approbation. It is a God-send that it was without conflict of arms. It is also
reported that you have sent a detachment to Frederick ; but this is impossible. Not
a word have I received from you as to either movement. Let me hear from you."
He was soon after removed from the Department of Annapolis and, May 16, 1861,
made major-general of volunteers in command of the Department of Virginia and
North Carolina with headquarters at Fort Monroe. Early in August he was suc-
ceeded by General Wool in the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, and
placed in command of the volunteer troops outside the fort. Not long after he was
placed in command of an expedition to reduce the forts at Hatteras inlet, which sailed
August 22, and was successful. On the 16th of September, 1861, he was sent to
Massachusetts, with an order from the War Department "to raise, organize, arm,
uniform, and equip, a volunteer force for the war in the New England States, not
exceeding six regiments of the maximum standard of such arms, and in such propor-
tions and in such manner as he may judge expedient; and for this purpose his orders

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and requisitions on the quartermaster, ordnance and other staff departments of the
army are to be obeyed and answered ; provided the cost of such recruitment, arma-
ment and equipment does not exceed in the aggregate, that of like troops now or
hereafter raised for the service of the United States." With these troops General
Butler sailed from Boston February 20, 1862, and took possession of New Orleans
after the reduction of the forts on the Mississippi River, May 1, 1862, by Admiral
Farragut. He remained in command of the Department of the Gulf until succeeded
by General Banks on the 14th of December, 1862. On his return to Washington he
was again appointed to the command of the Department of Virginia and North Car-
olina, and during the campaign of 1864 participated in the military operations before
Petersburg and Richmond. In December, 1864, he commanded an expedition against
Fort Fisher, and in November, 1865, resigned his commission. From 1866 to 1871
he was a member of Congress from the Essex District and in 1868 one of the man-
agers in the impeachment trial of President Johnson. In 1882 he was the successful
candidate for governor of the Democratic party of Massachusetts, and after one year's
service was defeated in 1883 by George D. Robinson. For many years General But-
ler made Boston his professional headquarters and up to his death, which occurred
in Washington, January 11, 1893, he continued to enjoy a practice which not only
included every county in Massachusetts but extended into many other States of the
Union. When George F. Farley died his bitter enemy, John P. Robinson, rubbed his
hands with glee in the belief that hell was kindling a hotter fire than usual for the
reception of its guest. While there were many who heard the announcement of Gen-
eral Butler's death with a feeling akin to that of Mr. Robinson, it is not too much to
say that no public man has ever died in Massachusetts with such troops of friends to
lament his loss and so many blessings of the poor and needy who had shared the ben-
efactions of a warm and generous heart.

Nathan Morse is the son of Nathan and Sally (Gilman) Morse, and was born in
Moultonborough, N. H., July 24, 1824. He attended the public schools of
his native town when not employed on his father's farm. In 1837 his father was ap-
pointed postmaster of Moultonborough under the administration of President Van
Buren, and in 1842 the son was made assistant postmaster. In 1843 he came to Bos-
ton and studied medicine for a time, but not finding the prospect of a medical career
an agreeable one, decided to adopt the profession of law. In 1845 he entered the
Harvard Law School and graduated from that institution in 1846. While pursuing
his law studies his means were limited and the writer, who knew him at that period,
can bear testimony to the perseverance and energy displayed by him in securing an
education which has enabled him to not only establish himself safely in his profession
but to take high rank also at the bar. He earned his own living by means reflecting
the highest credit on his courage and self-reliance, and on the 14th of October 1847,
he was admitted to the Suffolk bar. Practicing for a time alone, in 1852 he formed a
partnership with Ambrose A. Ranney, a native of Vermont, who had been admitted
to the Suffolk bar in June, 1848, under the title of Ranney & Morse. The firm was
not long in establishing itself on a prosperous footing, and for more than thirty years
few law partnerships in Boston have been better known or stood higher in the con-
fidence of the community. Mr. Morse was a member of, the Boston Common Coun-
cil in 1863, but with that exception he has resisted the allurements of political life
and devoted himself with unremitting zeal to the welfare of those who have con-

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fided their interests to his care. He married in Boston, November 18, 1851, Sarah,
daughter of Daniel Deshon.

Ekenezer Moseley, son of Ebenezer and Martha (Strong) Moseley, was born in
Windham, Conn., November 21, 1781, and graduated at Yale in 1802. He studied
law with Judge Chauncey, of New Haven, Judge Clark, of Windham, and Judge
Hinckley, of Northampton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. In 1805 he settled
in Newburyport and had at various times as students in his office, John Pierpont,
afterwards distinguished as a Unitarian clergyman, and Caleb Cushing. In 1813-14
he was colonel of the Sixth Regiment, and from 1816 to 1820, and from 1834 to 1836,
was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 1821-22 he was
a member of the State Senate, and in 1832 a presidential elector. He married, June
17, 1811, Mary Ann, daughter of Edward Oxnard, and died at Newburyport, August
28, 1854.

Perez Morton, son of Joseph and Amiah (Bullock) Morton, was born about 1751,
and graduated at Harvard in 1771. He was an attorney of Suffolk county in 1779
and a barrister in 1786. He was appointed attorney-general of Massachusetts Sep-
tember 7, 1810, and held office until May 24, 1832, when James T. Austin was ap-
pointed. He died in 1837.

Samuel Niles graduated at Harvard in 1731. In 1775 commissions were issued to
new judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county by the majority
of the Council in the name of " the Government and People of Massachusetts Bay in
New England." These judges were Samuel Dexter, John Hill, Samuel Niles, and
Samuel Pemberton. He died in 1804.

Richard S. Spofford was the son of Dr. Richard S. Spofford, of Newburyport, and
was born in that town July 30, 1833. He was descended from John Spofford, who
settled in Rowley, Mass., as early as 1643. His father was born in Georgetown,
Mass., May 24, 1787, and was educated at Phillips Andover Academy, and after study-
ing medicine with his father and in Philadelphia, graduated at the Harvard Medical
School in 1816. He began to practice medicine in Rowley, but soon removed to New-
buryport, where he became distinguished in his profession, and where he died uni-
versally lamented January 19, 1872. His wife was Mrs. Frances Maria Lord, a native
of Plymouth, England, a daughter of John Mills, a Scotch poet and a descendant of
Christopher Kilby, who was the agent in England of Massachusetts Colony, and for
whom, on account of his gift to Boston at the time of the great fire, Kilby street was
named. Mrs. Spofford's mother was a daughter of James Mothershead Errington,
and was after she became an orphan the adopted daughter of Mrs. Susannah Raw-
son, the author of "Charlotte Temple." Mrs. Spofford's first'husband, George Eord,
was a brother of the wife of Rev. John Pierpont, the well-known clergyman and poet.
Richard S. Spofford, the subject of this sketch, was educated by his father and at
Dummer Academy, and studied law with Caleb Cushing in Newburyport and at
Washington while Mr. Cushing was attorney-general under the administration of
President Pierce. He acted also as secretary of Mr. Cushing in Washington, and
while serving in that capacity was sent by the government, though only twenty-three
years of age, on a special mission to Mexico. After Mr. Cushing left the cabinet in
1857, Mr. Spofford continued his law studies for a time, and was admitted to the Suf-
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folk bar September 17, 1857. He began practice in Boston, and had his legal head-
quarters there until his death. In 1858-59-60 he was a representative in the Massa-
chusetts Legislature from Newburyport; and the writer, who was in the Senate dur-
ing the first two years of his service, remembers well the impression he made on the
House by his striking figure, his clear eye, his handsome face, and his clear and in-
cisive oratory. It is given to few men to win confidence and affection as he never
failed to do among those with whom he came in contact. For a time he was the
chairman of the Democratic State Committee, and was serving in that capacity at the
time of the nomination of General Butler for governor of Massachusetts in 1882,
when the general was chosen over his competitor, Robert Roberts Bishop. In 1884
he was a candidate of the Democratic party for Congress, and for a considerable time
was the attorney of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad. In the
controversy relating to the fisheries during the first administration of President Cleve-
land he made himself familiar with all its conflicting questions, and acted with great
efficiency as counsel for parties claiming rights within the asserted jurisdiction of
the United States. He married, December 19, 1866, Harriet E., daughter of Joseph
Newmarch, and Sarah (Bridges) Prescott, a native of Calais, Me., where she was born
April 3, 1835. Mrs. Spofford was taken by her parents to Newburyport in her girl-
hood, and she received her education at the Putnam School in that town, and at the
Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N. H. At about the age of sixteen years she began to
write short stories, and in 1859 contributed to the Atlantic Moiithly a story of
Parisian life entitled " In a Cellar," which established her reputation. She has since
written " The Amber Gods," "Azarian," " New England Legends," " Marquis of
Carabas," "Art Decoration applied to Furniture," "Sir Rohan's Ghost," "The
Servant Girl Question," "The Thief in the Night," " Hester Stanley at St. Marks,"
a book of " Poems" and " Ballads about Authors." Mr. Spofford made his residence
at Deer Island on the Merrimac River, and died August 11, 1888.

Henry Fowle Durant was the son of William Smith, a lawyer of Hanover, N. H.,
and was born in that town February 20, 1822. His name was changed from Henry
Welles Smith to the name at the head of this sketch by an act of the Massachusetts
Legislature November 25, 1851. He was educated at the public schools and at Har-
vard College, where he graduated in 1841. The writer, who graduated the year after,
remembers him as not specially studious, but possessing refined and somewhat lux-
urious tastes, which interfered somewhat with his pursuit of the regular studies of
the college. He was recognized, however, as a young man of ability, capable with
diligence of reaching the highest rank. After leaving college he studied law with
his father in Lowell, who had removed there with his family when Henry was an
infant, and in the office of Benjamin F. Butler, and was admitted to the Middlesex
bar in March, 1843. After his admission he was associated with his father in busi-
ness in Lowell until 1847. During the<-five years of his practice at the Middlesex bar
he underwent such an initiation into the profession as no other county could furnish.
With such men as Butler, Abbott, Farley, Robinson, Somerby, Train, Wentworth,
and Richardson in the arena, it may be easily imagined that shrewdness, energy, re-
source, strong nerves and mental muscle were needed to ward off and return the
hard blows which these trained gladiators were accustomed to inflict. With the les-
sons learned at the Middlesex bar he removed to Boston in 1847. where he was as-
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success. His management of cases in court was artistic. So well taken were the
preliminary steps, so deeply laid was the foundation, so complete and comprehensive
was the preparation of evidence, and so adroitly was it brought out, and so carefully
studied and understood were the characters of jurors with their whims and fancies
and prejudices, that he won verdict after verdict in the face of the ablest opponents,
and placed himself by general consent at the head of the jury lawyers at the Suffolk bar.
While in full practice he became associated with John H. Cheever in the formation of
the New York Belting and Packing Company, and also in the purchase of iron mines in
the northern part of the State of New York, both of which enterprises largely enhanced
the fortune, the foundations of which his professional labors had laid. In 1863 his
only son died, and the affliction into which he was thrown so subdued and chastened
him that he abandoned the law at the very full tide of his career, and devoted him-
self to the service of the church, not only as a layman interested in its support, but
often as a preacher, calling others to enter the path he had resolved to tread as a fol-
lower of his Lord and Master. Becoming a zealous philanthropist he believed that
he could expend his wealth in no better cause than that of founding a college for the
superior education of women. Wellesley College at Wellesley, Mass., was the final
result of his plans and charities, an institution built and equipped at an expense of
one million dollars, and opened in September, 1875. He did not wait for death, when
his fortune would be no longer of use to him, to bestow this blessing on the women
of the Commonwealth, but he saw the fruit of his labor ripen while living, and the
college which he had created auspiciously launched on its beneficent career. Mr.
Durant married May 23, 1854, at Brooklyn, N. Y., Pauline Adeline, daughter of Col.
John Fowle, of Alexandria, Va. , and died at Wellesley, October 3, 1881. Mr. Durant
left by his will an annuity of $50,000 for the maintenance of the college, and Mrs.
Durant, since his death, has entered heartily into her husband's work as the friend
and benefactor of his noble enterprise.

Charles F. Dunham was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1858.

William Everett, son of Edward and Charlotte Gray (Brooks) Everett, was born
in Watertown, Mass., October 10, 1839, and graduated at Harvard in 1859 and at
Trinity College, Cambridge, England, in 1863. He graduated at the Harvard Law
School in 1865 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1867. He was tutor and
assistant professor of Latin at Harvard from 1870 to 1877, and in 1878 became master
of Adams Academy at Quincy, Mass., and still occupies that position. Having a
license to preach from the Boston Ministers' Association, he occasionally occupies the
pulpit of Unitarian churches, and is one of the most learned men in the denomi-
nation. Few men in Massachusetts are as thoroughly educated and few are so well
equipped for extemporaneous speech on subjects relating to either scientific, literary,
political or scientific questions. It is doubtful whether any inquiry on these questions
would not draw from him an immediate and satisfactory response. For some years
he has been interested in political movements and during the last three presidential
campaigns he has advocated civil service and tariff reforms and the election of Grover
Cleveland as their best exponent. In 1890 and 1892, though living in Quincy, he was
the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Seventh Congressional District against
Henry Cabot Lodge, and now in April, 1893, has been chosen to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Mr. Lodge, who has been recently chosen United States

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senator. He is the author of " On the Cam," " Changing Base," " Double Play,"
" Hesione, or Europe Unchained," and " School Sermons."

Minot Tikrell, jr., was admitted to the Essex bar in 1863, and was a member of
the Suffolk bar in I860.

John H. Sheppard, son of John Sheppard, an English merchant, and Sarah (Collier)
Sheppard, was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, March 17. 1789.
When four years of age he came with his parents to America, and after remaining
for a time in Philadelphia, his parents removed to Hallo well, Me. He received his
early education at the Hallowell Academy under the instruction of Samuel Moody.
He entered Harvard in 1804, but left college in his junior year and studied law with
Samuel Sumner Wilde, afterwards judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
who was then in practice in Hallowell. He was admitted to the Maine bar in August,
1810, and began practice in Wiscasset. In 1817 he was appointed register of probate
of Lincoln county while Jeremiah Bailey was serving as judge of probate, and re-
mained in office until April 1, 1834. In 1842 he removed to Boston, where he was
admitted to the Suffolk bar, and opened an office. In 1861 he was chosen librarian
of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and held that office until his
death, which occurred June 25, 1873. He received the degree of Master of Arts from
Bowdoin College in 1820, and was a member of the Board of Overseers of that college
from 1831 to 1852. He married first, May 13, 1819, Helen, daughter of Abiel Wood,
and second, November 13, 1846, Mrs. O. B. Foster, daughter of Ezra Willmarth, of
Georgetown, Mass.

James B. Roub came to Boston from Maryland and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
April 17, 1843. He was for a number of years clerk of the United States District
Court in Boston. He has been dead some years.

Melvin O. Adams is the son of Joseph and Dolly (Whitney) Adams, and was born
in Ashburnham, Mass., November 7, 1850. He attended the public schools of his
native town and Appleton Academy in New Ipswich, N. H., and graduated at Dart-
mouth College in 1871. After leaving college he taught school in Fitchburg, Mass.,
for a time, and while in that town studied law in the office of Amasa Norcross. In
1874 he came to Boston and attended lectures at the Boston University Law School,
from which institution he graduated in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
1875, and was soon after appointed assistant of Oliver Stevens, district attorney,
continuing in that position until 1886. The familiarity he acquired while in that
office with the methods of the government in dealing with persons charged with
offences against criminal laws gave him a position at the bar which it would have
been difficult to otherwise obtain. To his reputation as a criminal lawyer thus at-
tained is undoubtedly due his engagement as associate counsel in the defence of Miss
Borden, of Fall River, indicted for the murder of her father and step-mother, who is
now awaiting her trial. After resigning his position as assistant district attorne)^ he
became associated in business with Augustus Russ, and continued with him until the
death of Mr. Russ in the summer of 1892. He is a Republican in politics, and in
1890 was a member of the staff of Governor Brockett, with the rank of colonel. He
is now in active practice, following the paths of his profession with a fidelity and zeal
which give promise of a brilliant career. He married Mary Colony at Fitchburg in
1875, and lives in Boston.

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George Bliss was born in Springfield, Mass., November 16, 1793, and graduated
at Yale m 1813. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar and began practice in Monson,
where he remained seven years. He then returned to his native town and became
associated in business with Jonathan Dwight, jr. He was a representative from
Springfield in 1828-29-30 and in 1853, when he was chosen speaker. In 1835 he was
a member of the Senate, and on the death of the president of the Senate, Benjamin
T. Peckman, he was chosen to fill his place. He was one of the organizers of the
railroad from Worcester to Albany, called the Western Railroad, and the writer
thinks he was its first president. His resemblance to Dr. George Parkman, who was
killed by Professor John W. Webster, was so striking that a very respectable and
truthful gentleman by the name of Clary or Cleary, an officer in the Boston Custom
House, swore on the witness stand with great positiveness that he saw the doctor at
a time and place wholly inconsistent with the theory of the prosecution. It was
proved that Mr. Bliss was in Boston on the day mentioned by the witness, and at the
time referred to was in that part of the city where Dr. Parkman was supposed by the
witness to have been seen. He died at Springfield, April 19. 1873.

Joseph A. Harris was admitted to the Middlesex bar in July, 1878, and was a
member of the Suffolk bar in 1890.

Theodore C. Hurd was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1860, and in
1867 was a member of the Suffolk bar. In 1871 he was chosen clerk of the courts for
Middlesex county, and was rechosen in 1876-1881-1886 and 1892.

J. C. Kimball was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 1857, and in 1870 was
a member of the Suffolk bar.

William S. Knox was admitted to the Essex bar in 1866 and in 1883 was a member
of the Suffolk bar.

Samuel Livermore was born about 1786, and graduated at Harvard in 1804. He
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1807, and subsequently removed to New Orleans,
where he won a high reputation in his profession. He was the author of "A Treatise
on the Law of Principal and Agent and of Sales by Auction," published in Boston
in 1811, and of " Dissertations on the Questions which arise from the Contrariety of
the Positive Laws of Different States and Nations," published in New Orleans in
1828. He died in New Orleans in 1833.

David Perkins was the son of Jacob Perkins, of Bridgewater, and was born in that
town. His father was a member of the firm of Lazell, Perkins & Company for many
years, the proprietors and managers of the Bridgewater Iron Works. He studied law
and was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1853. In 1855 he was appointed by Gover-
nor Gardner register of insolvency. He married a daughter of Hon. John A. Shaw,
and has been dead many years.

Horatio N. Perkins was admitted to the Essex bar in September, 1832, and was
a member of the Suffolk bar in 1852.

Samuel Pemberton graduated at Harvard in 1742. In 1775 commissions were
issued to new judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county by the
majority of the Council in the name of "the Government and People of Massachu-
setts Bay in New England."' Mr. Pemberton was one of these judges. He died in
1779.

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Samuel Dexter, son of Rev. Samuel Dexter, of Dedham, Mass., was born in that
town in 1726, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was a member of the Council
before the Revolution and for a number of years was a member of the House of Rep-
resentatives. During the Revolution he was one of the Supreme Executive Council of
the State, and in 1775 was one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Suf-
folk county appointed by a majority of the Council in the name of " the Government
and People of Massachusetts Bay in New England." He bequeathed $5,000 to Har-
vard College for the encouragement of biblical criticism, and died in Mendon, Mass.,
in 1810.

John Hill was one of the judges of the Suffolk Inferior Court of Common Pleas
appointed by a majority of the Council in 1775 in the name of the "Government and
People of Massachusetts Bay in New England."

Thomas Gill, who was the court reporter of the Boston Post many years and died
twenty years or more ago, was called Counsellor Gill, but he was never admitted to
bar and never practiced in the courts.

Thomas Rowan, who flourished about the same time as the above mentioned
Thomas Gill, was supposed by many to be an attorney. He was an Irishman by
birth or extraction, and studied law for a time but was never admitted to the bar.
He was largely engaged in the business of naturalization, and his frequent presence
in the courts led to the inference that he was a member of the bar.

John Augustus was a frequenter of the Municipal and Police Courts but was not a
member of the bar. He was born in 1785 and was a shoemaker by trade, but for
more than twenty 3'ears he devoted himself to the reclamation of offenders, and in
cases calling for his sympathy he offered himself as bondsman for the good behavior
of the criminal, thus securing his release and almost invariably his reformation. He
died in Boston, June 21, 1859.

George Fox Tucker, son of Charles Russell and Dorcas Fry Tucker, was born in
New Bedford, Mass., January 19, 1852. He received his early education at the
Friends' Academy in New Bedford and the Friends' School in Providence, R. I., and
graduated at Brown University in 1873. He studied law in New Bedford in the office
of George Marston and William W. Crapo, and was admitted to the Bristol county
bar in New Bedford in 1876 after a further study in the Boston University Law
School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1875. He practiced in
New Bedford until 1882, when he removed his office to Boston, where he became
associated with his former instructor, George Marston, who was then the attorney-
general of the Commonwealth. In 1884 he published a volume entitled " A Manual
of Wills," designed to indicate the best method of drawing a will so as to avoid the
complications and embarrassments which so often lead to litigation. It is a book of
Massachusetts law, and is regarded as an authority on the subject of which it treats.
Not long after the issue of the Manual, he published a monograph on the " Monroe
Doctrine," which presents in a vivid way the origin and development of that treasured
American principle. This volume was favorably received and is now an accepted
authority. In 1888 he published "A Manual of Business Corporations," a work
similar in method and purpose to the " Manual of Wills." In 1889 he brought out
jointly with John M. Gould, of the Suffolk bar, " Notes on the United States Revised

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Statutes," one of the most comprehensive of all law publications. This work, the
result of years of research and investigation, has had a circulation almost unprec-
edented in legal literature. Mr. Tucker is also the author of a novel entitled ' ' A
Quaker Home," in which are presented the customs and religious views of the fol-
lowers of Fox. The scene is laid in New Bedford, and many of its descriptions and
situations are taken from real life. Mr. Tucker has always enjoyed a good practice,
and of late years has devoted himself especially to matters pertaining to equity. He
was a member of the School Committee of New Bedford in 1881, and a representative
of that city in the Legislatures of 1890-91-92, retiring from politics during the latter
year to accept the position which he now holds of reporter of the decisions of the
Supreme Judicial Court. His office is in Boston, but he still resides in New Bedford.
Frank Dewey Allen, the oldest child of Charles Francis and Olive Dewey Allen,
was born in Worcester, Mass., August 16, 1850. He received his early education at
the public schools and graduated at Yale University in 1873. He was a member
while in college of the various class societies, including the famous "Scroll and
Key," and pulled an oar in his class crew. After graduation he studied law for about
a year in the office of Peter C. Bacon in Worcester and then entered the Boston Uni-
versity Law School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in the sum-
mer of 1875. After three years' further study in the office of Hillard, Hyde & Dick-
inson in Boston, the last year as the managing clerk of the firm, he was admitted to
the Suffolk bar January 8, 1878. The next day after his admission he was married
to Lucy, youngest daughter of Trevett M. and Eliza M. Rhodes, of Lynn, Mass.,
and became a resident of that city. He was a representative from Lynn in the Leg-
islatures of 1881 and 1882, serving on the committee on Banks and Banking, the
Judiciary Committee and the committee to investigate the charges against Joseph
M. Day, judge of probate of Barnstable county. In 1886-87-88 he was a member of
the Executive Council, representing the Fifth Councillor District and serving one
year with Governor Robinson and two years with Governor Ames. During two
years of his councillor service he was clerk of the Committee on Pardons, and was a
member of the Council which, under an act of the Legislature, sold the Hoosac Tun-
nel to the Fitchburg Railroad. In 1885-86-87 he was a member of the Republican
State Committee from the First Essex Senatorial District, and as an ardent Repub-
lican worker his voice has been heard on the platform from Berkshire to the Cape.
Mr. Allen organized and is president of the Massachusetts Temperance Home, and
is a director in the Lynn Gas and Electric Company. He is also a member of the
the Baptist Social Union of Boston, and in 1892 was president of the Yale Alumni
of Boston and vicinity. On the 2d of April, 1890, he was commissioned by President
Harrison United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts. One of his
earliest cases was a perjury case in the matter of a pension claim with General But-
ler for the defence, and he succeeded in convicting the defendant, and having her
sentenced after a long and closely contested trial. The new Customs Administra-
tion Act, the Anti-Trust Statute, and various other new matters of congressional
legislation have received judicial interpretation during his official term in causes
which he has personally conducted. Perhaps the most successful work done by him
as prosecuting attorney has been his prosecution of the Maverick National Bank
officials, which he entered upon single-handed, investigating and selecting the facts
alleged as violations of the law and drafting himself either in whole or in part the

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indictments in the various cases. In this cause, which was the most important as
affecting the business interests of the 'country, which had arisen in the circuit for a
quarter of a century, he had well-nigh insurmountable obstacles to overcome, meet-
ing discouragement at every step, but in the end secured a verdict. In connection
with the verdict secured against Mr. Potter, the president of the bank, the Boston
Transcript said: "United States District Attorney Allen is receiving the congrat-
ulations of his friends over the verdict in the Potter case. He has certainly shown
pluck and perseverance in spite of much discouragement from both the bench and the
public. It has been so often said that his case could never get to a jury, or if it did,
that there would never be a conviction, that the verdict is certainly a professional
vindication to be prized by any lawyer in his position." The Boston Courier said:
" The verdict in the Potter case seems to have surprised everybody except District
Attorney Allen, who from the outset insisted that not only was Mr. Potter guilty,
but that a jury, if it got the chance, would say so. He has had much to contend
against, and is to be congratulated upon the plucky fight he has made against such
depressing odds. It is a professional triumph of which he may well feel proud."
The Saturday Evening Gazette, speaking of the verdict, said "The result of the
Potter trial has given general satisfaction. . . The prosecuting counsel conducted
his case with brilliant ability and withal in a spirit of fairness that was as admirable
as it was dignified." The Boston Herald said: "A certain fact had to be estab-
lished, and apparently the prosecution succeeded in doing this. . . We believe the
mercantile community as a whole will welcome the verdict as a just one." The Bos-
ton Post and the Boston Journal spoke in highly complimentary terms of the dis-
trict attorney, speaking of the extremely difficult and technical nature of the case, its
importance to the community, and the moral effect of the verdict. Mr. Allen has
been indefatigable in his attention to the duties of his position, and at the close of the
term of Attorney-General Miller he was highly complimented by that official for the
faithful discharge of his labors, justifying the splendid support which he had from the
bench and bar for the office, which he had so conscientiously and honorably filled.
Mr. Allen is still the United States attorney for the Massachusetts District.

Samuel Tompson was a native of Maine, where he was admitted to the bar and
practiced law until 1860, when he came to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in June of that year. He not long after became a note and money broker, and
so continued until his death, which occurred at his residence in Brookline, April 12,
1893.

Isaac Story, jr., was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1844, and is now
the justice of the Somerville Police Court.

George William Tuxbury was born in Salisbury, now Amesbury, Mass., Novem-
ber 8, 1822. His ancestors were of the rigid Puritan type, to which so much of the
grit and power of American life is due. He was the son of Daniel and Sally Wood-
man Tuxbury, and his mother, who was a native of Candia, N. H., was a cousin of
Daniel Webster. He was one of a family of thirteen children, his father having mar-
ried three times. The children were brought up on a large farm and were early ac-
customed to hard work. The subject of this sketch was sent when quite young to
the academy at Strafford, N. H., and from there to Phillips Exeter Academy. He
applied himself assiduously to his studies, and in spare hours acting as instructor in

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order that he might lighten the burden which his proposed college career would im-
pose on the slender means of his father. In 1841 he entered Dartmouth College,
where he stood high as a scholar and where his perseverance, uprightness, and gen-
erally high character endeared him to both his teachers and his class. He graduated
in 1845 with the honor of being selected as the class orator, and left college with the
determination of achieving success in his future life. He first accepted a position to
teach in the academy at Ipswich, Mass., where he remained a single year, leaving it
for the purpose of devoting himself to the study and practice of law. He entered the
office of Hubbard & Watts in Boston, and on the 16th of December, 1848, he was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar. His success at the bar was soon secured. The persever-
ance and ability demonstrated by him in winning a verdict against one of the large
capitalists of Boston, much to his surprise, brought that gentlemen to him as a client
and made him also the means of further success. From that time Mr. Tuxbury had
the management of all his large legal affairs, and at his death was made trustee of
his estate. On the 30th of June, 1853, he married Harriet Matilda, daughter of Will-
iam Beals, one of the firm of Beals & Green, the late proprietors and publishers of
the Boston Post. He was a member of the Boston City Council in 1857 and 1858,
and a member of the Boston School Board in 1855-1856 and 1857, and from 1860 to
1865, inclusive. It was largely through his influence that Francis Gardner remained
for so long a time headmaster of the Boston Latin School. At about the age of
thirty-five the health of Mr. Tuxbury began to decline, and he became afflicted with
a nervous deafness which materially interfered with his practice in the courts. He
was thus obliged to abandon the trial of causes and confine himself to office business.
He was largely engaged in insolvency cases and in the settlement of estates. Among
the cases with which he was at various times connected was the noted Burrell case
against the city of Boston, which was finally settled after a litigation extending over
a period of nearly a quarter of a century. For four years'he was the counsel of Gen-
eral Burrell, and his argument before the City Committee on Claims first inspired a
serious consideration of the claim of his client, which had up to that time been
esteemed unfounded and frivolous. He had charge of a number of trusts, and en-
gaged in negotiations for real estate for corporations and syndicates, which proved
eminently profitable both to his principals and himself. Thwarted as he was by his
deafness in his professional ambition, he was not prevented by it from attaining large
pecuniary reward from his labors, and from his increasing means his warm heart and
liberal hand were ever ready in their sympathy for those less successful in life, and
in the bestowment of generous and friendly aid He died in Boston, April 12, 1885,
leaving behind him a widow and two daughters.

Daniel Needham, son of James and Lydia (Breed) Needham, was born in Salem,
May 24, 1822, and was educated at the Friends' Boarding School in Providence. In
1842, at the age of twenty, he removed to Groton, where he bought a farm and de-
veloped that taste for agriculture which has distinguished him through life. He
studied law with David Roberts, of Salem, and Bradford Russell, of Groton, and was
admitted to the bar at Lowell in 1848. Well grounded as he was in the law, and
possessing as he did all the qualifications for a brilliant professional career, he was
irresistibly led into those more congenial paths, where his name and services have
been so intimately associated with the agricultural interests of our State and nation.
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The prominence which he has attained in his chosen field makes it proper that as a
member of the bar he should have more than a passing notice in this record. While
in the practice of law at Groton, he was at one time retained to defend a foreigner
indicted for a criminal assault upon a girl near Groton Junction. The trial was at
Lowell in the Fall term of 1854, at a time when the " Know-Nothings " were working
themselves into power as a Native American party against both the Democrats and
Whigs. Colonel Needham secured General B. F. Butler to assist in the defense, and
somewhat against the advice of the general, adopted as a line of defense the theory
that all the leading government witnesses were members of the new party, and had
entered into a conspiracy to deprive the defendant of his liberty and rights. This
line of defense was finally acceded to, however, by the general, and by order of court
the witnesses were examined separately. Several of the government witnesses were
officers in high position in the Know-Nothing party, and when interrogated with re-
gard to their membership, positively denied over and over again that they had con-
nection with such an organization. A persistent cross-examination broke down the
first witness and secured a full account of the ceremony and obligations attending
initiation. Other witnesses, at first, made the same persistent denial of membership,
but when their attention was called to the ritulastic work of the order as revealed by
the first witness, made full acknowledgment, and justified their denial by the state-
ment that there was no such party as the " Know-Nothing." The disclosures made
at this trial of the secrets of the order were published in all the leading papers of the
country, and in defiance of the positive evidence of the girl, a disagreement of the
jury was secured, the testimony of the other leading witnesses having been thrown
out on the ground of perjury, and the indictment was finally nol ftrossed. At the
time of the trial Colonel Needham was the Democratic candidate for Congress against
Chauncey L. Knapp, Know-Nothing, and Tappan Wentworth, Whig. Mr. Knapp,
like the majority of the candidates of the new party in Massachusetts, was chosen.
Another interesting case in which Colonel Needham appeared for the defendant, and
J. W. P. Abbott and General Butler for the plaintiff, was tried at Lowell, on a prom-
issory note, which had been given to a wheelwright, who was building a wagon for
a party, and was afraid that the wagon might be attached and sold on execution be-
fore completion and delivery. The verbal condition of the note made in the pres-
ence of the witness, whose name appeared thereon, was that the note should not be
paid until the completion and delivery of the wagon. The completion did not include
painting. Subsequent to a formal delivery, the wagon was taken by the builder, at
the 'request of the owner, to be painted, and while painting was attached as the
property of the builder, under a writ issued at Colonel Needham's office. The real
owner, who was the maker of the note, made no appearance in defense, and the
wagon was sold as the property of the builder. The note was subsequently sold to
a party who had no knowledge of the transaction, and who brought a suit to recover
the amount of the note. The witness to the note was called by General Butler at the
trial to testify to the signature, and there the plaintiff's case rested. On cross-ex-
amination the verbal condition was brought out and stated by the witness. The
plaintiff's council knowing no more of the case allowed it to go to the jury, with the
understanding that the painting was a part of the completion, and that as there was
no completion, there was no promise to pay the note. A verdict was rendered for
the defendant without the jury leaving their seats. Colonel Needham, as a lawyer,

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enjoyed more than the average share of success. In 1855 he established himself on
a farm at Hartford, Vt. , where for nine years he was engaged in breeding and rais-
ing sheep. The intelligence and zeal which he there applied to this branch of agri-
culture did much to invigorate the wool industry, which had suffered from the neg-
ligence and ignorance which had previously characterized it. Nor did he confine
himself to his acres in his efforts to elevate the farming interest. He was two years
a representative from Hartford, and two years senator from the county of Windsor,
and in both House and Senate he had opportunities, which he did not fail to improve,
to promote the agricultural interests of the State. He was five years secretary of the
Vermont State Agricultural Society, and represented the State at the international
exhibition at Hamburg, Germany, in 1863. At that exhibition, as a result of his own
efforts in sheep culture, he secured for Vermont sheep two first and two second prizes,
which, it is said, changed the market for stock bred merino sheep from Germany to
Vermont. During his residence in Hartford he was also a member of the extra ses-
sion of the Senate, when the Legislature was called together to raise money and
soldiers for the war. In 1864 he returned to Groton, and in that year was chosen
secretary of the New England Agricultural Society, which he had aided largely to
organize. In 1891 he succeeded George B. Loring as president of this society. In
1889 he was appointed by the society to visit Mexico, and aid in establishing more
intimate trade relations with the United States, and in carrying out this purpose he
improved the opportunities offered for a study of the condition and outlook of the
Mexican republic. On his return to Massachusetts from Vermont in 1864, while re-
siding in Groton, he associated himself in the practice of law in Boston with Judge
David Roberts and Edmund Burke, under the firm name of Burke, Needham &
Roberts. He was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the
Thirty-first Middlesex District in 1867, and to the Senate from the Seventh Middlesex
District m 1868-69, and was chosen by the Legislature a trustee of the Massachusetts
Agricultural College, a position which he still holds. He was commissioned by Presi-
dent Grant national bank examiner in 1870, and held the office fifteen years, having
supervision of all the non-clearing house banks in Massachusetts, numbering at the
close of his term, including some banks in New Hampshire, nearly two hundred. In
this position, by his intelligence, sagacity and prudence, he did much to win for these
institutions the confidence of the people. On his resignation of this office he resumed
the practice of law in Boston, and enjoys the confidence of a large and increasing
clientage. The literary productions of Colonel Needham have been chiefly confined
to public addresses upon various subjects, some thirty or more of which have had a
wide newspaper circulation and been issued in pamphlet form. His address upon
the national banks, delivered before the National Banking Association at Saratoga,
was regarded as the best text book which had ever been issued upon the history and
working of the national bank system. Many others of his addresses have been pub-
lished in book form and have commanded attention. He married, July 17, 1842, at
Groton, Caroline Augusta, daughter of Benjamin and Caroline (Bancroft) Hall, of
Boston, who died January 30, 1878. He again married, October 6, 1880, Ellen M.,
daughter of George D. and Mary J. (Kilburn) Brigham, of Groton. His oldest son,
William C. H. Needham, born in 1846, after graduating at the Norwich University,
studied medicine at the Harvard Medical School and at the Jefferson Medical College
in Philadelphia, settled in Gallipolis, O., and while enjoying a large practice was ap-

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pointed the city physician. In 1881 he was chosen State senator, and died while in
commission at Columbus, January 11, 1882. A daughter, Effie M. F., the second of
the two children of the first wife, born in 1851, married Harris C. Hartwell, a lawyer
of Fitchburg, and president of the State Senate, who died in 1890. The children of
the second wife are Marion B., Elice E., and Daniel Needham.

Lorenzo S. Fairbanks, son of Joel and Abigail (Tufts) Fairbanks, was born in
Pepperell, Mass., March 16, 1825, and belongs to one of the oldest and most respected
families in the State. He is a descendant in the eighth generation from Jonathan
Fairbanks, who came from Yorkshire, England, about the j'ear 1633, and in 1636 set-
tled in Dedham, Mass. The house which Jonathan Fairbanks built in Dedham is
still standing, and is one of the oldest houses in New England. John Fairbanks,
the fifth in descent from Jonathan and great-grandfather of the subject of this
sketch, was born in that house. Joel Fairbanks, the father of Lorenzo, was born in
Dedham in 1797, and married Abigail, daughter of Ebenezer Tufts, of Roxbury, N.
H., in 1822. Soon after his marriage he moved to Pepperell. In May, 1825, he re-
moved to New Boston, N. H., and made that place his permanent residence. Here
Lorenzo had a happy home, and though his father was in the enjoyment of moderate
prosperity, he nevertheless learned what it was to toil, to face difficulties and fight
his own way in the world. Fortunately his lot was cast among a people always dis-
tinguished for their high standard of morality, their religious zeal, and their devotion
to the interests of education. His father was a man of sterling character, honest
and industrious, liberal in his religious views, unostentatious but level-headed and
conservative in action. His mother was a woman of intellectual mold, of great en-
ergy and executive ability, and strongly puritanical in her ideas. His father, who
carried On the business of a cabinet-maker combined with the manufacture of doors,
blinds, window sashes, clock cases, etc., could well afford to surround himself and
family with the comforts of life, but a higher education for his children than that
which the common schools could furnish was not within his means. Only one among
them, the subject of this sketch, aspired to the honors and advantages of a liberal
education. He had at an early age, as a pupil in the district school, attracted atten-
tion as a scholar, and was stimulated to push on to higher attainments. No less than
six of his schoolmates were destined for college, and his ambition naturally led in the
same direction. But he knew that if he undertook to obtain a collegiate education
he would have to pay his own expenses. Not in despair, but' in hope, he for a time
abandoned his books, and, entering a store as clerk, spent three years acquiring
means for beginning a course of study, more in the way of experience than of money,
for he had only a small salary. The practical lessons he received were the basis of
his future success, and have always been valuable to him in the business of life.

He finally began preparation for college at Hancock Academy, then went to Town-
send, Vt, and afterward to Black River Academy, Ludlow, Vt, where he completed
the course of study requisite for admission to the freshman college class. By earnest
effort and indefatigable study at home without the aid of a teacher, he mastered the
curriculum of the freshman year, and entered the sophomore class at Dartmouth in
the autumn of 1849, passing his examination without conditions and graduating in
1852 with high rank. During his college course he enjoyed the highest honors of his
class. He was chosen a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Society, and was elected as
its president. He was also elected president of the Social Friends, a public literary

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society, and at graduation was admitted- to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. At com-
mencement he was selected to deliver the closing oration, corresponding to the usual
valedictory address, although, according to the system then in vogue, there was,
strictly speaking, no valedictory.

Mr. Fairbanks studied law in New York city, and was admitted to the bar there in
the fall of 1853. He began practice in New York, and during the first two years he
was retained in several important cases, among them the celebrated Chemical Bank
forgery cases, and the so-called Martha Washington false pretence case, which arose
out of the burning of the steamer Martha Washington on the Mississippi River. In
the latter case certain persons had been indicted and tried and acquitted as conspira-
tors to burn the steamer, and were indicted afterwards in New York for obtaining
money by false pretences of several insurance companies on pretended shipments of
merchandise on the steamer, it being alleged that no goods were in fact shipped and
that the steamer was burned to obtain the insurance. Mr. Fairbanks was counsel for
eleven of the twelve defendants, and succeeded in having the indictments quashed.
In the forgery cases he was junior counsel, and the legal proceedings they involved
were almost a complete epitome of criminal practice. After practicing in New York
three or four years, Mr. Fairbanks decided to go west, but the financial condition of
the country rendered the time inopportune, and he went to Philadelphia to take
charge of a commercial school, which, contrary to representations made to him,
proved to be in debt and in a languishing condition. With his accustomed zeal and
energy he applied himself so successfully to his work that in six months the school
was relieved from debt, and at the end of three years, during which he had been
much of the time a partner in the enterprise, it was established on a prosperous and
permanent foundation. At the expiration of the partnership he. established a com-
mercial school of his own, and for a period of five years had with one exception the
largest school of the kind in the country. During this period he published an elab-
orate treatise on book-keeping, which, after the lapse of a quarter of a century, is
still on the market and is regarded as the highest authority. He also published a
work on commercial arithmetic embodying new and important features, which had
for a time a large sale. In 1874 Mr. Fairbanks came to Boston and resumed the prac-
tice of law. In 1877 he published a work on the Marriage and Divorce Laws of Mas-
sachusetts, which proved so acceptable to the profession that a second edition was is-
sued in 1881.

His practice has been general, not confined to any specialty. He is regarded as a
careful practitioner and a safe counsellor. He aims to promote settlements of dis-
putes between parties rather than to encourage costly and useless litigation. In
causes that he has tried he has been eminently successful. He has marked literary
tastes, with a decided fondness for scientific subjects. He has devoted much time,
aside from the practice of his profession, to the study of electrical science, and is the
inventor of several telephones and of other electrical appliances, for the manufacture
and sale of which he some years ago organized a company. But the decision of the
United States Supreme Court that the Bell Patent covered the " art of telephony,"
caused the suspension of the operations of this company, to await the expiration of
the fundamental patents. They are soon to be resumed. He married in New York,
in 1856, Sarah Elizabeth Skelton, and lives in Boston.

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Harvey Hunter Pratt, son of Henry Jones and Maria J. (Hunter) Pratt, was born
in Philadelphia, February 24, 18(10. He was educated in the public schools of Alding-
ton, Mass., and in 1879 was the editor and publisher of the Abin%ion News. After
Studying law in the office of Keith & Simmons in Abington and at the Harvard Law
School, he was admitted to the Plymouth county bar at Plymouth in June, 1883.
While a student he was the candidate in 1881 of the Democratic part}- for register of
deeds of Plymouth county. On his admission to the bar he became associated in
business with John F. Simmons, under the firm name of Simmons & Pratt, with of-
fices in Abington and Boston. In 1886 he was the Democratic candidate for the State
Senate, but was defeated by the customary large Republican majority of his district.
In 1887 he was the editor of the Brockton Advance and in 1888 and 1889 was a mem-
ber of the House of Representatives, serving on the Judiciary Committee. In the im-
portant debates of the House he took a prominent part, and his alertness in seizing
on the salient points of questions under discussion, and his skill and readiness of
speech in presenting them, always commanded attention and respect. In 1887 he
was the assistant of Hosea Kingman, the district attorney for the Southeastern Dis-
trict, and in 1889 was the unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic party for the of-
fice of attorney, which had been vacated by the resignation of Mr. Kingman, who
had been appointed a member of the Metropolitan Sewage Commission. In 1890 he
was chosen district attorney and served until the present year, administering the
duties of his office with the entire approval of the bench and bar and his general con-
stituency. The course of Mr. Pratt thus far has been marked by an energy so per-
sistent, by legal acquirements so sound, and by an ambition to advance himself in
his profession so earnest and yet laudable, that it is safe to predict for him a success-
ful and honorable career. His residence is in Abington.

Charles Johnson Noyes, son of Johnson and Sally (Brickett) Noyes, was born in
Haverhill, Mass., August 7, 1841. His earliest American ancestor was Rev. James
Noyes, who settled in Newbury, Mass., in 1G35. His grandfather, Parker Noyes, was
born in Haverhill, September 25, 1777, and married Mary Fifield, a native of Hop-
kinton, N. H. His father, Johnson Noyes, was born in Canaan, N. H., January 23,
1808, and moved to Haverhill, where he was married, October 10, 1833, and continued
to do business as a trader and manufacturer until his death. Of his four children the
subject of this sketch is the only one now living. Of him, the only son, these few
lines are written. He attended the public schools of Haverhill, and graduated at the
Haverhill Academy in 1860. In that year he entered Antioch College at Yellow
Springs, O., where he remained until his junior year, when he entered Union College
at Schenectady, and graduated in 1864. While in college he began the study of law
in the office of Judge Johnson in Schenectady, and after leaving college entered the
office of John E. Risley, jr., in Providence, R. I., and was admitted to the Massachu-
setts bar in Cambridge in 1864. He began practice in both Boston and Haverhill,
but soon devoted himself exclusively to his office in Haverhill, abandoning that in
Boston. In 1865 he was chosen representative from Haverhill, and served during
the session of 1866 as a member of the Judiciary Committee and the Committee on
the License Law. He was then twenty-five 3'ears of age. He had, however, at an
early age entered the field of politics. During the presidential campaign of 1864 he
was president of the Lincoln Club of Haverhill, and on the assassination of the presi-
dent in the spring of the following year, he was selected to deliver the memorial ora-

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tion before the Haverhill city authorities. In November, 18G6, he was chosen a mem-
ber of the State Senate from the Third Essex District in a triangular contest, in
which George S. Merrill, of Lawrence, and Moses F. Stevens, of Andover, were his
competitors. In 1872 he removed to Boston, and has since that time made the Suf-
folk bar the arena for his professional labors. He was not permitted, however, to
desert the political field. In 1876 he was chosen a member of the House of Repre-
sentatives from the Fourteenth Suffolk District, and rechosen in 1877-1878-1879-1880
and 1881. During the last three sessions he was the speaker of the House, and the
writer, who had frequent opportunities of watching the performance of his duties, was
impressed by the ease, dignity, and parliamentary skill exhibited by him in the chair.
In 1886 and 1887 he was again chosen representative, and in the session of 1887 and
1888 he was again chosen speaker of the House. The writer believes that since the
adoption of the constitution only three speakers have occupied the chair as long as
Mr. Noyes. Edward H. Robbins was speaker from 1793 to 1802; Timothy Bigelow
in 1805-1808-1809-1810, and from 1812 to 1820; and William B. Calhoun from 1828 to
1834. Mr. Noyes was some years since appointed special justice of the Municipal
Court for the South Boston District, and still holds that office. He is an active mem-
ber of the Masonic Fraternity, connected with the Adelphi Lodge and one of its past
masters; the St. Matthew's Royal Arch Chapter; the St. Oraer Commander)' Knights
Templar, and one of its past commanders; the Lafayette Lodge of Perfection ; the
Giles F. Yates Council, Princes of Jerusalem ; the Mount Olivet Chapter Rose Croix ;
and the Massachusetts Consistory. He is also a member of the Order of Odd Fel-
lows, having passed the chairs of the subordinate lodge and the encampment, is past
grand and past chief patriarch, and has served on the Grand Board [of [the Grand
Encampment. He has been also a member of the National Lancers, and of the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He married in 1864 in Providence, R. I.,
Emily, daughter of Col. Jacob C. Wells, a merchant in Cincinnati, O., and has his
residence in South Boston.

Thomas J. Gargan, son of Patrick and Rose Gargan, who came from Ireland to
Boston in 1825, was born in Boston, October 27, 1844, and was educated at the Bos-
ton public schools and under the instruction of Rev. Peter Krose. He studied law
at the Boston University Law School, from which he graduated in 1873, and after a
further study in the office of Henry W. Paine in Boston, he was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in May, 1875. Before entering on the stud}' of law he was employed for a'
time as a clerk in the dry goods house of Wilkinson, Stetson & Company, but his
business career was interrupted by the war. In 1863 he was commissioned second
lieutenant in Company C, Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, and served until his
discharge at the termination of his term of service. After his admission to the bar
he began practice in Boston and has won a high position in the ranks of the Suffolk
bar. In 1868-1870 and 1876 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives, and in 1872 a delegate-at-large to the National Democratic Convention in
Baltimore. In 1873 and 1874 he wa"s president of the Charitable Irish Society, and
in 1875 a member of the Board of Overseers of the Poor of the city of Boston. In
1877 and 1878 he was chairman of the Board of License Commissioners, and in 1880
and 1881 he was a member of the Boston Board of Police. In 1885 he delivered the
annual oration before the Boston city authorities on the Fourth of July, and in 1886

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the oration at the centennial celebration of the Charitable Irish Society of Halifax,
Nova Scotia. Mr. Gargan is always prominent in every movement to elevate and
refine the race from which he sprang and upon whose moral and intellectual educa-
tion so much of the maintenance in their purity and strength of our Republican insti-
tutions depends. Though bearing Irish blood in his veins, the free air of New
England has impregnated it with a true American spirit, and no descendant of Pil-
grim or Puritan can boast of a loftier or more devoted patriotism. He is a brilliant
and forcible speaker and as a manager of cases in court, skillful, sagacious and full
of resource. Among the important cases in which he has been engaged may be
mentioned the suit against Archbishop Williams, in the Lawrence Church cases, so
called, involving the question of title to the Roman Catholic Church property in Mas-
sachusetts. He married in Boston in September, 1868, Catherine L. , daughter of
Lawrence and Catherine McGrath, and lives in Boston.

William Edward Lovell Dillaway, son of William Stoughton and Ann Maria
/Brown) Dillaway, was born in Boston, February 17, 1852. He was educated at the
Boston public schools and under the care of a private tutor. He graduated at the
Harvard Law School in 1871 with the degree of LL.B., and after further study in
the office of Ranney & Morse in, Boston, he was admitted to the bar February 17,
1873. After his admission to the bar he was associated for a time with Ranney &
Morse, and afterwards with -Charles T. Gallagher, with whom he remained until
1877. Since that date he has been engaged chiefly in corporation practice. He was
counsel in matters relating to the Pacific National Bank, in the reorganization and
consolidation of Boston Gas Companies, and for the West End Railway in all their
legislative matters. He is a director in several corporations, both financial and com-
mercial, and to their interests he is now largely devoted. In 1888 he was selected to
deliver the Fourth of July oration before the city authorities of Boston, but aside
from this his literary work has been chiefly confined to contributions to the press.
He is a man of culture, possessing tastes which his travels abroad have enabled him
to gratify and which his fine collection of books and works of art are the means of
further instructing and elevating. He married, June 16, 1874, Gertrude St. Clair
Eaton, and lives in Boston.

Raymond R. Gilman, son of Ambrose and Eunice (Wilcox) Gilman, was born in
Shelburne Falls, Mass., Jul)' 28, 1859. He was educated at the public schools and at
the Shelburne Falls Academy. He studied law and graduated at the Boston Uni-
versity Law School, and after further study in the office of Samuel F. Field at Shel-
burne Falls, and: of Frederick David Ely, of Boston, now one of the justices of the
Municipal Court of the city of Boston, he was admitted to the Norfolk county bar at
Dedham, September 28, 1880, at the age of twenty-one years. He began practice at
Shelburne Falls, but soon removed his office to Boston, where he has advanced rapidly
in reputation and business. He is an active member of the Association of Odd Fel-
lows and is a member of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. At Melrose, where he
has his home, he is a member of the Athletic and Melrose clubs and interested and
zealous in every movement to promote the social, moral, educational and religious
welfare of the community in which he has cast his lot. He married, June 16, 1882,
at Lancaster, N. H., Katie A- Tuttle.

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Joseph O. Burdett, son of Joseph and Sally (Mansfield) Burdett, was born in South
Reading, now Wakefield, Mass., October 30, 1848. He received his early educa-
tion in the public schools of his native town, and graduated from Tufts College in
1871. the second in rank in his class. While in college he was absent from his class a
part of the time earning as a teacher the means to defray the expenses of his educa-
tion. Among the schools in which he taught were a public school in Hingham, a
public and a private school in Harvard, and an evening public school in Charlestown.
He studied law in Cambridge with John W. Hammond, now a justice on the bench
of the Superior Court, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Middle-
sex bar at Cambridge, April 19, 1873. While a student at law he held for two years
the position of discharging clerk in the employ of Warren & Company, of the War-
ren line of English steamers, and in that position learned many lessons in business meth-
ods which have been of service to him in his profession. After practicing a year in
the office of Mr. Hammond he moved to Hingham, Mass., which place he has since
that time made his residence. He at once participated with interest and zeal in every
movement looking to the welfare of his adopted town. The public schools especially
attracted his attention, and from almost the earliest days of his citizenship there he
has been a member of the School Board, and for the larger part of the time its
chairman. During the earlier part of his legal career after his removal to Hingham,
his business at the courts of Plymouth county occupied much of his time, but finally
his Boston practice, beginning in 1874, had so largely increased as to leave little time
for professional work outside of his Boston office. In 1884 and 1885 he represented
in the Legislature the Representative District composed of the towns of Hingham
and Hull, serving the first year as chairman of the Committee on Public Service and
the second year retaining that position and being also a member of the Judiciary
Committee. The civil service law now in operation was reported by him and suc-
cessfully advocated against serious and determined opposition. In 1886 he was
chosen a member of the Republican State Committee, and during the three years of
his service as a private in the ranks of that committee displayed so much executive
ability as to be selected in 1889 as chairman. His service as chairman continued
three years and was only terminated by the exigencies of his professional business
which made it imperative that he should devote himself exclusively to the interests of
his clients and his own advancement in the paths of law. As a business man out-
side of his profession, he has the management of large interests in his hands, and
among other business connections he is a, director of the Rockland Hotel Company
and of the Weymouth Light and Power Company. In 1874 he married Ella, daugh-
ter of John K. and Joan J. Corthell, of Hingham.

Joseph Barlow Felt Osgood, son of William and Elizabeth Curtis (Felt) Osgood,
was born in Salem, July 1, 1823. He received his early education at the English
High and Latin Schools at Salem, and graduated at Harvard in 1846. ' He was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar July 25, 1849, and began a practice in Salem, which has
continued with marked success until the present time. In the first year of his pro-
fessional career he was a member of the Salem Common Council, and thus early
entered the field of politics, in which he was a conspicuous and zealous worker for
many years. He served in the Council until 1853, and during the years 1850-1851
and 1852 was also a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In
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1859 and 1860 he was a member of the Senate, and the writer, who was with him at
the Senate Board in the former of these years, can bear witness to his intelligent
comprehension of questions under discussion, to his judicial consideration of their
merits, and his fearless independence in acting on them. Though a new member,
no old one had more influence among his fellows. In 1864 he was chosen on the Re-
publican ticket mayor of Salem, and served through the year 1865 as the successor of
Stephed Goodhue Wheatland, who had served in 1863 and 1864. In July, 1874, he
was appointed justice of the First District Court of Essex county with a jurisdiction
including Salem, Beverly, Danvers, Hamilton, Middleton, Topsfield and Wenham,
and continued in office until his resignation in January, 1888. His performance of
official duties was marked by good sense, wise judgment, impartiality, firmness, and
a serious consciousness of the responsibility resting on the judge of a court which has
the closest relations with the every-day and continual peace and well-being of a
community. His resumption of general practice has been attended by a continuance
of the confidence of his fellow citizens in the honesty and wisdom of his counsel and
by the esteem of his comrades at the bar. He married, November 23, 1853, Mary
Jane Creamer, who died September 16, 1865.

George Otis Shattuck. son of Joseph and Hannah (Bailey) Shattuck, was born in
Andover, Mass., May 2, 1829. He is a descendant of a true Puritan stock; his earliest
American ancestor, William Shattuck, having settled at Watertown at an early date
and died there in 1672. Both of his grandfathers were Revolutionary soldiers, and
his great-grandfather Bailey was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill. He received
his early education at Phillips Andover Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1851 .
He studied law in Boston in the office of Charles Greeley Loring and at the Harvard
Law School, where he graduated with a degree of LL.B. in 1854. He was admitted
to the Suffolk bar February 1, 1855, and began practice at once in Boston, associated
with Joseph Randolph Coolidge. In 1856 he became associated with Peleg Whitman
Chandler and remained in partnership with him until 1870, when he formed a part-
nership with William A. Munroe under the firm name of Shattuck & Munroe. At a
later date Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr., was admitted to the firm and continued a
member until his appointment to the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1882.
Mr. Shattuck, after a career of faithful labor in the professional field, occupies a
position in the front rank of the Suffolk bar. He has been connected with many
cases affecting the rights and interests of corporations, among which have been the
Sudbury River water cases and the Sayles bleaching case in Rhode Island. He was
also counsel in the well known Andover heresy cases for the trustees of the Andover
corporation and for some of the pew-holders in the suit involving the preservation of
the Old South Meeting-house in Boston. No lawyer is more thorough or trustworthy
in the preparation of causes for the courts, and no verdict is ever lost by him for
want of diligence and skill in trials before the court or jury. Outside of the field of
law, as well as within its limits, he possesses the entire confidence of the community,
and while the highest judicial honors in the executive gift are always within his
reach, there are no positions of trust in the business or political field which he would
seek in vain if he yielded to those allurements which are so potent in their influence
on those less wedded to the profession to which he has given his head and "heart. It
is not often that his name is found connected with enterprises not germane to the

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labor of his life. In 1862 he was a member of the Common Council of Boston, and
he is now serving at least his second term of six years as a member of the Board of
Overseers of Harvard College. He married, in 1857, Emily, daughter of Charles and
Susan (Sprague) Copeland, of Roxbury, Mass., and has his residence in Boston.

Charles Levi Woodbury, son of Judge Levi Woodbury, was born in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, May 22, 1820. His father, a native of Francestown, New Hamp-
shire, had, after his graduation from Dartmouth College in 1809, practiced law in his
native town and had, only a year before the birth of the subject of this sketch, be-
come a resident of Portsmouth. He is descended from John Woodbury, who was one
of the pioneer settlers of Cape Ann in 1624, and imbued with that antiquarian spirit
which such an ancestry would be likely to inspire. In 1831 his father was made sec-
retary of the navy by President Jackson, and as an incumbent of that office and of
that of the secretary of the treasury, to which he was appointed in 1834, he remained
in Washington until the close of the administration of Martin Van Buren in 1841. In
the schools, therefore, of Washington Charles Levi Woodbury received his early
education, and in that city he breathed that political atmosphere which made him
what he has always been, an earnest and devoted advocate and exponent of the prin-
ciples of Democracy. He studied law in Washington and was there admitted to the
bar. Establishing himself in practice for a time in Alabama, he soon came to Boston
where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, March 6, 1846. In 1845, the year before
his settlement in Boston, his father, having declined the appointment of minister to
England, was appointed a justice of the United States Supreme Court as the suc-
cessor of Judge Story, who died in September of that year. With the father on the
bench of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, the son was naturally drawn into practice
at their bar. The comprehensive nature "of the questions arising in arguments and
trials before these tribunals made the study of constitutional and international law
essential to success, and in these branches of his profession he has been for many
years recognized as a thorough and able expounder. In the earlier days of his prac-
tice in the United States Courts he edited, jointly with George Minot, ' ' Reports of
Cases argued and determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the First
Circuit," containing the decisions of his father from 1847 to 1852. In 1853 he was
offered by President Pierce the mission to Bolivia, which he declined. In 1857 he
was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and in the same
year was appointed, by President Buchanan, United States district attorney for
Massachusetts. In 1870 and 1871 he was chosen a member of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives, having, since his appointment as district attorney in 1857,
made Boston his permanent place of residence. He has there continued to live and
practice up to the present time, acting not only as counsel in important causes in the
courts, but discussing, also, with thoroughness and ability, public questions as they
arise in the field of social and political life. The question of the fisheries, which re-
cently occupied so much of the attention of our government in its relations with Can-
ada, was one with which he was more familiar, perhaps, than any other of our pub-
lic men, and in all its bearings and intricate details was a recognized authority. He
is a Democrat of the old school, a little suspicious, perhaps, of the dogmas which
have been grafted on the old stalk ; a thorough believer in those fundamental prin-
ciples which underlie both the constitution and the platform of his party and firmly

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imbued with the conviction that on these principles, and on these alone, depend the
permanence and safety of our institutions. Mr. Woodbury is unmarried and resides
in Boston.

Charles Jackson Paine, son of Charles Cushing and Fanny Cabot (Jackson) Paine,
was born in Boston, August 26, 1833. He is the great-grandson of Robert Treat
Paine, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was fitted for college at
the Boston Latin School, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He studied law in Bos-
ton with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 15, 1856.
The war broke out in the earfy years of his practice and on the 1st of October, 1861,
he was commissioned captain in the Twenty-second Regiment of Volunteers. In
January, 1862, he was made major in the Thirty-third Massachusetts Regiment,
colonel of the Second Louisiana Volunteers in September, 1862, colonel of the First
United States Volunteers, brigadier-general of United States Volunteers in July,
1864, brevet major-general, January 15, 1865, and he was mustered out of service
January 15, 1860. During his term of service he commanded a brigade at the siege
of Port Hudson, took part in the battle of Drury's Bluff, led a division of colored
troops in the attack on Newmarket, Va. , and participated in the capture of Fort
Fisher. He subsequently served under General Sherman in North Carolina, and after
the surrender of Lee commanded the district of Newbern. After his retirement from
the service he was enabled by his abundant means to indulge in other occupations
more congenial to his tastes than the law. His love of the water and of the pleasure
to be derived from its unbounded resources, implanted in him in early life, he was
now placed in a position to gratify, and to-day, as a yachtsman, he probably stands
unexcelled, at least on this side of the ocean. As one of the association of gentle-
men who built the Puritan, in 1885, as the owner of the Mayflower, in 1886, and of
the Volunteer, in 1887, each of which defeated its English antagonist, he leaped at
a stride to the head of American boatmen, and won a reputation which the New
York Yacht Club, of which he is a member, recognized by the presentation to him
of a silver cup commemorating his triple successful defence of the American cup
against foreign competitors. He married, in 1867, Julia, daughter of John Bryant,
of Boston, and has his residence in Weston, Mass.

John Elbridge Hudson, son of John and Elizabeth C. (Hilliard) Hudson, was born
in Lynn, Mass., August 3, 1839. He was educated at the public schools in his }routh,
and graduated at Harvard in 1862. After his graduation he was employed until 1865
as a tutor in the college, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in that year.
After further study in Boston in the office of Chandler, Shattuck & Thayer he was
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 25, 1866. In February, 1870, he took the place
of Mr. Shattuck in the firm, and in 1874 became a member of the firm of Chandler,
Ware & Hudson. In 1878 the firm was dissolved, and in 1879 he edited jointly with
George Fred Williams the tenth volume of the United States Digest. In 1880 he be-
came general counsel of the American Bell Telephone Company and abandoned his
general practice. In 1885 he was made general manager of the company, and in
1887 vice-president. In 1889 he was chosen president of the company, and he is at
present also president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The mag-
nitude of the interests of the American Bell Telephone Company, over which he pre-
sides, may be judged by the fact that during the year 1892 the computed number of ex-

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change connections was six millions. The American Telephone and Telegraph Com-
pany, over which he also presides, has achieved during the last year a memorable
triumph. Until October, 1892, the limit of the successful transmission of speech had
not exceeded five hundred miles. A special experimental circuit, consisting of two
number eight hard-drawn copper wires, was constructed, the wire weighing 435
pounds to the mile, and the circuit containing 826,500 pounds of copper. The success
was so satisfactory that a new line from New York to Chicago was opened to the pub-
lic on the 18th of October of last year, and a line to Boston on the 7th of February of
this 3^ear, when Governor Russell opened the line by conversation with gentlemen in
the Chicago office over wires about twelve hundred miles in length. It is stated in
the last report of the directors that it is now possible from the room of the com pan y
in Boston to talk north and east to Augusta, north to Concord, N. H., and to Buffalo,
N. Y., west to Chicago, and south to Washington, over a territory which includes
more than half of the population of the United States, of whom it may be said that
they are within speaking distance of each other. It is needless to suggest that the
highest legal ability and most thorough business methods must be possessed by the
president of these two companies in order to manage their concerns in a manner to
secure and maintain the confidence of the .stockholders. Mr. Hudson married, August
21, 1871, Eunice W., daughter of Wells and Elizabeth (Pickering) Healey, of Hamp-
ton Falls, N. H., and has his residence in Marlboro', Mass.

Benjamin Dean, son of Benjamin and Alice Dean, was born in Clitheroe, Lan-
cashire, England, August 14, 1824. He came with his parents to Lowell, Mass., at
five years of age, and received his early education at the public schools in that town.
In 1840 he entered Dartmouth College, where he remained one year, and soon after
began the study of law in the office of Thomas Hopkinson, afterwards one of the jus-
tices of the Common Pleas Court. He, also attended the Harvard Law School, and
was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1845. He practiced law in Lowell un-
til 1852, when he moved to Boston and became associated in business with Henry W.
Fuller in a partnership, which continued until Mr. Fuller's death. He has always
occupied a prominent position, not only at the bar, but in the business walks of life.
He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1865-1866-1872 and 1873, was a
member of the State Senate in 1862-1863 and 1869, and was a member of the Forty-
fifth Congress. The high esteem in which he was held as a legislator was attested
by his selection in 1869 for the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee, and a
membership of the Committee on the Library, and of the Joint Standing Committee
on the License Law. He has also been chairman of the Boston Board of Park Com-
missioners, and a director of the Public Institutions of the city. During his term of
service as park commissioner from 1886 to 1889 he was enthusiastic in the adoption
of such measures as should develop and complete that system of parks which, when
completed, will reflect everlasting credit both on the city of Boston and on the agents
and factors selected to oversee and carry it out. It can be truly said that two of the
most memorable enterprises which Boston has ever undertaken, those of the Boston
Library and of the park system, have been in the hands of men who have consulted
only the highest standards of culture and taste, while feeling the pressure of unedu-
cated criticism, and in whose acts there has been no taint of jobbery and corruption.
Mr. Dean has been closely identified with the Masonic Order for many years, hold-

518 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

ing the offices of deputy for the State of Massachusetts, of the Supreme Council, of
the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the
United States. He was grand commander of the States of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island from 1871 to 1873, and grand master of the Grand Encampment of the Knights
Templar of the United States from 1880 to 1883, and is past grand warden of the
Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. For several years Mr. Dean has been a sufferer from
rheumatism, which has compelled him to abandon his general practice, and to with-
draw himself almost completely from those recreations, which as a yachtsman he was
wont for many years to enjoy. He was for a time the commodore of the Boston
Yacht Club, and from his house at South Boston, near to the sea, he is privileged to
at least breathe the atmosphere of those pleasures in which he once so enthusiastic-
ally participated. He married in Lowell in 1848 Mary Anne, daughter of Josiah B.
French, of that city. A son, Josiah Stevens Dean, is a member of the Suffolk bar,
and is referred to elsewhere in this register.

Edwin Grover graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
May 27, 1859. He died in 1864.

William F. Griffin was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1870, and is now at the bar.

Abraham Garland Randall Hale graduated at the Harvard' Law School in 1871,
and was admitted to the bar September 28 in that year,

William P.' Hale was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1891, and is now at
the bar.

William Stickney Hall graduated at Harvard in 1869 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1871. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 13, 1871, and is now
at the bar.

John J. Halsted was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Eugene J. Hadley was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875, and is now at the
bar.

Pennington Halsted was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the
bar.

Charles Winslow Hall graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar February 23, 1866.

Howard Malcolm Hamblin graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar June 14 in that year.

Alexander James Hamilton graduated at Harvard, in 1826, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar October 20, 1829.

Charles H. Hanson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Emor Herbert Harding graduated at Harvard in 1876 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1878. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1881, and is now at the
bar.

Charles Hale, son of Nathan Hale, graduated at Harvard in 1850, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 21, 1874. He was speaker of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives in 1859. He died in 1882.

Alfred S. Hall was admitted to the .Suffolk bar in December, 1875, and is now at
the bar.

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Robert Pinckney Harlow graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 14 in that year.

Stephen W. Harmon was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 6, 1869, and is now at
the bar.

Dennis A. Harrington was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the
bar.

G. N. Harris was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Samuel T. Harris was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Alfred Stedman Hartwell graduated at Harvard in 1858 and at the Harvard
Law School in 1867. He was an attorney in Boston in 1868. He was at one time a
judge of the Supreme Court at the Hawaiian Islands.

Benjamin Martin Hartshorn graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863 and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 17, 1863. He died in 1867.

Shattuck Hartwell graduated at Harvard in 1844 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1846. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1849.

A. L. Harwood was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now at the bar.

Seth Hastings graduated at Harvard in 1782, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar.
He died in 1831.

Arthur G. Hatch was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar.
Albert Newton Hatheway graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year.

Amos L. Hatheway was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the bar.

Franklin Haven, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in .September, 1860. He has been assistant United States treasurer at Bos.
ton and actuary of the New England Trust Company in Boston, and is now president
of the Merchants' National Bank in Boston.

Samuel Haven graduated at Harvard in 1798, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar.
He died in 1847.

Charles Sprague Hayden graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1856, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar November 15 in that year.

George Russell Hastings graduated at Harvard in 1848 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1850. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1851. He died in
1888!

Aaron Hayden graduated at Harvard in 1834 and at the Harvard Law School in
1838. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1838, and died in 1864.

Francis L. Hayes was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 14, 1868, and is now
at the bar.

George E. Hayes was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and is now at
the bar.

William A. Hayes 2d was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the
bar.

Charles Henry Haynes graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1851, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar April 15, 1853. He died in 1856.

52o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Henry Williamson Haynes graduated at Harvard in 1851, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar September 26, 1856.

Gideon F. Haynes was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Charles M. Hemenway was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the
bar.

John White HaywJTrd graduated at Harvard in 1805, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in October, 1808. He died in 1832.

Charles E. Heywood was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now at the
bar.

William Edwa'rd Healy graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 9, 1867.

Clarence Hendrick was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the
bar.

F. B. Hemenway was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

John Herbert was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 4, 1891, and is now at
the bar.

James Algin Hervey graduated at Harvard in 1849, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar October 15, 1859.

Edwin Newell Hill graduated at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar April 25, 1876. He is now at the bar.

Edgar S. Hill was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

John Hillis graduated at Harvard in 1868, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar
in September, 1871. He is now at the Suffolk bar.

Thomas Hillis has been since 1890 a member of the Suffolk bar.

Edward Higginson graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was an attorney at the Suf-
folk bar in 1891, and is now at the bar.

Arthur Hildreth graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1873, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1874.

G. Arthur Hilton was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the bar.

Isaac Theodore Hoague graduated at Harvard in 1867 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1870. He died in
1885.

Charles Cushing Hobbs graduated at Harvard in 1855, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar May 23, 1857.

Marland C. Hobbs was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the bar.

Thorndike Deland Hodges graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was at the Boston
bar in 1866.

Daniel Jefferson Holbrook graduated at Brown University in 1863 and at the
Harvard Law School in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 27, 1867.

Artemas Rogers Holden graduated at Harvard in 1866 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 12, 1869. He died in 1884.

Joshua Bennett Holden graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was
a member of the Suffolk bar in 1870- He is now at the bar.

BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 521

Am j a Holi.is graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar September 11, 1862.

J. G. Holt was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1860, and is now at the
Suffolk bar.

Arthur W. Hooper was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the
bar.

John Myers Holland graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 15, 1867.

Leander Holbrook graduated at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in June, 1875.

Edward Jackson Holmes graduated at Harvard in 1867 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 4, 1870. He died in
1884.

Jabez Silas Holmes graduated at Harvard in 1865, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in May, 1867. He died in 1884.

Sewall W. Hooper was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1880, and is now
at the bar.

Frederic S. Hopkins was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Henry Parker Hoppin graduated at Harvard in 1859 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1862. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 16, 1865.

J. H. Hopwood was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Frederick L. Houghton was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at
the bar.

Frank A. Houston graduated at Harvard in 1879, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1883.

E. O. Howard was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1867, and is now at the bar.

George E. Howe was admitted, to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar.

John Dennett Howe graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1859, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 12, 1860. He died in 1874.

William Edward Howe graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1853, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1854. He died in 1875.

Henry Howland graduated at Harvard in 1869, and after attending the University
of Heidelberg, Germany, graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1878. He was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1879. He died in 1887. _

Lucius L. Hubbard graduated at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in May, 1875.

Charles Henry Hudson graduated at Harvard in 1846 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1848. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1848, and has
been at the Suffolk bar since 1868.

Samuel H. Hudson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

James Hughes graduated at Harvard in 1780, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1783. He died in 1799.
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522 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Eugene Humphrey was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Thomas Hunt was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

William Gibus Hunt graduated at Harvard in 1810 and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in September, 1813. He died in 1833.

Charles Henry Hurd graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar May 28, 1856. He died in 1877.

Francis William Hurd graduated at Harvard in 1852, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar October 2, 1855. He is now at the bar.

A. B. Hutchinson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

P. H. Hutchinson was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 4, 1867, and is now at the
bar.

Charles Whiting Huntington graduated at Harvard in 1854, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in July, 1856. He died in 1888.

Jesse C. Ivy graduated at Harvard in 1874 and at the Harvard Law School in 1876.
He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1877, and is now at the Suffolk
bar.

♦ Obadiah Jackson, jr., graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar November 13, 1860. He died in 1878.

P'rancis Wayland Jacobs graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar November 15. 1862.

George Edward Jacobs graduated at Harvard in 1876, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar February 17, 1879. He is now at the bar.

David Eli as James graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1852, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar October 28, 1853.

George Abbott James graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 1, in that year. He is now at the bar.

Worthen T. James was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

John Jameson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890 and is now at the bar.

Eden Shotwell Jaques graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 20, 1842.

Samuel Jennison graduated at Harvard in 1839, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in November, 1846. He is now at the bar.

C. A. Jewell was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891 and is now at the bar.

William E. Jewell was admitted to the Plymouth county bar in 1860, and is now
at the Suffolk bar.

Benjamin Newhall Johnson graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted to
the Essex bar in 1880. He is at the Suffolk bar.

L. H. H. Johnson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar.

Francis A. Jones was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now at the bar.

William Jones graduated at Harvard in 1793 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar.
He died in 1813.

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Asa Johnson graduated at Harvard in 1787 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar-
He died in 1820.

Okey Johnson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858 and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in July of that year.

Albion Keith Parris Joy graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848 and was
at the Suffolk bar as early as 1852. He died in 1889.

Chauncey P. Judo was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

John A. Keefe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1878, and is now at the bar.

Arthur Monroe Keith graduated at Harvard in 1874 and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in June, 1876.

Israel Keith graduated at Harvard in 1771 and was at the Suffolk bar in 1779.
He died in 1819.

William V. Kellen was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 20, 1876, and is
now at the bar. He was appointed in 1887 reporter of the decisions of the Supreme
Court and reported from June, 1887, to November, 1891.

Louis W. Kelley was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Charles G. Keyes was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 21, 1858, and is now at the
bar.

Stephen F. Keyes was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 5, 1864, and is now
at the bar.

John F. Kilton was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 23, 1862, and is now at the
bar.

John Kidder graduated at Harvard in 1793, and was at the Suffolk bar in 1797.
He died in 1810.

David Pulsifer Kimball graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar December 8, 1857.

Elbridge Gerry Kimball graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in July, 1880.

George A. King was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Benjamin Barnes Kingsbury graduated at Bowdoin in 1857 and at the Harvard
Law School in 1862. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 9, 1862.

Josiah Burnham Kinsman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1854, and was
a member of the Suffolk bar in 1859.

Francis W. Kittredge was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the
bar.

Frederic T. Knight was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar.

Isaiah Knowles graduated at Harvard in 1854, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar May 27, 1859. He died in 1878.

Thomas Oaks Knowlton graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1872.

Nathaniel Phippen Knapp graduated at Harvard in 1826, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar March 8, 1832. He died in 1854.

524 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Hamilton Kiuin was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and is now at
the bar.

Joseph Haktvvkll Ladd graduated at Dartmouth in 1867 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1871. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1871.

Abbott W. Lamson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Edward Landen graduated at Harvard in 1835 and at the Harvard Law School in
1839. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 12, 1839, and was a judge in
Washington Territory.

Christopher Columbus Langdell graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Har-
vard Law School in 1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 11, 1875.

Charles Weston Larrabee graduated at Bowdoin in 1844 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1847. , He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 15, 1847.

George P. Lawrence was admitted to the Middlesex bar in February, 1859, and is
now at the Suffolk bar.

Gardner Whjtney Lawrence graduated at Harvard in 1864, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar February 7, 1866. He died in 1869.

Robert W. Light was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1885, and is now
at the bar.

Edward Lewis Le Breton graduated at Harvard in 1824, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar January 12, 1832. He died in 1849.

Lewis Cass Ledyard graduated at Harvard in 1872 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1875.

Elliot Cabot Lee graduated at Harvard in 1876, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1883.

John Rowe Lee graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar December 19, 1865.

Robert Levi was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now at the bar.
Daniel Waldo Lincoln graduated at Harvard in 1803, and was an attorney in Bos-
ton in 1813. He died in 1815.

James Otis Lincoln graduated at Harvard in 1807, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar October 9, 1810. He died in 1818.

Roland Crocker Lincoln graduated at Harvard in 1865 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1871, and is now at
the bar.

George Coffin Little graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar May 7, 1862.

Joseph J. Little was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Jackson Locke was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now at the bar.

Josiah Lewis Lombard graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1864, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 16 in that year.

Elihu G. Loomis was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1878, and is now at the
bar.

Biographical register. §ts

James Brown Lord graduated at Amherst in 1855 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1860. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 1860, and is now at the bar.
F. H. Lord was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Alden Porter Loring graduated at Harvard in 1869, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar October 18, 1872.

John Lathrof graduated at Harvard in 1789, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1793. He died in 1820.

Francis Cabot Lowell graduated at Harvard in 1793, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in 1797. He died in 1817.

Francis Cabot Lowell 2d graduated at Harvard in 1876, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in May, 1880. He is now at the bar.

John Lowell 3d, son of Judge John Lowell, graduated at Harvard in 1877, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1880. He is now at the bar.

Clinton William Lucas graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in February, 1881.

Anson M. Lyman was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.
Clarence B. Loud was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.
Charles Walley Lovett, jr., graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 9, 1867.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in July, 1880. He is now at the bar.

Edward Jackson Lowell 2d graduated at Harvard in 1867, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in June, 1872.

David Brainerd Lyman graduated at Yale in 1864, and at the Harvard Law School
in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 8, 1866.

David Hinckley Lyman graduated at Harvard in 1839, and was admitted to the
.Suffolk bar May 9, 1842. He died in 1876.

A. Selwvn Lynde was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.
A. V. Lynde was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1847, and is now at the
Suffolk bar.
F. G. Macomber was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Ex-Sumner Mansfilld graduated at Harvard in 1868 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 16, 1872, and is now at
the bar.

George F. Manson was admitted td the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar.

Elmer E." Marshall was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the bar.

Alexander Martin graduated at the University of Michigan in 1855, and at the
Harvard Law School in 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 16, 1857.

John F. Martin was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar.

William P. Martin was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar.

John Marshall Marsters graduated at Harvard in 1847 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1850, in which year he was at the Suffolk bar.

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Cyrus C. Mayberry was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the bar.

Laurens Maynard was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

John W. McAnarney was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the
bar.

Daniel McIlroy graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar January 7 in that year. Died at an unknown date.

William M. McInnes was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the bar.

Frederic McIntire was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar.

George Harrison McGrew graduated at the Connecticut Wesleyan University in
1870, and at the" Harvard Law School in 1873. He was an attorney at the Suffolk
bar in 1873.

Henry F. McKeever graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and is an
attorney at the Suffolk bar.

Charles C. Mellen was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890 and is now at the bar.

George Frederic McLellan graduated at Harvard in 1855, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar April 20, 1857.

Samuel Walter McDaniel graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1878, and was
a Suffolk attorney in 1885. He is now at the bar.

Charles Amos Merrill graduated at the Connecticut Wesleyan University in 1864
and at the Harvard Law School in 1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Jan-
uary 9, 1869.

John Midglev was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884 and is now at the bar.

George Henry Miller graduated at Harvard in 1867, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar January 22, 1870.

Robert Sedgwick Minot, son of William Minot 2d, graduated at Harvard in 1877,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He is now at the bar.

Francis Benton Mildram graduated at Harvard in 1867, and was an attorney in
Boston in 1870. He died in 1875.

Ephraim Flint Miller graduated at Harvard in 1828 and was at one time a mem-
ber of the Suffolk bar. He died in 1875.

William Pepperell Montague graduated at Harvard in 1809, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in December, 1871.

Russell Wortley Montague graduated at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in July, 1874.

George Theodore Moody graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar December 17, 1859.

Beverly K. Moore was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Eugene H. Moore was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar.

Alonzo D. Moran was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1891, and is now at
the bar.

John B. Moran was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 527

Frank Morison was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 23, 1868, and is now at the
bar.

George Morrill was at the .Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now.

Robert Morris was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1847, and has been
dead some years. He is believed, by the writer, to have been the first colored attor-
ney at the Suffolk bar.

Robert Morris, jr., son of the above, was admitted to the Suffolk bar September
8, 1874.

William Gouverneur Morris graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1854. He died in 1884.

T. J. Morrison was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1877, and is now at
the bar.

Charles R. Morse was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1875, and is now
at the bar.

Horace E. Morse was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 1, 1868, and is now at the
bar.

Nathan Morse 2d was admitted to the bar in June, 1875, and is now at the bar.

William A. Morse was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1866, and is now at the bar.

Barron C. Moulton was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 29, 1857, and is now
at the bar.

Daniel Smith Moulton graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was. ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar June 25, 1859.

George W. Moulton was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now.

E. V. Munroe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar.
Francis J. Munroe was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 27, 1860, and is now at

the bar.

N. Sumner Myrick was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

F. C. Nash was in 1890, and is now at the Suffolk bar.

Frank Philip Nash graduated at Harvard in 1856 and at the Harvard Law.School
in 1859. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1861.

Howard D. Nash has been at the Suffolk bar since 1890.

Rufus William Nason graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in June, 1875.

Henry Gilman Nichols graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in June, 1881. He is now at the bar.

F. S. Nickerson was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 9, 1874, and is now at
the bar.

S. W. Nickerson has been at the Suffolk bar since 1890.

Samuel Newell graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar April 13 in that year.

Robert Ralston Newell graduated at Harvard in 1865 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1868. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1870. He died in 1883.

528 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Sereno Dwight Nickerson graduated at Yale in 1845 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1847. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1848.

Greenville Howland Norcross graduated at Harvard in 1875 and at the Harvard
Law School in 1877. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1879, and is now
at the bar.

Otis Norcross graduated at Harvard in 1870 and at the Harvard Law School in
1873, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1873. He married, January 20,
1881, Susannah Ruggles, daughter of Henry Plympton, of Boston. He resides in
Boston.

Frederick L. Norton was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1863, and is now
at the bar.

George Oak was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879, and is now at the
bar.

Nathaniel Kemble Greenwood Oliver graduated at Harvard in 1809, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 14, 1816/ He died in 1832.

Peter Butler Olney, son of Wilson Olney, of Oxford, Mass., graduated at Har-
vard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law School in 1866. He was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar March 6, 1866, and is now practicing law in New York.

Theodore Moody Osborne graduated at Harvard in 1871, and is a member of the
Suffolk bar.

George Edmund Otis graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 11J 1868.

Joseph Russell Otis graduated at Harvard in 1825, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in October, 1828. He died in 1864.

Charles Hunter Owen graduated at Yale in 1860 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1863. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 17, 1862.

Maurice O'Connell graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1854, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year. He died in 1882.

Andrew Oliver graduated at Harvard in 1842, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar November 18, 1845. He is now an Episcopal clergyman in New York.

William Hunter Orcutt graduated at Harvai-d in 1869 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1873. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in January, 1874, and in 1885
was at the Suffolk bar.

Roscoe Palmer Owen graduated at Harvard in 1863, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar January 8, 1864. He is now at the bar.

William Robertson Page graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1866.

Charles Cushing Paine graduated at Harvard in 1827, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in October, 1830. ■ He died in 1874.

Elijah Paine graduated at Harvard in 1781, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar.
He was a judge of the United States District Court in Vermont and a member of
Congress from that State. He died in 1842,

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Charles Albert Parker graduated at Harvard in 1819, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar January 14, 1827. He was clerk of the Common Pleas Court in Suffolk
county, and died in 1877.

Daniel Parker graduated at Harvard in 1774, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar. He died in 1796.

George W. Parker has been a member of the Suffolk bar since 1890.

Nathaniel Austin Parks graduated at Harvard in 1839, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar December 16, 1858. He died in 1875.

Gorham Parks graduated at Harvard in 1854, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar.

Myron Curtis Parsons graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1853, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1854.

George Herbert Patterson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 2, 1864. ,

William M. Payson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1881, and is
now at the bar.

Oliver Peabody graduated at Harvard in 1773, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar. He died in 1831.

William E. Peabody was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the
bar.

Thomas H. Pearse was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 15, 1887, and is now
at the bar.

Augustus Thorndike Perkins, son of Thomas H. Perkins, was born in Boston and
graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Harvard Law School in 1853. He was
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 19, 1854, and died in 1891.

Edward Cranch Perkins graduated at Harvard in 1866, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar October 1, 1872. He is now at the bar.

Joseph Perkins graduated at Harvard in 1794, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar. He died in 1803.

Charles Frederick Paine graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was
an attorney at the Suffolk bar in that year.

William Ware Peck graduated at the Vermont University in 1841 and at the
Harvard Law School in 1844. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 9,
1845.

Frank K. Pendleton graduated at Harvard in 1870 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1875. ' He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875.

Charles Carroll Perkins graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 10, 1862.

J. Perrins, jr., was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar.

Francis A. Perry was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 13, 1864, and is now at the
bar.

Edward Gould Peters graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar July 8, 1879. He went to San Francisco and practiced for a time, return-
ing to Boston in 1886.
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53o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Sanford Barnum Perry graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar April 22 in that year. He died in 1884.

John Phelps graduated at Harvard in 1787, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar.
He died in 1832.

Charles Appleton Phillips graduated at Harvard in 1860, and was an attorney at
the Suffolk bar in 1867. He died in 1876.

Willard Quincy Phillips graduated at Harvard in 1855 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1858. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1863.

Henry Goddard Pickering graduated at Harvard m 1869 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1871. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 17, 1872, and is now
at the bar.

James F. Pickering was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 7, 1860, and is now
at the baiOJ/^/ &y - • <"<'<?'* ■ •••<■ £<■■ >-■> ',;--~-" ■:*-/>.»«.»«■ ■ '// rS</.r ;... ifa/,

George Winslow Pierce graduated at Harvard in 1864, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar June 3, 1868.

John Morison Pinkerton graduated at Yale in 1841 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1845. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 3, 1846. He died in
1881.

George Frederick Piper graduated at Harvard in 1867, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in June, 1869. He is now at the bar.

Johnson Tuttle Platt graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865. He re-
ceived an honorary degree from Yale and was a professor of law in that university.
He died in 1890.

Sedgwick L. Plummer graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1844, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1845.

William Plumer graduated at Harvard in 1845 and at the Harvard Law School in
1848. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1848.

Clifford H. Plummer was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the
bar.

George Edward Pond graduated at Harvard in 1858 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1860. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 7, 1862.

Albert Poor graduated at Harvard in 1879, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1882. He is now at the bar.

George H. Poor was admitted to the Essex bar in 1864, and is now at the Suffolk
bar.

Josiah Porter gi-aduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Harvard Law School in
1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26, 1855.

Robert Hanna Pollock graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar February 12 in that year. He died in 1888.

Jonathan Edwards Porter graduated at Harvard in 1786, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar. He died in 1821.

Thomas W. Porter was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 1Q, 1875, and is now at!
the bar.

biographical Register. 531

Charles H. Pratt was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1877, and is now
at the bar.

Edward B. Pratt was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and is now
at the bar.

E. Granville Pratt was a member of the .Suffolk bar in 1867, and is now at the
bar.

William Pitt Preble graduated at Harvard in 1875, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in October, 1878.

John Prentiss was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar.

Samuel Prescott graduated at Harvard in 1799, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar January 6, 1804. He died in 1813.

Frank W. Proctor was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1882, and is now at
the bar.

George Henry Preston graduated at Harvard in 1846, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in December, 1848. He died in 1868.

Edward L. Rand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar.

F. F. Raymond was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1875, and is now at
the bar.

Chester A. Reed was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the bar.

El/as Sipple Reed graduated at the Delaware University in 1857 and at the Har-
vard Law School in 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 9, 1857.

Edward Franklin Raymond graduated at Harvard in 1851, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in July, 1854. He died in 1855.

David Dodge Ranlett graduated at Harvard in 1857 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1860. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 28, 1860.

Joseph Wheeler Reed graduated at Harvard in 1867 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 23, 1869.

Warren Augustus Reed graduated at Harvard in 1875, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in February, 1879.

Merrick Rice graduated at Harvard in 1785, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar.
He died in 1819.

Francis Gardiner Richards graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar May 5, 1857. He died in 1884.

Charles F. Richardson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1840, and is now at the
bar.

Henry A. Richardson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the
bar.

James Richardson graduated at Harvard in 1797, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar. He died in 1858.

James Prentiss Richardson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and

was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 12 in that year.
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John S. Richardson was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 23, 1885, and is now

at the bar.

532 history op the bench and bah.

Luther Richardson graduated at Harvard in 1799, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in 1802. He died in 1811.

William K. Richardson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the
bar.

William M. Richardson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the
bar.

William Ouincy Riddle graduated at Harvard in 1855 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 27, 1858.

Daniel Erskine Richardson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and
was at the Suffolk bar in 1871.

Thomas Francis Richardson graduated at Brown in 1852 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 17, 1855.

Harrison Ritchie, son of Harrison Ritchie, graduated at Harvard in 1845, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 26, 1848.

William Rotch Robeson graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1868. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 29, 1873.

Ernest W. Roberts was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1881, and is now at
the bar.

John L. S. Roberts was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 27, 1875, and is now
at the bar.

George Mosher Robinson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1847.

Ebenezer Rockwood graduated at Harvard in 1802, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar. He died in 1815.

Frank R. Rogers was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the bar.

Henry Munroe Rogers graduated at Harvard in 1862 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 23, 1868, and is now at the
bar.

William S. Rogers was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1882, and is now
at the bar.

Harry L. Rollins was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the bar.

Frederic Emil Rombauer graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar December 15, 1857.

Marcus Rosenthal graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar June 5, in that year.

Conrad J. Rueter was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar.

Preston B. Runyan was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar.

John Rowe graduated at Harvard in 1783, and was at the Suffolk bar in 1789. He
died in 1842.

Jefferson Steuart Rusk was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 8, 1891, and
is now at the bar.

Josiah Rutter graduated at Harvard in 1833, and was admitted to the Middlesex
bar in June 1842. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1863 and died in 1876.

BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 533

Nathaniel Morton Saffokd graduated at Harvard in 1809 and at the Harvard
Law School in 1872. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 11, 1872.

George A. Saltmarsh was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the
bar.

Calvin Proctor Sampson graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar July 5, 1876. He is now at the bar.

M. Lendsley Sanborn was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the
bar.

William Savier graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1837, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in July, of that year. He died in 1873.

Henry Sargent graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1849, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar August 7, 1851.

William A. Sargent was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the bar.

Artemas Sawyer graduated at Harvard in 1798, and was at the Suffolk bar in
1803. He died in 1815.

George Augustus Sawyer graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar October 5, 1880. He is now at the bar.

Isaac F. Sawyer was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar.

Jabez A. Sawyer was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 10, 1853, and is now at
the bar.

Laureston L. Scaife was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26, 1872, and is now at
the bar.

Lucius Manlius Sargent graduated at Harvard in 1870 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 24, 1876.

Frederic Baker Sears graduated at Brown in 1863 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1865. ' He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 17, 1865. He died in 1871.

Horace Nelson Seaver graduated at Columbia College in 1872, and at the Har-
vard Law School in 1874, in which year he was admitted to the Suffolk bar.

Arthur George Sedgwick graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 17, 1867.

Russell A. Sears was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and is now at
the bar.

Arthur J. Selfridge was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the
bar.

J. George Seltzer was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 7, 1861, and is now at
the bar.

Joseph C. Sharkey was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the bar.

Charles E. Shattuck was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the
bar.

Roland Crocker Shaw graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in June, 1860. He died in 1888.

George Sheffield graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1876, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar October 26, 1876. He died in 1884.

534 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Henry Newton Sheldon graduated at Harvard in 1863, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in April, 1866. He is now at the bar.

Edward Lowell Sherman graduated at Harvard in 1854, and was admitted to
the Essex bar in 1856. He wa$ at the Suffolk bar in 1860.

Robert F. Simes was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the bar.

Charles L. Simmons was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar.

Albert Thomas Sinclair graduated at Harvard in 1864, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar January 2, 1866. He is now at the bar.

Herbert Sleeper graduated at Harvard in 1861, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar February 21, 1865. He died in 1874.

Edwin Smith graduated at Harvard in 1811, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in September, 1814. He died in 1875.

George Alexander Smith graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 9 in that year. He died in 1859.

Henry A. Smith was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1872, and is now at
the bar.

Henry Farnam Smith graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1850, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar March 13, 1852. He died in 1874.

Horace E. Smith was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 17, 1847, and after prac-
ticing in Boston moved to New York State.

Joseph Emerson Smith graduated at Harvard in 1804, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in July, 1807. He died in 1837.

. Manasses Smith, brother of the above, graduated at Harvard in 1800, and was at
the Suffolk bar in 1819. He died in 1822.

Phineas Bean Smith graduated at' tne Harvard Law School in 1860, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 26, 1859. He is now at the bar.

William Smith graduated at Harvard in 1807, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1810. He died in 1811.

Uzziel Putnam Smith graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1858.

Ypsilanti Alexander Smith graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1849, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year.

George A. Smythe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1872, and is now
at the bar.

Elmer A. Snow was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar.

Frederick E. Snow was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the
bar.

George Wales Soren graduated at Harvard in 1854 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 21, 1858.

Walter W. Soren was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar.

Charles B. Southard was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 8, 1871, and is
now at the bar.

BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 535

Charles F. Spear was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the bar.

Henry W. Sprague was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar.

William Stackpole graduated at Harvard in 1798, and was at the Suffolk bar in
1804. He died in 1822.

Melville Stacy graduated at Harvard in 1867 and at the Harvard Law School in
1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1871, and is now at the bar,

William Jasper Stanley graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year. He died in 1881.

George Hermon Stearns graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted to the
Essex bar in 1880. He is now at the Suffolk bar.

William H. Stearns was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 26, 1885, and is now
at the bar.

William Stedman graduated at Harvard in 1784, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar. He died in 1831.

Charles Steere was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1876, and is now at the
bar.

Edwin F. Stevens was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar.

Henry James Stevens graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar September 4, 1860. He is now at the bar.

James Munroe Stevens graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar April 21 in that year.

Milan Fillmore Stevens graduated at Harvard in 1876, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in October, 1878. He is now at the bar.

William B. Stevens was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 3, 1867, and is now at the
bar.

Enos Stewart graduated at Harvard in 1820, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
May 6, 1826. He died in 1847.

John Stickney graduated at Harvard iu 1804, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in July, 1808. He died in 1833.

L. L. STiMPSONwas admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1880, and is now at the bar.

Howard Stockton was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1870, and is
now at the bar.

Philip Sidney Stone graduated at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in July, 1875.

Richard Stone was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 19, 1866, and is now at
the bar.

Augustus Story graduated at Harvard in 1832, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in October, 1836. He died in 1882.

James Jackson Storrow graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar February 18, 1860. He is now at the bar.

James Jackson Storrow, jr. , graduated at Harvard in 1885, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in 1888. He is now at the bar.

536 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Charles Edwin Stratton graduated at Harvard in 1866 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1868. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 18, 1869, and is now at
the bar.

Frederic Washington Story graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar November 1, 1875.

Jacob Story graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar January 4, 1847.

Roger F. Sturgis was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar.

Thomas Leggett Sturtevant graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 1, 1866.

Edward Sullivan was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 10, 1865, and is now at
the bar.

William Sullivan graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted to the Suffolk

bar in 1882. He is now at the bar.

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William H. Sullivan was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the

bar.

James Barry Sullivan was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1866, and is now at the

bar.

Jeremiah Henry Sullivan graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1872, and was"
admitted to the Suffolk bar May 2, 1873.

Melville Howard Swett graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in October. 1874.

James Sumner graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in March, 1862.

William Symmes graduated at Harvard in 1780, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar. He died in 1807.

Thomas H. Talbot graduated at Bowdoin in 1846, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar January 13, 1872, and is now at the bar.

Edmund H. Talbot was admitted the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the bar.

Arthur Taylor was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar.

John Taylor graduated at Harvard in 1786, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar.
He died in 1843.

John Doe Taylor graduated at Harvard in 1849 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1853. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 20, 1853.

Frederick H. Temfle was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar.

Charles Thorndike graduated at Harvard in 1854 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 28, 1857, and is now at the bar.

John Larkin Thorndike graduated at Harvard in 1866 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1868. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 8, 1868, and is now at the
bar.

James Steuart Thorndike graduated at Harvard in 1848 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1850. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 25, 1852, and died in
Paris, France, April 20, 1893.

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Wllliam Starkey Titcomb graduated at Harvard in 1801, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar. He died in 1831.

W. H. J. Tiernan was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and is now at
the bar.

James Richard Tout graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar June 14 in that year.

Joseph Warren Towle graduated at Harvard in 1851, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar July 18, 1853.

Truman Benjamin Towne graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar March 16, 1871.

William H. Towne was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 24, 1864, and is now at
the bar.

George Henry Tripp graduated at Harvard in 1867, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar September 24, 1869. He died in 1880.

Ichabod Tucker graduated at Harvard in 1791, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar. He died in 1846.

Josiah P. Tucker was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar.
Calvin B. Tuttle was admitted to the Essex bar in 1880, and is now at the Suffolk
bar.

Frank J. Tuttle was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar.

John Leighton Tuttle graduated at Harvard in 1796, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar. He died in 1813.

George Washington Tyler graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1857 and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar December 26 in that year.

Theodore Hilgard Tyndale graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868 and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 4 in that year. He is now at the bar.

Royall Tyler 2d graduated at Harvard in 1834, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar November 27, 1837.

William Phineas Upham graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the
Essex bar in 1859. He is now at the Suffolk bar.

John W. Vaughn was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar.

Dominique F. Verdenal graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar April 22 in that year.

John Martin Verdenal graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar April 22 in that year.

Solomon Vose graduated at Harvard in 1787, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar.
He died in 1809.

John Wade graduated at Amherst in 1830 and at the Harvard Law School in 1834.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1833, and died in 1851.

George Gorham Walbach graduated at Harvard in 1873 and at the Boston Univer-
sity Law School in 1879, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1880.

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Arthur Daggett McClellan, son of John and Anna I. (Daggett) McClellan, was
born in Sutton, Mass., May 21, 1850. He is descended from James McClellan, who
came to New England with a company of Scotch Irish and settled in Worcester
about 1718. Samuel, a brother of James, was the ancestor of General George B.
McClellan. He was educated at the Worcester Academy and at Brown University,
where he graduated in 1873. While holding good rank in his class he was especially
distinguished during his college course as an athlete. He was one of the freshmen
crew of 1870 which won the race on Lake Quinsigamorid, near Worcester, over the
competing crews of Harvard, Yale and Amherst. His physical development was
considered so nearly perfect that in boating circles he gained and bore for many
years the name of the " little giant." In October, 1873, he entered the law office of
Bacon & Aldrich in Worcester, the firm consisting of Peter C. Bacon and P. Emery
Aldrich, the latter of whom was in the same year appointed to the bench of the
Superior Court, and was succeeded in the firm by W. S. B. Hopkins, who had at that
time attained distinction as an advocate. While a student Mr. McClellan reported
the Court proceedings for the Worcester Gazette, and his labors as a reporter, which
were highly commended, served to educate him in the methods and practice of
his profession and furnish to him valuable aid in his preparation for a legal career.
In October, 1874, he removed to Boston and entered the law office of Charles H.
Drew and Albert Mason, the former of whom is the justice of the Police Court of
Brookline, and the latter the chief justice of the Superior Court. He finished his law
studies with a year's course in the Boston University Law School, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875. After his admission he began practice in the office
of Drew & Mason, but soon after formed a partnership with Charles C. Barton and
George S. Forbush, under the title of Barton, McClellan ,& Forbush. Two years
later Mr. Forbush left the firm and its name became Barton & McClellan and so con-
tinued for five years. In the autumn of 1886 he originated the idea of having the
short lists of all the courts in the county published daily and circulated each afternoon
among subscribers at the bar. He began the publication of the Daily Law Bulle-
tin soon after, containing the short lists for the next day, giving the names of the
parties to suits, of the counsel on both sides, a brief report of the trials of the day,
the finding of the court or the verdict of the jury, as the case might be. At a later
day the scope of the Bulletin was enlarged by adding the trials of the United States
Courts and the courts of Middlesex county, and by adding chattel and real estate
mortgages, rescripts, etc. This Law Bulletin was the first of its kind, but its plan
was soon after adopted in many places in other States. Mr. McClellan became in-
terested at the same time in the publication of the Banker and Tradesman, a
weekly issue containing full information concerning transfers and mortgages of real
and personal estate in all the counties of the State, but an enlarging law practice in-
duced him to relinquish his interest in both that and the Bulletm to parties who
have continued their publication. In his general practice, which has been large and
satisfactorily lucrative, he has achieved merited distinction, being especially success,
ful in the organization of corporations and the direction of their legal and financial
affairs. For five years he was secretary of the Boston Art Club, and was one of the
active founders of the University Club. He is a director in the Traders' National
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on him to seduce him from a profession which he continues to practice with interest
and zeal. He married, October 9, 1882, in New York city, Mary A. Hartwell,
widow of Charles A, Hartwell and daughter of Timothy Townsend, and has his resi-
dence at the Hotel Vendome in Boston.

Godfrey Morse, son of Jacob and Charlotte Morse, was born in Wachenheim,
Bavaria, May 19, 1846. At the age of eight years he came to America with his
mother, and received his early education in the Boston public schools. He graduated
at Harvard in 187Q and at the Harvard Law School with the degree of LL.B. m
1872. His law studies were completed in the office of Brooks & Ball in Boston, and
he was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 22, 1873. While preparing himself for his
profession he taught, during some of the winter months, English literature and
arithmetic in the Boston Evening High School. He was admitted to practice in the
United States Circuit Court October 2, 1874, and in the United States Supreme
Court at Washington February 3, 1879. He was a member of the Boston School
Committee in 1876-77-78, and of the Boston Common Council in 1882-83, serving in
the latter year as president of the Board. In 1882-83-84 he was assistant counsel of
the United States in the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, and on the 11th
of March, 1885, he was appointed a member of the Board of Commisioners for the
erection of the new court-house for the city of Boston and the county of Suffolk. In
1887 he was chosen a member of the Board of Trustees of the Boston Dental College,
and is now, in connection with his other professional work, acting as attorney of the
American Surety Company of New York. Mr. Morse is a brother of the late Leo-
pold Morse, and possesses many of those traits which won for that gentleman the
confidence and respect of the community. He is engaged in an active and growing
general practice which he conducts with an energy and fidelity deserving the success
which he has achieved.

Walter Adams, son of C. S. Adams, graduated at Harvard in 1870, and studied
law with his father in Framingham, and in the office of Henry W. Paine and Robert
D. Smith in Boston, and is practicing in Boston. He married, May 25, 1885, at West
River, Md. , Constance, daughter of Rev. Thomas Weld Winchester. He resides in
Framingham.

John Hannan Cole graduated at Harvard in 1870 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1872, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1873, and to the bar in
New York in October, 1874. In January, 1877, he became a member of the firm of
Gray & Davenport in New York, and in 1879 was admitted to the bar of the Supreme
Court of the United States. In 1880 he withdrew from the firm of Gray & Daven-
port and has since practiced alone in New York. He married, September 26, 1877,
Lucy May Smith, of New York, who died January 24, 1882. He married second,
June 11, 1885, in Oxford, England, Josephine Mcllvaine Hewson. He resides in
New York.

Louis Thomas Cushing graduated at Harvard in 1870, and after graduation was
engaged in farming in Madison, Wis. He then removed to Cohasset, Mass., and
studied law in the Boston University, graduating in 1875, and being admitted to the
Suffolk bar in June of that year. He married, February 14, 1871, Mary Rebecca
Johnson, of Cohasset, where he resides and practices law.

54Q HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Andrew Otis Evans, son of Hosea Ballou and Harriet (French) Evans, was born
in Boston, May 26, 1847. He received his early education at the Boston public
schools and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He studied law at the Harvard Law
School, and at the Boston University, and in the office of Brooks & Ball of Boston,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1873. He died in Boston in September,
1879.

Joseph Healy, son of John Plummer and Mary Stickney (Barker) Healy,
was born in Boston, August 6, 1849. He graduated at .Harvard in 1870, and
after studying law in the office of his father in Boston and at the Harvard
Law School was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 16, 1873. In 1878 he delivered
the Boston Fourth of July oration. He was secretary and treasurer of the Boston
Latin School Association, vice-president of the Young Men's Benevolent Society, and
a member of various social, legal and antiquarian associations. He married, Sep-
tember 26, 1877, in Brookline, Mass., Alice Hale Bird, and died in Boston, April 18,
1880.

Bauson Savilian Ladd graduated at Harvard in 1870, and taught school in Worces-
ter two years after graduation. He studied law in the office of Lathrop, Abbot &
Jones, of Boston, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar March 27, 1875. He married, November 16, 1878, Ella Cora Brooks, of Milton.

Charles H. Swan graduated at Harvard in 1870, and after studying law in the
office of Harris & Tucker, of Boston, was admitted to the bar in June, 1872. He
married, November 6, 1884, Caroline Metcalf Nazro, of Dorchester, where he has his
residence.

William Warren Vaughan graduated at Harvard in 1870, and after studying law
at the Harvard Law School was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1874. He
married, October 16, 1882, Ellen Twisleton, daughter of the late Dr. Samuel Park-
man, and resides in Boston.

Melville M. Weston graduated at Harvard in 1870, and studied law in the office
of Robert D. Smith, of Boston, and at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted
to the bar in December, 1873, and practices in Boston.

George Jones, alias George the Count Johannes, was the son of George Jones, a
Boston constable, and was born in that city. In early life he acted on the stage of
the old Tremont and other theatres. About the year 1840, when he was perhaps
thirty or thirty-five years of age, he went to England, and there in some of the lesser
theatres played the leading parts in the plays of Shakespeare. His performances
amused the people and brought down on him the satire and humor of London
Punch. He returned to Boston not many years before the war and made himself
conspicuous by his libel suits against parties who dared to express doubts of his title
and pretensions. He claimed that the rank of count had been regularly conferred on
him in England, and he wore the badges of his rank. For several years he was the
terror of the newspapers and the courts, and besides managing the many suits in
which he was the plaintiff, he acted in others as a special attorney, never having been
admitted to the bar. In a suit brought against William L. Burt for a libel contained
in an address to the jury in a case in which the count was the plaintiff, the libel con-
sisting of the declaration that he was insane, he described himself in the declaration

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to the writ. as " a public author of historical and other works, public lecturer and pub- •
iic oratorical illustrator of the Sacred Scriptures and the works of Shakspeare, and
Special attorney," etc. Another suit was brought by him against Francis H. Under-
Wood for writing in the Boston Atlas and. Bee that " there flourishes a sot disant
Count with his decorations given by the Grand Duke Pumpernickel, or brought from
Some similar august potentate." This suit caused Mr. Underwood much trouble, and
his determination to discover the origin of the assumed title of count, and to put an
end to the pretensions of the man who claimed the right to bear it, cost him some
money, but was effectual. Affidavits were secured in England showing that Mr.
Sartoris, the son-in-law of Adelaide Kemble, the sister of F"anny Kemble, to make
sport of Mr. Jones, invited him to a dinner or supper in London, and in the course of
the evening told him in a serious way that he ought to have a title, and as he himself
was descended from an ancient count whose right to confer the rank on others inured
to his descendants that he would bestow the title on him. Making him kneel on the
floor, he said: " Rise George the Count Johannes, Knight of the Golden Spur." But
as Mr. Sartoris was really descended from a count it was necessary to show that he
had no power to confer the title, and an affidavit was obtained from the Chancellor
of Austria showing that the last and only grant of the title with a descending power
of transfer was made in 1495, and that the family possessing it had lapsed. It was
also shown by experts, among whom was the late Edmund Quincy, that the title of
Knight of the Golden Spur was alone given by the Pope to such as had performed
some special service to the Romish Church. Some hints concerning the various libel
and slander suits in which the count was engaged may be found in Johannes vs.
Bennett, 5th of Allen, and Johannes vs. Burt vs. Underwood vs. Mudge vs. Nickerson
and vs. Pangborn, 6th of Allen. The count finally became so troublesome with his
suits that he was indicted for barratry and convicted, and a sentence to the House of
Correction was withheld only on the condition that he would leave the State. He
went to New York and is said to have died there since 1880.

Jonathan Mason, son of Jonathan, was born in Boston, August 20, 1752, and grad-
uated at Princeton in 1774. He studied law with John Adams, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in 1777. He was a representative several years, a member of the
Executive Council, and in 1800 was elected United States senator as the successor of
Benjamin Goodhue, of Salem, who had resigned. He served as senator until 1803
and as member of Congress from December, 1817, to May, 1820. He died in Boston,
November 1, 1831. He married Susanna Powell.

Jeremiah Mason was born in Lebanon, Conn., April 27, 1768, and graduated at
Yale in 1788. He was the son of Jeremiah Mason, a colonel in the Revolution. He
was admitted to the bar in 1781, and began practice in AVestmoreland, N. H. In
1794 he removed to Walpole, and in 1797 to Portsmouth, where he rapidly gained an
extensive business. In 1802 he was appointed attorney-general of New Hampshire,
and served in the United States Senate as a Federalist from 1813 to his resignation
in 1817. In 1832 he removed to Boston where, as in New Hampshire, he shared with
Mr. Webster the leadership of the bar. In 1840 he retired from general practice,
though continuing until his death the consulting business of his office. He was a
man whose brain and mind and body corresponded. All were massive and strong,
and while Mr. Webster declared that much of his own skill as a jurist was due to

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lessons learned from Mr. Mason in his contests with him at the bar, there was many
a common man who had cowered before his physical presence. It is said that once
riding down throught the upper and narrow part of Water street in Boston in the
chaise in which he always rode, and crouching down as was his habit so that his real
height was not disclosed, he met a team coming up. It was of course necessary that
either Mr. Mason or the driver of the team should back out of the way. Mr. Mason
ordered the driver to back in a somewhat peremptory manner which the driver re-
sented, returning the compliment by telling the old man to back himself. After
some words of a not very friendly character Mr. Mason getting a little angry began
to straighten up, much to the dismay of the driver, who at last exclaimed, For God's
sake, mister, don't uncoil any more, I'll get out of the way. It is unnecessary to go
into details concerning the characteristics of Mr. Mason as a lawyer or concerning
the prominent incidents in his career. They may be found in his memoirs, and in
the various biographical dictionaries. He died in Boston, October 14, 1848.

Jonathan Adams was a barrister in 1768, living in Braintree, then a part of Suf-
folk county. He was not a graduate of Harvard, and the writer has been unable to
learn anything of his history.

Job Almy was judge of the Common Pleas Court of Bristol county, serving in that
capacity from 1740 to 1747, and belonged in Tiverton. He is entitled to a place in
this register in consequence of his appointment in 1737 to act as a special justice in
Suffolk county in the case of Aaron Knapp.

Edmund Andros was born in London, December 6, 1637. In 1674 he was appoint-
ed governor of the province of New York by the Duke of York, and continued in
service till 1681. In 1686 he was appointed by James the second governor of New
England, and arrived in Boston, December 21, in that year. On the accession of
William and Mary he was deposed and imprisoned, and sent to England. In 1692
he returned to America as governor of Virginia, and remained until 1698. From
1704 to 1706 he was governor of the Island of Jersey, and died in London, February
24, 1714. The judicial powers exercised by him in New England, and described in
the introductory chapter of this volume, entitle him to a place in this register.

George Franklin Danforth was born in Boston, July 5, 1819, and graduated at
Union College in 1840. He was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Roches-
ter, N. Y. In 1879 he took a seat on the bench of the Court of Appeals, and is be-
lieved to be still in service.

Addington Davenport, jr., son of Judge Addington Davenport, was appointed
attorney-general in 1728 and 1732, but Washburn says that it is doubtful whether he
was permitted to perform the duties of the office. He practiced law in Boston some
years, but in 1732 went to England and took orders for the church. He was born in
Boston, May 16, 1701, and graduated at Harvard in 1719. Having been ordained in
England he returned to Massachusetts, and was appointed the first rector of St.
Andrew's church in Scituate. In 1737 he became rector of King's chapel in Boston,
and in 1740 was transferred to Trinity church, of which he was rector until his death
September 8, 1746.

David Lisle, of whom the writer knows little, was solicitor-general of the Com-
missioners of the Customs in Boston from 1769 to his death in February, 1775.

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John Menzies came from England to Boston in 1715, and brought with him a com-
mission as judge of admiralty, having been in Scotland a member of the Faculty of
Advocates. He at first settled in Roxbury, but removed to Leicester, where he lived
many years. He was a representative from Leicester, and expelled for writing
letters to the Lords Commissioners in England, complaining of the interference by
the Provincial Courts with his jurisdiction. He died in Boston, September 20, 1728,
at the age of seventy-eight years.

Herbert Pelham was born in Lincoln county, England, in 1601, and graduated at
Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1619. He was the son of Herbert Pelham of Michelham
Priory, who was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1588, and grandson of Edward Pelham
of Hastings, in Sussex, a member of Parliament in 1597. Edward, the last named,
was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1563, was called to the bar in 1579, knighted and
made lord baron of the Exchequer of Ireland, and died in 1606. Herbert came to
Massachusetts in 1638, having been educated in the law. He was the first treasurer
of Harvard College, and returned to England in 1649, where he died in 1673. His
daughter, Penelope, married Josiah Winslow, son of Governor Edward Winslow, of
the Plymouth colony, who was himself governor of that colony from 1673 to 1680.

William Edward Payne, son of William and Lucy (Lobell) Payne, was born in
New York, April 8, 1804, while his parents were returning to Boston from a visit in
Washington. He was one of twins, and his twin brother was named Edward Will-
iam. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and at Harvard, where he
graduated in 1824. He studied law at the law school in Northampton, and in the
office of Lemuel Shaw and Sidney Bartlett, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
1827. Being in poor health, he never practiced law to any extent. In 1834 he went
to Europe, where he remained until his death, which occurred at Paris, France, July
5, 1838. He was unmarried.

Thomas W. Thompson was born in Boston, March 15, 1766, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1786. He studied law, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He practiced
law in Salisbury, N. H., from 1790 to 1810, when he removed to Concord, N. H. He
was speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1813-14, member of
Congress from 1805 to 1807, and State treasurer in 1809, and United States senator
from 1814 to 1817. He died at Concord, October 1, 1821.

CharlEs Wesley Tuttle was born in Maine, November 1, 1829, and as one of the
corps of observers at the Astronomical Observatory in Cambridge distinguished him-
self by the discovery of a telescopic comet in 1853, which bears his name. In 1854
he was attached to the United States expedition for determining the difference of
longitude between Cambridge, Mass., and Greenwich in England. Having taxed
his eyes too severely by astronomical work, he abandoned his scientific pursuits,
and after attending the Harvard Law School was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4,
1856. He died July 18, 1881, At the time of his death he was engaged in writing
memoirs of Caleb Cushing and Captain John Mason.

William Heath was born in Roxbury, March 2, 1737, on the estate on wrhich his
ancestor settled in 1636. He was bred a farmer, but had a strong taste for military
affairs. He was the commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
in 1770, and colonel of the Suffolk Regiment in 1774. He was a representative in

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1761, a delegate to the Provincial Congresses of 1774 and 1775, and a member of the
Committee of Correspondence and Safety. He was appointed brigadier-general of
the militia December 8, 1774, major-general June 20, 1775, brigadier-general of the
Continental Army June 22, 1775, and major-general August 9, 1776. He was stationed
at Roxbury during the siege of Boston, and after the evacuation of that city went to
New York and took command of the posts at the Highlands. In 1777 he commanded
the Eastern Department, had charge of the prisoners taken at Saratoga, and finally
had command on the Hudson until the close of the war. He was a delegate to the
Federal Constitutional Convention in 1788; State senator from 1780 to 1792, and in
1806 was chosen lieutenant-governor, but declined. On the 2d of July, 1793, after
the incorporation of Norfolk county, he was appointed judge of the Court of Common
Pleas, and also judge of probate of the new county, and died January 24, 1814.

Thomas Greenleaf was born in Boston, May 15, 1767, and graduated at Harvard
in 1784. He was a representative from Quincy from 1808 to 1820; a member of the
Executive Council from 1820 to 1822, and in 1806 was appointed judge of the Court
of Common Pleas for Norfolk county. He died January 5, 1854.

John W. Ames, son of Fisher Ames, was born in Dedham, October 22, 1793, and
graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law with Theron Metcalf, and after ad-
mission to the bar opened an office in Boston. After a short time he removed to
Dedham, from which town he was a representative in the General Court in 1822, and
where he was president of the Dedham Bank from 1829 until his death, which
occurred October 31, 1833.

Wilbur H. Powers, son of Elias and Emeline (White) Powers, was born in Croy-
den, N. H., January 2, 1849. He inherited from a vigorous ancestry strength of
character and tenacity of will which have served him well in the development of his
professional career. Since the day when a Le Poer figured as one of the bravest
generals in the battle of Hastings, the family name in its various forms of spelling
has represented an honest and brave and patriotic race. Early in life he attended
the village school, often traveling three miles on foot to more distant schools when
nearer ones were closed, and later he attended a school of higher grade at Olean,
N. Y. , and Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H. But he was not content with
the instruction received at these institutions. Naturally of an inquiring mind, he
had been in the habit of listening to the conversation of his elders, and thus his
ambition was kindled to learn something more of the world than he could acquire
within the narrow field of his country life. In 1871 he entered Dartmouth College
and graduated in 1875, having taken during the collegiate course several prizes for
rhetoric, oratory and general scholarship. During the winter months he had taught
school, and during the summer vacations been employed on his father's farm or in a
neighboring furniture establishment, and thus he not only learned lessons of industry
and thrift, but earned something towards the payment of his college bills. After
leaving college he attended the Boston University School of Law, graduating in 1878,
and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar at Concord in August of that year. In
November, 1878, he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar at Fitchburg, and began
practice in Boston January 22, 1879. Upon coming to Boston he made Canton his
place of residence for a year, and removed to Hyde Park in 1881, where he has con-
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he has closely identified himself, and in 1890, 1891 and 1892 was its representative in
the General Court. In the House of Representatives he was recognized by the Re-
publicans as their most judicious and efficient leader, and to his efforts was due the
passage of the Congressional apportionment bill, which was considered as more just
and more free from partisan manipulation than any apportionment for many years.
He was also chairman of the Committee on Railroads and in 1892 was appointed
chairman of the important committee to revise the judicial system of the Common-
wealth. He was also the author of the " Powers Tax Bill," the object of which was
to make a more equitable division of that portion of the State tax now paid to cities
and towns, and at the same time to foster the public school system and aid needy
municipalities. He married in Boston, May 1, 1880, Emily Owen, and continues to
live in Hyde Park.

David Haven Mason, son of John and Mary (Haven) Mason, was born in Sullivan,
N. H., March 17, 1818, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1841. After studying
law he was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 7, 1843. In 1848 he took up his resi-
dence in Newton and there remained until his death. With the sterling traits which
were his characteristics, he was not long in securing the confidence of the business
community and establishing himself firmly in the profession. In the town of his
adoption he became a respected and trustworthy citizen, and he was ever active and
efficient in promoting the welfare of the town and its people. His interest in the
schools of Newton was especially strong, and to his efforts more than to those of
others was due the erection of a new High School building against serious and deter-
mined opposition. The people of Newton have reco'gnized his services in behalf of
the schools by giving his name to one of the schools in Newton Centre. In 1857 he
delivered an oration in New London, Conn. , on the Fourth of July and in 1859 in
Newton on the same occasion. On the 14th of July, 1864, he delivered the oration at
the centennial anniversary of the settlement of Lancaster, N. H. In 1860 he was
appointed by the governor a member of the State Board of Education and served
several years, during which he was especially conspicuous in the establishment of
the State Normal School in Framingham. In 1863, 1866 and 1867 he was a repre-
sentative from Newton, and more than once declined nominations to the State Senate
and to Congress. A seat on the bench also was offered to him, but he preferred the
active business as well as the larger emoluments of his profession. During his legis-
lative career and before committeesiof the Legislature he advocated many important
measures, among which may be mentioned the consolidation of the Western and
Boston Worcester Railroads, the equalization of bounties to soldiers, the Fort Hill
enterprise, and the abolition of the Mill Dam toll-gate. During the administration
of President Grant, George S\ Hillard resigned the office of United States district
attorney for Massachusetts, and on the 22d of December, 1870, Mr. Mason was ap-
pointed his successor, and held that office until his death. He married, June 16, 1845,
Sarah Wilson, daughter of John Hazen and Roxanna White Wilson, of Rutland, Mass. ,
and died , at Newton, May 20, 1873, leaving one daughter and three sons, members
of the Suffolk bar, and referred to elsewhere in this register.

James R. Murphy, son of James and Catherine Murphy, was born in Boston, July
20, 1853. He was educated at Boston College, and at the University of Georgetown,
District of Columbia, from which he graduated in 1872. After leaving college he

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was emyloyed three years as professor of Latin in Loyola College, Baltimore, and in
Seton Hall, New Jersey. He then studied law in the office of Josiah G. Abbott, in
Boston, and at the Boston University Law School from which he graduated with the
degree of LL.B. in 1876, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 18 in that
year. Since his admission he has always practiced alone, relying on his own un-
aided efforts for the professional success which he has achieved. Among the im-
portant cases in which he has been counsel may be mentioned the Frye murder case,
the Florence Street murder case, and several contract cases involving large sums of
considerable amount. As a Roman Catholic he has been active and influential in
the organization of Young Men's Catholic Associations, and is a member of the
Catholic Union, the Order of United Workmen and the Royal Arcanum. He is in
the prime of mental and bodily vigor, still advancing in his profession with a sure
promise of continued success. He married in -Baltimore, Md. , Mary, daughter of
George Baker Randall, November 21, 1881, and has his residence in the Roxbury
District of Boston.

George Partridge Sanger, son of Rev. Ralph and Charlotte Kingman Sanger,
was born in Dover, Mass., November 27, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1840.
His rank in college was high, and the studious habits while in college were main-
tained through life. He fitted for college partly under the instruction of his father,
and partly at the academy in Bridgewater, the native place of ihis mother. During
his preparation he taught school in Dover during the winter of 1834, at the age of fif-
teen, and in Sharon during the winter of 1835. After leaving college he taught a
private school in Portsmouth, N. H., nearly two years, after which he entered the
Harvard Law School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1844.
In 1843, while attending the law school, he was appointed tutor in Latin, having
held the position of proctor since August, 1842. In 1846 his connection with the col-
lege terminated, and he was admitted to the Suffolk bar on the 9th of February in
that year. After his admission he was associated in business for a short time with
Stephen H. Phillips, and afterwards with Charles G. Davis, and in 1849 was ap-
pointed assistant of George Lunt, United States district attorney for the District of
Massachusetts. In January, 1853, he was appointed on the staff of Governor Clif-
ford, and on the 30th of September of that year was appointed Commonwealth attor-
ney to succeed John C. Park, who had resigned. In 1854 he was appointed judge of
the Court of Common Pleas, and was succeeded as Commonwealth or district attorney
by George W. Cooley. He remained on the bench until the abolition of the Common
Pleas Court in 1859, and in 1861 was reappointed district attorney in the place of
Joseph H. Bradley, who had been appointed to succeed Mr. Cooley, but declined.
He held the office of district attorney until 1866, when he declined further service,
and resumed practice. In 1867 he removed his residence from Boston to Cambridge,
and continued it there until his death. In 1873 he was appointed United States at-
torney for the District of Massachusetts by President Grant, and was reappointed
twice, once by President Hayes and once by President Arthur. In Charlestown,
where he resided in the earlier part of his career, he was a member of the School
Board two years, and captain of the Charlestown City Guards. In 1853 he com-
manded the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and in 1870 was a member of
the Boston Common Council. He was a member of the House of Representatives in

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1873, and was for several years the president of the John Hancock Mutual Life In-
surance Company of Boston. Aside from his official labors, and those more in-
timately connected with his profession, he devoted much time to the literature of the
law. He was editor of the American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowl-
edge from 1848 to 1860, was twice editor of the Law Reporter, and the editor of the
Statutes at Large of the United States from 1855 to 1873. In 1860 he was ap-
pointed, with Judge William A. Richardson, by the Massachusetts Legislature, to
publish the General Statutes in 1860 and an annual supplement to the same, a work
which continued until the revision of the statutes in 1881. He married, September
14, 1846, Elizabeth Sherburne, daughter of Wm. Whipple and Eleanor (Sherburne)
Thompson, of Portsmouth, N. H., and died at Swampscott, Mass., July 3, 1890.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis, jr., son of Judge Benjamin Robbins Curtis, was born in
Boston in June, 1855. He was fitted for college at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.
H., and graduated at Harvard in 1875. He studied law at the Harvard Law School,
and in Boston in the office of Albert Mason, and was admitted to the bar at Plymouth
in June, 1878. In 1881 he was a lecturer in the Boston University Law School, and
in April, 1886, was appointed one of the judges of the Municipal Court of the city of
Boston. Before entering on his legal career he spent a year in travel, during which
he went round the world, and visited with an observing eye its various nations and
and people. The result of his observations he published after his return in a work,
which was interesting and remunerative. He married, in 1877, Mary G., daughter
of Professor Horsford of Cambridge, and died in Boston,1 January 25, 1891.

Thomas William Clarke, son of Calvin W. and Ann K. (Townsend) Clarke, was
born in Boston, December 1, 1834. His mother was a daughter of Dr. David Towns-
end, chief surgeon of the Northern Army at Saratoga, and director-general of hos-
pitals in the Revolution. The ancestors of his father were early settlers in Marble-
head, and two members of the family, Thomas and Benjamin, moved to Boston about
the year 1740. One of these was a silversmith and the other a coppersmith. A
brother, John, who remained in Marblehead, was the father of Lieut. John Clarke,
of Glover's Regiment, who with two cousins figured conspicuously in the retreat from
Long Island and at the crossing of the Delaware. Thomas Clarke, the father of
Calvin and grandfather of the subject of this sketch, lived in Roxbmy, and was at-
tached to the commissary department during the siege of Boston. The systematic
co-operation of the civil strength of the Province in the work of fortifying Dorchester
Heights was due to the thoroughness with which the commissariat officers of Massa-
chusetts had under Mr. Devens, the commissary-general, ascertained and organized
the resources of the Province under the town officers, for the purpose of sustaining
the siege. For many years Thomas Clarke was town clerk and town collector of
Roxbury and the first representative from that town under the State constitution.
Calvin W. Clarke, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a respected Boston
merchant and a member of the well-known iron house of Samuel Majr & Company:
He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1850 and 1851, an alderman in
1852, and a representative in 1851 and 1852. He was a director of the Traders'
Bank, the Manufacturers' Insurance Company, and several manufacturing corpora-
tions, and after his retirement from business for many years was an assistant assessor
of the city of Boston. Thomas William Clarke, the subject of this sketch, fitted for

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college at the Chauncy Hall School and with private tutors, and graduated at Har-
vard in 1855. In the autumn of that year he entered as a student in the law office of
Henry M. & Horatio G. Parker in Boston, and at a later date entered the Harvard
Law School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1858. While a
student at the law school he was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 19, 1857, and
also studied comparative anatomy in the Lawrence Scientific School in Cambridge. In
1856 he received the Bowdoin prize for resident graduates for an essay on "the
political and economical effects of the laws regulating succession to property of per-
sons deceased." While in the office of the Messrs. Parker he was engaged from time
to time in the service of the commission to revise the statutes of the Commonwealth
and occasionally as a writer on the staff of the Atlas and Daily Bee, of Boston.
Always nominally a Republican, he was an advocate of the election of B. F. Butler
for governor of Massachusetts in opposition to Robert R. Bishop in 1882, and George
D. Robinson in 1883, and for president of the United States in 1884, and was himself,
in 1884, the candidate of the People's Party for the attorney-generalship of the State.
After leaving the law school he began practice in Boston, and was commissioner of
insolvency in 1859-1860 and 1861. After the election of 1860, believing that the elec-
tion of President Lincoln would result in war, he set himself diligently at work pre-
paring himself for any exigency that might arise. When the crisis was reached and
the Massachusetts militia was called for he, with Captain Tyler, who had been in the
Mexican War, at once began to raise troops. The result of his efforts was that he
was commissioned captain of the Wightman Rifles, a company enlisted for three
years' service. Captain Tyler was commissioned captain of another company, and
these companies, together with one from Lynn, one from East Boston, one from
Plymouth, one from Sandwich, one from Lowell, and one from East Bridgewater —
eight in all — were mustered into the service on the 14th, 21st, and 22d of May, 1861,
for three years, and were temporarily attached to the Third and Fourth Massachu-
setts Three Months regiments, stationed at Fort Monroe. On the expiration of the
term of service of these regiments in July the above eight companies were organized
into a battalion, and in the following winter were reinforceed and made the Twenty-
ninth Massachusetts Regiment. After service at Fort Monroe and Newport News
and Norfolk, Captain Clarke with his regiment joined McClellan on the Peninsula in
1862, and was attached to the Irish Brigade. After the Seven Days fight he was sent
an invalid to Washington and served as quartermaster in Alexandria until the spring
of 1863. He then rejoined his regiment, then a part of the Ninth Corps, in Kentucky,
and accompanying it to Vicksburg and Jackson went to East Tennessee in the fall
of 1863. There his regiment was engaged in the affairs of Blue Spring and Camp-
bell's Station and in the siege of Knoxville. In January, 1864, the men of the regi-
ment were re-enlisted as veterans, and Captain Clarke acted for a time as head-
quarters commissary of the forces in the field. Coming home with his regiment on
a veterans' furlough he was engaged in recruiting until he returned to the front and
joined, in May, 1864, the Fifth Corps, at a later date rejoining General Burnside and
becoming part of the Second Brigade and First Division. Col. Ebenezer W. Pierce
of the regiment became brigade commander and Capt. Clarke adjutant-general of
the brigade. In May, 1865, he became adjutant-general of the First Division, and
so continued until he was placed in command of his regiment in July, 1865. Colonel
Pierce had resigned in the latter part of 1864. Lieutenant-Colonel Barnes had been

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mustered out, and Major Chipman having been killed, and senior Capt. W. D.
Chamberlain having been appointed commissary, a commission of colonel was issued
to Captain Clarke, but not being able to be mustered in on account of the reduced
size of his regiment, he continued as adjutant-general of the brigade. While holding
this position he won distinction in the successful repulse of the Confederate General
Gordon in his assault of March 25 on his brigade. After the fall of Petersburg the
regiment was stationed for a time along the Southside Railroad, and after the death
of President Lincoln was ordered to Washington, where it remained until it was
finally discharged, August 9, 1865. After his discharge from the service Captain
Clarke resumed the practice of law in Boston, devoting himself principally to patent,
copyright and trademark cases. He was one of the projectors of the Highland
Street Railway and for many years its counsel. He has been also interested in
electric railway projects and has frequently appeared before Legislative committees
in their behalf. By great research and ingenious argument he has located in this
country at Annapolis and Fort Monroe the two oldest guns known in the world,
Chinese breech-loaders, and published a sketch of his argument in the proceedings
of the Naval Institute for June, 1893. He married in 1868, Eliza A., daughter of
Joseph P. Raymond, of Somerville.

George White is a descendant of Thomas White, of Weymouth, who was born in
1599 and settled in that town as early as 1636. Nathaniel White, the sixth in descent
from Thomas, was born in Weymouth, and married Mehitabel, daughter of Theophilus
Curtis, of Stoughton, and was the father of George White, the subject of this sketch.
The son George was born in Quincy, Mass., November 9, 1821, and fitted for college
under the instruction of William M. Cornell and at Phillips Exeter Academy. He
graduated at Yale in 1848, and from the Harvard Law School in 1850, and after
further study in Boston in the office of Robert Rantoul, was admitted to the Suffolk
bar October 20, 1851. He became at once associated with Mr. Rantoul as a partner,
and continued in that relation to him until Mr. Rantoul' s death. On the occurrence
of that event, he formed a business connection with Asa- French, which continued
until 1858. In that year the offices of judge of probate and judge of insolvency in
the various counties were mingled, and he was appointed to the office of judge of
probate and insolvency for Norfolk county, and has continued in office to the present
time, performing his duties in a manner commanding the confidence and respect of
those with whom his office has brought him in near and almost confidential relations.
He is now a resident of Wellesley, with a law office in Boston, where aside from his
judicial duties he is engaged in general practice, but more especially as trustee in the
management of estates. While living in Quincy he took an active interest in its
schools, the church to which he was attached, and in every movement looking to the
intellectual and moral welfare of the town. For two years or more he was associate
editor and editor of the Qtcincy Patriot, and in its columns did much to direct and
elevate the thought of the community. In 1853 he was a member of the State Con-
stitutional Convention from Quincy, and in 1857 presided at the Young Men's Con-
vention at Worcester which nominated Nathaniel P. Banks for governor of Massa-
chusetts. He married Frances Mary Edwena, daughter of Edward and Clarissa
(Slack) Noyes, of Boston, and his children are George Rantoul White, Mary Haw-
thorne White and Edward Noyes White.

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Elbridge Gerry Dudley, son of Moses and Nancy (Glidden) Dudley, was born in
Raymond, N. H., August 13, 1811, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1839.
He studied law with Charles Frederick Gove, of Nashua, N. H., and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar August 1, 1842. He married first Christina D., daughter of Isaac
Duncan, of Stoddard, N. H., October 6, 1846; second, Sarah, daughter of Stephen
Child; and third, Martha R., daughter of Stephen Child, November 19, 1857. He
died in 18G7.

Mark Fisher Duncklee, son of Samuel and Esther French (Fisher) Duncklee, was
born in Greenfield, N. H., December 9, 1824, and graduated at Dartmouth College
in 1847. He studied law with John H. Norris at Newport, Me., and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar March 9, 1850. He married Mary, daughter of Greenwood Cushing
Child, of Augusta, Me., October 4, 1860.

Theodore S. Dame, son of Theodore and Lucy (Stebbins) Dame, was born in Or-
ford, N. H., May 28, 1824, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1848. He was admitted
to the Suffolk bar December 31, 1851, and is now at the bar. He married Mary
Elizabeth Palmer, September 19, 1858.

Henry W. Kinsman, son of Dr. Aaron Kinsman, was born in Portland, Me., March
6, 1803, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1822. He studied law in Boston
with Daniel Webster and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 4, 1826. He began
practice in Boston as a partner of Mr. Webster, and was a representative from Bos-
ton in 1833, 1834 and 1835. He moved to Newburyport in 1836, and was a repre-
sentative from that town in 1839, 1849 and 1854. He was also a senator one year,
and collector of the port of Newburyport from 1841 to 1845 and from 1849 to 1853.
He married first Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Willis, of Boston, October 1, 1828,
and second, Martha Frothingham, daughter of Joseph Moody Titcomb, of Newbury-
port, October 5, 1858. He died at Newburyport, December 4, 1859.

Frederick William Choate, son of Hervey and Hepzibah (Quarles) Choate, was
born in Beverly, Mass., June 7, 1815, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1836.
He studied law in Yarmouth, Mass., with John Reed, and in Boston with Rufus
Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 30, 1839, and always practiced
in Boston. He was a State senator in 1866. He married Eliza M., daughter of
Colonel John Breck, of Northampton, April 20, 1842.

David Morgan, son of Ashby and Lucy (Burton) Morgan, was born in Wilton,
N. H., October 14, 1810, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1835. After teaching school
at Jamaica Plain near Boston, he studied law with Augustus Peabody, of Boston,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. After some years he removed to Minneapolis,
and was appointed postmaster there in 1861. He married Mary Ann Lincoln Pierce,
of Boston, August 19, 1841, and died in 1872.

Nathan Thompson Dow, son of Dr. Jabez and Hannah (Waitt) Dow, was born in
Dover, N. H., December 27, 1807, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1828. After
leaving college he taught school at Haverhill, N. H., one year, and then studied law
with Daniel Miltimore Christie, of Dover, and Richard Fletcher, of Boston, and after
admission to the Suffolk bar, began practice in Grafton, Mass., in 1834. He after-
wards removed to Worcester, and thence in 1839 to Boston, where he remained until
his death in 1870.

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John Thompson Dame, son of John and Abigail (Thompson) Dame, was born in
Orford, N. H., October 21, 1816, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1840. He
studied law at Orford and at Boston and at the Harvard Law School, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar May 29, 1843. He began practice in Marlboro', moved to
Clinton, and finally to Boston. He married in June, 1845.

Paul Porter Todd, son of Ebenezer and Betsey (Kimball) Todd, was born in
Atkinson, N. H., February 16, 1819, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1842.
He studied law with William R. Thompson and Torrey & Wood, of Fitchburg, Mass.,
and was admitted to the bar in 1847. He began practice in Blackstone, Mass., but
afterwards removed to Boston. He married Harriet, daughter of Welcome Farnum,
of Blackstone, September 10, 1857.

Charles Bishop Goodrich, son of Josiah and Lucy (Bishop) Goodrich, was born in
Lebanon, N. H., March 26, 1804. He was descended from William Goodrich, who
was born near Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, England, and came to America with his
brother Jdhn about the year 1640. William, the ancestor, married Sarah, daughter
of Matthew and Elizabeth Marvin, of Hartford, and was a deputy from Weathers-
field, Conn., in 1662. The subject of this sketch graduated at Dartmouth College in
1822, and received a degree of LL.D. from his alma mater in 1872. He studied law
with Levi Woodbury in Portsmouth, and was admitted to the New Hampshire
bar. He began practice in Lebanon, N. H., and exhibited at the very threshold of
his career an ability and self-reliance which enabled him to meet without fear the
champions of the New Hampshire bar. Mr. Jeremiah Mason, against whom he was
acting as counsel in a trial at Portsmouth, was so much struck by these qualities in
the young lawyer that he became his adviser and friend, and at a later day, after the
removal of both to Boston, his partner in the law. He came to Boston in 1837 and
continued in active practice there until his death. With all his ability, his career
was not a successful one. His honest bluntness and want of tact were annoying to
clients, his addresses to the jury, thorough and lucid as they were, failed to con-
vince, and his arguments to the court, sound, instructive and logical, wanted the
winsome tone which often carries conviction even with judges on the bench. It
has been said of him that his only luxuries were a cigar and a law book. Few
attractions in social life could draw him away from these. The writer, who has
been familiar with the Suffolk bar since 1848, is inclined to place him at the head
of the second rank of its members, with perhaps a doubt whether he should not
be placed within the limits of the first. He married Harriet Newell, daughter of
Chester Shattuck, of Portsmouth, N. H., March 11, 1827, and died in Boston, June
17, 1878.

Webster Kelley, son of Israel W. and Rhoda (Fletcher) Kelly, was born in Salis-
bury, N. H., January 1, 1804, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1825. He
studied law with Joseph Bell in Haverhill, N. H., and practiced some years in Frank-
fort, Me. He finally removed to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May
19, 1851. He married Lucilla S., daughter of Waldo Pierce, of Frankfort, at Boston,
August 29, 1842, and died at Henniker, N. H., July 5, 1855.

Clarence Freeman Eldredge, son of James F. and Susan Eldredge, was born in
Dennis Port on Cape Cod, November 14, 1862. He was educated at the public schools
of his native town and at the Commercial College in Providence, R. I. He studied

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law in Boston in the office of John M. Way, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
January, 1885. Without the advantages of a collegiate education, he has sur-
mounted obstacles which would have discouraged a less determined man and estab-
lished himsef firmly in his profession.' He married Lucie H., daughter of James K.
and Bethiah S. Nickerson, and lives in the Dorchester District of Boston. He is en-
gaged in general practice, and though an earnest Republican, is unwilling to accept
any office of honor or emolument which may tend to lead him away from the paths
of the law.

George Nehemiah Eastman, son of Nehemiah and Anstriss (Barker) Eastman, was
born in Farmington, N. H., January 20, 1820, and graduated at Dartmouth College in
1839. He studied law with his father and with Levi Woodbury, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in July, 1842. He married Ellen Francis, daughter of Benjamin R.
Gilman, of Gifford, N. H., December 30, 1851.

Joseph Hildreth Bradley, son of Enoch ' and Abigail (Hildreth) Bradley, was
born in Haverhill, Mass., March 5, 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth College in
1844. He studied law with David Cummins in Salem, and Frances Alfred Fabens
in Boston, and in the Law School at Cambridge, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
June 5, 1846. He always practiced in Boston until his death, being largely engaged
in criminal cases in which he was especially successful, and won a high reputation as
a criminal lawyer. In February, 1861, he was appointed district attorney for the
county of Suffolk, to succeed George W. Cooley, but declined. He was interested in
military affairs, and held commissions as major and lieutenant-colonel in the volunteer
militia. He married Lydia Anna, daughter of Thomas Bowler, of Lynn, August 31,
1850, and died in Boston in 1882.

Gardiner Greene Hubbard, son of Judge Samuel and Mary Ann (Greene) Hub-
bard, was born in Boston, August 25, 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth College in
1841. He studied law with Hubbard & Watts and with Benjamin R. Curtis in Bos-
ton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 4, 1843. He has been largely
interested in the various forms of electrical discovery and invention, and engaged in
the litigation in their interest. He married Gertrude Mercer, daughter of Robert
Henry McCurdy, of New York, October 21, 1846.

Frank Chester Goodrich, son of Charles Bishop and Harriet Newell (Shattuck)
Goodrich, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., and graduated at the Harvard Law School.
Not long after commencing practice with his father in Boston the war came on and
he was the first man in Boston to enlist. He was, killed at the battle of Gettysburg.

Benjamin Franklin Ham was probably born in Farmington, N. H., about 1822. In
1840 he moved to Natick, Mass., and engaged in making shoes. Having a literary
taste he entered the law office of John W. Bacon, of Natick, as a student, and was
admitted to the Middlesex bar. He became associated in business with Mr. Bacon,
under the firm name of Ham & Bacon. He was town clerk of Natick several years,
representative, and later clerk of the courts of Middlesex county. He was practicing
at the Suffolk bar in 1859, and later. Ill health interposed with the pursuit of his
profession and he moved to Medford, where he lived some years, and where he died,
May 4, 1893.

Albion A. Adams was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1875.
Frederick A. Appleton was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1875.

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C. S. Bancroft was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1869.

Frederick L. Banks was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 4, 1891 .

O. Erving Betton was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 6, 184G.

F. W. Buckingham was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 3, 1845.

J. Ware Butterfield was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1864.

Josiah A. Challis was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1842.

George W. Chamberlain was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 18, 1871.

Edward M. Cheney was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1862.

Frederick Cochrane was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 13, 1860.

William H. Cobb was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1885.

Edwin R. Coburn was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1881.

William Coleman was born in Boston, February 14, 1766. He studied law, was
admitted to the bar, and moved to Greenfield. He moved from Greenfield to New
York about 1794, and was for a time a law partner of Aaron Burr. He was after-
wards the reporter of the New York Supreme Court. In 1801 he became the editor
of the Evening Post, a Federal paper in New York, and continued its editor twenty
years. He died in New York, July 13, 1829.

Austin J. Coolidge was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 11, 1852.

Owen Glendour Peabody, son of Augustus and Miranda (Goddard) Peabody, was
born in Boston, April 23, 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1842. He studied
law with his father in Boston, and at the Harvard Law School, from which he grad-
uated in 1844, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1845. He died in
Roxbury, December 27, 1862.

Jedediah K. Hayward was born in Thetford, Vt. , August 14, 1835, and graduated
at Dartmouth in 1859. He studied law with Jessie E. Keith, of Abington, and
Charles Gideon Davis, of Plymouth, and was admitted to the bar in Plymouth,
October 28, 1862. He practiced in Plymouth until 1863, when he removed to Boston,
where he practiced until 1865, when he moved to New York, where he is still in
practice. He was master of Plymouth Lodge of Free Masons while in Plymouth,
grand lecturer of the Grand Lodge for the State of Massachusetts while in Boston,
and is a member of the Union League and other clubs in New York.

Lyman Mason, son of Daniel and Betsey (Spalding) Mason, was born in Cavendish,
N. H, April 2, 1815, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1839. He studied law with G.
N. Cumming, of Zanesville, O., and with Richard Fletcher, of Boston, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar October 7, 1844, and is still in practice in Boston. He
married Mary Lucretia, daughter of Dr. Reuben Dimond Mussey, of Cincinnati, O.,
May 25, 1853.

Isaac Ames, son of Ezra and Joanna (Eames) Amies, was born at Haverhill, Mass.,
July 17, 1819, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1839. He studied law with Charles
Minot and Albert Kittridge, of Haverhill, and was admitted to the Essex bar in
1846. He taught school in Medford, Mass., from 1841 to 1844, and in or before 1852
was practicing in Boston. He was appointed commissioner of insolvency for Suf-
folk county in 1855, and in 1856, when a Court of Insolvency was established by law
in each county, he was appointed June 16 in that year judge of insolvency. In 1858,
when the office of judge of probate and insolvency was created, he was appointed
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554 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

to that office May 11 in that year, and remained in office until his death in 1877. He
married Mrs. Mary Carlton Phelps, daughter of Hazen Morse, and widow of Har-
rison Gray Otis Phelps of Haverhill, June 17, 1851.

Horatio Sprague Eusti's, son of General Abraham Eustis, was born at Fort
Adams, Newport, R. L, December 25, 1811, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He
studied law, and it is believed became, like his father, a member of the Suffolk bar.
He finally settled in Natchez, Miss., and continued there in the practice of law until
his death, which occurred on his plantation September 4, 1858. He was a grand-
nephew of Governor William Eustis, of Massachusetts. He was first cousin of
George Eustis, the father of James Biddle Eustis, appointed by President Cleve-
land minister to France.

William Willard Swan graduated at Harvard in 1859, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar December 18, 1867. He is now at the bar largely engaged in
business connected with patents.

William W. Swan was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1879.

Samuel Cooper was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 22, 1862.^
^ John W. James was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 2, 1822ri'."<" ^ Z 'l'c/

H. L. Judson was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1875.

Willis Albert Kingsbury graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was admitted M the
bar in Middlesex county in 1881. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1882.

Benjamin Hichborn graduated at Harvard in 1768. He was an attorney at the
Suffolk bar in 1779, and barrister in 1786. He died in 1817.

Jonathan Belcher 2d, son of Governor Jonathan Belcher, was born in Boston,
July 28, 1710, and graduated at Harvard in 1728. He studied law at the Temple in
London and practiced for a time in England with success. He was one. of the first
settlers of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was senior councillor in 1760, and lieutenant-govern-
or after the death of Governor Lawrence.

Percy E. Walbridge was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1880, and is now at
the bar.

Henry W. Walker was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1856, and is now
at the bar.

Edgar Alphonso Wallace graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 4 in that year.

William Phillips Walley graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1866.

Aaron Edward Warner graduated at Amherst m 1861 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1864. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1864.

Henry E. Warner was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the
bar.

Herman Jackson Warner graduated at Harvard in 1850 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1852. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 1853.

Owen Warland graduated at Harvard in 1804, and was at the Suffolk bar in 1811.
He died in 1816.

Lucius Henry Warren graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in August of that year.

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Webster Franklin Warren graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 30, 1867. He is now at the bar.

C. Everett Washburn was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1886, and is now
at the bar.

William Tucker Washburn graduated at Harvard in 1862, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar March 10, 1865.

Andrew Oliver Waterhouse graduated at Harvard in 1810, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar May 16, 1814. He died in 1832.

Richard Waterman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar April 25, 1868.

David Thompson Watson graduated at the Washington Pennsylvania College in
1864 and at the Harvard Law School in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar
June 6, 1866.

Henry S. Webster was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1877, and is
now at the Suffolk bar.

Sidney Webster graduated at Yale in 1848 and at the Harvard Law School in
1850. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 25, 1851.

Samuel Farrell Webb graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 26, 1869.

Francis C. Welch was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 3, 1872, and is now at
the bar.

John Hunt Welch graduated at Harvard in 1835 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1850. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 30, 1851. He died in 1852.

William E. Welch was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1879, and is now at
the bar.

Thomas Wetmore graduated at Harvard in 1814, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar October 21, 1817. He died in 1860.

Jesse Franklin Wheeler graduated at Harvard in 1868, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar August 19, 1871. He is now at the bar.

George R. Wheelock was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the
bar.

Benjamin Wheatland graduated at Harvard in 1819, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar March 2, 1825. He died in 1854.

Daniel Wheaton graduated at Harvard in 1791, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar. He died in 1841.

Andrew Cunningham Wheelwright graduated at Harvard in 1847, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1853.

Edward Wheelwright graduated at Harvard in 1844, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar April 17, 1849.

Moses P. White was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1875, and is now
at the bar.

Naaman Loud White graduated at Harvard in 1835, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar September 27, 1838.

556 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

William H. White was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the
bar.

Zechariah Gardner Whitman graduated at Harvard in 1807, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in October, 1810. He died in 1840.

Frederick S. Whitwell was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at
the bar.

Martin Whiting graduated at Harvard in 1814, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar May 5, 1818. He died in 1823.

Edward A. Wilkie was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1881, and is now
at the bar.

Josei>h Willard graduated at Harvard in 1855 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 29, 1863.

Paul Willard graduated at Harvard in 1845, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar August 17, 1848. He died in 1868.

David W. Williams was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1877, and is now
at the bar.

Henry M. Williams was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the
bar.

Thomas Hale Williams graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 1, 1845.

Daniel Webster Wilder graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in November, 1857.

Francis Henry Williams graduated at Harvard in 1820, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar January 13, 1824. He died in 1840.

W. T. Willey, son of Tolman Willey, was admitted to the Suffolk bar October
28, 1873, and is now at the bar.

Charles Frederick Williams graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 8, 1869. He is now at the bar.

William Cross Williamson graduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Harvard
Law School in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 22, 1856, and is
now at the bar.

Alexander E. Willson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1875, and
is now at the bar.

Arthur P. Wilson, son of Joseph H. Wilson, of Boston, was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in June, 1871, and is now at the bar.

John Thomas Wilson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1867. He is now at the bar.

Thomas Stanley Wilson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in January of that year.

Abel Theodore Winn graduated at Harvard in 1859, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in September, 1863.

James Ancrum Winslow graduated at Harvard in 1859, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in September, 1861.

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557

Henry Thomas Wing graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 2, 1867.

Robert Charles Winthrop, jr., son of Robert Charles Winthrop, graduated at Har-
vard in 1854, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1857. He is living in
Boston.

Thomas Lindall Winthrop graduated at Harvard in 1807, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in February, 1811, and died in 1812.

Henry Woodruff graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1853, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar March 24, 1853.

George Henry Woods graduated at Brown in 1853 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1855. He died in 1884.

Winslow Warren Wright graduated at Harvard in 1826, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in April, 1830. He died in 1835.

James Joseph Wright graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar May 22, 1862.

Smith Wright graduated at Harvard in 1855 and at the Harvard Law School in
1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1858.

James Holden Young graduated at Harvard in 1872 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1876.

C. C. Andrews was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1850, and was at
the Suffolk bar in 1854.

Sidney C. Bancroft was admitted to the Essex bar in 1852, and was at the Suf-
folk bar in 1870.

Stephen Bean was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 1844, and was at the
Suffolk bar.

W. Lock Brown was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1850, and was at the
Suffolk bar in 1852.

Alpheus R. Brown was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1839, and
was at the Suffolk bar in 1866.

George F. Choate was admitted to the Essex bar in 1848, and was at the Suffolk
bar in 1866.

Charles B. Felch was admitted to the Middlesex bar in December, 1869, and was
at the Suffolk bar in 1871.

Joseph St. Lawrence was an attorney of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, and
came to Boston about 1737. In that year he was admitted an attorney in the Supe-
rior Court and opened an office in " Wing's Lane, near the Town Dock in Boston."

Joseph Proctor, son of either Peter or Josiah Proctor, was born in Littleton, Mass.,
February 11, 1766, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1791. He was admitted to the
Suffolk bar and practiced in Athol, where he died August 6, 1822. He married Mary
Humphrey, daughter of Jonathan Orcutt, of Athol, January 15, 1811.

Augustus Olcott Brewster, son of Gen. Amos Avery and Susan (Boudinot)
Brewster, was born in Hanover, N. H., May 17, 1823, and graduated at Dartmouth
in 1843. He read law with Ira Perley, of Concord, N. H., and William Henry Dun-

558 HISTORV OF THE BENCH AND BAE.

can, of Hanover, and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar. He began practice in
Hanover, N. H., but removed to New York in 1850, and to Boston in 1854, where he
was admitted to the Suffolk bar, October 16 in that year. He was appointed assist-
ant district attorney for Suffolk county in 1856, and served until 1862. He married
Georgiana Augusta, daughter of Major George B. Bibby, of the United States Army,
of Paterson, N. J., at Parsippany, N. J., in August, 1846. He now holds a govern-
ment office in New Jersey.

Russell Jarvis, son of Samuel Gardner and Prudence (Davis) Jarvis, was born in
Bostou in 1791. His early life was spent in Claremont, N. H., to which place his
parents removed when he was an infant, and he graduated at Dartmouth in 1810.
He studied law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1823. He practiced in Boston until 1828, when he removed to New York and
devoted himself to journalism. He married Eliza, daughter of Thomas Cordis, of
Boston, in November, 1824, and his whole family, consisting of his wife and two
children, were lost by the burning of the steamboat Lexington in Long Island
Sound, January 13, 1840. He died in New York, April 17, 1853.

Benjamin Franklin Hayes, son of Frederick and Sarah (Hurd) Hayes, was born
in Berwick, Me., July 3, 1834, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1859. He studied law
with Wells & Eastman, of Somersworth, N. H., and at the Harvard Law School, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 18, 1861. He soon after settled in Medford,
and was for a time associated with Elihu C. Baker. Though having his office in
Boston, where he is engaged in extensive practice, he has thoroughly identified him-
self with his adopted town, and is ever active in promoting its interests and welfare.
In 1862 he was appointed trial justice, and served in that capacity till 1873. From
1864 to 1867 he was assistant United States assessor under Phineas J. Stone, of
Charlestown. In 1868 he was a member of the Medford School Board, and in 1870
was chosen chairman of the Board of Water Commissioners after the introduction of
water into the town, in the promotion of which he had taken an active part. He was
a representative from 1872 to 1875, State senator in 1877 and 1878, and after acting
thirty years as attorney for Medford as a town was, on its incorporation as a city,
chosen its first city solicitor, January 24, 1893. He married, November 7, 1843, Mary
Hall, daughter of Thomas S. and Lucy (Hall) Harlow, of Medford.

Augustus Peabody, at first named Asa, was the son of John and Mary (Perley)
Peabody, and was born in Andover, Mass., May 17, 1779. He graduated at Dart-
mouth in 1803, and read law with Timothy Bigelow, of Medford. He began prac-
tice in Boston in 1810. He was a representative and held other offices of honor and
trust. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Harvard in 1809. He married
Miranda, daughter of Thatcher Goddard, of Boston, October 26, 1815, and died in
Roxbury, Mass., October 2, 1851.

Henry Doane, son of John and Mary (Eldridge) Doane, was born in Orleans,
Mass., January 22, 1834, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1857. He studied law at
the Harvard Law School and with Hutchins & Wheeler, of Boston, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in December, 1858. He practiced in Boston until 1862, when he
was commissioned a captain in the Forty-third Massachusetts Regiment, and went
to the war. At the close of his term of service he resumed practice in Boston, and
died there September 2, 1865.

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559

Franklin Webster, son of David and Betsey (Kimball) Webster, was born in
Haverhill, Mass., June 27, 1824, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1845. He studied
law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1854.
He settled in Chicago, and while consul at Bavaria died at Munich, May 4, 1865.

James Bowdoin Allen, son of Samuel Clesson and Elizabeth (Halsey) Allen, was
born in Northfield, Mass. , July 5, 1824, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1845. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1847, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar July 23, 1849. He practiced in East Boston, where he died December
23, 1853.

Samuel Ayer Bradley, son of John and Hannah (Ayer) Bradley, was born in Con-
cord, N. H., November 22, 1774, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1799. He studied
law with Judge Samuel Green, of Concord, and John Heard, of Boston, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1805. He began practice in Fryeburg in 1805, was regis-
ter of probate for Oxford county from 1805 to 1810, was representative from 1813 to
1818, and in 1825 removed to Portland. He returned to Fryeburg in July, 1841, and
there died, unmarried, September 23, 1844.

Samuel M'Gregor Burnside, son of Thomas and Susannah (M'Gregor) Burnside
was born in Northumberland, N. H., July 18, 1783, and graduated at Dartmouth in
1805. He was the principal of a Female Academy in Andover, Mass., from 1805 to
1807, and read law with Artemas Ward, of Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in March, 1810, and began practice in Westboro', Mass. He soon after moved to
Worcester, where he died July 25, 1850. He married Sophia D., daughter of Dwight
Foster, of Brookfield, Mass., November 8, 1816. He received the degree of Master
of Arts from Harvard in 1817.

Redfield Proctor, son of Jabez and Betsey (Parker) Proctor, was born in Proc-
torsville, Vt. , June 1, 1831, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1851. He read law in
Proctorsville and at the Law School in Albany, N. Y. , from which he graduated in
1860, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1861. He began practice in
Boston in February, 1861, associated with Judge Isaac Fletcher Redfield, but soon
entered the service, becoming an officer of high rank and merit among Vermont vol-
unteers. He was secretary of war under the recent administration of President
Harrison, and is now United States senator from Vermont. He married Sarah Jane,
daughter of Salmon Dutton, of Cavendish, Vt., May 26, 1858.

Asa Cottrell was born in Freehold, N. J., in November, 1825. He studied law
with Judge Vredenburg, of Freehold, and was admitted to the New Jerse}' bar in
1846. He practiced in Red Bank, N. J., until 1853, when he moved to Boston, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 11 in that year. In 1863, while still pursuing
the practice of law in Boston, he moved his residence to Lexington, Mass., where he
died in July, 1889. He was deeply interested in the prosperity of his adopted town
and took a leading and active part in the introduction of water and in the establish-
ment of street lighting there. He married, in 1850, Maria Louisa, only daughter of
Jesse and Catherine A. Hanford, of Red Bank.

Daniel W. Peabody, son of John Tarbell and Mercy Ingalls (Burbank) Peabody,
was born in Gilead, Me., March 11, 1836, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1859. He
studied law with Robert Ingalls Burbank, in Boston, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar November 26, 1862. After practicing for a time in Boston, he removed to
Nashville, Tenn.

566 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Samuel Hilliard Folsom, son of Samuel and Anna (Lovering) Folsom, was born
in Hopkinton, N. H., February 23, 1826, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1851. He
studied law with Dean & Dinsmoor, of Lowell, and afterwards in Boston. He began
practice in East Cambridge, but as early as 1881 was at the Suffolk bar. He married
Catherine Abbott, daughter of Nehemiah Porter Cram, of Hampton Falls, N. H.,
October 18, 1857.

Nathan James Clifford, son of Judge Nathan and Hannah (Ayer) Clifford, was
born in Newfield, Me., January 12, 1832, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1854. He
studied law with his father, and was admitted to the Maine bar. He was for a time
clerk of United States customs in New York, and afterwards removed to Boston and
became clerk of the United States District Court. He married Sarah A. Gilman, of
New York, April 2, 1861.

B. H. Currier was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 5, 1853, and is now at the
bar.

John A. Day was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 30, 1861.

John W. Davis was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 8, 1848, and settled on Cape
Cod.

Charles Franklin Dunbar graduated at Harvard in 1851, and was an attorney at
the Suffolk bar in 1859. He was at one time the editor of the Boston Daily Adver-
tiser, and has been many years professor of political economy at Harvard.

A. W. Edgerly was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1876.

H. A. Folsom was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 6, 1874.

D. S. Gilchrist, a brother of Judge John James Gilchrist, of New Hampshire, was
admitted to the Suffolk bar December 8, 1846, and practiced some years in Boston.

A. J. Gray was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1840, and was an attorney
at the Suffolk bar in 1849.

William H. Wilson was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 7, 1868.

Melville E. Ingalls has within a generation practiced at the Suffolk bar, chiefly
in the United States Courts.

John Knapp was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1848.

William Lomax, jr., was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 3, ,1863.

Henry D. Lord was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1851.

Joseph Lyman was practicing at the Suffolk bar about 1800.

John Mason was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883.

George Otis was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1826.

Benjamin Parsons was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1798.

William Pitt Denton, son of William and Sarah (Foster) Denton, was born in
Boston, November 21, 1823, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1844. He studied law
at the Harvard law school and in the offices of John H. Clifford in New Bedford and
W. R. P. Washburn in Boston, and began practice in Boston in 1847. He married
in New Bedford, February 24, 1848, Elizabeth Howell, daughter of George Randall,
and died in Boston, April 12, 1855.

Elam Porter was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 7, 1865.

Isaac G. Reed was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 27, 1869.

Charles W. Smith was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 1, 1851,

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Asa Si'Aulding was admitted to the Middlesex bar in April, 1846, and was an at
torney at the Suffolk bar in 1849.

W. G. Si'Rague was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in I860.

Asahel Stearns was born in Lunenburg, Mass., June 17, 1774, and graduated at
Harvard in 1797. He was admitted to'the Suffolk bar about 1800, and soon settled
in Chelmsford, Mass., where he practiced many years. He was a member of Con-
gress from 1815 to 1817, and in the latter year was appointed professor of law at
Harvard, continuing in office until 1829. He received the degree of LL.D. from
Harvard in 1825. While living in Chelmsford he was for several years county attor-
ney for Middlesex. In 1824 he published a volume on "Real Actions," and was
subsequently one of the commissioners for revising the statutes of Massachusetts.
He died in Cambridge February 5, 1839.

Henry Brewster Stanton was born in Griswold, Conn., in 1810, and studied law
at Lane Seminary, Ohio. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1842, and
after practicing in Boston removed in 1845 to Seneca Falls, N. Y. He published in
1849 a volume entitled " Reforms and Reformers." He married Elizabeth, daughter
of Judge Daniel Cady, of Johnstown, N. Y. , in 1840. While he was an anti-slavery
orator his wife became an active advocate of women's rights, and as early as 1848
called a convention at Seneca Falls, which made the first public demand for woman's
suffrage.

Peter Thacher was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807.

James Sullivan 2d was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the Common Pleas Court
in July, 1826, and in the Supreme Court January 1, 1829.

Richard N. Pierce was a native of Bristol county, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in September, 1839. He was a representative at one time, and served in the
war. It is believed by the writer that he died soon after the war.

George P. Montague was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1888.

Elijah Hunt Mills was born in Chesterfield, Mass., December 1, 1776, and gradu-
ated at Williams in 1797. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, and
settled in Northampton. He was at one time district attorney for Hampshire county,
State senator in 1811, member of Congress from 1815 to 1819, and United States
senator from December 1, 1820, to March 3, 1827. He received the degree of LL.D.
from Williams College in 1824.

John Mills was appointed United States district attorney by President Van Buren
in 1837, and for a time had an office in Boston.

John G. Locke was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1858.

E. W. McClure was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1883.
■ Sebeus C. Maine was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 3, 1845, and was ap-
pointed a justice of the Boston Police Court November 3, 1858. The writer thinks
that he remained on the bench until the court was abolished, May 29, 1866. He has
been dead some years.

George W. McConnell was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1881.
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562 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Abraham W. Fuller was admitted to practice in the Common Pleas Court in
Suffolk county in May, 1812, and in the Supreme Court in 1814. He died in Cam-
bridge.

Theodore U. Thacher was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1832.

Robert McNeil Morse, son of Robert and Sarah Maria (Clark) Morse, was born
in Boston, August 11, 1837, and graduated at Harvard in 1857. His rank in college
was good in a class which included among its members many who have won high
positions in the various occupations of life. Among these were Franklin Haven, jr.,
Solomon Lincoln, John D. Long, John C. Ropes, Robert D. Smith, Arthur J. C.
Sowdon, Joseph Lewis Stackpole, James J. Storrow, Charles F. Walcott and Samuel
Wells. Of those of his class who entered the walks of law none have attained a
higher position in the profession or met with greater success. He studied law at the
Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1860. His
practice long since attained a size which demanded the most assiduous labor and the
exertion of all his powers. In the courts of the State and of the United States his
presence is a familiar one and the suits in which he has acted as counsel have included
some of the most important which in recent years have engaged the attention of the
Suffolk county courts. The Armstrong will case in which he was associated with
William G. Russell, and the Codman will case in which he was leading counsel, both
involving large amounts, furnish abundant evidence of the general estimate of his
standing and ability. In the early days of his career he was a member of the Massa-
chusetts Senate in 1866 and 1867, and there introduced and advocated a bill for the
repeal of the usury laws, which through his efforts in the Senate, and those of
Richard H. Dana in the House, became a law. In 1880 he was a member of the
House of Representatives. With these exceptions he has resisted the attractions of
public life, which can only be followed by the neglect of professional duties, and
often, too, by the enslavement of the mind under the influence of party dictates and
a blind obedience to party clamor. Engrossed as he is in the labors of his profession,
he nevertheless finds time to study important public questions, and in his political
action he follows no party longer than its platform and principles commend them-
selves to his judgment and conscience. He married Anna E. Gorham, of Boston,
November 11, 1863, and has a winter residence in Boston and a summer residence at
Falmouth.

Gustavus Adolphus Somerijy, son of Samuel and Hannah (George) Somerby, was
born in Newbury, Mass., November 2, 1821. He was descended from Anthony
Somerby, who was clerk of the courts in Essex county in the days of the Massachu-
setts Colon}'. He attended school in Wayland, in which town he read law in the
office of Edward Mellen, who was appointed in 1847 one of the judges of the Common
Pleas Court and chief justice in 1854, and who remained on the bench until the Court
was abolished in 1859. After his admission to the bar he practiced in Wayland until
1852, when he removed to Waltham and associated himself with Josiah Rutter for
the practice of law in that town. In 1858 he removed to Boston and remained in
practice there until his death, which occurred at South Framingham, Mass.. July 24,
1879. His early practice was at the Middlesex bar, where he came in contact with
a class of lawyers, peculiar at that time to that county, at whose hands treatment of
the most considerate character was not to be expected, and from whom lessons of

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offensive and defensive warfare must be learned by any new aspirant for success in
the arena of law. Mr. Somerby was not slow to learn. The independence and cour-
age and heroism which he exhibited in the trial of causes in the courts were charac-
teristics which he owed in a large degree to his repeated conflicts with the gladiators
of the Middlesex bar. He won his greatest triumphs, so far as the writer knows, in
the criminal rather than the civil side of the courts, and his success in winning
them was due oftentimes to the adoption and support of plans which a man of more
timid nature would have hesitated to form and failed in firmness and nerve to carry
out. One of the earliest criminal cases in which he was engaged after his removal
to Boston was that of Deacon Andrews, of Kingston, indicted for the murder of Cor-
nelius Holmes of that town. He was engaged as leading counsel for the defendant,
and Charles G. Davis, of Plymouth, was associated with him as his junior. A later
case in which he defended and secured the acquittal of Leavitt Alley, charged with
murder, and tried in Boston in 1873, will ever stand as a memorial of his shrewdness
and courage. As has been stated by another in describing the trial: " His defence
was a hint, so shrewdly given, that it rather originated the suggestion in the minds
of the jurymen themselves than passed his own lips, that the son of Mr. Alley was
the real criminal. The prisoner's witnesses and the cross-examination of the wit-
nesses for the government were so handled as to necessarily convey, through unseen
and unexpected channels, this hint to the jury, and the refusal to put the son on the
stand, though it was well known that he was conversant with many of the incidents
of the affair, served to carry this hint home with a force that was sure to have an
effect." The length of this trial, with the labor and excitement attending it, inflicted
a permanent injury on the strength and health of Mr. Somerby. He never recovered
his capacity for work, and his vigor of nerve and brain was never again what it was
before. He continued, however, to practice his profession until his death, and no
one perhaps but himself realized the extent of the prostration which that trial in
which he enlisted all his energies had induced. He married Abby Olivia, daughter
of Charles Backus and Rebecca (Sanger) Clark, at Framingham, Mass., February 17,
1853.

Peleg Sprague, son of Seth and Deborah (Sampson) Sprague, was born in Duxbury,
Mass., April 28, 1793. He was descended from William Sprague, who came to Salem
from England in 1629. It is said that the father and mother of Mr. Sprague lived
together under one roof sixty-four years. They had fifteen children, of whom Peleg
was the ninth. The father, Seth Sprague, was justice of the peace and quorum
forty years, a member of the Massachusetts Legislature twenty-seven years, and
twice a presidential elector. In his old age, when most men become conservative
and are content with existing conditions in social and political life, he entered with
zeal into the anti-slavery cause at a time when that cause was unpopular in our com-
munities. Mr. Sprague graduated at Harvard in 1812 in a class containing many
members who afterwards distinguished themselves in the various walks of life. Among
those who became physicians there were George Bartlett Doane, John Homans,
George W. Heard, Amos Nourse, Abel Lawrence Peirson, Edward H. Robbins,
Daniel Shute, and Ezekiel Thaxter. Among the clergymen were Jonathan Mayhew
Wainwright and Henry Ware. Among the lawyers were Franklin Dexter, James
Henry Duncan, Charles Greely Loring, and William Turell Andrews. Among them

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none .became more distinguished than Mr. Sprague. Four of them received from
Harvard the degree of LL.D., Mr. Dexter in 1857, Mr. Duncan in 1861, Mr. Loring
in 1850, and Mr. Sprague in 1847. After leaving college he studied at the law school
in Litchfield, Conn., and afterwards in the offices of Levi Lincoln in Worcester, and
Samuel Hubbard in Boston, and was admitted to the Plymouth county bar in Au-
gust, 1815. After his admission to the bar he removed to Augusta, in what was then
the district of Maine but a part of Massachusetts, and there established himself in the
business of his profession. At the end of two years he removed to Hallowell. After
the State of Maine was organized in 1820, he was sent a representative from Hallow-
well to the first Legislature, and was again a member of the Legislature of the next
year, 1821. In 1825 he was chosen a member of Congress and served until 1829. In
the latter year he was sent to the United States Senate from Maine and served one
term of six years. In 1835 he removed to Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar. After six years' practice in Boston, during which he maintained the high repu-
tation which he had won in Maine, he was appointed by President Harrison in 1841
to the seat on the bench of the United States Court which had been vacated by the
resignation of John Davis. His duties in that capacity during the latter part of his
service were rendered especially arduous by the novel cases in American jurispru-
dence arising^ during the War of the Rebellion. He performed them with distin-
guished ability, though at the time suffering from an affection of the eyes which
incapacitated him for the work of taking notes and made even the light of the court-
room a serious annoyance. Exercise indispensable to his continued health he was
precluded from taking in the sun-light, and the writer remembers to have often seen
him pacing the floor of the Doric Hall of the State House, wholly unobservant of
everything about him and evidently solving. some question of law or constructing
some charge to the jury for the next day's session of his court. During the progress
of the Civil War a distinguished practitioner in his court expressed in conversation a
doubt whether the offence of treason could be committed in Massachusetts where no
war existed. He replied " Bring me a man who, here in Massachusetts, has by any
act, however slight or however remote from the field of war, given intentional aid to
the rebels in arms, as by communicating to them information or advice, and I will
show that I can try him and have him hanged." The affection of his eyes became
finally so serious that he resigned his seat on the bench in 1865, and the last years of
his life were spent in a darkened room. He died at his home in Boston, October
30, 1880, at the age of eighty-seven. A volume of his speeches and addresses was
published in 1858, and a volume of his decisions from 1841 to 1861 was published in
1861. He married in Albany, in August, 1818, Sarah, daughter of Moses and Sarah
Deming, who was born February 17, 1794.

Harvey Jewell, son of Pliny and Emily (Alexander) Jewell, was born in Win-
chester, N. H., June 26, 1820. His brother, Marshall Jewell, was governor of
Connecticut in 1869, 1871 and 1872; minister to Russia in 1873, and postmaster -gen-
eral in 1874. Pliny Jewell, the father of Harvey Jewell, was a tanner by trade, as
his father and grandfather had been before him, and the son, the subject of this
sketch, learned the ancestral trade. He afterwards, however, entered Dartmouth
College, and graduated in 1844. After leaving college he taught in one of the public
schools of Boston, while pursuing his law studies in the office of Lyman Mason, of

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that city. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 11, 1847. While in practice
he was at various times associated in business with William Gaston, Walbridge A.
Field, now chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and E. O. Shepard. Possess-
ing a critical mind, he devoted himself specially to the work of drafting contracts,
charters of incorporation, and other instruments requiring the closest attention to
details and the avoidance of weak and indefensible points. He gave much attention
also to maritime law, and his advice in this branch of his profession possessed to a
large degree the authority of law. Though a lover of the law and obedient to its
behests, he felt the attractions of political life and yielded to them, probably to his
disadvantage, looking only to professional success. In early life a Whig, and later
a Republican, he was a member of the Boston City Council in 1851 and 1852 and in
1861, and from 1867 to 1871 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives. During the last four years he was speaker of the House, and performed
his duties easily, intelligently, impartially, and with the enthusiastic approval of the
different bodies over which he presided. Indeed so popular had he become as speaker
that in the State Republican Convention of 1871 he was a prominent candidate for
governor. In that convention Benjamin F. Butler, then a Republican, was an aspi-
rant for the nomination, and the two other candidates were Mr. Jewell and William
B. Washburn. The contest was an earnest one, and Mr. Jewell withdrew his name
and gave his support to Mr. Washburn, who finally received the nomination. In
1875 he was appointed by President Grant judge of the Court of Commissioners of
Alabama Claims, and held that office two years, during which he resided in Wash-
ington. In 1877 he resumed the practice of law in Boston and remained there until
his death, which occurred in that city December 8, 1881. He received a degree of
LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1875. He married Susan A., daughter of Richard Brad-
ley, of Concord, N. H., December 26, 1849.

Albert E. Pillsuury, son of Josiah Webster and Elizabeth (Dinsmoor) Pillsbury,
was born in Milford, N. H., August 19, 1849. His father graduated at Dartmouth in
1840, and on account of feeble health abandoned his .intention of studying a profes-
sion and devoted himself to the occupation of a farmer. The early life, therefore, of
the subject of this sketch was passed on his father's farm, in the cultivation of which
he aided his father whenever his studies at school would permit. After passing
through the lower grade schools of Milford he attended the High School in that town,
and subsequently fitted for college at the Appleton Academy in New Ipswich, N. H.,
and at the Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass. He entered Harvard College in
1867, at the age of eighteen, but early in his sophomore year left college and went to
Sterling, 111., the residence of his uncle, Hon. James Dinsmoor, a lawyer of high
standing in that town and a member of the distinguished family in New Hampshire
bearing that name, two members of which have been governors of that State. While
in Sterling he taught school a year and studied law with his uncle, and was admitted
to the Illinois bar in 1869. In 1870 he came to Boston and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in June of that year. His eminent abilities soon secured for him a foothold
at the bar, and from that time to the present his growth has been constant and his
reputation has been more and more firmly established. For several years in the
early part of his professional career he was vice-president and president of the Mer-
cantile Library Association of Boston, and to his membership of that body with its

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parliamentary and controversional lessons may perhaps be due his marked success as
a presiding officer and a participant in legislative and political debate. In 1876, 1877
and 1878 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from
Ward 17 of Boston, and in 1884, 1885 and 1886 a member of the Senate from the
Sixth Suffolk District. During his last two years at the Senate Board he was presi-
dent, having been chosen both years by a unanimous vote. In both House and
Senate he served on the judiciary committee, and with his clear head and logical
mind proved himself to be the man now and then found in our legislative bodies who
unties the knot and tangle of debate, and clearing the atmosphere of discussion of
the fog which is so apt to invest it, simplifies the question before the house and en-
ables its bewildered members to come to a just understanding of its merits. In 1887
Mr. Pillsbury was offered by Governor Ames the position of judge advocate-general,
but he declined it, and in 1888 he was offered by the same governor a seat on the bench
of the Superior Court. This he also declined, as well as the appointment of corpo-
ration counsel of the city of Boston, offered to him by Mayor Hart of Boston in 1889.
In the fall of 1890 he was nominated as the Republican candidate for attorney-gen-
eral, and chosen in that and the two following years. He is now, in April, 1893,
serving his third year in that office, and it is not too much to say that since 1858,
when John Henry Clifford left the office, not one of its eight incumbents has per-
formed its duties with more brilliant ability or marked success. Certainly since the
trial of John W. Webster, in which Attorney-General Clifford, assisted by his able
and indefatigable junior, George Bemis, so distinguished himself as to cause Samuel
Warren, of the the English bar, to say "that his reply for the prosecution cannot
be excelled in close and conclusive reasoning- conveyed in language equally elegant
and forcible," no greater professional triumph has been won by a prosecuting officer
of the Commonwealth than that in the recent trial of Trefethen in Middlesex county,
in which Mr. Pillsbury by a masterly construction of a chain of evidence secured a
conviction in spite of the efforts of the ablest counsel for the defense, and in opposi-
tion to a very general public opinion. Mr. Pillsbury delivered the annual oration
before the city authorities of Boston on the Fourth of July, 1890, and is an occasional
and welcome contributor to newspapers and magazines. He married Louise F.
(Johnson) Wheeler, daughter of Edward C. and Delia M. (Smith) Johnson, at New-
bury, Vt., July 9, 1889.

Robert Treat Paine, son of Thomas and Eunice (Treat) Paine, was born in Boston,
March 11, 1731, and received his early education under Master Lowell in that city. He
graduated at Harvard in 1749, and received a degree of LL.D. from his aima mater in
1805. His father was at one time pastor of a church in Weymouth and afterwards a
merchant in Boston. His mother was Eunice, daughter of Samuel Treat, and grand-
daughter of Samuel Willard, president of Harvard from 1701 to 1707. The subject
of this sketch after leaving college taught school for a time and afterwards made
three voyages to North Carolina as master and one to Greenland for whales. He
studied for the ministry, and in 1755 served for a time as chaplain in the French
War. He afterwards studied law with Judge Willard at Lancaster, and with Ben-
jamin Pratt in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1759. He established
himself in Boston in 1761 and went to Taunton, and in 1769 was a representative
from that town, In 1770 he conducted the prosecution of Captain Preston for the
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the Provincial Congress, and a member of the Continental Congress from 1774 to
1778. In 1777 he was again a representative and speaker of the House. He was ap-
pointed attorney-general during the Revolution to succeed Jonathan Sewell, the last
attorney-general under the provincial charter, and held office until the appointment
of James Sullivan, February 12, 1790. In 1776 he was appointed a judge of the Su-
perior Court, but declined, and in 1779 was a member of the State Constitutional
Convention. About 1780 he removed to Boston and bought and occupied the resi-
dence of Governor Shirley on the corner of Milk and Federal streets, and in 1790 was
appointed a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, which office he held until his resig-
nation in 1804. He was an able lawyer and judge, and as a signer of the Declara-
tion of Independence his name has been made immortal. He married in 1770, Sally,
daughter of Thomas Cobb and sister of General David Cobb, of Taunton, and died
in Boston, May 11, 1814.

Robert Treat Paine, jr., son of the preceding, was born in Taunton, Mass.,
December 9, 1773, and graduated at Harvard in 1792. His original name "Thomas"
was changed by an act of the Legislature in 1801 . After leaving college he engaged
in mercantile pursuits which he soon abandoned for the paths of literature. In 1794
he established a paper called the Federal Orrery, in which appeared articles and
verses sensational and personal in their character, and the next year published a
poem entitled " Invention of Letters," which was much admired. He also published
" The Ruling Passion " and the celebrated song " Adams and Liberty." About 1800
he studied law with Theophilus Parsons and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1802.
He retired from the profession in 1809, and died in Boston, November 13, 1811.

Robert Treat Paine 3d, son of the preceding, was born in Boston, and gradu-
ated at Harvard in 1822, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the Common Pleas
Court October 19, 1825, and in the Supreme Judicial Court June 17, 1828. He aban-
doned the practice of law and became distinguished as an astronomer and in otheri
branches of science. He was a member of the American Academy and of the Amer-
ican Philosophical Societjr. He died in 1885. «

Robert Treat Paine 4th, son of Charles Cushing and Fanny Cabot (Jackson)
Paine, was born in Boston, October 28, 1835, and is the great-grandson of Robert
Treat Paine, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. He fitted for college at
the Boston Latin School and graduated at Harvard in 1855. After leaving college
he spent a year at the Harvard Law School and two 'years in European travel. On his
return he studied law with Richard H. Dana and Francis E. Parker in Boston, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1859. He continued in practice in Boston until
1870, when he retired from business, the possessor of sufficient wealth to enable him
to gratify his wishes in the promotion of benevolent enterprises. From 1872 to 1876
he was an efficient member of the committee charged with the care of the erection of
Trinity Church, and to the judgment of this committee in the selection of an archi-
tect and the adoption of his plans the merit is due of making an honorable and
worthy contribution to the architecture of Boston. In 1878 he aided in the establish-
ment of the Associated Charities of Boston, an institution which, with others of a
similar character, has done so much to alleviate poverty and suffering. In 1879 he
organized the Wells Memorial Institute, which embraces a loan association, a co-
operative bank and a building association. In 1891 he organized a Workingmen's

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Loan Association, and is still active in the promotion of every enterprise looking to
the welfare and prosperity of the poor. He has built more than two hundred small
houses for workingmen and sold them at moderate prices and on easy credits. In
1887 he endowed a fellowship of $10,000 at Harvard College for "the study of the
ethical problems of society, the effects of legislation, governmental administration and
private philanthropy, to ameliorate the lot of the mass of mankind," and in 1890 he
established a trust of about $200,000 called the Robert Treat Paine Association. He
is not waiting to give away at his death what he can no longer use, but indulges
himself in a pleasure than which there can be no greater of bestowing his wealth
while living and witnessing the ripened fruit of his benevolence. Mr. Paine was a
representative from the town of Waltham in 1884, and has been a candidate for Con-
gress in the Fifth District. He is now president of the American Peace Society. He
married Lydia Williams, daughter of George Williams and Anne (Pratt) Lyman, in
Boston, April 24, 1862, and lives in Boston.

Robert Treat Paine 5th, son of the preceding, graduated at Harvard in 1882,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He married Ruth, daughter of Dr.
Walter Channing Cabot, of Boston.

Franklin Dexter, son of Samuel and Catharine (Gordon) Dexter, was born in
Charlestown, Mass., November 5, 1793, and graduated at Harvard in 1812, receiving
the degree of LL.D. from his alma mater in 1857. He studied law with Samuel Hub-
bard, afterwards one of the judges of the Supreme Judicial Court, and was admitted
to practice in the Common Pleas Court in Suffolk county in September, 1815, and in
the Supreme Judicial Court in December, 1818. He soon became eminent at the bar
and was associated at various times as partner with Charles Greely Loring, William
Prescott, William H. Gardiner, and George W. Phillips. In 1819, the year after his
admission to the bar of the Supreme Court, he was selected to deliver the annual
oration before the authorities of the town of Boston on the Fourth of July. That he
should have been chosen at the age of twenty-six to perform that service sufficiently
attests the ability and promise with which he began his professional career. In 1825
he was a representative from Boston, and again in 1836 and 1840, serving in 1836 on
the Select Committee of the Legislature on the revision of the statutes. In 1825 he
was a member of the Common Council of Boston, and in 1835 a State senator. He
was also at one time the commander of the New England Guards. In 1830 he was
engaged in the defence of the K-napps, who were indicted for the .murder of Joseph
White, of Salem, and though opposed by Mr. Webster, who was employed to assist
the prosecuting officer, the contest was found to be by no means an unequal one, and
his reputation for ability and learning, already a brilliant one, was more firmly estab-
lished. In 1840, or about that time, he defended Mrs. Kenney, indicted for the
murder of her husband by poison. The trial took place at Boston and it was
the good fortune of the writer, then a student at Harvard, to be present more
or less during its progress. James T. Austin was attorney-general and con-
ducted the case for the government, and the battle was one between giants at the
law. The writer then saw Mr. Dexter for the first time, and he remembers well the
Grecian head covered with curls of hair almost black, the sharp cut features and
brilliant intellectual eye, which made him in appearance his ideal of an orator and
man. In form and presence he belonged to the class of which Rufus Choate and

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Daniel Dougherty were also conspicuous types, and of the three, if Choate possessed
more of the fire and fluency of eloquence, and Dougherty more of classical imagery,
to Mr. Dexter must be accorded the merit of a grace and elegance which marked him
as a gentleman and a scholar. In 1841 he was appointed United States attorney for
Massachusetts and held the office until 1845. In 1849 he was reappointed by Presi-
dent Taylor. Mr. Dexter in the latter part of his career did not devote himself ex-
clusively to his profession. To literature and art he gave much of his time and
thought, and in either department if he had failed in the law he would have distin-
guished himself. He married Catherine Elizabeth, daughter of Judge William-
Prescott, of Boston, September 25, 1819, and died at Beverly, Mass., where his
latter years were spent, August 14, 1857.

James Frederic Joy, son of James and Sarah (Pickering) Joy, was born in Dur-
ham, N. H., December 2, 1810, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1833. He was a tutor
at Dartmouth in 1834 and 1835, and graduated at the Harvard Law School with the
degree of LL.B. in 1836. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 27, 1836, and
settled 111 Detroit.

Joseph Hartwei.l Ladd, son of Caleb and Mary Ann (Watson) Ladd, was born in
Calcutta, August 14, 1845, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1867. He graduated at
Harvard Law School in 1871, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December of
that year.

Charles H. Mann, son of Eben and Mary (Albee) Mann, was born in Boston,
August 11, 1846, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1867. He graduated at the Harvard
Law School in 1869, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January of that year.
He died in 1878.

Auel Merrill, son of Abel and Sarah (Henry) Merrill, was born in Stow, Vt. , April
2, 1811, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1839. He studied law with Joseph Bell at
Haverhill, N. H., in 1839 and 1840, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in
1842. He practiced a few years at Hartwell, Vt. , but was a member of the Suffolk
bar in 1849. He left the profession and went to Plainfield.

Thomas Leonard Livermore was born in Galena, 111., February 7, 1844, and was
educated at the public schools in Milford. N. H., the Appleton Academy at Mount
Vernon, N. H., and at the Lombard University at Galesburg, 111. He studied law
with Bainbridge Wadleigh in Milford, N. H., and was admitted to the New Hamp-
shire bar. In 1868 he moved to Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 7
in that year. Previous to entering on the study of the law he enlisted as a private in
the First Regiment of New Hampshire volunteers in the spring of 1861, and
served three months. In September, 1861, he enlisted as first sergeant in the Fifth
New Hampshire Regiment for three years, and while connected with that regiment
was promoted through all the grades to brevet colonel. In the spring of 1865 he was
commissioned colonel of the Eighteenth New Hampshire Regiment, and was mustered
out in July of that year. He practiced in Boston from 1868 to 1879, associated the
latter part of the time with Frederick P. Fish. In 1879 he moved to Manchester, N.
H. , where he was engaged until 1885 as the manager of the Amoskeag Manufactur-
ing Company. He then returned to Boston and resumed the practice of law, contin-
uing in practice until 1890, when he was made vice-president of the Calumet and Hecla
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Mining Company, with an office in Boston, where he is now active in the perform-
ance of the duties of that office. From 1889 to 1893 he was a member of the Metro-
politan Park Commission. He married, June 1, 1869, in Milford, N. H., Sarah E.,
adopted daughter of George and Rheny C. Daniel.

Orlando B. Potter illustrates so well by his career the possibility for a New
England youth, without wealth and with limited school privileges, to overcome by
persevering effort the obstacles in his way and rise to the highest stations of life, that
he deserves a special notice in this register. He is descended from John Potter, one
of the original colonists, who settled at New Haven in 1639, and was one of the
signers of the New Haven Covenant. Samuel Potter, the father of Mr. Potter, was
born in Hamden, New Haven county, Conn., and reared in Northford in that State,
and married in Charlemont, Mass., Sophia, daughter of Samuel Rice, and great-
granddaughter of Moses Rice, grantee and first settler of that town, who was killed
by the Indians in 1755, and a descendant in the seventh generation from Edmund
Rice, who came from Barkhamstead in England and settled in Sudbury, Mass. , in
1638. Thus it will be seen that Mr. Potter carries in his veins the blood of the hard-
working and enterprising colonists of New England, and that it has reached him in
a current unimpaired and untainted by any sluggish tributaries from families enerv-
ated by lives of luxury and indolence. In 1819 Samuel Potter removed to Charle-
mont, Mass., his entire possessions, aside from a small amount of ready money,
consisting of two ox teams and their contents, which he accompanied to his new
home. Settling down upon a hillside farm, not yet wholly cleared, looking down
upon the valley of Deerfield, he built a house and reared a family of ten children,
eight of whom lived to mature years. The same hardships to which his ancestors
had been exposed were here experienced, and the same indomitable spirit which they
possessed was exhibited by him in overcoming them. Year by year the forest was
felled and new acres were added to the cultivated land, and year by year the flocks
and herds increased, the products of the farm became more abundant, and the com-
forts of the home were constantly contributed to. Upon Orlando, the subject of this
sketch, the third child and second son, born in Charlemont, March 10, 1823, his full
share of the care and labors of the farm necessarily rested. One hundred miles
from Boston, the only market for his products, and with only a wagon road for trans-
portation, the father, in his repeated journeys to the city, and during his ab-
sence upon public business, left the older sons with the burden of the farm on their
hands, and thus the native strength of the boys was enhanced by the spirit of self-
reliance which these duties inculcated, and prepared them in the best possible school
for the working out of their own careers in life. From the age of ten to that of six-
teen, during the absence of the oldest son at school and college, the home responsi-
bilities during the absence of the father fell on Orlando alone. Having reached the
latter age, he determined if possible to obtain a college education, and with that view
during the next two years, while working on the farm in the spring and summer,
accumulated something towards future support by teaching school during the autumn
and winter. In 1841 he entered Williams College, but in his sophomore year, on
account of failing health, he left college, and after a trip to sea he secured a position
as teacher in Dennis, on Cape Cod, where he remained in various occupations aside
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of that year, conceiving the wish to study law and enter the Harvard Law School ,
he engaged to teach a class of young ladies each afternoon, and in order to occupy
his whole time, hired a piece of ground, to the cultivation of which he devoted the
earlier hours of the day. In the latter part of the summer he closed his class and
marketed his products, a part of which, consisting of fifty bushels of potatoes, he was
obliged to ship to Provincetown and peddle personally from house to house. With im-
proved health and recruited funds he entered the Harvard Law School in September,
1845, and at that institution and in the office of Charles Grandison Thomas, of Bos-
ton, he continued the study of law until February 12, 1848, when he was admitted in
Boston to the Suffolk bar. While pursuing his law studies he enabled himself to
continue them by teaching school two terms of three months each in Dennis and in
his own native town, the academy in which he fitted for college. While studying in
the office of Mr. Thomas, he was often permitted to try cases in the lower courts,
and thias familiarized himself with the first and humblest steps in a professional
career. He lived in a small room in Sewall Place, where he boarded himself, and
was enabled by the exercise of economy and prudence to open an office in that city
free from debt and with a future career dependent wholly on his ability and efforts.
He not only began practice in Boston, but opened an office in South Reading, where
he established his residence and devoted his evenings to business. The sagacity and
determination shown by him in the collection of a large debt from a debtor on Cape
Cod for a prominent business firm in Boston, led to a clientage which during the first
year of his' practice yielded him an income of $3,000. To the collection of this debt
he gave his personal attention, and not contenting himself with sending a writ to an
officer and awaiting an almost sure defeat, visited the place of business of the debtor,
took in the situation, resisted the pretended ownership by another of the property he
sought to attach, and secured before leaving for home the payment of the entire
debt. He continued to practice in both Boston and South Reading until May, 1853,
during which time he had aided his two sisters and younger brother in obtaining an
education, and had laid up about ten thousand dollars. While living in South Read-
ing he boarded with Benjamin B. Wiley, and in October, 1850, he married his
daughter, Martha G. Wiley, to whose wisdom, prudence and earnest devotion he
attributes his subsequent success as much as to his own efforts. In 1852 he was re-
tained by two young men to defend a suit against them for the contract price of a
new sewing machine which they had invented. He was led to investigate their
machine, and exhibited so much ready mechanical intelligence by his suggestions
that they requested him to become associated with them, with an equal interest, in
its development and manufacture. The proposition was accepted and he ait once
embarked all his savings in a manufactory, while he continued to work in his pro-
fession. In 1853 the rapidly increasing demands of this enterprise led to his removal
to New York, while he associated himself with Solomon J. Gordon to take charge of
his law business in Boston. The sewing machine enterprise was soon incorporated
as a stock company with Mr. Potter as its president, and until 1876, when he retired
from active business, except so far as the management of his own large property was
concerned, he was constantly engaged in the conduct of the affairs of the company,
and directed personally both its extended commercial business and the numerous
legal conflicts required in protecting against infringement the patents by which the
business was secured. The causes in court were often numbered by hundreds, and

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in not one of them was permanent defeat suffered. In the investment of his increas-
ing income Mr. Potter has always had faith in the enhancing value of real estate in
the city of New York. In 1886 he completed the structure in Park Row which bears his
name, and in 1889 the large building adjacent to Grace Church in Broadway. In
1892 he completed the great structure at the corner of Astor Place and Lafayette
Place fronting over four hundred feet upon the street. In 1869 he bought a farm
on the Hudson near Sing Sing, containing, with subsequent additions, about seven
hundred acres, and here with his flocks and herds he spends his summers, and a
portion of one day in each week of the winter. Notwithstanding the multiplicity of
business cares which have crowded the life of Mr. Potter, he has been a close observer
and student of public affairs. Previous to 1860 a Whig, in that year a supporter of
Lincoln, he has since that time been an active advocate of the policy of the Demo-
cratic part)' in opposition to the drift of the Republican party into the advocacy and
support of a paternal, centralized government. In the early part of the war, realizing
the promise of a prolonged contest and the necessity of abundant means for its
prosecution, as well as anxious to break up the old system of banking, under which
the currency issued by the State banks passed at a discount beyond the borders of
the State where it was issued, he conceived and urged the government to adopt a
plan which was practically followed at a later period in the organization of the
National Banking System. Salmon P. Chase, the secretary of the treasury, is en-
titled to only so much of the credit generally accorded to him as attaches to his ready
acceptance of the substance of Mr. Potter's plan, while to Mr. Potter should be given
the honor of conceiving and formulating our national banking system. On the 14th
of August, 1861, he addressed a letter to Mr. Chase, proposing as follows: "To
allow banks and bankers duly authorized in the loyal States to secure their bills by
depositing with a superintendent appointed by the government United States stocks
at their par value . . . thus making the stocks of the United States a basis of
banking on which alone a national circulation can be secured . . . and that in
case the same shall fail to be redeemed by the ba.uk or banker issuing the currency,
then on due demand and protest such superintendent shall sell . . . and apply to
the redemption of said currency the stocks held to secure the same. . . . This
money might properly be designated United States currency. . . . The objects
which will be secured by this plan are: First, the bills thus secured will have in
whatever State issued a national circulation and be worth the same in all parts of the
country. . . . Second, the fact that in this way banks and bankers could obtain
a national circulation for their bills would make United States stocks eagerly sought
after by them and their price would be always maintained at or above par though
the)' bore only a low rate of interest. Four per cents, could never fall below par
after the system is fairly tinder stood and at work. . . . The adoption of this
plan could not fail to put an end to all financial troubles during the war, and be an
increasing benefit and blessing ever after. While it would supply all the means
required for the war, it would instantly enable the older and newer portions of the
country to increase their trade with each other by supplying to such newer portions
an abundant and perfectly safe currency." Only such parts of the letter of Mr.
Potter are here quoted as are necessary to show that the National Banking Act
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by him August 14, 1861. Mr. Potter was nominated as the Democratic candidate
for Congress in the Tenth Congressional District of New York in 1878 and defeated.
At the special election in 1881, upon the resignation of Levi P. Morton, he was ten-
dered the nomination as representative in the Eleventh Congressional District, but
declined. Hon. R. P. Flower was then nominated and chosen, but upon the decli-
nation of Mr. Flower to receive a renomination in 1882, Mr. Potter accepted the
nomination and was chosen. In 1884 he declined a renomination. In 1886
he was warmly recommended as an independent candidate for mayor, but de-
clined and aided in the election of the Democratic candidate, Abram S. Hewitt.
Mr. Potter's wife died in February, 1879, and he has since married Mary Kate,
daughter of Dr. Jared Linsly, of New York. His son, Frederick Potter, is a member
of the New York bar, and assists his father in the care of his property. Mr. Potter
has never sought public office or titles. He has been president of the New York
State Agricultural Society during the two years closing January 18, 1893, by unani-
mous election, and declined a unanimous nomination for another term. He
received the degree of LL.D. from Williams College in 1889. He remains in his
ripe maturity the same working map he has been from youth, and exacts from his
assistants no closer attention to business or longer hours than from himself. The
writer knew Mr. Potter at the beginning of his career in Boston, struggling to get a
foothold on the first rung of the professional ladder, and in 1888 saw him for the first
.time afterwards occupying an office in the eleventh story of "Potter Building,"
owned by himself, and one of the architectural ornaments of a city in whose welfare
he feels a deep interest and pride. Having thus seen him at the outset and crisis of
his career, he has felt a natural desire to trace thus roughly his passage from one to
the other.

Samuel Wells was born in Durham, N. H., August 15, 1801. His ancestors were
early settlers in that State. In 1844 he removed to Portland, Me., and was appointed
judge of the Supreme Judicial Court. He was governor of Maine in 1856 and 1857,
and after leaving the executive chair removed to Boston, where he was admitted to
the Suffolk bar. He associated himself with his son and continued in practice in
Boston until his death, July 15, 1868. He married Louisa Ann Appleton, a descend-
ant of the Appleton family of Ipswich, Mass.

Samuel Wells, son of the above, was born in Hallowell, Me., September 9, 1836.
He was fitted for college in Portland, Me., and graduated at Harvard in 1857. He
was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 18, 1858, and practiced in Boston in part-
nership with his father until the death of the latter in 1868. In 1871 he formed a
business connection with Edward Bangs which soon became a partnership under the
name of Bangs & Wells, which has continued to the present time with the recent ad-
dition of the eldest son of each of the original members. In the early part of his
professional career he was a general practitioner, but afterwards confined himself to
the law relating to corporations and trusts, to the management of which he has given
much of his time. He is president of the State Street Exchange, second vice-presi-
dent and counsel of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, one of the
trustees of the Boston Real Estate Trust, and a director in several corporations. He
has been grand master of Masons in Massachusetts and an officer in several scientific
and charitable societies. He is president of the Exchange Club and a member of

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various other clubs and associations. He married, June 11, 1863, Catherine Boott,
daughter of Rev. Ezra Stiles Gannett, D.D. , of Boston.

Joseph Thomas, son of William and Mercy (Logan) (Bridgham) Thomas, was born
in Plymouth, Mass., in 1755, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was an officer
in the Revolution and after the war retired to Plymouth, where he continued, un-
married, until his death about 1830.

John Walsh graduated at Harvard in 1814, and was an attorney at the Suffolk bar
in 1822. He died in 1845.

Josefhus Eastman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1850, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar October 9 in that year.

James Prescott, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1788, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar. He died in 1829.

Lucien Gale, son of Stephen Gale, was born in Meredith, N. H., May 25, 1818,
and studied law with Stephen Carr Lyford, of Meredith, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar July 23, 1846. He practiced some years in Boston, and afterwards in New
York and Chicago, finally returning to New Hampshire and practicing in Laconia,
where he died in 1878. He married, February 1, 1853, Elizabeth, daughter of Alex-
ander Scammell Chadbourne, of Farmingdale, Me. He graduated at Dartmouth
in 1844.

Thomas McCrate Babson, son of John and Sarah Babson, was born in Wiscasset,
Me., May 28, 1847. He was educated in the public schools, in the Highland Military
School at Worcester, and in the Chauncy Hall School at Boston. On leaving school
he was occupied for a time in the store of Danforth, Scudder & Company, of Boston,
but having formed a plan to study law entered as a student the office of Ingalls &
Smith, of Wiscasset. He continued his studies at the Harvard Law School, where
he graduated in 1868 with the degree of LL. B. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar
October 14, 1868, and began practice in Boston associated with Edwin A. Alger, with
whom he remained about six months. In the spring of 1871 he went to St. Louis,
where he remained until November, 1872, when he resumed practice in Boston. From
1873 to 1879 he was a teacher in the Evening High School, only leaving that position
when his professional engagements demanded the use of all his available time. He
was a representative from Ward 16 of Boston in 1876, and in April, 1879, was
appointed fourth assistant city solicitor during the administration of that office by
John P. Healy. In 1881 he was appointed second assistant, and in 1885 first assist-
ant under Edward P. Nettletom In 1888 he was appointed city solicitor by Mayor
O'Brien in the last week of his administration, but was not confirmed. In May, 1891,
while acting as first assistant city solicitor he was appointed by Mayor Matthews cor-
poration counsel, and still holds that position. The duties of that office are constant
and responsible ones, and their performance by Mr. Babson has been eminently
satisfactory. Since he entered the office he has made a compilation of ordinances
and statutes affecting the city of Boston. He married in Boston, June 30, 1891,
Helen, daughter of Joseph L. Stevens, of Gloucester.

Joel Prentiss Bishot, the son of a farmer, was born in a small log house in the
woods in Volney, N. Y., March 10, 1814. His father moved while he was an infant
to Paris, N. Y., where in his boyhood he worked on his father's farm and attended

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school three or four months in the year. At the age of sixteen he taught school and
sought in various ways to obtain means sufficient for a professional education. At
the age of twenty-one, baffled by feeble health and insufficient pecuniary require-
ments, he was ready to abandon the career which he had fondly hoped to pursue. On
the 19th of July, 1835, he published in the Literary Emporium of New Haven some
lines descriptive of the blasting of his hopes in which the following words are found:

" Though thus I bid adieu to Learning, where
She sits in public places, or bows or waves
Her plumes from off her star-clad height to meet
The gaze of millions, still I may invite
Sometimes her presence in. a humble garb,
To cheer me in my lone obscure retreat."

But fate was more generous to him than he hoped. He drifted in some way to Bos-
ton and entered as a student in a law office there in 1842, and in fourteen months was
admitted to the Suffolk bar April 9, 1844. After pursuing a general practice several
years he so far devoted himself to the preparation of works in various branches of law
that he abandoned practice and followed the hand of fate which had led him thus far
m his career. He published in 1856 "Commentaries on the Law of Marriage and
Divorce;" in 1858, " Criminal Law ;'r in 1863, "Thoughts for the Times;" in 1864,
" Secession and Slavery;" in 1866, "Commentaries on Criminal Procedure;" and in
1868, " First Book of the Law." Thus the infant born in the log cabin in the Vol-
ney woods, and the young man giving up in despair all hope of a career, became at
last one of the most distinguished and successful workers in the literature of law.
He is now living in Cambridge and at the age of seventy-nine engaged in preparing
works for the press.

Prentiss Cummings, son of Whitney and Mary Hart (Prentiss) Cummings, was born
in Sumner, Me. , September 10, 1840, and graduated at Harvard in 1864. After
leaving college he held the position of Latin tutor at Harvard from 1866 to 1870, at
the same time studying law at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated
in 1869 with the degree of LL. B. He continued his studies in Boston in the office
of Nicholas St. John Green, at that time instructor in the Harvard Law School and
also lecturer on philosophy and political economy in the college, and was admitted to
the Middlesex bar at Cambridge in 1871. He established himself in Boston and soon
gathered about himself a numerous and confiding clientage. He has been a mem-
ber of the Boston City Council from Ward 10 three years, a member of the Massa-
chusetts House of Representatives two years, and assistant United States attorney
seven years. He was the president of the Cambridge Street Railroad during the
three years before it was consolidated with the West-End Railroad, and the last four
years has been the counsel of the latter road. The many obstacles to be overcome
in the organization and maintenance of this company, the legislation required for its
proper development, and the many suits in which so large a corporation has been
engaged, have demanded of him his most faithful and unremitting efforts. No man
is better fitted for the position, and he shares largely with Mr. Whitney, its presi-
dent, the honor and credit of rendering their road an important stepping stone to
what it is hoped may soon be realized — a permanent solution of the vexed question of
rapid transit for Boston and its suburbs.' The chapter on Street Railways in one of
the other two volumes of this work will describe more fully the service rendered by

576 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Mr. Cummings in the establishment of these indispensable means of transit in and
about the metropolis. He married, February 25, 1880, Annie D. Snow at Buckfield,
Me., and has his residence in Brookline.

Isaac McClellan, jr., was born in Portland in 1810 and graduated at Bowdoin
College in 1826. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1830, and practiced
law in Boston for a time. He afterwards retired to Greenport, L. I., and engaged
in agriculture. In the year of his admission to the bar he published a collection of
poems, and at various times afterwards published other collections.

Morton Barrows graduated at; Harvard in 1880 and studied law in the office of
Harrison, Hines & Miller, of Indianapolis, Irfd., and at the Boston University Law
School, from which he received the degree of LL.B. in 1883. He was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now practicing law in St. Paul.

Frank Oliver Carpenter graduated at Harvard in 1880, and after leaving college
took charge of the Attawaugan Grammar School in Killingly, Conn. In April, 1881,
he was appointed sub-master of the High School in Lexington, Mass., and soon after
master. He finally studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February,
1887. He married Flora Edith, daughter of Reuben H. and Lydia P. Wiltse, of
Corunna, Mich., at Boston, April 2, 1889.

Chauncey Smith, son of Ithamar and Ruth (Barnard) Smith, was born in Waits-
field, Vt. , January 11, 1819. He was educated at the public schools in Waitsfiekl, at
the Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary in Gouverneur, N. Y., at the University of
Burlington, Vt. , and in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1,
1849, and is engaged in practice in Boston relating chiefly to telephone and other
patent cases. He married Caroline E. Marshall, at Cambridge, December 10, 1856,
and has his residence in Cambridge.

Henry Walton Swift, son of William C. N. and Eliza N. (Perry) Swift, was born
in New Bedford, Mass., December 17, 1849. He fitted for college at Phillips Exeter
Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1871. He studied law in New Bedford in the
office of William W. Crapo and George Marston, and at the Harvard Law School,
from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1874. He was admitted to the
Suffolk bar June 20, 1874, and established himself in Boston, associated with Russell
Gray. He became largely connected with corporation business and has acted in
Boston for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. Like his father, a prominent
Democrat in Bristol county, he has been active in the ranks of the Democracy, and
has recently served as chairman of the finance committee of the Democratic State
Committee. In 1882 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Represent-
atives from Boston, and previous to that time, in 1879 and 1880, he was a member of
the Boston Common Council from Ward 9. He was one of the compilers of the
Massachusetts Digest published in 1881. In January, 1892, John E. Sanford, of
Taunton, chairman of the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, was appointed
chairman of the Railroad Commissioners, and Mr. Swift was appointed to take Mr.
San ford's place, and the legal knowledge, good sense and capacity for work which
he has shown during a year's performance of the duties of the office, have proved
that his appointment was not misplaced. His residence is in Boston.

William Saint Agnan Stearns, son of Richard Sprague and Theresa (Saint Agnan)
Stearns, was born in Salem, Mass., September 27, 1822. He received his early edu-

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cation at the Salem Latin School and the Dummer Academy, and graduated at
Harvard in 1841. He studied law in Worcester in the office of Emory Washburn,
and in Andover in the office of Nathan Hazen, and at the Harvard Law School, and
was admitted to the Essex county bar at Ipswich in 1846. He first opened an office
in Princeton, 111., where he spent two years, and then returned to Massachusetts and
practiced in South Reading one year. He then practiced in Maiden and finally in
Charlestown, where he continued with an office a part of the time in Boston until the
annexation of Charlestown to Boston in January, 1874. For a number of years he
was associated in business with John Quincy Adams Griffin. In 1868, two years after
the death of Mr. Griffin, 'he formed a partnership with John Haskell Butler, which
continued until January, 1892. Mr. Butler had been a student in his office. During
the last three years of the corporate existence of Charlestown he was its city solicitor,
and performed the duties of that office not only with the approval of the city govern-
ment but with that also of the community at large. While Mr. Butler has entered to
a certain extent the field of politics, Mr. Stearns has resisted the allurement of public
life and devoted himself to his professional work and to the successful development
of real estate in Charlestown and Somerville and Salem, which under his prudent
management has largely enhanced in value. In January, 1892, he abandoned
practice altogether, and since that time has been devoted to his private affairs. He
married H. Emily Whitman in Maiden May 10, 1849, and has his residence in Salem
in the house built by his great-grandfather, Joseph Sprague, in 1750.

John Lowell, son of John Amory and Susan Cabot (Lowell) Lowell, was born in
Boston October 18, 1824. Perhaps no family in Massachusetts has for so many gen-
erations and in so many of its branches been more distinguished. Going no farther
back than John Lowell, who was born in Newburyport in 1743, and became chief
justice of the United States Court of the first circuit, including Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, we find in the next generation his son John,
a lawyer and writer of repute, born in Newburyport in 1769, a founder of the "Bos-
ton Atheneum," "The Provident Institution for Savings in the town of Boston," and
of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company ; another son, Francis Cabot
Lowell, born in Newburyport in 1775, from whom the city of Lowell received its
name; and still another son, Charles, born in Boston in 1782, who was for many
years the distinguished pastor of the West Church in Boston. In the third generation
we have John Lowell, called the Philanthropist, a son of Francis Cabot Lowell, born
in Boston in 1799, who bequeathed $250,000 for the maintenance in that city of the
"Lowell Institute;" James Russell Lowell, son of Rev. Charles Lowell, the poet
statesman and scholar, and John Amory Lowell, son of John Lowell mentioned
above as a founder of several institutions, and the father of the subject of this sketch.
In the fourth and present generation we have Charles Russell Lowell and James
Jackson Lowell, brothers, and grandsons of Rev. Charles Lowell, both of whom dis-
tinguished themselves in the Civil War, the former of whom, with the rank of
brigadier-general, was killed at the battle of Cedar Creek; and the latter, as first
lieutenant, was killed at the battle of Glendale ; and John Lowell, son of John Amory
Lowell, and the subject of this sketch. Thus John Lowell, of whom these words
are written, is descended through both his father and mother from Judge John
Lowell, who so long and so worthily graced the bench of the District and Circuit
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Courts of the United States. He was fitted for college in a private school under the
instruction of Daniel Greenleaf Ingraham, a Harvard graduate of 1809, and gradu-
ated at Harvard in 1843 in a class many of whose members have become distinguished
in the various walks of life. Among these may be mentioned John William Bacon,
a late judge of the Superior Court, Charles Anderson Dana, editor of the New York
Sun, Rev. Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Rev. Thomas Hill, late president of Har-
vard College, Charles Callaghan Perkins, distinguished in the department of art,
William Adams Richardson, at one time secretary of the United States Treasury and
now chief justice of the Court of Claims, Eben Carleton Sprague, the eminent
lawyer of Buffalo, and Eben Francis Stone, of Newburyport, late member of Con-
gress. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in
1845 with the degree of LL. B., and after further study in Boston in the office of
Charles G. Loring, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1846. He was for
some years associated in business with William Sohier, a Harvard graduate of 1840,
and became so eminent at the bar that on the resignation of Peleg Sprague of his
seat on the bench of the United States District Court, he was appointed on the 11th
of March, 1865, by President Lincoln as his successor. At the time of his appoint-
ment the District Courts were held by the district judges, and the Circuit Courts by
the justices of the United States Supreme Court. The law provided that the "chief
justice and the associate justices of the Supreme Court shall be allotted among the
circuits by an order of the court, and a new allotment shall be made whenever it
becomes necessary or convenient by reason of the alteration of any circuit or of the
new appointment of a chief justice or associate justice or otherwise." On the 10th of
April, 1869, it was provided by law that "for each circuit there shall be appointed a
circuit judge, who shall have the same power and jurisdiction therein as the justice
of the Supreme Court allotted to the circuit. . . . The Circuit Courts shall be
held by the associate justice, or by the circuit judge of the circuit, or by the district
judge of the district sitting alone, or by any two of said judges sitting together." It
was further provided that the associate justice of the Supreme Court shall attend at
least one term of the Circuit Court in each district of the circuit to which he is alloted
in two years. After the passage of this law, George Foster Shepley, of Portland,
was appointed circuit judge, and held that position until his death, July 20, 1878.
On the 18th of December following, Judge Lowell was appointed circuit judge of the
First Circuit which includes Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode
Island. He continued on the bench until May 1, 1884, when, after nineteen years'
service on the bench of United States Courts, he resigned and resumed practice in
Boston. Were it not probable that judicial traits, like all other mental characteristics,
are inherited, it would seem more singular that Judge Lowell should have held for
thirteen years the same position as district judge which his great-grandfather John
Lowell held under an appointment from Washington three-quarters of a century
before. It is still more singular that he should have been promoted to the position
of judge of the Court of the First Circuit while the same ancestor was raised under
the law of 1801, repealed in 1802, by appointment from President Adams from a
judge of the District Court to chief justice of the court of the same circuit. Judge
Lowell, since his retirement from the bench, has found no want of occupation, and
his legal learning, supplemented by judicial training and the honest workings of an
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adjudication and management of questions and trusts involving large and important
interests. He married, May 19, 1853, Lucy B., daughter of George B. Emerson, of
Boston. Two volumes of the decisions of Judge Lowell from 1872 to 1877 have been
published, and on all questions relating to the subject of bankruptcy he'is the highest
authority. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1871 and from Williams
College in 1870.

Harvey Newton Shepard, son of William and Eliza Shepard, was born in Bos-
ton, July 8, 1850. He received his early education at the public schools of Boston,
including the Eliot School and at the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham. He grad-
uated at Harvard in 1871, and after attending lectures at the Harvard Law School
completed his law studies in the office of Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson, of Boston, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1873. Beginning practice in the office of
the above firm he established himself independently in business in 1875, and soon
secured a foothold in the ranks of his profession. In the earliest days of his career
he became active in politics, and in 1874 and 1875 was a member of the Republican
City Committee of Boston, a member of the Republican State Committee in 1875-76
and 1877, and president of the Young Men's Republican State Committee 1879 and
1880. In later years he has allied himself with those who, having become dissatisfied
with the course of the Republican party, have advocated and supported those meas-
ures of public policy of which Grover Cleveland has been the most conspicuous
exponent. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1878-1880 and 1881,
and in 1880 was president of the Board. In 1881 and 1882 he was a member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives; in 1878 and 1879 he was a trustee of the
Boston Public Library, and in 1884 he delivered the annual oration on the Fourth of
July before the city authorities of Boston. From 1883 to 1887 he was assistant attor-
ney-general of the Commonwealth, and in 1892 was the chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Tariff Reform League. In the ranks of the latter organization he
has been especially active, and his speeches in advocacy of its measures have been
able and instructive. In the Masonic fraternity he has been conspicuous. In 1881
and 1882 he was worshipful master of St. John's Lodge, in 1882 and 1883 high priest
of St. John's Chapter, in 1887 and 1888 thrice illustrious master of East Boston Coun-
cil, in 1883-1884 and 1885 district deputy grand master of the First Masonic District,
and from 1885 to 1889 commissioner of trials of the Grand Lodge. He has been a
member and officer of other associations too numerous to mention. He married in
Everett, November 23, 1873, Fannie May Woodman, and resides in Boston.
. Solomon Alonzo Bolster, son of Gideon and Charlotte (Hall) Bolster, was born
in Paris, Oxford county, Me., December 10, 1835. He was educated in the public
schools and at the Oxford Normal Institute in Paris. He studied law in the office of
William W. Bolster in Dixfield, Me., and continued his studies at the Harvard Law
School, where he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1859. He was admitted to
the Maine bar in Paris and later to the Missouri bar in Palmyra. He was admitted
to the Suffolk bar April 24, 1862. On the 29th of September, 1862, he was mustered
into the United States service for nine months, and on the 15th of November he was
commissioned second lieutenant in the Twenty-third Regiment of Maine Volun-
teers. In his devotion to his profession he has been constant and faithfuls No
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fession, no allurements of public office, so potent with many, have distracted his
mind, but with a single eye to the career he had marked out for himself, and obedient
to its behests, he has gained position and honor in the legal ranks. On the 22d of
April, 1885, he was appointed justice of the Municipal Court for the Roxbury Dis-
trict of the city of Boston to succeed Henry W. Fuller, who was the successor of P.
S. Wheelock, for many years a judge on the bench of that court. In the Massachu-
setts Militia he was appointed June 29, 1867, judge advocate with the rank of captain
in the First Brigade, assistant inspector-general with the rank of major March 22,
1870, and assistant adjutant-general with the rank of lieutenant-colonel August 15,
1876. At the expiration of his war service he established himself in Roxbury, where
he still resides and has his office. He married in Cambridge, October 3, 1864, Sarah
J. Gardner.

William Adams Richardson, son of Daniel and Mary (Adams) Richardson, was
born in Tyngsborough, Mass., November 2, 1821, and graduated at Harvard in 1843.
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846 with the degree of LL.B., and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 8 in that year. He established himself in Lowell,
where he was associated as partner with his brother, Daniel S. Richardson. In 1849
and 1853 and 1854 he was a member of the Lowell Common Council, and during the
last two years he was president of the Board. In 1846 he was appointed judge advo-
cate of the Second Division of the Massachusetts Militia with the rank of major, and
in 1850 he was a member of the staff of Governor George Nixon Briggs. In 1855 he
was'appointed one of the commissioners to revise the statutes of Massachusetts, who
reported the revision which finally became the General Statutes of 1860. In Decem-
ber, 1859, he was appointed with George Partridge Sanger to superintend the publi-
cation of the General Statutes and prepare an index. In 1856 he was appointed
judge of probate of Middlesex count}-, and held that office until the creation by law
of the office of judge of probate and insolvency in 1858, when he was appointed to
that office. In 1863 he was chosen an overseer of Harvard College, and in 1869 was
rechosen. In 1867 he was appointed with Judge Sanger to edit the annual supple-
ment of the "General Statutes," and performed that service until the issue of the
"Public Statutes" in 1882. In March, 1869, he was appointed assistant secretary of
the Treasury, and on the retirement of George S. Boutwell, the secretary, in 1873, he
was appointed to succeed him. In June, 1874, he was appointed one of the judges
of the Court of Claims at Washington, and in January, 1885, was made chief justice.
In June, 1880, he was appointed by Congress to edit and publish a supplement to the
Revised Statutes of the United States with notes and references, which was published
in 1881. In 1880 he was appointed a professor of law in the Georgetown University
and he has received a degree of LL.D. from Columbian University in 1873, George-
town in 1881, Harvard in 1882, and Dartmouth in 1886. He married, October 29,
1849, Anna M. Marston, of Machiasport, Me.

Charles S. Bradley, son of Charles Bradley, a Boston merchant, was chief justice
of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, and afterwards practiced in Boston. He was
at the Suffolk bar in 1877.

William Minot, son of William and Louisa (Davis) Minot, was born in Boston
April 7, 1817, and graduated at Harvard in 1836. He graduated at the Harvard Law
School in 1840 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1841. He established

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himself in Boston in association with James Benjamin, a Harvard graduate of 1830,
as his partner. The firm engaged in a general practice until the death of Mr. Ben-
jamin in 1853. Not long after that time his father, a Harvard graduate of 1802, who
had been for many years engaged as administrator and trustee of large and exceed-
ingly valuable estates, began to gradually relinquish the cares and responsibilities of
business, and these were chiefly assumed by the son. It is probable that no man in
Massachusetts had the management of a larger amount of trust funds than the elder
Mr. Minot, and it is certain that in no other hands were these considered more safely
deposited or more conscientiously and wisely invested. The management of these
trusts is of course incompatible with a continued practice of law in the courts and
since his father's death he has been little known in the trial of causes. It is easy to
understand the temperament and general characteristics of a man qualified for the
position he holds. He possesses the retiring disposition of his father, his conservative
views, his judicial mind, his sensitive conscience, his love of justice, integrity and
honor. He has inherited all those traits which made his father an honest and wise
counsellor and friend. He married Katharine Maria, daughter of Charles and Eliza-
beth Sedgwick, of Lenox, Mass., and has two sons, Robert S. and William Minot, jr.,
associated with him in business.

William J. Purnam, son of Rev. John K. and Sarah "(Harter) Purnam, was born in
Centre county, Penn., April 11, 1840. He was educated in the public schools and at
Aaronsburg Academy. He read law and was admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania
in 1861, when he entered the service. After the war he settled in Florida, in which
State he was senator and secretary of state. He became judge of the court of Jack-
son county, assessor of internal revenue, and member of Congress, serving in the
Forty-third, Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses. In 1884 he removed to Boston
where he now lives. He married, October 19, 1871, Leadora Finlayson, of Marianna,
Fla.

George Foster Shepley, son of Ether Shepley, was born in Saco, Me., January 1,
1819, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1837. He read law at the Harvard Law School
and was admitted to the Maine bar in 1840. He established himself in Bangor,
where he remained until 1844, when he removed to Portland. From 1853 to 1861 he
was United States district attorney for Maine, and in 1860 was a delegate at large to
the National Democratic Convention at Charleston. In the early part of the war
he was commissioned colonel of the Twelfth Maine Regiment. He was made mili-
tary commandant of New Orleans after its capture and acting mayor until in July,
1862, he was appointed military governor of Louisiana. In the same month he was
made brigadier-general of volunteers. At a later time he was placed in command of
the military district of Eastern Virginia, and for a short time commanded the
Twenty-fifth Army Corps. He was also appointed military governor of Richmond
after its capture, and resigned his commission July 1, 1865. In 1869 he was appointed
circuit judge of the. First Circuit, which office he held until his death, July 20, 1878.
His circuit included Massachusetts, and for the reason that he held court in Boston
he is included in this register.

Raymond R. Gilman, son of Ambrose and Eunice (Wilcox) Oilman, was born in
Shelburne Falls, Mass., July 25, 1859. He was educated in the public schools and at
the academy at Shelburne Falls. He studied law at the Boston University Law

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School and in the offices of F. Field, of Shelburne Falls, and Frederick D. Ely, of
Dedham, now one of the judges of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, and
was admitted to the Norfolk bar September 28, 1880. He established himself in
business in his native town, but finally removed to Boston, where he is now in active
practice at the Suffolk bar. Since he opened an office in Boston he has advanced
with sure yet rapid steps in his profession, and while so many young lawyers, after
admission to the Suffolk bar, have been compelled to seek other business more profit-
able than the law or to migrate to other fields where there seemed to be a promise
for a more prosperous career, the larger opportunities of Boston have enabled him
to develop and use the talents and capacity for work which he possesses and to suc-
ceed where so many others have failed. He is an active member of the association
of Odd Fellows and is a member of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. In the town
of Melrose, where he has his residence, he takes an interest in every movement cal-
culated to advance the welfare of the community with which he has identified himself.
He married, June 16, 1882, Kate A. Tuttle.

Rufus Choate, son of David and Miriam (Foster) Choate, was descended from John
Choate, who was made a freeman in Massachusetts in 1667. He was born in the
town of Essex, Mass., October 1, 1799. He began the study of Latin in 1809 with Dr.
Thomas Sewell and continued his studies with Rev. Thomas Holt, William Cogswell
and Rev. Robert Crowell. Even earlier than that, when he was about six years of
age, it is said that he could repeat from memory a large part of ' ' Pilgrim's Progress,"
and before he was ten had exhausted the resources of the library in his native town.
After a short period of study at Hampton Academy, where he fitted for college, he
entered Dartmouth College in 1815 and graduated in 1819. He received the degree
of LL.D. from Yale in 1844, from Dartmouth and Harvard in 1845, and from Am-
herst in 1848. After leaving college he occupied the position of tutor at Dartmouth
one year, and then for a short time attended lectures at the Harvard Law School.
In 1821 he entered the office of William Wirt, then attorney-general of the United
States, at Washington, and returned to Massachusetts in 1822, where he finished his
law studies in Ipswich and Salem. He was admitted to the Essex bar at Salem at
the September term of the Court of Common Pleas in 1823, and established himself
in Danvers in 1824. In 1828 he removed to Salem. While living in Danvers he was
a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1825, and a State sen-
ator in 1827. From 1831 to 1834 he was a member of Congress from the Essex dis-
trict, resigning in the latter year and removing to Boston. His brilliant career as a
lawyer may be said to have begun on his entrance to the broader field which the
Suffolk bar opened to him. In 1841 he succeeded Daniel Webster in the United
States Senate when that gentleman resigned his seat to become secretary of state
under President Harrison. In 1845 Mr. Webster was again chosen senator and Mr.
Choate resumed the practice of his profession in Boston. In 1850 he visited Europe,
traveling in England, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Germany. In 1849 the
office of attorney-general of the Commonwealth, which had been abolished in 1843,
was re-established and John H. Clifford was appointed to fill it. In 1853, on the
accession of Mr. Clifford to the executive chair, Mr. Choate was appointed his suc-
cessor as attorney-general, and held the office until his resignation in 1854, and the
reappointment of Mr. Clifford in that year. In 1852 he was a delegate to the Whig

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National Convention at Baltimore, and advocated the nomination of Mr. Webster for
the presidency, and in 1853 was a member of the Massachusetts convention for the
revision pf the constitution. In 1856 he supported Mr. Buchanan in the presidential
campaign of that year. In 1858, in consequence of ill health, he abandoned profes-
sional labor, and in 1859, accompanied by his son, sailed for Europe, hoping to re-
gain health and strength. On the arrival of the steamer in Halifax, then a stopping
place, he was too feeble to proceed and landing, died in that city July 13, 1859. He
married, March 29, 1825, Helen, daughter of Mills Olcutt, of Hanover, N. H., a sis-
ter of the wife of Joseph Bell referred to elsewhere in this register. It is not easy to
measure and state with accuracy the characteristics of Mr. Choate in the various posi-
tions which he was called upon to fill. As a statesman and politician he should not
be accorded the highest place. As the former he was so far removed from his true
element, and was so unfamiliar with the atmosphere surrounding him, that he
breathed it timidly and with caution, and failed to exhibit that fearless independeuce
so essential to success in the legislative arena. While in the Senate, when Mr. Web-
ster remained in the Cabinet of President Tyler, after others of the Harrison Cabinet
deserted him, against the protests and denunciations of Henry Clay and other leading
Whig statesmen who looked on the president as a traitor to his party, Mr. Choate
assumed the attitude of a defender of the secretary, and on one occasion sought in a
speech to palliate, if hot justify, the acts of Mr. Tyler. "And do you, too, pretend to
be a mouthpiece of the administration," said Mr. Clay pointing his finger at the Mass-
achusetts senator, but not a word was heard from Mr. Choate in response to an in-
sult which a man of smaller calibre, but more courage, would have indignantly
resented and rebuked. As a politician he was as much out of his element as in the
role of a legislator. He was too much absorbed in the special vocation to which he
had consecrated his powers to give much time to the study of political questions, and he
thus naturally followed the tide on which he saw his friends and associates were drift-
ing, and with his i> reat good nature rendered them generously such aid as they sought
from him. In the dominion of law, however, to which he gave his heart and soul
and strength, he was supreme. As has been said of him by the writer of this sketch
in another place, ' ' though an orator of the highest rank, his greatest forensic efforts
were before a jury, and no gladiatorial show ever exceeded in interest the continuous
exhibition of logic, entwined with wreaths of eloquence, in which he indulged before
a reluctant jury until one after another of the panel yielded to him his judgment,
and was ready, as he triumphantly said, to give him his verdict." There was a fasci-
nation about him which no juryman with the usual qualities of human nature could
resist, and the writer who has many times seen and heard him in the trial of causes,
fails to remember an instance where his sympathies were not enlisted on the side
represented by Mr. Choate. But his success at the bar was not due alone to his
oratory. No man understood human nature better, or was more keen in discover-
ing the points which would influence the human mind. The writer remembers a trial
at which he was present, of a shipmaster charged with wrecking his vessel on the
the coast of St. Domingo for the purpose of obtaining a large and fraudulent insur-
ance. The underwriters of Boston, who had, as they believed, been repeated^ de-
frauded in a similar manner, determined to make a stand on this case, and, if possi-
ble, secure a conviction. The case had been tried once with Robert Rantoul the
prosecuting district attorney, and the jury had disagreed. Before the second trial

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George Lant had been made district attorney, under the Taylor administration, and
he had sent to St. Domingo George D. Guild, a member of the Boston bar, to secure
further evidence for the government. At the second trial, most of which came under
the observation of the writer, when the testimony on both sides had been submitted,
the court took a short recess before the addresses to the jury. During the recess Mr.
Choate, while passing through the entry of the Court House, overheard the colored
cook of the vessel say to some of his shipmates that the captain cried when he aban-
doned his vessel and took his boat to go ashore. After the recess Mr. Choate rose in
a solemn manner, and saying to the court that during the recess a very important
piece of testimony had come to his knowlege, asked permission to introduce it. The
court overruled the objections of the district attorney, and permitted the introduc-
tion of the evidence. The cook was called to the stand, and in reply to the question
of Mr. Choate as to the behavior of the captain on his leaving his vessel, replied that
he cried like a child. This was enough for Mr. Choate, and in his address he so de-
scribed the scene of the wreck and the pathetic deportment of the captain in leaving
his dear Sally Ann, whose loss, if he were guilty, he would have rather rejoiced
at than mourned, that his client was acquitted. The oratory of Mr. Choate has been
graphically described by Hon. John J. Ingalls, who happened to be in court in
Salem while Mr. Choate was conducting a suit for damages against a railroad cor-
poration, brought by a clergyman who was run down by a train while driving over a
track at a street crossing. "Mr. Choate's purpose, when he rose to address the jury,
seemed to be to dispel, by bald and colloquial simplicity, the imputation made by
General Butler, the opposing counsel, that he was a magician and juggler charming
juries with his legerdemain and incantations. When this purpose was accomplished
he gradually and by imperceptible gyrations wheeled to higher flights, till at last he
seerned almost to vanish in the empyrean of articulate splendor. No dervish in his
most ecstatic fervor ever bent and whirled, and rose and fell on such genuflections
and contortions. Sweat trickled from the black jungle of his disordered hair along
the ravines and furrows of his haggard face. He advanced and retreated, rising
upon his toes and coming down upon his heels with a dislocating jerk that made
the windows rattle, pausing occasionally to inhale through his dilating nostrils tem-
pestuously, and then emitting a shrieking epigram or apostrophe that thrilled the
blood like a wild cry at midnight in a solitary place. With great artistic skill he de-
picted the tranquil village ; the clergyman on his errand of mercy in the freshness of
a summer morning along the shaded street ; the unsuspected approach of the train
around the concealing curve ; the fatal instant, when, too late to advance or retreat,
the monster sprang tipon him with 'the thunderous terror of its, insupportable foot-
steps.'" Mr. Ingalls further says, "how such a blazing meteor broke into the sedate
orbit of New England life is one of the mysteries of psychology. No such phenom-
enon has occurred in Massachusetts before or since. He wore the aspect of an
Arab, and had the oriental imagination of a wanderer of the desert, but to these
were added the sagacious shrewdness and pertinacity of a Yankee." With all his
marvelous, and often pathetic eloquence, he was not devoid of humor, and in this
he often indulged, more powerful in argument than invective, but while his audience
laughed, his face always remained the same, serious and serene. Governor Andrew
once told the writer of the return of Mr. Choate to his office one day after a trial in
the Supreme Court, in which he had been much annoyed by the supercilious bearing

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of the opposing counsel, an eminent member of the Suffolk bar. As he threw his
satchel on the standing desk, at which he often stood and worked, he exclaimed,

"There, I don't care if I never see Mr. again," adding after a pause, "not that

I should object to seeing him in a procession." This unworthy sketch of Mr. Choate
would jDedess worthy still, if no mention were made of his modest and unassuming
deportment, his sweet and gentle nature, his unvarying courtesy to old and young,
to those of high and low degree, his readiness at all times to aid with the wisest and
most conscientious counsel the young aspirant for work and fame in the profession
in which he was master. With these qualities, he died not only venerated as a great
lawyer, but beloved also as a man.

Asa French, son of Jonathan and Sarah Brackett (Hayward) French, was born in
Braintree, Mass., October 21, 1829. In that town his ancestors have lived from the
time of its earliest settlement. He received his early education in the public schools
of Braintree and at Leicester Academy, and graduated at Yale College in 1851. He
studied law at the Albany Law School and at the Harvard Law School, graduating
from the latter institution in 1853 with the degree of LL.B. He was admitted to the
New York bar in 1853, and after further study in Boston in the offices of David A.
Simmons and Harvey Jewell was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26, 1854. He has
since his admission continued to live in Braintree, and though practicing in Boston
has been identified with the Norfolk county bar. In 1866 he was a member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives, and in 1870 was appointed by Governor
Claflin district attorney for the Southeastern District of Massachusetts, consisting of
the counties of Norfolk and Plymouth, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resigna-
tion of Edward Lillie Pierce. He held the office by successive elections until 1882,
when he resigned. He had at this time shown so conspicuously his ability at the
bar, and the judicial character of his mind, that in the latter year Governor Long
offered him a seat on the bench of the Superior Court, which he declined. Previous
to that time he had held for a number of years a position on the Board of Commis-
sioners on Inland Fisheries and continued to hold it several years later. Under the
act of Congress passed June 5, 1882, re-establishing the Court of Commissioners on
the Alabama Claims, he was appointed one of the judges, and in 1883 was selected
by President Arthur as one of the visitors at West Point for that year. In 1870 Gen-
eral Sylvanus Thayer, of Braintree, endowed a free public library in that town and
at his death bequeathed to trustees two hundred and eighty thousand dollars for the
establishment in the town of an institution free to all the citizens of the old town for
the education of their children. The library, known as the Thayer Public Library,
and the institution, known as the Thayer Academy, have become important factors
in promoting the welfare of the town. Mr. French is the president of the boards of
trustees of both institutions. He is now actively engaged in practice in Boston, and
in the enjoyment of the confidence of a large and desirable clientage. He married in
October, 1858, Sophia B., daughter of Simeon Palmer, of Boston.

John Wells, son of Noah Wells, was born in Rowe, Mass., February 17, 1819. His
father was a man of note in Franklin county, having been a State senator in 1842 and
a representative at an earlier date. He graduated at Williams CoDege in 1838, and
after graduating taught school for a time in Newport, R. I. He studied law in
Greenfield in the office of Wells & Davis and at the Harvard Law School, and was
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586 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

admitted to the Franklin county bar in 1841. He established himself in Chicopee
and in 1858 was appointed judge of probate and insolvency, the first judge under the
law combining the two offices. In 1864 he resigned in consequence of the pressure
on his time of his general practice. He was a member of the Massachusetts House
of Representatives from Chicopee in 1849-1851-1857 and 1865. In 1866 he was ap-
pointed a judge of the Supreme Judicial Court to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
death of Charles Augustus Dewey, and held his seat until his death. He delivered
an address before the alumni of Williams College in 1869, and was president of the
Alumni Association during the last two years of his life. He married, May 15,
1850, Sophia Dwight, of Boston, and died at the house of George Wheatland in Salem,
November 23, 1875. The Law Review said of him: "His reputation was steadily
growing until he had made himself one of the best judges in the country and left a
reputation seldom equalled and more seldom surpassed by any in the list of his dis-
tinguished predecessors."

John Quincy Adams Griffin was born in Londonderry, N. H., July 8, 1826, and
was educated at the Lawrence Academy in Groton. He studied law in that town
with George Frederick Farley and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October,
1849. In 1855 he was living in Maiden, in 1859 in Charlestown, and afterwards in
Medford. He practiced in Charlestown and Boston and was a number of years in
partnership with William St. Agnan Stearns, who is referred to in another part of
this Register. He was a representative about 1860, and the writer has a distinct
recollection of his deep sonorous voice, his deliberate manner, his incisive and logical
speech, and the attention he always commanded when he rose to address the House.
There was no abler man of his age at either the Middlesex or Suffolk bar, and in the
trial of causes the difficulties and dilemmas which arise in court to the discomfiture
of the counsel, only served to sharpen his intellect and to bring out that reserved
force which in the end secured a victory at the very verge of failure and defeat. He
died at Medford, May 22, 1866, at the age of forty years. He married Sarah, daugh-
ter of James Wood, of Concord, Mass.

Frederick Ellsworth Hurd, son of George A. and Laura A. (Chapman) Hurd,
was born in Wolfboro', N. H., February 25, 1861. Colonel Ellsworth, commander of
the Ellsworth Zouaves, was killed in Alexandria at the beginning of the war,
and the interest excited by that event induced his parents to adopt his name
for their child. He was educated at the public schools of Wolfboro' and at the
Boston Latin School. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in
the offices of John H. Hardy, now one of the justices of the Municipal Court of the
city of Boston, and of Samuel J. Elder, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Octo-
ber, 1884. Since his admission up to the present time he has been an assistant dis-
trict attorney of Suffolk county under Oliver Stevens, who has many years occupied
the position of attorney. Mr. Hurd has devoted himself most assiduously to the study
of criminal law and has already won an enviable reputation for skill in the construc-
tion and drawing of indictments. It is intimated that some recent indictments in
cases where a failure to convict was very generally expected were largely the work
of his hands. He is now in a position where he is laying a sure foundation for
criminal practice which cannot fail to give him a prominent position at the bar. He
is unmarried and has his residence in Boston.

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Edwin C. Gilman, son of Samuel and Jeannette (Rae) Gilman, was born in Bos-
ton, August 29, 1851, and was educated in the public schools. He studied law in
Boston in the offices of Moses Williams and Clement K. Fay, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar June 10, 1873. He established himself in business in Boston, where
he engaged in general practice until 1885. A clear head, great perseverance and
untiring industry, added to his legal attainments, soon secured for him a foothold
in his profession. Like many other lawyers of ability whose services have been
sought as permanent advisers of companies or corporations where business is based
on patented improvements and inventions, he was selected in 1885 as the attorney
of the Lamson Consolidated Store Service Company, and since that time he has
devoted himself to the management of the legal business of that corporation. He
married Anna B. Hunt of Salem.

Edward Bangs, son of Isaac Bangs, was born in Boston, July 16. 1825. His
mother was Alicia, daughter of John and Sarah (Province) Le Cain, of Annapolis
Royal, in Nova Scotia. He is a descendant of Edward Bangs, w*ho came to Plym-
outh in the ship Ann in 1623, and married Lydia, daughter of Robert and Margaret
Hicks, who came to Plymouth in the same ship. Robert Hicks was a leather dresser
in London and may have been a brother of Sir Baptist Hicks, a mercer of London,
who was knighted in London in 1605, and afterwards became Viscount Camden. The
house which he built and occupied in Plymouth was taken down in 1826. His second
wife, Rebecca, was the mother of Mrs. Bangs. Edward Bangs, the subject of this
sketch, graduated at Harvard in 1846, and among his classmates were Francis J.
Child, Boylston professor at Harvard, AVilliam Sohier Dexter, Dr. Calvin Ellis, Pro-
fessor William T. Harris, George ^Frisbie Hoar, United States senator, Professor
George M. Lane, and Professor Charles Eliot Norton. He studied law at the Har-
vard Law School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1849, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 7, 1850. He was a representative from
Watertown in 1865, and is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He is
associated in business with Samuel Wells son of ex-Governor Samuel Wells, of
Maine, and both he and Mr. Wells have a son in the firm. He married, September
25, 1856, Anne Outram (Hinckley), daughter of David Hodgkinson, of Boston, and
great-great-great-granddaughter of Governor Thomas Hinckley, of the Plymouth
Colony.

James Bradley Thayer, son of Abijah Wyman and Susan (Bradley) Thayer, was
born in Haverhill, Mass., January 15, 1831. He graduated at Harvard in 1852, and
at the Harvard Law School with the degree of LL.B. in 1856. He was admitted to
the Suffolk bar December 3, 1856, and established himself in Boston. He was a
master in chancery for Suffolk county from 1864 to 1874, and in 1873 was appointed
Royall professor of law at the Harvard Law School to succeed Nathaniel Holmes.
In 1883 he was appointed Weld professor of law, and still holds that position. He
married, April 24, 1861, Sophia Bradford, daughter of Rev. Samuel and Sarah Brad-
ford Ripley, of Concord, Mass. , and has his residence in Cambridge.

George Henry Woodman, son of Dr. George S. and Jane (Gridley) Woodman, was
born in Amherst, Mass., December 25, 1851, and was educated at the public schools
and under private instruction. He studied law in Northampton in the office of
Charles Delano, and in Greenfield and in New York. He was admitted to the

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Franklin county bar in Greenfield in 1876, to the New York bar in 1877, and is now
practicing in Boston.

James Walker Austin, son of William and Lncy (Jones) Austin, was born in
Charlestown, Mass., January 8, 1829. His father, a Harvard graduate of 1798, was
a member of the Suffolk bar and the author of " Peter Rugg, the Missing Man," and
other New England tales, and also of " Letters from London." Colonel Thomas H.
Higginson, in one of his essays, calls him "The Precursor of Hawthorne." A vol-
ume containing his writings, under the title of "The Literary Papers of William
Austin, with a Biographical Sketch by his son, James Walker Austin," was published
by Little & Brown, of Boston, in 1890. The subject of this sketch received his early
education at the Training Field School in Charlestown, and at Chauncy Hall School
in Boston, under the instruction of Gideon F. Thayer and Thomas Cushing. He
graduated at Harvard in 1849 in the class with Martin Brimmer, Charles F. Choate,
Charles R. Codman, Horace Davis, Abbott Lawrence, Lemuel Shaw, and many
others who have become conspicuous in the various walks of life. He graduated at
the Harvard Law School with the degree of LL.B. in 1851, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar January 22 in that year. In February, 1851, he sailed for California, and
in August visited the Hawaiian Islands, where by the advice of Chief Justice William
L. Lee and the late General James E. B. Marshall, he was admitted to the Hawaiian
bar in September, 1851, and in 1852 was appointed district attorney for the Second
Judicial District, holding that position several years. He was twice chosen a mem-
ber of the Hawaiian Parliament and was for a time the speaker of that body. By a
special act of the Legislature he was appointed one of the commissioners for the
codification of the laws and the civil and penal codes of the Hawaiian Islands, and
the results of the labors of the commission were published in 1859 and 1869. They
were modeled largely after the Massachusetts statutes. He was for several years
the guardian of Luualilo, who afterwards became king, and in 1868 was appointed
justice of the Supreme Court, holding that office with Elisha H. Allen, the late
Hawaiian minister at Washington. In 1872 he returned to Boston for the education
of his children, after a residence of twenty-one years in the Hawaiian Islands, and is
now in practice at the Suffolk bar. He married, July 18, 1857, Ariana E., daughter
of John S. Sleeper, late mayor of Roxbury, and has had five children, four sons born
in Honolulu, and one daughter born in Boston. One of the sons, Walter Austin,
graduated at Harvard in 1887 and is now a member of the Suffolk bar.

William Le Baron Putnam, son of Israel and Sarah Emery Frost Putnam, was
born in Bath, Me., May 26, 1835. He received his early education at the Bath High
School, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1855. He studied law in Bath in the
office of Bronson & Sewall and was admitted to the bar at the December term in 1857
of the Supreme Judicial Court in Sagadahoc^ county. After the law was passed by
Congress increasing the number of circuit judges, he was appointed judge of the
First Circuit, including Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island,
March 17, 1892. As a judge of a court holding its sessions in Boston, he is entitled
to a place in this register. He married, May 29, 1862, Octavia Bowman, daughter
of Nathaniel and Sarah Dearborn (Roberts) Robinson, at Augusta, Me.

Joseph Bennett, son of William and Charlotte (Bennett) Bennett, was born in
Bridgeton, Me., May 26, 1840. He is descended from George Bennett, of Boston, who

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is mentioned in the book of possessions. He received his earl)' education at the public
schools, and having fitted for college at the Bridgeton Academy and at the Boston
Latin School, entered Bowdoin College in 1860. He left college in his junior year,
but subsequently received his degree out of course. In 1863 he came to Boston and
studied law in the office of Asa Cottrell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March
6, 1866. After his admission to the bar he established himself in practice in Boston,
and was for several years associated with Mr. Cottrell in business. In 1868 he was
admitted to practice in the Circuit Court of the United States, and in 1881 was ad-
mitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Having taken up his
residence in Brighton, then included within Middlesex county, he was in 1870 ap-
pointed trial justice for that county, and after the annexation of Brighton to Boston
and the establishment of the Municipal Court for the Brighton District in 1873, he
was appointed special justice of that court. In 1879 he was chosen a member of the
House of Representatives for Ward 25, and resigned his office of special justice.
While a member of the House he served on the Committee on Constitutional Amend-
ments, and drafted and introduced the bill since known as the bill to prevent the
double taxation of mortgaged property. Notwithstanding the serious opposition to
the bill, instigated by the assessors throughout the Commonwealth, he succeeded in
carrying it through the House, to meet its defeat in the Senate. In 1881 and 1882 he
was a member of the Senate, and as chairman of the Committee on Taxation re-
ported the same bill, and its final passage by both houses was largely due to his
earnest efforts. While in the Senate, in the above years, he served also as chairman
of the Committee on the Election Laws, chairman of the Committee on Redisricting
the Commonwealth into Congressional Districts, and as a member of the Judiciary
Committee. In 1891 he was again a member of the Senate, and served as chairman
of the Committee on Railroads, chairman of the Committee on Redistricting the
State, and as chairman of the Committee on Reform in the Registration of Land
Titles. After his service in the House of Representatives in 1879 he was reappointed
special justice of the Municipal Court for the Brighton District, the position he had
resigned when chosen representative, and held that office until his resignation in
1881. The service of Mr. Bennett upon two joint committees on redistricting the
State, presents probably the only instance in which one man has twice been chairman
of this committee. In Brighton, both before and since its annexation to Boston, he
has been an active and influential citizen, seeking at all times the welfare of the
community in which his lot has been cast. He was a member of the School Board of
the town before its annexation, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Public
Library now merged with the Public Library of Boston. He married, May 26, 1866,
Elizabeth R. Lefavor, of Boston, and has three children, one of whom, Joseph I.
Bennett, is a member of the Suffolk bar.

John Henry Colby, son of John Freeman and Ruthy (Cloutman) Colby, was born
in Randolph, Mass. , June 13, 1862. His father, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1855,
was appointed, after leaving college in 1859, principal of the Latin School in Ran-
dolph, but afterwards became a prominent member of the Suffolk bar, and died in
Hillsboro', N. H., June 7, 1890. The subject of this sketch received his early edu-
cation in the Boston public schools, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1885. He studied
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the office of his father in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1889.
He established himself in Boston in partnership with his father, and continued with
him until the latter's death. He is a trustee of the North End Savings Bank. He
is in good practice and has already secured that confidence on the part of the business
community which is so essential to a successful professional career. He married in
Boston, October 8, 1891, Annie Evarts Cornelius.

Sankord Harrison Dudley, son of Harrison and Elizabeth (Prentiss) Dudley, was
born in China, Me., January 14, 1842. He is a lineal descendant of Thomas Dud-
ley, governor of Massachusetts colony in 1634, 1640, 1645 and 1650. His parents
moved to Fairhaven, Mass., in 1857, and afterwards to New Bedford. He graduated
at Harvard in 1867 and at the Harvard Law School with the degree of LL.B. in 1871.
His study of law was begun in New Bedford in the office of Thomas D. Eliot and
Thomas M. Stetson. After leaving the Law School he was admitted to the Suffolk
bar July 21, 1871. While pursuing his studies in New Bedford he taught the New
Bedford High School until he entered the Law School in 1870. After his admission
to the bar he established himself in Boston and has continued in practice at the Suf-
folk bar up to the present time. Having taken up his residence in Cambridge in 1870
he has continued a citizen of that city and has been in many ways identified with its
interests. He has been a member of the city government, is one of the original mem-
bers of the Cambridge Club, and as a member of the Universalist church at North Cam-
bridge has been an active participant in the various movements and enterprises of
that organization. He is and has been also the president of the Universalist Club, the
representative organization of the Universalist denomination in the Commonwealth,
and vice-president of the Universalist Sunday-school Union. He married, April 2,
1869, Laura Nye, daughter of John M. Howland, of Fairhaven.

George W. Williams, colored, was born in Ohio about 1838, and was in the United
States service during the war. In later years he resided in Washington, D. C, in
Plymouth, Mass., and Boston, a large part of the time engaged in the preparation
for the press of two works afterwards published, "The History of Negro Troops in
the War of the Rebellion " and "The History of the Negro Race in America." He
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and died in England in 1890 or 1891.

John M. Way was born in Rochester, Vt., May 29, 1829. He was the son of poor
parents and when a boy went to New York to seek employment, arriving there with
thirty-seven cents in his pocket. He obtained a position as a hotel clerk, but his em-
ployer failed and he came to Boston as poor as he went to New York. He studied
law and was admitted to the Norfolk county bar. He established himself in Roxbury
and has always since made that place his residence. His office has been many years
in Boston and in that city he has been engaged in enterprises which gave
him a large fortune. He was a member of the Common Council of Roxbury before
the annexation of that city to Boston, and has been twice an unsuccessful candidate
of the Democratic party for senator. He had extensive land interests in Chicago,
Kansas City and Boston, and also at Pigeon Cove near Gloucester, where he had his
summer home. He was junior counsel with G. A. Somerby in the famous Alley
murder trial in which the defendant was acquitted. He married in 1848, Sarah L.
Read, who was the mother of two children, John M. Way, jr., and Clarence Way. In
1860 he married second, Fanny Damon Thomas, of Wayland, Mass. , who has been the

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mother of two children, William T. Way and Edith Way, now the wife of Mr. Chen-
oweth, who is connected with the New York Recorder. He died in the Roxbury
District, of Boston, May 26, 1893.

James Audley Maxwell, son of Joseph Edward Maxwell, a prominent cotton plant-
er of Georgia, was born in Sunbury, Ga. , and graduated at Franklin College. He
spent a year in travel and then studied law in the office of Joseph Lumpkin, chief
justice of Georgia. He then went to West Point Academy, where he graduated in the
school of engineering and entered the profession as an engineer immediately before
the war. He served through the war in the Confederate army first as second lieuten-
ant and later as major commanding the Maxwell Battalion of Light Artillery. After
the war he resumed the profession of engineering and was successively chief engineer
of the Bambridge and Thomasville Railroad, the South Georgia and Florida and the
Brunswick and Vicksburg Railroad. Later as contractor he built the Albany and Blake-
ly Railroad. He came to Boston in 1873 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Febru-
ary 13, 1875. He married Kathleen Cameron, of Ridgewood, N. J., and is now prac-
ticing in Boston.

Samuel Dexter was descended from Richard Dexter, who was admitted a towns-
man in Boston March 12, 1641-2, and afterwards settled in Maiden. John Dexter,
son of Richard, like his father, cultivated the Lane farm in Maiden, and died Decem-
ber 8, 1677, at the age of thirty-eight years. John Dexter, son of the above John, al-
so a farmer, married Winnifred Sprague, of Maiden, October 22, 1700, and died No-
vember 14, 1722. Samuel Dexter, son of John and Winnifred Dexter, was born Oc-
tober 23, 1700, and died January 29, 1755. He graduated at Harvard in 1720, and
after leaving college taught school in Taunton, Lynn and Maiden. He afterwards
studied for the ministry and was settled the fourth pastor of the first church in Ded-
ham May 6, 1724, with a salary of one hundred and fifty pounds per annum. He
married Catherine Mears July 9, 1724, and had eleven children. Samuel, one of their
children, was born March 16, 1726, and died June 10, 1810. He was a merchant and
married Hannah, daughter of Andrew and Mary Sigourney, a descendant of Andre
Sigourney, who came to America from Rochelle, in France, after the revocation of
the edict of Nantes. He was a member of the First Provincial Congress and the
founder of the Dexter Professorship of Sacred Literature at Harvard. During the
Revolution he moved to Woodstock, Conn., but spent his last years in Mendon,
Mass. , where he died. He was buried in Woodstock.

Samuel Dexter, the subject of this sketch, was the son of the last Samuel and was
born in Boston May 14, 1761. He graduated at Harvard in 1781 in the class with
John Davis, for many years judge of the United States District Court, Charles Bul-
finch and Dudley Atkins Tyng, and was the leading scholar in his class. He re-
ceived the degree of LL.D. from his alma mater in 1813. He studied law in Worces-
ter with Levi Lincoln and was admitted to the Worcester county bar in 1784. He
began practice in Lunenburg, but removed to Chelmsford in 1786, and from thence
to Billerica, where he remained two years. He then removed to Charlestown and
occupied a house between Main and High streets. He finally removed to Boston
where he was in practice in the earliest years of the present century ^ and where he
continued in business until his death. He was a member of the Massachusetts House
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from 1793 to 1795. In 1799 he was chosen United States senator and served until
June, 1800, when he was appointed secretary of war by President Adams and resigned.
In December, 1800, he was transferred from the War Department to that of the
secretary of the treasury, and continued in that position until the inauguration of
President Jefferson in 1801. President Adams offered him also a foreign embassy,
which he declined. On leaving the office of secretary he resumed the practice of law
and one of the earliest important cases in which he was engaged after his return to
Boston was the trial of Thomas O. Selfridge for the murder of Charles Austin in
State street, Boston, in which he appeared for the defence. The homicide occurred
in 1806, and a full account of the trial was published in pamphlet form in 1807. Ben-
jamin Austin, the father of Charles, was a prominent merchant of Boston, and an
ardent supporter of Jefferson. Mr. Selfridge was a member of the Suffolk bar and
was accused by young Austin of slandering his father. To avenge the insult it was
reported and believed by Selfridge that Austin intended to punish him at sight. Meet-
ing in State street, an altercation occurred, the result of which was the death of Aus-
tin by a pistol in the hands of Selfridge. The political hostilities existing at the time,
and the high social rank of the parties, caused intense excitement in Boston, and the
trial is, perhaps, with the exception of that of Prof. John W. Webster, the most mem-
orable criminal trial in the history of the Suffolk bar. It has been said that Mr. Dex-
ter never inclined to indulge in oratory before a jury, but in his address to the panel
in this case he combined the closest reasoning with the most finished eloquence. The
closing sentence of this address was repeated to the writer fifty years ago by the late
Judge Nahum Mitchell, who heard it, and it will be difficult to find in essay or speech
a combination of words more skillfully and gracefully constructed with a view to
influence the human mind. Said Mr. Dexter: " I respect the dictates of the Christian
religion; I shudder at the thought of shedding human blood; but if ever I may be
driven to that narrow pass, where forbearance ends and disgrace begins, may this
right arm fall palsied from its socket, if I fail to defend mine honor." But Mr. Dexter
was not profuse in his oratory. It was always in closest harmony with his argument
and only resorted to when it could lend to his argument force and grace. It was said
of him by Mr. Webster that "his very statements were arguments." It has been
said of him by another, quoting from " Roberts on Frauds," that he could never be
charged with " amphibology of language, vagueness of description or vacuity of ex-
pression." But nevertheless he by no means despised the arts of oratory, and, while
laying them aside in his arguments to the court, he used them to the fullest advan-
tage to influence the minds of those Avho were called from the occupations of daily life
to decide between the plaintiff and defendant, or to acquit or convict a prisoner at the
bar. In early life Mr. Dexter was a Federalist, but later supported the war policy of
Jefferson, and in 1812 advocated a contest with England. He was an earnest oppo-
nent of the embargo and argued in the courts against its constitutionality. In 1815
an extraordinary embassy to the court of Spain was offered to him by President Mad-
ison, but declined. In 1816, a short time before his death, he was nominated by the
Republican party for governor of Massachusetts, though declaring that he was not
in full accord with the Republican policy. He was defeated by John Brooks, who had
a majority of two thousand out of forty-seven thousand votes. He was one of the
first in Massachusetts to take a public'stand in favor of temperance and was the first
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he was a temperance man, and in reference to the prevalent custom of the time to
keep conspicuously and offer wine on all occasions to guests, he said "that he had
neither the taste nor the leisure to keep a tavern." He further said, "Give me the mon-
ey paid for the support of drunken paupers in the United States and I will pay the ex-
penses of the Federal Government and of every State in the Union, and in a few
years become as rich with the surplus as the Nabob of Arcot." In the winter of
1815-16, while attending the Supreme Court in Washington, he suffered from an epi-
demic which so enfeebled him that on one occasion he was obliged to suspend an
argument which he was making to the court. Not long after he went to Athens, N.
Y., to attend the marriage of his oldest son, Samuel, and died there of scarlet fever
May 4, 1816. Ex-President Adams said on hearing of his death, " I have lost the
ablest friend I had on earth." On the 15th of May the Circuit began its session in
Boston, and it became known that Judge Story in charging the grand jury intended
to include in his charge something in the nature of a eulogy of Mr. Dexter. The
United States Court was held in what was then called the old court-house, nearly
on the site of the court-house now on Court street. A new court-house had been
built on the site of the present city hall, and there the Supreme Court held its ses-
sion. The United States Court room became so crowded on this occasion that it was
decided to adjourn to the Supreme Courtroom, and a procession was formed, headed
by the United States marshal and his deputies and consisting of the judges of the
courts, the chaplain, United States attorney and officers of the court, the Executive
Council, the Massachusetts Senate, the sheriff of Suffolk, members of the bar and the
public. The procession marched through Court street, Cornhill as that part of Wash-
ington street was then called, and School street to the new court-house. There the
charge to the United States jury was given by Judge Story, including a sketch of the
life of Mr. Dexter, which the readers may find in the libraries of Boston. Mr. Dexter
married in Charlestown about 1789, Katherine, daughter of William and Temperance
(Grant) Gordon, of that town.

Charles Alfred Welch, son of Francis and Margaret Crease (Stackpole) Welch,
was born in Boston, January 30, 1815, and graduated at Harvard in 1833, at the age
of eighteen years. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1837. For many
years he was a partner of Edward D. Sohier, where sketch appears in this Register.
He belongs to one of the oldest Boston families, and is descended from John Welch,
who married Elizabeth, daughter of John White, of Boston, and died probably in
1713 or 1714, as his will was proved May 1 in the latter year. John Welch, the son
of the ancestor, was born in Boston, July 22, 1682, and married, January 23, 1706,
Hannah, daughter of Thomas Phillips. John Welch, a son of the last John, was born
in Boston, August 11, 1711, and died there February 9, 1789. He married first Sarah
Barrington, who died in 1736, and second, October 29, 1741, Dorcas, daughter of
Francis Gatcomb. Francis Welch, son of the last John, was born in Boston in 1744,
and died in London, December 7, 1790. He married Susannah, daughter of Benja-
min and Susannah (Noyes) Renkin. Francis Welch, a son of the above Francis, was
the father of Charles Alfred Welch, and was born in Boston, August 30, 1776, and
married, October 4, 1803, Margaret Crease, daughter of William Stackpole, of Boston.
In early life he was a merchant, but for many years was president of the Franklin
Insurance Company of Boston. The writer remembers him in the latter capacity as
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a remarkably handsome man, of fine bearing, and courtly manners. The subject of
this sketch is now one of the oldest members of the Boston bar. In March, 1838, his
partnership with Mr. Sohier began and continued until the death of Mr. Sohier in
November, 1888. Probably no other partnership at the Suffolk bar, or any other bar
in the Commonwealth, has had a life of more than half a century. The partnership
between Henry Clinton Hutchins and Alexander Strong Wheeler began in 1844, and
if continued another year will equal in duration that of Sohier & Welch. In the
Massachusetts Reports abundant evidence may be found of the extent and importance
of the business of this firm in the courts during its long service at the bar. Mr.
Welch married Mary Love, daughter of Kirk Boott, of Lowell, and has his residence
in Boston and in Cohasset.

Francis Boardman Crowninshield, son of Benjamin Williams and Mary (Board-
man) Crowninshield, was born in Boston, Mass., April 23, 1809. His American an-
cestor was Johann Kaspar Richter von Kronenschild, who came to New England
from Saxony, Germany, about 1686, with Doctors Henry Burchstead, of Silesia, and
Pierre Baudouin, of La Rochelle, France. In his will he signed his name John von
Cronenshilt. He married, December 5, 1694, Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob and Eliza-
beth (Clifford) Allen, of Lynn and Salem. His name was, probably, a translation
from the Swedish von Kronskjold, belonging to a family which came to Germany
from Sweden. His son John was born in Boston, January 19, 1696-7, and died in
Salem, May 25, 1761. He was a merchant and ship-owner, and married, September
27, 1722, Anstiss, daughter of John and Sarah (Manning) Williams. George Crown-
inshield, son of the above John, was born in Salem, Mass., August 6, 1734, and died
there June 17, 1815. He also was a merchant and ship-owner, and married, July 27,
1757, Mary, daughter of Richard Derby. Benjamin Williams Crowninshield, son of
George Crowninshield, was born in Salem, December 29, 1773, and died in Boston,
February 3, 1851. He was a ship-master and merchant, and secretary of the navy
from 1814 to 1819. From 1824 to 1832 he was a member of Congress, and in the lat-
ter year removed to Boston. In 1811-1822 and 1823 he was a member of the Massa-
chusetts Senate. He married, January 1, 1804, Mary, daughter of Francis and Mary
(Hodges) Boardman. Francis Boardman Crowninshield, the subject of this sketch,
son of the above Benjamin Williams Crowninshield, graduated at Harvard in 1829, in
the class with Chief Justice George Tyler Bigelow, Rev. William Henry Channing,
Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Judge Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George Thomas Davis,
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Prof. Benjamin Pierce, Rev. Chandler Robbins, Ed-
ward Dexter Sohier, and Judge Joshua Holyoke Ward. Probably no more distin-
guished class has ever graduated at Harvard. Besides those above mentioned seven-
teen out of a class of fifty-eight made their mark in the various walks of life. He
was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1833, and established himself in Bos-
ton, where he was for a time a partner of Rufus Choate. He was a member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives, and its speaker in 1848 and 1849. He was
also at one time a member of the State Senate. He early became interested in rail-
roads, and was several years president of the Old Colony Railroad. He was a man
of sterling integrity, exact and thorough in his business methods, and a prudent and
wise manager of the interests placed in his hands. He married, March 20, 1832,
Sarah Gooll, daughter of Judge Samuel Putnam, of Salem, granddaughter of John

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and Lois (Pickering) Gooll, of Salem, and descendant of John Gooll, of Scotland. He
died in Marblehead, Mass., May 8, 1877.

Sumner Chase Chandler, son of Theophilus Parsons and Elizabeth Julia (Schlat-
ter) Chandler, was born in Brookline, Mass., April 4, 1854. He attended the public
schools, and spent two years at Harvard College. He was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in November, 1875, and established himself in Boston. At a later time he was
occupied in Colorado and Florida, in connection with corporation business, and in
the practice of law in New York city, in partnership with the late Judge Muller.
After the death of his partner he returned to Boston. . He died unmarried in Brook-
line, May 29, 1893.

James E. Leach, son of Philander and Sarah T. (Cushman) Leach, was born in
Bridgewater, Mass., December 1, 1850. He was educated at the Bridgewater Acad-
emy, and at Brown University, from which he graduated in 1874. He studied law
at the Boston University Law School, and in Bridgewater in the office of Hosea
Kingman, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1876. Mr. Leach is descended
from Giles Leach, who settled in Weymouth in 1656, where he married January 20,
1657. On his mother's side he is descended from John Alden, Miles Standish and
Isaac Allerton, three of the Mayflower s passengers. He is also descended, through
his mother, from Robert Cushman, a member of the Pilgrim church at Leyden, and
his son Thomas, who came to Plymouth in the ship Fortune in 1621, at the age of
fourteen years, and having been educated under the care of Governor William Brad-
ford, became the successor of William Brewster as the elder of the Plymouth church.
Mr. Leach married, July 16, 1889, Alice M., daughter of James N. and Sabina (Bach-
eler) Frye, and has his residence in Boston.

George Brooks Bigelow, son of Samuel and Anna Jane (Brooks) Bigelow, was
born in Boston, April 25, 1836. His earliest American ancestor was John Bigelow,
who settled in Watertown in 1636, and his descent is through Joshua Bigelow, one of
the sons of John. On his mother's side he is descended from Joshua Brooks, of Con-
cord, from whom John Brooks, governor of Massachusetts from 1816 to 1823, and
Peter Chardon Brooks and the late Bishop Phillips Brooks were also descended. By
intermarriage the Lawrence and Greene families of Groton were connections. Mr.
Bigelow received his early education at the old Chapman Hall School, under
Master Baker, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He studied law at the Harvard
Law School, and in Charlestown in the office of James Dana and Moses Gill Cobb,
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 31, 1859. He has devoted himself
almost exclusively to office practice, giving to that his time and energies, and seek-
ing no office either by appointment or election. He was made the attorney of the
Boston Five Cents Savings Bank about 1873, and has continued to serve in that
capacity to the present time. Such an institution, with deposits amounting to
twenty-two millions, is necessarily exacting in its demands, and Mr. Bigelow has
given to its interests and welfare the best results of his judgment and care. He
married June 2, 1869, Clara P., daughter of Ivory Beane, of Boston.

Joseph Frank Paul, son of Joseph Frost and Rachel (Bicknell) Paul, was born
in Boston, March 24, 1851. He was educated at the Boston Latin School, and
at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1873. He studied law at the Boston Uni-
versity Law School, in Paris, France, and Berlin, Germany, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1878. He lives unmarried in Boston.

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Edward Augustus UrroN, son of Edward and Betsey (Davis) Upton, was born in
South Danvers, Mass., September 23, 1829, and graduated at Dartmouth College in
1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 22, 1858, and is now at the bar.

Hosea M. Knowlton was born in Durham, Me., May 20, 1847, and graduated
at Tufts College in 1867. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in New
Bedford in the office of Edward L. Barney, and was admitted to the bar in June,
1870. He established himself at the Suffolk bar, but in 1872 removed to New Bedford
and joined with Mr. Barney in a partnership which continued until 1879. He then
became associated with Arthur E. Perry, who is still his partner. In 1876 he was a
representative, and in 1878 and 1879 State senator. In the latter year he was ap-
pointed district attorney of the Southern District to nil the vacancy occasioned by
the resignation of George Marston, who had been chosen attorney-general, and has
continued in the office by repeated elections to the present time. He married a
daughter of Benjamin Almy.

Jose™ D. Fallon, the son of a farmer, was born in Doniry, county of Galway,
Ireland, December 25, 1837, and after attending the national village schools came to
America at the age of fourteen years. He entered the College of Holy Cross at
Worcester in 1852, not then a chartered institution, and in 1858 received the degree
of A.B. from Georgetown College. After graduation he taught school in Woon-
socket, R. I., in Salem and in Boston, and Avhile in Salem began the study of law in
the office of Jonathan Coggswell Perkins, who had been a judge on the bench of the
Common Pleas Court at the time of the dissolution of that court in 1859. He was
admitted to the Suffolk bar March 11, 1865, and established himself in Boston, where
he soon acquired an extensive and lucrative practice. As executor and trustee he
has had many and large interests confided to him, and for several years he has been
counsel for the Union Savings Bank, of which institution he has been for sixteen
years vice-president. When the South Boston Municipal Court was established in
1874 he was appointed, by Governor Talbot, first special justice, and in that capacity
served until the recent death of Judge Robert I. Burbank, the presiding justice of
that court He was chosen a member of the Boston School Board in 1864, and served
on the board at various times for nearly twenty years. In the treatment of ques-
tions relating to the schools he was in accord with Thomas M. Brewer, Samuel K.
Lothrop, James Freeman Clark, Samuel Eliot and Francis A. Walker, members of
the board, and with them worked faithfully and harmoniously in promoting educa-
tional progress. A believer in civil service reform, he has been for several years
one of the examiners of the Boston Civil Service Board, and his service in this capac-
ity has been especially earnest and valuable. After the recent death of Judge Bur-
bank he was appointed by Governor Russell his successor as presiding judge of the
Municipal Court for the South Boston District, and his appointment was unanimously
confirmed by the Council. He married in Boston, in 1872, Sarah E. Daly, and lives
in the South Boston District.

Augustine Jones, son of Richard M. Jones, was born in China, Me., in 1835, and
graduated at Bowdoin College in 1860. He studied law in Boston in the office of
John Albion Andrew, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867. He was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1867, and practiced in Boston twelve years,
after which time he removed to Providence, R. I. He was a representative from

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Boston in 1878, and in 1879 was appointed principal of the Friends' School in Provi-
dence. He married, October 10, 1867, Caroline Alice, daughter of William and Mercy
P. Osborne, of Danvers, Mass.

William Bradford Homer Dowse, son of Rev. Edmund and Elizabeth (Bowditch)
Dowse, was born in Sherborn, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He grad-
uated at the Harvard Law School in 1875, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in
November of that year. He married, June 20, 1883, Fanny Lee, daughter of Henry
G. and Frances L. (Williams) Reed, of Taunton. His American ancestor was Law-
rence Dowse, of Charlestown, who was born in England in 1613, and died in Charles-
town, March 14, 1692.

Le Baron Bradford Colt was born in Dedham, Mass., June 25, 1846, and gradu-
ated at Yale in 1868. He graduated at the Columbia Law School in 1870 and
traveled in Europe in 1870-1. He established himself in Providence, R. I., and was
a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1879 to 1881. He is
now United States Circuit judge for the First Circuit, consisting of Maine, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, to which office he was appointed on the
resignation of Judge John Lowell in 1884.

Edward Albert Kelly, son of Albert Livingston and Caroline (Peirce) Kelly, was
born in that part of Frankfort, Me., which is now Winterport, May 30, 1831. He is
descended from John Kelly, who probably came from Newbury, England, and settled
in Newbury, Mass., in 1635. The family to which John belonged is supposed to have
been a branch of the Devonshire family, which either derived its name from the dis-
trict of "Kelly " in that county, or gave to it its name. He received a grant of land
in Newbury in 1639, and died December 28, 1644. His son John, born July 2, 1642,
married, May 25, 1664, Sarah, daughter of Richarcl Knight, and March 15, 1716,
Lydia Ames, of Bradford, and died in that part of Newbury which is now West
Newbury, March 21, 1718. A third John, son of the last, was born in West New-
bury, June 17, 1668, and married, November 16, 1696, Elizabeth Emery. He died in
West Newbury, November 29, 1735, leaving a handsome estate. A fourth son, John,
son of the last, was born in West Newbury, October 9, 1697, and married, December
31, 1723, Hannah Somes, of Gloucester, Mass. He removed to Atkinson, N. H., and
there died April 27, 1783. Moses Kelly, son of the last John, was born in West New-
bury, March 15, 1739, and married, November 10, 1757, Lydia, daughter of Dr. Will-
iam Sawyer, of West Newbury. The wife of Dr. Sawyer was Lydia, daughter of
Israel Webster, a near relative of the father of Daniel Webster. Moses Kelly re-
moved from West Newbury to Atkinson, N. H., and thence to Goffstown, N. H.,
from which place he removed to Hopkinton, N. H., before 1810, where he died Au-
gust 2, 1826. In the War of the Revolution he commanded the Ninth New Hamp-
shire Regiment of Militia and was high sheriff of Hillsborough county thirty years.
Israel Webster Kelly, son of Moses, was born in Goffstown, N. II., January 4, 1778,
and married about 1800, Rebecca, daughter of Rev. Elijah Fletcher,, of Hopkinton,
N. H., and sister of Grace Fletcher, the first wife of Daniel Webster. He was high
sheriff of Merrimac county, N. H., from 1814 to 1819, marshal of the district of New
Hampshire during the administration of Harrison and Tyler, and pension agent
under Taylor and Fillmore. He removed to Concord, N. H., in 1841, and died there
March 10, 1857. Albert Livingston Kelly, son of Israel Webster, was born in Bris-

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tol, N. H., August 17, 1802, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1821. He married, Feb-
ruary 18, 1829, Caroline, daughter of Waldo Peirce, of Frankfort, Me. After leaving
college he studied law in Portland in the office of Stephen Longfellow, and was ad-
mitted to the bar of Cumberland county in 1825. On the Fourth of July of the year
of his admission, at the age of twenty-three, he delivered an oration by appointment
of the municipal authorities of Portland. In the latter part of the same year, having
been appointed on the recommendation of Mr. Webster agent of the ' ' Ten Proprietors'
Tract" in Eastern Maine; owned by David Sears, William Prescott and Israel
Thorndike, of Boston, he established his residence in Frankfort, Me., where he at-
tained a high rank in his profession, and died August 18, 1885. He has been repre-
sented, by one who knew him well, as " An extensive reader, a fine writer, an able
and eloquent speaker, a wise and sagacious counsellor and an accomplished gentle-
man." Israel Webster Kelly, a brother of Albert Livingston, and referred to else-
where in this Register as Webster Kelly, the name by which he was commonly
known, was a graduate of Dartmouth in 1824, and after a course of successful prac-
tice in Frankfort and Belfast, Me., became May 19, 1851, a member of the Suffolk
bar. He married Lucilla S. Peirce, and died in Henniker, N. H., July 3, 1855.
Edward Albert Kelly, son of Albert Livingston Kelly and the subject of this sketch,
received his early education at the Military School of Lieutenant Whitney in Ells-
worth, Me., at Foxcroft Academy, Me., and at North Yarmouth Classical Academy.
He entered Bowdoin College in 1846 at the age of fifteen years, and remained there
until the middle of his junior year. In 1851 he entered as a law student the office
of George Frederick Farley, of Groton, Mass., and was admitted to the Suffolk
county bar in 1853. He was associated with Mr. Farley as partner until the
death of Mr. Farley in 1855, and continued to practice in Groton until
1861, when he removed his residence and office to Boston. At the Suffolk
bar he secured while in practice a high position, and the important cases
entrusted to his care manifest the confidence reposed in his ability and skill. Before
he was admitted to the bar he appeared in court at Worcester as counsel for Pliny
H. Babbitt, a deputy sheriff of Worcester county, who had been indicted as accessory
before the fact to a burglary in Barre. John H. Clifford, attorney-general, appeared
for the Commonwealth, and in his address to the jury complimented the argument
of his young brother. In 1866 he appeared for Charles Robinson, ex-governor of
Kansas, in an action of contract brought by Joseph Lyman, of Boston, treasurer of
the Kansas Land Trust, on several promissory notes, amounting in all to $15,000,
and trial by jury being waived, the case was argued in the Supreme Court at the
November term in the above year. Sidney Bartlett and Caleb William Loring ap-
peared for the plaintiff, but Mr. Kelly obtained a decision in his favor. His argu-
ment in this case was highly commended by the bench and bar. In 1873 Mr. Kelly
was counsel for the Massachusetts National Bank in an action of contract brought by
Nathan Matthews to recover $25,000 on a forged certificate of stock of the Boston and
Albany Railroad, but a still later case of special interest in which he appeared as
counsel was that of the Commonwealth against the Lancaster Savings Bank argued
before the Supreme Court. By a decree of the court in December, 1876, the bank
was placed in the hands of receivers, and in the following May a tax was levied on
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attorney of the bank and advised that the tax was illegal. Attorney-General Train
advised that it was legal and the suit was brought. The case was argued before the
court at Taunton in October, 1877, and an opinion of the court was given in January,
1878, sustaining the claim of Mr. Kelly that the tax was illegal. The substance of
the decision was that the tax on Savings Banks is a tax upon the privilege of trans-
acting business, consequently it follows that if, at the time the tax is to be assessed
and is declared to accrue, the bank has for the purpose of transacting its business
practically ceased to exist, then no tax is to be exacted. Mr. Kelly's practice, which
was a general one, continued unabated until about ten years ago, when he abandoned
it for the care of his own private affairs and of those which others had placed confid-
ingly in his hands. Since he left the profession he has found time to indulge those
literary tastes which he early acquired, and has been a frequent contributor to maga-
zines and newspapers. These articles were marked for their pure English, their
clearness of statement and thoroughness of research. He was chosen a trustee of
Lawrence Academy in Groton to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr.
Farley in 1855, is a corresponding member of the Maine Historical Society, and has
received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Bowdoin College. He was an
intimate friend of the late Josiah G. Abbott and Peleg W. Chandler, and while the
latter was the editor of Every Other Saturday, he contributed ably to its columns.
One of his articles in this periodical, containing " Advice to Young Lawyers," should
be read by every young man entering the profession. The lesson he seeks to enforce
is the necessity of a thorough and exhaustive preparation of a cause for trial and
then absolute self-reliance in total disregard of an apparent adverse opinion of the
sitting judge. He cites the first appearance in court of Sergeant S. Prentiss as an
illustration of the lesson. The incident occurred in Brandon, Mississippi. Prentiss
was a slight made, beardless boy, extremely youthful in appearance and a stranger
to all in court. When his case was called he promptly responded and stated that his
case stood on demurrer to some part of the proceedings, which he desired to argue.
The judge with some abruptness told him that he did not wish to hear the
argument as he had made up his mind adversely to his side of the case. Mr. Prentiss
insisted, however, on the constitutional right of his client to be heard and went on
with an argument which astonished both the judge and the bar. The judge was
convinced of his error and decided for Mr. Prentiss. Mr. Kelly is not only a fin-
ished writer but a fluent and graceful speaker, and is often called on to add to the
interest of historic and other occasions. His maternal grandfather, Waldo Peirce,
was born in Scituate, Mass., and was a brother of Silas Peirce, the founder of the
well-known house of Silas Peirce & Company, of Boston. When, in 1890, the seventy-
fifth anniversary of the establishment of that house was celebrated by a banquet at
Young's Hotel, Mr. Kelly was one of the invited guests, and contributed sketches
of several of the older members of the firm in a speech, which the New England
Grocer said was characterized not only by eloquence and a fine polished style of
delivery, but also by the fact that it dealt with topics totally different from those
taken up by others, and was therefore one of the chief features of the occasion.
Mr. Kelly married at Groton, November 15, 1854, Mary, daughter of George Fred-
erick and Lucy (Rice) Farley, and has his residence in Boston. Mr. Kelly is a
man of independence in the truest sense of that word. He avoids the shackles of

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party, the responsibilities of trusts, any and all entangling alliances liable to inter-
fere with independent action. The words of Chapman are to him specially appli-
cable :

" Who to himself is law — no law doth need.
Offends no law--and is a King indeed."

Dean Stanley said: " Give me a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know
we can thoroughly depend, who will stand when others fall, the friend faithful and
true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous, in such a
one there is a fragment of the rock of ages." A discriminating friend who had
known Mr. Kelly for thirty years said that when reading these words of the dean
he thought at once of him.

Lincoln Allen graduated at Harvard in 1885 and at the Harvard Law School in
1888. After his admission to the bar he established himself in Boston and died at
Arlington, Mass., May 16, 1892.

William Alexander Gaston, son of William and Louisa Augusta (Beecher) Gas-
ton, was born in that part of Boston which was then Roxbury, May 1, 1859. He at-
tended the public schools of Roxbury, the Roxbury Latin School, and a private
school, and graduated at Harvard in the class of 1880. He studied law at the Har-
vard Law School and in the office of Gaston & Whiting, a firm in which his father
was the senior partner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1883. In
October, 1883, he became a partner in the above firm and has so continued to the
present time. The business of the firm is of a general character, with the single
limitation that it is confined to civil practice. It is too well known to need any spe-
cial description, and a reference to the reports is only necessary to disclose its extent
and importance. Mr. Gaston devotes himself almost exclusively to his profession,
and aside from his acceptance of the positions of assistant adjutant-general on the
staff of Governor Russell, and of director in the Manufacturers' National Bank, there
is little evidence of his willingness to be allured from the paths of his profession. He
married, April 9, 1892, Mary D., daughter of Hamilton D. and Annie L. Lockwood,
of Boston, and has his residence in Boston.

George Henry Towle, son of Henry and Mary Ann (McCrillis)Towle, was born in
Boston, April 9, 1851. He attended the common schools of Boston, the Boston Latin
School, and the Wesleyan University in Middleton, Conn. He had already chosen
his profession while at the University and there made a beginning of the study of
law. He afterwards continued his study in Boston with Baxter E. Perry and Samuel
W. Creech, jr., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1873. He has been
engaged in mining operations in Colorado, and while attending to a general practice
he has been largely connected with railroad litigation, chiefly in the South. He is
descended from Phillip Towle, who came early to New England and settled in Hamp-
ton in 1640, where he married, November 19, 1657, Isabella Astyn, daughter of Fran-
cis Aysten and his wife Isabella (Bland) Astyn, who came to Hampton from Col-
chester, England. The ancestor, Phillip, born about 1616, died in Hampton, Decem-
ber 19, 1696. His descendants are numerous and include among their number Hamil-
ton Ela Towle, the distinguished civil engineer who graduated at the Lawrence
Scientific School in 1855, and died in London, England, September 2, 1881. Mr.
Towle married, October 25, 1875, Sarah Dorset, daughter of William and Mary

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Hamblin, of Wakefield, Mass., a descendant of the Old Colony Hamlin family, to
which the late Vice-president Hannibal Hamlin belonged. Different branches of
the family adopted different methods of spelling the name. Mr. Towle resists the
allurements of public life, and the law is his master, demanding and receiving his
undivided service.

Marcus Morton, jr., son of Marcus and Charlotte (Hodges) Morton, was born in
Taunton, Mass., April 8, 1819. He was a descendant of George Morton, who came
to Plymouth in the Ann in 1623 with his wife Julian, daughter of Alexander Carpen-
ter, of Wrentham, England, whom he married in Leyden, Holland, in 1612. He
graduated at Brown University in 1838 and at the Harvard Law School in 1840.
After further study in Boston in the office of Peleg Sprague and William Gray he
was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 12, 1841. In 1850 he took up his residence in
Andover, and represented that town in the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and in
the Legislature of 1858. In both convention and Legislature, he served with his
father, who was a member from Taunton. In the House of Representatives he was
chairman of the Committee on Elections, and his numerous reports have been recog-
nized as authorities. In 1858 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Suf-
folk county, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Josiah G. Abbott, and
remained on the bench until the abolition of that court in 1859. In the organization
of the present Superior Court in 1859, he was appointed one of the justices, and con-
tinued to serve until April 15, 1869, when he was appointed a judge of the Supreme
Judicial Court. On the 16th of January, 1882, he was appointed chief justice of that
court to succeed Horace Gray, who had been appointed associate justice of the United
States Supreme Court. On the 27th of August, 1890, he resigned, having served as
judge in three courts thirty-two years. He married Abby B., daughter of Henry and
Amy (Harris) Hoppin at Providence, R. I., October 19, 1843, and died at Andover,
February 10, 1891. At a meeting of the Suffolk bar May 19, 1891, resolutions were
passed which Attorney-general Pillsbury presented to the Supreme Court in a dis-
criminating speech in which he characterized Judge Morton as " strong rather than
brilliant, patient, always accessible, of sufficient learning, and of political sagacity
amounting almost to genius, rarely exciting admiration, but never arousing appre-
hension." Judge Charles Allen said in the course of his response that " as a nisi
prius judge he has had few superiors in the history of the Commonwealth; indeed, it
seems to me few equals." The Reports from volume 102 to volume 150 contain twelve
hundred of his judgments.

John Van Beal, son of Eleazer and Mary (Thayer) Beal, was born in Randolph,
Mass., July 3, 1842. He is descended from John Beal, who came to Boston from
Hingham, England, in the ship Diligent in 1638 and settled in Hingham, Mass.
The ancestor married Nazareth, daughter of Edmund and Margaret (Dewey) Hobart,
and sister of Rev. Peter Hobart, the first minister of Hingham. He married for a
second wife, March 10, 1659, Mrs. Mary, widow of Nicholas Jacob, and died in Hing-
ham, April 1, 1688. Israel Beal, a great-grandson of John, was born in Hingham,
April 25, 1726, and soon after his birth his father, Thomas, removed to Newton,
where he died September 14, 1751. About the time of his father's death, or soon
after, Israel removed to Randolph and married Eunice Flagg. Eleazer Beal, one of
the children of Israel, was born in Randolph, July 9, 1758. His homestead was sold
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by him to his son Eleazer, from whom it passed by descent to his grandson Eleazer,
the father of the subject of this sketch, who, with his brother George, holds it under
their father's will. The last Eleazer, the father of John Van Beal, was born in Ran-
dolph, May 5, 1808, and married, May 13, 18h3, Mary Stetson, daughter of Micah and
Phoebe (Stetson) Thayer, and died April 27, 1891. At the age of eighteen, having
then received only such instruction as the common schools could furnish, he deter-
mined to secure a liberal education against the wishes of his father, who refused to
furnish him with any pecuniary aid in attaining the object of his ambition. He was
thus thrown on his own resources, but, far from being discouraged, he applied for
admission to the school of that eminent instructor, Jesse Pierce, of Stoughton, the
father of Henry L. and Edward L. Pierce, and was received by him as a pupil. At
the end of his second school term it became necessary for him to earn in some way
the means for further instruction, and walking to Boston he secured a passage to
Provincetown by water, and obtained a position as teacher in one of the public schools
of Truro. After teaching one season he returned to Mr. Pierce's school, and the
next season secured a place as teacher in Provincetown. Until the age of twenty-five
he was alternately scholar and teacher, and at that age he began the manufacture of
boots and shoes, becoming before 1837 the most extensive manufacturer of those
articles in Randolph. At that date he abandoned manufacturing and became a civil
engineer, having prepared himself for the business in the office of Mr. Eddy, one of
the leading engineers in Boston. As an engineer he became interested in the project
of building a branch railroad to Fall River from the Old Colony main line, and largely
to his persistent energy the construction of that road was due. He was town clerk
and treasurer of Randolph from 1844 to 1854, representative in 1848, and in 1861 the
Democratic candidate for Congress in the Third Congressional District. John Van
Beal, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the public schools of Randolph and
at Phillips Andover Academy. Though fitted for college, ill health prevented him
from presenting himself for examination, and until 1871 he was employed as a teacher
successively in the Intermediate and Grammar School and High School in his native
town. In 1871 he entered as a student the office of Jewell, Gaston & Field in Boston,
and after further study of a year in the Harvard Law School, obtained the degree of
LL.B. from that institution in 1872. After leaving the Law School, he re-entered the
office of Jewell, Gaston & Field, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 10, 1873.
He established himself in business in Randolph and confined himself to the local
practice of that town until January, 1876, when he began practice in Boston, taking
desk room in the office of Jewell, Field & Shepard, where he remained until the
death of Mr. Jewell and the appointment of Mr. Field to the bench of the Supreme
Court broke up the firm. Their office continued to be occupied by Mr. Shepard,
Mr. J. C. Coombs and Mr. Beal until 1891, when he opened an office alone. His
practice has been a miscellaneous one in the civil courts, with a somewhat extensive
connection with probate affairs, which he has made a specialty. Aside from his pro-
fessional life his chief interest has been connected with the Congregational Church
in Randolph and its Sabbath-school, for many years serving as clerk of the church,
and now holding the position of superintendent of the school. Though belonging to
a family which has been associated during four generations not only with his native
town but with the homestead which he occupies, he is so far as kindred are concerned
almost alone in the world. He has neither father nor mother, nor wife nor child,

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nor uncle nor aunt nor sister, and only a single brother who was born an invalid and
both shares his home and receives his care. Both his relations to Randolph and his
ability to represent it have been recognized by his appointment as orator at the ap-
proaching anniversary of the settlement of the town to be celebrated on the 19th of
July in the present year.

John Ward Pettengill, son of Benjamin and Betsey (Pettengill) Pettengill, was
born in Salisbury, N. H., November 12, 1835. He is descended from Richard Pet-
tengill, who in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony came to Salem from Staf-
fordshire, England, and married Joanna, daughter of Richard Ingersoll. He re-
ceived his early education in the public schools and at the Franklin, Salisbury, North-
field, and Hopkinton Academies, enjoying the privilege of being a pupil at the North-
field Academy of that distinguished instructor Prof. Dyer H. Sanborn. Though
fitted to enter the Sophomore class of Dartmouth College in 1854, he was prevented
by a severe bronchial trouble from entering that institution. From that time until
1856 he remained at home pursuing the college studies under the direction of his
father, and at that date became connected with the editorial department of the In-
dependent Democrat in Concord. While in Concord he pursued the study of law in
the office of Judge Asa Fowler, and in 1858 entered as a student the office of John
Quincy Adams Griffin and Alonzo W. Boardman in Charlestown. In December,
1858, he was admitted to the Middlesex bar and established himself in Charlestown,
where he remained practicing alone until the annexation of Charlestown to Boston in
1874. While in Charlestown he was appointed special justice of the Police Court and
served in that capacity until the annexation. In the spring of 1874 he removed his
office to Boston proper, and in August of that year was appointed justice of the First
Eastern Middlesex District Court with jurisdiction in Maiden, Wakefield, Reading,
North Reading, Melrose, Everett, and Medford. His practice has been a general
one both civil and criminal, and during the administration of Charles Russell Train
as attorney-general he was counsel in three capital cases, in all of which he secured
verdicts of acquittal. In the trial of Orne, indicted for burning a school-house in
Charlestown, he was counsel for the defendant, and not until the fourth trial was the
government able to sustain the indictment, and then only after two days and a night
spent by the jury in consultation. Mr. Pettengill resides in Maiden, where he has
served as trustee of the Public Library, and alderman of the city. Though in the
early days of the Republican party he was interested in politics, and was an effective
speaker in support of its candidates, he has for many years devoted himself ex-
clusively to his profession, neither accepting nor seeking public office. He married
in Watertown, Mass., October 20, 1843, Margaret Maria, daughter of John Richards
and Mary (Dalton) Dennett, of Lancaster, England.

William Howard Mitchell, only child of Azor and Sarah Jane (Shaw) Mitchell,
was born in North Yarmouth, Me., August 14, 1861. He is descended from Experi-
ence Mitchell, who came to Plymouth, Mass., in the ship Ann, in 1623, and married
about 1628, Jane, daughter of Francis and Esther Cook, of Plymouth. Francis Cook
was one of the Mayflower company in 1620, and his wife, Esther, came to Plymouth
with Mr. Mitchell in the Ann, bringing three children, Jacob, Jane, and Esther.
John, another child, came with his father in the Mayflower. The lot of land on
which Experience Mitchell built a house after his marriage, on the easterly side of

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Market street, in Plymouth, is well defined. In 1631 he removed to Dnxbury, and
thence late in life to Bridge water, where he died in 1689, about eighty years of age.
Jacob Mitchell, a son of Experience, removed to Dartmouth, Mass., about 1669, and
had a son, Jacob, who removed to Kingston, and thence in 1728 to North Yarmouth,
Me. Another Jacob, son of the last, had a son Jacob, who was born in North Yar-
mouth in 1732, and married Jane Loring. John Mitchell, son of the last Jacob,
married Elizabeth Gooding, and was the father of Azor Mitchell, who was born
May 8, 1828, and married Sarah Jane Shaw. William Howard Mitchell, son of Azor
and the subject of this sketch, was reared on his father's farm and attended only
country schools until the age of eighteen. In the spring of 1880 he entered the col-
lege preparatory class of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, where he graduated in 1881.
He then entered Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., and graduated in 1885
with the highest honors. After leaving the university he took charge of the High
School in Spencer, Mass., but resigned that position in December. 1885, and entered
as a student the law office of Edwin L. Dyer, recorder of the Municipal Court in Port-
land, Me. In October, 1886, he entered the Boston University Law School and com-
pleting the regular three years' course in one year, graduated with the degree of
LL.B. in June, 1887. In August, 1887, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar and es-
tablished himself in business in Denver, Col. , in the following September, where he
became associated with S. S. Abbott, who, in 1892, as assistant district attorney, was
engaged in the prosecution of Dr. T. Thatcher Graves. In April, 1888, he was com-
pelled by unfavorable effects of the climate to leave Denver, and he returned to Bos-
ton, assuming the position of treasurer and general eastern representative of the
Colorado Farm Loan Company, a corporation organized to purchase, sell and make
loans upon Denver property. In September, 1891, the company went out of business
and Mr. Mitchell devoted himself to the practice of law in a partnership with Raymond
R. Gilman, which had been been formed in December, 1890, and is now in active
business. In practice he has given much attention to corporation law, and has as-
sisted in the organization of several successful enterprises, in which he is either an
officer or director. Mr. Mitchell has his residence in Melrose, and is junior deacon
of Wyoming Lodge, F. & A. M., a member of the Waverly Chapter Royal Arch
Masons, and of Hugh de Payen's Commaudery, Knights Templar. He is also sec-
retary of the Boston Wesleyan University Alumni Association. He married at Mel-
rose, Mass., October 2, 1889, Harriet Louise, only daughter of Frank E. Orcutt, of
Melrose, collector of internal revenue for the district of Massachusetts.

Charles Lidgett was appointed by Andros in 1687 one of the justices of the Supe-
rior court. He married Mary, daughter of William Hester, of Southwark, England,
and died in London, April 9, 1698, leaving three children, Peter, Charles and Ann.

Joseph Nickerson was born in Dennis, Mass., September 17, 1828. He received
his early education in the public schools of his native town and at Phillips Andover
Academy, and graduated at Amherst in 1850. He taught school three years before
entering college, and after graduation was employed as principal of the academy in
Hopkinton, N. H., and the academy in Gilmanton, N. H. He began the study of
law in the office of A. Eastman in Gilmanton, and after completing his studies in the
office of Charles T. and Thomas H. Russell in Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk
bar December 19, 1853. He established himself in Boston, where he practiced with
success until his death.

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Arthur Wilde Crossley, son of William and Mary (Flick) Crossley, was born in
Montour county, Pa., and educated in the public schools. He studied law in Wash-
ington, D. C, and was there admitted to the bar in 1879. His business is confined
to patent cases. He married in Washington, January 20, 1886, Mary, daughter of
William E. Chandler, and resides in the Roxbury District of Boston.

George Lemist Clarke was born in Jamaica Plain (Boston), August 13, 1861, and
received his early education at the Roxbury Latin School. He studied law in Boston
in the office of his grandfather, John J. Clarke, and at the Boston University Law
School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He is now in practice in
Boston.

Luke Eastman was born in 1791, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1812. He was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1816, and settled in Hardwick, Mass., where
he died in 1847. <

Levi Clifford Wade, son of Levi and A. Annie (Rogers) Wade, was born m
Alleghany, Penn., January 16, 1843. His father, whose ancestors were large land
owners in Medford, Mass., was born in Woburn, Mass., in 1812, and is now living in
Alleghany after a successful business career as merchant and manufacturer in Pitts-
burgh. His mother is a descendant of Rev. John Rogers, of Ipswich, Mass., who
was president of Harvard College from April 10, 1682, to the date of his death, Tuly
2, 1684. She is widely esteemed for her musical and literary entertainments and her
activity in benevolent enterprises. Mr. Wade was educated at home and in the pub-
lic schools until he was thirteen years of age, and after that time until he was nine-
teen under private tutors and in Lewisburg University. He then entered Yale
College and graduated in 1866 with special honors. After leaving college he studied
Greek and Hebrew one year under Dr. H. B. Hackett, and theology one year under
Dr. Alvah Hovey. From 1868 to 1873 he taught school in Newton, at the same time
pursuing the study of law, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 11, 1873.
After remaining in the office of J. W. Richardson two years, he opened an office on
his own account in 1875, and from 1877 to 1880 was associated as a partner with John
Quincy Adams Brackett. After 1880 his business Avas confined to railroad law and
management, and he became counsel for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa F6, the At-
lantic and Pacific, the Sonora and the Mexican Central Railway companies. Of the
lastmentioned company he wasoneof thefouroriginalprojectorsand ownersandat the
time of his death he was its president and general counsel. Mr. Wade was a repre-
sentative from Newton from 1876 to 1879 inclusive, and in the last year was chosen
speaker of the House of Representatives. He was one of the directors of the General
Theological Library, of the Mexican Central, the Sonora, the Atlantic and Pacific, and
the Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland Railroad companies. Mr. Wade married in
Bath, Me., November 16, 1869, Margaret, daughter of William and Lydia H. (Elliott)
Rogers, and died in Newton, Mass., March 31, 1891. After his death the directors
of the Mexican Central Railway Company entered on the records of the Board a
series of resolutions expressive of the obligation of the company to him for the per-
severance, honesty and skill which he displayed in rescuing it from a languishing
and almost bankrupt condition. In the language of the resolutions he was a man " of
large attainments and great general knowledge. His mind worked quickly and he
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issue. He worked assiduously for the company, but he never failed to recognize the
touch of other interests affected by the company. His whole life was based on re-
ligious conviction. He believed and went forward to carry out his belief. He wanted
to do the right, and wrong of every kind shocked and grieved him. His place in
this company cannot be easily filled."

Sanford Harrison Dudley was born in China, Kennebec county, State of Maine,
January 14, 1842. His father was Harrison Dudley, who at that time belonged to
the Society of Friends, though he did not always continue his connection with that
denomination. His mother was Elizabeth Prentiss, still living, in 1893, at Cambridge,
Mass., in her seventy -fifth year. Mr. Dudley is a descendant in the direct line from
Thomas Dudley, the second governor of Massachusetts, and one of the most promi-
nent men of that early day. His line descends through the governor's eldest son,
Rev. Samuel Dudley, who finally settled and died at Exeter, N. H. ; Stephen, of Ex-
eter; James, of the same town; Samuel, of Raymond, N. H. ; Micajah, of Durham,
Me. ; Micajah, of China; and Harrison, before named, who died at Cambridge, Mass.,
in 1880, and he is of the ninth generation of his lineage in America. It may not be
uninteresting to note that Governor Dudley built the first house in Cambridge, that
his son Samuel also built a house at the same time, on the same street, within a few
rods, and that Mr. Dudley, the subject of this sketch, owned at a recent date a house
and land midway and within a few feet of both sites upon which his early ancestors
built their houses. The house and land still remain in a member of his family, ad-
jacent to the spot where the first church was built in Cambridge, in which, doubtless,
both ancestors frequently worshiped. Though the several generations of this
lineage have largely had to do with the early and pioneer settlement of Massachusetts,
New Hampshire and Maine, yet the latest generation seems to have come back to
claim the spot where the line originated. Mr. Dudley's parents removed with him
in his early infancy to St. Albans, in Somerset county, Me., where they occupied a
farm and lived a number of years. Here he spent his early childhood, living as other
farmers' children did, but early became studious and a favorite with his teachers.
At the age of ten years he removed with his parents to Auburn, Me., where his father
was occupied as a mechanic in the construction of the mills which were rapidly build-
ing up the present thriving cities of Lewiston and Auburn. Here, while still a boy,
he earned the means to buy the first book he ever owned, and which is still in his
possession. It was a history of the naval battles of 1812, both interesting and in-
structive, and not a bad book for an ambitious boy to read. It is needless to say
that he read it through many times, and became well acquainted with the heroes of
those battles. Both here and at Richmond, Me., where after the lapse of a few
years the family moved, the boy made the best use of the educational opportunities
offered to him, both in the public schools and in such private schools as his means
permitted him to attend. He was by no means unused to such work as he could do
in his home or wherever he could obtain a compensation. At the age of sixteen his
family again removed, this time to Fairhaven, Mass., and here for the first time, in
the high school of that town, and under the care and attention of an able teacher, he
found the first and longed for opportunity for beginning those studies then considered
necessary in preparation for college. It had been the hope of his mother for years
that her son should some day pursue a college course, and it was no new thing for

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himself to desire it. He had long since determined upon it if ever the opportunity
was presented, but the means to accomplish this he did not and could not forecast.
His father could not assist him, and besides was not fully appreciative of his efforts
or ambition, but the mother's sympathies were never lacking and always followed
him till he was able to repay them in kind and in a more material way. For two
years Mr. Dudley pursued his studies at the Fairhaven high school, somewhat inter-
mittently but still diligently and with satisfactory results. He had advanced suffi-
ciently in 1860, when his family removed to New Bedford, Mass., to pursue his
classical studies alone, though with indifferent success. By teaching school in the
country winters and by sundry other employments at other times, he finally obtained
the means for completing his college preparation under two well known classical
teachers, and in 1863 entered Harvard College with very little idea as to the ways
and means of going through a four years' course until graduation. One or two kind
friends were found who lent him just that helping hand that enabled him to accom-
plish his desire, and afterwards to repay them dollar for dollar. Even before gradu-
ation he was engaged to serve as submaster in the New Bedford High School, and
there, associated with his former teacher, Mr. Dudley spent three laborious but
pleasant years as an instructor in the classics and mathematics, having the pleasure
of sending one young man at least to his own alma mater who has since achieved an
enviable reputation as a classical scholar and critic. Graduating in the class of 1867
and entering immediately upon the work of a teacher, which he pursued with no little
enthusiasm, Mr. Dudley was unwilling to make that a life work, but desired rather
to adopt the law as his chosen profession. He therefore procured Bouvier's Law
Dictionary and a copy of Kent and Blackstone, and began reading law in the office
of Eliot & Stetson, devoting to his reading such spare hours as his school duties
would permit, including his vacations. Meantime, on the 2d day of April, 1869, Mr.
Dudley married Miss Laura Nye Howland, daughter of John M. Howland and
Matilda Coleman Howland, of Fairhaven. Miss Howland was descended in the
direct line on her father's side from Henry Howland, of Duxbury, who appeared in
that town in 1633, and was doubtless a brother of John Howland of the Mayflower,
whose grave is still pointed out on Burial Hill in Plymouth. On her mother's side
Miss Howland was descended from the Folger family of Nantucket. At the close of
the school year in 1870 Mr. Dudley resigned his position of submaster in the New
Bedford High School and removed to Cambridge, Mass., where he has ever since
resided. He spent a year at the Harvard Law School and graduated therefrom in
1871, receiving his degree upon examination. He also holds the degree of A.M. from
his alma mater. Immediately entering the office of James B. Richardson, now Mr.
Justice Richardson of the Superior Court, Mr. Dudley was admitted to the bar of the
Supreme Judicial Court in Boston, before the late lamented Justice Colt, on the 21st
day of July in that year. Though practicing in Suffolk county, he also had an office
for several of the first years of his practice in Cambridge, but found that one office in
Boston was all that he could well give his attention to. Mr. Dudley is a busy lawyer
whose practice is of a somewhat miscellaneous character, taking him sometimes into
one court and sometimes into another. Most lawyers of experience can look back
upon some one case with more or less of satisfaction because of having accomplished
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began one action in the earl}' years of his practice which soon developed a bitterness
between the parties that resulted in one of the longest legal contests known at the
bar. It was thirteen years before the one in question was closed up with a judgment
which had to be satisfied and settled. Meantime there had been five jury trials and
three verdicts in the case, several hearings before the full bench of the Supreme
Judicial Court, a petition and discharge in bankruptcy in the United States District
Court, many hearings in the United States District and Circuit Courts, many con-
tested motions in all the courts, with varying fortunes on one side and the other, till
finally Mr. Dudley obtained a judgment on a bond to dissolve attachment which a
surety had to pay, the amount then being more than double that originally in con-
troversy. One of the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, in a reported opinion,
justly called it "this much litigated case." The plaintiff was a minor and sued by
his next friend, but he was a man over thirty years old when the litigation ended.
Every judge of the Supreme or Superior Court who heard the case is now dead. As
in many cases a very large proportion of Mr. Dudley's practice is that of chamber
counsel where he is called upon to pass upon a great variety of questions of every
possible character, to draft all sorts of legal documents, and to attend to the rights
and duties of the merchant, the mechanic, or those arising out of family relations.
Nor has he neglected the religious and social duties which so largely fall upon those
who are expected to take some leading position in such matters. Mr. Dudley has
been for years a member of the parish committee of the Universalist Church ; was for
several years an officer of the Universalist Club and finally its president for two
years, and for many years has given a portion of his spare time to the interest of
Sunday schools. He is now (1893) president of the Universalist Sunday School Union,
an organization which has for its duty the oversight of twenty Sunday schools. Not
neglecting his obligations to the State of his birth, he is the president of a social
organization in his city made up of the sons and daughters of Maine. He is also an
original member of the Cambridge Club. He has never held political office, except
for a single year when he was a member of the city government of his city, though
he has taken some interest in general politics at times, and was for a number of
years a member of the ward and city committee of the party to which he belonged.
Mr. Dudley cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864, and has
voted for every president who has filled the office since except in the case of Mr.
Harrison, for whom he did not vote. He has also for years been a member of the
Civil Service Association of his city, and never hesitates to "scratch" the ballot he
casts at any election if in his judgment any candidate of either party is unsuitable
for the position he aspires to. He gives some attention to historical and antiquarian
matters, and is the president of The Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association.
He has never forgotten the studies of school and college days, and still keeps in
touch with them. He has a family of three children : a son and two daughters. The
son and oldest daughter are at the University and the "Annex" respectively, the
former being destined to the law, as might be expected. Those opportunities which
Mr. Dudley so much lacked in his boyhood and youth, he takes great delight in fur-
nishing to his children, and his pleasure is all the greater that his children make the
most of their opportunities. With his family about him in his comfortable home,
Mr. Dudley enjoys the results of faithfulness and integrity in his profession, and of

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that diligence which the law, most of all the professions, jealously demands of every
member of it, if indeed success or eminence is sought for in it.

Edwin Lasseter Bynner, son of Edwin and Caroline (Edgarton) Bynner, was born
in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1842, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865. He
established himself in the West, but about the year 1870 came to Boston and after-
ward made that city his home. He was the librarian of the Law Association at the
time of his death, but had for many years devoted himself to literary pursuits. In
1877 he published a novel entitled " N' importe," and in 1878 another called " Tritons."
He was the author of the chapter in the "Memorial History of Boston" on the
"Topography and Landmarks of the Provincial Period," and in 1882 published
" Damen's Ghost," a book which added to his already established reputation. In
1887 the Atlantic Monthly published a sketch from his pen reflecting the life of
colonial days in Boston called " Penelope's Suitors," and shortly after "Agnes Sur-
riage " appeared, followed by " The Begum's Daughter," a story of the Dutch in New
York. At a later date "An Uncloseted Skeleton " and " The Chase of the Meteor "
were published, and subsequent to these his last work, " Zachary Phips." He died
in Jamaica Plain, a district of Boston, August 5, 1893, unmarried.

George Makepeace Towle was the son of a physician in Washington, D. C, and
was born in that city August 27, 1841. His parents removed to Boston, where he
attended the public schools. He was fitted for college at the Wrentham Academy
and the Lawrence Academy in Groton, and graduated at Yale in 1861. He attended
the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 14, 1862.
He began a literary career at an early age and while in the law school published
three articles treating of Count Cavour, De Tocqueville and Leigh Hunt. In 1865
and 1866 he was on the editorial staff of the Boston Post, and from 1866 to 1868 U.
S. consul at Nantes, France. In 1868 he was transferred from the consulship at
Nantes to that in Bradford, England, where he. remained until 1870, when he re-
turned to Boston and became managing editor of the Commercial Bulletin. From
1871 to 1876 he was again connected with the Boston Post, and was later on the
regular staff of Appletoh ' s Jour?ial, the Art Journal and the Youth ' s Companion.
In addition to the results of his journalistic work, and to his lectures on various sub-
jects, which were always popular and attractive, he published the following original
works and translations: "Glimpse of History," "History of Henry V, King of
England," "American Society," " Gaborian's Mystery of Orcival," " Jules Verne's
Tour of the World in Eighty Days," " Doctor Ox" and "The Wreck of the Chan-
cellor," "Viollet le Due's Story of a House," "The Principalities of the Danube,
Modern Greece, Montenegro and Bulgaria," and a number of volumes of a series of
" Heroes in History " for young people. He also edited Harvey's " Reminiscences
of Webster," and at various times produced " Certain Men of Mark," and " Timely
Topics," including " England and Russia in Asia," " England in Egypt," and others,
and published histories of England and Ireland for young people, and " The Litera-
ture of the English Language." He was a member of the State Senate in 1890 and
1891, and a member of the National Republican Convention in 1888. He died in
Brookline, Mass., August 9, 1893.

John Haskell Butler, son of John and Mary J. (Barker) Butler, was born in
Middleton, Mass., August 31, 1841. He attended the public schools of Groton and
77

610 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Shirley, and fitted for college at the Lawrence Academy in Groton. He graduated
at Yale in 1863, and studied law in Charlestown in the office of John Quincy Adams
Griffin and William Saint Agnan Stearns. He was admitted to the Middlesex county
bar in October, 1868, and entered into a partnership with Mr. Stearns which con-
tinued until January, 1892. After the annexation of Charlestown to Boston in 1874
the business of the firm was carried on in Boston proper, and so continued until the
dissolution of the partnership. Since that time Mr. Butler has been alone, engaged
in a general practice and enjoying a position at the Suffolk bar among its leading
members. Mr. Butler was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
in 1880 and 1881, and a member of the Executive Council in 1884, '85 and '86, repre-
senting the 3d Councillor District. In his adopted city of Somerville he has been
and is a prominent, active and useful citizen, having served many years on the School
Board and been connected with various enterprises involving the welfare and growth
of that city. He has been many years a member of various associations, in most of
which he has held high office. Among these may be mentioned the order of Free
Masons, the order of Odd Fellows, the American Legion of Honor, the Grand Lodge
of the A. O. U. W., the Home Circle, the Royal Society of Good Fellows, the New
England Commercial Travelers' Association, etc. He married in Pittston, Penn.,
January 1, 1870, Laura L., daughter of Jabez B. and Mary (Ford) Bull, and has his
residence in Somerville.

Albert A. Austin was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 16, 1859. He went to the
war, and afterwards became clerk of the courts in one of the counties in Maine.

Henry E. Bellew was admitted to the .Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now one of the
assistants of the Superior Civil Court of that county.

Seth C. Burnham was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 19, 1866, and is believed
to be now engaged in some business outside of the law in Farrington, Me.

Marshall S. Chase was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 4, 1843, and was
associated some years in business with James A. Abbot. He afterwards moved to
California and there died.

Tracy P. Cheever was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 1, 1847. He went to the
war and has since died.

George W. Collamore studied law with John A. Andrew, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar November 27, 1852. He went South and occupied a farm which was
raided by the Confederates during the war. He concealed himself from the enemy
in a well, where he was afterwards found dead.

Russell H. Conwell was practicing in Boston in 1875, but afterwards became an
Episcopal minister.

Benjamin F. Cooke was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 26, 1846. He after-
wards added Cressy to his name, and was practicing in Boston as Benjamin F. C.
Cressy in 1861. He is now dead.

Charles C. Dame was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 8, 1859, and after-
wards moved to Newburyport.

F. W. Dickinson was practicing in Boston in 1845, and was associated some years
with George Bancroft. He is now dead.

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William R. Dimmock was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, 1862, and after-
wards moved to New York.

William End came from Nova Scotia, and after taking out preliminary papers
was admitted to the Sufforlk bar before his naturalization June 30, 1852. He finally
returned to Nova Scotia.

Ira Gibbs was practicing in Boston in 1857. He was at one time city marshal.

George H. Heilbron was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now praetic-
in Seattle.

Horatio G. Herrick was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 1857, and is now
high sheriff of Essex county.

James M. F. Howard was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 14, 1863, and is now
judge of the Municipal Court of the West Roxbury District of Boston.

P. Webster Locke was practicing in Boston in 1875, and is now in Berlin Falls,

Maine.

Llewellyn Powers was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now in Maine.

B. F. Russell was practicing in Boston in 1851, and afterwards moved to New
York.

Daniel E. Smith was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 23, 1856, and after-
wards moved to California, where he became a judge.

James R. M. Squire was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1870, and afterwards
moved to New York.

Bernard S. Treanor was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 5, 1854. He went to
the war and has since died.

J. Kendall Tyler was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 1853. He was in the
Mexican war, and was also captain of a company raised for three years' service in the
War of 1861. His company was temporarily attached to the Third and Fourth three
months regiments at Fort Monroe, and afterwards was a part of the Twenty-ninth
regiment. He now lives at Charlestown.

Bainbridge Wadleigh was born in Bradford, N. H., January 4, 1831. He was ad-
mitted to the bar of New Hampshire in 1850, and practiced in Milford in that State.
He was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature eight years and United States
senator from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1879, as the successor of James W. Patter-
son. He was on the roll of Suffolk county attorneys in 1890.

George Casper Adams graduated at Harvard in 1886 and is now at the Suffolk bar.

Frederick Hartley Atwood graduated at Harvard in 1884 and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in 1888. He is now at the bar.

James Walker Austin, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1888 and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar January 20, 1891. He is now at the bar.

Walter Austin graduated at Harvard in 1887 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1890. He is now at the bar.

William Russell Austin graduated at Harvard in 1877, and at the Harvard Law
School in 1882. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882 and is now at the bar.

William Francis Bacon graduated at Harvard in 1885 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1889. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889 and is now at the bar.

6 12 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Charles William Bacon graduated at Harvard in 1879, and is now at the Suffolk
bar.

Thomas Tileston Baldwin graduated at Harvard in 1886, and was admitted to the
the Suffolk bar in May, 1888. He is now at the bar.

Jacoh Bancroft graduated at Harvard in 1884, and at the Harvard Law School in
1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the bar.

James Edward Bates graduated at Harvard in 1864, and was practicing at the
Suffolk bar in 1866.

William Blaikie graduated at Harvard in 1866 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1868. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 16, 1869.

Frank Eliot Bradish graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was practicing at the
Suffolk bar in 1891.

William Dade Brewer, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1886, and was practicing at
the Suffolk bar in 1889.

Henry Nichols Blake graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar June 8, 1859.

George William Brown graduated at Harvard in 1884 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1887. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1887.

Horace Brown graduated at Harvard in 1872 and at the Harvard Law School in
1874. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1874, and died in 1883.

Abraham Stephens Brush graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1885, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1886.

Cyril Herbert Burdett graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar January 20, 1891.

Jonathan Ware Butterfield graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 1869.

Benjamin Merrick Campbell graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1884, and
was practicing at the Suffolk bar when he died in 1886.

Robert Boody Caverly graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1837 and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar March 8, 1837. He died in 1887.

Edgar Robert Champlin graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1880 and is now
at the Suffolk bar.

Lorenzo S. Cragin, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1849 and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar December 21, 1851. He died in 1875.

John Colman Crowley graduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 19, 1856.

T. Kittridge Cummins graduated at Harvard in 1884 and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in 1887.

Grafton Dulany Cushing graduated at Harvard in 1885 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888.

John Newmarch Cushing graduated at Harvard in 1887 and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1890.

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Livingston Cushing graduated at Harvard in 1879 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1882. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884.

Samuel Locke Cutter, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1854, and was practicing at
the Suffolk bar in 1860. He died in 1886.

Marshall Cutler graduated at Harvard in 1877 and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1882.

Walter Reeves Dame graduated at Harvard in 1883 and at the Boston University
Law School in 1886. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886.

William Franklin Dana graduated at Harvard in 1884 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1887. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888.

Frederick Homer Darling graduated at Harvard in 1884 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888.

Herbert Henry Darling graduated at Harvard in 1889, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar October 20, 1891.

Bancroft Gherardi Davis graduated at Harvard in 1885 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886.

Jerome Davis graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1850 and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar May 8 in that year. He died in 1883.

Benjamin Wood Davis graduated at Yale in 1875 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1878. He was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1885.

Samuel Craft Davis, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1863 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 5, 1867, and died in 1874.

Daatd Taggart Dickinson graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar August 4, 1891. He is now at the bar.

Samuel Knight Dow graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1854, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 13, 1853.

Walter Henry Dorr graduated at Harvard in 1865, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar July 13, 1871. He died in 1880.

W. Harrison Dunbar graduated at Harvard in 1882 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1886. He is now at the Suffolk bar.

John Emery Dow, jr., graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 19 in that year.

Jonathan Dwight graduated at Harvard in 1793, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar before 1807. He died in 1840. -, ^

Edward Augustus Durbin graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1861.

James Martin Eder graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1859, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in March of that year.

George Herbert Eaton graduated at Harvard in 1882, and was practicing at the
Suffolk bar in 1887.

Samuel Hopkins Emery graduated at Amherst in 1872 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1882. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885.

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James Phillips Farley probably graduated at Harvard in 1868, and is now at the
Suffolk bar.

Andrew Otis Evans graduated at Harvard in 1870 and at the Boston University
Law School in 1873. He was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1877.

Francis Britain Fay graduated at Harvard in 1883 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1887. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887.

Aaron Estey Fisher graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar January 17, 1861.

Edward Fiske graduated at Harvard in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1889.

Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham graduated at Harvard in 1875, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1880.

Francis Gardner graduated at Harvard in 1793, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1796. He was a member of Congress, and died in 1835.

George Albert Gerrish graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar March 15, 1856. He died in 1866.

Joseph McKean Gibbons graduated at Harvard in 1881 and at the Boston Univer-
sity Law School in 1884. He was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1884.

Samuel Cotton Gilbert graduated at Harvard in 1880 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1883. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 23, 1883, and died in 1885.

Edmund Gifford graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1841, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in July, 1840.

Frederic Huntington Gillett graduated at Amherst in 1874 and at the Harvard
Law School in 1877. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1885.

Henry Winthrop Hardon graduated at Harvard in 1882 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885.

Frank Warren Hackett graduated at Harvard in 1861, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar November 19, 1866.

Frank Rockwood Hall graduated at Harvard in 1872, and is now at the Suffolk bar.

James Francis Harlow graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar August 4, 1891.

Edward Avery Harriman graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar January 20, 1891,

Edward Andress Hikbard graduated at Harvard in 1884 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1886. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886.

Charles Henry Hildreth graduated at Harvard in 1864, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar- December 14, 1867. He died in 1878.

George Nicholas Hitchcock graduated at Yale in 1864 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 19, 1866.

Arthur Parker Hodgkins graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1882, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883.

Franklin William Hooper graduated at Harvard in 1875, and was at the Suf-
folk bar in 1890.

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Eden' Shotwell Jacques graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 20, 1840.

John Kidder graduated at Harvard in 1793, and was at the Suffolk bar in 1797.
He died in 1810.

Charles Carroll King graduated at Harvard in 1885 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890.

Lorenzo Lane graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18G1, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar June 23, 1860. He died in 1867.

Abbott Lawrence graduated at Harvard in 1849 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1863. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1864.

Abbott Lawrence, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1875 and at the Harvard Law
.School in 1877. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 15,1880, and died in 1882.

Alfred French Lane graduated at Harvard in 1882 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885.

Arthur Prescott Lothrop graduated at Harvard in 1882, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1886.

John Jacob Loud graduated at Harvard in 1866, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar February 2, 1872.

Charles Taylor Lovering graduated at Harvard in 1868 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 26, 1878, and is now
at the bar.

John Plumer Lyons graduated at Harvard in 1882, and is now at the Suffolk bar.

Austin Agnew Martin graduated at Harvard in 1873 and at the Boston University
Law School in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 28, 1876, and died
in 1890.

Henry Farnham May graduated at Harvard in 1881, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in 1884.

George Lowell Maybury graduated at Harvard in 1882 and at the Boston Uni-
versity Law School in 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885.

Thomas W. McGrath graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 11, 1865.

George Harrison McGrew graduated at the Wesleyan University, Conn., in 1870
and at the Harvard Law School in 1873. He was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1873.

Elijah Hedding Merrill graduated at West Point in 1878 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1882. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883.

William Peppe'rell Montague graduated at Harvard in 1869, and was a tutor in
the college after graduation. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1871.

Nathan Newmark graduated -at the University of California in 1873 and at the
Harvard Law School in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875.

George Dana Noyes graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1854. He is now at the bar.

Henry Ernest Oxnard graduated at Harvard in 1886 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1889. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889.

616 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

John Augustus Page graduated at the University of Paris in 1852 and at the Har-
vard Law School in 1856. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 20, 1855,
and died in 1883.

Joseph Newell Palmer graduated at Harvard in 1886 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1889. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889.

William George Pellew graduated at Harvard in 1880 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1884. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884.

Henry Goddard Pickering graduated at Harvard in 1869 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1871. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1890.

Wii.lard Quincy Phillips graduated at Harvard in 1855 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1858. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1863.

Henry Pickering graduated at Harvard in 1861, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar November 16, 1863.

Johnson Tuttle Plait graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 12, 1885. He died in 1890.

Charles Coolidge Read graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1867. He is now at the Suffolk bar.

Giles Hopkins Rich graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1859, and is now at
the Suffolk bar.

Edgar Judson Rich graduated at Harvard in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar January 30, 1891.

James Ritchie graduated at Harvard in 1835, and was at one time mayor of Rox-
bury. He was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1868, and was drowned in Massachu-
setts Bay in 1873.

Thomas Francis Richardson graduated at Brown University in 1852 and at the
Harvard Law School in 1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 17, 1855.
George Lewis Ruffin graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 18, 1869. He died in 1886.

Nathaniel Curtis Scoville graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 21, 1865.

Arthur Wesley Sim graduated at Harvard in 1885, and was at the Suffolk bar in
1889.

Henry Munson Spelm an graduated at Harvard in 1884, and is now at the Suffolk bar.
James Monroe Stevens graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was at
the Suffolk bar in 1863.

John Humphreys Storer graduated at Harvard in 1882 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1885. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1885.

Jacob Story, jr., graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar January 4, 1847.

Roger Faxton Sturgis graduated at Harvard in 1884, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1887. He is now at the bar.

Lynde Sullivan graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar January 20, 1891.

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Alfred TaggarT graduated at Beloit College, Wisconsin, in 1856, and at the Har-
vard Law School in 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 10, 1858.

Thomas Taylor, jr., graduated at Knox College, Illinois, in 1881, and at the Har-
vard Law School in 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886.

William Temple graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1874, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar June 23, 1874.

Robert Means Thompson graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1868,
and at the Harvard Law School in 1874. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Octo-
ber 10, 1873.

Charles Martin Thayer graduated at Harvard in 1889, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar August 4, 1891.

Charles Jackson Thorndike graduated at Harvard in 1849, and became a mem-
ber of the Suffolk bar. He died in 1880.

William Goodrich Thompson graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar October 13, 1891.

Walter Checkley Tiffany graduated at Harvard in 1881, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in February, 1883.

Nicholas Tillinghast received an honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1807, and
was at one time a member of the Suffolk bar. He died in 1818.

Edward W. Emery Tompson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and in
December of that year was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He is now at the bar.

William Denman Tilden graduated at Racine University, Wisconsin, in 1874, and
at the Harvard Law School in 1876. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Febru-
ary, 1876.

James Alexander Tyng graduated at Harvard in 1876, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in May, 1879.

Gustavus Henry Wald graduated at Yale in 1873, and at the Harvard Law
School in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1875.

Hermann Jackson Warner graduated at Harvard in 1850, and at the Harvard Law
School in 1852. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 1853.

Benjamin Davis Washburn graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 1870.

Samuel Farrell Webb graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 26, 1869. He died in 1887.

Stiles Gannett Wells, son of Samuel and Kate Gannett Wells, graduated at
Harvard in 1886, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890. He is now at the bar.

Sidney Wetmore graduated at Harvard in 1877 and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1885.

Horace Oscar Whittemore graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was admitted to
the Suffolk bar January 16, 1809. He died in 1871.

William Austin Whiting graduated at Harvard in 1877, and at the Boston Uni-
versity Law School in 1879. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1879.

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Charles Alexander Whittemore graduated at Harvard in 1885, and is now at the
Suffolk bar.

Alexander Whitney graduated at Harvard in 1881, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in April, 1837. He died in 1842.

Edson Leone Whitney graduated at Harvard in 1885, and at the Boston Univer-
sity Law School in 1887. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886.

John Henry Wigmore graduated at Harvard in 1883, and at the Harvard Law
School in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He is at the head of
the law school in Tokio, Japan, and a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great
Britain.

George Dudley Wildes graduated at Harvard in 1873, and at the Boston Univer-
sity Law School in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1875.

Abel Theodore Winn graduated at Harvard in 1859, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in September, 1863.

Henry Hedden Winslow graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1872, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar in December of that year,

Andrew Woods graduated at Harvard in 1877, and at the Harvard Law School
in 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885.

George Henry Woods graduated at Brown in 1853, and at the Harvard Law School
in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June 1856, and died in 1884.

Edward Clarence Wright graduated at Harvard in 1886, and at the Harvard Law
School in 1889. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1889.

Ephraim Wood Young graduated at Harvard in 1848, and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar October 15, 1856.

The following attorneys were either admitted to the Suffolk bar at the dates speci-
fied or were practicing at said bar as early as the dates indicate. Those marked
with an asterisk (*) are now at the bar.

*Charles E. Abbott, admitted Oct. 5, 1864.

* George C. Abbott, admitted March 22,

1880.
Grafton T. Abbott, admitted 1879.
Ira E. Abbott, practicing in 1875.
John'G. Abbott, admitted Nov. 8, 1876.
Nathan D. Abbott, admitted in 1882.

* S. P. Abbott, admitted March 8, 1872.
D. L. Aberdain, practicing in 1860.
Chas. True Adams, admitted July 14,1868.
Coleman S. Adams, admitted March 13,

1849.
John K. Adams, admitted in 1818.
Joseph T. Adams, practicing in 1844.
Julius Adams, admitted in 1876.

W. Robert Adair, admitted Jan. 24, 1857.
Albion A. Adams, practicing in 1885.
Walter Adavis, admitted in 1873.
Cyrus Alden, practicing in 1818.
Edwin G. Alexander, admitted in 1884.

* Charles E. Allen, admitted in 1887.
George A. Allen, admitted April 25, 1855.
Harris Allen, admitted Jan. 14, 1864.
Sam. W. F. Allen, admitted June 5, 1875.

* George D. Alden, practicing in 1891.
Arthur M. Alger, admitted in 1876.
H. O. Alden, practicing in 1853.
Samuel C. Allen, admitted before 1807;

dead.

* H. N. Allen, admitted before 1887.

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619

A. B. Almon, admitted July 9, 1852.
Ferdinand L. Andrews, admitted Jan. 1,

1849.
Gallison C. Andrews, admitted May 27,

1889.
John H. Andrews, admitted Oct. 31, 1866.
Wm. N. Andrews, admitted June 4, 1852.
Frank H. Angier, admitted Feb. 1, 1873.
Wm. J. Apthorp, admitted Nov. 2, 1821.
J. L. Andrews, practicing in 1875.
Isaac Angell, practicing in 1879.
Samuel R. Archer, admitted Dec. 12,

1863.
*Zenas S. Arnold, practicing in 1890.
Herman Askenasy, practicing in 1867.
George E. Atkins, admitted in 1876.
J. Augustus Atkins, admitted in 1857.
J. Atkinson, admitted in 1852.
Edward Austin, admitted Jan. 31, 1867.
D. J. Atwood, practicing in 1878.
Charles U. Atwood, practicing in 1878.
Wm. P. Austin, admitted in 1873.
George W. Averil, practicing in 1885.

* Albert E. Avery, practicing in 1890.
Phineas A}?er, practicing in 1856.
Joseph C. Ayer, admitted Nov. 20, 1886.
C. A. Babbitt, practicing in 1882.
Charles H. Bacon, admitted April 11, 1854.
H. C. Bacon, practicing in 1881.
Frederick A. Bacon, admitted Nov. 9,1863.
Thomas S. Bacon, admitted March, 1845.
Gardner W. Bailey, practicing in 1878.
L. B. Bailey, practicing in 1878.
Fisher Ames Baker, admitted June 26,

1860.
John R. Baker, practicing in 1866.
Wm. P. Baker, practicing in 1873.
Joseph Balch, practicing in 1813.
Horace E. Baldwin, admitted May 15,

1848.
Benjamin W. Ball, admitted July 11, 1846.
Wm. A. Ball, practicing in 1890.

* John Ballantyne, practicing in 1891.
Henry Barnard, admitted before 1807.
Thomas F. Barr, admitted Nov. 8, 1859.
Samuel B. Barrell, admitted Jan. 15, 1813.

* Thomas W. Barrelle, practicing in 1890.
Edward J. Barrett, admitted in 1883.

A. L. Bartlett, admitted in 1887.
Charles Bartlett, admitted Dec. 19, 1866.
D. C. Bartlett, practicing in 1890.
Henry P. Barbour, admitted Feb., 1880.
J. N. Barbour, practicing in 1870.
Charles S. Barker, admitted Feb., 1876.
James M. Barker, admitted Oct., 1830.
Isaac A. Barnes, practicing in 1881.
Allison A. Bartlett, admitted Nov. 22,

1855.
A. B. Bartlett, practicing in 1857.
Bradbury C. Bartlett, practicing in 1857.
Charles E. Barber, practicing in 1887.
George W. Bartlett, practicing in 1878.
Horace E. Bartlett, admitted June, 1881.
Wm. Bartlett, practicing in 1860.

* R. C. Bayldone, practicing in 1890.
Edward A. Bayley, admitted Aug, 4,1891.
J. C. M. Bayley, practicing in 1890.
Frederick K. Bartlett, admitted Dec. 28,

1844.
James Barrett, admitted Jan. 24, 1848.
Leroy Batchelder, admitted May 13, 1870.
John M. Batchelder, practicing in 1856.
Clark A. Batchelder, practicing in 1873.
L. B. Batchelder, practicing in 1868.
Leon H. Bateman, admitted in 1883.
Elijah Bates, admitted before 1807.

* Edward S. Beach, practicing in 1890.
George F. Beck, admitted Nov. 23, 1847.
John W. Bell, admitted in 1884.
Waylan E. Benjamin, admitted May, 1879.
Francis M. Bennett, admitted May 22,

1874.
Isaac C. Bemis, admitted Oct. 22, 1846.
Seth Bemis, practicing in 1882.
C. M. Bennett, practicing in 1870.
Santiago C. Bello, practicing in 1855.
Edward S. Bellows, practicing in 1837.

* Frank T. Benner, practicing in 1891.
John R. Bennett, practicing in 1882.
Edward F. Benson, admitted in 1882.
W. H. Bent, practicing in 1890.

Abel B. Berry, admitted July, 1846.
John W. Berry, practicing in 1867.
O. Ewing Betton, admitted Oct. 6, 1846.
Horace Bickford, admitted Feb. 12, 1845.
Barnabas Bidwell, admitted before 1807.

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History Of the bench and bar.

Oliver Bigelow, admitted March, 1817.
John J. Bigelow, practicing in 1848.
* George D. Bigelow, admitted Feb. 1878.
Samuel C. Bigelow, admitted Aug. 30, 1848.
Washington Bissell, practicing in 1889.
Frederick M. Bixby, admitted in 1884.
James L. Black, admitted June, 1869.
*Paul R. Blackmur, admitted Jan. 20,1891.
Omar Binney, practicing in 1870.
Jonathan P. Bishop, practicing in 1853.
Wm. N. Blair, admitted Nov. 5, 1847.
Thomas Blanchard, admitted before 1807.
Charles F. Blandin, practicing in 1871.
Henry C. Bliss, practicing in 1890.
George B. Blodgett, admitted Oct. 26,

1868.
Thomas Bloomfield, admitted in 1890.
Jarvis Blume, admitted May 30, 1876.
J. C. Bodwell. practicing in 1866.
Simeon Bowen, admitted June 3, 1856.
Abel Boynton, admitted in 1807.
Moss K. Booth, admitted April 3, 1851.
T. C. Bowdich, practicing in 1871.
Thomas J. Boynton, admitted in 1889.
Wm. E. Boynton, admitted June, 1868.
Charles Bradbury, admitted in 1813.
Joseph H. Bragdon, practicing in 1863.
Charles R. Brainard, admitted March

20, 1876.
Charles A. Braley, admitted in 1886.
P. N. Branch, admitted in 1890.
Ellery M. Bray ton, admitted July 11 , 1866.
Wm. Breck, admitted May 13, 1878.
Frederick A. Bredeen, admitted Feb. 26,

1883.
J. F. Brennen, practicing in 1877.
Elias Bremer, admitted before 1807.
S. J. Bradlee, practicing in 1876.
Heman Bragg, practicing in 1877.
*J. O. Bradbury, practicing in 1891.
Henry A. Brigham, admitted June, 1870.
Wm. T. Brigham, admitted Sep. 16, 1867.
A. N. Briggs, admitted April 23, 1866.
*Benjamin F. Briggs, practicing in 1890.
Cephas Brigham, admitted March 9, 1868.
Walter C. Brinsley, admitted Nov. 22,

1874.

Philip E. Brodey, admitted in 1883.
Ira H. Brown, admitted in 1889.
*Francis Brooks, practicing in 1890.
*Wm. G. Brooks, admitted.in 1884.
Otis L. Bridges, admitted Nov. 12, 1844.
C. Brigham, practicing in 1867.
Alvin M. Brooks, practicing in 1858.
Charles M. Brooks, practicing in 1861.
P. C. Brooks, practicing in 1871.
Augustus J. Brown, admitted May 12,

1838.
Calvin H. Brown, admitted Oct. 17, 1863.
*Charles F. Brown, practicing in 1890.
Charles H. Brown, practicing in 1890.
David W. Brown, admitted June 18, 1809.
Isaac Brown, admitted Oct. 14, 1851.
Jeremiah Brown, practicing in 1852 ; dead.
John H. Brown, admitted Dec. 15, 1865.
*Sidney P. Brown, admitted in 1887.
Thomas B. Brown, admitted April 11, 1855.
Frank H. Brown, admitted June, 1876.
Henry G. Brown, admitted Sep. 11, 1872.
Dana Browne, admitted July, 1854.
Ephraim Browne, admitted April 21,1854.
John H. Brownson, admitted June, 1854.
Wm. J. Brownson, admitted Feb. 1855.
Henry B Bryant, admitted Oct. 1877.
G. C. V. Buchanan, admitted March 17,

1855.
Edward Buck, practicing in 1844; dead.
J. H. Buckingham, admitted March 6,

1852; dead.
C. A. Bucknam, practicing in 1880.
John S. Bugbee, admitted July 19, 1862.
Elias Bullard, admitted in 1826.
F. E. Bryant, practicing in 1881.
Eli Bullard, admitted before 1807.
C. W. Buck, practicing in 1860.
Edward B. Burcee, admitted April 22,

1891.
Albert G. Burke, admitted April, 1855.
Wm. R. Burleigh, admitted March 27,'

1875.
Samuel A. Burns, admitted in 1831.
Samuel C. Burr, admitted Oct. 1854.
Sanford S. Burr, admitted May 18, 1865.
E. T. Burr, practicing in 1873.

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121

B. F. Burnham, practicing in 1868.
Charles J. Burns, admitted Jan. 24, 1874.
John H. Burt, admitted October, 1878.
Ellsworth T. Buss, admitted June 10,

1873; dead. "
Benjamin Butler, admitted Jan. 15, 1845.
John L. Butler, practicing in 1878.
M. Butler, practicing in 1845.
Edward Butt, admitted Nov. 13, 1843.
Edgar R. Butterworth, admitted April,

1875.
Edward K. Bullock, practicing in 1856.
George A. Byam, practicing in 1866.
F. B. Byram, practicing in 1877.
Eben E. Cady, admitted Jan. 10, 1848.
Middleton A. Caldwell, practicing in 1890.
John Cahill, practicing in 1877.
Jonathan Callender, admitted before

1807.
George E. Campbell, practicing in 1863.
W. L. Campbell, admitted June 17, 1869.
Phineas Capen, admitted Nov. 16, 1849.
D. M. H. Carpenter, admitted Jan. 10,

1848.
James E. Carpenter, admitted May 7,

1859.
Robert W. Carpenter, admitted June 4,

1834.
Charles A. Carpenter, admitted Oct. 4,

1871.
Henry H. Carrington, admitted April,

1890.
Charles W. Carroll, admitted March, 1861.
George P. Carroll, admitted in 1886.
*W. W. Carter, admitted Oct. 14, 1863.
*P. J. Casey, practicing in 1890.
Andrew J. Cass, practicing in 1864.
Anderson Cartwright, admitted Nov. 9,

1857.
Nathan C. Cary, practicing in 1885.
John D. Catlin, admitted April 4, 1849.

C. E. Ceney, admitted July, 1860.
Thomas E. Chase, admitted Dec. 31,1885.
Ichabod R. Chadbourne, admitted April,

1812.
Ward Chad wick, admitted April 11, 1859-
George A. W. Chamberlain, admitted

March 29, 1856 ; dead.

Edwin M. Chamberlain, admitted May

10, 1867.
Franklin Chamberlin, admitted July 10,

1845.
Christopher E. Champlin, admitted in

1881.
Everett S. Chandler, admitted in 1885.
James E. Chandler, admitted in 1889.
*Edward M. Cheney, admitted June 2,

1860.
Charles W. Chase, admitted in 1884.
J. M. Cheney, admitted in 1885.
Wm. H. Chickering, admitted May, 1875.
Calvin G. Child, admitted Jan. 11, 1858.
Wm. O. Childs, admitted July 19, 1886.
Charles H. Chellis, admitted June, 1872;

dead.
A. P. Chittenden, admitted Aug. 4, 1891.
Ozias Goodwin Chapman, admitted Oc-
tober 8, 1845 ; dead.
Wm. M. Chase, admitted June 3, 1848.
P. E. Chattis, admitted April 12, 1831.
John Chenie, admitted May, 1878.
Lucius H. Chandler, admitted February

7, 1845.
James W. Chapman, practicing in 1885.
H. B. Chilson, practicing in 1881.
Almon J. Clark, admitted October, 1874.
Edwin R. Clark, admitted Feb. 19, 1862.
Joseph F. Clark, practicing in 1856; dead.
Joseph T. Clark, practicing in 1864.
Wm. H. Clark, admitted in 1882.
Moses Clark, admitted in 1884.
Gardiner H. Clarke, admitted June, 1855.
*George W. Clarke, practicing in 1891.
*Isaiah R. Clarke, admitted Feb., 1876.
*I. P. Clarke, practicing in 1890.
Wm. Cleland, practicing in 1864.
C. W. Clement, practicing in 1881.
L. H. Clement, practicing in 1890.
Joseph H. Clarke, admitted Dec. 11, 1865.
R. P. Clark, practicing in 1883.
T. E. Clark, practicing in 1859.
Henry A. Clifford, admitted in 1884.
John D. Clough, admitted in 1885.
John Clougherty, admitted in 1888.
Daniel J. Coburn, admitted Mar. 13, 18C2;
dead.

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HISTORY OE THE- bENCH AND BAE.

Frederic Cochrane, admitted Oct. 13, 1860.

I. F. Coffin, admitted October, 1809.

Robert L. Colby, admitted Nov. 22, 1848.

Edward F. Collins, admitted July 6, 1875.

Daniel C. Colesworthy, admitted April
17, 1858.

Arthur D. Collins, admitted April 22,
1875.

John C. Colby, admitted (date unknown).

Patrick W. Colleary, admitted June 19,
1869.

*Clement H. Colman, practicing in 1890.

Henry W. B. Cotton, admitted Nov.,
1880.

Wm. M. Connelly, admitted March, 1867.

Wm. T. Connelly, admitted July, 1864.

Thomas E. K. Conrad, admitted Decem-
ber, 1875.

*R. T. Conroy, practicing in 1891.

F. A. W. Converse, practicing in 1762.

D. E. Conery, practicing in 1881.

H. H. Coney, practicing in 1885.

F. T. Conly, practicing in 1850.

Sebron T. Conlee, practicing in 1877.

'Edward J. Conaty, practicing in 1882.

* Charles P. Cook, practicing in 1891.
James Cook, practicing in 1811.
Lyman D. Cook, admitted in 1885.
Henry E. Cooper, admitted Nov., 1879.
Harvey T. Corning, admitted in 1885.
R. Abernethy Corrigan, admitted Octo-
ber, 1877.

Joseph P. Costine, admitted. in 1882.
Henry E. Cottle, admitted in 1882.

* J. H. Cotton, practicing in 1890
John J. Cotton, admitted July, 1890.
R. B. Coverty, practicing in 1838.

* Alfred C. Cowan, practicing in 1890.
Charles Cowley, practicing in 1872.
Charles T. Cox, admitted July 21, 1862.
John E. Costello, admitted in 1883.

H. M. Covey, practicing in 1882.
K. Cormack, practicing in 1877.
Lebron T. Cornlee, admitted June, 1876.
Wallace Corthell, practicing in 1870.
Daniel J. Cowen, practicing in 1879.
James O. Coyt, admitted March, 1868.

* E. H. Crandall, practicing in 1890.
John H. Crane, admitted Oct. , 1807.
Royal S. Crane, admitted Nov. 17, 1859.

* Frank L. Cressy, admitted in 1885.
Austin P. Cristy, practicing in 1875.
Lemuel E. Croane, practicing in 1878.

G. H. Crockett, admitted Dec. 11, 1844;

dead.
Samuel R. Crocker, practicing in 1864.

* F. T. Crommett, practicing in 1891.
Wm. G. Crosby, admitted Oct. 1826.

* S. W. Culver, practicing in 1890.

* John W. Cummings, practicing in
1891.

Wm. Cummings, practicing in 1880.'
Nathan Cunningham, practicing in 1890.
Joseph M. Cunl)-, practicing in 1889.
Thomas Curley, practicing in 1890.
John Currier, jr., admitted Sept. 1855.
O. S. Currier, practicing in 1890.
Daniel N. Crowley, practicing in 1878.
Cyrus Cummings, practicing in 1842;
dead.

* George E. Curry, practicing in 1887.
John C. Crowninshield, admitted Jan. 1,

1847.
Soreno E. D. Currier, admitted Sep. 13,
1860.

* George S. Cushing, admitted April 30,

1844.
Joseph A. Cutter, admitted Nov. 7, 1861.
Ralph H. Cutter, practicing in 1890.
Henry L. Cushing, admitted Nov. 3,

1845.
Martin G. Cushing, admitted March 4,

1852.
Austin S. Cushing, practicing in 1859.
Arey F. Cushman, admitted in 1885.
Jothan Cushman, admitted before 1807.
Walter S. Cushman, admitted Jan. 10,

1865.
Edward S. Cutter, admitted April 30,

1867.
Joseph Cutler, practicing in 1845; dead.
Nathan Cutler, admitted Jan. 14, 1874.
Wm. A. Dame, practicing in 1890.
* Arthur P. Dana, admitted July, 1890.

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F. A. Dana, practicing in 1857.

* Peter Daley, practicing in 1891.
Augustus J. Daly, admitted in 1887.
Henry C. Dana, admitted Jan. 31, 1861.
John C. Danforth, admitted Nov. 6, 1848.
Samuel C. Darling, admitted Oct. 4, 1867.
Edward C. David, admitted Nov. 17,

1853.
J. B. David, admitted April 3, 1821.

* James T. Davidson, admitted July,

1890.
Edward ' H. Davis, admitted April 24,

1841.
Abner Davis, admitted Jan. 27, 1819.
A. W. D. Daniels, practicing in 1882.
A. C. Darby, practicing in 1875.
E. Davis, practicing in 1871.
Frank Davis, admitted April, 1858.
Benjamin C. Dean, practicing in 1869.
Frank A. Dean, admitted Aug. 4, 1881.
Timothy Davis, practicing in 1878.
Thomas H. Davis, admitted Oct., 1830.
John E. Day, admitted Feb., 1876.
C. M. Dawes, practicing in 1879.
Willard A. Davis, admitted in 1885.
Henry L. Dawes, jr.. admitted in 1887.
Mark Davis, practicing in 1860.
Frank A. Dearborn, practicing in 1885.
Joseph W. Dearborn, practicing in 1885.
N. A. L. Dearborn, admitted before 1807.
John F. Dearington, admitted March 4,

1874.
George Dennison, admitted Jan., 1850.
Wm. Dennison, jr., admitted March, 1810.
Seth P. Dewey, admitted before 1807.
Andrew Dexter, jr., admitted Oct., 1802.
Samuel G. Dexter, admitted before 1807.
Joseph F. Dearborn, practicing in 1885.
Samuel Dexter, jr., admitted April, 1812;

dead.
*F. B. Deane, practicing in 1891.
George W. Decosta, admitted Dec. 1858.
Elmer G. Derby, admitted July, 1840.
Samuel H. Devotion, admitted Apr., 1810.
George P. Deshon, practicing in 1888.
T. M. Dewey, admitted Oct. 28, 1855.

Elijah F. Dewing, admitted April 10,

1858.
J. Dickinson, admitted before 1807.
W. Dickinson, admitted Sept. 5, 1844.
*Wm. Dickson, practicing in 1890.
David Dickey, admitted July 13, 1840.

F. J. Dieter, admitted in 1884.

George W. Dillon, admitted Sep. 14, 1868.
James F. Dillon, admitted Feb., 1881.
Oliver Dimon, admitted Feb., 1844.
Athur P. Dodge, practicing in 1890.
Frederick B. Dodge, admitted Sep. 17,
1868.

* George C. Dickson, practicing in 1891.
Wm. C. Dillingham, practicing in 1875.
Francis B. Dixon, admitted April 12,

1886.
Charles H- Donahue, admitted in 1883.
John F. Dore, admitted Nov. 21, 1881.
Samuel A. Dorr, admitted Sep. 15, 1860.

G. S. Dowse, practicing in 1854.

Ellis R. Drake, admitted Oct. 28, 1865.

F. L. Drake, admitted in 1887. '

Samuel W. Dolling, admitted March 3,

1869.
Wm. A. Dowe, admitted April 22, 1863.
James Dowdall, practicing in 1888.

* Wilton E. Drake, practicing in 1891.
David F. Drew, admitted July, 1846.
George W. Drew, admitted July, 1874.
John T. Drew, practicing in 1876.
Edward C. Dubois, admitted March 17,

1871.
Charles Dummer, admitted Oct., 1817.
Frederick C. Dumpfel, admitted Sep. 13,

1873. •
Eugene. I. Drew, practicing in 1885.
David D. Duncan, admitted in 1883.
*Wm. P. Duncan, practicing in 1890.
Charles G. M. Dunham, admitted Feb

17, 1869.
Edmund Dwight, practicing in 1808.
H. W. Dwight, practicing in 1848.
Clinton Eager, admitted in 1886.
Ithamar B. Eames, admitted Nov. 11,

1846.

624

HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Wm. H. Eastman, practicing in 1854.

*E. E. Eaton, practicing in 1890.

Patrick D. Dwyer, practicing date un-
known.

Mark H. Durgin, practicing May, 1867.

Daniel H. Dustin, practicing in 1844.
/Warren Dutton, practicing in 1844.

Albert Dvvight, practicing in 1875.

Thomas B. Eaton, admitted March, 1872.

Thomas G. Eaton, admitted in 1882.

Thomas J. Eckley, admitted July, 1807.

E. E. Edwards, practicing in 1883.

Charles W. Eldridge, practicing in 1884.

John J. Eldridge, admitted July 13, 1842.

Wm. Elliot, jr., admitted Oct., 1829.

James Ellis, admitted before 1807; dead.

James M. Ellis, admitted Dec. 17, 1858.

Nathaniel Ellis, practicing in 1885.

Charles F. Eddy, admitted Sep. 8, 1891.

Frederick A. Ellis, admitted in 1883.

John Elwyn, admitted March, 1827.

Henry W. Ely, admitted Dec, 1874.

Wm. Ely,- admitted before 1807.

Charles H. Emerson, admitted April 19,
1849.

George W. Emery, admitted Sep. 27,
1859.

Alfred Ennis, admitted in 1883.

Charles N. Emerson, practicing in 1844.

James W. Emery, practicing in 1858.

James Emery, practicing in 1869.

Willard F. Estey, practicing in 1869.

* Edward Everett, admitted in 1884.
Samuel L. Fairfield, practicing in 1885.
Henry F. Fuller, practicing in 1858.
Philip O. Farley, admitted in 1887.
Henry B. Evans, admitted in 1889.

C. W. Everett, practicing in 1878.
*James K. Fagin, practicing in 1891.
W. C. Farnsworth, practicing in 1863.

* Frank A. Farnham, admitted in 1884.
Wm. H. Farrar, admitted Jan. , 1848.
John Farrie, jr., admitted Nov. 6, 1818.
Frederick Farrow, practicing in 1890.
Timothy Farrar, admitted May 7, 1844.
Samuel D. Felker, admitted in 1887.

Alexander C. Fclton, admitted Oct. 24,

1853.
A. J. Fenwick, admitted in 1889.
Henry B. Fernald, admitted Jan. 17,

1854.
Robert Field, admitted April, 1805.
Abner C. Fish, admitted Jan. 24, 1866.
Albert G. Fisher, practicing in 1870.
Herbert T. Fisher, practicing in 1890.
Henry M. Fisk, admitted before 1807.
James H. Fisk, admitted May, 1880.
Benjamin D. Fessenden, admitted April

20, 1828.
Justin Field, practicing in 1837 ; dead.
Mansell B. Field admitted July 5, 1859.
Sidney A. Fisher, practicing in 1885.
Amasa Fisk, practicing in 1813.
James W. Fenno, admitted April, 1831.
John L. Fenton, admitted June 20, 1860.
George E. Filkins, practicing in 1877.
George Fitch, admitted Oct., 1834.
Alfred W. Fitz, admitted in 1887.
James Fitzgerald, admitted in 1883.
James E. Flagg, admitted April 7, 1854.
George A. Flanders, admitted June 4,

1861.
*C. H. Fleming, practicing in 1890.
John S. Flagg, admitted April, 1875.
George M. Flanders, practicing in 1859.
Josiah Fletcher, admitted Jan. 25, 1863.
Jesse L. Floyd, admitted Feb., 1846.
Samuel E. Floyd, admitted May 30, 1862
M. T. Foley, practicing in 1890.
George H. Folger, practicing in 1875.
Charles S. Forbest admitted in 1889.
Edward Ford, practicing in 1889.
Josiah Forsaith, practicing in 1822.
*H. W. Folsom, admitted in 1892.
Arthur F. Foster, admitted in 1889.
John L. Foster, admitted Oct. 6, 1869.
George Foster, admitted Jan. 28, 1815.
George S. Foster, admitted Oct., 1833.
Henry A. Folsom, admitted June 6, 1824.
Jonathen Fowle, jr., admitted Nov. 16,

1814.
Erwin J. Francis, admitted June 13, 1881.

BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.

625

Francis E. Freeman, admitted Nov. 1,

1848.
Ebenezer French, practicing in 1852.
Henry F. French, admitted Sep. 5, 1860.
Ralph S. French, admitted in 1887.
Wm. H. French, practicing in 1890.
George S. Frost, admitted July, 1868.
Frederic D. Fuller, admitted in 1888.

B. A. G. Fuller, practicing in 1877.
Samuel D. Fuller, admitted Apr. 27,

1863.
Joseph R. French, admitted Oct. 3, 1860.
Wm. Friar, practicing in 1874.
Alexander E. Frye, admitted in 1889.
Wakefield G. Frye, admitted April 18,

1887.
Clinton Gage, practicing in 1890.
William Gage, admitted Jan. 14, 1819.
Matthew Gallagher, practicing in 1885.
A. K. Garland, practicing in 1879.
Frederic W. Galbraith, admitted June,

1873.
J. J. Galligan, practicing in 1878.

C. P. Gardiner, practicing in 1885.
Henry Gardiner, practicing in 1868.
Benjamin J. Gerrish, admitted Dec. 8,

1855.
Samuel Gerrish, admitted Feb. 18, 1842.
Frank F. Gerry, practicing in 1890.
Wm. F. Gibson, practicing in 1882.
Wm. H. Gile, admitted June 14, 1869.
Allen Gilman, admitted before 1807.
Edward H. Gay, admitted in 1887.
C. E. Gibson, practicing in 1885.
Charles A. Gilday, admitted in 1884.
Edward B. George, practicing in 1885.
John H. George, practicing in 1887.
J. Francis Gill, practicing in 1873.
G. Giles, practicing in 1875.
John S. Gile, practicing in 1883.
Elisha Glidden, admitted April 15, 1819.
E. A. Goddard, practicing in 1868.
Thomas Gold, admitted before 1807.
John Goodenow, admitted May 5, 1842.
Richard Goodenow, jr., admitted Jan. 11,

1873.
John H. Goodrich, practicing in 1890.
79

H. Gardiner Gorham, admitted July, 1837.
David Gould, admitted Nov. 5, 1846.
Isaac Goodnow, practicing in 1809.
Stephen Gould, admitted June, 1867.

Gockritz, practicing in 1874.

Samuel H. Goodale, admitted March 18,

1875.
S. W. E. Goddard, practicing in 1866.
Hugh Goff, admitted August 4, 1891.
Naphin Gray, admitted Jan. 21, 1874.
Mary A. Greene, admitted in 1888.
O. H. Green, practicing in 1852.
Edward A. Greeley, practicing in 1884.
Martin Griffin, admitted Jan. 31, 1876.
Lemuel Grosvenor, admitted April, 1837.
Walter B. Grant, admitted Nov. 10, 1891.
L. A. Grant, admitted October 8, 1855.
Franklin Graves, admitted March, 1870.
T. E. Graves, practicing in 1871.
Thomas J. Gray, admitted July, 1873.
Wm. C. Gray, admitted January 8, 1831.
J. A. Greene, admitted October 20, 1859.
Daniel J. Greenough, admitted Feb. ,1836.
Elliott M. Grover, admitted Sept. 3, 1874.
R. C. Gurney, admitted October 11, 1855.
Frederick W. Grantham, admitted May

25, 1844.
Herman W. Green, admitted April 10,
. 1857.

Oscar P. Green, admitted August, 1868.
Richard W. Green, admitted Oct. 3, 1815.
Walter C. Green, admitted July 18, 1823.
Crawford S. Griffin, admitted June, 1876.
Frederick W. Griffin, practicing in 1885.
*James W. Grimes, practicing in 1891.
A. Grout, practicing in 1861.
Henry E. Gould, admitted in 1884.
George W. Gunnison, admitted Feb. 28,

1887.
John T. Hama, admitted July 13, 1888.
George W. Hanson, admitted in 1886.
Charles H. Hapgood, admitted May,

1859.
John H. Hapgood, admitted in 1888.
George Harding, practicing in 1882.
Wm. T. Haddock, admitted Oct. 4, 1822.
J. Jerome Hahn, admitted in 1889.

626

HISTORY OF 7 HE BENCH AND BAR.

*E. J. Hadley, practicing in 1891.
William H. Haile, practicing in 1881.
H. L. Hamilton, practicing in 1840.
Ellis G. Hall, admitted October 20, 1832.
Henry Seth Hall, admitted Aug. 12, 1863.
David J. Haggerty, admitted Nov. 1880.
Thomas E. Hale, admitted Jan., 1808.
Ivory Harmon, admitted March 10, 1843.
George F. Harriman, admitted July, 1876.
Walter C. Harriman, practicing in 1884.
Joseph Harrington, practicing in 1812.
W. H.. Harrington, practicing in 1890.
B. N. Harris, practicing in 1864.
David L. Harris, admitted before 1807 ;

dead.
Horace Harris, admitted May, 1875.
Wm. A. Harris, admitted Nov. 25, 1871.
Benjamin Harvey, admitted before 1807.
Napoleon Harvey, admitted in 1890.
Benjamin Haskell, admitted July 30, 1846.
Wm. Haskell, admitted Dec. 7, 1848.
Gilbert E. Hood, admitted Jan. 15, 1855.
W. E. P. Haskell, admitted Aug. 9, 1852.
Isaac Hastings, admitted July, 1808.
John G. Hathewey, practicing in 1885.
Judson Haycock, admitted July 6, 1858.
Thomas McCullock Hayes, admitted

May 4, 1864.
George W. Hayford, admitted Nov., 1875.
Edward P. Hayman, admitted before

1807.
Charles Heard, admitted March, 1813.
Thomas Heath, admitted before 1807.
John B. Hebron, admitted Nov. , 1881.
George L. Hemenway, admitted May,

1878.
James E. Hayes, admitted Aug. 4, 1891.
Edward F. Haynes, admitted in 1882.
Henry P. Haynes, admitted Oct. 6, 1871.
M. W. Hazen, practicing in 1885.
Charles C. Haywood, practicing in 1871.
Frederic Hemenway, admitted Sept.,

1872.
*John E. Hanley, admitted Sept., 1890.
Isaac M. Henshaw, practicing in 1875.
George H. Hoyt, admitted Nov. 29, 1858.

Wm. A. Hernck, admitted Oct. 1, 1856;

dead.
John Heurrot, admitted Sept. 30, 1856.
John H. Higgins, admitted Sept. 16, 1860.
George R. Hildreth, admitted Oct. 9,

1851.
Clement H. Hill, admitted Jan. 3, 1859.
Edward L. Hill, admitted March 16, 1860.
Eugene W. Herndon, admitted June 19,

1861.
E. H. P. Herrick, practicing in 1878.
Jonathan Higgins, admitted Nov. 21,

1862.
James Hendrie, practicing in 1870.
E. M. Hewlett, practicing in 1881.
Charles E. Hibbard, practicing in 1881.
Charles C. Hibbard, admitted April 21,

1869.
Frank H. Hills, admitted Dec, 1873.
Nathaniel C. Hills, jr., admitted Sept.,

1834.
Eugene B. Hinckley, admitted June 14,

1862.
Charles Hitchcock, admitted April 22,

1854.
Charles H. Hoag, admitted Nov. 20, 1876.
Peter Hitchcock, admitted before 1807.
H. C. Hobart, admitted Jan. 23, 1845.
George L. Hobbs, admitted March, 1874.
Wm. Hobbs, practicing in 1858.
Wm. Hobson, admitted Oct. 9, 1873.
Allin F. Hodgkins, admitted in 1883.
Silas P. Holbrook, admitted Jan. 23, 1823.
Augustus L. Holmes, admitted in 1888.
Emery F. Holway, admitted July 25,

1857.
E. G. Hooke, admitted October 12, 1853.
John Hooker, admitted before 1807.
Daniel Hoit, admitted March 4, 1850.
Charles Hoffman, practicing in 1875.
Seth P. Holway, admitted Nov. 18, 1857.
George C. Hopkins, admitted July 12,

1864.
J. D. Hopkins, admitted before 1807.
Isaac R. How, admitted May 9, 1814.
Edward S. Hovey, practicing in 1870.

Biographical register.

627

Wm. L. Howard, admitted June 2, 1874.
Charles H. Hubbard, admitted Oct. 16,

1857.
Daniel J. Hubbard, admitted before 1807.
Horace C. Hubbard, practicing in 1863.
T. H. Hubbard, practicing in 1864.
Jay A. Hubbell, practicing in 1890.
Wm. Hulin, admitted May 4, 1836.
Frederic J. Hunt, practicing in 1885.
Thomas A. Hunt, admitted in 1853.
Lewis D. Hurbaugh, admitted Dec. 24,

1862.
John W. Hurlbert, admitted before 1807.
Hamilton Hutchins, admitted Oct., 1830.
Winthrop Hutchinson, admitted June,

1873.
William Hutt, admitted before 1807.
H. M. Hunter, practicing in 1875.
Wm. G. Hunter, admitted March 13,

1832.
Timothy Hurley, practicing in 1870.
Josiah Huzzey, admitted Dec. 3, 1813.
Horace Hunt, practicing in 1870.
John E. Ide, admitted July, 1890.
Charles M. Ingersoll, admitted Sept. ,1815.
John Ingersoll, admitted before 1807.
Alonzo D. Jackson, admitted Jan. 15,

1860.
Gerald G. P. Jackson, admitted Aug. 4,

1891.
George Jaffrey, admitted Jan. 11, 1813.
A. T. Ingalls, practicing in 1861.
Charles W. Jaffrey, admitted July, 1838.
*Charles W. Jones, admitted in 1888.
Elias James, admitted before 1807.
Thadeus I. Isham, admitted Aug. 9, 1880.
C. L. Jackson, admitted before 1807.
J. F. Jackson, admitted July 7, 1847.
H. A. W. James, admitted in 1888.
Herbert R. Jennings, admitted in 1883.
Francello G. Jillson, admitted Feb. 25,

1865.
David J. M. A. Jewett, practicing in 1867.
Charles G. Johnson, admitted Feb. 19,

1858.
Merritt C. Johnson, admitted Nov. 28,

1855.

Moses Johnson, admitted June 18, 1856.
Wells H. Johnson, admitted in 1883.

B. F. Johonnott, admitted in 1883.
Frederick W. Jones, admitted Oct. 18,

1850.
Henry Jones, admitted Aug. 2, 1865.
James T. Jones, practicing in 1885.
Ervin A. Johnes, admitted in 1882.
Daniel U. Johnson, admitted Oct. 1851.
Harrison Johnson, admitted May, 1847.
Winfield C. Jordan, admitted June 19,

1882.
Edwin H. Jourdain, admitted in 1890.
L. E. Josselyn, practicing in 1853.
J. R. Kane, admitted in 1884.
John Kearns, practicing in 1885.
J. E. Keith, practicing in 1875.
George W. Kelley, admitted June, 1875.
John Kelley, admitted Jan., 1829.
Wm. Kelley, practicing in 1890.
Elliott E. Kellogg, practicing in 1857.
Robert B. Kendall, admitted April 29,

1868.
Charles N. Kent, admitted Dec. 8, 1866.
George Kent, admitted in 1817.
Jacob Q. Kettelle, practicing in 1842 ;

dead.
A. V. Kibby, practicing in 1887.
Reuben Kidder, admitted before 1807.
Sumner B. Kimball, admitted April, 1860.
Cyrus King, admitted before 1807.
Tyler-B. King, admitted in 1882.
Samuel S. Kingdon, admitted May 26,

1868.
Aaron Kingsbury, admitted Sept., 1857.
Orren S. Knapp, admitted August, 1865.
Arthur S. Knell, admitted in 1885.
J. E. Knight, admitted June 26, 1843.
E. Kimball, practicing in 1863.
J. S. Kimball, practicing in 1840.
John R. Kimball, practicing in 1859.
Samuel Knapp, admitted March 23, 1861.
Wm. H. Knight, admitted April 25, 1874.
Alfred E. Knapp, practicing in 1888.
S. I. Kimball, practicing in 1861.

C. C. Kinsley, practicing in 1866.
J. G. Kittite, admitted Jan., 1842.

62&

HISTORY OP THE BENCH ANL> BAR.

Samuel W. Knowles. admitted Oct. 16.

1866.
Charles M. Lamprey, practicing in 1884.
Daniel S. Lamson, admitted Aug. 22,

1854.
W. A. Lancaster, admitted in 1883.
N. A. Langley, practicing in 1870.
James H. Lanman, admitted March 6,

1844.

D. H. Lanman, practicing in 1890.
Rufus Lapham, practicing in 1867.

E. C. Larned, practicing in 1870.
Thomas F. Larkin, practicing in 1885.
Abbott W. Lawrence, practicing in 1890.
Eugene Lawrence, admitted Aug., 1847.
Francis Rives Lassiter, admitted in 1887.
George F. Lawton, practicing in 1878.
Isaac B. Lawton, practicing in 1890.
Elisha Lee, admitted before 1807.
Jonathan Leavitt, admitted before 1807.
Oliver Leonard, admitted before 1807.

J. N. Lesser, admitted April 14, 1891.
Edwin C. Lewis, admitted Dec. 8, 1891.
Frank W. Lewis, admitted Dec. 16, 1872.
John Licks, admitted before 1807.
John D. Lewis, admitted in 1885^
Orlando Leach, admitted Oct. 8, 1863.
Thomas Ledky, admitted May 6, 1869.
J. W. Le Barnes, admitted Aug. 17. 1864,
Thomas E. Leeds, admitted Jan. 12, 1863.
Charles F. Lincoln, admitted in 1889.
Francis J. Lippitt, admitted Oct. 12, 1864.
John L. Litton, admitted in 1887.
Henry M. Lisle, practicing in 1860.
Walter Litchfield, jr., admitted Oct. 10,

1859.
Nathan W. Litchfield, admitted June 13,

1876.
Wm. Littleton, practicing in 1888.
W. Littlefield, practicing in 1859.
R. T. Lombard, practicing in 1867.
Wm. Lon, or Lun, admitted Feb. 14, 1862.
Francis Loois, or Lovis, admitted March

19, 1845.
Henry C. Lord, admitted June 14, 1847.
Henry D. Lord, admitted Sept., 1858.
Joseph L. Lord, admitted Jan. 5, 1848.

E. D. Loring, practicing in 1870.
Edward Loring, admitted March, 1827.
Eleazer B. Loring, admitted Sept. 30,

1871.
Edward G. Loring, jr., practicing in 1857.
Thomas Lord, practicing in 1871.
Joseph D. Loring, admitted Jan. 14, 1861.
Samuel Lathrop, admitted before 1807;

dead.
Sidney V. Lowell, admitted July 22, 1862.
Edmund R. Luce, admitted in 1889.
Clarence B. Lund, admitted Feb., 1880.
Marcus M. Loud, admitted Oct. 9, 1879.
James Loughran, admitted July 15, 1852.
Michael Lovell, admitted Jan., 1833.
Thomas D. Luce, practicing in 1865.
Obed B. Low, admitted March 8, 1847;

dead.
John Lovell, practicing in 1789.
George W. Lovell, practicing in 1882.
Edward E. Lyman, admitted March 18,

1861.
John F. Lynch, admitted Jan. 20, 1891.
Robert A. Lynch, admitted in 1889.
*A. Selwyn Lynde, admitted Dec. 11,

1873.
* W. A. Macleod, practicing in 1890.
Michael McNamara, admitted Jan. 7, 1867.
D. B. Magee, admitted December 2, 1878.
C. L. Magenesker, practicing in 1871.
Michael Maginnes, admitted Aug. 4, 1891.
Thomas F. McGuire, admitted Oct. -28,

1867.
Wm. S. McFarland, admitted Dec. 20,

1872.
Frank H. Mackintosh, admitted in 1886.
Wm. E. MacDonald, practicing in 1889.
Charles A. Mackintosh, practicing in 1887.
Frank H. Mackintosh, practicing in 1875.
Jeremiah J. Maloney, admitted in 1885.
T. E. Major, practicing in 1885.
M. B. Mansfield, practicing in 1868.
J. J. Marsh, admitted Sept. 1, 1844.
*E. M. Marshall, practicing in 1891.
Francis Martin, adniitted in 1883.
Wm. H. Martin, practicing in 1885.
George C. Mason, admitted Sept. 21, 1871.

biographical register.

>20.

J. J. Malone, practicing in 1884.
Alpheus A. Martin, admitted July 11, 1863.
Alverdo Mason, practicing in 1864.
George M. Mason, practicing in 1827.
Edwin H. Mather, admitted June 24, 1861.
Arthur Maxwell, admitted Feb. 9, 1849.

* Arthur A. Maxwell, admitted in 1886.
John B. Mayo, admitted July 3, 1868.

C. C. McAllister, admitted Dec. 12, 1855.
Rufus W. Mason, practicing in 1885.
Joseph May, admitted in 1813.
Charles J. McCarthy, admitted Oct. 22,

1862.
Thomas J. McCarthy, admitted May, 1879.
Wm. H. McCartney, admitted March 20,

1856.
Samuel W. McDavitt, practicing in 1881.
Flavius J. McFarlan, admitted Nov. 3,

1864.
Edward McFarland, admitted in 1884.
P. J. McGuire, practicing in 1885.
Wm. Mclntyre, admitted in 1890.
Wm. J. Mclntyre, practicing in 1890.

* J. F. McKay, practicing in 1891.
Wm. A. McLeod, admitted Nov., 1880.
E. W. McLure, admitted in 1882.

G. F. Means, practicing in 1881.
Almon R. Meek, admitted April 9, 1860.
Clarence F. Mead, admitted Nov., 1875.
Michael Meade, practicing in 1876.
George W. McConnell, practicing in 1885;

dead.
Edward L. McManus," admitted Jan. 20,

1891.
James S. Mulvey, admitted in 1882.
George Merrill, admitted April 2, 1851.
Clement Meserve, admitted April 22, 1865.
George T. Metcalf, admitted Jan. 3, 1854.
Jonas M. Miles, admitted in 1882.
Wm. F. Miles, admitted in 1882.
Leon Millin, admitted before 1807.
Ezekiel L. Miller, admitted July 3, 1848.
John C. Mills, practicing in 1875.
Frank B. Mildram, admitted April 27,1870.
Asa Messer, practicing in 1869.
*E. C. Mitchell, practicing in 1887.
John J. A. Moll, practicing in 1878.

* George B. Moore, practicing in 1891.
Jonathan F. Moore, practicing in 1845.
Mark Moore, practicing in 1822.

* C. C. Morgan, practicing in 1879.
Joseph E. Moore, practicing in 1882.

B. Morey, practicing in 1871.

John L. Morgan, admitted July 22, 1871.
Frank E. Morgan, admitted June, 1874.
Ashley C. Morrill, admitted April 16, 1865.
Frank J. Morrill, admitted March, 1874.
Wm. F. Morrill, admitted July, 1864.
Wm. W. Morris, admitted June 21, 1872.

C. Osgood Morse, practicing in 1869.
Elisha M. Morse, practicing date un-
known.

George A. Morse, practicing in 1867.
George W. Morse, admitted Oct. 3, 1855.
John Wells Morse, admitted in 1887.
Moses L. Morse, admitted July 7, 1863.
Sidney B. Morse, practicing in 1872.
T. S. Morse, practicing in 1858.
Jacob C. Morse, practicing in 1885.
Frederic G. Mosback, admitted Jan. 21,

1871.
Ferdinand Moulton, admitted Dec 28,

1846.
Patrick E. Muldoon, admitted in 1884.
P. E. Mulvey, practicing in 1885.
Wm. J. Munroe, admitted in 1882.
Frederick W. Murphy, practicing in 1890.
Albert L. Murray, practicing in 1890.
David P. Muzzey, admitted Nov. 19, 1859.
Wm. F. Myles, practicing in 1890.
Joseph Nash, admitted before 1807; dead.
Joseph Nash, admitted July 19, 1872.
Lonson Nash, admitted March, 1808.
James B. Nason, admitted Feb. 20, 1865.
John Nason, admitted in 1883.
Wm. A. Nason, admitted June, 1873.
Richard E. Newcomb, admitted before

1807.
Wm. Newman, admitted March, 1856.
Frank A. Nichols, admitted July 9, 1867.
J. L. Nichols, admitted July 24, 1866.
Melville P. Nickerson, admitted Nov. 1874.
Thomas H. Niles, admitted July 17, 1874.
Daniel Noble, admitted before 1827.

^3°

HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAft.

James R. Newhall, admitted May 2G, 1847.
Wm. Nichols, jr., admitted Dec., 1869.
Wm. P. Nickerson, practicing in 1885.
Frank T. Noble, practicing in 1885.
John A. Norman, admitted in 1886.
A. F. Norris, practicing in 1859.
Bartholomew Noyes, admitted in 1882.
Frank E. Noyes, admitted June 27, 1856.
Isaac B. Noyes, admitted Nov., 1862.
Amos Noyes, practicing in 1809.
George F. Noyes, admitted July, 1847.
M. P. Norton, practicing in 1866.
F. Clarendon Oak, admitted Dec. 22, 1862.
Eugene O'Brien, admitted Jan. 20, 1891.
George F. Ormsby, admitted, in 1885.
Isaac Osgood, practicing in 1821.
I. P. Osgood, practicing in 1848.
Lewis W. Osgood, practicing in 1864.
E. B. O'Connor, practicing in 1873.
J. S. O'Gorman, practicing in 1877.
W. Barry Owen, practicing in 1890.
*John H. Packard, admitted Feb. 21,

1881. "
Charles F. Paige, admitted March, 1876;

dead.
A. Warren Paine, admitted March, 1827.
Asa W. Paine, admitted Nov. 10, 1817.
John J. Paine, admitted Jan. 29, 1850.
Wm. Gushing Paine, admitted Jan. 8,

1833.
George H. Palmer, practicing in 1873.
Moses P. Parish, admitted Jan. 7, 1829.
Charles T. Parker, admitted April, 1831.
George B. Parkinson, admitted July, 1879.
Charles E. Parker, practicing in 1882.
Wm. Parker, admitted Nov. 26, 1814.
Clarence A. Parks, admitted Dec. 27,

1876.
Wm. McCaine Parker, admitted May 4,

1863.
Ebenezer Parsons, jr., admitted Oct. 7,

1859.
Solomon Parsons, practicing in 1890.
F. C. Patch, practicing in 1888.
John Patch, practicing in 1836.
Daniel D. Patten, admitted Dec. 4, 1860.
John F. Paul, admitted March 9, 1857.

Arthur L. Payne, admitted March 9, 1858.
Thomas E. Payson, admitted July, 1837.
James C. Peabody, admitted Jan. 17,

1854.
Isaac E. Pearl, admitted in 1885.
Benjamin C. Perkins, admitted June 25,

1850.
Daniel Appleton White Perkins, admitted

March 9, 1862.
Joel Perham, practicing in 1886.
Jacob L. Perkins, admitted Aug. 9, 1845.
J. M. Perkins, practicing in 1882.
Asa Peabody, practicing in 1811.
Timothy Pearsons, admitted Aug., 1845.
Wm. H. Prince, admitted Feb., 1862.
Thomas Pember, admitted Oct. 5, 1858.
Frank H. Pendergast, admitted in 1883.
Israel Perkins, admitted May 6, 1868.
*F. A. Pelton, practicing in 1891.
Robert W. Pearson, practicing in 1869.
Roger N. Peirce, practicing in 1855.
George E. Perley, admitted in 1883.
W. H Perrin, admitted April 10, 1849.
*Chester M. Perry, practicing in 1890.
Edward E. Pettee, admitted Sept., 1880.
Noah B. K. Pettingell, admitted in 1888.
Edward K. Phillips, practicing in 1889.
Edward W. Philbrick, admitted Jan. 20,

1891. •
David W. Phipps, admitted in 1882.
Charles W. Pickering, admitted July,

1861.
Charles H. Pierce, admitted about 1838.
Quincy Pierce, admitted Nov., 1879.
Charles E. Pike, admitted Oct. 10, 1849.
Walter S. Pilkin, admitted June 29, 1880.
John E. Pike, admitted June, 1823.
Wm. A. Pierce, admitted April 20, 1860.
Carroll E. Pillsbury, practicing in 1890.
Wilson H. Perley, admitted in 1884.
Orestes Pierce, practicing in 1881.
Edward P. Pigeon, practicing in 1884.
Ebenezer F. Pillsbury, practicing in 1885.
Charles E. Pindell, practicing in 1885.
Joseph E. Pond, jr., admitted July 9,

1872.
Benjamin Poole, practicing in 1882.

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Benjamin Poole, jr., admitted May 22,

1871.
James W. Pope, admitted Nov., 1879.
Charles E. Poucher, practicing in 1882.
Edmund P. Powers, admitted in 1883.
Jerome B. Porter, admitted Dec. 3, 1867.
John W. Porter, admitted in 1886.
Nathaniel Porter, admitted before 1807.
Elam Porter, admitted March 7, 1865.
*James R. Powers, practicing in 1891.
Sidney P. Pratt, admitted July, 1874.
J. W. Prentiss, practicing in 1887.
John Prentiss, admitted before 1807;

dead.

A. A. Prescottt, practicing in 1867.

B. L. Prince, admitted Oct. , 1810.
Gordon Prince, practicing in 1881.
Joseph Proctor, admitted before 1807.
George F. Putnam, admitted Dec. 16,

1848.
John Pynchon, admitted before 1807.
James W. Preston, admitted Nov. 2, 1860.
Solon A. Putnam, admitted in 1887.
George Prescott, admitted July 22, 1875.
F. A. Prescott, practicing in 1867.
Stephen Pynchon, admitted before 1807.
J. P. Quimby, practicing in 1877.
Wm. J. Quinn, practicing in 1881.
Charles W. Rand, admitted April 21,

1845.
Otis G. Randall, practicing in 1863.
John M. Raymond, admitted Oct., 1878.
Benjamin Read, practicing in 1813.
Edward Read, admitted Dec. 29, 1845.
*C. F. Randall, practicing in 1891.
James M. Randall, admitted July, 1845.
Charles A. Reed, admitted July, 1868.
Charles C. Reed, admitted July 16, 1867.
D. W. Reardon, practicing in 1879.
J. Reddington, practicing in 1889.
Charles Reed, practicing in 1859.
Dexter W. Reed, practicing in 1887.
Frederic Reed, practicing in 1887.
*George M. Reed, admitted Jan. 12, 1867.
Charles F. Remick, admitted Nov. , 1855.
Frank C. Remick, admitted Oct. 3,

1865.

*Moses I. Reuben, practicing in 1890.

* Walter H. Reynolds, admitted in 1890.
Fitz H. Rice, admitted April 6, 1865.
Silas H. Rich, admitted May 3, 1862.
George H. Remele, admitted Feb., 1876.
John L. Rice, admitted Oct. 27, 1845.
James H. Rice, admitted date unknown.
Abijah Richardson, admitted April 14,

1862.
Henry E. Richardson, practicing in

1874.
Nathaniel Richardson, practicing in 1853.
Wm. K. Ritchie, practicing in 1876.
Dudley Roberts, admitted in 1884.
John E. Risley, practicing in 1864.
Sanford H. Richardson, admitted Aug.

13, 1862.
Wm. A. Richardson, admitted Jan. 29,

1858.
*H. S. Riley, practicing in 1891.
A. W. Roberts, admitted March 8, 1826;

dead.
*H. A. Ringrose, practicing in 1891.
David Roberts, practicing in 1863.
George R. Rivers, practicing in 1888.
C. H. Rippey, practicing in 1887.
Frank T. Roberts, admitted Feb. 3, 1891.
Frank W. Roberts, admitted Dec. 17,

1882.
*John L. S. Roberts, practicing in 1890.
Leonard G. Roberts, admitted in 1846.
Alphonso J. Robinson, practicing in 1885.
Albert J. Robinson, admitted May 16,

1863.
Daniel Robinson, admitted in 1884.

* Daniel C. Robinson, practicing in 1890.
John C. Robinson, admitted Feb., 1875.
J. T. Robinson, practicing in 1860.

* Joseph H. Robinson, practicing in 1890.
Lelia B. Robinson, admitted in 1882.
Sawtelle L. Robinson, practicing in 1890.
Sylvanus W. Robinson, admitted March

3, 1847.
Daniel Rockwood, admitted July 8, 1814.
Nelson Robinson, practicing in 1860.
John S. Rock, admitted Sept. 14, 1867.
Harry W. Robinson, practicing in 1887.

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HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

L. J. Robinson, practicing in 1887.
Francis P. H. Rogers, admitted Sept. 15,

1858.
Frederick W. Rogers, admitted in 1886.
Daniel Rollins, admitted in 1883.

* James W. Rollins, practicing in 1890.
Joseph P. Rogers, admitted April 23, 1862.
John O'Donnovan Rossa, practicing in

1881.
Eric E. Rosling, admitted in 1889.
Samuel J. Ross, practicing in 1890.
John A. Ross, admitted Nov., 1856.
J. N. Rowe, admitted before 1807.
Joseph Rowe, admitted before 1807.
Herbert S. P. Ruffin, admitted in 1884.
John Rumney, practicing in 1863.
James E. Rowell, admitted Jan. 9, 1874.
Thomas E. Ruddell, admitted July 22,

1873.
J. R. Russell, admitted Jan., 1842.
Henry James Ryan, admitted in 1886.

E. C. Saltmarsh, practicing in 1887.
Edward W. Sanderson, admitted Sept.

21, 1863.
George W. Sanderson, admitted May,

1880.
*Alpheus Sanford, practicing in 1890.
Austin Sanford, admitted Feb. 9, 1872.
Joseph B. Sanford, practicing in 1863.
Joseph H. Sanford, practicing in 1870.
Stephen Sanford, admitted Nov. , 1880.
Benjamin F. Sawyer, admitted Dec: 11,

1847.
B. Sanford, practicing in 1870.
James O. Sargent, admitted April 38,1856.
G. W. Saunderson, practicing in 1862.
James F. Savage, admitted June, 1876.

* Thomas Savage, practicing in 1890.
Luther D. Sawyer, admitted Sept. 27,

1866.
Nathaniel Sawyer, admitted March, 1880.

F. O. Sayles, practicing in 1849.
George S. Scammon, admitted April 5,

1871.
F. Scott, practicing in 1878.
John B. Scott, admitted in 1887.
Frank Seaman, admitted Nov., 1879.

James M. Seaman, admitted Oct., 1811.
Wm. M. Seavey, admitted Aug. 4, 1891.
Addison J. Seaward, practicing in 1876.
Henry D. Sedgwick, admitted Mar. , 1808.
Henry D. Sedgwick, jr., admitted in 1884.
John N. Shattuck, practicing in 1887.
Elliott Shaw, admitted in 1890.
Mason Shaw, admitted before 1807.
Frederick Z. Seymour, admitted August,

1854.
George F. Seymour, admitted in 1884.
Charles B. Shackford, admitted March 5,

1866.
Patrick F. Shea, admitted Dec. 3, 1871.
J. George Sheltser, practicing in 1887.
Orlando B. Shennon, admitted Jan. 22,

1877.
J. B. Shedd, practicing in 1879.
Dennis R. Sheridan, admitted Jan. 1, 1884.
Daniel L. Shorey, admitted Sept. 13, 1854.
Thomas Skinner, practicing in 1804.
J. P. Sibley, practicing in 1890.
Wm. C. Silsbee, admitted April 12, 1875.
*J. P. Silsby, practicing in 1885.
Samuel Simmons, admitted in 1887.
Wm. A. Simmons, admitted May 12, 1869.
Wm. H. Simpson, admitted Feb. 8, 1860.
Henry M. Sisk, admitted before 1807.
James M. Sisk, admitted May, 1880.
E. T. Slocum, practicing in 1875.
George L. Sleeper, admitted Nov. 14,1867.
John W. Sleeper, admitted July, 1873.
David A. Smith, practicing in 1840.
Ebenezer Smith, jr., admitted Oct., 1835;

dead.
Charles F. Smith, practicing in 1842.
Charles E. Smith, admitted Mar. 22, 1867.
Charles G. Smith, admitted Jan. 30, 1891.
* Edward I. Smith, practicing in 1890.
Emery B. Smith, admitted Jan. 2, 1866.
Francis P. Smith, admitted October, 1819.
George H. Smith, admitted June, 1875.
George M. Smith, admitted Sept. 16, 1878.
Henry F. Smith, admitted Sept. 6, 1859.
John W. Smith, admitted October, 1807;

dead.
John W. Smith, admitted June 27, .1857.

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Matthew W. Smith, admitted July, 1856.
Thomas P. Smith, admitted Mar. 9, 1865.
Wm. Smith, admitted Nov. 1, 1847.
Wm. H. Smith, practicing in 1853.
Wm. E. P. Smyth, admitted Dec, 1858.
A. L. Soule, practicing in 1885.

* L. W. Southgate, practicing in 1881.
Alfred B. Spalding, admitted June, 1874.
Joseph H. Spofford, admitted in 1887.

A. F. Spencer, practicing in 1871.
W. G. Sprague, practicing in 1866.
Charles C. Springer, practicing in 1890.
James Sproat, admitted before 1807 ;

dead.
James C. Squire, admitted Dec, 1859.
G. G. Stacy, practicing in 1885.
Andrew J. Stackpole, practicing in 1869.
*A. G. Stanchfield, practicing in 1890.
W. Standish, practicing in 1858.
John Stark, admitted July 27, 1842.

* Robert M. Stark, practicing in 1890.
Charles R. Starr, admitted Dec. 11, 1869.
Wm. G. Stanwood, admitted March, 1832.
John H. Staples, admitted May 3, 1860.
George C. Starkweather, practicing in

1864.

* Richard S. Stearns, practicing in 1890.
Thomas L. Steele, practicing in 1854.
Henry C. Stephens, admitted Jan. 4, 1860.

* George W. Stetson, admitted in 1890.
ElishaM. Stevens, admitted Jan. 20, 1891.
Henry A. Stevens, practicing in 1887.

D. K. Stevens, practicing in 1885.
Solon Stevens, admitted October, 1808.
W. J. Stevens, admitted July 17, 1851.
Philip J. Stewart, admitted in 1890.
Wm. B. C. Stickney, admitted Nov. 9,

1870. .

E. C. Stimson, admitted in 1883.
Amos Stoddard, admitted before 1807.
John Stewart, practicing in 1812.
Elias M. Stillwell, admitted July, 1838.
Wm. H. Stevens, practicing in 1885.
Thomas Stevenson, practicing in 1823.
S. Stoddard, jr., admitted before 1807.
S. Stoddard, admitted April 12, 1821.
Ethan Stone, admitted before 1807.

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Theodore Strong, admitted before 1807.
Wright Strong, admitted before 1807.
Wm. G. Strout, admitted June, 1876.
Wm. C. Strong, admitted Jan., 1848.
Wm. H. Stubbs, admitted Feb. 18, 1871.
Wm. T. Sturtevant, admitted in 1886.

B. Sullivan, admitted before 1807.
*Cornelius J. Sullivan, admitted in 1883.

C. S. Sullivan, practicing in 1885.
George S. Sullivan, admitted October 13,

1859.

M. E. Sullivan, practicing in 1881.

James P. Sullivan, practicing in 1856.

W. N. Swain, practicing in 1885.

Isaac W. Swan, jr., admitted March, 1833.

John E. Sundstrom, admitted in 1883.

J. B. Swazey, admitted June 15, 1873.

Charles E. Sweeney, admitted Jan. 23,
1866.

Edwin Sweetser, admitted, date un-
known.

E. M. Swett, practicing in 1869.

*E. T. Swift, practicing in 1890.

*C. A. Taber, practicing in 1891.

* George R. Taber, practicing in 1890.
Wm. J. Taft, admitted in 1885.

* Arthur E. Talbot, practicing in 1890.
George J. Taft, practicing in 1876.
Wm. B. Tanner, practicing in 1885.
John T. Tasker, admitted August 7, 1845;

dead.
A. Birney Tasker, practicing in 1884.
Charles J. Taylor, admitted April 11, 1842.
George H. Taylor, admitted April 21,

1866.
Nathan A. Taylor, admitted Feb., 1880.

* George W. Tebbetts, ' admitted in 1890.
Theodore U. Thacher, admitted October,

1832.
Lawrence Taylor, admitted Oct. 17, 1865.
Wm. Tenney, admitted in 1811.
H. B. Terry, practicing in 1871.
Frederick C. Terry, practicing in 1887.
George C. Thatcher, admitted before 1807.
Enoch W. Thayer, admitted before 1807.
Samuel P. Thayer, admitted May 26, 1876.
Eugene D. Thomas, admitted in 1887.

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HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

* Miner R. Thomas, practicing in 1890.
Thomas Thomas, admitted before 1807.

* James D. Thomson, admitted June, 1858.
Ezra Ripley Thayer, admitted Sept. 15,

1881.
Frank H. Thayer, admitted Jan. 20, 1891.
LeviThaxter, admitted before 1807 ; dead.
Thomas M. Thompson, admitted April

19, 1854.
*Wm. V. Thompson, practicing in 1891.
Henry Thorndike, admitted Oct., 1812.
Larkin Thorndike, practicing in 1849.
John M. Throkay, admitted Feb., 1881.
Thomas Toomey, admitted Oct. 14, 1857.
J. E. Tower, practicing in 1875.
Thomas B. Tiffany, admitted Feb., 1881.
John Tighe, admitted Jan. 10, 1852.
Calvin Tilden, practicing in 1829.
J. P. Timmoney, practicing March 6, 1865.
Charles B. Tilden, practicing in 1882.
Calvin Torrey, practicing in 1862 ; dead.
Gideon E. Tower, admitted June, 1874.
James A. Tower, admitted May 23, 1871.
Charles B. Towle, admitted Nov. 11, 1881.
Frederick W. Tracy, admitted in 1886.
Henry J. Train, practicing in 1878.
Alexander Townsend, admitted July,

1885.
David Townsend, admitted March, 1815.
E. F. Tracy, practicing in 1882.
Wm. L. Tucker, admitted Jan. 27, 1876.
Joseph Tufts, admitted October, 1810.
Charles H. Turner, admitted Feb. 25,

1867.
*Charles W. Turner, practicing in 1890.
Wm. B. Turner, admitted in 1885.
Charles A. Tweed, admitted Dec. 2, 1859.
John C. Tyler, admitted April- 9, 1864.
*John F. Tyler, practicing in 1890.
Othniel Tyler, admitted before 1807.
Edward Upham, admitted before 1807.
Francis W. Upham, admitted Dec. 7,

1844.
Jacob Upham, admitted before 1807.
Joseph Vambn, admitted Jan. 22, 1857.
M. Van Buren, practicing in 1882.
*W. C Vanderlip, practicing in 1882,

Wm. Vandervoort, practicing in 1882.
G. Vandeutsch, admitted Oct. 1853.
*Francis W. Vaughan, admitted Nov. 8,

1861.
G. E. Vaughan, admitted before 1807.
John Vaughan, admitted in 1890.
Warren H. Vinton, admitted April, 1852.
Herman Vollmer, admitted March, 1873.
* Samuel W. Wagner, admitted in 1890.
Thomas B. Wait, admitted Sept. 13, 1814.
John C. Wait, admitted Aug. 4, 1891.
*Wm. G. Waitt, practicing in 1890.
John H. Wakefield, admitted Sept. 22,

1852.
Calvin Waldo, admitted before 1807.
A. M. Walker, admitted before 1807.
Henry A. Walker, practicing in 1880.
Wm. L. Walker, admitted Jan., 1850.
Jonathan Wales, admitted Nov., 1875.
John W. Walsh, admitted Nov., 1881.
*Joseph L. Walsh, admitted in 1889.
*J. P. J. Ward, practicing in 1890.
Thomas Walsh, jr., admitted before 1807.
George M. Ware, admitted Dec, 1879.
Jairus C. Ware, admitted July 21, 1826.
Levi Warner, admitted Jan., 1859.
Samuel L. Warner, admitted July 19,

1853.
John C. B. Ward, admitted Aug. 18, 1848.
Francis F. Warner, admitted June 16,

1863.
Walter J. Walsh, admitted April 12, 1844;

dead.
Nabur Ware, admitted July 2. 1816.
Samuel Warren, jr., practicing in 1863.
Edward L. Washburn, admitted October,

1878.
Nathan Washburn, admitted, date un-
known.
Charles G. Washburn, admitted in 1887.
Henry L. Washburn, practicing in 1875.
Milton B. Warner, admitted Jan. 10,

1891.
Reuben Washburn, admitted Jan., 1812.
G. W. Washington, admitted in 1890.
Asa Waterhouse, practicing in 1858.
Isaac Waterhouse, admitted Feb., 1879,

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Isaiah Waterhouse, admitted Jan. 29,

1857.
Clarence Way, practicing in 1881.
Charles H. Webb, admitted March 15,

1865.
Edward E. Webster, admitted May, 1875.
Wm. Webster, admitted in 1883.
Milton Wasson, admitted Dec, 1846.
Jesse Francis Waterman, admitted in

1887.
George B. Waters, admitted April, 1874.
Sylvanus M. Wearley, admitted July 19,

1853.
George C. Wheaton, admitted April 22,

1859.
Archibald J. Weaver, admitted Jan. 25,

1869.

E. W. Wedgwood, practicing in 1864.
A. M. Wheehen, admitted Oct., 1802.
Joseph A. Welch, admitted July 20, 1855.
Thomas Welch, jr., admitted in 1813.
Abraham Weld, jr., admitted Oct. 6, 1812.

F. H. Wellman, practicing in 1873.

* Charles W. Wells, practicing in 1890.
S. P. Weld, practicing in 1885.
*Edward J. Welsh, admitted June 15,

1869.
Samuel Wentworth, admitted October 23,

1851.
Augustus L. West, admitted October 30,

1844.
Edward B. West, admitted July 27, 1849.
Paul West, admitted June, 1875 ; dead.
Thomas West, admitted before 1807.
Nathan Weston, admitted Jan. 21, 1861 ;

dead.
John E. Wetherbee, admitted May 27,

1874.
Edward Webster, admitted July, 1852.
S. H. Wheeler, admitted before 1807.
John H. Wheeler, admitted Oct. 19,

1875.
Thomas M. Wheeler, admitted June, 1858.
D. L. Wheeler, practicing in 1875.
Samuel G. Wheeler, admitted March 15,

1850.

G. A. Wheelwright, admitted Dec. 1, 1846.
George H. Whitcomb, admitted in 1887.
Dewitt C. White, admitted Jan. 11, 1870.
Edwin M. White, practicing in 1890.
Guilford White, admitted Sept. 28, 1859.
Luther L. White, admitted April 14, 1857.
Thomas L. White, admitted Nov. 9, 1859.
Willard White, admitted May 15, 1875.
William A. White, admitted May, 1859.
Hamilton L. Whithead, admitted May,

1880.
Henry White, practicing in 1885.
George H. Whitman, practicing in 1837.
William White, admitted in 1813.
Wm. D. A. Whitman, admitted Aug. 11,

1855; dead.

C. L. Whiting, practicing in 1890.
Daniel Whiting, admitted Jan., 1814.
James C. Whiting, practicing in 1890.
John Whiting, admitted before 1807.
Mason Whiting, admitted before 1807.
Henry L. Whittemore, practicing in 1890.
Hugh V. Whoriskey, practicing in 1881.
Robert Wiener, admitted in 1888.

F. N. Wier, practicing in 1888.
*E. R. Wiggin, practicing in 1891.
John H. Wiggin, practicing in 1862.
Wm. Whiting, admitted before 1807;

dead.
Wm. P. Whiting, practicing in 1881.
J. H. Whitney, practicing in 1861.

D. F. Whittle, admitted Oct. 13, 1849.
James Whittle, practicing in 1828.

R. S. Whittier, practicing in 1869.

* Henry L. Whittlesey, practicing in 1887.
W. W. Wilkins, practicing in 1877.
Abel Whitney, admitted July 1, 1828.
Manassah H. Whitney, admitted in 1886.
J. A. L. Whittier, practicing in 1885.
Ash ton R. Willard, admitted in 1887..
Sidney A. Willard, admitted March 8,

1853.

* Charles A. Williams, practicing in 1890.
Charles M. Williams, admitted Feb. 4,

1861.
Daniel Williams, practicing in 1891.

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HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Ephraim Williams, admitted before 1807.
Laban Wheaton, admitted before 1807;

dead.
Joseph M. Wightman, admitted Jan.,

1875.
Edward B. Wildes, practicing in 1873.
Charles Williams, admitted Jan. 25, 1861.
Francis B. Williams, admitted March,

1826.
Charles H. S. Williams, admitted April

15, 1879.
Horatio M. Willis, practicing in 1821.
Masa Willis, admitted September, 1814.
Archelaus Wilson, admitted March 4,

1852.
Charles S. Wilson, practicing in 1882.
Thomas Wilson, practicing in 1885.
Samuel S. Wilson, admitted Oct. 9, 1865.
* Henry Winn, practicing in 1890.
Wm. W. Winthrop, admitted Jan. 6, 1854.
Courtland Wood, admitted June, 1873.
David W. Wood, admitted March 18, 1862.
John J. Winn, admitted in 1882.
Wm. C. Whitten, practicing in 1881.
Wm. M. Wilson, practicing in 1860.
Benjamin Wolcott, admitted June 5, 1874.
Charles F. Wolcott, admitted June 21,

1861; dead.
George Willard Wood, practicing in 1885.
Henry C. Wood, practicing in 1882.
Jonathan Woodbrige, admitted before

1807.

Joseph Woodbridge, admitted before 1807.
Charles H. Woodbury, admitted Jan. 7,

1862.
Frank G. ■ Woodbury, admitted Nov. 2,

1874.
Jesse R. Woodbury, admitted Oct. 12,

1859.
A. Woodman, admitted May 23, 1844.
Charles Woodman, admitted July 16,

1816.
John S. Woodman, admitted Dec. 29,

1855.
John R. Worcestei, admitted Feb. 12,

1853.
H. N. Worthen, practicing in 1877.
Albert J. Wright, jr!, admitted April 9,

1862.
Robert W. Wright, admitted October 8,

1846.
* Ferdinand A. Wyman, admitted in 1886.
Wm. H. Woodbury, admitted Jan. 22,

1859.
Charles C. Woodman, practicing in 1850.
John S. Woods, practicing in 1883.
Franklin Woodside, practicing in 1859;

dead.
Benjamin W. Wooster, admitted June,

1876.
George C. Yeaton, practicing in 1859.
Ephraim Wood Young, admitted Oct. 15,

1856.
Eneas Yamada, practicing in 1876.

ADDENDA.

Charles Jackson, son of Jonathan Jackson, was born in Newburyport, Mass., May
31, 1775, and graduated at Harvard in 1793. He studied law with Theophilus Par-
sons and was admitted to the bar in Essex county in 1796. In 1803 he removed to
Boston and was associated in business with Samuel Hubbard. He was appointed to
the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1813 and continued in office until his
resignation in 1824. He died in Boston December 13, 1855.

George Bancroft was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in April 1842, and
practiced many years in Boston.

H. L. Judson was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1875.

George Abbott James graduated at the Harvard Law School in 186S. He was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1863, and is now at the bar.

Elbridge G. Kimball graduated at Harvard in 1877 and was admitted to the Suf-
folk bar in July 1880.

Charles I. Adams graduated at Dartmouth in 1852 and at the Harvard Law School
in 1858. He practiced at the Suffolk bar and died in 1862.

George C. Adams was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1890 and is now at the bar.
Crawford C. Allen was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1886.

Benjamin Halsey Andrews graduated at Harvard in 1830 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1833. He practiced at the Suffolk bar and died in 1847.

John Atwood was at the Suffolk bar in 1885.

Herbert L. Baker was at the Suffolk bar in 1890 and is now at the bar.

Jacob N. Baker was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 30, 1867.

Ebenezer Hunt Beckford graduated at Harvard in 1805 and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in March, 1808. He died in 1869.

Edward Irving Bigelow graduated at Harvard in 1848 and was a member of the
Suffolk bar. He died in 1854.

Edward Darley Boit, son of Edward Darley Boit, graduated at Harvard in 1863
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 16, 1866.

Joseph Balch Braman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868 and was. ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in June of that year.

Ira H. Bronson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889.

Edward King Buttrick graduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Harvard Law
School in 1854, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1856.

David Lee Child was born in West Boylston, Mass., July 8, 1794, and graduated
at Harvard in 1817. He was for a term sub-master in the Boston Latin School and
secretary of legation in Lisbon about 1820. He studied law with his uncle, Tyler
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638 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Bigelow, in Watertown, Mass., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1828.
He went to Belgium in 1836 to study the beet sugar industry and was the first manu-
facturer of that article in the United States. He was afterwards earnestly engaged in
the anti-slavery movement, and at one time, with his wife, edited the Anti-Slavery
Standard in New York. He married Lydia Maria Francis and died in Wayland,
Mass., September 18, 1874.

John J. Collins was born in Boston August 28, 1862, and was educated at the pub-
lic schools and at the College of the Holy Cross. He studied law at the Boston Uni-
versity Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He is now at the
bar.

Charles Francis Donnelly was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1858, and
is now at the bar.
Dean Dudley was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 25, 1884.
Joseph Dudley, son of Governor Thomas Dudley, was born in Roxbury, Mass.,
July 23, 1647, and graduated at Harvard in 1665. He studied theology, but aban-
doning it for a political career, was a representative from 1673 to 1675, assistant from
1676 to 1685, and from 1677 to 1681 one of the commissioners of the United Colonies
of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Haven. He was appointed by
James the Second president of New England in 1685 and in 1687 chief justice of the
Supreme Court, but was arrested with Andros at the time of the Revolution of 1688
and sent to- England. He was appointed chief justice of New York in 1690 and was
afterwards deputy governor for eight years of the Isle of Wight. In 1701 he was
chosen a member of Parliament from Newton and from 1702 to 1715 was governor of
Massachusetts. He died in Roxbury April 2, 1720.

Paul Dudley, son of Joseph Dudley, was born September 3, 1675, and graduated
at Harvard in 1690. He studied law at the Temple in London and in 1702 was made
attorney-general of Massachusetts. In 1718 he was appointed an associate justice
of the Superior Court and in 1745 chief justice. He was the founder of the Dudleian
Lectures at Harvard, for which he made a bequest. He died January 25, 1752.

Wilder Dwight was born in Springfield, Mass., April 23, 1833, and graduated at
Harvard in 1853. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855 and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 9, 1856. He practiced in Boston until he was
appointed major of the Second Massachusetts Regiment May 24, 1861. He was taken
prisoner at Winchester May 25, 1862, and on the 13th of June in that year was made
lieutenant-colonel. He was wounded at the battle of Antietam and died of his
wounds September 19, 1862.

Andrew Dunlap was born in Salem, Mass., in 1794 and graduated at Harvard in
1813. He was admitted to the bar in Essex county in 1818, but removed to Boston
in 1820, where he became distinguished at the bar. He was many years United States
attorney for the District of Massachusetts, and died in Salem in 1835.
C. J. Edgerly was at the Suffolk bar in 1885.
Henry F. Fallon was at the Suffolk bar in 1858.

Alfred Dwight Foster graduated at Harvard in 1873 and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in April, 1875. He is now at the bar.

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Charles Edwin Forbes was born in West Bridgewater, Mass., August 25, 1795,
and graduated at Brown University in 1815. He studied law in Enfield and North-
ampton, Mass., and was admitted to the bar in 1818. He was county attorney in
Hampshire county, a member of the Legislature, judge of the Common Pleas Court
from 1847 to 1848 and a judge of the Supreme Court in 1848. After one year's serv-
ice in the latter court he resigned. He died in Northampton February 13, 1881.

Henry C. Gardiner was at the Suffolk bar in 1857.

Frank E. H. Gary was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889 and is now at the bar.

Robert Gordon graduated at Harvard in 1843 and was at the Suffolk bar in 1857.

Benjamin Gorham was at the Suffolk bar in 1849.

Peter S. Grasscup was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1873.

Melbourne Green was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 18fi7.

Elton Hutchinson was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 19, 1873.

Erford C. Hunter was-at the Suffolk bar in 1876.

P. O. Larkin was at the Suffolk bar in 1874.

George Gardner Lowell was at the Suffolk bar in 1882.

H. M. McNemara was at the Suffolk bar in 1872.

George Richards Minot was born in Boston December 28, 1758, and graduated at
Harvard in 1778. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1781 and attained distinc-
tion at the bar. He was clerk of the House of Representatives from 1782 to 1791,
and secretary of the convention which adopted the Constitution. He was appointed
judge of probate for Suffolk county in 1792 and held the office until his death. In
1800 he was appointed chief justice of the County Court of Common Pleas, and in
the same year a judge of the " Municipal Court in the Town of Boston." He died
in Boston January 2, 1802.

Timothy O'Connor was at the Suffolk bar in 1864.

Nathaniel A. Parker was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 16, 1858.

Jacob C. Patten was admitted to the bar in Middlesex count)'- in October, 1887,
and practiced at the Suffolk bar.

Charles Frederick Payne was at the Suffolk bar in 1867.

William H. Peirce was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1862.

Ivory N. Richardson was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 9, 18<»1.

Frederick Robinson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1836.

Odin B. Roberts was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and is now at
the bar.

Edward W. Sanborn was at the Suffolk bar in 1887.

Lemuel Shaw, jr., son of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, was born in Boston in 1829,
and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in
1852 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 5 in that year. He was associated in
business with John Jones Clarke and was largely engaged in the management of
trust estates. He was a trustee of the Boston Library, the Boston Atheneum and
the Boston Provident Institution for Savings, and President of the Boott Manufactur-
ing Company and the Rockport Granite Company. He died unmarried in Boston
May 6, 1884.

Philip J. Stewart was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890.

640 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Frederick M. Stone was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887 and is now at the
bar.

Frederick W. Strong was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 1, 1875.

William Hysloi' Sumner, son of Increase Sumner, was born in Dorchester, Mass.,
July 4, 1780, and graduated at Harvard in 1799. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar
in July, 1802, and practiced in Boston. He was a representative from 1808 to 1819,
and adjutant-general from 1818 to 1834. He died at Jamaica Plain, now a part of
Boston, October 24, 1861.

Charles Townsend graduated at Harvard in 1810 and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar January 19, 1814. He died in 1816.

Francis Tufts graduated at Harvard in 1849 and at the Harvard Law School in
1851. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 14, 1857.

Henry C. Waldron was at the Suffolk bar in 1883.

Francis W. Waldo was at the Suffolk bar in 1814.

John C. B. Ward was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 18, 1848.

John F. Ward was at the Suffolk bar in 1879.

C. L. Watson was at the Suffolk bar in 1860.

Smith R. D. Weston was at the Suffolk bar in 1890 and is now at the bar.

William N. White was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1880.

S. M. Yearly was at the Suffolk bar in 1853.

Nathaniel Morton Davis, son of William and Rebecca (Morton) Davis, was born
in Plymouth, Mass., in 1785 and graduated at Harvard in 1804. He was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in January, 1808, and established himself in his native town. He was
repeatedly representative and senator and was a member of the Executive Council
while John Davis was governor. In earlier life he was a major in the militia and
president of the Court of Sessions. He married in 1817 Harriet Lazell, daughter of
Nahum and Nabby (Lazell) Mitchell of East Bridge water, and died in Boston July 29,
1848.

Thomas Hopkinson was born in New Sharon, Maine, August 25, 1804, and grad-
uated at Harvard in 1830. He studied law with Lawrence & Glidden in Lowell, and
was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1833. He was a representative from Lowell in
1838 and 1847, senator in 1845, and in 1848 was appointed a judge on the bench of
the Common Pleas Court. In 1849 he resigned and was made president of the Bos-
ton and Worcester Railroad Company. He died in Cambridge November 17, 1856.

Harvey N. Collison was born in Boston March 22, 1860. He received his early
education at the public schools and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He graduated at
the Boston University Law School in 1884 and was admitted to the bar in that year.
He was a member of the Boston Common Council from Ward Six in 1883-84-85, and
a representative in 1887-88. In 1887 he was chosen a member of the Boston School
Board and he has held and is holding other offices, which manifest the confidence' of
his fellow citizens in his ability and character.

William Gray, son of William Gray, was born in Boston December 20, 1810. He
received his early education at the public schools and at the Boston Latin School,
and graduated at Harvard in 1829, the third in rank in a class which included such
men as Joseph Angier, Elbridge Gerry Austin, George Tyler Bigelow, William Brig-

BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 641

ham, William Henry Charming, James Freeman Clarke, Francis B. Crowninshield,
Benjamin R. Curtis, George T. Davis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Samuel May, Benja-
min Pierce, Chandler Robbins, Edward D. Sohier and Joshua Holyoke Ward. Prob-
ably no more distinguished class ever graduated from Harvard. Out of a class of
fifty-nine the writer is familiar with the career of twenty-nine. Mr. Gray was ad-
mitted to the bar in Middlesex county in October, 1834, and in 1835, on the removal
of Peleg Sprague in that year from Maine to Boston, he became associated with him
in business. The connection continued until Mr. Sprague was appointed, in 1841,
judge of the United States District Court. In 1848 he retired from the law and be-
came interested in cotton manufacturing. In 1866 he was appointed a commissioner
on the annexation of Roxbury to Boston, and in the same year chairman of the com-
mittee to relieve the wants of those suffering from the great Portland fire. He served
as chairman of a similar committee after the Boston fire of 1872, and was always
ready with sympathy and practical aid for the suffering poor. He was president of
the Harvard Alumni Association at its formation, and many years an overseer of
the college. As a manufacturer he was the first to adopt the ten hour system, and at
the formation of the First Massachusetts Regiment in 1861 he gave ten thousand dol-
lars for the relief of the families of its soldiers. He married, October 16, 1834, Sarah
Frances, daughter of Caleb and Ann (Greely) Loring, of Boston. He died in Boston
February 11, 1892.

Laban Wheaton, son of Dr. George and Elizabeth (Morey) Wheaton, was born in
that part of Norton, Mass., which is now Mansfield, March 13, 1754. He was edu-
cated at the Wrentham Academy and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1774. He
taught school at Norton and then studied divinity with Rev. Abiel Leonard, of
Woodstock, Conn. In May, 1775, he was appointed chaplain in the army, and in
1776 began to preach, occupying pulpits at various times in Woodstock, Oxford,
Walpole, Dedham, Portsmouth and Boston. With failing health he abandoned the
ministry and engaged for a time in business in Water town. In 1785 he began the
study of law in Watertown and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1788. He at once
established himself in Norton and practiced successfully in the courts of Worcester,
Norfolk, Bristol, Suffolk and Plymouth counties. He was a representative to the
General Court seven years, eight years a member of Congress, and in 1810 was ap-
pointed chief justice of the County Court of Common Pleas. In 1819 he was ap-
pointed chief justice of the Court of Sessions, and retired from active business in
1827. He married in 1794 Fanny, daughter of Samuel Morey, of Norton, and died
March 23, 1846.

Horace E. Smith referred to on page 534, has been dean of the Albany Law School,
and is now in August, 1893, living in Johnstown, N. Y.

William Wirt Warren, son of William and Abigail (Lyman) Warren, was born in
Brighton, Mass., February 27, 1833, and graduated at Harvard in 1854. In 1856 he
graduated at the Harvard Law School and after further study in the office of John
Phelps Putnam of Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 18, 1858. From
1856 to 1866 he was town clerk of Brighton, and in 1865 was appointed by President
Johnson collector of internal revenue for the Seventh Massachusetts District. He
was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1868 and State senator in
1870. ' In 1874 he was chosen representative to Congress and served one term, being

642 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

defeated in 187G by his Republican opponent, William Clanin. He was a trustee of
the Public Library in Brighton from its organization in 1864, until on the annexation
of that town to Boston it became a branch of the Boston Public Library. He was a
trustee of the Brighton Savings Bank, a director in the Brighton Butchers' Slaugh-
tering and Melting Association, a member of the Bethesda Lodge of Masons and an
active worker in the Unitarian ranks. He began practice in Boston and in 1862
formed a partnership with his classmate, Thomas P. Proctor, which continued until
his death, enjoying a large and lucrative practice. He delivered an address in 1876
to the graduating class of the Georgetown Law School and in 1877 delivered the
Fourth of July oration before the city government of Boston. He married, October
6, 1859, Mary L. Adams, of Newton, and died in the Brighton District of Boston May
2, 1880.

John Summerfield Brayton, son of Israel and Keziah (Anthony) Brayton, was
born in Swansea, Mass., December 3, 1826, and graduated at Brown University in
1851, from which institution he received in 1893, a degree of Doctor of Laws. He
studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Eliot & Pitman, of New
Bedford, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar upon examination by Judge Merrick of
the Supreme Judicial Court August 8, 1853. On the organization of the city govern-
ment of Fall River, where he had established himself in his profession, he was chosen
city solicitor, and held that office from 1854 to 1857 when he resigned. In 1856 he
was chosen clerk of the courts of Bristol county, and was selectman in 1861, serving
until his resignation in 1864. He then associated himself in the practice of law with
James M. Morton, now an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, under the
firm name of Brayton & Morton, but relinquished practice in 1868. He was a mem-
ber of the Executive Council in 1866-67-68-70 and '80, and has been president of the
First National Bank of Fall River since its organization in 1864. He is also presi-
dent of the B. M. C. Durfee Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and of several manu-
facturing corporations in Fall River. He married, November 27, 1855, Sarah Jane,
daughter of Enoch and Rebecca (Williams) Tinkham, of Middleboro, Mass., and re-
sides in Fall River.

Melvin O. Adams is the son of Joseph and Dolly (Whitney) Adams, and was born
in Ashburnham, Mass., November 7, 1850. He attended the public schools of his
native town and Appleton Academy in New Ipswich, N. H. , and graduated at Dart-
mouth College in 1871. After leaving college he taught school in Fitchburg, Mass.,
for a time, and while in that town studied law in the office of Amasa Norcross. In
1874 he came to Boston and attended lectures at the Boston University Law School,
from which institution he was graduated in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in 1875, and was soon after appointed assistant of Oliver Stevens, district at-
torney, continuing in that position until 1886. The familiarity he acquired while in
that office with the methods of the government in dealing with persons charged with
offences against criminal law, gave him a position at the bar which it would have
been difficult to otherwise obtain. To his reputation as a lawyer thus attained was
undoubtedly due his engagement as associate counsel in the defense of Miss Borden,
indicted for the murder of her father and stepmother, who, after one of the most
notable criminal trials in the Commonwealth, was acquitted of the charge. After re-
signing his position as assistant district attorney, he became associated in business

BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 643

with Augustus Russ, and continued with him until the death of Mr. Russ in the sum-
mer of 1892. He is a Republican in politics, and in 1890 was a member of the staff
of Governor Brackett with the rank of colonel. He is now in active practice, follow-
the paths of his profession with a fidelity and zeal which give promise of a brilliant
career. Outside of his profession he is well known in business and literary circles,
and in his connection with these is president of the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn
Railroad, and of the General Alumni Association of Dartmouth College He mar-
ried Mary Colony in Fitchburg in i875, and lives in Boston.

Samuel Leland Powers, son of Larned and Ruby (Barton) Powers, was born in
Cornish, N. H., October 26, 1848, and graduated in 1874 at Dartmouth College, where
he won the Lockwood prizes both in rhetoric and elocution. He is of English descent,
his ancestors having come from England to Salem in 1650. He studied law in the
office of W. W. Bailey, of Nashua, N. H., at the law school of the University of New
York, and in the office of Very & Gaskell, of Worcester, where he was admitted to
the bar November 17, 1875. He began practice in Boston in January, 1876, in part-
nership with Samuel W. McCall, now a member of Congress, remaining associated with
him until 1877, after which he continued in general practice until 1887, when, after
devoting himself for some time to the study of electrical science, he decided to
make a specialty of law in its application to electrical matters. He was one of the
first attorneys in the country to make a specialty of this branch of the law. During
the last six years he has been almost exclusively employed in representing corpora-
tions and individuals engaged in electrical operations, not only in Massachusetts, but
also in various other parts of the country. He is at present general counsel for the
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, the Gamewell Fire Alarm Tele-
graph Company and other large corporations in a similar line of business. He is
also a director in several electric railway and manufacturing corporations. Mr. Pow-
ers has resided in Newton since 1882, and has taken an active part in social and
political affairs. He was for a number of years a member of the city government of
that city, the presiding officer of the Council, and a member of the School Board. He
was a prominent candidate for Congress in the Republican Congressional Convention
in 1888, was one of the founders of the Newton Club, and is the first vice-president
of that organization. He is also a member of the University Club of Boston. He
married in 1878 Eva, daughter of Hon. Prince S. Crowell, of Dennis, Mass., and has
one son, Leland, born July 1, 1890.

Samuel Ripley Townsend, son of Samuel and Abigail Townsend, was born in
Waltham. Mass., April 10, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. After leaving
college he taught the High School in Plymouth two or three years, and then engaged
in mercantile business in Boston until 1846, when he became principal of the Bristol
Academy, and continued in that position until 1849. He studied law with Horatio
Pratt, of Taunton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1850. He estab-
lished himself in Taunton, and in 1853 was chosen treasurer of Bristol county, which
office he held three years. In 1858 he was appointed judge of the Taunton Police
Court, and served until a new arrangement of the courts was made by law. He was
a member of the City Council in 1873-74-75, and city solicitor in 1882. He married,
June 29, 1837, Mary Snow Percival, and died September 27, 1887.

6+v HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

David Leonard Barnes, son of Rev. David and Rachel (Leonard) Barnes, of Scit-
uate, Mass., graduated at Harvard in 1780. He studied law with Daniel Leonard
and James Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1783. He practiced law
in Taunton from 1783 to 1793, when he removed to Rhode Island, where he was ap-
pointed by Jefferson judge of the United States District Court. He married Joanna
Russell, and died in 1812.

Henry Goodwin, son of Benjamin and Hannah (Lebaron) Goodwin, was born in
Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1778. He studied law in Boston with William
Tudor, and after admission to the bar settled in Taunton. He afterwards removed
to Newport, R. I., and became attorney-general of Rhode Island. He married
Marv, daughter of William Bradford, of Bristol, R. I., and died at Newport, May 31,
1789.

Stephen Gilman, son of Samuel and Sarah (Goodhue) Gilman, was born in Mere-
dith Village, N. H., September 28, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He
studied law in New York city in the office of Man & Parsons, and was admitted to
the New York bar November 24, 1871. He afterwards came to Boston and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1879. He was trial justice in Essex county twelve
years, having a residence in Lynnfield in that county with a law office in Boston.
He married first in New York, March 12, 1870, Lucy A. Davis, and second at Lynn-
field, August 7, 1881, Esther W. Mansfield.

Macon B. Allen was one of the earliest lawyers of African descent at the Suffolk
bar. He was admitted to that bar May 9, 1845, and has been dead some years.

Aaron Alfieri Bradley was of African descent. He was a frequenter of the
courts between 1850 and 1860 and managed cases by special authority, but was never
admitted to the bar. He has been dead some years.

Richard Ashley Peirce was born in Taunton, Mass., September 7, 1834, and was
for a time a member of the Suffolk bar. He was a representative in 1860 and 1861,
and died in New Bedford, August 3, 1869,

Richard Sullivan Fay, of whom a short sketch appears on page 125, has a more
extended memoir, with a portrait, in the second volume, to which the reader is
referred.

John Freeman Colby was descended from Anthony Colby, who appeared in Cam-
bridge in 1632, and afterwards settled in that part of Salisbury which is now Ames-
bury. He was the son of John and Mary H. (Holt) Colby, and was born in Benning-
ton, N. H., March 3, 1834. Early thrown on his own resources, he saved by industry
and economy sufficient money for a limited school education. At the age of seven-
teen he began to teach school, and the means secured by teaching enabled him to en-
ter Dartmouth College in 1855, having gone through his preparatory studies at Mount
Vernon and Reed's Ferry in his native State, and as a private pupil of Hon. George
Stevens, of Lowell, Mass. During his college course he taught school each winter,
and graduated in 1859. After leaving college he became principal of the Stetson High
School in Randolph, Mass., and in 1864 entered as a student the law office of Ranney
& Morse in Boston, He was admitted to the Suffolk bar on examination by the Su-
preme Judicial Court, December 14, 1865, and continued in practice until his death with
a constantly increasing reputation and clientage. He was esteemed at the bar as a
sound lawyer, a conscientious attorney, and able advocate. In 1878-9 he was a mem-
ber of the Boston Common Council, and in 1887 and 1888 was a member of the Mas-
sachusetts House of Representatives from the Eighteenth Suffolk District, serving on
the Committee on Harbors and Public Lands, and on the Committee on Parishes and
Religious Societies. Always interested in religious affairs, he was in Boston an active
member at different times of the Mount Vernon and Union Churches. Mr. Colby
sought to avoid business responsibilities outside of his profession, but in 1877 he served
as receiver of the Mechanics' Bank, and was for several years one of the trustees of
the North End Savings Bank. Mr. Colby married, January 24, 1861, Ruthey Ellen,
daughter of Thomas and Nancy (Stevens) Cloutman, of Mount Vernon, N. H., and
his oldest son, John Henry Colby, a member of the Suffolk bar, is mentioned else-
where in this register. He died in Hillsboro, N. H., June 6, 1890.

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

TREATED IN THE INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

Page.

Admissions to the Bar : 111-113

Andros Edmund 1 . .52

Assistants ._. 41

Attorney-Generals 98-99

Attorneys ; 52-65-1 03-104

Bar Association . 109

Barristers 74-1 05

Beadle 50

Boston Court of Common Pleas ..84

Chancery Court 47-61

Charter of Massachusetts Colony r 11

Charter of Massachusetts Province. 53

Circuit Court of Common Pleas _ . 79

Clerk of Courts . 49

Colony of Massachusetts ... 26

Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer 68

Councillors . . 42-55

Counsellors 75-105

County Attorney.... 99

County Court . . . 38-44-58

Counties Established 44

Courts Established. ... .. . .... ..58

Court Fees .102

Court Houses ... . 10<)

Court Rules ----- ... - 106-107

Court of Assistants . . 35-37

Court of Common Pleas . - 78-80

Courts of Justices . - - — - 83

Court of Oyer and Terminer 56

Courts of Pleas 52

Court of Sessions. . . •. 83

Deputy Governors - - 40

District Courts 88

Freemen. - 46

General Court .1 .' - 85-56

General Sessions of the Peace 82

Governors of Massachusetts Colony _..... 40

82

646 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Page.

Great Quarter Court — 86-37

Inferior Court of Common Pleas 35-37-50-58-59-77

Judges of Admiralty Court -98

Judges of Boston Coui't of Common Pleas 1 85

Judges of Circuit Court of Common Pleas 79

Judges of Court of Common Pleas 78-80

Judges of General Sessions of the Peace 82

Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas - 77

Judges of the Justices Court 86

Judges of the Municipal Court of City of Boston 88

Judges of the Municipal Court of Town of Boston 85

Judges of Probate '. 90-91

Judges of Superior Court 81

Judges of Superior Court of the County of Suffolk _ . 85

Judges of Superior Court of Judicature - 66

Judges of Supreme Judicial Court 72

Justices Court. .: - - 59-86

Loring Edward G. , Removal of 92

Magistrates 43

Maritime Court 98

Marshal 50

Military Court . 39

Municipal Courts 88

Municipal Court of the City of Boston. 87

Municipal Court of the Town of Boston .-87

Police Court 86-88

Presidency of New England 52

Probate Court 50-90-91

Quarterly Sessions Court 52-60

Registers of Probate ,. 90-91

Reporters of Decisions - _ . 76

Revolution of 1688 _ 52

Sessions of the Peace. 58

Sheriffs, 99

Solicitors-General 99

Special Justices of Inferior Court 77

Special Justices of Superior Court 67

Strangers Court 39

Suffolk County Bar 101-104

Superior Court of Judicature 52-53-61

Superior Court 80

Superior Court of Suffolk County 85

Supreme Judicial Court - - 69

Verdicts. 51

Witchcraft 57

Witnesses 50

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Abbott, Josiah G. , facing page 48

Adams, Melville O. , do 60

Allen, Frank D. , do 72

Avery, Edward, do 84

Babson, Thomas M. , do 96

Bennett, Joseph, do 108

Benton, Josiah H., jr do 120

Brackett, John Q. A., do 132

Brooks, Francis A., do 144

Butler, Benjamin F., ._ do 156

Butler, J. Haskell, ... do 168

Chandler, Theophilus P , do 180

Child, Linus, do 192

Curtis, Benjamin R. , do 204

Dexter, Samuel, do 216

Dexter, Franklin,.. . do 228

Durant, Henry F. , do 240

Gaston, William A. , _ do 252

George, Elijah, do 264

Hadlock, Harvey D do 276

Hassam, John T. , „.. _ do 288

Hudson, John E. , do 300

Kingman, Hosea, do 312

Lincoln, Solomon, do 324

Luring, Charles G. , do 336

Lowell, John, do 348

Minot, William, do 360

Morton, Marcus, do 372

Murphy, James R., do 384

Needham, Daniel, — do 396

Noyes, Charles J., do 408

Perry, Baxter E. , do 432

Prince, Frederic O. , do 444

Proctor, Thomas P. , do 456

Russell, William G. , : do 468

Sanger, George P. , do 480

648 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Schouler, James, do 492

Sears, Philip H. , do 504

Shattuck, George O., do 516

Shepard, Harvey N.,... do 528

Simmons, John F do 540

Stearns, William S, , do 552

Webster, Daniel, frontispiece

Weston, Thomas, facing page 564

Willard, Joseph A., .. do 576

Woodbury, Charles Levi, do 588

Wright, Edwin, do 600

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BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER

Abbe William Alanson, 327.
Abbott Edwin Hale, 234.
Abbott Benjamin Vaughan, 318.
Abbott Charles E., 618.
Abbott Charles L., 117.
Abbott Curtis, 131.
Abbott Franklin Pierce, 189.
Abbott George C, 618.
Abbott Grafton St. Loe, 189.
Abbott Grafton T., 618.
Abbott Ira'%, 618.
•Abbott James" Alexander, 456.
Abbott John Edward, 234.
Abbott John G., 618.
Abbott John S., 45°
Abbott Josiah Gardner, 257.
Abbott Leon Martin, 247.
Abbott Marshall Kittredge. 417.
Abbott Nathan D , 618.
Abbott Samuel Appleton

Browne, 247.
Abbott S. P., 618.
Abbott William A., 450.
Aberdain D. L., 618.
Achorn Edgar O., 489-
Ackerman Charles Lewis, 457.
Adair W. Robert, 618.
Adams Albion A.,. 618.
Adams Arthur Edwin, 454.
Adams Benjamin, 437
Adams Brooks, 273.
Adams C. B. F., 457.
Adams Charles Day, 273.
Adams Charles Francis, 272.
Adams Charles Francis, jr., 272.
Adams Charles Frederick;, 273.
Adams Charles I., 637.
Adams Charles True, 618.
Adams Coleman S., 618.
Adams Francis Willis, 131.
Adams George C, 637.
Adams George Edward, 273.
Adams George Everett, 273.
Adams George W., 419.
Adams George Zacheus, 201.
Adams John. 243.
Adams John Clark, 434.
Adams John K., 618.
Adams John Quincy, 243.
Adams John Quincy, 282.
Adams Jonathan, 542,

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Adams Joseph T., 618.
Adams Julius, 618.
Adams Melvin O., 642.
Adams Sherman Wolcott, 457.
Adams Thomas Boylston, 457.
Adams Walter, 539.
Adams Zabdiel-Boylston, 318.
Adan John Richardson, 426.
Adavis Walter, 618.
Addington Isaac, 709.
Aherin John H. P., 319.
Aiken David, 421.
Albee Sumner, 319.
Albers Homer, 289.
Albert Talbot Jones 458.
Alden Cyrus, 618.
Alden George D., 618,
Alden H.' O . 618.
Alden Peter Oliver, 399.
Aldrich Peleg Emory, 302.
Aldrich Samuel Nelson, 201.
Alexander Edwin G.. 618.
Alfred Francis Edward, 458.
Alger Alpheus Brown, 302.
Alger Arthur M., 618.
Alger Edwin Alden, 302.
Alger Edwin Augustus, 303.
Allds Warren, 132.
Allen Arthur Lincoln, 213.
lAUen Augustus Oliver, 327.
Allen Charles, 189.
Allen Charles, 190.
Allen Charles E., 618.
Allen Charles Edward, 327.
Allen Crawford C, 637.
Allen Elisha Hunt, 253.
Allen Frank Dewey, 503.
Allen Frederick, qai.
Allen Frederick Hunt, 489.
Allen George A., 618.
Allen Harris, 618.
Allen Horace G., 252.
Allen James, jr., 286.
Allen James Bowdoin, 559
Allen Joseph, 437.
Allen Lincoln, 600.
Allen Macon B., 644.
Allen Montressor T., 255.
Allen Samuel C, 618.
Allen Samuel W. F., 618.
Allen Stephen Merrill, 121.

Allen Stillman Boyd, 320.

Allen Thomas, 458.

Allen William. 258.

Allen Willis Boyd, 458.

Allin H. N., 618.

Allyne Rufus Bradford, 319.

Almon A. B., 619.

Almy Charles, jr., 458.

Almy Job, 542.

Ames Benjamin, 238.

Ames Fisher, 237.

Ames Fisher, 458.

Ames Isaac, 553.

Ames James Barr, 458.

Ames John W., 544.

Ames Nathan, 238.

Ames Samuel, 458.

Ames Seth, 218

Amory Francis Inman, 261.

Amory George Kirkland, 458.

Amory Rufus Greene, 283.

Amory Thomas Coffin, 1 17.

Amory Thomas Coffin, jr., 458

Amory William, 458.

Amory William, 261.

Anderson Elbridge Roberts, 319.

Anderson George Weston, 319

Andrew Charles Amburger, 456.

Andrew John Albion, 174.

Andrew John Forrester. 258.

Andrews Asa, 458.

Andrews Augustus, 319.

Andrews Benjamin H., 637.

Andrews C. C, 557.

Andrews Ferdinand L., 619

Andrews Gallison C, 619.

Andrews Halsey Benjamin, 427.

Andrews James Winthrop, 4SR.

Andrews John H, big.

Andrews J. L., 619.

Andrews Morton Davis, 300.

Andrews Samuel, 285

Andrews William H. H 310

Andrews William N., 610

Andrews William Turell 442

Andros Edmund, 542

Andros Milton, 450.

Angell George Thorndike, 303.

Angell Isaac, 619.

Angell Joseph Kinnicut, 237.

Angier Frank H ,619.

650

HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Appleton Francis Henry, 320.
Appleton Frank A., 237.
Appleton Frederick A., 552.
Appleton John Henry 320.
Appleton Samuel, 209.
Appleton Thomas Gold, 294.
Appleton William Channing, 213
Apsley George Edward, 458.
Apthorp Robert East, 458.
Apthorp William Foster, 458.
Apthorp William J., 6ig.
Archer Samuel R., 6iq.
Armstrong Thomas Henry, 320.
Arnold Howard Payson, 458.
Arnold Zenas S., 619.
Ashmun Eli Porter, 321
Ashmun John Hooker, 321.
Askenasy Herman, 6iq.
Aspinwall Thomas, 237.
Aspinwall William, 248.
Atherton Humphrey, 193.
Atkins George E., 6ig.
Atkins J. Augustus, 619.
Atkinson Henry Martyn, 458.
Atkinson J., 6ig.
Atwood Charles, 251.
Atwood Charles U., 6iq.
Atwood D. J., 6ig.
Atwood Hartley F., 611.
Atwood John, 637.
Atwood William, 26g.
Auchmuty Robert, 237.
Auchmuty Robert, jr., 237.
Augustus John, 502.

Austin Albert A., 610.

Austin Arthur Williams, 450.

Austin Edward, 619.

Austin Elbridge Gerry, 223.

Austin Henry, 234.

Austin Henry David, 456.

Austin Ivers James, 223.

Austin James Trecothick, 223.

Austin James Walker, 588.

Austin James Walker, jr., 611.

Austin John Downes, 22^.

Austin Jonathan Williams, 225.

Austin Percy, 459.

Austin Walter, 611.

Austin William, 225.

Austin William P., 619.

Austin William Russell, 611.

Averil George W., 619.

Avery Albert E.. 619.

Avery Edward, 317.

Aver\- John Edward, 31S.

Ayer Frederick Fanning, 4W.

Ayer Joseph C, 619.

Ayer Phineas, 449.

Ayers George David, 318

Ayers Henry M., 179.

Aylward James Francis, 318.

Aylwin William Cushing, 451.

Babbitt C. A., 619.
Babbitt Erasmus, 439.
Babcock Francis Eaton, 459
Babcock Lemuel Hollings-

worth, 45g.
Babson Robert Tillinghast, 132
Babson Thomas McCrate, 574.
Bachelder Thomas Cogswell,

247.
Back Roscius Harlow, 247.
Bacon Charles H., 619.
Bacon Charles William, 612.
Bacon Ezekiel, 286.
Bacon Frederick A., 6ig.

Bacon H. C, 610.
Bacon John William, 421.
Bacon Thomas S., 619.
Bacon William Francis, 611.
Badger Almarind Ferdinand,

454,
Badger Walter Irving, 132.
Bailey Andrew Jackson, 247.
Bailey Dudley P., 247.
Bailey Gardner W., 619.
Bailey Hollis Russell, 252.
Bailey John Appleton, 459.
Bailey Joseph Whitman, 252.
Bailey L. B.,619.
Baker Albert, 399.
Baker Alpheus, 288
Baker Edward I., 253.
Baker Elihu C, 457.
Baker Fisher Ames, 619.
Baker Henry L., 396.
Baker Herbert L., 637.
Baker John Freeman, 459.
Baker James Murray, 459.
Baker John R., 619.
Baker William H., 252.
Baker William P., 619.
Balch Francis Vergnies, 459.
Balch Joseph, 619.
Baldwin George W., 439.
Baldwin Henry, 261.
Baldwin Horace E., 619.
Baldwin Loarami, 350.
Baldwin Thomas Tileston, 612.
Ball Benjamin W., 6ig.

Ball Joshua Dorsey, 350.

Ball William A., 6ig.

Ballantyne John, 6ig.

Ballard James Morton, 459.

Bancroft C. S., 553.

Bancroft George, 637.

Bancroft Jacob, 612.

Bancroft Sidney C, 557.

Bancroft Solon, 459.

Bancroft William Amos, 261.

Banfield Everett Colby. 456.

Bangs Edward, 437.

Bangs Edward, 587.

Bangs Edward A., 351.

Banks Frederick L.. 553.

Banks Nathaniel Prentiss, 273,

Barber Charles E., 619.

Barbour Henry P., 619.

Barbour J. N., 619.

Barker Charles S., 619.

Barker James Madison, 203.

Barker James M., 619.

Barlow James P., 351.

Barnard Charles A.. 459.

Barnard Henry, 619.

Barnes Charles M., 350.

Barnes David Leonard, 644,

Barnes Isaac A., 619.

Barnes Isaac O., 356.

Barney Edward L., 450.

Barr Thomas F., 6iq.

Barrell .Samuel B., 6ig.

Barrelle Thomas W., 6ig.

Barrett Edward J., 6ig.

Barrett Harry Hudson, 351.

Barrett James, 619.

Barrett John, 459.

Barrett Jonathan Fay, 187.

Barrett William, 351.

Barrows Charles H., 459.

Barrows Morton, 576.

Barry George M., 459.

Barry Thomas E., 459.

Barry Thomas J., 351.
Barstow George, 425.
Barstow Simon Forrester, 452.
Bartholomew Andrew J., 439.
Bartholomew Nelson, 439.
Bartlett Addison A., 619.
Bartlett A. B., 619.
Bartlett A. L., 619.
Bartlett Bradbury C, 619.
Bartlett Charles, 6iq.
Bartlett Charles W., 351.
Bartlett D. C, 619.
Bartlett Francis, 442.
Bartlett Frederick K , 619.
Bartlett George W., 619
Bartlett Horace E., 619.
Bartlett Joseph, 189
Bartlett Sidney, 188.
Bartlett Sidney, jr., 442.
Bartlett Stephen S., 459.
Bartlett William, 6ig.
Barton Charles Clarence, 119,
Bassett Elisha, 132.
Bassett Francis, nq,
Batchelder Clark A., 6ig.
Batchelder Eugene, 442.
Batchelder Francis Lowell-, 268.
Batchelder John M., 619.
Batchelder Leroy, 6ig.
Batchelder L. B., 619.
Batchelder Samuel, 459.
Bateman Leon H., 619.
Bates Benjamin Edward, 132.
Bates Elijah, 619.
Bates Hamlet, 459.
Bates James Edward, 459.
Bates John Lewis, 118.
Bates Liberty, 439.
Bates Samuel W., 460.
Bates Waldron, 460.
Bates William, 413.
Battelle Nathaniel, 282.
Baxter Joseph Nickerson, 460
Bayldone R. C, 619.
Bayley Edward A., 619.
Bayley J. C. M., 619.
Baylies Henry, 268.
Baylies William, 324.
Beach Edward S., 619.
Beach Morgan W., 460.
Beal John Van, 601.
Beale Benjamin, 286.
Beale Charles Edwin, 261.
Beale Joseph H. jr., 262.
Beaman Charles C, jr , 438.
Bean George F , 262.
Bean Stephen, 557
Beard Ithamar W., 460.
Beck George F , 619
Beckett Melville P , 267.
Beckett John Gregg, 460.
Beckford Ebenezer H., 637.
Belcher Jonathan, 267.
Belcher Jonathan, 554.
Bell John W , 619
Bell Joseph, 361.
Bell Joseph Mills, 362.
Bellew Henry E., 610.
Bellingham Richard, 163.
Bello Santiago C, 619.
Bellows Edward S., 619.
Bellows Josiah G , 46c.
Bement Gerard, 133.
Bemis Charles, 460.
Bemis George, 176.
Bemis Isaac C, 619.
Bemis Seth, 619.

INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.

65>

Bender Jotham, 287.
Benjamin James, 267.
Benjamin Park, 177.
Benjamin Waylan E., 619
Benner Frank T., 619.
Bennett C M, 619.
Bennett Edmund Hatch, 372.
Bennett Francis M ,619.
Bennett John A., 352-
Bennett John R-, 619.
Bennett Joseph, 588.
Bennett Joseph Irving, 352.
Bennett Josiah Kendall, 352.
Bennett Samuel C , 352.
Bennett William Frederick,

460.
Benson Edward F., 619.
Bent George C, 33°
Bent Samuel A., 460
Bent William H., 619.
Benton Josiah Henry, jr., 159.
Berick Francis Hermoness, 460.
Bernard Francis, 35*-
Berry Abel B., 619
Berrv John King, 132.
Berry John W., 619
Berry Nehemiah Chase, 351
Berry Thomas, 264
Bethune John McLean, 159.
Bettens Edward Detraz, 460.
Betton George E., 156.
Betton Ninian C, 156.
Betton O Erving, 553.
Bickford Horace, 619
Bicknell Edward, 267
Bicknell Emory O., 460.
Bidwell Barnabas. 619.
Bigelow Abijah, 267.
Bigelow Alpheus, 460. (
Bigelow Edward Irving, 637.
Bigelow Edwin Moses, 353
Bigelow Francis Whitney, 353
Bigelow George Brooks, 595.
Bigelow George D., 620.
Bigelow George Tyler, 172.
Bigelow Horati", 425.
Bigelow Horatio, 460
Bigelow John J., 620.
Bigelow John Prescott, 190.
Bigelow Melville Madison, 190.
Bigelow Oliver, 620.
Bigelow Samuel C, 620
Bigelow Timothy, 190
Bigelow Timothy. 460.
Bigelow Tyler, 191.
Billings Oliver P. C , 348-
Binney Omar, 620
Binney William Cushmg, 460.
Biscoe Arthur G , 439.
Biscoe J Foster, 439.
Bishop Henry Walker, 421
Bishop Joel Prentiss, 574.
Bishop Jonathan P., 620
Bishop Robert Roberts, 128.
Bissell Washington, 620.
Bixby Frederick M , 6?o
Black James L., 620
Blackmar Wilmon W., 191.
Blackmur Paul R , 620
Blackshere Elias Aaron, 460
Blagden George, 460.
Blaikie William, 6(2.
Blair Lafayette Gilbert, 353.
Blair Phineas, 425
Blair William N , 620.
Blaisdell Mark A , 352.
Blake Charles F.,449.

Blake Edward, 423.
Blake Francis, 286.
Blake George, 436.
Blake Henry Nichols, 612.
Blake Joseph, 285.
Blake William Payne, 272.
Blanchard Francis, 461.
Blanchard John H , 461.
Blanchard Thomas, 620.
Blandin Charles F., 620.
Blaney George Andrew. 253.
Blinn George Richard, 272
Bliss Alexander, 484.
Bliss Frederick Wright, 327.
Bliss George, 501.
Bliss Henry C., 620.
Bliss William Davis, 251.
Blodgett Caleb, 203.
Blodgett Edward Everett, 373.
Blodgett George B , 620.
Blodgett Warren Kendall, 461.
Blood Charles H., 272.
Bloomfield Thomas, 620.
Blowers Sampson Salter, 238.
Blume Andreas, 132
Blume Jarvis, 620.
Boardman Alphonzo Warren,

461.
Boardman Halsey J , 303.
Bodwell J. O, 620.
Boit Edward Darley, 249.
Brut Edward Darley, jr , 637.
Bollan William, 270.
Bolles Frank, 353.
Bolles H Eugene, 132.
Bolles John A , 272
Bolster Percy Gardner, 345.
Bolster Solomon Alonzo, 579.
Bolster Wilfred, 486
Bolton William, 416
Bond Daniel Webster, 421
Bond Lawrence, 353
Bonney Otis L., 220
Booth Moss K., 6.0.
Borden Simeon, 461.
Borland Samuel, 284
Bosson Albert D , 159
Bosworth Orrin L , 461.
Bottume John Franklin, 461.
Bourne Benjamin, 461.
Bourne 6hearjashub, 286.
Bourne Sylvanus, 265.
Boutelle Lewis H , 439
Boutelle Timothy, 288
Boutineau James, 268
Boutwell Francis Marion, 304.
Boutwell George Sewall, 303.
Boutwell Harvey Lincoln, 301.
Bouve Walter Lincoln, 301
Bowdich T C , 620
Bowditch Nathan Ingersoll,

177
Bowditch William Ingersoll,

467.
Bowdoin James, 461.
Bowen Simeon, 620
Bowman John Oliver, 46c
Bowman Robert H., 366
Bowman Selwyn Z., 129.
Boyden Roland W.. 461
Boyle George Washington, 461.
Boynton Abel, 620.
Boynton Thomas J., 620.
Boynton William E.,620.
Brackett James Albert, 365.
Brackett John Q A , 359.
Bradbury Charles, 620

Bradbury George, 461.
Bradbury J. O ,620.
Bradbury Theophilus, 246.
Bradford Daniel Neil, 461.
Bradford George Hi I lard, 461.
Bradford James M.,461.
Bradford Russell, 461.
Bradford William John Alden,

427.
Bradish —

-, 284.

Bradish Frank Eliot, 612.
Bradlee S. J., 620.
Bradley Aaron Alfieri, 644.
Bradley Andrew Coyle, 462.
Bradley Charles S , 580.
Bradley David. 288.
Bradley John D., 353.
Bradley Joseph Hildreth, 552.
Bradley Samuel Ayer, 559.
Bradstreet Simon, 163
Brady Philip Edward, 202.
Bragdon Joseph H , 620.
Bragg Heman, 620
Bragg Henry W, 353.
Brainard Charles R., 620.
Braley Charles A , 620.
Braley Henry King, 202.
Braman Grenville Davies, 461.
Braman Joseph B , 637,
Branch P N , 620
Brandeis Louis D , 365.
Brattle William, 238
Brayton Ellery M , 620.
Bray ton John S., 642.
Breck Michael W , 462.
Breck William, 620.
Bredeen Frederick A., 620.
Bremer Elias, 620.
Brennen J. F., 620.
Brewer Benjamin Gridley, 451.
Brewer Daniel Chaunoey, 361.
Brewer Edward W., 361.
Brewer Wm D , jr , 612.
Brewster Augustus Olcott, 557
Brewster Frank, 179.
Brickett Benjamin Franklin,

304.
Bridge James, 361.
Bridges Otis L., 620.
Bridgham Percy A., 361.
Briggs Andrew H., 361.
Briggs A. N., 020.
Briggs Benjamin F. 620.
Briggs George Nixon, 419.
Brijargs George Patrick, 462.
Brigham C, 620.
Brigham Cephas, 620.
Brio-ham Clifford, 462.
Brigham Henry A , 620.
Brigham Joseph, 462.
Brigham Lincoln Flagg, 203.
Brigham William, 119.
Brigham William T., 620.
Brimmer John Ambourlain, 462.
Brimmer Martin, 442.
Brinley Francis, 249.
Brinsley Walter C, 620.
Brodey Philip E., 620.
Bronson Ira H., 637.
Brooks Alvin M., 620.
Brooks Benjamin F.. 251.
Brooks Charles Joseph, 457.
Brooks Charles M., 620.
Brooks Edwai d, 925.
Brook* Francis. 620.
Brooks Francis, 202.
Brooks Francis Augustus, 158.

652

historV of The bench aMd bar.

Brooks Franklin E., 462.
Brooks George Merrick, 21 q.
Brooks Gorham, 225.
Brooks Tames Wilson, 462.-
Brooks P. C, 620.
Brooks William G., 620.
Brown Alexander P., 462.
Brown Alpheus R., 557.
Brown Augustus J.. 620.
Brown Bartholomew, 324.
Brown Calvin H., 620.
Brown Charles Brooks, 373.
Brown Charles F., 620.
Brown Charles H.. 620.
Brown David W., 620.
Brown Edward Everett, 462.
Brown Edward Payson, 462.
Brown Frank H., 620.
Brown George Addison, 375.
Brown George W., 612.
Brown Henry, 462.
Brown Henry G., 620.
Brown Horace. 612.
Brown Howard Kinmonth, 375
Brown Ira H., 620.
Brown Isaac, 620.
Brown Jeremiah, 620.
Brown John K., 375,
Brown John H , 620
Brown John P , 462.

Brown Nehemiah, 455.

Brown Sidney P., 620.

Biown Thomas B., 620.

Brown William, 209.

Brown William Henry, 374.

Brown W. Lock, 557.

Browne Albert Gallatin, 462.

Browne Causten, 304.

Browne Charles, 374.

Browne Dana, 620.

Browne Edward Ingersoll, 374.

Browne Ephraim, 620.

Browne Uenrge ML, 462.

Browne J, Merrell, 462.

Browne John White, 365.

Browne William, 21,.

Brownlow William Albert, 462.

Brownson John H., 620.

Brownson William J., 620.

Bruce Charles Mansfield, 295.

Bruce George Anson, 295.

Bruce Phineas, 28s.

Brush Abraham Stephens, 612.

Bryant F. E., 620.

Bryant Henry B., 620.

Bryant John Duncan, 368

Bryant Napoleon Bonaparte,
202.

Buchanan G. C. V., 620.
BuckC W..620
Buck Edward, 620.
Buck Henry Ball, 463.
Buck Robert H., 449
Buck Walter Darling, 368
Buckingham C?leb Alexander

399-
Buckingham F. W., 553.
Buckingham J. H., 620.
Buckman C. A., 620
Buffinton Eugene Lucian, 267.
Buffum Walter N., 463.
Bugbee John S , 620
Bulfinch George Storer, 239
Bulkley John, 282.
Bulkley Peter, 208.
Bullard Eli, 620.
Bullard Elias, 620.
Bullard John Richards, 267.

Bullivant Benjamin, 263.
Bullock Edgar K., 621.
Bullock Rufus Augustus
Bumpus Everett C., 364.
Burbank Robert Ingalls, 435

463-

Campbell Benjamin Merrick,

612.
Campbell George E., 621.
Campbell lieorge Hylands, 236.
Campbell James P., 464.

Burbank Walter Channing, 178. Campbell John Ray, 230

Burcee Edward B., 620.
Burdett Cyril Herbert, 612
Burdett Everett Watson 129.
Burdett Joseph O . 513.
Burgess Edward Phillips, 463
Burke Albert G., 620.
Burke Francis, 367.
Burke John H , 367.
Burleigh William R., 620
Burlingame Anson, 274.
Burnett William, 463.
Burnham Alfred Foster, 463
Burnham B F., 621.
Burnham Robert Orne, 377.
Burnham Seth C, 610.
Burns Charles Henry, 463.
Burns Charles J , 621.
Burns Samuel A., 6*o.
Burnside Samuel McGregor,
5SQ-

Burr David Augustus. 461.

Burr E T , 620.

Burr Heman Merrick, 202.

Burr Samuel C, 620.

Burr Sanford S., 620

Burrage Albert C, 439.

Burragre George D., 463.

Burrage William W., -,67.

Burt John H., 621.

Burt William Lothrop, 463

Burton Henry McKnight, 367.

Buss Ellsworth T . 621.

Bassey Benjamin, 435

Buswell Henrv Foster, 463.

Butler Benjamin, 621.

Butler Benjamin Franklin 492.

Butler Franklin Jenness, 463.

Butler George Brown, 463

Butler John E., 463.

Butler John Haskell, 609.

Butler John Henry, 374.

Butler John L., 621.

Butler M., 621.

Butler Sigourney, 442.

Butt Edward, 621.

Butterfield Jonathan Ware,
463-

Butterworth A. F., 463.

Butterworth Edgar R., 621.

Buttrick Edwin K., 637.

Buzell Albert Clark, 463.

Byam George A., 621.
Byfield Nathaniel, 238.
Byington Horatio, 398.
Bynner Edwin Lassiter, 609.
Byram F. B., 621.

Cabot Edward Twisleton, 464.

Cabot George, 428.

Cabot Henry, 287.

Cabot Henry Bromfield, 464.

Cabot James Elliot 452.

Cady Ebenezer E., 621.

Cady Stillman, 439.

Cahill John, 621.

Caldwell Middleton A., 621.

Caldwell William, 439.

Calhoun William Barron, 448.

Callender Edward Belcher, 236.

Callender Henrv B., 236.

Callender John," 285.

Callender Jonathan, 621.

Campbell Joseph Aloysius, 230.
Campbell William L., 621.
Canavan Michael Joseph, 336.
Canavan W'illiam "Francis, 464
Capen Elmer Hewitt, 305.
Capen Phineas, 621.
Carleton Thomas, 450.
Carpenter Charles A., 621.
Carpenter D. M. H., 621.
Carpenter Frank Oliver, 576.
Carpenter James E., 621.
Carpenter Mathew Hale, 290.
Carpenter Orrin Henry, 230.
Carpenter Robert W., 621.
Carr Sir Robert, 263.
Carnes Francis, 463
Carret James Russell, 464.
Carrigan Edward C. 259.
Carrington Henry H., 621.
Carroll Charles W., 621.
Carroll Georire P., 621.
Carruth William Ward, 464.
Carson John Bernard, 464.
Carter Ira Osborn, 336.
Carter W. W., 621.
Cartwright Anderson. 621.
Cartwright Georg-e, 263.
Carvell Leonard T., 464.
Carver Eugene Pendleton, 247.
Cary Nathan C. 621.
Cary Thomas Greaves, 130.
Casey Albert William, 464.
Casey John H., 247.
Casey P. J., 62I.
Cass Andrew J., 621.
Casseli H. O., 463.
Cassidy William E., 336.
Cate Edward Warren, 220.
Catlin John D., 621.
Cavanagh Leander J.. 464.
Caverly Robert Boody, 612.
Cazeaux Lendall Pitts, 464.
Cazneau Andrew, 268.
Ceney C. E., 621.
Chace Thomas E., 621.
Chace William M., 621.
Chadbourne Ichabod R.,
Chadbourne William G.
Chadwick Ward, 621.
Challis Josiah A., 553.
Chamberlain Edwin M . 621.
Chamberlain Franklin, 621.
Chamberlain George A. W.,

621.
Chamberlain George W., 553.
Chamberlain Mellen, 305.
Chamberlayne Charles F., 463.
Champlin Christopher E., 621.
Champlin Edgar Robert, 612.
Chandler Alfred Dupont, 419.
Chandler Charles Peleg, 453.
Chandler Everett S., 621.
Chandler James E., 621.
Chandler Lucius H , 621.
Chandler Parker Cleaveland,

230.
Chandler Peleg Whitman, 249.
Chandler Sumner Chase, 595.
Chandler Theophilus Parsons.

346
Chandler Thomas Henderson,
336.

621.
464.

INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.

6S3

Channing Edward Tyrrel, 252.
Channing Francis Dana, 464.
Chapin Herbert Allen, 236.
Chapin Horace Dwight, 464.
Chaplin Herman White, 236.
Chapman James W , 621.
Chapman Jonathan, 423.
Chapman Ozias Goodwin, 621.
Chapman Reuben Atwater, 245.
Charles Salem Darius, 230.
Chase Charles W., 621.
Chase James M., 464.
Chase Marshall S., 610.
Chase Salmon, 336.
Chase Thomas E., 621.
Chase William M., 621.
Chatt's P. E., 621.
Checkley Anthony, 263.
Cheever Ezekiel, 269.
Cheever George Francis, 127.
Cheever Tracy P., 610.
Chellis Charles H., 621.
Cheney Edward M., 612
Cheney Horace Rundlett, 454.
Cheney J. M., 621.
Chenie John, 621.
Chick Charles G.. 464.
Chickering William H , 621.
Child Calvin G., 621.
Child David L , 637.
Child Frarik L., 437-
Child Linus, 235.
Child Linus Mason, 235.
Child Samuel M.. 289.
Childe Edward Vernon, 336.
Childs Francis Linus, 437.
Childs William O , 621.
Chilson H. B., 621.
Chittenden A. P., 621.
Choate Charles Francis, 294.
Choate Charles Francis, jr , 294
Choate Frederick William, 550.
Choate George F., 557
Choate Joseph Hodges, 294.
Choate Rufus, 582.
Choate Rufus, jr., 464.
Choate William, 157.
Chomecin Leon F., 438.
Church Walter Lenoir, 336.
Churchill Asaph, 157.
Churchill Asaph, 158.
Churchill Charles M. S., 464-
Churchill John M. B., 337.
Churchill Joseph McKean, 250.
Churchill Joseph R., 251.
Churchill J. P. S., 464.
Clapp Arthur Blake, 464.
Clapp Clift Rogers, 289.
Clapp Henry Austin, 306.
Clapp Robert P., 369.
Clark Albert Cady, 337.
Clark Almon J., 621.
Clark Chester Ward, 129.
Clark Edwin R., 621.
Clark Greenleaf, 465.
Clark Isaiah Raymond, 306.
Clark Joseph F., 621.
Clark Joseph T., 621.
Clark Louis M., 465.
Clark Moses, 621.
Clark Peter, 343.
Clark R. P., 621.
Clark T. E., 621.
Clark William H., 621.
Clarke Edward, 285.
Clarke Gardiner H., 621.
Clarke George Kuhn, 337.
Clarke George Lemist, 605.

Clarke George W., 621.
Olarke Isaiah R„ 621.
Clarke Henry J.. 438.
Clarke John Jones, 210.
Clarke I. P., 621.
Clarke Joseph H., 621.
Clarke Manlius Stimson, 211.
Clarke Peter, 283.
Clarke Samuel Greeley, 465.
Clarke Thomas, 208.
Clarke Thomas William, 547.
Clary Albert E.,337.
Cleland William, 621.
Clement C. W., 621.
Clement L. H., 621.
Clifford Henry A., 621.
Clifford John Henry, 290.
Clifford Nathan, 379.
Clifford Nathan James, 560.
Clifford Samuel W., 157.
Clifford William Henry, 157.
Clough Andrew Jackson, 337
Clough John D., 621.
Clougherty John, 621.
Clymer Edward Myers, 464.
Coakley Timothy W., 465.
Coale George O G.. 465.
Cobb Charles Kane, 465.
Cobb Cyrus, 486.
Cobb John Storer, 338.
Cobb Moses Gill, 337.
Cobb William H., 553.
Cobe Ira M., 465.
Coburn Daniel J., 621.
Coburn Edwin R., 553.
Coburn Lewis Larned,46s.
Cochrane Frederick, 622.
Coddington William, 179.
Codman Charles Russell. 306.
Codman Henry, 377.
Codman James McMaster, jr ,

465.
Codman John, 424.
Codman John, jr., 288.
Codman Robert, 465.
Codman Robert, jr.. 465.
Codwise George A. P., 338.
Coffey John Augustus, 465.
Coffin Abraham Burbank, 320.
Coffin C. P., 465.
Coffin J. F., 622.
Coffin Nathaniel, 282.
Coggan John, 263
Coggan Marcellus, 355.
Cogswell Joseph Green, 158.
Cogswell Walter C, 465.
Cogswell William, 329,
Cohen Abraham S., 178.
Colburn Charles Shepherd, 465.
Colburn WaMo, 349.
Colburn William Gardner, 454.
Colby H. G. O., 362.
Colby John C. 622.
Colby John F., 249.
Colby John Henry, 589.
Colby Robert L., 622.
Cole John H., 539.
Colesworth Daniel C , 622.
Collamore George W., 610.
Colleary Patrick W., 622
Collins Arthur D., 622.
Collins Edward F„ 622.
Collins John A., 330.
Collins John J., 638.
Collins Mark C, 334.
Collins Patrick Andrew, 306.
Coleman William, 553.
Colman Clement H., 622.

Colt James Dennison, 331.
Colt James Dennison, jr., 353.
Colt Le Baron B., 597.
Conant Edward C, 465.
Conaty Edward J., 6^2.
Conery D. E., 622.
Conery H. H., 622.
Conlan John, 465.
Conlee Sebron T., 622.
Conly F. T., 622.
Connelly William M., 622.
Connelly William T , 622.
Conrad Thomas E. K., 622.
Conroy R T., 622.
Converse Albert F., 354.
Converse Albert F., 465.
Converse F. A. W., 622.
Converse John W., 338.
Converse Joshua P., 449.
Conwell Russell H., 610.
Coogan Michael B., 338.
Cook Charles P., 622.
Cook Frank Gaylord, 465.
Cook James, 622.
Cook Lyman D., 622.
Cook William H.. 465.
Cooke Benjamin F., 610.
Cooke Edward O.. 248.
Cooke Elisha, 291.
Cooke Josiah Parsons, 340.
Cooley George W., 434.
Coolidge Austin J., 553.
Coolidge David H., 129.
Coolidge Horace Hopkins, 339.
Coolidge Joseph Randolph, 465.
Coolidge Thomas Bulfinch, 466.
Coolidge William Henry, 339.
Coombs John Colby, 339.
Cooney James, 247.
Cooney Patrick H., 156.
Cooper Clarence H., 339.
Cooper Henry E , 622.
Cooper Samuel, 554.
Copeland Frank M , 339.
Copeland George Warren, 201.
Copeland William A., 339.
Copley John Singleton, 445.
Coppenhagen John Henry, 466.
Corbett Joseph J., 339.
Corcoran Declan C, 466.
Corcoran John W., 307.
Corey H. M., 622.
Cormack K., 622.
Corning Harvey T., 622.
Cornlee Lebron T., 622.
Corrigan R. Albernethy, 622.
Corthell Wallace, 622.
Costello John c, 622.
Costine Joseph P., 622.
Cotter James E., 364.
Cotting John Brown, 284.
Cottle Henry E., 622.
Cotton H. W. B., 466.
Cotton J. H., 622.
Cotton John J. ,-622.
Cottrell Asa, 559.
Courtney William F., 353.
Coverly R. B., 622.
Cowan Alonzo, 466.
Cowen Alfred C., 622
Cowen Daniel J., 622.
Cowing Rufus Billings, 466.
Cowley Charles, 622.
Cox Charles T., 622.
Coyt James O., 622.
Cradock George, 269.
Crafts Thomas, 285.
Crafts William A., 367.

654

HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Cragin Lorenzo S., jr., 612.
Crandall E. H., 622.
Crane David F.,466.
Crane John H., 622.
Crane Royal S., 622.
Cranch William, 274.
Crandell E. H., 622.
Crandell Hiram Burr, 374.
Crawford Frederick E., 466.
Crawford Jay Boyd, 373.
Creech Samuel W., 373.
Creed Michael J., 329.
Cressy Frank L., 466.
Cristy Austin P., 622.
Croane Lemuel E., 622.
Crocker George Glover, 307.
Crocker George Uriel, 307.
Crocker Samuel Leonard, 466.
Crocker Samuel Mather, 288.
Crocker Samuel R., 622.
Crocker Uriel Haskell, 307.
Crockett George H., 622.
Crommett Freeman Turner, 334.
Cronan John F., 335.
Cronin Cornelius F., 308.
Crosby Charles H., 335.
Crosby J. Porter, 335.
Crosby William G., 622.
Crossly Arthur Waldo, 605.
Crowley Charles, 307.
Crowley Daniel N., 622.
Crowley John Colman, 612.
Croswell Simon Greenleaf, 335.
Crowninshield Edward A., 127.
Crowninshield Francis B., 594.
Crowninshield John C, 622.
Cruft Edward, jr., 398.
CulverS. W., 622.
Cummings Cyrus, 622.
Cummings James T., 335.
Cummings John W., 622.
Cummings Joseph, 373.
Cummings Prentiss, 575.
Cummings William, 622.
Cummins Ariel Ivers, 466.
Cummins David, 421.
Cummins T. K., 612.
Cunly Joseph M., 622.
Cunningham Frederick, 374.
Cunningham Guy, 335.
Cunningham Henry V., 466.
Cunningham Nathan, 622.
Curley Thomas, 622.
Curran Francis P., 335.
Currier B. H., 560.
Currier Horace Hamilton, 454.
Currier John Jr., 622.
Currier Nathan, 335.
Currier O. S., 622.
Currier Soreno E. D., 622.
Currier Thomas Florian, 374.
Currv George Erastus, 375
Curtis Benjamin Robbins, 175.
Curtis Benjamin Robbins, jr.,

547-
Curtis Charles Pelham, 129.
Curtis Charles Pelham, jr , 130.
Curtis Charles Pelham, 3d, 466.
Curtis Daniel Sargent, 434.
Curtis Edwin Upton, 308.
Curtis George Ticknor, 239.
Curwin Jonathan, 215.
Cushing Abel, 369.
Cushing Abner L., 370.
Cushing Arthur P., 219.
Cushing Austin S., 622.
Cushing Caleb, 291.
Cushing Charles, 287.

Cushing Charles W., 466.
Cushing George S., 622.
Cushing Grafton Dulany, 612.
Cushing Henry L., 622.
Cushing John, 216.
Cushing John, 216.
Cushing John Newmarch, 612.
Cushing Livingston, 613.
Cushing Louis Thomas, 376.
Cushing Luther Stearns, 27s.
Cushing Martin G., 622.
Cushing Nathan, 246.
Cushing Thomas, 275.
Cushing William, 217.
Cushman Arey F., 622.
Cushman Austin S., 457.
Cushman Henry Otis, 375.
Cushman Joseph, 466.
Cushman Jotham, 622.
Cushman Walter S., 622.
Cutler Joseph, 622.
Cutler Marshall, 613.
Cutler Nathan, 622.
Cutter Edward S., 622.
Cutter Isaac Jones, 376.
Cutter Joseph A., 622.
Cutter Ralph H., 622.
Cutter Samuel Locke, jr., 613.

Dabney Frederick, 213.
Dabney Lewis S., 187.
Dacey Timothy J., 187.
Dakin Arthur H , 466.
Daland Tucker, 466.
Daley Peter, 623.
Dalton Tristram, 486.
Daly Anthony C, 146.
Daly Augustus J., 623.
Dame Abraham A., 456.
Dame Charles C, 610.
Dame John Thompson, 551.
Dame Theodore S., 550.
Dame Walter Reeves, 613.
Dame William Augustus, 466.
Dame William A., 622.
Dana Arthur P., 622.
Dana Charles Francis, 454.
Dana Edmund Trowbridge, 147
Dana Edward A., 448.
Dana Francis, 146.
Dana Francjs, 248.
Dana F. A., 623.
Dana Henry C, 623.
Dana James, 130.
Dana John Adams, 438.
Dana Richard, 146.
Dana Richard H., 146.
Dana Richard H. jr., 147.
Dana Richard H., 3d 147.
Dana Samuel, 147.
Dana William Franklin, 613.
Danforth George Franklin, 542.
Danforth John C, 623.
Danforth Thomas, 194.
Danforth Thomas, 268.
Daniels A. W. D., 623
Darby A. C, 623.
Darling Charles Ross, 466.
Darling Edwin H., 148.
Darling Frederick Homer, 613.
Darling Herbert Henry, 613.
Darling Samuel C, 623.
Dary George A., 148.
Davenport Addington, 128.
Davenport Addington, jr., 542.
Davenport Edwin, 466.
Davenport William Nathaniel,
148.

David Edward C, 623.
David J. B., 623.
Davidson James T., 623.
Davidson William E , 466.
Davis Abner, 623.
Davis Augustus Brigham, 466.
Davis Bancroft Gherardi, 467.
Davis Benjamin Wood, 613.
Davis Charles, 287.
Davis Charles Francis, 148.
Davis Charles Gideon, 185.
Davis Charles Thornton, 148.
Davis Daniel, 186.
Davis Edward H., 623.
Davis Everett Allen, 148.
Davis E., 623.
Davis Frank, 623.
Davis Frank M., 467.
Davis George Thomas, 150.
Davis Hasbrouck, 148.
Davis Henry Charles, 308.
Davis Henry Talman, 433.
Davis James Clarke, 149.
Davis Jerome, 613.
Davis John, 149.
Davis John Brazer, 426.
Davis John W., 560.'
Davis Mark, 623.
Davis Nathaniel M., 640.
Davis Samuel Craft, jr., 613.
Davis Simon, 149.
Davis Thomas H., 623.
Davis Thomas Kemper, 149.
Davis Timothy, 623.
Davis Wendell, 442.
Davis Willard A., 623.
Davis William, 150.
Davis William Nye, .150.
Davis William Thomas, 150
Davison Andrew Cunningham,

_ !5i.

Davy Humphrey, 208.
Dawes C. M., 623.
Dawes Henry L., jr., 623.
Dawes Rufus, 293.
Dawes Thomas, 246.
Day Charles Frank, 456.
Day Henry, 415.
Day James, 467.
Day John A., 560.
Day John E., 623.
Day Joseph M., 467.
Day Stanton, 149.
Dean Benjamin, 517.
Dean Benjamin C, 623.
Dean Frank A., 623.
Dean Joseph S., 186.
Dean Josiah Stevens, 467.
Dean Thomas, 467.
Deane F. B., 623.
Deans George Wheaton, 467.
Dearborn Frank A., 623.
Dearborn Joseph F., 623.
Dearborn Joseph W., 623.
Dearborn N. A. L., 623.
Dearington John F., 623.
Decosta George W., 623.
Dehon William, 425.
Delano Delavin Calvin, 151.
Delano Frank Ralph, 457.
De Las Casas William B., 253.
Demick Frank E., 467.
Deming Horace Howard, 457.
Demond Charles, 456.
Denfield Louis Emil, 151.
Denison A. E., 467.
Denison Daniel, 193.
Dennison George, 623.

INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.

655

Dennison Joseph, 467.
Dennison William, jr., 468.
Denny Henry Gardner, 188.
Denny Thomas, 457.
Denton William Pitt, 560.
Derby Elias Hasket, 239.
Derby Elmer G., 623.
Derby Ezekiel Hersey, 399.
Derby George Strong, 449.
Derby John B., 345.
Deshon George P., 623.
Devens Arthur Lithgow, 376.
Devens Charles, 217.
Devereux Humphrey, 287.
Devereux John James, 188,
Devotion Samuel H., 623.
Dewey Charles Augustus, 291.
Dewey Daniel, 246.
Dewey Francis Henshaw, 421,
Dewey Henry Sweetser, 187
Dewey Justin, 2C-4.
Dewey Seth P., 623.
Dewey T. M , 623.
Dewing Elijah F., 623.
Dexter Andrew, jr., 623.
Dexter Arthur, 467.
Dexter Edward Robbins, 467.
Dexter Everett K., 467.
Dexter Franklin, 568.
Dexter George, 173.
Dexter Samuel, 591.

Dexter Samuel, 502.

Dexter Samuel, 591.

Dexter Samuel, jr., 623.

Dexter Samuel G., 623

Dexter Thomas Amory, 376.

Dexter William Sohier, 442.

Dickerman Albert, 187.

Dickerman Frank Elliot, 187.'

Dickey David, 623.

Dickinson David Taggart, 613.

Dickinson F. W., 610.

Dickinson J., 623.

Dickinson Marquis Fayette,

375-

Dickinson W.. 623.
Dickinson William Austin, 467.
Dickson George C, 623.
Dickson William, 623.
Dieter F. J., 623.
Dillaway George Wales. 467
Dillaway William E. L., 512.
Dillingham William C, 623.
Dillon George W., 623.
Dillon James F., 623.
Dimmick Frank, 467.
Dimmock William R., 611.
Dimon Oliver, 623*.
Dixon Francis B., 623.
Dixwell Epes Sargent, 467.
Doane Henry, 558.
Dockray Tames, 289.
Dodge Arthur P., 623.
Dodge Edward Sherman, 467.
Dodge Frederick, 467.
Dodge Frederick B., 623.
Dodge John C, 225.
Dodge John Frederick, 453.
Dodge John H. P., 467.
Dodge William W., 467.
Dotrgett Samuel, 283.
Doherty Philip J., 308.
Doherty William W., 309.
Dolan Matthew. 332.
Dolan William J., 332.
Dolling Samuel W., 623.
Dollinger Samuel W., 623.
Dole Edward F„ 467.

Dole Sanford Ballard, 448.
Donahue Charles H., 623.
Donnelly Charles F., 638.
Dore John F., 623.
Dorr Dudley A., 468.
Dorr Ebenezer Ritchie, 468.
Dorr Francis O., 156.
Dorr Jonathan, 220.
Dorr Samuel Adams, 157.
Dorr Walter Henry, 613.
Dorr William Bradley, 428.
Douglas Albert, 468.
Dow John Emery, jr., 613.
Dow Nathan Thompson, 550.
Dow Richard Sylvester, 375.
Dow Samuel Knight, 613.
Dowd Frederick C, 468.
Dowd James J., 438.
Dowdall James, 623.
Dowe William A., 623.
Downes Henry Hill, 333.
Dowse G. S., 623.
Dowse William B. H., 597.
Drake Ellis R., 623.
Drake F. L., 623.
Drake Luther J., 333.
Drake Wilton E., 623.
Draper J. W., 438.
Draper Moses. 365.
Drew Charles A., 334.
Drew Charles Henry, 390.
Drew David F., 623.
Drew Eugeue I., 623.
Drew George W., 623.

Drew IraT., 468.

Drew John T., 623.

Drury William H., 200.

Dubois Edward C, 623.

Dubois Lorenzo Griswold, 468.

Dudley Dean, 638.

Dudley Elbridge G., 550.

Dudley Joseph, 638.

Dudley Levi Edwin, 308.

Dudley Paul, 638.

Dudley Sanford Harrison, 606.

Dudley Thomas, 163.

Dudley Warren Preston, 375

Dudley William, 262.

Duff William Frederick, 468.

Duggan R. Augustus, 199.

Dummer Charles, 623.

Dummer Jer,emiah, 260.

Dummer Richard, 192.

Dumpfel Frederick C, 623.

Dunbar Charles Franklin, 56^.

Dunbar James Robert, '2 4.

Dunbar John Danforth, 438.

Dunbar W. Harrison, 613

Duncan David D., 623.

Duncan William P., 623.

Duncklee Charles Tilton, 199.

Duncklee Mark Fisher, 55°.

Dunham Charles F., 499.

Dunham Charles G. M.,463.

Dunham Harrison, 468.

Dunlap Andrew, 638.

Dunlap Robert Hartley, 455.

Dunlap Samuel Fales, 293.

Durant Henry Fowle, 498.
Durant William Bullard, 468.

Durbin Edward Augustus, 613.

Durgin Mark H., 624.

Dustin Daniel H., 624.

Dutton Francis Lowell, 375.

Dutton Ormand Horace. 468.

Dutton Warren, 288.

Dutton Warren, 624.

Dwight Albert, 624.

Dwight Edmund, 623.
Dwight H. W., 623.
Dwight Jonathan, 468.
Dwight Thomas, 427.
Dwight Wilder, 638.
Dwyer Patrick D , 624.
Dwyer Richard Joseph, 468.
Dwyer William Whitton, 130.
Dyer C. G., 468,
Dyer Francis Benson, 468.
Dyer Micah, jr., 433.

Eager Clinton, 623.
Fames Ithmar B.,623.
Eastman Ambrose, 201.
Eastman George Nehemiah,

552-
Eastman Josephus, 468.
Eastman Luke, 605.
Eastman William H., 624.
Eaton Chester W., 203.
Eaton E. E., 624
Eaton George Herbert, 613.
Eaton Lucien, 468.
Eaton Thomas B., 624.
Eaton Thomas G., 624.
Eckley Thomas J., 624.
Eddy Charles F., 624.
Eder James Martin, 613.
Edes Henry, 287.
Edgerly A. W., 560.
Edgerly C. J., 638.
Edson Charles H., 338.
Edson Loren Henry, 453.
Edwards Abraham, 338.
Edwards E. E., 624
Edwards Henderson Josiah,

468.
Edwards Thomas, 282.
Egan James, 429.
Ela Richard, 248.
Elder Charles Ronello, 126.
Elder Samuel James. 309.
Eldridge Charles W., 624.
Eldridge Clarence Freeman,

Eldridge John J., 624.
Eldridge John Loring, 364.
Eldridge John Seabury, 450.
Eldridge Samuel, 449.
Eliot Amory, 338.
Eliot William H., 426.
Elliott Edward Thomas, 469.
Elliott James Henderson, 288.
Elliott Wi.liam, 239.
Elliott William, jr., 624.
Ellis Arthur Blake, 46S.
Ellis Charles James, 468
Ellis Charles Mayo, 448.
Ellis Frederick A., 624.
Ellis James, 624.
Ellis James M , 624
Ellis John Harvard, 125
Ellis Nathaniel. 624.
Elwyn John, 624.
Ely Alfred Brewster, 342.
Ely Frederick D., 126.
Ely Henry W., 624.
Ely William, 624.
Emery George W., 624.
Emery James, 624.
Emery James W., 624.
Emery Samuel Hopkins, 613.
Emery Thomas Jefferson, 338.
Emery Woodward, 332.
Emerson Charles Chauncy, 452.
Emerson Charles H., 624.
Emerson Charles N., 624.

656

HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Emerson Edward Bliss, 469.
Emerson John W., 469.
Emmes Aaron, 288.
Emmons Arthur Brewster, 469.
Emmons Freeman, 334.
Emmons Henry Butler, 334.
Emmons William H. H., 334.
End William, 611
Endicott John, 163.
Endicott William C, 309.
Endicott William C, jr., 421.
Engley William Francis, 469.
English George B., 125.
English James L., 156
English James S., 156.
Ennis Alfred, 624
Ensign Charles Sidney, 289
Ensign Edward Eli, 454.
Ernst George A. O., 289.
Estabrook George W., 289.
Estey Willard F., 624.
Esty Constantine C, 490.
Evans Andrew Otis, 614.
Evans Glendower, 469.
Evans Henry B., 624.
Evarts Jeremiah 293.
Evarts William Mnxwell, 293.
Everett Alexander Hill, 125.
Everett C. W., 624.
Everett David, 286.
Everett Edward, 624.
Everett John, 428.
Everett William, 499.
Everett William Abbott, 469.
Eustis Abraham, 239.
Eustis George, 289.
Eustis Horatio Sprague, 554.

Fabens Francis A., 383.
Fabens William, 469.
Fagin James K., 624.
Fairbanks A. W G., 414.
Fairbanks John, 469.
Fairbanks Lorenzo S., 508.
Fairbanks Rufus G., 224.
Fairfield Samuel L., 624.
Fales Henry, 469.
Fales Henry E., 233.
Fales Stephen, 418.
Fales William Augustus, 469.
Fall Anna Christy, 224.
Fall Charles Gershom, 224.
Fall George Howard, 224.
Fallon Joseph D., 596.
Farley Benjamin Mark, 234.
Farley Frederick Augustus,

i57-
Farley George Frederick, 357.
Farley James Francis, 469.
Farley James Phillips, 614.
Farley Philip O., 624.
Farmer Lewis G.. 383.
Farnham Frank A., 469.
Farnham Horace P., 469.
Farnham John E., 469.
Farnsworth W. C , 624.
Farrar George, 455.
Farrar Timothy, 624.
Farrar William H.,624.
Farrell Michael F., 384.
Farrie John, Jr., 624.
Farrow Frederick, 624.
Farwell George, 264.
Faunce Sewall Allen, 447.
Faxon William, jr., 201.
Fay Clement Kelsey, 219.
Fay Farwell F., 438.
Fay Francis Britain, 614.

Fay Jonathan, 283, 644,
Fay Richard Sullivan, 125.
Fay Samuel P. P., 447-
Federhen Herbert M., 384
Feeley Joseph James, 124.
Felch Charles B„ 557.
Felch Frederick R., 469.
Felken Samuel D ,624.
Fellner Eugene, 356.
Fellows H Parker, 469.
Felton Alexander C., 624.
Fenno James W., 624.
Fenton John L., 624.
Fenwick A. J., 624.
Fernald B. Marvin, 236.
Fernald Henry B., 624.
Fessenden Benjamin D., 624.
Fessenden Franklin Goodridge,

421.
Fessenden Thomas Green, 245.
Field Justin, 624.
Field Mansell B., 624.
Field Robert, 624.
Field Walbridge Abner, 259.
Field William Paisley, 455.
Fields Robert, 288.
Filkins, George E., 624.
Fischacher Max, 469.
Fish Abner C, 624.
Fish Frederick Perry, 469.
Fisher Aaron Esty, 614.
Fisher Albert G., 624.
Fisher David Simmons, 356.
Fisher George Albert, 469.

Fisher Herbert T., 624.

Fisher Nathaniel, 285.

Fisher Samuel, 209.
Fisher Samuel, 469.

Fisher Sidney A., 624.
Fisk Amasa. 624.

Fisk Henry M., 623.

Fisk James H., 623.

Fisk Robert Farris, 455.

Fiske Andrew, 310,

Fiske Augustus Henry, 310.

Fiske Charles Henry, 310.

Fiske Edward, 469.

Fiske Francis S., 414

Fiske Frederick A. P., 310.

Fiske Isaac, 470.

Fiske Jerome rl., 310.

Fiske John, 310.

FisUe John Minot, 470.

Fiske John Minot, 124.

Fitch George, 624.

Fitch Samuel, 269.

Fitz Alfred W., 624.

Fitz Daniel Francis, 470

Fitz Frank E., 356.

Fitzgerald James, 624.

Fitzgerald James E., 332.

Fitzgerald John E., 486.

Flagg George A., 328.

Flagg James E.. 624.

Flagg John S., 624.

Flanders George A., 624.

Flanders George M., 624.

Flatley P. J., 470.

Flatley Thomas, 124.

Fleming C. H., 624.

Fletcher Josiah, 624.

Fletcher Richard, 239.

Flint James Henry, 224.

Flint Thomas, 193.

Flint Waldo, 438.

Floyd Jesse L., 624.

Floyd Samuel E., 624.

Flynn Edward James, 251.

Foley Jeremiah G., 252.
Foley M. T..624.
Folger George H.,624.
Follan William L., 470.
Folsom George, 438.
Folsom Henry A., 560.
Folsom H. W., 624.
Folsom Samuel H-. 560.
Forbes Charles E., 639.
Forbes Charles S.. 624.
Forbes John Murray, 287.
Forbush Frank M., 252.
Forbush George Sumner, 251.
Ford Edward, 624.
Forsaith Josiah, 624.
Forsaith William Josiah, 326
Foster Alfred D., 638.
Foster Andrew. 470.
Foster Arthur F., 624.
Foster Bessenger, 285.
Foster Charles Amos, 470.
Foster Dwight, 422.
Foster Francis C, 384.
Foster George, 624.
Foster George S., 624.
Foster James, 470.
Foster Jedediah, 246.
Foster John, 260.
Foster John L., 624.
Foster Ralph W., 470.
Foster Reginald, 470.
Foster Stephen Austin, 326
Fowle Jonathan, jr., 624.
Fowler George R., 326.
Fowler William Plumer, 356
Fox Jabez, 311.
Fox James Augustus, 311.
Fox James W., 311.
Francis Erwin J., 624.
Francis Nathaniel A., 470.
Frank George Washington, 47 >.
Freeman Francis " ., 625.
Freeman Nathaniel, 470.
Freeman Rufus G. A., 470.
French Arthur Phelpu, 311.
French Asa, 585.
French Asa Palmer, 384.
French Ebenezer, 625.
French George B., 470.
French Henry F., 625.
French James Jackson, 450.
French Jei-erniah, 455
French John Henry, 470.
French Joseph R., 625.
French Lyman P., 470.
French Ralph S., 625.
French William B., 470.
French William H , 625.
French William Wesley, 311.
Friar William, 625.
Frost George S., 625.
Frost Henry Walker, 470.
Frost Lewis Fierce, 384.
Frost Robert W., 384.
Frost Walker Sprague, 384,
Frothing-harfi John, 47..
Frothingham Nathaniel L., 470.
Frothingham Thomas B.,490.
Fry Charles, 384.
Frye Alexander E., 625.
Frye Wakefield G., 625.
Fuller Abraham W., 562.
Fuller B. A. G., 625.
Fuller Eugene, 387.
Fuller Frederick D., 625.

Fuller Henry F., 624.
Fuller Henry H., 342.
Fuller Henry W., 330.

INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.

657

Fuller Henry Weld, 250.
Fuller Horace W., 470.
Fuller Richard Frederick, 239.
Fuller Samuel A., jr., 415.
Fuller Samuel D., 625.
Fuller Timothy, 288.
Fulton Charles Edward, 470.
Furber George Pope, 385.

Gage Arthur E., 387.
Gage Clinton, 625.
Gage John Cutter, 471.
Gage William, 625.
Galbraith Frederick W., 625.
Gale John, 411.
Gale Lucien, 574.
Gale William, 425.
Gale William B ,411.
Gallagher Charles Theodore,

3'3-
Gallagher Matthew, 625.
Galligan J. J., 625
Gallison John, 402.
Galvin John Edward, 313.
Galvin Owen A., 295.
Gammons George Gordon, 471.
Gansevoort Henry Safford, 455.
Gardiner C. P., 625.
Gardiner Francis, 614.
Gardiner Henry, 625
Gardiner John, 239
Gardiner John, 284
Gardiner Robert Hallowell,

3i3-
Gardiner Samuel Jackson, 411.
Gardiner Wade Hampton, 471.
Gardiner William Howard, 426.
Gardner William Sewall, 218.
Gary Frank E. H., 639.
Gargan Thomas J., 511.
Garland A. K., 625.
Gaston William, 385.
Gaston William A., 600.
Gates Fairbanks A. W., 471.
Gates Isaac, 471.
Gay Ebenezer, 124.
Gay Ebenezer, 253.
Gay Edward H., 625.
Gay George, 399.
Gay Samuel, 398.
Gaynor William J., 438.
Gedney Bartholomew, 209.
George Edward B., 625.
George Elijah, 131.
George John H., 625.
George Richard. 440
Gerard Francis Smith, 454.
Gerrish Benjamin J., 625.
Gerrish George Albert, 455.
Gerrish James, 385.
Gerrish Samuel, 625. '
Gerry Elbridge, 255
Gerry Frank F., 625.
Gibbons Edward, 193.
Gibbons Joseph McKean, 614.
Gibbs Amory Thompson, 471.
Gibbs Emery Reuben, 326.
Gibbs Ira, 611.
Gibson C. E., 625.
Gibson George Alphonso, 471.
Gibson William F., 625.
Giddings C. I., 471.
Gifford Edmund, 614.
Gilbert David, 471.
Gilbert Samuel C., 614.
Gilchrist D. S., 560.
Gilday Charles A., 625.

84

Gile John S., 625.

Gile William H.,625.

Giles Alfred Ellingwood, 451.

Giles G., 625.

Giles Joel. 342.

Giles John, 342.

Gill J. Francis, 625.

Gill Thomas, 502.

Gillett Frederick H., 614.

Gilman Allen, 625.

Gilman Edwin C . 587.

Gilman Raymond R., 581.

Gilman Stephen, 326.

Gilpatrick Frederick C, 471.

Girardin Louis, 326.

Gleason Albert Augustus, 327.

Gleason Daniel Angell, 311.

Gleason Horace, 427.

Glidden Ehsha, 625.

Glover Edward Weston, 454.

Glover Frank Eliot, 471.

Glover Horatio N., jr., 471.

Glover John, 193.

Gockritz , 625.

Goddard E. A., 625.
Goddard George Augustus, 471.
Goddard Maurice, 471.
Goddard S. W. E., 625.
Goff Hugh, 625.
Gold Thomas, 625.
Goldsbury John, 429.
Goldsmith Jacob, 471.
Gooch Daniel W., 312.
Gooch W. W., 471.
Goodale Samuel H., 625.
Goodenow John, 625.
Goodenow Richard, jr., 62s.
Goodman Richard, 471.
Goodnow Isaac, 625.
Goodrich C. B., 551.
Goodrich Frank Chester, 552.
Goodrich John B., 385.
Goodrich John H., 625.
Goodsell Evelyn Bonn, 386.
Goodwin Frank, 471.
Goodwin Henry, 644.
Goodwin Ozias, 471.
Gookin Daniel, 193.
Gordon George Henry, 220.
Gordon Robert, 639.
Gordon Solomon Jones, 441.
Gore Christopher, 225.
Gorely Charles Percival, 471.
Gorham Benjamin, 226.
Gorham Benjamin, 639.
Gorham David, 268.
Gorham H. Gardiner, 424.
Gorham Robert Stetson, 313.
Gould David, 625.
Gould David Ellsworth, 313.
Gould John Melville, 221.
Gould John S., 440
Gould Stephen, 625.
Gourgas John Mark, 386.
Gove Dana B., 471
Gove Jesse Morse, 312.
Gove Horace D., 471.
Gove William Henry, 472.
Graffam Nelson M., 221.
Graham James, 490.
Grant L. A., 625.
Grant Robert. 312.
Grant Walter B., 625.
Grantham Frederick W., 625.
Grasscup Peter S., 639.
Graves Franklin, 625.
Graves Horace, 472.

Graves T. E., 625.

Gray A. J., 560.

Gray, Benjamin G., 449.

Gray Edward, 284.

Gray Francis Calley, 128.

Gray Horace, 245.

Grayjohn Chipman, 172.

Gray John Chipman, 386.

Gray J. Converse, 386.

Grayjohn Clinton, 472.

Gray John Henry, 472.

Gray Levi, 472.

Gray Morris, 386.

Gray Naphin, 625.

Gray Otis T., 386.

Gray Reginald, 410.

Gray Russell, 472.

Gray Thomas J., 625.

Gray William, 640.

Gray William C, 625.

Greaves Thomas, 487.

Greeley Edward A., 625.

Green Herman W., 625.

Green Melbourne, 639.

Green Nicholas St. John, 450.

Green O. H., 625.

Green Oscar P., 625.

Green Richard W., 625.

Green Walter C, 625.

Greene Benjamin D., 472.

Greene David Ireland, 288.

Greene Joseph, 263.

Greene J. A., 625.

Greene Mary A., 625.

Greene William C, 411.

Greene William Parkman, 411.

Greenleaf Simon, 487.

Greenleaf Thomas, 345.

Greenough Charles Pelham.
124.

Greenough Daniel J., 625.

Greenough David Stoddard,
425-

Greenwood Ehsha, 411.

Greenwood Augustus Good-
win. 455.

Gregg Washington P., 424.

Gregory Charles Augustus, 472.

Gridley Henjamin, 263.

Gridley Jeremiah, 270.

Griffin Crawford S., 625.

Griffin Frederick W., 625.

Griffin George A., 412.

Griffin John Q. A., 586.

Griffin Martin. 625.

Griffin William Franklin, 224.

Griggs George, 428.

Grimes James Wilson, 412.

Grimkie Archibald Henry, 472.

Grinnell Charles Edward, 412.

Griswold Almon W., 438.

Griswold Loren Erskine, 154.

Grosvenor Lemuel, 625.

Grover Edwin, 518

Grover Elliott M., 625.

Grover Emery, 472.

Grover Thomas E., 154.

Grout A., 625.

Grout Jonathan, 472.

Guernsey Luther Blodgett, 455.

Guild Benjamin, 290.

Guild George Dwight, 414.

Guild Samuel Eliot, 128.

Guiney Patrick R., 486.

Gurley John Ward, 286.

Gunney R. C, 625.

Gunnison George W., 625.

658

HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Ilackett Frank Warren, 614.

Haddock William T., 625.

Hadley Eugene J., 518.

Hadlock Harvey Deming, 255.

Hagar Eugene Bigelow, 194.

Haggerty David J., 626.

Hahn J. Jerome. 625.

Hahn Silas B , 449.

Haile William H., 626.

Hale Abraham G. R., 518.

Hale Charles, 518.

Hale Edwin B , 179.

Hale George Silsbee, 414.

Hale Nathan, 127.

Hale Nathan, 175.

Hale Thomas E., 626.

Hale William P., 518.

Hall Alfred Stevens, 179.

Hall Benjamin, 178.

Hall Bordman, 178.

Hall Charles F.,178.

Hall Charles Winslow, 518.

Hall Ellis G., 626

Hall Frank Rockwood, 614

Hall Franklin, 222.

Hall Henry Seth, 626.

Hall James Milton, 178.

Hall Joseph, 283.

Hall Junius, 398.

Hall Robert Sprague, 194.

Hall Thomas Bartlett, 194.

Hall William Stickney, 518.

Hallett Benjamin Franklin, 275.

Hallett Henry L., 194

Halsted John J., 518.

Halsted Pennington, 518.

Ham Benjamin Franklin, 552.

Hama John T., 625.

Hamblin Howard Malcolm, 518.

Hamilton Alexander James,

518.
Hamilton H. L., 626.
Hamilton Samuel K., 355.
Hamlin Charles Sumner, 248.
Hammond John Wilkes 204.
Hammond Thomas, 285.
Hancock Charles Lewis, 427.
Hanks Charles Stedman, 317.
Hanley John E., 316.
Hannigan John Edward, 414
Hanson Charles H., 518.
Hanson George W., 625.
Hapgood Charles H., 625.
Hapgood John H., 625.
Harding Emor Herbert, 518.
Harding Fisher Ames, 398.
Harding George, 625.
Harding George Herbert, 220.
Harding Herbert Lee, 326.
Harding William Penn, 412.
Hardon Henry W., 614.
Hardy John Henry, 312.
Harlakenden Roger, 192.
Harlow James Francis, 614.
Harlow Robert Pinckney, 519.
Harlow Thomas Stetson, 126.
Harmon Irving, 626
Harmon Stephen W., 519.
Harriman Edward Avery, 614.
Harriman George F., 626.
Harriman Walter C, 626.
Harrington Dennis A., 519.
Harrington Joseph, 626.
Harrington W. H., 626.
Harris B. N., 626.
Hairis Benjamin Winslow, 130.
Harris Charles Nathan, 412.

Harris David L., 626.
Harris G N., 519.
Harris Henry P., 440.
Harris Horace, 626.
Harris Jacob B., 323.
Harris Joseph A., 501.
Harris Robert Orr, 453.
Harris Samuel T., 519.
Harris William A., 626.
Harris William Thaddeus, 448.
Hart William H., 204.
Hartshorn Benjamin M., 519.
Hartwell Alfred .Stedman, 519.
Hartwell Shattuck, 519.
Harvey Benjamin, 626.
Harvey John Le Grand, 327.
Harvey Napoleon, 626.
Harwood A. L., 519.
Haskell Benjamin. 626.
Haskell William, 626.
Haskell William E. P., 626.
Haskins David Greene, 412.
Hassam John Tyler, 232.
Hastings George Russell, 519.
Hastings Isaac, 626.
Hastings Seth, 440.
Hatch Arthur G., 519.
Hatch Nathaniel 263
Hatheway Albert Newton, 519.
Hatheway Amos L., 519.
Hatheway JohaG., 626.
Hatheway Simon W., 413.
Hathorne John, 209.
Hathorne William, 208.
Haven Franklin, jr., 519.
Haven Samuel, 345.
Hay Gustavus, jr., 413.
Hay George Whitney, 222.
Haycock Judson, 626.
Hayden Aaron, 519.
Hayden Albert Fearing, 414.
Hayden Charles Sprague, 519.
Hayden Edward D., 330.
Hayes Andrew Wayland, 415.
Hayes Benjamin Franklin, 558.
Hayes Charles Henry, 519.
Hayes Francis Brown, 294
Hayes Francis L., 519.
Hayes George E., 519.
Hayes James E., 626.
Hayes Thomas McCulloch, 626.
Hayes William Allen, 123.
Hayes William A., 2d, 519.
Hay ford George W., 626.
Hayman Edward P., 626.
Hayman Samuel, 264.
Haynes Charles H., 519.
Haynes Edward F., 169.
Haynes Gideon F., 520.
Haynes Henry P., 626.
Haynes Henry Williamson,

520.
Haynes John, 163.
Hayward Charles C, 626.
Hayward Jedediah K.. 553.
Hayward John White, 520.
Hazelton Horace L., 420.
Hazen M. W , 626.
Head Edward F.. 249.
Head George Edward, 415.
Healey John P., 260.
Healy Joseph, 540.
Healy William E.. 520.
Heard Charles, 626.
Heard Francis Fiske, 250.
Heard John, 286.
Hearne Joseph, 271.

Heath Thomas, 626.
Heath William, 543.
Hebron John B., 626.
Hedge William, 405.
Hedge William Kneeland, 448.
Heilborn George H., 61 1.
Hellier Charles Edward, 415.
Hemenway Alfred, 163.
Hemenway Charles M., 520.
Hemenway Frederick, 626.
Hemenway F. B., 520.
Hemenway George L.. 626.
Henderson Thomas Albert, 454.
Hendrick Clarence, 520.
Hendrie James, 626.
Henshaw Isaac M., 626.
Herbert John, 163.
Herndon Eugene W., 626.
Herrick E. H. P., 626.
Herrick Horatio G., 611.
Herrick Robert F., 164.
Herrick William A., 626.
Hersey Henry Edson, 164.
Hersey Ira Charles, 164.
Hervey James Algin, 520.
Hesseltine Francis Snow, 164.
Heurrot John, 626.
Hewins James, 363.
Hewlett E M., 626
Heywood Charles E., 520.
Hibbard Charles C, 626.
Hibbard Charles E.,626.
Hibbard Edward Andress, 614.
Hibbens William, 193.
Hichborn Benjamin, 554.
Higgins John H., 626.
Higgins John Joseph, 164.
Higgins Jonathan, 626.
Higginson Edward, 520.
Higginson Nathaniel, 285.
Hildreth Arthur, 520.
Hildreth Charles H., 614.
Hildreth George R.. 626.
Hildreth Richard, 164.
Hill Clement H., 626.
Hill Edgar S., 520.
Hill Edward, 282.
Hill Edward L , f26.
Hill Edwin Newell, 520.
Hill Hamilton Alphonso, 453
Hill Henry E., 440.
Hill John, 502.
Hill William, 284
Hillard George Stillman, 173.
Hilliard Francis 240.
Hilliard William, 192.
Hillis John, 520.
Hillis Thomas, 520.
Hills Frank H., 626.
Hills Nathaniel C, 626.
Hilton G. Arthur, 520
Hinckley Eugene B., 626.
Hinckley Samuel, 440.
Hincks David Armstong, 165.
Hinds Calvin P., 123.
Hinks John, 264
Hitchcock Charles, 626.
Hitchcock George Nicholas, 614.
Hitchcock Peter, 626.
Hoag Charles H., 626.
Hoague Isaac Theodore, 520.
Hoar David Blakely, 123.
Hoar Ebenezer Rockwood, 123.
Hoar Samuel, 443.
Hoar Sherman, 442.
Hobart H. C, 626
Hobbs Charles Cushing, 520.

INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.

659

Hobbs Frederick, 418.
Hobbs George L., 626.
Hobbs George M.. 123.
Hobbs Marland C, 520.
Hobbs William, 626.
Hobson William, 626.
Hodges Edward Fuller, 178.
Hodges George Clarendon. 165.
Hodges George Foster, 165.
Hodges Thorndike Deland, 520.
Hodgkins Allen F., 626.
Hodgkins Arthur P., 614.
Hoffman Charles, 626.
Hoffman Wickham, 222.
Holt Daniel, 626.
Holbrook Daniel Jefferson, 520.
Holbrook Leander, 521.
Holbrook Moses, 165.
Holbrook Silas P., 626.
Holcombe Frank G., 165.
Holcombe Willie Perkins, 165.
Holden Artemas Rogers, 520.
Holdr-n Joshua Bennett, 520.
Holland Henry Ware, 165.
Holland John Myers, 521.
Hollis Abijah, 521.
Holmes Abraham, 447.
Holmes Augustus L., 626.
Holmes Edward Jackson, 521.
Holmes Jabez Silas, 521.
Holmes John, 435.
Holmes John Sylvester, 166.
Holmes Joseph Alexander, 447.
Holmes Nathaniel, 166.
Holmes Oliver Wendell, jr., 259.
Homer George F., 428.
Homer Thomas J., 117.
Holt J. G., 521.
Hoi way Emery F., 626.
Hoi way Seth P.. 626.
Hood Gilbert E., 626.
Hooke E. G., 626.
Hooker John, 626.
Hooper Arthur W., 521.
Hooper Edward William, 436.
Hooper Franklin W., 614.
Hooper Sewall W., 521.
Hooper Stephen, 421
Hopkins Albert H., 122.
Hopkins Frederick S., 521.
Hopkins George C, 626.
Hopkins John, 421.
Hopkins J. D., 626.
Hopkins William S. B., 440.
Hopkinson Thomas, 640.
Hoppin Henry Parker, 521
Hopwood J. H., 521.
Hough Atherton, 192.
Houghton Charles. 449.
Houghton Frederick L., 521.
Houston Frank A., 521.
Hovey Edward S., 626.
How Isaac R., 626.
Howard Edward Otis, 167.
Howard E. O., 521.
Howard James M. F., 611.
Howard William L., 627.
Howe Archibald M., 167.
Howe Charles Franklin, 167.
Howe Elmer Parker, 166.
Howe George E., 521.
Howe Isaac Reddington, 167.
Howe John Dennett, 521.
Howe Moses G., 169.
Howe Samuel, 422.
Howe William Edward, 521.
Howes Lewis W., 135.
Howes William Burley, 435.

Howland Henry, 521.
Howland Willard, 131.
Howland William Russell, 169.
Hoyt George H.. 626.
Hubbard Charles Eustis, 168.
Hubbard Charles H., 627.
Hubbard Daniel J., 627.
Hubbard Gardiner Greene, 552.
Hubbard Henry Blanchard, 169.
Hubbard Henry C, 416.
Hubbard Horace C, 627.
Hubbard Josiah W., 156.
Hubbard Lucius L., 521.
Hubbard Nathaniel, 216.
Hubbard Nathaniel Dean, 169.
Hubbard Samuel, 169.
Hubbard Thomas, 265.
Hubbard T. H., 627.
Hubbard William Joseph, 426.
Hubbell Jay A., 627.
Hudson Charles Henry, 521.
Hudson H. L.. 554.
Hudson John Elbridge, 516.
Hudson John Williams, 449.
Hudson Samuel H., 521.
Hudson Woodworth, 170.
Huggeford Henry H., 427.
Hughes James, 521.
Hulin William, 627.
Hull John, 209.
Humphrey Eugene, 522.
Humphrey Francis Josiah, 425.
Humphrey James, 169.
Humphrey John, 192.
Hunt Frederick J., 627.
Hunt Freeman, 436.
Hunt Horace, 627.
Hunt Thomas, 522.
Hunt Thomas A., 627.
Hunt William, 283.
Hunt William Gibbs, 522.
Hunter Erford C, 639.
Hunter H". M., 627.
Hunter W. G , 627.
Huntington Charles P., 168.
Huntington Charles W., 522.
Huntress George L., 170.
Hurbaugh Lewis D., 627.
Hurd Charles Henry, 522.
Hurd Francis William, 522.
Hurd Frederick Ellsworth, 586
Hurd Theodore C, 501.
Hurlbert John W., 627.
Hurley Timothy, 627.
Hutchins Edward Webster, 441.
Hutchins Hamilton, 627.
Hutchins Henry Clinton, 438.
Hutchins Horace Green, 415.
Hutchins William Everett, 166.
Hutchinson A. B., 522.
Hutchinson Ebenezer, 166.
Hutchinson Edward, 260.
Hutchinson Eliakim, 262.
Hutchinson Elisha, 209.
Hutchinson Elton, 639
Hutchinson Foster, 216.
Hutchinson Frederick J., 166.
Hutchinson Freedom, 166.
Hutchinson Horace Deane, 455
Hutchinson P. H., 522.
Hutchinson Thomas, 167.
Hutchinson Thomas, jr., 263.
Hutchinson Winfield Scott, 168.
Hutchinson Winthrop, 627.
Hutt William, 627.
Huzzey Josiah, 627.
Hyde Henry Dwight, 168.
Hyde Louis Fiske, 168.

Ide John E., 627.
Ingalls A. T., 627.
Ingalls Melville E., 560.
Ingersoll Charles, 456
Ingersoll Charles M., 627.
Inirersoll John, 627.
Ireson Samuel Edward, 450.
Isham Thadeus I., 627.
Ives Stephen Bradshaw, 420.
Ivy Jesse C, 522.

Jackson Abraham, 222.
Jackson Alonzo D., 627.
Jackson Charles, 637.
Jackson Charles, jr., 134.
Jackson C L., 627.
Jackson Charles W , 627.
Jackson Edward, 286.
Jackson George Jeffrey, 627.
Jackson George West, 168.
Jackson Gerald G. P., 627.
Jackson J F., 627.
Jackson John Goddard, 405.
Jackson Obadiah, jr., 522.
Jacobs Bela Farwell, 436.
Jacobs Francis Wayland, 522.
Jacobs George Edward, 522.
Jacobs Justin Allen, 251.
Jacques Eden Shotwell, 522.
Jaffrey Charles W., 627.
Jaffrey George, 627.
James David Elias, 522.
James Elias, 627.
James George A., 637.
James H. A. W., 627.
James John W., 554.
James Worthen T , 522.
Jameson John. 522.
Janes Charles Walton, 168.
Jaquith Harry James, 169.
Jarvis Russell, 588.
Jarvis William Porter, 428.
Jeffries John, 265.
JellisonFrancello G., 627.
Jenkins Edward J., 170.
Jenkins Joseph, jr., 427.
Jenness William Whitten, 171.
Jenney Charles Francis, 171.
Jennings Herbert R., 627.
Jennison Samuel, 522.
Jewell C. A. 522.
Jewell Harvey, 564.
Jewell William E., 522.
Jewett David J. M. A., 627.
Jillson Francello, 627.
Johnes Ervin A., 627.
Johnson Asa, 523.
Johnson Benjamin Newhall, 522.
Johnson Byron B., 171.
Johnson Charles G., 627.
Johnson Daniel U., 627.
Johnson Edward F.. 171.
Johnson Edward Francis, 172.
Johnson Eugene M., 169.

Johnson George W., 440.
ohnson Harrison, 627
ohnson Henry Augustus, 169.
ohnson Isaac, 192.
Johnson L. H. H., 522.
Johnson Merritt C, 627.
Johnson Moses, 627.
"ohnson Okey, 523.
ohnson Wells H., 627.
ohnson William, 209.
ohonott Rodney F., 627.
ohonnot Samuel C, 284.
ones Arthur E., 416.
ones Augustine, 596.

66c

HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Jones Charles W., 627.
fones Edward Jenkins, 314.
Jones Francis A., 522.
Jones Frederick W., 6 7.
Jones George R., 317.
Jones Henry, 627
[ones James T., 627.
Jones Leonard Augustus, 133.
Jones William, 522.
Jordan Winfield C-, 627.
Joslin James Thomas, 154.
'joslin Ralph Edgar, 171.
Josselyn L. E., 627.
Jourdain Edwin H... 627.
Joy Albion K. P., 523.
Joy Frederick, 171
Joy James Frederick, 569.
Judd Chauncey P., 523.
Judson H. L.,637.
Judson Walter Herbert, 455.

Kaan Frank Wharton, 172.
Kane J. R., 627.
Kapsur William, 436.
Reams John, 627.
Keating Patrick M., 172.
Keefe John A., 523.
Keeser Frank M., 172
Keith Arthur Monroe, 523.
Keith Israel, 283.
Keith J. E., 627.
Keith James Monroe, 484.
Kei*h John W.,484.
Keller William V., 523.
Kelley George W , 627.
Kelley James Edward, 317.
Kelley John, 627.
Kelley Louis W., 523.
Kelley William, 627.
Kellogg Elliott E.. 627.
Kelly Edward Albert, 597.
Kelly Webster, 551.
Kendall James Brown, 483.
Kendall Robert B., 627.
Kennedy John Charles, 416.
Kent Benjamin, 268.
Kent Charles N., 627.
Kent George, 627.
Kettelle Jacob Q., 627.
Keyes Charles G., 523.
Keyes John Shepa-d, 354.
Keyes Prescott, 122.
Keyes Stephen F., 523.
Kibby A. V., 627.

Kidder Frederick H., 416.

Kidder John, 523.

Kidder Reuben, 627.

Kiernan Patrick Bernard, 416.

Kilton John F., 523.

Kimball Benjamin, 416.

Kimball Charles A., 455.

Kimball D. Frank, 416.

Kimball David P., 523.

Kimball Edgar L., 417.

Kimball Elbridge G., 637.

Kimball E., 627.

Kimball Edmund, 417.

Kimbail George H., 417.

Kimball J. C, 484.

Kimball John R., 627.

Kimball J. S., 627

Kimball Sumner B., 627.

Kimball S. J., 627.

Kimball W. Frederick, 417

King , 264.

King Benjamin Flint, 448.

King Charles Carroll, 615.

King Cyrus, 627.

King Francis L., 440.
King George A., 523.
King Henry W., 440.
King John Gallison, 450.
King Tyler B., 627.
Kingdoh Samuel S., 627.
Kingman Bradford, 323.
Kingman Hosea, 322.
Kingsbury Aaron, 627.
Kingsbury Benjamin B., 523.
Kingsbury George H., 417.
Kingsbury William Albert,

554-
Kingsbury William B., 122.
Kinsley C. C, 627.
Kinsman Henry W., 550.
Kinsman Josiah B., 523.
Kittite J. G., 627.
Kittredge Charles F., 317.
Kittredge Francis W., 523.
Knapp Alfred E., 627.
Knapp John, 288.
Knapp John, 560.
Knapp Nathaniel Phippen, 523,
Knapp Orren S., 627.
Knapp Samuel, 627.
Knapp Samuel Lorenzo, 275.
Knapp William, 450.
Knell Arthur S., 627.
Knight Frederick T., 523.
Knight J. E., 627.
Knight William H., 627.
Knowles Charles Swift, 417.
Knowles Isaiah, 523.
Knowles Samuel W., 628.
Knowlton Hosea M., 596.
Knowlton Marcus P., 204.
Knowlton Thomas Oaks, 523.
Knowlton William A., 317.
Knox William S., 501.
Krey John H., 250.
Kuhn Hamilton, 524.
Kyle Warren Ozro, 417.

Ladd Babson Savilian, 540.
Ladd Fletcher, 155.
Ladd Joseph Hartwell, 569.
Ladd Nathaniel Watson, 155.
Lamprey Charles M., 628.
Lamson Abbott W.. 524.
Lamson Arteinus Ward, 194.
Lamson Daniel S., 628.
Lancaster W. A., 628.
Lander Edward, 524.
Lane Andrew, 270.
Lane Alfred French.
Lane James M., 19c
Lane John C, 195.
Lane Lorenzo, 615
Langdell Chris* ip1 . >^-., 524.
Lange James 1-., .95.
Langley N. A., 628.
Lanman D. H., 628.
Lanman James H., 628.
Lapham Rufus, 628.
Larkin P. O., 639
Larkin Thomas F., 628.
Larned E. C, 628.
Larrabee Charles W., 524
Lassiter Francis Rives, 628.
Latham Aaron Hobart, 154
Lathrop John, 122.
Lathrop John, 275.
Lathrop Samuel, 628.
Lawrence Abbott. 615.
Lawrence Abbott, jr., 615. '
Lawrence Abbott W., 628
Lawrence Eugene, 628.

Lawrence Gardner, Whitney,

524-
Lawrence George P., 524
Lawrence Rosewell Bigelow,

140.
Lawrence Rufus B., 195.
Lawrence William Baxter, 140.
Lawton George F., 628.
Lawton Isaac B., 628.
Leach James E., 595.
Leach Orlando, 628.
Leahy John Patrick, 141.
Leavitt Jonathan, 628.
Le Barnes J. W., 628..
Le Breton Edward Lewis, 524.
Ledky Thomas, 628.
Ledyard Lewis Cass, 524.
Lee Elisha, 628.
Lee Elliot Cabot, 524,
Lee John Rowe, 524.
Lee Joseph, 141.
Lee Robert Levi, 524.
Lee Silas, 343.
Leeds Thomas E., 628.
Leland Sherman, 344.
Leland William Sherman, 345.
Leonard Daniel, 282.
Leonard Oliver, 628.
Leonard William H., 141.
Lesser J. N., 628.
Letchford Thomas, 161.
Leverett George V., 141.
Leverett John, 1^3.
Leverett John, 276.
Lewis Edwin C.. 628.
Lewis Frank W., 628.
Lewis Isaac Newton, 121.
Lewis John D., 628,
Lewis Samuel Parker, 195.
Libby Phillip J., 195.
Licks John, 628.
Lidget Charles, 604.
Light Charles Franklin, 195.
Light Robert W., 524.
Lincoln Albert Lamb, 240.
Lincoln Arthur, 240.
Lincoln Benjamin, 283.
Lincoln Charles F., 628
Lincoln Charles Plimpton, 241.
Lincoln Charles Sprague, 241.
Lincoln Daniel Waldo, 524.
Lincoln George Taylor, 241.
Lincoln James Otis, 524
Lincoln Levi, 240.
Lincoln Roland Crocker, 524.
Lincoln Solomon, 371.
Linscott Daniel Clark, 371.
Lippitt Francis J., 628.
Lisle David, 542.
Lisle Henry M., 286.
List Christopher Charles, 402.
Litchfield Frederick E,, 371.
Litchfield Walter, jr., 628.
Little George Coffin, 524.
Little Joseph J., 524.
Little William, jr., 425.
Littlefield George Sherman, 371.
Littlefield Nathan W., 628
Littleton William, 628.
Litton John L., 628.
Livermore Edward St. Loe, 225.
Livermore Samuel, 501.
Livermore Thomas Leonard, 569.
Locke Jackson, 524.
Locke John, 366.
Locke John G., 561.
Locke P. Webster, 611.
Lockhart Benjamin A., 179.

INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.

661

Lodge Henry Cabot, 205.
Lomax William, jr., 560.
Lombard Josiah Lewis, 524.
Lombard R. T., 628.
Lon, or Lun, William, 628.
Long John Davis, 314.
Lotigley Samuel H., 315.
Loois or Lovis, Francis, 628.
Loomis Elihu G., 524.
Lord Arthur, 333.
Lord F. H., 525'.
Lord James Brown, 366.
Lord Henry C, 628.
Lord Henry D., 628.
Lord Joseph L., 628.
Lord Otis Phillips, 420.
Lord Thomas, 628,
Loring Alden P., 525.
Loring Augustus P., 366.
Loring Caleb W., 371.
Loring Charles Francis, 366.
Loring Charles Greeley, 443.
Loring E. D., 628.
Loring Edward, 628.
Loring Edward Gray, 424.
Loring Edward Greeley, 428.
Loring Edward G., jr., 628.
Loring Edward P., 121.
Loring Eleazer B., 628,
Loring Ellis Gray, 424.
Loring Francis Caleb, 424.
Loring H. Selden,372.
Loring John Alden, 365.

Loring Joseph D., 628.

Loring Victor Joseph, 357.

Loring William Caleb, 372.

Lothrop Arthur P., 615.

Lothrop Thornton Kirkland,
121.

Loud Clarence B., 525.

Loud John Jacob, 615.

Loud Marcus M., 628.

Lougee Hayes, 357.

Loughran James, 628.

Lovell George W., 628.

Lovell John, 628.

Lovell Michael, 628

Lovering Charles T., 615.

Lovett Charles W., 525.

Lovis, or Loois, Francis, 628.

Low John W., 438. ,

Low Obed B., 628.

Lowell Abbott Lawrence, 525.

Lowell Charles Russell, 121.

Lowell Edward Jackson, 428.

Lowell Edward Jackson 2d, 525.

Lowell Francis Cabot, 525

Lowell Francis Cabot, jr., 525.

Lowell James Russell, 315.

Lowell John, 271.

Lowell John, 271.

Lowell John, 577.

Lowell John, 525.

Lowell Sidney V., 628.

Lucas Clinton William, 525.

Luce Edmund R., 628.

Luce Enos Thompson, 348.

Luce Thomas D., 628.

Ludden Charles Mandeville, 349. Mason Harry White, 372

Lyman Arthur, 349.
Lyman David Brainard, 525.
Lyman David Hinckley, 525.
Lyman Edward E., 628.
Lyman George Hinckley, 349.
Lyman Joseph, 133.
Lyman Joseph, 560.
Lyman Theodore, 241.
Lyman William, 285. ,
Lynch John F., 628.
Lynch Robert A., 628.
Lynde A. Selwyn, 628.
Lynde Alonzo V., 349.
Lynde Benjamin, 214.
Lynde Benjamin, jr., 214.
Lynde Simon, 263.
Lyons John Plumer, 615.

MacDonald William E., 628.
Mackintosh Charles A., 628.
Mackintosh Frank, 628.
Mackintosh Frank H., 628.
Macleod W. A., 628.
Macomber F. G., 525.
Magee D. B., 628.
Magee Frank P., 366.
Mahan John W., 328.
Maher Peter S., 372.
Magenesker C. L., 628.
Maginnes Michael, 628.
Maine Sebeus C., 561.
Major T E , 628.
Malone J. J., 62(3.
Maloney Jeremiah J., 628.
Manchester Forrest C., 399.
Mann Charles H., 569.
Mann Horace, 120
Manning Jerome F., 439.
Manning John P., 372.

Mansfield Ex-Sumner, 525.

Mansfield M. B , 628.

Manson George F., 525.

Marcy James Warren, 457.

Marden James M., 364.

Marden Oscar A , 363.

Marsh J. J., 628.

Marshall E. M., 628.

Marshall Elmer E.. 525.

Marshall John Murray, 365.

Marston George, 332.

Marston Gilman, 249.

Martin Alexander, 525.

Martin Alpheus A., 629.

Martin Austin Agnew, 6t5.

Martin Francis. 628.

Mart;uTk>hn F., 525.

Mar ;if v\"Siriam H., 628.

M:. tin V '"^iam P., 525.

Mai ; jhn Marshall, 525.

Marvin _ ,m f:f, 455.

Mason Albc ^5.

Mason Alvei do, 629.

Mason Charles, 428.

Mason David Haven, 545.

Mason Edward Haven, 365.

Mason Frank Atlee, 372.

Mason George C, 6?8.

Mason George M., 629.

Ludlow Roger, 180.
Lun, or Lon, William, 628.
Lund Clarence B., 628.
Lund Rodney, 349.
Lunt George, 387.
Lunt Henry, 251.
Lusher Eleazer, 208.
Lyde Edward, 260.
Lyman Anson M., 525.

Mason Jeremiah, 541.
Mason John, 560
Mason John Rogers, 457.
Mason John W., 390.
Mason Jonathan, 541.
Mason Lyman, 553.
Mason Robert, 264.
Mason Rufus W.. 629.
Mason W. N., 456.

Mason William Powell, 241.
Masters Giles, 264.
Mather Edwin H., 629.
Mather Henry H., 457.
Mather Louis K., 457.
Matthews Nathan, jr., 387.
Maverick Samuel, 263.
Maxwell Arthur, 629.
Maxwell Arthur A., 629.
Maxwell James A., 591.
May Henry Farnham, 615.
May John W., 449.
May Joseph, 629.
Mayberry Cyrus C, 526.
Maybury George Lowell, 615.
Maynard Elisha Burr, 205.
Maynard Laurens, 526.
Maynadier James E., 377.
Mayo Charles, 418.
Mayo John B., 629
McAllister C. C.,629.
McAnarney J. W., 526.
McCafferty Mathew James, 214.
McCall Samuel Walker, 133.

McCarthy Charles J., 629.

McCarthy Thomas J., 629.

McCartney William H., 629.
McCleary Samuel Foster, 222.

McCleary Samuel Foster, jr.,
436.

McClellan Arthur D., 538.

McClellan George F., 526.

McClellan Isaac, jr., 576.

McClure E. W., 629.

McConnell George W., 629.

McDaniel Samuel W., 377.

McDavitt Samuel W., 629.

McDonald James W., 377.

McDonough John H., 296.

McDonough Timothy F., 346.

McFarlan Flavius J., 629.

McFarland Edward, 629

McFarland William S., 628.

McGeough James A , 328.

McGrath Thomas W., 615.

McGrew George Harrison, 615.

McGuire P. J. ,'629.

McGuire Thomas F., 628.

Mcllroy, Daniel, 526.

Mclnnes Edwin Guthrie, 387.

Mclnnes William M., 526.

Mclntire Charles John, 220.

Mclntire Frederick, 526.

Mclntire William, 629.

Mclntire William J.. 629.

McKay J. F., 629.

McKean John G., 457-

McKeever Henry F., $26.

McKilleget Richard J., 387.

McKim John W., 120.

McLaren Irvine G., 45^.

McLaughlin Edward A., 333.

McLaughlin John D., 388.

McLeod Arthur James, 159.

McLeod William A., 629.

McManus Edward. L., 629.

McNamara H. M., 639.

McNamara MicWael, 628.

Mead Clarence <'F., 629.

Meade Michael 629.

Means Arthur F., 159.

Means G. P., 629.

Meek Almon R., 629.

Mellen Charles C, ^-26.

Mellen Edward, 213.

Mellen Grenville, 276.

Menzies John, 269.

Merriam John McKinstrv. i&.'°.

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HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Merrick John, 284.

Merrick Pliny, 160.

Merrill Abel, 569.

Merrill Amos B., 419.

Merrill Annis, 419.

Merrill Charles A., 526.

Merrill Elijah Hedding, 615.

Merrill George, 629.

Merrill James Cus'hing, 160.

Merrill James Clashing, 429.

Merrill Moody, 160.

Merritt Nehemiah Thomas, jr.,

i6>.
Merritt William F., 161.
Merwin Elias, 155
Merwin Henry C, 378
Meserve Clement, 629.
Meserve Henrj' Clifford, 161.
Messer Asa, 629.
Metcalf George T., 629.
Metcalf Theron, 177.
Metcalf William F., 629.
Meyer Joseph, 449.
Miles Jonas M., 629.
Miles William, 629.
Midgley John, 526.
Mildram Francis B., 526.
Miller Ephraim Flirft, 526.
Miller Ezekiel L.. 629.
Miller George H., 526.
Miller Seth, 324.
Miller Thompson, 419.
Miller William Henry, 120.
Millett Joshua Howard. 101.
Milliken Arthur N., 161.
Millin Leon, 629.
Mills Elijah H., 561.
Mills John, 561.
Mills John C, 629.
Milton Henry Slade, 388.
Minns George W., 452.
Minot George, 120.
Minot George k., 639.
Minot Robert Sedgwick, 526.
Minot William, 3r6.
Minot William, 388.
Minot William, jr., 580.
Mitchell E. C, 629.
Mitchell Nahum, 140.
Mitchell William Howard, 603.
Moll John J. A., 629.
Mompesson Roger, 269.
Monroe William Ingalls, 388.
Montague George P., 561.
Montague Russell Wortley, 526.
Montague William P., 526.
Montgomery Hugh, 423.
Moody George Barrell, 388.
Moody George Theodore, 526.
Moore Abraham, 218.
Moore Beverly K., 526.
Moore Eugene H., 388.
Moore George B., 629.
Moore George W., 388.
Moore Howard1 Dudley, 388.
Moore James B;aker, 455.
Moore Jonathan F., 629.
Moore Joseph E., 629.
Moore'Mark, 629.
Moore Michael J., 089. ;
Moran Alonzo D., '526.
Moran John B., 526.
Morey B., 629.
Morey Georg-e, 343.
Morgan C. C. , 389.
Morgan David, 550.
Morgan Vrank E., 629.
Morg-un John L., 629.

Morgan William M., 389.
Morison Frank, 527
Morison John H., 389
M or re 11 Edward, 127.
Morrill Ashli-y C. 629.
Morrill Frank J., 629.
Morrill George. 527.
Morrill William F., 629.
Morris Henry, 173.
Morris Robert, 527.
Morris Robert, jr., 527.
Morris William G., 527.
Morris William W., 629.
Morrison T. J.. 527.
Morse Albert G., 389.
Morse Bushrod, 206.
Morse C. Osgood, 629.
Morse Charles R., 527.
Morse Elisha M., 629.
Morse George A., 629.
Morse George W., 629.
Morse George W., 430.
Morse Godfrey, 539.
Morse Horace E., 527.
Morse Isaac S , 389.
Morse Jacob C, 629.
Morse John Torrey, 206.
Morse John Wells, 629.
Morse Moses L , 629.
Morse Nathan, 496
Morse Nathan 2d, 527.
Morse Robert M.. 562.
Morse Sidney B., 629.
Morse T. S., 629.
Morse William A., 527.
Morton Edwin, 433.
Morton Ellis Wesley, 323.
Morton Frank T., 436.
Morton James Madison, 422.
Morton Marcus, 206.
Morton Marcus, jr., 601.
Morten Marcus 3d, 207.
Morton Nathaniel, 452.
Morton Perez, 497.
Morton Thomas, 161.
Morton William Saxton, 259.
Mosback Frederic G., 629.
Moseley Ebenezer, 497.
Motley John Lothrop, 176.
Motte Ellis Loring, 389.
Moulton Barron C., 527.
Moulton Daniel Smith, 527.
Moulton Ferdinand, 629.
Moulton George W., 527."
Moulton Olaus Caecilius, 453.
Mowry Oscar W., 300.
Mulaoon Patrick E., 629.
Mulligan Henry C, 390.
Mullin George Hill, 344.
Mulvey James S., 629.
Mulvey P E., 629.
Munroe E. V., 527.
Munroe Francis J., 527.
Munroe Israel, 288.
Munroe William Adams, 390.
Munroe William J., 629.
Murdock Charles T., 391.
Murphy Frederick W., 629.
Murphy James R., 545.
Murray Albert L., 629.
Murray William F., 346.
Muzzey Daniel P., 629.
^luzzey Henry W.. 479.
Myers James J., 391.
Myles William F., 629.
Myrick N. Sumner, 527.

Naphen Henry F., 191.

Nash Frank Philip, 527.
Nash F. C, 527.
Nash Howard D., 527.
Nash Joseph, 629.
Nash Joseph, 629.
Nash Lonson, 629.
Nash Stephen G., 191.
Nason James B., 629.
Nason John, 629.
Nason Rufus W., 527.
Nason William A., 629.
Nay Frank N., 192.
Needham Daniel, 505.
Nelson Albert Hobart, 192.'
Nelson Job, 416.
Nelson Thomas L., 297.
Nettleton Edward P., 249.
Newcomb Daniel, 283.
Newcomb Richard E., 629.
Newell Charles Stark, 230.
Newell Robert Balston, 527.
Newell Samuel, 527.
Newhall James R , 630.
Newhall John Breed, 191.
Newman Henry, 191.
Newman William, '629
Newmark Nathan, 615.
Newton Harry H., 231.
Newton Jeremiah L., 449.
Newton Thomas, 264.
Nichols Benjamin Ropes, 231.
Nichols Benjamin White, 231.
Nichols Charles C, 231.
Nichols Frank A., 629.
Nichols Henry Oilman, 527.
Nichols J. L., 629.
Nichols Richard, 263.
Nichols William, jr., 630.
Nickerson F. S., 527.
Nickerson John Albert, 453.
Nickerson Joseph, 604.
Nickerson Melville P., 629.
Nickerson Sereno Dwight, 528.
Nickerson S. W., 527.
Nickerson William P., 630.
Niles Samuel, 497.
Niles Thomas H., 629.
Niles William Henry, 297.
Noble Daniel, 629.
Noble Frank T., 630.
Noble John, 231.
Noble William Mark, 233.
Noonan John Andrew, 233.
Noonan T. Frank, 233.
Norcross Grenville Howland,

528.
Norcross Otis, 528.
Norman John A., 630.
Norris A. F., 630.
Norris G. W., 234
Norton Frederick L., 234.
Norton M. P., 630.
Nowell Increase, 167.
Nowell Samuel, 167.
Noyes Amos, 630.
Noyes Bartholomew, 630
Noyes Charles Johnson, 510.
Noyes Frank £.., 630.
Noyes Seorge Dana, 242.
Noyes George F., 630.
Noyes Isaac B., 630.
Noyes Samuel Bradley, 369.
Nutter Charles Copeland, 184.
Nutter George Read, 243.
Nutter Thomas F., 134.'

Oak F. Clarendon, 630.
Oak George, 528.

INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.

663

O'Brien Eugene, 630.
O'Brien James W, 244.
O'Connell Maurice, 528.
O'Connor E. B., 630.
O'Connor Timothy, 639.
O'Gorman J. S., 630.
Oliver Andrew, 528.
Oliver Nathaniel K. G., 528.
Oliver Peter, 214.
Oliver Peter, 214.
Oliver Peter, 456.
Olmstead James Monroe, 242.
Olney Richard, 491.

Olney Peter B., 528.

O'Laughlin Patrick, 242.

Orcutt William Byron, 232.

Orcutt William Hunter, 528.

Ormsby George F., 630.

Orne Henry, 4 2.

Osborne Theodore Moody, 528.

Osbcrne William H., 253.

Osborne William McKinley, 198.

Osgood Isaac, 630.

OsgOv d Isaac Peabody, 231.

Osgo. d J. B F..i«a. JT« ^

Osgood Lewis W., 630.

Osgood William N., 297.

Otis Albert Boyd, 231.

Otis Barney, 429.

Otis Edmund Burke, 419.

Otis George, 560.

Otis George Alexander. 419.

Otis George Alexander, 429.

Otis George Edmund, 528.

Otis Harrison Gray, 284.

Otis Harrison Gray, jr., 425.

Otis James, 271.

Otis James, 270.

Otis Joseph Russell, 528.

Otis Samuel Allyne, 281.

Otis Theodore, 428.

Otis William Foster, 228.

Otis William Sigourney, 435.

Overing John, 270.

Owen Charles Hunter, 528.

Owen Roscoe Palmer, 528.

Owen W. Barry, 630.

Oxnard Henry E., 615.

Packard Eliot L., 252.

Packard John H.,630.

Page John Augustus, 616.

Page William, 251.

Page William R., 528.

Paige Charles F., 630.

Paine A. Warren, 630.

Paine Asa W., 630.

Paine Charles, 286.

Paine Charles Cushing, 528.

Paine Charles Frederick, 529.

Paine Charles Jackson, 516.

Paine Elijah, 528.

Paine Henry Williams, 255.

Paine John J., 630.

Paine John T., 450.

Paine Robert, 285.

Paine Robert Treat, 566.

Paine Robert Treat, jr., 567.

Paine Robert Treat, 3d, 567.

Paine Robert Treat, 4th, 567.

Paine Robert Treat, 5th, 567.

Paine Thomas, 287.

Paine William Cushing, 630.

Palfrey Francis Winthrop, 250.

Palmer Bradley Webster, 391.

Palmer George H., 630.

Palmer Grant M., 391.

Palmer John, 264.

Palmer Joseph Merrill, 616.
Palmer Thomas, 260.
Parish Moses P., 630.
Park John Cochran, 219.
Parke George Winter, 228.
Parker Alice, 228.
Parker Aurelius D., 426.
Parker Bowdoin Strong, 391.
Parker Charles Albert, 529.
Parker Charles E., 630.
Parker Charles Henry, 425.
Parker Charles T., 630.
Parker Daniel, 529.
Parker Edmund M., 229.
Parker Edward Griffin, 281.
Parker Francis Edward, 173.
Parker George W., 529.
Parker Henry Melville, 229.
Paiker Henry Tuke, 452.
Parker Horatio G., 268.
Parker Isaac, 244.
Parker Joel, 177.
Parker Jonathan Mason, 453.
Parker Nathaniel A., 639.
Parker Samuel, 288.
Parker Samuel Dunn, 429.
Parker William, 630.
Parker William Colvard 268.
Parker William McCaine, 630.
Parkinson George B., 630.
Parkman Daniel, 399.
Parkman George Francis, 452.
Parkman Henry, 278.
Parks Clarence A., 63-*.
Parks Gorham, 529.
Parks Nathaniel Austin, 529.
Parmemter James Parker, 391.
Parmenter William Ellison, 391.
Parsons Benjamin, 560.
Parsons Ebenezer, jr., 630.
Parsons Frank, 392.
Parsons Myron Curtis, 529.
Parsons Samuel, 22g.
Parsons Solomon, 630.
Parsons Theophilus, 244.
Parsons Theophilus, jr., 244.
Pastine Joseph Nicholas, 392.
Patoh F. C, 630.
Patch John, 630.
Pattee Charles H., 392.
Pattee William G. A., 392.
Patten Daniel D., 630.
Patten Francis Bartlett, 251.
Patten Jacob C, 639.
Patterson George Herbert, 529.
Patton John Sidney, 230.
Paul Isaac F., 346.
Paul John F., 630.
Paul Joseph Frank, 595.
Payne Arthur L., 630.
Payne Charles F., 639
Payne William E., 630.
Payson Edward Payson, 229.
Payson Thomas E., 630.
Payson William M., 63 ,
Peabody Asa, 630.
Peabody Augustus, 558
Peabody Daniel W., 559.
Peabody Francis, jr., 229.
Peadody James C, 630
Peabody Oliver, 529.
Peabody Oliver W. B., 427.
Peabody Philip Glendower, 229.
Peabody Owen Glendower, 553.
Peabody William E., 529.
Pearl Isaac E., 630.
Pearse Thomas H., 529,
Pearson Eliphalet, 450.

Pearson Henry Brom field, 229.
Pearson Robert W., 630.
Pearsons Timothy, 630.
Peck William Ware, 529.
Peirce Roger N., 630.
Peirce William H., 639.
Pelham Herbert, 543.
Pellew William G., 616.
Pelton F. Alaric, 302.
Pember Thomas, 630.
Pemberton Samuel. 501.
Pendergast Frank H., 630.
Pendleton Frank K., 529.
Perham Joel, 630.
Perkins Augustus T., 529.
Perkins Benjamin C.,630.
Perkins Charles Carroll, 529.
Perkins Charles T., 430.
Perkins Daniel A. W, 630.
Perkins David, 501.
Perkins Edward Cranch, 529.
Perkins George Arthur, 282.
Perkins Henry G., 282.
Perkins Horatio N., 501.
Perkins Israel, 630.
Perkins Jacob L., 630.
Perkins J. M., 630.
Perkins Jonathan Cogswell, 281.
Perkins Joseph, 52Q.
Perkins William Edward, 454.
Perley George E., 630.
Perley Sidney, 392.
Perrin W. H., 630.
Perrins J jr., 529.
Perry Baxter E , 474.
Perry Chester M., 630.
Perry Francis A , 529.
Perry George Brown, 454.
Perry George Hough, 392.
Perry Luther, 439.
Perry Sanford Barnum, 530.
Peters Edward Gould, 529.
Peters Lemuel W., 392.
Peterson Arthur Porter, 489.
Pettee Edward E., 630.
Pettengill John Ward, 603.
Pettingell Noah B. K., 630.
Pevy Gilbert A. A., 393.
Phelps Charles Porter. 286.
Phelps Edwin Alexander, 393.
Phelps John. 530.
Philbrick Edward W., 630.
Phillips Charles AppletOn, 530.
Phillips Edward K.. 630.
Phillips George William, 427.
Phillips Grenville Tudor, 280.
Phillips John, 280.
Phillips John, 281.
Phillips Stephen Henry, 281.
Phillips Thomas Walley, 280.
Phillips Wendell, 280.
Phillips Willard, 281.
Phillips Willard Quincy, 530.
Phipps David W., 630.
Pickering Charles W , 630.
Pickering Edward, 423.
Pickering Henry, 616.
Pickering Henry Goddard, 530.
Pickering James F , 530.
Pickering James Winthrop, 280.
Pickering John, 279.
Pickering John, jr., 427.
Pickering Octavius, 280.
Pierce Charles H., 630.
Pierce Edward Henry, 232.
Pierce Edward Lilhe, 298.
Pierce George Winslow, 530.
Pierce Quincy, 630.

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HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Pierce Orestes, 630.
Pierce Richard A., 644.
Pierce Richard N., 561.
Pierce William A., 630.
Pigeon Edward P., 630.
Pike Charles E., 630.
Pike John .E, 630.
Pike Robert, 209.
Pilkin Walter S., 630.
Pillsbury Albert E , 565.
Pillsbury Carroll E., 630.
Pillsbury Ebenezer F., 630.
Pindell Charles E., 630.
Pinkerton John M., 530.
Pinkham Walter Samuel, 140.
Piper George Frederick, 530.
Pitman Robert Carter, 198.
Pitts Charles Coffin, 135
Piatt John Tuttle, 530
Plimpton Silas Fisher, 451.
Plumer William, 530.
Plummer Clifford H., 530.
Plummer Sedgwick L., 530.
Plunkett Christopher G., 140.
Pollock Robert H., 530.
Ponce John H., 139.
Pond Benjamin, 250.
Pond George E., 530.
Pond Joseph E., jr., 630.
Poole Benjamin, 630.
Poole Benjamin, jr., 631.
Poor Albert, 530.
Poor George H., 530.
Pope Charles Greenwood, 298.
Pope James W., 631.
Pope Thomas Butler, 139.
Porter Elam, 560.
Porter George Doane, 139.
Porter Jerome B., 631.
Porter John W., 631.
Porter Jonathan, 232
Porter Jonathan Edwards, 530.
Porter Josiah, 530.
Porter Nathaniel', 631.
Porter Thomas W., 530.
Potter Orlando B.. 570
Poucher Charles E., 631.
Power Thomas, 424.
Powers Cassius Clay, 393.
Powers Charles Edward, 354.
Powers Edmund P., 631.
Powers Edmund W., 393.
Powers Erastus Barton. 393.
Powers James Loren, 393.
Powers James R , 631.
Powers Llewellyn, 611.
Powers Samuel Leland, 643.
Powers Wilbur H., 544.
Pratt Albert Jerome, 400.
Pratt Benjamin, 242.
Pratt Charles E., 400.
Piatt Charles H., 531.
Pratt Edward B., 531.
Pratt Edward Ellerton, 413.
Pratt E. Grenville, 531.
Pratt George Greenleaf, 249.
Pratt Harvey H., 509.
Pratt Nathan H., 400
Pratt Sidney P., 631.
Pratt William, 440.
Preble Edward, 399.
Preble William Henry, 400.
Preble William Pitt, 531.
Prentiss John, 631.
Prentiss John, 531.
Prentiss J. W., 631.
Prescott A. A., 631.
Prescott 'Benjamin, 265.

Prescott Edward G., 279.
Prescott F. A., 631.
Prescott George, 631.
Prescott James, jr., 574.
Prescott Samuel, 531.
Prescott Samuel J., 400.
Prescott William, 279,
Prescott William G., 452.
Prescott William H., 426.
Prest William Morton, 400.
Pres'on George Henry, 401.
Preston James W., 631.
Preston John, 400.
Prime Winfield Forrest, 401.
Prince B. L., 631.
Prince Charles Albert, 333.
Prince Frederick Octavius, 198
Prince Gordon, 631.
Prince James P., 401.
Prince Joseph Hardy, 401.
Prince William H., 630.
Proctor Frank W., 531.
Proctor Joseph, 557.
Proctor Redfield, 550.
Proctor Thomas P., 473.
Proctor Thomas W., 401.
Purchase Oliver, 209.
Purnam William J., 581.
Putnam Aaron Hall, 287.
Putnam Francis E., 418.
Putnam George, 401.
Putnam George P., 631.
Putnam Henry Ware, 401.
Putnam James, 271.
Putnam John Phelps, 299.
Putnam J. S., 428.
Putnam Samuel, 247.
Putnam Solon A., 631.
Putnam William Le Baron, 588.
Putnam William Lowell, 402.
Pynchon John, 208.
Pynchon John, 631.
Pynchon Joseph, 265.
Pynchon Stephen, 631.
Pynchon William, 168. ,

Quimby J. P., 631.
Quincy Edmund, 215.
Quincy Edmund, 266.
Quincy Josiah, 265.
Quincy Josiah, 265.
Quincy Josiah, 266.
Quincy Josiah, 267.
Quincy Josiah H., 267.
Quincy Josiah P., 266.
Quincy Samuel, 269.
Quincy Samuel, jr., 284.
Quincy Samuel Miller, 266.
Quincy William J., 631.

Rackerman Charles Sedgwick,

183.
Rackerman Felix, 183. .
Rand Arnold A., 151.
Rand Benjamin, 366.
Rand Charles W.', 631.
Rand Edward L.. 531.
Rand Edward Sprague, 428.
Rand Edwar:d Sprague, jr., 429.
Randall C. F., 631.
Randall James M., 631.
Randall Otis G., 631.
Randall Samuel Haskell, 45c.
Randolph Edward, 264.
Ranlett Daniel Dodge, 531.
Ranlett Frederick J., 196.
Ranney Ambrose Arnold, 369.
Ranney Fletcher, 451.

Rantoul Robert, 279.

Rantoul Robert Samuel, 299.

Ratigan John B., 439.

Raymond Edward F., 531.

Raymond F. F., 531.

Raymond John M., 631.

Read Benjamin, 631.

Read Charles C, 616.

Read Edward, 631.

Read John, 270.

Reardon D. W., 631.

Reddington J., 631.

Redfield Isaac F., 456.

Redfield Luther C., 456.

Reddy Thomas F., 183.

Reed Charles, 631.

Reed Charles A., 631.

Reed Charles C, 631.

Reed Charles Montgomery, 183.

Reed Chester A., 531.

Reed Chester Isham, 363.

Reed Dexter W., 631

Heed Elias Sipple, 531.

Reed Frederick, 631

Reed George Hammond, 183.

Reed George M., 631.

Reed Isaac G., 560.

Reed James Russell, 154.

Reed Joseph Wheeler, 531

Reed Samuel Willard, 155.

Reed Warren Augustus, 531.

Reed William, 269.

Reed William, 245

Reed William Gardner, 155.

Remele George H., 631.

Remick Charles F., 631.

Remick Frank C, 63T.

Remington Jonathan, 216.

Reno Conrad, 196.

Reuben Moses I., 631.

Reyno ds John P., 367.

Reynolds Walter H., 631.

Rice Bushrod F., 457.

Rice Charles Damon, 454.

Rice David Hall, 276.

Rice Fitz H., 631.

Rice George Edward, 196.

Rice James H., 631.

Rice John L., 631.

Rice Merrick, 196.

Rice Thomas, 196.

Rich Edgar Judson, 616.

Rich Giles Hopkins, 616.

Rich Silas H., 631.

Rich Wilfred B., 195.

Richards Francis G., 531.

Richards George H., 196.

Richards John, 208.

Richards William R., 196.

Richardson Abijah, 631.

Richardson Amos, 263.

Richardson Charles F., 531.

Richardson Daniel E., 532.

Richardson Daniel S., 341.

Richardson George F., 341.

Richardson Henry A., 531.

Richardson Henry E., 631.

Richardson Ivory N., 639.

Richardson Ivory W., 196.

Richardson James, 531.

Richardson James Bailey, 197.

Richardson James P., 531.

Richardson John S., 531.

Richardson Luther, 287.

Richardson Nathaniel, 631.

Richardson Sanford H., 631.

Richardson Thomas F., 532.

Richardson William, 197.

INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.

665

Richardson William A., 631.

Richardson William Adams, 580.

Richardson William K., 532.

Richardson William M., 197.

Rideout Elmer E., 197.

Riddle William Quincy, 532.

Riley H. S., 631.

Riley Patrick, 427.

Riley Thomas, 450.

Ringrose H. A., 631.

Ripley Daniel B., 343.

Ripley Christopher G., 221.

Ripley Ezra, 367.

Rippey, C. H., 631.

Risley John E., 631.

Ritchie Andrew, 212.

Ritchie Harrison, 532.

Ritchie James, 616.

Ritchie William K., 631.

Rivers George R., 631

Robb James B., 500.

Robbins Edward Hutchinson,

429.
Roberts A. W., 631.
Roberts David, 631.
Roberts Dudley, 631.
Roberts Ernest W., 532
Roberts Frank T., 631.
Roberts Frank W., 631.
Roberts George Litch, 220.
Roberts John L. S , 631.
Roberts Leonard G., 631.
Roberts Odin B., 639.
Roberts Reuben Litch, 2.0.
Roberts Richard Brook, 284
Roberts Walter Hill, 200.
Robeson William R., 532.
Robins Richard, 424.
Robinson Albert J., 631.
Robinson Alphonso J., 631
Robinson Charles, 299,
Robinson Daniel, 631.
Robinson Daniel C, 631..
Robinson Frederick, 639.
Robinson George Dexter, 328.
Robinson George M., 532.
Robinson Henry W., 631.
Robinson John C, 631.
Robinson John Gerry, 210.
Robinson John Paul, 210.
Robinson J. T., 631.
Robinson Joseph H., 631.
Robinson L. J.. 632.
Robinson Lelia B.,631.
Robinson Nelson, 631.
Robinson Sawtelle L., 631.
Robinson Sumner, 210.
Robinson Sylvanus W., 631.
Rock John S., 631.
Rockwell Julius, 331.
Rockwood Daniel, 631.
Rockwood Ebenezer, 532.
Rodman Alfred, 436.
Rogers Edward, 440.
Rogers Francis P. H., 632.
Rogers Frank R., 532.
Rogers Frederick W., 632.
Rogers John Gray, 426.
Rogers Henry B., 251.
Rogers Henry M., 532.
Rogers Jonathan P., 251.
Rogers Joseph P., 632.
Rogers Willard, 449.
Rogers Williaitn, 449.
Rogers William E., 210.
Rogers William S., 532.
Rolker Bernard, 435.
Rollins Daniel, 632.

85

Rollins Harry L., 532.

Rollins James W., 632.

Rombauer Frederick Emil, 332.

Ropes John Codman, 292.

Ropes Nathaniel, 217.

Rosenthal Marcus, 532.

Rosling Eric E., 632.

Ross John A., 632.

Ross Samuel J., 632.

Rossa John O'Donnovan, 632.

Rossiter Edward, 192.

Rowan Thomas, 502.

Rowe John, 532.

Rowe John, 284. *N.

Rowe Joseph, 632. v"

Rowe Joseph, 286.

Rowe J N., 632.

Rowe William Henry, 290.

Rowell James E., 632.

Ruddell Thomas E., 632.

Rueter Conrad J., 532.

RufBn George L., 250.

Ruffin Herbert S. P., 632.

Rugg Arthur P., 440.

Rumney John, 632.

Runyan Preston B., 532.

Rusk Jefferson S., 532.

Russ Augustus, 368.

Russ George H , 367.

Russell Arthur Hastings, 293.

Russell B. F., 611.

Russell Chambers, 216.

Russell Charles, 269.

Russell Charles Theodore, 292.

Russell Charles Theodore, jr.,

293
Russell James, 193.
Russell James Dutton, 2g2.
Russell John J., 423.
Russell J. R., 632.
Russell Richard, 193.
Russell Thomas, 284. x
Russell Thomas, 292.
Russell Thomas, 390.
Russell Thomas Hastings, 292.
Russell William Eustis, 299.
Russell William Goodwin. 482.
Rust Philip Sidney, 402.
Rutter Josiah, 532.
Ryan Henry James, 632.
Ryther George Holton, 402.

Saffin John, 215.
Safford Nathaniel Foster, 207.
Safford Nathaniel M., 533.
Saltmarsh E. C, 632.
Saltmarsh George Abbott, 402.
Saltonstall Leverett, 181.
Saltonstall Leverett, 1S0.
Saltonstall Nathaniel, 180.
Saltonstall Richard, 180.
Saltonstall Richard, 180.
Saltonstall Richard Middlecott,

181.
Saltonstall Sir Richard, 180.
Sampson Calvin Proctor, 533.
Sampson Ezra Weston. 181
Sanborn Edward W., 639.
Sanborn Franklin Benjamin,

4°3-
Sanborn M. Lendsley, 403.
Sanderson Edward, 454.
Sanderson Edward W., 632
Sanderson George Augustus,

200.
Sanderson George W., 632.
Sanford Alpheus, 290,
Sanford Austin, 632.

Sanford B., 632.
Sanford Joseph B., 632.
Sanford Joseph H., 632.
Sanford Stephen, 632
Sanger Chester F., 300.
Sanger George Partridge, 546.
Sanger George Partridge, jr.,

304.
Sargeant Nathaniel Peaslee, 243.
Sargeant Peter, 491.
Sargent Henry, 533.
Sarggnt Henry J., 424
-Sargent Henry Winthrop, 173.
Sargent Horace Binney, 452.
Sargent Horace Binney, jr ,

197.
Sargent James O., 632.
Sargent John Osborne, 241.
Sargent Lucius Manlius, 173.
Sargent Lucius Manlius, 533.
Sargent William A., 533.
Saunders Caleb, 403.
Saunders Charles Gurley, 403.
Saunders Charles Robertson,

212.
Saunders Daniel. 213.
Savage Edward Hosmer, 210.
Savage James, 176.
Savage James F., 632.
Savage Thomas, 209.
Savage Thomas, 403.
Savage Thomas, 632.
Savary Edward H., 210.
Savier William, 533.
Sawin George Lane, 454.
Sawyer Artemas, 287.
Sawyer Benjamin F.. 632.
Sawyer Frederick William, 242.
Sawyer George Augustus, 533.
Sawyer Isaac F., 533.
Sawyer Jabez A., 533.
Sawyer Luther D.,632.
Sawyer Nathaniel, 632.
Sayles F. O., 632.
Scaife Laureston L., 533.
Scales Stephen, 343.
Scammon George S., 632.
Schofield William, 403.
Schouler James, 404.
Schuz Robert H. O., 212.
Scott Augustus E., 212.
Scott F.. 632.
Scott John B., 632.
Scoville Nathaniel C, 616.
Scudder Henry A., 248.
Seaman Frank, 632.
Seaman James M., 632.
Searle Charles P., 404.
Searle George W., 240.
Sears Frederick Baker, 533.
Sears Philip Howes, 422.
Sears Russell A., 533.
Seaver Horace Nelson, 533.
Seaver Norman, 404.
Seavey William M., 632.
Seaward Addison J., 632.
Sedgwick Arthur George, 533.
Sedgwick Charles, 491.
Sedgwick Henry D., 632.
Sedgwick Henry D., jr., 632.
Sedgwick Theodore, 246.
Selfredge Arthur J., 533.
Selfredge Thomas Oliver, 241.
Sennott George, 449.
Sever William, 439.
Sewall David, 237.
Sewall Jonathan, 242.
Sewall Samuel, 209.

666

HISTORY OF T//E BENCH AND BAR:

Sewall Samuel, 244.
Sewall Samuel Edmund, 427.
Sewall, Stephen, 214.
Seymour Frederick Z., 632.
Seymour George F., 632.
Shackford Charles B., 632.
Sharkey Joseph C, 533.
Sharp Thomas, 192.
Shattuck Charles E., 533.
Shattuck George Otis, 514.
ShattucK John N., 632.
Shaw Elliott, 632.
Shaw George H. P., 404.
Shaw John Oakes, 405.
Shaw Lemuel, 244.
Shaw Lemuel, jr., 639.
Shaw Mason, 6 $2.
Shaw Otis Madison, 210.
Shaw Roland Crocker, 533.
Shaw Samuel Parkman, 134.
Shaw Samufl Savage, 410.
Snaw William Smith, 178.
Shea Daniel J.. 185.
Shea John F., 405.
Shea Patrick F.,632.
Shea R. W , 185.
Shedd J. B., 632
Sheeran Joseph W., 405.
Sheffield George, 533.
Sheldon Henry N., 533.
Sheltsei J. George, 632.
Shennon Orlando B.,633.
Shepard Edward O., 300.
Shepard Harvey N., 579.
Sheppard John H., 500.
Sherburne John H., 329.
Sheridan Dennis R., 632.
Sherman Edgar J., 300.
Sherman Edward Lowell, 533.

Shimmin Charles F., 435.

Shipley George Foster, 581.

Shipley Horatio, 426.

Shirley William, 270.

Shorey Daniel L., 632.

Shorey Frank Howard, 184.

Shorey George Langdon, 184.

Shrimpton Samuel, 264.

Sibley Edwin Day, 405.

Sibley J. P , 632.

Silsbee William C, 632.

Sim Arthur W., 616.

Simes Robert F., 534.

Simmons Charles F., 221.

Simmons Charles L., 534.

Simmons David Allen^ 345.

Simmons John F., 491.

Simmons Samuel, 632.

Simmons William, 399.

Simmons William A., 632.

Simonds Henry C, 3gg.

Simpson William H., 632.

Sinclair Albert T., 534.

Sisk Henry M., 632.

Sisk James M., 632.

Skilton A. H., 491.

Skinner Henry R., 405.

Skinner Thomas, 632.

Sleeper George L., 632.

Sleeper Herbert, 534.

Sleeper John W., 632.

Slocum E. T., 632.

Slocum Holden, jr., 287.

Slocum "William F., 405.

Slocum Winfield S., 406.

Smalley George W., 490.

Smith Charles E , 632.

Smith Charles F., 632.

Smith Charles G., 632.

Smith Charles W., 560.
Smith Chauncey, 406.
Smith Clarence Chenev, 407.
Smith D.aniel E , 611.
Smith David A., 632.
Smith Ebenezer, jr., 425.
Smith Edward Irving, 407.
Smith Edwin, 534.
Smith Emery B., 632.
Smith Francis P., 632.
Smith Frederick, 428.
Smith George A., 534.
Smith George Edwin, 406.
Smith George H., 63?.
Smith George M., 632.
Smith Henry / 534.
Smith Henry 1 arney, 406.
Smith HenryF., 534.
Smith Henry Hyde, 406.
Smith Horace E., 534.
Smith John, 209.
Smith John W , 633.
Smith John W., 633.
Smith Joseph E., 534.
Smith Joseph R., 406.
Smith Manasses, 534.
Smith Matthew Hale, 242
Smith Matthew W., 633.
Smith Phineas B., 534.
Smith Robert Dickson, 407. r _
Smith Samuel Emerson, 410.
Smith Samuel Herbert, 410
Smith Seth P , 410.
Smith Theophilus Gilman, 410.
Smith Thomas P., 633.
Smith William, 534.

Smith William, 633.

Smith William C., 409

Smith William H., 633.

Smith Uzziel Putnam, 534-

Smith Ypsilanti A., 534.

Smyth William E. P., 633.

Smythe George A., 534.

Snelling George H., 428.

Snow Charles A., 409.

Snow Elmer A., 534.

Snow Frederick E., 534.

Snow Samuel, 409.

Sohier Edward, 211.

Sohier Edward D., 211.

Sohier William, 212.

Sohier William Davies, 211.

Sohier William Davies, 212.

Somerby Gustavus A., 562.

Soren George W., 534.

Soren Walter W., 534.

Soule Augustus L., 331.

Southard Charles B., 534.

Southard Louis C, 213. :

Southgate L. W., 633.

South worth Robert A., 20/.

Spalding Alfred B., 633.

Sparhawk George, 425.

Sparhawk Nathaniel, 287.

Spaulding Asa, 561.

Spaulding John, 340.

Spear Charles F., 535.

Spear William E., 409.

Spelman Henry M., 616.

Spencer A. F., 633

Spofford Joseph H., 633.

Spofford Richard S , 497.

Spooner Allen Crocker, 386.

Spooner Lysander, 490.

Spooner William Jones, 409.

Sprague Charles Franklin, 409

Sprague Charles H , 409.

Sprague Francis William, 422.

Sprague Henry Harriso.:, tja.
Sprague Henry W., 535.
Sprague Peleg, 563. •

Sprague Seth Edward, 127.
Sprague W. G., 561.
Sprague W. G., 633.
Spring Arthur Langdon, 408.
Springer Charles C, 633.
Sproat Tames, 633.
Squire James C, 633.
Squire James R. M., 611.
Stacy G. G., 633.
Stacy Melville, 535.
Stackpole Andrew J., 633.
Stackpole Joseph Lewis, 426.
Stackpole Joseph Lewis, 408.
Stackpole William, 535.
Stanchfield A. G., 633.
Standish W., 633.
Stanley William J., 535.
Stanton Henry B., 561.
Stanwood William G., 633.
Staples Hamilton B., 207.
Staples John H., 633
Stark John, 633.
Stark Robert M., 633.
Starkweather George C, 633.
Starr Charles R., 633.
Stearns Asahel, 561.
Stearns George H., 535.
Stearns Richard S., 633.
Stearns William G., 142.
Stearns William H., 535.
Stearns William St. Agnan, 576.
Stedman William, 535.
Steele Thomas L., 633.
Steere Charles, 535.
Stephens Henry C, 633.
Stetson George W., 633.
Stetson John Glidden, 142.

Stetson Thomas M., 207.

Stevens Charles G., 142.

Stevens D K., 633

Stevens Edwin F. , 535.

Stevens Elisha M., 633.

Stevens Hazard, 142

Stevens Henry A., 633.

Stevens Henry B., 453.

Stevens Henry J., 535

Stevens Homer B., 208

Stevens James M., 535.

Stevens Milan F., 535.

Stevens Oliver, 143.

Stevens Oliver C, 143.

Stevens Solon, 633.

Stevens William B., 143.

Stevens William H., 633.

Stevens W. J., 633.

Stevenson Thomas, 633.

Stewart Enos, 535.

Stewart John, 633.

Stewart Philip J., 639.

Stickney John, 535

Stickney William B , 633.

Stillwell Elias M., 633.

Stimpson L. L., 535.

Stimson Caleb Morton, 143.

Stimson E C, 633.

Stimson Frederick J., 143.

St. Lawrence Joseph, 557.

Stockbridge William M., 144.

Stockton Howard, 535

Stockwell James Alden, 144.

Stoddard Amos, 633.

Stoddard Anthony, 262.

Stoddard S., 633.

Stoddard S., jr., 633.

Stone Charles B., 144.

INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.

667

Stone Eben F., 329.
Stone Ethan, 633.
Stone Frederick M , 640.
Stone George Fisher, 144.
Stone Joshua C , 362.
Stone Philip S., 535.
Stone Richard, 535.
Storer John H , 616.
Storey Charles W., 413.
Storey Moorfield, 413.
Storrow J. J., 535.
Storrow J. J., jr., 535
Story Augustus, 535
Story Isaac, 286
Story Isaac, jr.. 504
Story Jacob, 536
Story Joseph, 488.
Story William W., 341.
Stoughton Israel, 192
Stoughton William, 144.
Strange Thomas F., 146
Stratton Charles E , 531.
Strong Frederick W., 640.
Strong Simeon, 246.
Strong Solomon, 422
Strong Theodore, 633,
Strong William C, 633
Strong Wright, 633.
Strout Almon A., 144.
Strout William G , 633
Stubbs William H.. 633
Sturgis Nathaniel R., 435.
Sturgis Roger F , 536.
Sturtevant Thomas L , 536.
Sturtevant William T., 633.
Sughrue Michael J , 144.
Sullivan B., 633.
Sullivan Cornelius J , 633.
Sullivan Cornelius P., 145.
Sullivan C S., 633.
Sullivan Edward, 536
.Sullivan George, 145
Sullivan George S., 633
Sullivan James, 145.
Sullivan James, 561.
Sullivan James, jr., 284
Sullivan James Barry, 536.
Sullivan James P., 633
Sullivan Jeremiah H.. 536.
Sullivan Jeremiah J., J45.
Sullivan John T. S., 286.
Sullivan Lynde, 610.
Sullivan M. E , 633.
Sullivan Richard, 145.
Sullivan Richard, 146.
Sullivan William, 536.
Sullivan William, 28r.z_Vy":
Sullivan William H., 536.
Sumner Bradford, 440.
Sumner Charles, 278.
Sumner Charles P., 278.
Sumner Charles W., 208.
Sumner Increase, 246.
Sumner James, 536.
.Sumner William H., 640.
Sundstrom John E., 633.
Suter Hales W., 408.
Swan Charles H. 540.
Swan Charles L., 454.
Swan Isaac W., 633.
Swan W. N., 663.
Swan William W., 554.
Swan William W., 554,
Swasy George R., 408.
Swazey Horatio E., 250.
Swazey J B., 633.
Sweeney Charles E., 633.
Sweeney James F., 408.

Sweetser Edwin, 633.
Sweetser Francis K., 408.
Sweetser Isaac Homer, 369.
Sweetser Theodore H.,219.
Swett E. M.,633.
Swett M. H., 536.
Swett Samuel, 408.
Swift Erdix T., 407.
Swift Francis Crosby, 407.
Swift Henry W., 576.
Swift John L., 410.
Swift Samuel, 270.
Sylvester Herbert M., 407.
Symmes William, 536.
Symonds Samuel, 193.

Taber C. A., 633.
Taber George R., 133.
Taff John Henry, c8i.
Taft Edgar Sidney, 198.
Taft George I., 633.
Taft William J., 633.
Taggart Alfred, 617.
Talbot Arthur E., 633.
Talbot Edmund H., 536.
Talbot Thomas H., 536.
Tallman Peleg, 455.
Tanner William B., 633.
Tappan Eugene, 181.
Tarbell William C. 419.
Tasker A. B., 633.
Tasker John T., 633.
Taylor Arthur, 536.
Taylor Charles J., 633.
Taylor George H., 633.
Taylor John, 536.
Taylor John Doe, 536.
Taylor John Henry, 181.
Taylor Lawrence, 633.
Taylor Marvin M., 440.
Taylor Nathan A., 633.
Taylor Thomas, jr., 617.
Tebbetts George W., 633. '
Teele John O., 182
Temple Frederick H., 536.
Temple James, 343.
Temple Thomas French, 378.
Temple William, 617.
Tennev William, 633.
Terry Frederick C, 633.
Terry H. B., 633.
Thacher Benjamin B., 182.
Thacher George, 182.
Thacher George C, 633.
Thacher Joseph S. B., 182.
Thacher Oxenbridge, 182.
Thacher Peter, 484.
Thacher Peter, 561.
Thacher Peter O., 277
Thacher Samuel, 182.
Thacher Stephen, 484.
Thacher Theodo e U., 562.
Thaxter David, 413.
Thaxter John, 284.
Thaxter Levi, 634.
Thaxter Samuel, 264.
Thayer Charles M.. 611.
Thayer Enenezer F., 345.
Thayer Elisha, 282.
Thayer Enoch \V , 633.
Thayer Ezra R., 634.
Thayer Frank H., 634.
Thayer Gideon L., 288.
Thayer Tames B., 587.
Thayer Samuel P., 633.
Thomas Benjamin F., 422.
Thomas Charies G , 397.
Thomas Eugene D., ^3

Thomas J B. F., 449.
Thomas Joseph, 574.
Thomas Joshua, 283.
Thomas Miner R., 634.
Thomas Nathaniel, 215.
Thomas Seth J., 448.
Thomas Sylvanus M., 182.
Thomas Thomas, 634.
Thompson Charles P., 199.
Thompson Lucien B., 472.
Thompson Robert M., 611.
Thompson Roscoe H., 184.
Thompson Samuel, 504.
Thompson Thomas M., 634.
Thompson Thomas W., 543,
Thompson William A., 454.
Thompson William G., 617.
Thompson William V., 634.
Thomson James D., 634.
Thorndike Charles, 536.
Thorndike Charles J , 617.
Thorndike Henry, 634.
Thorndike James S., 536.
Thorndike John L., 536.
Thorndike Larkin, 634.
Thorndike Samuel L., 184.
Thornton John W., 241.
Thorp Joseph G., 185.
Thorpe Walter H., 277.
Threshie John W. , 277.
Throkay John M., 634.
Thurston William, 286.
Ticknor George, 277.
Tiernan W. H. J., 537.
Tiffany Thomas B., 634.
Tiffany Walter C, 617.
Tighe John, 634.
Tilden Calvin, 634.
Tilden Charles B.,634.
Tilden William D., 617.
Tillinghast Ni'cholas, 617.
Tilton Peter, 208.
Tilton Warren, 453.
Timmins George Henry, 453.
Timmoney J. P., 634.
Tirrell Charles Q., 300.
Tirrell James E., 365.
Tirrell Minot, jr , 5.0.
Titcomb William S., 537.
Titus John W., 343.
Titus William N., 343.
Tobey Gerard C, 377.
Tobey Seth, 449.
Todd Charles E., 343.
Todd John, 440.
Todd Paul Potter, 551.
Todhunter John, 453.
Tolman Thomas, 295.
Tompson E. W. E., 617.
Tompson Samuel, 504.
Toomey Thomas, 634.
Torrens William H., 283.
Torrey Calvin, 634.
Torrey George A., 344.
Tout James R., 537
Tower B. L. M., 378.
Tower Gideon E., 634.
Tower James A., 634.
Tower J. E., 634.
Towle Charles B., 634.
T'wle George H., 600.
Towle George M., 609.
Towle Joseph W., 537.
Towle William W., 344.
Towne Truman B. 537.
Towne W. H., 537.
Townsend Alexander, 285.
Townsend Alexander, 634.

668

HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Townsend Charles, 640.
Townsend David, 634.
Townsend Horatio, 285.
Townsend Penn, 490.
Townsend Samuel R., 643.
Tracy E. F., 634.
Tracy Frederick W., 634.
Train Charles R., 341.
Train Henry J., 634.
Trask, William R., 344.
Travis George C, 301.
Treadwell James P., 453.
Treadwell, John P., 301.
Treanor Bernard S., 611.
Trevett Robert W., 399.
Tripp George H., 537.
Trowbridge Edmund, 216.
Trowbridge Stephen W., 360.
TrumbulC John, 282.
Tucker Alanson, 435.
Tucker George P., 502.
Tucker Ichabod, 537.
Tucker John, 284.
Tucker Josiah P., 537.
Tucker P. E.,301.
Tucker William L., 634.
Tuckerman Frederick G., 277.
Tuckerman Leverett S., 276.
Tudor Henry J., 136.
Tudor William, 136.
Tufts Francis, 640.
Tufts George J., 136.
Tufts Joseph, 634.
Tukey Francis, 435.
Tuohay John M., 136.
Turner Charles H., 634.
Tnrner Charles W„ 634.
Turner William B., 634.
Turner William D., 136.
Tuttle Calvin B., 537.
Tuttle Charles W., 543.
Tuttle Frank J., 537.
Tuttle John L., 537.
Tuttle William H. H., 137.
Tuxbury George W., 504.
Tweed Charles A., 634.
Tyler Charles H., 137.
Tyler George W., 537.
Tyler John C, 634.
Tyler John F., 634.
Tyler J Kendall, 611.
Tyler Nathan, 441.
Tyler Othmiel, 634.
Tyler Royall, 276.
Tyler Royall 2d, 537.
Tyndale Theodore H., 537.
Tyng Dudley Atkins, 137.
Tyng Edward, 208.
Tyng James A., 617.
Tyng Stephen H., 135.

Underwood Adiu B., 117.
Underwood Francis H., 135.
Underwood William O., 135.
Upham Edward, 634.
Upham Francis W., 634.
Upham George Baxter, 135.
Upham Jacob, 634.
Upham Joshua, 138.
Upham Samuel, 416.
Upham William P., 537.
Upton Edward A., 596.
Upton Eugene C, 139.
Usher Edward P., 139
Usher John, 264.
Usher John L., 441.

Valentine John, 270.

Vambn Joseph, 634.
Van Buren M.. 634.
Vanderlip W. C, 634.
Vandervoort William, 634.
Vandeutsch G., 634.
Van Duzee Ira D., 435.
Vane Henry, 163.
Vassall William, 192.
Vaughan Ernest H., 440.
Vaughan Francis W., 634.
Vaughan Francis Wales, 301.
Vaughan George E., 634.
Vaughan John, 634
Vaughan John W., 537.
Vaughan William W., 540
Verdenal Dominique F., 537.
Verdenal John M., 537.
Vernon Fortescue, 284.
Vinton Alfred C, 359.
Vinton Warren H., 634.
Vollman Herman, 634.
Vose Henry, 356.
Vose Solomon, 537.

Wade John, 537.
Wade Levi C, 605.
Wade Winthrop H., 301.
Wadleigh Bainbridge, 611.
Wadsworth Alexander F., 186.
Wagner Samuel W., 634.
Wait John C, 634.
Wait Thomas B., 634.
Wait William Cushing, 186.
Waitt William G., 634.
Wakefield John F., 186.
Wakefield John H., 634.
Wakefield John L., 359.
Wakefield Thomas H., 359.
Wakefield '1 homas L., 416.
Walbach George G , 537.
Walbridge Percy E., 554.
Walcott Charles F., 251.
Walcott Charles H., 360.
Wald Gustavus H., 617.
Waldo Calvin, 634.
Waldo Francis W., 640.
Waldron Henry C, 640.
Wales Jonathan, 634.
Walker A. M., 634.
Walker Edward, 282.
Walker Edward G., 278.
Walker Henry, 199.
Walker Henry A., 634.
Walker Henry W., 554.
Walker Joseph, 278.
Walker Nathaniel U.,278.
Walker William L., 634.
Wallace Edgar A., 554.
Walley John, 215.
Walley Samuel H., 424.
Walley William P., 554.
Walsh James L., 277.
Walsh John, 574.
Walsh John W., 634.
Walsh Joseph L , 634.
Walsh Thomas J., 634.
Walsh Walter J.. 634.
Walter Arthur M., 288.
Ward Artemas, 276.
Ward Clarence S., 277.
Ward John C. B., 640.
Ward John F„ 640.
Ward John P. J., 183.
Ward Joshua H., 398.
Ward Samuel D., 421.
Wardwell Henry, 184.
Wardwell J Otis, 183.
Ware Asher, 226.

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174.

226.

Ware Darwin E., 360.
Ware George M., 634.
Ware George W., jr., 248.
Ware Henry, 441
Ware Horace E., 329.
Ware Jairus C, 634.
Ware Nabur, 634
Ware Thornton K., 441.
Warland Owen, 554.
Warner Aaron E., 554.
Warner Francis F., 634.
Warner Henry E., 554.
Warner Herman J., 554.
Warner Joseph B., 370.
Warner Levi, 634.
Warner Milton B , 634.
Warner Samuel L., 634.
Warner William A., 426.
Warren Bentley W.
Warren Charles H.,
Warren George, 285
Warren George W.,
Warren Henry, 360.
Warren James, 174.
Warren Joseph W., 441.
Warren Lucius H., 554.
Warren Samuel, jr., 634.
Warren Samuel D., 361.
Warren Webster F., 555.
Warren William W., 641
Warren Winslow, 434.
Washburn Alexander C, 370.
Washburn Benjamin D , 617.
Washburn Charles E.,370. —
Washburn C. E., 555.
Washburn Charles G., 634. -
Washburn Edward L., 634.,

Washburn Emory, 370

Washburn Frank L. , 370. — '
Washburn Frederick L., 455.
Washburn Henry L., 634.^
Washburn John D.,434.
Washburn Nathan, 634. -
Washburn Reuben, 634. ,
Washburn William R. P , 427.
Washburn William T., 555.
Washington G. W., 634.
Wasson Milton, 635.
Waterhouse Andrew O., 555.
Waterhouse Asa, 634.
Waterhouse Isaac, 634.
Waterhouse Isaiah, 635.
Waterman Andrew J., 297.
Waterman Foster, 287.
Waterman Jesse F., 635.
Waterman Richard, 555.
Waters George B., 635.
Watson Benjamin F , 378.
Watson Benjamin M., 288.
Watson C. L., 640.
Watson David T., 555.
Watson John, 263.
Watson Paul B., 378.
Watson Thomas A., 213.
Watts Frances O., 378.
Watts Samuel, 262.
Way Clarence, 635.
Way John M., 590.
Wayland Francis, 348.
Wead Leslie C, 379.
Wearley Sylvanus M., 635.
Weaver Archibald J., 635.
Webb Charles H., 635.
Webb Christopher, 264.
Webb Samuel F., 617.
Webb Seth, 380.
Webster Daniel, 474.
Webster Daniel Fletcher, 380.

INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER.

669

Webster Edward, 635.
Webster Kdward E., 635.
Webster Franklin, 559.
Webster Henry S., 555.
Webster Prentiss, 380.
Webster Sidney, 555.
Webster William, 635.
Wedgewood E. W., 635.
Weed Alonzo K., 381.
Weed George M., 381.
Weil George L., 381.
Welch Charles A., 593.
Welch Charles H.,381.
Welch Francis C, 555.
Welch John H., 555.
Welch Joseph A., 635.
Welch Thomas, jr., 635.
Welch William E., 555.
Welch Wilson Jarvis, 434
Weld Abraham, jr., 635
Weld Benjamin L., 381.
Weld S. P., 635.

Weldon , 271.

Welles Arnold F., 424.
Welles Benjamin, 381.
Welles Henry C, 454.
Wellington Ambrose, 221.
Wellington Asa, 248.
Wellington Hiram, 425.
Wellman Arthur H., 381.
Weliman F. H., 635.
Wells Charles W., 635
Wells Daniel, 398.
Wells George D., 452.
^ Wells Henry J., 327.
Wells John, 585.
Wells Samuel, 573.
Wells Samuel, 263.
Wells Samuel, jr., 573.
Wells Stiles G., 617.
Welsh Edward J., 635.
Welsh Thomas, 288
Wendell Edward, 283.
Wentworth Alonz<> B., 382.
Wentworth George L., 382.
Wentworth Samuel, 635.
Wentworth Samuel H., 382.
West Augustus L.,635.
West Edward B., 635.
West John, 264.
West Paul, 635.
West Thomas, 635.
Weston Clarence P., 382.
Weston Ezra, 418.
Weston Melville M., 540.
Weston Nathan, 635.
Weston Thomas, jr. 397.
Weston-Smith Robert D., 411.
Wetherbee John E., 635.
Wetmore Sidney, 617.
Wetmore Thomas, 382.
Wetmore Thomas, 555.
Wetmore Thomas, 617.
Wetmore William, 283.
Whall William B. F., 382.
Wharton Richard, 264,
Wharton William F., 297.
Wheatland Benjamin, 55s.
Wheaton Daniel, 555.
Wheaton George C.. 635.
Wheaton Laban, 641.
Wheaton Robert, 455.
Wheehen A. M., 635.
Wheeler Alexander S., 430.
Wheeler Charles, 383.
Wheeler D. L., 635.
Wheeler Henry, 441.
Wheeler Jesse F., 555.

Wheeler John H., 635.
Wheeler Samuel G., 635.
Wheeler S. H., 635.
Wheeler Thomas M., 635.
Wheelock George R., 555.
Wheelock Peter S., 429.
Wheelwright Andrew C, 555.
Wheelwright Edward, 555!
Wheelwright G. A., 635.
Wheelwright John T„ 382.
Whipple Sherman L , 139.
Whitcomb Charles W , 296.
Whitcomb George H., 635.
White Dewitt C, 635.
White Edwin M., 635.
White George, 549.
White George W., 364.
White Guilford, 635.
White Henry, 635.
White Jonathan, 323.
White Luther L., 635.
White Moses P., 555
White Naaman L., 555,
White Thomas L., 635.
White Willard. 635.
White William, 635.
White William A., 383.
White William A., 635.
White William H., 364.
White William N., 641.
Whithead Hamilton L., 635.
Whiting C. L , 635.
Whiting Daniel, 635.
Whiting James C, 635.
Whiting John, 635.
Whiting Martin, 556.
Whiting Mason. 635.
Whiting William, 226.
Whiting William, 635.
Whiting William A., 617.
Whiting William P , 635.
Whitman Benjamin, 324.
Whitman Edmund A., 383.
Whitman George H., 424.
Whitman James H., 453,
Whitman John Winslow, 402.
Whitman Kilborn, 287.
Whitman William D. A., 635.
Wh'tman William H., 328.
Whitman Zechariah G., 556.
Whitney Abel, 635.
Whitney Alexander, 618.
Whitney Charles L. B., 135
Whitney Edson L , 618.
Whitney James C, 304.
Wrhitney J. H., 635.
Whitney Manassah H., 635.
Whittemore Charles A., 618.
Whittemore Charles H., 383.
Whittemore Eben S., 394.
Whittemore George, 394.
Whittemore Henry L., 635.
Whittemore Horace O., 617.
Whitten William C, 636.
Whittier J. A. L., 635.
Whittier R. S., 635.
Whittle D. F.,635.
Whittle James, 635.
Whittlesey Henry L., 394.
Whittlesey Hugh L., 635.
Whitwell Benjamin, 394.
Whitwell Frederick S., 556.
Whoriskey Hugh V., 635.
Wiener Robert, 635.
Wier F. N., 635
Wiggin Andrew, 364.
Wiggin E. R., 635,
Wiggin George W., 363.

Wiggin John H.. 635.
Wiggin Joseph F., 153.
Wiggin Thomas, 193.
Wigglesworth Edward, 153.
Wiuglesworth George, 394.
Wightman Joseph M., 636.
Wigmore John H., 618.
Wilde George C, 370.
Wilde Samuel S., 153.
Wilder Daniel W., 556.
Wilder Edward B., 636-
Wilder John, 454.
Wildes George Dudley, 618.
Wilkie Edward A., 556.
Wilkins W. W., 635.
Wilkinson Ezra, 339.
Willard Abel, 271.
Willard Ashton R., 635.
Willard Jacob, 441.
Willard Joseph, 153.
Willard Joseph, 556.
Willard Joseph A., 485.
Willard Josiah, 487.
Willard Paul, 154.
Willard Paul, 556.
Willard Sidney, 394.
Willard Sidney A., 635.
Willard Simon, 193
Willey Tolman, 379.
Willey W. T.,556.
Williams A. Nathan, 142.
Williams Benjamin P., 395.
Williams Charles, 636.
Williams Charles A., 635.
Williams Charles F., 556.
Williams Charles H. S., 636.
Williams Charles M , 635.
Williams Daniel, 635
Williams David W., 556.
Williams Elijah D., 428.
Williams Ephraim, 636.
Williams Francis B., 636.
Williams Francis H., ,**£.
Williams Frederick H~, 395.
Williams George P., 395.
Williams George G., 398.
Williams George W., 590.
Williams Gorham D., 305.
Williams Henry M., 556.
Williams Henry W., 395.
Williaftis John, 286.
Williams John M., 363.
Williams John S., 348.
Williams Jonathan, 282.
Williams Joseph O., 363.
Williams Moses, 296.
Williams Samuel K., 424.
Williams Thomas, 285.
Williams Thomas H., 556.
Williams William J., 395.
Williamson William C , 556
Willis Horatio M., 636.
Willis Ma-a, 636.
Willis William, 151.
Wiiliston Samuel, 396.
Willoughby Francis, 193.
Willson Alexander E , 556.
Wilson Archelaus, 636.
Wrilson Arthur P , 556.
Wilson Butler R., 396.
Wilson Charles S., 636.
Wilson John T., 556.
Wilson Samuel S., 636.
Wilson Thomas, 636.
Wilson Thomas S., 556
Wilson William H , 560.
Wilson William M., 636.
Wilson William P., 3^6.

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HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR.

Wing Henry, 557.
Winn Abel T., 556-
Winn Henry, 636.
Winn John J., 636.
Winslow Kdward, 262
Winslow Henry H., 618.
Winslow John, 357.
Winslow James A., 213.
Winter William, 489.
Winthrop Adam, 260.
Winthrop Adam, 288.
Winthrop George E., 425.
Winthrop Grenville T., 424.
Winthrop John, 161.
Winthrop John, jr., 396.
Winthrop John T., 426.
Winthrop Robert C., 162.
Winthrop Robert C, jr., 557.
Winthrop Thomas L., 557.
Winthrop Waitstill. 162.
Winthrop William W., 636.
Withington G. R. M., 441.
Withington O. W., 425.
Wolcott Benjamin, 636.
Wolcott Charles F , 636.
Wolcott Roger, 133.
Wolcott Samuel B., 296.
Wolff James H., 417.
Wood Benjamin, 287.
Wood Courtland, 636.
Wood David W.,.636.
Wood George Wi, 636.

Wood Henry C, 636.
Wood Nathaniel, 422.
Wood S'ephen B., 139.
Wood William H., 324.
Wood Wilkes, 325.
Woodbridge John, 209.
Woodbridge Jonathan, 636.
Woodbridge Joseph, 636.
Woodbury Charles H., 636.
Woodbury Charles Levi, 515.
Woodbury Frank G., 636.
Woodbury Jesse R., 636.
Woodbury John, 141.
Woodbury I.evi 141.
Woodbury William H., 636.
Woodman A., 636.
Woodman Charles 636
Woodman Charles C, 636.
Woodman Cyrus, 415.
Woodman E. H., n8.
Woodman George H., 587.
Woodman Horatio, 451.
Woodman John S., 636.
Woodruff Henry, 557.
Woodruff Thomas T , 138.
Woods Andrew, 618
Woods George H., 618.
Woods George H., 557.
Woods John S., 636.
Woodside Franklin, 636.
Wooster Benjamin W., 636.

Worcester John R., 636.
Worthen Albert P., 138.
Worthen H. N., 636.
Worthington Charles, 398.
Worthington Erastus, 138.
Worthington Erastus, jr., 296.
Worthington Francis W., 456.
Wright Albert J., jr , 636.
Wright Carroll D., .38.
Wright Edward C, 618.
Wright Edwin, 321.
Wright Frederick, 456.
Wright Isaac H., 250.
Wright James J., 557.
Wright Robert W., 636.
Wright Smith, 537.
Wright Winslow^W., 557.
Wyer David, 137.
Wyman Alphonzo A., 134.
Wyman Ferdinand A., 636.
Wyman Henry A., 134.
Wyman Isaac C 134.
Wyman John P., 448.

Yamada Eneas, 636.
Yearly S. M., 640.
Yeaton George C. 636.
Young Alexander, 489
Young Edward, 42q.
Young Ephraim W., 618.
Young James H., 557. .

ADDENDUM TO INDEX.

Colby John F„ 644.

ERRATA.

Page 89, 10th line, " Bolstor " should be " Bolster."

Page 90, 24th line, "Joseph Willard" should be "Josiah."

Page 198, 31st line, " Simond Willard" should be "Simon."

Page 197, 6th line, "Oxford" should be " Orford."

Page 226, 25th line, In the sketch of William Whiting the date of birth should be
1813, not 1818.

Page 233, 7th line, In the sketch of John T. Hassam "monthly" should be
" quarterly."

Page 258, Judge Abbott was a member of the Electoral Commission.

Page 485, 17th line, Simon Willard was also of Concord.

Page 498, Henry F. Durant also attended Mrs. Ripley's school in Waltham. His
father was a partner of B. F. Butler. Col. John Fowle, U.S.A., the father of his
wife, was of Watertown, Mass., and not of Alexandria, Va. Wellesley College re-
ceives no annuity, but is a residuary legatee after the death of his wife.

Page 517, 20th line, John E. Hudson resides in Marlboro' street, Boston, and not
in Marlboro', Mass.

Page 577, William S. Stearns attended also the Harvard Law School. In the last
line of his sketch, " John Sprague " should be " Joseph."

Page 587, In the sketch of Edward Bangs, Margaret, the first wife of Mr. Hicks,
was the mother of Lydia Bangs. The children of Rebecca, his second wife, were
Bethia, and Mercy and Apphia, twins. Mr. Bangs married Anne Outram Hodgkin-
son, daughter of William Gill Hodgkinson, of England, and Anne Outram, daughter
of David Hinckley, of Boston.

John F. Colby should have been indexed page 644 instead of page 249.

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