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Professional and industrial history of Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Davis, William T. (William Thomas), 1822-1907, 1894. A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.

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Davis, William T. (William Thomas), 1822-1907

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[Boston, Mass.] : Boston History Co.

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1894

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)g^^£L /^k^, ^ PROFESSIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF SUFFOLK COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS IN THREE VOLUMES VOLUME I HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR BY WILLIAM T. DAVIS fllluatratcD THE BOSTON HISTORY COMPANY 1894 PREFACE. The history of the Bench and Bar of Suffolk county contained in this volume includes an introductory chapter and a biographical reg- ister. The introductory chapter treats of the courts, the laws under which they were established, of the judges and other persons exercising judicial powers, and of the bar. The biographical register contains the names of forty-eight hundred and forty persons, of whom sketches are given of about three thousand, while of the remainder such infor- mation is furnished as it has been practicable to obtain. The aim of the author has been to include in the register every judge whose court has held its sessions within the county, and every lawyer who has either been admitted to its bar or has at any time been one of its members, before January 1, 1892. An alphabetical arrangement of the register has been found imprac- ticable, in consequence of the demand of the publishers for copy as the work progressed. An alphabetical index, however, is furnished, which, it is believed, will remove any objection which might otherwise be raised to the want of such an arrangement. A few duplicate sketches will be found in the register, which are explained by the acquisition of more ample materials after the earlier sketches had been written. The later sketches alone are referred to in the index. Besides numerous printed sources of information, the author is indebted for aid to many public officials and gentlemen, to whom it would be ungrateful to omit his thanks. Among these may be men- tioned C. B. Tillinghast, assistant librarian of the State Library; John Ward Dean, librarian, and Walter Kendall Watkins, assistant librarian 1 6 PREFACE. of the New England Historic Genealogical Society; Joseph A. Willard, clerk of the Superior Civil Court for Suffolk county; John Noble, clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for said county; William E. Parmenter, chief justice of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston; Hon. Charles Theodore Russell, Alexander S. Wheeler, esq., and Hon. Francis H. Underwood, members of the Suffolk bar; and James W. Allen, clerk in the city register's office of Boston. He is aware that errors and omissions may be found in his work, but he trusts that, even with its imperfections, the " History of the Bench and Bar of Suffolk County " may not prove to have been a useless undertaking. Wm. T. Davis. Plymouth, Mass., September 1, 1893. 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 w

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